Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 13 March 1911

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 57 VOL. LXIX. MONDAY, 13th MARCH, 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1683 1 J Sea View Hotel,: FARQUHAR STREET. THE IDEAL HOTEL FOR VISITORS. X ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP. ON THE SEA FRONT. NO UNHEALTHY SURROUNDINGS. Cool, Comfortable and Homelike. J CUISINE UNEXCELLED. terms very moderate, f VICTORIA FOR HIRE. < Telephone 368. Proprietor. W. DANIEL. J THE PINANG GAZETTE.” wanted. to let. I notice.
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    • 58 1 ♦MHimiiiiimiMilwa > -IM MNANC CAZytE" H (PUBLISHED EyEBY w j Rates ol Subscription ->ayaMe strictly la < advance jr*;- I LOCAL S 2.2fr*erXn<Mrth. 1 2 S $27.00 prfr annum. BY POST 2.90 ver month. 1 015.00 naif yearly. > W $30.00 yearly. J WEEKLY EDITION PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. Z Subscription
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  • 3321 2 HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANK. HALF-YEARLY MEETING. The ninety-first ordinary half yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Hongkong «fc Shanghai Banking Coporation was held on Feb. 25 at Hongkong. Mr. G. Balloch (Chairman) presided. The Chief Manager read the notice convening the meeting. The Chairman said :—Gentlemen, The Report and
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  • 294 2 A Robber Beatrn to Death. A ghastly story of robbery, murder, and revenge reaches the Times oj Malaya from a mining kongsi, about two miles from Chemor, in the direction of Tanjong Rambutan. It appears that on Wednesday morning, at about one o’clock, a gang of
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  • 460 2 FIFTH TEST MATCH. London, March 3.—The Fifth Test Match began to-day. Australia batted first and scored 231 for three, Macartney contributing 137. London, March 4.—ln the fifth Test Match Australia completed their first innings for 364. South Africa replied with 160. Following on, they had made 33 for
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  • 302 2 The homeward mails on the 23 ult. closed earlier than usual at Kuala Lumpur, but the public received insufficient information from the Post Office. A curious explanation is given to the Selangor Chamber of Commerce by Mr. W. A. White, Acting Director of Posts and
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  • 196 2 Monday, March 13. Band. Esplanade, 6 p.m. P.L.R.C.: 150 yds. deliberate Cj u k Spoon and de Voogt Cup Wantage Choral Society Rehearsal, 9.15 p.m. 8 Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road. Tuesday, March 14. Homeward German Mail. Band, Golf Club. Penang Library, Annual Meeting 4.30 p.m. o’ St.
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  • 197 2 March 20.—King Edward Memorial: Adjourned Public Meeting, Town Hall. March 20.—Karangan Hydraulic Tin Mining Co., Ltd.: Half-yearly Meeting, 9 Weld Quay, noon. March 20 —P.L.R.C.: 200 yds. deliberate, twice, de Voogt Cup; head and shoulders. March 20.—Eastern Smelting Co.: Shareholders’ Meeting, 4 p.m. March 22.—Licensing Justices' Meeting.
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  • 58 2 Wednesday, March 15. Household premises in Beach St.; 11 a.m. Ah Quees Buildings; J. W. Hallifax. auctioneer. Thursday, March 16.— Land, Province M ellesley 11.30 a.m.; 21 Beach St.; Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Tuesday, March 2S.— steamers Glentalloeh. Hong Moh, Hong JPlih 1., and Hong Bte', Powell Co.’s
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  • 73 2 Municipal Commissioners, Penang Construction of roadway, bridge, pipelaying, settling chambers, service reservoir, and other works near Ayer Etam tenders close noon, March 16. Government of Kedah.— Supply, delivery, and erection of rainwater catchment area ot corrugated iron roofing, with steel storage tanks of 480,003 gallons capacity. T eu ders
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  • 30 2 No. 13 Logan Road; apply J. Gawthorne, Beach St. “Galway”, Tanjong Bungah (furnished apply R. A. P. Hogan. No. 145 Kelawei Road; apply Heap leik, < Beach St.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 163 2 A Sore Throat The quickest way to get rid of it—the simplest and surest—no bother, no trouble, is to rub in Little’s Oriental Balm, and wrap up the throat with flannel. Will remove all aches and pains caused by a cold, a strain, or over-exertion. One trial will prove its
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    • 36 2 HENRY RILEY’S for «BRASS BANDS, MILITARY BANDS, ORCHESTRAL BANDS. Cornets, Saxhorns, Circular Basses, Flutes, Clarionets, Drums, Uniforms, Banners, Parade Sticks. Send for Catalogue, and state requirements. HENRY RILEY’S, Manufacturers and Merchants, 25, Constitution Mill, Birmingham, England
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    • 74 2 STRIKING EXPERIMENTS AT THE REQUEST OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD FOR IRELAND. The remarkable feeding exneri ments conducte i in the School of Physiology. Trinity College Dublin at the request of the Local Government Board for Ireland, prove that BOVRIL when added to a fixed diet, has a body-b;nlding effect
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    • 1195 3 the dispensary. Mipitcd [valentine william,| >m <*-«• .»a o PT ,o.. NS e j Green island Cement co., Ltd. FREE s PORTLAND cement. Ann j wL CtZ|l and*' In »^u B a Drums of Drain Pi P es > an sha Pe •5 g g vw/dyM Picture Postcards. w lbs.
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  • 17 4 Stephens.—At Taiping, on March 2, the wife of W. B. Stephens, of a son. Both well.
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  • 667 4 In 1903 a Co-operative Credit Societies Bill was passed in India by the Imperial Legislative Council. It was in the nature of an experiment and inside and outside the Council doubts were freely expressed as to the result. In introducing the Bill at the time Sir
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  • 261 4 DEATH OF A LADY AT SEA. We regret to record the death of Mrs. Christine Keightley Smith, wife of Mr. A. K. Smith, of Pataling Estate Selangor, which took place on board the 8.1. ss. Kapurthala in the Straits of Malacca on Saturday. The Kapurthala, which went
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  • 217 4 DEVELOPMENTS AT THE PENANG BRANCH. Mr. G. E. Venning Thomas, General Manager of the Eastern Branches of Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Ltd., in the Straits Settlements, FMS, Burma, and Siam has been paying a business visit to Penang. The Penang branch is now in charge
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  • 325 4 We are informed that the Swettenham Cricket Trophy for the year 1910 has been awarded to the Penang Cricket Club, which also held it for 1909. The Hing W o Hong Society has been duly registered in the Settlement of Penang under section 5 of The Societies
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  • 729 4 THE KING EDWARD MEMORIAL. [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.”] Sib, As at present my original suggestion that a Hospital Sanatorium on Penang Hill would be a suitable method of commemorating King Edward is, for various reasons, not practical, and, as your readers are aware, a proposal to
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  • 207 4 [To the Editor o] the u Pinang Gazette.”} Sir, Allow me to draw the attention of your many seafaring readers to the necessity for extra caution whilst navigating the F.M.S side of the Malacca Straits, especially at night, at the present time, when numerous and
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  • 63 4 Homeward. Steamer. Arrives. Mails Sails. Close N. D. L. Yorck Tues. 14/3 7a m 9 a.in. 3 pm. 15/3 15/3 B. I. Bharata Sat 18/3 10 a.m. noon P. A O. Marmora Sat. 25/3 Outward N.D’L. Kleist Thurs. 16/3 3 p.m. 4 pm. 10 a.m. B L Teesta
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  • 507 4 Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Strode Hall u left Kuala Lumpur for Australia. ia79 Mr. Loveday, General Manager of Argentine Railway, is on a visit to Lumpur. Mr. Roger, of Me» Sre Riley, t pX g S b 8l eSB iBit R f re ’r tOn Of
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  • 190 4 The marriage ceremony of Mr. Eu Siang Hye, MA I M.l, A.f.M.M and Miss Chuah Chew Swat, a well-educated scholar of the Government Girls’ School, took place on Friday last at 30, Scotland Road. At 4 o’clock the bride cut the wedding cake and then tea was
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  • 71 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $B9 80 per picul business done. The following were the dealings m tin today:—Singapore, Straits liading °> Ltd., buyers, no sellers, $9O 25 Penang» Straits Trading Co., Ltd., no e Eastren Smelting Co., Ltd., no lUlir e Messrs. Leong
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    • 216 4 MILNERS 1 SAFES -*BEST PROTECTION HAVE V SALE IN THE £W/>- r -V' J* THIEVES. WORLD. Av Safes vf? to th* Mklk Rooms the Colonial Please Foreign Governments, Ac. fU particularS AG E NTS: Guthrie Co., Ltd., Penang and Singapore. Caldbeck, Macgregor Co., I WINE MERCHANTS, 7, UNION STREET. PENANG.
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    • 84 4 To-Day’s Contents. Page 9.— Hongkong Shanghai Bank Two Murders in Perak; Telegraphic News; Kuala Lumpur Post Office Week’s Engagements. Page 4- —Editorial (Indian Co-operative Societies); A Delayed Steamer Seimens Bros. Dynamo Works, Ltd. A Chinese Wedding; The Swettenham Trophy Correspondence The Mails Social and Personal; and To-day’s Tin Quotations. Page
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  • 22 4 DEATH. O’Reilly.—At 7, Owen Road, Singapore, on March 10, Alfred A. O’Reilly, late of the 67rat< Times stall, in his sixty-sixth year.
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  • 169 5 STERLING ROBBERS VARIABLE. BATAK HABIT AND RUBANA QUOTED. The following are the changes (buyers and sellers only) in our share list on page 7 of this issue 13/3/10. 11/3/11. 13/3/11. pe g Shares. i s s "o s CS OQ M 02 PS 02 Rubber (Sterling). B.
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  • 57 5 ANOTHER RUBBER FLOTATION SELANGOR UNITED, LIMITED. [Front Our Oton Correspondent.] Singapore, March 13. The Selangor United, Limited, with £90,000 in two-shilling shares, is being floated in London, the local agents being Messrs. Guthrie Jj Co. The Company takes over Brown Willie, New Comet, and St. Andrew Estates. The purchase price
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  • 36 5 From Our Own Correspondent.] Malacca, March 13. At an auction sale of rubber here on Saturday the following prices were realised Best sheet per picul 1343.50 Fine crepe 327.50 Bark 233.00 Scrap 200.00
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  • 24 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, March 11. To-day’s (Saturday’s) quotations for produce are Gambier $8.75 Tapioca, flake 830 Tapioca, peat 1 7.90
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  • 41 5 [From a Malacca Correspondent Milacca, March 12. Information has been received by Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, that the price of fine hard Para in London yesterday was 6 Z B per lb., value. The market closed quiet.
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  • 52 5 GOVERNMENT TAKES POSSESSION [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, March 13. As the result of the abandonment by Messrs. John Aird 4 Co. of their contract for the lagoon docks and wharves construction, concerning which litigation is now proceeding, the Government has entered into possession of the works
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  • 57 5 SENSATION IN A BOARDING HOUSE [From Our Own Correspondent.] Hongkong, March 13. A boardinghouse servant developed homicidal mania and attacked the inmates with a chopper. Several are said to have been killed. The police, in attempting to arrest the man, fired at his legs, when a
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  • 41 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, March 13. The funeral of the late Mr. Choa Giang Thye took place yesterday and was largely attended. Messrs. Khaw Joo Choo and Khoo Siew Jin represented the Penang Chinese.
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  • 152 5 SITUATION IN PERSIAN GULF. MOEOSED ANGLO4RRMAN AGREEMENT. [Reuter’s Service.] Berlin, March 11. The Conservative organ, Kreuz Zeitung, commenting on the situation regarding the Bagdad Railway, says If Great Britain’s principal concern is to exclude a foreign •ea Power from the Persian Gulf, then, as Germany’s interest! are
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  • 66 5 RADICALS AND THE ESTIMATES. [Reuter’s Service] London, March 13. The Lobby correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that there has never been known more intense irritation among the Radicals than has been caused by the Navy Estimates, and only the Constitutional crisis prevents serious defections. Anglo-German Comparisons. Paris,
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  • 29 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, March 13 The Rev. Laurent Pouget, assistant vicar, Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd, died in hospital on Saturday.
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  • 33 5 [Reuters Service] Kiel, March 12. The condition of Prince Adalbert of Prussia, who is suffering from appendicitis, is quite satisfactory, and the Kaiser and Kaiserin have now returned to Berlin.
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  • 33 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Paris, March 12. France intends to send a punitive expedition to the interior of Morocco on account of the murder of a lieutenant and several soldiers.
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  • 25 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd's Service.] St. Petersburg, March 12. M. Sazonow, Russian Foreign Minister, who has been suffering from diphtheria, is now better.
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  • 25 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Constantinople, March 13. The Turkish Chamber has passed a vote of confidence in Djavid Bey, Minister of Finance
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  • 25 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service Santiago, March 12. The Government of Chile has resolved on the fortification of the northern ports, beginning with Aricakarie.
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  • 27 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Constantinople, March 12. The Turkish troops have had a further success over the insurgent Arabs in the Yemen province.
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  • 23 5 Rkutbr’s Service. 1 Paris, March 13. All the clocks in France were altered to Greenwich time on Friday night.
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  • 111 5 MORE SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS. V. S. WARSHIPS OX PATHOL [Reuter’s Sbrviob.] New York, March 13. The Mexican Government has decided to suspend the Constitutional guarantees throughout the Republic. The four American warships, which were orderep to visit Mexican ports, are virtually patrolling the coast. A Significant Declaration. Senor
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  • 99 5 UNIVERSAL CELEBRATIONS. [Der Ostabiatischk Lloyd’s Service.] Munich, March 12 Great enthusiasm attends the celebrations of the ninetieth birthday anniversary of Prince Luitpold, Regent of Bavaria, on whom has been bestowed the Order of the Garter. Berlin, Marc h 12. The Reichsanzeiger, in a cordial article, says that
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  • 194 5 In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 3 (3) of rhe Statute Laws Ordinance 1910,” His Excellency the Governor has appointed the Hon. E C. Ellis to be a Commissioner in the place of Mr. H. Fort who has left the Colony. His Excellency
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  • 171 5 The Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved the appointment of Mr. H. C. Belfield, cm o British Resident, Selangor, to be British Resident, Perak, with effect from March 6, vice Sir E. W. Birch, k.C M G retired. The Secretary of State for the Colonies has
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  • 110 5 At seven o’clock on Saturday night, the storm, which appeared to have been threatening Penang for the last three days, broke over the Island, doing great damage to trees, the branches of which obstructed many thoroughfares and broke many telephone lines. lhe coconut plantations were littered with
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  • 715 5 P. V. ANNUAL MEETING. At the Rifle Range, Kampong Bharu, in connection with the 11th annual rifle meeting of the Penang Volunteers, the competition for the prizes presented to the Cadet Corps was fired off on Saturday afternoon. Yesterday morning the Spring Grove Challenge Cup, the Bar Challenge
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  • 32 5 The following additional rubber crops for February are announced Kuala Kangsar Plantations*... lb. 7,413 Kota Tinggi J,COO Plepah 1,010 *The coconuts picked on Kuala Kangsar Plantations in February numbered 42.722.
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    • 1014 5 THE BANDMANNOPERA CO. wanted t rp MPLOYMENT as TUTOR after 5 p.m. “THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER.” E* by an experienced Science Graduate. For particulars apply to 5.,” c/o Pinang “Itis an ill wind that blows nobody at9^9 aay good.” But for the mishap to the B. I steamer Kapurthala, which was
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    • 1548 6 Y rx »r —1« Japan Mail Steamship Co. Ld. WcLS“CXtr€lllCly W/VTB JBW was “gradually Ml W zAAx IIKvL I I X x' <* /2 n Z 1 E Is not a specific for any iisease. /LJ»\ fn/rn As? A/y? S M EUROPEAN LINE It is a preparation of a Glyceri-
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  • 512 7 ARRIVALS. Braemar, Brit., 2315, Arthour Brain, Mar. 13, Yokohama, gen., Paterson Sernon. Bharata, Brit., 1957, Thomson, Mar. 12, Singapore, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Ipoh, Brit., 528, Olsen, Mar. 13, Singapore, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Kapurthala, Brii., 4721, Lima, Mar. 12, Singapore, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. CLEARANCES. Canton for Dindings
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  • 1525 7 Capital. Subscribed. f value. S Dividend». Name. S c c s e a Q ft» M no ar 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 MINING. 1903 »300,000 »300,000 30,000 »10 »10 25 10 30 Belat Tin Mining Co. 54 53 1906 300,000 225,000 22,500 10 10 Bruang, g 7 1901
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  • 220 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE To-Mobbow. F or. Per. Close. Alor Star (Kedah) Kedah 7 a.m. Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Singapore, China, and Japan Senegambia 11 a.m. Deli, Batu Bahru, Asahan, and Paneh Brouwer noon. Deli Perak (E.S. Co.) 1 p.m. Trang Tong Chay Un 1 p.m. Batu
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  • 125 7 Pbnang, March 13, 1911. (By Courtesy oj the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank 2/41 4 months’ sight Bank ...2/4 11/32 3 Credit 2'4 7/16 3 Documentary 2/4 1/2 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174| 3 days’ sight Private 17oj Bombay Demand Bank 174| 3 days’sight Private n 175 f Madras
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  • 206 7 Pbnang, March 13, 1911 Gold leaf $64.8') Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 n».) No stock. White Pepper $23 j sales. Trang Pepper $16.25 nom Mace s9snominal. Mace Picking» $99 sales. Cloves $43 sellers. Nutmegs 110 $2l sales. [No. 1 $6.10 sales. No. 2 $6.00 sales Basket $5.10 nominal.
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  • 692 7 The cargo steamer New Guinea, owned by Mclllwi aith, McEacharn and Co., with a crew of 28, struck a rock daring a fog in Disaster Bay (N.S.W.) The boat is hard and fast on the rocks. No hands were lost. The T. K. K. steamer Shunyo Maru was
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 565 7 Sun Life 01 CflHfldfl. (Katmbliah«><l IHHAi. Assets exceed £6,000.i«M).U.0 Surplus over all liabilities according to Government Standard 840,265.0.0 Income, 1908, £1,428,000 0.0 W. A. WHITE, KENNEDY J» Co.. Manager, South-Eastern G<wrt) Agents. Penang A-ia. Singapore. NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL, THE MERCANTILE BANK CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. H °NG KONG AND SHANGHAI MAATSCHAPPIJ.
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    • 2221 8 a*»»*** intended sailings, Norddeuischer Lloyd, Bremen. KIMCHI AHIVALS 1» HPARTHMS MAIL SERVICE OUTWARD. j. n 1T i« /in Imperial German Mail Line. Mar. 23 Devanha connecting with Morea *****11 111(11(1 0168.111 UO.. Apr. 6 Assays Mooltan Y U J |j HOMEWARD. LIMITED. Zfk /Hvi ocean sienß sinh fa u. Connecting
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