The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 18 October 1906
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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly)
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Title Section18 1906-10-18 241 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. WEEKLY MAIL EDITION. THIRD SERIES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1906. No. 1,00318 words
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Article112 1906-10-18 241 I won .Jack 2H •}i R i! I n .i-i 5J- j :n f Bm :4 i M 13 i •rj i 249 I i;» M r 21! MS M 3 If. t' 240 P I'r k> t L'lr, t!.~ 2W. 2.-»O 251 2.VJ I 1.-- 1 'm Cmc112 words
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Article85 1906-10-18 241 < Motor 17. bvjen f s ."r> N\,. 1 1<».7'» >• N 9.621 8*y) Viijmi 20.62J Wl tic Ea» L W. :> p.c.i 2t.62£ UOtotkelb) -•> to the ft 4»'. ...d i S5.W 81.M »H .j\alit)- 7.6<» ■Oc do. 8J6 'ii'Uii pearl «lo. Bw4€ iM «liuin flake do. 10.85 words
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Domestic Occurrences.
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Article73 1906-10-18 241 A: Killarney House, Syed Alwee-rd, <>n the llth inst., the wife of B. E. Falls, of a .-on. Fawci >. On the 13th inst. At Mount Rosie. Singapore, the wife of Captain W. Stxfford PAWCUS, of a son. At Spring Grove. Singapore, on the 14th j October, the wife73 words
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Article82 1906-10-18 241 Hai.lik ax-Wil^on. -At Anderton Parish Church. Glasgow, on 11th September, by the Rev. James Robertson, b.d., Edwin Richard Hallifax. of the Hongkong Civil Service, to EVELINE, daughter of the late John Wilson, and of lira Wilson. 10, Nefaon-terrace, Hillhead. Glasgow. Akmstronil-Wakiiam. On the 9th inst.. m Dublin. William R.82 words
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Obituary69 1906-10-18 241 GftEY. At Coimbatore. Madras, on tlie Bth September. 1906, Alice Maud Mary, youngest daughter of the late Major W. R. Grey, Inspector of Prisons. Straits Settlements. and dearly loved sister of Major W. G. Grey, j Political Agrent at Maskat. i On the 17th October. 1906. at Halesworth, Bukit69 words
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Article, Illustration835 1906-10-18 241 i th< ■-•;•!•>■: t-'^'it maintain 1 k\i indue! > an«l nnhribeel \iy gain Here A Truth I >'i >'.- precepts draw. Pledge Rellgiort, Loyalty and Law. We have not yet heard that the Director of Public Instruction, on whom alone lies835 words
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Article735 1906-10-18 241 Conn iving at Home Rule. Oct. 13. From the time Mr. Gladstone made his secret compact with Mr. Parnki.l, then m Kilniaiuhani Jail, and suddenly turned round on all he had previously said about the Nationalists "marching through rapine to the disintegration of the Empire, the story of English political735 words
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Page 241 Advertisements
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Advertisement100 1906-10-18 241 1-r-f I'r- a Luropt' to the iStrWtdl Lines, ;itc inviteil tOMBdtO ir -t»'um»r and tin* i will then be ia porta of rail. m EvropewisluM detailed iaforum ke, am bt?e eoj y ol 's Share List posted lo wm FROM EX6LAXD TO THK PAS EAST. i d— r Sc^aagor, Kesri100 words
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Advertisement59 1906-10-18 241 PRINTING PRESS. For SALE A Reliance Wharfedale Cylinder Machine, super-royal, prints a sheet 44 inches by 27 inches, m thorough working condition, with rolls, hand or power driving, and all accessories, spare parts &c. Price S7OO. ALSO: A Campbell Oil Engine to drive the above, 1 h.p.,a1l fittings, m good59 words
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Page 241 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous246 1906-10-18 241 I THE WEEK. I Tht* last mail from Home arrived by the Delta with dates op to Sept -1. The Gueisenau carried the mail homeward on Monday and this mail goes by the I Bharata. The police court hearing m the now famous Hoiran and CVmpauy case, terminated 01 Saturday,246 words
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Article469 1906-10-18 242 Oct. id, There is a grand ring about Mr. Cham ueui.mn's telegram to the meeting of the Liberal-Unionist Council at Nottingham, m which he declared that their future watchword shook] bo "The Union of the Tarty, the Union of the Kingdom, the Union of the Empire."469 words
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Article803 1906-10-18 242 Wk referred above to the force of daily facts, and the presentation of endless evidence from the practice of other nations and of our own Colonies, as helping, by the irrestible, if slow, power of logical demonstration, to viudicate the validity of the arguments for the803 words
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Article583 1906-10-18 242 Then again as to the practice of other nations we have had repeated declarations by those who are officially authorised to speak for the United States and Germany, including President Roosevelt and the Kaiser himself, that it was to their taritV system, the protection it gave to583 words
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Article648 1906-10-18 242 Oct. 16. To paraphrase a wise old adage "It its a good thing for us to be taught," by a Granger, though not necessarily, "au enemy.'' When Sir HsmtY Cami'bellBanxkuman spoke to a great Liberal gathering at the Albert Hall last December, he blew a loud trumpet-blast648 words
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Article583 1906-10-18 242 \le<ii:al men m >in-, r ap ->r* of tbo amount of tag 9mm among the less robu* nati .<- I especially amongst Eurasians the ax -era go European ha-: never to 1 h to his notice tb« enormo'is *xter diseases of the pulraonar; *£■<&* m causing the583 words
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Article782 1906-10-18 243 <>ct. 17. I who have at heart the efficient lupot Ihi < hauuel Fleet, the masterful naval supremacy, will regret "t that consummately able ftor Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, nut i,i a^e, the popular imagination untied to find his successor m l' i> r»l Charles Beresford,782 words
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Article481 1906-10-18 243 The refusal of the Cardiff Corporation to purchase the Marquis of Bute's interests m the Cardiff Docks and railways will be sure to arouse keen argument among the Socialists and quasi- Socialists who favour nmninpaliMiiun of public euterpri«es. The Marquis gave the Corporation an option of481 words
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Article690 1906-10-18 243 Oct. 18. The important notification from the Government, that it is proposed to introduce a bill empowering the Currency Commissioners to pay gold or silver m exchange for Currency Notes, at their option, is another step m establishing the gold standard. It is not entirely new.690 words
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Article461 1906-10-18 243 We have said above that a< far <>>* tiu Government 14 contented, the sovereign is to be legal tender, and that that makes for stability. But it is to be noted that it is proposed to give the Currency Commissioners the option of paying m dollar.- or461 words
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Article262 1906-10-18 244 8. 0. C. v. The G prison. On the Esplanade last evening, a iv.si and Eairly oioso game, m which both sides displayed keenness and attractive football, ended iv a vicloi y for the Garrison by *J tries I (j points) to nil. lv the first half the262 words
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Article462 1906-10-18 244 \h rumour be true the Municipality intends to disband, literally, the Town Baud at the close of the year, on the <juite irrelevant ground that the voluntary public subscriptions do not justify its further main- teuance. The Municipality should be guided by the innumerable precedents ii may462 words
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Article1031 1906-10-18 244 Members by now will have received the programme of the various events which are to form the main entertainment at the S. C. S. Swimming Carnival on Saturday November the tenth, aud it is hoped there will be as prompt aud wide a response to j the invitation1,031 words
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Article965 1906-10-18 244 If we try to place ourselves m the position of the child to whom the above has l>3en said two or three times a day, wo shall be, as the child is, m a state of perfect l>ewilderment. la fact the only solution would be m the philosophy965 words
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Article176 1906-10-18 244 Km i lliw match was pl dV Uub s links on Sunday 1} fflorioiw one for golf ;iQ(] splendid rariition. The m the niorninj? an.] ended all. Lunch was Company 'B Huu^alow !in the Foursomes were played ft to be most exciting i V -r.tU?. on the last four176 words
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Article208 1906-10-18 244 4 T A l*U lU] AJ \< TUNE >X What !•> pronoun.evpert- To >>.» the i.- ii.> 01 Una l»i jiwt In— ■Hilaul m vi,. aul su<-c^s-vf!.l MMbracti n^inv This by tti sive ••on^ni.'tion ;<i;.; m 11 occupies, combined wit -tatod, to revoli tiotti« tion and i\\^208 words
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Article130 1906-10-18 244 For souie tioM pMi l l-maii ESafk, v.lv. *1 I I hi* niistiv-M:; >_!,i--g&li Jmml of hreof nun** damsel raciprocaft I ■nnarad'gouig until nmd X<m* ngnt ndboftSe i ne v. r ai 1•! for kmw* gw t love proverbial! y <!■••■ ul foHUl'l OMB MM130 words
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Article24 1906-10-18 244 Mr. Otetl A^mUm ]dr. Koek, wa^ ye- I •ohcitor aud advocate of n on the motion 0I t!:o IlL General, by the < M»t" I24 words
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Article324 1906-10-18 245 .nd Chinese m particular are ell tiieien m getting on and off iad minor accidents are of daily oc- i)n the M m jumping off a train m :u Southbiid^e-rd a Chinaman ttmdj hurt his head. He is still f\ tml „i. paper amji that Dr324 words
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Article153 1906-10-18 245 MvsTKKlMi;s ACCIDSHT. •lent, m which a Kaffles school -s\N 'fu met his dealli by drowuo« Tue>day afternoon. The )«M pami tIM ♦»th staudard and lia fatbet lot money to buy new lie higher class. He was given 1 this w.ts n<>t enough and went ulk>. He153 words
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Article105 1906-10-18 245 :;ty afternoon Malay named •an went into a Chiuese bird -hup ,ud said he wanted to buy j ife H^ lent against the counter bird after bird brought to him but ii-.ippiv.ved of each one. At i •{.•keeper l>ecume suspicious and M w,»uM be customer fonnd he105 words
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Article74 1906-10-18 245 Uj before Mr. Green, Chief InsWiboa o| the Tanjong Pagar Dock iqpi six Chinese coal coolies with cargo stored at the Docks. the theft was discovered the matter *\> -rtMl U the Dock Police and Insiboa at once set to work to track His investigations lead him74 words
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Article283 1906-10-18 245 ARMED GANG ROBBERS AT TANGLIN. TLo two Chinese arrested on the alle atioD of being concerned m the daring ranrobbery at Mr. Hugh Tort's head boy's •luarters m Dahey-rd. were charged before 31 r. Green yesterday. Inspector Frayne prosecuted and Mr Kowland Allen was for the defence of Xo 2283 words
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Article212 1906-10-18 245 Oil the sth instant Mr. Leoog Man Sau. an influential Chinese gentleman and a member ot theChiuese Advisory Board. got into a tram car and paid three cents for a ticket. The conductor Kuah Swee Hee did n«»t hand over t!)^ ticket aud on Mr. Leong Man212 words
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Article162 1906-10-18 245 Consul Tanaka addressed a large audieuee on the above subject at the Chinese chapel, Tanjong Pa gar, last night. After describing the old feudal system of Japau, and showing how save for a few monastic schools, there were no educational facilities for the common people m those162 words
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Article196 1906-10-18 245 11l June 1905 the M Ettrickdale and the M Rosalia d'Ali came into collision near the roads of Bata via, the latter ship being badly damaged. The captains held each other to blame and as they could not come to any satisfactory settlement the matter was put196 words
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Article476 1906-10-18 245 Pouenmr*! Appeal. In the Supreme Court yesterday, before the Chief Justice Mr Hyndman Jones, au appeal was heard against the conviction of Salleh and Hussain, two police constables numbers 55 and 68. Mr R. W. Braddell was for the first and Mr L E. Gaunt for the476 words
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Article151 1906-10-18 245 On Tuesday a Chinese woman living at Taujoug Rhu got home to iiud a Chinaman j had brokeH into her house, and was iv the act of packing up her valuables prior to taking them away with him. When the thief saw escape was impossible he knelt151 words
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Article260 1906-10-18 245 The French Dr. Binsson gives a description of a natural way of curing this terrible illness. Iv his opinion the only thing the affected person ought to do, is to take as soon as possible a darapbath, perhaps here, m this warm country even a260 words
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Article966 1906-10-18 245 ft is generally a weary tffitwing. tbe mtltical evening. There are natural;; exceptions but they do not occur with uior'? frequency than exceptions which go r<> prove most rules. Of course one usual X succeeds m discovering beforehand precise! y whom the host or hostess has iuvited966 words
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Article910 1906-10-18 246 Latter day prophets have foretold the doom of the iiovel, but on what ground it is difficult to say, as the output of fiction steadily increases year by year. The English tongue is so widely spoken, and, at least m the last thirty years, elementary education has910 words
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Article569 1906-10-18 246 To obtain an adequate idea of such a gathering as the second Esperanto Congress j at Geneva, nothing less than a visit suffices (writes a correspondent Let no one imagine that the members arc there for amusement. The nations had each to select their speakers, I tho Language Committee569 words
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Article258 1906-10-18 246 I*kovisu>\ for Verandahs. <)n Tuesday last before Mr. Michell. Hatnid appeared m answer to a summons j issued by the Municipal Commissioners to show why he, without having given tho reI quired notico, erected a boundary wall to his property iv Buffalo- rd. Mr. Dpoott appeared for258 words
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Article126 1906-10-18 246 Ou Monday morning the Police wore called to a brothel m Chin Hin-st., and there found a woman badly injured by knife wounds and a Chinaman dead m a bed. The woman's story was that the man had stabbed her m attemptiu^ to get away from tho house126 words
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Article762 1906-10-18 246 A European "Volunteer Fire Brigade is to be formed m Bangkok. The area of mining lands alienated m Kinta ii 1*0,430 acres, and the total labour I force employed on the mines throughout i the district is «J8,737. On the expiration of the motor btJf contract762 words
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Article360 1906-10-18 246 Bamm the Omm j, hlI The part heard case Xa,h;a lp versus Mootia Kurupaoen waa thTfir not... Mr Chopard for plaint^ 1 arrer Baynes for defendant. Ju this case sa.d Mr <'•„,., u .i (W admitted making the bill of and he alleged he has pai nJT360 words
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Article386 1906-10-18 246 FnsT Cams (Jymci Ke« (Hmhsxx Yesterl ly morning bd Mr Chief Inspector ttawini p-ww:te-i H Abdul <lani and JkMiilnuMMi for as pilgrim broken v.itho :t '-iu^ line The oas«' was the first cue unk Pilgrim Brokers Onlinuu -o of 1 I'uder this ordiainoe every pilgrim 1 lias386 words
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Article825 1906-10-18 247 rt a a home paper of the forma(>udt»nofa S-x-iety For Keeping In Their Proper Place. It is by r 1 -inf; a counterblast to the pro-_-,:id, r Miss P.illin<rton and her friends, t«. hi having a l'<h.<l time m the irriag A-suith. We confess that ipeef825 words
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Article146 1906-10-18 247 The Straits Engineering Syndicate lias obtained the contract to hang 'the bells for the ictona Hall Clock and the work is at last to be commenced. The slinging of the. bells to the top of the tower will be accomplished from the outside witu a block146 words
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Article130 1906-10-18 247 Three Uds, two Malays and a Chiuese. were charged before Mr. Column yesterday with the theft of ;t silk sarong. On the '2nd instant some garments were stolen from the terrace of a house m Northbridge-rd. and the occupant a few days later put some more there and130 words
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Article419 1906-10-18 247 1 gWOralf aiternoon successful tournament was brought to a close with the final of the Championship between L. E. Gaunt, runner-up and F. Sal/mann, the holder. The light was good hut the ground rather heavy and m favour of Gauut's cuts, but the court was as good419 words
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Article133 1906-10-18 247 A Chinese woman reports that on the 10th. I she was goin^ home when a Chinaman who i was walking m the same direction suddenly pretended to pick up something from the 1 road. He triumphantly examined this and then called to her and told her he133 words
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Article947 1906-10-18 247 Sept. 1*. If this climate is preferable to yours, as uudoubtedlr it is, I question whether it is not more difficult to live iu. You have 9:3 deg. in the shade in London and other parts of England, over 90 deg. .in Glasgow and 86 deff. in947 words
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Article64 1906-10-18 247 The Rev. Dr. J. E. Marks, for over forty rears missionary of the S.P.G. and chaplain m Burma, is compelled by the decision of lis medical advisers finally to abandon his lope of returning, even temporarily, to that country. He will continue to act on depuation as long as his64 words
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Article437 1906-10-18 247 A Sccckssok'i Affbbciatio*. Iv unveiling the portrait of Sir Ftftak 1 Swettenham m the Town Hall, FCuala Llllu- por, Sir John Anderson said. Sir Frank was a great man. Ho was 1 dreamer of dreams."' but he had the ability, the tenacity of purpose and the force437 words
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Article236 1906-10-18 247 The Evils of Overcrowding. It was a former Health Officer of Calcutta (Dr. Simpson, we believe) who likened th^ sanitation of the city to that of an African Village.'' Anyone carefully studying the report of the Health Officer for the past year would come to the conclusion that236 words
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Article219 1906-10-18 247 SntUTGI Japanese Cekemony. The late Gen. Meekel, who was formerly the principal foreign instructor of the Japanese Army, has received the posthumous honour of being elevated to the rank of a "deity." According to the Tokio correspondent of the Berlin M Lokalanzeiger," the curious but impressive religious219 words
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Article1010 1906-10-18 248 He came to me m the long ago wlieu it was not considered the thing to be seen riding -about town m a rikisha, at least l>efore il inner. They wore the days before rubber tired, spicier wheeled, cosmopolitanbuilt rikishas were common, and the possession of a genuineW.M. - 1,010 words
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Article880 1906-10-18 248 Electricity for Bottliug Science and Industry The Music Typewriter An American Dye Chemical Food Far Off A New Optical Illusion Light Cure m Kussia Air-Tern pored Steel. A flash of lightning one kilometre long and lasting one-thousaudth of a second represents energy calculated by Otto Nairz to be880 words
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Article27 1906-10-18 248 l'lio Straits Trading Co. Kuala Lumper have raovod into their temporary quarters, and the old building will shortly bo demolised to make room for tho nen ftructuro.27 words
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Article326 1906-10-18 248 Some of us may roinember the story of the small schoolboy tvho was so harassed by the ponsaeinonim or some other proposition m the "First Book.'" breaking down over it and wailing out M Oh, Euclid, Euclid, why didn't you die when you were a boy326 words
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Article287 1906-10-18 248 A Tor. hin<. E\A:«in.E. IF. S. Bevan (Messrs Lane, Cimwfofd and Co; is the recipient of a iw| elegantly I designed silver cup bearing the following Ens- cription M Presented to EL S. Bwran, Es.j by Pan Wa Sin, GMownatan of X D.L., as tok.-u for rescuing his287 words
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Article311 1906-10-18 248 I Mr Benjamin Horniman letlUwaJ at the i Sanitarium, Park Street, Calcutta, recently, on the use of salt, the title of his lecture being A Pinch of Poison.*' As the title suggests the lecturer contended that the use of salt m food im most deleterious to311 words
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Article503 1906-10-18 248 The name of Sir Robert Hart continne m control of the Chin** < is a household breadth of China. For a ,uarUr of t^ ho was, m effect, a dictator *it| greater than the tlllMJ, f J m the management of rhine- His oriental r.ireer is th*503 words
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Article204 1906-10-18 248 In Tnknow {m L Details of au ertiaordim ry .'•••en. nlTlllOJ Uy Colonel C. I>. PHmS »f the I Regiment at Wei-hai-wei, and <* Lnyard, of the JTilfciiwißi— iiiiifi U are published l>y the N<«rth Chini He Starting iVoin BWI m I l^ ov Iwo otlicers iii.iJe204 words
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Article51 1906-10-18 248 JAPANESE PRINCE GOING TO CHINA. MMt Kushimi with A J mini mmnl uaval officers will visit ?ourt m October, on th<* <*••**' tuiso to the Chinese coast whi n na.iobv th.^ Japauo** squalr^o i PriiK^Fashimi is son in-. Tinlistorical instanoe of a x >t >t a J«p :mperi;il Pr:n to51 words
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340 1906-10-18 249 l announced that the great scourge white ants or termites, which i ,j rathles-iy all descriptions of wood- ;iway keepers to household fur- n tropical and sub-tropi« al land», can ♦vtually dealt with, as. l.y a newly- roc-ess, any wood may readily be impervious to340 words
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Article150 1906-10-18 249 from Xovara m North Italy, ;i I rof a London »nemng journal tragic affair irn; nn-l-Mbtodly enhanct^ v 4 mountain scenery, but an ha- taken place this week at rhe arall* disi 'ict of Italy, brings ntaar .tspe'-r of tlie »[iiestion. 'lilhvii. »>ne of t hem150 words
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Article157 1906-10-18 249 RUSSIAN AN TRANSPORT STOLEN Is >tory, paMUhed m the i?'M/ •t 's not only tin tbeit of £uns la m Raaua, bat that even •n^'in-.'t'* imo State may l«e ■titan that after the war, the I illi Mil— fia tlmirilr *m§ J- lyinjj m Vladivostok Harbour, ■m b^ing tureo passenger157 words
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Article28 1906-10-18 249 PANAMA CANAL AND CHINESE LABOUR. I ipph Oaiaaai lal>our for am: tit patekad WaaUagj I unt.d to 11 rents an hour to ■I n I .",000 eoofiei n»*o28 words
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Article423 1906-10-18 249 A report by our Consul for ftl* year states that while a large portion of 'the foreign commerce of French Indo-China is j carried on through our colonies of Hongkong and Singaporo, there i* but little business done l>et\veeu Indo-China and merchants m the United Kingdom, and423 words
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Article421 1906-10-18 249 Mr. Jiico^ ]T. S»-bifF, one of the leading financiers of the Tnited States, contributes an interesting article on Japan to the Nori'i I A >•>€.•''•'.in ll> r (i He say-: It is m the development ot' tbe fresh markets of Korea and Manchuria m particular, and of421 words
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Article97 1906-10-18 249 Hrn mortality returns for Singapore for tbe week ended Oct. »»tli show 185 deaths, including 11 at St John's fsland, the .^uirantino station. The ratio per mille is 34.49 all m. or ex jluding the imported cases, 3«\:io. Phthisis accounts for no less that 20 deaths, the next highest single97 words
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Article297 1906-10-18 249 This i> a very uninteresting place," said the New ZSalander, m Esperanto, with a slight German accent, to bit wife. 'What is it < ailed, Oretchen She consulted her Baedeker. v Why, it's London, of course v But there are nothing but nin3 about," he e\claiuie«l, m297 words
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Article213 1906-10-18 249 "COMMANDER McTURK" IN REAL LIFE. Commander Doaglas-Douglas, R.X.. who is interviewed m the M British Australasian," has had almost -is many adventures as Captain Kettle and Commander lfoTurk, whose doughty deedl on land and sea have provided to much entertaining leading for the patrons of the "Pall Mkll Magazine.** Commander213 words
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Article218 1906-10-18 249 The Soptember list of passenger BaOings of the P. and O. steamers calls attention to the company 8 improve! direct leirioo of intermediate steamers between London and Japan, sailing from the Royal Albert Dock at f )rt> nightly intervals. The Ntunur, wliieli is to leave218 words
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Article55 1906-10-18 249 Fe^\ people are aware that there :ire m the Vnited States more than three hundred and fifty secret orders, brotherhood- and sisterhoods, containing over seven million members. Although during the past century the nation has surprised the world m its marvellous progress, the development of the secret55 words
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Article57 1906-10-18 249 On^ cannot go through the world without noticing ho*r vast is the difference between the theory and practice of most iudiriduals. Theoretically a man m;ry have the very firmest beLief m higher scientific education; m practice he would not employ any young man who had received su«h57 words
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Article346 1906-10-18 249 Ju.->t lately there has been much talk [fl j racing circles as to the to put it very mildly I wi d riding <>f several jockeys, and whils* more than one serious ompla.int has been mad), there have been many rumours, say rh ''Field,'" as to further <ompla;nts346 words
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Article187 1906-10-18 249 I t )ii Friday afternoon a light oocarrecl 1 between two clans of -oolie> coaling tbt iteamer Strombua at Tanjong Pagar. The t\v<) clans Hokieus and Teo-hews— aiv generally ready to \\y at ea< h others' throote on ibe slightest provocation and the row on Friday187 words
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Article221 1906-10-18 249 5.8.0. v. r.ltC. A. Ou the Esplanade on Saturday the Club winning by 2»'» runs, Jans/ made iv ti> Y3l C A innings, I)e Sou/a with the bftl tool <I V M wickets for -V 2 aii-1 Alvis If--17. For the S]? 0 Valbtrg and Davids -L j playe-1221 words
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Article59 1906-10-18 249 Mr. P. J. Burgess has l*yri granted Isar* to file a specification of an improved rub!)'-; tapping knite. Mr. J. X. Dick has byn ap!»<jint«'.l 1«--porary Inspector of Marine Surveys New rules concerning the Boar-1 of Licencing Justices are published In the Ga/etUv A liceuoo to conduct sales59 words
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Article885 1906-10-18 250 The time for the receipt of designs for i ,c Birch Memorial at Ipoh has beeu extended to hec. 81, several slight alterations baring beer, made m the conditions of the oin petition Mr E. S Campbell of L-madrou return--J* to Singapore by the Delta on885 words
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Article324 1906-10-18 250 The fourth Children's Concert of tbe sea- j son 1906 (there are usually five»every year) took place at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday afternoon at 5.90 pm. There was, as always, a very large gathering of the little folk, who were greatly interested m ail that wont324 words
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Article190 1906-10-18 250 On Saturday night m the gymnasium of the Twentieth Century Boxing Club recently opened by Messrs McAuliffe and Newman, there was (riven an interesting little athletic programme. The show opened at 9-30 with a neat exhibition of ball punching by McAuliffe who next put his clever fox terrier190 words
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Article70 1906-10-18 250 The following figures from ;t report by Mr A. Stuart, Registrar of Imports and Exports, show the imports (tons of coal into the Straits during the first half of 1905, and li>o6. Jan-June Jan-June. 1905. 1906. United Kingdom 39,718 48,499 Australia 13,972 121,910 Bengal 77,951 171.5(3970 words
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Article126 1906-10-18 250 > < According to the Times of Cevloa the vacant auditor-generalship is to be tilled by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, much to the distaste of the senior members •f the Colony's Civil Service. There was some talk m Colombo of opening the new Graving Dock on the126 words
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Article1620 1906-10-18 250 Th<- last stage of the preliminary hearing of the charges of cheating against Mr. H. Hogan and Mr. J. 13. Robertson, Managing Director and Secretary of Hotjan A. C<» waheard before Mr. Colman on Saturday. Mr. W. A. N. BattenWg is for Mr. Ho^an and Mr. F.1,620 words
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Article148 1906-10-18 250 > < The Lauadron pri/e-blmk of ruli been presents! to the Nmtoifi and a similar block ie It be Imperial Institute- s^ I '•-•I""'' 1 Accordin- to a lon f* rible was only to stay H. M. S. Fox, which had .i.malee for the Xicobar- erfcei arrived there for ber,148 words
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Article678 1906-10-18 251 \^v r .Uy afternoon Mr «rreen fined a taws *15Ofot slaughtering a pig on a premises aud another $10 for keeprenced piggen m Beach -rd. ;:uinl>er of the quarterly journal iit> Branch of the Royal Asiatic -v .red this time to a print of <hainsifl Bahrain678 words
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Article1059 1906-10-18 251 HOW TO MAKE THEM. As this is ;1k» first day o? the Autumn Meeting Autumu of course because by settling day a frost will have set iv that will leave no mistake as to th« season preceding winter, with its many nips I am saved the trouble of explaining1,059 words
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Article663 1906-10-18 251 Removing Stamts ik«»m Lkitei^. Yesterday morning before Mr. Colman Arpiithasamy, Bob-Poatmaster at the Tanjon^ l^a^ar Post < >rtice, was charged with theft as a servant of a three cent stamp from a postal article. Mr. P. J. Sproule, J). P. l\. conducted the prosecution and Mr. W. A.663 words
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Article122 1906-10-18 251 Sin<;afore"s SooiiE. The following] are the individual scores which went to make v k p (he Singapore total of !♦<>'•» m the luterport Shield. 20*» "»00 ftOO Total C. M. Phillips ::2 :Ji 31 '»7 fibster <-nr. King :ll 34 31 !♦<> R. E. de Silva 32 33122 words
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Article93 1906-10-18 251 [aspector Hart n oes to the Detective station m place of Inspector Joyce, second--1 eJ to the Kedah Polico, and Inspector Nolan 1 takes over charge of Sepoy Lines. In- spec-tor Purvis, who has just returned from lon-,' leave, does duty at the Central. The Malay States Volunteer ililles hold93 words
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Article638 1906-10-18 251 Befoei Mr. Justice Fisher. Judgment was given m several actions bj Mr. Justice Fisher m the Supreme Cour* yesterday. In the COM m which K. S. Saibo Tarn by was plaiiuift' and S. Bawasah Mariean the defendant, his lordship after a, careful consideration of the evideuce camo638 words
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Article285 1906-10-18 251 Tokyo reports that tho capital of South Manchurian Railway Company V.ibeen 'ar^elv over-subscribed. Mr. G-: S. Brown of Messrs Brown an Davidson, Ltd., Ceylon, arrived here by i P. ,v O. Mail and left yesterday afternoon tor Lauadron Estate, M'lar. It may be interesting to noto that practically all pri/es285 words
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Article258 1906-10-18 252 Yesterday before Mr Caiman the case m which a Chinese trader named Poll Guan charges an Arab trader named Shaik Ahvee with cheating was taken m its preliminary stage. Mr Montagu Harris conducted the prosedition, Mr C. Everitt was for the defence and Mr Lancelot Gaunt258 words
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Article651 1906-10-18 252 Cl AIM AOAIHBT AGENTS. Mf W. Nanson, with Mr Baker appeared before Mr Justice Visher yesterday m support of a claim by McKerrow and Company against M. Ginsburg and Company arising out of what was called, said Mr Nan son, a Shippiug Contract, to carry certain cargo651 words
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Article13 1906-10-18 252 > < *w! Will ms P ect tbe Sherwood foresters on the 22ud and 23rd.13 words
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Article890 1906-10-18 252 {From our own Correspondent.) •Mh October. N.D. L.B. 8. "Bokneo" It is reported that thi^ vessel stranded close to l.'ulau Jsai on the morning, of the lth iust. The M Corueo M is employed regularly on the Borneo-China Service, and I for a number of voyages past she890 words
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Article916 1906-10-18 252 »A X *\T THE UARIJHK. The great one of the Garrick. Mr Arthur i Bourchier. is displeased, and will take a firm stand. Like a great many others who have been helped m their profefcsional career, and that m no inconsiderable manner, by the Press, he916 words
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Article50 1906-10-18 252 > < Yesterday morning one of the street lamps outside Raffles Hotel was found with the top bent over at a right angle. No one knows how this occurred and m any case the person who twisted up the iron workmust be particularly strong. Rather early to commence to "celebrate"50 words
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Article112 1906-10-18 252 In ant> j ,i:..n of ti, i Aiuericau uuiroa l.- Gibraltar mm fetfice i' ia( rating from the >hips <,{ SHUadn.u have met at (iibralt die I mted Btetot if,,,,! (r dron. under Kear-Admira! p f y D sistinjrofthr -"AWst Virginia- "Maryland. and -pSS« was due theiv112 words
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Article79 1906-10-18 252 HTmnoMßi> Thk«»i nm 1 1 A terr i hie sieve v lt > u.? r through iHpMim hv i touristsat ftmtmt lUriagatChamotii man watobeerved ou the ridge trftheD Gouter. Bftkiig faperateefl to the hut on the Crauds Mul< s he was nen to rtaggor, n a79 words
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Article76 1906-10-18 252 Mr. W. Pert Bilft to!-i the annual meeting of tke I cto*y < Country Holiday Fur.d of t .v. taught v point of etiq H A party of v.utovy _iiN v f through St Paul's T ljehind. wiioreupon kk loiUis j, i guide, took76 words
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Article376 1906-10-18 252 At the boi ritie practire.it [poll bdiei took pi.rt. Mrs Brttt -34 out of 3-"». Her oal? im second shot ><♦ that she t\u> thimg of live Uiils-e Mr F. 0. 15 J lfeMJ* A fitor of Fomtt, IVf.k. i I». H. I. Btriiurl t Deputy C of Forests m376 words
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Article535 1906-10-18 253 1 o! *i 'hinaniau has l>»en fou nd ia ira-pl m a de.*ompose<] stato and rii ■•iinwt be ascertained. nd dying assoagthe Sea I>\ iks M the title o4 m iuteresrin^ .^Il Ib'tvitt iv the AgticutUtsJ if .1 ilv. ju>t lo hau L oca) Chinees joomaJ535 words
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Article2043 1906-10-18 253 S.S.C. AUTUMN MEETING. COMMITTEE. C. Sagden, Hon. ff. Tort, H. l\n.iH-.<;nllu,y. Graham Patterson, A. W. Stiyen, Xoel Trotter, K. L. Brockman. en taryand (Ink of Course. G.P. Owen. AftfUHtant Secretary. J. D. Saunder*. Jjdge. A. s. Lerenclie; Assistant Judge, W. K. Cleaver. Haiitlicapp< r. K. H. Bratt ime-Keeper.2,043 words
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Article497 1906-10-18 253 APPELLATE JURISDICTION. Before the Ch J b. m the Sapmme Court yesterday bei the Chief Justice, Mr Byndman Jones, ti part- heard appeal by the two Malay poli« constables, Salteh and Qussain No. r.:, and was proceeded with. Mr ]l. W. Braddell for the first and Mr497 words
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Article191 1906-10-18 253 lii the small hours of yesterday morniuj Mr. S. Haskins, living m Fort Canning I road, hoard a noise. U. g I ttioosly of lied and saw a Chinaman, who was star naked, make a dash for the verandah. Mi Haskins followed the intruder and f«ua he191 words
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890 1906-10-18 254 Perhaps the greatest misfortune atteudBS children of t lie present day, is the small ..ill which is made on their imagination. Whether it be i:: chool or play hour, the maginatrte faculty is largely at a discouDt. -o extremely cheap have become scientific890 words
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Article1729 1906-10-18 254 (From Our Bp*-nal Correspondent.) INTEBNATIONAL Competition. London. September 21. Each season sees an increase m the number of International contests at various forms of sport, and it is absolutely certain that all this tends to bring about a better mutual understanding amoug the contestants. International rivalry on1,729 words
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Article122 1906-10-18 254 i M. C. A. v. Dutch Eleven. These teams met on the Esplanade last evening, and played an even game. From a rush on the I >utch goal Edmitt for the Y. M. C. A. scored and nothing further was obtained throughout the match. Result Y. M. C. A.122 words
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Article65 1906-10-18 254 Important Gofmun Notification. Sovereigns Legal Tender. The Colonial .Secretary tmit iug for publication. In view of the rim k Efc r of silver tke Gmmmm deckled to imtroimee a Ml at empomrtnf tte Currency c mimtwien tojMtyCMrm .v either iv gold or tiltx r at i absolute option.65 words
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Article3263 1906-10-18 254 f By Submarine Teieg Keeeived at 10.30 .t l. (Jd The Foreign < >tncH MMttfltti mary of t lie modu- vivendi v. :tl A men OOMtntag the Newfoundland berrinj i cries. Britftia undertakes Dm? t recently patted b\ the Newf. :u.: I lature express!;.- aimed ,r pi>.. American Fishermen3,263 words
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Article278 1906-10-18 255 Hongkong Oct. \l Rec<-ive«l Oct. 12 8.83 pin. lv (be Imerport Eif'e match the scoiv Shanghai has just come to h md. Tho totals at the different ran^os weiTwo hundred yards 308, Rn hundred yards 3ls, Six bundle 1 yards U-i. To-: 1 at all ranges 930. This278 words
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Article154 1906-10-18 255 Compiled for the M Singapore Free PtotM. Date of passing An.jer Nationality and d cription of res-e. Captain's nan;>Where and -.albd. Destination. Sept. 2:>. Brit, str., Islander; Wri-rt Singapore, Sept. 27 'Jhrhtmas Island. Oct. 1. Ital. hi, Sant Anna Trapani V ta\ia, Sept. .'JO .\nistcrdam. Od. 1.154 words
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Article67 1906-10-18 256 (Corrected up to Oct. 17.) Bank 4 m, s 2 4 demand 2 4 Private credits 3in s 2/41 credits 6ms 2/4 France, demand Bauk 293.1 Germany, demand 289 India, T. T 173.. Hongkong, demand 1} dis Yokohama, demand 114 1 Java, demand 140J Bangkok, demand 57 Sovereigns, Bank Buying*67 words
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Article481 1906-10-18 256 MINES. Capital Capital Issue Paid n x i j \r Company. Quota: Issued paid up Value up K J $135,000 140,000 1<» 10 Berfawah Gold M. Co. Ltd 840,000 1" 1<> Do Do i Deferred i $600,000 600,006 10 10 Bru s oh Hydralic Tin M. Co. Lt.i 1:'481 words
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Page 256 Advertisements
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Advertisement11 1906-10-18 256 MARTIN'S TgPIOL STBBL Ladies. PiLLS A French Remedy for all Irregularities.11 words
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Advertisement53 1906-10-18 256 A SPECIAL FEATURE A CIIKAI' ADVKUTI^"POPULAR WANTS" If you have a House to Let, Rooms to Let, Want a Situation Want to Buy, Sell or Exchange Articles, Want Assistants, Hor Rooms, try an Ad." m the Singapore Free Press," at the NEW CHEAP RATE $1 tor 2, or 3 Insertions53 words
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Page 256 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous663 1906-10-18 256 Passengers Arrived. Per Inaba Man: Messrs Durward. Edurds, Boyce, J. < 'liver, Mr and Mrs Purvis, Mr W. Watson and 92 deck passengers. Per BaaFo8oon: Mr and Mrs Kgerton hord and children. Per Karang Mr t Madden. Per Rajah of Sarawak Mr Lange. Per Sappho M I Dull. Mr Bishop,663 words
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Miscellaneous639 1906-10-18 256 CLEARANCES. bet 11. Laura. Dut ttr, Schaaf, for Sourabaya. Breid. Xor. str., Folkmann, for Bangkok. Cyclops, Brit ttr, Pulford, for Antwerp via port*. Xuentuug. Ger. str., Binscb, for Bangkok. Ban Liong, Dut. str., Winters, for Cotie via port>-. Amiral Magon, Fr str, BimonB, for Dunkirk via ports. Banka, Brit. str.,639 words
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Miscellaneous465 1906-10-18 256 VESSELS IN PUilT. Men-of-War Flag and Tons Commanders Arrived From Sea Mew Col. ycht 8<>u Murphy Sept J- IV g Ship Fiae Tons Master Arrived from IV Adeh Sar 189 Service Oct 11 Kuchin- UnfEwiHai Afghan Prince Brit :'»13h OiflMI O« t 17 Now Yoi k II:ifb... I, B Antilochus465 words
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