Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 14 November 1912

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 261 VOL. LXX. THURSDAY, 14th NOVEMBER, 1912. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1004 1 f‘ For $3O I Vou can have the Pinang Y Gazette’ 1 posted every day E a whole year to your address. tOT (LOCAL SUBCRIPTiON. $27.) g Proportionate Quarterly and S Half-Y carly rates- a subscriptions are payable m g and remittances should C be addressed to B The Director:
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  • THE WORLD’S NEWS.
    • 322 2 ITEMS OF INTEREST. CLIPPINGS FROM THE HOME PRESS. Despatched by the mail leaving London October 26. COMMISSION’S RECOMMENDATIONS. It is understood, says the Times, that both the majority and minority reports of the Divorce Commission will recommend that the aexee should be equal before the law in
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    • 251 2 FOR USE AGAINST DESPERADOES. Experiments lasting three hours have just been carried out- by the Paris police, under the eyes of M. Lepine and some thirty experts and officials, to test the efficiency of the new weapons of offence and defence intended to facilitate the capture
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    • 208 2 A NARROW ESCAPE. More than 100 passengers were taken off the steamship Berkshire, of the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company, on Sunday, when fire swept through the forward hold of the vessel, says a New York correspondent. Before daybreak the wireless brought two steamships to the
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    • 160 2 MAJOR AND COLONEL’S WIFE. How a colonel’s wife became very friendly with a major attached to her husband’s regiment was told to the Divorce Court on Tuesday, when Colonel Douglas Macdonald Graves, of the Indian Medical Service, was granted a decree nisi with custody of his child
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    • 98 2 SEVERE SENTENCES. At Leipsic, Karl Banchelin, formerly keeper of the military carrier pigeons, has been sentenced to eight years’ penal servitude for supplying the French Intelligence Department with information as to the fortress of Metz. His brother-in-law, Johann Berger, fortification clerk, and a stonemason named Thiebaut, were
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    • 299 2 SOME INTERESTING PARTICULARS. The forthcoming departure (an annual event) of the Egyptian Mahmal (Holy Carpet) to the Moslem Holy Land moves the Egyptian Gazette to give some interesting particulars of the sacred object. As is well known to Mohammedans, but to very few Europeans, the Holy Carpet
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    • 221 2 FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The death is announced of Viscount Peel, a former Speaker of the House of Commons, which occurred on Thursday at Sandy, Bedfordshire. Viscount Peel, who was in his eightysecond year, was the fifth son of the famous Sir Robert Peel.
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    • 176 2 NOVELIST WHO WAS INDIAN CHIEF. Seized with sudden heart failure, Mr. Robert Barr, the well-known novelist, has died at his home at Woldingham, Surrey, aged sixty-two. Mr. Barr’s family were summoned to the death-bed in a strangely dramatic manner. While sitting at tea they heard Mr.
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    • 207 2 INJURED SPECTATOR GETS £3OO. In the Appeal Court, on Wednesday, before Lords Justices Vaughan Williams, Buckley, and Kennedy, the decision was given in the appeal of the chairman and committee of the Welsh Rugby Football Union from the verdict and judgment in the action against them, heard
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    • 149 2 WOMAN’S CAREER OF DECEPTION. Mabel Carr, alias Lizzie Brooks, alias Mabel Edwards, twenty-nine, pleaded guilty at the London Sessions, on Wednesday, to obtaining sums amounting to £5 12«. 6d. from the Variety Artiste’ Benevolent Fund, ana £4 10s. and some clothing from the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild,
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    • 71 2 Id one of the many mortuary chapels iu a Brussels cemetery a Rembrandt is said to have just been discovered, says a Brussels correspondent. It is only 6|in. by 7Jin., ana must have been placed there as part of the altar decorations a great many years
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1574 2 SITUATIONS VACANT. NOTICES. TENDERS. WANTED NOTICE TENDERS FOR SUPPLY OF GRAIN AND FODDER FOR BATTERY MULES AND AFIELD KRANI for an estate near 7 PONIES. Penang, must be thoroughly ex- OTICE is hereby given that I have perienced in Tapping. Apply in the first Ty| from the 9th November, 1912,
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    • 565 2 THE PROBLEM OF INFANT VITAL PART OF HU S A!( obtainable. OFMSO, A^S At last, the problem of infant l abeen solved. G reat interest ba aroused throughout E Urot)fi announcement of this discovery hv the known scientist, ProfeBgor well. University of Berlin. ge of the The leading medical journals
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  • 2609 3 THE BISHOP of SINGAPORE. HIS CHARGE TO THE CLERGY'j’j e following the second instalment f the Bishop of Singapore’s charge to the Clercry at the Diocesan Conference at Singap° re The best description of our Communion hich I know is that which Dean Armitage
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  • 25 3 Penang —The E. O. Hotel, The Crag Hotel Norman, Runnymede Hotel and Hotel de Europe. Ipoh :—The Grand Hotel. Rangoon —Strand Hotel.
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    • 332 3 BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. THE KING. CONTRACTORS TO THE BRITISH ADMIRALTY. THE WAR OFFICE. THE INDIA OFFICE. Milkmaid Milk LARGEST SALE IN THE WORLD. Milkmaid condensed Milk the very best cow’s milk. It is obtained from cows fed in the HIGH SWISS PASTURES which are well known I to
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  • 3125 4 T.O.M. —AZ. Mail. THE SULTAN OF PERAK’S HISTORIC MOTION. SPEECHES IN FEDERAL COUNCIL. A meeting of the Federal Council of the Federated Malay States was held on Tuesday morning at Kuala Lumpur. There was quite a large gathering to meet H. E. the High Commissioner on
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  • 431 4 London, November 14. Malaysia’s offer of a Dreadnought has excited the warmest interest throughout Great Britain. The deepest appreciation is expressed by all classes The newspapers enthusiastically acclaim the offer as a striking new testimony of the vitality of the Empire. Cheers in the Commons. The
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  • 128 4 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICL. To-Morrow. For Per Close Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m Alor Star (Kedah) Isabella 8 a.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan 9 a.m. Calcutta Dilwara 11 a.m. Tongkah, Kopah, Re- 'j nong,Victoria Point, >Tong Hong 2 p.m. Mergui, and Tavoy J Batu Bahra Leong Ho
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    • 298 4 WHYARABicr ARABIC applied to the roof and sides of your house or factory will effect an enormous red.w;“ in the internal temperature. tlon Arabic is an excellent preservative for ironwork it covers more surface and lasts longer than mi,,/ It is sold in the form of a dry powder and
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  • PLANTING AND MINING.
    • 1723 5 gopeng, new gopeng, and KINTA. The prospects of operating tin mines in th e Federated Malay States are being given iome attention to. Not so many years ago most of the tin mining in the country, which produces about three-fourths of the world’s production of the
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    • 843 5 K.M.S. RUBBER COCONUT. DIRECTORS REPORT. The report of the directors and statement of accounts for the year ended 30th June, 1912, presented at the second annual general meeting of members held at the Registered Office, 5, Whittington Avenue, London, E. 0., on Friday, the 25th October. The directors herewith submit
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    • 320 5 Sapong.— Rubber crop to Aug. 31,29,644 lbs. Sumatra Consolidated.— lnt. divd. at rate 10 per cent. Be ver lac.— Second int. div. 10 per cent. K.M.S.— Report to June 30 states gross profit was £1,221 from rubber, coconuts, <fcc., which is carried forward. Fed. Malay States.—
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    • 66 5 “THE LIFE OF TRADE” A ONE-TIME order,like one blow of the hammer on the head of the nail, makes an impression, but it is only the continuous insertion of the advertisement, like the continuous pounding on S. head of the nail, that dnvos th. argument home and clinches it. One
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    • 83 5 BOVRIL For Health and Beauty 1 H UNION S. S CO. OF NEW ZEALAND Ld. Auckland. Wellington. Lyttleton and Dunedin ALSO CALLING Al Samarang and Fiji 1» induobmbnt offers), The Company’s T.S. Steamer APARI* MA. 5,704 tons, S. Nicholson, Commander, maintains a regular four-monthly service between Singapore and New Zealand.
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    • 143 5 The Ceylon Manure works, A. BAUR, PENANG BRANCH. Penang, Ist November, 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. Ojfice: F.M.S. Railway Building, NO. 1, Telegrams: Fertilizer Penang.
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  • 5 6 PINANG GAZETTE. I3TABLI9HBD 1838.
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  • 40 6 Pledger—Batram.—On Oct. 19, at St. John’s Church, Wembley, by the Rev. J. W. P. Silvester, Frank Arthur Pledger, younger son of the late James Pledger, to Lucy Emily, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Batram, both of London.
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  • 1081 6 It seems a great pity that amid the chorus of approval and congratulation anent the Federated Malay States’ offer of a Dreadnought a few disgruntled and cranky individuals should sound a discordant note by insinuating that the action of the Sultans in making the motion for
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  • 476 6 NEW LEGISLATION. YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS{From Own Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, November 13. At this morning’s meeting the Deleterious Drugs and the Arbitration Enactments were passed. The last is to settle disputes by Arbitration under special circumstances, and the want of Jsuch legislation was said to be fqlt by a
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  • 36 6 Kuala Lumpur, November 14. The Malay Mail is officially informed that the Hon T. de Multon Lee Braddell, Attorney General, Straits Settlements, has been appointed Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Federated Malay States.
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  • 73 6 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $ll4 per picul, buyers, no sellers. Tin in London is quoted at £228.5 spot and £228 three months. The following is the local report to-day :—Singapore Straits Trading Co., Ltd., buyers no sellers 4.45; Penang Straits Trading Co., Ltd.,
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  • 34 6 The second of the practices will be held to-morrow (Friday) in the Town Hall at 6 p.m. when it is hoped a larger number of gentlemen dancers will be present.
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  • 229 6 TO-DAY’S CHANGES. Th. following ”are7h~ change, (b and sellers only) m our share li 3t 8 to-day:— 113t > page Yesterday. To d&y Shakes. E o -2, aa 5 a m jq Mining, Pahang C. 9/9 10/9 10/3 11/1s P Bharn 4.65 '5 < Tekka 29| 3ia
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  • 7 6 PINANG GAZETTE. I3TABLI9HBD 1838.
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  • 53 6 A NEW LONDON COMPANY. (Prom Our Otvn Correspondent) Ipoh, November 14. A company has been formed in London with £20,000 capital to exploit mining properties in the Malay Peninsula. Amongst the directors are Sir Ernest Birch and Mr. John Israil Phillips, late of Ipoh, who retired with
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  • 33 6 -Reuter. Stockholm, November 13. The Nobel Prize has been awarded as follows Physics, M. Gustaf Dalen, engineering, M. Heal, Stock 0 m Company Chemistry divided betwee French Professors, McGrignard and Sabatier.—
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  • 35 6 —Reuter. London, November 13. The War Office announces that the Gordon Highlanders, now in a proceed to Egypt instead o They will embark at Bombay 7 and disembark at Suez on December
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  • 34 6 —Reuter. November 14 h It is officially announced that Sir A Spring Rice, Minister at Sfcocsh 1 B ritis h Jo,la TTnn. James Bryce as ceeos nou. j Ambassador at Washington.
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  • 22 6 —Reuter. London, November Branches of the Medical A 'J CI i voting for the rejection ot insurance offer.-
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  • 19 6 London, Sir Arthur Lever Ins bou p l House as a gift to the Nation
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    • 311 6 By Special 4fl|| is Appointment Majesty to King George. DUNLOP TYRES. FIRST 1 1 'IF/ VW/ most /W X Ab ever Mw- S K- Wt B sincl g? I II £i E» l\ Jf NOTED for their resiliency and superb wearing qualities. TRADE Al ARK Fresh Stocks of all sizes
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    • 63 6 TO-DAY'S CONTENTS. Page The World’s News. Page 3.— The Ideal of the Eccjesia Anglican». Page 4. F.M.S. Offers a Warship. Page s.— Planting and MiningPage 6.— Editorial: Sultans and the Warship Federal Council; and Telegrams. Page 7.— Telegrams. Page B.— The Modern Rifle. Page 9.— Shipping Mails Local Steamer Service
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  • 972 7 —Reuter WILD SCENES AND SPEECHES; SPEAKER orders adjournment. London, November 13. Asquith’s motion, which replaces J? precisely as they were before Sir F. Rabun’s amendment, was adopted. It is D a short cut across all Parliamentary precedents. Reason for Not Resigning. London, November 13. Asquith emphasised that
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  • 109 7 —Reuter. MR AUSTIN CHAMBERLAIN AND TARIFF REFORM. London, November 13. There is a vigorous Unionist campaign proceeding in London this week. The speakers yesterday evening included Lord Melbourne, Mr. Walter Long, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Sir E. Carson, >ir George Wyndham, Mr F. E. Smith, Lord Charles Beresford.
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  • 76 7 —Reuter FLOGGING FOR OFFENDERS. London, November 13. The House of Commons has passed the third reading of the White Slave Traffic Bill. It approved the flogging of bullies and pro curers, on a second offence, but bv 188 to 164 rejected flogging for a first offence, of
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  • 89 7 —Reuter. DUTCH MINISTER’S STATEMENT. The Hague, November 13. In the debate on the Colonial Estimates the Minister for the Colonies asserted a wish to respect the convictions of the Chinese. They were not inferior to Western races, and it was their desire not to be treated as
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  • 42 7 —Reuter. London, November 13. The Times’ Rio Janeiro correspondent says the Government is determined to pass legis'ation penalizing shipping lines for granting rebates for the carriage of national produce. It mainly affects coffee shipments to Europe and the United States.—
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  • 36 7 Reuter. Christiania, November 13. In the elections to the Storthing the Radicals won 41 seits, the Socialists 13 seats, and the Government nil. There are now 74 Radicals, 24 Right Liberals, and 23 Socialists.
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  • 248 7 The first annual general meeting of the above company was held at the offices of the Secretaries, Messrs. Brown, Phillips and Stewart Ipoh on Wednesday, 6th instant. The business was of a very agreeable nature, consisting chiefly of the declaration of a 10 per cent, dividend. The
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  • THE WAR.
    • 456 7 PREPARAT ONS FOR ARMISTICE London, November 14. A Bulgarian division ent-red Salonika on Saturday after a battle four miles from the City. Tl e Princes Boris and Cyril are accompanying the troops. General Todoroff, commanding, wired to King Ferdinand that the town of Salonika from to-day was
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    • 194 7 .—D.O.L. Berlin, November 14. Count von Berchtold and the President of the Sobranje discussed the following points. Bulgaria’s endeavours to settle the points at issue in accord with Austria the possessions of the Balkan States will, after the conclusion of peace, be corrected, no matter what each State
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    • 925 7 THEIR PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. In view of what has actually happened the following intelligent anticipation of events” by th* Aew York Herald's correspondent at Sofia is very interesting. Writing on the movements of the Bulgarian Army on October 10, he says General Savoff, who will conduct the operations
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 380 7 ADVERTISEMENTS LEADING THE PUIAU BUIANG RUBBER AND g HAMRIIRO SHIPPING HOUSE PRODUCE COMPANY, LTD. g HAMBURC SH,PP,NC HOUSE desires connection, monopoly g NOTICE OF STH CALL g to suitab ie firm. g is hereby given that the g Please apply to Directors have made a Call of 50 o n
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  • 1127 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 January, 1913. To be submitted at a Special General Meeting to be held at 4 o’clock p.m., on Friday,
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  • 894 8 FEEDING THE FIRING LINE. A NEW PROBLEM. The introduction of quick-firing artillery, of the magazine rifle with it? largely increased range and velocity, and smokeless powder has brought into prominence in recent years the importance of securing to the troops on a modern battlefield an efficient and
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  • 2192 9 cL I I Number of Issue < Capit»l- Subscribed. shareB Value. 3 Dividends. j Name J g S I I S' "3 I 1908 I 1909 1910 1911 1912 MINING. hmm(i I 560.000 60,000 >1 11 191 ’wrtOO 300.000 30,000 10 10 10 30 30 D> 4P Oo S
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  • 631 9 ARRIVALS. Atreus, Dut., 4296, Thompson, Nov. 13, L’pool, gen., Williams, Mansfield Co. Calypso, Brit., 339, Scott, Nov. 14, T. Anson, gen., Adamson Gilfilan Co. Devanha, Brit., 4755, Hickey, Nov. 14, Bombay, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Hillos, Nor., 860, Kaudsen, Nov. 13, C’cutta, gen., Huttenbach Brothers. Houtman, Dut., 1035, Westerhof,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 16 9 ESTABLISHED »900. Season's Novelties Suitable for Gifts Now Displayed. N D. DE SILVA, JcwelWf, W» Entraver\
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    • 404 9 The ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE. W Acts like a Charm in Checks and arrests DIARRHOEA, ..<■ FEVER. CROUP, AGUE. the only Specific in Best Remedy known for I CHOLERA and I COUGHS, COLDS, V M DYSENTERY. asthma bronchitis > Th. only Falllntlw. I" ..URAtWA. OOUT, RHEUMATISM. K Convincing Medical Testimony«eemnpanles
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  • 242 10 PENANG’S STATISTICS. In the Penang Municipality for the week ended November 2, there were 57 deaths —39 males and 18 females, equal to a death rate of 29.24 per mille. The death-rate and chief causes of mortality were T 73 “On T 5 Ct *T3 u 5S £3.
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  • 249 10 Thursday. November 14. Outward English (P. O.) Mail. Municipal Commission, 4 p.m. Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road Matsuo’s Cinematograph, Penang Road. Friday, November 15. St. Machutus. Legislative Council, 2.30 p.m. M. C L. Ann >al Sale of
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    • 1193 10 CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA MT AUSTRALIA. AND CHINA, Incorporated by Royal Charter. JL JL dfthß Paid-vp Capital £1.200,000 A T J Reserve Fend ...£1,650,000 J&P&n Mdil Steamship Co. LO. Reserve Liability of Proprietors £1,200,000 BL JL JB, BIBHOPBGATB, LONDON, E. C. Aaawoies amd Bbamohbb. Amritsar Ipoh Rangoon S > Bombay
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    • 509 10 Lubricating Oils x TRADE MARK OF EXCELLENCE. <® Orease. Over 40 different grades of “Moesiline Lubricants are manufactured, suitable for every cla s of Machinery Prices and Samples May be had on Application to the So/e Importers: The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.S.), Ltd, No. I, WELD QUAY, PENANG. AMUSEMENT! TO-NIGHT!
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 103 10 The Tides. Date H W. L. W. H. W. L. VI. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. Nov. 14 2-24 9-20 3-07 8-24 „15 2-48 9-56 3-44 9-19 16 3-14 10-38 4-34 10-06 17 344 11-36 4-34 10 06 18 5-06 12-34 9-14 1-34 „19 8-20 3-13 9-37 2-51 „20 9-14 3-53
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  • 841 11 Calcutta, Nov. 1.-—The weather is still cloudy at Calcutta. The steamer City of York, which arrived at the Sandheads yesterday morning with about 175 passengers, was unable to take a pilot on account of the cyclonic weather, and could not come up. Opinions have changed a good deal
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    • 468 11 •<« \L> \®Wd‘ 1 /y a <T I W Lemons X ,jMT p/ JKXj-/ full of Juice and |J ‘Tji FUvonr are used in making this Squash. Mitfv JxX R 3 Its Taste is Delicious, XWLwIWx k’ l ik > IIIUMII -—7T~ V XI k wfil ana its Purity 7
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    • 442 11 AFTER FEVER YOU NEED I 1 L-:-.::'.' "i'l hi 1 r Something more than ordinary food to restore i you to health. You need 1 i ‘Kepler* Solution > A concentrated, delicious, tonic-food which the E;?:?- feeble body can digest easily. It speedily fills 1 I; out the sunken cheeks,
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    • 2553 12 p. |KX> lpt n<Ud Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. Steam Navigation Co. st6ffl Nav jg at j m -9 EXPECTED ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. ,F >A\ I» 1 MAU SERVICE OUTWARD. J ocean steam Ship co IM «rith Malwa Fob Intended to Sail. Steamer. a r V M Lil Nov. 28 Himalaya connecting
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