Straits Echo, 2 April 1904

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    35 1 Straits Echo DA.LV CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES, AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 2. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, SATURDAY, APRIL 2nd, 1904. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 74t*
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    HIGH WATER.
    40 1 For \Veek ending Fri<l„y t April, 8 1904. ■AM. P.M. Saturday, 2nd 3.00 3.25 Sunday, 3rd 3.50 4.15 Monday, 4th 4.40 5.05 Tuesday, sth 5.30 5.55 Wednesday, 6th 6.20 6.45 Thursday, 7th 7.10 7.35 Friday, Bth 8.00 8.25
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    THE MOON.
    19 1 Last Quarter Apb. 7th, 2.38 p.m. O New MOOll 16th, 3.14 am. hirst Quarter... 22nd, 9-33 p.m.
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    FIXTURES.
    16 1 To-day. Town Band, Golf Club, 5.30 p.m. To-morrow. Faster Sunday. Church Services sec page 5.
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    P & O. SAILINGS.
    45 1 P O. SAILINGS. Mail Service. Outwards. Mom kwauds. Chusan 11 Apr j Simla 3 A P r i j Ballaarat 10 Hxtra Service. i Outwards. Homkwards. Manila o Apr I Java S Apr j Peru 19 j Malacca til j For particulars See Pago 3.
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    Chinese Labour.
    652 1 Official Correspondence with Lord Milner. A hatch of official correspondence relating to the Transvaal Labour Importation Ordinance was published on the 2nd ult. It covers the period from j January 30 last to March 1, and deals with the third reading of the amended Ordinance, the draft regulations
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    The Disarming of the 'Mandjour'
    324 1 Only the War-Flags Left. Shanghai, March 12.—The Russian j gunboat Mandjour was disarmed to-dav. The unique spectacle of a European j man-of-wfcV meekly handing over arinamenfedlo an Asiatic power for safekeeping ;yid as a consequence of her Government’s dread of her going out to j
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    The “China Times” in Parliament.
    319 1 In the House of Commons on 7tli ult. Mr. Toultnin asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs if his attention had been called to the factthat Major-General Ventris had charged the editor of the China Timex (Peking) with inciting to a breach of the peace in
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    Newchwang.
    251 1 Trade Prospects at the Northern Grain Pori. In their market report dated Newcbwang, 3rd Mar., Messrs Bandinel and Co. write Arrivals of produce during the winter are much less than tlie average of former years, farmers and larger growers fearing to forward their goods to the inland depots, and
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    War Correspondents.
    200 1 The following war correspondents were reported to be at Yiukow on the 3rd Mar.:— Mr. Louis L. Etzel (Bail;/ Telegraph Mr. Newman (Daily Mail.) Mr. McCullough Novoi Krai and New York Herald.) Mr. W. Greener (The Times.) Two French correspondents (Courrier de Tientsin and another.) The China Times
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    Military News.
    125 1 The following Indian Native Officers have been selected for duty as orderlies to His Majesty the King during the current summer:— Risalder Kala Singh, Bahadur, 2nd Lancers. Risalder Tilok Singh Bahadur, 61st Lancers. Subadar-Major Magar Singh, Bahadur, 26th Punjabis. Subadar-Major Atar Singh, 76th Punjabis. The War Office intimates
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  • Shipping.
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      ARRIVALS.
      156 1 Kistna, Br. 8.8. 524, Fletcher, Ist Singapore, '4oth Mar., Gen.,—H.- L Co. Omakeke, Br. B.s. 340, Boyle, Ist Apr., Singapore, 30th Mar., Geu.,—Kue Guan Co. Lav kens Pit, Dut, s.s. 154, Goedhius, 2nd Apr., Deli, Ist Apr., Rottan—H. L. Ho Kwej, Br. s.s. 209, Uldall, Ist Apr., Deli, 31st
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      DEPARTURES.
      60 1 2nd April. Ho Kwei, for Deli. B. Halewyn, for Batu Balira and Asahan. Avagyee, for Teluk Anson. G.Aj)car, for Singapore and Hongkong, Omapere, for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Carlyle, for Port Swettenham. Kistna, for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Armenia, for Singapore, China and Japan. Simla, for Ceylon, Australasia, India,
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      IN PORT.
      32 1 Laurens Pit, Dut. s.s. 154, Goedhius, 2nd Apr., Deli, Ist Apr., Rottan.— H. L. Co. Hong Bee, Br. s.s. 2,052, Peters, 2nd Apr., Singapore, 31st Mar., Gen., —S. T. Co.
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      EXPECTED.
      32 1 Veasels From J Ayents Due Simla Singapore P.&O. 2nd Apr Nam Sang Singapore B.&Co. 4th 99 Manila iColombo P&O. 5th Preussen Singapore BM.&Co. 6th 99 Oldenburg j Colombo B.M.&Co. 7th »9
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      SAILINGS.
      30 1 Vessels For Ayenti r Leave* G\ Apcar Singapore A.A.A.Co. 2nd Apr Simla Singapore P.&O. 2nd Hong Bee Manila Singapore Singapore K.G.Co. P.&O. 4th Preussen Oldenburg Colombo Singapore B.M.&Co. B.M.&Co.
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      MAILS CLOSE
      42 1 Fok Langkat—Per Laurents Pit, 4th instan£, 11 a.m. Port Swettenham —Per Mary Auetin, 4tli instant, noon. Trang —Per Deli, 4th instant, noon. Rangoon —Per Nam Yung, 4th instant, noon. Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow and Amoy —Per Hong Bee, 4th instant, noon.
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      PASSENGERS.
      75 1 Inward —Per Kistna,” from Singapore, Messrs. E. B. Kintall, K. E. Maynard, Tan Hong Poe, Mr. ami Mrs. Liin Seng Hooi. From Port Swettenham, Mrs. Hobson, Messrs, S. M. Gregory, A. A. Finn, J. F. Wrefortl, H. Brooks, L. C. Brown, Havis Mr. and Mrs. Shaik Mahomed. Per Avagyee,”
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    The English Turf.
    1245 2 About the Derby, Two J housand, c. i London, 3rd March.—Lord Derby will commence the racing season with a stud of i twenty-live horses in training at Stanley House, Newmarket. Lord Derby’s horses did badly last year. Be is the owner of fourteen two-year-olds, the lot including
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    The Straits Echo.
    88 4 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.— JC.itiWti. Established June Ist, 1903. t'ublielipri «truly (exc?pt Stand* AT Til K CRITERION PRESS, Ld„ No/22(>-2-»2, llcacli Si re“t. Fenang. PRICE DAII.Y, I.OCAI. f .’l ytr snuiim (float Free) 57 MAH. KIMTION (IV«t lire) ij" CAfil.K \I>I)UK.SS: E c It o—P
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  • Current Topics.
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      France and Siam.
      276 4 Tut: London Globe (9th March has an interesting leader on Franco-Siamese relations. It appears from this editorial that M. Del- casse’s new seheme for creating more friendly relations between France and Siam proceeds, in essentials, much on the same lines as his previous unsuccessful endeavour. 1 he
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      To-day's News.
      364 4 To-hay’s t -iegrams. though somewhat short, as is only to be expected during the holidays, an? decidedly newsy. The Tibetan Expedition has at last come to blows with the Tibetans and has inflicted a crushing' defeat iq>on them, w hich should go far towards convincing them that Russia’s
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      Chinese labour.
      807 4 Mr. George C. YY rav’s opinions 1 on the much-vexed Chinese! labour question are set forth in the Morning Post (London)! thus:—Mr. George 0. Wray, late I Protector of Chinese in the Straits) Settlements, writes protesting against what he characterises as the “arrant nonsense that is being published
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    Our Mail Budget.
    1946 4 War News The Dreams of the Fakers. French Politics. GENERAL ELECTION IMMINENT London Citizens Still Progressive. A Kaiser Story. SUSPICIOUS COAL ORDERS Front Our o"'n Correspondent.) Fleet Street, 11th Mur. When is aj war not a war? Well, so far as lam concerned, the answer is—when there’s
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      397 4 Easter Holidays. niHE undermentioned Hanks will be c losed 1 on Monday, the 4tl. April. IMH. same being a Public Holiiktf pbr the Chart eredY Bank of India, Australia and China. '.3. ARMSTRONG, }r<ina<jer. For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corponition. A C. STEPHEN. Aijtut. For the Netherlands Trading Society.
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    The War.
    832 5 Press Boats Sunk. Makar off's Bluff. Russian Balloons Captured. RUSSIANS RETREATING. TRIBUTE TO HERO HIROSE. British Steamers at Newciiwano. War Cors. Off to the Front at Last. (hchu Special.) Shanghai, 31 Mar. (<>.21 p.)—The (piestiou of the Russian cruiser! Mand jour, which has been at Shan glmi since
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  • TELEGRAMS.
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      Bangkok.
      50 5 The Chartered Bank Forgery. (Echo Special.) Bangkok, 31 Alar. —Nai Chit, the office boy of the Chartered Bank, has also been arrested as being implicated in the forgery of a cheque for 12,000 ticals, in respect of which Hok Chong, the Chinese ledgerkeeper, was arrested on the 26tli instant.
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      British Central Africa.
      30 5 (Supplied by Renter London, 31 Alar.—The administration of Rritish Central Africa is to be transferred from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office from the Ist April.
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      The Transvaal.
      90 5 Speech by Delarey. (Supplied by Reuter.) London, 31 Mar. —Addressing the Transvaal Farmers’ Con guess at Krtigersdorp, Delarey said that the Boers wished to bring to the notice of the world thefact that they had abandoned all thoughts of vindictiveness towards Great Britain and that it was now
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      France.
      175 5 Debate on the Navy. (Supplied by lieuter.) London, 31 Mar.—During aj lengthy debate in the French Chamber upon the state of the navy, AI. Lockroy sharply criticised the administration of M. Pelietan, the; Minister of Alarine. The latter repeated his defence of 16th March in which he stated that
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      The Oldenburg.
      33 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) London, 1 April —The 1*. and O. steamer Marmora takes on the passengers of the German liner Oldenburg, bound for the Far Fast, which put into Aden disabled.
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      British Revenue.
      33 5 Deficit of Seven Millions. (Supplied by Reuter.) London, 1 April.— Last year's revenue is two and three quarter millions below the estimate, making a total deficit of nearly seven millions sterling.
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      Tibet.
      120 5 Fighting Commences. (Supplied by Reuter.) London, I April.—Reuter’s Tuna correspondent reports that the Tibetans asked the Rritish Mission to retire. Colonel Younglmsband refused to do so. with the result j that two engagements were fought jin which the Tibetans suffered most (severely, their dead lying in heaps. The bulk
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      Polar Exploration.
      105 5 Antarctic Vessels Return. (Supplied by Reuter.') London, 2 April. —All the three vessels sent on exploring trips to the Antarctic Ocean, viz., the Morning, Terranova and Discovery, have arrived at Lyttelton in XewZealaml. The Morning and Terranova reached the Discovery on the 1 4th Feb., and found all
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      Egypt.
      132 5 The Anglo-French Agreement. (Supplied by Reuter.) London, 2 April. —It is reported in Paris that both the Porte and the Khedive have demanded information regarding the recent AngloFrench Agreement anent Egypt. Iris said that burglars entered tboGoverument buildings yesterday, but found practically nothing of interest to them. Thevappear to
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    Another Fire.
    998 5 i Three Horses Gctted. r Ax alsnjt o’clock thi> morn ini' a tire was reported to have broken out in a block of three shop-houses in Simpang Axiani, -1 near the junction of Penang and Mac Alis. ter lb>ads. The Fire Brigade, under Mr. Newland, Chief Police Officer,
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    Batu Gantong Cemetery.
    1197 5 1 HRKK lots of land adjoining each other > iit Balu hautoni;, and forming .a port ion of t *k ,,^Hn d estate, making up in all an area of 143 square orlongs, 10 square jiiiubas, .and 9 square teet, were purclmsed, ,n tlie sum of 822,954.13,
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    Tin.
    301 5 London, 9th Mar.—The market was stagnant all the week, but prices kept steudv i owing to a good demand from America for immediate shipment here, which was, howj ever counteracted by free selling by old j small holders, and we dose at £124 for cash, j and £124 ss.
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    Church Services.
    199 5 Easter Day. 1 St. George's Church (Church of England). Holy Communion (plain) 8 a.in. Matins and Holy Communiou (choral) 11 a.m. Evensong and sermon, 6 p.m. St. Mark's (Butterworth). —Evensong, 5 p m. Presbyterian Church, (Northam Road) 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.—Rev. R. Y. Whitton, m.a. Service at
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      61 5 STOP PRESS TELEGRA3IS. This space is reserved lur ilie publication i>f ucwsarming after the day's news lias been imposed. fc To-day’s Advertisement C V. Buck ell. P.P.C. 20 Dollars Reward. STOLEN from ■>, Union Stieet, Penang, March 31st, about 3 p.m. f Bicycle Ra-Wgh,” 2G inches, cross frame, enamelled green,
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      763 7 TJi© Cause of the r@c©nt disastrous fire is unknown. THE PREVENTION .OF SUCH FIRES IN FUTURE IS KNOWN. mmmm a j HI ■j 1 I A m Hi il si m Bn Fireproof, Waterproof, Dampproof. Buildings Constructed with Uralite, Ceilings, Walls and Roofs are absolutely Fireproof. Deed Boxes and Safes
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