Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 March 1908

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 69 VOL. LXVI. TUESDAY, 24th MARCH, 1908. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      1214 1 to let. i« >« «iM of notice Wotice PENANG HUNT CLUB, for sale' N° OBOE» Of THE MORTCACEE. UII Ass t O NE FOUR-WHEELED LEE KENG KEE, '^pHE Receiver appointed by the Court of I CANADA I 'HE Annual General Meeting of the Coiri’iflg’C (ill EXCOI-213—18-4 tu ths 40, Beach
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      1280 2 Shipping. J THE DISPENSARY, HOTEL de la PAIX, BURNS PHILP LINE.” pharmaceutical and dispensing chemists, v/zvrM Pf)PF SINGAPORE TO *JAVA PORTS, 2, BISHOP. STREET, PENANG. JL MWK ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE AND SYD- > MAILSTEAMShIPCO..Ltd. 4 Finest Drugs. Chemicals, and Patent Medicine», i|,| s o|(1 E lal>l s ied House having bee.,
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    SEREMBAN RUBBER COMPANY.
    1690 3 The annual general meeting of the Seremban Estate Rubber Co., Ltd., was held at Colombo on March 11. The Hon. Mr. W. H. Figg presided. Report of the Directors. Old Rubber 412 acres. Planted in 1903 50 1904 223 1905 74 1906 384 1907 483 Felled in
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    FRASER & NEAVE, LTD.
    401 3 FRASER NEAVE, LTD. The Directors’ Tenth Annual Report to be presented at the meeting on Mar. 30 is as follows. Your Directors have the honour to I submit the following Audited Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31 st December, 1907, being the tenth year of the company’s working.
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    The Courts Ordinance.
    374 3 In pursuance of the powers vested in him by Section 63 of The Com ts Oidinance 1907, 11 is Excellency the Governor has been pleased with effect f-om the Ist April, 1908, to constitu’e Police Courts and to appoint the several places mentioned to be the Court
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    St. George’s Church.
    35 3 Wednesday, March 25. Feast of the Annunciation, B. V. M. 7.30 a.m.—Holy Communion. 8 a.m. —Matins. Friday, March 27. 9.30 a.m.— Matins and Litany. 5.30 p.m. —Evensong and Sermon. 6 p.m.—Choir Practice.
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    GOLF IN SINGAPORE.
    342 3 THE CHAMPIONSHIP. On the Racecourse links, Singapore on Thursday, afternoon, Mr. Ferguson, captain of the Singapore Golf Club, and Dr. P. Fowlie resumed their game of 36 holes up for the championship of the Club. A strong wind was blowing and interfered somewhat with the match, reports
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    Indian News.
    491 3 Calcutta, March 11. Mr. Thompson, European manager of the Burma railway refreshment rooms at H'ipaw, has been sentenced to three years' impiisonmeut for bigamy at Rangoon. A Gordon Highlander sentry fired on some civilians in a motor-car which was being driven through Fort William, for not answei ing
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      64 3 Beware of Frequent Colds. A succession of colds or a protracted cold is almost certain to end in chronic catarrh, from which few persons ever wholly recover. Give every cold the attention it deserves and you may avoid this disagreeable disease. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is famous for its cures of
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      50 3 Dangers of Influenza. The great danger from influenza is of its resulting in pneumonia. This can be obviated by using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It not only cures influenza but counteracts any tendency of the disease towards pneumonia. For sale by all Chemists and Btore-keepers. The George Town Dispensary, Wholesale Agents.
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      32 3 Feeling Better To-day.—Those people who began taking Steams' Wine of Cod Liver Oil for a bad cough and general bad health last week, are feeling better to-day Don't you w'ish you did
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      47 3 “No one knows how great a proportion of the world's trouble is caused by headache. If everyone would keep Stearns’ Headache Lure constantly on hand, and use it whenever needed there’s no doubt everyone would be tar better off. Stearns’ Headache Cure really cures. Insist on Steams
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      579 3 Ladies with or without fa PENANG VOLUNTEERS, seeking change in England. Select situation facing Bowling Grew. Mrs. Ward, 18 ORDERS BY CAPTAIN West Side, Clapham Common. 139—18 *****14 28 12 26-5 THE HON BLE A R ADAMS, COMMANDANT. March, 1908. K. M. SYED. ABUBAKAR, 25th, Wednesday, Recruits Drill at Fort
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    THE WEEK.
    83 4 Tuesday. 24th March. (wolf Club General Meeting, 6.30 p.m. Matsuo’s Cinematograph, 7 and 9 p in. High water 4.48 a in Low wat«r 10 48 a Wednesday. 25th March. Band, Esplanade. 6 to 7 p.m. Matsuo’s i inematograph. 7 and 9 p.m. Moon, Last Quarter. High water 5.3*»
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    Tuesday, 24th March, 1908.
    1956 4 Gegen Dummheit kampfeu Gotter selbst vergebeiis, and for that very good retson we are not particularly sanguine as t) the results of Mr. Hufteubtchs representations to the Government on the subj *ct of the Weld Quay reclamation and the alternative of Sir John Coode’s transhipment island
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    FOOTBALL.
    823 4 A novel display of “soccer” was witnessed on the Esplanade yesterday afternoon, when two teams, captained by Mr. T. P. Naile and Dr. T. Hill Jamieson, respective!J played in fancy costumes, the objective being that of charity. A large crowd were present, including many ladies. As the game was
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      307 4 IsARKIES^ HOTELS. ♦E.& 0. HOTEL Penang. X X CRAG HOTEL Penang /(ills. J RAFFLES HOTEL Singapore. J STRAND HOTEL Rangoon. X < SARKIES BROTHERS, GO©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©©®®®®®®®®§ X The GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY, Ltd., Chemists q and Dru<’<’ists, of Penang beg to announce to the public of q O Penan < the CIVIL.
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    THE PORT OF LONDON.
    455 5 BOARD OF TRADE’S SCHEME. AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 24th March. The directors of the London and India Docks Company have issued a circular to their shareholders recommending the acceptance of an offer from the Board of Trade for the purchase of the docks as
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    A MARTYR OF SCIENCE.
    206 5 PENSION FOR X-RAYS EXPERT. [Reuter’s Service] Lmdon, 22nd March. A Civil List pension of one hundred and twenty guineas a year has been granted to Dr. Hall Edwards, who has lost one arm, and stands in danger of losing the other, through constantly conducting operations with
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    WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
    46 5 AN IMPORTANT STATION. [Reuter’s Service] London, 24th March. The Italian Government has decided to establish a chain of powerful wireless telegraphy stations on the Beuadir Coast (Somaliland) the chief station will be at Mogadoro whence it will be possible to communicate even with India.
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    95 5 THE U.S. FLEET. Berlin, 23rd March. France will invite the U. 8. battleship fleet to visit Cherbourg. It is possible that visits to other European ports will be arranged. MANCHURIA. It is announced in St. Petersburg that it is intended to build a new fortified town in
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    RUSSIA.
    277 5 THE NEW RAILWAY SCHEMES. REFORMS IN THE ARMY. [Reuter’s Service] London, 23rd March. M. Kokovtsov, Russian Minister of Finance, in a speech in the Budget Committee of the Duma, urged the pressing political necessity for a second TransSiberian Railway line and an Amur railway, both of which cannot be
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    SHIPPING DISASTER.
    48 5 JAPANESE STEAMER SUNK HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. [Reuter’s Service London, 24th March. Reuter’s correspondent at Tokio reports that the coasting steamer Matsu Maru has been sunk in a collision near Hakodate The captain with forty-three of the crew and the majority of the 234 passengers perished.
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    THE FRENCH AND MOROCCO.
    34 5 ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTS (Reuter’s Service.] London, 24th March. Reinforcements for General d'A made are arriving at Casablanca and several of tiie tribes of the interior are negotiating for their surrender.
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    LABOUR IN AUSTRALIA.
    27 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, 24th March. A strike of wharf labourers has broken out in Sydney and threatens to exrend to all the Australian ports.
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    THE BALKANS.
    25 5 [Reuter’s Service. London. 24th March. Greece has formally applied to the Porte to sanction a line for linking up Larks t and Salouica.
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    An Administration Case.
    251 5 In the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Leslie Thornton, the adjourned case of Alfred de Wind Neubronner, (administrator of Sultan Yusuf Aimarhuu Raferrallah) r. Che Mali binti Mat Hassan, was concluded. Mr. Neubronner, as the administi ator of the late Sultan of the State of Perak,
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      AGRICULTURAL BANKS.
      261 5 [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette." Sir. I observe in a recent issue of your journal that a Straits Government Official at pi esent on leave is making investigations on the subject of the working of Agricultural Banks in Egypt and India with the laudable object, presumably,
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      WELD QUAY RECLAMATION.
      224 5 [To the Editor of the Pinang Gaze't o Dear Sir, After reading the Hou. A Hutteubach's letter published yesterday— in re above—one is inclined to ask the question—what is the Chamber of Commerce doing, or has done, in the matter The following extract from a recent article
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    Penang Assizes.
    288 5 In the Supreme Court, this morning, before Mr. Justice Leslie Thornton, the second Assizes of the year were opened. The Solicitor-General (Mr. W. G Maxwell) informed His Lordship that, in two Dr. D. M. Ford, Senior Medical Officer, General Hospital, and Dr. Lang Niven, Medical Officer, who had
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    THE PLANTERS AND THE R.G.A.
    565 5 -T.O.M. An advertisement in the Kuala Lumpur paper, to which we are pleased to give free publicity, reads IMPORTANT. A MEETING OF PLANTERS will be held IN THE MASONIC HALL, KUALA LUMPUR, On Sunday, March 29th, at 10 a.m. TO DISCUSS RECENT PROPOSALS OF THE
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    Sumatra Tobacco.
    180 5 Advices leceived in Penang to-day from Medan give the following particulars of tobacco sold in Amsterdam on Friday last Deli Maatschappij 870 bales at gls. I'6B 1,187 at I'ls 535 at o’B3 432 at 0'77. Amsterdam Deli Co.: 430 bales at gls. 0 80 f. Medan Tabak Maatschappij
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    The Mails.
    44 5 Home- Ex- Positively To WARD. brBAMKK PECTED. DUE. SAIL. P. AO. Marmora 27/3 4 p.m. 10 p.m. B. I. Taroba 4/4 N.D.L. Pr. Ludwig 31/3 Outward. P. <k O. Devanha ‘26/3 6 a.m. B. I. 7'ara 2/4 N. D. L. Yorck 1/4
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    LOG BOOK.
    823 6 Captain J. G. Moore, of Rock I’erry, who founded the Imperial Merchant Service Guild fifteen years ago, and who up to June last occupied the position of secretary, died on Feb. 18 at Goole. The Grimsby trawler Crane, some of whose hands were killed and injured by the
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    62 6 Baba lax, Dut., 339, Smit, March 23; Port Soesoe, gen., Boustead Co. Bakca, Brit., 3794, Le Mare, March 22, Japan, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan Co. Clan Macintosh, Brit., 2575, Hacking, March 22, Rangoon, gen., Keat Wan Co. de Kock, Dut., 565, Visman, March 23, Paneh. gen., Huttenbach, Liebert fc
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    CLEARANCES.
    48 6 Ban Whatt Soon for Langkat Clan Macintosh for Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow, and Amoy. de Kock for Deli. Flying Dragon for Pulau Langkawi and Setul. Hye Leong for Teluk Anson. Itinda for Singapore. Perak (S.S. Co.) for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Pin Seng for Port Swettenham and Singapore.
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    MAILS CLOSE
    404 6 To-morrow. For. Per. «’lose. Negapatam and Madras Thongwa 10 a.m. Registration 4 p.m. to-day. Teluk Anson Cornelia 1 p.m. Teluk Anson Jin Ho 2 p.m. Langsa, T. Semawe, Segli, Olehleh, and v Hok Canton 3p m. Sabang Pangkor Tong Chay Un 4 p.m. Thursday. Singapore, China, and Japan
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    43 6 Name of Steamer, where from, approximate date of arrival, where bound, and Agents. Kut Sang, S’pore, Mar. 26. Calcutta. B. Lai Sang, Calcutta, Mar. 27, Hongkong, B. Senegambia, Hamburg. Mar. 27, Japan, B. M. Silesia, Suez, Mar. 25, Japan, B. M.
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    PASSENGERS.
    119 6 By Tara (Mar. 21) to Madras, Mr. W. D. Grand jean. By Pachumba (Mar. 21) to Mergui, Messrs. J. von Dale and Gim Aik. By Sofa la (Mar. 21) to Rangoon, Messrs. E. Hammond and H. E. Singleton to Calcutta, C. F. Hoobler and F. H. Love. By Kistna
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    SHARES.
    1157 6 M f j o Capital. Subscribed. shares. Value. Paid ap. Dividends. Name g •al 5 S’* 3 M 30 E-f I MINING. I Gold. 50.000 £1 £1 I/-paid January, 1901 Raub Aust. Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Fullv Paid 1892 £200, 00« £191.250 6 B/ 0 I/. (Contril.) 7. 1898
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    EXCHANGE.
    130 6 Pknang, 24th March, 1908. (By Courtesy tj th*. Chartered Hauk.) London Demand Bank 2 3 3/4 4 months’ sight Rank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4 316 3 Documentary 2/4 1/4 Calcutta Dernaml Bank Rs 174 3 days’sight Private 175| Bombay Demand Bank 173 J 3 days’sight Private 175| Madras,
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    PRODUCE.
    184 6 Pknano, 24th March. 1908. Gold leaf 65.40 Pepper (W. C<wu>> 3 lbs. 5 o».) no stock. White Pepper 18 50 sellers. Trang Pepper 13 buyers Mac® 75 sellers. Mace Pickings 57 buyers. Cloves (picked) 31 buyers. Nutmegs 110 $23 buyers. (No 1 $530 sales Sugar. < 2 x. no
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      35 6 Baby and grandfather can take Stearns’ Cordial of Cod Liver Extract because it is delicious and is made for people with weak Stomachs. Makes new blood and buildsun the system. IRON SAFES. McAlister Co., Ltd.
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      39 6 Rheumatism. No external application is equal to Chamberlain’s Pain Balm for Rheumatism. Prompt relief follows its use. A trial will convince you of its superior merit. For sale by all Chemists and Store-keepers. The George Town Dispensary, Wholesale Agents.
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      27 6 Petter’s Patent Petroleum Engines. THE MOST PERFECT MOTOR OF THE DAY. 2or Quotations and Catalogues APPJY TO SANDILANDS, BUTTERY CO. Sole Agents, PENANG AND F. M. S.
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      5 6 HARNESS ACCESSORIES. McAlister Co., Ltd.
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      86 6 MATSUO’S Japanese Cinematograph. New Pictures! New Pictures!! iKflliM: earner «I c«ap»ell street cm pcmmj rmc. We are Giving Two Performances Every Night. First Show Starts at 7 p.m. to 8-30 p.m. Second Show Starts at 9 p.m. to 11-30 p.m. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Ist SHOW. 2nd SHOW. First Class 0-50.
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