Malacca Guardian, 25 February 1929

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  • 17 1 MALACCA GUARDIAN (PUBLISHED WEEKLY). Mol 11. MALACCA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1929. SINGLE COPY TEN CENTS. Ng. 8
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 506 1 I TRY THE Malacca Guardian” I THE MALACCA WEEKLY I AS AN I ADVERTISING MEDIUM I FOR RATES, I WRITE TO THE I MANAGER. AS ft t °6\ ESTATE 8 TRUST AGENCIES (1927) LIMITED. I m A Trust Company Registered under the Trust Companies’ Ordinance S' jjUj& chinaj^^^^ A jl
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  • 544 2 (By Searchlight.”) IV.—FASHION IN IN\ fS. Men cannot point the ironic fingtr at the lames concerning men subservience .o me bmests oi tasmon. Tne;/ nave me very same disposition, La. it nnas expression in uitterent rar instance: Man is tne orcau-Winner. He is aiways m oi convenient means
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  • 32 2 The Governments of Peru and Chile have settled their 46-years-~<ld Tacna Arica controversy. The Province of Tacna goes to Peru, while Arica, the port of Tacna, goes to Chile.
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  • CHINA NEWS
    • 170 2 (Kuo Min News Agency). A petition asking that the most favourable treatment for Chinese travelling through or residing in french indo-China, the removal of an unreasonable restrictions and the establishment of a Chinese Consulate-General in Saigon be included in tne proposed new SinoFrench Commercial Treaty concerning Indo-China,
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    • 124 2 Beginning from March 1, opium smoking and the use of other narcotic drugs will be prohibited, according to a set of regulations jointly formulated by the Provincial Departments of Civil Affairs and Finance for Kwangtung for the effective suppression of the opium evil in the
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    • 126 2 In a speech delivered before the cadets of the Central Military Academy, President Chiang Kaishek called the youthful officers’ attention to the significance of the National Military Conference, declaring that the welfare of the Country depended uj>on the success of the Conference. “If the proposed disbandment can be
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    • 86 2 A Chinese long-distance air flight will be attempted this month from Hamburg, Germany, to Nankiftg. The flight will be made on a British airplane, according to a telegram received by the Aviation Department of the Chinese Ministry of War. Mr. Chen Wen-lin, the airman, has been studying aviation
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    • 58 2 In a telegram to the Central Authorities, General Chang Hsuehliang states that he has notified the various foreign Consular authorities to the effect that hereafter all matters relating to diplomatic quesf’ons must be taken up directly by i he foreign Ministers to China with the central authorities in
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    • 115 2 In a memorandum to the Peiping Division of the Central Political Council, Mayor Ho Chi-kung of the Special Municipality of Peiping proposes that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs be requested to open negotiations with the foreign diplomatic representatives for the taking over of the administfation of the socalled
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    • 98 2 A circular order instructing stricter vigilance in the detection of funds sent by Communists to their secret associates for the purpose of creating disturbances has been issued by the State Council to the various Central and Provincial organs. The order is the outcome of a report from
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    • 105 2 That overseas Chinese are interested in and anxious to undertake various modern Municipal enterprises is further evidenced by the proposal to establish a Municipal waterworks for the city of Nanking. According to Mr. Liang Pinghsin, wealthy Chinese merchant from Java who is now in Nanking in the
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    • 86 2 Orders for closer surveillance over suspected steamers of all nationalities using the Woosung Harbour and careful search of the cargo in such vessels for detection of contraband have been issued by General Feng Yu-hsiang. Minister of War, to Commandant Teng Ching-chwan of the Woosung Forts. The Ministerial order
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    • 96 2 In a circular order to the various Provincial Finance Comm ssicners, the Ministry of Finance strictly prohibits the levying of a surtax on farm lands. A report of the amount of such surtaxes levied on farm iand in the past together with any other levies
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    • 64 2 To beautify the Oungshan Memorial Highway ieading from Hsiakwrn to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, trees will be planted along either side of the entire avenue. For this purpose, the Preparatory Committee for the State Burial of the Party’s late 'eader has ordered from Shanghai a large number of
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    • 30 2 Under instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Huang Yu-fa is carrying-on negotiations with the local Belgian authorities for the retrocession of the Belgian Concession in Tientsin.
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  • 582 2 lt is understood that, following tne lead of Chicago, Minneapolis is investigating the sources of the Bible to learn why St. Paul is mentioned so often while Minneapolis is entirely ignored. The half-back seized the ball and made a superb rush down the field. The crowd went wuld,
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  • 604 2 The steamer Darvei has g oa I aground in Sandakan Harbour I !sne is undamaged, and ail p as sen gers have been taken oil. f I Master is Capt. Harvey. The Hero,” a large passen m 1 and cargo boat belonging to Hung Phung Steamship < I of
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 128 2 KIALTO THEATRE. MORTGAGEE’S SALE by rUBLIC AUCTION. A small piece of va!uab!e rubber and paddi land situate at Pegoh in the Settlement of Malacca, containing an area of 2 acres 2 roods and 11 poles. To be held at Messrs. Tan Cheng Tiong Sons’ Sales-room No. 75, First Cross St.,
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  • 966 3 J?B:Z7m' Malacca Guardian docs not ncccs sadly endorse the opinion of its correspondents.] Noise. Bfo the Editor ol the Malacca Guardian.” Dear Sir, On .Monday night from about 1 to 2 a.m. a middle aged Hyiam residing in Heeren Street, a soliloquy in the most vituKrative terms regarding his
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  • 1103 3  -  A REVIEW OF THE SITUATION. G. Parry Davis, F.R.H.S. (Special to the Guardian") (Concluded). The soii and its cnemical, electrical, biological, and mechanical content forms the basis of your future yields, and with such a wide margin of natural yield to work upon, the soil which only produces
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 46 3 iflBT NOW f I T<!yrtr I,MO 5 RJ 2 Seater 1,490 I I Saloon 1,830 1 1 8 I STILL ON THE UP-GRADE I I and I lAT BETTER PRICES i 1 rrAUfcMA; j Representative for India and the lar East: —Robert B.uu, 1,-c, f ii-fi.ucrs,
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  • RECENT NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
    • MONDAY.
      • 261 4 BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO BEGIN CONVERSATIONS. The BrL sh Ambassador at Washington, bn* Esme Howard, has announced that the Bnush Government wili shortly commence conversations wnh ,ne principal Naval Powers with a v.ew io further limitation of naval armaments. The Ambassador stated that the general election in Great Britain
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      • 158 4 The intense cold continues all over Great L> ’ain with frost in the early hours. In maii\ places the lies-- is the most severe since 1895 and people skated until long past midnight. Near London a temperature of 2 degrees beiow zero was recorded. At Hampstead it was
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      • 131 4 The Daily Telegraph,” in a leading article on Dr. T. C. Wang’s reported proposal to open negotiations for the retrocession to China of the Legation Quarter of Peking, says it is unhappily a characteristic of the diplomacy which Dr. Wang at present directs to go out of its
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      • 42 4 It is understood that General H’Vglrs f he new leader of the v. io. consulting with < i< 1 I‘t ,'s w a view to i ‘ins n *ho eon4rniv p«; w’ll obvib c described as the autocracy of its commander.
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    • TUESDAY.
      • 117 4 LIKELY TO BECOME AFGHAN KING AGAIN. The ex-Turkish Ambassador at Moscow, Vassif Bey, nas arrived at Constantinople from Odessa and de;iares that, according to the Soviet Amanullah is likely again to become master of the situation in Afghanistan. Sixty Afghan officers who have completed a course at
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      • 99 4 Interviewed at Marseilles on the conclusion of his tour of the Far East, the Director of the League of Nations Labour Bureau, M. Thomas, stated that he collected highly valuable information and confidently hoped for closer League co-operation with the Far East, particularly with China. One of
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      • 87 4 A message from Madrid says that a sequei of the recent rising lias been a serious divergence of opmion between King Alfonso and Primo I)e Rivera. It is reported that the former favoured clemency for those concerned in the seditious movements at Ciudad Real, Valencia, but De Rivera
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      • 77 4 The two sections of the tents at the British Industries’ Fair were opened simultaneously on Monday at Castle Bromwich. Birmingham, and the White City, London. At the former is on view the best shew af heavy engineering ever seen in England with the possible exception of that at
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      • 38 4 Seven hundred British motorcars, just imported from England, were destroyed by fire in a warehouse at the docks at Buenos Ayres. The damage is estimated at millions of pesos. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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      • 27 4 Every twelfth German working man is without work, says the national economist, Hirsch, in a Berliner Tageblatt Sunday leader. Germany now has 2,400,000 unemployed.
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      • 19 4 The Kobe District Court has sentenced 34 Communists to periods of 8 to 2 years’ imprisonment each.
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      • 15 4 /n influenza epidemic is raging at Osaka with over 50 deaths daily.
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    • WEDNESDAY.
      • 161 4 OBLIGED TO COME FORWARD AS CHAMPION OF GOD. Habibullah is reported to have restored the religious leaders’ allowances which Amanullah stopped. Tribes supporting Ali Ahmed Ktian have given allegiance to Habibullah, following the former’s defeat at Jagdalak. Habibullah has issued from Kabul a remarkable proclamation to the Islamic
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      • 142 4 Mr. Edward Doheny, son of the oil magnate, Mr. E. L. Doheny, was shot dead at his home by his secretary, Hugh Plunkett. Plunkett was said to be mentally deranged. He committed suicide. Doheny figured in the Tea Pot Dome scandal in 1924 and as a messenger
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      • 86 4 The Government gave a banquet at the Mansion House to exhibitors and buyers at the British Industries Fair, which was opened simultaneously in London and Birmingham. The Prince of Wales appealed to everyone in Britain and the Dominions to assist in any way possible in the problem
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      • 61 4 The Simon Commission has arrived at Madras from Rangoon and was presented with nine addresses of welcome from local residents. Sir John Simon, acknowledging, said it was a great encouragement to receive such striking demonstration of co-operation in a centre like Madras. The opponents of the Commission
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      • 43 4 Mr. Kellogg has announced the conclusion of an informal agreement. between the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and eleven European nations, for closer cooperation in combatting the drug traffic, involving a direct exchange of information on persons violating the drug laws.
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      • 51 4 Mr. Coolidge has issued an order regulating the flight of foreign air craft over the Panama Canal zone. The latter must travel over a specified route and land at a certain spot before leaving the zone. They cannot carry arms or war material, nor can they take
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    • THURSDAY.
      • 97 4 NATIVES REPRESENTATION BILL PASSED. The Native Bills have reached their second reading at a joint sitting of the Parliament at Capetown. General Smuts declared that he received the strongest impression from the Government’s attitude that they did not want to solve the native question, but were
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      • 95 4 Australia is entering the biggest political crisis since Mr. W. M. Hughes went out of office in 1923. The Federal Government is threatened with defeat over the Financial Agreement Bill for finally eliminating per capita payments to the State. The Labour Party is voting solidly in favour of
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      • 62 4 The newly created sovereign Vatican State has its own telegraph office and telephone exchange, giving the Pope and the Papal authorities communications with the outside world independent of any Italian supervision. The Papal authorities henceforth may be put in direct communication with London. Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere and
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      • 72 4 Interviewed on his return from the Far East, M. Aibert Thomas, President of the International Labour Bureau, said he was struck by the way in which the racial problem was everywhere to the forefront in the Far East. He expressed the opinion that tne Kuomintang gave the
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      • 67 4 Three aviators, including the famous Cap!a n Coste, left P iris for the first stage of their flight to Hanoi to study the establishment of a regular air mail service between France and Indo-China. The machine, carrying the mail, valued at 90.000 francs, was forced to
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      • 63 4 A combination of two recent inventions was demonstrated at the air-port at Newark. New Jersey, when, in response to a siren from an approaching aeroplane, the landing ground was automatically flooded with light from a 24.000,000 candle-power electric beacon, without the aid of a ground staff. The
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      • 37 4 Contrary to rumours, Cardinal Gasparri does not intend to retire. The Vatican is to issue its own stamps, similar to the last ones issued in 1870, bearing the inscrip tion “City of the Vatican.”
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      • 27 4 As an outcome of satisfactory tests the Blue Star Line announces °s esrly a conversion as possible of its vessels to burn pulverised coal entirely.
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    • FRIDAY.
      • 123 4 INDUSTRIALISATION TO BE COPIED. In an interview given to members of the Press, the new Minister at Berlin, Mr. Chiang Tau Pin, after referring to the friendly relations between China and Germany, declared that the Chinese Government intended to carry out a programme of economic reconstruction. It
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      • 112 4 Senator King, Democrat, has introduced a Bill for the purpose of granting independence to the Philippine Islands. Senator King declared that American sovereignty of the Philippines was being maintained in order to permit their exploitation by American capitalists. Senator Dill, Democrat, asked whether there had ever been
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      • 103 4 Fifty passengers were injured, and 200 were affected by smoke and fumes, when a fire occurred in the first car of a tube train going to New Jersey on the underground railway, beneath the Hudson River. There were 1.000 passengers on board the train and many had their
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      • 96 4 The frosty weather in England, which experts believe is likely to last for some days, besides providing skaters with more opportunities than they have had for years, has created a temporary boom in the coal industry. Practically every colliery in Great Britain is working at full capacity
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      • 53 4 Ballyn, clief steward of the Cunard liner, Berengaria,” has pleaded guilty at the Federal Court to a charge of conspiracy to smuggle diamonds into America. The Assistant United States Attorney stated that Ballyn was expected to testify on behalf of the Government at the trial of five others
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      • 62 4 The Federal Court injunction permitting hundreds of non-British aliens living in Canada to enter the United States for daily work has been revoked, on the ground that the Jay immigration treaty, on which the injunction was based applies to British subjects only. The ruling is important as similar
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    • SATURDAY.
      • 281 4 APPALLING REVEALED. A message from Pekin- saw 1 that Mr. E. H. Oliver, the 1 sentative of China on the Interna. d tional Famine Relief Commission v has sent in to Peking his report on r the appalling conditions of the area 1 around Shensi, between Yellow
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      • 171 4 A tardy thaw has at length at jj rived in England and traffic disioca-9 don is fast disappearing. Pi unto 9 are reaping a golden harvest oris? 9 lo the galaxy of burst pipes, 9 Meanwhile, melting snows are I bringing disaster to many places S abroad. Athens
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      • 129 4 The discovery of vast new An- j tarctic territory, which he claim? j for the United States, is described I by Commander Byrd in a despatch I to the New York Times and it- j associated newspapers. The territory, discovered by two aeroplanes after an extensive flight, has
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      • 43 4 The “Lancet,” commenting 011 the King’s progress, says the improvement, which is not slower than was anticipated, should gather sreed as it progresses an*' ad<U Evidently a good deal of ground has been gained since His MajestJ reached the South Coast.”
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  • 753 5  -  [By C. W. C.] (Special to the Guardian”) ISI I lisped in numbers, For the numbers came.” Poetry,” says Wordsworth, is e impassioned soul of all ejtpresl.” In its universal sense all It is best and beautiful is poetry, ■at is music? It is but the
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  • 543 5 BOLD CHALLENGE TO RUBBER GROWERS. Mr. Parry Davis, our agricultural expert, has sent the following challenge, under date of February 18, to the Secretary of the Planters’ Association of Malaya: Dear Sir, Since my letter of 31st December, 1928, no producing company has mentioned the P.A.M.
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  • 69 5 On Saturday, Feb. 16, a very enjoyable dance took place at the Jasin Club. About sixty people were present, a fair number going from Malacca for the function. There were some very pretty dresses worn. The music was supplied by Mr. Gomes’ band, and as it was
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  • 740 5 FROM PASADENA TO GRAND CANYON IN A SEDAN. One hot day in July last a T Oakland owner and nis family living m Pasadena, California, decided to spend their vacation in Grand Canyon, National Park, in the State ol Arizona. As the crow flies the distance is
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  • 877 5 (Special to the “Gun*Sian”) In the beginning, darkness and chaos reigned, and God, who is infinitely just and merciful, desired to create a world; which he did, putting man above all his creations; why? Because He made man in His own image and likeness; but herein lies much
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 600 6 As is well-known to all who have been interested in his career, Kaiser Wilhelm has always been an alarmist on the racial question and his latest ebullitions are but a. rehash of what he was saying twenty years ago. The Malayan Daily Express prints a recent interview
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  • 337 6 Certain local enthusiasts are planning the formation of a cooperative society. The success of such an organisation depends upon the number of members who join and take an active part in it, and upon tne judgment exercised by the management. The purpose of the society is an excellent
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  • 244 6 Some of our contemporaries s Q em v ery much surprised at tbY rerpnt pradual rise in the pn ?e of rubber which now stands af about a shn 3 a T ;ouad As. matter of fact I s Y J fl&mal tendency of lubber. Wy forcet
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  • 446 6 And it came to pass in those days that a certain viiiage which had known many rulers fell into the hands of the Economists. And the land was very dry, insomuch that the people murmured and they besought the village fathers that they might give unto them water.
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  • FROM OTHER PENS.
    • 203 6 The Straits Times.’* Visits of theatrical companies are like those of angels, few an 1 far between, and when they no occur audiences w'hich are anxr is to be pleased find that there i a marked variation in quality. I r the rest of the time those pe.
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    • 176 6 Pinang Gazette.” At present, it is no exaggeration to say it, it is impossible to arouse any public interest in any t subject in Penang. The European population which should take the lead is transitory. Families do not settle here: officials go Home to enjoy their pensioned retirement
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    • 156 6 Times of Malaya.” Air. Johnson, a quiet homely man. told the Singapore Free Press the exact truth when he stated that America is to-day the better for Prohibition. There is now no doubt about that, and the next generation of Americans will overwhelmingly prove the case against
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    • 101 6 The Malaya Tribune.” Why shouldn’t the busy merchant prince of Singapore be le to set off on a visit to his Penang branch after breakfast and be back for ,rr° ;:randial pahits? Or -x--cliange letters with his manager there between sunrise and sundown? Why should Kuala Ltin.
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    • 37 6 Malayan Daily Express.” In Sir Austen Chamb .tin. moreover, we have a F>v tisH Foreign Minister, who is ponieariy supposed even to say bos prayers in F h e best Parisian French. L ie
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 20 6 SULPHATE OF AMMONIA, BASIC SLAG, UREA, AND OTHER Rubber Tree MANURES. Apply to fiumßiE c @b Phone 85 Malacca. t
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
    • 1861 7 regular meeting of the I COMMISSIONERS. I All the Commissioners excepting ■Messrs. Tan Soo Hock and G.*C. S. ■Rabjohn were present at the reKrulaV meeting on Friday last. The Klon. Mr. B. S. Elies, President, Kiresided. Little business of im(Kortance was transacted, the meetBing being unusually dull and
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    • 260 7 The goldsmith shop of Chop Ngee Hin Co., 96, Heeren Street, w T as the scene of great excitement on Wednesday, at about 4 p.m. The cause was that about ten workers refused to resume work after the Chinese New Year holidays. They handed a letter to
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    • 131 7 A Tamil with a bushy head of hair appeared before Mr. Owen in the Police Court on Saturday, on a charge of being a wandering lunatic. Inspector Spinks said that the accused, who gave the name of Rajagopalam. appeared before the C.P.O. and presented a huge carving
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    • 82 7 A meeting of the clerical staffs of the firms and estates in Malacca and district will be held in the Chinese Volunteer Clubhouse, Bona Vista Road, at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, March 11, to consider the formation of a Mercantile Co-operative Society. The Hon. Mr. Tan Cheng Lock
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    • 81 7 The death occurred on Monday evening at Flower Road, Singapore, of Mr. Raymond A. Dias, at the early age of 25. Deceased, who came from Malacca, had been previously in the employ of the Malacca Municipality and Audit Office. As a popular footballer he
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    • 124 7 The construction work proceeding on the highest point of Bukit China for some time past has attracted considerable comment and a large number of visitors. A representative of the Guardian,” visiting the site on Thursday, found three workmen engaged in laying the foundations for a quantity of scientific
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    • 77 7 The Gi Ho Hoey celebrated the anniversary of Teh Koon Kong’s deification at the Clubhouse with a dinner on Friday. About 80 members were present. A gold meda was presented to the Hon. Superintendent, Mr. Tan Kim Chwee, for his valuable services to the organisation during the
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    • 79 7 As forecasted in these columns some weeks ago, the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, which is doing a very fine work in Singapore, is about to open a branch in Malacca. Last week the Rev. W. W. R. Lake, one of the prominent workers of that Church in
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    • 299 7 Ah Seng, a Chinese labourer about twenty-five years of age, fe: off a lorry driven by a Malay in Lorong Pandan, Limbongan, on Sunday, the 17th instant, and diec at the Durian Daun Hospital abou two hours later, from a fracture ol the base of the skull. Deceased
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    • 98 7 Despite the fact that the moon made Only a few fitful appearances and the evening was only half over when a brief shower drove all to shelter, the moonlight fete of the Chinese Ladies’ Guild of the Malacca Straits Chinese Church, which was held at Bickley Park on
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    • 247 7 The Chetties of Malacca were out n force on Friday morning when he God Subramanian was taken out in the sacred car drawn by gaily caparisoned bullocks with two a.hers following as relief. The precession left the Goldsmith Street temple early Friday morning and proceeded to Cheng, where
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 260 7 RIALTO THEATRE. Glenn Tryon and Patsy Ruth Miller, the comedy team that scored such an outstanding hit in Painting the Town,” will be seen in their second Universal farce comedy, A Hero for a Night,” at the Rialto Theatre to-night. The picture is said to be even more laughable and
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  • SPORTING NEWS
    • 207 8 FEBRUARY MIXED FOURSOME. The February mixed foursome competition was piayed off on Thursday evening last. Nine couples entered, which, having regard to the counter attraction in the form of the tennis tournament at the Malacca Club, was very satisfactory. Messrs. Oakshott and Redfearn, with a joint handicap of
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    • 169 8 MALACCA VOLUNTEER CORPS TOURNAMENT. The Badminton tournament, which has been played on the indoor court at the Volunteer headquarters, was completed on Thursday with the men’s doubles handicap finals. It was the only match of the series which was extended to the third set. Those engaged in the final
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    • 252 8 MALACCA CLUB SPRING TOURNAMENT. The following are the results of the tournament now in progress at the Malacca Ciub:— Men’s Open Singles. Q. Beatty beat Allen, 6-1; 6-0. J. Gregg beat Oakshott, w.o. A. S. Anderson beat M. Clark, 10-8; 6-0. Men’s Open Doubles. Second Round: Stewart and Burnard
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    • 49 8 LADIES TO PLAY ON CLUB PADANG. On Wednesday afternoon, a hockey match is to take piace on the Malacca Club padang between a mixed team. Among the ladies taking part are:—Mrs. Willmott, Mrs. Bruce, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Holmes Smith, Mrs. Allen. Mrs. Chester, Miss Foster and Miss Holden.
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    • 263 8 CANTONESE DEFEAT ANGLOCHINESE SCHOOL. t On Thursday the Anglo-Chinese School played a return game with the Cantonese XI at the Kubu ground. Though without the services of several regular players, the iatter team were able to defeat the School by seven goals to one. The game started with both
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    • 390 8 COLTS ATHELETIC TEAM TROUNCED. Ratnam’s Four Goals. On Saturday last on the Kubu Plain the Colts Atheietic Team met the Anglo-Chinese School in a friendly game of soccer, and the forn er was badly beaten by seven goals to three. The school raided first with the sounding of the
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    • 12 10 Malacca Club will have their first practice match on Friday next.
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    • 314 10 On Saturday at 4.30 p.m. there was a parade of all the various companies of the Malacca Volunteer Corps at the Drill Hall, as a farewell to the General Officer Commanding. General Van Straubenzee. After a route march had taken place round Malacca, General Van Straubenzee (accompanied by
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    • 1097 10  -  REVIEW OF SITUATION AT FEDERAL CAPITAL. (By Candidus). Selangor has finished a very poor nockey and rugger season. At nockey we have fared badly in the inter-state matcnes, losing badly to Perak in the last match. A departure from the usual practice was to include non-European players
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 286 8 Shell Lubricating Oil j I DEMONSTRATION. I 1 T.iere will a demonstration at the showrooms |5 of Messrs. Wearne Brothers Ltd., Jonker St., Malacca, 1 for a period of one week commencing from the 26th I inst., shewing a sectional model of a Morris Motor 1 v f in operation.
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    • 214 8 FRASER 8 NEAVE LTD. U CAN GIVE DELIVERY OF THEIR FAMOUS W •H* :o: w )J Aerated Waters H IN ALL PARTS OF MALACCA TERRITORY. Sl* f§ Enquire for Prices and Date :Cfl g of Delivery in your District. YY > -y, :o: :8: SODA WATER LEMONADE :ji: GINGER ALE
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  • AROUND THE COURTS
    • 308 9 ACCUSED RELEASED AND REARRESTED. Further evidence was taken by ■ili-. Dodd on Monday afternoon in xtradition proceedings aghinst Man Ah Lok, wiio is charged with Mobbery and murder in Rhio in JM‘)27. Acting Chief Detective InMpeitor Johnson appeared for the M own and Mr. W. Munro tor the
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    • 384 9 LOCAL DOCTOR AND SINGAPORE DEGREE. At the iast Court of Appeal Achim bin Mat entered an appeal against his conviction on a charge ol causing grievous hurt to another Malay named iSahor bin Jahidin by putting out his right eye by a blow jf the fist. Mr.
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    • 627 9 SHOPKEEPERS FINED TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH. The cases in which Nestles and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Co. prosecutes a number of shopkeepers of Kuala Sungei Bharu for i selling or exposing for sale condensed milk in tins covered by complainant’s label but not containing chat Company’s milk,
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    • 435 9 i In the District Court on Thursday afternoon, Mr. E. V. Rodrigues, Head of the Preventive Service, prosecuted two Chinese on charges of offering for sale chandu and of opening a place wherein facilities were provided for smoking chandu. The cases were taken separately. In the first
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    • 178 9 The allegation that a ricksha puller cannot work at that occupation more than seven years, which is frequently stated, was refuted by an aged puller who was being tried in Mr. Dodd’s Court on Tuesday on a charge of plying for hire with an unregistered ricksha.
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  • 333 10 Lady Alice Marriott, xvidoxv of our late Colonial Secretary, Sir Hayes Marriott, died on February 16. just a xveek after the deaih of her husband, both being taken by the same disease. The following appreciation of the late Lady Marriott, xvritten by a friend, appears in the “Straits
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    • 278 10 t t S Hi :j~o:xx:c*: RIALTO THEATRE. H PROGRAMMES U g From Won. 25th to Wed. 27th February 1929. From Thurs. 28th Feb. to Sun. 3rd Mar. 1929 Ig At SIS p.m. At 9.15 p.m. yy yy S “Yukon Gold” (Western) “Yale vs. Harvard” (Comedy) g g “The Sting of
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  • MALAYAN MATTERS OF MOMENT
    • 1018 11 ■•iiAIS OF DAKiHTKK OF OIK UFSIDFM Ol V 11.1.0 K. marriage of Miss Molly m, uaugnter of tne Hon. Mr. ■BBj- (ooeii, British Resident ol and Mrs. C. F. Green, to .lomi Huggins, Malayan Givn n i(r look place on Saturday at rSß.ni. at St. Mary s
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    • 304 11 FIRST TO BE ADMITTED BOTH IN F.M.S. AND ENGLAND. Before Mr. Justice Farrer-Manby, tne acting Chief Justice, F.M.S., on Monday, the Hon. Mr. Veerasamy moved tne admission to the F.M.S. Bar of Raja Musa bin Raja Haji Bot of the Inner Temple. In doing so Mr. Veerasamy said
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    • 630 11 POPULAR FOOTBALLER WEDS. (Special to the “Guardian”) A very pretty Chinese w r edding in the modern fashion took place at Seremban on Thursday, the 21st •nst., the contracting parties being Mr. Lim Kee Siong, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Fock Ngian, to Miss Chong
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    • 829 11 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD. (Special to the Guardian.”) The Annual General Meeting of Lhe Negri Sembilan Boy Scouts’ Association was held at the Headquarters in Lenon Street, Seremban, on Friday evening at 6.30 p.m. fine District Commissioner (Mr. D. Bird, E.R.G.S.) informed the meeting that
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    • 1090 11 A SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION. Ihe above association heid its third fancy dress party on Saturday, the 23rd instant, when forty members took part. The party started in a procession of cars from the residence of Mr. Toh Seng Hoe, No. 15, Tranquerah, making a first
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