Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 21 November 1912

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. v No. 267 VOL. LXX. THURSDAY. 21st NOVEMBER, PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      1274 1 For $3O Vou can have the Pinang J Gazette” posted every day I f a whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUBCRIPTION, $27.) Proportionate Quarterly and n Half-ye s l-1 rates. c Subscriptions are payable m o advance and remittances should c fee addressed to D C The Managing Director:
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    NATIVE LANDS AND CROWN COLONIES.
    2706 2  -  BY MR. JOSIAH C. WEDGWOOD, M. P. written auuve African Times and Orient Review. <( With their present reckless bartering away of their right* in their ancestral lands by the alluring offers of fat options, the natives do not seem to realist when and where
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      1487 2 SITUATIONS VACANT. NOTICES. municipal notice. a 'ENDERS are invited for the lease of wanted. PENANG TURF CLUB. the following for the year 1913 *.l. Money Changers Stall and Shop AFIELD KRANI for an estate near Swettenham Pier. Penang, must be thoroughly ex- 2. Pitt Street Old Market. perienced in Tapping.
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      143 2 clears the skin by ooras. removing the dirt h,c h of BeautySo not reach. It is the secret of A FREE SAMPLE orfo uc t of Oatine Cream will be sent <>n 3[ p 1: pre parJt in stamps a box containing e.ght 1 The Oatine Co- !504.0»ti«>e Royal Mail
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    POLICE RAIDS ON PALMISTS.
    847 3 A ROGUE VAGABOND” INTERVIEWED. Scotland Yard is proud of its -latest feat in sweeping the West End free of “rogues and vagabonds,” otherwise the cheaper class of palmists, clairvoyants, and diviners,” who advertise their profession and their subtile powert by the sandwich-board system. Nearly ten years
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    THE WEEK'S EVENTS.
    230 3 Thursday, November 21 Outward German Mail. Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Rov' George Town Cinematograph, KuaU Kangsar Road Matsuo’s Cinematograph, Penang Road. Friday, November 22. St. Andrew’s Ball, Reel Practice. Volunteer Company Drill. Ipoh Gymkhana Club, Race Meeting. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Saturday, November
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      373 3 LEA PERRINS’ SAUCE Gives piquancy and flavour to I Meat, Fish, Curries, Poultry, I Salad and Cheese. I The Original and Genuine I WORCESTERSHIRE. Beck’s “Key” Brand Beer. Ml 4ißWgy gsfefttyh The Leading Brand in the East. SCHMIDT, XUSTERMANN S Co., PENANG. BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. THE KING. CONTRACTORS
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      116 3 UNION S. S. CO. OF NEW ZEALAND Ld., Auckland. Wellington, Lyttleton and Dunedin ALSO CALLING Al Samarang and Fiji induoemkrt offers). The Company’s T.S. Steamer APARIMA, 5,704 tons, 8. Nicholson, Commander, maintains a regular four-monthly service between Singapore and New Zealand. Approximate Dates o’ Sailing from Singapore: {Bth December, 1912.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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    TAIPING TATTLE.
    492 4 (From Our Own Correspondent:) Taiping, November 20. The November Assizes here began its sittings on the 18th. Among the Civil suits was a claim of about $lO,OOO by Messrs. Hong Bee and Co., provision dealers, against the estate of Lim Seong Sin deceased. This case is arousing much
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    LEGAL.
    400 4 THE TANJONG PAGAR CASE. The action—J. Aird and Co. v the Tanjong Pagar Dock Board—which was commenced in the Chancery D.vision on 22nd ult. before Mr. Justice Parker, bids fair, if fought out, to break man? records for the Law Courts The plaintiffs e< te ed into a contract
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    MAILS.
    160 4 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OEFICI. To-Morrow. For Per Clow. Alor Star (Kedah) Resident Halewyn 6 a.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Kedah 7 a.m. Singapore, China and Japan Okara 11 a.m, L a n g s a, T.Seniawe, Y Segli, Sabang and > Speelman 1 p.m. Olehleh J T ran g
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    VESSELS EXPECTED
    74 4 Hams oj Steamer, where Jrom, date of arrival, where bound. Bencleuch, London, Nov. 22, Jap» n > Benlawers, London, Dec. 5, Ja l Capri, S’porc, Nov. 25, Bremen, B-M-Edavana, R’goon, Nov. 24, S pore, Essen S’pore, Dec. 4, Hamburg, Ellora, S’pore, Nov. 23, Calcutta, Ischia, Colombo, Nov. 27,
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  • PLANTING AND MINING.
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      RUBBER LAND TAXATION.
      625 5 We have very little sympafhy with Mr Macfadyen’s motion at the Federal Council in reference to the charges on land in the Federated Malay States, says the Straits Times. Glancing over a file of prospectuses of companies formed between 1908 and 1911 we find time after time
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      RUBBER TAXATION.
      352 5 A Rubber Planter writes from Sockaloewy to the Editor of the Straits Times as follows:Sir, —In the various notices I have rea 1 in the different papers, English or Colonial commenting on Mr. Lampard’s comparisons between British methods in the Straits, and Dutch, in Sumatra, as applied to
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      THE SINGAPORE PARA RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED.
      403 5 THE REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. The report to bo submitted to the Shareholders at the third Annual Ordinary General Meeting to be held at the London Chamber of Commerce, Oxford Court, Cannon Street, London, E. C., on the 7th November, inst. was as follows
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      WHAT SOME RUBBER COMPANIES HAVE DONE THIS YEAR.
      356 5 A point that ought to be emphasised in connection with rubber companies and their prospective profit is tbe quantity of the present year’s crops that have been sold and the good prices obtained, says the Daily News. The quantity harvested druing nine
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      REPORTS, DIVIDENDS, AND NOTICES.
      345 5 Bagan Serai.— lnt. divd. 5 per cent. Shelford.— Sec. int. div. 10 per cent., tax free. Beranang.— Report to June 30 shows debit balance £294 carried to balance sheet. Kuala Lumpur.— Find divd. to June 30 last at rate of 35 per cent., making 65 per
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      PRODUCTION COSTS.
      346 5 According to report American rubber manufacturers have been much impressed by Mr. Cyril Baxendlie’s statement, made in the course of his paper read at the New York Rubber Exhibition, that plantation rubber could be produced and marketed in London at 15 cents (American) per lb I Have no
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      363 5 amusements The Straits Cinema Co. 1 f'ENANO ROAD. ..„„p OM MUTMTURH NOS MUTAMUR IN HUS.’ (Dflttqe »elr Pr»yr«»e TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHI O igiunl and Unique. The Wreck of the Helvetia (Liverpool) Sunk in Mid-Ocean after colliding with the R.M.S. impress of Biitain carrying over 1,000 passengers. Th catastrophe taken from the
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      149 5 The Ceylon Manure worhs, A. BAUR, PENANG BRANCH. 4. 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. Office: p.M.S. Railway Building, NO. 1, Telegrams: Fertilizer
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    MALAYA’S PADI CROP.
    937 6 It would not be at all ditiicult to make Malaya self-sustain ng, particularly in respect to the staple article of diet of its inhabitants, namely, rice. But notwithstanding a growth of population and a flourishing trade there his actually been a decrease in the quantity of self
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    MARRIAGE.
    22 6 Wilkinson—Baird.—Oct. 24,at Geneva, R. J. Willkinson C.M.G Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements, to Edith Sinclair, daughter of the late J. Baird, Glasgow.
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    SUIT AGAINST E. E. A. & C. TELEGRAPH CO.
    437 6 SUIT AGAINST E. E. A. C. TELEGRAPH CO. MR. PARSON’S CLAIM. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANTS. Mr. Justice Leslie Thornton in the Supreme Court, yesterday morning, resumed the hearing of the case in which Mr. V. D, Pat sons of Tandjcng Boera Rubbei Estate, Sumatia, sued the Eastern Extension Australasia and China
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    FITZGERALD MEMORIAL CHURCH.
    413 6 The dedication service of the Fitzgerald Memorial Church at the cormr of Anson and Burmah Road?, will be held on Sunday afternoon, at 4 30 and will be conducted by Bishop W. P. Eveland of the Phillipine Islands. At 8-30 the same evening, there will be a
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    LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
    290 6 TO-Mrs CHANCE* The following are the change, «Hers only) in our share it 9tc-day:— 0Q Page Yesterday. To 2 73 Minn g. X Malayan Tin 50/9 54/6 52/fi Pahang G. 10/7| 11/7 j. 06,9 P-Bharu 4.70 520 °i? H 9 RahmanH. 91 ja 5 Rahman Tin 21
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    THE RUBBER MARKET.
    166 6 TO-DAY’S PRICES IN LONDON. London, November 21*. The following are to-day’s quotations for rubber:— Plantation Para, Ist Latex, Crepe 4/4| Para to arrive 4/5 The market is firm. By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead i Co.' LONDON RUBBER PRICES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuila Lumpur, November 21. The
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    PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
    34 6 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, November 21. Assistant Surgeon W. De j tip was iy lD t> peculiar accident yesterday. on a long chair, when it DeCruz in falling injured his spine-
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    THE JEWEL THEFT.
    23 6 (From Our Own Correspond'.ntd Singapore, Nore..>ter The value of the Yew Leong’s Establishmen is $669 only. So far thero arrest.
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      81 6 By Special z ijfr Appointment Majesty to King George. DUNLOP TYRES. /7 fiEsT C FORE_ MOST 1N /W X iik EVER /A Z/A M /W 7 1 s,NCt NOTED for their resiliency and superb wearing qualities. TRADE I MARK Fresh Stocks of all sizes held by GUTHRIE Co. Ltd., PENANG.
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      90 6 TO-DAY'S CONTENTS. Page 2.— Native Lands and Crown Colonies. Page 3.— Police Raids on Palmists The Week’s Events and The Moon. Page 4. Tai ping Tattle, etc. Page s.— Planting and Mining. Page 6. Editorial Malaya’s Padi Crop; Suit Against E. E. A. C. Telegraph Co. and Telegrams Page 7.—
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    19 6 DEATH. Aitken.—Oct. 25. at West Kensington, of heart failure, A. M. Aitken (formerly of Singapore and Penang), aged 62.
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  • THE WAR.
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      DIFFERENCES AMONG ALLIES.
      675 7 TURK S STRONG RALLYConstantinople, November 20. Nazim Pasha telegraphs that the Bulrian left wing suffered 400 casualties and fost two machine guns in the fighting on sov 18. The desperate engagement commenced on the 19th continues successfully. The Bulgarian infantry centre was repulsed by artillery fire A
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      "TEMPEST OF MEN."
      605 7 FEROCITY OF HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING. Corpses In Death Embrace Tuere are grim illustraiions in the home papers of the desperate nature of the fighting when the enemies came actually faca to face. In a vivid description of the capture of Kirk Kilfcse, Mr. Luigi Barzini, the Telegraph's correspondent,
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      THE TCHATALJA LINES.
      281 7 LAST HOPE OF THE DEFENCE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. The Tchatalja lines, the last line of defences before Constantinople with the exception of its ancient Byzantine walla, and the point at which the Turks are making their list stand, are about twenty miles distant from Constantinople. Here the peninsula
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  • STOP PRESS NEWS.
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      PEACE PROSPECTS.
      135 7 —Reuter. London, November 21. Diplomatists consider that the Bulgarian terms of the 19th are moderate, and it is hoped Turkey will accept without delay, but despatches from Constantinople indicate that the Turks are elated at Nasim Kasha’s reports of successes and may stand out for better terms. Hence
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      BOMBARDMENT OF ADRIANOPLE.
      131 7 London, November 15. —Mr. Bennet Burleigh, war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, sends a description of the bombardment of Adrianople. Sunday night, he says, was the most furious of the whole war and was a no less grander sight than Port Arthur. Hundreds of shells from all
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      BRITISH AID FOR WOUNDED.
      64 7 London, November B.—The British Red Crescent Society, in respou e to a suggestion of the Bii■ isli Minister at Sofia, is sending a special mission there for the 1 urkish sick and wounded. H. H. the Aga Khan is contributing £5OO to this Society, and also
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    THE KING AND QUEEN.
    44 7 Reuter. DONA HON S TO MANSION HOUSE FUND. London, November 20. The King has given £lOO and the Queen £5O to the Mansion House Fund for the relief of the distress of non-com-batants on both sides due to the war.—
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    HOME RULE.
    33 7 .—Reuter. THE FINANCIAL PROVISIONS. London, November 20. The House of Commons adopted the new financial resolution of the Home Rule Bill by 318 votes to 207 after an unevent- ful debate.
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    CHANCELLOR AND DOCTORS.
    24 7 Reuter. London, November 20. The Doctors’ Conference appointed a committee to confer with Mr. Lloyd George on the points in dispute.
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    THE GAMBLING CASE.
    206 7 ANOTHER POSTPONEMENT. The trial of twenty-nine Chinese who were arrested at the Maritime Club, Burmah Road, in October las% consequent on a raid made by the Police about midnight was resumed ye terday afternoon. After the tiffin adjournment Mr. K. L. Cuscaden was called, and he deposed
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    TO-DAY’S TIN QUOTATIONS.
    73 7 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $113.10 per picul, buyers, no sellers. Tin in London is quoted at £226 spot and £226 10» three months. The following is the local report to-day :—Singapore Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 100 tons, $113.75; Penang: Straits Trading Co., Ltd.,
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    LOG BOOK.
    824 7 The sB. Calypso, has taken the place of the ss. Malacca, on the Penang-Tongkah service and leaves for that port at 2 p.m. on Saturday, 23rd inst. It is now definitely announced by the Ellermau lines of steamers, that, at an early date, most of their passenger boats
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      387 7 WANTED FOR TELOK ANSON. Motor Car for Sale. A CHINESE CLERK with sound know- JL P K igh /V ledge o( book-keeping. Also a h Light Equipment, .ho Chinese clerk with kuow .dge of type- Motor Car p oli 164 .?4 4th writing. Good a»la r y to rehab e
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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      41 7 The Tides. Date. H. W. L. W. H. W. L. V» ▲.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. Nov. 21 10-00 4-36 10-38 4-25 „22 10-51 5-19 11-00 524 23' 11-20 5-43 11-38 5-34 „24 11-59 6-16 Nil. 6-29 „25 12-08 6-50 12-40 6-59
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    TAIPING ASSIZES.
    705 8 M.D.O. MAGISTRATE’S JUDGMENT SET ASIDE. The assises opened at 10 am. on Tuesday with the case of the Public Prosecutor vs. Ong Ling. In this case Mr. J. McCabe Reay, the D. P P., applied to his Lordship to set aside an order of the Magistrate. Taipiog, made
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    Japan’s Airship.
    211 8 For full twenty minutes after three o’clock on the af e noon of the 21st October the denizens of Tokyo were treated to the delightful spectacle of a dirigible airship coursing around the Imperial Palace at a height of 300 metres. At Tokorozawa, the exercise ground for the
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      516 8 n in The Swan pleases the The Swan outlasts impatient exacting »11 others because it has writer» Those who ex- Ml the hardest yet smoothpect more out of a pon est writing point which than others have given. years of writing do not The Swan will satis- Ml touch. The
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      308 8 Lubricating Oils .TRADE MARK OF EXCELLENCEXV < Grease. Ver different grades of “Moesiline" Lubricants are manufactured, BMI s,,iteMe for evef y cla s of Machinery Prices and Samples May be had on Application to the iSoJe Importers: The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (S.S.), Ltd., No, I, WELD QUAY, PENANG. NOTICE. 7~~
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    SHARES.
    2102 9 i •2 c —-Number of leeue B X Cap.td. Su -.cn-ed. sharegt Value. 2 Dividends Name 5 5 5§ g I I ST 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 MI NI N•. 1100 000 *60.000 60.000 $1 I w u k r on 1912 *300.000 300.000 30,000 10 10 10
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    SHIPPING.
    603 9 ARRIVALS. Calypso, Brit., 339, Scott, Nov. 21, T. Anson, gen., Adamson Gilfilau Co. Luetzow, Ger.. 5135, Bortfeldt, Nov. 21, H’burg, gen., Behn Meyer Co. Nyanza, Brit., 4184, Rivers, Nov. 21, Y’hama, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Okara Brit, 3438, Hirst, Nov. 20, R’goon, gen., A. A. Anthony Co. Pangkor, Brit.,
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      24 9 ESTABLISHED 1900. Season's Novelties Suitable for Gifts Now Displayed. N. D. DE SILVA, Maavtact«ri«t Jeweller, DiamoaJ Setter, Ing raver, Repairer, aU te-tilder, BISHOP STREET.
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      317 9 The National Mutual Life Association OF AUSTRALASIA. LIMITED. ESTABLISHED 1809. THE FIRST LIFE OFFICE IN THE WORLD TO APPLY THE NONFORFEITURE PRINCIPLE TO POLICIES A Mutual Office No Shareholders Annual Income Funds £6'7oo'ooo' Claims Paid £5.668.711. RATES OF PREMIUMS FOR £l.OOO ASSURANCE WITH PROFITS Age nearest Payable at Yearly-p-emium. birthday.
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  • THE WORLD’S NEWS.
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      AN ULSTER ARSENAL.
      416 10 ITEMS OF INTEREST. CLIPPINGS FROM THE HOME PRESS. D«patched by the mail leaving London November 2. REMARKABLE APPLICATION TO BELFAST MAGISTRATES. A curious application was made to the Belfast magistrates on. Wednesday by Mr. John Graham, a local solicitor, on behalf of an auctioneer named James Nesbitt.
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      THE NEW JUDGE.
      64 10 APPOINTMENT OF MR. BAILHACHE, K.C. It is announced that Mr. Clement M. Bailhache, LL.B., K.C., has been appointed to the vacant Judgeship in the King’s Bench Division. Mr. Bailhache practises on the Welsh circuit, and is regarded as an authority on commercial law. He was called to
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      SERVIA’S SUCCESSES.
      37 10 THE CZAR’S CONGRATULATIONS. The Times understands that the Czar has sent a message to King Peter congratulating him that the Servian Armies have proved successful in Macedonia without the need for invoking assistance from outside.
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      TURKISH RED CROSS SOCIETY.
      148 10 DEPARTURE OF PARTY FOR TURKEY. Three units, comprising fifty-six men, organised by the British Red Cross Society for •ervice in Turkey, left London o-n Tuesday by special train from Charing Cross. The party travel by the overland route to Marseilles, where they will embark on a
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      NEW DEAN OF DURHAM.
      142 10 CANON HENSLEY HENSON APPOINTED. The King has approved the appointment of Canon Herbert Hensley Henson to be Dean of Durham. Canon Henson, who has been Rector of St.. Margaret’s, Westminster, for the past twelve years, was born in London in 1863, and was educated at Oxford.
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      “B.P.’S.” QUIET WEDDING.
      149 10 CHIEF SCOUT’S GIFT TO HIS BRIDE. General Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, hero of Mafeking and founder of the Boy Scout movement, was quietly married to Miss Olave St. Clair Soames at St. Peter’s Church, Parkst-one, Dorset, on Wednesday. He was attended by General Kekewich, the defender
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      CZAREVITCH’S ILLNESS
      341 10 RUSSIAN ADMIRAL’S SUICIDE. The Commander of the Imperial yacht Standart, Rear-Admiral Chagin, has committed suicide at his town residence by shooting himaelf. The suicide, says a St. Petersburg message, was deliberate. He did not sleep during the night, but wrote letters to his relatives, and left on the
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      STRAND JEWEL RAID.
      205 10 GATE LOCKED IN FACE OF PURSUERS. A daring and ingenious burglary was perpetrated in the Strand, near Charing Cross, on Monday evening, by some men who smashed the plate-glass window of Messrs. Attenborough’s establishment and stole a quantity of jewellery, including a pearl necklace valued at £3BO.
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      FORTY-FIVE YEARS IN JAPAN.
      219 10 CAPT. BRINKLEY’S ROMANTIC CAREER. A Tokio correspondent announces the death of Captain Frank Brinkley, who was unique among the foreign residents of Japan. He went to Yokohama in 1867—in the days when, in consequence of the affair of the Strait of Shimonoseki. Great Britain kept a
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      DEATH OF MME. JUDITH.
      224 10 CELEBRATED FRENCH ACTRESS. Madame Judith, the French actress, well known to a former generation, and one of the most famous tragediennes of the French stage, died on Sunday in Paris at the age of eightyfive. She created a number of great roles at the Comĕdie from
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      GERMAN CROWN PRINCE.
      133 10 ACCIDENT WHILST HUNTING. The German Crown Prince met with an accident, happily unattended by serious consequences, near Dantzie on Tuesday, whilst riding to hounds with the West Prussian Riding Club. The Prince, who is always rather a daring rider, took a ditch too short, and his mount
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      567 10 twTM “Stop taking Drugs and Stimulants! It’s SANATOGEN You want for your Nerves.” Such is the modern physician’s advice to victims Mr. Shirley Tremearno of nervous disorders. v In his book on “Nerve Energy,’’ Dr. Claude L. Wheeler says “Many people have, through ignor- n °t speak too highly of
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    KELANTAN AND THE DUFF COMPANY.
    496 11 OFFICIAL EXPLANATION OF THE F.M.S. LOAN. Detaili of the negotiations which have eventuated in the State of Kelantan buying out certain of the Duff Co.’s rights in that territory were described in the Federal Council by the Chief Secretary, Mr, Brockman, who, in moving the
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    Vital Statistics of Ceylon.
    223 11 According to the report of the RegistrarGeneral of the first quarter of 1912, issued as a Supplement to the Ceylon Govern ment Gazette the estimated population of the Island on the last, day of the first quarter of this year was 4,142,258, showing a decrease of
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    Burma Rice Crop.
    126 11 The summary of the first forecast of the Burma rice crop in the 16 chief riceproducing districts of Lower Burma, for the period ended September 30th last has just been published. The area under rice cultivation is this year 7,834,862 acres or 434,623 acres in excess of
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    Where to Stay.
    26 11 Pbnamg :—The E. <k O. Hotel, The Crag Hotel Norman, Runnymede Hotel and Hotel de Europe. Ipoh :—The Grand Hotel. Rangoon :—Strand Hotel.
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    Penang Turf Club.
    1123 11 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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