Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 November 1912

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 256 VOL. LXX. THURSDAY, 7th NOVEMBER. 19!2. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 1785 2 ANCIENT AND MODERN. Dancing is the realisation of perfect grace in motion, the highest form of Abe most glorious beauty—higher than the glorious of ever-moving Nature in that the human form is Nature’s most high handiwork. Dancing is the art which glorified ancient Greece and influenced
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    • 951 2 SITUATIONS VACANT. NOTICES. dresser wanted notice. For Kalumpong Estate Hospital. he Raco CourBe wi n be officially open APP y 1 J. for Training for the January, 1913, Gula Estate, Krian F. M. «S'. Meeting on and after Monday, the 11th *****-11 November, 1912. No Horses will be allowed on
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    • 93 2 Little’s Oriental Balm Cures Rheumatism. If every man and every woman who suffers from Rheumatism would hear and heed this message, what a tremendous amount of misery the world would lose 1 Little’s Oriental Balm is unquestionably the greatest cure of all Rheumatic Pains. The pain simply can’t exist when
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    • 1215 2 notice. TENDERS. FRESH TENDERS will be received up to noon on Thursday, the 14th DAIf A IT Tni November, 1912, for the following sup- hARAII plies for a period of one year commencing from Ist January 1913: a. Rations for Penang and Balik Pulau I GERS are hereby invite t
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  • THE WORLD’S NEWS.
    • 198 3 ITEMS OF INTEREST. CLIPPINGS FROM THE HOME PRESS. Despatched by the mail leaving London October 19. TEXT OF THE COLLECTIVE NOTE. The following is the complete official text of the Collective Note presented by the Power» to T urkey: The undersigned Ambassadors of Auistria-Hungary, Great Britain,
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    • 104 3 ARMIES IN TOUCH ON THE FRONTIERS. Turkey has declared war against Bulgaria and Servia. Greece is not included in the declaration; but a message from an. Athens correspondent early on Friday morning shows that Greece has taken the initiative and has declared war on Turkey.
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    • 103 3 MR. AND MRS. PETHICK LAWRENCE LEAVE THE W.S.P.U. t> Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, who have been such staunch supporters of the Women's Social and Political Union, sparing neither time nor money for the furtherance of the Suffrage cause,'have broken away from the organisation. Mrs. Pankhurst announces
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    • 59 3 SUCCESSOR TO BARON MARSCHALL. Prince Karl Maximilian Lichnowsky, who has been a member of the German* Diplomatic Service for the past eight year* has been appointed the German Ambassador to London in succession to the late Baron Marschall von Bieberstein. The new Ambassador is fifty-two years old,
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    • 163 3 SUCCESSFUL ADMINISTRATOR. The death is announced of Sir Gerald FitxGerald, K.C.M.G., formerly AccountantGeneral of the Navy, aged seventy-nine. Born in Galway, Sir Gerald entered tha War Office as a young man of twenty-three, and the unusual variety that marked his connection with the Civ:l Service
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    • 189 3 DISTINGUISHED LIBERAL CHURCHMAN. The death took place suddenly on Sunday night, at his Durham residence, of the Very Rev. Dr. Kitchin, the distinguished Liberal Churchman, who has been Dean of Durham for eighteen years. Born at Naughton Rectory, Suffolk, in December, 1827. his death has taken
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    • 77 3 The British Ambassador, Sir Francis Bertie, was recently the victim of a motor-car accident wdien driving in the country, state® the Paris correspondent of the Times. The eteering-gear failed to act, and the motor-car, after narrowly escaping a fall down an embankment, came into collision with
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    • 606 3 BULLET WOUND IN CHEST. INSANE ASSAILANT ARRESTED. Mr. Roosevelt was shot by a man, apparently insane, on Monday night at Milwaukee while going to address a political meeting. In spite of the fact that a bullet had entered his chest, the ex-President insisted on going to the
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    • 158 3 A DEALER IN CHILD MURDER. Secret service men of the United State® Government are searching the South Sea Islands, says a New York correspondent, for a certain Hawaiian from the island of Maui, who. it is believed, has been selling poisonous scorpions to Chinese in Honolulu anxious to
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    • 80 3 A peace manifesto signed by the 110 Social Democratic members of the German Reichstag and the forty-one Labour Members of the House of Commons has been issued, protesting against the increase of armaments in Germany and Great Britain. As representatives of the organised workmen in both countries,
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    • 141 3 FOUND SHOT AFTER A FUNERAL. A sensation has been caused in South Shields by the tragic death of the Rev. John Hunter Rutherford Scott, curate of St. Jude’s Church in that town. Mr. Scott, who lived with his parents, attended a funeral service on Tuesday afternoon, and
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    • 99 3 The death has occurred at Torquay of General George Battye, aged eighty-three, who was the eldest of the ten sons of Mr. G. W. Battye, of the Bengal Civil Service. All ten brothers joined the Army, in which they so distinguished themselves that they became known as
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    • 1218 3 N^ T T CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA UZ AUSTRALIA. AND CHINA; g" Incorporated by Royal Charter. Paid-ap Capita] £1,200,000 Jaoan Mail Steamship Co. Id. Reserve Liability of Proprietors £l*2oo’oof w Head Oppior > < 8 BISHOPBGATE, LONDON, E. C AobMOIRS AND BbANOHBB. Amritsar Ipoh Rangoon Bombay Karachi Seremban Bangkok Kobe
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    • 437 3 Be Beautiful “‘Haze line’ y Snow” makes —y 81 r °ugh> coarse skins, soft, smooth and velvety. It i /V cleanses and bean- y- tifies complexions 'x that are dull, greasy and s’allow. “‘HAZELINE' SNOW” (TRADE MARK) DELIGHTFUL TO USE AND MOST BENEFICIAL Sold at all Pharmacies and Stores Prepared
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  • 839 4 ITS GROWTH AND PROSPECTS. MENGLEMBU AND LAHAT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, November 5. With the following particulars in connection with these two flourishing and thickly populated mining centres, my notes, for the present, on the Kinta District will conclude. I take these two districts collectively, as
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    • 860 4 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. ANOTHER MOST EXCEEDINGLY RARE OFFER SATURDAY NIGHT! Mr». Drummond. The Bigge3t R ecep tion ia Town this Mr». J. Stuart Cunningham. Evening. p p q Delightfully Fascinating most Energetic and Laughable. a. Grand Lot of New A. B. Dramas and YOUNG ENGLISHMAN wishes to be Comedies supported
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    • 488 4 Lubricating Oils T RADE MARK OF <® s Grease. Over 40 different grades of “Moe s ili fte Lubricants are manufactured, suitable for every da s of Machinery Prices and Samples May be had on Application to the Sole Importers: The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.S.), Ltd, No, I, WELD QUAY,
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  • PLANTING AND MINING.
    • 1310 5 RESULT OF SECOND YEAR CONSIDERED SATISFACTORY. The second annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Batak Rabit Rubber Estate, Limited, was held on October 8 at Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., Mr. E. L. Hamilton (the chairman) preddiug. The Secretary (Mr. Percy E. L.
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    • 619 5 Knrau.— lnt. div. 15 per cent. Klabang.— lnt. div. 3 per cent. Trentelbye.— Final div. 35 percent. Singapore United. Div. 3 per cent. Damansara.— Second int. div. 22| per Sungei Krian.— Div. at rate 6 per cent, per ann. ou pref, shares for 1911. Tawljong. Profit
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    • 383 5 At the meeting of the Geevor Tin Mines (Limited), Mr. Oliver Wethered, who preside!, expressed the opinion that a study of the report, and more particularly of the memorandum of their technical director, Mr. Gilman Brown, would have caused the shareholders to have arrived at the conclusion
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    • 617 5 Daily Question Ashed and Answered. How many people are to be met in every walk of life, who, upon the question being put to them Good-morning, how are you today?" have to reply with a shrug of the shoulders, and in anything but a cheerful tone Oh, I’m alright except
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    • 233 5 ADVERTISING FAILURES. There are still men who say they have found advertising a failure. They claim that they gave it a fair trial and could see no results. Whenever a merchant says that be has tried advertising without success, there is usually a very good reason why it did not
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    • 137 5 The Ceylon Manure worhs, A. BAUR, PENANG BRANCH. Penang, Ist Nor ember, 1912. PLANTERS are hereby informed that a Branch has been opened in Penang and that all Correspondence should be directed in future to THE CEYLON MANURE WORKS, A. BAUR, Penang. Office: F.M.S. Railway Building, HO. 1, Telegrams: Fe
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  • 1257 6 Superior organization, strategy, initiative and dash, combined with ferocious fighting ability, have carried the allies almost to the gates of Constantinople, and the hope of Turkey, faint as it is, now rests on her Asiatic forces, who are reported to be arriving in large bodies to make
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  • 348 6 BATU KAWAN SHOOTING CASE. After tiffin yesterday, other witnesses gave evidence of a corroborative nature in the case in which Sathasevan was charged with committing a rash act by causing the death of a Malay, Mohamed Tahir at Batu Kawan by careless’y and negligently discharging a firearm. Assistant
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  • 98 6 At the entrance into Green Hall yesterday evening at about 4 o’clock Mr. O. Schule’s motor-car knocked down a little Chinese boy of about eight years of age. The boy was coming out from one of the hous a s with a basket and ran across the road.
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  • 72 6 This mail has brought the news of the success of two Xavierians, one in London and the other in Penang. Mr. Leong Yew Koh, the ho d r of the Queen’s Scholarship of 1908, has passed his final L L.B, at the Lon ion University, and
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  • 50 6 The following aie the Services for Province Wellesley on Sunday next, November 10th, 1912 Holy Trinity Church, Nibong Tebal.—Matins, 9.30 a.m.; Evensong, 5.0 p.m. St. Andrew’s Church, Parit Buntar.—Matins (Tamil), 10.30 a.m. Bukit Tengah.—Matins and Address, 9.0 a.m.; Evensong, 5.0 p.m. St. Mark’s Church, Butterworth.—No Evensong.
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  • 189 6 The Export of Tin from Perak for October, 1912 (exclusive of Upper Perak) advance figures liable to correction.” was as follows Pks. Kts. Block tin 6,292 88 Tin ore 28,213 51 Duty $535,364 90 The King has been pleased to approve of the appointment in the Consular
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  • 794 6 CORONER’S INQUEST Further robbery which wa perpßtrat d Ara on the night of September 30 re 8 in the shooting of one of t|, e elicited thi, afternoon, whan th.? Mr E. E. Colman, held an gardiog the death of Lim Foon-r On Several photographs of
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  • 106 6 Early this morning, a Chinese broker living at No. 88 vort h of reported the loss of some $7. jewellery from his shop at x o. same street. It appeared t a 1 articles of jewellery in a drawer locked and went home, e of his
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    • 335 6 By Special Z A t Appointment Majesty to King George. DUNLOP TYRES. "X- J FIRST B t W\ %> FORE ■VWXx W/ UAVT /z v li®/ MOST in MR/ X'W /W /%k Jk «SK ever A XX. SX 'X **?tea ISM. X W SINCE. k-XXQC \t m $1 X X
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    • 68 6 TO-DAY’S CONTENTS. Page 2.— Dancing As An Art. Page 3.— The World’s News. Page 4- —The Kinta District. Page s.— Planting and Mining. Page 6. Editorial: The Final Round Penang Assizes and Sungei Ara Robbery. Page 7.— Telegrams. Page B.— Siam’s Rice Crop. Page 9.— Sporting News Shipping Mails; Local
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  • 293 7 TO-DAY’S changes. The following are the changes (buyers d «Ilers only) in our share hst which we *°Wish as a suppliwent Yesterday. To-day. «22 2 J 1, BH*b«'. a J* T PQ Tfi rQ tC AfiniriC. 13» 15} 13} 15} Tin” 44/9 4«/- 44/6 46/6 *;“c T
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  • 27 7 Prom Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, November 7. The Chinese sampan coolie who was caught with 119 taels of opium was fined 1500 or 4 months.
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  • 23 7 (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 7. Mr. C. W. Abrams has been appointed Veterinary Surgeon to the Johore Government.
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  • 41 7 TO-DAY’S PRICES IN LONDON. (From Own Own Correspondent.) London, November 7*. The following are to-day’s quotations for rubber Plantation Para, Ist Latex, Cr epe 4/lj Paratoarrive 4/3 The market is steady. i 3' courtesy of Messrs. Boustead Co.
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  • 77 7 SlPl SNOWDEN AND FEMALE SUFFRAGE. London, November 6. J? oUse of Commons an amendHome Rule Bill moved by Mr. Snowden (Labour) in favour of makjocal Government register, which It J V w Ollien the basis of e’ection to the VotJ ’’’suture, was defeated by 314 to 141.
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  • 61 7 Kuila Lumpur, November 7. 1 if® Pl a U. a! ttir 8 Stores Agency, London, a e t'»e foil >wirig p r j ces p ll 1 and biscuit 4/. 4/1 i//’’ form 3/11 u nt crepe form 3/9 Krap 3 treated n t d Rambong 3/8 bard
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  • 853 7 —D O L. RIVAL ARMIES MUSTERING CONSTANI INOUE MENACED BRITISH PREPARATIONS FOR LANDING. If the Capital is Taken. Constantinople, November 6. (By wireless.) It is authoritatively stated that in the event of the Bulgarians breaking through Chatalja and marching into Constantinople the Court and Government will proceed
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  • 364 7 Thr Allibs Cask in a Nutshell The origin and exolanation of the Balkan crisis, siys The Evening News of October 1 is very plain. It can be stat d bluntly as follows The Turks came into Europe as conquerors. They have retained only a
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  • 125 7 Berlin, November 6. The balloon Duesseldorf, which was believed to have been last, has landed in Russia. The Inspector General of the Cavalry has died of heart failure. The Petersburg agency reports from Urga that the Russian Plenipotentiary, Korostowitch, has signed an agreement with the Mongolian Government
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  • AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.
    • 236 7 —Reuter. OR. WOOMIOW WILSON ELECTED London, November 6. Dr. Woodrow Wilson has been elected President of the United States.—Reuter. A Reeord PollNew York, November 6. The number of votes constituted a record. While it is generally conceded that Dr. Wilson is elected it will take some hours
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    • 179 7 Mr. Woodrow Wilson, is the former President of Princeton University, and now Governor of New Jersey. When he opened his campaign a few years ago fur the governorship of his own State the “machine” politicians could not suppress their amusement. He was known to be on? of
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  • 332 7 —S.F.P. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at the Scotch Kirk on Saturday afternoon, the contracting parties being Mr. James Aytoun Maclean, superintendent of the Read Street works of the United Engineers Ltd., and Miss Anna Christina Thompson Garvan, who arrived by the P. and O. Assaye on
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    • 237 7 ™store st Public Holidays. EAST of SUEZ little '3 J The Exchange Banks ff j|] be closed on Friday New Illustrated Catalogue and Saturday, the Bth illustrated pages and brings Little's resources L 1 1 1_ and‘9th inst., which have of merchandise in the Far East It you have J
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  • 1129 8 JANUARY MEETING, 1913. (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE DAYS: FIRST DAY Tuesday, 7th January, 1913. SECOND DAY Thursday, 9th January, 1913. THIRD DAY Saturday, 11th Janu try, 1913. To be submitted at a Special General Meeting to be held at 4 o’clock p.m., on
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  • 932 8 —Statesman. THE TRUE CONDITION. It is time that the truth became known ag to the real condition of the rice crop in Siam —and the truth will not be too pleasant says a correspondent of the Siam Observer of Oct. 28. There is a general feeling running
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    • 550 8 SAriATOGEHa J (MU A (XL 1 \\\\vr XStxß’il'SX-r .7 1 I r la’i 1 Wx.Xlf w I no The Message of Sanatogen. Sanatogen undoubtedly invigorates the nerves—braces the patient to health —brings a new hopefulness and enjoyment of life,’’ These words, written by Lady Henry Somerset, will come as a
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  • 213 9 (J’ron* Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping, November 6. The statistical work in the Post Office here is now over and the mails are being closed and the daily deliveries made as usual. The branch firm of Mr. Dunford Wood, which was in charge of Mr. Ryot, has been closed.
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  • 60 9 PENANG GOL£ CLUB. The following is the result of the Ladies’ Presgrave Cup for November. Mrs. C. G. May 1 down. Miss C. Brown 5 Mrs. SF. B. Martin 7 Miss E. Heim 8 Mrs. Park 9 Mrs. Rose 13 Mrs. Robertson, Mr. Watson, Miss M. Brown, Mrs.
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  • 53 9 The second Inter-State match, Perak v. Selangor, is fixed to be played in Ipoh on Saturday, 16th November. The Pbrak team will probably be picked from the following Hargreaves, Callard, Wemyss, Turner, Kay-Robinson, Wood, Tate, Ivens, Shelley, Kempe, Morris, Cator, Rex, Cookes, Van Cuyleuburg, Wilson, Hunter, TomsoD, Caverhill,
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  • 40 9 There will be another Rugby practice on Monday, 11th inst. Will those desirous of playing p ease send in their names to the Secretary, Penang Cricket Club. Some practice is essential if any matches are to be arranged.
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  • 43 9 The following outputs for October are to hand Ayer Kuning lbs. 2,345 Asahan 2,324 Clovelly 228 Djapoere 2,085 K. M. S. 2,600 Kota Tinggi 2,460 Pelepah 2,925 Semambu 2,665 Siginting 1,362 Sialang 15,598 Sungei Kari 10,250 Tandjong 13,873 United Serdang 71,774
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  • 71 9 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $114,05 per picul, busine's done. Tin in London is quoted at £228 spot and £228 three months. The following is the local report to-day :—Singapore Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 50 tons, Penang Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 75 tons, $114.65
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  • 153 9 Thursday, November 7. Outward English (B. I.) Mail. Penang Church Workers’ Assn., Meeting, 10.30 a.m. Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuals Kangsar Road Matsuo’s Cinematograph, Penang Road. Friday, November 8. Depaveli Festival. S. S. Government Holiday. No Issue of Pinang
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  • 620 9 ARRIVALS. Calypso, Brit., 339, Scott, Nov. 7, T. Anson, gen., Adamson Gilfilan Co. Glenogle, Brit., 2399, Graves, Nov. 6, Amoy, gen., B. E. J. S. K. Co. Nam Sang, Brit., 2591, Gilroy, Nov. 7, Calcutta, gen., Boustead Co. Tara, Brit., 3651, Symmers, Nov. 7, Madras, gen., Hottenbach Liebert Co.
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    • 395 9 i JOHN ROBERTS of London, BILLIARD TABLE MAKER. M. SLOAN, Penang Representative, W s' HOTEL HORMAN, gx W** Xr jr Wfov /jr Full-sized PENANG. X //BILLIARD >< y TABLES yr *§§L Xjpß fitted with «11 accessories I y Ja yyr complete from $B5O. A large S' ddk fe yyr stock
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    • 225 9 nnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn n n n n s ii H. P. TOURIST MODELS. g FIXED OR FREE ENGINES. 2 n n n D n n n o n MOTOR n REX I 2 n g CYCLES. g 2 n n n n n n n n d n "REX 1912, BOOKLET," PRICES,
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  • 1142 10 CITY PARTIALLY WRECKED. A TERRIBLE NIGHT. The worst storm known to living man in the province has just devasted Cebu in the Phillipines. It is not feasible at th's moment says the Choronicle of October 18, to attempt anything like a reliable account of what has
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    • 560 10 FOUR CROWN WHISKY. -nm n_r- > tl. M. U kPPOINTme nj r 0 ftfe LA’re kUJb'jepWjFD vti Qdlliwkp. I Rob er t Bro h :v Z td GLASGOW LONDON j Schmidt, KOstermann a, C°, Sole Importers for PENANG. Brj.CdlisJrowne’s The ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE, K Acts like a Charm Tn
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 108 10 The Tides. Date. H. W. L. W. H. W. L. VI. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. Nov. 7 11-00 5-11 11-24 5-21 8 11-41 6-01 11-55 6-27 9 12-12 6-21 Nil. 6-36 10 12-27 7-10 12-53 7-18 11 12-59 7-26 1-27 7-38 12 1-30 8-15 2-00 8-26 13 2-19 8-37 2-33
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  • 503 11 HIS VIRTUES. Writing to the Editor of Eastern Engineering, a correspondent who has had years of experience in the management of Chinese mechanics in Shanghai and elsewhere says Of all Oriental workmen the Chinese are undoubtedly the best, though there may be some with experience of both
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  • 396 11 SIR EDWARD HOLDEN AND A SERIOUS MENACE.” London, 21th October.—Sir Edward Holden, speaking at the Manchester Statistical Society, dealt with the question of the British Gold Reserve, which everybody was agreed was too small. He strongly urged the passing of an Act to compel joint stock
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    • 505 11 wNJ v l^^r\afM^r\w^w^«olKw// v 1 v\ W®X B&wl w\3 MS v J xni vl fr vt< w Zjj A/ 1 ja Jk "IOSSw IW Lemons full of Juice and ljwTji| Flavour are- used in making V%JI this Squash. \k^Y ,> Its Taste is Delicious, I jflJlimm and its Ptirity is
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    • 286 11 SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE COMPANY. LIMITED. Ao. 255, Penang Rond. Telephone No, 602. pineapplF brand HAMS AND BACON. HOURS: Week-days 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. 1213—7-12-12 m w f Patronised By Royalty. Don't ask where to stay zf you
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    • 2570 12 p. sailing». Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. Steam Navigation Co. ggg- lndjJ Steam Navigation Co., > tIPMTED ARRIVALS AMD DEPARTURES. LIMITED. T MAIL SERVICE OUTWARD. 7 Occur steam Shin to i lfl 1912 For Intended to Sail. Steamer. AND B BESS’S? «ingapoTeT CHINA MUTUAL^NAV. «g* and USB Sh. Due London. (Twice a
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