Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 31 August 1920

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE POLISHED DAILY to 1 ADLIOiIED Itfdt). No. 200. VOL. LXXVIII. TUESDAY, 31st AUGUST, 1920. PRICE 15 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 639 1 liable everywhere wholesale from g I w I I n j i; I Ong S«m Leong Co., Penang. fogra? I f you have NOT TRIED. i £_WMOT* <* I BEAR BRAND MILK I t?- ’3 id. v e,GARETTEB I MM Ptrlecim StWllistS KB* I rerleei Cmt.Wm.n, |1 (s' and j°
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    • 19 1 Ithe best car in town Ipjo/ J mkiw 7*-wt«01*1 mj Sole Agents S.S. F.M SOn g Sam Leong Co,
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  • 95 2 GENERAL VILLA AGAIN. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] San Antonio (Texas), August 28. The whimsical caprices of General Villa had an odd climax in the town of Cabinas, when Villa concluded terms of surrender to the Dela Huerta Government. After closing the Sabinas’ brewery and saloons, Villa despatched four “auditors” to the
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  • 115 2 THE STATE CONTROL. Melbourne, August 27. The Government presented to the Senate a statement showing that it controls 23 Government owned and 16 enemy owned steamers. An additional 11 proposed 12,000 tons steamers and 18 smaller cargo vessels are under construction locally. The net profit »of the financial
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  • 171 2 —“Statesman.” London, August 12. —Lord Inverforth at the head of a great syndicate with Government support has purchased the Austrian Transport Company’s whole fleet of ships and barges, thereby giving Great Britain virtual control of the Danube and other vital waterways o 5 Central Europe. The cost
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  • 40 2 REASON FOR INCREASED U. S. IMPORTS. Washington. August 28. Increased consumption of raisins, due to prohibition, is believed to account for a 1,400 per cent increase in raisin imports from Spain in the first six months of 1920.
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  • 23 2 Chicago, August 27. Forty thousand Illinois coalminers agreed to accept an increase of 81-50 daily. They had demanded 82 daily.
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  • 29 2 Marseilles, August 27. Five Japanese diplomatists arrived by the Awa Maru. After visiting Paris, they will represent Japan at the International Conference at Madrid on October Ist.
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  • 24 2 London, August 27. Mr. Lloyd George sent a letter to the Knights of Columbus hoping they will have a successful tour.
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  • 39 2 London, August 17. —The Khilafat agitation is stone-dead here. The deputation is still showering booklets on Slembers of Parliament. The latest is a glorification of the deeds of Mohamed and Shaukat Ali issued by the former.
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  • 1667 2 SOCIAL PERSONAL. ‘T 0,M.” Mr H L Armstong returned to Ipob from a holiday in England. Mr and Mrs W H Jack lefo Kuvla Lumpur for Home on Saturday. Mqor F C Westland RE. is acting as C R.E. from August 27.— S F.P.” Mr C E Cumming, Ipob, who
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 222 2 Oar Uadies’ Department. Has now in stock a new selection of charming afternoon frocks, also a quantity of other new goods. t Dainty Flora! Voile Frock With the new skirt. Well cut Bodice (as sketch) Price $3O. 1 11 T Syi””“ Coat Frocks Made in best quality Gabardine, embroidered bodice,
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    • 522 2 7 POS| A smirt Junior Clerk »i hi, I App(v now^ er) oB.xNo 353, e/. i’-ir, Clerk wanted for office knowledge of book-keeping previr.ut etc., t 0 'ec/o Pining G z»tte. B x A B 7 d Book requ.red E.e„ qoar “omp-tent mao. S[Bte haoowriting „i h c .pie, o(
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  • 498 3 PROPERTY RECOVERED. Rangoon, August 24.—Word has been received by telegram by the C.I D. from Myinmu th*t Captain Crump, formerly a master of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, had been murdered there on August 16. The C.I D. have taken immediate action. Captain Crump was in the
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  • 92 3 Simla, August 20 :—The Russian Newspaper Pravda (Moscow) on 9tb June publishes a letter from Tchicherir, Bolshevik Foreign Commissary, to Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Its most remarkable feature is the confirmation by the Soviet Government of the principles of foreign policy enunciated by Kemal Pasha These include the recognition
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  • 281 3 Calcutta, August 13.—A man whose meals were stopped at Christmas time sued for damages at tbe Small Cause Court to-day and got them. He was Mr Frizone, and bis case was that he had an arrangement with a Miss Thomas to supply meals for himself and
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    • 1293 3 POSITIONS VACANT. NOTICES. j .„bbing and News Compoßttors MALAYAN ATHLETIC SPORTS. Win rl thic j Applv Managing Director 111 LI Lil lb Gazette Press, Limited. ENTRIES CLOSE. \V<l fob nnlv 8 p.m, W’eduesdny, lie September, and cILL/ll vzlllV Overseer wan»eJ for small rubber Estate, should be seat to the A'X
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    • 456 3 TOWN HALL To-night at 9-15. ENORMOUS SUCCESS R. B. SALISBURY'S CO. The Quaints ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME INCLUDING The China Chimes Plans at ROBINSON’S. A FRESH SHIPMENT OF ENGLISH SEWING TWINE 2, 3 5 PLY HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED. QUOTATIONS FROM L. Y. SWEE Company, Limited, (Incorporated in F.M.S.) PENANG,
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    • 137 3 Z■■| IMPERIAL J™EMPIRE THEATRE, -PENAXG ROAD. Monday, 30th, to Wednesday, Ist September, 1920. Second House at 9-15 p, m. WORLD FILM CORP, presents MADGE EVANS in THE VOLUNTEER It is one of ths best pictures and is sure to occasion talk of a highly commendatory kind. It is a picture
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  • 1228 4 Official confirmation of The Times’ announcement of the agreement reached in London between the Milter Mission and the Egyptian Mission beaded by Saad i Pasha Zsgblul, by which Britain recognises the independence of Egypt and guarantees Egypt’s integrity against outside aggression,” is not forthcoming, but we may presume
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  • 943 4 Rangoon exchanges received yesterday report tbe lengthy speech The Viceroy by H E the Viceroy, Lord and Rice. Chelmsford, at the last session of tbe Imperial Legislative Council, at Simla, before the reformed Councils come into being. It was a striking speech and covered every field of
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 460 4 [To ta te. or m prauro Sib,—You printed recently that the chairman of a Sxnirfthe FM B w. 9tobetr :X r 'e d 7, B p Mrd Ab one »ho I,a, had experieace of lightened way ln which th* rmbli/ e for in the towns cf the RMS
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    • 453 4 To Tn Konos os ths “Pmxa CUhrl'JJ Sir,—l note in your issue of 28th inst a letter signed by P de Grisogono, Inspector, Shanghai, with reference to the Pilsna cabin charges, and that tbe Lloyd Triestiua regret this most lamentable incident. Not a word about the threat made
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    • 38 4 THE TIDES: The following are the tides for to-day and to-morrow, Penang Standard Time High Water. Low Water To-dat. 1.18 a.m. 7.33 p.m. 1.23 p.m. 7.58 p.m. To-moreow. 1 47 a.m. 8.04 a m. 1.52 pm. 8,23 p.m.
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  • 586 5 POLISH DECLARATION. Reuter’s Telegrams.] —Havas. Warsaw, August 28. Polish Government communicates xt of a declaration made by the a t Minsk on August 19th, the .mission of which was delayed. The maintained that war was imposed 1 Poland by the action of the Soviets, l ‘V, l after
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  • 317 5 LABOUR DELEGATION’S VIEWS. London, August £B. au exhaustive report with reference t the recent visit to Russia, the British Libour delegation emphatically contradicts the statemens of the prevalence of ixne, disorder, deaths from starvation, and declares that although social ualisation is far from complete, glarr inequalities of fortune
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  • 519 5 London, August 13. —It was recently stated that if the French and British had reached an agreement at Hythe it was an agreement on formula not on realities. The truth of this has now been made perfectly plain. It is equally true that such an agreement
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  • 36 5 London. August 27. Mr. Yamagwa, Counsellor to the Japanese Home Office, departed for Tokyo after the completion of his European tour, for the purpose of studying post-war conditions and methods of reconstruction.
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  • 23 5 x Lisbon, August 27. The Government has appointed Benor Alvaro Delacerda. General Manager of Sandeman Brothers, to be Food Controller.
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  • 192 5 STORIES OF HIS DEATH [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, August 26. A crop of new accounts of how the Tsar met big death which have recently been appearing in prominent papers mostly agree in the main features, but a certain Captain Francis McCullagh, a British officer recently from Siberia,
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  • 1270 5 Captain Francis McCullagh, who has a thorough understanding of the Russian language and has just returned from Soviet Russia, writes: During three months passed recently, as a supposed civilian, in Russia, I came into personal relations with Trotsky and with a number of the leading Bolsheviks; and this
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  • 123 5 Paris, July 22. —At Versailles two days ago the registrar of births was surprised when a young man asked him to enteg the birth certificate of a boy in the name of “Michael Romanoff.” “Who are you?” the 'registrar asked “I am Prince Andrew Romanoff, nephew of
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  • 29 5 New York, August 28. It is stated the Germans are preparing a non-stop dirigible flight around the world with a Zeppelin, unless prevented by the Allies.
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  • 133 5 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, August 28. A Wai Office communique regarding Mesopotamia reports the spread of the trouble to the Miantafik area. The situation on the Shatt el Hai is reported to be critical. The Political Officer at Shathres is withdrawing by aeroplane to Nasirie. British troops encountered
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  • 34 5 NEW GREEK OFFENSIVE. Smyrna, August 28. The Greeks in Asia Minor are preparing a new offensive with Usfiak as the objective. It is stated that considerable Turkish forces are concentrating in opposition.
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  • 202 5 Antwerp, August 27. At water polo Britain beat America by 7 goals to 2, winning easily in a gruelling game. In the final, Britain beat Belg/hm by three goals to two. The gymnastic contest resulted: Sweden 1,364, Denmark 1,325, Belgium 1,080 points. Swimming Results. Antwerp, August 28. In
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  • 115 5 SEASON’S RECORD TOTAL. London, August 27. Middlesex beat Kent by 153 runs. Lancs beat Essex by 188 runs. Sussex beat Yorkshire by 162 runs. Gloucester beat Worcester by nine wickets. Surrey beat Northants by eight wickets. Surrey in the first innings scored 619 for five wickets, and declared,
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  • 100 5 The following is a tab's from the result* telegraphed by Reuter P. W. L D. Middlesex 19 14 2 3 Lancashire 27 18 5 4 Surrey 23 15 5 3 Kent 25 16 6 3 Suss x 28 17 8 3 Yorkshire 27 14 6 7 Notts
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  • 87 5 A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] New York, August 28. The latest development in Irish troubles is a so-called Mannix strike. Dock* ers at New York struck work on four? White Star liners, as a protest againak the failure of the crew of the liner Baltic* recently, to resist
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  • 343 5 AMERICA’S INTEREST. New York, August 27. There is considerable agitation in Sinm Fein circles iu America in connection with the Lord Mayor of Cork. Telegrams have been sent to President Wilson and Mr. Colby asking them to use their influence to secure his release, Extension of
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  • 82 5 SENATOR HARDING’S LINE. Marion (Ohio), August 29. Senator Harding, in a speech on the League of Nations, declared that President Wilson’s League is a definite, irredeemable failure. Senator Harding therefore proposed a new effort to construct a world association on the framework of the Hague Tribunal, and
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  • 21 5 Paris, August 27. The “Journal’s” correspondent in Brussels says the Belgian Cabinet passed unanimously the Franco-Belgian Treaty o| Alliance.
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  • 26 5 VISIT TO BRAZIL. Brussels, August 2F. Their Belgian Majesties will deparf aboard the Brazilian warship San Paukl for Brazil on September Ist.
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  • 25 5 Berlin, August 27. Employees of the Pintsch firm of Fuerstenwalde, destroyed four seaplanes and 28 torpedo-throwers which were deliverable to the Allies.
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  • 767 6 COMMANDER IN CHIEF’S DESPATCH. The despatch of the Com-maoder-in-Chief in India, covering minor operations between Jane 1918 and, April,-1919, has been published. With al] its economy of words, this direct, soldierlike statement is a document of extraordinary interest and even, one might add, of absorbing romance, says the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 311 6 L—===== 7 HB KRUSCHEN SALTS I ARE THE KEY TO HEALTH Stocks Held by all Chemists. I I I SOLE IMPORTERS: t F. G. Taylor Co., Ltd., Penang* and Singapore. I CTgggg m war despair? When we can supply you with all you need in Motor Accessories. We hold the
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    • 109 6 “UP-TO-THE-MINUTE” MEN are those who keep physically and mentally ‘fit’ by judicious exercise, by the avoidance of excesses, and by watching that the system is always clean and in perfect running orler. To such men, and women too, Pinkettes are of the utmost value, because they prevent and cure constipation,
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    • 302 6 3_ B I I rR A KTA'VTT’id i ITANGYES I I SEMI DIESEL ENGINES. I g PROTECTED BY PATENTS. I 1 i 3 g 3 TO WORK ON ALL BRANDS OF CRUDE AND RESIDUAL I s OILS, POWER AND FUEL CONSUMPTION GUARANTEED 3 FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY TO: j Huttenbach,
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  • 285 7 AT THE TOWN HALL The pierrot form of entertainment is by d tbe re Dot rW to Penang, but pierrotbnd, as ex i hit?d by them last night, has a freshness atmosphere and a setting so artistic the visit of the Company headby Mr R B Salisbury, who
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  • 598 7 Appeal to Remove Export Restrictions Simla, August 26.—Representatives o' the Karachi import grain merchants association and of the Sind rice millers and merchants’ association arrived here yesterd«v «rd represented to the revenue member. the Hon Mr Sarm% their grievances resulting bom the embargo on the
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  • 155 7 THE SCRATCHINGS. (From Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpur, August 30. The fallowing are the scratchings for the first day of the Selangor Races All engagements—Woorawa, Yarraman, Good Ally, Sol Dbu, Idle Girl, Cesarion Girl, Clovelly Boy. Race 3—Gay Last*, Toyshop, Miss Teh, Rabindra, Suggestion, Waliassey, Soviet. Race 4—Malaya.
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  • 45 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpur, August 31. lt> is understoid that Sir Ernest Birch is coming out in His Maj 8 y’s ship Malaya. H. M. S. Malaya is leaving England on Oct. 22nd for the promised visit to local waters.
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  • 37 7 The following ties are fixed for Friday' 3rd September Championship—H G R Leonard v R N Hamilton (5). Championship Pairs—W H Threlfall and E E Chambers v J R Bennett and J Stuart (4).
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  • 438 7 The f )Otball match, P C C v Free Schoo’, fixed for Thursday, has been scratched on account of the School holidays. A football match has been arrange! between the P C C and tbe Penang Recreation Club on Friday, at 5-15 pm, at the Esplanade. Mr. R B.
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  • 94 7 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, August 31. The marriages of H. H. the Saltan of Johore’s two sons were performed in great state yesterday. After the ceremony had been performed at 4 p.m. by the Akad, and tbe reading of the Kbotab Nokab, a “alate of 17
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  • 174 7 The following important communication with reference to the prospective winding up of the above ha} been received by a local firm, who kindly sent it as for publication, states the N C. Daily “War Loans Investment Trasb of Malaya. —ln reply to the ioqiiry in your letter,
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  • 141 7 Colonel Adams’s lette to the Pinang Gazatte,” reproduced in these co’ummafew days ago, aeems to have provoked some interest—a notable eat in these dajs, says he Time iof Malaya.’’ Colonel Adams, «s an officer of Vo.’uatesrs, says that Volunteering is played our; that early in the war
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  • 112 7 Per NY K s s Mishima Maru from London, July 31—To Singapore: Mr H A R Allen, Mr W B'unner, Mrs A Bryson, Mr B H Cathrick, Mies A Fay, Mr E P A Glenck, Mr N Gjessing, Mr G Hammond, Mr T C Hay, Mr
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  • 68 7 Aug 31, September I—The Qiaints, Town Hall, 9 15 p.m. Aug 31—Prof. Bose’s Circus, Dato Kramat Gardens. Sept 2—Athenaeum, in Masonic Hill, 9 15 p.m. Sept 3—Legislative Council Meeting, 2 30 p m. Town Hall. S?pt 10 and 11 MU<yan Athletic Sport», Ku«la Lumpur. Sept 13—Penang Assizes. Nov
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  • 1459 7 THE NEW ISSUE OF CAPITAL. The ordinary general meeting of tbe Straits Settlements (Bertam) Rubber Company, Limited, was held at River Plate House, Fiosbury Circus, London E C, Sir West Ridgeway (chairman of the company) presiding. The Chairman said that the profit has gone up from about
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  • 241 7 The Directors of Nyalas Rubber Estates, Ltd, report for the year ended 31st May. 1920, that the net profit for the year as shown by the profit and loss account amounted to $77,327.11 as compared with $13,776.78 for the preceding financial year. To this must be add-d
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  • 115 7 Penang, August 31, 1920. (By Courtesy of thb Chartered Bank) London Demand Bank 2/3 13/16 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/4 3 Credit 2/4 25/32 3 Documentary 2/4 7/8 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 118 3 sight Private 125 Bombay D Bank 118 Madras Demand Bank 118 3 day? sight
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  • 50 7 The Band will play tbe following proofa nme of music at the Dato Kramat Ga'den», ft on 5 30 p m. to-day 1. Selection Z>g-Zag ...Stamper 2. Intermezzo. Oum ...Hartz 3. Wal’z Afgar ...Cuviller 4. One Step Dream of Ragtime Thurban 5. Two g jep Lancashire Clogs Grimshaw
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  • 455 7 Yesterday’s Arrival. Van Ritbeck, Dutch, 1,670, Batavia, K. P. M, geue>al. To-day’s Arrival. E ephanta, Logan, 2,686, Calcutta, Islay Keir i Co, genet a). Expected Arrivals. Teesta, Madras, Sept Ist. Shidzuoka Maru, Colombo, Sept 3rd. Plassy, Singaporet Sept 3rd. Thongwa, Singapore, Sept 4th. Kaga Maru, Colombo, Sept lltb.
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  • 14 7 The homeward mail by tbe Thongwa, closes at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
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  • 15 7 •Tin was qu >ted London yesterday at £273 spot, £2Bl 10s three months.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 164 7 PALPITATION. It is not often that one bean of a young man or woman complaining of physical pain in the heart region, the disturbances they have there can generally be ascribed to another source, but, as time gets along, and they have battled through life to middle age, then real
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    • 82 7 7 J V j/ WINDSOR The Spectacle Beautiful. The strength and beauty which have made Windsor 5 Castle famous since the days of the Conqueror are E duplicated in the Wellso worth Windsor-the newest 3 and best metal-zylo frame. Bilt-in Eyewire and stronge ly made bridge and end piece constructions
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    • 323 8 THE BEN LINEor STEAMERS Ltd LEITH. OUTWARD SAILINGS. l s. 8. BEN ALDER due August 31 s. s. BENAVON due Sept 15 HOMEWARD SAILINGS. Coast cargo booked at current rates on date of sailing of steam For fall particulars as regards space available and freight. Apply to Sandilands, Buttery Co,
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