Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 April 1907

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 86 VOL. LXV. THURSDAY. IBth APRIL. 1907. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      1551 2 1 MnitVoii IR™ ERS 0 ..„.0„_, JI lrlvlm>vt| Civil, Electrical, SILESIA,” and SCANDIA,” a regular monthly service is maintained between Lisbon and the II Far East. The steamers on this Line are* of the most modern type and have splendid accommo- I nn/1 ATI fl 4* Till fl fl AH
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    THE OPIUM TRAFFIC IN THE CROWN COLONIES.
    561 3 In the House of Commons on the 16th ult., Mi- T. Taylor directed attention to the opium traffic in British colonies in the Eist. AU the time that we were nominally opposed to the opium traffic we were actually fostering this curse in
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    The Indo-Afghan Frontier.
    305 3 the peace of the Borderland. Pioneer. (Allahabad). When the Amir has once more resumed administrative control at Kabul, opportunity might be taken to direct his attention to certain matters connected with the Frontier. His Majesty, as we know, was greatly impressed by the reign of law and
    the peace of the Borderland.Pioneer. (Allahabad).  -  305 words
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    INDIA AND THE EMPIRE.
    783 3 Friend of India. Lor J Milner’s interesting and suggestive contribution to the National Review sets forth a view of the place of India in the British Empire which has not hitherto attracte»! sufficient attention, but which ay prove to be a consideration of prime importance. Mr.
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    Volunteering in India.
    47 3 'l'he Pioneers London correspondent wirei that, writing in the Standard, an Indian District Magistrate suggests that the application of compulsory service to the Indian Volunteers would add 20,000 men to the fighting line, and would secure the internal safety of India in a crisis.
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    TREATMENT OF NON-WHITE RACES.
    1067 3 '-—Hongkong Daily Press. An article of some significance, as indicating the drift of public opinion at home, appeared a short time back in the London Times with reference to the position of European nations ris-« vw what the writer designates the non-wliite races.” It is evident
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    The Arbuthnot Failure.
    188 3 Allegkd Share Gambling. Madras, 4‘h April. At the High Court to day the insolvency proceedings in the case of Messrs. Arbuthnot A C>. wre continued Sir George Arbuthnot was further cross-examined by Mr. V. Krishna Swamy Iyer on the auditor’s report and the Official Assignee’s report regarding
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    Australian Progress.
    357 3 With four millions of people last year we had 12,000,000 acres under crop, 100,000,000 bushels of grain, and 100,000,000 of stock traversing our pastures. Our wool was valued at £2 \OOO,OOO, our agriculture was worth upward of £21,000,000, and our minerals £30,000,000. External commerce represented £113,000,000, and internal
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      81 3 Rheumatism Makes Life Miserable. A happy home is the most valuable possession that is within the reach of mankind, but you cannot enjoy its comforts if you are suffering from Rheumatism. You throw aside business cares when you enter your home and you can lie relieved from those rheumatic pains
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      665 3 SALE BY AUCTION. PARA RUBBER SEED. i .i -T HERE WILL BE SOLD QRDERS now being booked for new )BY PUBLIC AUCTION, foX~ Cig Aug BL AT SINGAPORE, App y manager, 0/i Xonday, 22nd Hpril, 19CT, Sungei Rengam Estate, 4,500 Bags Bone Meal 11 SeUn3 r (From Calcutta), NOTICE OF
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    THE WEEK.
    153 4 Thursday. 18th April. Election of a Municipal Commistioner. League Football: A.C.S. v. F.S., Esplanade. High water 4 02 p.m. Low water 10.07 a m Friday, 19th April. Municipal Commission, 3-30 p.m. Homeward B. I. Mail, 4 p.m. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 pm. High water 4.47 p.m. Low
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    Thursday, 18th April, 1907.
    1902 4 Trust the man at the wheel is a maxim whose truth mere landsmen can grasp as well as sailors, and in that spirit we hope most fervently that the Government will not accede to the request of the gentlemen of the Barfleur” school and order an
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    SIAMESE MALAYA.
    393 4 VISIT OF PRINCE YUGAL\ The s.s. 0/napere arrived in Pen nio v ter'day at noon from Rangoon U Captain Bell reports that he arrived at pj nong on Thursday List, having orders await the arrival of H.R H. Prince Yu "I of Siam, who is making a tour
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    Indian Immigration
    313 4 We are officially informed that meetings of the Immigration Commit tee were held in Ipoh on Sunday and Monday, at which the following were present:-The Superintendent of Indian Immigrants (Chairman), The State Surgeon of Perak, Hon. J. Turner, and Messrs. C-. E. Spconer and R. W, Harrison. The
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    The Homeward English Mail.
    149 4 The Royal mail steamer Jlharatn ofj' 1 British Indi iS.N. C Ltd., being tinn’J to leave Singapore this afternoon at o’clock, is expected toanive hereto-" 1 row (Friday, 19th inst )at 5 p iUI t f leave for Rangoon aboit one hour 11 with the Homeward
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      129 4 fsARiSES’TSTELSTj )E.&O. HOTEL J CRAG HOTEL fenang i RAFFLES HOTEL Jznfirapore. STRAND HOTEL Rangoon. SARKIES BROTHERS, Proprietors. CYCLING, When you ride a MASSEY-HARRIS, is QUITE ANOTHER MATTER and more particularly so when it is fitted with PALMER TYRES. Cash or Terms, Old Machines taken in Exchange. MASSEY-HARRIS AGENCY, 23, React)
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    THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.
    303 5 INDIA'S PLACE. question of imperial council. Mr. CHAMBERLAIN S WISHES. [Rsutkr’s Sbkvick.J London, 17tli April. General Botha, Premier of the Transvaal, wM the ceniral figure at a banquet given bv the Eighty Club in honour of the Colonial Premiers. Proposing the toast of The Imperial Government,” he
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    CRIMINAL APPEALS.
    95 5 THE NEW BILL. [Rehtbh’r Skiivice. London, 18th April. Lord Loreburn’s Judicature Bill, an Act to amend the law with respect to the Court of Appeal,” was read in the House of Commons yesterday for the first time. It will operate similarly to civil appeals, and the Court will
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    EARTHQUAKES EVERYWHERE.
    70 5 MEXICO, SPAIN, AND TURKESTAN. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 18th April. According to the latest information thirty-eighty persons were killed and ninety-three injured by the earthquake which destroyed the Mexican town» of Chilpaucingo and Chilappa. The towns of Ayubla and Ometepec were also practically destroyed. There has been a severe
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    THE BRITISH NAVY.
    50 5 AN ENQUIRY REQUESTED. [Reuter’s Service Lon ion, 18th April. The agitation with regard to the present policy of the Admiralty has culminated in the presentation to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman of a most influential non-party memorial asking for an enqu'.ry into the recent changes that have been introduced.
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    FIRE AT A UNIVERSITY.
    48 5 INCENDIARISM SUSPECTED. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 18th April. lhe medical building at McGill University, Montreal, was destroyed by fire yesterday. The engineering building was destroyed by fire, as already wired, on the Bth inst, and it. is suspected that both outbreaks were due to incendiarism'
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    THE KING AND QUEEN.
    94 5 VISIT TO ITALY. GERMAN SUSPICIONS. [Reuter’s Service London, 18th April. Their Majesties the King and Queen have left Malta for Gaeta where they are to meet the King and Queen of Italy. The German and Austrian newspapers are displaying marked suspicion and illfeeling with regard to
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    THE COTTON TRADE.
    33 5 DISPUTE IN LANCASHIRE. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 17th April. The Lancashire cotton-spinners hav« declined the application of the weavers for a five per cent, increase in wages. A strike is threatened.
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    GERMAN FINANCE.
    35 5 ISSUE OF TREASURY BONDS. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 18th April. Germany and Prussia will each issue ten millions sterling Treasury bonds at 4 per cent, interest, repayable in 1912, at the price of 93.
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    150 5 COLONIAL SECRETARYSHIP. Berlin, 17th April Tli°» Bu iget Commission of the Reichstag has approved of the proposal to appoint a Sec etary of State for the Colonies, but the members of the Centre and the Socialists objected. FRANCE. M Clemenceau, the French Premier, has been severely atticke
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    SHOOTING OUTRAGE IN SINGAPORE.
    260 5 WELL-KNOWN ARAB SHOT. [Fro/n Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, 18th April. Syud Abdul Kader Algasoff was shot and seriously wounded with a revolver at his house last evening. It is rumoured that the outrage was due to jealousy or spite. Syed Abdul Kader Algasoff is a nephew
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    BRITISH GROIN RUBBER.
    438 5 We have received an interesting circular from Messrs. Gow, Wilson <fc Stanton, Ltd., the well-known London brokers, 7 on the cultivation of rubber in British possessions and the future prospects of the industry. In the introductory remarks it is stated:The cultivation of Plantation rubber seems destined to
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    The P. & O. Company.
    301 5 The P. O. Company. Dr. D. S. Fraser writes the following to a Home contemporaty Through your columns may I draw the attention of the British public to the great inconvenience to which travellers to the Far EastSingapore, China, and Japan are submitted when they travel by the Briti-h Peninsular
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    Meteorological Observations.
    115 5 The following is a summary of the Meteorological Observations taken at the Prison Observatory, during the month of March from 1900 to 1907 < Highest and lowest degrees of temperatures respectively *****3 and 73 1901—94 and 71; 1902—95 and 71; 94 and "73 *****3 and 72 1905 94
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    THE MAILS TO THE FAR EAST.
    677 5 The following 4s amore lengthy report of the debate in. Hie House of Commons on the 27th MV<& ou the subject of the Liverpool anilHojlgkongmaiJ contract: There was, in the earlier part of the sitting, Jk lively’, debate on -the motion approving the new
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    Municipal Commission.
    197 5 The Allowing is the business to be transacted at the special meeting pf the .Municipal Commission to-morrow te Minutes of iast meeting to be read and confirmed j t. <p ocon 4ddrand pass Supplemental TBudgekLNo.U 0f 4907: x .3 Ak Any special, business the President may firing forward.
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    LOG BOOK.
    842 6 The Peninsular and Oriental Company claim that the trip of their steamer the Caledonia 13 years ago, from Bombay, with a deviation via Brindisi, to Plymouth, in 16 days 20 hours, constitutes the record between India and the United Kingdom. A renewal of the rate war between the
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    118 6 Bab Whatt Hi», Brit., 1»5, i 7, Tongkah, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan ft Co. Bayren, Ger, 5033, Millzlaff. April 19, Bremen, gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Brouwer, Dut, 545, Hut, April 16, Deh, Bela wan, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Canton, Brit., 105, Marican, April, 17, Teluk Anson, gen., Ah Hing
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    CLEARANCES.
    49 6 Ban Whatt Soon for Langkat. Brouwer for Deli and Lang.’S. Canton for Pangkor and Teluk Anson. Fitzpatrick for Rangoon. Hok Canton for T. Semawe, Olehleh, Sabang, Segli, and Langsa. Keemun for Singapore, China and Japan. Malaya for Deli. Padano for Batu Bahra. Teesta for Port Swettenham and Singapore.
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    146 6 per Ok ar a for Calcutta, 11 am. to-merrow. Rotorua for Tongkah, 1 p m. to-morrow. Cornelia for Port Swettenham and Malacca, 1 p.m. to-morrow. Resident Halewyn for Batu Bahra, 1 p.m. to-morrow. Arratoon Apcar for Calcutta, 1 pm. tomorrow. Lady Weld for Teluk Anson 3 p.m. to-morrow.
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    ON WEEK DAYS.
    118 6 FOR Taipiug, Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Kuala Kubu, Kuala Lumpur, Seremban and Malacca, at 1 p m. and 5-30 p.m. Kedah, at 7 a.m. Butterworth, at 7 a.m ,10 a.m 1 p.m., and 4-30 p.m. Prye, at 7-30 a.m., 11 a.m., 2-45 p.m., and 4-45 p.m. Bukit Tambun,
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    232 6 Name of Steamer, where from, approximate date of arrival, where boemd, and Agent». Arratoon Apcar from Calcutta. April 19, for Singapore, China, and Japan, A. A. Anthony Co. Benledi from London, April 21, for Singapore, China, and Japan, Sandilands, Buttery Co. Braemar from Glasgow and Liverpool, May 21,
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    PASSENGERS.
    58 6 By Omapere from Rangoon, Messrs. Balfour and London. By Ban Whatt Hin from Tongkah, Miss Olive Case. By Solfond from Rangoon, Miss Porter, Miss P. Potter, and Miss E. Porter. By Rotorua from Tongkah, Mr. W. H. Munro. By Teesta from Negapatam, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Jelly, Messrs. R. Alton,
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    SHARES.
    1198 6 IJ Capital. SubwribM. P.M.P- R—Dirid.nd.- Name. E MINING. Gold. r5O 000 £1 £1 £4,873 I/. paid January, 1901 lUub Anst. Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Fully Paid 6 1892 £200,000 £191,250 J 150’900 1 18/10 I/- (Contrib) 6 1 89 R f. 2,000,000 (.1,800,000 20,000 /100 GOO 52} per cent,
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    EXCHANGE.
    119 6 Penang, 18th April. 1907. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London Demand Bank 2 4 1/16 4 months’ sight Bank 2 4 7/16 3 Credit 2/4 9/16 3 Documentary 24f Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 173} 3 days’ sight Private 175} Bombay Demand Bank 173} 3days’sight Private 175} Madras, Demand
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    PRODUCE.
    192 6 Penang, 18th April, 1907. Gold leaf $64.60 Pepper (W. C ast 3 lbs. 5 oz) 17 no stock. White Pepper 24}. Trang Pepper 19}. Mace 81.50 sales. Mace Pickings 70 75 selllers. Cloves (picke I) 51. Nutmegs 110 29 sel'ers. (No 1 5 sal- s. Sugar. <, 2 xno
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      4 6 ENGLISH CLOCKS. -wria., Ltd
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      73 6 HOTEL de la PAIX, SINGAPORE. This Old Established House having b^ 11 thoroughly Repaired and Renovated is Reopened. Good Accommodation for Boarders and Passengers. A Speciality is made of the Table, and only Wines, &c., of the best Quality are supplied. Terms Moderate. Runners meet Steamers* Mrs. E. GEORGE, Mr.
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      1977 8 B y-i Tbe Subscription List will open on Monday, tbe .FIRE INSURANCE. NO BEE’S EXPLOSIVES. llth day of March, 1937, and close on or befpre Globus Insurance company MMAZINES AT PENANG AND IPOH. aI V JI Tuesday, the 30th day of April, 1907, for the Colony of on k- of
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