Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 15 October 1908

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 238 VOL. LXVI. THURSDAY, 15th OCTOBER, 1908. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      791 1 the riNANOOAZETTE.' WANIE A once. Wanted. London DI rector V. OOOOOOOOOCNXKXIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUBSCRIPTION. A DRESSER to take charge of Estate TL4C" DFKIAIMf* A nV/CDTICI Kir* Ar*E*Kir*V I the General Hospital, Penang, two Hospital. Annually.) ST THE PENANG ADVERTISING AGENCY, ST For Daily Jmte, in Town, $f 7 p«r annum, P Nurse
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    STRAITS EDUCATION CODE.
    831 3 The revised Education Code for tl Straits Settlements and the F. M. S., i passed by H. E. the Governor and Hig Commissioner, and approved by the Seen tarv of State for the Colonies, has bee published. Its provisions are, on the whoh practically identical with the
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    Alsace-Lorraine.
    72 3 Momumknt to French Soldiers. London. sth October. A monument to the French soldiers, who fell in 1870, was unveiled at Neisseville, near Metz, yesterday, in the presence of sixty five thousand people. 'l’he ceremony was attend© I by representatives of the French and German Governments, twenty-five French officers, and
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    DAIRYS IN MALAYA.
    944 3 ie The following is the full text of Mr is f- w Main’s article in the Bulletin of tin h Straits and F.M.S., to which we briefly i- I alluded yesterday n lhe complete success of dairy farming depends to a great extent on the cattle u
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    RAILWAY EXTENSION.
    670 3 THE IPOH-TRONOH RAILWAY. 8 r As the new railway line from Ipoh t< Tronoh is now completed a representativ- of the Time» of Malaya asked for, and wh courteously given, permission to travel ovei it on one of the working train*. The nev I line opens out a
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    Golf in Ipoh.
    193 3 Monday’s Times of Malaya says On Saturday afternoon R. Latham and E. Bradbery played off their tie of last week on the local links, and at the finish the Ipohite had his opponent completely beaten, winning by five up and three to play. The final between Latham
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    Indians in South Africa.
    84 3 London, 2nd October A telegram from Barbmton states that* the seventy-six Indian* who were arrested on the Transvaal frontier have been filled X 25 with the alterna ive of two months imprisonment. Th»*y went to prison. London, 4th October. Fortv-eivbt Indians, who had returned to Komatipoort
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    KAMPAR NOTES.
    321 3 Kampar, Oct. 11th. Mining by chabuters is becoming very extensive in the Sungei Kunyit and Ayer Kuning area and the Government would do well tn open a road through the district. At present it is found very difficult to transport the tin won into Kampar, and the want
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    THE WEEK.
    66 3 Thursday. Isth October. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament. Municipal Commission, 3.30 p.m. Friday. I6th October. Lodge Scotia, 9 p.m. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament. Saturday. I7th October. Homeward B. I. Mail. Entertainment, Parish Hall, 9 p.m. Sunday. IBth October. Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. St. Luke. Mondav 19th October. Ladies’ RiHe Club, 4.30
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    TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
    37 3 October 15. 1555—Bishops Ridley and Latimer burnt. 1890 —Football match at night by Well’s lights, Singapore. 1892—Steamer Dora lost. 1894 —Freemasons' Hall, Kuala Lumpur, opened. 1905—Dr. Ellicott, formerly Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, died.
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    AUCTION SALES.
    28 3 Friday Oct. 16. —Stock-in-trade; 95 Beach St. 11 a.m. Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Friday, Oct. 16. Land at Weld Quay; 11.30 a.m. Koh Eng Hin, auctioneer.
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    TENDERS.
    80 3 Straits Government.— loo tons timber; for Swettenham Pier Extension tenders close noon. Oct. 16. F.M.S. Railways.— Loading and Unloading goods (Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Malacca); tenders close noon, Oct. 31. Johore State Railway.— Uniform clothing tenders close noon, Nov. 15. F.M.S. Ra ilways.— Uniform clothing (Perak and Province Wellesley)
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    30 3 BC, Northam Road; apply W.” c/o Goon Yen Friends. Cleeve,’’ No. 122, Scotland Road (furnished_); apply W. Marsh, 39, Northam Road. 149, Anson Road apply Dr. Bright.
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      414 3 The Commercial Sale Rooms I I /88 Bisho» Street) w H W I Undertake the Sale by AUCTION or do not ink* ch*n|l imitation (either sound or damaged BOVIUL in all benf and in a 1 house and landed property, and ateangth giving furniture of an description. MOde Ah» to*»
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      63 3 The Tides. High Water. Low Water. Oct. 15 4.01 pm. 10.04 am. 16 447 p m. 10.48 am. 17 5.36 p.m. 11.34 a.m. 18 624 p.m 12 22 p.m. 19 711 p.mf 1.10 p.m 20 801 p.m. 7.02 p.m. 21 8.48 p.m. 2.46 pm. The M oon. Last Quarter 16
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    MARRIAGES.
    2 4 MARRIAGES,
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    Thursday, 15th October, 1908.
    1069 4 In commenting a day or two ago on the National Convention in Durban, which has been convened to frame a Constitution for a Federal South Africa, we promised to revert to the subject and deal with some phases that could not be touched upon within the
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    A VALUABLE CURIO.
    822 4 Some time ago we reported t hat two Japanese women were convicted by Mr. B. Nunn, Third Magistrate, for carrying on and assisting in the management of a public lottery and fined $l,OOO and $5OO respectively. On their appealing to the Supreme Court their convictions were affirmed,
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    790 4 Mr. E. V. Caiey will be returning to Malaya next year. Mr. A. K. E. Hampshire is expected back in the Federal capital shortly. Mr. and Mrs. L. Yzelman and MU B O’Hara arrived in Singapore on Monday from Kuala Lumpur to attend the races. Sir Cecil
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    73 4 DEATHS. Bayley.—Sept. 21st, at Blackheath, Ann, widow of late H. Bayley, Manager of P. and O. S. N. Co., aged 77. Bubhell.—Sept. 19, at Harrow on-the-Hill, Dr. S. W. Bushell, c.M.g, late Physician to H.M. Legation, Peking. Ellis. Sept. 18, Cecil Francis, infant son of E. C. Ellis, Singapore. Sharp.—Sept.
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    THE NEAR EAST.
    274 5 FURTHER COMPLICATIONS. AUSTRIAN STEAMERS BOYCOTTED. (Rkutbr’s Service.] London, 14th Oct. The Austrian Embassy in Constantinople lias protested to the Porte against the boycott of Austrian Lloyd steamers, and against the language of a section of the Turkish Press, hinting that it would be unwise to irritate Austria
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    A NEW “COMBINE.”
    49 5 SUFFRAGETTES AND UNEMPLOYED [Reuter’s Service.] London, 14th Oct. Thirty-seven persons including twentvfour women, have been at rested, while several others were injured and sent to hospital, as a result of the demonstrations by the unemployed and Suffragettes yesterday in the vicinity of the Houses of Parliament.
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    CHINESE RAILWAYS.
    59 5 NEW LOAN OVERSUBSCRIBED. [Reuter’s Skrvick London, 15th Oct. L'he Chinese railway loan of $5,000,000 (sterling) for the redemption of the bonds of the Peking-Hankow railway, which was issued in London and Paris, the price being 98 with interest at five per cent, per annum up to 1923 and
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    PARCEL POST.
    20 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 14th Oct. The British Post Office has instituted a Parcel Post to Japan vid Siberia.
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    75 5 THE NEAR EAST. Berlin. 14th Oct. Prince Bulow, the Imperial German Chancellor, received the British, Japanese, and Turkish Ambassadors yesterday. The Prince also came to a good understanding with the Austrian Ambassador. AVIATION. Torpedo-boats are scouring the Baltic Sea in search of five balloons which are missing.
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    THE ENGLISH TURF.
    128 5 «EIIARKET OCTOBER lEETIIG. RESULT OF THE CESAREWITCH. [Reuter’s Service.] Loudon, 15th Oct. The following was the result of the race for the Cesarewitch Stakes at the Newmarket Second October Meeting yesterday afternoon:— The Cesarewitch Stakes (a handicap) of 25 sovs. each, 10ft., with 500 sovs. added the
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    DR. SVEN HEDIN.
    91 5 HIS HOMEWARD JOURNEY. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 14th Oct. Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, has sailed from Bombay for Hongkong en route to Europe vid Japan. [A Simla telegram of Oct. 1 stated :—Dr. Sven Hedin, who been the guest of the Viceroy, leaves Simla on Oct.
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    New Engineer for Penang.
    151 5 Mr. James P. Fettes, assoc, m. Inst., c.e has been selected by Mr. Lindsay, the agent of the M tinicipalCommissioners, in Glasgow, for the appointment of Assistant Engineer, Municipal Engineer’s Department. 'l'he successful candidate, who has been engaged in connection with the proposed impounding reservoir and
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    A Reprieve.
    352 5 His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to commute the sentence of death passed at the present Assizes on Haji Brahim, a caretaker and Koran reader at the Malay Cemetery, Perak Road, for the murder of his wife, to one of penal servitude for life. With a view
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    PAHANG MURDER TRIAL.
    1399 5 IMPRESSIVE SCENES IN KUANTAN. EIGHT RUFFIANS SENTENCED TO DEATH. No murder trial in the history of crime could have been more impressive than that associated with the violent death of Dr. J. W. Barrack, a former House Surgeon of the Singapore Hospital. Ten roughly-clad men and one
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    “Truth” and Tanjong Pagar.
    220 5 Truth of Sept. 23 says Two or three years ago the Government of the Straits Settlements acquired the Tanjong Pagar Docks, Singapore, from the company owning them, and the management has since been vested in a nominated board of merchants and officials. One of the reasons
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    Totemism in Malaya.
    111 5 Mr. W. W Skeat, of Cambridge, the well-known authority on the anthropology of the Malay Peninsula, contributed a paper to the History of Religious Congress at Oxford.on the traces of totemism surviving in that region, 'l’he difficulty he experienced as a descriptive ethnologist was to obtain from
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    Bowls Tournament.
    60 5 Owing to the inclemency of the weather the tie between the Teams of Four (Team B v. C.) in the P.C.C. Bowls Tournament was not played off last night. 5 The following ties have been fixed Thursday. Single Handicap. (Final). W. S. Goldie —2) v. W. Daniel 6)
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    LATEST INDIAN VIRES.
    710 6 Calcutta, Sept. 26. A sensation has been caused in Calcutta by the discovery that guns and other arms are being consigned here from German vessels in cases whose contents are misdeclared. Ths matter is under enquiry. India Council Reform. Calcutta, Sept. 26. The Viceroy’s Executive Council had
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    140 6 T«-morrow. For. Per. Close. Tongkah Malacca 1 P m Trang and Pang Nga Deli 1 P- m Batu Bahra Padang 1 P-“-Tongkah Avagyee 1 P ln Port Swettenham and Singapore Rotorua 2 p.m. Colombo and Tuticorin Nore 2 p.m. Teluk Anson Hye Leong 3 p.m. Pulau Langkawi, Perlis.
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    European Mails.
    33 6 Home- Ex- Positive» Io ward. pkctkd. Dur >ail. P. O. Delta 24/10 B. I. Thongwa 17/10 N.D. L. Zieten 27/10 Outward. P. <fcO. Delhi 22/10 B. I. 29/10 N.D.L. Kleist 15/10
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    750 6 Per P. Jr O. s.s. Moldavia, from Loudon, a September 14, connecting with s.s. Delhi T at Colombo, due at Penang October 22 :—To Penang Mrs. Kelvey. Mr. B. C. Criswick. To Singapore Sir W. H. and Hyndman-Jones, Mrs. A. Pearce, Mrs. Minto, Misses L. T.
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    58 6 Fook Sang, Brit., 1987, Mitchell, October 14, Calcutta, gen., Boustead Co. Hye Leong, Brit., 296, Treweeke, October 15, Teluk Anson, gen., Kwong Qn.Kleist, Ger., 5123, Meyer, October 15, Germany, gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Lutzow, Ger.. 5135, C. Denvers. October 14, Japan, gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Teesta, Brit., 3428,
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    CLEARANCES.
    63 6 Cornelia for Port Swettenham and Malacca. Canton for Dindiugs and Teluk Anson De Kock for Deli and Paneh. Fook Sang for Singapore, China, and Japan. Jin Ho for Langkat. Kleist for Singapore, China, and Japan. Malaya for Deli. Mambang for Pulau Langkawi and Setul. Petrel for Asahan. Pegu for
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    36 6 Name o/ Steamer, where from, approximate date of arrival, where bound, and Agents Benarty, London, Oct. 16, Japan, S. B. G. Apcar, S’pore, Oct. 29, Calcutta, A.A.A. Sikh, Liverpool, Oct. 26, Japan, S. B.
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    PASSENGERS.
    91 6 ARRIVALS. By Teesta October 15) from Madras, Mr and Mrs J W McNamee and children, Mrs Martin and child, Miss D Gibbs, Messrs M Adam Saib and C G Freemantle. By Lutzow (October 14) from Singapore. Mr Justice Braddell, Messrs J W Scott, E A Smith, H Hubbord, V
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    DEPARTURES.
    33 6 By Lt tzow (October 15) Perera Family, Mr S Felsinger; to Genoa. Baron van der Borch. Mr A L Drost to Southampton. Mr and Mrs Max Koch to Hamburg, Miss Sigrid Berg.
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    EXCHANGE.
    122 6 Penang, 15th Oitober. 1908. (By Courtesy ot the Chartered Bank.) Ijoodon Demand Bank 2 4 months mijbt Kuta 2'4 1/16 3 Credit 2 4 3/16 3 Document arv 2 Q Calcutta Demand Bank •<- 174| 3 «lays'sight Privet» 176 Bombay Demand Bank 17-4} 3 «lays sight Privat- 176 Madras,
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    PRODUCE.
    185 6 Penang, 15th October, 1908. Gold leal 65 Pepper (\V Coast 3 O> e no stock. White Pepper $l5 sellers. Trang Peppar $lO nom. Mac® $7O nom. Mace Picking* $6O nominal. Cloves (picked) out of season. Nutmeg» 110 $l9 sales. CNo I $6 65 sales. Sugar < 2 x no
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    SHARES.
    1124 6 9 I Capital. Subscribed T MHdend.. Name. Ĕ 2 5 Q ‘2 =5 O I CQ rn 2 I I □> MINING. I 1 1903 1 $300,000 $300,000 30,000 $lO $lO 10% year end. 31-3-0« Belat Tin Mining Co., Ltd I $7 1906' 300,000 225,000 22,500 10 10 Bruang,
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