The Straits Budget, 9 April 1902
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section117 1902-04-09 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” .miKh ovkr Half a Centura. VOI- TX Cable Address Times, Singapore Straits Budget, 40 Cents. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1902. Straits Times, 15 cents The Straits Times is widely read throughout Asia generally. It circulates in Singapore and Penang,117 words
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The Straits Budget. WEDNESDAY, 9TH APRIL.
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Article18 1902-04-09 1 I if SP 7rh April, at Government Hill, w i,i K. V Wo! kkf.st\n, of a son18 words
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Article61 1902-04-09 1 I b.Kij.t.T!- \c>nv. —On the 9th ultimo, p (b-orge’s Church. Penang. L. A. O. fc .r; t of Newfoundland. to Estelle m ;-nV. oi Penang. IT'. >v-M* lvi\KE.-On the 31>t ultimo, m thorp*'-> t'hureh, Penang, A. C. E'w, -on of Rev. J. C. W. Valpy. Hector. I*-• ;>l*\ Kent.61 words
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Article189 1902-04-09 1 |l>. :>v. rtici.es. 11.- Roads. I '.am Trouble-.. I .Lon in Japan. I* 1 Roads. I vara.?'*? Rule. I Mvket Quotations. I'dipping News. List. •'Jiii.s News. I i ;»*r in Town. IPhilharmonic Society. I Awful Roads I r «ather, Not I iger. I 81oop. Etpiegle. •pote Victoria189 words
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Article641 1902-04-09 1 Singapore, 9th April, 1902. PRODUCE. Gam bier buyers S 11.85 Copra Bali 9.60 do Pontianak 8.75 Pepper. Black 31.75 do White. (5%) 53.50 Sago Flour Sarawak 3.67$ do Brunei No. 1 3.40 Pearl Sago 4.45 Coffee, Bali, 15% basin ‘25.00 Coffee, Palembang, 20% basis. 28.00 Coffee, Liberian So. 1641 words
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Article250 1902-04-09 1 Thb mail fur Europe, this week, leav* s by the B. 1. s. s Zaida. The mail for Europe, next week, it* xixed for the P. <fc O. s. s. Malta. The German mail for Euiope by the liayern closed on Monday. The mail from Europe250 words
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REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
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Article57 1902-04-09 1 London 3rd April. Reinforcements of 1,000 Guards —500 from the Grenadiers and 250 each from the Coldstream and Scots Guards —will embark for South Africa in the middle of this month. OTHER DETAILS TO EMBARK. Details from various regiments at Aldershot, amounting to 2,000 men, are57 words
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26 1902-04-09 1 Later. Prince Henry of Germany and Princess Henry with a large suite, which includes Count Waldersee, are coming to the Coronation.26 words
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Article27 1902-04-09 1 Unrest and lawlessness in Macedonia and Albania continue to cause uneasiness. The Turkish Government has addressed a circular Note to the Powers on the subject.27 words
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Article21 1902-04-09 1 Dr. Kuyper, the Premier of Holland, affirms that be visits Berlin to study the technical school system there.21 words
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50 1902-04-09 1 London, 4th April. The preparations for the Coronation at home are proceeding apace. Miles of gas piping have been ordered, and illuminations on a huge scale are being arranged. Bonfires will be simultaneously lighted on three thousand eminences throughout the Kingdom.50 words
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Article20 1902-04-09 1 Que* n Alexandra has sent a wreath to he placed on the cotiin of Cecil Rhodes.20 words
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Article29 1902-04-09 1 Later. Schalkburger anti the other Boer peace cu-.legates have at last succeeded in placing themselves in communication with Steyn, the ex-president of the Orange Free State.29 words
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34 1902-04-09 1 Vigorous measures are being taken for the defence of Natal against the Boers, who are expected to attack. A line of block-houses is being extended from Ladysmith northwards.34 words
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26 1902-04-09 1 The ceremony at the funeral of Cecil Rhodes in Capetown, was of a most impressive character. Universal mourning was observed.26 words
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Article18 1902-04-09 1 London, sth April. Commandants Delarey and Kemp are with Stcyn, who is at Kroonstad.18 words
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54 1902-04-09 1 EXECUTION OF AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS. SHOT AT 18 HOURS NOTICE. Australian Opinion has now Veered Round. The two Australian officers, executed for killing unarmed Boers, were shot at eighteen hours’ notice and were not allowed to petition the King or to arrange their private affairs. Public opinion in Australia is now54 words
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75 1902-04-09 1 RHODES’S WILL. 100,000 FOR ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD. Scholarships for Colonials, Americans and Germans. Later. In his will, Cecil Rhodes bequeaths Z10U,000 to Oriel College, Oxford; and, also, provides a large number of scholarships at Oxford for young Colonials and Americans, with the object of fostering the union of the English-speaking75 words
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Article27 1902-04-09 1 Tjondon 6th April. The elaborate defensive measures which are being taken in Natal seem to contirm Boer reports that Botha is threatening invasion.27 words
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Article33 1902-04-09 1 Heavy lighting has taken place at Hart river. Tiie Boers were repulsed. IMe British lost 3 oliicers and 24 men killed, and 16 ofhcers and ldl men wounded.33 words
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40 1902-04-09 1 Lovdxm, 7fh April. During the International Association football match at Glasgow between Lng!and and Scotland, the crowd broke the barriers. Twenty persons were killed and 125 injured.40 words
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Article16 1902-04-09 1 It is reported that there are still 8,000 Boers in the field.16 words
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43 1902-04-09 1 London Bth April. Reuters correspondent at Kroonstad wires that, though Schalkburger is now in com in unication with Steyn and Delarey, not much progress has been made in the peace negotiations owing to the distance separating the negotiators.43 words
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Article20 1902-04-09 1 Later. The Boer dead in the action at Bosch tnanskop include two leaders named Pretorius and Prinsloo.20 words
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Article18 1902-04-09 1 Lord Kitchener telegraphs that Kritzinger has been acquitted, and will be treated as an ordinary prisoner.18 words
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Article19 1902-04-09 1 There were twenty-two deaths at the football disaster. It is stated that the number injured are 250.19 words
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Article922 1902-04-09 1 (Straits Times 3rd April) In another column will be found an article anent Our Awtul Roads,’’ from the pen of “An Old Resident*' who is obviously master of his subject. At the same time there are two sides to every story, and it must be admitted that the(Straits Times, 3rd April) - 922 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement86 1902-04-09 1 i live price of the Strait* Times ar or-;-. The post free price $1 "srniU M’.et US** a year, or 40/nut n--e-art to sulwcnbe for a year, uptions for shorter peno is are lh san proportionate rate of price as "lhe h'h«f» K' ul 9 et n b Bent t86 words
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Obituary47 1902-04-09 1 DEATHS. .I" :;!.l inst. at Mount Elizabeth. m >. j-orf. Hinton Wm.ker Hill, the beb t.n-J «>t Mary Alice Hill, aged B »>;»?>. Australian papei s please copy. B v I2:h March, a* Tokyo, Alexandf.k B mi.'w. M. A. Archdeacon of South B amt Chaplain of H.B.M. Legation, \nars.47 words
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Article685 1902-04-09 2 (Straits Times 3 rd April) Bangkok is awakening to a sense of the true condition of affairs in the government of Siam, and more especially to the oscillant and vacillant nature of its foreign policy, and the European journals there that were recently repudiating or contradicting every word(Straits Times, 3rd April) - 685 words
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Article697 1902-04-09 2 (Straits Times 4th April.) Following as it does, close upon the news of the rejoicings in Japan over the alliance with Britain, the announcement that the Japanese authorities at Yokohama have distrained upon the H. 8. Bank over an issue which, though insgniiicant in itself, is withal(Straits Times, 4th April.) - 697 words
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Article487 1902-04-09 2 (Straits Times bth April.) Apropos of our miserable thoroughfares, and the extraordinary epoch of neglect by which they were transformed from the model highways in the East nto the poorest roads of any British colonial capital in Asia, it is well to state definitely that the Municipal Commission,(Straits Times, bth April.) - 487 words
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Article2045 1902-04-09 2 (Straits Times 8 th April.) Undoubtedly the Bangkok Times was to a certain extent correct when it recently alleged that the people of the Straits were, as a rule, ignorant df the style and methods of Government at present in vogue in Siamese Malaya. On Wednesday last we(Straits Times, 8th April.) - 2,045 words
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Article365 1902-04-09 3 A Chinaman has been arrested for stealing a watch from one of the officers of the s. s. Trigonia. The Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij has ordered four new steamers from Amsterdam ship-building firms. Mr. E. J. Keilich, taxidermist at the Perak Museum, now acts as Curator and State365 words
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Correspondence.
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Article946 1902-04-09 3 To the Editor of the *S traits Times. Dfar Bjk, —The schutter*j in Java was originally formed muuy years ago when the colony was in its infancy, for the purpose of protecting the whites in the towns against a sudden uprising of the natives in the946 words
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Article213 1902-04-09 3 To the Editor of the iS traits Times. 1 Sik, —1 believe lam correct in stating that at the Philharmonic Society's general meeting yesterday the Chairman explained the remarkable increase in the balance carried forward, as compared to that of previous seasons, by the fact that at213 words
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Article60 1902-04-09 3 Wk hear that one of the gardeners at the Bukit Thiiah Hoad Cemetery, last eve mug, came across the footprints of a tiger in the Cemetery. We do not know that the animal has been seen, but the footprints referred to are we are assured those60 words
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Article435 1902-04-09 3 The annual general meeting of members of the Swimming Club, Singapore, was held at the S. V. C. Drill Hall last night when,in the absence of Mr.T. deM. Braddell (President). Mr. Pooles was voted to the chair. There was a numerous attendance of members. The report and435 words
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Article797 1902-04-09 3 The annual general meeting of the members of the Singapore Philharmonic Society was held at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, present Messrs. W. G. St. Clair (President) in the chair, iA. Knight, E. Lanz, W. Makepeace, F. Whitefield, H. Laugher, A. P. Ager, .W. Adamson, J. Poiglase,797 words
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Article1882 1902-04-09 4 THE MORTALITY QUESTION. Captain Vincent’s Explanation. The following is the explanation re Mr. Clayton’s Report on Xmas Island which ha-i been kindly furnished to the 8traits Time.* by Captain Vincent, and which is referred to in our editorial column^. Captain Vincent commences by giving, xerialirn ilie inure salient1,882 words
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Article536 1902-04-09 4 THE RECORD FOR 1901. The following extracts are taken from the Report on the Foreign Trade of China for the year 1901, compiled by Mr. F. E. Taylor, Statistical Secretary:— revenue. The total Revenue for the year was Hk. Tls. 25,537,574, which has only oeen exceeded by536 words
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Special Telegram.
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137 1902-04-09 4 Hongkong -ird April. The cholera outbreak at Manila shows the following figures up to date —118 cases, 93 deaths. The last cases have been discovered among the river shipping and lightersCONCEALED BODIES AND DESERTED DEAD. The Natives and the Chinese conceal the bodies of137 words
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Article1068 1902-04-09 4 A Review of Facts and Figures. |By An Old Resilient.] The correspondence that lias recently appeared on the subject of our roads induced me to look over some old files of the Strait x Time*, and I find that in December 1897, this paper was actively engaged1,068 words
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Article125 1902-04-09 4 120:1—Prince Arthur murdered in^ 1366—80rn Richard 11., King o 1757—Kddystone Lighthouse laid—completed in August, eß3 1763 —A "reat number of gibt** from the Edgware-road. knim** 1 1783—Born Washington Irving. the character of Kip V’an W inkles* charm. 1822—Born Edward Everett H »J?; rd .*or> 0 r>125 words
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Article935 1902-04-09 5 subordinate appointments —Bangkok Times. Ihe British Plan of Campaign. (s' la iti Free Frees.) r .,ve political troubles which lH L“'v arisen in the Malay Penm1 VH Vr f roil f ht about much heated lIa :iil i I1 both in the newspapers and t!rsubordinate appointments —Bangkok Times. - 935 words
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Article1300 1902-04-09 5 Ihe Marquis of Dufiferin and Ava, in his will, leaves £108.548. 1 he liev. YV. H. R >bins, the Anglican Chaplain at Bangkok, has resigned. h e-Admiral Mareehal becomes Commander-in-Chipf of the French squadron in the Far East. 4» The case of Madame de la Bat v.1,300 words
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Correspondence.
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357 1902-04-09 5 To the Editor of the Straits Times.” Sir, I have heard it whispered that some would-be subscribers to the Victoria Memorial Hall Fund remain “would-be” subscribers because they are not satisfied that the proposed new Hall will adequately meet the j requirements of a theatre, in357 words
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1017 1902-04-09 5 Yesterday afternoon, twenty-two Chinese babas were brought before Mr. Beatty on the charge of playing in a common gaming house at 21 Sago Street at 10-40 p. m. on the 22nd ultimo. Assistant Superintendent Whitehead conducted the prosecution, and Mr. R. W. Braddell1,017 words
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Article92 1902-04-09 5 About 9.3oyesterday morning, Mr. R. Peirce’s horse and dog-cart was waiting in Tank Road when the horse wa* frightened by a passing bullock-cart and bolted. The carriage collided with a rikisha in Orchard Road and upset it. A European was in the rikisha, hut he was apparently92 words
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Article165 1902-04-09 5 The Secretary of State’s Telegram. The following telegram was sent to Hongkong with reference to the Coronation Contingent from that Colony. Presumably the telegram received here was in the same term«: Hin Majesty’s Government hope to see Colonies represented at Coronation by local forced a« at Jubilee 1897.165 words
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Article966 1902-04-09 6 One way of Describing the Hub-bub of the Orient. A well-known Australian gentleman now passing through Singapore was obliged to visit Manila on his way hither. In that happy town he was beset by reporters. Being accustomed to reporters and to having his words misconstrued thereby, he insisted966 words
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Article30 1902-04-09 6 IS71» Central Grant entertained at Government Hou*e, Singapore. 18&1—One hundred native house* destroyed by tire at kanipong Kapur. *T B9l —-Singapore Volunteer Artillery Maxim guns arrived.30 words
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Article66 1902-04-09 6 The returns from the Pahang Corporation's mines for the month of February were as follows ►Sungei Lembing :—Tons of stone crushed 1,72“; oxide of tin produced 55 tons with 35 heads of stamps running for 25 days; working expenses §21,000. Pahang Kabang:—Tons of stone crushed 340 oxide of66 words
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Article141 1902-04-09 6 The following passengers bad hooked by the Imperial German mail steamer Prinzess Irene for Singapore up to the Gth March. The Primes* Irene is due here on the 12th April. From Hamburg: Mr. Albert Aurand, Mr. Wilhelm chmidt. From Southampton: Mrs. Elcum and child. From Genoa141 words
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Article153 1902-04-09 6 A correspondent who has read the paragraph which was published in yesterday’s paper about a tiger alleged to be in the vicinity of Bukit Timah Road cemetery, writes to-day There is a wild beast lurking in and about, the neighbourhood of the Bukit Timah Road. This has been153 words
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Article160 1902-04-09 6 THE NEW SLOOP ESPIEGLE.” The new British sloop Espieglt built and equipped at a cost of -€Bl,OOO, arrived here yesterday from home, via Colombo. She was commissioned and equipped on 21st Jan. at Sheerness for service on the China Station, being the fourth new sloop which has hoisted the pennant160 words
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Article788 1902-04-09 6 F. M. S. Report. Mr. F. Arden, the Superintendent of Experimental Plantations in the F.M.S., has sent in his departmentaP report for 1901. The report says that the selection of a suitable site for the experimental plantations proved to be a somewhat difficult matter, there being many questions788 words
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Article943 1902-04-09 6 HI8 FAVOURITE SMOKE THE CUBAN. Kino Edward has reduced the art and mystery of smoking to its simplest terras. It is the rarest thing with him to try the new brands of cigars, and, indeea, it is very seldom that he consents to select a943 words
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Article286 1902-04-09 6 Judge and Usurer. At the British Consular C 0 > r Bangkok on the 14th ultimo, beJ Mr. J. Stewart Black, acting dhir!. judge, a Chinaman employed at Customs House was sued by an In u money-lender for the recovery 0 f deals, including costs. His Honour-* Do286 words
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Article400 1902-04-09 6 50 tons. Worth £6,ooo, Lost Annually At 6 a. m. on the 18th ult. Cor|orai 38 was sent on duty at Boat Quay wiie: he saw a sampan draw up and coni mence to discharge slabs ol tin There were ten. As the two men i: the400 words
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Article743 1902-04-09 7 j Jftraea l«ft for Colombo ...sterday homeward bound. ltie Sultan of Johore leaves “land for the Bast early next month. ur om<i*M passed Malacca at morning and is due here at [bout p- m. AV a Kline ilied of cholera w Brass Brassa Koad. This house r743 words
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Special Telegram.
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75 1902-04-09 7 MANILA TRADE. ARRIVAL OF THE PERU.” Hongkong s th April. A wire from Manila states that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s steamer Peru has been royally welcomed there, despite the discouraging quarantine measures. Officials and merchants were banquetted on board. Mr. Wright the Governor of the Philippines, in proposing a75 words
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Article106 1902-04-09 7 A ksterday, the police made a raid on a Chinese house at the back of the Chinese Protectorate, and discovered the 36,000 worth of property which, it will be remembered, disappeared while being sent in a bullock-cart to a godown from Tanjong Pagar Dock. It is stated106 words
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Article132 1902-04-09 7 well-earned rest. Liverpool Journal of Commerce. Captain A. C. Loggin, who entered into the P. and O. service in 1S62, and subsequently attained to the rank of commodore of the line, has just retired, lie was first appointed to the command of a vessel in 1880, andwell-earned rest.— Liverpool Journal of Commerce. - 132 words
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Correspondence.
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Article131 1902-04-09 7 To the Editor of the Straits Times. 1 Sir, —1 would like to call your attention to a grievance which is not only annoying but must be injurious to health. My work is situated in that thickly populated district, Victoria Street. Each morning this week at or near131 words
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Article232 1902-04-09 7 A meeting of the Committee of the above Fund was held at the Exchange yesterday. There were present: Mr. John Anderson, in the chair; Messrs. Allinson, Anthonisz, Eschke, Frizell, Graham, Jago, Makepeace, Murray, Macbean, Napier, Rauch, Seah Liang Seah, Stringer, Tan Jiak Kim, and W. Evans,232 words
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Article1852 1902-04-09 7 Fai? be it from me to cavil too closely, for it is human to err, and occasionally 1 like straying a trifle myself. In the clearly defined paths of simple syntax, however, our legislators ought not to be continually slipping into the gutter on either side of1,852 words
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Article200 1902-04-09 7 Mr. J. Bowes to be a first grade surveyor, revenue survey department, with effect from the 18th January. Mr. Bowes reported his arrival on the 22nd February. Mr. G. J. Amery, cadet, to act as colector of land revenue, Kuala Kangsar, with effect from the 24th March. Mr.200 words
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Article360 1902-04-09 7 A New and Important Appointment. The Inspection of Coast Defence A furthei series of intructions governs the duties of the new Inspector-General of Royal Garrison Artillery and Coast Defence. It has been notified that this officer ha9 been appointed to advanc e the science of coast defence, and360 words
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Article129 1902-04-09 7 4t>9 B. C. Born Socrates, who married, it is said, in order to prove that marriage was not a fit slate for a philosopher. Once, when called a liar, Socrates replied that it rnunt be a, case of mistaken identity, for he was no liar, though possibly129 words
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Article1974 1902-04-09 8 Stafford Ransome - By Stafford Ransome. (Author of Japan in Transition.") [copyright.) I Kirtitor’s Note —Our contributor. Mr. Station! Uansome, in rwogniaed at the present time as tlie greatest authority upon Japan in 4*>iinection with International politics. At different period**, beginning with ltffKi, lie has studied Far Fast cm1,974 words
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Article623 1902-04-09 8 An Extraordinary Story. The Smart Lady and the Trusting British Officers. The Military Mail of March 7th publishes the following remarkable story, under the above heading:— A story reaches uh as to the real reason for General Sir Redvers BullerV repulse at Colenso that, if it623 words
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Article1008 1902-04-09 8 Report for 1901. The report of the S. P. A, for last year shows a slight decrease in the area under cultivation, accounted for by the low prices ruling for coffee. Notwithstanding the low prices, which necessitated the strictest economy, the estates are almost all in good1,008 words
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113 1902-04-09 8 An advertisement in our daily i v sets forth an interesting announimer to the efleet that the outward mail a* cargo s'earners of the German Eai African Steamship line now connect Aden and Colombo with the home* > German mail steamers from Sin^ a The113 words
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Article181 1902-04-09 8 they lapped up diligently bnibj M' March 3. Two Specimens from the Nile arrive at the Zoo. Two young lions fom Africa arrivec at the Zoo on Saturday. They fcw n. eii ottered as a present to the Queen Major C. Delme-Ratcliffe, of the L'gandi Rifles,they lapped up diligently — bnibj M' March 3. - 181 words
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Article181 1902-04-09 8 Fifth List. Brought forward v Chartercd Banl: of India, Australia, and China Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Messrs. McAlister Co. Ran tenburg Schmidt A Co i). Brandt <\t Co. Behr <v Co. H. Marriott. Esq. H. S. Newinarcli, Esq. I K. Non is (1st instalment).. N. Reuben181 words
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Article831 1902-04-09 9 r M s „rl„ndo tur 1>enan£ r .iay \t« yfr l eft for Huiijikonc at u'-t‘ lOay- Thorne, the Proprietor Mr. 1 a h<! Haii'il.ol: Time*, ism a vi“it. SiO'>kinz Concert will Tanclin Club on Friday r( !x’, lllh irist. monthly missionary e belt! at the Priaeep831 words
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Article119 1902-04-09 9 About ‘2-45 yesterday morning, a fire broke out at No. 16J Arab Street. The Fire Brigade were soon on the scene and prevented the flames from spreading to the adjoining house, hut the house in which the fire broke out was burned to the ground. The119 words
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Article170 1902-04-09 9 Offer to Pearlshellers. The Dutch gunboat Von Hoorn arrived on the 27rh Feh. at Thursday Island fiom Duch New Guinea She came to arrange a connection with the station opened near the boundariesof Dutch and British New Guinea. It is intended to establish weekly communication between there170 words
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277 1902-04-09 9 The annual general meeting of shareholders in the Singapore Slipway and Engineering Co., Ltd, was held at noon to-day at 6, Collyer Quay. Mr. Stringer presided and there were also present: —Messrs. Sellar, Rutherford, Buttar, Follett, Knox, De Sousa, and the Secretary (Mr. \V. G.277 words
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Article125 1902-04-09 9 1770—Born, William Wordsworth, who, Byron said, had written much bl ank verse and prose.” 1780—Born, William Ellery Channing, Lnitnrian. A pious Wesleyan said that if as good a man as Channing went to hell he would change the climate there. 1832—A singular wife sale took place125 words
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Article800 1902-04-09 9 HOME. The London correspondent of the Calcutta Engl shman. wiring on the 25th ultimo, gays that the programme of th-* Naval Review, to take place on the occasion of t ie Coronation, is practically completed Admiral Hot ham will command, and the Prince of WaleB will hoist hi*800 words
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Article1019 1902-04-09 9 W. Y. Taylor r. C. Sarre. On Friday and Saturday last, Conway Sarre, assistant of Huttenbach Bros., I appeared before Mr. Brockman in answer to a summons issued at the instance of William Yuill Taylor, charging him with taking away his (complainant’s) wife, etc. Mr. Van Cuylenberg1,019 words
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Correspondence.
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Article256 1902-04-09 9 I To the Editor of the Straits 'rimes.” Sir, —In December last the public I were notified that from Ist January, the Municipal water rate would be doubled or water may be supplied by meter. I -and I expect there must be others —applied early for256 words
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Article427 1902-04-09 9 To the Editor of the “Straits Times.' 1 k^IR i —I have followed with interest the various statements which have appeared in your paper regarding the state of Singapore roads. But I have looked in vain from day to day for some tangible suggestion of improvement. The President’s427 words
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Article936 1902-04-09 10 Charges against an American Officer. Th*? recently reported sensational incident of two Australian ollicers having been shot iu South Africa for shooting unarmed Boers arouses interest m a serious charge now pending at Manila, against an American officer for murdering and torturing Filipinos:— A board of inquiry that936 words
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197 1902-04-09 10 Further communications on this subject have passed between the Admiralty, the Foreign Office, and the London Chamber of Commerce, the gist of which has been forwarded by the latter body to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. The Lords of the Admiralty, while not denying that197 words
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Article528 1902-04-09 10 A Municipal Rebuff. At a meeting of the Municipality at Penang on Thursday week, there was taken into consideration an application from the Chinese community asking for permission to erect a pavilion on the Esplanade. There were already two pavilions on t lie Esplanade for the benefit of528 words
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Article176 1902-04-09 10 The annual inspection of the Singapore Volunteer Artillery was^onducfed on Saturday on the Rattles Reclamation by Col. Oakes, Officer Commanding the Troops. There were 64 of all ranks on parade, the officers present being Major Murray, Commdt., S.V.C., Capt. Sargeaunt RGA. (Adjutant), Lieut. Hilton, Second Lts.176 words
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Article598 1902-04-09 10 Sugar Outlook. Planters in Java hail with joy the signing of the Convention to do away with the sugar bounties in Europe. At piesent very little Java sugar is shipped to Biitain, owing to the impossibility of competing with the bounty-protected beet, sugar from the Continent of Europe.598 words
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663 1902-04-09 10 Another amazing incident is reported from the Siamese Native States. The Sultan of Tringanu lias decoyed a Christian Eurasian girl—a British subject—from Bangkok as governess to his family She is now663 words
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Article1464 1902-04-09 10 ADVANCE MAIL N E W S (W« Australia) London, Ujf/ t y HOME. Rear Admiral Lord Charles recently relinquished his position command of the Mediterranean' V* delivered an important Lith instant, before the of Commerce. He advocated u inent of a Naval \V ur j 4 i Admiralty to organise1,464 words
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Article319 1902-04-09 11 I Serious Damage. A l-»kvo dispatch to tiie Asohi giving l! ilajs of the lire on the Shell im*'r < '<>»■,says it, appears t.»H steamer, with .‘J,UOO tons of I (,^ura ami a general cargo, left I ''tin.i on tlie 17th ult. for Take- 1319 words
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Article1474 1902-04-09 11 I he Races come off at Bangkok on the 9th, 10th and 12th instant. I he shade temperature at Bangkok on the .‘list of last month ranged from 90 to 102 F. The eldest son of Mr. H. P. Bellamy of Selangor, has passed the Senior Cambridge1,474 words
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Correspondence.
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Article451 1902-04-09 11 To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,—lt may not be generally known, but it is nevertheless a fact that the Subordinate Medical Service in this Colony is anything but popular, and that the Government cannot get candidates to come forward for it, though anxious in451 words
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Article349 1902-04-09 11 To the Editor of the Straits Times” Sir, —I noticed in yesterday’s issue of your journal, a letter over the signature “Koi-hai” on the subject of the water meter. During all my experience, and it is considerable, I have never come across anything so arbitrarily and349 words
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Special Telegram.
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Article38 1902-04-09 11 Penang Bth April. The residence of Mr. Otto Sielckens, partner in Messrs. Behn Meyer and Co. was wholly gutted by fire yesterday The damage is set at $30,000. The property was fully insured.38 words
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Article88 1902-04-09 11 Yesterday morning a Marine Police patrol found a Chinaman drowning near Edinburgh maiket. They rescued the man and pur him in their boat. Near Coleman Bridge, the Chinaman jumped into the water and resisted the efforts of the Marine Police to rescue him. He was hauled on88 words
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Article196 1902-04-09 11 The following passengers arrived by the German Mail steamer Bayern on yesterday morning From Shanghai Mr. Y. Fung, Consul General for China and suite, Mrs. Fung and three children, Mr. von Bergen, Mr. Wandres, Mr. G. IludtwaJcker, Mr. L. Gibbs, Mr. S. Flirlicli. The Ihnfern left196 words
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Article470 1902-04-09 11 Shortly after 5 pm. yesterday, a pleasant function took place in the Board Hoorn of the Tanjong Pagar Doca Company’s olliees at the Docks, the occasion being the presentation by certain of the Company’s ollicials of a very handsome marble time-piece to Mr. A. S. Desker who lately470 words
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Article115 1902-04-09 12 110' Level No. 2 Lode East. Nine slopes are working, on 3' ft. of payable stone. Total driven 351’, 160 Level No. 2 Lode East: Lode much broken up driving stopped; six stopes working on 2' 6 of stone. .Some stoping being done on other lodes.115 words
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Article196 1902-04-09 12 1361—Easter Monday in thi* year \v;i> called Ulack Monday horau.-'C it was very dark and misty. Mon froze to death as they sat on horseback. 1492—Died Lorenzo. ‘-The Magnificent." He was a poet of note in his day, a patron of Greek learning and all the196 words
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Article510 1902-04-09 12 Alysterious Detention of Vessels in Idleness. An Odess a correspondent writes under date February 14th: The Volunteer Fleet cruiser Smolensk arrived at Odessa to-day from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie A' Co., on the Tyne. The arrival ot the last of the batch of 20-knot510 words
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Article681 1902-04-09 12 Brd April. Mr. John Sommerville and Mr. Payne-Gallwey arrived in Seremban on Thursday last, the former staying with Mr. and Mrs. Heslop Hill,‘the latter going to the Residency. Mr. Sommerville returned to Singapore on Sunday. Mr. Hall was also the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hill.681 words
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Article92 1902-04-09 12 There is a good fishing story in an Irish contemporary Two enthusiastic anglers a fishing match to decide the respective merits of the worm and the minnow as bait. For hours they sat patiently on a bank without getting so much as a nibble. At last92 words
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Article1084 1902-04-09 12 London 14/ h March He who speaks only what will bfing him no regret, ana rause his neighl>our no haim. speaks well.” Buddha. Diligent search has failed to discover even one topic as a subject for cheerful comment in the record of the week that is1,084 words
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Article95 1902-04-09 12 Tkmporary barracks have been prepared near Abbottabad for the reception of 1,000 Boers w r ho were expected at the end of March. Haifa British Battalion accompanies the prisoners to camp, which is in a most salubrious spot in a beautiful fertile valley surrounded by95 words
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Article168 1902-04-09 12 Covers 15,000 Acres. One of the largest tea plantations in the world is on the Sinagar Estate in Java, which covers about 15,000 acres >f land, of which 8,500 are devoted to ?he cultivation of tea and cotlee. The estate produces more than 1,000,000 lhs of168 words
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Article260 1902-04-09 12 The crocodile is, it appears, a much more intelligent creature than its appearance -eems to indicate. From a description of its peculiar methods by a native Bengali paper, it must be endowed with as much cunning as that human innocent, the Boer farmer. What, for instance,260 words
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Article198 1902-04-09 12 At the half-yearly meeting Temelong lin Mining Com ham. k f > the office of fjyme and Co noon, Mr. A. Barker report and accounts for the period’ review were unanimously pas-M meeting re-elected Mr. of the Company. radlr The Chairman, addressing th holders on the prospects of t198 words
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Article759 1902-04-09 12 SOUTH AFRICA. The Inst drive, against IVlarev a Lord Kitchener reports, was a remaiKai i feat of endurau e over an immense are The position of the troops, eastward t the Boers, and the absence of block westward, made the .l preparation?fo the drive inapplicable. Ihe enemy n759 words
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Article156 1902-04-09 13 the following abbre lu^ r V] f steamer sh.— fiat 10 a win le; sch. —schooner; Yet.— P ruiser; Ctbt. —Gunboat; Tor Vscist:' ru Horse-power: Brit.—Bri--lorpf ».l njte(j St;lt es; Feh.—French rsb; pi>r nr in Dut.-Dutch; Joh.—Johore; r —Ge d.p. -deckjiassenG i T. P. W.-fanjong f i156 words
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Article1643 1902-04-09 13 Arrivals since Noon of Yesterday. Ban Sang h'eoa, Brit. sir. 490 tons. Capt ,nc “til An!. From Bangkok, 4tb Apt an how Ban Seng. For Bang- r„ l ,Mr K Brit.«tr.S:il tons, Capt Mugford. X nl. From P. Swettenbam. Hth Apl. Hud :n.ip. Straits Steamship Coy. tc1,643 words
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Article544 1902-04-09 13 Name, port, probable date of arrival and name of agents. Stkambrs. Achilles, Liverpool, Apl 10; Mansfield. Adria, Hongkong, Apl 28; Behn Meyer. Agamemnon, Liverpool, Apl 25; Mansfield. Alboin, Sadong, to l**ave Apl 15; BorneoCo Alesia, Europe, Apl 9; Beho Meyer. Alicante, Barcelona, Apl 23; Barlow. Alcinous, Liverpool, May544 words
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Article1035 1902-04-09 13 j PULv h Km*;iv Samk l'ovt <:.\PTA!* From Bailko Consignees. K JL‘ I vf nr 2 K' tn Noesackt or str. Util Rruhn .Amoy Mar 2 Pan Teck Seng 2 Hop Sang Brit str. 1359 Hay jP-nang Mar 3 oustead A Co. 2 Jstii oioii Sar sch. 87 Nacodah1,035 words
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Article61 1902-04-09 13 FABSED SUNDA SXKAIXB OK ARRIVED FOR ORDERS. Date. I 4 j Ship's Name. Captain, saiun<.\ Fkomwhebk ation map* Mar IMwore 15Nor ar 13 ChristmablsYokohama j laDut aa. KWilhelmina Bakker Mar 19 Batavia Ama^rdam 9.Brit S .a.l)ofB’therUndCoUar M '!n er 8 8 p° Amalia Klein "iAmaterdira Batavia SSrit ba turtnttia61 words
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Article618 1902-04-09 14 Batb. V(mil's Hamb. Flag A Kro. Toss. Dbstihatios. Aft a Van der Parra Dut *tr. 381 Singkawang 3 Hitachi Marti Jap atr. 3827 Hongkong, Shanghai A Japan 8 Oyrust Brit atr. 2174 Rangoon 8 SaUuraa j atr. 2890 Hongkong, Shanghai <fc Japan 8 Hvaon str. 4232 Yokohama 3 John618 words
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Advertisement119 1902-04-09 13 COMMON SENSE -*NUTSHELL A hew medical wo*fc on the cause* and mort scientific and effectual means of self-cure ever discovered for nerrons and functional debility, waste of vitality, depression of spirit*. Ac. .with practical observations on marriage and full directions for removing certain disqualihcaiions that 6mtroy the happiness of wedded119 words
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Advertisement114 1902-04-09 13 0 DOCTORS SAY 0| That languor, headaches, constipation, sleeplessness and half the pains that rack mankind, arise from indigestion. British subjects everywhere declare there is no remedy for indigestion so unfailingly successful as CURATIVE For years I have suffered from acute spasms and sorer© attacks of indigestion. Although I had114 words
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Advertisement409 1902-04-09 14 isPlLfg Ramody tor -2* •■'<«. Sold vSmpc Ol.oe n RalV ea P ace, Slngap^®*»U^ CfcnrU*. P P on The NEW FRENCH TRADE Thu gueoetiful and highly po Ptt u r JJ in the Continental Hospital* by Ricord s Wy 41 peau, and others, combines all the desU.«!* Uo *J*bmT a409 words
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