Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 5 May 1908

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 103 VOL. LXVI. TUESDAY. sth MAY, 1908. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      806 1 QODOWN and premises No. 21, Glad- p ONY (f00r ..^7 Buggy nd •,B Ul VI stone Road. Immediate entry. f Harness, complete. 7 -t-hk-pw 1_ k• a. Apply r» i I riibhe are hereby informed that the NOTICR B 274—7-5 BOUSTEAI) dt Co an >e seen Ht fct Street Police
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      540 2 Shipping. wr “BORNS JMHI> LINE’’ SINGAPORE TO *JAVA PORTS, > ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY ALSO TAKING CARGO FOR jmMHkSTKmBIP.CO.Jtd. NEW ZEALAND. AND q p (with transhipment) *»s inducement offers. A regular monthly service to above ports is maintained by the British steamers XA^^k AIRLIE (2,338 tons), (Captain J. Williams) and
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      549 2 NAUMANN'S SEWING MACHINE. BEER Tle N,M,M |wW,<s IN WHITE GLASS BOTTLES. wsrM IW “d l, S«W ri r wwiitj. Best meterlei.l Msveßert «H lie-! WmmMß jeice. I B|l|jHl s2s. I goon YEN MulM ■M9HH BThe Old Way </> Thirty wars ago old-fashioned Cod Liver Oil had tj L to lx?
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    CHINA AND OPIUM.
    1564 3 restrict cultivation.— Hongkong Daily Press. Sir John Jordan thinks that to sweep away in a decade habits which have been the growth of at least a century and which have gained a firm hold upon eight millions o f the adult population of China is a task
    restrict cultivation.—Hongkong Daily Press.  -  1,564 words
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    National Mementoes.
    45 3 London, 24th April. Mr. Astor has presented to the United Service Institution in Whitehall the Chespeakes flag, the Balaclava Bugle and the Ci imean medals, which were sold by auction in London on the 30th January. The purchases had hitherto been kept secret.
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    Guatemala.
    38 3 London, 24th April. The President of Guatemala has informed the Poweis of the discovery of an extensive plot culminating in an attempt on his life. Eighteen of the ringleaders have been executed and other executions are impending.
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    Fanatics at Fez.
    30 3 London, 27th April. Fanatical bands at Fez wrecked the French Post Office and destroyed the boxes outside the British and German Postoffices. The authorities have since apologised
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    China and Japan.
    140 3 London, 27th April. A despatch from Peking says that China has protested against theextension of Japanese administration in Korea to the Chientao territory, between Korea and China. Mr. Stewart Clark, thread manufacturer, of Paisley, has left two millions steiling. The death is announced of Colonel Kenyon Slaney,Unionist
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    JAPAN AND KOREA.
    1146 3 Shimbun writes to the Sydney Bulletin from Japan Since the muzzling of the foreign Press in Korea it is very difficult to find out just what is going on in that country, but we are assured that the accustomed horrors continue, as accounts of them are leaking
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    Penang Post Office.
    156 3 The following unclaimed letters, parcels, and telegrams" are lying at the Penang Post Office Angier, P. A. Leech, Mrs. Massey Berger, J. S. Lian Foo Eng Brisk, A. Martin, H. J. Birdseye, H. U. Martin, 8. F. Chrystal, Miss Mollett, H. B. Connolly, Dr. R M. O’Brien,
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    333 3 Per P. <t O. Britannia, from London, April 10, connecting with s.s. Delhi at Colombo, due May 6 at Penang:—To Penang H. Pullein-Thompson, T. Fitzgerald, A. E. Barbour. To Singapore Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Craig and children, Messrs. A. H. Gallie, T. Boyd, A. Boyd,
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      34 3 Worth More than It Costs.—Medicine cheap when it does people good, no matter ’rhat it costs. Stearns’ Cordial of Cod Liver Extract doesn’t cost much and helps everyone th&t takes it. Stops that coughing.
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      38 3 In hot weather it’s hard work to take cod liver oil. But Stearns’ Wine of Cod Liver Oil is not greasy or oily, and it tastes so good that you wish you had taken more. Duels everybody good.
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      41 3 Two heads are better than one unless they ache. There’s little an aching head can do of value to its owner. Steams’ Headache Cure banishes the pain quickly and makes one feel that life ia worth living. Insist on “Steam» I
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      114 3 Pain in the Stomach. It is moat annoying, as well as disagreeable, to be troubled with pains in the stomach, and there is no need of it, for one dose of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Di irrhoea Remedy will allay the pain. Try it once and be convinced. For sale
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      785 3 Penang Turf Club, sale of valuable land notice. AND SHOP HOUSES. z I 'HE Half-Yearly General Meeting of A the Members of the Penang Turf Acti °g on instructions received the underClub will be held in the Chamber of signed will sell Commerce, on Friday, Bth M»y, 1908, »t B
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    THE WEEK.
    28 4 Tuesday. Sth May. Band, Golf Club. Corriek Family,’’ Town Hall, 9.30 p.m. Matsuo’s Cinematograph, 7 and 9 p.m. High water 3.14 a.m Low water 9.13 p.m.
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    MARRIAGE.
    48 4 Sharpe-Radbourne. —At the Piesbyterian Church, Northam R ad, IVmpg, on the 4th inst., by the R v. Ernest Lawson, M.A., William Kennedy Sharp 0 second son of James Sharpe, of Dennistoun, Glasgow. Scotland, to Mary Elizabeth Kadbourne, eldest daughter of the late George Radbourne, of Dublin, Ireland.
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    Tuesday 5th May, 1908.
    1278 4 An extraordiuaty state of affairs exists at Kulim, a township in the South of Kedah only eight miles distant from the town of Bukit Mertajam, the capital of Province Wellesley. As our readers will remember, some little time ago the Kedah authorities decided to apply to
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    “THE MARVELLOUS CORRICKS.”
    581 4 This talented company of musicians opened a short season at the Town Hall last night before what must be considered for Penang to have been a very fair house. They gave a capital all-round show, nearly every number of the programme being encored, and showed that they
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    PENANG SWIMMING CLUB.
    323 4 WATER CARNIVAL ENTRIES We publish below the list of entries f Or the Water Carnival, to be held under tl auspices of the Penang Swimming Club Tanjong Bungah, on Saturday next, mencing at four o’clock 150 Yards Handicap. Start Go C. M. Henderson scr. 39 J. H.
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    An Outbreak of Fire.
    515 4 An outbreak of fire occurred last night in a godown adjoining the back of another godown under the offices of Mes-rs. Pater- son, Siuions dr Co., Ltd., No. 9 Weld Quay, t Shortly before nine o’clock Sikh Police 1 Constable No. 1 1 8, who was
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    1 4 MARRIAGE.
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    THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.
    226 5 AH AFGHAN IHVASIOH. A GRAVE SITUATION. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 4th May. From thirteen to twenty thousand Afghans have crossed the border, the bulk of them in the direction of Lundi Kota], where they attacked a blockhouse, but were repulsed. [A London telegram of April 27 stated Several
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    THE SOUDAN.
    111 5 MURDER OF A BRITISH OFFICER. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 4th May. It is now reported that Mr. Scott Moncrieff, Deputy Inspector of the Blue Nile Province, was murdered near Mesalamieh by a local Sheikh, who proclaimed himself Prophet and collected on* 1 hundred and fifty ex-Dervishes They attacked the
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    THE UNREST IN INDIA.
    105 5 THE BENGAL BOMB OUTRAGE [Reuter’s Service.] London, 4th May. Two of the men who threw a bomb into the carriage of a European lady at Mozufferpore, Bengal, have been arrested one of them subsequently committed suicide The Police at Calcutta raided two places in which they
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    THE LATE PRIME MINISTER.
    52 5 “IN ME MORI AM.” [Rkutkr’s Service.] London, sth May. Mr. H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, will move in the House of Commons on Monday, 18th inst., that steps be taken for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in
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    THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY.
    32 5 A GIGANTIC LOCK-OUT. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 4th May. Fifteen thousand shipwrights have been locked out on the Clyde and other shipbuilding centres. Eighty thousand men will be ultimately affected.
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    A ROYAL MARRIAGE.
    34 5 A RUSSO-SWEDISH ALLIANCE. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 4th May. Prince William of Sweden and the Grand Duchess Pavlovna have been married at Tsarskoe Selo. The Tsar led the couple to the altar.
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    SEQUEL TO A FIRE.
    477 5 CLAIM AGAINST INSURANCE CO. The following is a continuation of the proceedings in the Supreme Court this morning, in which Chop Hin Lee Chan claim $12,242.43 against the Phoenix Assurance Co., for loss under a policy of insurance Tan Hor Sua, produce dealer, deposed that he
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    106 5 PRINCE BUELOW. Berlin, 4th May. Prince Bulow, Imperial German Chancellor, returns to Berlin to morrow. MOROCCO. The French Press is discussing the prob able occupation of the territory of Tatilet. in the sou h-east of Morocc >. THE FAR EAST. At the annual dinner of the German
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    Siam and England.
    283 5 London, 24th April. Reuter understands that the draft of the Siamese treaty, agreed upon between Mr Paget, British Minister, and the Siamese Governmen’’, has leached the Foreign Office, but not yet been submitted to the Cabinet. There is evety reason to believe that the rights of British
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    EDUCATION IN PENANG.
    1828 5 ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1907. The annual report on Education in the Straits Settlements for the year 1907 has just been issued by Mr. J. B. Elcum, Director of Education, 8.8. and F.M 8. Mr. Elcum’s remarks on Education in the Colony as a whole will be published
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    LOG BOOK.
    794 6 As a port of call for North Atlantic liners, Fishguard has been decided against by the postal authorities, the Admiralty, and the leading Atlantic passenger lines, owing to the difficulty of handling great liners in the harbour during heavy weather. The owner who employs Chinese sailors does not
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    71 6 Cardiganshire, Brit., 2695, Tyers, May 5, Colombo, gen., Boustead A Co. Maktsuijchkk, Dut., 827 f Potjewijd, May 4, Singapore, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Pbbak, Brit., 258, Crighton, May 5, Deli, gen., E. 8. Co. Pin Seng, Brit, 378, Davidson, May 4, Singapore, gen., E. S. Co. Quorra, Brit,
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    CLEARANCES.
    36 6 De Kock for Deli. Flying Dragon for Pulau Langkawi and Setul. Hye Leong for Teluk Anson. Jin Ho for Langkat. Perak (S.S. Co.) for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Pin Seng for Port Swettenham and Singapore.
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    MAILS CLOSE
    116 6 To-morrow. For. Per. <’los«. Negapatam and Madras Teesta 10 a.m. Registration 4 p.m. to-day. Batu Bahra Padang 1 pm. Teluk Anson Vidar 2 p.m. Singapore, China, and Japan Palermo 3 p.m Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleh, and > Hok Canton 3p m. Sabang J Colombo and Tuticorin Pera
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    ON WEEK DAYS
    240 6 FOE Taipiug, Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Kuala Kubii, Kuala Lumpur, and Swamium at I pin. and 5-30 p.m. Kedah, at 7 a.m. Kuala Mudah, at 7 a.m. Kulim, at 1 p.m. Butterworth, at 7 a.m 10 a.m I p.m an 4-30 p.m. Prye, at 7-30 a.m., I 1
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    64 6 Name of Steamer, where from, approximate dale of arriraf where bound, and Agents. Benlomond, London, May 8, Japan, S. B. Delhi, Colombo, May 7, China, A. G. Memnon, Liverpool, May 7, Japan, W. M. Persia, Singapore, May 7, Fiume, S. K. Palermo, London, May 6, Japan, A. G.
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    PASSENGERS.
    95 6 By Prrak (May 4) from Port Swettenham, Rev. E. Bussard and Mr. Wong Wee Eng from Singapore, Messrs A. Colledge, Burke, Captains Woodward and Marriott. By Maetsuijcker (May 4) to Siboga, Mr. P. M. N. M. Shaik Dout. By Santhia (May 4) to Singapore, Capt McLean and Mr. J.
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    SHARES.
    1165 6 •So I B -2 Capital. Subscribed. PbW "P- Dividends. Name. g. 5 3 MINING. Gold. Z aoniN) £1 £1 I/-paid January. 1901 Raub Aust. Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Fully Paid 6 i 18»2 £200,000 £191,250 f .L'neo 1 18/10 I/- (Contrih) 1898 /,500,000 /2,500,000 < ***** /100 ''9° 71
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    EXCHANGE.
    126 6 Pen ang, sth May, I '.»08. {Hy Courtesy oj the ChavtereJ Rank.) London Demand Bank 2/3 3/4 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4 3,16 3 Documentary 2/4 1/4 Calcutta Demand Bank It» 174} 3 days’sight Private 175} Bombay Demand Bank 174 3 days’ sight Private 175}
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    PRODUCE.
    188 6 Penanc, sth May, 1908. G«»l<l leaf 65.40 Pepper (W 'oast 3 lb 5 on.) no stock. White Peppier 18 sellers. Trang Pepper 11.50 sellers. Mac® 75 sellers. Mace Pickings 57 buyers. Cloves (picked) 31 buyerr. Nutmegs 110 $21.50 sales. fNo I $5.30 sales. Sugar. 2 x 1,0 «lock. Basket
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