The Straits Budget, 15 September 1910

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1 10 The Straits Budget
  • 27 1 The Straits Budget VOL. LXIV NO 2744 Singapore, Thursday, September, 15,1910. BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CEHTUHT Price 25 cent*.
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  • 206 1 leaders— Kew Lamps for Old 1 Recoids of Trade 8 9 Association and Conference 9 Malacca Plantations 9 10 Insanitary Singapore JO Singapore and India 10 11 Local and Ginibal Social and Personal Notts fiom Malacca 1 S. V A. Annual Inspection Kelantan in 1909 4-5 Imperial
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  • 786 1 Capt. MoCallum leaves the Malay States Guides in October. His Highness Prince Valpakarn, of Siam, arrived in Singapore by the s.earner Deli. Sir A. F. G. Law has been unanimously re elected president of the Lake Club, Kuala Lumpur. Mr. Mrs. and Miss Cluoies Ross arrived from
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  • 516 3 Sir Wm. Adamson said little had been Paul in t’io di-cussion as to tho c fleet of this bil upon the trade of the colony should it br pa fc S‘ d. The Governor, he was quite sure, wa i extretm ly desirous of
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  • 161 3 Messrs. Fraser and Co.’s ciroular, dated September 9, says:—With the exception of a somewhat increased demand for local rub bers the market remains quiet, and wo have again only a small amount of business to remark on. Rubbkr —Lodbnrys have changed hands during the week at X4-ls.
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  • 53 3 The secretary of the Serendah Hydraulic Tin Mining Co. sends the following August returns:— Output, piculs Value 88,558.32 Tribute paid 230 34 purchases 27 .90 Working expenses 2,877.01 Profit 5,180.07 Work was stopped for four days during the month owing to breaks ia the ditch liae caused
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  • 644 3 (From Our Own Cokkkspondknt.) Penang, September 8. Mr. E. L. Miles, the superintendent engineer of the Eastern Shipping Company, Ltd., writes a long letter to the PinaDg Gazette calling atteation to the monopoly of the Penang committee of the
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  • 721 4 A meeting of the Legislative Council tor k place on September 9, His Excellercy the Governor (Sir John Anderson, G.C M G.) presiding. There were also prtsent tLe General Officer Commanding tie Troops, Major General T. E. Stc phenson.-c. n.;
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  • 400 4 (From Ocb Own Cohrkhpondknt.) Malacca, September 6. Although the High School, Malacca, boasts an average attendance of over four hundred boys and a HourishiDg Cadet Corps, yet until this year do atLlctic sports had ever been held in connection with the establishment. I he procuring of a
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  • 152 4 Over fifty men of the Singapore Volunteer Artillery paraded at Fort Fasir Panjang oo September, 11 for the annual inspection. The inspecting officer was Col. HoblyD, R. G. A., who was accompanied by Lieut. Wehner, Instructor of Gunnery. There were also present Col. Broadrick, Commandant
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  • 964 4 Kelantan In 1909. MR. J. S. MASON’S REPORT AS BRITISH ADVISER Progress of the Slate. Mr j J S Maso British Adh,,., lseutd bis administration f’ lor the past year which wTaa in the histoiy of the State. 1„ J m with the AdjjIo Siamese Treaty of iwo®*!! rights of
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  • 29 5 (From Our Own Corrbspondbnt.) Penang, September 8. Mr. E. E. Column, now at home on leave, ban leached the fourth round in the British chess championship.
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  • 189 5 The proprietor of Chop Hong Seng and Co formerly store-keepers in Orchard Hoad, applied for his discharge from bankruptcy on Stptember 9. Mr. Justice Fisher granted this di-charge but suspended it for three months The firm failed at the end of 1907, for $16,500 The proprietor was formerly
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  • 120 5 Keen contests took place in the semi finals for tko local championship which is being played on the St poy Lines Links. Mr. Crabb >Vatt had an easy victory over Mr. F. Fergu Ben hy 7 and 6 to play, which is a wide mar gin
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  • 1302 5 On September 7 the dend body of Mr. F. A Meyer a Swiss employed in the office cf the Netherlands Trading Society, was found yiog beside a bicycle in Holland R )ad, abi ut 7| miles from town.
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  • 152 5 TheMnnic r p»l Commissioners’ agenda of bu-inesH fur tlie meeting on Fiiday next, includes several matters of public interest, viz, Mr. Taylor’s report in tcwerate and m wage disposal, report of the sanitary committee on sites for public convenient s, appointment of special committee to r« port on
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  • 733 7 Th lion. Dr. W. Gilmore Ellis, dean of .-Straits and F. M. S. Medical School, has ucd on behalf of the Council, an appeal f r a scholarship fund and outlining gene m t je need of the institution. The school
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  • 381 7 The Courts Ordinance of 1907 (as amend ed by Ordinance XI of 1910): Civil Procedure Code XXXI of 1907 (as amended hv Ordinance XII of 1909): Repeal Ordinance XXXIII of 1907 and Civil Law Ordinance m 1909 (of the Straits Settlements) annotated with cross references to Sections,
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  • 156 7 It will be remembered that some time ago, work upon tho lagoon dock at Tarjong Pagar was largely suoponded owing to there having been some difficulty over the borings supplied to the cont-ctors, Me°srs. John Aird and Co. In brief, the contractors found that they had
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  • 26 7 The following are advance fionres liable to correction Block tin 12 411.54 piools; tin ore 27,***** piculs; duty $374,292.68
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  • 218 7 We have received from the Mines Office the advance statement of the we ight of block tin and tin ore exported during the mouths of January to August, 1910, and of the duty collected thereon, as compared with
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  • 376 7 A ca«o of Romo antiquity so coans«)l for tho prosecution described it —was hoard in the first police court, by Mr. Kirnjstone on September 14 A queue-less Chinaman, named E. Chin Guan, was charged, at tho instance of Messrs Adamson
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  • 26 8 Stronacii—Dm Broisk —At the Pre«by terian Church, on September 10, by the Rev. Mr. William Runciman, Agnes Elizabeth Yvonne De Broiao to John Russell Stronacii
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  • 17 8 On September 13, at Eastcote Cottage. Pinner, tho wife of Robert Murray Bell, of a daughter.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1123 8 —Straits Times, September 8. The question raised by Mr. Edlin in our issue of Friday last is of a peculiarly tochui cal kind which very few of those most deeply concerned arc competent to deal with in letters to the press. There are comparatively few European
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    • 1041 8 —Straits Times, September 9 Those who are responsible for recording the trade movements of the colony regard us, we fear, as intolerably bard to please. As if in answer to the few words of protest we uttered in our first comment on the Shipping Bill debate, we
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    • 1153 9 argument nor effective sarcasm-—Straits Times, September 10. Oa the whole, we do not think there is very much reason to complain of the action c f the London Branch of the Straits Settlements Association with reference to the Shipping Conference question. The fall re r t to
      argument nor effective sarcasm-—Straits Times, September 10.  -  1,153 words
    • 1365 9 —Times, September 12. It is a good many months since we first drew attention to the peculiar josition of Malacca Plantations, the most pretentious and the least pro-porous of the Malayan rubber companies. Dealirg with the annual report issued a jeer sgo, we remarked upon the nonsensical absurdity
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    • 1192 10 an imperative aeccfcaitv September 13. We welcome the report of Mr. G. Midgley Taylor, M. Inst. C. E., F. G. S., on the sani tary condition of Singapore. It appears to us to tike as sound and practical a view of the sanitary difficulties which have to be
      '« an imperative aeccfcaitv September 13.  -  1,192 words
    • 1080 10 di-pGnpe *ith the precaution. —Straits Times, September 14. There are very few point, on which experience d.ffionlt, in a ß reeing 2 able writer of some special article, on penal Dc ence which have recently Pf d L“ the C'v.land Military GazetW, The pith of his argument
      di-pGnpe *ith the precaution.—Straits Times, September 14.  -  1,080 words
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    • 94 8 iue y o*t tree prwe of the Straits rimes i» #■s» a year. The post free price of the Straits Budget is Si 4 a year, ft is not necessary to subscribe for a year. Ihe subscriptions for shorter periods are at the same proportionate rate as for a year.
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  • 926 11 Tronoh pays a dividend of two shilling* payable in London on October 1, and Lalial declares a sixpenny dividend. Burglars entered a towkay’s boose in the new town, lpoh, lo.-kcd the inmates in a room, and ransacked the rest of the bouse. It is reported at Penang
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  • 667 11 The fifth assizes of tins year wrre opened before thet h ef Justice, on September 13 with a calendar of nine cases. The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. R. C. Edmonds, appeared for tho Crowu. Y*«o Ah Kim, a cripple, admitted
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  • 12 14 (The Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents
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  • 240 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —I am sorry I cannot accept your statement that the Governor is not worrying his head about tin and rubber in view of the following statement made by His Excellency 0 n Friday last: The lion, member must remember
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  • 90 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —It is a pleasure to see the views so ably expressed in “Delta’s" recent letter endorsed by a planter of Mr. Carey’s experience. Those who have known something of Mr. Ridley’s work during
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  • 235 14 To the Editor of The Straits Times. Sir, —As one who has repeatedly addressed yon in the past three or four years in favour of a system of underground sewers for Singapore, despite the almost universal local opposition to such a scheme, I cannot bnt be
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  • 595 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —In the Governor’s Rpeech on September 2, on the second reading of the Freights and Steamships Bill he is reported as having said that if figures were fully gone into it would be found that our trade with the
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  • 488 14 Mr. Bart Wirtz gave hia violoncello recital at the TeutoniaClubon September 13 and gave a great deal more than he received, that is to say hia artistic work was worthy an andience at least three times the number of those pre
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  • 801 15 FA CTS ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES. Interesting Illustrated Lecture by Mr. Prautch. a Prautch, who was in charge of 4 excellent little exhibit from the Philip X at the late Agri Horticultural Show, P lC tn'rcd bf fore a large audience in the ifrial H ill,on September 9, npon America’s jf
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  • 157 15 (From Our Own Corrrspondrnt.) Penang, September 9. Mr. R. C. Gould, the Penang solicitor, whose case was mentioned on August 23, has been suspended for three months. The Supreme Court has ordered him to pay thirty dollars due by him to
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  • 195 15 The Hon. W. Evans, the Misses Evans, and aparty were present on September 7 ata variety entertainment given in the Victoria Memorial Theatre in aid of the hearse fund of the Singapore Catholic Association. There was a fairly large audience present. The programme was varied and pleasant, but
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  • 110 15 The Siam Observer ot September 1, says With reference to the sad affair which occurred at Koh-si Chang on Sunday last and by which three European sailors and a Chinaman from the steamer Andre Rickmers lost their lives, wo hear that the men had been drinking and
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  • 400 15 Before the Chief Justice, in the Supreme Court, on September 7, J. A. Meyer sued Wee Kay Poh for 98,428, damages for breach of contract in the non delivery for 500 Sungei Krian shares. Mr. Yarbrough for the plaintiff, Mr. Everitt
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  • 83 15 (From Our Own Corrkspondknt.) Kuala Lumpnr, September 9. The action brought by Messrs. Osborne and Chappel, the well known mining ex ports, against Mr. William Sim, general manager of a Shanghai group of estates and Mr. Samuel Palk, a late assistant of the firm, for damages,
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  • 162 15 The garden f* te and concert which is to be held in aid of the restoration fund ot the above church will take place on Wednesday, September 21, from 4.80 to 6.80 p.m. at Mohs Bank, 28 Grange Hoad, which has been kindly lent for
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  • 2065 16 London, September 7. Tbo Berlin Morgen Post Fays tliat an ex ainination of documents by the public pro secutor has established sufficient grounds of suspicion for the charge of espionage made against two Englishmen who were arrested at Boikum. Their names arc Brandon and Trench. An order has
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  • 777 17 Berlin. September 7. Rumours that tbe Queen of Spain will go to reside in Austria in consequence of the Church contlict going on in Spam, are denied at Vienna. Prince llcnry of Prussia is goiDg to England to indict the track for the next Henry aotomobile race. A
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  • 104 17 Messrs. Robert Leslie and Co., brokers, were plaintiffs and Mr. C. M. van Cuylen herg was defendant in an action that was down for hearing in the senior magistrate court on September 13. The plaintiffs claim $412 75 damages for defendant’s failure to delivir 300 Sumatra
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  • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 247 17 September 7 I Meteor, Rus str, Kimmerssen, Vladivoatock, Boast* ad Dunera, Br.t str, Nielson, Rangoon, Pom-tead Sultan, lius str, Steinberg, Kobe, East Asiatic Austria, Aus str, ltasisfez, Bombay, Kauttnberg Schtni it A. L Trecille, Fck str, Maeky, Saigon, Moine Ccmte 8 Arcadia, Brit str, Barcham Shanghai, P. A O.
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    • 201 17 September 7 Dacre Castle, Brit str, Manila Hitachi Maru, Jap str, Antwerp via porta Ceylon Maru, Jap str, Hongkong and Japan 4. L. Trecille, Fch str, Dunkirk via ports 8 lMeteor, Has str, Batonm I <i'h>n Hus str, Calcutta pithan, Brit str, (.Tuna and Japan llirano Maru, Jap btr,
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  • 253 18 Singapore. September 14, 1910. EXCHANGE. On London —Bank 4 m/s 2/4$ Demand 2/4 Private 6 m/s 2/1$ do 8 m/s 2/4 On Germany —Bank d/d 240 Private 8 m/s 244 do 6 m/s 246 1 On France —Bank d/d 295 Private 8 m/s 2991 do 6 m/s
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  • 1088 18 w Singapore, September 14, 1910. MINING. Issue 75 Value, a! Buyers, Seller*. 10 10 Belat Tin 8 75 4 00 10 10 Bruang 6 25 6.50 10 10 Brusoh Hyd. 6.00 6.50 10 10 Kanaboi 2.00 2 50 £1 £1 Kinta Tin 15 50 18 50 £1
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    • 317 18 Properly Sales. The following Singapore properties were disposed cf by auction at Messrs. Powell and Co.’s pale room on September 13:—No. 14 Amoy Street, area 1,335 square feet, ka«e 999 years, quit rent $3. Monthly rent 830. J. A. Elias *5,'700, No. 217 Telok Ayer Street, area 1,527 square feet,
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    • 117 19 TELEPHONE No. 390 ROAD. A complete family Grocery Assortment now in Mod The finest Italian Fish and Salads. Ail shapes of Macaroni and Breakfast foods. c m A Gravity lamp of 700 and 1,000 candle power NO ARTIFICIAL PRESSURE. OREAT SAVING IN SPARE PARTS. BRILLIANT LIGHT-GIVER. CAN BE CARED FOR
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    • 457 19 CUT threejinches deep. in rai Trrriblk Operation roK Stonk Kidneys. 1 from inflammation of the bladder and slone in the kidneys for 2 years,” say* A p H f n8 n of 19 Hawk Street, Hadden--field, England. “At first I couldn’t understand what was the matter with me; my eyes
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    • 347 20 STEREO. fkonly R bo MidlclM of tho kind «•warded a Certificate at tha Calcutta Exhibition, 1883 4, open to Dr. LALOR’S Trade Mark. HOSPHODYNE has the largest sale of any phosphoric medicine in the world. 1r forty rears l> /gk !t effects are shewn from the T Kli Phoanhoric Cn
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    • 281 20 NOTICE —j The undersigned has appointed the Adelphi Hotel as bis agents for the sale of CE1KA RUBBER SEEDS AND YOUNG SEEDLINGS (MANIHOT GLAZIOVII), ROBU8TA COFFEE PMNT8 (ONE FuOT HIGH), LAMTORO SEEDS, And desires t int all enquiries and orders be sent to the above Hotel, where samples of Robber
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT.
    • 2123 1 A camber of shares in which local investors are interested are not quoted in local share lists, and there are occasionally wide Bargin'* between quotations here aud in London. Transactions take place in Mincing-Lane as
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    • 108 3 London and Singapore Rubber Prices 12 General— Rubber Estate Labour 3-4 Rubber Letter-box 5 Port Swettenham Rubber Co. 7 Malay Rubber Industry... 8 August Rubber Returns... 8 KoDg Lee (Perak) Plantations 8 Telegrams Penang Share Auctions 8 Offer for Klaog Estate 8 Ayer Kuning 6 Export Duty on Rubber...
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    • 53 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, September 7. At to-day’s share auctions, the following prices were realised: 500 Nellmays 90 cents 1,000 Perak River Valleys 30 2r<0 Jitras 60 100 Kanabois $2.90 203 New Tambuns $2.80 100 Glenealys $2.40 500 Temerlohs *60 200 Mergai Rubbers $2 75 200
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    • 50 3 Our Own Correspondent.) Penang, September 10. Towkay Yeoh Paik Keat, of the Uganda K Jhber Estate, Klang, which in the last ssven months had an output of 6,334 lbs. of tubber, states that a local syndicate ha« red £24,000 for the purchase of tho pro pfcrty.
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    • 2728 3 When the managers of a Rubber Share Trust, or a jobber who has been running a bear account, wants to scare timid people into parting with sound shares, there is no more popular expedient than that
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    • 660 4 The statutory general meeting n I bers of the Vine and General p„? K I Limited, Mr. F. W. baker I company) presiding. Tlte tot i th I shares allotted is 500 000 Vn I Participating Preference sbarea
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    • 819 5 rr\.r, following notes are from the Ceylon rlXwutn botanies 1 rf porta. ,.t leinaik-tble tcoo< rnic feature of 11 a l as b futhe unpree dent d value Y t fl bv I'-ra rubber, which has recently a ;Y. l a figure
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    • 532 5 L nder the above h* a ling and bearing the signature of K. A. Baxter, the following letter appears in the Financier:—l should be glad if you or any of your readers could give a satisfactory explanation why of late so many of the
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    • 654 5 The London aod China Express, of August 19 says:—The mtrketfor Para coutmuud rirm during the earth r part ot the week, but has since dec.ued scinjwbat and business nas been moderate. Flue Hard on the spot and Lear closes 9 s.
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    • 842 6 The first gecoral meeting of the l nited Singapore Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held in the cffices rf the coiipany on Ro»t Quay on Septi mbtr 9. The Chairman Dr. Lun Boon Keng, presided, sod then were also present Messrs Tan .Jibk
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    • 481 6 At a meeting of the Samagaga Rubber Company, held at Shaoghai, Mr. L. J. Cubitt, the chairman, in the course of his remarks to shareholders said:— The company was incorporated on April 30 last and the final instalment of the purchase
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    • 27 6 (From Oor Own Corrkspondknt.) Penang, September 7. An extraordinary gmcral meeting of Ayer Kuning baa confirmed tbe increase of capital agreed to on August 23.
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    • 604 6 The second ordinary Bt ner was held at the Louden i'l Meeting Rooms, MirciuK-laLo. Mr kK™ Sa presidtd, Raid that tire total cost *U) petty stcod in the balance Xu'.** 1 univalent to JC43 8s 11. ptr at a addition to the
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    • 44 6 (From Odr Own Correspond®* l Kuala Lumpur, Septan*' The prices of cultivated tubbet ■>" g(o export duty is leviable from September *2 are:— nical* Sheet biscuit F Fine crepe Q if Best scrap b Bark scrap ..‘Jn untreated scrap HanuboDg untreated
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    • 758 7 I first ordinary general (statutory) meet I Tb r t e Hukifc Timah Rubber Estates, list? 0 ijf ki at the office of Messrs. Evatt on Sfptembet 9. I I Mareot, "ho occupied the chair, I r 1 l ive been
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    • 301 7 Dr. Lim Boon Keng took the chair on September 9 at the statutory meeting of th M Tampenis Para and Coconut Plantations,Ltd held at 25, South Canal Road. He mention* d that with land taken over from the two existing companies,
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    • 93 7 (From Ouk Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, September 8. In the Snpreme Court, yesterday, Low Leong Huat sued the Planters’ Stores and Agency for the special performance of a contract to deliver 200 Heawood shares at 37/* premium. Defendants state that they wero
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    • 64 7 (From Odb Own Correspondent.) Penang, September 10. The Jelong output cf rubber for August is 20 170 lbs., making for eight months 140,520 lbs., against 79,030 lbs., in the corresponding period last year. The tin sales in Penang for the past fortnight have been: Eastern Smeltirg Co,
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    • 377 7 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —I would ask you to kindly a low me to refer sLoitly to oue or two points in your recent criticism of the Djapoera” dotation. You make a point of the directors
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    • 255 7 The following is from the Melbourne Argus of August 10:—Another stage in the career of the Port Swettenham Rubber Company was reached yesterday, when a cable advice was receivod from the company’s manager at Seremban, Malaya, tliat the Supreme Court had refused the company’s iojuuctioD, but
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    • 881 8 Writing from Singapore, a French correspondent of the Paris Financial News gives his impressions of a visit to certain rubber plantations in tho Malay Peninsula. The im pressions that I have gleaned, lie writes, I am bound to say,
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    • 340 8 With a capital of X5P.000. in XI shares, of which 32.500 are now offered for subscription At par, the Kong Lee (Perak) Plantations. Limited, has been formed primarily for the purpose of acquiring, as from Angust. 2,1910. and working (first) tho Kong Lee rubber and coconut
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    • 207 8 (From Our Ows- Corr,^ Kuala Lumpur, Septet,,,. Inch Kenneth 10.521 lb* Saugoi Way 7,963 lb,, Lennon‘l'L> Chersonese 2,400 lb-., Sengat 7,700 lb,, at,] lUuaui Tbe Port Dickson Rubbor Co dry rubber for August i* 735 lb 3 amounted to 618) bBund ofiAu^"‘o, ,t:;^ -.Tbe following outputs arn
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    • 348 8 Mr. Peach, presiding at the meeting of the Ankobra Rubber Estates, Limited, eaid tbat of the 400.000 shares offered to the public 200,60*3 were applied for and allotted. It was a smaller subscription thaD the directors anticipated, and was somewhat disappointing, but the issue was made just
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