Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 November 1919

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED daily ESTABLISHED 1333. No 258. VOL. LXXVII. FRIDAY, 7th NOVEMBER, 1919. PRICE IO CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 596 1 IfENVELOPES I ILL SORTS I AND sizes I printed oh PLAIN II tu; pMHG Sazti it Press HMtTES. lochs or the following ore I rv p i tj nd now available al Penang. SliMl I£A I 1 /1 1W £0 i I JODELITE. The original British wood preservative, universally j
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    • 32 1 UP-TO-DATE PRINTING of every description undertaken, from a visiting card to the largest < size poster, by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd. with care and promptitude. Estimates given free and artistic display guaranteed.
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  • 856 2  -  BY B. J. EVANS. (Special to the P. G.) London, October 8. The Football League approached the Government last week to know whether there was any objection to players travelling by road to fulfil Saturday's fixture! when trains could not be found to convey them. The Government
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  • 835 2 PEACE YEAR GOLF. [Fbom Oub Own Cobbbspondhnt.] Edinburgh, October 8. The game remains, tue players change and pass, if a parody from Shelley is allowed. We must recognise the eclipse of the Big Three in g >lf who have held the fi**ld for a score of yea r
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  • 659 2 LIST OF WINNERS. The M. S. V. R. Battalion Rifle Association Prize Meeting was held on the Rifle Range, Kuala Lumpar, on Sunday and Monday, reports the Malay Mail.” An At Home" was held at the Selangor Club on Monday evening, amongst those present being Sir Edwaid and
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 35 2 lAldens’ Successors (Eastern) Limited. Formerly R. F. BRADFORD, I 33C, BEACH STREET, PENANG. REPRESENTING ALDENS’ SUCCESSORS LTD., LONDON AND LIVERPOOL AND ALDENS’ SUCCESSORS INC. I NEW YORK Rubber Merchants. Telegrams:— l ALDENS’ Telephone No. 359.
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    • 298 2 p siTi °yw?>i Experienced knowledge of Tamil ,’i’h M Aoconnta, etc ete possible. Has fair kno.l.J,’" St, Chinese Contract werk XS' Labon-. Keen, e m r. etic l 1,.' I Will bo ready to ta’ i6 np d S end of present mouth. Pi 09 Box No. 345, c/o Pi
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 438 2 1 IMPERIAL PICTURE PALACE j LAST 3 NIGHTS «a»3 LAST 3 NIGHTS I TO-NIGHT! M I BATTY’S VARIETY CO., I IN A COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. I J BABY VIVIANNE STAR I THE TALK OF PENANG. IN HER I LATEST HIT ITS ALL OVER NOW I I Miss EVA HALL.
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  • 435 3 The sixth annual general shareholders’ meeting of the Shanghai Pahang Rubber Estate, Ltd., was held at the officer of Messrs. Meyer and Measor, the general managers. I The notice calling the meeting having been Mr. I’ere Sallou said we have planted up a further 144 acres bringing
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  • 242 3 The Directors’ report for the year ended 30th June, states The profit for the year amounts to $ll,OlO 85, t o which has to be added the amount brought forward from the previous year $6,274,74; total $17,285.59. An interim dividend of 5 per cent was declared absorbing
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  • 113 3 Many labourers from the Southwestern part of the province of Kwanutung are emigrating to Barka Island, a Dutch possession east of Sumatra. A few days ago a special steamboat arrived in Macao for the purpose of transporting to that Island five hundred labourers. More are
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1558 3 POSITION WANTED. advertisements on tram oars. TENDERB INV |t E D. u e d Rubber Planter THE pinang gazette press, Ltd. Esp erie nc as senior or junior having acquired from the Penang Agency Tenders will be received up to noon on e eks eu>l" u a h or the
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    • 168 3 A Great Sufferer from Rheumatism Cured by LITTLE’S ORIENTAL BALM. Mr. N. Terry of Countess Wells, Aberdeen says :I was a great sufferer from Rheumatism for many years, during which time I tried many remedies from which I received but very little relief. I had great pain in any arms
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    • 615 3 APPLICATIONS FOR SHARES WIL BE RECEIVED UP TO NOON ON THE 19TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1919. The Began River Rubber co., Ltd. (Incorporated in the Straits Settlements under the Companies Ordinance 1915). Capital $350,000. Divided into 175,000 shares of $2 each. DIRECTORS. HON. MR. WALTER FREDERICK NUTT, 0.8. E. CHEW
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  • 1416 4 German mentality, before and during the war, has been the subject of many volumes, speeches ani newspiper articles. It has been carefully studied and analysed and the ordinary reader has, long ago, arrived at more or less fixed conclusions as to the German ways of thinking, their outlook
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  • 1279 4 In the current number of Malaya's bright monthly, Our Maga The Fort. we g» ther from Penang Notes that the people who write about building an aerial station on the Fort site are dealing with the subject somewhat airily that the Fort is still in the same
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  • 17 4 The output of tho Tronoh Mine?, Ltd., from all sources for October was piculs 1,968,
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  • 18 4 Tin was quoted in London on Nov 3rd, at £273 15 spot and £273 three months.
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  • 333 4 T|O.M.” [From Our Own Cosskspondint.] Singapore, November 7, The Legislative Council will meet a Monday, The chief motion is in the name of the Acting Colonial Secretary, Jskingie Council to approve the plans for of the scheme for widening a portion fl Singapore Railway in the district’ of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 203 4 gj— .ii* iiiw— Pabco Paints The first and last measure of value in Paint is the serviceit gives. Pabco Paints are mixed ready for use and are made to Withstand the extreme physical and chemical changes common to all tropical countries. They may be used on interiors or exteriors with
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    • 26 4 Anniversary of the Armistice. DINNER DANGE AT THE E. O.” Tuesday, lith Nov. E. O. ORCHESTRA AND JAZZ BAND. Mrs. R. Il Charles. P. P. C.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 39 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for To-day, and To-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To-day. 11.35 am. 5 45 a.m. 11 54 p.m. 5 52 p.m. Tomorrow. 12.00 m’nt. 6.30 a.m. 12.00 noon. 6.37 p.m.
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  • 271 5 :xCT AL PETLVRA’S plans. t 15-The Morning Post’s” iorreH >on(tent reports that General V >a the American Army,, and the Bowe arrived there from the erc t hey visited General Petlura. source of supplies is frankly and Germanv. General Petlura’s justii- (Jermans will help him. "l t u
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  • 291 5 Possible Withdrawal. i L i 1 October 17.It is now believed that tt Government will not proceed with the 1); nil scheme for amalgamating the coal :it will merely purchase nrineial rights a: i c:t ib a fund for impro ,7 ng housing con i t l
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  • 228 5 a R y:.i Commission, under the presiMr. Justice Sargent, has com-j toced sitting at Lincoln’s Inn to hear "’idence of a number of claimants for Lies from the Crown in connection u b invention of the tanks. On the it iy of the hearing interesting evi-c given by
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  • 102 5 America, u- 1 I„'f. lan( i °f big things, can have Px R bour troubles, even ar.d Hit herto th e most Ito 'L- n n > eac ung ra il w ay dispute p Like in the summer of but u a Private strike at
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  • 434 5 WRONG METHOD OF INDIA OFFICE. Presiding at a rubber shareholders’ meeting Mr. F. A. Govett said The method by the India Office to me appears all wrong. The par value of the rupee is Is. 4d., and thi© India Government goes on buy ing silver at steadily increasing
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  • 405 5 The current issue of The World’s Work’ contains a long article, by Fredk. A. Talbot, on the silver position, in the course of which he writes Silver is the metal of fortune. Fifty ago it disputed with gold the right to recognition as the standard currency, then
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  • 220 5 Gen. Hertzog’s Speech. i London, October 20,—General Hertzog, addressing th© Nationalist .longress at Bloemfontein. said if the British nation senta majority to Parliament in favour of a Republic the King would have to give way. No force would be necessary. The same could happen in the South
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  • 1353 5 THE END OF THE STRIKE. [Special to the P, G. London, October 6. If the atrike recoiled on the strikers while it lasted,-—a result the general community could scarcely be expected to deploreall sorts and conditions of the people were affected by it, Travellers to and from
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  • 211 5 Route for To day. The Chingay procession starts at 2 to-day from the Chinese Temple, Pitt Street, and proceeds by China Street, Queen Street, Church Street, King Street, Light Street, Penang Street, Bishop Street, Beach Street, Church Street, Penang Street, China Street, Beach Street, Bridge Street, Magazine Road,
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  • 169 5 it is proposed by the Ceylon Government to present all officers, non-com-missioned officers and men who voluntarily left Ceylon for Service Overseas in or with the fighting forces of the Empire a suitably inscribed medallion as a memento of their services, but not to be worn
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  • 1148 5 COMMITTEE MEETING. The following excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of the Committee of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held at the Chamber, No. 1 Downing Street, Penang, on Tuesday, 4th inst., is forwarded for publication by the Secretaries Messrs Brown, Phillips and Stewart. Present Messrs
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  • 447 5 Tbe first case taken up at the Assizes before Mr Justice Brown on Tuesday was the first on tbe list, in which Murad bin Haji Amat, a Malay, was charged with unlawful return from banishment. He pleaded guility, but made a statement that; be had heard that the
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  • 702 6 The One Optimist. The secret story of the submarine war’’i is begun by Admiral Sims, of the United States Navy, in the October number of Pearson's Magazine.” Admiral Sims states that when he arrived in London in April 1917, (at the time when America entered the’ war),
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 646 6 uunannpimnnnnunnnnnnnn I I VENEER CHESTS ji P 19" x 19" x 24" Complete with Fittings, D I JAPANESE ACETIC ACID J 9 Guaranteed. I ENGLISH SODIUM BISULPHITE,» SULPHITE, 1 n d FORWARD CONTRACTS ARE NOW G BEING BOOKED FOR MONTHLY n SUPPLIES FROM JANUARY. NEXT YEAR. t n t For
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  • 416 7 r T Smith, m.c, and Mrs L |eOteDa r t nected here by mail train this gn) itb are e*l even'D? a t Stennitt, of Dunlop Plantations, Mr 0 Ara Stennitt are leaving for Miado Penang for about eight months. wsy from renang u H E Beardsell,
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 328 7 (To thj Editob or th> PinaJjo Sir,— Vigilant I.as but expressed tbe opinion of many rate-payers. The action the Commissioners certainly needed evision by the Government. Mr Bell’s services may have great, but generous inpuhes of Commissioners ought not to e been wildly indulged at the expense
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  • 142 7 Yesterday’s Late Arrivals. Flying Dragon, Arsatt, 35, Port Weld, Poh Seng Co, general. Pin Seng, Leyne, 378, Singapore, Eastern Shipping Co, general. To-day’s Arrivals. Baud, Dutch, 1.689, Batavia, K. P. M. general, Gala, Latiff, 48, Gula, Kennedy and Co, general. Ipoh, McDonald, 528, Singapore, Adamson, Gdfillan Co, general.
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  • 25 7 1,168 coolies arrived yesterday fper Bharata. 401 go to Pulau Jerejakl for quarantine. The balance go on to Port Swettenham for quarantine there.
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  • 287 7 The Admiral Line are just in receipt of telegraphic advices from their head office that an office of the company will be established immediately at Yokohama. Mr H K Laidlaw, for many years an executive of the Admiral Line in Seattle and San Francisco, ii now on his
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  • 379 7 From the facts the Free Press’* representative was able to glean of the stranding of the Fazilka on the arrival of the Westmodus, which brought off the deck passengers to Penang, it appears that the Westmodus got a broadcast jnessage for assistance through the Sabang Station about 5.45
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  • 309 7 DAILY (except Sunday). Federated Malay By train 7.15 a.m Malacca, Johore, Singa- > also at 6 p.m pore and Hongkong J on Saturdays Kuala Kubu, Kuala Lumpur and Seremban JBy train 10 a.m. Parit Buntar, Bagan T Serai, and Taiping J 10 a.m. 3.45 p.m Ipoh, Batu
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  • 17 7 The homeward mail B” by the Khiva, closes at 6 p.m. to-morrow registration 5 p.m.
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  • 55 7 Nov 7, 9 and 11.Chingay Procession, Penang. Nov 9.Batty Variety Company, Imperial Picture Palace. Nov 13.Penang Turf Club Meeting, at 4-15 p.m. Chamber of Commerce. Nov 15.Fire Brigade Display, Dato Kramat, 4 p.m. Dec 17—Board of Licensing Justices Meeting, 2.30 p.m. Nov 28.Penang St Andrew’s Society Ball. Jan
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  • 375 7 Nov. 9th, 21st Sunday after Trinity. 9.15 a.m. Matins and Sermon (Tamil). 5.15 p m. Children’s Service. 6.30 p.m. Evensong. With a view to improving the serious housing situation in Paris, a Bill has been framed to compel landlords to report vacant premises to the authorities
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  • 121 7 The following are rhe latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day SHARES. J "5 3 "5 a 32 co m Rubber (Dollar). c. sc. c. c. Bukit P. 5c 10c 10c 15c pr. Kamasan 4.80 5,10 5.00 5.20 Kuala Ketil par 10c pr. Lunas
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  • 57 7 [From Ove Own Cokrispondent.] Singapore, November 6. At Singapore rubber auction® there were catalogued 1,072 tons. Sheet 96 cents and crepe 95£ cents. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, November 1, At Singapore auctions, 1,072 long weya catalogued. 918 tons offered, aiid 683 tons sold. The principal feature
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  • 45 7 The following are additional rubber outputs for October >' j Ayer Molek lbs 22,040 Bandar Sumatra 57,000 Central Kelantan 15,580 Eastern Sumatra 43,000 Glen Bervie 44,612 Langkat Sumatra 48,000 Lankat Rubber 59,000 Majedie (Johore) 15,220 Permas 29,120 Sekong 16,940 Serdang Central 41,920 Tamiang 77,238
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  • 85 7 Messrs Allen Dennys Co. advise us that the undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them at private and auction sales held this week Cts Per Lb. Smoked diamond sheet No. 1 to 94| diamond No. 2 85 90 Plain smoked Sheet 79J Unsmoked sheet No.
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  • 196 7 Penang, November 7, 1919. S. P. Tapioca No. 2 sl2.sosales M. P. Tapioca $13.00sales Gold leaf $72 sellers. Pepper (W. Coast 3 lbs. 6 oz) buyerf. Black Pepper $25 nom. White Pepper $65 sellers. Trang Pepper nominal Mace $9O nom. Mace Pickings $5O sellers. Cloves $7O sellers. Nutmegs $52
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  • 43 7 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 p.m. to-day 1 Two Step The Palm ...Estella 2. Reminiscences Of Meyerber ...Godfrey 3. Gavotte My Sweetheart. Sabathil 4. Waltz ...Destiny ...Baynes 5. March Oriental Echoes. Rosey
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 242 7 PRITCHARD Telegrams: jo T Telephone: PENACO VO PENANG 335. With DepartmentPENANG. INCORPORATED IN S.S. al Connections. Casement «k j 9 9 Dress Fabric. Fabric. Sunresista Fabrics will not fade with exposure to Sunlight. Sunresista Fabrics will stand vigorous washing without removing the colour, which is Fast and Sunproof. The above
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1636 8 PgO_RRITISH INDIA Independent Steamship Corporation, fl 111 i (Incorporated in the of America.) AND New Direct Service between New York, Singapore APCAR LINE. and Java Ports and vice versa via Suez Canal. a iaa Tnonmoratorl in U’ncyln.nrt i With the Co-operation of the United States Shipping Board a direct steamship
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    • 602 8 By using Hall’s Distemper your home can be made brighter, f healthier and more picturesque, f at a cheaper cost than wall-paper, and without V k the objectionable smell of paint. 1 Hall’s U I Distemper L) I (Trade Mark.) > is deservedly the popular wall covering of the day.
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    • 336 8 THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED. (licorporatad in England), Authorised Capital Subscribed Capital 1.50C.00C Paidu p li Reserve Fund and Undivided Profits 785,000 Board of Directors. R. J. Black, Esq., (Chairman), J. M. Eyrie, Esq. H. Melvill Simons Esq., P. K. Ctalinen, Esc Sir David Yule, Lord Carmichael, G C
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