Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser, 9 September 1907

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1 6 Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser
  • 20 1 Eastern Daily Mail AN D STRAITS MORNING ADVERTISER. No. 609, VOL 111. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 1907 PRICE 5 CENTS'!
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  • 255 1 H. M.S. BELLEROPHON, BRITAIN'S SECOND DREADNOUGHT. From all directions people flocked into Portsmouth Dockyard to see Princess Henry of Battenberg launch H. M. S. Bellerophon, the second ship of the Dreadnought type to take the water ai»d the world's largest warship, There are two other Dreadnoughts building-
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  • 272 1 BELLEROPHON 700 TONS HEAVIER THAN DREADNOUGHT The Bellerophon is 700 tons heavier than the Dreadnought. Her launching weight was 7,000 tons, but her displacement is to be 18,600 tons, compared with the Dreadnought's 17,900. Another difference is in the disposition of the main armament. As in the
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  • 351 1 SUPPOSED TO HAVE REAPPEARED ON THIS EARTH. There is a little, blue-eyed, light-haii-ed, boy at Meiktila between three and four years old, the son of hard-working and malter-of-fact Burmese parents belonging to the labouring classes, who until quite recently prattled like any other child of that
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  • 307 1 THE LOSS OF THE FORTUNATUS." THE WRECK PASSED BY THE HIMALAYA," ON MONDAY. When the P. O. mail steamer 11 Himalaya," (Capt. Brown) which arrived at Colombo left Fremantle, she had had no intimation of the disaster to the Foi tunatus," the burnt hull ot which was floating in the
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  • 32 1 Mr. S. L. Symonds has returned from Coonoor after undergoing a course of treatment at the Pasteur Institute as a precautionary measure against a bite he received from a supposed mad dog.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 257 1 1 fi* i I; UL U\ LITTLE k CO., LTD. I I ;apoiv and Straits Settlements. I Big Tree Brand I galifoniian Wines. I B M V;|lU n| «»V Wnifs and are largely lfH H thc ra^ <JUllls Hotels, and Restaurants in the niUbfc far TlOfNCai Climates, asth.-y combnic l|
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    • 206 1 ROBINSON CO. ANNUAL CASH CLEARANCE SALE IS NOW ON *^f AND WILL CONTINUE DAILY THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. REAL REOUeTI©NS. Once a Year SsP Once a Year only. ROBINSON CO. .TAILORING. Woliavo just received some very smart goods inContiiigS; Serges, I weeds and Flannels. We invite your inspection before purchasing elsewhere.
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    • 569 1 FROMY, ROGEE CO. Cfcf jLi m f»>OMlKOCft»r qq CONFESSIONSOFA BANK CLERK Mr. Charles Jerlmiah 01 Batavia Tells How, After All Else Failep, He Was Cured of Catarrh of tme Stomach, Splitting Hcadach^m, Great Weakness BY DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. Gastric Catarrh, or Catarrh of the Stomach, is usually caused by
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  • 300 2 The Eastern Daily Mail. MONDAY, 9th SEPTEMBER. DEPARTURE OF MR. W.E.U. GROVE. It is now known beyond a sha dow of doubt, that Mr. Grove rVnr Chief Police Officer, has gi Ve 'n Z his position, for he gave ov-e? charge to .vlr. Assistant Superintendent Gardiner on Saturdav though later
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  • 241 2 At the Meeting of the Legislative Council on Friday last, during the discussion on the Supply Bill, Mr. Baker called attention to an item headed 4i special expenses and enquired what it meant. The Colonial Treasurer. Mr. Bryant, explained that it represented* loss sustained by the selling
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  • 172 2 Our readers may be well remembering the leader we penned a few days ago re Rubber Manufacturing Industry in Singapore. We are glad to learn our leader has produced verv good results in certain quarters and the Netherland Gutta Perdu Coy. Ltd., is being actually Hooded
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  • 347 2 The output of the Serendah Mine totAugust wa§ 701 pikuls. Rumours are afloat of a contemplated Scotch dinner on St. Andrew's j Day. The Conference of Reside .is is to be held some time in the mid !e of this month. Mr. P. N. Sen ha's joined' the Nctai Sembilan
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  • WHAT OUR READERS THING.
    • 106 2 si [wa ;W H ited letter pu :Mi\ 20th M I S. Mannamei'i Vicel're* -i: j down the viole™ te i lino, matter to d spla> "fj" of the amenities of jounutom 'e one who sveryt "J" M States of tbe heads of two minor <ta>«J
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  • 28 2 To the Ed** *j Naimumca.:. PresiiU-nt tlu tt o U f^e* ,rat:ve i3SO< I am ndc .1but**l* eth i ihidio i^n ssws Tap •mi
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 406 2 To-night To-night CHANGE OF PROGRAMME Grand Cinematograph PATHE FRERES WE CHALLENGE COMPETITION. Our Pictures and machinery are World Renowned, Entire ch uige of Programme every Friday Night. BY SPECIAL REQUEST. THE MILITARY PRISON AT BIRIBI. DOGS USED AS SMUGGLERS THE ELECTRIC BELT FROG FISHING COSTUMES OF DIFFERENT CENTURYS NO MORE
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    • 105 2 KDc Parsi fllfrcd Cbcatrical Cob" OF BOMBAY AT BEACH ROAD. To.night! To-nigh I! PRICES OF ADMISSION. AS USUAL. Door, open at I p.m. P,rf O rm«iice 9 p.m. C P. KHATAO, Managing Proprietor 6 6 -°r u. c eOMING EVENTS. TO-DAY, SEPTEMBER 9 High Water 11-44 am, 11-34 pm if
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    • 574 2 FOR BALE. IN good running order and condition. One 8 h. p. four seated Rambler Motor car, with removable orineau Tyves in perfect condition, frot tyres being new, car complete with tools, lamps, horn, &c. Price $650 for quick saie. Owner leaving the Colony. Apply— M MOTOR C/o E. D.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 220 3 LIST OF PASSENGERS. PASSENGERS OUTWARD. Per P. O. steamer Britannia, connecting with the steamer Oceana at Colombo, from London Aug. 16. due Sept. 14. Messrs. W.B. Campbell, F. D. Spencer, E. V. M'tchelmore, J. MacClymont, Q MacClymont, Mrs. M. Maddocks, Mr. J. Dowling. Mr. and Mrs. \V. Seivice. Per P.
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  • THE EASTERN DAILY MAIL. COMMERCIAL SUPPLEMENT.
    • 11 3 THE EASTERN DAILY MAIL. COMMERCIAL SUPPLEMENT. SLNGAPOKi:, MO.SD.W, SEPTEMBER 9, 19.-7.
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    • 831 3 3S: Capital. Subscribed "of i**" 6 Paid Reserve r ["Hf* Q °l I Share* Value, up to 1 Company Quotatums pre GOLD. I 1900; 400.000 £350,000 350,000 I 1 ion,; -L. f 20,000 $lo $10 Duff Developement Ltd. 2 1901 $300,000 $203,000 I 10,000 $10 $10 Kadana
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    • 104 3 Gambier 6.824 do (Cube No 1) unpicked ,0.35 Copra Ba'i 8.25 do Poniianak M 7.75 Pepper, Black „17.50 do White 5 0/c 23.75 Sago Flour Sarawak M 2.96 do Brunei No. 1 2.94 Pearl Sago H 4.60 Coffee Bali, 15 0/0 H 19.25 Coffee, Pa'embang, 200/0 basis 22.50 Coffee,
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    • 137 3 On fjtmmom.- Bank a m/s 2/4 7/16 Demand 2/41/16 Private 6 m/s 2/4 7/8 do. 3 m/s 2/44 O« (.ertumtv.— Bank d/d 2.39 Private 3 m/s 2.45 do 6 m/s 2.47 On France Bank d/d 2.93^ Private 3 m/s 3.01 do 6 m/s 3.04 Ow Inaia. Bank T. T.
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    • 220 4 The solemn-looking man with the white cravat had been shown upstairs by the dime-hungry bell-hop in a certain hotel. Anon the cadaverous face of the sepulchral guest appeared before the deskman, and from said face came these words "Sorry, but I'll have to leave you." 44 Why,
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    • 52 4 The ordinary waste of food in a British middle class family would be sufficient wholly to maintain a French family of similar station and the waste of food is at least very largely due to the ignorance of cookery which prevails among the classes from which British domestic servants are
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    • Page 5 Advertisements
      • 191 5 WEILL &> ZERNER S A. BATTERY ROAD. Are shouiMK a fine collection oi Jewellery such a s Rings, Brooches Necklaces, Lockets etc. at my n mmfk t*« Sterling Silver Cigar and Clgaarett' Cases, Photoframes, Mirrors, Travelling Clocks, Manicure sets etc., etc. Watches! Watches!! Watches!!! IN NICKEL, SILVER GOLD. WEILL ZERNER,
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    • Page 6 Advertisements
      • 464 6 FIRST NETH IND: COFFEE ROASTING FACTORY MHLANG SOLE ADDRESS IN NETH: EAST INDIA .FOR SUPERIOR, ROASTKD GROUND COFFE SOLD E^ERY'WIKIEIR/lEQ. ALSO AT JOZEF MULLER Co.| 166 Cecu street. CO-OPERATIVE AGENCY. AR6YLE ROAD, PENANG. stock: Musical goods, Pictorial Post Cards, Household" Brand Ceylon len mh] *Bi itania" brand Coffee, Fragrant and
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      • 297 6 TO STAMP COLLECTORS. FOB SALE, Labuan stamps surcharged Straits Settlements. Labuan stamps surcharged Brunei. Single stamps and complete sets. H. DUNKELSBUHLER&Co. Deutsche Buchhandlung. Cavanagh Bridge Building. Suite G. (8-807—7.9-07.) T.E. CHINA CO. I COMMISSION AGENTS ft DEALERS IN Swatow Drawn Thread Works Chinese Embroideries Chinese WarePcwerts Picture Post Cards Views
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      • 509 6 BANKS. Hongkong ft Shanghai Banking Corporation. PAID-UP CAPITAL $10,000,000 RESERVE FUND:— Sterling Reserve «10.000,000 1 $21 qoOIOOO Sihrer Reserve $11,000,000 SII UU^ WU Reserve Liability of Proprietors $10,000,000 Court of Directors. G. H, Medhurst, Esq. Chairman. Hon, Mr, W. J. Gresson -Deputy-Chairman. Bailech, Esq. D. M. Nissim Esq. E. Goetz,
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      • 282 6 E. D, M^ADLETS, FO SEE MUM. 50-2 VICTORIA STREET, Opposite St. Joseph's Church. Cycles and Accessories, Agents for the HART" cycle also the famous u X Bar cycle, Rubber Tyred Ricksha Wheels, Sewing Machines and Type-writers repaired. INSPECTION INVITED. U.C. HOOT COMPANY, 93, Bel fxetd Street, Ipoh. General Repairers of
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      • 642 6 B SALE, WANTED. &R TO BE LET. QKFICE and Godown. With i mm «e entry No. Malacca sS Apply to OUTHRIE 4 Co, Ud u. c. Salary 5O a month. Chi,^. Apply at the "E. D. M." Office. OFF Ro;d tO N 7E B «'«r>Apply to:QUTHRIE Co., Ltd. 23 8
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      • 166 6 ""•51 ->lonth n 1 Vear 3 Monti,, -)lo. IU 1 Vear thrice H-eekl/ >: tor '-2 or Advan u hcrcci >tra ctsp)fi 4i *«mcnt s speci Manager, List ot Depots mi "tastern Daily J May.be obtantj nilab, isa, i Messrs Ghee $wn au, Kiffla Hold, fcL li. Adamasi.. Orchard koac,
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 1530 4 SHIPPING MEWS. gfe?; «L-3L25 VESSELS EXPECTED^ VESSELS IN PORT. ST feAt-SS 1 M<swr No 1 1 M 7"iT t t Pattern. Siam str lootons, Nacodah, or ro *«W« <*«* Arrival men-OT-Wap, *c =>ept 4- From Patani, Augt 30. Gc and «<"»e 0/ Agents British North Borneo, L' -Rds. 7 'ti
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    • 240 4 Roon, Bremen, Oct 3 Behn Meyer benegambfa, Hamburg, Oct 8; Behn Meyer Slavonia, Hongkong, Oct 26; B Meyer Sonneberg, Australia, Sept- B Meyer Sado Maru, London, Nov- P. Simons Sunk. Maru, Japan, Oct 7 P Simons Sangola, Calcutta, Sept 14 Boustead Segovia, Hamburg, Oct 8 B. Meyer Seirstad, Bangkok, Sept
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  • TELEGRAMS.
  • 37 5 P° n seamen who Home Some teful, n i .'mate ••'Kiel them imp over--een fc .me ul .1 and I at the £L, greatly to talautho—.on to *ere no beds Detention iZiy^sncli rrc,
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  • 25 5 fife*. E. N«*i ."■""f Walk re- «Lcai, ai the Station thai NUn,,,,, <;i -7il', infant SSS burtsla ious--0 j"" a ul1 2! i£?
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  • 12 5 1 Magistrate of a chair '»> deposing f^^onth for dis
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  • TELEGRAMS.
    • 40 5 Cricket^n~7n^ui London, Sept. 7, 2-2o p.m. I he North of England has beaten the South by seven wickets at the Scar! borough Cricket Festival The South Africans' have beaten BamfordsXl byan innings and fourteen runs at Rittoxeter.
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    • 53 5 BANQUETS AND ENTERTAIN MEN is. London, Sept. h 3 35 p m Admiral Montecuccoli gave a banquet on board Lacroma at Trieste to Admiral Ijuin and the officers of the Japanese Cruisers. Arch Duke Karl Stefan visited the Japanese Cruiser Tsukuba where he was entertained
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    • 54 5 FALLING ASLEEP IN FIRING LINES. London, Sept. 7, 3 35 p m I Manoeuvres have been concluded Extensions of fighting lines abandoned in favour of formations generally closer than practised in Great Britain during fourteen years. The work was so severe that many fell asleep
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    • 29 5 London, Sept. 8, 1 1 a.m. A cablegram received by the Eirmnv Ntm from Alaska informs that Mikkelsen returned safely on the s th instant
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    • 45 5 INCREASE IN COTTON OVER HALF-A-MILLION. London, Sept. s, am> The Exports from Great Britain in the month oi August were valued a .£37,355.°44, and the Imports, showing an increase of £407t44ft respectively The principal inrrmn include cotton over half-a-million sterling.
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    • 58 5 NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. London, Sept. 8, 1 1 a.m. Router learns from Casablanca that certain tribes have asked for the suspension of hostilities with a view < f negotiation for peace. General Drude has given them the time until Bth instant to surrender, h is believed that
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  • 175 5 work of putting down the huge 30 inch mains in connection with the New Filter^ is not the easiest operati >n imaginable It is being done aiong a narrow line (ringing Government Domain and the inside edge of the Old Filters. There is scarcely space in which
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  • 190 5 < >n Wednesday afternoon, a Chinese lighterman wa> pushing his boat oft trom the Keppel Harbour Wharf to get clear oi the s. s. Babalan which was coming out of dock. In doing so, he unfortunately 10 far over reached himself that lie could not recover his
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  • 92 5 MR. |.O. ANTHONISZ CALLS ON THE ACTING GOVERNOR. Mr. J. O. Anthonisz, Treasurer of the Strait Sulements, who leaves for Kngland on furlough, called at "The lem pie Trees to pay his respects to His Excellency the Acting Governor. The Hon. Mr.
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  • 81 5 The other day adverse comment was a roused in Deli by the Straits Government notifying that deck passengers would not be allowed to land in the Colony, unless they had tifty dollars in their possession at the least. Much was made of the resulting hardships to ordinary deck passengers from
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  • THE BOMBAY CRICKET MATCHES.
    • 24 5 Presidency vs. Parsees- Latter Winning. (From Ceylon Morning Leader Specials.) Madras, August 22. for HHP, r h Pa i ratio "rS. have bee" m^e
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    • 13 5 r Madras, August 26. eight wicketr thC Hindus »y
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    • 66 5 Collapse of the Presidency in the First Innings. Madras, August 28. tJn a i lnu ?J cricket match between the Bombay Presidency and the Parsees began yesterday. 1 ,f Uy S far has S one in favour of the latter, who made 102 in their first innings, and 83 for
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    • 36 5 Led by Messrs. Brkarley and Priestley. p Mr W W- Brcariey and Mr. A. Priestley M. P with two or three professionals, will visit India and meet local teams at cricket
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    • 326 5 Parslks nt. Europeans. Ihe Parsees, winners against the Hindus in the last week's match, met the Presidency Europeans yesterday. The weather was fine. The maidan was crowded with tents and spectators. i The Parsees going in, first made 102, Meheromji alone making 44. The Europeans had disastrous
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  • 271 5 Very few of the community know of the existence of the Municipal Disinfector near the junction of Moulmein and Ballestier Roads and fewer have any idea of the amount of disinfecting work done there. T!ie building in which this work is done is divided into two part-,
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  • 70 5 Four men have been arrested in connection with the H Devawongsi affair. It is a mistake to look upon this as 3 quarrel between the rival clans Lims and Gohs. It was rather a row between the passengers and those who were anxious to secure their patronage.
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  • 45 5 To-morrow the Assizes will commence its sittings. The calendar is not large, comprising nine cases, thus One, rape one, returning from banishment one, conterfeit coining one, theft one murder one, attempt to murder two, using as genuine forged documents; and one, unnatural offence.
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  • 388 5 DESPATCH FROM SECRETARY •O* STATE FOR THE COLONIES. th?T °J 'I? P? 1 1 8 laid on the table at Cn» iJ^'" 8 f the Legislative Couiici Meeting was a dispatch from Lord Elgm, the Secretary of State for bulk)"' 65 regarding the Military ContriLord Elgin writing to
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  • 357 5 Mr. George BrocklofT, formerly Ste- J ward of the Singapore Club, appeared I before the Third Magistrate, on Friday, on a charge ot cheating Tay Woo Seng, j a salesman in Chop Guan Chin Hong, No. 128 Market Street, by including him to supply provisions valued
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  • 285 5 GEM WURTH Mr. O. L M. Macan Marker, jeweller, G. O. H. Buildings, is the possessor of what is alleged to be the largest sappire in the world. The stone was mined in the Ratnapura district some six mouths ago. In its finished state it is 2]
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  • 318 5 The advent of the nickel anna is a social event of no small importance. For a long while India has been unique among civilised countries in possessing no penny or coin equivalent to a penny. We have had the anna but the anna has for many generations
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  • 163 5 RUBBER TO BE INTRODUCED. Fishing at present forms the principal industry of the Maldivians, but under the rule of the present Sultan the Maldivian authorities arc taking steps to develop the Maldives agriculturally, as well as in other directions. Mr. Abdul Hamid Didi, the Sultan's Ambassador
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  • 159 5 The Government of Netherlands India is closely following in the footsteps ot the Straits Government, whereby the goal of fixity of the currency was reached at a high rate. It had been steadily contracting the currency ot foreign coins within its territories and a notification has now
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  • 110 5 A frightful crime by Chinese coolies is reported from Deli. A number of coolies had deserted from the Arnhemia estate, and a Chinese overseer was seni to capture them, and take them back to their work. In the course of time, he found them working on the
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  • 93 5 THAT BOY A well known European resident awoke to the discovery that he was the loser ot a sum amounting to something like $30. On awaking he, as was his custom, called for the boy to bring his coffee but receiving no answer to his summons proceeded to find the
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