Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 4 May 1908

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    20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 102 VOL. LXVI. MONDAY, 4th MAY. 1908. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      968 1 FOR^ ALE Penang Turf Club. Penang Turf Club. «««■>•»' GODOWN and premises No. 21, Glad- (fuur-year-old); Buggy and Al’ stone Road. Immediate entry. L Harness, complete. NOTICE. PP 7 XY Z SNeW Chip Rltt» IlClttS t# COIOBbO. r PP DrtTTcrvtn t Can be seen at Pitt Street Police Nm’TC!R 274-7-5
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    1092 2 AUTUMN MEETING, 1908. Tuesday, the 28th July, Thursday, the 30th July, and Saturday, the Ist August, 1908. PROPOSED PROGRAMME To be considered and if approved to be passed at a General Meeting to be called for the purpose NOTICE. —No amendments to this Programme will be considered
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      657 2 Shipping. Y 7 “BURNS J*HIL p LINE.” H B SINGAPORE TO *JAVA PORTS, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE AND SY D- i NKY ALSO TAKING CARGO FOR .1 XPAN'MAIL STEAMSHIP Co., Lta. NEW ZEALAND, Tasmanian and V Al nil Hl mu u i QUEENSLAND PORTS. o (with transhipment) *hs inducement offers. A regular
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      457 2 NOTICE WALK UP ROLL UP SKIP UP I ANO DRIVE UP TO Newman’s Trocaaero,” No. 4, China Street. NOW OPENED Opposite the Anglo-Chinese Store. s Best Wines and Spirits, Quality and Purity Guaranteed. Ice, cola Drinhs, counter Lunen d any time. i WILLIAM NEWMAN, 5 Proprietor. Penang, 16th April, 1908.
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    MUNICIPAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR MARCH, 1908.
    2939 3 Election. 1. An election was held on the 10th of the month of a Commissioner in the place of Dr. P. V. Locke, resigned. Mr. Lim Cheng Teik was the only candidate nominated and he was duly elected, 61 votes being given for him.
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    MUNICIPAL COMMISSION.
    964 3 OFFICIAL. MINUTES. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Thursday, the 9th April, 1908. Present:— F. J. Hallifax, Esq. (President), L. H. Clayton, Esq J. W. Hallifax, Esq., Quah Beug Kee, Esq., and Lim Cheng Teik, Esq. Absent :—Lim Eu Toh, Esq. 1. The minutes
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      55 3 It is hard to understand why people are willing to bear the torture of headaches when there is such a sure and quick relief at hand. Stearns’ Headache Cure banishes headache and many other sorts of pain. It is wonderful and all who use it like it. Insist on Stearns.
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      37 3 Just as Good as It Tastes. —Steams’ Wine of Cod Liver Oil is as good as it tastes. Makes sick people well and weak people strong Tastes like tine old table port. IRON SAFES. McAlister Co., Ltd.
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      38 3 Feeling Better To-day.—Those people who began taking Stearns’ Cordial of Cod Liver Extract for a bad cough and general bad health last week are feeling better to-day. Don’t you wish you did STEEL TRUNKS. McAlister V Co., Ltd.
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      78 3 Australian Newspaper Man’s Experience With Diarrhoea. Mr. S. G. Mathers, publisher of Chronicle, Norm'«n town, Queensland, says: Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy completely cured me of chronic dysentery from which I had suffered for years. I feel confident that this remedy also saved the life of my infant daughter,
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      170 3 BOVRIL should be in every home as well as in every hospital. When you are worried and cannot eat well nor sleep well, yon will find a great help in BOVRIL. Beware o» Cheap Imitations. By Mayai Majasty Warraat to the King. Expeditions and shooting parties should gSi 6* never
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    THE WEEK.
    58 4 Monday, 4th May. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.in. Corriek Family,’’ Town Hall, 9.30 p.m. Matsuo’s Cinematograph, 7 and 9 p.m. High water 2.25 a.m. Low water 8.24 p.m. Tuesday, sth May. Band, Golf Club. Corriek Family,” Town Hall, 9.30 p.m. Matsuo’s Cinematograph, 7 and 9 p.m. High
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    Monday, 4th May, 1908.
    1146 4 Now that the Bengali malcontent has taken to hurling bombs and an English lady has been murdered at Mozufferpore, perhaps the Cottons, O’Gradis, Smeatons, and Keir Hardies who have encouraged the anti-British agitation both in Parliament and in the Press, will recognise the grave responsibility which
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    TEN DAYS IN THE “ ULU.”
    1198 4 TEN DAYS IN THE ULU.” Thrkb Hundrkd Miles by Road, Rail, River, and Elephant through Upper Perak, Rahman and Kedah. VI. Two days after our arrival at Intan was the date officially fixed for the opening of the Rahman Tin Company’s’mill, and on the night previous the guests began to
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    The Corrick Family.
    108 4 This exceedingly clever and versatile family of entertainers arrived here this morning by the B. I. s.s. Santhia and open at the Town Hall to-night for a short season only. The Company have just concluded a most successful tour through India, and on the way to Penang
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    Penang Hunt Club.
    430 4 A paperchase has been arranged for Wednesday, 6th inst.; meet at Dato Kramat Gardens at 5 p.m. and finish at Crosby Hall,” where Mr. D. W. Gilmour will be “At Home to the members of the Hunt Club and their friends. i Mr. J. F. Owen, of
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      179 4 NOTICEi ZXWING to the difficulties of collection on and ♦vJ after May Ist, ail Bills must be settled on ♦leaving the Eastern and Oriental and Crag < Hotels. No Bills will be posted for collection to any 4 J outstation. 4 SAR KIES BROTHERS, Proprietory. o©©o©oo©©©©o©©o©o©©©oo©ooo©g I Spectacles and Pinc-nezs
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      124 4 CONTRIBUTIONS must be addressed fo The Editor,” written on one side of the paper only, and acccompanied by the writer 1 j name and address, not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith. yg LL MONIES must be paid at the Pinang Gazette Office, Penang, to the
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    RUBBER.
    126 5 LATEST LOKDOK PRICES. HIGHLANDS 1907 DIVIDEND. [From Our Own Correspondent.] London, 2nd May. The April receipts of rubber at Para amount to 3,350 tons against 4,499 tons in the corresponding month of last year. Piantation-grown rubber is dearer. Sheet rubber has fetched 3/8 per lb. White crepe is quoted
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    THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
    86 5 CHINA’S “COURAGEOUS EFFORT.” IRrutkr’b Service] mg, Chinese Minist the annual meeti the Suppression Dodsworth. who nr His Ex. Li Ching-fung, Chinese Minister in London, attended the annual meeting of the Society dor the Suppression of Opium. Sir Matthew B. S. Duds worth, who presided. warmly welcomed the
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    POLITICS AT HOME.
    73 5 THE DUNDEE BY-ELECTION. [Rkutrr’b Servicr.] London, 4th May. Polling at Dondee will probably take place on Saturday next. Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at a Lilreral meeting in Dundee on Saturday evening, said that he did not anticipate a general election for tw> years, but the unexpected might
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    THE GREAT MOTOR RACE.
    54 5 PROGRESS OF THE COMPETITOR-?. [Reutkr’s Service.] Loudon, 4th April. The French and Italian motor-cars which are competing in the race from New York to Paris, have arrived at Tok io from Seattle. The American car, though it reached the Pacific coast first, is behindhand through missing
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    THE SOUDAN.
    51 5 A BRITISH OFFICER KILLED. [Reuters Service London, 3rd May. In a telegram from Cairo it is reported that Mr. Scott-Moncrieff, Deputy Inspector of the Blue Nile Province, has been assassinated near Mesalamieh. The Governor, Major E. A. Dickinson, and a force have started for the scene of the
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    GERMAN SHIPPING.
    52 5 THE N. D. L.’s NEW SUBSIDY. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 3rd May. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag bas passed, by fourteen votes to thirteen, the Bill to provide the Norddeutscher Lloyd with a further subsidy of half a uiillion marks for a weekly service between New Guinea, Australia,
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    ELECTRIC CAR ACCIDENT.
    39 5 SEVEN PERSONS KILLED. [Rsutbr’s Sbrvicb. London, 4th May. Seven persons have been killed and injured by a runaway electric car, J'hich was descending a gradient at I ‘'Uruemouth, falling twenty feet on to a hooded bank.
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    THE BRITISH ARMY.
    110 5 MW TERRITORIAL FORCES. Mr. HALDANE AND RECRUITING. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 2nd May. Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Leicester on Friday night, said that recruiting for the Territorial Army was proceeding in a most satisfactory manner, there being at least thirty per
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    RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
    27 5 A DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT. [Reuter’s Service.] Loudon, 3rd May. A telegram from St. Petersburg states that Senator Malevitch has been appointed Russian Ambassador to Japan.
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    129 5 SHIPPING. Berlin, 3rd May. It is reported from Norderney that the Norddeutscher Lloyd mail steamer Kiiln (7,409 registered tons) has had a collision with a tank steamer. The passengers, numbering eight hundred in all, have been saved. THE PRUSSIAN COURT SCANDAL. Prince Philip Eulenburg is to undergo
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    "Yenna Vehnum ?"
    177 5 "Yenna Vehnum Mr. F. G. Ha -vey, the ma iager of Pataling Estate, has undoub’e Uy done the planting community a service in publishing this little book of fifty pages entitled Yenna Vehnum I A Tamil Handbook for Beginners. The author, in a short introduction, disclaims having attempted to produce
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    Racing at Home.
    154 5 Great Metropolitan Stakes. London, 28th April. The following is the result of the race for the Great Metropolitan Stakes run at the Epsom Spring Meeting to-day The Great Metropolitan Stakes (hep) of 1,000 so vs., second received 50 so vs. About miles (51 entries). Mr. L. B.
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    SINGAPORE RACES.
    1332 5 ENTRIES FOR SPRING MEETING. The Singapore Spring Race Meeting will be held on Tuesday,Thursday, and Saturday, the 12th, 14th, and 16th inst. At noon on Saturday, the entries closed for all events, except the Steward’s Cup, Scurry Stakes. Ladies’ Purse, and Rochore Plate, which are to be run
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    LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
    1190 5 —S.F.P. FRIDAY, MAY Ist, 1908. PRESENT. His Excellency the Governor, Sir John Anderson, x.c.m.g. Hon. Capt. A. H. Young (Colonial Secretary). His Excellency Major-Gen. T. Perrott, c.b. Hon. W. G. Maxwell (Act. Attorney-General_). W. C. Michell (Act. Auditor-General). A. T. Bryant (Act. Colonial Treasurer). A. Murray (Colonial Engineer).
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    LOG BOOK.
    772 6 The Russian Supreme Prize Court has allowed the claim for £131,400 sterling for the British stamer Ikhona sunk by the cruisr Terek in 1905. Amongst those who sent messages of sympathy in respect of the Tiger disaster were Vice-Admiral Baron Saito, the Japanese Minister of Marine, and the
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    64 6 Db Kock, Dut., 565, Visman, May 3, Langsa, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert It Co. Hbbk, Brit., 384, Andrews, May 4, Singapore; gen., W. Minefield A Co. Hok Canton, Brit., 294, Scott, May 3, Acheen, gen., Ban Ho Hin. Muttra, Brit, 2985, Sullivan, May 2, Singapore, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert A
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    CLEARANCES.
    46 6 Canton for Pangkor and Teluk Anson. Drli for Trang and Pang Nga. Flying Fish for Port Weld and Taiping. Hf.br for Deli. Malaya for Deli. Mabtsuijckkr for Pulo Weh, Olehleh, and Padang. Sree Banka for Batu Bahra. for Singapore. I’rieste for Singapore, China, and Japan.
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    MAILS CLOSE
    347 6 To-morrow. For. Per. ’bw*. Eangkat Jin Ho 1 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Pin Seng 3 p.m. Pulau Langkawi and Setul Flying Dragon 3 pm. Port Swettenham and Singapore Perak (8.8. Co.) 4 p m. Wbdnesdat. Batu Bahra Padang 1 pm. Pangkor TongChayUn 4 p.m. ON WEEK DAYS
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    64 6 Name of Steamer, where from, approximate dale of arriral, where bound, and Agents Benlomond, London, May 8, Japan, S. B. Delhi, Colombo, May 7, China, A. G. Memnon, Liverpool, May 7, Japan, W. M. Persia, Singapore, May 7, Fiume, S. K. Palermo, London, May 6, Japan, A. G.
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    PASSENGERS.
    98 6 By Tara (May 2) from Singapore, Mrs. Olphert and sons, Messrs. W. Creig, F. Fox, Q. B. Mari, Pertile, and J. B. Young; to Madras, Mr. W. H. Barrett By Coen (May 2) to Olehleh, Mr. Cheong Bee Guan. By Kistna (May 2) to Port Swettenham, Misses C. and
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    SHARES.
    1182 6 I I'.pital. Bnb«rib«l. r v“” P.M Uf. DiVMMxi.. j L L L MINING. Gold. r anmMi £1 £1 I/-paid January, 1901 lUub Aust. Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Fully P»i<i t 1892 £200,000 £191,250 f j |a/|0 m (Contrib) 1898 /.500,000 /3,500,000 25,000 <lOO <lOO ;71 per emit, for 1907
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    EXCHANGE.
    124 6 I‘rnang, 4ih May. 1908. (/fy Courtesy nJ th-> Chartered Hauk.) Lon<l<»n Demand Bank 2.3 3/4 4 months’sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 1/4 316 3 Documentary 2/4 1/4 Calcutta L>eman<l Bank R» 174| 3 days’sight Private 17o| Bombay Demand Bank 174 3 «lays’sight Private 175| Madras. Demand Bank 174
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    PRODUCE.
    173 6 Pknano, 4th May, 1908. Gold leaf 65.40 Pepper (\V oast 3 lh 5 <»«.) no stock. White Pep|>ei 18 sellers. Trang Pepper 11.50 sellers Mac® 75 sellers. Mace Pickings 67 buyers Cloves (picked) 31 buyer* Nutmegs 110 $21.50 sales. SNo I $5.30 sales. 2 x. no stock. Basket (3.80
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      5 6 SCALES. McAlister 9 Co., Ltd.
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