The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 11 April 1912

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    15 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. THIRD SERIES No 1.289 fHURSDAY. APRIL 11, 1912.
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    CONTENTS.
    193 1 LEADERS. PAGE The l>»^*in\ of tlu> Philippines 326 j TW Collapsing of th«« Coal strike -j-jo Mr. I.Miiiiin (1 a Sir .lolim Aii»lt'iso»i 2>»> Kurou" and Urn Balkan Problem 227 Mr. Booai Law ;it UHfa>t ill COMPANY NOTES AND REPORTS. Prater's Share Circular 88] f'.itjtai Meeting J-'-T Bvkil Timah
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    124 1 Baaacriber* to the '•Singapore Free Press*' weekly retarninti from Enropeto the Straits I>> an ofth€ mail liaen, areiavtted to send to the luuMiiei H"< aaaw ol their steamer and dale ol ;u rival m siii-.t jm ii» Copies ili then inuil. il i.» iim «-r them at various jm.ik «»i
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    EXCHANGE.
    63 1 (Corrected up to Apiil 1(0 Bank 4 m > 516 demand 2-4* Private credits 3 m 8 2-4 j civdits 6ine 2-4 11-16 Franck demand Bank 294 Germany, demand 238India. T. T. 174-» Hongkong, demand lwi Yokohama, demand JAVA, demand 14 °4 Bangkok, demand 66 TwHIMIWIIII Bank Buying 54
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  • Domestic Occurrences.
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      THANKS
      18 1 Mr. Frank Stanley Clark desired to thank all friends for their expressions of sympathy m hi> bereavement.
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      BIRTHS.
      34 1 At the Cottage, Orchard Road, on April Bth, the wife of V. CLUMBCK, of a son. Ik ME. On the *?h April, at Kuala Lwnpvr ill. wife \v. V. Hume, of a daughter.
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      MARRIAGES.
      90 1 On the 6th April 1912, at 7. Portland Road, Kilmarnock, Scotland, Catherine MacWhietan daughter of Mrs. .John Cowan to William How mm) Newton, oaly son ot the late How Aim Newton, MI.C.E, and of Mas. Newton, Singapore. McCall— aJD>EßBoN. At the Preshyterian Church, Slngspore, on tith inst.. »>y the
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      DEATHS.
      105 1 Mai.m h. March 14, at Kingston, C. C. I a i.si ii, late of Hongkong. p OTT^._^\X arc h s, at Berlin. A. C. BUTTON )i is. of Yokohama, a^ed 50. On April 4th. LORD AUEXANDEI KKNNEDY. ter a short illness. HOBOB. At Bonnie DOOB, Byed Alwi Uoad. on
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    THE WEEK'S NEWS
    152 1 •The P. and o. A-^aye" arrived on Saturday last with mails up to Man h 15. This weekly leaves l»y the li. I. Tarolui to-day. The Colony scored an easy win ot 17') runs over the U, S. m the interstate Cricket Match on Saturday and Monday.
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    PRODUCE.
    132 1 April 10. Tin (75 tons sold^ 97.82} Gambier 10M Gambier Cube No. 1 15.75 Gambier Cube No. 2 com. Pepper Black ordin. Spore 21. C0 Pepper, (White fair) 30.50 Nutmegs (110 to the lb.) nom Nutmegs (80 to the lb.) noin. Mace iP.anda) 115 Cloves (Amboina) nom. Bali Coffee
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    The Destiny Of The Phillipines.
    1761 1 April 5 Like the proverbial bad penny, every iow and then turns up the perennial noblem which is no problem at all rere it not for the political blindness )C those responsible for it —of the future lestiny of the Philippines. Before the American Government
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      97 1 GELESTINS VICHY TABLE WATER. Ml mH celebrated and incomparable table WWkta m order to meet the rising demands of the public has been now introduced m number. Grande Grille. Hospital and Celes^ tin's. The two first waters are used medical is exclusively used for table drinks and can with advantage
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      48 1 What m the world's the use of fietting O'er life's troubles every day AH our blessings thus forgetting, We've some blessings any way. One great blessing all may tinger, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, to wit, Drives off colds incliued to linger. Makes us well and keops us tit.
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    The Collapsing of the Coal Strike.
    1097 2 April 8. Minorities must suffer," may be classed as the phrase of Mr BIRRELL's that will live when the author of Writer Dicta and his work are aliko forgotten. In the ease of the groat conl strike, an infinitely worse cal unity than the
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    Mr. Lampard & Sir John Anderson.
    1731 2 Mr. Lampard Sir John Anderson. April 9. It is a commonplace comment on the correspondence of the fair sex, that when a lady writes a letter t lie motive oi' that letter appears only m I postscript. The discussion upon Sir EiRHEHT BIRCH 8 clever and informing paper on British
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    Europe and The Balkan Problem.
    1375 3 April 10. Now that some slow beginnings are being made towards a resumption oi the industrial life of Britain which has been m enforced abeyance for the past few weeks, one of the questions which thoughtful men who are conversant with the general tendencies of
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    Home Rule Meeting.
    1271 3 April 11. Whatever Mr Asgrmi's Some Rols Bill be or rather llr EtEDHOND'ti Bill, for the conditions of the Bill arc imposed by the leader of the [rich party that measure, before it reaches the table of the House of Commons is morally a sheer fiasco, a
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    THE WORLD'S Y.W.C.A.
    643 4 Calcutta Lady Lbctubbs at Tanoum Club. An interesting lecture on the World's Y.W.C.A." was delivered at the Tanglin Club yesterday afternoon by Miss Kadfovd, is. a.. General Secretary of the Calcutta V.W.C.A. Miss Blackniore presided and referred sympathetically to the loss sustained by their patron. Lady Evelyn
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    46 4 Mr. Jowett, ii.p., is to move m the House of Commons that complete tteedom of speech and action for its members can only be secured by the election of Parliaments for fixed periods, irrespective of Ministerial changes or a defeat of the Government of the d:iv.
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    SUNDAY LABOUR.
    1269 4 WORK AT THE DOCKS. This evening the V.M.C.A. Debating Society will discuss the question of Sunday Labour amongst the shipping nt the dorks. The mere announcement of this debate does not carry with it a true sense of the seriousness of the question, and it is proposed therefore
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    LANG-HOLLOWAY CO.
    221 4 Swbkt Knx W Old I>ki itv.' Thih beautiful and popular piece drew a crowded house at tbe Victoria Theatre last eveuiug when the enthusiasm was great and the applause continuous and well merited. In Sweet \ell of Old DruryV' many of tbe members of the Lang Hoi loway
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    270 4 I apt. K. H. Rooke. X.X.. has been grant od la*ve of absence on private affairs from 12th April. 1912, to itth July 1912. with permission to navel m China and Japan. The "kanagawa Maru.'Capt. ttuttar, has left Japan 10l IIHUEiI with fourteen hundred Japanese emigrants on hoard. She makes
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    GOOD FRIDAY.
    829 5 lo smh posiublj who read these lims. heading of ibis will appeal merely .i lac point oi view of religious ohscr >r>. i it since a modern historian lias ul. dtlrit the mouthpiece of the lirilish na ion b.»- p.«-se«i from the Church to the Poli- j (l.in.
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    RELIGIOUS DISSIPATION.
    1114 5 I have never before known my two sister* to take Lent so seriously a> this year. Perhaps I :mi. us they asserf. very oldfashioned and of course m my own young <l:tys» we were not allowed the name amount of liberty, religioua or otherwise; and I remember we
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    A HIMALAYAN CHIEF.
    1082 5 His territory was tricked m somewhere between the British administered districts and Tibet. To the very frootiei of the latter his kingdom extended. It was a very fair sized domain, and consisted of a jumble of snow covered mountains, glacier streams, and steep hill sides on which
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    THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT.
    1225 5 The Strange Adventures of His Highness the Sultan of Mengkaboun. The Ki;in< ak\ ation of mi: Ilu\h Mm a. Vainly tract; tin* purpose of the old gods. Woven by arts of magic on a mystic loom. Into a thick curtain that will blind you. Hiding >
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    THE CURTAIN OF NIGHT.
    1429 6 TI!K sti; \\(.i; ADVEXTrKES OF H. H. THE SI'LTAN OF MEXGKABOI. Tin. Sacrkd Kistwah. on Friday* it wns the custom of His Highness with some of as, to assemble m tin- large verandah ol the country boose of Hadji Hafez, off the Batostier Road at the
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    VEGETARIANS
    1120 6 May it be iii« fortune «>, i rery reader I|(; i to be a nou -vegetarian m the house of v vegetarian, lli:^ ways will surely ho strewn with obstacles if this mer fall to his lot. It musi iiti remembered that the true vegetarian, the fanatic who believes
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    THE LATE LORD ALEXANDER KENNEDY.
    348 6 11. K. sir Arthur Young oa morning i«(ci\c(i ;t telegram d Windsor, notifying the deaih. ami short illness, of Lord Alexander Kent* I brother of Lady Evelyn toting, and sou o\ the second Marqaia ol Ulsa. Tliui sad new* was altogoilh-i unexpected, ami isthere on
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    "TRUTH" ON SIR HENRY MAY'S PROMOTION.
    163 6 The latest imnii,cr of tnik coul i the following comment on s, M r ,,,v y ■ppointfrt t<> t\u> Governorship Hongkong The appointment of sir Vmmcia V be (.ovcmor ol Wowghowg En being n criticisod m tlic Colonial ferrlce, foi was only promoted hon
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    Friday, April. 5, 1912.
    765 7 _'vi whales, cmii Koala Lumpur cor«l on item win-.. Are stranded near Jerani I we »i» compotiim < i«)v, ili^ ;u!\ s'ciMMin v' p|>' ;ti"s CMI iteher's shop is Tokyo: "Tamil Ys .;»ta k i 1 K pig> like lii- father. fchc C. Mu a i
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    TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
    1117 7 Qaicqu:d Rgunt homine* nostri est farago libelli. Juvenal. One cannot fail to he struck, on pernsing the illustrated papen from England, l»> the intelligence, the intellectuality, the refinement exhibited i>> the portraits ot the miners 1 loaders, us contracted with the selfish, cunning, low browed brutality
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    KUALA LUMPUR RIOTS.
    243 7 Commission to [ssce. H. K. the High Commissioner for the Federated Malay Stales lias caused a commission to issue to enquire into the receut Chinese disturbances m Kuala Lumpur. The coustitution of the commission ami terms of cin|iiii\ are as set out. To His Honour Mr Justice
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    251 7 Witb reference to the present unwholesome condition of affairs at home :i correspondent writes: It may be of interest to Britons out hereto recall the writing of that eminent American critic, I'ru-e Collier, who. m 1900. wrote ii: his [>ook Kngland and the English*' tin following prophetic expressions. I i)
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    SHARE CIRCULAR.
    263 7 Fnisor Jind Co'h. The market for Sterling Shar< has i>»" ii < ;i-i«"- and Locals, m mo>i instances, close with fewer enquiries, except ;>'> low t;.'^s. Th« demand (or lisa has t»een \\tii maintained, and iudustriali i «ii>h quiet at quotations. Rubbeb. ImuTs bad a sharp rise i)«
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    PENANG WATER SUPPLY
    148 7 Was the. recent rain thai hreak up >! "the drought Let us hope so at any rate, localise il the drought continue much longer ire mi^ht have trouble with oar water. Thai wo have jt-i yet expevienoed n«» scarcity m tl»«? supply is doe m (peat part
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    THE GAZETTE.
    62 7 The Hon. h. T. Itoyd lias been elected ;i member oi the Board of Elducatton. The X» v v. K. L. hanson is appointodi n<m. Captain .mil chaplain to the S.V.C. [>r. W. C. MarDon^all lllfircndl l>r. Middleton on the Council. Mr A.w. Bailey has been graaled eleven
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    SINGAPORE LADIES RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
    140 7 The following are the Hills Trophy scores for April. Mrs TisluM 1 Miss <; nnn s Ken 2*l Mrs <ioldie 27 d.ittt'v i 7 Sifuiiv 26 107 The April Spoon was \\cju l*> Kiftber, the scores being 1 mi :.«i nett b'cap Tot. Mrs. Fisher -l
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    MILLS' TROPHY SHOOT.
    56 7 KiNTA L. \l. Mrs Lawrence 26 Armstrong 24 Brown 21 C. Cooper -1 Yalpv 21 Sproul* 1•> Toi.tl 12* PENASfe Mi.s?> Wemyss Mrs <iore Anderson M Miss Huvley '\'i Mm Hamiltorf .'l2 Miss Thornton 31 Mish .Toan Smith :J1 ItS The total is 191 point a. a
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    Monday, April 8, 1912.
    607 8 A Tamil railway otot—Ol named Karthigast- of ttukit Timali has caused the arrest of two K««hs on ft charge ot robbing him of tto. U is said that Monsieur BoffM KudompMfl oi Ike Singapore atfraicy erf the Russian Volunteer Fleet, who was called home b) telegram
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    A PRETTY WEDDING.
    154 8 The weddiug took place at the Presbyterian Church, on Saturday, of Miss Florence Matilda McCall. only daughter of Mrs. McCall, of Sheron. Uiver Valley Koad. and Mr. John Ban Anderson, shijypiug agent, of Messrs Harrisons and Croslield, Kuala Lumpur. The ceremony, which was choral, was performed l>y
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    PROGRESS IN THE F.M.S.
    4407 8 LECTURE BY SIR ERNEST BIRCH. A Rubber Director's Criticisms. sir John Anderson, o. < v. 0., Permanent Under- Secretary for the Colonies, and late Governor of the Straits Settlements, presided over a crowded meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute at the Whitehall Rooms, London, on 12th
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    CANTON.
    112 9 Hi. Li' FBON THE STBAITB SETTLEMENTS. March 25th. Tang Sliow Nam and Leung Mat I'm. two wealthy Chinamen from the Straits Settlements who haw materially helped m the organisation and financing of the Kevolution. are now on a visit to Canton to see the state of the City. They
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    EMBEZZLEMENT OF SUEZ CANAL BOARD FUNDS.
    80 9 Paris, March l.th. On October sth last a man named Lepreux. who had been for :50 years m the service of the Suez Canal Board, absconded after having embezzled 480,000 of the hoard's funds. He had been speculating on the bourse m the hope
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    BYGONE DAYS IN MALAYA. XII.
    1398 9 THE AhMINIKTIfA n<>\ <>y ,Ji STICE. (Copyright Rkservkd. i Necessarily there was little m the way of judicial administration m tin> earliest settlements of the English m Malaya. The East Tiuiiji Company arrogated to itself sovereign rights and through its functionaries dealt out punishment to
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    VOLUNTEERS IN CAMP.
    165 9 A strong contingent of the S.V.I. Malay Company, and a smaller number of the. Chinese Company, are at Camp at Tanah Merah during the holidays. The Chinese are accommodated m the big bungalow on the hill above the Powder Magazine, and the Malays are under canvas m
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    156 9 Captain Wotcwtec, Urn Malta ■genl <>f the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, died then suddenly owiag u< heart failure on .Uh February. TIM Itri tish and Foreign Sailors' Society has received tbe following letter, expressing the King's regret at bis death Tbe King and Queen are grieved to bear oi
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    Tuesday, April 9, 1912.
    763 10 The Malay Mail N informed that t»ie case, Tully v Cowan, has been sent to the PrivT Council. Lt. 15. L. Kddis. »{j:., whose tine cricket and tennis while out here will he remembered, was playing m the Rackets Military Single Championship. He was knocked out
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    LANG-HOLLOWAY CO.
    775 10 RETURN VISIT: MACBETH." When i x i <l day arrived yesterday and the Lang Hollowaj Company had «o( got back into port from the >»* Bast, those who had looked forward to seeing Mr. Matheson Lanfl, Miss Hutin Britton, and the Ifollowuy Shakesperian Company m the most thrilling
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    88 10 Two Hylanis liave been Arrested for Immii^ m possession of two silver wutches and a chain valued at V27.">0. the property of Mi- Van der Heck of Ballectier Road. Miss Ida Miriam Harry, of Darlington, who arrived m Hongkong on Monday morning, March 26th, by the I J and o.
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    SCOTTISH LETTER
    1283 10 .frem our ou n Correifonacnirt March IS. A general eoai strike means the "bold ing up of the nation this stern truth is being brought home to us by the events of the past weeks. With Ur H. <;. Wells we are sadly watching a dwindling lire,* 1
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    FATAL FALL AT LAHORE.
    274 10 Labor*?, March 27. Mi. A. Is. l);;tj>»)ii. registrar. Chief Court. iiici with a fatal accideut tliis morning by fall ing oil the parapet of tbe verandah of hi-* »niaii«rs m [^aliore, baviug apparently walked oui of bis room m bis bleep. Later. Enquiries made regarding tin
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    TROPICAL MEDICINE.
    60 10 Among tlios«j \\lkj lj:i\e rontl ilmlrtl Ie j tbfl Loinlon School of Tropical Medici n< arc. Strait^ IJulilm-i- Co. i'.VJ.id, A»-i;iti« Mnkra Co. i.*»«». 4nglo-Maluy ltuiiii«i Co. Cso, Ton. ni^' Su«»ar Kslaics pll.l#, I niuil S^rdaii^ l'l'i. «fobore J{iiMk'i Laitdn l'2w. Tali \>«T Ctl, iatak liahit. Itugtui Serai.
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    55 10 By the Vil!e de la Ciotat \n*\ PHI tliere arrived from the head oilier m Paris Monsieur Audap. who is to art as th«manager of the Singapore branch of th«* Banque tie l'lndo Chine during the alirteuce. I of Monsieur Marsot, who, accompanied h\ Madame Marsot. is going homo next
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    INTERSTATE CRICKET.
    1405 11 COLONY vs F.M.S. This fiiatrh began m brjlliani irrathcr i. ii Halurdaj <>n pitch which ir as all m 1 of bin <>» ui«. The Colony w.i^ .i smu.iron lean wifli the exception ol l»«;ni uf u UM U:l^ a>t longer eh »mi than I. ..1 «)i»jm>slml Xegri
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    Dean's Bowling.
    1505 11 The interport match Colony versus I". M.S. was resumed on Monda> morning, Scharenguivel and Oliver carrying on their uncompleted innings. The former received the first over from Bf. K. Poster, and Campbell took on at the Pavilion end. A snick through slips for three was the only notable
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    TENNIS.
    114 11 After the cricket tennis ittatcli v. played between A. l>. Cox and Capt H. <i Pinches representing Singapore and V. Sul/maim and Cromie representing the I". SI. s. The game attracted a great d<\«! j of attention, the opportunities one has »t comparing the local cracks with visiiiug, players
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    GOLF AT IPOH.
    138 11 THE CHAMPIONSHIP. [pott, April I 1 1 1 > m the (101 l Championship resulted I m twelve players turning out. huiwaid j of Penang and Humphreys of Singapore tied with 177. the scores being. The interteam competitiou resulted m a victory for Penang, with 'ill. Singapoiv
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    MINISTERS OF " ASIATIC DECENT."
    185 11 MINISTERS OF ASIATIC DECENT." On March 1 U 1 1 Ifr. A. Scott naked the j Secretary tor the Colonies, m view of the i now regulations which bad been nade by Colonial Office, excluding from the chit and police services at Hongkong, the straits Settlements, ami the Federated Malay
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    78 11 The Chairman of th« Kinta North Saiiifcary Hoard report! that U<* bm ban m communication with the iVnan* Municipal authorities on the Mbject of tarring th loads m Ipoh, and the Hoard n-coinmeu i* that at hast a mile of road, perferahly <jrr fchfl Taiuhun Koad, should be i*x|>erinientc i
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    "THN CROWN OF INDIA."
    880 12 "THN CROWN OF INDIA. Impebl%l Masque at the Coliseum. Something has already been said m our columns ot the musical aspects of the Inipafial Masque to be produced at the Coliseum next Monday. There remains, however, the dramatic and the pictorial side 01 the picture to he considered. In relation
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    SELANGOR SKYE MEETING.
    253 12 (From our own Con-expand cut.) Kuala Lumpur, April 7. A two days' Easter Skye meeting of the Selaugor Turf Club opened on Saturday at Kuala Lumpur. There was a good attendance, including Mr Brockman. M Lily Klsie paid a dividend of $99 on the totalisator. but the
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    GOLF AT IPOH.
    140 12 The Annual Meeting. {From our (nim Corxspomtent.} I puli, April <*>. The golt annual meeting opened yesterday morning. The weather was perfect and the links were m excellent condition. There were large entries for both classes. A Class resulted as follows 15. W. Klles 42 44 s<i
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    AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN.
    227 12 No of the Third Series, March, appears m an improved form, edited by the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The first article deals with the third international rabbet exhibition at New York, stress being laid on the point that the exhibits arc to be of commercial bulk, and the place
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    CHINA WITHOUT THE PIGTAIL.
    1178 12 ]'»v Wii.i.i wi M.ww BLL. Nanking. Feb. 11. The man wbo has been following th*market m wigs ought to he a better judge of i lie Chinese revolution tliau any diplomatist or newspaper correspondent. He alone can say whether the price of liair has riseu and
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    HONGKONG'S INFLUENCE.
    282 12 Referring to ji paper read at the Uuynt Colonial Institute m London by the Kevd. K. J. Barnett of Hongkong on Hongkong'* Part m Chinese Heform the S. C. Morn ning Post remarks Those who are on the sjkjl will readil\ concede that the British administration of the
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    H. E. CLAUD SEVERN.
    290 12 Mr Claud Severn, now If. K. the Office* Administering the Government of Hong kong, has been cordially supporting the Gondoliers at Hongkong. The following is the report of the proceedings, after th* performance ol Saturday 2:{rd March After the performance the members ol the caste, the
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    Wednesday, April. 10, 1912.
    784 13 Mi. D. K. \l''n\ <• h»« lirif i^)i Legation, 1 .ti _kok. who has been ill and m the using Home for the pant few days, is i i orted i<» be svogresaing favourably. n.aie Tamil m found on t he Singai «n-i' Kranji Railway on
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    BUKIT TIMAH ESTATES.
    1057 13 A'ATii, Qenejcal Meeting. The annual general meeting of the shareholder^ of the P»ukit Tfinah Robber K-^tates. Limited, was held at noon yesterday m the registered oflices ot the Company. Commercial I'nion buildings. Mr C. Kveritt presided and there were, also present the Hevds. N. .1. Couvreur and
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    PANTAI LTD.
    824 13 Nem Capital .fob Expekseb, Profits Foh Dividends. The third ordinary general meeting of I'antai Ltd., was held at Greaham Home yesterday afternoon. Mr W. L. Watkins presiding, there being also present Messrs A. W. Bean, W. M. Sime, (i. A. Derrick. 11. K. Llewellyn, .1. S. M. Uenriie.
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    REMINISCENCES OF MISS SOLDENE.
    286 13 They will be rather nature play-goon who can remember tlie greaA rogne enjoyed by Miss Emily Soldeue, whose death is just announced. She was the leading lady of the series of Offenbach Operat that were so popular m the sixties and seventies, and it is impossible
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    HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
    358 13 Conditions op Admission. A summary of some proceedings of the Council and Court ot the University of Hongkong contains the following notes: The fourth meeting of the Council was held on December lsth. 1911, and it was decided to send a telegram to Sir .1. Struthers risking for
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    46 13 About 450,000 men will be examined for conscription m Japan this year. This is an increase of over 40,000 compared with last year. It m expected that the active conscripts and conscript reserves to be recruited will be of better physiqie than ia th<> previous year.
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    Thursday. April. 11, 1912.
    835 14 The suicide is reported m Northern papers of Captain Evans, I .r>. Naval pilot. for the middle Yangtsie. The tragedy occurred on the ttesjnei Kiangwo." At the inquest the jury found ihnt death was due to a gunshot wound, self-intlicted. M whilst of a sound mind.'
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    JOHORE PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION.
    2604 14 THE ANNUAL MEETING COOLIES AND DISCHARGES. The annual meeting of the above was held on March 81 at Johore Present Mr H. K. Burgess m the Chair, j A. L. Buyers, J. A. Brown 'committee*, I Noil MacKinnon. Ho:. Secretary pro. tern.. K. D. Bryce, E. Wiekham.
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    TELEGRAMS.
    1911 15 [By Submarine Cs.Me]. KKUiKR'S SIUVICB. London, via Bnrlay. KumN h.ive bit! opened at Sydney i Melbourne f< >«" the coal ■nwamn ii. Lord Mayor nf Sydney yesterday anted the lir^t instalment of a thousand pomad*. I here have been wild scenes at fileng, I •".••■shire, w Lere a crowd
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    LOCAL WIRES.
    606 15 Peiiang April 4th. The rase m which Aug. Wessels. ol Behr and Co, irai charged with criminal breach of trust, came to an end to day, m an acquittal of (he accused. <>n the first charge, m respect of a sum of frio.Hon the jury found hi'ii not
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    IMPERIAL WIRELESS SCHEME.
    360 15 Marconi's Company and the (Jovkknmk.vf Announcement is made by tbo directors of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company (Ltd.), of the acceptance from his Majesty's Postmaster-General of the Company's terms for the construction of all the longdistance wireless stations which trill he required within the next few year 6
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    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RUBBER AUCTION.
    41 15 At the thirtieth auction, yebteiday there were offered for sale TOO rtnil, pels. 281.81 or •■>?.."» os t ihs. and sold 17.'! CUN| pels. KM.47 or 25,929 lbs. The next Auction will lake place on April 10th.
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    THE IDEAL GIRL.
    158 15 What ir> the ideal young girl is quesI tiou upon wbicli the opinion of Mr Hockc I feller's bible class lias been taken m Sew York. The class, after long delibera- Hon. has decided that the ideal young gill must know how to make a resolution. She
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    RUBBER AND TIN.
    1311 16 Mi Arthur Lampard at the it-cent paper by sir K. W. Birch on ihc Federated Malay Blalei which was fully reported In our i»ise oi Monday 101 l foul of Sir .John Anierson's methods when he was High Com migsionei for the Slates. With Mr Lamparti, whose
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    MR ODELL THE ACTOR.
    463 16 A friend writes: "In your reiniuiscences o\ Knsily Soldene this morning you mention Sir Udell. It may interest you to know that I met Odell at a smoking concert at the Yorick Club when 1 was home m London last year, hut he died last October
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    45 16 The Committee of experts, appointed to go through the tenders for the new Howrah Bridge, have recommended the design submitted by a German firm. The cost amounts to £'5 55.000. If the contract is given elsewhere, the German firm will reeaire |»ri/.e of X'» 5,000.
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    SHARES.
    639 16 3ap. Issue. Paid. Last Div. Buyers. %mlv «0,000 2s 2s Alla^ar I°% H 0 150,000 2s 28 Auglo-MaUy 70% M I !7 50.000 2s 2s Bntaug Malaka 30.000 1 1 Bati; Caves I*o% II T n ii SO o^o 1 1 BatU Tiga fSelangcr) 20 19 I g< 100.000
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