Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 14 February 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 37. VOL. LXXVI. THURSDAY, 14th FEBRUARY, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    • 85 1 DtHIDDDCi >■■■■* B a n XA7 HEN YOU ARE AWAY a n V V on leave you want to keep a in touch with Malayan affairs, g a Social, Commercial, Mining, Planting, &c. This you can do g a in no better way than by subs- cribing to the Weekly
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  • 970 2 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The adjourned Annual General Meeting of the Minglembu Lode Syndicate, Ltd,, was held in the Chamber of Commerce, Penang, yesterday afternoon. Mr. W. H. Thorne presided, and the others present were Messrs. J. L. Woodford, Angelo Boehm and D. A. M. Brown (representing the Secretaries,
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  • 229 2 The position •of near tin has tightened considerably, »s indicated by the increase of the premium on cash delivery at one period last we-k to fully £5 per t n—chiefly duo to further inroads upon the stocks,—-and there seems to be more uncertainty as e.ards
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  • 305 2 AH who are conversr-nt with the position in the M-day Peninsula will know how the Chinese Lb ur scale is turned this or thr.t way according to the prices for rubber and tin. A writer in a financial paper- notes this peculiarity. He notes i hat the
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  • 324 2 Tin furnished plenty of excitement and established new high price records last week, says a mail paper, when the cash metal touched £305, and three months £3Ol. Subsequently there was a set-back, followed by a moderate recovery, which left the market well under the best, but tolerably firm.
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  • 337 2 Mess-s. Baker, Moigan Co, Ltd, reported on Saturday as follows The week’s business, pervadf d rather with a ho’iday air, has been small but fairly well distributed over the various sections of tha maiket. There are a number of sel’ers of lubbers, but it is probably
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  • 184 2 The market report of Messrs. Aldens’ Successors Ltd., dated London, December 13th, states that the market has shown a further substantial decline during the week, this morning’s values of spot crepe and sheet being only. It is to be noted that prices of the standard grades are
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  • 84 2 Messrs. Allen Denny* Co. advise us that the under-mentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them at their 356‘h auction sale held to-day Smoked diamond sheet No 1 $79 to $92 Smoked diamond sheet No 2 67 78 Unsmoked sheet No 1 77 78 Unsmoked sheet
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  • 35 2 London, January 9.—The December plantation imports am unted to 2,029 tons, and deliveries to 2,658 tons. The total stock of Para «nd Plantation rubber amounts to 11,726 tons against 10,171 eons.
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  • 218 2 Mr E L K li ck, wri iug in “The Financier," says The*e nevt-r w-.s a time in the history of plantation rubber when concert» d ac ion by producers to limit production was mo<e rece sary. In does not require much penetration to realise that it is
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  • 498 2 Oiental.—Divd. 5 p c. Telogoredjo.—lnt divd 5 p c. Kuala Pergau.—lnt divd 10 p c. Hidden Streams. —Int d;vd 7| p c. Sumatra Consold. —Int divd 5p c. Last yr ar 71 pc. Cicely—lot divd 52£ peon pref shares and 50 pc on ord share*. Last
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  • 165 2 Ex 2,000,000 acres of rubber in the Middle East is the enormous estimate of Mr Croll, the Rubber Trust Chairman. As Ceylon la* only some 251,000 acres, the balance of I'l million is divided between Java, Sumatra, S India and tbe FMS. A censu* of rubber planted the
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  • 25 2 Loudon, January 10.—AH Ceylon coconut and palm kernel has been requisitioned by Government since January Ist. No trading can be done,
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  • 92 2 Suit Dismissed. The libel suit at Shanghai in connection with the winning of the sweep on the the Champions at the Autumn race meeting has been dismissed, the Court finding that tl ere was no reflection on the plaintiff’s honesty. In dismissing the suit, the Court
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  • 56 2 The net salt revenue paid into the Group Banks during 1917 w»s $70,627,249, a decrease of $1,813,310 as compared with 1916. but an increase of $1,349,713 as compared with 1915 All the obligations secured on the Salt Gahelle were met in full and the surplus
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  • 176 2 In connection with the report from R ac goon to the ?ff co that it had been decided to prohibit tbe export of rice from Burma, except und'-r license there hts been a csr•ain amount of nervou ness among Bet a rice merchants as to to the
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  • 117 2 Commandeered by Government. London, Janua-y 26 —The R yal Commission on wheat supplies has issued a notifica’ion that all c i. f contracts for rice except Bu ma and Japan rice are taken over from the seller resident in Great Britain at the fir--t contract price.
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  • 297 2 Effkct of Closing Down the Distilleries A firm of whi-ky distillers siy The abnormal prices realized at a large sale of Scotch whisky by public auction in the City of London recently have excited general surprise, and alarm is expressed in retail trade circles lest srill higher prices
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  • 186 2 We are glad to he able to announce» that says the Times of Ceylon a complete and satisfactory understanding has been arrived at between tire m» mbers of the Pilot Service and tbe Government. We have already ann- U'»c?d that the question of s«lary was
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  • 103 2 H E Tbe G h»s formally opened the new waterworks dam at Tytam Tuk. The large masonry dam at the head of the Tytam Bay is capable of impounding 1 440 million gallons of wa’er. The scheme has involved the laying of flve miles of ad litional
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    • 548 2 HEAD CLERK, must thorough), understand all Estate account Go d salary to suitable man Apply MANAGER, Ba u Kiwan Estate WANTED. ONE MOTOR BOAT suitable f Jr Estate use. Apply to B>x No 35 c/o Pinang Gazette. Giving size, pries, and powor of engine etc. JARAK, Kampong Chempadah Rubber Estate,
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  • 591 3 MINE DANGER. The Roptazy sea sluices in Holland are being protected against floating sea mines, by wire netting. If the sluices were to be damaged by mine explosions, the water would flood the low-lying country beyond. German Aviators’ Plight. The transport Vlissingen, while proceeding to the North
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  • 131 3 Information that hns reached London leaves no room for doubt that the Turks, feeling themselves deserted and betrayed by the Central Powers, are, in growing numbers, demanding a separate pence. The Turkish army is now but a shadow of its former strength. At the beginning of the
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  • 123 3 A brown three years’ old, “Dark Legend, the winner of some important races in Eng. land, has been bought for 7,000 guineas by Mr Dick for an Indian owner. “Dark Legend’' and others sent out for the same owner will eclipse all the Bombay side cracks
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    • 1019 3 PLANTER of integrity and experience, I A/ fill A |L| |\.l Burma and Malay States desires W IVI IN Zd 111 change. Present billet many years. No nCAITiOT Tamil —Proficient in Malay. Managership L/C/VT/ST. only. Principals or Agents please address Change Box No. 33, c/o Pinang Gazette. Removed to 33,
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    • 301 3 The Miclielin Red Inner Tube is made of pure para rubber it insures: the maximum mileage the minimum expense because it lasts 3 times longer than any other inner tube and costs the least ii? List of Stockists Penang Chin Kooi k Co., The Cycle Carriage Co., Chin Seng A
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  • 33 4 Gordon-Burke. —At Holy Trini r y Cathedral, Shanghai, on December 10th, Ernest Herbert, eldest son of Alfred Ernest Gordon, Bedford, to Rita Al’hea, third daughter of James Barke, London, formerly of Penang
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  • 818 4 A heated discussion has been taking place in several leading newspapers at Home on the ques ion whether General Sir William Robertson and Field Marshal Haig are too old to assume such important posts as they hold. The first shot in the press contest of opinion was
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  • 30 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $142.50 per picul, business done. Tin is quoted in London to-day at £3ll 10s spot, and £307 10s three months.
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  • 42 4 The following are the particulars of the output of Renong Tin Dredging Company, Limited’s, tin-ore for the second half of last month :—No. 1 Dredge piculs 90 22; No 2 Dredge piculs 110.40; No 3 Dredge piculs 291.83.—T0tal piculs 492.45
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  • 31 4 The following were the rubber quotations in London on February 12th, received today Plantation Ist latex crepe 2s 3fd Smoked Sheet 2s [By courtesy of Messrs, Boustead Uo.j
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  • 69 4 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy and Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day. g g g an Shares. -2 5 S'® m «2 CQ «2 Altmng. Asani K. 24/3 24/9 24/6 25/Serendah $1.30 sl| $1.65 $l.BO Ulu Piah $1.35 $1.45 $1.40 $1.50 W-Pachaung $1 $1.20
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  • 1388 4 Shanghai exchanges publish fair Jy lengthy reports of the The Opening of opening of the Japanese the Japanese p iefc> w hen the Premier, Dl€t Count Terauchi, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baron Motono, bad much to say with regard to Japan s policy towards China,
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  • 393 4 The homeward mail closes on Saturday at 10 a.m. registration till 9 a.m. and parcels till 8 a.m. The Times of Ceylon learns officially that a very large tonnage of tea has been and is going forward to Europe through the Tea Commissioner for Ceylun. It has been
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    • 150 4 When Taking a Holiday Don't Forget a KODAK. ggj VEST POCKET KODAK COMPLETE IN LEATHER CASE St 8.70. BF perfect miniature Camera easily carried in the pocket. No. la, mg BROWNIE KODAK Q CAM E RAS. JUNIOR WfmjS No. 2,3 i by 2i in. Takes pictures Jk, $6.35. 4} by
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    • 92 4 Stay Where Everybody Stays. “E. O.” NOTICE. TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PINANG GAZETTE.” The subscription. accounts of the “Pinang Gazette,” having been issued, subscribers! are reminded that all subscriptions are PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Owing to heavy outgoings, contingent on the war, the management cannot continue the posting or delivery of
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    • 42 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for to-day and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water, To DAF, 2.1 a.m. 8.38 a.in. 2.38 p.m. 8.52 p.m. To MORROW. 2 38 a.m. 9 9 a.m. 3.15 p m. 9.29 p in,
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  • 55 5 Up to the time of going to press to*day no Reuter’s messages had been received, The last press messages delivered were despatched from London 4-55 a.m. on the 12th instant. Enquiries failed to elicit any reason for the non-receipt of news. The lines are working and business messages
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  • 51 5 COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING. [Havas Telegram.] Paris, February 13.—At a meeting of Ministers held yesterday, M. Klotz, the french Minister of Finances, gave an account of the resolutions carried last week j a London by the Inter Allied Committee ofl Finances, the results of which show complete understanding between the
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  • 68 5 Paris. February 13. The Premier, M. Clemenceau, Minister for War, desirous of examining personally the works in progress on all fronts, in view of an eventual German (fhnsive, and of speaking to soldiers and officers, returned this morning to Paris after the new inspec tion on the
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  • 9 5 London, February 11. The silver roaiket is quiet.
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  • 292 5 I have on several occasions called attention to the vagaries of the “Times” military correspondent, says a writer in a home paper on Dec. 16. His statistics, generally derived from official sources, are often unexoeptionahle, but his arguments based thereon very much the reverse. For instance,
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  • 105 5 The Berne correspondent of the “Agenzia Liebrale” says that, during December, 22 bterman submarines failed to return. The German Admiralty has issued a statement p aymg that they were mostly sent to distant waters, and that there is still hope. The Rome correspondent of the Central News
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  • 96 5 ashington, January 15. —Representative ’-iver of the house committee on naval afhas made a statement to the effect 1 l at the House committee is thoroughly sawith the way naval ordnance has handled since the outbreak of the war. The shipping board has equipped the enAmerican fleet
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  • WAR ITEMS.
    • 406 5 Amsterdam, December 19. —The armistice with Russia and the coming peace negotiations, in which Hertling, Kuehlmann and Czernin will take part, naturally is much commented upon in th e German Press. Rejoicing is fairly general, but is moderated by the fact, which is clearly
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    • 333 5 An Anglo-Russian friend has been giving me his views on Germany’s chances of extracting food supplies from Russia, says a London correspondent writing on December 16. “There is,”' he said, “a good deal of food in Siberia; but, as Siberia has repudiated Bolshevik authority,
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    • 118 5 The Ukraine, which has a population of nearly 20,000,000, called “Little Russians” or RuthenianS, extends from the Galician and Bukovina borders in a south-easterly direction to the Black Sea. Its capital is Kieff, and its chief port Odessa. It contains the richest agricultural zone in the whole of
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    • 113 5 London, January 24.—The Central News Agency’s Harparanda correspondent says that, according to a manifesto published in the Bolshevik paper “Pravda,” M.M. Salonikoff, Sivinkoff and Kerensky have arrived in Petrograd, and are heading a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. The Bolsheviks have summoned 2,000 sailors from Helsingfors and Kronstadt and severe street
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    • 318 5 Stockholm, Sweden. —Informative glimpses of Bucharest are given by a Swede who was there in September. Life in the Centrai part of town goes on much as usual, he says, and women seem to suffer from no lack of fashionable clothes. Among the uniforms of Germany,
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    • 304 5 Rumanian Headquarters, December 11. The Rumanian delegates returned to-day from Focsani, where force of circumstances compelled them to conclude an armistice which will last for- the same length of time as that on the Russian front. The news of the armistice fell like a thunder-bolt
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  • 89 5 Fire btoke out shortly after noon Jan. 28, aboaidthe Blue Funnel ship Kunun, :ying at the Asiatic Petr< l um Company wharf Shanghai. The Fire Float and Brigade aided in extinguisbim» the outbreak. A second outb'eak for the day was reported at 6 39 p.m.
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  • 1321 5 THE WESTERN FRONT. Week ended Jan. 31st: —The situation on the Western front is unchanged, no important operation having taken place, although several raids took place on both sides, wherein some prisoners were captured. In the air there has been more activity, the finer weather favouring observation
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  • 355 5 A Washington correspondent, wiring on December 19, says: The Inter-Allied Conference accomplished one thing. It brought about a clearer perspective of the war as a whole, and a visualisation of the fact that the front is wherever there are German troops to be opposed. That Italy must
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  • 28 5 London, January 28.—A Swiss report states that the Germans have cancelled munition contracts in Switzerland, explaining that they are now able to produce ample supplies themselves.
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  • 732 5 Mr H Muir leaves Penang shortly for Singapore to act for Mr W J Trowell, Inspector of Marine Surveys, S S, who is going on leave. Lieut W B Hawkes, 3rd Sappers and Miners, (K E) has been promoted to Captain and Officer commanding 6th Royal Engineer
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  • STOP PRESS.
    • 44 5 WAR PRISONERS. [Rueter’b Telegrams.] Amsterdam, February 12. A Berlin message says Russian and German delegates in Petrograd signed an agreement whereby unfit war prisoners will be repatriated as soon as possible Similar agreements were signed on behalf 0 Austria-Hugary, Bulgaria and
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  • 890 6 BRITISH GRIT BEAT BACK GERMAN MASSES. Mr Percival Phillips, the "Daily Express” •war correspondent), gives a vivid account of the great) German onslaught before Cambrai. He says When the hammer of the Huns swung against) our salient before Cambrai on the morning of November 30, the British
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  • 376 6 The Nirpon Yusen Kaisha announces with reference to the missing Hitachi Maru that rhe Chikuzen Maru,under the command of Capt. Yamawaki has made a strenuous search in the south seas and Indian Ocean in co-operation with the Imperial Navy with the result that
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  • 120 6 A correspondent at Sua Betong Estate, near Port Dickson, writes under date Feb. 9 to the M T The presence of several tigers in this district is causing a good de>l of inconvenience among the planting community About two months ago a tapping coolie, while tapping
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  • 92 6 .—Ex. The following undelivered cablegrams are st the office of the Eastern Extension -Australasia 4 China Telegraph Wongkwongchai Loongchup Tuanlow. New Street; Dinah Katan ss Japan; Jamalnoor. The Committee of the St George’s Society of Hongkong are hoping to raise $500,000. more or les% by their War Loan
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  • 215 6 Manila, January 16.—The killing of seven Japanese, two Chinese, and two other persons by a Moro constabulary soldier who had gone juramentado is told in a radiogram from Davao received by La Voz del Pueblo of Z*mboanga on January 14. The message says: Early yesterday morning in
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  • 174 6 In United States Ports. The following is an extract from the London Gaze'te of Tuesday 4th December 1917.) Foreign Office, November 30th, 1917. His Majesty’s Ambassador at Washington reports that he has received the following information from the United States G vernment as regards the procedure
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  • 161 6 Peking, January 24.—A telegram from Harbin states that a Russian force, composed of officers of the C< ssacks and reliable ex-soldiers, is being raised to take the place of the old force. A number have already been enlisted. The merchants and gentry have already
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  • 916 6 SCATHING INDICTMENT OF KAISERDOM. In the form of an open letter to Professor Lu jo Brentano, of the Universities of Munich, Breslau, Strassburg, Vienna and Leipsic, Mr. Frederic Harrison has addressed for publication (says the ‘‘Morning Post’’) a communication in which he appeal B the professor, a
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 27 6 WAR CARTOON. [Reproduced from the World's Press] ■j wwMßg— m i*. ww i-r i I I j wTp^^r\^^. ir^^^^^' vS ssc REALIZING THEIR MISTAKE.— “New York Tribune.”
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  • 580 7 A SHIPPING CASE. jn the Supreme Court, Penang, to-day, >jt Jast’ce L M Woodward heard the case which the plaintiff is V M Naina Maricar Mathu and the defendants Messrs Islay, Kerr Co,Ltd., Penang. The plaintiff claim e ri in respect of a shipment of 74 bags of
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  • 180 7 A case in which a Tamil named Pakir’ was charged with the theft of a bag of copra the property of chop Thearg Kon si Victoria Street, at about 8 30 p m. on the 2nd inst., came before Mr Acton, in the District Court, Penang, to-day.
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  • 196 7 Dorothv Phillips and Maud George appear to-night in The Piper’s Price,” a five teel Bine-Bird Special, a picture which deeg not depend upon thrilling scenes, big fights or denizens of the underworld to teach the hearts of the patrons. Yet its ’’fry humanness and its tenderness call forth
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
  • 187 7 INIERPORT MATCH AT PENANG A polo match, Selangor and Penang, w 11 take place on Saturday 23rd instant at. Sepoy Lines, Penang. Admission will be free, play commencing ab 5 o’clock. The Match conditions are 4 Chukkurs of 74 minutes each with 10 minute intervals between each
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  • 38 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 14. The death was occurred in Java of Captain Giovanni Gaggino, who arrived in Singapore in 1879. He was a prominent business man His age was 72,
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  • 45 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 14. The wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church of Vera Webster, daughter of Captain Webster, Harbour Master, Labuan, and James Strachan of ♦he Singapore Harbour Board. The Rev. W. Cross offic ated There were many present.
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  • 55 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, February 14. The Indragiri statutory report was adopted. The Chairman stated that they could carry out the programme even if the rubber market does not improve. The excellent tiffin at, the Cricket Club in the interval in the cricket match on Monday was
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  • 797 7 T.O.M. GOVERNMENT AND HOSPITALS. A general meeting of the members of the Central Perak P A was held at its rooms in Hale Street, Ipoh, on Saturday, when Mr J S Ferguson presided and the others present were Messrs A B Milne, F H B Staples, M
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  • 623 7 —“S.T.” European Revenue Officer Acquitted on Both Counts. The charges of extortion brought against Mr, A. E. Pattinson, supervisor of the Government Monopolies Department, were disposed of in the third police court, Singapore, on Saturday. The magistrate, Mr. G. L. Ham, dismissed the first case, in which
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  • 136 7 The Campaign Against the South. Peking, February 2.—Wong Ka Ming and Tsao Ju Lin have undertaken to raise all the necessary funds for the campaign against the South. The Cabinet has decided that $10,000,000 are needed for military expenses. Wong Ka Ming will probably follow Liang Shi Yi’s
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  • 175 7 Peking, February 3. —Pooki as fallen and Kavue is being surrounded. The President has instructed the Government troops to hold Hsiang-yang and has also ordered Ng Kwong Sun and other Commanders to dispatch troops to the front lines in order to strengthen the defence of Hsiangyang.
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  • 24 7 Peking, February 5.—A mandate was issued last night pardoning Liang Shih Yi, Chiu Kai Kim and Chow Tsz Chi.
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  • 35 7 Peking, February 3. —An important conference was held in the Presidential Palace to consider the best means of helping Hupeh and also to discuss military affairs in connection with Kwangtung and Fukien.
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    • 332 7 Programme for I Thursd, >’’ Frid ’V- Saturday and Sunday, I J February 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th. I Proprietor H. J. A. HOLM. Manager THOMAS SHAFTO. I Two Delightful Young Ladies DOROTHY PHILLIPS and MAUD GEORGE. The captivating stars of the Blue-Bird Co., who will enchant in The Piper’s
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