The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 10 November 1925

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  • 20 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. >lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CENTS VOL 23 PENANG: NOVEMBER 10, 1925 NO. 45
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    • 375 1 CONTENTS 111 H M ic*nßD« MISCELLANEOUS: (Continual) M 9s lEAueiCv BQ l 3 Kf 1 J si The Aoheen Oatbreak 1217 Cgj Improvements and Methods ...1200 Sumatra and Java News 1217 A 1221 B Q The Chamber of Commerce 1204 Sir L. Guilkmard B 9 The Municipal Budget 1210 P.
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    • 204 2 Mq 3p M gjt THB I STRAITS ECHO I MAIL EDITION. gf Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, JC and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the j&i daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of
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  • 855 1200 People in Penang take more than an academic interest in the progress made by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners in slum demolition and rebuilding, and the controversy which has been provoked by the Governments on what has been called the Improvement Trust policy, for which it proposes to
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  • 503 1200 i Inspector, 1 Al S 1; i. i n ,.,j a t Aior *r. s vs < ur Kedah ccrrespc ndent. S Mag P. 0., Negri 11 leave about the 16th or 17th instant. Ihe engagement is announced and the m rr age will lake place shortly be-iwt-n Miss
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    • 28 1200 ffte Straits cDo PUBLISHED DAILY MAIL EDITION r<ntaining the news of the week prior m departure of Mails for Europe The Criterion Press, Limited 59, Beach Street, Penang
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  • 142 1200 domestic occurrence DEATH McDonald. On 31st October, 1925, a t Singapore, Murdoch McDonald, Master, s. s. Klang, beloved husband of Elizabeth Ann McDonald, and father of Graham. Duncan, Colin and Myrtle McDonald and Elizabeth McCracken, aged 67 years. Australian and New Zealand papers please copy. DOMESTIC occurrences DEATHS Chas Kee
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  • 2472 1201 STORY OF THE TRAGEDY THE NINE DEAD The following is from the Free Press: A tragedy of the most astounding nature ocourred on board the Straits Steamship Company’s vessel Klang on Saturday evening, when a Malay passenger ran amok with a large knife and killed
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  • 716 1202 Over 100 Drowned and Injured taboat 3 .d 0 in the afternoon of Monday the 26 li ultimo, a Chinese wayang playing in front of t' e Chinese ®mpip nt Bindj i, DMi. Crackers fired and coupled with the no h>- an.l n of the theitre’s musical
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  • 1292 1202 TRAGEDY IN HINDU TEMPLfi ALLEGED MU <1 EK BY PRIEST The la«t sps’i m of the Penang Aao’iee began thia morning before Mr. Jaitic« Aaton. Of the foar oisee on the cal-indar two were di-<p>eedof and the third ie proaeeding. A Chinese, Cheah Teh Thye, alioe Rwah Tek
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  • 694 1203 WHAT OF THE FUTURE? Boom Practically Rented Can Malayan plantations produce to the full the new percentage allowed from yesterday asks Boomerang in the M.M. Are there enough labourers on the plantations to do it? The two questions should be considered together, and opinion is
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  • 141 1203 Amending the Sanitary Boards Enactment A Bill to amend the Sanitary Bom Enactment, 1916, is about to be into duced in the Federal Council. Ihe Bill has two objects, firstly to increase the powers of a Sanitary Board in abating nuisances and preventing mosquito breeding, and secondly
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  • 155 1203 tom. Chinese Quarter Under Water Heavy rain has fallen throughout the past week. There was an abnorma: fall on November 1 and the Kinta river overflowed its banks, causing another big flood, about eight inches below the October 6 flood. Many streets are awash and business men’s
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  • 1007 1204 At the annual meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce held in April, it os pointed out that the trade had improved somewhat, but was far from satisfactory. It had at any rate been put upon a sounder basis, and for this no doubt slump experiences;
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  • 506 1204 n«>nc those sent wreaths to the funeral ol the late Capt. McDonald was the Association of Engineers. It is interesting to note that Sir Frank Sw- itenham. th- first Resident -Genr; I.M S.. t<K)k office on January L 1896. and served in this post until De< ember pj, 1901.
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  • 755 1205 The Taiping Pass A contemporary snye it is understood that the F. M. S. Railways Department has decided upon reconstruction work on the Taiping Pa«s, which it will take three years to complete, ft is to be hoped that this information is correct The Pass has heen a
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  • 181 1205 .—T.O.M. T? e road rou d the island of Penang is closed for traffic at present. It is undergoing heavy repairs Extension» in the width of several parts of the roads are being made where this has appeared necessary. The recent heavy rains played havoc on
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  • 750 1205 BRAHMIN PRIEBT ov Before Mr. J nBtico 1 with Mr. JR r &nd Hi* -rial C o the Brahmin pZI o’ da purged with J' S .k„ STw- 00 tb »'ffU o' 1 J the Hindu TemnL q„ I? 1 2k Th 9 P V n X P
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  • 1817 1206 A PUBLIC LOAN nrDGET CONSIDERED IN COMMITTEE An ordinary meeting of Municipal Com ainionera followed by a special meeting to digatue the 1926 draft budget was held esterday afternoon at the Municipal Jffioeg. Mr Bernard Nann presided and the others present were: Mr J D Kemp, Mr 0
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  • 3324 1207 HALF-YEARLY MEETING CHAIRMAN’S INTERESTING REVIEW As briefly reported, the half-yearly general meeting of shareholders of the I’ena-ng Chamber of Commerce was held at 2.3 U p.m. yesterday. Mr. R. N. Holmes, the Chairman (R. T. Reid Co.) presided and the others present were: Messrs. F. J). Thompson
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  • 418 1209 At an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Benta Rubber Estates .Ltd., held at the offices of Messrs. Evatt and Co., Ipoh, the Hon. Mr. W. H. Thorne presiding, the Chairman submitted the following resolution, which was seconded b\ Hon. Mr. H. T. Jones: That
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  • 652 1209 ANNUAL MEETING 'The 23rd annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Singapore Cold Storage Company Limited was held at the offices of Messrs. Boustead and Co., Ltd., on 31st ultimo. Mr. F. A. Pledger presided and there were present Messrs. \V. H. Macgregor, E. Walker, F.
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  • 92 1209 .—S.F.P. A large man-eating shark was landed by shore fishermen who went out with nets off Tanjong Rhu yesterday afternoon. lhe shark, which was found to be eight feet long and which weighed 115 pounds, was caught some 500 yards from the Swimming Club.
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  • 228 1209 Two Chinese Chased and Arrested The case in which two Chinese, Koh Chong and Pong Chong, are alleged to have been involved in an attempt to smuggle about $50,000 worth of nonGovernment chandu came up for hearing in the District Court, Singapore on Thursday' morning,
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  • 1088 1210 At Tuesday s meeting of the Municinai Commissioners the draft Budget for f.rjt) was considered in Committee. Prior to dealing with it, the President referred briefly to the proposed public o au of $3,580,000. Penang’s requirements are by no means formidable in comparison with the large amounts
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  • 492 1210 1 h Raj.i Mud* ot Selangor is ex peel* I to pay a visit to Ktd »h this month. '0 I’ I Allen, Secretary to Ren dent, Perak, leavt on furlough thrvv etk-end. Dr. P H H enessey arrived from Horne leave to-day and will take up his form-r
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  • 818 1211 Mr. Firestone’s Experiment Six months ago Mr. Harvey Fi.estone announced that he had practically conolud d negotiations with the Liberian Govarurne l t for an extensive concession of lard suitably for growing rubber. Recently he announced that an agreement had been signed, so that this experiment, presumably, will
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  • 317 1211 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo) Sir,I do not think our progressives favour Registration of Chinese Marriages in forms other than those propounded by your correspondent, Mr. S. Kin Hiang who merely repeats the views set out b\ Mr. Lim Cheng Ean at the S.C.B.A. meeting at
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  • 1163 1211 hearty WELCOME on boabd MALAY i: ULERs~PRg RT Hi, Excellency Sir f nn and Lrdy Guillkuard, «bo 8,1 months’ ho’iday in pG* t; M ,laya thie rao Morea and enthnXtU: 4°'* on ba ard by His Hiphn P fl Peiak, His Highness the Rp C t>.e
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  • 399 1212 Malay convicted for forgery Before Mr. Justice Acton in thn Snp rom J/ me eine a Malay named Hasrnm o;n Suleiman was charged with 'ftving forged a docum int wh ch lou«el security nn H loan o f MBO from Cheah Ah Cl.ee. The Hon Mr. W H.
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  • 105 1212 Fourteen Chioe'e living i i a house in New B idgelload, Sing *pup, were suddenly taken ill on Saturday, du p it i? paid, to floor having eaten a fish which had bu n caught in a drain and which had either eaten or ccmi into conf
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  • 108 1212 (Fiom a Spfci-i! Correspondent) Sungei Patani, N ;verr.bei 4 At an xhaordina-y general rmrtii g of the Kcdih Pl&ntrrs' As? ciation held thia afternoon at the Scrgri Pa’ani Club it. was unamm''Usly dec-id d that t e Kc cJ--.h Planteis’ Assooiafi ii shall coolinu affi i lion
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  • 1617 1212 1 1 Iht hditur of the Strait» Echo.) bir, No-wm who has read the discti* n- ut full; can fail to see that thost h t haw v iced against registration misund i-i;md the subject altogether. First ami foremost, let them understand that tin- < mvi-inmvnt
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  • 350 1213 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo}. Sir,The industrial sky, never very clear for years past, is full of gathering clouds which threaten to burst next spring, and to cause floods which will submerge many of the reviving hopes of British trade. The poor old Homeland I Y
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  • 311 1213 Phosphate Company’s Offices Broke-; Into The sequel to an attempt by Chinese to break open the safes in tk offices of the Christmas Island Phosphate Company was heard in the District Cour yesterday, three Chinese being chargee before Mr. Franklyn Robinson with housebreaking with intent to commit
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  • 1058 1214 November 1 marked a notable aimiebarv for Italy. With an impressive ctade” three days’ celebrations of Xcisni concluded. The usual claims «■ere made by its leaders, and it was m{UJiated that on the reassembly of Parliament a Bill would be introduced further consolidating the fascist State, filter now tells
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  • 497 1214 Mr. H p. Bryson, the well-known Selangor Rugby football half, leaves for Home on Saturday by the Khiva. Chief Inspector I). J Marquess, till recently Of 1’ D., Taiping, has gone Home on retirement on pension. Mr. P. BattEhill, of the legal firm of Messis Sisson and Delay, Singapore,
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  • 966 1215 CHINCHEW SUED defendant gives evidence In the Supreme Court this morning Mr. Justice Acton continued the hearing of the suit in which a local merchant is suing a ohinohew on board the 8-b. van Hcgendorp, for the recovery of a sum of about 51,600. Briefly, the faots alleged
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  • 285 1215 F. M. S. Government’s Concessions? London, November 5 It is rumoured in London that the F. M. S. Government has made conoessioj.s in regard to subber output, aff cting only private enterprise of plantations mt exceeding 25 acres, estimated to involve 3,0'0 tons of extra rubber during tl
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  • 1201 1215 STRAUS TlMES_C Ommests followin g leadin. artw in ednesday’s issue °o( ,i, e Times:— 01 Stnit, e have read with »vt.« the letter of Sir Frank S-X our contemporary the Mak? u BO certain comments made in k on the Federal problem whiehh W ly been under discussion/W
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  • 479 1216 MM Allegations of Criminal Breach of Trust According to information ami on the complaint of Mr. A.F.B. Livesav, Sec retary of the lj>oh Club, Mr. V. G. Czechic], Magistrate, Jpoli, issued a warrant on November 3 for the arrest of Vee Rood Ping, the Chief Clerk
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  • 1142 1216 We t th- !l-w.ng from the Free Press: l'i hina marriage is a civil contract which must be evidenced by an agreerm nt and supported b\ a consideration. I nlike e< unfrie- n which the civil or common law prevails, marriage has never until recently been regulated by
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  • 538 1217 PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONS The event of the week has, of course, been the reports from the corner of the Empire of Insulinde, Acheen, where several lives have been lost in local attacks, says the Free Press Batavia correspondent. Acheen is one of those districts of the far-flung East
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  • 454 1217 SUMATRA JAVA NEWS. (Translated for the V i According to the latest, white male population n lies exceeded the femaU 20,000. In the Prean K 0) S ,\ear 1860 there were only >ut now there are Last Coast of Sumatra are Europeans. In the whole olonial possessions there are »t
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  • 1076 1218 It is curious that when doubt or conan joes not arise hi one direction in Section with rubber restriction anit will in another. This j l be avoided quite easily. Yesterfv we published a Reuter cable from ion, as follows:—It is rumoured we that the
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  • 500 1218 h T -Ir E N. 1. Cummins, the well known >. langur planter, hu» returned from Home leave. Inspector Dowling, who was formerly "i itionvd at Sitiaw has been transferred to Taiping us O.C.P.D Mr R- I F. Swettenhani, who was recently married at Home, has returned to Kuala
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  • 1298 1219 Sir William Rycroft tUnier o-day cables ne wg tf (he ceath a Home of Major General Sir William Ryoroft, who recently retired from the Governorship of British North Borneo. In May this year Sir William left Jeeselton, with the intention of proceeding Home on leave, but be took
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  • 74 1219 GREAT SCHEME of DKCENTBiu StTlC[ Sepoetsd Abolition or F ID ,m Corr (From Our Own Th.; c n ®> NoTemt.; f b r ,oelleo Sir L. ur a Lady Gedlemard were u, crowds at the P <fc U. w harf. 1 The Straits Times aonouooti i m
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  • 74 1219 NO FIREARMS ON THE SHIP The Chief Officer’s Evidence (From Our Own Correspondent} Singapore, November? The enquiry into the tragedy oa Ik Klang was adjourned till Monday. 14 dence shewed that Captain McDomE, when asked by the Chief Officer if be bid a revolver, said No.
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  • 77 1219 Incident in the Red Sea While in the Bed Sea, thsP.4o.iA Kashmir, which arrived in port yesterday received a wireless from tbfii Denbatn, of Loudon, on a vojif from Port Said to Bombay, for medioal help. The Kashmir rtew# back and found the ship. A boat
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  • 94 1219 Tronoh. for the month ai Oeteber, 1,319, ui, 40* Lampeb (Siam), for th ber, 184 piouls, Honrs ren 4WMrs. of the Royal Sussex pore, Capt. and Mrs. o P^ ster i same Regiment, and Pomfrey, also ot the J fl,» were among the by the P. and O.
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  • 1990 1220 FORMER HONGKONG GOVERNOR’S VIEWS INTERESTING INTERVIEW opi a tn smoking om be stopped in Rongkouz in six months, at rn >st a year, from the time Chin* ceases to grow opium bnt while the Chinese retain their oatual ingenuity and aheap opium, it is a little difficult
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  • 1262 1221 THREE MILLION DOLLARS ACCEPTED A resolution that the directors of the Company be empowered to accept an offer of 3,000,000 dollars for the sale of the Company's estate to London principals or any better offer which may be received before the meeting, and to take the necessary
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  • 316 1221 Suit Against Chinchew In the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon. Mr. Justice Acton continued and concluded the hearing of the suit in which Tan Boon Keng, a local mer. chant, sued Teh Wee Choon, a chinchew on board the s.s. van Hogendorp for the recovery of 2,300 guilders, which
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  • 586 1222 SUMATRA JAVA NEWS RUBBER EXPORT Translated for the Echo). According to the latest official returns the export of rubber during th e month o f September from the undermention d ports were a.- follows: Belawan 3», 158, »67 kilo. Bandjerniasin 2,387,399, Djambi 2.275,976, Palembang 1,520,847, Pontianak 1,353,981. Sambas 387,822. For
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  • 233 1222 Chinese Contractor Sentenced io jjea th A Chinese contractor named Song Huai, oi Oataag Derjuntai ustalw, was charged on Wednesday before Mr. justice JUaxiu, at the SMangor -Assizes with tile murder of another Chinese contractor, named Yeo Cnong, on August 20. .\o motive lor the crime
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  • 179 1222 Tongkang Coolies’ Experience An unusual experience befell the Chinese coolies of tongkang 843 on Wednesday in Penang Harbour, one oi their party being struck by lightning and killed instantaneously and another struck down but not killed. The tongkang loaded with sago bags was just north of the
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  • 505 1222 EXPORTABLE DURING PRESENT QUARTER l-irly in September, from various offic. it >m vs < i information, we made up a statement as follows shewing the position of the Malayan Rubber Industry in relation to export, says the Straits Times: Per Annum Tons. (1 Standard for Restriction Area a
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  • 325 1223 Evidence Against Constable A A matter of considerable interest came up before the Third Magistrate at Singapore, says the Free Press, when evidence was-recorded against Abdul Rani,, a constable who was doing clerical work for the Traffic Branch and who has’ absconded since a charge of having
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  • 811 1223 LEAN AND CO.’S WEEKLY REPORT Thursday evening In the tuss'le between different interests considerable fluctuations again took place in the price of tin, and a rise of £'4 /s. fid. to £284 15, was followed b\ a drop by successive stages’ of £5 and the closing price of
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  • 167 1223 A Malay clerk in the Audit Office, Singapore, named Mohamed Said, met with a fatal accident on the Keppel Harbour Road at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday while returning home in a motor car along with two friends' after a ride. The car somehow swerved
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  • 65 1223 Selangor-Penang jbe W e learn from Mr. J fhat he skipner of the Penang. S 1 Luffunable to rais’e a X 5 to ?p pur to-morrow and that can( tiW fore with Selangor has h Mr Wilkinson tried his ne. tide, but found that nine oft had played
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  • 1414 1224 In the official communique on impending changes in the F.M.S., issued some months ago, there was a passage to the effect that it had been common ground for years that the administration of the Federated Malay States was’ far too centralised, and that efforts made towards
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  • 731 1225 CHARGE OF THEFT Before Mr.-C. W. A. Sam-eft in the Police Court, this morning, the hearing proceeded of the cise in which Cheah Phee Ee and Chew Boon Kar are charged with dishonestly removing sheets of robber from the atore-bonse of Lim Chiang at Jelutong Road
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  • 208 1225 Arrival gf New Regiment The 3/20 Reg iment of Burma Rifl g t which is to relieve the 2/20 Regiment at Taiping arrived from Rang on yesterday morning bv the 3.1. s,s. Elephant i and left for Taipitjg by special train at 11,15 a.rn. yesterday. Except, f r
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  • 102 1225 Presentation from Passengers of Palermo Captain J. H. Abbey, of the Palermo, received a gold watch end gold fountain pen at Fournbtya from the pissengers who hud travelled up r n his ship from Sydney and other Australian ports. In making the presentation on behalf of 21
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  • 210 1225 Towed Into lenang i i The ee. Cape Receife, which lost its propeller after leaving .Singapore some dns ago, was brought iu tow to Peaaog di:.b aorning by the Singapore Hu. oour I tug Varuna, which was sent to assist the I disabled steamer. As a matter
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  • 721 1225 another estate d ISHIe .I» BE tbe ZE 8® 1 th.s momi o? b toie Acton Mr. W ri,ht M ti' Mie 1 1» bis client Lim H Muf,,' Receiver m the matter of th. Leng Cheek, a Pen, n «Hie was opp o3e a by Mr. BMf
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  • 295 1226 Remarkable Report The foil' wing from the Straits Times amplifies the telegram fiom our Sing-pore correspondent, rublisH’d on Saturday; Assurances have been given by the Colonial Office that no step will be taken to change the present system of Administration in Malaya without full public discussion. We are
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  • 651 1226 Tn Pe Pulled Down The Parish Hall, Penang, i- to be pulled in the near future, to make w v for ,,6nt i r s of the Church ff the Aa-ump-g* D which is to he taken in hand sh irtly <i r P lh ns were
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  • 505 1226 THREE YEARS OF THE SYSTEM REVIEWED The third war of Restriction camo to an nd < n October 31, and a feu figure® extracted from Import and Export Department reports, and from other source® may tie of interest. First of all a comparison may lx? made of the second
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  • 424 1227 Negri Sembilan writes to the Straits Times: With reference to your leading article on the above as a practical planter lam afraid 1 disagree with you. I can only speak from my knowledge of estates in Negri Sembilan, but from what I know of these, at least ninety
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  • 540 1227 Child Protection’’ writes to the Straits Times: 1 have tried not to write to your paper, since the matter is in verycapable hands or minds. But I feel that most of the friends) who have written on the subject have missed the main issue. Briefly stated, the chief
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  • 55 1227 M.M. Our Singapore correspondent telegraphs that the Rest beat the S.C.F.A. by two goals to nil at the Stadium. n The scramble for rubber lands is becoming so great that an advertiser in today’s issue has actually found it worth while to announce that an estate (Triang)
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  • 423 1227 m’b r L Ham and Mr. w s nuiuerurv pronwte d to ivi t ftcera Class II 1 1V11 bervice. 611 Malays Kuala LumpuTfco up the position of a™ "T loea! office of Lazarus and Sons, Ltd' Mr. v. G. u e jG b '■«tor of Forests, FMS for
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  • 2917 1228 rviDENCt Af THE CORONER'S fc ENQUIRY ..y-p S OFFICERS AND I'oLICE WITNESSES Ihe amok tragedy on the Straits Steamship Company’s vessel Klang last Saturday afternoon, in which seven arsons "were totally stabbed, and the Dokter himself ahot by the police, was D e subject of an enquiry held
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  • 442 1229 against C.W. Scullv ber 1 lestrictiofi office wUi aiding and abettinJ clerk, in an nve one-pikul rubber cX n uesday’s Malay Mail. X was charged with attempting' u the coupons to Khay Kon p y? her 24. Mr. Kemp, officer-in-charce nOk «■cWe branch of the KuX tL
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  • 1103 1230 ANTHONY CO'S SHARE LIST. of Cowp» r r 1 Buyers Seller- R. as. lets. lets. rzi r 349 3-5 G cum Ltd- I 28C 30 -aVS. Ltd 449 463 Rat-fr-i I LUI ill wyronhu-r C'., f .to 3.29 Ltd. 13C0 13 75 wfeSffE' 1 Ltd > 600 65; Lti 1.55
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  • 109 1230 Toogkah Ha bjar, fom Lt to 7 h November, (beirjo oue ll ton’. Um Piah, for the moot of October. 32H piculs. Southern Section 140 piculs, Hill Section 100 piculs, and Tributore 88 piculs. :o: Mr. G. B. Kellagher, of the Malayan Civil Service, who recently returned from
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  • 801 1230 CH \RGE op THEFT ,l 1 W. nn-tt in the L cternoon, the nuto 11 tn case m whv h < hc .h rhe. and Chew Boon Kara; .3 narg al V till dishou 41y rcmov- o! ru biJ. r from the btondiouse of Lim (hi
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