Malaya Tribune, 11 February 1914

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  • 21 1 THE MALAYA TRIBUNE. Vol. I- No. 35. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1941 Price 5 Cents. ClK Ittalapa Cribunc. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11.
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  • 563 1 ACTS WHICH GAME IN FORCE ON J AX. 1ST. A numb >r of new British laws came into force on Jan 1st. The most impo.ta it are the Forgery Act, 1913, Bad the Fabrics (Misdescription) Act, 1913, the object of the latter being to stop the sacrifice
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  • 631 1 Mr. L. I. Brown, who has just j etired from hi* appointment of v Inspector of Cocoanut Plantations, J ii is contributed to the Indian I Agriculturist the following valuable fnotes —Your letter to hand regarding what coco aunts cost per 1,000 to produce appears
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 199 1 HOOOLANDT Co., SINGAPORE. ESTATES CHEMICALS. Apply for Particulars. f3f4 Models Jumt Unpackbd. MANY IMPROVEMENTS AND REFINEMENTS. Price $2,150 Complete. We Believe the Hupmobile to be the Best Car of its Class. iNSPECTION INVITED. Abrams' Straits Motor Garage. ORCHARD ROAD. The Roneo Pencil Sharpener Will SAVE its cost in pencils. Cuts
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    • 205 1 Ask yous* Gr&cer for 0 T M GOLD LEAF" Pure; Delicious and Fragrant Us sfrengtir- makes it Hie most economical TEA in the Market P. A. BEINS Co., 5, Street. INSISt\ON HAVING The Co.'s Best Indian B U f T E R. Mr. M. HUNIfl*,-1. A., F. C. S„ CI
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    • 9 1 HOOCLANDT Co.. SINGAPORE. JENATZT TYRES. Apply for Price List,
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  • 622 2 COLONIAL ESTIMATES BEFORE THE FIRST DUTCH CHAMBER. The Colonial Estimates for 1014 came up for consideration in the first Chamber of the States-General of Holland, and gave rise to an interesting discussion. Mr. Bavinck Anti-Revolutionary) opened the debate, and referred to the attitude of the
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  • 795 2 Messrs. Lewis and Peat in their review of the year 1913 state The London auction totalled 22, 400 tons, average price (Ist quality )3s. Id. per lb. (fine Para 3s. Bd\ per lb.), against 1912 18,000 tons, average price 4s. per lb., and 1911, 9,500 tons, average
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  • 20 2 Inspector— “Any abnormal children in your class. Miss Pedagog 99 School Teacher— M Yes; one of them has good manner*.'
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    • 487 2 Office To Let. Twenty Months Rom February I, 1914 No. 23, Malacca Street, upstairs, 35 Apply to <#Malaya Tribune 22-tO-21-2'14. Good Compositors Wanted. WANTED, good compositors for job and other printing. Good pay to competent men. Apply to the Manager of the Straits Albion Press, Limited. 20a20c, Collyer Quay. KIM
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    • 73 2 Straits Industrial Syndicate, :(o): General Export Merchants Commission Agents. 12a, Change Alley, Singapore. (ESTABLISHED 1907.) Speciality: Hard Ordinary Straits Timber Steam Sawn to Special Quotation for Quantities. Prompt and Careful Attention and Supervisi on given to |1] cyr».. and Enquiries. Building Materials: French Tiles, Stetonite Ceiling Plates, Drain Pipes, v
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  • 1727 3 -BFACTIOS OF KXTRKMK PARTIES. Berlin. Jan. 11. Uihtarv Court of the Thirtieth assburg yesterday ,n o i o nel yon Renter and J of all the charts them. Simultane- ~mr Military Conrt arg Army Corps re- ntence of 43 days' passed upon Lieut, his treatment of of I)
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  • 38 3 “Future generations will think I am the president of the Ananias Club," the shade of General Sherman moodily remarked. M What's the matter asked Napoleon. "Why, Carnegie has abolished war and the theologians have abolished hell," replied Sherman.^
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 39 3 NEW TREATMENT Of Rheumatism, Gout, Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, Arthritis, Etc. by Dubois's Collo=lode. A Concentrated Solution Of Vegetable lodine. Its applications are so numerous that we cannot enumerate them all in this limited space Singapore Depot, MAYNARD CO., LIMITED.
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    • 310 3 FOR OUR PATRONS' BENEFIT WE Alii: PUTTIITG OS TWO EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILMS AMI THKRK WILL BE ONE FOR EACH SHOW alhambra::: TO-NIGHT In addition to other choice comicTHE FIRST SHOW EXCLUSIVE WILL BE SHOWN AT s pjm. SHARP AND IS ENTITLED FOR EAST IS EAST A BplesMU Film of the
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    • 530 4 TO J-ETt Convenient Floor Space in Heart of Singapore. This Valuable Space Comprises Office Godown Vault of Reinforced Concrete. Entrance from both Battery Road and Collyer Quay. Alterations to Suit Tenants! Apply to:--"A. W." c/o. "THE MALAYA TRIBUNE' 20a—20c, Collyer Quay. CHEE ENG SONS, Established 1859. 71, North Bridge Road.
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    • 191 4 Kon Paketvaart Maatschappy. :o: ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION COMPANY OF BATAVIA. SINGAPORE to JAVA IX M HOURS. Weekly express service by the fast twin-screw steamers. "Melchior Treub" and Rumphius" :«..'i<Kt and 2,.*)0n tOM gross, tonnage resj»ectively. 2 BERTH CABIXS ONLY. ALL AMIDSHIPS. Purser. Doctor and Stewardess «>n board. WIKKLEss TBLBB4UPHT. Electric
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    • 497 4 N. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. EUROPEAN LINE. A fortnightly service is maintained between i Yokohama via ports to Marseilles, London and I Antwerp, under mail contract with the Imperial Japane-c Government. The New Twin-screw j Steamers maintaining this service have been specially designed and constructed, and are
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    • 538 4 P. o. STEAM NAVIGATION CO. FOR CHINA. JAPAN. PENANG, CEYLON. AUSTRALIA, INDIA. ADEN. EGYPT. MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. Through Bills of Lading b-ued for China das*. Persian Golf, Continental and American Port-. Fjtomcn will leave Si:ig::ju*c on orabottt MAIL LINES. Howe ward for Europe;. 1914 f Connecting at Prom
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    • 331 4 MKSSA,,HIKS MAIL LIKE CHINA. JAPAN. CEYLn* EGYPT AND Ho.M i:\v.\i: j, "Crdillere i "•Magellan" Mar p> Nera y Atlanti<iue T V 7 ••Chili" Apr. 1.. f Ainazonc" »7 r v Paul Lee;u Kav. I'M DunilxM" j,' '•C'.-idiUnv" Jane "Magrlhui j I* j BRANCH USE SINCAPORK-SAM;oN. HAIPH<|V(t in eonneetion with fl
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  • 83 5 Full M^-"-THURSDAY, l^tn. mail clc*e*. FRIDAY, 13th. Wlt p r 0-13 a.m., p.m. L- T Tournament. ?WKi*waij mail due. 1V( ,uncil 2-30 p.m. 'vUa.ry Farm mtg., 2-15 ixm. «\TIRPaY. 14th. ~flitter- 0-41 a-m.. 0-38 p.m. v n 1 Otttwwd mail due. T-.iT" -..lalmt^Exchangcnoan. I 'c i Law
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  • 88 5 tafiAfoßfl KKBRUART, 11, 1<»14. Rank 4 m/s. 2/4§ Demand 2/4 3/12 Private 6 m/s. 2/4 Hflti 3 m/s. 2/4 7/1« Baukdji. 238* I'riiate 3 m/s. 243 Bank d/d. Private 3 m/s. 21»1U Bank T. T. 174 f( Prirate3&d|k ITS) Bank d/d. 17J Private 30 d/p, 18 J "«ghai Bank
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  • 761 5 Prices Quoted in the Market this Morning. Singapore, Feb. 11, li»l4. Messrs. Lyall and Evatt, Exchange and Share Brokers, issue the following list of quotations RUBBER SHARES. j Nom. Value. Buyer*. Heller*. 2/- Allagar 2/1 2/7 j 1 Anglo Java 4/IJ 5/|$ I An#l'>-Joh<>re 5/- 6/3 2/-
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  • 1777 5 BREACH OF PROMISE SCIT. DAMAGES £20.000 CLAIMED. The case came up for hearing before the Chief Justice, in which (iustav Siemers late Secretary of Hotel Van Wijk. sued Mrs. V. Ayesha Clonics Ross, wife of the* late Governor of Cocos islands, for £20,000 as damages for breach of
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    • 129 5 THE Ceylon Tailors Co. A Man is known by the Clothes he Wears. Neatness and Fit Attracts Attention. IF TOU DESIRE TO BE OP TO THE MARK Call at the Ceyjon Tailmts, Ca. WHERE EVERYTHING OF THE RRH IS SUFFUHD-AaNB A THOROUGH FJT <; U AIIANTAiJbJJU. Europe Hotel Arcade, High
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 271 5 Mails Close. To-day. Mm.r A M>™ Sri Muar 2 p.m. K'tan T Mahidol 2 p.m. Batn 1 'n 1 nit Menu p.m. Mrtlan Medusa 3 p.m. BourVm p.m. p. S ham A Ijama j* l Mn I'. S'Iiutii HongLian 3 p.m. Malacca, P. Sham Tulok Anson Ipoh 3 p.m. T»Sintr
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  • 32 6 Lim Hob Puah, J.l\ —At No. 10, Neil Road, on Tuesday the 1 OtJi inst., at 1-15 p. m. Lim Hoe lNiah. Ks<j., age 74. beloved father ofLim Peng Siang, Esq.
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  • 261 6 Not even the renown of those knights of Arthur of the Table Round, tans pear etnas reprochen% could gather in one spot so colossal a union of the warriors of Hie world as will be made at the great San Francisco Exposition next year. Major Cloman told
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  • 230 6 Mr. Lim Hoe Puah. J. P.. died yesterday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock in his residence at 40, Neil Road. Mr. Lim Hoe Puah, who was seventy-four years old at the time of his death, was taken ill with bronchitis on the 4th instant, being
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  • 183 6 This morning a rumour reacts- 1 the "Malaya Tribune"' that nearh all of the employees at the Pulau T'bin quarry of Sir John Jackson, Ltd.. had received notice of the discontinuance of their services, and that only a very few would be kept for the dismantlement
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  • 54 6 The fine moonlight night and an interesting musical programme drew a large crowd to the Botanical Gardens last night, despite the counterattraction of the celebration of Taipusum. These musical evenings are a decided boon, and were they given weekly instead of monthly, we believe. their popularity
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  • 46 6 An American dramatist, observing to a friend the thinness of the house at one of the plays given during the Spanish War, added he supposed it was owing to the war. "No/ 1 replied his friend. M I should judge it was owing to the piece."
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  • 331 6 A POSSIBLE srnsTiTrr RADIUM. It is reported that Mr i Coolidge has invented an v tube which promise* to v tute for ran lium. One of the chief difficaiti an X-ray operator ha- is the variability of tubes. It is by the high pressure electricity thnml these
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  • 153 6 PREBIDENT WILSON AM) Washington, Jan. 11 Congress met again t<»-*ia) 1 the Christmas holiday and President is expected back the sooth to-morrow. I will probably continue summer. It* is expect* first thing the President rill briwi to the attention "i ('on" i ill* the question 01 stre joint
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  • 77 6 What did my untitled when you came in? Johnny of bia friend *'h< to tea. "She said she waed to see me. 1 Johnny, in a relieved toi said this morning she "I wouldn't come. 1 Ik* of* •T find that my bus having the office boj t> f c*>
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 209 6 Motor-Car Repairs. WE are in a position to repair any make of cars, having a competent staff of European and Chinese experts, and most modern machinery. 191 4 Overland Cars expected in a few days. Humber and Humberette cars* in stock. Second—hand cars for sale. APPLY TO: THE STRAITS RICKSHAW
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    • 86 6 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. "THE REPUBLIC" CIGARETTES. A GOOD CIGARETTE AT A MODERATE
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  • 971 7 Momentous Session of Parliament Opens. The Irish Question. Bis Majesty Deeply Concerned at Failure of Negotiations. Grave Future Difficulties. He King's Sorrow Oyer Indian Drought. (Reuters Service.) t most momentous session of §nt has opened, j House of Commons was with Members and visitors. Roch, M.P., moved,
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  • 56 7 (Reuters Service.) London, Feb. 10. Mr. Thomas Hardy, the famous novelist, has married his secretary, Miss Dugdale. [Mr. Thomas Hardy is seventyfour years of age. We offer our respectful congratulations on the step the great writer has taken, and look forward with great interest to his next
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  • 20 7 London, Feb. 10. The death has occurred of MajorGeneral Sir Stuart Beatson, extra equerry to the King. (Renter's Serrice.)
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  • 46 7 That there are two points from which even the simplest of matters may be viewed is made manifest by this interesting conversation. She —Oh, hear the gay song of the birds I He —Yes I suppose the poor little beggars have to amuse themselves somehow I
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  • 333 7 BUSHIDO OR Huge Anti-Government Meeting at Tokyo. CROWDS' OMINOUS SILENCE. FIGHTING BETWEEN MEMBERS OF DIET IN DEBATE. (Reuters Service.) London, Feb. 10. Telegrams from Tokyo state that during a tumultuous debate in the Diet a vote of no confidence in the Government was defeated by 205 to 16S, a majority
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  • 51 7 FIRST PARCEL TO DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. (Renter s Service.) London, Feb. In. A telegram from Ottawa state* that the Parcel Post was inaugurated throughout Canada to-day at midnight, the first parcel. liearing a commemorative inscri] tin, l>oiu«. sent to the Duke of Connaught by the Postmaster
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  • 39 7 We've the telegraph wireless, the church that is spireles?, the gal that is fireieaa, yet these we desire less than roads which are mind ess, than tramps who are tireless, campaigns that are tiarlese and stateo men who'ie hiieles*.
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  • 1724 7 THE ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION. London, Jan. 23. Little additional news is forthcoming Bays the M Osaka Mainichi M in connection with the Kichter case. The stolen documents show that fifteen per cent, was always allowed by Siemens for confidential payments to Japanese officials in the case of
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  • 291 8 The closing ceremonies in connection with the Taipusum celebrations took place last night with a fine display of fireworks on Rallies Place and a procession of the Silver Car. From about eight o'clock crowds could be seen wending their way to the water-front, parties oven camping out on the
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  • 35 8 Miss Chia Kirn Lan will give an address on the life of Florence Nightingale at the meeting of the Middle Road Church, Kp worth League, ou Friday at 8 p.m.
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  • 277 8 SOME INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS AND FACTS. A. O. SCHOOL FEE, A(iAlNs2. Ah a result of an interview with the Principal of the Anglo-Chinese School this morning some very interesting facts have come to light in regard to the present mix-up in educational circles in Singapore. On last Friday
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  • 454 8 Per P. O. sir. Matla, due Feb. 13. —Mr. and Mrs.Phipps,Miss Whitefield, R. V. Keith, Capt. W. Gowans, Mrs. H. W. Mann, Miss. E. Langdon, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Skingle and children, G. A. Watt, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Taylor and children, Hon. D. Coke,
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  • 218 8 Yesterday's Play. Miss (runn and Capt Day beat Mis. Brooke and Mr. Haskins. 6—5, 0-2. Miss Menzies and Mr. Hartnell beat Mrs. Hideout and Mr. Oliver. t>—i, o— Mrs. Cringle and Mr. Badham beat Mis. Fitzgerald aud Mr. Seymour. .'■>—6, o—2, (>—X Mrs. Gansloser and Mr.
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  • 136 8 MORE SEISMIC THOl'M i- I IN -IAI'AX. I Mount Asauia. which liia k increase»I activity of f eruption at <Un :Ull n 'j* when a great rambling mm heard at Karuizawa. The noise continue I at intenntil a late hour. Stones and ashes are h^li rVfl
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 117 8 P'"Tis not in mortals to command success, but It we'll do more—we'll DESERVE IT/ 1 THE MOST MODERN AND UP-TO-DATE THEATRE AND PICTURE PALACE IN THE EAST. To-Night For I l\ NIGHTS ONLY. p l George Leslie COMEDIAN. SUPPORTED BY CHANGE OF PROGRAMME A Her Second Choice m (DRAMATIC COMEDY
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  • 452 9 Railway service to baoan DATOTI. Tribune" Correspondent Teluk Anson, Feb. s. The Railway authorities seem to be unceasing in their efforts to serve the Public. The latest line to be laid here is one running from Teluk Anson to Bagan Datoh which baa made rapid strides since
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  • 262 9 The Bank rate is unchanged at 4 1 2 per cent. The Open market rate for short loans is now 3 per cent., and discount of four months 1 Bank bills 3 9-16 to 3 11-16 per cent. The Silver market has been very steady during
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    • 320 9 Hath no Fury Like a Woman Scorned" DENMARK FEATURE FILM tH e black domino OR THE STORY OF A FALLEN STAR LENGTH *S**> ft. lentf; «Pafl worked up *tory of theatrical life and it- INHERENT no |i)E »i pl*« <nH carry a strong apical to that growing c lass of
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    • 236 9 A Novelty in Jewellery j i* to lie seen in th? collection of PHOTOGRAPH SIGNET RINGS w< hu-.v n:i mmVW, in union Miniature photujlMphi «<f t3*MC M9f anl <leir t«» y<»n •>r y->nr mm may bt fimmA. Th-.-i- nags n::tv h had with i%a«li in PLAIN GOLD OR BLOODSTONE. We
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  • 217 10 MENACE TO THE HEA-LTH OF THE WORLD. Despite the sanitary precautions adopted by the various countries concerned, including the Ottoman Empire, the Pilgrimage to Mecca is still a standing menace to the health of the world. The American Consul-General at Constantinople quotes statistics collected by the Turkish
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  • 242 10 New York, Jan. 14. The drastic M Eugenic Marriage Lew* 1 recently enacted by the Legislature of the Suite of Wisconsin requiring all applicants for a marriage licence to produce a doctor's certificate showing they are free from disease, was the subject of a test case
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  • 223 10 At a meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute in London, Professor M. Bonn (of Munich University read a paper on German Colonial Policy, H in the course of which the lecturer said M We rule a colonial empire five times as big as Germany with about 14,000,000 natives. We
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 286 10 Our Double Attraction TO-NIGHT 18 THE FEATURING OF TWO EXCLUSIVE PICTURES ONE FOR EACH SHOW AT THE MARLBOROUGH PICTURE THEATRE, BEACH ROAD. THE FIRST SHOW WILL BE PUT ON AT 8 p m. SHARP AND IS ENTITLED THE MASTER CROOK A British and Colonial Feature, A Picture of thrill- and
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    • 179 10 Made in Dublin. FOR DIRECT EXPORTATION By READ BROTHERS, Limited. 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. Always
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    • 144 10 Kelly Walsh, Ltd. BEG TO ANNOUNCE A Reduction in Price of "A TOUCH OF THE SUN By H. L. HOPKIN Tom. A. SLACK. FORMER PRICE $3.50. NOW $2.00 An Important Publication. "Cocoanut Cultivation" AND Plantation Machinery BY H. LAKE COGHLAN J. W. HINCHLEY Price $2.00 Kelly Walsh, Ltd. Green Island
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  • 663 11 y MACnOXALD, M.r. LORD SAHIB" Hi T|l iSI t IX STATE. churchyard, sixty stent, with a little I by a swarm of ing& For what j v knows, the I lecided to build new I W and bring We wanted to 0 j Bengal from our I
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  • 121 11 DEATH OF ONE OF THE RINGLEADERS The -.Japan Chronicle" Hay* We learn from correspondent in Korea that Baron Yun Chi-ho died in prison on the 16th ult. The report comes from a private source, and is not yet confirmed, but the news of the Baron's death would
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  • 210 11 WHOLE TILLAHE.S AND TOWNSHIPS INFECTED. The lmj>erial Institute of Experimental Medicine and Russian rwteriologists generally an- manifesting a lively interest in labours of the special commission recently organised m London with the obpd of discovering a really efiicacious method of dealing with what it known as
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  • 191 11 Johnneshnrg, Jan. 13. The Nativeßecruiting < otpotatioii state that the native situation Inormal, and that fchen is do cau«» for alarm. (Genera! Botha has sent circulars fcj the native compounds explaining the poaiiion and appealing to their loyalty to remain quiet. The circular has had
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 116 11 (OMPLETE WITH WIKE SPOKED ViIEEL> ASM DUNLOP Pneumatic Tyres OR WIRE WHEELS AND DUNLOP Pneumatic Tyres FITTED TO YOUR PRESENT RICKSHA The Dunlop Rubber Go. (Far East) LTD. 4:i. BOBINSOK ROAD, SINGAPORE. LIFE ASSURANCE IS A NECESSITY TO ALL In selecting a company in which to insure- you must consider
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  • 2051 12 THK TAMIANG RUBBER ESTATES, LTD. ESTIMATES LARGELY EXCEEDED. BRIGHT PROSPECTS. The fourth annual general meeting of shareholders of the Tamiang Rubber Estates, Ltd.. was held at the registered office* of the companj", Mincing Lane House 59, Eastcheap, London, E.C.. on Monday, December 29th, Mr. C. Engeringh, chairman of
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  • 880 12 Cynicism is not fashionable nowadays either as a philosophy or as a method of humour. We no longer lake any pleasure in talking scandal about Iranian nature, at least we leave it to men of science to do that, and they <lo it without any of
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  • 32 12 Robby__“I think I like you batter -l ui please I 10 bear i». I: Whi frti like me the best Rohbj "Becausi su always lets na staj and tool what you si\.'
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    • 308 12 CROWN DRAPER rp.-fo-dat Damt V White Und erwej Everything for heLit[ J BPLENDID SQjjij 3 t LACES akd emrr DAINTY HANDKE] TOILET RBQUtem* No. 29. Selea* D SINGAPORE The Malaro T»a Car. be ha pot Messrs. Kelly an \v Hotel van VVijk, s Messrs. ECoh C Et d. Raffi Hotel,
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