The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 21 November 1913

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  • 21 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. $17.50 Per Annum. Single Copy, 40 cent». Vol. 11. Penang, Friday, 21st NOVEMBER, 1913. No. 47.
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    • 179 2 I E I STRAITS ECHO I MAIL EDITION. fa Published the day prior to the departure of each mail I c| for Europe, and contains lhe latest local and States k s news originally published in the daily issues, as well as I all important news from various parts of
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  • 909 1296 A medical friend who has just returned from Sumatra speaks in glowing terms of the estate hospitals in that country. Both as regards staff and equipment many estate hospitals near Deli are, he declares, far superior to anything in the Straits or F. M. S. not excluding
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  • 1188 1296 Mr W. S. Wool Dough, of Messrs. Pritchard A Co., returned from leave vesterdav by the P. A O. s. s. A staye. Mrs. R. G. Watson left London on October 18 in the Simla to join her husband, the British Resident of Perak. At a Congregation held at
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    • 96 1296 tvWjh A WIQ I daily (except Sundays and jmblie holidays) AT TBB CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Plica Daily Local 124 per annum. M Owtatation... Postage Extra. MaD Edition (Post Free) 117.50 OABLB ADDBISS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. Echo 586 Printing Department 343 MJ.— All buaiaMt communication» should b»
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  • 1314 1297 A correspondent sends us an amusing story about the curious way i i which some women endorse cheques —A young wife had got a cheque from her husband as a birthday present, and when asked by the banker to endorse it wrote on the back: Many thanks, dear.
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  • 2008 1298 TO Al. COLLEEN ’’-“ALERT" COLLISION. The marine enquiry into the collision between the Colleen and the Alert, which took place on October 24 just outside the estuary of the Prye River resulting in the Colleen sinking and the loss of several live?, was resumed in the
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  • 357 1299 STRONG MEASURES DECIDED UPON. (Reuter London, November 13. The Times correspondent at Washington states that President Wilson has decided upon a policy towards Mexico. If financial pressure fails to secure the elimination of President Huerta, there will be a blockade of the ports and even an invasion
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  • 86 1299 Praise From Sir Claude Macdonald. (Reuter.) London, November 13. Sir Claude M. Macdonald, until lately British Ambassador at Tokio, lectured to the Japan Society on the Japanese detachment during the defence of the Peking Legations in 1900, when it will be remembered, he was in command of the
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  • 226 1299 MR. BONAR LAW AT NORWICH. (Reuter.) London, November 14. Mr. Tonar Law, in a speech at Norwich, said that the Home Rule situation had not changed since his speech of October 29 If the Government persisted in obeying the otders of Mr. John Redmond they would be face
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  • 54 1299 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 14. The returns of the Colony’s trade for the quarter ended September 30 show a total for Singapore of $81,517,433, an increase of four millions as compared with a corresponding period last year, Penang $33,632,209, a decrease of just under two
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  • 53 1299 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 14. Messrs. Fraser Co’s weekly report states that a more hopeful view is prevalent in the market owing to the sustained rise of rubber but shares have not shown an equivalent improvement. Local dealings are restricted and tin is distinctly dull.
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  • 62 1299 Explosives in Letters. (Reuter Calcutta, November 13. Col. Williams, Inspector-General of Explosives, in opening a suspicious letter addressed to the newspaper Englishman, was injured, as the letter exploded burning his face, bn*, fortunately, his eyes escaped injury. A similar letter addressed to the Statesman did not explode,
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  • 22 1299 (Reuter.) Ottawa, November 13. Twenty cargo steamers and probably a hundred lives were lost in Lake Huron during the gale.
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  • 288 1299 AN OUTCRY AND A RELEASE. (Reuter.) London, November 13 It was anuounced in Dublin early to-day that the Government, taking into consideration the fact that the j ury acquitted the strike leader Larkinontwocountsof the indictment including incitement, to not, have advised that the prerogative of mercy
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  • 155 1299 Awarded to Indian Poet. (Reuter.) London, November 14. The Nobel prize for Literature has been conferred on the Indian poet Mr. Rabindranath Tagore. [Mr. Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet, talking of his experiences on his recent voyage from England, to the Observer Bombay correspondent, said.: Most
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  • 54 1299 (Reuter.) London, November 14. The following was the result of the race for the Derby Cup Bowman Redwood q Farakabad Fourteen ran. j Won by a neck a head between secona and third. x S. P. —100 to 7 agst. Bowman, 4 to 1 ag Redwood, 100
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  • 174 1300 SELECTED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Rebel leaders, Li Lit Kwan, ex-tutuh of Kiangsi, and To Yau Cbaun, Li’s adviser, have been arrested by Chinese soldiers in Mukden, but the Japanese Consul-General demands their release. The Government Telegraph Administration in Peking has decided to instal new telegraphs connecting Peking, Tientsin,
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  • 79 1300 (Reuter.) Sydney, November 13. Mr. Justice Piddingtoo, the Royal Commissioner appointed to enquire in*o Industrial Arbitration, says that the wages Board system is cumbersome, lengthy and expensive and should be replaced by a court of three judges of the same status as the Supreme Court. It is essential,
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  • 47 1300 (Reuter.) I/mdon, November 14. Vice-Ad mi- al Ci'cil Bun ey has been appointed to the command of the Second and Third Fleets, Rear-Admiral Mad Jen to the command of the Second Cruiser Squadron and Captain Pakenham to the command of the Third Cruiser Squadron.
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  • 154 1300 (Reuter.) New York, November ]4. An earthquake devastated the province of Aymarass in Peru on Friday and 12 persons are known to have been killad but it is feared that hundreds more have succumbed. Ten small towns wore destroyed. The Hongkong Government stirted its career as an
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  • 625 1300 l-P.M-G. r| TL T^ Ua a um P u libel action, Loke D G Robertson wi B resumed on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Edmonds Mr Rogers, who appeared for Mr, Robertson, d°a!t with the law f, r the defence. Tim first question, he sai i,
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  • 3579 1300 VOTE FOR COMBINATION. Matter Referred to Grower»’ Association. A meeti g. attended by several hundred directors and other representatives of the rubber industry, was held on October 23 in Li ndon, to consider certain proposal» for improving the pn aent method of marketing plantation rubber.” Mr. Arthur
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  • 151 1302 The recent statement of one of our judges that free libraries serve to provide the criminal classes with points recalls the fact that for a brief period the thieves of Russia had their own trade organ. The first number of the Boetatska Gazeta was published in Moscow
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  • 68 1302 Judge Mellor, who sits in the Manchester County Court, has been ordered by a King’s Bench Divisional Court to deal with a case and to pay the costs of the proceedings before the High Court. His Honour had refused to hear the case, alleging that he
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  • 117 1302 Quoits Tournament. The following was the result of the tie played off yesterday Championakip. G B F Southam beat R J Kirke 21—1. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones is faced by a dispute with a Bermondsey leather merchant whose name (with an “1” of a difference) has occurred
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  • 733 1302 (From a Timte Correspondent.) At t e great meeting of rubber representatives it was decided to postpone any action until the Rubber Growers’ Association shall have usade public the scheme which it is preparing for improving the prospects of the plantation industry. The points
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  • 521 1303 To the Editor of the Strait» Echo. Sir, A letter in your issue of the 27th ult. signed H C.L. asserts that there were no other British subjects in the Medical Faculty to compete with Mr. Lim Cnong Eang for the King Edward VII Scholarship.
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  • 1314 1303 Estate Manager’s Suit. We published yesterday a telegram giving the result of the act ou for libel brought by Mr. F. O B Deunys against the Straits Times. Mr. Dennys, it will be remembered, was awarded $5,0U0 damages and costs. he following account of the opening
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  • 1296 1304 Nothing is more significant in British poll* ics at the moment than the way in which the Ulster objection to Home Rule dominates the situation. The land campaign, which the supporters of the Government reckoned would prove a superior attraction, has not, so far, done so.
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  • 484 1304 AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT. (From ()ur Own Currc-qtondenf.) Kuala Lumpur, November 15. Au unexpected development in the Kuala Lumpur Libel action fol owed yesterday on the remaik of Mr. Sanders, counsel for the plaintiff, that the Company could g-'t the Jeher property to-morrow if they liked.
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  • 17 1304 (Reuter London, November 15 Captain Cecil Lnnb-rt has te-nn appointed Fourth Sra Lord.
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  • 18 1304 < i I f-uter j AlI r tiM, Novf»mla»r 11, lhetireco l’urki»h [*.ac-j was bigued a midnight.
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  • 190 1305 MR. BIRRELL AT BRISTOL. (Reuter.) London, November 14 Mr. Augustine Birrell, Secretary for Ireland, was cheered when he referred at Bristol to the happy release of Larkin. He declared that the Government did not seek to interfere with the elections Larkin was not released until his
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  • 123 1305 Reported Flight of Huerta. (Reuter.) Washington, November 14. There has still been no reply to the demands of the United States which called upon President Huerta to prevent an assembly of the newly-elected Congress. It is reported that President Huerta has fled. The U S. Negotiations wi.h
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  • 95 1305 (Reuter.) Toionto, November 14. The underwriters estimate the losses owing to the gale in the lakes at 83,500,000. Eight percent of the insurance is divided between the British and American companies. The deathroll of the disasters in the lakes on the 12th inst. is increasing. It is now
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  • 57 1305 (Reuter.) London, November 11 The Mongomoryo-Alabama train fell through a trestle bridge at Clayton and twenty persons were killed and 250 injured in consequence. London, November 15. The train was crowded with merrymakers going to the country fair and the engine driver was going at full speed to
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  • 60 1305 Board of Control’s Decision. (Reuter Melbourne, November 14. The Cricket Board of Control has decided that, as the team proceeding to England in 1916 cannot accept the German invitation to compete in the Olympics, it agrees to a visit of the Rev Waddy’s team to Ceylon and to
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  • 50 1305 (Reuter.) Paris, Nov. 15. The Government has introduced into the Chamber a bill for the loan of .£52,000,000 from the 3 per cent, perpetual rentes, «£3,000,000 being assigned annually for interest and the purchase of rentes in the open market in the same way as in England.
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  • 31 1305 (Reuter.) Wellington, November 14. The strike situation is improving and everything is quiet. Wellington, November 14. The strike is crumbling and the strikers are steadily resuming work.
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  • 247 1305 Retirement As Jockey. (Reuter.) London, November 14. The Sportsman says that the joekey, Frank Wootton, is retiring at the end of the season He wdl take a holiday in Australia prior to becoming a trainer in England. The Directors of the Ulu Piah Company Limitel. have declared a
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  • 1040 1305 (Prom Our Own Correspondent). x Tai P ng, November 5 lhere is no truth in the rumour that went the round of the press a month or tw n to the effect that Mr. H. B. Collinge Tn specter of Schools for the Federal Govern" ment, who sailed
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  • 246 1306 China Republican Closed Down. Shanghai, November 6. The newspaper offices of the China Republican have been closed and the circulation of the paper absolutely prohibited in the French concession. The French Consul this day notified the editors of the paper that it would no longer be
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  • 1284 1306 The City of Amsterdam, one of the ncb« s cn,e. of the -odd. tht HalTof a V t0 &gt;. h r ro 4 I P- c-nt cent hn, T?" 1 bee i,iu,d at 4 cent, but it finds it impossible in view of to X re '.t Dt
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  • 549 1307 TO THE EDITOR OF THE “STRAITS ECHO”. Dear Sir, I should like you and other interested parties to know that par s.s Alma there arrived here from Penang on the 16th, the dealers A anl B, each bringing three coolies. The dealers named are lesidents of
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  • 855 1307 THE FALL IN THE PRICE OF FINE HARD PARA. London, October 24. The position of crude rubber shows little change since a w°ek ago The situation has remained unsettled, and certainly unsatisfactory from the producers’ point of view. The tendency of the market towards the close of
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  • 353 1307 -M.D.C. In endeavouring to arrive at some basis, which may serve as a minimum for the fixation of wages, the principle of allowing sufficient to be a living-wage, not only for the purchase of the necessities of life but for obtaining clothing and other requisites, should be
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  • 2587 1308 COLLEEN ALERT” COLLISION. The marine enquiry into the collision between the Colleen and the Alert, which took place on Oetober 24 just outside the estuary of the Prye River resulting in the Colleen sinking and the loss of several hvewas resumed in the Governor’s Office yesterday
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  • 1240 1309 In addition to all those things that some of you call me, I am now an Anomaly. I am a Free Trader yearning for Tariff Reform. This is owing to a visit I recently paid to an English tobacco farm. At Crookham, in Hampshire or Surrey (I’m too
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  • 62 1310 Anderson-Noble. —Oa the 17th November, at the Church of the Assumption, Penang, Lionel John Crossley Anderson, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, son of the late Drummond Anderson, to Man Josephine (Moley), eldest surviving daughter of the late George Edward Noble*, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
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  • 1220 1310 THE P. O. SETTLEMENT. It will be interesting to hear what the P. 0. officers have to say about their new scale of pay of which Reuter cabled us pirticu'ars yesterday. The principle on which the directors seem to have aGed would be that of to him that hath shall
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  • 333 1310 The members of the Crescent Star Spirts Club celebrated the Raya Haji by giving a ronggpng entertainment. at their &lt;’iub house in Perak Road, on Saturday, th, 15th inafai t. Repfe^ntativ. of the v.iri him Mai »y Ciubw .«tt-.ndvd the performam aud ihe company did not
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  • 371 1310 Obituary. Mr. R. P Jeremiah. W? regr t to announce the death, at the of 78, of Mr. Richard Philip Jeremiah, one of the oldest members of the Eurasian community in Penang, which took place at 3 o’clock yesterday morning at his residence No. 417, Burmah Road, after an iilne.ss
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  • 1300 1311 At the Straits Cinematograph, where Dante’s Inferno,” which is being shown nightly to large houses, is now the principal attraction, one sees many thousands of white malefactors being tortured by demons of distinctly dusky hue. This is said lately to have inspired a Malay spectator to the following
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  • 1300 1311 ANDERSON—NOBLE. At the Church of the Assumption yest-r day afternoon the marriage took placed Mr. Lionel John Crossley Anderson accountantofthe Penang bnneb of the Hom»’ kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and son of the late Mr. Drummond Anderson, to Miss Mary Josephine Noble, of ths late Mr
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  • 786 1312 I I’eci Slon of the Court. Yi lehell wbo wa assisted by Y«piain k. i) Caswe and p I delivered decision tn L pt K Owen Tub Collision. ‘k f he about or 1 rai c&gt;ock for Penang known u X r 0 “f 0C ber 24
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  • 406 1312 extension Contemplated. We hear on high au bority that the heoeraled Malay State. Railway, authcritie. have applied to the Government of Perlis for permission to extend the railway now being constructed through Kedah to Kangv, Tm °f p e r ‘*e- K n ar 25 and 30
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  • 670 1313 -ST. LESS CHEERFUL FIGURES FOR LAST QUARTER. Penang Returns Decrease. The figures in the statement of imports and exports complied by tin Regi-trar in Singapore and referring to the third quarter of the present year (July-September inclusive) do not make such cheerful reading as its predecessors for
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  • 392 1313 M. D. C. On Saturday night a performance was given by the members of the Chinese Amateur Dramatic Society in aid of the fund being raised to relieve the distress caused by the floods in the province of Kwang-Tung. A great number of visitors
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  • 270 1313 "J .—MM. Fifteen Years of Rule. On the morning of the 10th the Astan* at Klang was packed with people who had assembled to pay homage and deliver addresses to His Highness on the occasion nf the L r th year of his rule. The Sultan’s M
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  • 315 1313 A Puket correspondent writing to the Bangkok Times under date October 20 says there is a rumour that Trang province will be transferred to the control of Monthon Sri Dhammaraj as soon as rail connection is established. There is nothing very revolutionary or new in such
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  • 535 1314 Mr. A. W. Still, Editor of the Strait» Times, has returned to Singapore. The appointment of Mr. R. D. Acton as District Judge, Penang, has been gazetted. Mr. T. J. McDonald has booked his return passage to Malaya by the P. and 0. Nyanza. Mr. and Mrs. Meadows Frost
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  • 351 1314 A disquieting situation. Reuter,) T London, November 15. t is understood in Washington that Sir Lionel Carden, British .M mister to Mexico has intimated to General Huerta that Great Britain would give moral support to the United States in the event of a conflict between that country
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  • 106 1314 (Reuter) London, November 16. Both Austria and Italy have now accepted the proposal of the British delegate to the Epirus Commission with regard to the delimitation of the frontiers of the new State of Albania. The exact nature of the proposal is uncertain but it has the
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  • 327 1314 MR. REDMOND ON THE SITUATION. Reuter.) London, Novomlx-r 15. Mr. John Redmond, speaking at Newcastle, said that he was prepared to Consider the m &gt;st extravagant, and the most, unreasonable demands of the Ulstermen in order to secure a settlement by consent, but, the people of
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  • 157 1314 (Reuter London, Noveinlrer 16. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, HeirApparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and bis consort, the Due 1 ess Hohenberg, have arrived in London for their visit to the King and Queen at Windsor Castle, where they will stay for a week. Both the
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  • 23 1314 (Reuter.) Constantino; 1»», l5 M Daucourt left here in again. Fou 1 urkish officers on aeroplauei waited him
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  • 230 1315 THE SITUATION IN DUBLIN. (Reuter.) London, November 15. Larkin threatens to call out the railway men and isolate Dublin if the imprisoned st ikers are not released There is si in j talk of Government intervention to secure a settlement but the nature of it is not
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  • 131 1315 French Fleet at the Piraeus. (Reuter J London, November 17. A French squadron of sixteen war vessels will be at the Pirae s on November 30, when it will meet the British fleet. The French papers emphasize the importance of this navaLdemonstration as showing the strength and
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  • 152 1315 (Renter.) Rome, November 15 It is reported that Ki i mil Pasha has died at Larnaca. Rome, November 16. The death of Kiamil Pasha is confirmed. He was buried at Nicosia. [By the death of Kiamil Pasha, who was 81 years of age, Turkey loses a
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  • 172 1315 (Reuter.) Durban, November 18. A strike of Indians in sympathy with passive resistance to the South African Immigration Act is becoming general throughout Natal and is very serious on the sugar plantations where the strikers a r e attempting to terrorize the whites and burning the
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  • 124 1315 (Reuter.) New York, November 15. The s.s Pannonia, of the Cunard Lino, while on her run from Liverpool to New York, received a wireless message from the Spanish steamer Bahnes stating that she was on fire in the North Atlantic. The Pannonia rescued all of the Balmes's 103 passengers
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  • 101 1315 P. O. Officers' New Scale of Pay. (Reuter.) London, November 16 Under tho new scale of pay conceded by the P O. Company to its officers as the result of the recent strike, captains of mailboats will receive ,000 a year, captains of intermediate steamers from &lt;£6oo to £9OO a
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  • 76 1315 (Reuter.) London. November 16. At the Suffragette arson trial at the Old Bailey a well-dressed woman among the spectators threw a hammer and a tomato at the Judge, creating much turmoil in the Court. The glass surrounding the dock and also the glass panels of the doors
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  • 37 1315 Reuter.) London, November 15 The M C.C. team, which is touring i n South Africa, drew with the Western Province at Cape Town and beat a fifteen of the South Western districts at Robertson
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  • 45 1315 (Reuter.) London, November 17. The engagement is announced of Lord Elgin, Ex-Viceroy of India, and the widow of the Captain Ogiloy of the Royal Naw. She is a daughter of Commander Sherbrooke of Oxton Hall, Notts, who was formerly in tho Navy.
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  • 41 1315 (Reuter.) Vienna, November 17. Mr. Altman, the manager at Vienna of the Canadian Pacific Company, charged with facilitating the em igration of recruits before they had done their military service, has been released on bail of £6,0C0.
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  • 39 1315 Reuter.) Budapest, November 15. A Bill has been introduced in the Hungarian Pailiamentto sanction the construction of railways in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The cost will be met by a loan of eleven and a quarter million pounds sterling.
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  • 32 1315 (Reuter.) Adelaide, November 15. The Adelaide Register estimates the wheat crop at 19,000,000 bushels. The Advertiser estimates it at 17,250,000 bushels. The recent rains have wonderfully developed the grain.
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  • 18 1315 (Reuter.) London, November 17. A further series of Cabinet meetings will be held this week.
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  • 32 1315 (Reuter.) Paris, November 17. Forty boxes of gold were stolen en route to the Ottoman Biuk, Paris, from the Ottoman Bank, Constantinople. The gold is valued at 50,00,000 francs.
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  • 29 1315 (Reuter.) London, November 15. At a meeting of the Islamic Society h® r it was announced that Lord Headley become a convert to Mohammedanism.
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  • 18 1315 (Reuter.) Ottawa, November 15. Fifteen vessels were lost in a the Lakes together with crews totalling
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  • 74 1316 (Reuter.) London, November 17. A French officer, Captain Larguier, who is attached to the French Ministry of War, was arrested at Geneva and charged with espionage on behalf of France to the detriment of Switzerland, Italy and Germany. The aff:ir is connected with the recent arrest at Rome
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  • 65 1316 (Reuter.) Stockholm, November 17. It is semi-officially stated that the Princess Marie, formerly the Russian Grand Duchess Maria Paulovna, is now in Paris and that she has announced her intention of not returning to her husband, Prince William. Efforts to induce her to reconsider her decision were without
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  • 47 1316 (Reuter.) London, November 15. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain celebrated their silver wedding in London. There was also a celebration at Birmingham. Their Majesties the King and Queen and thousands of others sent their congratulations, including persons of all shades of political opinion.
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  • 224 1316 (Reuter.) Paris, November 16. The Engl sh aviator Hucks has accomplished some wonderful inverted flights He twice travelled head-downwards for thirty seconds in spite of the winds and rain. The office of Architectural Assistant, P.W.D., Singapore, is declared to be pensionable. Our Singapore correspondent wires that in the
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  • 165 1316 Handicap Shoot. An extra shoot was held on Sunday morning owing to the holidars. The weatb.r conditions were excellent resulting in a good 2t r o n s °oS 1 T «V C nd l itionB were th 9 'Huai »0, 500 and 690 yards conditions. The following scores
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  • 377 1316 lhe appeal of Mr. F. 11. Baness against the sentence of six months’ rigorous imprisonment passed on him by Mr. Justice Woodward was heard at Kuila Lumpur on Thursday by Mr. Justice Braddell and Mr. Justice Edmonds. Mr. F. K. Howlett appeared for the appellant and Mr.
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  • 1196 1316 Ue desire to associate ourselves cordially with the sentiments expressed bv the Straits in the aiticle hr.. led "Public CompauiHs and Public In erests which we have clipped from that paper and reproduce on page 1,321 of this issue. Sx far as the condition of
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  • 819 1317 (From Oar Oum (Jorresponde.nl.) Taiping, November 19. Nearly all the Volunteers from T iping town and district are away at Kuala Lumpur for the annual inspection of the M. S. V. R battalion by the General Officer Commanding the forces in the Straits which wi'l take place on
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  • 167 1317 The P. O s s Simla, which arrived this morning from London, brought four brides who were quietly married at the St, George’s Church this morning, the Revd. F. W. Haines officiating at all the weddings. Wolferstan —Reid Mr. L. E. P. Wolferstan, Resident of Malacca, who arrived
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  • 99 1317 At the seventh auction of the Penang Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association held this morning all the 17,842 lb. of rubber offered for sale were sold at the following prices Sheet Smoked $ll5 to $l3B Unsmoked $1 &gt;9 $133 Crepe No. 1 U2O $125 No 2 m No.
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  • 1294 1318 Ooe of the best known and most popular clubs in Penang proposes to increase its entrance fee in the near future. There is no reason to suppose that the proposal will meet with any opposition, but it. serves to draw attention to the heavy tax which club entrance
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  • 1990 1318 PENANG HARBOUR FACILITIES. SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. A sieclal general meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce was held at the Chamb-r jesterday afternoon to consider ‘lie report of ti e sub Committee cn the 1 cnatig Harbour facilities. Ibis report, sign'd by Messrs. John Mitchell, V. Gibbons.
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  • 439 1319 Contributed.) At a meeting held on the 17th instant at the Perak Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Ipoh, the New F M.S. Machinery Enactment was discussed by about forty of the leading Chinese gentlemen interested in mining. Mr. Chung Yin Fatt, of Tronoh, occupied the chair.
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  • 208 1320 SELECTED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The Government has instructed delegates to proceed to Shangtung to negotiate with the* German merchants there for combi ed capital for the establishment of two factories. As the dissolution of the Kuomingtang has made it impossible to obtain a quorum for either of the houses
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  • 302 1320 Serious Situation. (Reuter.) London, November 18. A telegram from Durban to the British Indians Committee in London states that the situation is getting very serious. The difficulty of feeding the strikers and keeping them in order is increasing in every house and the active intervention of
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  • 20 1320 (Reuter.) London, November 19. The aviator, M. Chevillard, looped the loop at Buc with a passenger.
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  • 153 1320 .(From Our Own CorrespondenL) Singapore, November 19. The Municipal Commissioners held a special meeting yesterday to consider the estimates. The President, Mr. F. J. Ilallifax intimated that 130,000 extra was derivable trom the increased taxes on motor cars. The amount hal accrued but the method of levy
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  • 194 1320 The Compromise Proposals. (Reuter.) London, November 18. The Daily Newt says that there is no foundation for the rumour of the temporary exclusion of Ulster from the Home Rule Bill, published in yesterday’s issue of the Times. No such proposal was made and could be made
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  • 144 1320 (Reuter.) Mexico City, November 19. A blockade by the United States is expected within a few days and the German Minister has requested the German merchants to submit inventories in view of the blockade. President Huerta is still continuing business at the Palace and the organisation of
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  • 39 1320 (Reuter.) Paris, November 18. lhe first accounts of the robbery of the gold consigned by the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople to the branch in Paris are exaggerated. Onlv two ingots, valued together at £1,84U, were stolen.
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  • 43 1320 (Reuter London, Novemlier 18. The shipping firms of Alfred Holt and the Gellatiy Hankey Company will jointly start on January 4 a new four-weeklv service to the lar East, running from Hamburg Swansea and Birkenhead to Vladivostock and Nikolaieosk.
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  • 68 1320 A Surprising Decision (Reuter) Boston, November 18. Gunboat Smith was awarded the decision over Langford at the end of a twelve-rounds contest. In the early rounds Smith was aggressive, Langford not making anv serious defence. Smith weakened and the negro belaboured him right and left on the
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  • 42 1320 Reuter.) i London, November 19. Ibe Commonwealth his now received a reply from the Imperial Government to the suggestion to hold a joint Conf ren:e of Defence. It is understood that a conference of the States is at present impossible.
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  • 27 1320 Reuter.) London, November 18. Mr. Thurston, Secretary to Captain F. R. Barton, CM G., First Minister at Zanzibar has been appointed Consul at Calais.
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  • 37 1320 (Reuter.) Brussels, November 18. Jwo robliers broke into Klippners diamond-cutting works, bound the watchman, and st le diamonds valued at £12,000 lhe watchman, who was arrested, says that he was asleep when the robber entered.
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  • 48 1320 Reuter.) London, November 19 A telegram from Panama says that the small steamer Louise with the leading Canal officials yesterday traversed the whole Canal This was made possible by the progress made in the cutting of the channel through tuo Cucurocha Slide, tho last obstruction.
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  • 45 1320 Reuter.) m. r&gt; m London, November 19. Ibe Daily Telegraph says that the Cabinet met yesterday and mainly c nsidered the estimates, which arc expected to total nearlr X2oo,&lt;joo,ow, of which 10 o l nnk fre *h -a«tu&gt;o. NQth,u d regir'ltag Ulster,
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  • 1194 1321 —S. T. The case of Dennys v. the Straits Times, fully reported in our Saturday’s issue, has several features which raise it above the commonplace and give it a special interest in a commercial and planting community. The Khota Bahroe Rubber Company has its headquarters
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  • 93 1321 The following was the result of the Presgrave Cup for November: R R Turner 2up H R Joy nt all square W R Armstrong all square F Duxbury 1 down E R Henderson 3 do T A Martin 7 do Messrs II C Sells, A G Anthony,
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  • 644 1321 Malay Chauffeur Fined. Before Mr. M. E. Sherwood in the Third Court this morning a Malay named Wanchee was summoned for driving car No. 193 at Ba an Lepas in a rash and negligent manner so as to endanger the safety of others The accused claimed
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  • 43 1321 The following were the results of the ties played off yesterday Championship. G B F Southam beat E S Haslam 21— H. Championship Pairs. H Starr and A S Hall beat Dr J S Rose and W S Dunn 21—20.
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  • 1047 1322 The Amalgamation Scheme. Mr R McCrystal presided at an ex a ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Chenderiang Valley Tin Dredgin Company, Ltd yesterday afternoon to con eider the amalgamation with Jabus the other gentlemen present being Messrs. G W Wilson, M. C. Corbett,
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  • 1257 1322 It is hardly possible to conceive of any influence more likely to prove fertile of good result in the furtherance health of humanity in the Far East, and more conducive to success, at least relative success, in the eternal conflict between science on the one side
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  • 922 1323 —Malay Mail. Probably it will be admitted by all that the currency system at present in use in the Straits Settlements and Malaya is not in a satisfactory condition nor the most convenient that it is possible to devise This appears to arise from the erroneousness of
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  • 425 1323 The hearing of the case against the six Chinese, named Toh Bah Say, Go Guan Hock, Lim Yu Hin, Lim Eng, Khoo Ling Booi and Lim Yu, who were charged with being members of an unlawful society, was resumed yesterday afternoon before Mr. M. E. Sherwood in
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  • 1306 1324 The correspondence columns of our F M S. contemporaries have contained much abu°e lately of the Chinese servants employed by European residents. It is in this matter, wa suspect, much the same as in manv others—people have the kind of servants they deserve; a good employer has
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  • 686 1324 Attacks by wild beasts on human beings, even in the jungly districts of the Peninsula’ are of rare occurrence certainly the deathroll from this cause is nothing like so great as in some parts of India, And in the Bindings, which has of late been rapidly opened up
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  • 573 1325 Excellent Turn-out. A night march of the members of the Penang Volunteer and Cadet Corps was held last night and no less than 257 officers and men turned out for the occasion. Although notices of the march hid been given several days beforehand that attendance was compulsory,
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  • 1245 1325 The Municipal President was praising the Electric Light Department, and hoping to please his hearers with a little humour he said his policy was “Honour the Light Brigade.” Yes,” came the voice of an indignant consumer, “but think of the charge they made The following advertisement from the
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  • 1271 1326 THE SPECIAL FUND FDR TUP LONDON SCHOOL. Mr- A Chamberlain on the Allocation. The annual dinner of the London School of Tropical Medicine was served on October 24 at Prince’s Restaurant. Dr. F. M Sandwitb was in the chair, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain, tne principal guest, who pro
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  • 957 1326 Vnw3 of Sir John Jordan. I he principal guests at the annual dinner at the China Assocution. held at the Hotel Metropole on October 29, were Sir Claude Macdonald, formerly British Ambassador at Tokyo, and Sir John Jordan, British Minister at Peking, the latter of
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  • 311 1327 China has recently occupied such a large share of public attention that a well authenticated map of the country like that issued by the China Inland Mission should prove exceedingly useful to many sections of the community. The 1913 edition and the valuable index which accompanies it,
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  • 1355 1327 LOCAL SKIPPER FINED. Captain B Peters, of tbe s.s. Malaya, was yesterday afternoon charged before Mr. M E. Sherwood in the Third Court with abetting five immigrants in attempting to leave the Colony without certificates from the Indian Immigration Office On the defendant claiming trial, Mr. E.
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  • 575 1328 M. Sarraut, the Governor-General of Indo-China, intends to leave Saigon for France on December 15. The King has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr. Chonosuke Yada as Consul-General of Jipan at Ottawa. Mr. Harold H. Hilton, Amateur Golf Champion, has been appointed Editor of Golf Illustrated
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  • 620 1328 dent nf th. u tbe n^OD correspondent of the Manehr.ter Guardian, i, ,£i n NavLtTon C bj Bri ish Indil St navigation Company and other Briti.b against the renewal of Kaishr wh t 0 the Nip P° n Vuaen h °t Be VoBBelB are
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  • 384 1328 appeal for conciliatory METHODS. (Reuter.) London, November 19. The evening papers again contain editorials urging South Africa to find an immediate and reasonable solution to the Indian problem. I hey hope that statesmanship will be displayed. In the face of the vast Imperial interests involved
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  • 90 1328 No Overtures to Th* Opposition. (Reuter.) Loudon, Novemlier 19. The Daily Chronicle, in confirming the report of the Cabinet meeting yesterdav, states that it did not consider the Home Bule question and says that the Government have no intention at present in mukm overtures to the
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  • 183 1329 BISHOP OF SINGAPORE’S ADDRESS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 20 At the meeting of the Singapore Temperance Council the Rt Rev C J. FergusonDavie, Bishop of Singapore, addressed the meeting and said that the licensing side of their activities must obviously be attended to, but in order
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  • 56 1329 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 20. At th© rubber auction at Singapore 147,861 lb. were offered for sale and 134,897 lb. were sold at the following prices Smoked Sheet $126—§144 per picul Unsroked $l2O-$l3l First Crepe $129-$135 Seco. 1 SHS-$l3O Thiici $lO3 $ll3 Fourto 95 —$110
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  • 64 1329 (From Our Own Correspondent») Kuala Lumpur, November 20. A fire broke out in the garage of the Straits and F.M.S Motor Service Company last night and one bus was totally destroyed, but the fire was prevented from causing extensive damage by the smart turn out of
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  • 134 1329 Suspension of Payment. {From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 20. The recent run on the Kwong Yik Chinese bank culminated to-day in the suspension of the piyment by the Bank which did not open to-day. It is expected that the bank will pay 100%. Lord Elgin,
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  • 160 1329 A Policy of Patience. (Reuter.) Washington, November 19. President Wilson met the Cabinet and afterwards a denial was issued in regard to the report that a blockade of Mexico had been decided upon. The alvisers of the administration favour patience while the Constitutionalists pursue their campaign. New
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  • 57 1329 And the Repiy- (Reuter London, November 19. Mr. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster General, has replied to the deputation of postal employees which waited on him on the 3rd inst. and promised increases to some employees amounting altogether to .£1,250,000. The hours of many of the postal employees are
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  • 43 1329 (Reuter.) Donai, November 19. Six thousind miners are on strike at Pas de Calais. The National Council of Miners yesterday resolved upon an immediate general strike in order to secure an eighthours’ day and the abolition of long shifts.
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  • 36 1329 (Reuter.) London, November 19. The members of the English Trade Unions I ave decided against a sympathetic strike on behalf of the Dublin labourers but will assist them in every other way.
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  • 28 1329 (Reuter.) London, November 19. The M. C. C. team defeated a South Western Districts team of fifteen by an innings and 60 runs at Oudtshoorn.
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  • 28 1329 (Reuter.) London, November 20. The steamer which caught firo in the Mediterram an and was burned to the water’s edge is the Scotsdyke, bound for Sunderland.
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  • 118 1329 Penang, November 21. (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank o/aj 4 months’ sight Bank o/afl f redit 2/if Documentary 2/4,1 Calcutta, Demand Bank r 8 1731* 3 days’ sight Private Bombay, Demand Bank 173! Moulmeiu, Demand Hank 173* 3 days’ sight Private 175« Madras, Demand Bank
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  • 204 1329 Gold Leaf A 64.40 Black Pepper 15 75 buyers White Pepper 2 .50 buyers Trang Pepper 24—nominal Cloves 39 out of season Mace ...120 nominal Pickings 75 sellers Nutmegs 110 s 24.50 sellers No. 1 6.10 sales Sugar 2 5,50 sales Basket 5.15 buyers Copra (mixed) 12 85 buyers
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