Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 14 July 1927

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 159. VOL. LXXXV. THURSDAY. 14th JULY, 1927 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    SPOILING OF PALESTINE.
    725 2 THE HOLY PLACES COMMERCIALISED. Comparatively few people visited Palestine before the war, and touria parties were unknown. For one thing transport was d-fficult there were no motor-cars for hire—the roads were merely rough tracks, highway robbery was rife, and there were no good hotels. The journey frem
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    COMING EVENTS.
    46 2 July 16 —Glugor Shield Inter-School Athletic Sports, Esplanade. 20—Penang Turf Club Entries close 2 p.m. 30—Penang Turf Club Summe Meeting. 30 Ist Aug.—Cricket Match Colony v. F.M.S., Singapore. August 1, 4 6—Penang Turf Club, Summer Meeting. 6—Cricket League Match, P.R.C. v, E.S C.. Esplanade.
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      1641 2 POSITIONS VACANT.TENDERS INVITFD. NOTICES. Wanted: A Shorthand Typist. Federated Malay States Railways. ol/lsTAugusL State Salary required. Apply to 1927, for all agricult oral, mining and Cowdy and Jones, Ipoh. Special Services, 1927- prospecting applications. 1455 14 7 C. A. VLIELAND, Erection of a Godown on Prai District Officer, Junior Book-keeper
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    MASCOTS.
    703 3 SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ PETS. An amusing story was recently cabled from Australia (at a coet 'hat would keep a pussy cat in creamy milk and succulent giblets for a lifetime) of the black kitten mascot of the Renown, which unwittingly held up the impressive ceremonial cf dressing ship at
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    KINDLY LONDON.
    691 4 GOOD MANNERS AND WHOLESOME HABITS. Police Civility. It is not too much to assert that no other capital impresses the visitor as vividly as does London with the fact of its advanced state of civilisation. Its look of wealth and prosperity certainly contributes to this feeling, says a
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    SHARE SHARKS
    149 4 Mr. Albert Ottinger, the Attorney General of New York State, who arrived at Southampton recently in the White Star liner Olympic, in an interview said In New ork State we are making great efforts to rid our country and other countries of share pushers. Our raids on their
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    OLD MANCHESTER.
    554 4 A FAMOUS COACHING-HOUSE. Nearly two centuries ago, The Manchester Guardian” reminds us, Jeremiah Bower, a public-spirited resident in Manchester built for himself a mansion on the outskirts of the town. Fronting on a country lane, with a small piece of garden ground in front, the house was one
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    THE PICTURES.
    562 5 THEATRE ROYAL COLLEEN MOORE IN IRENE Embellished by the same lilting score thajt made the musical comedy version a great success on the stages of two continents for several successive seasons, Irene presented in picture form by John McCormick and released by First National, is the chief screen
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    LOST TREASURE QUEST.
    210 5 An expedition is now being organised at Rochefort (France) to attempt recovery of treasure, valued at several millions of francs, which has lain on the sea floor near the Isle of Oleron since lb2o. Various unsuccessful attempts have already been made to locate the treasure, which consists
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    THE SINGAPORE AMOK.
    429 5 ACCUSED’S MENTAL CONDITION. The inquest in Connection with the death of the Chinese who succumbed to st > wounds indicted on him bv Amir bin Marina, tlv- Sundanese who ran amok in High Street on July 2nd, was hold on Tuesday before Mr. Hope Faulkner, City Coronei,
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    O'CONNOR OF MIDDLE TEMPLE PASSES.
    324 5 Old O'Connor is dead and the Middle Temple mourns. O Connor had been head porter of the Middle Temple for 13 years. On the Ist June he was taken suddenly ill in his house in Middle Temple-lane and -was removed to Chaiing Cross Hospital suffering
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      390 5 The Di’st Peril A B With the dust you inhale millions Figure A: of an gerous germs, which can be colonies of dust- the cause of many diseases, germs before dism- J '.S™ l,h F Take a Formamint-tablet whenever yon Ft™.»: are in dusty pl ices. Formamint will The same
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    IRISH MURDER.
    245 6 Funeral of Kevin O’Higgins. IMPRESSIVE SCENES. London, July 13. Extraordinary impressiveness prevailed in Dublin at tue funeral of Kevin O’Higgins. Business was practically suspended and schools were close i. 500,000 people watched the draped gun-carriage proc- ed from St. Andrews Church to the G asuevin cemetery and thousands
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    WAR PENSIONS.
    365 6 BRITISH EXPENDITURE. (Rugby Radio Service.) London, July 13. Comparative figures of the expenditure on war pensions by some of the principal belligerent powers in the late war were given in the House of Commons to-day. when the Pensions Vote of £57,250,000 tor all classes of pensions was under
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    FOOD CANNING INDUSTRY.
    68 6 BO; QUET FOR SHANGHAI. London, July 13. Ar bouquet has been htn led to Shanghai by the member of the House of Commons, Isidore Salmon, who. speaking a. the Royal S mitary Institute Conference at Hastings, declared that there was nothing in England or the United S.ates
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    S.S. “RAWALPINDI” ARRIVES AT PENANG.
    920 6 Stowaway Creates Excitement. SINGAPORE PASSENGER’S DASH AFTER LINER AT PORT SaID. A stowaway on board and a S ngapore passenger’s dash after the ship at Port Said, were twa incidents which added a spice of excitement to life on the P. and O. liner, s.s.
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    WOOED BY REAL SHEIK
    441 6 CHASED BY SOLDIERS AND ’PLANE. Adventures rivalling those of cinema sheik stories have, according to their ovn story, befallen two 17 years old girls, Miss Winnie Comber and Miss Irene Speller, who have returned to their homes in Holland Park, W., after escap ing, as they
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    ALL GAMES IN ONE.
    185 6 1 EXHIBITION OF IRIS HURLING. The gathering of London Gaels at the Irish sports at Herne II II recently enabled many Englishmen to see a hurling match. Cork, the all-Ireland champion, beat Tipperary by four goals and five points to three p ints. In the girne
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    SEQUEL TO MINING ADVENTURE.
    63 6 GEORGE REYNOLDS SENTENCED. George Reynolds of Penang, prospector, who ha 1 been found guilty of criminal breach of trust in respect of a surveyor’s chain, a prismatic compass and the sum of 1500, at the Butterworth Police Court o.i July 5 was oa 1 uesday last
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    PENANG ASSIZES.
    578 6 Green Lane Robbery. ONE WOMAN MURDERED. At the Penang Assizes this morning before Mr. Justice Sproule and a special jury, Teh Kim Cheow, a Chinese, was charged with firstly, the murder of a woman named Ooi Ah Choon at Green Lane on Miy 13, secondly, with housebreaking between
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    A NARROW ESCAPE.
    155 6 JAPANESE FISHERMEN RESJUED AT SEA. TwoJipanese fishermen came within an ace of losing their lives after their sampan had been waterlogged during a heavy squall about 20 m l >s east-north-east of the Horsburgh Light. The two men were picked up by th»A. P. C. vesse’, Scala
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    FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
    80 6 (Rugby Radio Service.) London, July 1.3. Pane. 124; New York, 4.85 J Br aes el s 2?. neva 2 2li Anwterdam, 12.11 s; Milan, 89.35 Berlin, 20.45 Stockholm, 18.13 Copenhagen, 18.16 i 18 4°, V i enna 34 47 i; Prague;’ oq Ai H lBln forp 192£ Madrid,
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    RHODESIAN DWARFS.
    506 6 PAINTINGS REPRESENTING AN Cl ENT EGY PT. Rhodesia is richer in Bushman rock paintings than most people know, says “The M irning Post.” The tourists may see any day Bushman pictures near the ronte to the World’s View in the Matoppos, but they are poor specimens compared with
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    MAN WHO RAISED THE MOLTKE.
    404 6 Spare, pale, agile of body and mind, smeared daily in rust and oil from head to foot, invariably at high tension, shouting h >arsely and not always politely against the throb of air compressors, always tirelessly directing his men and often showing them their task
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    811 6 M 3. Basd Btrnard and her 1 are leaving f or H r ion Sept. 23. Mr. B. ir iar l 1 them about a month later. 1 Mr. A. S. Hayne?, s ec Agriculture, i 8 go i ng to epic al duty early next o
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    TRAVANCORE NEWS.
    361 7 INVITATION BY MAH ARA NI. from Our Own Correspondent.) Thuckalay, June 29. jg understood that Sir John Thomp gon Political Secretary, Government of India, has been requested by Her Highness the Maharani Regent, to pay a flying r isit to Travancore in cise he accompanies H E. the
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    A DIOCESE OF SIX REPUBLICS.
    350 7 ARDUOUS WORK OF THE BISHOP OF HONDURAS. The Bishop of the least-known diocese in the British Empire, Dr. E. Arthur Dunn, Bishop of the Honduras, since 1917. recently returned to England for a four months’ visit. A Marlborough and Pembroke, Cambridge, man, he was for
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    FAITH MUST FACE THE FACTS.
    643 7 DR. BROWN ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION. Science in its relation to religion was approached from an original standpoint hy Dr. William Brown the eminent psychologist, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, in an address to an audience of undergraduates at a special gathering in St. Aldate’s
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    EXCHANGE.
    130 7 PENANG, JULY 14, 1927. (By Courtesy Of The Chartered Bank.) London Demand Bank 2/3 11/16 4 months’ sight Bank 2 4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4 1/4 3 D >cumentary 2/4 9/32 Calcutta Demand Bank 154} 1 3 days’sight Private 156 1 5 Bombay Demand Bank 154} I 1 Madras
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    “THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER.”
    499 7 HOW A PARSON HELPED A SMUGGLER. The secret lakes and lost paths of Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, their ancient mills and eccentric, millers, the ghosts of old world farms and inns, and tale that is full Of s.vords and songs” are s >me of the
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    PRODUCE PRICES.
    206 7 PENANG JULY 14, 1927. Benares Opium p. chest $5,000.00 nom. Cloves 70.00 nom. Gold leaf 72.00 selLrs Mace Pickings 125.00 nom. Nutmegs 80s 100.00 nom. UOs 95.00 Coconuts per 1,000 50.00 nom. Copra Sundried $10.95 sales Rattans ‘11.15 sales Rattans Coarse 10.50 Green Snail Shells 13.00 Siam Rice
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    SARAWAK.
    615 8 Statistics of trade and customs are not, as a rule, of that class of literature which keeps the reader from his bed but there is some very interesting reading in the annual report of the British protected State of Sarawak for the year 1926. Sarawak, ceded to Sir James
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    AMERICA AND DISARMAMENT.
    516 8 From the cabled news, it is obvious that the N ival Disirmament Conference now in sitti' g at Geneva, is not proceeding so smoothly as some of its advocates anticipated. President Coolidge retains his optiurs f ic views regarding the outcome of the negotiations, which is but
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    By the Way.
    1320 8 Zg\N July 14, 1789, the triumph of I J the French revolution was Scoured by the s'orming and capture of the Bastille, that mysterious dark fortress which overawed Paris and personified th*- ancien regime. The National Assembly, which had right on its side from the 20th June
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    THE BISHOP’S DEPARTURE
    103 8 QUESTION OF A SUCCESSOR. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, July 13. Addressing a farewell gathering this afternoon the Bishop said that there was one who would be a m ist suitable successor to him, ArchdeAcon Swindell. !’>ot Archdeacon Swin lell ‘ad declined to have his name voted
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    CHOLERA AT GULA.
    62 8 FATAL CASE OF PLAGUE. (From Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, July IL An outbreak of chol-ra occurred at Gula, Krian district, on Tuesday. There have been four fatal cases and additional police reinforcements have been sent to help carry out adequate quarantine. Another fatal case of plague occurred
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      FILM CENSORSHIP.
      81 8 [To the Editor of the “Pinang GuZ j tte. Sir, —I read with interest “Exhibit a letter on this subject in your issue o yesterday. The hard and fast rules laid down Government which the Censor 1 il strictly observe, should be modified to enable him to exercise
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    NAVAL CONFERENCE.
    312 9 Japan’s Limitation Standpoint. rocks ahead. cT < T v department prepared T 0 COMPROMISE London, July 13. t there are some sticks still to be rned before a naval agreement is is indicated in to-day’s message Geneva. The Japanese delegate. duiir.il Sabnri. interviewed by Renter r j- n
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    FRENCH POLITICS.
    111 9 COMMUNIST MOTION DEFEATED. Paris, July 13. The threat to the existence of the Point .re cabinet has ended by the Chamber, L 356 votes to 171, rejecting the Comp.inist motion, which would have inreased, by about £6,003,000, the expenditure proposed by the Government ■or increasing the salaries of
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    NICARAGUAN TROUBLE.
    76 9 AN ULTIMATUM. Managua, July 13. LTi*e Commander of a detachment of N'.ted States marines here has sent an F- 'atatnin to General Sandino, ex-Liberal r <kr. who, according to American Fhurities here, has been occupying puierican mines and collecting taxes at L/ n Fernando. The ultimatum calls on
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    PALESTINE TREATY.
    38 9 NEGOTIATIONS CONCLUDED. (Rugby Radio Service.) London, July 13. Treat r that has been under L between Sir Gilbert Clayton, kid the British government, Rii'i I >n h as keen completed and j e Published after ratification.
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    AMERICAN RUBBER.
    44 9 p'VbiX- COMMISSIONS REDUCED. •rj New York, July 13. r Exchange has reduced trail j s 1 y about 40 per cent. I’bdi p 1 that the cut will make Exchange more attractive llC 1 art ieularly to rubber n United States and
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    CHINA.
    773 9 The New Surtaxes. GENERAL PROTEST. Shangba s July 13. The General Chamber of Commerce, consisting of elected representatives of the American, Belgian, British, French. German, Italian, Japanese, Netherlands and Swedish Chambers, has sent a letter to the senior Consul, strongly protesting against the illegal surtaxes and luxury taxes and
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    REIGN OF TERROR.
    64 9 Soviet Espionage. MORE DEATH SENTENCES. /Warsaw, July 13. Refugees from Russia report that the Soviet government has caused the arrest of hundreds at Kit-ff involved in a counter revolutionary plot, including a number of officers of the Ukrainian army. They also report that Grinkow, head of the
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    JERUSALEM EARTHQUAKE.
    191 9 PATHETIC SCENES. Jerusalem, July 13. Save for occasional cowed figures salvaging bedding on the backs of camels and donkeys, the usually animated streets of Nablus are transformed. Toe city is as dead as after a heavy bombardment. Scarcely a house escaped and the inhabitants are congregated in pathetic
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    OCCUPATION OF THE RHINE.
    46 9 CENSUS OF ALLIED TROOPS. (Rugby Radio Service.) London, July 13. The War Minister, in the House of Commons, answering a question regarding the present numbers of Allied troops on the Rhin°, said that they comprised 7,300 British, 56,500 French and 6,300 Belgians.
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    CLEMENCEAU’S ILLNESS.
    22 9 MARKED IMPROVEMENT. Paris, July 13. M. Clemenceau has improved and the doctor has authorised the resumption of a normal diet.
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    AMAZING GOLF.
    229 9 Jones’s 68 in Open Championship. A WONDERFUL ROUND. AUSTRALIAN PLAYER IN GOOD POSITION. St. Andrews, July 13. Bobby Jones played amazing golf in the first round of the Open Championship. He returned a cirl of 68 (out 32 in 36) beating the amateur record for the course by
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    WIGHTMAN CUP TENNIS.
    49 9 MISS RYAN NOT AVAILABLE. New York, July 13. Miss Ryan, owing to personal affairs, which will keep her abroad all summer, will not be available for the team which will defen 1 the Wigh‘m«n Cup, aua nst the English la lies at Forejt Hill in August.
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    BOXING.
    33 9 PAOLI NO DEFEATS HARRY WILLS. New York, July 14. The Spanish boxer Paolino Uzcudun knocked out Harry Wills, the negro heavyweight, in the fourth round of a fifteen-round contest at Ebbetsfield, Brooklyn.
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    AVIATION.
    173 9 ANOTHER TRANS-ATL ANTI J FLIGHT. Paris, July 13. Although the aviator Drouhin has contracted with Levine to pilot the “Columbia monoplane back to America, the Farman brothers are still determined that the Goliath aeroplane, which was originally intenlei for Drouhin to fly from Paris to New York, shall attempt
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    TRANS PACIFIC FLIERS WELCOMED.
    60 9 GREAT OVATION. San Francisco, July 13. Maitland and Hegenberger, the heroes of the San Francisco Hawaii flight, returned on the liner Maui from Honolulu. They received a great ovation. Arn y aeroplanes circled the ship and enthusiastic crowds of mmy thousands on the water-front brought into
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    LORD COWDRAY’S ESTATE.
    34 9 VALUED AT £4.000,000. London, July 13. The unsettled estate of Lord Cowdray has been valued at £4,000,000, as far as at present can be ascertained.” The death duty payable is £1,600,000.
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    THE RUBBER POSITION.
    1235 10 STATISTICAL POSITION CAUSING ANXIETY. A. W. S., writing U> the ‘‘Straits Times,” from London under date June 15, says:— There are indications of a crisis in tne rubber industry. The price has fallen just when it should have risen, and there are whispers of a movement in
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    UNPROFITABLE TELEGRAMS.
    460 11 vli Y THE SERVICE DOES NOT PAY. >uhl the British telegraph service be ]e .i paying business? Sir Evelyn M nrav. Se cretary of the Post Office, I'hinks’not, so long as the wages bill remains at its present level. The question is often asked whether economical organisation, without
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    DOG FIGHTS AS “SPORT.”
    323 11 A series of dog fights, organised by a secret dog fighting club which has members in almost every country in England, took place somewhere in the midlands recently. Definite particulars regarding where and when the,fights were held were reiused, but these facts, however, are cer- hi
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    THE PRINCE’S ADVICE.
    476 11 “WORK HAPPILY: LIVE LONG.’’ V ork happily and live long,” was the advice of the Prince of Wales when he presented prizes for long service to a company of twenty veterans among the farming folk of his Duchy a t the centenary exhibition of the Royal Cornwall
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    WHEN A MAN'S DRUNK.
    250 11 FEARSOME TESTS IN CINCINNATI. A new solution of the problem, “when is a man drunk has been found in Cincinnati. It is a solution of potassium dichromate carried in an apparatus through which the suspect is required to breathe. Its colour changes from yellow to green
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    GENERAL PRODUCE AGENCY LTD.
    36 11 RUBBER prices. We beg to report that the Singapor prices for Standard Ribbed Smoker Sheet for to-dav are as follows Spot Ang ’Sept» ip her Oct./D»cem> “r ’‘B|'* Jan/March 1928 59|c QmeL
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    BOBBED v. BALD HEADS.
    283 11 COMEDY OF HAIR CUT TAX PLAN The fact that the majority of the town councillors of Eisenach, in the German .State of Thuringia, are bald-headed has had an unexpected effect on the finances of the town. Anxious to replenish the municipal coffers, they’ decided to recommend
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    ON AN ARCTIC RIVER.
    270 11 WHEN THE ICE BREAKS. “She’s movin’ I” There is always cry of joy when the rivers of the Canadian North-West “go out” in the spring—that is, a hen the ice of the long winter commences to move down stream, and the river is once mor-; open
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    THE SHARE LIST.
    107 11 The following were the latest quo tations in Messrs. Kennedy and Co.'s share list at It a.m. to-day Yesterday. To-day. 00 0D Shares, b ns CQ OQ OQ sc. c. c. c. Rubber (Dollar). Bedford P. 1.00 110 -92| .97J Mining. AyerWengß. .90 IXO .95 I.o® Batu
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    OVERSEA BROKERS LTD.
    87 11 To-day. Min'ng. Buyers. Sellers. A. Wengs .97 1.00 Batu Caves 1.30 1.32 B. Padangs .68 .70 Bang'ins New 30/6 31/3 Kamuntings 20/- 20/6 K. L. Tins 36/6 37/Kuyohs 1.511 1.53 Laruts 23/9 24/3 M. Consols 1.19 1.21 Menglembus .52 .54 Nai Hoots .40 .42 Norths 1.14 1.16
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    UNITED TRADERS, LIMITED.
    89 11 The following are our latest quotations Rubbers. Buyers. Sellers. A. Panas $10.50 $ll.OO Colinsburghs 3.90 410 Glenealys 2.50 2.70 Haytors 12.25 12.75 Kedahs 395 4.25 M. Pindas 2.10 2.20 N. Scudais 2.55 2.65 U. Simpans 3.50 3.75 Tins. B. Padangs .67 .70 Hitams *92| Jelapangs 44/- 44/6
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    SINGAPORE PRICES.
    41 11 LONDON STANDARD (LOOSE» S. R. Sheet 57 cts per pounds per pl. $76/No. 1 Crepe 57 cts per pound per pl. $76/ Dull. London It' j 1 New York 34« c‘s. (gold). (By ('ou? tesy of Messrs. Alien Dennys.
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    RUBBER SALES.
    40 11 The General Produce Agency Ltd., Beach Street, Penang, report that tK following prices were realised at their auction room, to-day: G od F.A.Q. Ribbed Smoked Sheet $75 to 76 F.A.Q. do 73 74 Low F.AQ. do 71 72
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    TIN PRICES.
    90 11 Toe Straits Trading Co. Ltd., the fallowing prices, on July 12: LOSD>K Spot £282-103 Unchanged 3 m/s. buying 278 15s Up 5/- se'in4 „279 5/July 13: Spot £284 Up £l-10s 3 mos. buying 279 15s 1 3 selling „280 1 Local. July 13: Singapore sold 225 tons at
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    TIN OUTPUTS.
    22 11 The outpit of Phin Soon Tin Mines Ltd., for the first half m nth of July wi s piculs 140.
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    A FORGED WILL.
    675 13 FAMOUS LAWSUIT RECALLED. Individual idiosyncrasies are nowhere more apparent than in wills. Some men, says “The Weekly Scotsman,” wish to accumulate their money for future generations, or if possessed of lands to tie hem up to the end of time, although 1 hefe laudable objects have been
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      159 13 /ii i I MORRIS CARS I TO SUIT Every Person, Purse and Purpose. Four Door W-'ktJL a |F F. W. B. A. 1 Touring i Model Ii \xzg7' K Price $1,910. W •il Other Models from $1,650 i Spare Parts and Service Always Obtainable. AGENTS: WEARNE BROS., LTD., PENANG. I
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    THE VITAL SPARK.
    629 14 WILL THE CHEMIST CREATE LIFE In a remarkable address before the Oxford University Psychological Society on the Bth June Sir Oliver Lodge declared his belief in the possibility that life would some day be created in the laboratories of the biok g ate. I would even regard
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    SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
    107 14 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURE M sr K x ßh j Lok Sun for Porto Novo v de Kock for Belawan (Delil n p Asahan. Sri Muar for P. Langkawi and r < Trang). Egra for Negapatatr, \r aa Calcutta Ampang for Pangkor, DinaSitiawan. Kinta for Port SwetDnharu < Rawalpindi for
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    PENANG MAILS.
    525 14 CLOSE DAILY (except Sunday) BY TRAIN, Federated Malay States, Malacca Joi and Singapore *1 Registration and Parcel Post except id otherwise stated, close half -an hour ei3 i than the Ordinary mail Resumption Of Night MailServ J The following additional mails will be c J daily (Sunday excepted
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    THE MAILS.
    13 14 the The homeward inailP Jj/y. closes at 5.30 p-no- nn instant.
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    MARKET PRICES.
    683 15 CHOWRASTA MARKET. Penang, July 14, 1927 Mutton— cts Mutton Indian per lb 55 Head heep or goat each 1.00 Liver with heart lung do 1.30 Tripe do 1.00 Goat or Sheep per lb 55 Sweet Bread pair 30 Leg of Mutton lb 55 Lainb do 55 Snet mi
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      1306 16 ,xir~l HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE. THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE I I (Incorporated in Germany.) I INTENDED SAILINGS FROM PENANG For* Singapore, Hongkoag, Shanghai and J jpan Torts. 20th Jaly WEEKLY SERVICE. LONDON AND N. CONTINENT- h. 9. "Oldenburg’ 20th August •AmZoX jn'v Vo For Genoa X Marseilles. Rotterdam and Hamburg. ORESTES Jaly
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