Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 5 February 1913

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 29 VOL. LXXI. WEDNESDAY. sth FEBRUARY 1913. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    • 1091 1 ggHfVHBDODODOSDQUaaaOBBBBBB i For $3O i V 7 ou can have the Pinang I Gazette posted -very day g for a whole year to your address a c (LOCAL SUBCRIPTIOH, J 27.) g n Proportionate Quarterly and o Half-yearly rates. Subscriptions are payable in c a advance and remittances should g
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    • 6 1 l-12-l I PAGES I 000 **PP*<*******o*o»>oeooa
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  • 567 2 HIS VISIT TO THE DERBY. There is much to learn in Travel Pictures (Longman’s, 6s. net.), the book in which the R»j Rana Bahadur of Jhalawar recalls his impressions of his visit to England. Before my trip to Europe says the author, I did not
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  • 309 2 Messrs. Fraser and Co.’s Weekly Circular. Messrs Fraser and Co. report under date, January 29 ;—The dullness in our market during the current week can only be attributed to the general easier tone reported daily from London. Local rubbers are being bought on any decline but orders
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    • 932 2 SITUATIONS VACANT. SITUATIONS WANTED. WANTED IMMEDIATELY. pNGLISH LADY just arrived from AJ/ Home and who has had several years GOOD LEDGER CLERK. Apply by of the highest training possible under the letter with copies (onlv) of testi- world’s most renowned and famous masters in Paris will give Lrbsons in Opera
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    • 1765 2 Sale by Public Auction BANKS. By ordsr of the Court of the Judicial Commissioner is Perak made in Civil Suit No. 253 ot CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA 1912. At the instance of the Chargees, the British North Borneo Rubber Trust, Limited* AUSTRALIA. AND CHINA On the 22nd day of February
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  • PLANTING AND MINING.
    • 1231 3 mportance.—G. V. W. in the Financial News OUTLOOK FOR PLANTATION COMPANIES. There is much to encourage rubber plantation shareholders in Messrs. Lewis and Peat's annual report upon plantation and wild rubber, which appeared in this journal on Tue-day last, Attention is called to the enormous increase of
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    • 1039 3 The success attending the efforts of the manipulators to put the shares of the Malayan Tin Dredging Company to a large premium, has says A. D. in the Investor's Chronicle of January 11, resulted in considerable attention boing drawn to Malay tin enterprises, and several
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    • 674 3 EIGHT MILLION BABIES KILLED YEARLY. THE PENALTY OF IMPROPER FEEDING. HOW TO PREVENT THIS MASSACRE. What mother’s heart can fail to bleed at the statement that eight million children are brought into the world, in anguish, to be killed before they are a year old by improper feeding It is
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    • 192 3 ONCE ALWAYS USE The Dalli I For Household Use.— To use it is the best, mo't simple, and most comfortable way of ironing. Independent of stove and gas, it can be used anywhere. Non-inflammable fuel without noxious fumes. No risk from tire; healthier and safer than any other iron. For
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    • 222 3 Be Beautiful “‘Hazeline’ Snow” makes V—rough, coarse jk skins, soft, smooth /s'' and velvety. It /4? cleanses and beau- tifies complexions that are dull, greasy and sallow’. A\ “‘HAZELINE’ SNOW” (TRADE MARK) DELIGHTFUL TO USE AND MOST BENEFICIAL Sold at all Pharmacies and Stores Prepared Burroughs Wellcome Co., London fy-ST
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  • 1741 4 PHOTOGRAPHY. I think everyboiy agrees that having absolutely nothing to do is rather rotten, so people who contemplate coming out to a place like Borneo will do well to adopt some sort of hobby, writes M. Drint in the B. N. Borneo Herald. The question naturally arises —what
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  • 294 4 Once wejhad the greatest difficulty to convince the native rulers all through the Far East that Canada was not part of America (that is, the United States), and that it was in reality under the same flag as themselves—the British flag. Now it is quite different. Canada
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  • 379 4 How has leap year affected the marriage statistic*»? Io New York and Chicago there have been, we are told, five thousand more marriages than last year, and statisticians attribute the increase solely to the fact that it is bap year, and that American ladies have availed themselves
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  • 262 4 S.F.P. A local medico, who knows both places wed, names some points of difference, which we print so that the Northern Settle nent can see the errors of its way, and act accordingly. He s-ays All standpipes in Penang are of the pitent pattern, as in Kuala
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  • 159 4 makes me eat with a fork. Detroit Free Press. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, dressed after the best English manner in a black, tight, long-tailed morning coat, dark trousers, grey-topped bjots, and a silk hat worn ata rakish backward angle, discussed at the Horse Show his project of living part
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  • 109 4 .—S.T. Chief Inspector Williams, the oldest officer in the Straits Settlements police force, with the exception of the InspectorGeneral himself, retires from the >■ er vice about the end of M«rcb. He joined the force twenty years ago and has occupied the hon »urable position of Chief
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  • 238 4 The following are outputs for January Ayer Kuning lbs. 2,950 Alor-Pongsu 7,447 Brieh 5,458 R. E. Krian 16,210 Jebong 38,404 Arundel n 1,320 Padang 9,350 Karan 4,223 Padang Jawa 8,550 Gula-Kalumpong 54,200 Samagaga 2,666 Consolidated 4,487 New Columbia 7,823 Henrietta 2,478 Sungei Limau 3,538 Sumatra Consol, 13,659 Teluk
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  • 132 4 Towards the end of March London will in all probability, be offering its hospitality to at least four State and Provincial Premiers. Either the Hon. J. Scaddan, Premier of Western Australia, or Sir Lomer Gouin, Premier of Quebec, will be the first of the visitors to
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  • 593 4 T.S.C. NERVOUS DISORDERS: THRIn CAUSE AND CURE. Eight people out of every ten i n tropics hive some form of nervous n*si. They m=iy not realise it 7k' moment, but they have it afi t j ie Sooner or later thev suffer from other of the innumerable symptoms
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    • 420 4 The Straits Cinema Co. LOCATION -.—PENANG ROAD. "TEMPORA MUTANTUR ET NOS MUTAMUR IN ILLIS.” TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! COMPLETE CHANGE THROUGHOUT 3 A. B. 3 M. Prince Max Linder AND All the Comedy King». Kinemacolor 2,500 feet Loved by a King.” The Latest Pathe Gazette All the Worlds News. And our Usual
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    • 182 4 “THE LIFE OF TRADE.” A ONK-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 the head of the nail, that drives the argument home and clinches it.
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    • 137 5 BY APPOINTMENT TO H. M. THE KING. CONTRACTORS TO The British Admiralty. The India Office. The War Office. ALSO The Government Hospitals in Singapore, Malacca and the Federated Malay States. MILKMAID MILK LARGEST SALE IN THE WORLD. Our leading medical men, as well as the public, recognise the PURITY and
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  • 16 6 Welsh. —At Singapore, on February 8, to Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Welsh, a daughter.
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  • 995 6 Yesterday we published details of a round-up effected by the Police in the matter of Asiatic vagrants. Some sixty vagrants were brought before the Magistrates and dealt with. Some of them were sent to the house of detention, others were sent to hospital, orders of deportation
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  • 744 6 WIEGMANS—McINTYRE. At the Church of the Assumption, yesterday afternoon, the marriage was solemnized of Mr. Frances Anton Laurence Wiegmans, Assistant Manager of Paiang Twalang Estate, Deli, Sumatra, and third son of Mr. Jacob Wiegmans, Cigar Manufacturer, of Rotterdam, Holland, and Miss Gladys Marie Mclntyre, Assistant Mistress of
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 112 6 THE MURRAY TROPHY. The members of the Penang Ladiev Rifle Club held their weekly shoot at the Rifle Range yesterday afternoon, th® following being the results Murray Trophy. 200 yd. Miss Joan Smith 30 J Miss Gawthorne 26 Mrs. Webster 23 Mrs. Bayley 22 Miss W. Gawthorne
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    • 236 6 AMERICAN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. The draw for partners has resulted as follows Miss M Pritchard and V G Erechiel. Miss Holland at d W J K Stark. Miss Jones and C C Rogers. Mrs C D D Hogan and C G May. Mrs Thorne and F C Gregson.
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  • 90 6 The Penang Volunteers and P. V Cadet Corps will go into camp at 5.30 this afternoon. The annual inspection takes p'ace at 4 p.m. on Saturday, after which operations will be taken part in in 'he adjoining plantations. The number attendir g camp this year will be
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  • 114 6 A sensation was caused in Je’utong Road yesterday morning when a buffalo almost gored a man to < eath. It appeared that the buffalo, a tame one, was let loose and taking fright went for a rikisha, which was immediately vacated by the puller ml
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  • 74 6 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $111.15 per picul, business done. Tin in Lon don is quoted at 15s. spot and £222 69 three months. The following was the local nporli To-day’s :—Singapore Straits Trail" l Co., Ltd., 125 tons, $111.75; P*"'’"* Straits Trading Co,,
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    • 126 6 111 >raST I A p ?H ll a~ llffimt ssl H ExJ lIT Iff fHIApSWr 1 '66 NEW BONO STRUT w I RfcM BqU 5 CIGARETTE SPECIALISTS 'SOB V IcJ O|SB ■I nO y [g3m ■»CS "x"* «..nju» |WV|M ,uc Importers: Messrs.* BERG 8* Co., Obtainable at all Leading General
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    • 38 6 2 E. O.) PENANG. (Xj The Best. g The CRAG, Penang Htlla. OS The only Sanatorium in the Straits Settlements. g 2 RAFFLES, Singapore. Well-known from East to West. 03 STRAND, RANGOON. The most frequented Hotel in Burma.
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  • 226 7 TO-DAY'S CHANCES. The following are the changes (buyers and sellers only) in our share list, on page 9 to-day Yeeterday. To-day. Haaßß*. 9 5 (0 BJ Cm 50 Afw***9. BF “S St Kmmat H'-25 W 75 1025 10j Pahang C. 10/4* 11/1* ><>/« H/1J P Bharu 480
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  • 34 7 RUBBER PRICES IN LONDON. London, February 5.* The following are to-day’s quotations for rubber Plantation Para, Ist Latex, Crepe kjo Para to arrive 4 3 By courtesy of Messrs. Boustead Co.]
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  • 75 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 5. The report of Sungei Gau shows a net profit of $47,814. A fi. al dividend has been declared of 17* per cent, making 25 per cent, in all. $11,723 is carried forward to next year. The year’s work was satisfactory.
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  • 45 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 5. A local company has been formed with a capital of 00,000 entitled the Mutual Trading Company Ltd., for the purpose of developing shipping trade with neighbouring countiits. Senor Giovani Gaggino is the Managing Director.
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  • 43 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 5. The Russian cruiser Ashold arrived and lefr. The German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gueisenan have arrive!. Admiral Graf von Spee landed, being received by a guard of honour, and called upon the Governor.
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  • 27 7 [From Our Own Correspondent Ipob, February 5. There is a great outcry at the rumour that Ipob is not to have a European Hospital.
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  • THE WAR.
    • 214 7 —Reuter. FURTHER FIGHTING Bukha est, February 4. The Bulgarian offer as embodied in the protocol of the 29th ult. stipulated for a straight frontier from Silistria, excluding the town, which remains Bulgarian, to Baltchik. It is not expected that Rumania will accept this. Bulgaria’s Retort. Sofia, February 4.
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    • 28 7 —D OL. Berlin, February 5. The Bulgarians assert it is their intention to set fire to Adrianople by bombardment. Foreign colonies have requested a free departure.-
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  • 122 7 .—Reuter. EARLY ISSUE OF BONDS. Peking, February 4. The loan agreement with the Six-Power Group as cabled, says that a 5* per cent, re-organization has been completed and i expected to be signed to-day. The gold loan will amount to twentyfive millions sterling, The
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  • 103 7 —Reuter. A SNAP DIVISION. London, February 5. In the report stage of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, the Government only escaped defeat by 28 votes. An amendment was moved to leave all glebes to the Church. Unionists trooped into the lobby in large numbe r s and there were
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  • 49 7 s.—Reuter. DEPARTMENTAL REPORT. London, February 4. The Department*! Committee appointed to enquire into ths six accidents of the 12th of September has reported that the accidents were not due to causes peculiar to monoplanes and that there is no reason to recommend the prohibition of these flights.—Reuter.
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  • 48 7 AN INCOME TAX. New York, February 4. The Legislatures of three fourths of States, the minimum requi ed to amend the constitution, has now approved the proposed federal tax on incomes above five thousand dollars, which is expected to produce one hundred million dollars. Reuter.
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  • 102 7 k SINGAPORE INNOVATION. A LOCAL INVENTION, [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 5. The prospectus is issued of the Pedal Jinrikisha Company to take over an invention providing four wheel rickishas in which th-a coolie instead of puling sits behind the fare and pedals. The capital of the
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  • 20 7 Reuter. London, February 4. Vice-Admiral Sir William May has been promoted an Admiral of the Fleet.—
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  • 18 7 .—Reuter. Capetown, February 4. The Haddon Hall is breaking up. The craw has reached Capetown.—Reuter.
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  • 567 7 AT TAIPING. By kind permission a Fancy Dress Dance was held in King Edward VII School. There were over thirty couples. The Military Band was in attendance an 4 played some select music. There is now a vast improvement noticeable in the Band’s playing of dance music
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  • 500 7 (By a Special Correspondent) The weather off the East Coast has of late been very uncertain and tempestuou-'. Several of the smaller coast craft have been unable to proceed to sea owing to the heavy seas obtaining. A rubber shipment per tongkang to Bela wan was i eturned
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  • 228 7 Taiping, February 3. The Kuala Kangsar football team visited Taiping on Saturday las', and plaved a friendly game with the T iping United Asiatics, the match resulting in a draw of two goah e<ch. Mr. Soo Hoy Choon. Clerk Class 111, convict establishment, T-uping, Ims been the
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  • 77 7 Pric s for the period from th to 20th February, 1913, inclusive, the duty on cultivated rubber on which export duty is leviable on an ad va’oretn basis in accordance with the Ru'es under the Customs Duties Enactment will be assessed on the following prices Sheet and
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 521 7 IRISH CROUHET. WANTED. j fAUALIFIED HOSPITAL DRE3BEB. GENT WAAIED (l.dy pr.f.rred) for f„ r Kur.o Rubber K.tote, Bsiaa e A,° f °T r WO, \i l I,, dm,,de 8 F.M-8, apply .tatiug qu.li6c.tiou. Maltese and Clu y Laces, Houlton, Drawn- and salary to M n < er. woik, Pongee-, etc.
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  • 839 8 London, Jan. I.—ln the H u<e of Commons, yesterday, Mr. J. P. Farrell (Nationalist) notice of his intention to ask the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Sydney Buxton)(1) Whether or not the s.s. Narrung, during a storm in the Indian on her last voyage from Australia,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1129 8 INSURANCE. SORE THROAT: THE CORPORATION OF THE ITS CAUSE AND CURE. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE Doctor, is there any danger of Royal Exchange, London. Diphtheria That is the first question invariably put COMMENCED business in a.d. 1717 and to the physician about every case of Sore was Incorporated by Royal Charter
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    • 79 8 No More Aches and Pains What is your trouble Headaches, toothache, backache, sore throat, earache, strains and bruises are relieved and cured by following the printed directions you’ll find on every bottle of Little's Oriental Balm Stop experimenting with remedies you know nothing of—stop running up uselessly large doctor’s b
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    • 273 8 DISINFECTANT I TARPINE I m As supplied to Penang Municipality and others. I J Absolutely the best on the market. J Economical and Cheap. w J I Sellar, Murray Co., PENANG. i 1 vwwT/ A r 'J f v-• i f lr A ■l7 AS W LEMON I Z A
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  • 2367 9 3 capital. S«ta.ri>...l. N J£ b t 2 Dlrldrad.. Hu».. I Is 5 OQ OP BQ 1908 19% 1910 1911 1912 MININ®. Gl<l nooooo 160 000 60,000 $1 1 Ayer Weng Rahman? DAP- Co. 230 1903 *3oo’ooo .300 000 30.000 10 10 10 30 30 28$ Beiat Tin Mininv
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  • 628 9 ARRIVALS. Tara, Brit, 3651, Symmers, Feb. 5, S’pore, gen., Huttenbach Liebert Co. Atjeh, Dut., 393, de Boer, Feb. 4, Sabnag, gen., Huttenbach Liebert Co. Ban Whatt Soon, Brit., 199, Ferguson, Feb. 5, P. Brandan, gen., E. S. Co. Jin Ho, Brit., 111, Dyason, Feb. 5, K. Selangor, gen E.
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  • 174 9 Wednesday, February S. Ash Wednesday. P.V. Annual Camp Opens, 5.30 p.m. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. Thursday. February 6. Outward English (P. O.) Mail. Chinese New Year. Bank Holiday. P.V. Camp. Anniversary of Singapore (1819). Band, Golf Club,
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  • 220 9 Ths companies do not guarantee the date» oj arrival of thete vettelt, but will endeavour as far a, pottible to ensure punctuality. From Alor Star, (Kedah) —Kedah, Feb. 7,9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 27, and, Tong Chuan, Feb. 6,8, 10, 12, 14,
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  • 21 9 Pbnang :—The E. O. Hotel, The Crag Hotel Norman, Runnymede Hotel and Carlton Hotel. Ipoh :—The Grand Hotel.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 221 9 SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE COMPANY. LIMITED. No. 255, Pentmg Ro»d. Telephone No, 602. NOTICE. CHINESE NEW YEAR Our Premises will be closed from II a.m. on Wednesday, the sth February, until 2 p.m. on Thursday, the 6th February, on account of the above Holiday. (he National Mutual Life Association OF AUSTRALASIA,
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 41 9 The Tides. Date. H. W. L. W. H. W. L. VI A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. Feb 5 Nil. 6-52 12-49 6-59 6 12-24 7-29 1-14 7-34 7 12-55 7-46 1-38 7-58 8 1-21 8-09 2-01 8-17 9 1-48 8-30 222 8-37
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  • 880 10 rates is another question.— Time» of Ceylon. A GRIEVANCE OF BRITISH STEAMSHIP COMPANIES. From time to time those who return from the Far East surprise us by the remarkable things they have to tell of the devious ways of Japanese enterprise and of the unblushing manner
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 502 10 r-QA? E THE BEAUTY MAKER. f Oatine is the great English Face Cream you ought to use if you would be freckle free and keep your complexion in this climate. Oatine is the only preparation that will properly remove the laterite dust from the pores of the skin, leaving it
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    • 623 10 i Plain Crutbs j pAI DRFPK I on the subject of Health are the only acceptable pronouncement*. Eiaf- W 1 Kerated statements end by convlno g E inK no one—rather do they create bus- M picion, and Rive rise to doubt. But you may safely to universal A opinion. The
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  • 505 11 GIFT OF WHITE FEATHER AT CORONATION.” With ancient c°remony, Te Rata Mahuts Potatau Tawhiaoti Wherowbero has been crowned King” of Maoridom at Waahi, in place of his father, Mahuta, whose magnificent ciffin, heavily mounted in silver, was laid in its last resting-place about an hour after the
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  • 295 11 Aud an Englishman Who Pleads in Arabic. Cairo, December 31.—Somewhat of a sensation was caused this week at the Mixed Courts by the application of a young Syrian lady, Miss Sanieh Saybs, to be permitted to practise at the Mixed Bar. Miss Sayba possesses all the necessary
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 393 11 I The Ceylon I Manure works, I A. BAUR, I I PENANG BRANCH. I FERTILISERS I FOB I I RUBBER, COCONUTS, I I TAPIOCA, COFFEE, I I SUGAR Etc., Etc. I RECORD CROPS I I Soil ANALYSES Free of Charge. I I THE LARGEST MANURE WORKS I I IN THE
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    • 54 11 O.T. MUST BE GOOD. The distinctive character and beneficial qualities of O.T. have been the means of making it a regular beverage with hundreds of thousands of people. As it con- inues to meet with ever increasing public favour in all countries, this may be taken rs proof ot its
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    • 804 11 I I 1 M X I Japan Mail Steamship Co. Ld. x I yk ull-sized LIARD ILES accessories EUROPEAN LINE >. A large A Fortnightly service is maintained hebccessories we n Yokohama via ports to Marseilles, -ondon and Antwerp, under mail contract l given for th the lmperißl j apa
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    • 2516 12 P Intendcd filing». Norddeutscher Lloyd. Bremen. Steam Navigation Co. British Mia Steam Navigation Co., A I IXPECTED ARRIVALS ANDJ DEPARTURES. LIMITED. ■AIL SERVICE OUTWARD. loceoH steam snip co., tjj Feb. 6 Devanha connecting with Medina Fob Intbndbd to Sail. Stbambb. AND Feb. 20 Delta connecting with Moldavia Thur. 6th Feb.
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