Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 12 April 1911

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY ESTABLISHED 18«>d. No. 83 VOL. LXIX. WEDNESDAY, 12th APRIL, 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      1452 1 Sea View Hotel, FARQUHAR STREET. THE IDEAL HOTEL FOR VISITORS. ENGLISH PROPRIETORSHIP ON THE SEA FRONT. NO UNHEALTHY SURROUNDINGS. Cool, Comfortable and Homelike. T X CUISINE UNEXCELLED. TERMS VERY MODERATE. VICTORIA FOR HIRE. Telephone 368. Proprietor, W. DANIEL. •««♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦a IHFPINANG fiAZFTTF.” wanted. to let. .Amusements. TH S United ENGLISHMAN SEEKS
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      55 1 8 THE PIA'AKG CAZEftf 8 (PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING.) Rates of Subscription, payable strictly ih advance: J LOCAL S 2-25 per month. J 813.50 half yearly. $27.00 per annum. 0 BY POST 8 2.50 per month. < §15.00 naif yearly. §30.00 yearly. WEEKLY EDITION PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. a Subscription §1.50 per
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    TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
    1103 2 THE ALBANIAN REVOLT. London, March 31.—A Constantinople message says that the town of Scutari is free from danger, but Tuzi is in a desperate postion, as it is surrounded by 6,000 Albanians. The Montenegrin Government has strongly protested to the Porte against the allegation that the revolt was
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    Easter Services.
    300 2 St. George’s Church -7.3 31i j Wednesday, April 13. Evens >ng and Sermon, 5.30 p.m.; Choir Practice, 6 p.m. Maundy Thursday, April 13th. Holy Communion, 8 a.m.; Evensong and Sermon, 5.30 p.m. Good Friday, April Matins and Litany, 9.15 a.m Story of the Cross Hymns, Address, 10 a.m.;
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    A REMARKABLE BOOK ON THE PRESEEVATION OF HEALTH.
    853 2 The French have a particularly happy phrase which, literally translated, means The Joy of Living.” It conjures up in the mind’s eye a picture of buoyant health and happiness which appeals with particular force to the jaded resident in the Tropics. Yet
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    THE WEEK'S ENGAGEMENTS.
    168 2 Wednesday, April 12. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m., and Botanic Gardens, 9 to 11 p.m. Golf Club Annual Meeting, 6.30 p.m. Fillis’ Circus, Magazine Road. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road. George Town Cinematograph. Wayang Incheh Puteh. Tharaday, April 13. Outward English (B.I.) Mail. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament.
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    Other Coming Events.
    374 2 April 19.—Cricket: La lies r. P.C.C. April 19.—P.C.C. Tennis Prize Distribution. April 19. —The City and Suburban April 20- —Football < 'up Semi-Final. April 21.—St. George’s Ball, Town Hall. April 21.—Football, England v Tho Rest. April 21.—Legislative Council. April 21 and 22.—G01f Club: Ladies’ Monthly Medal. April
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    AUCTION SALES.
    31 2 Wednesday, April 19. Furniture Cleeve,” Scotland Road; Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29. Furniture and plants; “The Aloes,” Northara Road; Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers.
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    TENDERS.
    16 2 Ban Hock Heng Estate.— Erection of Hospital Ward and Coolie Quarters tenders close April 30.
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    50 2 “Norwood,” Logan Road; apply Adams and Allan. No. 145 Kelawei Road; apply Heap Teik, 47 Beach Street. No. 7a, Logan Road; apply A. D. Neubronner. No. 4 Logan Road apply 68 Larut Road. The Grange,” No. 9 Logan Road; apply P. J. Dural, No. 2 Arratoon Road.
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      113 2 What’s the Use? What’s the use of enduring those frightful pains in your face, when ten minutes’ rubbing with Little’s Oriental Balin will bring relief? Neuralgia is nothing but tortured nerves. But those nerves quivering with agony, unfit you for sleep, work or enjoyment. Little’s Oriental Balm soothes, comforts, relieves—stops
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      7 2 MACKAY'S LIQUEUR WHISKY, The Whisky of Connoisseurs.
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      369 2 Wh««tosuy. KINNEY SONS pknang The e. &o. Hotel, The Crag, Assam Government Raffles by the Sea, Runnymede Hotel, SIIFVSVnnQ and Sea View Hotel. Kuala Lumpur: —Grand Oriental Hotel. 30 yea in all kina B O f Iron The Grand Hotel. I ANI> SURVEYING. Rangoon :—Strand Hotel. Open to Engagement for
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    PAPUAN EXPEDITION.
    837 3 WHAT THE PARTY DISCOVERED. As we have already briefly announced, the anxiety in regard to Mr. Staniforth Smith’s expedition in Papua was set at rest on March 19 by the receipt, in Melbourne, of a telegram from the Administrator announcing his safe arrival at Thursday Island. The following
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      240 3 yo BE SURE —the Teeth are so important that it would be a pity to neglect them—especially when you can clean them so well and so easily with Calverti L— J Your local dealer stocks and sells it. Makers F. C. Calvert Co., Manchester, England. EMPIRE TYPEWRITERS. Writing in all
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      59 3 THE CORPORATION OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE Royal Exchange, Loudon. COMMENCED business in a.d. 1717 and was Incorporated by Royal Charter in s. d. 1720, and is therefore one of the oldest Companies in existence. It has granted the benefits of Assurance to the public for a period exceeding 189
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      637 3 To Miners and Tin-ore Buyers. BEECHAM’S WOLFRAM-TIN ORES. PILLS An up-to-date plant for *he separation of Wolfram, Magnetite, etc., f rom Tin-ores is now in operation at Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, and parcels Hundreds and thousands of ailing men of mixed ore can be purchased outright or received for treatment. For
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    Wednesday, April 12, 1911.
    565 4 One of the questions that worries many people is the unequal distribution of wealth but there are other inequalities equally claimant for redress. Take the matter of population. Some countries, like Canada and Australia, run expensive advertising agencies to attract people to settle in their territories,
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    EASTERN SMELTING CO.
    1262 4 ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. An ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd., was held at the Company’s registered office, F.M.S. Railway Buildings, China Street Ghaut, yesterday afternoon, the business on the agenda being as follows 1. To receive the Directors’ report and pass the
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    "Yeomen of the Guard."
    545 4 The dress rehearsal will take place to-morrow (Thursday) night in the Town Hall, at 9 o’clock punctually. A full attendance is requested, as there will be no other rehearsals before the performance. The public are reminded that the performance, which will be given on Easter Monday
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    BOWLS AT THE P.C.C.
    295 4 FURTHER TOURNAMENT RESULTS, The following ties in the P.C.C. bowls tournament were decided yesterday afternoon Doubles Handicap. A. R. Adams and R. S. Jarvis 4) beat N. Drummond and T. Wright 21—11. So far as handicaps were concerned both sides were fairly well balanced and a
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      INCOME-TAX ON LOCAL ESTATES.
      93 4 [To the Editor oj the Pinang Gazette'.'} Sir, I am a new shareholder in a rubber company owning an estate in this Colony but with the office in London. The dividend warrants show deductions for income-tax. As I have not been in the United Kingdom for
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    The Mails.
    43 4 Homeward. Stkamkr. Arrives. Mails Sails. Clou. B.L Teesta Sat. 15/4 10 a.m. noon. P. O. Delhi Sat. 22/4 N.D.L. Kleist Tues. 26/4 Outward 8.1. Tara Thurs. 13/4 3 p.m. 4 pm. 7 a.m. P. &O. Thurs. 20/4 N.D.L. Buelow Thurs. 27/4
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    To-day’s Tin Quotations.
    68 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $94.05 per picul business done. Tin in London is quoted at £192 spot and £lB7 ss. three months. lhe following were the dealings in tin to-day :—Singapore, Straits Trading Co. Ltd., 50 tons, $95 Penang, Straits Trading Co., Ltd.,
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    Tin Mining Returns.
    140 4 Messrs. Sime, Darby and Company, Ltd., intimate that the March outturn of the Middleton Tin Mines, Limited, was 48 piculs. To-day’s exchange rate is 2/4 1/8. Mr. Henry Palmer, Settlement OtHcer. ower Perak, goes on long leave in May. An engagement is announced between Mr. A. J.
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      195 4 •••••oooooooooooooooooooo®#»®» 1 «Mm i 8 8 o o o o O Messrs. Robert Porter Co. Ltd. of O o O O London and Liverpool have obtained the Q o o o ONLY FIRST PRIZE at the Buenos Aires O o o O Centenary Exhibition for their BULL DOG Q o
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      70 4 To-Day’s Contents. Page 2.— Telegraphic News Easter Services; and Week’s Engagements. Page 3.— Papuan Expedition. Page Jf. Editorial (“Japanese Commerce”); Eastern Smelting Co. Bowls at the P.C.C. Correspondence Tin Mining Returns The Mails Yeoinen of the Guard and To-day’s Tin Quotations. Page 5. Telegrams Fillis’ Circus Penang Football Cup Swettenham
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    THE SHARE MARKET.
    164 5 STERLING RUBBERS QUIET. FEW IMPORTANT CHANGES. The following are the changes (buyers and sellers only) in our shaie list on page 7 of this issue 12/4/10. 11/4/11. 12/4/11. S Ĕ £22!? .2 Shares. -2 >, .2 s'® -5 5 K x M co M sn Rubber (Sterling).
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    EASTER SPORT.
    83 5 CRICKET IN SINGAPORE. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 12. In the cricket match to be played at Easter between Singapore and Selangor the teams will be as follows Singapore.—Messrs. Bailey, T. T. Clarke, Cantrel, MoKay, Gray, Jones, Zehnder, Rooke. Wishart Bevan, and Jenkins. Selangor —Messrs. Hubback, Bancroft,
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    THE PRICE OF RUBBER.
    74 5 FINE HARD PARA LOWER. [From a Malacca Correspondent] Malacca, April 12. Information has been received by the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Ltd., that fine hard Para was quoted in London, yesterday, at 5/8, sellers. The market is flat. The Market Flat. London, April 11*. The following are
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    PRODUCE PRICES.
    32 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 11. To-day’s (Tuesday’s) quotations for opium and produce are Opium ...$1,700.00 Pepper, white Copra, best 8.85 Copra, Bali 8.80 Tapioca, flake 8.60 Gambier 8.20
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    RUGBY FOOTBALL.
    33 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 12. Playing at Rugby football the Singapore Cricket Club beat H.M.S. Monmouth, after a good game, by a goal and two tries to one try.
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    DEATH OF A BLUEJACKET.
    46 5 NAVAL FUNERAL IN SINGAPORE. From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 12. A sailor on board H.M.S. Flora died of pneumonia and was buried with Naval honours. The attendance included a detachment from the Dutch cruiser De J. Provincieu, which is now here.
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    SUBMARINES FOR THE FAR EAST.
    22 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 12. II M.S. Pelorus has arrived here convoying submarine C 36.
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    THE TOKIO CONFLAGRATION.
    21 5 [Dkr Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Skrvicb.] Berlin, April 11. Tue German newspapers publish details of the great conflagration in Tokio.
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    THE FREIGHTS BILL.
    218 5 SINGAPORE MERCHANTS' OPINION. AN INFLUENTIAL MEMORIAL. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, April 12. Before H.E. the Governor left Singapore for Home, the members of the Chamber of Commerce were definitely asked to record their opinion of the Freights and Steamship Bill. They accordingly presented a memorial in
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    RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
    77 5 NEW COMMERCIAL COMPANY. [Reuter's Service] St. Petersburg, April I M. Timasheff. Russian Minister of Commerce, has submitted to the Cabinet a Bill for the establishment in St. Petersburg of a Russo-Japanese Company to develop closer relations between Russia and Japan, commercially and generally. [Dkr Ostasiatisciir Lloyds Srrvicr.
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    REVOLT IN YEMEN.
    65 5 TURKISH TROOPS ANNIHILATED. [Reuter’s Skrvicb.] Perim, April 11. Natives from the interior state that in a fierce fight 1,800 Turks were annihilated by stratagem near Perim on the sth iust. Capture of Naderi. Naderi was captured on March 30, only fifteen persons escaping out of three regiments.
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    COLONIES AND THE NAVY.
    54 5 A PLEA FOR CO-OPERATION. [Reuter’s Service Toronto, April 11. The Rt. Hon. Sir J. G. Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand, who is on his way to England to attend the Imperial Conference, speaking at a banquet in Toronto, urged a system of co-operation between the
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    NAVAL GUNNERY.
    43 5 BRITAIN’S EFFECTIVE REPLY. [Reuter’s Service London, April 12. Interest in Naval circles has been aroused by the announcement that the Admiralty is experimenting with 15-inch guns. This is regarded as Great Britain’s reply to the 14-inch guns adopted by foreign nations.
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    AMERICAN NAVAL CRUISE.
    38 5 [DbR OBTABIATIBCHR Lloyd’s SbRVICB.] Washington, April 11. The United States Atlantic Fleet will visit Kiel and other German ports. It is officially announced that the fleet will cruise in the Mediterranean from October to December.
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    RUSSIA’S NAVY.
    40 5 THE DUMA’S ESTIMATES RAISED. [Rruter’r Service.] St. Petersburg, April 11. The Council of the Empire has approved of the estimates for the Navy amounting to 110,000,600 roubles, which is 3,330,000 roubles above the figure voted by the Duma.
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    GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.
    42 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service] Berlin, April 11. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung welcomes the German Crown Prince and Princess back to Berlin, and regrets that the voyage of the Crown Prince to Siam, China, and Japan had to be abandoned.
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    PENANG FOOTBALL CUP.
    446 5 ST. XAVI Ell’S v. P.C.C. The match between the St. Xavier’s Institution and the Pe> ang Cricket Club in the second round of the Cup competition, was played yesterday afternoon on the Esplanade before an enthusiastic crowd, which grew larger as the play proceeded. The weather was
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    SWETTENHAM PIER.
    460 5 A DAY OF ACTIVITY. Tnere was an unusually busy time on Swettenham Wharf yesterday and last night. Tn the morning the Hamburg-America liner Bayern, the largest cargo boat belonging to that Company and the largest vessel of that description that has ever been berthed at Swettenham Wharf, came
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    FILLIS’ CIRCUS.
    937 5 A SUCCESSFUL OPENING. Mr. Frank Fillis has made good. After an interval of nearly quarter of a century, he is touring the East with a circus combination that occupies a proud position in the foremost rank of these huge travelling amusement enterprises. When the news of last evening’s
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      911 5 PENANG GOLF CLUB. medical. MEDICAL MAN with good qua!iffcaMEN’S PRESGRAVE CUP. IVI tionB> deB ires billet on an Estate or The Presgrave Cup for April was won gr Up Estate9 by Mr. R. Henderson (—2l) with “3 For further particulars apply down.” Mr. A. F. Goodrich won the No. 127,
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    SHIPPING.
    450 7 ARRIVALS. A. A pear, Brit., 2931, Hudson, April 12, Hongkong, gen., A. A. Anthony Co. Bantam, Dut„ 1323.10, Huykman, April 12, Lho Semaaie, gen., H Liebert Co. Canton, Brit., 106. Basasahib, April 12, leluk Anson, gen., Kong Soon. Cornelia, Brit., 194, Baker, April 11, Malacca, gen., E. S. Co.
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    SHARES.
    1379 7 “i J i TTT Capital. Subscribed. y"ue. 3 Dividends. Name. -2 Q 00 1907 1 908 1909 1910 I 1911 I MINING. 1903 J3OO 000 »300,000 30,000 »10 »10 25 10 30 1 Belat Tin Mining Co. 5J iqh£ ‘Ulft'noo 22f) 00C 5OO 10 IQ Bruang, E S I»
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    MAILS.
    246 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE To-Morrow. F jr. Per. Close. Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Calcutta A. Apcar 10 a.m. Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, and > Cornelia 1 p. m. Malacca Asahan Jin Ho 1 p.m. Deli Avagyee 1 p.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Kedah 1 p.m. Deli Malaya 1
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    EXCHANGE.
    124 7 Pbmang, April 12, 1911. (Uy Uourt«By of tht (JharUred Bank). London Demand Bank 2/41 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 9 32 3 Credit 2M 3 Documentary 2/4 7/16 Oalcutta Demand Bank Rs. 3 days’ sight Private 175| Bombay Demand Bank 174£ 3 days’sight Private 175| Madras Demand Bank 174|
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    The Tides.
    92 7 Date. H. W. L. W. H. VV. L. W. A.M, A.M. P.M. P.M. Apr. 12 11-16 5-25 11-36 5-44 13 11-54 6-02 Nil 6-18 14 12-26 6-34 12-42 6-50 „15 12-08 7-06 1-14 7-21 „16 1-29 7-36 1-44 7-52 „17 1-59 7-07 2-15 8-04 18 2-3 L 8-38
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    LOG BOOK.
    649 7 Tramp steamers are at the present moment paying increased attention to Calcutta harbour. The plague in China and the poor oilseed crop in the Argentine have driven them to seek for cargo in India. It is almost an everyday occurrence now, we are told, for the local boats
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      570 7 San Lilt s:s:::r of CflHflllO. Katabllwlied Assets exceed £6,000/*00.0.0 Surplus over all liabilities according to Government Standard 840,265.0.0 Incom ft, 1908, £1,428,000 0.0 W. A. WHITK, KENNKOY A Co.. Manaaer, South-Eastern peßang A ia. Singapore. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. HONGKONG THE OF f.ftYWA fl ATI AUSI RALIA, AND CHINA. Paid-up
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