Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 29 September 1910

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 220 VOL. LXVIII. THURSDAY, 29th SEPTEMBER. 1910. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      1423 1 HE HNAWaUITE." MINEB CELEBRATED subscription. dividend No. 2«. VKVoMi ft OILMEN’S dii 7 —< t JOKi BLACKWELLV D stores. For Daily Issue, in Town, in London, on October Ist, which dividend I X. I f $27 per annum, will 1>« paid to local shareholder* B < soon >< Vz flB
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    MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.
    2426 2 THE COMMISSION’S REPORT. (Continued). The following is a continuation of the report of the Commission of enquiry into the administration of Municipal affairs in the Colony Construction Works. 71. With the exception of the raising of the Thomson Road Reservoir Dam in Singapore which was undertaken in 1902
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    No Dolocoath Dividend.
    195 2 The directors of the D docoath Mine, Cornwall’s chief tin producer, are able to show a profit of £13,018 for the six months ended June 30 last, as compared with £12,722 for th» sec >nd half of 1909. The available balance now to be dealt with totals
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    Tongue Twisters.
    132 2 A London paper recently offe-ed a series of prizes for the best tongue twisting sentences. The f blowing were the prize winners The bleak breeze blighted the bright broom blossoms. Two toads totally tired tried to trot to Tedbury. Strict, strong Stephen Stringer snared slickly six sickly snakes.
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    PENANG VOLUNTEERS.
    244 2 ORDERS BY CAPTAIN THE HON. A. R. ADAMS, COMMANDANT. September, 1910. 29th Thursday, Company Drill. 30th Friday, Recruiit Drill. Promotion.—No. 358 Pte. E. A. Scully to be Lance Corporal, 25th August, 1910. Leave.—No. 43 Pte J. C. Cowap is granted 18 months’ leave of absence from 20th August,
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    THE WEEK.
    35 2 Thursday, September 29. Straits Cinematograph, Fenang Road Friday, September 30. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Saturday, October 1. Sunday. October 2. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. Monday. October 3. Tuesday, October 4. Wednesday, October 5.
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    LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
    19 2 Fixtures for October. 4. —Free School r. Butterworth, Esplanade. 5. —Govt. Wharves r. C. R.C., Victoria Green
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    TENDERS.
    81 2 Government Monopolies I >epartm.ent, Penang.— Services for year 1911:—1. Supply of best Amoy or Hongkong pots, each capable of easily containing 3 chees of chandu. 2. Supply of best Amoy or Hongkong pots, each capable of easily containing 1 tahil of chandu. 3. Supply of best Amoy bamboo leaves.
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      72 2 The Sun. Apparent times of Sunrise am! Sunset in Penang Suuriae. Sunset. Sept. 27 to 5ept.30,...6-01 a m 5-59 p.m. The Moon. New Moon 3.32 pm 3 Oct First Quarter 8.40 pm. 1 1 O Full Moon 9.21 p.m 18 t Last Quarter 12.47 pm 25 The Tides. Date. H
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    TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
    415 3 Fatal Motor Car Accidaat at Bombay. Bombay, Sept. 19. A fatal motor car accident occurred yesteiday to a party of ten persons. Mr. and Mrt. Sorabji, Mr. H. Battiwala, Mr. J. M. Wndia, Mr. N. C. Yatuck, Miss Patuck, a girl of fourteen years, Master Modi, K.. B.
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    The F. M. S. Agency.
    441 3 Stimulate»! by the success attending the adoption of commercial methods in advertising the resources of the self- governing Dominions of the Empire, the Crown Colonies, or at least some of them, are about to embark on a similar course. The first to make a bi«l
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      483 3 THE STRAITS Iw, .he Time? g CINEMATOGRAPH Co. <f The Time for a Glass of H TO-NIGHT! wm rare S Gra <l Pr 2 gramme I BI I I Treacherous Gancho Hr W W k W 3. Sportive Drunkenness W H 4. The Sleep-walker ■> 5. A Story of Circus
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    Thursday, Sept. 29, 1910.
    1273 4 The criticisms of the Territorial Force have been directed, not ho much against its seal and efficiency, as its numbers. Lord EUier, a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence, in an article on The Voluntary Principle,” wiiicn appeared in the current issue of the National
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    LEAGUE COMPETITION.
    962 4 C.R.C. v. VOLUNTEERS. Ou Victoria Green, yesterday afternoon, the Chinese Recreation Club gained a couple of points in the League competition, defeating the Volunteers’ Sports Club by no less than 6 goals to 1. For the first ten minutes there did not seem much to choose between the
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
    861 4 Colonel Swart, ex-Civil and Military Governor of Acheen, has had a conference with the Dutch Minister for the Colonia at The Hague. The marriage of Miss Winifred Birch and Capt. R. J. Cargill will be solemnised at All Saints Church, Taiping, on Tuesday Nov Bth. 7 Mr.
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      132 4 NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Correspondence on all subjects of public interest is cordially invited, the Editor resei ring the right to s eject or modify communications which he does not think it expedient to publish in the form submitted to him. This rule does not apply to letteis or articles intended
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    THE SHARE MARKET.
    318 5 general downward movement. [/*ron* Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, Sept. 28. There is a considerable movement in the share market and in almost all cases they are down, local shares included. The following are buyers* prices Highlands <fc Lowlands, £4 18/9 Katnunings, 4/4 Landadrons, £5 Merlinaus, 5/-; Berlatns,
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    PRODUCE PRICES.
    30 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, Sept. 28. White pepper is quoted at $27,25 Sarawak sago Hour, < 89 opium, $1,750 Rangoon rice, $144 and Siam rice (No 1), $l9).
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    SINGAPORE NEWS
    77 5 Singapore, Sept. 29. The Tamar tc, an Anglo American Oil Co. steamer, the first cargo steamer fitted with wireless telegraphic install ition, lias called here. The hearing of the Lunas E-tate case is being continued. The addresses of counsel will take place to-day. The Sultan of Johor*- has
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    THE BOY SCOUTS.
    68 5 Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 29. A meeting was held here last night for the purpose of forming a local Com nittee for the Boy Scouts. The Rev. P. G. Graham was elected Chairman and Mr. J. McEwan hon. secretary. It was decided to f<>rra troops in connection with
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    CHINESE FACTION FEUD.
    42 5 Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 29. In connection with the Chinese faction feud at Kuala Teh on the 20th jnst., the Pahang authorities have discovered five bodies. About twenty persons have been a>rested and sent down by river to Kuala Lipis.
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    THE PRICE OF RUBBER.
    27 5 Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 29. A London cablegram to the Planters Stores an 1 Agency Co., Ltd., quotes plantation sheet and biscuit at 5/10.
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    SMALLPOX IN PERAK.
    580 5 ALARHIAG rapid spread [From Our Own Correspondent.] Ipoh, Sept. 28. The rapid spread of smallpox in Taiping is causing much alarm io Ipoh. Letters j n the Times of Malaya demand quarantine against Taiping and Penang. The authorities are very slack. One instance is recorded in which
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    SECRET SOCIETY IN MALACCA.
    54 5 From Our Own Correspondent] Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 29. The Malacca correspondent of the Malay Mail reports tha’ the police have unearthed a dangerous secret society there. A fight occurred on Monday night and one man was killed with an axe. The society’s documents are being forwarded
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    THE SPY SCARE.
    45 5 [Reutkr’r Service .l London, Sept. 29. Lieut. Siegfried Helm, the alleged German spy, has been committed for trial. He has been allowed bail for himself in £l,OOO and by two Englishmen in £5OO each. Meanwhile he has been remanded to Winchester gaol.
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    A DUTCH LOAN.
    22 5 [Drk Ostasiatischb Lloyd’s .Service.] Berlin, Sept. 28. Holland will raise a new loan at the beginning of next year.
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    LABOUR DISPUTES.
    162 5 THE COTTON TRADE CRISIS. WELSH MINERS’ BALLOT. [Krutbr’s Sbrvicb.] London, Sept. 28. The ballots among the South Wale» miners show that the majority is opposed to a general strike, favouring instead a levy on behalf of the miners employed by the Cambrian Trust. Loudon, Sept. 29. The cotton
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    KAISER AND KING MANUEL.
    58 5 [Reuter’s Sbrvicb.) London, Sept. 28. It is reported from Lisbon that the Kaiser has invited King Manuel of Portugal to visit Berlin in December, when there will be great festivities and a military review. [DSR OBTASIATISCIIE Lloyd’s SeRVICB.] Berlin, Sept. 28. The first visit of King
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    A POSTHUMOUS HONOUR.
    52 5 THE TRANS ALPINE PRIZE. [Reuter’s Sbrvicb London, Sept. 28. The Milan aviation committee has paid to a brother of the late M. Chavez the trans-Alpine prize of £2,000. [Deh Ostasiatischr Lloyd’s Service] Berlin, Sept. 28. A German named Jeannin lias made a long balloon trip from Treves
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    LIEUT. SUTOR’S SENTENCE.
    74 5 COMMUTED BY THE KING. [Reuter’s Si.rvick.l London, Sept. 28. The sentence of dismissal from the service passed on Lieut. Allan Sutor, of the Royal Garrison Artillery and the author of a pamphlet entitled The Army System or, Why Muddle Through Thirty Millions a Year During Peace?” which
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    PAYMENT OF M.P.’s.
    43 5 London, Sept. 29 A speech by Mr. Balfour in Edinburgh on October 5 is being awaited with widespread interest, as it is presumed he will give a general lead to his party and indicate his policy regarding payment of members.
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    SARATOGA STATE CONVENTION.
    31 5 London, Sept. 28 At the Saratoga State Convention, which had a stormy sitting yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt was triumphantly elected Chairman, defeating Vice-Chairman Sherman by 567 votes to 445.
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    PRINCE TSAI-HSUN.
    25 5 London, Sept. 28. President Taft received Prince Tsai-Hsun of China at the White House on the 19th inst. and entertained him to dinner.
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    THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
    32 5 [Dbr Ostabiatischr Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, Sept. 28. The French Press says it is rumoured that M. P«ul Deschanel is a candidate for the post of Ambassador at St. Petersburg.
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    THE RUSSIAN INTERIOR.
    24 5 Berlin, Sept. 28. M. Stolypin, the Russian Premier, is proceeding to Friedberg to report on bis recent visit to the interior.
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    NEAR EASTERN QUESTION.
    99 5 STATESMEN IN CONFERENCE. [Rbutbr’s Sbrvicb] London, Sept. 28. The Turkish Grand Vizier interviewed Baron von Aehreuthal at Vienna and then proceeded to Constantinople. London, Sept. 29. The forthcoming meeting between the Marquis di San Guiliano and Baron von Aehrenthal at Turin will be watched with especial interest
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    SOUTH AFRICA.
    63 5 GENERAL BOTHA’S POSITION. [Reuter’s Sbrvicb London, Sept 28 Special importance is attached at Pretoria to the fact that General Botha has during the past three days been so strongly urged from different parts of the country not to resign, and has received such repeated assurances of support, that,
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    THE REICHSTAG.
    15 5 [Dkb Oatasiatischk Lloyd’s Srhvicb Berlin, Sept. 28. The Reichstag meets on November 15.
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    Netherlands India Budget.
    206 5 From the Netherlands Indian budge.t for 1911 it appears that the means in Netherland amount to fl. 24,124.740, and in India to fl 188,463,335, or a total revenue of fl 212,588,075, against an estimated expenditure of fl 35,243,762 in Holland and fl. 195,494.340 in India, or a
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    The Rise in Tin.
    383 5 In view of the recent levival of speculation in tin shares, which was obviously chiefly accelerated by the startling rise in the price of the meta', it mav be well, perhaps, to remember (says a Home paper of Sept. 9), that present market conditions are altogether
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    LICENSING JUSTICES.
    655 5 YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. 4 meeting of the Board of Licensing Justices was held in the First Magistrate’s Court, at 2 15 p.m. yesterday, to consider applications for public-house and billiard saloon licenses for the third quarter of 1910. There were present the First Magistrate (Mr. G. A. Hall), ex-officio
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    Silver Sacerdotal Jubilee.
    143 5 The Rev. Pierre Marik Pbrrichon. The festivities in connection with the celebration of the sacerdo al silver jubil* e <f the Rev. Pierre Marie Perrichon, Vicar of the Church of Immaculate Conception, will take place in Pulau Tikus on Saturday, October I, and the following day. The
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    THE ASSIZES.
    238 5 MURDER CHARGE DISMISSED. At the Assizes in the Supreme Court, yesterday, the trial of Tan Chi who was charged with the murder of Yeoh Teow Lye, a fruit hawker, living in Penang Road» on July 25, 1910, was concluded. The jury found the prisoner not guilty by 5
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    The Late “King of the Cocos.”
    247 5 A Son in Bankruptcy. Lord Skerington, in Edinburgh on 7th inst., heard counsel in a petition and answers relating to the bankruptcy of Edwin Rowland Clunies Ross, whose late father was Chief of the Cocos Islands, in the South Indian Ocean. The petition was
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    Gharry and Motor Collide.
    217 5 This morning what might have been a serious accident between the Hon. Resident Councillor’s gharry and the P. W. D. motor was happily averted beyond a slight damage to the gharry and th*- harness to say nothing of a little plaster, no serious damage was done.
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    Chinese Tindal Runs Amok.
    126 5 Tkn Killed and Injured. A report has reached Penang of ajteiri.ble affair on Hessa Esta'e, Asihan, Sumatra, some days ago, a Penang Chinaman, who was only recently engaged as tindal, running amok and killing four natives an i wounding six others, four of whom are said
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    SHIPPING.
    784 7 ARRIVALS. Buelow- Ger-, 5224, Formes, Sept. 28, Chin», gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Perseus, Brit., 4299, Warrail, Sept. 29, Liverpool, gen., W. Mansfield Co. Panskor, Brit., 134, Darke, Sept. 29, Bindings, gen., E. S. Co. Teesta. Brit., 3428, Willis, Sept. 29, Madras, gen.. Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Van <ler Parra, Dut,
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    SHARES.
    1648 7 s ■>< J»;; N„.. I i j o I x ui 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 MINING. 1093 $300,000 $300,000 30.000 $lO $lO 25 10 30 Belat Tin Mining Co. 34 4 ex. div. 1906 300,000 225,00 C 22,500 10 10 Bruang, 1901 600,000 600,000 60,000 10 10 20
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    MAILS.
    101 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE To- Mobbow. For. Per. (Hose. Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan neon Port Swettenham and Singapore Pin Seng 3 p.ra Teluk An on Malacca 3 p m. Dindings Pangkor 4 p.m. Calcutta Lai Sang 4 p.m Pulau Langkawi, Perlis, and Setul Un Peng 4 p.ra.
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    EXCHANGE.
    130 7 Pknang. Sbpfrmbkr 29, 1910. (Hg Courtesy oj the Chartered Rank). London Demand Bank 2/4 5/32 4 months’sight Bank ...2/4 7/L6 3 Credit 2'4 9/16 3 Documentary 2/4 19/32 Jalcutta Demand Bank Rs. 175 3 days’ sight Priv*u« 176 Bombay Demand Bank 175 3 days* sight Private 176 Madras Demand
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    PRODUCE.
    197 7 Pknang, Skptkmbrr 29, 1910 Gold leaf $64.6 Pepper (W. (toast 3 It» 5 <»z.) No stock. White Pepper ...S2G sellers. Trang Pepper $16.75 sales. Mace $95 sellers. Mace Picking» $77 buyers. Cloves J'i'i nominal. Nutmegs 110 $19.50 sellers (No. 1 $7.10 sales. No. 2 $7 sales. Basket $5.20 nominal
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