Malacca Guardian, 16 January 1928

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    THE SHARE MARKETS.
    657 2 THE UNITED TRADERS (K.L.), LTD. MALACCA. Saturday, 14.1.28, 3 p.m. Tin—London £249.13.9 (down £3.6.0) —3 months. Tin —Singapore Business dor.o $125.50 unchanged—lso Tons sold. Rubber—London 1/1 Vi U P VsNew York—4o% up Vs* I Singapore—6B*4 U P */4Market—Tin doses dull and Rubber closes firmer. Tins. Buyers Sellers
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    THE FALLING BIRTH-RATE.
    307 2 MEDICAL MEN’S REPORT. A provisional report issued by the medical committee appointed by the National Council of Public Morals deals with the health point of view of birth control —the ethical aspect of which was considered by another committee whose report appeared in 1925. We view with
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      233 2 Golden Opportunity I Avoid Disappointment (1 I Look for the CHEAPEST, the BEST 1 1 and the most RELIABLE, 1 I Parboiled Rice t 1 THE PRICE HAS FALLEN. 1 I ALWAYS AIM AT SAVING. I Ilf you require rice at the lowest quotation A Phone to 133 Malacca. N,
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      349 2 ESTATE OF DATOK SAMSUDIN DECEASED. Sold by Public Auction at our saleroom No. 21, First Cross Street, Malacca 0N Wednesday, 11th January, 1928, at 12 noon. > PARTICULARS. ot Situation. Area. Name of Purchasers. Amount jnos. Paid. 1A. Freehold land at Chan Kang Swee and Kampong Serambei. 6708 sq. ft.
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      115 2 MALACCA TIDE TABLE. JANUARY, 1928. H. Hts. Monday 16th 1.00 5.4 I. 4.3 Tuesday 17th 2.30 5.2 2.40 a 4.1 Wednesday 18th 4.10 5.4 4.20 a 4.3 Thursday 19th 5.10 5.8 5.20 a 4.7 Friday 20th 6.00 6.2 6.10 a 5.2 Saturday 21st 6.40 6.5 6.50 a 5.6 Sunday 22nd
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    HIGH SCHOOL, MALACCA.
    479 3 GAMES FIXTURES. Following is a list of games fixtures from to-day until April 4th: —l6th Jan. Football Inter-House H. M. Vs. St. Fr., 17th Jan. Cricket Inter-House V. Diem. Vs. Raffles, 18th Jan. Football Match Ist Team Vs. Rest, 19th Jan. Football InterHouse St. Fr. Vs. V.
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    VOLUNTEER FORCE.
    1256 3 Malacca Volunteer Corps. ROUTINE ORDERS. By Major A. A. Lermit, V.D., Commanding. No. 2. Parti. Dated 11.1.28. 1. Officers’ Return From Leave. —Lieut. J. H. W. Godfree reported return from leave as from 1.1.28. 2. Camps, 1928—Officers and N.C.Os.— The Officers and N.C.Os. Camps for the Malacca Volunteer
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    IN THE COURTS.
    823 3 Theft from Cargo. A Chinese was charged before Mr. G. C. Dodd on the 13th inst. on two counts (1) theft of two. waist belts (2) fraudulent possession of three waist belts. Inspector Franklin who conducted the case, stated that a complaint had been received from the
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    BUSINESS PARS.
    303 3 Messrs. The Java Trading Co. of 12 Jonker Street, Malacca have just unpacked the following:— Pickles of all kinds, Manisan iluah Pala, Manisan Rukam, Ginger, KrOpok Udang (Large Size) Ngpeng Merninjo, etc. Messrs. Whiteaway Laidlaws annual Stocktaking Sale commences to-day, the 16th ipst. We are informed that prices
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    Queer Little Rimes about Queer Little People.
    116 3 JOHNNY, OR THE INFLUENCES OF EDUCATION. Johnny, was such a queer little man, He always ate pickles along with his jam, He always ate fruit along with his cheese, His manners were bad and he never said, Please And his father would say
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    BARBARA MARY, OR LIFE’S CHANGES.
    162 3 Barbara- Mary Was light as a fairy. At the age of seven As the angel from heaven She appeared at Old Drury In Ten Nights in a Brewery.” j At twenty one K As the dancing gun She was making, I hear, Twenty thousand a
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    THEOPHILUS DOD, ATHEIST.
    21 3 Theophilus Dod Believed in no God Now wasn’t that odd Fov a man with a name like Theophilus
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      502 3 ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE MALACCA RIVER. Attention is called to Sect on 414 of Ordinance No. 125 of 1->lO (Merchant Shipping) “Throwing rubbish or any other thing likely to form a bank or shoal, or to be r detrimental to navigation, etc. I WARNING. Notice is hereby given that any person found
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      95 3 ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED. A Second-Hand Sewing Machine (Hand) in good condition. Apply Box No. 1. c/o Malacca Guardian. NOTICE. Mr. P. J. Mandelli is no longer in the employ of the Malacca Club.” NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that Mr. Tan Cheng Watt is no longer employed by us as from
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    CORRESPONDENCE.
    1327 4 [The Malacca Guardian does not necessarily endorse the opinion of its correspondents.] To the Editor, i Malacca Guardian, Malacca. Traffic Problems. Dear Sir, Traffic in Malacca is on the increase, and our Tax Department is reaping a rich harvest in taxes collected from motor vehicles, and yet Malacca is
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    THE OIL PALM.
    698 4 On several occasions we have deemed it necessary severely to criticise the Agricultural Department in connection with its official publication, the Malayan Agricultural Journal. To our mind the Journal, as it was conducted, was not fulfilling its proper purpose. It must be conceded that, when public money
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    Arrivals and Departures.
    295 4 Arrivals per s.s. Seabelle 9.1.28 Lady Clifford, Mrs. Laing, and Mr. Kidding. Departures per s.s. Seabelle 9.1.28 for 'Singapore—Lady Clifford, Mrs. Laing, and Mr. Hidding. Departures per s.s. Casypso 9.1.28 for Singapore—Mrs. Olios. Mrs. J. Surrvey, Dr. E. G. Weir. Messrs. Tan Eng Chye, Aylwood and T.
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    NEWS IN BRIEF.
    268 4 More than £40,000 will be distributed next Monday by the London General Omnibus Company’s Sick Club for drivers and conductors. Captain G. F. Elliott, aged 33. Royal Artillery, who was found in the officers’ quarters at Spike Island, Queenstown, with a bullet wound in his breast, died
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      109 4 S 1 Telegraphic Address:- Head OHice: j| I “mutra” No. 17, Old Market Square, I 7 <gj§> I Telephone No. 273. Kuala Lumpur. g h 1 I THE I United Traders} (K. L.) w. h (Incorporated in F.M.S.) 1 I g Stock and Share-brokers, ‘S> g 3, First Cross Street,
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    TOWN CLERKS.
    575 6 In almost sickening succession the Municipal Commissioners of Malacca have failed in three or four prosecutions. These have all been fully reported in our columns. They were all important prosecu- tions. One involved the rights of the owner of a house in his fivefootxvay and the others concerned
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    THOMAS HARDY.
    420 6 Thomas Hardy is dead and it would ill befit us if we were now to withhold our expression of true sorrow or forbear to offer the meed of an even unmelodious tear at the passing of this great man. Wherever the English language is spoken, there has reparable
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    VISCOUNT ELIBANK.
    179 6 r A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR. A distinguished visitor has been staying at the Resthouse, Malacca, over the week-end, in the person of Viscount Elibank, Chairman of the Perak River Hydro-Electric Power Company, Ltd. His Lordship arrived from Kuala Lumpur, by car, on Saturday morning, and left again, yesterday afternoon,
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    A FAREWELL.
    305 6 On Sunday night of last week, at the Rest House a farewell dinner to one of the oldest inhabitants was held. Mr. J. L. Staunton of Malacca Rubber Plantations Ltd. was the guest of honour, the one who was about to depart. There were between forty and fifty
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    796 6 Mr. K. Mac Fox his arrived in Malacca to join the local staff of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ltd. Mr. L. D. Ashness from the Penang Catholic Seminary has come to Malacca for a short holiday. Mr. E. J. Brownings is acting as Hon. Secretary of the
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      49 6 ■^b^ssH j jj The Scarlet T's the beer for me, Give it a trial and pleased you’ll tye. g f < r£ j£ The Editorial Office y of the J. Malacca Guardian y is at V No. 7, First Cross Street, f MALACCA. y Telephone No. 267. A f 4*
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    LONDON LETTER.
    2111 7 London, 14th December, 1927. Weather. At the moment, in town and country alike, the weather is bitterly cold, with frequent changes to warm and cold again. After such a sunless summer, accompanied as it was, by abnormal rainfalls, it were hopeless to expect anything different to grey skies
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    A GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION.
    2340 7 ALLEGED LAND ENCROACHMENT. In the Police Summons Court on Thursday last, before .Mr. G. C. Dodd; the Collector of Land Revenue, Malacca, prosecuting, Mr. Tan Kam Choon was summoned for unlawfully entering into possession of Crown land, lying between allotment D 3, and land known as old
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    RUBBER SMUGGLING.
    140 7 AN ILLEGAL FINE. According: to the account in rto Mal ?y «ail of Friday last, regardthe Preventive Fleet’s captures, three Malays arrestee! at Alor Oajah for smuggling 1 pikul '7l ft! 6 ,f/' üb /r were each firtpd th»n’ th 2f state, nant,is correct, tnen the officer in
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    WEDDING.
    97 7 YIOW—WEE. In honour of the marriage ibf Miss Yeow Nya Selat, daughter of Mr. Yeow Kim Swee, J.P., and Mr. Wee Eng Guan, Correspondence Clerk P.W.D., receptions were held at Pandan Villa, the residence of the bride’s father on the, 11th and 12th instant. In the garden were temporary
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    CHRIST CHURCH, MALACCA.
    120 7 ENDOWMENT FUND. Following is a list of subscriptions to the Christ Church. Malacca, Endowment Fund:— Dunlop Plantations, Ltd. $300.00 Malacca Rubber Plantations 300.00 Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation 250.00 Messrs. Sime, Darby Co. 250.00 E. A. Barbour, Ltd. 150.00 Sir L. Guillemard 10j).00 H. E. Burgess, Esq. 100.00
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    CRACKER FIRING.
    227 7 POLICE NOTICE. A notice in connection,with the letting-off of crackers during Chinese New Year, appears above the signature of the Chief Police Officer, Malacca, in last Friday’s Government Gazette. The notice reads as follows:—lssued with the sanction of the Governor under Section 7 (1) of Ordinance No. 96
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
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      HOCKEY.
      503 8 St. Francis Institution v. Malacca Club. On Thursday on the Malacca Club padang the Malacca Club and the St. Francis Institution met at Hockey. The teams were:— Malacca Club: E. H. Wilson, J. D. Sanderson, Daud, A. S. Anderson, W. A. F. Cros e, J. B. Burnard, R. Rosario.
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      RUGBY.
      158 8 The following had been chosen to represent Malacca against Selangor last Saturday Back R. Rosario, j Three Quarters: —Osborne Jones, Cowie (captain), Howell, Brown. Halves: Anderson, Thornton Jones, Forwards Burnard. Fisher. Miller, Sanderson, Royle, Tannock Cobden Ramsay, Hodge. After a fine win at Genuang on the 7th instant by
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      SOCCER.
      230 8 Colts Draw with Malacca Rovers. A well-contested and interesting soccer match was played on the Kubu Ground on Friday last, when the Colts met the Malacca Rovers. The game had been ..but five minutes old when Bowers in goal was penalised, and Abdullah scored from the resultant kick. The
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      BIRTHDAY FUNCTION.
      100 8 Messrs. Chan Jin Seng and Chan Teck Chye, sons of the late Mr. Chan Say Peng, the millionaire, entertained a large circle of friends to a dinner given in honour of; their mother, Madam Yeo Kiat Neo’s 84th birthday, ,who was born on the 11th January, 1844, in
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      MONEY LENDERS.
      153 8 S.T.) At Home, from the New Year onwards, moneylenders’ claws will be clipped and anybody who falls mto their clutches will be unusually unwise. No longer may Shylocks circularise their prospective victims, nor may they charge an exorbitant rate of interest and get away with it. The maximum
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      187 8 RIALTO THEATRE. Another rollicking Western, a j Universal-Jewel picture starring Hcot Gibson in A Hero on Horse- oack,” will be screened at the ‘Rialto Theatre to-night for a three days’ run. The picture is a film adaptation of Peter B. Kyne’s short story, Bread Upon the Water,” directed by Del
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    WISE AND OTHERWISE.
    483 9 We cull the following from Topicist’s notes in Saturday’s S.F.P.”: —A sight which is surely but rarely to be witnessed was seen at the Stadium recently while a football match was actually in progress: two goats peacefully grazing just outside the penalty area. Fear of a libel
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      223 9 IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. 1: f Our present Advertisers I; jj| tc will tell you that it pays to 1 01 ADVERTISE. Ask our I s I I s Manager for contract rates. 1 2 i 1 ni g tl ft DIGESTIVE POWDER FOR CHILDREN if si This powder is
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      58 9 I Eldorado Cinema. I To-Night! 15th to 17th. To-Night! 1 f KAW CHEE THIAN 1 IN f $1 WOMEN’S COUNTRY H 8 Reds along with 8 Reels H 6 Reels English Comedies. f S Coining Soon 18th to 20th it I For Fathers, and f 8 GOLD and LOVES' SAKE.
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      225 10 Irialto' Tin'EATßi!'' PROGRAMMES J From Mon. 16th to Wed. 18th Jan. From Thurs. 19th to Sun. 22nd Jan. 2nd Show at 9-30 p.m. 2nd Show at 9-30 p.m. “J“ T t? THE GfI2ETTE LATEST PATHE GAZETTE. PICTORIAL REVIEW. “COLD TURKEY” Mack Sennett Comedy. f BUSTER’S HANDICAP Stern Bros. Comedy is
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      225 11 MOBILOIL I Sixty-One Vears of Science Makes Ike Mobiloil to day 1 Jft <■ V*i,; W <gk fl For centuries men broke their necks in futile attempts at sfe night. They tried to imitate what Solomon called the way of an eagle m the air.” No birdman of the early
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      45 11 I RiaJ to Theatre I S Commencing Thursday January 26th. J UNIYERSaL’S MHSTERPIE6E “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” I H with u* aw., wn nniM. mmvi ifiif upcast of fh. j I ft WEIRD MAGNIFICENT! MYSTERIOUS If WILD! MAGNETIC! 9 In Id Big Reels. 9
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