The Straits Times, 10 January 1911

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times. NO. 23.460 SINGAPORE. TUESDAY. JANUARY 10. 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 88 1 WATSON'S No. 1O Whisky THE BEST. KATZ BROS., LD. Are Showing this Week JL SPECIAL XillbTlE OP 1 TUB DAINTIEST. PRETTIEST AND $12.00 $10.00 35 Designs to Choose from in White and all Leading Colours. STAR BRAND Fresh Butter. A DELICIOUS TABLE LUXURY. Supplied to the Principal Hotels. SOLE IMPORTERS:
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    • 337 1 FOR SALE. JUST ARRIVED SULPHURIC ACID, 900 lbs. per mm. HYDBOCHLORIO ACID, 120 lba. per oue. Terms moderate. Apply to JIT SIN A CO SiaO 81, Ncrtb Boat Qtuj.^ NOTICE. I>nriag my absence in Europe, M r. Charles Victor Beilby holds my Power of Attorney. HERBERT M. DARBY. Malacca, December
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    • 169 1 Modern fß,aineoats READY FOR WEAR IN ALL SIZES. Robinson's ZAMBRENE Raincoats Jf IjL In appearance they are similiar to ordinary over- ijk "^Ti coats, produced in fine medium weight textures, and fl^-^T After a shower they will not "Cockle-up and /yaft become shapeless, as is the case with Certain f^&^mrWL
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    • 9 1 J. MOTION CO. Watchmaker*, Jewellery, Optlolane. BIPAIBS PBOMTLT ■XIOCTID
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    • 30 1 DDIIII A GO. CHAMPAGNE ADAMSON. GILFILLAN AND CO., LTD., sot. Ai.iNr-. t JULIAN FRANKEL FURNITURE GO., 1 66, Orchard Road. Furniture Dealers and Commission Agents. PRICES CONSISTENT WITH QUALITY. 25
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  • 889 2 NEW BOOK BY BELGIAN SOCIALIST LEADER. M. Yandervelde's Views. A book which is much more moderate in tone than might have been expected has just been published in Paris, is likely to interest all those who are concerned either commercially or otherwise with the Congo. The author
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  • 126 2 While the military budgets of most countries are increasing annually, Switzerland has just decided to reduce hers by i: H2.H64. The Government had already agreed to an outlay of £1,756,940, and the Federal Council had sent the Bill for approval to the State Council, which appointed a
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 116 2 KEPLER r SOLUTION NURSING MOTHERS .aW A I i r t 1 Kepltr Solution"* derive great beneht from this yr^, jfc" delicious tome food. I Kepler Solution sustains the W strength and builds up the Kj It increases and enriches the j^fPjKfj I It is easily digested, and its it*;
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    • 56 2 HOW TO GET RID OF A GOLD. If you have trouble in getting rid of your cold you may know that yon are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a cold should bang on for weeks and it will not if yon take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For
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    • 391 2 CRUSHED FOOD. Try it and You Will ba iatliflwj. I. U. BELILIOS begs to inform the public that his Factory for preparing Crashed Food, at No. 1, Belilios Road, is now opened. Prioe of a bag of Crashed Food, 1 p. 10 oat. $4.00 per bag. No. 1 Bran, wt.
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    • 271 2 rUFI!IJOY-| a\ -n pure soap, in a l\Ha^^3^^ highly concentrated y form, with power to <?3k I purify and cleanse v* a§ x\ I\\ lOk m 'I at the same time. if tnlßll BBBBs? HEALTH INFECTIOUS. WbyßhsbSN L^- Manufactured by lh» WfaTf^^^^^^^^ Proprietor* ol Sunlight *»p NEW JEWELLERY Fox* 1911
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  • 668 3 EMIGRANT SHIP SUNK IN COLLISION, Thrilling Rescue Scenes. In the early hours of the morning, a disaster occurred in tin- North Sea to the Great Central Company's new steamer Blackburn. While off Shcringhani, the vessel was in collision with the London steamer Rook, and was totally lost.
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  • 315 3 Great Damage and Destruction in England. < I.lll— of unabated violence continue in England and Wales, says a London telegram of December 17. The Dover-Calais and Osu.ni l mail services have been suspended. The protective \v6rks at Selsey, on the Sussex coast, have been swept away, ami
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 363 3 MAINTAINS THE HIGHEST REPUTATION EVERYWHERE. BUILD UP and PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH and Fortify' thf System against Disease with a/ |I~IV1 IVI I^aHßßapß* a fHIBMB«aj yv (TauSsß!^l!!«^^^^^KßlWOt^l^LUl^g^HAC^O^l^^AMAlC»* Wt oaiiD.i «v«&* I B&fa^B¥£^BTal>^BTil^B^^^BTlM^Lfl\aßßfl^lV^BßM BB 4■■ kx kifhiy uf it." BaT^ 1 H LT-^btW P ■mX W lTw *V Pronounced by the HIGHEST
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    • 55 3 CURE FOR BILIOUBNEBS. Biliousness is doe to a disordered condition of the stomaob. Chamberlain's Tablets are essentially a stomtch medioine, intended especially to act on that organ to oleanse it, strengthen it, tone and inviuorate it, to re gulate the liver and to banish biliousness positively and effectually. For sale
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    • 352 3 SH9S all Tonics W^T TYPHOON SEASON IN CHINA. BAROCYCLONOMETBRS By Father Algue, Director of Manila Obaerratory. The best up-to-date instrument. How to know the approaches of Typhoons. How to avoid them. Apply »o GAGBINO AND CO.. SOLE AGENTS, S. S. /bJg\ J /A Mle and .imple rtmtiy foc\ I (L
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    • 355 3 Sozodoivt U'y R h o^fOi Som« people complain of t\* expense of a good denhK^Y^^Qj frice. SOZODONT Is both good and economical. P^^&lliXUjreS Only a litHe is wanted. It lasts. It keeps the teeth I r* nin 1 cl* an an frees them from the corrosion of tartar. If^r^AAAm^ (fJ
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 613 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. ¥.&O. BTEAM NAVIGATION CB. FOB CHINA, JAPAN, PENANG, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. Through Bills of Lsdiog issued for China C>ast, Persian Gulf Continental, and Amerioan PorU. Steamers will leave Singipirc on or about MAIL LINES Outward (for China.) 1911 Devanba Mar 10
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    • 553 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. N. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. EUROPEAN UNE. A Fortnightly ami ice is maintained between Yokohama via ports to Marseilles, London and Antwerp, under mail contract with tbe Imperial Japanese (iovernment. The New Twia-aorew Steaaiers maintaining this servioe have been specially designed and constructed, and are
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    • 577 4 STEAMER 3AILIN6B. PACIFIC MAIL BTEAMBHIP CO. AMD TOYO KISEN KAISHA, The two great steamship lines between CHINA, JAPAN and EUROPE, via Honolulu and San Franoisoo, operating the new 12,000 tone, twin screw steamers KOREA and SIBERIA, together with tbe well known steamers CHINA. ASIA, MONGOLIA MANCHURIA NIPPON MARO, TENYO MaRO
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    • 257 4 STEAMER SAILINGSC P. R CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY 1 8 ROYAL MAIL BTEAMBHIP UNE. Tii s NATIONAL HIGH WAT TO BUROPK w)B CHINA, JAPAN, CANADA AND THB UNITBD BTATBB. Roots from Hongkong via Shainghai, NigaaaU (Inland Sea of Japan), fobe, Yokohama. Viotoria aad Vanoouver. R.M.B. Bn>Bmss or Inu Twin sore
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    • 561 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. HAMBURG AMERIKA UNE. HAMBURG. '^9 Lawaaw^ Tbe steamers of this Company m^tn^n a regular service between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and the Btrjits, China and Japan. Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and onoe a month for Bremerhaven direct, oalling at Penang and Colombo.
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    • 683 4 STEAMER BAILIHG3 N, D. L. Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE. The fast and well known mail steamers of this Company vail fortnightly from Bremen, Hamburg, via Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples (oounecting Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, aud vice versa) Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Hiogapsre,' Hongkong Shanghai,
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  • 127 5 FIXTURES. Tuesday, January 10. High Water, 6.22 a.m., 5.27 p.m. Wednesday, January 11, High Water, 6.10 am, 8.0 p.m. A Royal Jester, Viotoria Theatre, 8.80. St. Anthony's Convent Performance, 6. Thursday, January la. High Water, 7 17 a.m., 9.10 p.m. Straits Trading Co., noon. P. and O.
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  • 174 5 To-D*i. Penan g and Colombo Kaga Maru Bpm Port Dickion Ban Whatt Hin 3 pm Malacca and Bagan Hook Lee 3 pm Aoamba and Natnna la. and Pamangkat Flero 8 pm BatTi Pahat Aing Hin 8 pm Hongkong I. k 8 pm Hongkong, Amoy and Sw«tow Hong
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  • 143 5 The P. and O. homeward mail at earner Devanha having left Hongkong at 1 p.m. on Saturday, the 7th instant, may be expected to arrive here at 6 a.m. on Thursday, the 12th inst. The P. and O. outward mail steamer Delhi having left Colombo, at B.SO
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  • 224 5 Latest Airlvali. Aing Thye, Dnt atr 70 tons, Naoodah, Jan 9. Indragiri, Jan 7. G.o. and 42 d.p. Lim Ohoon. For Indragiri. Jan 12 Rda. Boribat, Siam atr 352 tons, Captain Wind, Jan 9. From Bangkok, Jan 1. Ox. and 28 d.p. Eaat Aaiatio Coy. For Bangkok, Jan
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  • 126 5 January t /itrflingrr, Ocr str, Yokohama via ports i 'm'lii, Brit atr, Chnwantan Chieng Mai, Ger atr, Bangkok Baroo Fairlie, Brit str, Kobe K. h\ Ftrdinand. Aua atr, Trieste via ports Sard, Nor str, l'alembang '/■■/tnii. Brit str, Saraaraug via ports I'm der I.yn, Dut str, Fontianak t V
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  • 93 5 Wharvea at which Vessel! are Berthed To. Day. TANJONO PAQAR. East Whabv Bisn Koantan. East W. Ssonoi I— Anamba, Naentung Sams Wham— Nil. Math W. Ban. I Japan. Kanagawa Mara. 4-Nil. a a 8— Qaorra. i-Tang Taie. L»ooo» Don 7 (TJnder oonatrootion.) Wsbt
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  • 370 5 Arrivals. Per steamer Kistna, January 9. From Penang via ports: Messrs. II. L. Tann, W. H. Rose, H. Leonard, A. Tomer, Stanley Knocker, T. W. Stnbbs, CallaD. J I>uval, S. J. Manasseh, Mr. and Mrs. H S. Kirwan, Mrs. Kiss, Mrs. Blasset And Miss Jeremiah. Expected to
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  • 458 5 Authentic Details of the Tragedy in Siam. According to the Bangkok Times of December 29, Mr. Hamilton Price, Manager of the Bombay Burmali Trading Corporation writes Yesterday's mail from Chiengmai brought us our first detailed account of the late dacoity upcountry. Messrs. Miller and Hutchinson
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  • 134 5 We have received lately Uie Christmas and New Year numbers of the Pall Mall Magazine, and note with pleasure the great beauty of the illustrations, and the high quality of the descriptive articles and the stones in this best of the English magazines. Care is taken to
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  • 76 5 The Java Bode, in reviewing the past year, dwells upon the rush for rubber land there in 1910, the amount sunk by foreigners being estimated at 105 millions of guilders the investors being mostly British and French. A demand arose for shutting foreigners out from landowncrehip. The Government would not
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  • 243 5 Finance Commerce. EXCHANGE. SnoiPOU, January 10, 1911. On London— Bank 4 m/l 2/4 J Demand m. 2/4ft Private 6 m/l m, 2/4ft do 8-m/s 2/4 i On Qwmor*— Bank d/d 340 Private 8 m/l 344 do Imji m. 346| On Promt*— Bank d/d ...396 Private 8 m/a 300} do 6
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  • TO-DAY'S STOCKS AND SHARES.
    • 170 5 :«rae 3 *'alae oj Buyem. Seller*. 10 10 BelatTin 4.60 475 10 10 Bru&ng 6-25 076 10 10 Braseb Hyd. 6.00 10 10 Kanaboi 1.76 200 61 41 KinUTin 10 36 10.76 61 £1 Kledang Tin 1.76 3.00 10 10 Knantan Tin 3.00 8.00 tl £1 Labat Mines 8.50
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    • 606 5 laane 2 Value 2 Boyert. Sellers. 21. a/- AUmnr 4/5 5/ 8/. a/- Analo-Malay 1.10 1.2.8 a/- 3/- Batons Malak* 2/- 3/8 1 41 Btto&TM 10.10.0 17.10.0 41 41 Batn Tina 4.2.8 4.9.0 41 41 Bukit Kajang 2 0.0 2.10.6 41 16/- Contributory 12 0 1.00) pm 41 41
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    • 130 5 Issue S Value pj Buyer*. Seller* 10 10 Hasten nom. Smelting 10.00 10 T m h 6.00 41 41 Bleo*rioTr»mw»y» 2,8 8 8 10 10 Fnwer 4 Ne»Te 26 50 MOO 100 Homrth Inkine 6000 100 ..7% Pret 8000 0100 100 100 E»UBro.Def. M lifi.oo 100 100 8% OaiQ.
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    • 50 5 Bayers Sellers Howarth Erskine 8% 1600,000 par Riley, Hargreaves 6% 1384,000 1% 8% pre Singapore Electric Tramways 6% £860,000 Spore Municipal 6% 11,878.000 nom. Buyers Seller* S'po.-e Municipal 4}% of 1907 »1,e00,C00 0% 7%pra Spore Municipal 4j% of 1809 11,000,000 7% B%pre Spore Municipal 4" o 1602,900 7% dial
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 13 5 Woods Great Poppermint Care for all internal complaints. Dysentery, Conghs, Colds, etc. B
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    • 201 5 AUCTION SALES Powell and Co. Jan. 10 At saleroom, freehold land, known as Romulus, Thomson Road, at 2.80. Jan. 10 At saleroom, two pieoes of freehold land situate off Confederate Estate Rd., at 2 80. Jan. 11 At No. 74, Anson Road, collection of antique Chinese porcelain ware, etc., as
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    • 129 5 J^ lanki of the Nils) vWptrfect «o«litlM 1 abas*. Um^n Fito* I Obtainable at: ROIItOT\ RfllMFtf* I p uuuiuii nuu^c pnuiiicnii f and nUDIHOUR 1 I JOHN LITTLE S Felucca I I ANO CO.. LTD. ■«">«*■■ agarettsjsj^J I •n racniQlml br til. Mad* of ts* Saaal I MaKttrf TBrUih Tobacco
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    • 333 5 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. DUTCH. Wanted Lessons in Dutch. Apply Spraak, o/o Straits Times. 101 13-1 TO LET. 86, Orange Road, furnished, from middle of April noit. Apply to Mr. J. C. Koopman. 101 v BIRDB OF PARADISE FOR SALE. At Messrs. Moraux A Co 19 20, Boat Quay. 10-1 a GOVERNMENT
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    • 54 5 HIGH-CLASS UNDERTAKING. ALBERT L. A. DALEY, The Leading Undertaker Monumental Mason of Singapore, has the only ALL-ENGLISH-MADE RUBBER-TYRED HEARSES ol the latest design, and uses only PURE CARRARA MARBLE for monumental purposes. SOLE AGENT FOR MESSRS. OOTTRIDGE BROS.. LTD., OF LONDON, The well-known funeral directors and furnishers •43, Prlnsep Street
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 184 5 WEATHER REPORT. ffanrtang Kerbau Hospital, January 8. 4. M.ll r. M.|9 r. M. Rirmnu. Bar. M Fah 29.999 29.865 29.960 Temp 74.0 78.0 75.0 .93 in. WelßolbTber 73.0 75.6 74 0 DirofWmd.. oalm NE. oalm Max. Temp 79.8 Mm. 75.6 Max. In Bon.. 107.0 Terad. Thor.. Ths following telegram has
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  • 1081 6 The Straits Times. TUESDAY, JANUARY 10. GERMAN ASPIRATIONS. Recent mail papers are very full of the Anglo-German question, though, indeed, it would be more correct to express it the German question without any Anglo prefix. The great speech delivered by Herr Bethmann in the Reichstag early in December has already
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  • 14 6 Direct telegraphic communication with Penang and Kuala Lumpur was restored at 2 p.m. yesterday.
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  • 21 6 A shock of earthquake on Uie coast of Zanzibar on December 13, broke four of the cable lines communicating with Durban.
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  • 34 6 A Volunteer contingent from Ceylon will attend the King's Coronation in June. It will be representative of all the corps, but the strength of Uie contingent and other details have not yet been settled.
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  • 32 6 The Colombo police offer Rl,ooo for information Uiat will load to the arrest and conviction of Uie persons who committed the recent burglary in Messrs. Cargills' premises, to which we referred yesterday.
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  • 30 6 At the end of December, the contributions to the Bolton Colliery Disaster Fund amounted to £60,500. Renter's correspondent at Melbourne states that the Commonwealth has subscribed JM.OOO to the fund.
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  • 72 6 The barque Annesley, which left Melbourne for Falniouth on September 7, reached Queenstownon December 11, and reported that while she was rounding Cape Horn her captain was washed overboard and wan lost. Following up the item in our yesterday's paper, which gave particulars of the grounding of the P. and
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  • 47 6 His Honour Judge Willis reproved a man who said Buck up in the South wark County Court. "It is a vulgar phrase," the judge remarked. I have never heard it in respectable society. It is shocking. Wiry does not a person say, 'I hope you are prospering'
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  • 46 6 On December 18, Mr. Sopwith flew an aeroplane from the Isle of Sheppey (on the coast of Kent) to Belgium, a distance of 177 miles. His machine, which is a biplane with a monoplane tail, is of British construction, and is driven by a British motor.
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  • 44 6 A savage affray took place in a street in Liverpool on December 18. Forty Armenian emigrants en route to New York quarrelled among themselves and fought with a variety of weapons. Five of them were badly stab bed. Twenty of the combatants were arrested.
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  • 47 6 Members of Uie Singapore Ladies' Rifle Association are remindedof Uie annual general meeting on Thursday, the 12th inst., to be held in the Club House immediately after the shooting for the Walker trophy. Ladies desiring to join the association are invited to be present at the meeting.
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  • 52 6 All the European Powers, except Austria. have accepted an invitation from the United States to attend a conference at The Hague next May to consider steps for dealing with the opium evil. Austria's reason for not taking part in the conference is that she has no pecuniary interest in the
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  • 55 6 The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his New Year's message, referring to politics in 1910, issues a warning against an impetuous shortcut. His Grace invokes the blessing of the Lord ou Uie year 1911 when kinsfolk from afar will gather at our central shrine and join Uieir prayers with ours at
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  • 53 6 News comes from Holland Uiat Dutch enterprise in growing sugar beet in England has resulted in British capitalists interesting themselves in that direction. Une of them intends to take an active part in the business, and has gone to Holland to study on the spot up-to-date methods of cultivating beet
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  • 58 6 The gallows had their due at Binjey in Deli on January 8, when a Chinese coolie was hanged for the murder of an estate assistant on September 27. The assistant had called Uie coolie to account for faulty sorting of tobacco leaf. The coolie retorted with a knife stab when
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  • 57 6 The Dutch Government intends shortly to build railways in South Sumatra to cost 37 millions of guilders. A wire from The Hague, dated December 80. says Uiat the Colonial Minister has decided to hrst start a line from Palembang to tap Uie oil districts at Muara Knim. The proposed lines
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  • 54 6 The licence duties payable by Messrs. Barclay. Perkins and Co., brewers, amount to £38,215. This has necessitated the post ponement of the dividend on preference i iai s and Uie reconstruction of the company. It is stated Uiat the additional direct taxation paid by Uie company since 1896 represents a
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  • 59 6 Dishonest misappropriation, in\olving a sum ot M.092.26, was alleged against a Teochew in the District court, yesterday. The sum is said to be the property of Chop Buan Hua Hong, of which accused was a partner. Mr. Gaunt and Mr. Chonard appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Knowles for the
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  • 63 6 The Daily Telegraph, in an article on gun-running in Uie Persian Gulf and the anarchy in SouUiern Persia, says Uiat there are only two things to be done and they must be done with decision. The first necessity is the further strengthening of the patrolling squadron, but Uie origin of
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  • 55 6 Ananobymousofferof .£s,ooo has been made towards a guarantee fund for the Imperial exhibition proposed to be held in London in 1915. The otter is contingent upon another £10,000 being guaranteed. The Karl of Plymouth, Sir Henry Pellatt, and Uie AgentsGeneral for Victoria, Queensland. Tasmania, and South Australia have joined the
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  • 64 6 At Uie annual general meeting of Uie Lian Kee Kok Association, the following were elected officers for Uie year 1911 Son Ewe Jin, president; Khoo Uon Kiong, vice-presi-dent G. C. Kirn, lion, secretary Tan Chye Fong, asst. Hon. secretary Leong Sin l'eng. lion, treasurer; Lim Beng Sunn, hon. auditor; and
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  • 73 6 Mr. Kirmstone, in tho District Court, today, imposed a fine of t.'K) with the alternative of .one month's rigorous imprisonim m. on a Cantonese, of 91-1 Bukit Timah Road. convicted of failing to report to the authorities a case of small-pox. Similar charge were preferred against accused's coolie and liis
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  • 83 6 The Netherlands India Government has allotted half a million of guilders towards the building of a dry dock at Sourabaya. where there is an urgent need of something of the kind both for the navy and merchantmen. The lack of this has led Dutch Steam Navigation Companies in that quarter
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  • 424 6 Mr. John I. Plummer, of tho Hongkong Observatory, leaves for home on the I*, and O. steamer Nile, on January 11. Mr. E. R. Carlos, who has been studying medicine at Edinburgh, finishes his coarse in August next, v,licn he intends returning to Uie Straits. .Mr. .1.
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  • 158 6 The Rubber World makes this comment on Uie Freight and Steamship hill Tho Anti-Conference bill has passed its third reading in the Legislative Council of the Straits SetUements, and it now awaits the Royal assent. The bill provides that the Straits Governor in Council shall be
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  • 158 6 During a leceiit short visit to Amoy, Dr. Lim Hoou Keug. who is the medical delegate of the Imperial Chinese Commission to the International Hygiene Exhibition at Dresden, was invited to lecture on the place of the Confucian Ethics in Modern Chinese Kdiua tion,
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  • 257 6 A special jury wan empanelled at the Assizes. yisUnlay. to try Ne Chwee Too, indicted for tlio murder of Ng Cliwi ■<■ Km who, it wan alleged, curly in tlir uimnin^ of Deceuibcr 2, met liis death by Imrnin;; at the hands of the accused. Mr. It. C.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 280 6 Champagnes. Sherries and Forts. Marsalas and Madeiras. Liqueurs. G i ftretß Md Bargundiefl Vermouths. Hockß and Moflelleß Bums. Brandies and Whiskies. Bitters. Beers and Stout. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Caldbeck, Macgregor Co. JOHN LITTLE CO., LTD., Sole Agents for BURROUGHES AND WATTS' BILLIARD TABLES. The "Straits" Table,
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    • 160 6 HIGH-CLASS ENTERTAINMENT ALHAMBRA SOMETHING NBW INTBRESTINO To-Nlght. 2nd Show, 0.80 to 11 p.m. 1. OVERTURE. 3. OSTRICH BREEDING IN EGYPT. :s.l THE TRAGEDY Of ROBERT THE SILENT. 4. J (Duke of AqoiUine) 5. A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP (Comic). 6. EXAMINATION OF THE STOMACH UNDER X HAYS. 7. 16TH EDITION, PATHE S
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    • 13 6 Latest advertisements of the day appear on page 5 as well as 8.
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  • 110 7 FRANCE AND BRITAIN FULLY INFORMED. No Change in Balance of Power. Reutkk's Telboram. London, January 7. The Daily Telegraph considers that the Russo- German agreement may be regarded as a guide to the shape an Anglo-German agreement might take. London, January 10. The Times Paris correspondent says
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  • 33 7 Rkl-tkh's Tklkgram. London, January 9. King Alfonso, at Melilla, has unveiled a memorial to the Spanish soldiers who fell in the campaigu of 1909. The local Moorish chiefs attended.
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  • 34 7 Thrilling Incident and Narrow Escapes. IIEUTKK's TBLEIiRAM. London, January 9. Two aeroplanes collided at Issy. near Paris. tmi were totally wrecked. The aviators had a wonderful escape, and were only slightly injured.
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  • 39 7 Dkr Ostasiatischk Lloyd Tklkuram. Berlin. January 9. Prince Buelow's silver wedding has been celebrated at Rome. The Emneror William sent congratulations through the Ambassador, and Herr Beth in. urn s, nt a hearty telegram.
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  • 24 7 Dbr Ostasiatisi he Lloyd Tblkckam Berlin. January 9. Herr Liudequest goes in April to South West Africa to settle some Government questions.
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  • 16 7 Hki'tkk's Tklegkam. London, January 9. The German Crown Prince is now at Lahore.
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  • 353 7 Net Decrease of Production Last Year of 2,000 Tons. Iti h uinn to the previous week's tin markit thedloUof Deoambar 10. says: Last wi-ek oloMCl at -t172 7s. (id. cash. X'l72 7s. 6d. three months. This week closed at A'l74 Us. cash, and £174 17s. tid. three
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  • 118 7 All ail illellt which he was helpless to avert was witnessed l>y the driver of a train on the Singapore and .lohiire Railway yesterday evening. About 7| miles out Bun Timah wny he saw. on the line on whiob he was travelling, a Chinaman, lie
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  • 176 7 Chinaman Summoned on Two Serious Charges. Two serious charges have been preferred against a Chinaman named Chens 800, who appeared before Mr. Firmstone in the District Court, yesterday. The first charge, which amounts to an attempt to bribe Mr. Jackson, architectural assistant in the municipal service, ran
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  • 283 7 The 3rd Brahmans Arrive to Replace 99th Deccan Infantry. Shortly after six o'clock this morning, the British transport Northbrook was sighted beyond Sultan '-'ln.'U and by 9 o'clock she was in port awaiting the medical inspection of the native troop* aboard who have come to Singapore, from
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  • 521 7 Interesting Details of New Issue for Trengganu. The new stamps of Trengganu are about due to arrive in this country, writes Mr. F. J. Melville in the London Daily Telegraph. Collectors are often surprised at the early news which filters out on the Continent concerning issues which are
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  • 53 7 General 11. mill will shortly submit to an o]m-i .nion for the removal of a cataract from his left eye. During a motoring tour in July he lost the sight of his right eye through inflammation, ami hi' is now unable to recognise even his friends although he still works
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  • 947 7 TEXT OF APPEAL ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE. The Claims of the Medical School. The following is the text of the appeal which is being issued in connection with the memorial to his late Majesty King Edward Singapore, December IS, 1910. At a public meeting held in the
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  • 68 7 The Jebong (Perak) Rubber Co., Ltd.— The approximate amount of dry rubber harvested from the company's Jebong Estate during December is 23,820 lbs. against 16,160 lbs. last year. Total for the year 233,000 lbs. against 128,000 lbs. last year. Indragiri (Sumatra) Kubber and Guttapercha Co., Ltd.— For
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  • 368 7 VIEWS OF CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. A Petition to the Governor. The Secretary of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, forwards the following report of a meeting of the Chamber held on Saturday las}, with a request that we give it publicity A public meeting was held
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  • 199 7 No Charge of Deception Against the Directors. Following the meeting of the Siak Indra-' poera Rubber Co., in Shanghai. Dr. Marshall, the Chairman, has sent to Capital and Commerce the following letter which he had received from Mr. H. S. Oppe Country Club. Shanghai. December 17,
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  • 424 7 The Directors' Report on a Year's Working. Tlie tint annual meeting of the Ayer Molek Kubber Co. is to be held at Malacca on Saturday next, when the report of the directors for the year ended October 31 I-, will be submitted for adoption. The report
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  • 909 7 Chairman Reviews the Operations of the Company. The second ordinary general meeting of the Brieh Robber Estate, Limited, was held in London, on December 18. Mr. E. E. Morcau. who presided, addressed the meeting at length and, in referring to the account*, said in the course of
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  • 170 7 There is reason to believe that a large number of counterfeit coins fifty-cent and dollar pieces are in circulation in Singapore at present. In the last few dtys the police have acquired quite a good collection of specimens, one big haul beiug maile \<-t. i day.
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  • 66 7 Mining in Tonkin was looking up at the close of last year, says the Courrier d'Haiphong, and fresh mines are continually brought to light. But. the need of capital hampers mining enterprise, and the lack of roads and bridges in the interior is a still greater difficulty. Several promising mines
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  • 58 7 GERMAN TROOPS AND FRENCH ENTHUSIASTS. Dispersed With Fixed Bayonets. lUiTKits Telegram. London, .January 10. At Metz, on the police disallowing a French concert last night, the demonstrators, cheering France and singing the Marseillaise, went in procession to the statue of Marshal Ney. The tumps fixed bayonet- and
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  • 37 7 (From i Malacca Cohkk.si'ondkxt.) Malacca. January 10. Information has been receivnl by Malacca Rubber Plantations, LimiUil, that the price of fine Para in London yesterday was 5/21 per lb., value. The market closed linn.
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  • 423 7 Full List of Recently Conferred Decorations. The New Year's In mom- list is ,is follows: To be Privy Councillor Mr. .lolm Kredc rick Chcetham. Ml.: the Master of Klibank, M.l.; Sir C. K. Scliwiuin. M.l.; Sir .1..-, pi, Compton Kickett, M.l.; and Mr. William Abraliam. )l.l'. To
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  • 126 7 The following are outputs of dry clean tin ore for December Qopeng Tin Mining Co., Ltd., 560 piculs. New Gopeng. Ltd.. ltd piculs. Kinui Tin Mines. Ltd.. UO pit ills. Ti kka, Ltd.. 600 piculs. ltamlmtan. Ltd.. 122 piculs, IVngkatni. Ltd.. 4'>n piculs, Kledang Tin Mines, Ltd..
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  • 110 7 The recently fornnil Society for Nautical Research has. the London ci^respondent of the Scotsman understands, made a most promising start under the presidency of Vice Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg. Tho chief objects of the new organisation are to encourage inquiry into nautical antiquities, into matters relating to
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  • 74 7 The P. M. S. Government (la/cttc OMtaiM the following prices fur tin' period from January 6 to 19, inclusive, of cultivated rubber ou which the robber export duty talarUhbi an ml valorem basis in Perak, Sclangor, Ncgri Siinliihin and I'ahaug SI „t and Biscuit »2HO
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  • Correspondence.
    • 619 8 To the Editor of the Straits Times. gir,_Will you kindly allow me to make a few remarks, on the proposed income tax I Not many years ago the Singapore Chamber of Commerce suggested that the Government should pass an ordinance for the compuls. irv registration of partnerships,
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  • 395 8 Messrs. Samuel Montagu and Co's Weekly Report. Writing from London on DecemlxM 1'). Ifasan. S. Montagu und Co.. state The bar Bold available on Monday amounted to about 2700,000, of which the" litink of Kugland Mtind but I very small pm)>ortion. There wan a drmand for Germany,
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  • 64 8 Sir. CiiiiH'nir. through the L'uiUtl States Anilinss.ulor. tit Birlin. haB established a linn Finn I for (icruiHiiy. with a capital of •1,350,000 ami with iibjivN similar U> those of the funds ulicwlv (sliiblisli<Hl iv America. Great Britain, mid I'runcc, military hrroiMii l«ii\^ excluded. The Kaiser, iv a cordial letter, acecpUil
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  • 664 8 Members Elected and Comparison With Former Contest. We give below another instalment of the general election results, and a comparison in each case with the votes polled at the previous contest in January of last year Cornwall St. Ivbs. Sir C. J. Cory Bart. (L) 4,258, Mr.
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  • 126 8 The Regent of Pahang in Council has granted Christian Nieuwenhuis, of Blackwater Estate, Klang. and Jacques de Voogt, of Bengabing Estate, the exclusive privilege of making, selling and using in the state of Pahang, for fourteen years from February 25 last, an invention for the extermination of
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  • 1046 8 Prices Quoted in the Market This Morning. Singapore, January 10, 1911. Messrs. Lyall and Evatt, Exchange and Share Brokers, issue the following list of quotations this morning Norn. Value. Buyers. Sellers. 2/- Allagar 4/6 5/2/- Options 2/8 4/6 £1 Anglo-Java 11/8 15/--1 Anglo-Johore 11/9 16/8 2/- Anglo-Malay
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  • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 68 8 From the Winter Edition of Ruff's Guide to the Turf, we learn that the total amount of stake money won in Great Britain and Ireland during the flat-race season of 1910 was £511,784. A suggestion made at the English Lawn Tennis Association's meeting that annual matches be
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    • 108 8 Match at Teluk Kurau. A medal competition took place on Sunday over the Teluk Kurau course for a cup presented by the Teluk Kurau Mess. The cup was won by Mr R. H. Sharpe with the excellent score of 78. Scores t. H. Sliarpe 39+33 74 4 78 1.
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    • 262 8 The All-India Cricket Team. The All-India Cricket team visiting England this year have a capital list of fixtures. The following is a complete list of the matches already arranged i On .1 me 1 they play Oxford Lniversity at Oxford. Then they go to Cardiff to play South Wales
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  • 113 8 Daring the hearing of a case, a Chinaman walked up and down the third police court with a proprietary air about him this forenoon. What does that man want walking up and i down the court asked the magistrate as the Chinaman finished the sixth lap. These are my coolies.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 12 8 WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND. OF ALL CHEMISTS. $1.25 AND $24)0
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    • 60 8 Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry 'Twas sound advice, perhaps, in Bacon's time, Bnt our great statesmen sing a different rhyme The country is so rich," they say, that we Most go on borrowing everlastingly Bnt tbongh our faith in borrowing may
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    • 398 8 Raffles Hotel. SPECIAL DINNER Qn Saturday, January 14. By kind permission of Col. Bayard and Officers, the band of The Buffs will play during and after dinner. MUSIC DANCING 9 to 11. 30 E, AO. HOTEL, PENANG The best and the most (reqnented Hotel iv the Island, and CRAB HOTEL
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    • 187 8 CALL AT Moutrie's FOR PIANO Proven by 38 years' Experience OVER 1,200 DISTRIBUTED IN ALL PARTS OF CHINA AND THE STRAITS. S.MOUTRIE&CO..LD. THE ARCADE. HARIMA HALL Cinematograph NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. GRAND CHANGE OF PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT K. HARIMA. Sole Proprietor. THE STAR OPERA CO. The Dutch and Malay Variety Eat*rtain«rt AT
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    • 98 9 CONTRACTS Sif-CURED t -1 For the supply of sledJe brand milk JeB J*"4^L TO ALL THE arved fflß^k lishod f^pM Gov'^rSent Medical Institutions d V IN THE jsjH Ft Irated Malay States. &Mli; IMPORTERS: J. Trave^and Sons, Limited. STRAITS GUANO COMPANY. Natural Perlis Guaao guaranteed to contain 15% P, 0,.
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    • 569 9 STEAMER SAILING?. AUSTRIAN LLOYDS STEAM NAVIGATION CO. The following are the dates on which the Company's steamers may be expected to arrive and sail from here Outward 1910 Arrives. 1011 B.S. Vorwaerts February 8 Homeward 1911 I b.s. Persia February 6 calling at Calontta t calling at Bombay and Karachi
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    • 587 9 STEAMER SAILINGSBURNS PHIIP LINE. SINGAPORE SO JAVA PORTS, PORT DARWIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, BRISBANE and SYDNEY via TORRES STRAITS. Also taking passengers and cargo with transhipment for other VICTORIAN, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN and NORTH QUFENBLAND PORTS, BRITISH NWV GUINEA NEW BRITAIN, TABMANI AN and MEW ZEALAND PORTS. Smooth Paeeatfe. Superb Soenery. A
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    • 464 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. HOME via SIBERIA. INTERNATIONAL BLEEPING CAR AND EXPRESS TRAINS CO. Throagh tickets lor the entire Journey from any of the principal points in the Fat East to any principal point in Europe oi TRANS-SIBERIAN ROUTE. THE ALL-RAIL ROUTE. Coupon ticket books to travel by any ol the Steamship
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    • 378 9 ARTICLES FOB SALE. FOR SALE. Motor bus to oarry 80 pas^ogers. Price 13.750. Apply Cycle k Carri* K e Co., Koala Lumpar ■Ma FOR SALE PRIVATELY. Fourteen valuable brick built slionboases situated at South Bridge Road, circular Road, Cbinchew Street and Church Street. Leasehold for 899 years. For pirtioalars, apply
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 460 10 INSURANCE. GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LIMITED. Head Office Winchester House, SINGAPORE. Board of Di rectors i O. A. Dxrricx, Esq., Chairman. A. H. Fair, Esq Managing Director. Piter Fowlik, m b., c m Chief Med. OfficerF. M. Elliot, Era. Rev. N. J. Couvrki r. Vow Noam Pan, Eeq. Oso
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    • 449 10 INSURANCE. FEDERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA. ESTABLISBBD 1882. Insurance in Force, over $37,500,000 New Business, 1909, over $6,500,000 Net Surplus) above liabilities for reserve and all outstanding claims, over $2,076,000 (Straits Currency). Over $35,000 was set aside as a special addition to Policy reserves. J. H. EVANS, Manager, South
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    • 522 10 BANKING. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. INCORPORATED BT ROYAL CHARTER Paid up Capital in 60,000 Shares of £W each £1,200,000 Reserve Fund £1,600,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors... £1,200,000 BANKERS. National Bank of Scotland. The London City k Midland Bank, Ltd. SINGAPORE BRANCH. Current Accounts are opened and interest
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    • 551 10 BANKING. THE BZE HAI TONG BANKING AND INBURANCS CO.. LTD. NO. 67 AND 68, KLING STREET. Established 1907. Capital paid up $1,000,C00.00 Reserve liability of proprietors 1,000,000.00 COURT OF DIRECTORS. Tan Tick Jooh 6. Sn Ku Jam Nam Kirn Sbmo 7. Teo Hoo Lai 8. Liau Cbia Hino Tan Cbino
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    • 696 10 BALEB BY 'UCTIOI AUCTION SALE <MValuable Teak Household Ftliture, etc., The property of V. Knight, Mq., AT "VALHALLA," NO. 28, CAVaA.GH ROAD, Saturday, January 14, aW2 p.m. A very handsome carved cherrywrod cabinet Earot^nade upholstered drawing room suite; carved brie a- brae whatnot; Japanese fancy lacflered ornament stands an excellent
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    • 268 10 H. L. COOHLAN k COS FORTHCOMING FURNITURE AUCTIONS. Plants, etc., E. O. Broadriok, Esq Nassim Hill. Household Furniture, A. Robertson, Esq., Hafton Tanglin, Saturday, January 28. ■MM MORTGAGEES BALE. 100 ACRES TOWN PROPERTY, At Messrs. H. L. Coghlan 4k Co.'s Salerooms, On Thcrsday, January 12, at 2.30 p.m. Valuable Freehold
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  • 1193 11 NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS. Motor Cycling in Ceylon. One of the chic* drawbacks of motor cycling in Ceylon, Bays a correspondent of the Times of Ceylon, is the number of stray dogs and cattle on the roads. The dogs are certainly a nuisance, but they
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 542 11 AN APPRECIATION —Hi evident that Wolseley Cars are not only popular with the bnyinc public, as oertain W»l motor car agents have approached one of onr clients wXaWtopnrchasiDß»*l6 20H.P. WOLSBLEY 5%K Our client ha* been offered his choice of any^L their new cars in exchange plus a obeque for the
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    • 371 11 Japanese Dentist, 74. BRAS JJASAH ROAD. Dr. K. Tsutada is the only Japanese Dentist in the town with whom you can consult direct either in English or Malay. Painless Extraction from II each. Gold Capping 6 Silver Capping 8 Joined Crown 4 Bridge Work 6 Full set teeth on plate
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    • 100 11 THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING CO. IBBTABLTBHBD ***** MANUFACTURERS OF PURE ROPE B STRAND I [GABLE LAID 1 4 STRAND 1/9* to 19* 6* to 10* r to 10* Prioes, Sample* and fall p»rtiool>rB will be forwarded on application to Agenl: W.A. STOPANI, .?i'..%\\V tA GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.. LTIT Portland
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 507 12 Johnson's "ELEPHANT" Brand CEMENT. The came ol "JOHNSON'S" is recognised as a guarantee oS GOOD QUALITY in the CEMENT TRADE. SHARPE, ROSS CO., LTD., Singapore. WANTSCHINESE CLERKS WANTCO. Wanteti for a tin mine in Pahang, an efficient typist with a knowledge of book, keeping aUo for engineering department, a smart
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    • 471 12 mm DISPENSER WANTED. Wanted, or.iified Dispenser for a Dispensary in the Strai.i. Send testimonials and itate salary wanted to "Chemist," 0/0 Straits Times. ***** CLERK WANTEO. Wanted for a Rubber Estate in Sumatra, a clerk (Chinese or Eurasian), with a good I knowledge of book keeping and able to type,
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    • 515 12 TO BE LET W SOLD. OFFICE ft GODOWN TO BE LET. With immediate entry No. T, Malacca Street Apply to GTJTHRIE A CO., LTD. mass a LANGIANDS TO BE LET. The commodious dwelling boose No. 112 River Valley Road. Tennis Court, Gas, Water, etc.. laid op. Apply to N. T.
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    • 612 12 CHANGE OF ADDRESS. Messrs. Tomlinson and Lermit have removed to Rubber Exchange Buildings, 100, Robinson Road, at ranction with Telegraph Street. 816S UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY. LD The Undersigned having been appointed Agent* of the above Company in Singapore ara prepared to accept Fin and Accident risks at the current rates.
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    • 562 12 NOTICES. KIAM KIAT A GO. SHIP-CHANDLERS, Iwirwwl and Municipal Contractor*. Telephone No. 421. 1084k 109, Market Street. NOTICE. We have now opened business at No. 62-2, Victoria Street, as Bicycle Repairers, etc., under the firm stylo of KONG HUP HIN CO. 8089 S.S. KISTNA. FOR PORT SWETTENHAM PENANG The above
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    • 440 12 I NOTICES. NTAUJMITEO S HEREBY GIVEN, that no ed by A. A. Gann as TransLooepted by the Company. By order of the Board, DERRICK A Co, Seeratarie*. THECHJMPUL(NEGRISEMBILAN) RUB3E.fi EBTATEB. LIMITEO. Will those shareholders who have not yet taken delivery of their warrants kindly do so. at once, ap after
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 240 12 Straits Vhmes. ADVERTISEMENT RATES.—Miscellaneous wants of every description are inserted at the prepaid rate of tl per four line* for one or two insertions. Notices of Births, Marriages, or Deaths, if not mwinding four line*, II each inaettion. For p.p.o. cards, on page 8, 13. Imch Sualb Rates are a*
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