Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 December 1908

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833 No. 296 VOL. LXVI. WEDNESDAY, 23rd DECEMBER. 1908. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1068 1 THE PINANG GAZETTE.” GOVERNMENT WHARVES. PENANG. TOWN HALL NOTICE. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. DA|\|K ||A| ID AVQ SUBSCRIPTION. Christmas Day, 25th Dec., 1908, T/MJ I IA B f^ WING to bei,, S oufc °f town, the Office A P PLICATIONS are invited for the lUM I I D I JOk |y D
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  • 3993 2 Mr. W. V. Drummond presided over the twenty-third annual meeting of the above Company held at Shanghai on Dec. 2. There were also present :—Messrs. J. H. McMichael. J. M. Young, C. W. Wrightson, and F. Anderson (Directors), Crawford D. Kerr, R. H. Gore-Booth, S. E.
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  • 177 2 The calendar» issued by the George Town Dispensary, Ltd., have been noted invariably in past years for novelty and attractiveness of design, and that for 1909, a copy of which has just been received is no exception. The calendar takes the form of a paper wallet, and
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  • 156 2 Wednesday, 23rd December. Outward German Mail. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p m. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road, 7.30 and 9.30 p.m. Thursday. 24th December. Outward English (B.I.) Mail. Christmas Eve. League Meeting. 5 30 p.m. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road, 7.30 and 9-30 p.m. Friday 25th December. Christmas Day.
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  • 32 2 December 23 1888—Sir Thos. MTlwaith, Premier of Queensland, visited Singapore. 1888—Lawrence Oliphant died. 1891—First news of Pahang disturbances received in Singapore. 1899 Lord Roberts left Southampton for South Africa.
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  • 29 2 Afoiu/ay, Dec. 28.— Househo’d furniture 17a Northam Road 10-30 a.m Joe de Mello, auctioneer. Wednesday Dec. 30. Lund; Logan a Buildings: 11 a.m. A. M. Joseph, auctioneer.
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  • 25 2 Government Wharves.— Supply of Stores for Tugs and Launches tenders close noon, Dec 26. Kedah Government.— Police clothing; tenders close 5 p.m., Dec. 27.
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  • 36 2 No. 4 Westland*, Morningside, (142 a Burmah Road), and No. 167, Anson Road apply Wreford and Thornton. Marble Hall,” Kelawei Road; apply Kennedy Co The Towers,” 120 Anson Road, apply S. E. Arnsberg.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 77 2 What can’t be cured must be endured, but there is no use of enduring the torture of headaches. Stearns' Headache Cure gives relief in a very few minutes. Persons who suffer in this way should always have a box of it at hand. Insist on Steams.” The London Assurance Corporation.
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    • 637 2 Jp Twenty-fourth Year of Publication V SINGAPORE AND STRAIN ROUGH DIARY 1909. Price $1.25 per copy; $1.65 post f ree V WZ /k Tobe obtained f rom all Booksellers in Straits Hh B Settlements and F.M.S. PDBL.IBHKKS Photographic Studio. T VE K. S. OKANIWA, The r£medt Japanese Artist, TRADE MARK.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 77 2 The Tides. High Water. Low Water Dec. 23 12 01 a.tn. 6.00 p m 24 12 47 a in. 6.44 p.in. n 25 1.35 a in. 7.36 p.m. 26 220 a.tn. 8.23 p tn. 27 310 a.m. 9.10 p.m. 28 400 a.m. 10.00 p.m. 29 443 a m. 10.47 p.m.
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  • 1315 3 JANUARY MEETING. 1909. FIRST DAY. TUESDAY. 26th January. 1. THE MAIDEN PLATE. Value $5O«. A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight as per scale reduced 14 lbs. All horses imported into the Straits or F. M. S. as Subscription Griffins at a price not exceeding $4OO allowed 7
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    • 944 3 BURNS PHILP LINE.” kT ww jr SINGAPORE TO *JAVA PORTS, PORT DARWIN, THURSDAY ISLAND JL BRISBANE AND SYDNEY, ALSO* I If k taking cargo for o i her north Japan Mail Steamshia Co. Ld QUEENSLAND PORTS, F BRITISH NEW GUINEA, NEW A BRITAIN <fc NEW ZEALAND PORTS (with transhipment). As
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    • 19 3 RILEY, HARGREAVES Co., Ltd., Mechanical, Electrical, Civil Engineers, and Shipbuilders, PENANG BRANCH 4, BISHOP STREET. PENANG, SINGAPORE, and IPOH.
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    • 645 3 PENANG VOLUNTEERS. ORDERS BY CAPTAIN The HonT)le A. R. ADAMS, COMMANDANT. December, 1908. 27th Sunday, Class Firing Trained Men at 7 a id., Shat p, Drill Order. 28th, Monday, Company Drill, at Fort at 5-30 p m„ Plain Clothes. 29th Tuesday, Recruits Drill at Fort at 5-30 p.m. 30th, Wednesday,
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  • 1227 4 In view of the International Conference on the Opium Traffic which is to meet at Shanghai in February, more than ordinary interest attaches to the latest quarterly returns of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs dealing with the trade in opium, an admirable analysis of which we
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  • 228 4 the BIJOU TROUBADOURS. The Misses and Master Sarkies, who have made capital juvenile hosts at previous entertainments in Penang, invite all their little friends and their parents to a special matinee of Tom Liddiard’s Bijcu Troubadours in the Town Hall on Tuesday next at 4 p.m. As the
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  • 564 4 His Excellency Sir John Anderson and party arrived here this afternoon from Kuala Kangsar, Perak. The Governor left Kuala Kangsar by a special train at 9-45 a.m. and at 12-56 p.m. arrived at Prye, where he was met by the Hon R N. Bland, Resident Councillor.
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  • 770 4 His Ex. the High Commissioner of tl F.M.S. is expected to visit Pahang eail next year. Mr. Kinder, of Batu Caves Estat has returned quite well from his healfi trip to Ceylon. Signor To«ti, the famous 3ong. Wr j ter has created a Knight Commaodn. the Victorian
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    • 358 4 WANTBD. NOTICE* MINING ENGINEER, Graduate, now NketVMTt MMt$CMW*imanaging a property in Malaya, will be at liberty after the Chinese New p e Del j__i jan gga Service. Year and is desirons of obtaining a Kenan» nt similar position. Experience in Gold, H|fi gR G q Daendels, expected to Silver, Copper,
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  • 80 5 CONSPIRACY 111 PARIS. A WOMAN AS RINGLEADER. [Rbutbrs Sbbvici] London, 22nd Dec. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post abates that an Indian conspiracy is bemg orgu.nwd in p ari by ?wg eraaan woman who is the wife of a Hindu. Manufacture of Bombs. The gang
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  • 80 5 REIGN OF KING LANSDOWNE? (Rbutbrs Service.] London, 22nd Dee. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Liverpool vestersaid that Lord Lansdowne had usurped the sovereignty that had been unclaimed since the reign of Charles the First, adding We are not going to stand King Lansd >wne
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  • 111 5 ANOTHER RECORD FOR AMERICA. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 23rd Dec. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has approved of plans for a bridge, three miles long, from New York to Long Island, with a span over Hell Gate of a thousand feet. Th* total cost is estimated at three millions
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  • 67 5 HAPPY EVENT FORESHADOWED [Reutbr’s Sbrvicb.] Lindon, 23rd Dec. A telegram from The Hague says that, in the Dutch Chamber, yesterday, in the presence of all th- Ministers, the Premier read the physicians’ declaration as to the health of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, stating that undoubtedly the hopes
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  • 60 5 [Reuter’s Service London, 22nd Dec. A seaman on board the Amethyst ha» been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment with hard labour and dismissed the Navy for throwing a guu-fi'ting overboard [On Dec. 15 Reuter wired —All leave has been stopped on board the cruiser Amethyst
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  • 66 5 A TO WK AY FELLED WITH AN AXE [From Our Own Correspondent.] Ipoh, 23rd Dec. Loo Ah, a well-known Chinese brickkiln owner, felled the well-known towkay Ong Pnow with an axe in Market Street this morning. There was some dispute relating to a power of attorney, and
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  • 57 5 STRAITS COMMISSION’S REPORT. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 23rd Dec. It is unlikely that any final step will be taken with iegad to the report of th* Straits Opium Commission until the conclusion of the International Opium Conference in Shanghai in February. The suggestion that its publication has been
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  • 48 5 [Reuter’s Service] London, 23rd Dec. Bulgaria, in a Note to the Powers, has complained of the offensive tone of the passage in the Sultan of Turkey’s speech from the Throne referring to Bulgaria, which, it is feared, may lead to tension in Turco Bulgarian relations.
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  • 352 5 Curved Luck, by Sir J. G» orge 'Cott. C,K (Wilimm Blackwood <fc Sms, 3a. 6<1.). Ibis is a collection of -ix short xtorLs of some forty or fif.y pages eich.dealing with incidents m the lives of natives or Europeans in Further India. The plots are a little •in,
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  • 586 5 FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS. Berlin, 22nd Dec. The polemic between the French and the German Press with regard to a proposed delimitation of the frontier of Algeria and Morocco has quieted down. At no time did the British Press evince any interest in the subject. THE BALKANS. The reference
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  • 1404 5 -MM. MEETING AT IPOH. A meeting of the Perak Planters' Association was held in the Ipoh Club last Saturday morning. Besides Mr. C. L. Gibson in the chair there were present Messrs. Alma Baker. E. R. Salisbury, R. Hodgson, E. L. D. Evans, G. N. Stevens, W. Duncan,
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  • 283 5 ii The following fees to be paid for a licence to carry on the business of pawnbroker in the localities mentioned below have been prescribed by the Governor in Council under section 36 (I )of the Pawnbrokers Ordinance IV. of 1898 for the country divisions of Penang
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    • 865 5 NOTICE OF SALE. The Misses and Master Sarkies BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE, f f the TO BE SOTO BY PUBLIC AUCTION. company of all their little On Tuesday, 29th December, 1908, f t at ham friends, and their parents, at a At Logan's Buildings, Beach Street, Penang, Special matinee
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    • 1497 6 6 ——nrwriNTli r BANK OF BROWN Co., hamckomg AND SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE HANOEL NEDERLANDSCHE INDISCHE INDIA, LIMITED. Monumental Sculptors, CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. ORATION MAATSCHAPPIJ, ESCOMPTO-MAATSCHAPPU. CALCUTTA, AUSTRALIA. AND CHINA BANK N NMUrteU.TrUHs Society. X’ Paid-up-Capita! $15,000,000 fl Authored Capital 562,500. import.rs of Incorporated by Royal Charter. Reserve Fuhdb p abt.
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  • 1201 7 ■x Capital. Subscribed Issue Ig* I Shares. Value. ~o Dividends. Name g •5 *3 i JL SS I 5 -p- ffl J O’ MINING. 1903 $300,000 $300,000 30 000 «10 ein s«<> 19U6 300,000 225,000 22’500 in in l0 y ear end 31 3 8 Belat Tin Mining Co.,
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  • 119 7 Ayuthia, Ger., 261, von Reeker, Decemlier 22, Asahan, gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Cornelia, Brit., 194, Marris, December 22, Teluk Anson, geu., E. S. Co. Coen, Dut., 823, Hut, December 22, Sabang, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Canton, Brit., 106, Gillies, December 23, Teluk Anson, gen., Kong Soon. De Kock,
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  • 36 7 Cornelia for Teluk Anson. Deli for Dindings. Flying Fish for Bort Weld. Mambang for Pulau Langkawi and Setul. Malaya for Deli. Nyanza for Singapore, China, and Japan. P. E. Friedrich for Singapore, China, and Japan.
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  • 61 7 AL«me of Steamer, where from, approximate date of nwiraf cohere howhd., and Agente. Benlarig, London, Dec. 26, Japan, S. B. Capri, Bombay, Dec 27, Hongkong, B. M. E. F. Ferdinand, S pore, Jan. 7, Fiume, S. K. Ischia, Singapore, Dec. 27, Bombay, B. M. I*. E. Friedrich, Bremen,
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  • 41 7 DEPARTURES. By Coen (December 22) to Singapore, Mr Thung Seang* Swee. Bv Perak (December 22) to Deli, Mr U T P-1 well. By Pin Seng (December 22) to Port Swettenham, Mr Yeoh Eng Bu; to Singapore, Mr Lint Seng Hooi.
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  • 119 7 Penang, 23rd .December, 1908. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank 231 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4| 3 Documentary 2/4 5/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 1/4} 3 days’ sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 174| 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras Demand Bank 174|
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  • 190 7 Penang, 23rd December, 1908. Gold leaf $65 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 0z).... No stock. White Pepper buyers. Trang Pepper sll} sales! Mace 3 sellers. Mace Pickings $63 sales. Cloves $37 sellers. Nutmegs 110 $2O sales. ("No. 1 $6.65 sales. Sugar j No. 2 No stock. Basket $3
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  • 99 7 To-morrow. For Per. Close. Deli and Asahan Ayuthia 11 a.m. Deli Calypso 11 a.m. Deli and Batavia De Kock 1 p.m. Langkat Jin Ho 1 p.m. Asahan Mary Austin 1 p.m. Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, and > Vidar 1 p.m. Malacca Rangoon Glenogle 2 p.m. Port Swettenham and
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  • 38 7 Home- q Ex- Positivki.v L'o WARD. PKGTKD. PUK SAIL. P. <k <J. Delta 2/1 B. I. Teesta 26/12 N.D. L. Buloto 5/1 Outward. P. &,().Delhi 31/12 8.1. Taroba 24/12 N Friedrich 23/12 5 p.m. 11 p.m.
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  • 509 7 Per N D L s s Prinz Eitel Friedrich from Bremen Nov. 18, from Southampton Nov. 24, due Penang Dec. 24 :—To Penang Mr Jacobson, Mrs. Th K Soberg and child, Messrs H F Klassen, H W* Naez t, C F Riess, and Miss M. Peterson.
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    • 131 7 A prominent business man who has been restored to health by the timely use of Steam’s Cordial of/’od Liver Extract, refers to it as a priceless blessing.” A reliable blood tonic and issue builder—delicious in taste. Commercial Union Assurance Company, Ltd. Head Office: 25 <fc 26 CORN HILL, LONDON, E
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    • 2294 8 I ck I Shipping. Shipping. P. 0. Steam Navigation Company. Shipping. inunded Sailing. Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. OUTWARD. laima I Dee. 31 Delhi connecting with Morea 11 BRITISH INDIA imnerial German Mail Line. I/ Jan 14 De vanba connecting with Mooltan I r-/ ““....a STEAM NAVIGATION C., LTD. J* OtMB SIMM
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