Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 17 April 1909

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 86 VOL. LXVII. SATURDAY, 17th APRIL. 1909. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      1545 1 THE PINANG GAZETTE.” THE marvel OF the WORLD ©Q©oo©©OQ©©QOO©©©©q©q©oooo©© INTENDED SAIT TNTCQ subscription. GeMine'ievH waich Rs. 5. Banking and Trading Corporation, 8 A”""" Naudin 0 Ltd straits steam snip co., lid. 0R <(■)/ lof. O O $3O post free. \ggßz O Discount bills and advance loans for O Wo th
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    THE STATE OF KEDAH.
    1380 2 M HART’S REPORT. (Continued). The following is a continuation of Mr. G. C. Hart’s Report on the State of Kedah from Sept., 1906, to Feb, 1908 Vrterinary Department. For many year past a system of inspection has been enforced in Kedah with a view to coping
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    CHURCH SERVICES.
    162 2 First Sunday after Easter. April 18. St. George’s Church. 8 a.m. —Matins. (Choral). 8-30 a.m.—Holy Communion. (Plain). 10 a.m.—Matins. (Chinese.) 5 p.m —Sunday School. 6 p.m.—Evensong and Sermon. Presbyterian Church. 9 a.m. —Divine Service. (Northam Road). 6 p.m.—Divine Service (Northam Rd.). Preacher :—The Rev Ernest Lawson, m.a. Methodist-Episcopal
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    CROWN AGENTS’ WAYS.
    1195 2 APPOINTMENT OF ENGINEERS ON RAILWAYS. At a sitting of the Crown Agents* Enquiry Committee, presided over by Col. Seely, Major M. A. Cameron was called and examined. Referring to railway construction, he said :—ln the Malay States where they have managed to keep construction going continuously for
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    THE WEEK.
    113 2 Saturday, I7th April. Golf Club Entries for tennis ties close. Lodge Scotia. 9 p.m. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road. Sunday. IBth April. First Sunday after Easter. Low Sunday. Water Carnival entries close. Swimming Club Annual Meeting. Monday, I9th April. Ladies’ Rifle Shooting, 4.30 p m. Band, Esplanade, 6 to
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    TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
    133 2 April 17. 1855—Anglo-Siamese Treaty signed. 1871 —Tel*graph from Hongkong to Shanghai opened. 1881—Bungalow, Spottisiwoode, Singapore, burnt; occupier subsequently committed for trial. 1891—Execution at Kowloon city of 19 pirates (including .Vunuxi pirates). 1894 Malacca Railway scheme sanctioned by Lord Ripon. 1895 Treaty of peace signed between Japan and
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    AUCTION SALES.
    78 2 Monday April 19.— Lot Arabian Salt 2-30 p.m. Sungei Pinang Brick Store Koh Eng Hiii, auctioneer. Wednesday, April 21.— Stock-in-trade; 196 Beach 11-15 a.m. Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Saturday, Apiil 2J>.— Household furniture; “Ascot” Ayer Rajah Road; Joe de Mello and J. W. Hallifax, auctioneers. Tuesday April 27.—
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    27 2 18 Logan Road apply M. M. Noordin’s office. Ascot,” facing Race Course; apply J W Hallifax. No. 2, Cantonment Road; apply 142» Carnarvon Street.
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      73 2 The Tides. High Water. Low Water. Apr. 17 936 p.m. 3.34 p.m. 18 10.24 p.m. 4.20 p.m. M 19 11.12 p.m. 5.11 p.m. n 20 12.00 a.m. 6.00 p.m. n 21 12.47 a.m. 6.48 p.m. M 22 1.36 a.m. 7.34 p.m. n 23 2.23 a.m. 8.24 p.m. The Moon. O
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    Saturday, 17th April, 1909.
    1325 4 A good deal lias been written of late in the Home papers about the office of the Public Trustee and from what we have read on the subject we are convinced that the establishment of a similar body in this Colony would be of the greatest
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    RIFLE SHOOTING.
    209 4 THE BROMHEAD MATTHEWS SHIELD. The following are the detailed scores by the Malay States Volunteer Rifles in the above competition on Thursday 200 500 600 Tot. Capt. H. Redfearn Shaw... 31 30 31 92 Sur.-Capt. E. A. O. Travers 33 33 29= 95 Qr.-Master-Sergt. W. Hay 31 34
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    A “K.C.M.G.” Story.
    146 4 In From Piccadilly to Pall Mall we find the following anecdote which may be interest to some of our readers. Mr. Edward Fairfield, Assistant UndeiSecretary at the Colonial Office, was a very shrewd judge of humanity, and one having no illusions as to its failings. Asked one
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    A Rubber Anomaly.
    156 4 Says the Daily Mail of March 23 While Selangor Rubber two-shilling shares, receiving 411 per cent, dividend, are quoted at £1 per share, the two-shilling shares of the Vallambrosa Company, which last received 55 per cent, dividend, are at 16s. only. The financial year of the latter
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    Penang Exports.
    260 4 The following articles were exported from Penang during the fortnight ended April 15 To United Kingdom. Tin, 950 tons. Black pepper, 50 tons. Tapioca flake, 60 tons. Tapioca pearl, 37 tons. To U. S. A. of America. Tin, 1.25 tons. To Continent. Tin, 100 tons. Copra, 1,026 tons.
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    916 4 The World says of Sir Henrv M o Governor of Cevlon, tha associating his n o ne with then rura,, u r u of Madras whenever it lll)V f 11 /er Or *hip Viica "tMr. WW. Bailey, formerly a planter but now of the lUbbt p aiu
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      108 4 I LIP T O N’S I <5 E 1 JA g I PENANG AGENTS: 3 g—- Polerson, Simons t co., Ltd. Apollinaris. The Queen of Table Waters.” Per Case of 25/1 Bottles $5.50. 100 2 13.00. 100 4 11.25. Hamper of 50 2 Stone Bottles 8.00. G. H. SLOT Co.,
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      87 4 CONTRIBUTIONS must be addrested to The Editor," written on one side of the paper only, and accompanied by the writer’s name and address, not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith. LL MONIES must be paid at the Pinang Gazette Office, Penang, to the Acting General Manager,
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    THE CRISIS IN TURKEY.
    248 5 threatened civil war. REFORMERS rallying. [Reuter’s Service London, 16th April. Though Constantinople was generally quiet yesterday, the Marines made a demonstration as they objected to the new Minister of Marine. They also arrested and conveyed to the Yildiz Kiosk, and eventually lynched there, the commander (,f
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    WHEAT AND COTTON.
    50 5 EXCITEMENT IN AMERICA. [Reuter’s Service] London, 17th April. A telegram from Chicago states that the wheat market has slumped heavily Patten, the well-known speculator, has bought frantically for the purpose of checking the slump. The New York cotton-market is wildly excited over rumours of buying by Patten.
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    TROUBLES IN ASIA MINOR.
    47 5 MASSACHE OF ARMENIANS. [Reuter’s Service] London, 17th April. A cording to the latest cables, the antiChristian outbreak at Mersina, in tha province of Adana, has been renewed. Sixty Armenians have already been killed and the dragoman of the British Consulate and»one German wounded.
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    THE EMPIRE AND THE NAVY.
    48 5 AUSTRALIA’S LOYAL OFFER [Reuter's Service London, 17th April. The Times reports that the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia has cabled the Admiralty that in any emergency the whole of its Naval forces will be placwd unreservedly under the direction of the Admiralty.
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    MR. TAFT AND THE TARIFF.
    42 5 PROTECTION FOR PHILIPPINES [Reuter’s Service] London, 17th April. President Taft has sent a message to Congress proposing the adaptation of the Philippine Tariff to the new Federal Tariff with a view to the protection of Philippine industries.
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    THE DUTY ON TEA.
    35 5 FEARS OF AN INCREASE. [Reuter’s Service] London, 17th April. Immense quantities of tea are being withdrawn from bond owing to a fear that there will be an increase in the duty.
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    FOR “DARKEST AFRICA.”
    69 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 17th April. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the United States, has left Aden on his Way to Africa. In 1876 the Japanese Government ordered that in any official document, save in the case of writing on foreign-made paper in one of the Western languages,
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    LOCAL SHARES.
    297 5 Owing to the Easter Holidays business has been inteifered with to a certain extent, but the prmcipd feature still continues t<> be in Rubbers Mining A few Tronoks have changed hands at $6 85. but the demairl was soon satisfied, buyers dropping their price to s6|. Tekkas have
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    458 5 p.p. THE CRISIS IN TURKEY. Berlin, 16th April. Telegrams from Constantinople state that the city is now quiet, but despatches from Salonika report that sixteen battalions of the Third Army Corps, which supports the Committee of Union and Progress, are marching on the capital, and the outbreak
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      EMPIRE DAY.
      99 5 [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette''] Sir, While cordially approving of the idea of entertaining the school children of Penang on Empire Day, I am of opinion that the scheme is distinctly defective in that it does not include the entertainment of the children of the Vernacular
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      CRICKET IN PENANG.
      190 5 [7*o the Editor oj the Pinang Gazette.”] Dear Si«, If the reverse sustained by the Penang Ct icket Club in the Easter cricket match against Perak conveys any moral to the mere outsider, it is the folly of ignoring the need of serious practice until within a
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      QUARANTINE HARDSHIPS.
      537 5 [7*o the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.”] Dear Sir, With reference to the remarks about Penang made by the Times oj India Correspondent and reproduced in a recent issue <>f the Pinang Gazette, there is one thing that, as a traveller, he has apparently failed to notice. This
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    QUEEN WILHELMINA.
    950 5 —X. Not only all Holland, but the whole world, is anxiously awaiting the news that the hoped-for-heir has at last arrived These hope* aie centred in the palace at the Hague, where Queen Wilhelmina is now residing. Like m<>st Sovereigns, Queen Wilhelmina, when in her usud state of
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      792 5 J G J^i AN p enang Sales Room. AND MARINE SURVEYOR. The undersigned is instructed to sell by AGENT FOR DIIIM TI 7 NEW AND SECOND-HAND MACHINERY, UDLH/ AKJ (JT IO N, broker AND valuer, AT SUNGEI PINANG SALT STORF SECOND-HAND MOTOR CARS oivikß, bought and sold Sib, Brick Kiln
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    SHARES.
    1302 7 coital. UoriM. I v»“e DmdwU Name. I=| g I 3 I I >» o i B _J I i I I X 3D :3* MINING. 1903 $300,000 $300,000 30,000 $lO I $lO 10% year end. 31-3-08 Bel at Tin Mining Co., Ltd! ss} ]906 300,000 225,000 22,500 10 10
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    58 7 Bharata, Brit., 1957, Alexander, April 17, Singapore, gen., Hottenbach, Liebert Co. Canton, Brit., 106, Gillies, April 17, Teluk Anson, gen., Kong Soon. Petrel, Brit., 124, Allan, April 16, Brandan, gen., E. S. Co. Salahadge. Dut, 1235, Riju, April 16, Balikpapan, Liquid fuel, Asiatic Petroleum <& Co. Tara, Brit.,
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    CLEARANCES.
    52 7 Atsuta Maru for Colombo and Tuticorin. Bharata for Rangoon and Calcutta. Cornelia for Teluk Anson. Kistna for Port Swettenham and Singapore, Leong Ho for Trang. Putiala for Singapore. Petrel for Pangkalan Brandan. Perak (E.B. Co.) for Deli. Pin Suey for Colombo and Tuticorin. Tong Chay Un for Bindings. Tara
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    71 7 Va. <4(! q/ .SZeamer, wh“.re, from, approximate flat* ot arrira/, where bound, and J get its. A. A pear,, S pore, Apl. 19, Calcutta, A. A. A. Glenogle, Rangoon, April 23, China, E. S. Omapere, Tavoy, April 20, Tavoy, E. S. Sexta, China. April 28, Rangoon, E. S.
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    PASSENGERS.
    107 7 ARRIVALS. By Bharata (April 17) from Singapore, Mr and Mrs Gan Boon Poh and children. By Tara (April 17) from Singapore, Messrs J K Health. A G Sohst, and Tan Kheam Hock. By Rotorua (April 15) from Singapore, Goh Pung, K J Mclntyre, and Capt Lingard from Port Swettenham.
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    EXCHANGE.
    123 7 Penang, 17th April, 1909. By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank London Demand Bank 2 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4 3/16 3 Documentary 2/4 7/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 3 days’ sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank f 174 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras Demand Bank
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    PRODUCE.
    193 7 Penang, 17th April, 190 y. Gold leaf $65 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 0z).... No stock. White Pepper $16.45 buyers. Trang Pepper $12.72} sales Mace $7 3 buyers. Mace Pickings $64 buyers. Cloves $3B sellers. Nutmegs 110 $l9 sellers. C No. 1 $6.65 sales. Sugar < No. 2
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    91 7 Monday. For Per Oloae. Deß Hebe 9 a.m. Tongkah Sappho 1 p m Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleh, and Hok Canton 3 p.m. Sabang Singapore, China, and Japan q. Apcar 4 p.m. Calcutta c. Apcar 4 p.m. Registration 3 p.m. Tuesday. Pulau Langkawi Flying Dragon 3 p.m. Port
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    MARKET PRICES.
    217 7 Penang, April 17. Drscription. Cts. Soup per catty 14 Roast 26—24 Steaks u 2624 Stew or Curry Meat 16—18 Rump Steak n 26—24 Ox Tail each 30 Tongue 55—60 Feet 15 Heart Heart per catty 30 Tripe ]0 Liver per catty 30 Pork: Pork 36—30 Pig’s Head 20—16
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    185 7 Per P <fc <0 ss Victoria, from London, Mar. 27, and ss Delta from Colombo, due Penang April 22 :—To Singapore Mr and Mrs J A Webster and child, Mrs G T Hunter, Misses B Thomson, E Carey and Boltan, Messrs R W Pearson, E V
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    LOG BOOK.
    910 7 A prominent feature of the recent debates has been the breakdown of the pretentious secrecy of the Admiralty in Parliament, and a necessary outcome has been to cover with ridicule the Press advertisement with which Admiralty policy was heralded. In the first years of this Parliament inquiring members
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      37 7 Men of Sense can appreciate a good thing. That’s why so many of them take Stearns’ Cordial of Cod Liver Extract whenever they feel the need of a good tonic and blood builder. Tastes good, does good.
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