Straits Echo, 11 September 1908

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. fOL. 6* $24 Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, nth SEPTEMBER, 1908. Single Copy, IQ cents. No. 209.
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      951 1 STO\IT TIANQ LEE a Co a 'SS ■w/ <2 <2 D 4&mw^ SOLE AGENTS BASS’S ALE. THE BANKS. eastern SHIPPING Company, Ltd., (ENGINE WORKS.) Engineers, Shipbuilders, Brass Iron Founders. Engineering Appliances Fittings in Stock. Works, Weld Quay and Stores Offices W ices 37, Beach Street. J. Leith WEMYSS, M.LN.A., 116
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      26 1 THE BEST BEER IN THE FAR EAST. ftOddlN 4 sT Y O) > CD no 'JPI ffi 4s 'V Os dN!S /OKTO T»AWQ LEE Sl Co„ So/e
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    A Foundling Hospital.
    1062 2 Everybody who has ever been to Florence, and most people whose friends have visited it, know the blue anl white putti or plaster figures of swathed babies with which the Della Robbia brothers decorated the front of the Spedale degl’ Innocenti,” or Foundling Hospital of Florence. A
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      82 2 A Neighbour’s Kindness. Mr. W. J. Fullor, J. P. t storekeeper, Eendelsham, South Australia, writes “I was called to see a neighbour who was suffering from severe cramps and wbo really thought he was past help. I gave him three doses of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrbuei Remedy, and in
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      511 2 Riedel’s Gonosan is not unpleasant to take and is not attended by those distressing byeffects which so often accompany the use of balsams and Santal oils. It has secured unualified praise from the leading Specialists 'Norddeutscher Lloyd Combined Round Voyage? Penang, Deli (Sumatra), Singapore, Penang. OR Penang, Singapore, Deli (Sumatra),
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      1462 2 r THE PENANG ADVERTISING AGENCY, Bill-Posters and General Advertising Contractors No. 7, Church Street, Penang, S. S. Telephone No. 303; S. Telegrams I PADDY.’ Bill-Posting and Advertising Work of every description undertaken, and also the delivery and distribution of Circulars, Handbills, Samples etc Honesty Guaranteed. PROMINENT BILL-POSTING STATIONS in:—Penang, Province
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    VESSELS EXPECTED.
    35 3 Vest els From Agent* Due A. Apear Singapore A. A-A.Co. 1 ltbSept. Delhi Singapore A.G.ACo. '2th Daifliinger Singapore B.M.ACo. 16th Zieten Colombo B.M ACo. 17th Keemun Sirgapore W.M.ACo. 18th Delta Colombo A.G.ACo. 24th
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    SAILINGS.
    31 3 Vessel» For A ■Jenin A. Apcar Ca’cutta A.A.A Co. Sept. Delhi Colombo A G.&Co. Deifflineer (Colombo B.M &Co. Zieten Singapore B M ACo. Kt-emun Liverpool W.M.& o. Delta Singapore A.G&Co.
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      ARRIVALS.
      72 3 Malaya, Ger. b.s., 348, Reeken, 11th Sept., Deli, 10th Sept., Gen.—B. M. Co. Calypso, Br. s.s., 339, Bannatyne, 11th Sept., Singapore, 9th Sept., Gen.— W. M. Co. Ki*tna, Br s.s., 524., Learmont, 11th Sept, Singapore, 9th Sept., Gen.—H. L. C«. Sanuki Maru, Jap. s s.. Homnea, 11th Sept., Yokohama,
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      DEPARTURES.
      43 3 11th September. Calypso, for Deli Tong Chay Un. foi Batu Bahra. Padang, for Batu Bahra. Rotorua, for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Omapere, for Kopah, Kenong, Victoria Point, Mergui and Tavoy. Hue Leong, for Teluk Anson. Flying Fish, for Port Weld and Taiping.
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      MAILS CLOSE
      77 3 Fob Deli and Langsa—Per De Koelt, tomorrow, 1 p.m. Langkat—Per Jin Ho, to-morrow, 1 p.m. Asahan—Per Petrel, to-morrow, 1 p.m. Ceylon, Australasia, India, Aden, Mauritius, Eg) pt and, via Brindisi, for Europe, etc. —Per Delhi, to-morrow, 1 p.m. Teluk Anson—Per Ban Whatt Soon, to-morrow, 2 p.m. Singapore and
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    304 3 Per P. and O. s.s. Sumatra, due at Penang on 15th Sept. To Penang (from London, Aug. 15) Mr. F. C. Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Parrett and children, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Stevens, Mr. T. P. Sargent, Mr. H. D. Robinson. To Singapore (from London)
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      663 3 fill. Steam Navigation Coy. Arrivals and Departures. Mail Service. Outward ,>4 Delta connecting with Mooltan ju'BAs*aye do China Ddhi do Moldavia Homeward. THROUGH STEAMERS TO LONDON. g.H. Malta September 26. Macedonia March 26. FAKES BY MAIL STEAMERS. Ist Class Snd Olasi ro London by Sea £66 £44 foMameiiles or Gibraltar
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      405 3 (S HIPPIN Gr.) HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE. FREIGHT SERVICE. Next Sailings for Singapore, China and Japan. 8.8. Suevia 11th September, 1908. Next Sailings Homeward. VIA COLOMBO. s.s. Sjiezia for Dunkirk, Antwerp and Hamburg 20th September, 1908. Taking cargo at through Rates to Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Copenhagen Lisbon, Oporto. London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Marseilles,
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      140 3 For Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow and Amoy. rilHE 8 »>. Hong Moh, Captain R. S. BainJL bridge, is expected to arrive here OD Saturday, and will leave for the above porta on Monday, the 14th inst., at 3 p.tn. For freight or passage apply to KOE GUAN Co., Agents for WEE
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    The Straits Echo.
    99 4 JoMtire satisfies everybody and justice alene— Kmtrtan. Knbllohcd dally (except Knnda?*.) AT TH CRITERION PRESS, Ltd., No. 226—232, Beach Street, Penary PRICE DAILY LOCAL *2» per annum I OUTBTATIONB Postage Kxtra MAIL EDITION (Poet Free) *l5 OARLK ADDRtS) Echo—Penang.” Telephone No. 343 jv. A.—All business communications should
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    THE MARK OF LUNACY.
    606 4 A recent lecture by Sir Janies Crichton-Browne on right and left handed education should serve to check the feverish attempts that are periodically made to persuade us to adopt ambidexterity. The craze, so far as we remember, set in when Major-General Baden Powell returned from Mafeking,
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    The Homeward Mails.
    83 4 The Royal mail steamer Delhi, having left Singapore at 8 a-m. to-day, is expected to arrive here at 11 a.m. to-morrow, aud will leave for Colombo and Bombay at 3 p.m. the same day. The homeward German mail steamer Derjflinger is expected to leave Singapore at 5
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    Tin, Opium and Rice Quotations.
    590 4 Tin f unrefined) is quoted here to dav at $65 37£, bnvers no sellers at Singapore (refiued; at $65 75. buyers no sellers, and in London at .£130 ICs. cash and ,£131 10s three months’ sight. Opium is quoted today at $790 and Rangoon rice
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    Municipal Commission.
    1701 4 ORDINARY MEETING. An Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held at the Municipal Offices yesterday afternoon when the following gentlemen were present: Mr. F. J. Hallifax (President), Mr. J. W. Hallifax, and Mr. Lim Cheng Teik, with Mr. L- M. Bell (Municipal Engineer), Dr. G. W. Park
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      336 4 NOTICE Owing to the difficulties of collection, on and after May Ist all Bills must be settled on leaving the Eastern and Oriental and 44 Crag Hotels. No Bills will be posted for collection to any outstation. SAKKIES BROTHERS, PROPRIETORS. JJJSHT NOW. WE H/ IVE A SHIPMENT OF JUVENILE BICYCLES,—FOR
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      51 4 Whooping Cough. disease udW b» This is a very dangerous properly treated, but all danger avoided by giving Chamber!»* 0 Remedy. It liquifies the ,ue tb< making it easier to expectorate, r cough loose, and makes the P aro fb* coughing less frequent and less 80,1 George Town Dispeasary. Wholesale*
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  • TELEGRAMS.
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      The Eucharistic Congress.
      108 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) Impressive Opening. r adon, 10th September.—The solemn Dkf of the Eucharistic Congress at Cathedral was most impresJ Eight Cardinals, fourteen Archbishops, seventy Bishops from the various dio- 0 f the whole Catholic world wore of the leaders of English Catholipjß were also present. Procession
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      Germany.
      80 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) 'l’he Imperial Finances. London, 10th September.—An official statement from Berlin dwells on the urgency of reform in the Imperial finances and shows that the debt is now £2 12,500.000, an increase of .£lOO.O 0.000 since 1900 Bills will shortly be introduced provi ing for the gradual
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      The Cotton Industry.
      31 5 (Sujiplied by Renter.) Still No Agreement. London, 11th September.—The meeting between the masters and operatives in the cotton trade at Manchester yesterday failed to bring about an agreement.
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      The British Navy.
      29 5 (Supplied by Reuter The St. Vincent. London, 11th September.—TheSY. Vincent, the largest battleship of the Dreadnought class, was launched at Portsmouth yesterday. Her tonnage is 19,250.
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      The Unemployed Problem.
      91 5 (Supplied by Renter.) A Midnight March. London, 11th September.—A telegram from Glasgow states that the unemployed carried out their threatened midnight march aud three thousand of them met at George Square, where inflammatory speeches were made. The Police dispersed them but the crowd re-formed and began singing
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      Aeronautics.
      46 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) Successful Trip by Mr. Orville Wright. London, 10th September—A telegram nun ashington states that Mr. Orville 7, travelled 38J miles in au aeroplane "J and 15 seconds. h“ afterwards did a five-mile trip in 6 I'niuib He was accompanied by au army
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      Holland.
      151 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) Qu«*n Willielimnii. hslsl?' Ut, i September.—Qu-eu Wiloim of tin.land had a miscarriage on flTourahip Her Con<ii,ion however, is KiivUri I,AJIAT I AI proceeding to ultiul,,' WrtH to Mve Ba 'l ed ou the 20th Th» a thesj..,* yf ,or,u,Hll, f‘'ut of Immigrants and Jd eK Director
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    Singapore Notes.
    934 5 (From Our Oxen Correspondent.) Wednesday, 9th Sept. The St. John’s Island Affair. D. Goshall, an Indian Assistant Surgeon attached to the quarantine station at St. i J°“U s Islaud, appeared before Mr. Thunder t in the Police Court, yesterday, charged with criminally assaulting a respectable Chinese man uamed
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    District Court.
    291 5 (Before Judge Wolferstan.) Voluntarily Causing Hurt. A Kling named Karupen was charged yesterday with voluntarily causing grievous j hurt to Arumugom, another Kling. It transpired from the evidence for the r prosecution that the affair was the outcome of a drunken brawl at a social gathering. A funeral
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    The Police Courts.
    38 5 (Before Mr.• Hamilton) \ap Pin Seng, the Chinaman charged with cheating a number of ricksha-pullers as reported in our issue of the Bth iust., was yesterday found guilty and sentenced to 6 months’ R. I.
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    F. M. S. Tin.
    578 5 Statement of Exports. 1 The advance statement of the weight of 1 block tin and tin ore exported from the various states of the F M S. during the months of January to August. 1908, and of the duty collected thereon, as compared with the corresponding
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  • PUBLIC OPINION.
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      FOR THE EYE OF THE C. P. 0.
      308 5 S t TO THE EOIIOB OP THE STRAITS ECHO. Dear Sir, I shall feel highly obliged to you if you will publish the following few lines in your I to-day’s issue. I trust that it is a common knowledge that when a
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    Singapore Training Notes.
    564 5 Wednesday’s Singapore Free Press gives the following notes of the training for the Singapore races:— Owing to the threatening aspect of the weather yesterday morning, only a few sportsmen were present to witness training t operations on the Race Course. The first to take the course was
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    Passengers.
    161 5 Arrived. Per s.s. Kietna, 11th Sept-, from Singapore Right Rev. Bishop Bourdon. Rev. Father J Bes and L Lambert, Miss Sharp Messrs. H. Cullin, Mulcock, G. S. Saudereon, Soh Swee Joo and L. R. Wilson From Port Swettenham Mr. and Mrs. M- M- Muthiah, Messrs. Hunter, Jones and K.
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    FIXTURES.
    49 5 To-day 16th Day of Bth Moon. Matsuo’s Cinematograph, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The Pathescope,” King Street Theatre, 7-30 p.m and 9-30 p m. To-morrow. 17ih Day of Bth Moon. Matsuo’s Cicematograph, 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. The Pathescope.” King Street Theatre! 7-30 p.m. and 9 30 p.m.
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    MAILS DUE.
    15 5 China (Delhi) ...12th Sept China DerjJlinger ...16th German <Zietenj ...17th English {Delta) ...24th
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    THE MOON.
    18 5 Last Quarter Sept. 17th O New Moon 25th Firs? Quarter Oct. 3rd O Full Moon 10th
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    P. & O. SAILINGS.
    36 5 P. O. SAILINGS. Mail Service Outwards. Homewards Delta 24 Sept. I Delhi 12 Sept Attsaye 8 Oct j Malta 20 Eutra Service. Outw\ro« Homewards Sumatra 15 Se/1. j Nyanza 19 Sept Poona 29 Nore 16 Oct.
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      36 5 A Balm Indeed. No external application is equal to Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for sore muscles or swollen joints. No matter what may be ♦be cause, this liniment will give relief. The George Town Dispensary, Wholesale Agents.
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      197 5 CENTRAL SALES ROOK Important Auction Sale» By Order of the ASSISTANT OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE, TO BE 80LD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, AT No. 27, FARQUHAR STREET, The Residence of the Late A. Kaulfuss, Penang. On Saturday, 12th Sept., 1908, AT 11-15 A.M., Valuable Household Furniture, COMPRISING Bedsteads complete, Almirahs. Dressing Tables, Wardrobes,
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    Army and Navy Notes.
    653 6 (From Our Own Correspondent-) London, August 14th. The Best All Round Ship. The King Alfred, flagship of Vice- Admiral the Honourable Sir Hedworth Lambton, K c b. commanding the China Squadron, and Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Cruiser Fleet, is keeping up her reputation as a shooting
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    The Through Railway.
    350 6 Kuala Lumpor to Singapore. Sir William Taylor, Resident -General, F. M. 8., and Mr. C- E. Spooner, cm g General Manager, F. M. S. Railways, left Kuala Lumpor by train at 4 30 a.ra. yesterday morning (says Tuesday’s Free Press) and arrived in Singapore last evening, having
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    An Hour of Death.
    326 6 Woman’s Strange Experience. A little while ago Dr. Thomas Mulligan, j a well-known physician of New Britain, Connecticut, wrote to the editor of one of the principal New York newspapers, saying, I “If you care to come and talk to a patient of mine, who died
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    A Tamil Wedding.
    208 6 Seenivasagam -Canagasapy. A correspondent writes to us from Jaffna A very prettv and fashionable wedding took place at Arapauai.” Chunnakam, on 29th Aug., the contracting parties being Mr. S. Seenivasagam. Private Secretary to the Supreme Court Judge, Perak, and Miss Puranam Canagasapy, the sth daughter of I
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    “European British Subject"- New Style.
    304 6 “European British Subject"New Style. It has been pointed out before in the press that a person of mixed descent born in India, but educated at Home, cannot claim the rights of a European British subject, even though he may be an Englishman to all iuteatB and purposes, unless bis father
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    EXCHANGE.
    114 6 PsNANO, IITH SbPTBMBE*. (By courtesy oj the (J '.bartered Bonk.) London Demand ..2/3{-£ 4 months’ sigh» Ays 3 Credit --2/4 3 n Documentary ...2/4§ Calcutta»., Demand Bant Rs- 175$ t i days’ signr Pr-. I*7 Boinbav. Demand Bank 175$ Moulmein, Demand Bank I*4s i days’ sight Private 177 Madras,
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    PRODUCE.
    181 6 Gold seat $65» B. Pepper( W.Coast 31b#.5 ox. > no stock White Pepper $15. buyers Trane Pepper 16. nominal Clove# (picked) out of season Mace 70. —nominal Mace Pickings 60. nom. Nutmegs 110s 19.50 sales r No. 1 6.65 sales 3ugar 2 no •lock Basket sales Tapioca Flour 1-80
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    MARKET PRICES.
    177 6 Penang, 11th September. 1908. Beek— Soup po* U lioasl 24 Steaks 24 Stew or Curry Meat *0 Rump Steak 24 Ox Tail oaiu* 3u Tongue Feet Heart Liver per catiy 60 Pork— Pork per catty 32 Pig’s Head 2 > Feet 24 Tongue 32 Mution per lb. 35
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    SHARES.
    133 6 O--5 s 3 o Capital. umber of i Shares issued. s 7- $7. $6.25 $ll $lO. 375 $3.25 $l9 $3.50 $3 $lO $475 $4. $725 $9 75 $l3 28/6 25/6 75*«.75 7- $6 75 5.50f5 10-510 $l9 9.50 $9 7- $6.75 $5.25 3 50 3. 54 25 7.25 139
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      43 6 What Everybody Says Must Be True. Everybody who has used it says Cbamberberlaiu’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy never fails to give relief from pains in the stomach or diarrhoea, which is positive proof of its reliability. The George Town Dispensary, Wholesale Agents.
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      30 6 The most rapid and satisfactory results are obtained by treatment with Gonosan (Kawa Santal). Booklet and sample to medical men free on application to any of the chief Penang Ohemiats.
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    America and China.
    649 7 The Proposed Alliance. Says the Manila Cablenews-American: When the Father of His Country put down his foot on entangling alliances he was seer and philosopher. America has had none of them during 132 years of national existence. Time and again has it been hinted by ambitious statesman
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    Where Cricket Was “Taboo."
    124 7 Some time ago an attempt was made to introduce cricket into Russia, but the subjects of the Czir failed to appreciate the game A policeman was told off to watch the players, who, being engaged in a pursuit which pasted the intelligence of Russian officialism, were
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      1272 7 BAXTER Cfc’s best navy canvas. aHPIIANDS, BUTTERY Co. DAVID CORSAR SON'S KELL-KNOWN EXTRA IKAVY CANVAS, No. 0. SiNDILANDS. BUTT6BY Co, INSURANCES. THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION. INCORPORATED BY BOYAL CHARTER A.D. 1720 fjTHE undersigned having been appointed k i Bros.’ ORTL.&ND CEMENT, “LION BRAND.” Sand Hands, Buttery Co,, AGENTS. PENANG Sk
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      156 7 From Mexico. The following paragraph was clipped from the El Sol, a newspaper at Hertnosillo, Mexico, it being a part of a letter to the publisher from a friend “On ray last trip to my properties on the frontier, my beast fell with me to the ground, wounding me badly,
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      795 8 W. MANSON, American Dentist, Late of Dr. Allen Co. t Pha US.A. ;harges Moderate, Consultation Free. KBBIDINA AT IWo. 21a, Penang Road. A few doors from the Eastern and Oriental Hotel. 6 mth*. TEA o V TEA SOLE AGENTS FOR PENANG. PATERSON, SIMONS Co., Ltd. FOR SALE. W. T. Co.’s
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