Straits Times Weekly Issue, 1 July 1891

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  • 36 1 Th e Str ait s Ti mes WEEKLY ISSUE. Ne v Sgrie; P<TBUBH P POR T_-Hr.iiM.io. bv Et..t Homew A p._ M..,_ Steam™ [Vim i. 40 Cents VOL XLVII. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 1801. NO. d,(MM.
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  • 32 1 x >,u Walk, on tfl f" Of l>r E 01 \"o--of a son. At 34 SaViaborr Terrace, Aberdeen, on the iM'tli dune, ths wife of VV M. Robi a dang hi
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  • 67 1 THE STRAITS TIMES WEDNESDAY, 1st JULY, 1891. CONTENTS. Hark >l Qu > tat ions S:un a 1 i s Tie l; lili. Tha Britis' y Brunei A IV i The Xai iv.ParnelTs Marri 1 1 iveraor an I tl Ti Pad ic U ialth id 5 iment G i Residual
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  • 325 1 LATEST MARKET QUO TAT IONS. Sin a lpobc, 1-. ,U i.\ is f Pr. 7".. do Cube N'o. 1. do do Xo. 2, 7 .pra Bali. 4.0(l. do Pontianak. Pepper Black, Flour Pearl Sa^o, Set Bali. ji. .fee Li berian,... Tapioca small Flak do do Ist quality do med. tlake.
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  • 262 1 Tl,: i: »h__ential rep >rts on the proves for the past vear 01 v onward p.ro specially m P.-rak and S danger. The Medical Report B hows the P ublic health of the Colony to bo good during the period under review, except an outbreak of
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  • 683 1 For mStraite Tim Ivn-.i \ni» am. run NBTHBB] .no-. rd June. A Convention has been concluded betwi d Great Britain and Holland defining thi live boundaries Of tl. i B Tlleo. Tui-: Bebbib Difficulty. Sir G. S. Baden-Powell, M.l\ and ProDawson, (Canadian), are to be British members on
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  • 428 1 TUESDAY, 30t h JUNE. It will be seen from the Indian telegrams that the heat at Calcutta has b terrible. Mr. J. Bertram BfosHLY, a dentist of English and Americaa experience, has commenced to practice iu Singapore in the new building io Battel y Koad. Amon.j those present at the
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  • 306 1 The Native State s of the Malay Peninsula. lif I.V DOLLAJR _r 1 Total of is:*.. Z »-_S g ~3 f <*f ST Peeak 2-504,116 .7. Selangor. »,BSB,y_3_ S-.iiiyt-i Ujon 1'77. N mUlan 107.083 The Attack on >h (-harks VTarrea, utricities r i ha'rles Warren, writes a correspondent to the
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  • 572 2 LOCAL AND GENERAL. TUESDAY, 23rd JUNE. The B. I.S. N. Co.'s steamer Avagye* has been released from quarantine and has come to the roads. m '\ptain Fitzni. de V.P.Creighton, whom we named as the new commandant of the Johore Forces, Berved in the Ith Battalion King's Light Infantry (formerly the
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  • 479 2 That there are gambling dens in Singapore was shown last night when one the number was unearthed iu au out of the way locality adjacent to Church Street, aud when no less than twenty nine men were arrested, with all their gambling implement- and about s.Vi
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  • 1101 2 The First Prosecution. This morning, iu the Court of Requests before Mr. Thorrton, Mr. Valtriuy appeared to answer e summoos issued at the instance of Mr. Cbeeoman, a dog iutor iu the employ of the Municipality, charging him with obstructing the plaintiff, and also asking him
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  • 404 2 Penan g News. P ■uaug rasx tt. Mi' B C I'm. K.\i!.\ A --i.-t ant Su, iuteudent of Police, Province Wei leak left by the P. Q. mail steamer SnOej iterday on thre- months' leave ol abice, Captaiu Lyons. Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police. Penang, is at present acting for
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  • 440 2 Messrs. Brown Co In the course of a long art icle about the failure of Id Browu <L Co M Straits I adept ml, nt -ays: Tin* mark on their credit, became all the more livid when, .-.one tu.. and a-half years ago. the Peninsular and Oriental SteamshipCompauv withdrew their
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  • 912 2 The Disturbances in Cent ral China. tiftßDßft OF TWO FOI I Shanghai papers it appears that rioting still continued along the Yai thy following part no i The Fuhtco arrived al Shanghai on ths mat. wit ha tew particulara of the riots at Warn. Tins steamer met the Tehshing a.m.
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  • 1531 3 The Amoy I fue wllu passing events can fail to notice ipidity with which Holland is d. loping her int -in this part of the world. ■a close rivals to I i Britain and, at the present rate of progi will head John Hull another -head.-
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  • 903 3 WEDNESDAY, 24 t h JUNE. Tin E E. C. Tel aph Company have issued a new Straits S ttle men ts book of tariffs, containing i ccellenl maps and much general information. Thk North Borneo Herald bears that Mr \Y. H. Treacher, Secretary to the Pen Government, is about to
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  • 189 3 Shortly aftei 1 o'clock noon, a Chinaman, wdio was tab on board tbe French mail steamei very was aceidenta'ly shot thi i 'lie hand by a man on ooard who i mg to shoot at birds mi i r*f. I irs the man in question, who an otfi
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  • 1326 4 (Supplementary to Straits Times 'Telegrams. Via Ct 'itniK London, l.'th June.-— A statement issued by the Bank of England to the guarantors, relative to the liquidation of Messrs. Daring Brothers, say- that alt- r all wing for a large depreciation in the value of the securities he'd, there
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  • 106 4 Sia Tn >mas Sutherland presented on the 26th inst. two j etitions to the B immons from Singap ire and Pei tpon tbe community for fences oi Sicgaj Ther d rabts hether tbe petition could be )e y^i -i tbe House is that petitions must only beat
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  • 243 4 TO-DAT, We learn of another death from I hydrophobia. In this- case a Chinaman Gun lvng Wee, was bitten, about two months ago, by a pariah dog, on a plantation near the seventh milestone on Thomson Road. The dio^, it is stated afterwards bit a kebun, and its
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  • 79 4 The North ampt onsh ire Regiment. Thk Northamptonshire Regiment. Supernumerary Major F. E. Power to U Major, vice F. C. Turner, promoted Lieut.- Col. on half-pay, dated b\ 181)1 Capt. \Y. F. I'awcett is seconded for service as an Adjutant ot! Auxiliary Forces, dated April 22, l^.'i Gentleman Cadet L.
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  • 408 4 The annual sports vd' the Raffles' School ket Club were commenced <»n tbe school ground yesterday. The weather was fine, but the sun was extremely strong, and the consequent heat at times was mist trying eve:i to spectators. That the hatless COmpetitots iii the varions|
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  • 522 4 Torres] .ii the action tai In the China Association in London with eo the Hongkon M ontribution show how that body has couimuuicated with tbe 0 f th e lon and Strait- j o j, H lon m P 4- against rhe imposition oi subsidies and
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  • 790 4 The Indo-Ch ina Steam Navigation Company (Limited). THI tenth ordinary general meeting of the above company was held in Winchester Bouse- (Md Bro-id-stroet. on the 25th ult for the purpose of receiving the report of the dir- ants. Mr. J. Mac- v hai '■man of the company, presided. tary, Mr.
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  • 512 5 S.vii. commonly i'• Ne v Bn iwn," au engiui ni the -atlie w,. led with stones tied about his Ijc Esplan da) i. ch Chamber on May >mmi tele of trial Arm) 0 isatiou I ■cial am. for the dot. >f countries placed under i >n. This
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  • 98 5 The Senapati of Manipur Under Sentence of Death. The trial of I S napati at Manipur i duded on the Bth dune, by the g address of his oouusel, Janodi j Babu, who. in a long oration listing hours, aud .speaking with great volubility. itulated thi with lanipur i;i 'i-
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  • 219 5 'I ui: following lands were put up bv Bn at 230p. m. to-. One piece yd leasehold land in t > ar B Campong Mala to contain au area of 1 four aprised in four rnmeut 1.224 1,226 and 1^27, Id lor terms of 99 all datiug from
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  • 81 5 Thk next race for the Davidson's Challenge Cup, between Messrs. Meikle's and Tregarthen's crews will take place on Monday, July 13th. The scratch fours and double sculling races will take place on the lb'th, 17th and ISth July. The crews are as follows Fours Mile. Johnston (str.)
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  • 1857 5 Mun icipal Commissioners. Wednesday, June 2km 18:U. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held in the Board Room, Town Hall, vesterd afternoon at 2.30., Mr. Gentle i>resid:ng. There were also present, tin- hou. the Colonial Engineer aud Messrs. Sohst, Miller. Hooper, Tan Jiak Kim, Tan Beng Wait
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  • 1293 6 afternoon Mr. Seah Liang Kuroj. ii. munit y to his family house at North ;my to ing. It should p" hap.- be plaiued that Mr. Seah Liang Siah although th. the occasion did not himself pro ing. The tb< atrfcal enter! linmciit i i lly
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  • 1346 6 I (th. Stj «n :>- Judg John An-de-SMii, C A. P. T idd 11 and Smith. Re) Regiment. Timekeeper. M C idicapp A. Mes« S. C. String A igan, and D. P tterson. P > Colonel Heygate and Mr. A. H. Cap] in. The Annual
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  • 2327 7 Sec ond Day, Saturday June 27th. tTiii: second day's programme of the S I Dual Athletic Sports was transacted q Saturday in a manner that seen "•tion. promise eld forth iu the excellent programme illy borne out by results, and it is only lair to say that the 1891 meeting,
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  • 264 7 Thk San i tan Boaid Election in Hongkong On the 1 iUh inst. resulted ;u the ieturn of the old members Messrs. J. D. Humphreys, and J.J. Francis Q. C. V Francis has a scheme for the reorganisal ion of the Board which the Daily Press
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  • 429 7 Thk Share Business Unfit poi qsh i i.emax. Thk Bill Disappkoysd hv thk < hamhi k OK COMMKI A SPECIAL meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held in Hongkong on the 18th iustaut, to conside tne Share Bill introduced into Council b\ Mr. Keswick, Mr.
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  • 361 7 Till. British 1> li and Liugkat 1 Co., have just, dee hi ed a dividend ol seven per cent, on pt pi r annum for the half year, and ten per -nt. r> annum on t h < )rdiuar\ l'.i.- i por that storms pi to the 1890
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  • 322 8 Registration of Births uud Heaths. h (Straits Times June 22.) BE births aud deaths registration report for 1890 points out that the births recorded in all the Settlements during the year aggregated 10,010, .smaller figures than those given iu the reports for the two previous years. The Registrar Geueral
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  • 265 8 raits Times Jum 23, The defection erument troops the insurgent ranks iu Chili, asauuour IU our telegrams of Jo-day may, have, if tioued, .i d influence on utunes of the revolution. That has been running iu course sine,- last iinuary, but the army has hitherto remained
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  • 508 8 (Straits Times Jnne 28.) our issue of yesterday ther!. appeared a paragraph, the substance of which was 'hat the Malays of Campong Glam, or them, are alarmed at the effect in the local Courts to what is known lackson Case. It is now repre- ns,
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  • 325 8 •aits Times June 24. Ths settlement of the boundary question between the British North Borneo Company and the Netherlands Government, as announoed in to-day's telegrams, doses a long and irritating controversy. The Company, on the strength of concession from the Sultan of Sooloo, had laid
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  • 357 8 (Straits Tint' To- DA. f' 8 telegrams convey a little comfort to the Suit an of Brunei who latterly has known that hope deferred niaketh the heart sick. More than a year has elapsed since the seizure of Limbaug by the llajah of Sarawak, and the aggrieved Sudan
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  • 1668 8 Straits Times June 20.) In our summarise reports..!" the Native States during the year 1890 it will be fouud that their U i Kls t eu uu tlu whole sat It ia true that the revenue of Perak during the year 1890 fell $272,000 below the revenue
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  • 461 9 (Straits Times J, me 26.) IT is represented to us, ou behalf of the Mercantile Community, that the Government method of arranging public holidays IS unsatisfactory and inconsiderate, and That, in substance, the Government method deprive, mercantile people ot auy holiday. Thus, it seems that the Government wrote
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  • 457 9 (Straits Timet Jum 27.) Me. I'.knkll is to be congratulated ou his marriage for while that does not cancel the <'vd of his relations with Mrs 0' Shea, it does as much as can be done to repair the harm and it is indeed the one honourable
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  • 68 9 FR IDAY 26th JUNE. Thk Chief Justice returned this morning from Malacca. m- I'm. Fremh mail from Singapore on the 27th May per M. M. steamer Tang the was delivered in London oa tbe 22i 1 instant. mWon, a Chinese firm in Amoy. have failed: tin- liabilities ire Btated from
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  • 505 9 The Extraordinary Conduct of a Ceylon Ci vil Servant. With reference to tbi raj. h from Truth quoted in Wednesda me, the following is a fair summary giving the conclusion of the incident. While Trui mmenta were couched in perhaps t>nger language than we use in the ECast, it does
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  • 834 9 Fob the Ist Quaavna ok 1891. Incnnaea in Penan.; Trade. Decanaai in BinnAPom Ti m,e. Tiikkk is issued to-day tl irn of Imports and Exports for the three months which ended dlst March last. A few changes seem to have been made !U the number
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  • 200 10 if visitors to the Ki HI -s Library aud Museum during the we -L Tin Straits Govern men! will print terly, at the charge of the State, the of the Straits Medical AsProbably the first number will •:i the Ist October. *Ai ■!> at in .he results
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  • 594 10 i ml Exploring Expedition Wrom one Correspondent.) -jdth June. Mi:. Clifford left last Fri. lay, for Kuantan, bv the launch Ethel and returned to Pekan last morning. The Inspector of Police. Mr. Fleming, also went at the same time to i Utbe police thee, and to make enquiries
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  • 147 10 Governm ent Gazett e, 26th June. oernor has appointed Sergeant Murray Reith and Corporal Char- I nd Lieutenants to tbe Singap ire Volunteer Artillei j nentation. a notified th >• contagious dihaving amongst cattli m Mai icca, th. of rhe Res leut Councillor of Malacca unntine and Prevention of Ordinance
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  • 1060 10 Skcon I > v The secoo amme of the annual sports in connection with th ties Boys' School and more particularly in connection with its I icket Club. commenced at -5 p. m. on Friday under favourable circumstances. That !V the course, notwithstanding ti: ram.
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  • 268 10 The Straits Military C ontribution. Kv m.v eff ,ri is being made wUje ihe Lonand Chi, M, in Loudon by the btraits Settlement. Lssoeiaiion and others interested in the Uolouj to create an h tereat in the question of tho Military contribution, aud with a view to edneatii Members of
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  • 6851 10 The Residential Reports on the P r otected Native States in 1890. Perak. The report ou Perak su\ s that. Hie___fl uue of the State for the ted to $2,504, 1it), being < r the Estimates aud $272,41.6 les. than revenue I iu the previous The lei rase is due
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  • 2529 12 Al'l'Ll. ATION „,KA WUITOWH put, Thi W I RIDAT. 1; th June in the afternoon in the SupremeCourt before the C hief Justice, aa application was made by Mr.Nansoi rths issue of a w.it ol the inspector of Pi mimauding him to have tbe body of a Cl.inau.au
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  • 866 13 Via Rangoon aud Ceylon. Allahabad. 12th June.— At the trial of the Regent of Manipur ou Thursday, Captain Butcher said that after the retreat from the Residency began, he saw mounted horsemen leave tho Palace and ride across the country to the villages on the line of retreat
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  • 526 13 Tin i inrn I case ag lii si Mr. Valtriuy. who lummoned al the ina dog i employed by the Municipality, to ana i charge en obstructing tha whilst :u ti: ution of b also to shew cau he should uot be bound over to keep
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  • 394 14 Thc eaul and Si the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiheld a smoking concert in their Mess al T i gliu Bartacks on Saturday ni_;ht, thc entei tainuient being specially in honour of it-Major Williamson of tl Highland ttioned in Hongkong, who is here on a visit. Th
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  • 134 14 There is stated I i be an exceedingly hard case iu connection with the I ig Regulations. A widow with time children, who makes ty livelihood by rearing about live miles out on the bad t-> protect herself and her property three dogs; and when she hear
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  • 476 14 The annual general meeting of ths shareholders of the Meosageriee Maritime* Company was held ou the 90th ult. The report and accounts for 1890 were approved am adopted. The dividend was fixed at _*30 pel share, and a balance of f. 22,523 was carnei forward to this year's
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  • 569 14 P understood that the concession for a in North Borneo I a definitely ed on the land grant system, and it has lieate. Toe grant welve miles on either side of the li •'♦"dt!'" stipulations as u> the divisions of bhs proceeds oi the sales of
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  • Correspondence.
    • 454 14 I'o ihi Editor of thi "Straj rs Ti Sir, Thoughtful aud Law-abiding will have read with satisfaction ound and temperate remarks of the I idcnt of the Municipality on tin erandah question, and whatever reforu lay b ible in that direction. ied OUt OO the lines indicated I
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 200 14 Thij I r/r is thc most powerful and valuable ot the .hona i as a s; lt!ve. bc^' i ness and f fever «>u Also prepare.: with IRON T>> purifying the Bio <- r Scrofulous Affections, 22, «Ul DROOOT, PARI* OUIS.IUM WINE 1 OF LABARHAQiJE Unique prei.ar.it no, ol thi
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 154 14 Passenaer List. sniraiA P>r a s. Glcnlyon from Loudon vis Penanu Mr. J. B Medio. Per s. s. Bawean from Sourabava -Mr and Mrs. Hamilt-m. Per s. s. Celestial from Samarsnjr :—y.v Hoarc. Per s. s. Teresa from Sourabava Mr A. Gaistauu. Pers.s M. M. Salazie from Marseilles n 6B^;
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
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    • 543 15 Macfarlaiie's Castings, sd) PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL. OF DESCRIPTION Baii'l j*£ i ti* i i w_t_flppi_^___n_-Wfl_____H__fr- Foui JL BSBI '/TV I pawß /4?^v YYYYTTT I K\V I'iii... f'lV I t A>^S_\ WALTER MAOPARLANE Co.. GLASGOW. From Bar r 1 It! 1 a I. I T I' Pitt Bellen. From IK i
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 1003 16 TC I Flag -iS Vessbl'r Name., Tons. Captain. From. Sailkd onstonees. O^ Rig I June 22 Lightning Brit. str. 2124 Pallet i Mekong June 16!3arkie* Mot tra Oer. str. 107 Cassens Deli June 2«» B^hn, Meyer A- 22 Athalie N'.«r. str. 140. Aruesen Batoum Mav 81 2_! M Bnt. sh.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
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