The Straits Budget, 23 December 1915

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1 4 The Straits Budget
  • 28 1 The Straits Budget VOL. LXIX No. 3019 Singapore. Thursday. December 23. 1915. BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” tS'ABUSHIO uvtn Mir A C'NlUftV Prico 25 cents.
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  • 225 1 LEADERS Development 8 What Next? 8 America and Austria 8 9 Chinese Loyalty 9 Whore Someone Blundered 9-10 Local and Gknkral— Local and Personal 1.2 Municipal Commission 2 Malaya's Roll of Honour 2 The War 8-6 Malayan Air Squadron 6 Death of Mr. F. A. Thomas/ 6
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  • 3381 1 Ou Saturday evening in Ipoh Club a collection of brass work by the Hon. A. I‘aync-Gallwey was sold by auction, the auctioneer being the President of the Club, Mr. R. P. Brash. The work, without exception, was very prettily designed and exquisitely executed, and in most cases
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  • THE WAR.
    • 2685 3 Rktukr’s Tklkgrams. London, December 15, 4.35 p.m. Id the House of Commons, Sir K. A. Corn wall asked whether tho se lection of General .lottre as generalissimo of all the French forces necessitated any important changes
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    • 1916 3 SATURDAY’ S TELEGRAMS. Viscount French. HIS Dimes IN THE HOME COMMAND. The Bulgarian Attitude Defined. Londou, December 17,1.35 p.m. Tim pa|M)rH are unanimouk in d* daring that Field Marshal Sir .I >hu French is asaunid of the lasting gratitude of the nation and will still bo precious to the country
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    • 2794 4 MONDAY’ S TELEGRAMS. The German Lines Bombarded. HEAVY EFFECTED OF FRENCH GUNS. Discussion of Ancona Crime. London, December 17, 5.30 p.m. Amsterdam: The latest German report is that the Germans are concentrating ou Saint Mihiel, but there is growing evidence that not only aro the Germans active, but undoubtedly the
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    • 1479 5 TUESDAY’ S TELEGRAMS. The Dardanelles. I TROOPS LEAVE SUVLA BAY. The Balkan Situation. London, December ‘20. 2.55 p.m. The War Oflij** announces that all tho troops at So via Hay aud An/.ac and their guns and stores have b**on successfully traus terred, with insignificant casualties, to another .sphere of operations.
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    • 2301 6 WEDNESDAY’ S TELEGRAMS. Mr. Lloyd George Speaks. VITAL IMPORTANCE OF MUNITIONS. Heavy Fighting in France. Loudon, December 20, 8.35 p m. In tho House of Commons, Mr. Lloyd George made a statement on the Ministry of Monitions. He dwelt on theenorruous importance of the part that machinery played in this
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  • 392 6 At the last committee meeting of the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce the following etter was read iu reply to the representstions made to tho Postmaster-General H Hongkong on the subject of HongkongBorneo mails:-1 have the honour to acknow ledge with thankN the receipt
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  • 112 6 Mr. C. Alma Baker, organiser of tho Malayan Air Squadron telegraphing fro lll Batu Gajah says The Malayan Air Squadron, the .Talma Fighter $19,300: 1 have to day cabhd to the War Office $14,500 remitted by the Ceylon Jaffna Tamil community
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  • 118 6 We regret to state that the death o< c irr at the General Hospital, on Tuesday, at P 1 of Mr. Frederick Alexander Thomas/, at w ago of 47. Deceased, who was Lea* 111 of St. Anthony’s Boys School for 1 1,1 F 15
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  • 1211 7 Hongkong, December 13. R was an affair of very small account! which broke out iu Shaughai the other day I and which was promptly strangled. A journalistic friend iu the Northern city advises the writer that it was not
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  • 384 7 LIEUT.-COMMANDER LAYTON. Interned Naval Officer Outdid Monte Cristo.” Details of an escape, sufficiently exciting to recall Homo of the thrills of Monte Cristo, were related to the Liverpool correspondent of Lloyd’s News on November 21 by Liontenant Commander Layton, recently in com mand of the British submariue F. 13, which
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  • 183 7 Tho appeal of Phaug Teck Joon against tho decision of Mr. Justice Woodward in favour of Haji Asra binto Mohamed was hoard by the recent Court of Appeal, consist ing of the Chief Justice and Justices Ebden and Earnshaw, who unanimously allowed the appeal with costs. It
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  • 1369 7 (Fhom Out Own Cokkksi*om>i sr.) Kuala Lumpur, December 15. '11 in Cambridge local examinations, s« uior,! junior, and preliminary, are now b* mg held at tht) Town hall, Kuala Lumpur. The! sittings began on Monday last and continue through tho week, two siib|*)Cts a day, until 1
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  • 393 7 GERMANY’ S KULTUR OBSESSION. K. Ilovet, a prof* ms rat the I niversity of Zurich, writes in the hi monthly magazine Wissen ami liiiln n, of which he is the editor The <picstion of the violation (if Ih loium’H neutrality by Germany is still of paramount interest to us. It
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1194 8 content to make no advance.—Straits Times, December 17. Things arc beginning to develop It is announced that the hutch Hast India liners are in future to go round by the Cape instead of using the Suez Canal. It is further stated that certain changes are impending in the higher
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    • 1190 8 -Straits Times, December ly. Wc have no anxiety about tho leadership of tho British forces in France. Sir Douglas Haig is of the dour Scottish Btock which has produced some of our greatest soldiers, and, though he is but little known as yet, he may rise to a
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    • 1180 8 than their dead ?—Straits Times, December 20. It seems practically certain that there will be a rupture of diplomatic relations between the l nited States and Austria. Such a rupture means very little. Tho interests of Austrian subjects in America will be banded over to tho German
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    • 1163 9 —StraitH TirntH, December 21. Some little time ago wo had the pleasure of noting the formation of a Chinese British Association in Singapore. More recently the l hineso of Malacca met together and took stops iu tho same direction, and in Fenang an enthusiastic movement is in progress
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    • 1181 9 —Straits Times, December 22. The recall of Sir lau Hamilton, later on tho visit of Lord Kitchener, and sundry casual hints which have been allowed to pass by the censors prepared us for news that the Gallipoli expedition was to undergo some modifications. It is possible, no
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  • 228 10 Mr. Gibbs, special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph on the Franco Flemish front, gives a remarkable picture of the winter conditions on the Western line of tight. The soldiers are experiencing the frightfulness of the elements. lUib is filling thu trenches with ice-cold water. A
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  • 217 10 There have been cra/.y rumours running round Singapore these last few days, many of them almost humorous in their extra ▼agance. The origin of most of them cau be traced to an extremely foolish error, and they have made many good folk uneasy. We have absolutely no authority
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  • 132 10 Four nurses, three wounded soldiers, and a woman residing in the district were drowned on November 21 in an ice accident ou a pond in the grounds of the David Lewis Man cheater Epileptio Colony at Warford, Cheshire, which is being used as a war hospital.
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  • 70 10 The following amusing application has been sent in by a Sinhalese to the authorities in Colombo: Honoured Sir,—l am writing this to you to be enrolled my numo as a representative of going for tho front of the war, and I am do lioroby strongly
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  • 1918 10 Following is a selection of cables published in the Australian newspapers received by the French mail:— Horror of War. London, November 18. Mr. Philip Gibbs, telegraphing to the Daily Chronicle, states The battlefield of Artois is the most
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  • 411 10 The members of the Johore European olunteer Rifles were inspected at .Johore Bahru by His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, Straits Settlements, on Sunday last. The corps, which is at prest-nt some 180 strong, was formed abcut four months ago and held its
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  • 1795 11 Tbe fourth annual general meeting of the Malayan Tin Dredging, Limited, was held on November 15, at the institute of Chartered Accountants, Moorgate Place, K.C., Sir Edward Woodford Birch, K l’.M.G. (chairman of the company), presiding. The
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  • 121 11 According to the Aftenblad, music hall artistes who have returned to Copenhagen from Berlin relate that hundreds of French, Russian, and Belgian prisoners of war are acting nightly as supers in a great war pantomime at the Circus Schumann. The pantomime, really a spectacular play,
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  • 688 11 The ('round of the A uglo-Chinese Free School pronentod quite a gala appearance on Saturd ly afternoon when the anmiul sport* wore hold. There were flags and bunting, flowers that had btx u brought by the children, a band, and, an the feature
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  • 120 11 Notice is given in the Gazette that at the expiration of six months after the Hi-it inst., the mortgages of the Municipal four per rent. Loan of 1H97, which were drawn by lot at a meeting of the Municipal Commis sioners on the
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  • 169 11 K> t thi: h Tklkuium. London, I>< comber 17, 5..'M) a m. There has been a terrible railway accident at South Shields, a passenger train, a pilot engine and an empty workmen's train all colliding in a fog. it is reported
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  • 665 11 Curl Spittcler, Switzerland's best poet, tlie author of the < Myiupischer Fruhliug," a work widely read iu Germany, said in the course of his speech at Zurich to the Now Helvetic Society Against the Knglish, the German* nourish, as you kuow, <piito extraordinary feelings of
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  • 103 12 Kiutkk’s Tklkgkams. London, December 15, 1.20 p.m. A Peking telegram says that a Hood of lying pamphlets regarding British oppres sion in India has arrived by mail from Holland. Tho books bear tho imprint published by tho Indian National Party,” but they
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  • 75 12 Rkutkk’s Tklkokam. London, December 18, 2.40 p.m. Messrs. Samuel Montana »v Co.’s silver report states that the robust appearance of the market has been somewhat belied by the sales on account of China. Purchases are still bring made for home coinage, but there is a lull, which
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  • 58 12 Rkutkr’s Tklkokam. London, December 20, 4.40 a.m. A bonded warehouse at Leith, the coutents of which were chiefly tea, coffee, tobacco and whisky, has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £130,000. Simultaneously, a whisky store at Glasgow was gutted causing £150,000 damage. A neighbouring
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  • 35 12 Reuter's Tklkokam. London, December 16. The President of the Board of Trade has Appointed Mr. Louis Kershaw, at the nomination of the India Ollice, a member of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Intelligence.
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  • 49 12 Hkl tku’s Tklkuuam. London, December 20. The Panama Canal channel has been opened sufficiently to warrant waiting vesseln preparing to pass through. A perm a nent opening cannot yet bo guaranteed and it in inadvisable tor shipping to arrange proceeding via the Canal until further advices.
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  • 49 12 K L 1KIt’s TKLKG UA M. Loudon, December 18, 3.35 p.m. Tho changed conditions iu the Universities are attested by tho examiners for the Ireland and Craven scholarships declaring that they award them to liajavi 1*. Dutt who is honourably mentioned for his work in the examination.
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  • 36 12 KhLTKK’s 1 BLHOKAM. London, December 19, 6.5 a.m. Washington President Wilson has married Mrs. Norman 11. Galt. The ceremony was very simple and the pair left for a fortnight’s honeymoon in the south.
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  • 29 12 Hkutkk’s Tklkukam. London, December 17, 5.30 p.m. A rumour that Mr. McKenna will succeed Lord llardiugc as Viceroy of India is officially declared to bo without foundation.
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  • 36 12 Kkutkk's Tmlkgram. Loudon, December 16, 11.45 p.m. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil said that the pn ss report that Sir John Jordan would shortly bo reining was absolu tely unfounded.
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  • 29 12 Uki;i ku's Tklh(jhams. London, December 15, 3.25 pm. The i alh is announc' d of V iscountfAlver itouo, Lord <’hu t Justice of England, 1900 13
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  • 684 12 Router’s Agency informs us that General Sir Douglas Haig has been appointed to succeed Field-Marshal Sir John French in command of the British army in France and Flauders. When the war began in, 1914, it is safe to
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  • 499 12 AMATEUR THEATRICALS. The Curtain Falls on The Queries” And “My Word.” Mr. Roland Braddell* was able to announce on Saturday evening that the (JUiccrs’ Families’ Association will bonetit to the extent of about X'GOO by the performances organised uuder the auspices of the Singa pore Dramatic Committee. That most gratifying
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  • 364 12 The scholar* of the Outram Road School onjoyed them selves on the 16th inst., when they held their annual sports. The large company of visitors appeared to do likewise and so tho affair proved most successful. The program me was a lengthy one, containing no fewer
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  • 599 12 It may be remembered that in An..., 11 Messrs. Turner, Morrison and Co of I'm the managing agents of the Bomba V Peisian Steam Navigation Co., Ltd and t\* Arab Steamers, Ltd., the two liners that the vast majority of Haj
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  • 174 12 (Fkom Ouk Own Corkkspondent.) Penang, December 17. There is great gratification at the Govt in ment’s sanction of a Chinese company o volunteers. A public meeting has been vened for to morrow in the Chinese Hall and will be addressed by prominent Chinese and others, including Major Adams.
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  • 135 12 OBITUARY. Rkutih’s Tklkorams. London, December 17, 5.30 p.m. Mr. Charles Beatty, Deputy Inspector General of Police at Belgaum, Bombay, has committed suicide at Cheltenham. London, December 17, 10.15 p.m. The death is announced of Earl Do la Warr, from rheumatic fever and pueumonia, at Messina. London, December 18, 4.25 a.m.
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  • 1619 13 T) 10 second annual general meeting of the Kenong Tin Dredging Company, Limited, was held on November 11, at the registered office, 5, Whittlin' f«»n V venue, E.C., Captain K. B. Lawson (tiie chairman) presiding. The Clnirmau said: May I
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  • 218 13 The O.S.K. Canada Main, which arrived at Yokohama on November 22, brought seven •Japanese, who crossed the Pacific in a fishing schooner with the object of smuggling themselves into the I'nited States. It appears that eight young men of Ctsumimura,
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  • 880 13 The annual general meeting of the Simpam Valley Hydraulic Mines, Ltd., was held at the offices of the compauy, Winchester House, on Tuesday. The Hon. Dr. Lim Boon Keng presided, others present being Dr. B. .1. Galloway, Messrs. .1. A. Hamilton,
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 33 13 The monthly modal of the above club wan played for during Saturday and Sunday and resulted in a win for C. D. Me Lachlan with a net acoro of HO.
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    • 35 13 The final for the Andrew Currie Cup (Ladies’ Golf Championship of Singapore) wan played oil on the Keppol golf link* on Sunday and wan won by Sirs. Ferguson, four up and throo.
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    • 89 13 The race from the Swimming Club to Sea View Hotel, decided on Sunday morning, resulted iu a win for 11. Karsten. Six competitors took the water, five of whom finmlied. From the start Karsten went ahead and at the long pier had established a loud of fifty yards
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    • 102 13 The Autumn cup was competed for on Saturday and Sunday, and resulted in wiu for A. C. Smith, who returned a not score of 78. Twenty niue cards wero taken out, aud the following were returned >— A. C. Smith 41 :SU 4 7M G. M. Dalgety
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    • 97 13 A naval combination, opposed to an S.C.C. fifteen on the Esplanado on Saturday, succeeded in registering a wiu by only the narrowest of margins. Thu game went in favour of the sailors during the first half, but after the interval the exchanges wero very even, lioth sides struggled their
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    • 101 13 The December Spoou of the S.L.K.A. wu Hhot for at ItaloHtior on tho 16th inst., Mrs. I'aynn beinj» tho winnor, with the excellent Hcoro of 61 nett. Tho first ho von scores wore:— 'p T 3 eL Is 8 0 -g O 35 ,9 w* f> HI
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  • 106 13 Kkutbk's Thi.kokam. London, hecembnr ‘20, 7.25 p.iu. In tho I Ioiiho of Commons, Sir J. I). Kooii uskcd whether the Kaj rocommondod the abolition of the indentured labour system. Mr. Chamberlain said he hod received a communication from the Kaj dealing with the objectioun to, and the
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  • 110 13 Tho Malacca Chinese Volunteer Company is already an accomplished fact, tho move* meet having bison successfully organised by tho Malacca branch of the Straits Chinese Kritish Association. The Governor's reply to the memorial playing to be allowed to servo as Volunteers for tho Settlement of Malacca wxh
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  • 1102 14 (From Our Own CokkksI'ondkkt.) Sourabaya, December 16. As was expected, tho news received bore from Peking to the effect that Yuan Shi kai had accepted the Imperial crown caused little 01 no commotion among our Celestial friends locally, aud this is all the more noteworthy considering the
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  • 587 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—May 1 appeal through the medium of your intluential cclumus tn the Government for facility to certaiu Chinese Volunteers who are desirous of doing something more than mere patrol work of showing their
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  • 581 14 On Saturday, at the Coroner's Court, Dr. T. Murray Hobertsou opened the enquiry into the death of Mr. George Peutcuick Muckart, GB, Governujeut Marine Surveyor, who was found dead ou Ins bed on Thursday evening with a bullet wound in his
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  • 62 14 Landon. —On December 14, at the European Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, the wife of J. M. P. Lamlon, Cluny Estate, Slim River, of a sou. Bookkr-Hii.l.— On December 10, at Ootacamund, the wife of A. 0. Booker-Hill, Bukit Asaltan, Malacca, of a son. Towill. —On December ‘JO, Colcmsay,” Grange K
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  • 15 14 Rorkrtson—Stork. —On December IH, at Kuala Lumpur, Archibald Bruco Uobertson to Ethel May Stork.
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  • 161 14 8inga*»oks, Dkckmbkr 22, 1916, exchange, On London Bank 4 m/s < 2/4 ft Demand 2/41- Private 8 m/a 0**ndu ...Bank T, T. 1?5 On Hongkong...Bank d/d On SdANGUA) Baijk d/d 9 )x On Java Bank T. T. 182j On Japan Bank 1Q^ Sovereigns—buying rate India Council Bills
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  • 351 14 Sing a ohm, Dkckmubr 22, 1915 MINING. Issue Value 1! "> trs >cKt 10 10 Ampang 6.U0 l 1 Ayer Weng 0.30 0.40 10 10 Belat 2.00 2.10 10 10 Kanabol 0.80 0.00 1 10 Kiuta Association 6.50 41 XI Kiula Tin 1.14.0 1.17.0 1 XI Lahat
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 94 14 NOTICE. The post tree price '»f trie Slruil» Tim** i« a year Ttiipost fre-' price o' too Strut.: Hu„#t in j i year. It in not necessary t -.iibscriie tar a year. Tiie sub* scription* for shorter >;r;oJs are at the same proportionate rate as tor a vear. The Straits
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT.
    • 79 1 (Iknkkal Rubber Items 1 Rubber Curing l Singapore Rubber Auction November Rubber Returns K.M.S. Kubber Export Duty 2 siugapore Share Report 4 I'hLKiiKAMS Loudon Rubber Special 1 Kubber Estate Fire 1 Msk linos and Redouts— Kiooklauds Kubber 2 I nited Temiang Rubber ‘2 >r (iajah Rubber Instate 2 Shanghai
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    • 61 1 iFrom Our Own Corrrspondrnt.) London, Decomber 20. I’nitcd Serdang pays a dividend of 30 per cent., places to resorve 1*40,000 and carries forward 115,000. Interim dividends aro Selangor 33( per cent., Seatield 10 and Pataling 50. Taiping carries forward 129,000. Rnbber is
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    • 99 1 (Fkom Our Own Corrrspondhnt.) Penang, December 18. Fire broko out on Gedong Estate, at 3 a.m. yesterday, and destroyed the smoke-room, the drying, packing and rubber stores and a huge quantity of rubber. The loss is covered by insurance. Gedong Estate, where there was a serious tire
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    • 132 1 Mr. C. C. R. Bell, of Midlands Estate, who lias been serving as a private in Gallipoli, lias been wounded. Mr. K, A. Currie, of Kerilla Estate, Kolantan, is now lieutenant in tho Highland bight Infantry and is serving in the Dardanelles. Plantation imports into England during November
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    • 1512 1 On December 1J, reports the Times of Malaya, in the Ipoll Supn me Court, the I Judicial Commissioner delivered judgment j in the action brought by Mr. Walter Jackson, I of f>7, Arcade, Singapore, against .Mr. Alina I
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    • 400 1 The Singapore ('haul her of Commerce Lubber Association's iilst auction was held on the l.otli and Iftth inst. when there were offered foi mde pels. 7,1 hi.o7 or 1152,1011 lbs. (toils 42b.1H). I'rices realised Sheet smoked line ribbed ...||ms to 9200
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    • 2630 2 Brooklands Rubber. THE RIGHTS 0 F DEBENTURE CONVERSION. Suggestion to Exercise. The fifth ordinary general meeting of the Brook-lands Selangor Bubber Company, Limited, was held on November 10, at Cannon Street Hotel, K.C., Mr. E. G. Money 1 (chairman of the company) presiding. The Chairman Haid: In regard to the
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    • 232 2 The report o! the United Temiang (F.M.S.) Rubber Estates, Limited, for the year ended July 81 last states that tho acreages as at July 81 were as follows :—Rubber in bearing, 728 acres; rubber not in bearing, 1,610 acres; reserve, BS9 acres total area, 8,222 acres. According
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    • 530 2 Mr. W. M. Sime, chairman, sums ti„. u report of the directois of Alur Gajali H u hi Estates, Ltd., which runs as followsdirectors beg to submit the balance u° Ur and profit and loss account for the
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    • 34 2 Bukit Katil.—B,6l2 lbs. Alov Gajab.—9,soo lbs. Polepah Valley. —15,000 lbs. Kota Tinggi (Johore).—9,soo lbs. Sigintiug. —4,000 lbs. C10ve11y.—4,543 lbs. Durian Sabatang.—2,Boo lbs. Sembrong.—l,94s lbs. I'unggor.—s,oBs lbs. Laugkon North Bornoo.- 13,000 lb
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    • 57 2 For the period from inclusive, the value of th an ,itlo of rubber is fixed at 3s. >< I c xpn4 duty on cultivated rubber 0 m duty is loviablo on an ad t li< IM 8accordance with tho rules a Customs Duties Enactment, r) t
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    • 969 3 An xtraordinary general mcetiug of the Shanghai Klebaug Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held at Shanghai, on November 29, for the purpose of passing resolutions to reconstruct tho company. Mr. Hugo Reiss presided. The other director present was Mr. S. J. Benjamin,
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    • 433 3 Tho report of the Consolidated Estates Company, Limited, states that the profit and loss account (including £4,619 brought forward) shows a ba’anoo of .C0M,620, after providing tor mtei< si on the debentures. Deducting the inter.m dividends of 4 per cent, on the
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    • 372 3 Mr. George Croll presided on November 11 at the statutory uieetiug of the Coutrul Sumatra Rubber Estates, Limited, aud explained that the company had been formed to acquire the propel ty owned by the Central j Sumatra Rubber Estates, Limited, which I went into voluntary liquidation on
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    • 1502 3 Tho fifth ordinary general meeting ot the shareholders of tho Bcrarfaug (Selaugor) 1 Rubber Plantations, Limited, was held on Novi Lubcr 1.5, at the edicts of tho company, j 5, Kenehurch Street, K.C., Mr. K. (J. Money (chaimiau of tho company) presiding.
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    • 418 3 The report of the Sumatra Rubber Company, Limited, states that the accounts hliow a profit for tho year to May Ml, after i providing for depreciation of and machinery and to revenue, tho upk< < p ol the whole planted area, whether 1 pi oductive or non productive,
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    • 1316 4 Tho fifth animal ordinary general meeting of tho Batu Rata (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations, Limited, was held on November 12, at tho Council Room of the Rubber Growers’ Association, 38, Eastcheap, E.C., Mr. Philip Eustace Hcrvey (chairman of the company)
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    • 341 4 The sixth yearly report of the directors of Pajam, Limited, is signed by Mr. W. L. Watkins and is as follows Your directors have pleasure in submitting the balance sheet and profit and loss account for the year ended September 30, 1913.
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    • 435 4 la their Hharc circular, dated the 15th inHt., Messrs. Fraser and Co. state:— Aftei some activity early in the week, the past few days have been dull. Most holders of stocks are satisfied with their present holdings and until there is
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    • 408 4 The report of the Sungei Balnu Rubber Estates, Limited, states that the quantity of rubber harvested during the year to Juno JO totalled 174,387 lbs., being an increase of 14,387 lbs. over the revised estimate of 160,000 lbs. and 51,387 lbs. over the original estimate of 123,000
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    • 721 4 No subject lias occupied the attorn; the woollen and worsted industries dul° L recent months, more than khaki H ta£« K correspondent in The Telegraph’ i t, particulars which have been ?iven from to time respecting the placing of across the
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