Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 29 December 1911

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    21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 296 VOL. LXIX. FRIDAY, 291 h DECEMBER, 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      1141 1 a a a o o q D g a——a B For $3O V ou can ,t> ave the Pinang S A Gazette posted every day g for a wnole year to your address (LOCAL SUBCRIPTION, $27.) Q Proportionate Quarterly and 2 a Half-yearly rates. Subscriptions are payable in S a
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      84 1 TX Then YOU ARK AWAY on leave B V V you want to keep in touch with Malayan affairs, Social, Com- mercial, Mining, Planting, &c. g a This you can do in no better way a g than by subscribing to the We-kly g a Edition of the “Pinang Gazette,”
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    778 2 In »H probability, Mrs. Ellis will shortly follow her husband, the new Governor, to Borneo. Inspector O’Hanlon, late of the Royal Irish Constabulary, has joined the police in Kuala Lumpur. Inspector Taylor has been able to leave the Taiping hospital, but will not return to duty for
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    WEDDING AT TAIPING.
    1447 2 CAPT. BEAUMON I’—MISS DE REES. [From a Special Correspondent.] Taipiug, December 27. A military wedding generally scores in point of ceremonial I his fact was effectively demonstrated here to-day, when that well-known Officer of the Malay Stages Guides, Captain Seymour Beaumont, of the 101st Grenadiers, 1.A., son
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    CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENT.
    264 2 CATHOLIC CHILDREN’S TREAT. The third annual Christmas treat for the children of the Parish of the Church of the Assumption was held yesterday afternoon in the Parish Had Over 300 children attend® 1. The Town Band was present and to aid merriment to the evening vlr J. Rur
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    To-Day’s Tin Quotations.
    120 2 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $95.75 per picul, business done Tin in L indon is quoted at £206 spot and £l9l 10«. three months. The following is the local report, to-day :—Singapore Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 100 tons, $96.25 Penang: Straits Trading Co., Ltd.,
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    ST. XAVIER’S OLD BOYS.
    2229 2 FIRST ANNUAL DINNER. The first Sb. Xavier’s Old Boys’ Dinner, consisting of the ex pupils of St. Xavier s Institution, held on W-dnesday in the large dining hall of the School house opposite St. Xavier’s Institution was a great success. Mr. J D. Scully, Chairman of
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      190 2 Ibovrill Tickles Pdaie I H IF V x I STAY A r THE GRAND ORIENTAL HOTEL, KUALA LUMPUR. Telegrams: Prophet*: ORIENTAL.” S. M. MARTIN, HOTEL DE L'EWPE, Se, Leith Street, Penang UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Entirely Renovated, Eleetrie Light and Fans throughout. Situation most Central for Business Houses, Banks, Railway Telegraphic
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    WEEK’S ENGAGEMENTS.
    209 3 Friday. December 29. Outward P. A’ O. Mail. P.C.C. Bowls Ties. Bat'd H'splatiade, •> p.m. Volunteer Company Drill. Dance, Engineers’ Institute. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road. George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. Japanese Bioscope, Penang Road. Saturday. December 30. P.C.C. Bowls Ties. Homeward P. O. Mail. Police Sports, Esplanade.
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    Other Coining Events.
    113 3 January 5, Penang Ladies’ Rifle Club, Residency. 10.15 a m. January 6—Homeward English Mail. January 7. P.A M. Meeting, Kuala Lumpur January B—Penang Race Entries Close, 5 p.m. January 9. League Football M.R.C. r. Govt Wharves, Esplanade. January 10— C.C. Tennis Tournament Commen> e-. January 12. Ministering
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    AUCTION SALES.
    53 3 Thursday, January Bukit Meerah property, P.W.; Koh Eng Hin, auctioneer. Saturday and Tuesday. Jann<ry 6 and Property of Salak South, Ltd.; Boustead, Hampshire A Co.’s Office, Kuala Lumpur, noon Gleeson Co., auctioneers. Tvesdau, March 36. Land suitable for tobacco, nil'ber, and coconut cultivation in British North Borneo noon,
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    15 3 Sans Smici Villa No. 2, Northam Road apply Assistant Secretary, Penang lub.
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    The Mails.
    59 3 Homewat d. Stkamrk. Akkivks. Mails Sails < LOSS PAO Himalaya Sat. 30/12 Ip.m. 3 pm. N.D.L. Kle st Tues 2/1 H.l. Sat. 6 1 10 a.m. noon M. Justr-iZien Mon. 8/1* 5.30 f 6/1 *From Singapore f Mails close in Penang. < 'utward. P AO. De'ta Fri. 29/12
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      1320 3 I amusements. I BY APPOINTMENT To H.M. THE KING. T O.NIGHT! TO. IGHT!! O I GRAND attractive programme. I f K 1 pl LEMCO AND MILK is a powerful, tissue I The bioscope, building, invigorating, readily digested I J *’•:> \i .n’X. ood toni A gl ass day does more
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      190 3 A Sore Throat The quickest way to get rid of it—the -iinph s> an < surest —no bother, no trouble, ts to rub in Little’s O i< ntal Balm, and wrap up th“ th»oat with flannel. Will re move all aches ami paina call-ed by a c»>ld, a attain, or
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    MARRIAGE.
    67 4 Bkaumont—du Reks,—On Dec. 27, at Taiping Chu'ch, by the Rev. Canon Ba ton-Parkes, Captain Seymour B aumont, the 101st Grenadiers, i.A s<>n of Mr. and Mis. C. G, Beaumont, of Hay»s Mount, Buth, to Mi-s Mabel de Rees, daughter of the late Mr. J. de Rees anti Mrs. J.
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    PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
    1246 4 It would hardly have been in accord with generally accepted ideas of Chinese methods if a prompt agreement had been arrived at and announced as a result of the conference between plenipotentiaries of the Peking Government and the Revolutionary groups, which has been proceeding at Shanghai. From the
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    THE MENGLEMBU LODE SYNDICATE, LTD.
    2039 4 ANNUAL M ETING. The second annual general meeting of the above Company, postponed for want of a quorum from last week, was held yesterd»y afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce, Penang. Mr. Brash was voted to the chair and there were also present Messrs. C.
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      65 4 To-Day’s Contents. P*g<9 s.— Wedding at Tai pi ng Christmas Entertainment; H.I.M. Annoyed at 'I one of Opposition to Delhi Social and Personal; and St. Xavier’s Old Boys. Page S Week’s Engagements. Page 4. (Editorial; “Peace Negotiations”); The Menglembu Lode Syndicate, Ltd. Page 5. Telegrams Sporting News and Eastern Smelting
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    LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
    207 5 another rise in tronohs. STERLING RUBBERS IRREGULAR. 'Jhe following are the changes (buyers and sellers ®nly) in our share list on page 7 to-day: 1910. 28/12/11. 29/12/11. «2 8D J J Sharer. J» Jj C 5 s I tn M tn Mining. 4.35 2P. Lama 1.70 2.10
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    SINGAPORE STEADY.
    47 5 From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, December 28. •Shares to-day (Thursday) are steady, and the changes in rubbers are mostly upward. Quotations are as follows Highlands and Lowlands 76'Linggi Plantations 35 1| Malacca Plantations £!of R. P. Inv. Trusts 9 6 p Tebraus 60/9 Vallambrosas 24/-
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    RUBBER MARKET.
    44 5 YESTER DAY’S PRICES IN LONDON. From Malacca Correspondent Malacca, December 28 Information has been received by the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, nt the price of fine hard Para in London 'wterday was 44, sellers. Plantation ?*ra, 4/10, value. The market closed Readier.
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    OPIUM AND PRODUCE
    36 5 I From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, December 28. To day’s (Wednesday’s) quotations for vpiuin and produce are Opium, uncertified $1,600 00 Rice, Rangoon 183 00 Gambier, cube 1 5 70 Gainbier 10 15
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    WRECK OF THE "CHAKRABHONGS."
    58 5 CREWS MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. I From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, December 29. Capt. Wind, the officers, and the crew '< the East Asiatic Company’s steamer which was wrecked ttceutly off Pulau Lantinga, north of Itiagganu, have arrived here. 'I heir •aip was washed by mountainous seas ’ill
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    FREEMASONRY IN SINGAPORE.
    31 5 From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, December 29. *l. the annual installation meeting of Zetland in the East, Bro. J R. •''nake was installed Worshipful Master the ensuing year.
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    Y.M.C.A. SECRETARY ILL.
    28 5 from Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, December 29. D. Pringle, General Secretary Singapore Y M C. A. is going on a i* China for his health.
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    A MOROCCO SCANDAL.
    35 5 Reuter. <XC H OFFICIALS ACQUITTED. Paris, December 28. Tl J nsu ar Court at Ujda, in Morocco, Clestailleur, the French ner Head of the ustoms, i>. On the charges of peculation and
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    REVOLUTION IN CHINA.
    122 5 —Reuter. ARRIVAL OF DR. SUN YAT-SEN. CHANGE IN THE SITUATION. Shanghai, December 28. The arrival of Dr. un Yat-Sen threatens to change the situation It is expected that he will be elected President until the Provinces in China proclaim a continuance of the campaign, unless the Manchus
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    GERMAN ADMIRAL DEAD.
    22 5 Admiral Semmern is dead. Der Ostasiatischa Lloyd’s Service. Berlin, December 27. Admiral Semmern is dead. Der Ostasiatischa Lloyd's Service.
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    CAPTAIN H, H. TORLESSE.
    43 5 London, December 28. Captain Henry Holland Torlesse, r.n., Captain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard since December 15, 1909, is dead. [Captain Torlesse, who was promoted Captain on June 26, 1900, gained a war medal, and earned a good service pension.]
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    SIR F. A. CAMPBELL.
    150 5 The death is announced of Sir Francis Alexander Campbell, k.c.m.g., c.b., Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs.— Reuter [Sir Francis Campbell was born on May 2, 1852 appointed to a clerkship in the Foreign Office, Nov. 24, 1871 private secretary to Duke of Richmond and Gordon,
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    FIGHTING IN MOROCCO.
    99 5 Reuter. THE RIFFIANS DECIMATED. Madrid, December 29. The fighting round Melilla was extremely heavy, the Riffians being decimated The Spanish General Ros was wounded. The operations continue Franeo-Spanish Feud. Much bad blood is being made between France and Spain by wholesale accusations, in which General Luque, Minister
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    PAUPERS POISONED.
    87 5 Reuter. MANY FATALITIES IN BERLIN. Berlin, December 28. A number of paupers in the municipal shelter are suffering from poisoning and 36 of them have died. The poisoning is supposed to be due to the paupers’ own provisions. Over Hundred Cases. Berlin, December 29. There have been over
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    MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY.
    84 5 Reuter. AN ESTIMATE OF HIS DEBTS. London, December 28. At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Horatio Bottomley, Liberal M.P. for South Hackney and Editor of John Bull, who applied for a receiving order, Mr. Bottomley said that he estimated his indebtedness at £170,000 with assets
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    THE KING IN INDIA.
    20 5 ,—Reuter. Calcutta, December 28. H M. King George shot 30 tigers and 13 rhinoceroses in Nepal.—Reuter.
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    RUSSIA AND PERSIA.
    270 5 Reuter. THE FIGHTING AT TABRIZ. DEMAND FOR DISARMAMENT. Tabriz, December 27. The Russian troops were hard pressed for several days by an overwhelming force of insurgents. The situation is now quiet, but the Russians demand a general disarmament of the Persians The Chief leadeis of the revolutionists
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    GERMANY AND JAPAN.
    71 5 Kaiser on Friday—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service. COMMERCIAL TREATY EXTENDED. Berlin, December 27. Notes have been exchanged between the Foreign Office and the Japanese Embassy in Berlin, according to which the right to give notice of the discontinuance of the Commercial Treaty on December 31 will not be
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    AMERICAN ELECTIONS.
    62 5 Reuter. AN ATTACK ON THE TRUSTS. Cleveland (Ohio), December 28. Mr. Robert M. La Follette, the progressive Republican candidate for the American Presidency, has opened his western campaign by attacking the trusts and their power over Government legislation and the Law Courts. He denounced the Payne-Aldrich tariff bif
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    GERMAN NAVAL CHANGES.
    50 5 takes charge on January 15.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service. Berlin, December 27. Captain Brueninghaus has been appointed commander of the battleship Online >wu He takes command in April and his successor, aptain Vallerthun, has been appointed referee for Kiau-chau He takes charge on January 15.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.
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    BRITISH STEAMER FOUNDERS.
    49 5 Reuter. MOST OF THE CREW DROWNED. London, December 28. Lloyd’s agent at Lisbon telegraphs that the British steamer HuobenC-», bound from Smyrna to Dublin, foundered in the Bay of Biscay on the Ist inst. Two of the crew were picked up and the others were drowned.
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    JAPAN AND THE POWERS.
    43 5 Reuter. APPRECIATION OF FRIENDLINESS. Tokio, December 28. The Emperor of Japan, in opening the Diet, referred to the increasingly friendly feelings between Japan and the other Powers, and expressed satisfaction at the renewal of the Treaty with Great Britain.
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      CALCUTTA RACE MEETING.
      322 5 RESULT OF THE VICEROY’S CUP Calcutta, December 28. The following was the result of the Viceroy’s Cup on Tuesday Thb Viceroy’s Cup.—A Cup value £lOO, presented by H. E. the Viceroy, and Rs. 30,000 from the fund. The Cup and Rs. 20,000 to the winner; second, Rs.
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      WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
      47 5 .—Reuter. London, December 29. the match for the world’s wrestling championship and a purse of $lO,OOO, Gotch (America) defeated Alec Munro (Scotland) in straight falls time: 12 mins, and 8 mins also in two bouts of five seconds each with the half-Nelson and Crotch hold.
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      BOWLS AT THE P.C.C.
      269 5 The following tournament ties were decided yesterday Mixed Doubles. (Second Round.) Mrs. Brown 1 Mrs. Wright 1 Cunningham >2l Goodwin J I Mrs. W. Motion "I .Mrs. Goodwin Y Riley >2l Jarvis >l2 (—5) J (scr.) I Bu f for a weak beginning by Mrs. Wright,
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    B.P.G. MISSION. P.W.
    50 5 The services in Province Wellesley for Sunday next., Dec. 31, a>e: St. Mark’s Church, Butterworth.—Evensong and Sermon, 5.30 p m. Nibong Tebal Church.— .Matins, 930 a.m.; Evensong, 5.0 p.m.; Watch-night Service, 11.30 p m. Bukit Tengah.—Matins and Sermon, 9.30 am.; Evensong, 5.0 p.m.; Watch-night Service, 11.30 p.m.
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    AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
    148 5 Reuter. FOREIGN POLICY DEFINED. DESIRE FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE, Vienna, December 28. Baron von Aehrenthal the AustroHungarian Foreign Minister, addressing a committee of the Hungarian I ’elegation, said that to enable Austria-Hungary to safeguard the interests and support the influence of the allies for general peace, an increase in the
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    EASTERN SMELTING CO.
    350 5 SEQUEL IO THE SALE. The 8»le of the above-named Company having been completed in accordance with the terms of the resolution passed at the extraordinary general meeting of the Company, held on Ma>ch 20, 1911, an extraordinary general meeting was held at the registered office of the
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      159 5 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A BICYCLE was removed from the Penang Cricket Club on Christmas Day. Will the borrower kindly return it at once to the Secretary or to P. J. Sproule, 7, Scotland Road 1289 SUBSCRIBERS to the King Edward Memorial Fund are informed that a meeting will be held in
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      204 5 Collective Judgment of’the best whisky buyers is the best gauge of whisky values. That Public which is in a position to choose from the world’s best and which buys the best has set the seal of approval on Black and White Whisky. You can buy dearer but you cannot buy
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    SHARES.
    2163 7 a, > «.ri Num er °f laSUO 3 Cap ii»l. Su ed. Shftres Value Dividends Name A A 1 I* =3 S--3 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 IVI lIMI N O. 1903 <woon 8300 000 30-000 «{J $lO 25 10 30 30 10 int BeUt Tin Mining Co f
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    SHIPPING.
    900 7 ARRIVALS. C. Apcar, Brit., 1730, Townsend, Dec. 29, Calcutta, gen. A. A. Anthony Co. Hebe, Brit., 346, Willis, Dec. 28, T. Anson, gen Adamson Giltillan Co. Hok Canton, Brit., 291, Gully, Dec. 29, T. Anson, gen., E. S. Co. Jin Ho, Brit., 110, Wright, Dec. 29, Trang, gen., E.
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    Where to Stay.
    38 7 Penang -The E. O. Hotel, Thd Crag, Raffles by the Sea, Runnymede Hotel Sea View Hotel, and Hotel de Europe, Tpoh :—The Grand Hotel. Kuala Lumpur :—Grand Oriental Hotel. Rangoon :—Strand Hotel. Bangkok :—Legation Hotel.
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    MAILS.
    281 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To Morrow. For Per Close Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan 10 a.m. Telnk Anson Vidar 11 a.m. Asahan Petrel 1 p.m. Trang Jin Ho 1 p.m. Langkat Ban Whatt Soon 1 p.m. Ceylon, Australasia, x India, Aden, Mauri- I Himalaya 1 p.m. tins, Egypt,
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    TENDERS.
    39 7 Windsor Estate. 70 bags parboiled rice monthly during 1912. Straits Government.— Supply of timber; supply of bouse and cart numbers for 1912; tenders close noon, Dec. 19. Prye River Dock.— Firewood for 1912 tenders close noon, Dec. 27.
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      59 7 SUN LIFE OF CANADA. Incorporated 1865. BUSINESS IN FORCE £29,500,000 INCOME 1910 2,000,000 FUNDS (EXCEED) 7,500,000 Chief Office 1 Norfolk Street, Strand, Great Britain. J London Chief Office 1 Canada Building*, Indian Empire./ Bombay. Chief Office 1 Battery Road, S. E. Asia. Singapore. W; A. Whitb, Manager A. R. Bishop,
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      148 7 4 Call for WATSON’S BLUB BAND. CAN BE OBTAINED FROM PRINCIPAL RETAIL STORES. McAlister &Co., Ltd., Wholesale Agents. Union S. S. Co. of New Zealand, Ltd. Singapore to New Zealand direct, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttleton Danedla ALSO GALLING AT Samarang and Fiji (if induobmbnt obbbrs.) The Company’s T.S. Steamer APARIMAi 5,704
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