The Straits Budget, 22 April 1909

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1 26 The Straits Budget
  • 27 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES." VOL. LXIII. NO 2671. Singapore, Thursday, April 22,1909. ESTABLISHED OYER HALF A CENTURY Price 25 cents
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  • 243 1 leaders— The Price of Peace The lufiiuey of Parliaments ...12-13 More About Depression 13 The Fa-Ku-Menn Railway ...13-14 Turkey iu Revolt 14 Our Shipping Policy ...14-15 al and Gin brai. The Bishop of Labuan 1 The Bandmanu Company 2 Public Holidays Singapore’s New Bishop... 2 Lost Australasia
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  • 869 1 The consecration of the Rev. William Robert Mouusey, on whom the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred the Lambeth degree of Doctor in Divinity, during the second week of March, as the Bishop of Labuan under the new
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  • 695 2 if Trilby were intended for a comedy, one might say that it was well received by the large audience which gathered together in the Victoria Theatre, on Friday, to witness its representation by the Bandmann Company, lint unfortunately it was unsympathetic laughter, for the
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  • 438 2 There are undoubtedly many in Singapore who will agree with the following observations in the Malay Mail: Taken all round, it has been a quiet Easter here —quiet, that is. for Kuala Lumpur. Plenty of things were going on, but
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  • 200 2 Writing from Lahore on 8rd inst., the correspondent of the Madras Times says The Revd. Mr. Ferguson Davie, who has been appointed Bishop of Singapore, will be much missed in the Punjab. In 1899 he came to India as domestic chaplain
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  • 366 2 The Johore Rubber Lands (Malay states Ltd., invites subscriptions at par for J'Hajoo shares of £1 each, says the Financial of March 22. The prospectus states that the company has been incorporated for tl nur pose of taking over a grant or
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  • 186 2 A Bengali engaged a ricksha a few <l,iys ago and on dismissing the man declined to pay legal fare. An appeal was made to Mr. Hooper who had the case before him on Friday morning, Mr. F. G. Stevens defended. The puller gave details of the distance
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  • 84 2 Mr. Hall is appointed to act as district judge, first magistrate, and Superintendent of Prisons, Penang. Mr. Wolferstan acts as Inspector of Prisons, Straits Settlement*, and Mr. Wilson acts as assistant Post master-general, Penang. Mr. Craig acts as assistant postmaster-general and ac countant, Singapore, and Mr. Threlfall, asuperintendent,
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  • 1658 4 tiis Excellency the Officer Administering he Government (Sir Arthur Young, K.C.M.G.) presided on Tuesday afternoon at a meeting of the Legislative Council, at which there were also present: —the General Officer Commanding toe Troops, Major-General Perrott, C.B.; the acting,
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  • 229 4 The removal of sand from the sea shore at many points between Tanjong Rhu and Teluk Kerau still continues merrily, apparently without check or supervision, and one is led to enquire whether the authorities are aware of the extent to which this is being done, and of
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  • 705 6 THE RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD COMPANY, LIMITED. General Manager’s Report for the Four Weeks Ending 27th March, 09. The Chairman and Directors, Raub Australian Gold Mining Coy., Ltd., Singapore. Gentlemen, I herewith submit my report on your mining and milling operations. The mine measurements and returns of propecting work shows a
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  • 202 6 The Bulletin de I’Association des Planteurs de Caoutchouc (the newly formed rubber-growers’ association of Antwerp) has a reference in French to Mr. Carruthers, of which the following is a rough translation Mr. J. B. Carruthers, formerly the British Government’s Mycologist in Ceylon and now Director
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  • 228 6 The second magistrate has acquitted Too Na and Ong Geok Sin of offering a bribe to Sergt. Dickson of $lO. Mr. R. St. J. Braddell defended them. Ram Singh, the Sikh who was charged with intentionally giving false evidence in a civil case in saying that a writ
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  • 298 6 An extraordinary case was begun before the second magistrate, on Friday when Japanese woman brought charges against three Japanese men, named Fuzioka AlaS and Murakami, of trespass, attempted rob bery and extortion. Mr. Rhodes prosecute Mr. Mundell defended. An aged Japanese,
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  • 208 6 A Japanese who has been taking commercial notes in this part of the world has given in print an interesting account of his experiences, which we find set out at large in tbe Echo de Chine. In his opinion, the Chinese
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  • 82 6 Mr. Thomas Sargeaut, formerly proprietor of the Caledonian Hotel, kept a quantity of liquors ia a godown which was visited by a thief or thieves on Saturday. Four bicycles and eighteen bottles of claret were taken and a tap of a barrel of port was
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  • 730 7 f Moon a Kader Sultan v. Ho The claim of .1 as balance G f money Y tng be due, was further heard lent, Scrcoa.be Smith, oa More Mr- fenda ut giving evidence Monday. t lf Mr Knowles appeared on his
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  • 151 7 The company commanders of the Malay States Guides are now empowered to iutlict the following punishments on any soldier, not being a non commissioned officer, convicted by them of certain offences :—confine raent to barracks for a term not exceeding 7 days extra guard and picquets for
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  • 142 7 Western Australia’s Annual, under the title The Golden West, comes to hand from Perth, and is entirely a readable informing, and well printed shilling issue. There are many excellent illustrations from which one gets a good idea of the resources of this rich country, but the key
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  • 153 7 The lato Mr. O. D. Thomson left Hong, kong on Friday last by the steamer Haiching with the interport cricketers, says the local Telegraph. He seemed in the best of spirits on the voyage and played cards most of the time. When the team lost at football,
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  • 555 7 It will be remembered that when the recent outrage, or piracy, occurred on a Chinese junk near the eastern entrance of the .Johore Straits, the Singapore police took the matter in hand, but subsequently handed tli9 investigation over
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  • 91 7 During the next eighteen months, says the Pinang Gazette, a number of important posts in the higher brandies of the Gove r iment Service of this Colony will become vacant owing to the retirement of their present holders. The Colouial Engineer and the Resident Councillor, Penang, are due
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 49 7 Land Sale. Messrs. H. L. Coghlan Co submitted for sale by auction the 999 years’ leasehold property Nos 42, 43 44, China street, pro* during a monthly rent ot $12<i, and held ou the quit rent of $3 75. The property was sold for $12,400 to Shaik Abubakar Lagam.
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  • 654 8 Three Tamils named Veerasaroy, Letchman and Govinden. respectively, were on trial before the second magistrate, on Thursday. The first two were charged with dinoiderly conduct by fightiDg, with assault upon P.G. 48 to deter him from his duty, and with escaping from
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  • 280 8 Although the railway section of the new British Siamese agreement has not yet been made public it is known what routes to the Kelantan frontier have already been explored. l%e permanent survey of the line commenced in St
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  • 222 8 The fourth magistrate continued, on Thursday, with the case for the complainant in a charge of wrongful confinement brought against Sikh P. C. 169 by a police court typist named Lim Chew Suan. Insp. Frayne again appeared for the accused. A young Baba who had accompanied the
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  • 82 8 In consequence of a telegraphic message from the Penang police informing that Leo (loldstein, a constable, had deserted and was on the German mail, tho defaulter was arrested on the a> rival of the boat at Hongkong, on 7th instant. He was taken before Mr. J. H.
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  • 364 8 The report of Messrs. Fraser and Co ISlhinst., is as follows:— da W The Easter holidays rather interfered win, busioess, but notwithstanding a fair amount of dealiog in rubbers has taken place »„'i few of the Industrials have attracted more attention
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  • 205 8 Ex-Perak writes the following to the Malay Mail, touohing the claims of Lumut to be converted into the F. M. S. Port Many references have been made in your paper regarding the port for the F. M. S., bid I have not yet seen any
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  • 64 8 Where is Sun Yat Sen The sudden activity of Chinese revolu* tionaries in Japan is denied by the Chinee Minister in Tokio. Ho states that I>r. Son at Sen is still in Singapore and not in Jh|»hd. The Minister asserts most emphatical! y that all that is reported of the
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  • 1362 9 Borneo Concessions Case. PARTIES COME TO TERMS AND EACH PAYS OWN COSTS An Abrupt Ending of the Action. «,.rcombe Smith on Thnrsday M r '"i* the liearinK of tho action brought and other, (of the Shanghai bv C. 1 ra k p aEft inst H. Schaefer, conconcessions in Dutch Borneo,
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  • 41 9 (From Our Own Corrkspondknt.) Ipoh, April 20. H. H. Edwards, bookkeeper, reoently employed by Messrs. McAlister and Co., has been sent to prison for eighteen months for oriminal breach of trust in respect to the firm’s money.
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  • 194 9 Some twenty-six boy scouts under Mr. K H. Mauleffinch entrained at Tank Ro«d station, on Easter Monday morning, for Bukit Timah, where they held a field day. Two companies were formed, one under Sergt.* Major A. Pereira—marching to the eight and a half mile. The scheme
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  • 132 9 The migration of natives from Assahan, a planting district in Deli, to escape from heavy taxation and forced labour is steadily on the increase—a serious matter in that thinly-peopled land. They flock to the F. M. S. and Johore where they readily find work on rubber estates,
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  • 129 9 A novel case for the Singapore courts was heard before the fourth magistrate, this morniog, when Mr. li. Oehlers pleadtd guilty to shooting two deer in the close Heasou. Sergt. Nicol state*! that he received information on March 27, that M-\ Oehlers had shot two deer at the
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  • 954 11 nicotine of the Municipal An onhniiry he jn tbe Board room, Conii“'’- ,ou i noOI1 w ith the following 0D Friday at Messrs. E. O. Broadrick, a*®*" p, Polglano, secretary i R- Peirce, nlene Kene Lee, F. E. Jago, W. e ngiut*
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  • 241 11 In the district court, before Mr. Saunders, on Saturday, a claim of $l5O as damages for alleged slander was heard, the plaintiff being P. Koomarasamy and the defendant W. Gascoyne. Mr. Crabb Watt appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Greenfield for the defendant. Mr. Crabb Watt
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  • 373 11 In attempting to produce the dramatised version of Anthony Hope’s novel, the Bandmann Co. have, we fear, overestimated their powers. The story of the imaginary kingdom of Ruritania is, of course, familar to all. The majority of novels, however, when they
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  • 115 11 Mr. Howard proceeded with the Kampong Bahru housebreaking case, at the district court, on Thursday. It will be remembered that Ti Ko Pay was charged with committing a burglary at a European mess, the oook of which had been on friendly terms with him and invited him there.
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  • 129 11 It is instructive, as showing the amount of endurance there is in a hen or a rooster, to stand at the landing place devoted to pigs and poultry, and watch the way in which poultry is handled in putting them into baskets and crates. The manner
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  • 41 12 Noo. —On April 17, the wife of Mr. Ngo Yam Chiaug, of Messrs. Sharpe, Ross and Co., Ltd., of twins, daughters. Mahsii —On April 18, at Letham House, Keppel Harbour, Singapore, the wife of F. R. Marsh, ftf a son.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 974 12 Holland Rose pictures ho vividly.—Straits Times, April 15. We find a singular confirmation of the views we have expressed in regard to the crisis in the Near East in a recent issue of the Saturday Review. In all our comments we have insisted that Germany did
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    • 1103 12 Si adapted to its needs.-Straits Times, April 16. Japan is still the only country of oriental type which has been able to work a Parliament without provoking a revolution. Even there trouble has arisen occasionally, but it has always been trivial, and not such as touched
      Si adapted to its needs.-Straits Times, April 16.  -  1,103 words
    • 1235 13 of the Sultan's children." —Straits Times, April 17. The tone of remarks made in the annual report and at the annual meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce leaves no doubt that the northern island has been suffering quite as mu«li as the southern from the prevalence
      of the Sultan's “ children."—Straits Times, April 17.  -  1,235 words
    • 963 13 the matter out resolutely.—Straits Times, April 19. There has been a good deal of bitterness between China and Japan because the latter country has refused to permit the former to construct a line from Hsin-min-tun to ta-ku-menn. Japan contends that by the Treaty of Portsmouth, which brought
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    • 1082 14 —Straits Times, April 20. The situation in Turkey has developed with amazing rapidity during the past three or four days. Less than a week ago it seemed that the trouble had begun and ended in the overthrow of a Ministry and the restoration of the Sultan’s autocratic
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    • 1050 14 the wholesome tendency. Straits limes, April 21. So much of the Ordinance to amend a d consolidate the merchant shipping l aw j s a technical character that it is more suited to discussion in minute detail than to such broad consideration as may be given to
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 92 12 Tfi« p<>«t frv» price of ttie Straits Times i» ye.'trn The free price of the Straits Hiulgrt it $l4 a year. 'lt i» not neceMarv to subscribe for a year. The tub* script ions for shorter periods are at the same propof tionatr rate as for a vear. The Straits
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  • 834 15 Sixty-six Chiuese undesirables were banished from the Colony for life during March. The Singapore Assizes take place on May 4, July 6. September 7 and November 2 The Court of Appeal meets here on June 21 and December 6. Work on the construction of the new Y. M.
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  • 527 15 Mr. B. C. Knight, manager of Estate, is proceeding home on leave shortly. Lieut C. J. P. M. Grant, of the 93th Deccan Infantry, has been promoted to the rank of captain. Mr. Wolferstan, superintendent of prisons, is acting as second magistrate for a few days during
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 496 16 S. C. C. II. V. Y. M. C. A.. The Y. M. C. A. defeated the Cricket Club’s second eleven on the Esplanade on Saturday, most of the Y. M. C. A.’s work being done by Messrs. Keyt, Passe and G. van Cuylenberg. The totals were S. C. C.
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    • 411 16 Ipoh v. Singapore Garrison. In spite of their previous efforts at hockey earlier in the morning, says the Times of Malaya of 13th inst., the majority of the visitors travelled out to the local links and there put up a friendly match at the royal and ancient with a
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    • 786 16 5.C.C. Colours v. Whites. A match was played on the Esplanade on Thursday between teams of the S. C. C. representing colours and whites, the colours having for their defence men who have more or less regularly played in that position in fcl'G k.C.C. fiist eleven, and the
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  • 841 17 n i romnetition for ladies in the Tll e second co l Qff ftt B alestier on S R v 'the"conditions being ten shots Thursday, w the m i D iature service rifle. a t 150 yards B i 0
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  • 354 17 The report of the Pataling Robber Estates Syndicate, Ltd., for the year 1908, to be submitted to the meeting on the 81st March, states that the crop of rubber produced was 80,922 lbs., against an estimate of 70,000 lbs. and a crop
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  • 13 17 [The Straits Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents.]
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  • 143 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —I must thank you very much for the paragraph which speaks so highly of me in connection with the singing in trie Chinese Church on Easter Sunday, and which appeared in your issue of the 14th inst. I do not think
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  • 157 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —All interested in the welfare of the childhood and youth of all races in oar Colony cannot but feel grateful to hear that Mr. Tan Jiak Kim is to raise the question in the Legislative Council as
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  • 135 17 Many people in Singapore will regret that the visit of the Band man n Dramatic Co. is at an end. They have provided pleasure to large houses at the Victoria Theatre and the attendance on Saturday, when East Lynne was staged, showed no falling off. The piece
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  • 112 17 limp. Fitzgerald, of the weights and measure* department, prosecuted the Indian tirm of Nagurdas Parshotamdas and Co., of 21, Malacca Street, before the fourth magistrate, on Wednesday, on a charge of possession of incorrect dachings. The inspector explained to the magistrate that there was no question of tampering
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  • 188 20 (Fkom Oub Own Cobrrspondrnt.) Penang, April 15. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Penang Cbarpber of Commerce, Mr. Cecil Guinness, agent of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, said he feared h*e was unable to paint in rosy colours the
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  • 168 20 The annual meeting of Riley, Hargreaves A Co. will be held on Wednesday, April 28th, at noon. The directors in their report state that the net profit for the year after paying interest on the debentures and making allowance for depreciation and bad and
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  • 577 20 In their report for tho twelve months ending Jannary 31 the directors of the Handicraft Rubber Coy., say that the net profit for the period after making provision for depreciation amounts to $45,714 to which has to be added the balance of $1,217.77 brought forward from last
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  • 324 20 Tho Directors of the Kuantan Tin Mining Company in their report for the year ending 31st December, 1908, this being the fourth year of the Company’s working, say they regret that the working has resulted in an adverse balance on profit and loss account of $7,434.15.
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  • 98 20 (From Odb Own Corrbspondint.) London, April 16, i T a s. h 'S ßton telegr m aUtes ‘bat Prey dent Taft ban promised to give favourahL coDHideration to a proposal for elevating the bmted States Legation at
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  • 286 20 An enactment to provide for the exercise of the powers of the Ruler of the State of Pahang, by His Highness the Tungku Besar was published at Kuala Lipis as a Government Gazette extraordinary on April 20, as follows: Whereas
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  • 164 20 Dr. Gibbs, medical officer in charge of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, on Wednesday conducted the removal of between four and five hundred patients to the new hospital. The very sick had to bo removed in ambulances, the others in rikishas. Everything was ready at the new
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  • 2375 21 London, April 15. i t immense wheat corner As a Chicago by the speculator >“K i,cercd «rm of Btock-brotors, Ennis l>attw> a w eW York, has tailed with There are and that Marine was wounded, while the Ml 0 8 war is a prisoner. persons have been killed
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  • 1106 22 Berlin, April 14. Rumours of a weakening of the AngloJapanese Alliance are denied, and described as}ridiculous, by the Berlin Foreign Office. They had obtained wide publicity in the continental Dress. The German Emperor and Empress are still in Venice. Denmark refuses to permit the landing of ex-President Castro
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  • SHIPPING IN PORT.
    • 577 24 April 14 Kutuaaug, Brit atr, Buller, Calcutta, Bouatead Flintshire, Brit atr, Candy, Manila, Bouatead Fiume, Ger atr, Wegener, Saigon, Behn Meyer Profit, Nor atr, Olsen, Bangkok, Sim Ban Seng Kndaug, Siam atr, Voldby, Bangkok, East Asiatic Coy Gerd Noratr. A ndreaaen, Bangkok, Borneo Coy 5 Hong Mob, Brit str.
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    • 418 24 April 15 Tara. Brit btr, Madras via pnrts Bharata, Brit str, Penang, Rangoon, Calcutta Gerd, Nor str, Colombo and Bombay Ping Suey, Brit str, Am’dam, L’don, Antwerp Ayuthia, Brit ttr, Bombay Simongan, Dut str, Hongkong, Kum Sang, Brit str, Hongkong Yaroslavl, Rus str, Vladivostok l 6 f Haliotis, Dut
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  • 237 24 PRODUCE. Gambier buyers aw? do (Cube No. 1) unpicked i.,'55 Copra Bali do Pontianak M M i?® Pepper, Black buyers ul ao White buyers Sago Flour Sarawak do Brunei No. 1 v qa Pearl Sago Coffee Bali Coffee Palembang, 20% basis n0Ui Coffee,
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  • 235 24 Per P. and steamer Victoria, connecting with the steamer Delta at Colombo, due April 28. —Miss B. Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Weoster and child, Mr. J. R. Nicholson, Mr. G. T. Hunter, Mr. R. W. Pearson, Miss T. Carey, Miss
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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