Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 2 November 1918

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 258. VOL. LXXVI. SATURDAY, 2nd NOVEMBER, 1918. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    • 693 1 P'lt V h- Mirolissi» 4/VSO/V ROAD. < -Setting and g e a Mampw ati°n- I 5-'« C f IF_ YOU HAVE NQT TRIEDr. BJAR BRAND MILK CTAT6MPRES& you can have no idea what a I PERFECTLY STIRiIISfD MILK I CIGARETTES >1 I I particular man demands a particular cigarette. State
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    • 17 1 i Runnyinede Hotel, CL SEA SIDE. z “THE” PLACE TO.STAY AT s thone ::j ht g •e
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  • 79 2 AN ARMISTICE. London, October 31. Turkey has agreed to an armistice. Turkey’s Peace Proposals. London, October 31. Reuter is informed that Britain has officially[received definite pence proposals from’Turkey which are regarded as tantamouat’to unconditional surrender, Turkey’s Offer. London, October 31, It is understood Turke? offered to lay down her
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  • 197 2 London, October 31. In the House of Commons, Sir George Cave announced that an armistice between the Allies and Turkey was signed last night and came into eperatu n at noon to-day. It was not yet possible to give the fad terms, but they include: The free passage
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  • 39 2 L.onaon, October 31. The Press Bureau says the Board of Trade announces that war risks on cargo will be decreased 50 per cent in cases where vessels sail daring an armistice between the belligerents.
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  • 270 2 Information from a reliable source about conditions in Turkey indicate that the governing chauvinistic Young Turk element is still fanatically pro-German. The fortunes of the two races are inextricably linked. The Turk* have shared in the prestige of the German victories. There is no chance of expelling German
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  • 164 2 Ihe Band will play the following programme of music at the Golf Club from 5 45 p.m. to-day 1. Overture Tancredi ...Rossini 2. Two S ep Zenobie ...King 3. Selection The Gaiety ...Kippey 3. Waltz La Premiere Dans use ...Dodwell 4. Dream of Magtime. Tburban 6. March
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  • 886 2 Dr Liston expects to arrive shortly in Penang. In mail week he wis taking out a course on Twilight S cep’’ in a Maternity Ho-pital in London. To-day is the anniversary of the murder of Mr James W Birch, R sident of Perak, which occurred on 2nd
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  • 388 2 PLANTER SHOT DEAD. A highway gang robbery involving th? death of a European took place on Thursday afternoon on the Kampar-Temoh i R ad in the BUan> Pahang District of Perak. It appears that about 4 p.m. on that oay the Police at Kampar received informa ion
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  • 279 2 The Cathedral Paper says —We a r e g ad to say that we have every pro p*cb of welcoming an ther p iesc on the staff of rhe Cathedral. We 1 ave been unable to maintain our work ever since Mr. Burne and Mr Wood left,
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  • 154 2 To the average citiz n, who thinks in hundreds if h? is a pr f sdonal min or in thcusards if a munitioneer, th 0 information that the world war from its beginning till irs fourth anniversary has cost all the belligerents a total of £32,000,000
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  • 120 2 The Swiss Journal, Die Elektroindustrie,” gives particulars of a process for removing the temper from hardened steel. The piece to be softened ia placed on a plate of iron at red he it and covered by a plate of cold iron. After the whole has cooled, the piece
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 499 2 POSITION WANTED. Planter over 6 y earB experience ag Manager of Rubber Estate a temporary bidet from 4 to 6 mouths; would act for Manager going on short holiday. Box No. 273, c/o Pinaug Gazette, WANTED. A practical miner witl. experience of I nJr Mining to tske charge of a
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    • 236 2 PRITCHARI COMPANY, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements.) NEW GOODS IN OUR Drapery Dept, WHITE COLOURED COTTOy BLANKETS. $3.75 and $6.90 respectively. These Blankets are of the very Best Quality. m .a— <l——i—Mac i (NEWEST Ft °m 15.51, II BLOUSES i S'"” ca 1 In White,, yW' Coloured Voil s
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  • 1210 3 WAR SERVICE COMMUTEE’S RE PORI’. At a luncheon of the War Sei/ice Committee of the Rubber Industry of the U S.A held at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, on July 31, the activities of the committee since the last general meeting on May 10, were leported in
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  • 556 3 The report of the directors of the Temerloh Coconut and Rubber Estate, Ltd., to be presented at the eighth annual general meeting of the shareholders to be held at the Chamber of Commerce, No. 1, Downing Street, Penang, on the 9th day of November,
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  • 253 3 Report of the Directors. I The report of the directors of Chenderiang Tin Dredging, Limited, for the year ended 31st March. 1918, states: The net profit for the year (after writing off depreciation of dredge, buildings, plant and machinery amounting to £4,671 13s. 2d.) was £11,762 7s.
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    • 1049 3 posiTio- J s wanted. Federated Malay States Ww Charities w '"Lottery. khpr Planter. ably north of Tickets for this Lottery are issued under KllD I'hree years experience, good Pena» J Serins preferred 3-5 years the auspices of the Federated Malay State* War Charities Committee aadj the Prises will be allocated
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    • 1184 3 NOTICES. TENDERS INVITED. I ...JL "LU U 1 EMPIRE THEATRE. Tenders will be received np to noon on Owing to the epidemic, Performances in Friday, the Bth November, 1918, at the the above Theatre are for the time being Resident Councillor’s Office, Penang from suspended by the order cf the
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  • 19 4 Cbuttwell. —On October 51, at the Maternity Hospital, Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cruttwell, a son.
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  • 27 4 Grierson —MacArthur. —On Sept. 4, at Sutton, W. W. Grierson, G.P.0., London, to Jessie Barbara, eldest daughter of the late James Ramsay MacArthur, formerly of Singapore.
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  • 1214 4 The capitulation of Turkey was a foregone conclu-ion. The telegram yesterday announcing Turkey’s decision was not officially confirmed, but it is now substantiated, in sj far as the petce proposals which Biitain has received are tantamount to unconditional surrender. We imagine there are very few Turks, either of
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  • 1838 4 i The Allies are to enter Constantinople without fighting their way The through. The city on the Bosphorus. Golden Horn, owing to its > geographical position, is easy of defence by land aud sea. By land this is the case because the city is situated at 1
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    • 136 4 j BASS’s j 0 LIGHT BITTER ALE. (GREEN DIAMOND) IN QUARTS AND PINTS. g H BOTTLED BY H i M. B. FOSTER SONS, London, g Q AGENTS: Q CALDBECK, MACGREGOR COMPANY. Q "iilf! j Gold Ipl ie i T i 1 'P 'k«*OTfJot Raw j- ZZZ nI i ĔĔ V
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    • 26 4 THE CRAG HOTEL, PENANG HILLS. The Sanatorium of the Straits Settlements. Completely Renovated. Bungalows for families, also single and double rooms. Laundry on the P remises.
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  • 33 4 DEATH. de Oliveibo.—On November 2nd, Jane Constance, daughter of the late V. C. de Oliveiro, at her residence, 184, Burmah Road, Penang. Deeply regretted. Interment tomorrow morning, at 9.15, at Western Road Cemetery.
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  • 200 5 I AUSTRIAN DEBACLE. :s; VE VICTOBY ON THE TIGRIS. Ljmistice tubkey. ia t-miscice between the I 't’nrjey, which came into I O n Thursday, include k ;U -f a See' through the F L 'the B acs Sea. the ocn -i at the Daraaneie* f'"‘ 11 g 7 c
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 219 5 P JS-.-NBRS. 7 ELKGRAMS.] L ndon, October 31. J! 3aig reports that the Mt. xx > ittsed this morning sou’h- li. ti- md captured al" its w. icorr ’.COO prisoner? H Aerial Activity. -■auar c- in Jcmber 30th were Hr- -ic •-> -_.ie vhole front. Oyer pa fit's
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    • 50 5 7,000 PRISONERS. Loudon, October 31. A Mtsopctamia official report says the hard fignimg on the L'igris, oegun on Octocer 24th, ended on October 30th with the capture cf the entire Turkish force there. The prisoners are estimated at about 7,000. A large quantity of war material was taxen.
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    • 501 5 The first dispatch from Sir W. R. Marshall since he became Com man der-m-Chief m. Mesopotamia covers the six months of the winter season, ending on March 31. and the principal operation which falls within that period is the irusiung drfeat f the Larks at Khan Baghdad. and the
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    • 55 5 Amsterdam. November 1. The Taegliscbe Rundschau spates that a panic has oroken out among the pcru’atiou in the Rhine Provinces, as a well informed authority declares the Government is prerarod. if necessary, to allow th a enemy reep? to occupy Coblenz and Cologne. The statement is
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    • 55 5 HARD FIGHTING, Hava 3 Telegrams.’ Paris, October 31 —On the western front there was hard fighting by French troops round Guise, and between the Serre and the Aisne. Some progress was male, cut toe Germans maintain a stubborn res'stauce, with frequent ccun er-attacks. On Tuesday, the French
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    • 41 5 Paris October 31. President P.iacare received, at the Eiysee, representatives o a fund raked in England by a Re ie of the Allies Committee for supplying seeds, imp ements am live stoca to devastated distr cts of France.
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    • 217 5 The Paris Matin. publishes a long and interesting article n the subject of the German defensive positions lying behind the present front. I* says After the Hindenburg line the sec nd line of withdrawal bears the namt? of the Hunding line. This line starts from a point
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    • 102 5 DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN Ams erdam. October 31. It trans d ires that Independent Socialists and members of the Reichs'ag addressed five demonstrations in Berlin on Sunday waicb were suppressed. Dr. Liebffnecht demanded the establishment of Government which could unite ot>e workmen of all countries within the international.
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    • 62 5 Paris, October 31 —The fourth anniversary cf the battle of the Yser was celebrated by a great demonstration in the tbesTe of Havre. M. Lebrun, Minister of the regions, aho presided, paid a f ribu e to the loyally of Belgium M. Cooreman, the Belgian Premier, expressed •hanks
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    • 192 5 Lond'Jn. Oct. ber 25. —The 'Herman defeat in Belgium has profoundly aflected the aerial situation to the disadvantage of Germanv. The enemy recently concentrated la rue airforees in Alsace Lorraine to ward efi Allied raids but with small success. These defences were for the defence of E-sen.
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    • 78 5 BRITISH INDIGNATION. Lcndin, October 31 Ffllowirg an impressive d-bate in the House cf Commons, cabled on the 29th u.t., the intense public indigna'iou at the treatment of prisoners in Germany was strongly voiced by the newspapers, which warmly approve the placing cf the release and reratriation of
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    • 25 5 Lonaon. October 31. The Admiralty reports t at a British destroyer sank, without casualty, on Tuesday after a collision with a merchantman
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    • 221 5 50.000 PRISONERS. Rome, October 31. Austria’s official announcement of the evacuation of La y comes rather late. The fact is the retreat is in consequence of the defeat of the Austrian army, a F ter desperate resistance. Correspondents point out that the capture of Mount Roaen resulted in
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    • 88 5 ’Havas Telegrams’. Paris, Occcber 31 —la Italy the Austrian Armv is not broken, but is giving wav istride the Piave. The Twelfth Army, with ihe French General G'azimi commanding a mixed army, advances a.ong the river in the direction of Feltre. The French press maintains that, as
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    • 40 5 Paris, October 31 —Count Andrasey imistrusted by the Entente, and cannot impede the urogr°es cf the ’u~;ected races towards liberty. Count Andrass? s man oeuvre is the using of a League of Nations for escaping complete surrender
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    • 25 5 Amsterdam, October 31. Renewed street figuring is reported frem Budapest, in which rifles, machine guns an' bayonets were used. Numerous casualties resulted.
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    • 125 5 REPUBLICANS AND THE PRESIDENT. London, November 3. Interest in the elections in the L’nited State 3 on November sh, of t: e whole House of Representatives, and one third of the Senate aud the Governors and Legislatures of many States, is intensified by the vigorous reply of
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    • 26 5 HANDED TO CROATS. Amsterdam. October 31, A Budapest message says the Hungarian Governor at Fimne, upon instructions, has handed over the town to the Croats.
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    • 127 5 Ams'erdam. October 31. A Vienna message says German Bohemia ha= declared its independence, with th© seat of Government at Rech-nberg, and has e cted a German Radical, Harr Pacher, as President. A Brokea Empire. London, October 31. The break-ap of what was AustriaHungary Las been so rapid
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    • 27 5 Amsterdam, October 31. From Siu-assburg, it is reported that the Kaiser has summoned the A sace« Lorraine Diet to meet cn the 12ch November.
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  • 1084 6 TERMS OF JUSTICE. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is a war which will change very suddenly from the appearance of a close drawn struggle to an absolute German surrender. The immediate danger to the Allies is that those German leaders who see what
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    • 736 6 TRY TIHS METHOD OF GROWING BEAUTIFUL HAIR TO-DAY FREE. GIGANTIC HAIR-HEALTH OFFER. Banish Hair Poverty by accepting this Four-Fold Gift. tt' fhiq newsFianßr No matter bow thin, dull, or generally Every reader of this newspaper impoveriahed your may be, no matter is invited to enjoy a delightfully [ww !ong it
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    • 457 6 I NOTICE 1 To Consumers of I wJ KEROSENE OIL I Take Care of your Tins 4 fl g You can get seventy cents each for them and so reduce the cost of yo ar o j| Punch a hole only in the cap when opening. Don’t punch a second
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  • 126 7 r .n\T"l) INCREMENT ON property. •Fkom Ovk Own Singapore, November 2. I th? rgbimates for the MuniI reBel ??W Peel, the President, drew IP 9 7 o the fact that though he had ttent )I1 number of large item?, the expeuF J J $3 014,279 against a revenue of
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  • 340 7 *1 ort f the Committee of the Legis■Jr council appointed to frame proposals rislation for the improvement and oxK Con of towns in the United Provinces irith regard to the acquisition of land, X have U 1 animously agreed to follow rece fl o nt of all
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  • 91 7 I ALLOWANCES TO WIVES. I (From Ovn Own Correspondent.) I S'Dgipjre, November 2. I The Government “Gazette" contains a "regulation which allows a wife resident in the Colony or the F.M S., of a man called Up for active service, subsistence not exceeding $250 par month, with
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  • 22 7 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $149.25 per picul, and for refined tin 4150 per picul; 125 tons.
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  • 113 7 Messrs Sime, Darby Co., Ltd., advise raniculars of the outputs from the following c, iapanies for the month of October kaniunting Tin_ Dredging, Ltd piculs lo lrs run 524, yards treated 67,000, 5' °‘^P ut $25,500, cost of mining Ti Dred S in Ltd > Dr e >
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  • 105 7 iu ihe STRAITS. Per x y i Mr’w n To Sin S a Pore: Mr F Engi P hmm v Mr J W Reugg, Mr K’\. Kamchom, Capt. Jills, y r T t V J Balkwill, Mr A G rowel] t" i 2 3 O'Donnell, Mr
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  • 618 7 FURTHER HEARING. The case in which Chew Kee Leng of Chop Ban Leong is charging ore Khoo 100 Poo of Chop Bun Hock Seng, 442, Beach S'reet, Penr.D’, r der Section 418 of the C. P. C., time up for hearing again yesterday afternoon before Mr. S H.
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  • 33 7 The Penang Swimming Club Carnival arranged for Saturday, November 9th, and the Celebration of Our Day on November 16 .h ard 19th, have been postponed on account of the influenza epidemic.
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  • 260 7 Letters and newspapers posted in London between September 7th and 11th were missing from the mail to hand late last night. Their loss had previously been notified. This mail brought newspapers dated up to September 14th. 1260 coolies arrived by the s.s. Tara today, 540 go to Pulau
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  • 246 7 Prince and Princess Svasti, the Prince of Chumporn, and Prince Jaiya (Krom Mun Suriyong) are among those down with influenza, says the “Bangkok Times.” Owing to the influenza pandemic all Krian “Our Day” fixtures are postponed t<> a date of which due notice will be given. Tickets, etc.,
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  • 159 7 For the relief of those poor people, irrespective of race, who are suffering from the present influenza epidemic, and who are resident in the up-country villages of Penang, extending as far as Jelutong. Ayer Eram and Tanjong Tokong. Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe. of No. 24.
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  • 23 7 Previously acknowledged $13.483 30. Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe $lOO. Mr. Loke Chew Keet $25. Total $13,608.30. Lim Seng Hodi, Proposer.
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  • 57 7 For supplying free attendance and Chinese medicine to poor Chinese attacked by influenza Previous subscriptions $5,472.60, (Mr. Khoo Sian Ewe $lOO. Messrs. Eng (Mow Kong-i SlO, Mr. Wong Kong Weng $lO, Mr. Loke Chew Keet $25. Anonymous $5. Total 55.622.60. Further subscriptions will be gratefully
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  • 253 7 Calcutta, October 12.—A Balasore message says that influenza is raging fearfully in that district. During the last three weeks the mortality has risen abnormally. Difficulty is felt in carrying the dead bodies, the municipality supplying bullock carts for that purpose. The District Magistrate has formed a committee
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  • 146 7 Bombay, October 12.—The influenza epidemic has reached and passed its climax and is now steadily declining. The mortality figures for the twenty-four hours ended at eight o’clock on Friday morning were 489, the lowest record for some weeks. More reassuring than the comparative lowness of the
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  • 183 7 (Madras, October 17.—Owing to the influenza epidemic it is understood that, the Director of Public Instruction has directed the closing of all schools fo r a period of ten days. With regard to colleges the matter requires the sanction of the Senate, and it is understood that
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  • 69 7 Karachi, October 17.—There were 220 deaths from influenza in Karachi on the first three days of this week, Wednesday’s total being 95. Last year the total mortality on the coresponding threee days amounted to 55, or exactly one-fourth. Nine municipal travelling dispensaries in motor-cars are now in
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  • 798 7 Simla October 16.—The Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India has issued the following note It is very unlikely that the epidemic at present afflicting Iridia, in common with most other countries in the world, is anything other than influenza. No European country has apparently been
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  • 397 7 FAREWELL BY PENANG BAR. j In the Snpreme Ccurt, Penang, this morning, interesting references were made on the occasion of the retirement of Mr. 1 R G. Van Someren, who has for 45 years been a member cf the Straits Bar, and one of
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  • 53 7 Nov. 3.—23rd Sunday after Trinity, 8 а. Matins, 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion, 6 pm. Evonsong. Psalm 135 Mornington, Magnificat 47, Nunc Dimittis 61, Hymns 265, 274, 165« There will be no Children’s Service, Wednesday 10 a.m Matins and Litany Friday 6 p.m. Evensong and Intercessions б.
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  • 43 7 All Saints’ Church, Taiping, Dedication Festival.—Nov. 3rd, 23rd Sunday after Trinity, 7.45 a.m. Litany 8 a.m. Holy Communion (Choral) 9.15 a.m. Holy Communion (Tamil); 5.15 p.m. Children’s Service; 6.30 p.m. Evensong and Sermon. Collection for St. Faith’s School, Taiping.
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  • 33 7 Fitzgerald Memorial Methodist Church (corner of Anson and Burmah Roads)—Sunday Nov, 3rd, Sunday School 8 a.i Epwo h League 7.15 p.m Evening Worship 8 p.m. Speaker—The Rev. B. J. Baughman.
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  • 22 7 9 a.m.—Sunday School. 6 p.m.—Public Worship. Preacher :—Rev. Donald J. Ross, m, a. Hymns:—so9, 171, 297, 601, 516.
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  • 27 7 Sunday, Nov. 3.—Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost. Low Mass 6.15 a.m., High Mass 8 a.m. Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 5 p.m.
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  • 204 7 Sunday, Nov. 3.—Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost. Holy Communion 6.30 a.m. High Mass Sermon and Benediction of the Blessed Sacament 8 a.m. Church of Uur Lady of Sorrows, McAlister Road.—High Mass, Sermon and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 8 a.m. Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pulau Tikus.—High
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  • 286 7 Messrs. Kennedy and Co., Penang, report as follows: The Share Market has again experienced a good enquiry during the week under review, more especially in the rubber sect.on, no doubt due to the satisfactory price of 65 cents obtained or crc P e at the auctions. The
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  • 125 7 lhe following is a copy y f a telegram which was received by the Resident Cu 1/. nior trom «s r d s lions -hi.uld be opened immediao w f g U armmice between Turkey and of Turkey‘\ellT fT? tllat d the Government tiitri urkey fully ptotopoten. o
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  • 60 7 Hiram/3kX n Tnn^ ki r gS Ul fate d of September Hfh; a L, n^on paper hama Mr J W Cramston, m/Sm, Mr L S kOn f G G Walk! C A Campbell Mr A MahSr"^'s L T Joung, Capt T B Butler Mr P T r\
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    • 240 7 MINED! viously we only thought f Pie Mtahty and physical well being. This truth ,S in the following 1X tor a period of several years I was suh. tint h* n' 1 'F Stion bilious and split td g th"e wan My to e S ’-viiySt a; c tftere was
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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