Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 15 November 1909

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 260 VOL. LXVII. MONDAY. 15th NOVEMBER. 1909. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1291 1 THE “PINANG GAZETTE.” for_sale. the new F THt EMPIRE HOTEL subscription. 0 1 ’®o.i2 85 h.r, f„ur° T «?ted, c tidĕ IfIDRIIPQA kuala lumpur, f. At. s. sĔ I mill nrnfiJO HAnTAIII For Daily "issued in Town, A NEW HRST-CLASS MTEL, gJUHN BEGG 8 SGOTGHI «O'? non nnnnm mont. Owner
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  • 1181 2 —Rangoon Gazette. The House of Lords have recently been engaged in a most interesting discussion on the report of the Treasury Committee on the organisation of Oriental Studies Lord Redesdale, who was a member of the Committee, Lord Cromer, Lord Morley, and Lord Curzon had very much that
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  • 457 2 [To the Editor *of the Pinang Gazette.”] Sir, For many years the Royal Horticultural Society has been confronted with the difficulty of describing exactly the colour of any particular flower, in terms which shall be distinctly and definitely intelligible in New York and Paris, Berlin and Quebec, etc.,
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  • 134 2 This Week’s Programme. M onday—Esplanade. 1. Overture Flotte Bursche Suppe. 2. Polka Der Kon'gstrompter Gottlober. 3. Selection Les Cloches de Planquette. Corneville 4. M altz Love’s Labours Won Volsstedt. 5. March ’E Dunno Where ’E A re Carter. Tuesday—GolJ Club. 1. Selection Mendelssohn’s Songs Godfrey. Without Words 2.
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  • 354 2 The report on the trade of Brasil for 1908, by Mr. Cheetham, Secretary of His Majesty’s Legation at Rio de Janeiro, gives a good deal of space to rubber cultivation, from which we make the following extracts The rubber trade of the Amazon Valley is in many
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  • 228 2 An expedition, primarily zoological in character, under the general command of Mr. Walter Goodfellow, an experienced naturalist who has already made several expeditions to New Guinea, proceeds shortly to New Guinea. The survey branch of the expedition will be specially organised by Captain C. G.
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  • 29 2 Two Small Firms Fail. London, 3rd November. As a result of stagnation in business two small firms of cotton manufacturers of Manchester have summoned their creditors.
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  • 32 2 London, Nov. 6. A Servian loan of £6,000,000 sterling, bearing interest at per cent., was signed in Paris to-day by a German group (of financiers) and the Ottoman Bank.
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  • 28 2 London, Nov. 5. The new Turkish Loan is quoted at one per cent, discount. The underwriters have been saddled with per cent, of the issue.
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  • 130 2 MoaJay. Istb N»ve«b«r. St Machutus. Penang Turf Club: Annual General Meeting, 4 p.m. Band, Esplanade. The Liars”, Town Hall, 9-15 p.m. E. &O. Hotel: Special Supper. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road. Tuesday, I6tb November. Penang Assizes. Band, Golf Club. League Football: Vols. v. Crescent, Esplanade. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road.
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  • 68 2 November 15. 1868—H.M.S. Gnat lost on the Palawan. 1880— Singapore Steam Laundry opened. 1881 Royal Humane Society’s medal presented to Mr. E. A. Weston for gallantry in saving and attempting to save life in Johore Straits. 1887—Destruction by tire of ss. Wah Yeung in Canton River 40
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  • 142 2 Straits Government.— Construction of attendants’ quarter at Kampong Panchor; tenders close noon, Nov. 18. F.M.S. Railways.— Petrol for 1910; tenders close noon, Nov. 20. F.M.S. Railways.— Loading and unloading of goods, merchandise, and live stock carried by the Govt. Railway in Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Malacca during 1910; tenders
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  • 48 2 33 Northern Road apply Kennedy Co. Westlands Bungalows, Nos 1,2, and 3; apply Wreford <fc Thornton. Westlands House apply Wreford <fc Thornton. 66 Cantonment Road (furnished); apply Adams Allan. Glengar, J Larut Road (furnished); apply E. A. Manasseh Co. 167 Anson Road apply Wreford Thornton.
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  • 24 2 Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Nov. 16, IS, and 20.— Allan Irving's stock-in-trade at Town Store, 30 Beach St.; Cunningham Clark Co., auctioneers.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 141 2 Weighty Facts Just read these weighty facts—this overwhelming evidence from a sufferer who was cured of a sprained, stiffened knee joint, cured when other remedies had failed, completely cured by Little’s Oriental Balm. O. F. Schamerer, of Kinundy, Ill.; writes My wife sprained her knee so severely that she could
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    • 35 2 Appendicitis, now so prevalent, is believed to arise chiefly from constipation and local inflammatory troubles, which may be prevented by the occasional use of "Hunyadi Janos” natural aperient water. Average dose a wine-glassful before breakfast
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    • 331 2 AN IDEAL DRINK FOR THE TRISCOP. I ft AGENTS: HOTTENBACH BROS. Co I The Aachen and Munich Fir« Insurance Co. ■5 uF o f Aix la Chapelle. Everyone should keep a Capital £45 0 ,00( battle off Bovrll In th» Total Assets £1,226J8]1 hoiue. K I. handy Or Th nderei
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 153 2 The Moon. First Quarter ...12.29 p.m. 21 Nor. O Full Moon 3.52 p.m. 27 Last Quarter ...11.12 a.m. 5 Dec. O New Moon 2.59 a.m. 13 The Sun. Apparent times of Sunrise and Sunset in Penang: From Sunrise. Sunset. Nov. 16 Nov. 23,.. 6-6 a.m. 5-54 p.»n. Nov. 23 Nov.
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  • 1403 4 A high medical authority recently assured the writer that at least ninety per cent, of the Tamil coolies in the Straits suffer from anchylostomiasis, which is known elsewhere as hookworm or miner's worm. Ceylon is a sister Colony where the disease presents a terrible problem and
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  • 1002 4 YAP HON CHIN’S CASE. Some of the most remarkable evidence ever tendered in a Court in Malaya was given in the further hearing of the claim for damages pieferred by Mr. Yap Hon Chin against Mr. G. L. Jones Parry, Chief Police Officer, Selangor and Mr.
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  • 717 4 Mr. H. Chfcvallier is to act as Resident Labuan. The death is announced of Sir John Baker, M.P. for Portsmouth. Mr. W. G. Bell, postmaster-general, U due in Singapore on December 9. Rear-Admiral Frederick W. Fisher has been promoted to be Vice-Admiral. The death is announced of
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    • 139 4 CSSS THE DISINFECTANT STANDARD is IZAL A TRIUMPH OF CONCENTRATION. A recent Scientific c Discovery G Officially adopted by the Imperial Government. efficient disinfection at a cost so trifling as not to be worthy of consideration on the ground of expense. AGENTS! •UT HRIE A CO.» Ltd., Penang and Singapore»
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  • 338 5 COLLISION IN RHIO STRAITS. FRENCH LINER SUNK. A HUNDRED PERSONS DROWNED. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, 15th Nov. On Sunday morning at four o’clock the Me»sag®*'* es Maritimes liner Z. Seyne, from «via, collided with the Bi itish India SN. Co. s steamer Onda in the Rhio
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  • 41 5 A VISIT TO IPOH. From Our Own Correspondent.'] Ipoh, 15th Nov. The five Australian cricketers who recently plaved in Singapore arrived in Ipoh yp.terday with Mr. E W\ Birch, Resident of Perak, aud are staying here till Wednesday
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  • 41 5 IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS.’ [l)eh Obtasiatische Lloyds service.] Berlin, 14th Nov Herr von Bethuiann-Hollweg has had seve al important conversations with the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, who is now on a visit to Berlin.
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  • 48 5 Her Obtasiatische Lloyds Sermce. i INSUPERABLE OPPOSITION. Berlin, 14th Nov. The idea of a marriage between the Duke of Abruzzi and Miss Elkins has been finally abandone 1 by both parties, the oppomtion of the Italian Royal family to the mate i having proved insuperable.
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  • 26 5 Der Obtasiatische Lloyds Service.] Berlin, 14th Nov. A commercial treaty between Germany and Switzerland, satisfactory to both parties, has at length been signed.
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  • 22 5 [Der Obtasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 14th Nov. The steamers of the Hamburg-America Line will in future call at Tsingtau.
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  • 190 5 PiIOTRI.IKD TRUL II PARIS. THE VERDICT [Reuter’s Service.] Loudon, 15th Nov. The trial of Madame Steinheil for the murder of her husband, M. Steinheil, painter, at their villa in the Vaugirard quarter of Paris on May 30, 1908, has been concluded. Prisoner was acquitted, amid frantic cheering.
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  • 106 5 PHENOMENAL RAIN AT KINGSTON. HEAVY LOSS TO SHIPPING. [Reuter’s Service] London, 13th Nov. Reuter's correspondent at Kingston, Jamaica, reports unprecedented floods due to heavy rains since Nov. 5, which still continue. There has been an average rainfall of ten inches daily. Communications have been interrupted
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  • 80 5 NARROW ESCAPE OF VICEROY. [Reuter’s Service Loudon, 15th Nov. The Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, and the Countess of Minto were driving in a carriage through Ahmedabad (the chief town of a district in Guzerat, province of Bombav), when two bombs were hurled at them from
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  • 53 5 JOHNSON v. JEFFRIES. Reuter’s Service London, 14th Nov. A telegram from Sydney states that the well-known Australian sportsman McIntosh, who arranged the Burns Johnson fight at Sydney on Boxing Day, has cabled to America offering a purse of X 15,000 for the Johnson-Jeffries fight, probibly to take
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  • 63 5 ATTACK ON A CABINET MINISTER. [Reuters Service London, 14th Nov. A Suffragette attacked Mr. iuston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, at Bristol railway station, slashing his face with a dog whip.* After a dangerous struggle on the edge of the platform Mr. Churchill wrested the
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  • 52 5 RESCUE WORK ABANDONED. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 15th Nov. It is reported from Spring Valley, in the State of Illinois, U.S A., that four hundred men have been killed as the result of an outbreak of fire in a colliery at Cherry. The work of rescue has
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  • 24 5 [Dbr Ostasiatibche Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, llth Nov. The Porte has acquiesced in Hie Powers’ non-committal reply to the Cretan Note.
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  • 127 5 EFFECT OF ITS REJECTION. TREASURY’S HUGE DEFICIT. [Reuter's Service.] London. 14th Nov. The Economist estimates that the rejection of the Budget would cause a loss to the Exchequer of between £37,500.000 and £51,000,000. Lord Swaythling, the well-known banker, in the course of an interview, said that its rejection
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  • 46 5 THE KAISER’S COURTESY. [Der Obtasiatische Lloyd’s Service] Berlin, 14th Nov. The Kaiser has invited the Chinese Minister to Germany to be present at the ceremony of the swearing in of the naval recruits and the inspection of the German Fleet on November 15.
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  • 36 5 ANTI-AUSTRIAN SPEECHES. Der Ostasiatibche Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 14th Nov. General Asinari, of the Italian Army, has been placed on the retired list for having made speeches in which he expressed hostility to Austria.
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  • 29 5 A DIPLOMAT’S SPEECH. [Der Obtasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 14th Nov. The Anglophile declaration of the German Ambassador at Manchester has been sympathetically received by the British Press.
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  • 304 5 Sequel to Agricultural Show. The appeal of Mr. Elton Bell and the three peons against the conviction and sentence in what is known as the sequel to the Agricultural Show, was argued to-day before Mr. Justice Thornton in the Supreme Court. Mr. G. E. Wright-Motion
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  • 54 5 It is hoped that the n«w Bishop of Singapore will be able to come to the Residency on his way through on Thursday morning. We understand that Mr. aud Mrs. Bland will gladly welcome any member of the St. George’s congregation who desires to meet the
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  • 41 5 London, Bth November. Martial law has been abolished at Barcelona. The last League match of the season will be played at the Esplanade on Friday next instead of to-marrow. The contestants are the Volunteers and the Crescent.
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  • 822 5 ORDINARY MEETING, NOV. 12. Present His Excellency the Governor, Sir John Anderson. The Hon’ble the Col. Sec., Capt. Sir A. Young. The Hon’ble the Col. Treasurer, J. O. Anthoniaz. The Hon. the Act. Attorney-General, R. Allen. The Hon’ble the Ag. Col. Engineer, F. J. Pigott. The Hon’ble W.
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  • 1078 5 —Straits Times. We have no intention whatever of writing on the present occasion for the guidance of anyone who holds shares in the Eastern Smelting Company. Attention was drawn pretty forcibly to the position of this company in the article we published on June 23, aud we had
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  • 207 5 P V.S.C. V C R.C, Time alone robbed the Penang Volunteers of an easy victory on Saturday. Batting first on a fair wicket the Volunteers scored 106 runs for the loss of five wickets and then declared. Neubronner was at his l>est, scoring more than half the total in
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  • 148 5 Mbb’b Prbmjravb Cup. Notwithstanding the wet state of the links it is gratifying to record a much better entry for the men’s Presgrave Cup for November. The winner proved to be Mr. H. R. Buck land with a score of 3 down. The following scores were handed
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 98 5 FOR SALE. HOUSE and Land, 210, Burmah Road. Purchaser may have the present furniture if desiied. Apply on premises. Twenty-fifth Year of Publication. TIE SNGAPORE and STRAITS ROUGH DIARY for 1910. PRICE $1.25 PER COPY $1.65 POST FREE To be obtained from all Booksellers in Straits Settlements and F. M.
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  • 1538 7 i C.pu 3,,bribed. v I-u. 5 i J I§j I b|S So Q £4 «2 I r" I M od F> i j MINING. S *wSJ *W »M SJ *6o 000 ‘S’OOO !n In 10 I>€r cent ear «nd. 30-4-08... Bros Si Hyd.Tin Mining o. 8 8$ luni Pino’uno
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  • 169 7 Calypso, Brit., 339, Bannatyne, Nov. 15, Singapore, gen., W. Mansfield Co. C. Apcar, Brit., 1730, Hudson, Nov. 15, Singapore, gen., A. A. Anthony Co.De Kock, Dut., 335, Fleeming, Nov. 13, Langsa, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Ipoh, Brit., 528, Olsen, Nov. 15, Singapore, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Jin Ho,
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  • 40 7 Canton for Dindings and Teluk Anson. C. Apcar for Calcutta. Calypso for Deli. Flying Dragon for Port Weld. Malacca for Tongkah. Signal for Singapore and Hongkoug. Theseus for Colombo and Tuticorin. Un Peng for Pulau Langkawi, Perlis, and Setul.
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  • 275 7 ARRIVALS. By Lian Choo (Nov. 12) from Kedah, Mr and Mrs B E Mitchell, Mes-rs J R Ritchey and J Gorman. By Palitana (Nov. 14) from Rangoon, Messrs F Corab, R Nairn, Shin Fan, Khe Nan, War Ham, Uhin Pok, Chin Pan, and Ah Foh from Calcutta, Mr F
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  • 41 7 Name oj .'Steamer, where from, approximate date of arriral, tohere bound, and Agent». Glenturret, London, Nov. 18, Japan, B. lyo Mani, Singapore, Nov. 19, Antwerp, B. Kitano Maru, Singapore, N0v.26, Antwerp, B. Oopack, Singapore, Nov. 27, Antwerp, W. M.
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  • 121 7 Penang, 15th November, 1909. By Courtesy oj the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank 2/4 1/16 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 5/16 3 Credit 2/4 17/32 3 Documentary 2/4 9/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174} 3 days’ sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 174fc 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras Demand
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  • 64 7 To-Morbow. For. Per. Clowe. Kedah Tong Chuan 9 a.m. Asahan Petrel 1 p.m. Trang Sree Bangka 1 p.m. Langkat Jin Ho 1 p.m. Deli Malaya 2 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Perak (E.S. Co.) 3 p.m. Teluk Anson Sappho 3 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Ipoh 4 p
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  • 454 7 FOR Balik Pulau, at 8 a.m. and 12-30 p.m. Butterworth, at 7 a.m., 10 a.m 1 p.m., and 4-30 p.m. Bukit Tambun, at 8-30 a.m., 1-45 p.m., and 5 p.m. Bukit Mertajam and Nibong Tebal at 8-30 a.m., 1-30 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. Kedah, at
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  • 198 7 Penang, 15th November, 1909. Gold leaf $64.80 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 0z).... No stock. White Pepper $24 75 sellers. Trang Pepper cut of season. Mace 92 sellers. Mace Pickings $B3 sellers. Cloves out of season. Nutmegs 110 $20.75 sales. {No. 1 $6.75 sales. No. 2 No stock.
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  • 884 7 The following officers hare been appointed co the Kent on recommissioningCommander E. H. Rymer, Lieutenant R. Collins, Engineer-Commander E. J. Campbell, Sub.-Lieutenants M. N. WilliamsonNapier and V. Hammersley-Heenan, Engin-eer-Lieutenants H. G. Moon and B. C Bowler, Fleet Surgeon G. Ley and Surgeon J. Giaister, m.b Staff-Paymaster O. R.
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    • 37 7 SUH Lift Of COKfldQ. (Kstßblidhed 1865). Assets exceed £6,000.000.0.0 Surplus over all liabilities according to Government Standard 840,265.0.0 Income, 1908, £1.428,000.0.0 W. A WH’TK. 1 KB!)MEOT c Manager, South-Eastern a I General Agents, Penang. Asia. Singapore- J
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