Malaya Tribune, 13 January 1914

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  • 23 1 THE MALAYA TRIBUNE. Vol I.- No. II SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1914 Price 5 Cents. The Malaya Tribune, SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, I914
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  • 307 1 < PL E\I)ID MOBILISATION WORK. Reuter's Service. LONDON, Jan. 12. g telegrams say M wears the aspect of :J e The authorities have lete command of the situathousand burghers have ITri ved from Lichtenberg comd b> General Delarey and oceeding to Germiston. I he concentrated on the
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  • 78 1 Reuter's Service. LONDON, Jan. 12. Fo ur young Ttoetans, sons of ;*™t governors, sent to England and Tibetan to receive an %m e ucati °n. have com- a seven months'course at 3* W Health End, UnTTR to Rugby next Ik it ted that they have u rcn;:i
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  • 124 1 SIX CENTRES OPENED TO FOREIGN TRADE. INTERESTING PRONOUNCEMENT. (Our Special Correspondent.) SHANGHAI, Jan 12. The Government of the Republic of China orders that the following six centres of commerce be opened to foreign trade Kalgan, Kuei Huacheng, Tainanfu, Chih Feng-Hsien, Lung Kow and Hulu Tao. This means
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  • 51 1 FROM DIPLOMACY TO POLITICS. Reuter's Service. London, Jan. 12. A telegram from Paris stales that M. Paleoiogue, an official of the French Foreign Office, has been appointed Ambassador to St. Petersburg in succession to M. Delcasse, who has resigned, as he is desirous of returning to
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  • 31 1 Reuter's Service. LONDON, Jan. 12. A Khartoum despatch states that the French aviator, Pourprc, has arrived there on his hydroplane. He was welcomed by the Sirdar.
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  • 92 1 The "Sun Rays" and the "Straits Junior F. C." met on the Beach Road reclamation ground yesterday to play off their fixture in the Tan Kwee Swee Cup competition and a well-fought game was the result. The Sun Rays proved the better eleven and scored
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  • 60 1 Baron and Baroness von Hahn and two children are passengers from Shanghai on the N. D. L. Buelow, which left here for Colombo. Baron yon Hahn is the German vice-Consul General at Shanghai and is on his way to Berlin on six months' leave of abAice. He has been connected
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  • 80 1 CHINA'S PARLIAMENT IN SUSPENSION. (Our Special Correspondent.) Shanghai, Jan. 12. The Government has given orders for the temporary suspension of Parliament. In this connection Reuter telegraphs that a Presidential mandate has been issued dissolving Parliament. [The Peking papers report that President Yuan received a telegram from Dr.
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  • 200 1 Serious Fight in the Sailors' Home. A serious fight occurred on Sunday afternoon shortly after five in the Sailors' Home, as the result of which an English sailor named A. Carr White has been admitted to hospital badly injured. It appears that the crews of
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  • 78 1 Foong Ho, a Canfoneper yoifth, visited johore, carrying with iiim $58 with which to woe.the goddess she was, however, unkind, and the money went as 'taost such money goes. The youth, feeling hjs dis. oointment keenly, decide*, feftm shutmng off this mortal coil W jumping overboard on
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  • 85 1 A Kentucky colonel of the old school made a proud boast t\mt he hadn't drunu a jrtase gi' water in twenty years. One day as he was riding on the old L. and N. in Tennessee the was wrecked while r ssihg a. bridge and plunged into the' rfv"er. Trie
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  • 71 1 RAILWAY AND TELEGRAPH LINES CLEAR. (Our Special Correspondent.) Shanghai, Jan. 12. News has been rec«ived from Hsin Ngan-Tien, in Honan, where there has been severe fighting between the brigands and soldiers, that the brigands have been routed with a loss of two hundred killed. The telegraph lines between
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  • 130 1 The Annual Conference of the Methodist Mission opened at 10 a. m. on Saturday at Wesley Church, Bishop John E. Robinson, presiding. Some 70 European and American missionaries are here for the Conference, besides a large number of Chinese and European workers. The official headquarters
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  • 77 1 By kind permission of Lieut. Colonel A.G. Marrable and his officers .the band of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry will play the following selection of music in the Botanic Gardens this evening, weather permitting, commencing at 9 o'clock PROGRAMME. March Loyal and Strong Gallop
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  • 72 1 Our Batavia correspondent writes us under date January 7 that LieuteU*nt* Scott, who was arrested at The Hague recently for the murder of a public-house keeper on the Hofswmi, has been released according to cables received in Java. Our correspondent states that it is
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  • 55 1 The Edison Kinetophone, under the management of Mr. Baldwin, returns to Singapore on Wednesday and will be shown at the Adhambra -for six nights. Judging from its"previous success in Singapore and its reception in ±he Malay States, the Alhambr* Swill be well patronized during !this return engagement. Fn»nV jiere Mr.
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  • 472 1 WHEN IS IT EARNED. Judgment was delivered in the District Court yesterday, by Mr. Dyson in the case of How Wong You v. The Straits Motor Garage Syndicate. Plaintiff claimed the sum of $350 as his commission on the sale of a motor lorry to one Tjoeng
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  • 37 1 The latest "Tatler" contains an irrcsistable drawing by Will Owen a "Punch-hard-enough-Kd-your-moncy- will be-refcurrc juaehine and a Scotsman lying d>ad front of it. The title, of this hv.morous skf teh is Doath from Exhaustion." Poor Sandy McNab!
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  • Page 1 Advertisements

  • 511 2 CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN LONDON IX JUNE. We have received the following particulars of the third international congress of Tropical Agriculture which it has been decided to hold in London, in June, which all countries interested to in tropical agriculture and try are invited. The Association has
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    • 208 2 Whitbreads Ale Stout. ARE THE GENUINE PRODUCTS OF Hops Malt Not Clarified Chemical Substitutes (Largest bottlers in the World.) SOLE IMPORTERS:Weare Bros. i-B. RAFFLES QUAY. HIGH CLASS AMERICAN DENTISTRY, LATEST METHOD. FONES BROTHERS, Separate I Compartments for Ladies. Corner of Bras Basah Road Bencoolen Street, Singapore. Don't have your teeth
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    • 30 2 Chop Teck Seng, 97, SELEGIE ROAD. House of Renown for Price of their Articles Dealers in General Provisions, Fodder and Sundry Goods. Prices to Suit all Purses. Wholesalers and Retailers.
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    • 249 2 REQUISITES FOR RUBBER ESTATES, LATEX CUPS. Glass and Porcelain, half lemon anc l flat Bottom Shape. MOMI CHESTS. 24 ins. by 19 ins. by 19 ins. CEMENT. "Sakura" Brand. ACETIC ACID. 44 lbs. in bottle. FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY TO: G. OTOMUNE Co. KOH CO. 82=3 Bras Basah Road Stationers,
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  • 68 3 The Kaiser has put his Imperial foot on the Tango. The graceful South American dance is not approved of at the Berlin court. It is to be hoped that other Germans will not follow the Emperor's example, but that the Prussian capital will Tango" right
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  • 135 3 Sir Charles Darling, who has long been recognised as the leading judicial humorist, was sixty-four last month. He has been a Judge of the King's Bench Division since the year 1897, and has consequently served more than the fifteen years necessary to secure for him the Retiring
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  • 185 3 The New York Customs officials and Mr. Arthur Brentano, head of a large bookselling firm, are at edcts over the duty to be paid on a consignment from London of first editions of Dickens, Thackeray, and other eminent authors, together with a lock of Charles Dickens's hair which
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  • 447 3 Every man who bets on the future, wins. Evolution is an advance movement. Progress rides upon the shoulders of time. The land of promise lies ahead. You can't reach it by turning back. The path to the past leads to dead issues. Everybody can't
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  • 205 3 The Lord Mayor presided at 8 largely attended meeting at the Mansion House in support of the British Dominions Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in the summer of 1215. Lord Strathcona, the presidi nt of the council, Was unable to attend, but in a communication read by Sir
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 141 3 NSIST ON HAVING fhe Imperial Dairy Co.'s Best Indian BUTTER. Mr M. HUNTER, M. i, F. C. 8., CHEMICAL EXAMINER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BURMA SAYS: "The Butter Contains no Foreign fat, is of good Quality and Quite fit for use." Singapore Jigent:— E. E. SOLOMON, 5, t Jilmeida Street.
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    • 154 3 MACHINERY FOR ESTATES MINES, SAW MILLS, &c. POWER PLANTS Of Every Description. FRASER CHALMERS LTD. (Contractors to the British Admiralty War Office.) Works:-Erith, Kent, England. HEAD OFFICE:— London Wall Buildings., E.C. EASTERN BRANCH:— Winchester House- SINGAPORE. AnD AT IPOH. GASOLENE LIGHT CYCLE CO. 5- f «"5-2 to RETus HotS: Sole
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    • 122 3 A PROGRAMME HARD TO BEAT For the features it presents is being put on AT THE MARLBOROUGH Picture Theatre, Beach Road. TO-NIGHT I 2nd SHOW, 9-30 to 11 p.m. and contains TWO 2-REEL FILMS viz:— AT THE FOOT OF THE SCAFFOLD A Splendid two-reel Drama by the Hepworth Film Co.,
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  • 395 4 There is always a natural feeling of regret and sometimes a feeling of uneasiness when a prominent person in a commercial business or a commercial circle resigns or changes the nature of his operations. Some such feeling, we may say, is experienced from the retirement of Morgans from
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  • 294 4 On reading of the acquittal of the three officers, Colonel Reuter, Lieutenant Schad and Lieutenant yon Foerstner, concerned in the affair at Zabern, the first thought that comes to the mind is th .l they have been **whitewashed." But, natural as that conclusion is, we cannot arrive
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  • 257 4 Three Coolies Badly Lvj UREI Shortly before nine o'clock morning a collapse oceir old Dispensary building i course of demolition, at theooin»? Battery and Bonham Road* th Chinese being severely injui downfall of a heavy brick and wall above. Work has been going on f r time
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  • 143 4 The explanation In the first issue of the 44 Malaya Tribune" why this paper has not appearef In the form originally advertised has not reached all our readers. We were forced to reduce our issue by half owing to the unavoidable delay in the arrival of tinmachinery specially ordered
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  • 25 4 The number of unemployed in the Diamond Indu trj at amstj dam has now reached sjo9"i, figure has never before been reached.
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  • 53 4 THE NETHERLANDS EAST LN'DIAiN COHORT. Of the 10,260 Europeans se ing in the Netherlands Indian Legion 7,077 are H landers, 1,794 Eurasians. 321 gians, 922 Germans, 33 Lvi burgers, 66 Swiss, 3'Frenchand 44 of other nationalities. Of these 786 Hollanders are Officers, 49/ Eurasians, 1 Belgian, 18
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  • 75 4 The Rev. W. E. untitle who with Mrs. Horley and child**, now in Singapore, celet ratej on January 4 the twentieth anniversary of his arrival in fcheCol We' take this opportunity tendering our heartiest congrai lations on the event and trust 1 the Methodist Padre ana his wife will long
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 204 4 Kelly Walsh, Ltd. JUST TO HAND A FRESH CONSIGNMENT OF ABDULLA No. 4 Egyptian Cigarettes Price 53.00 per 100 The Finest Cigarette on the Market. Kelly Walsh, Ltd. The Dispensary, Ltd. CHEMISTS, PHARMACISTS. OPTICIANS. RAFFLES PLACE. KATZ BROS.. OLD PREMISES. Depot for all kinds of Patent Medicines; Toilet Requisites; Perfumery;
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    • 84 4 Chs. J. GAUPP AND CO. Raffles Place, next to Robinson Piano Co. Watchmakers, Jewellers and Nautical Opticians. Fine Diamond Jewellery a Speciality. English and Swiss Gold and Silver Watches. Surveying and Nautical Instruments. SILVER and PLATED WARE FROM MAPPIN WEBB, Limited "WINFRED" CIGARETTES. The World's best Value In Virginia Cigarettes
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  • 451 5 W Doesn't Government Support the P.M.G.? -dent of the Colony who I in Singapore for more b> c 1 rears must .recognise /the increase of trade utirn there has been a demand upon the he Post Office. The our fellow-Chinese t he postal service urt ,for a
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  • 63 5 Zelaya, a former President of Nicaragna, has been arrested at new York m a murder charge. Mr. A Bethune, a former chairman of the Rubber Growers' arrived in Ceylon b coming on to Malaya. Rumour has it that Lord Hardinge. the present Viceroy of India and former Under-Secretary v ite
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  • 50 5 Mr. T, Whiting, the well-known nining prospector, had an excites tiger experience on New Year's le returning from Alor to Alor Star. When 12 miles from Alor Kanda xiL tiger suddenly emerged the road side and brushed him. Mr. Whiting says bad tiger's friendly escort several miles down country •forwards.
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  • 1151 5 COURT CROWDED^WITH SMALL CREDITORS^ Before the Chief Justice, Sir W. H. Hyndman Jones, onthel2th inst., the petition to wind up the business of the Kwong Yik Bank, filed on behalf of Leong Ah-Kee and Leong Ah-Wye, trading as the Kong Hing Cheong firm
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  • 64 5 Our Batavia correspondent writer under date January 10 that aNether--which the Dutch Government is going to huild for the Netherlands East Indian squadron. Our correspond'' ll4 further remarks tll ?t these Dreadnought. will not mediately be constructed and that Z™ need not constitute a menage U> British
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  • 37 5 We have received from the Java ta t Lnt of Agriculture a copy ot X tk of that department for 1912 Although published rather ate this volume of 300 p.P, makes exceedingly interesting reading and excellent example.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 219 5 Madame Lillian NORDIC A Greatest Dramatic Soprano in the World, FROM The Royal Opera Covent Garden London, Berlin Paris and St. Petersburg Operas Metropolitan Opera, NewYork. SUPPORTED BY FRANKLIN HOLDING, America's Great Violinist AND ROMAYNE SIMMONS The Great French Pianist Will give Two Concerts AT THE Victoria Theatre SINGAPORE. On
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    • 85 5 Made in Dublin. FOR DIRECT EXPORTATION By READ BROTHERS, Limited. I Dog's Head Guinness: with the Dog's Head Label on every bottle. The Dog's Head Bottling Is superior to any stout because it is brewed from the only stout water in the world; the DUBLIN WATER. Keeps in all climates.
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    • 870 6 a I Special Offer To Our Readers 1 We have made arrangements to furnish to our readers a limited number of sets, at a j SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE "THE NEW PERFECT REFERENCE SYSTEM,'' "NELSON'S I PERPETUAL LOOSE-LEAF ENCYCLOPAEDIA AND RESEARCH f I BUREAU FOR SPECIAL INFORMATION" I This great Reference
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    • 208 6 You Have j Ma }y Z h y Special Wants Advs. Want Want. TO LET! Convenient Floor Sp in Heart of Singa^or^ Cbis valuable apace comprise* Offkf Godown Vault of Reinforced Concrete, Entrance from both Bat! ftoad and Collyer Quay 0 I Alterations to Suit Counts' Apply to: ''A. W."
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  • 718 7 D ew bovthat morning. i. gan with the usual l t i7yoiirlast name? Ar :l:::7 nl rxrUiimr.d the teacher. Artnti otner name "said the boy. is your last name, of teacher, looking at I Z\th i !'nsiderable severity. the child, respect- m< was Cooke when I but
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  • 194 7 A Kansas farmer is responsible for this. He says that when the grasshopper pest becomes serious in that State a common means of extermination used is that of mixing syrup with poisoned bran and spreading the resulting concoction in the worst affected places of the crops.
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  • 131 7 The long visit which King Ferdinand of Bulgaria paid to Vienna was more political than personal, says the Ostasiatische Lloyd." Our readers will remember in this connection the Reuter cable of a few days ago in which the Socialistic uproar in the Sobranje H was referred to. London
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  • 265 7 The Koningin Emma, latest addition to the Stoomvaart Maatschappy Nederland fleet, tied up at Borneo Wharf at 2 p.m. yesterday and left for Batavia last night at ten o'clock. She left Amsterdam on the 6th of December on this her maiden trip. The vessel has a gross
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 488 7 The Straits F.M.S. Motor Car Co., Motor and Cycle Repairers, Dealers in fßotor Accessor es, €tc* Jiead Office:- 50=2, VICTORIA STREET, SINGAPORE. Telephone No. lAI7. "Overlands" the Favourite Cars of the present day can now be obtained from us on Hire at any time of the Day or Night at
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 584 8 AuSrianHJoyd UNDER MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT. New Monthly Fast Line, Trieste-Shanghai From Sm-tSS. and Venice, calling a« Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo from ana .w H kong an< j Shanghai. Penang, Sin HOMEWARD. OL TWARU. on or about Due to arrive on or about IQI4 7 Q,ctons 9l4
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    • 497 8 n. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. EUROPEAN LINE. A Fortnightly service is maintained between Yokohama via ports to Marseilles, London and Antwerp, under mail contract with the Imperial Japanese Government. The New Twin-screw Steamers maintaining this service have been specially designed and constructed, and are fitted with all
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    • 519 8 p. o. I STEAM NAVIGATION CO. FOR CHINA, JAPAN, PENANG, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. Through Bills of Lading issued for China Coast, Persiaa Gulf, Continental and American Ports. Steamers will leare Singapore on or about MAIL LINES Homeward (for Europe). lOM C Connecting at
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    • 389 8 M. M. MESSAGERIES MARITI.Ms. E MAIL LINE j China, Japan, Ceylon, Djibouti. Egjg and Marseilles. HOMEWARD OUTWARD «§M i 9i4 "Polynesien" Jan. 'Cor- •'Paul Lecat" „19 "Magellan "Dumbea" Feb. 2"Xe r •'Cordillere" 16 K Atlanti<me "Magellan" Mar. 2 "Chili" "Nera" n i6"Amazone" 30 "Paul Lee Chili Apr. 13 "Dumbea" "Amazone"
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