Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 April 1911

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 79 VOL. LXIX. FRIDAY. 7th ABRIL, 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1633 1 Sea View Hotel,: FARQUHAR STREET. THE IDEAL HOTEL FOR VISITORS. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP ON THE SEA FRONT. X NO UNHEALTHY SURROUNDINGS. Cool, Comfortable and Homelike. X CUISINE UNEXCELLED. TERMS VERY MODERATE. J X VICTORIA FOR HIRE. J Telephone 368 Proprietor, W. DANIEL. J THE PINANG GAZETTE.” Norwood, logan road. notice. VALENTINE
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    • 52 1 t “TH NKAKC 6AZHTE”S (PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.) Rates of Subscription, payable strictly in advance• LOCAL 2-25 per month. 8 J $13.50 naif yearly. S $27.00 per annum. Z BY POST 2.50 per month. $15.00 half yearly. $30.00 yearly. WEEKLY EDITION PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. Subscription $1.50 per month. Half yearly $9.
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  • 243 2 FINAL FIGURES FOR TWO MONTHS. The following are the final figures of the export of block tin and tin ore from Ferak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, and Pahang respective! v, during the months of January and February, 1911, as compared with the corresponding period of last year 1911
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  • 203 2 Patent Applications A meeting of the Selangor State Council was field on March 13, H. H the Sultan presiding. The Acting Resident informed the Council that the Penghulu of Jeram (Raja Saipolah) had asked that his son. Raja Huseiu, might be allowed to join with him in
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  • 219 2 6| Million Dkaths in a Drcadr. The Indian Education Department in a recent resolution gives some appalling figures of the mortality from plague. Breaking out in Bombay City in 1901 the plague had already in March, 1891, caused a record mortality of about half a million.
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  • 650 2 THE GENERAL POSITION. After the little burst of strength which carried prices up on Thursday of last week to about 184 J. for cash, says the Ironmonger of March 18th, the market has given away sharply under the entire absence of support and the persistence of depressing tactics on
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  • 232 2 THE SECRET OF RENEWING ENERGY. There is no sensati >n more dispiriting, no condition more annoying, than the utter lassitude which is so inevitable a condition of a tropical climate during the greater part of the year. The weariness of the body and the utter disinclination
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  • 316 2 Refractory Coolies on a Rubber Estate News came to Singapore several days ago, says the .S’. T. of the 3rd inst., of trouble having risen with refractory coolies on the estate of the Serangoon Rubber Co., on Pulau Obin. Tne c >olies ha i struck work,
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  • 93 2 Kedah Government :—a Town Drainage Alor Star (2nd block of town drains with outfalls). b Culvert Pengkalan Kepal, Alor Star, c Four water gates in Jalan Bharu and Jalan Langgar, Alor Star. d Quarters for Superintendent of Surveys, Alor Star, e Quarters for Assistant Engineer, Alor Star tenders close
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  • 239 2 Friday, April 7. Old Lady Day. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament. Golf Club Ladies’ Presgrave Cup. Kuala Kangsar Plantations, Ltd.: Annual Meeting, Padang Rengas. Ministering Children’s League, General Meeting, 5 p.m. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. “At Home on 8.1. steamer Lama, at Swettenhain Pier from 9 p.m.
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  • 384 2 April 14.—Good Friday. April 14, 15, and 17.—Straits Golf Championship Meeting. April 15 and 17.—Cricket, Penang Perak. April 17. —Football Penang r. Perak. April 17. The Yeomen of the Guard,” Town Hall. April 17. —P.L. R.C.: 200 yds. deliberate, twice de Voogt Cup head and shoulders. April
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  • 49 2 Sf.curday, April 8.—50 tons mixed copra; Weld Quay (opposite Boustead Co.’s godown); 11 a.m Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Wednesday, April 19. —Furniture Cleeve,” Scotland Road; Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29. Furniture and plants; “The Aloes,” Northam Road Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 113 2 All Aches and Pains Such as sprains, strain*, backache wrenched joints, aching feet, bruises, swellings, crick-in-the-neck, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism—all aching muscles and quivering nerves—can lie quickly soothed, relieved and Cured by rubbing in Little’s Oriental Balm. There is no question about this. The Balm is no experiment—for years and years
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    • 822 2 U Amusements. Keep yonr money Fohlic only First-class !U More “Beef” in Lemco S 3 ALL EUROPEAN B Se n „c™ S flDflK M 3 tains the essence of about VllwMjUo io lbs. of beef; makes 32 gJ S g 35 European Artistes 35 g str Xi"SX to g Coming!
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 137 2 The Tides. Date. H. W. L. W. H. W. L. W. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. April 7 5-39 Nil. 6-22 12-43 8 7-10 1-36 8-03 2-29 9 8-49 3-14 9-32 3-57 10 9-48 3-57 10-05 4-14 11 10-32 4-43 10-55 5-06 12 1 1-16 5-25 11-36 5-44 „13 11-54 6-02
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  • 414 3 Some 25 members of the Chinese Christian Association and their friends met on March 31 in the Society’s Hall in Singapore to discuss the motion. That this House considers that legislation providing for the official registration of Chinese Marriages in the Colony will be advantageous to
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  • 217 3 An interesting discovery in historical geography lias been communicated to the Royal Geographical Society by Mr. William Fo-ter, of the India Office. Hitherto ir has not been known who first sighted Chiistmas Island, that lonely outpost of Empire n the Indian Ocean which, through the enterprise of Sir
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  • 151 3 The twenty-fifth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Singapore Slipway and Engineering Co., Ltd., was held at the offices of the Tanjong Eagar Dock Board on Friday, with Mr. S. A. Lane, Managing Director in the Chair. The minutes of the 24th Meeting having I
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 342 3 n JB Acts like a Charm in I Checks and arrests B R DIARRHOEA, and i. FEVER. CROUP, AGUE. B B the only Specific in The Be£t R eme dy known for B I CHOLERA and COUGHS, COLDS, B B DYSENTERY. asthma, bronchitis. > The only Palliative in NEURALGIA, GOUT,
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    • 39 3 The Aachen and fllunich fire Insurance Co. of ATX LA CHAPELLE. Capital 450.000 Total Assets £1,226,481 The undersigned are authorised to insure almost any property against Fire iu Penang or elsewhere. For rates apply to KATZ BROTHERS, Ltd., Agents.
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    • 415 3 FREE I B w Bm iB b B W B&WlBifliaiFflW iour 'hdsMBBBBBBBS j record I Tonic, Restorative, Digestive Wine g g "Very palatable. Known throughout the world and prescribed in all cases ofAncemia, Debility t±nd Cqnoaiescence, to young women, children and the aged. Invaluable in ftiJvtUl [j I hot Climates
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  • 17 4 Langley.—On April 3, at Kuala Lumpur the wife of F. A. Y. Langley, of a daughter,
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  • 43 4 Campbell-Galloway —At the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, on April 3. by the Reverend W. Runciman, b.d.. John George Campbell, Advocate and Solicitor, Singapore, eldest son of John Campbell, Scotstounhill, Glasgow, to Rodney Murray, only daughter of the Honourable I*. J. Galloway, M.D., Singapore.
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  • 1049 4 No one is likely to describe President Taft and Sir Edward Grey as mere sentimentalists. Idealists they may be. and it is well that statesmen should have imagination, the gift of looking into the far beyond, seeing tie dawn of new eras and visualizing ideas and
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  • 368 4 Third Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Penang Nursing Association was held in the Judge’s bungalow. Western Road, yesterday afternoon. There were present Mrs. Thornton (President), Mrs. Young, Mrs. Saye, Mr. T. B. Peterkin (Hon. Treasurer), and Dr. J. Stuart Rose (Hoar Secretary.) Tne
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  • 466 4 FURTHER TOURNAMENT RESULTS. The following ties in the P.O.C. bowls tournament were decided yesterday afternoon Singles Handicap. R. Owen +2) beat R. N. Goodwin (4- 5) 21—17. Following his handsome win in the first round of the Singles over Muir by 21-6, it was thought that
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  • 261 4 The Sub-Committebs. At a meeting of the Executive Committee, hel i yesterday afternoon, the following Bub-Committees weie appointed for the purpose of collecting subscriptions Chinese Community.— Messrs. W T. Chapman, Liong Lok Heng, Tai Kee Yoon, Heah Swee Lee, Cheah Chen Eok, Ng Beah Wong, Yeoh Cheang
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  • 661 4 Mr. Hastings Rhodes, late acting Sf citor-General, arrived this mornic" b v 33. Lama from Port Swettenham. Mrs. W. A. Bicknell, who recently turned from Home, has taken over t"' duties of Hon. Secretary of the Chu r Worker s’ Association. Mr. Macduff Wemyss, youngest son r
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  • 60 4 Messrs. Adamson, Gdfillan Co., Ltd., advise us that the output for Rahman Hydraulic Tin, Ltd., for March was 350 piculs. The small output was due to the abnormally dry weather experienced in the district. The outputs for the first three month? 01 the year since 1908 have
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  • 91 4 The 50 yards Handicap in the Gibbon» Cup Competition will be competed for ou Sunday next, at 10 a m. After the race there will be a game 0 Water-Polo starting 10.30 a.m. betwee n the following teams A. E. T. Murray Goal A.W. Harne» E. Reimann
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 268 4 MILNERS’ SAFES BEST PROTECTION HAVE THE AGAINST LARGEST SALE IN THE THIEVES. WORLD' g Mm mH ■M sßwwßb ra J I wDI Aeb Safes Safe Co Supply to the Government, *BM the Colonial and Please Foreign Governments, &c. particulars to— AGENTS: Guthrie Co., Ltd., Penang and Singapore. j Caldbeck, Macgregor
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    • 103 4 To-Day’s Contents. p age 2.— F.M.S. Tin Exports; Tin; Selangor State Council; Plague’s Ravages in India Trouble at Pulau Obin and Week’s Engagements. S.— Registration of Chinese Marriages Christmas Island and Singapore Slipway Company. Page 4. —Editorial (“Arbitration Treaties”); Penang Nursing Association Bowls at the P.C.C. King Edward Memorial Social
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  • 241 5 RUBBERS STILL VARIABLE. activity in tins The following aie the changes (buyers and sellers only) in our share list on page 7 of this issue 7/4/10. 6/4/IJ. 7/4/11. UD OC X TO X Shares. .2 -2 S 3 'S B "o S "5 H st; K co
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  • 65 5 THREE MONTHS’ FIGURES. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpur, April 7. The advance statement of the exports of tin from the three Western States for the first three months of the current year is as follows Piculs Decrease Perak 95,186 4,994 Selangor 54,429 5,070 Negri Sembilan... 6,851
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  • 29 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 6. Today’s (Thursday’s) quotations for produce are Pepper, white $26.75 Pepper, black 16.25 Gambier 8.30 Tapioca, flake 8.50 Copra, best 8.70
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  • 43 5 FINE HARD PARA BETTER. [From a Malacca Correspondent Malacca, April 7. Information has been received by the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, that the .price of fine hard Para in London yesterday was per lb, sellers. The market is easier.
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  • 26 5 [From Our Oivn Correspondent.] Singapore, April 7. At an auction of rubber, yesterday, the following prices were realized Sheet $305 Crepe, scrap 205
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  • 30 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpur, April 7. Sir Arthur Young, Chief Secretary, and Lady Young gave an ‘At Home yesterday, when there was a large attendance.
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  • 88 5 LONDON EXPORTERS’ COMPL AINTS [Reuter's Skrvice.] London, April 7. London expoiters to Japan, interviewed, while admitting that the reduced Japanese duties are much better than the general tariff in their effects on the lower classes of cotton, textiles, and woollen goods, state that they will still be
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  • 251 5 NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. RESULT OF THE CRAVEN STAKES. i Reuter’s Service.] Newmaiket, April 7. At the Newmarket Craven Meeting yesterday the race for the Craven Stakes resulted as follows The Craven Stakes of 500 sjvs. added to a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for starters the second
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  • 56 5 VIEWS OF PRESIDENT TAFT. [Rkutbr’B Service.] Washington, April 6 President Taft, in his message to Congress, urges early action with the Reciprocity Bill. He says that while the subject was under discussion he became convinced that the people of the United States would welcome this measure, and
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  • 60 5 QUESTION FOR THE CONFERENCE. [Reuter’s Service London, April 6. In the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, stated that the question of combining the judicial functions of the Privy Council and the House of Lords as one ultimate Court of Appeal
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  • 43 5 LEGISLATION IN ITALY. [Reuter’s Service.] Rome, April 7. The Italian Government will shortly introduce legislation for the creation of a State monopoly of life insurance, the revenue from which will be entirely devoted to old age and invalidity pensions for workmen.
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  • 52 5 RELIEF FORCE SUCCESSFUL. [Reuter’s Service.] Constantinople, April 7. A relief force has entered Sanaa. [A Constantinople wire of January 16 stated;—The Government has decided to despatch eighteen battalions immediately to the Yemen against Imam Yahya, who has stirred up a large combination of tribes and is
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  • 40 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, April 6. The concluding stages of the RussoGerman negotiations regarding the mutual protection of their respective interests in Persia, have been postponed until the recovery of M. Sazonow, Russian Foreign Minister.
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  • 35 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyds Service Berlin, April 6. In the Herrenbaus (Prussian House of Lords), the Conservatives attacked the Imperial Chancellor’s attitude towards the Alsace- Lorraine Constitution Bill, but otherwise expressed confidence in his policy.
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  • 37 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service] Rome, April 6. The German Crown Prince and Pi incess were received most enthusiastically on their arrival here They brought an autograph letter from the Kaiser to King Victor Emmanuel.
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  • 554 5 C. R. C v. CRESCENT. The Chinese Recr- ation Club appeared on the Esplanade yesterday evening to play off their Cup tie against the Crescent Football Club, the weather being all that could be desired for football. Ihe Crescent’s team was poorly constituted, and as one after
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  • 244 5 At the eighteenth annual general meeting of the shareholders of this Bank held at Winchester House, Old Broad St., London, on Friday, the 31st ultimo, the following report of the Directors for the year ended 31st December, 1910, was passed The Directors submit to
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  • 48 5 Homeward. Steamer. Arrives. Mails Sails. Close. P. &O. Devanha Sat. 8/4 1 p.m. 3 p.m. 10 a.m. N.D.L. Lutzow Tues. 11/4 5 p.m. 10 p.m. 3 p.m. 8.1. Teesta Sat. 15/4 10 a.m. noon. Outward N.D.L. Gneisenau Thurs. 13/4 8.1. Thurs. 13/4 P. &O. Thurs. 20/4
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  • 300 5 LIST OF CONTINGENTS. For the second time in the history of the Colony it has fallen to the honour of the local Volunteer Corps to represent the Straits Settlements in the military detachments, furnished from Dominions beyond the Seas, for great State ceremonies at home. On the occasion
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  • 242 5 The following returns are to hand from the loca] agents, Messrs. Kennedy Jz Co Rubber Estates of Krian March, 1911 lb. 3,717 March, 1910 2,091 Jan.-March. 1911 10,619 Jan.-March, 1910 5,773 Pad ano Jawa. March, 1911 lb. 1,400 First 16 months 12,761 Gula- Kalumpong. March, 1911 lb. 16,000
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  • 139 5 A serious affray took place before daybreak on Wednesday morning on the Seletar Rubber Estate. A quantity of pineapples had been cut, and piled ready for despatch and the manager, Mr. W. E. Vowler, set five watchmen overnight to guard the stock from pilferers. The anticipation
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  • 259 5 WALKER TROPHY COMPETITION. At the Rifle Range, Kampong Bharu, the first weekly meeting for April, which had to be postponed from last Monday owing to the inclement weather, was held yesterday afternoon. The shoot for the Walker Trophy and the de Voogt Cup took place and was
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  • 69 5 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $93.45 per picul buyers, no sellers. Tin in London is quoted at £lBB 12s. 6J. spot aud £lB6 three months. The following were the dealings in tin to-day :—Singapore, Straits Trading Co. Ltd buyers, no selllers, $94 Penang, Straits
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  • 115 5 A ladies’ cricket match will be played on the Esplanade, on Wednesday next, 12th inst., the teams being Ladies v. P C.C.” A tennis racquet will be presented by Mr. G. E. Wright-Motion to the lady who makes the highest score. At the conclusion of the cricket
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 433 5 TO LET. ID UNGALOW with Electric Installation, •LD No. 4, Logan Road Apply G. F. P, 324—u c 68, Larut Road. Central Sales Room. Favoured with instructions, the undersigned will sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, 50 tons MIXED COPRA (Slightly damaged by Fire and Water'), AT WELD QUAY, Opposite Messrs. Boustead
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 1207 6 wr 2 T SgggggSSSggSggg M HL s p j.,L\u‘jii.cjZ acid in the mouth j i I >K 5 is beginning of TOOTH DECAY. H Xgn <| W. D. &H. O. WILLS’S 11 TO PREVENT THIS—AN ANTI-ACID, that is to say, AN ALKALINE MOUTH ff o gg V'ZjVV J! WASH and
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  • 514 7 ARRIVALS. Assaye, Brit., 4338. Jones, Aplil 6, London, gen., Adamson Gilfillan Co. Avagyee, Brit., 247, Harvey, April 7, Teluk Anson, gen., E. S. Co. Carlyle, Brit., 234, McDonald, April 6, Teluk Anson, gen., Kwong On Co. Hok Canton, Brit., 290, Hannah, April 7, T. Anson, gen., E. S. Co
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  • 1679 7 r- c Number of Issue 3 r> ;j j 1 Capital. Subscribed. sharee- Value 2 Dividends. Name. >. Q S, I 9 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 MINING. 1903 ¥300,000 ¥300,000 30,000 110 HO 25 10 30 Belat Tin Minins: Co. 5J 1906 I 300,000 225,000 22,500 10 10
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  • 217 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE To-Morrow. F or. Per. Close. Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleh Pulo Weh Benoa 9 a.m. Rangoon Glenogle 11 a.m. Rangoon and Calcutta Bangala 11 a.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan 11 a.m. Ceylon, Australasia, x India, Aden, Mauri- I Devanha 1 p.m. tins, Egypt,
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  • 219 7 Pknang, April 7, 1911, Gohl leal J64.8«> Pepper (W. Co»«t 3 *b. 5 nz) No stock. White Pepper s24| sales. Trang Pepper sl6s buyers Mace $lOB sellers. Mace Picking* $99 buyers. Cloves $42 nom. Nutmegs 110 s2ls buyers. {No. I $6.10 sales. No. 2 $6.00 sales Bask»' $5.10 nominal.
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  • 575 7 It is understood that the Massageries Maritimes steamer Guadiana will be put on the ran between Tonkin and Saigon, thus connecting with the steamer Cachar and the steamer Manche for Singapore. Le Courrier d’Haiphong welcomes the new departure. Messrs. Russell Co., Port Glasgow, launched a steamer, the Lovat,
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 498 7 sun Life ol (nnodo. (Kat»«bll«he<l IMHS). Assets exceed £6,<MlO.<* >0.0.0 Surplus over all liabilities according to Government Standard 840,265.<*.0 Income, 1908, £1,428,000 0.0 W. A. WHITE, KKNNKDX a Co.. Manager, South-Eastern General Agent». Penans A ua. 5 ingapore. MACKAY S LIQUEUR WHISKY, THE ACME OF QUALITY. omwr-HAi NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL THE
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    • 9 7 P. MOIR CRANES’ Cylinder Oil. Stndilands, Buttery tP Co,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2172 8 P AO. Steam Wien Companj. Intended Sailings. NOrddeUlSCheF LlOjd, BFCIDeiI. W. MA.L SERVICE OUTWARD. British *****1 StClDl WgltlOll CO., HOMKWARD, < J yfk _L ,T,D o<e«isiM»sii>( t Date. steamer. with g.B. London. For Imtbndkd to Sail Steamer /71 AND X /A /11 CHINA MUTUAL STEAM MV fa lb Apr. 8
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