Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 28 September 1908

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      1570 2 “BURNS philp line.” ]kT TZ' XTbe flMnang (sasette flbress, Xtb. SINGAPORE TO ’JAVA PORTS, M I I I I 3 Japan Mail Steamship Co.U. I UWWU Li U W NOTICE TAKING CARGO FOR OTHER NORTH 3 QUEENSLAND PORTS, SX W JI H 3 BRITISH NEW GUINEA, NEW |k JI If
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    MUNICIPAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR AUGUST, 1908.
    3426 3 Mebtingb. 1. Ordinary Meetings of the Commissioners were held on the 13th and 28th of the month. The Burial by-laws which had been discussed at previous meetings, and which had aroused a good deal of opposition, were again brought up at the meeting on
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    THE WEEK.
    158 3 Mo»d»y, 28th September. St. Andrew’s Society: Annual Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 4.30 p.m. Ladies’ Rifle Club, 4.30 p.m. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament. Pathescope, 7-30 and 9-30 p.m. Tuesday, 29th September. St. Michael and All Angels. St. George’s Church, Holy Communion, 8 a.in. Homeward
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    TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
    140 3 September 2S. 1863—Late King Carlos of Portugal bom. 1870—Strassburg capitulated. 1887—Calamitous inundation of Yellow River, China. 1895—Pasteur died. 1905—Franco-German Agreement on Morocco signed. 1905 —Steamer Chatham blown up in Suez Canal. 1905—Straits Medical School opened by the Governor. 1907—Lord Cromer received Freedom of City of London. 1907—Straits
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      51 3 People who grin and bear it when they have headaches have never used Stearns’ Headache Cure, you may be certain. If they once knew what quick relief it would give them and how much better they feel after taking it they would never willingly suffer the torture again. Insist on
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      32 3 Stearns’ Wine of Cod Liver Oil is cod liver oil in its modern and most effective form. It is entirely free from the nauseating fatty matter and contains the medicinal principles only.
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      22 3 Stearns’ Cordial of Cod Liver Extract invigorates the blood, renews powers, energies and ambitions, and re-establishes the system on a healthy basis.
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      33 3 Fire Insurance. Queen Insurance Company. Royal Fire Insurance Company. The undersigned have been appointed Agents for the above Companies, and are open to accept Fire Risks at current rates. KATZ BROTHERS, Ltd. Agents.
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      39 3 The Tides. High Water. Low Water. Sept. 28 2.24 a.m. 8.23 pm. 29 3.13 am. 9.13 p.m. 30 4.01 a.m. 10.02 p.m. The Mooru First Quarter 2 Oct. O Full Moon 9 Last Quarter 16 O New Moon 23
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    MARRIAGE.
    37 4 Wagnir-Ottzen.—On September 9, at St. Philip’s Church, Rangoon, Christine Alice, youngest daughter of Captain A. Ottzen, of Copenhagen, Demmark, and Janet Ottzen, of Penang, to Pius Henrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wagner, of Germany.
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    Monday, 28th Sept., 1908.
    1157 4 From time to time the medical papers are kind enough to tell us what we should eat ami drink, what we should avoid, and how much of everything we can safely swallow. It is true their advice is sometimes difficult to follow by reason ef certain
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    PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.
    255 4 CARTER THE MAGICIAN.” On Saturday night an entertainment was given by “Carter the Magician” in the Town Hall, but owing to the late arrival of the P. O. Malta, which did not anchor till after eight o’clock, the performance, which was billed for nine o’clock, did not commence
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    The Singapore Turf.
    87 4 Autumn Meeting Entries. Entries for the Singapore Races close at noon on Saturday, next, October 3, except for those events mentioned below Entries will be received for Races Nos. 2,4, and 5, on the Third Day up to 6 p.m, on Thursday, October 15. Entries for Race
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    St. George’s Church.
    480 4 To-morrow being Michaelmas Day and the Festival of St. Michael and All Angels, there will be a celebration of Holy Communion in St. George’s Church at 8 a.m. The usual monthly meeting of the Church Work Association will be held in the Town Hall on Thursday, Oct.
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    767 4 Mr. S. C. Ambrose returned to-day by the s. s. Perak from Singapore. Mr. P. C. Gordon, Resident of Sad ont Sarawak, died on Sept. 10, at Sadong, fro® congestion of the brain. Mr. W. Quin is to act as Registrar of Jinrikishas, Malacca, during the absence
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      286 4 B,i lM “CRAG’“HOTEL. new SERVICE VMMV Between Penang, Tongkab, Kopah, SANATORIUM, Victoria Tavo y PENANG HILLS. the Company’s steamer Bhadra (600 A perfect health resort and an 1 Tons) will maintain a regular fort- ideal spot for spending holidays nightly service between the above ports aa<| wcck cnds She has
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      88 4 must be addressed to The Editor,” written on one side of the paper only, and accompanied by the writer’s name and address, not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith. A LL MONIES must be paid at the Pinang <4 Gazette Office, Penang, to the General Manager,
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    NEW ROBBER VENTURES.
    127 5 ANOTHER SUMATRA COMPANY. CAPITAL OF £35,000. From Our Own Correspondent London, 26th Sept. The prospectus has been published of the Glenbervie Rubber Company, Limited, with a capital of £35,000, in £1 shares, of which 22,000 shares will be issued at present. The company has been formed to
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    THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS.
    98 5 Mr. W R. HEARST’S ACCUSATIONS. [Reuter’s Service! Loudon, 27th Sept. The recent accusations made by Mr. W. R. Hearst, the American millionaire newspaper proprietor, that Mr. J. B. Foraker, Republican Senator for Ohio, Mr. Barley, a well-known Democrat, and other prominent Republicans and Democrats, have had financial
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    F.M.S. RAILWAYS.
    165 5 LANDSLIPS AT THE PASS. PENANG TRAIN DELAYED. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Ipoh, 26th Sept., 2-20 p.m. Two serious landslips have occurred at the Gabis Pass, outside Taiping. The express mail train from Penang is held up at Taiping. [This telegram was only received at the Government Telegraph Office,
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    GERMANY’S NAVY.
    28 5 A NEW WARSHIP LAUNCHED. Reuter's Service 1 London. 28th Sept. The Rheinland, the third German battleship of the Dreadnought class, was launched on Saturday at Stettin.
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    152 5 THE BALKANS. Berlin, 27th Sept. The Porte has addressed a Note to the Powers lequestiug their intervention in the railway dispute with Bulgaria. Berlin is in agreement with the disputants settling their own quarrel. The promise made by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria to Baron von Aehrenthal, Austrian
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    THE NEAR BAST.
    161 5 lIXIBTY OF THE POWERS. THE TURCO BULGARIAN DISPUTE. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 26th Sept. The Porte has addressed a Note to the Powers stating that the Bulgarian occupation of the Rumelian section of the Oriental Railway is a violation of Turkey’s rights and intervention by the Powers is
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    THE COTTON CRISIS.
    55 5 COMPANY SHARES AT A DISCOUNT i Reuter's Service London, 26th Sept There has been much unloading of shires in new cotton-spinning companies in the south-east of Lancashire as a result of the 1 >ck-nut <>f operative*. Some shares, on which fifty shillings each Lad been paid, were
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    THE LICENSING BILL.
    45 5 HYDE PARK DEMONSTRATION. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 28th Sept. A monster demonstration, attended by about 300,000 persons, was held in Hyde Park yesterday to protest against the Government’s Licensing Bill. One hundred and seventy trains brought deputation® from all parts of the country.
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    RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
    39 5 A MINISTERIAL CONCLAVE. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 26th Sept. M. Isvolsky, Russian Foreign Minister, has conferred with Herr von Schon, German Foreign Secretary, at Berchtesgaden (a Bavarian village, on a mountain slope, 15 miles south of Salzburg.
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    A Heavy Sentence.
    283 5 Ernc’t Astbury, Assistant Government Marine Surveyor at Singapore, and formerly Chief Engineer of the Colonial steamer Sea Mew, pleaded guilty before His Honour Mr. E. E. Colman, District Judge, at Malacca, on Thursday, to three charges of cheating in respect of sums of $lO. The charges were
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    THE SEVERE STORM.
    615 5 FURTHER DETAILS. Further reports have come to hand concerning the storm of Friday night and Saturday morning. A Kulim official on a visit here says that the padi plants in nurseries were completely washed off by the floods, and the padi fields resembled huge lakes the next
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    Legislative Council.
    262 5 The following are the orders of the day for the meeting of the Legislative Council on Friday next 1. Motion by the Colonial Secretary That this Council adopts the draft proclamation published in the Gazette of the 25th September and now laid upon the table bringing into operation
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    PENANG ASSIZES.
    422 5 TWO MURDER CASES. At the Assizes, in the Supreme Court, thia morning, before Mr. Justice W. W. Fisher and a special jury, Loh Wah alias Chong Ah Tai was charged with the murder of Mak Leng, and claimed to tried. The Acting Solicitor-General (Mr. P. J. Sproule) appeared
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    Roman Catholic Festival
    214 5 Our Lady of Sorrows.” The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Macalister Road, was thronged to overflowing yesterday morning when the feast of its Patron Saint was celebrated. The service commenced at eight o’clock, the Right Rev. Bishop Barillon, Bishop of Malacca, officiating. His Lordship
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    Hongkong Budget.
    127 5 Straits Times. Thu Opium Estimates. Hongkong, September 25. The Governor of Hongkong, Sir Frederick Lugard, in introducing the Budget, of the Colony for 1909, said that no final solution had been reached regarding the opium question, and consequently the estimates showed no reduction in the anticipated opium receipts.
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    91 6 To-mokkow. For. Per. Close. Trang Leong Ho 1 p.m. Deli Perak (E.S. Co.) 1 p.m. Pangkalan Brandan Vidar 1 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Ban Whatt Soon 2 p.m. Teluk Anson Hye Leong 3 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Perak (S.S. Co.) 4 p.m. WEDNESDAY. Teluk Anson Mary
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    European Mails.
    39 6 Home- o Ex- Positively To WARD. bTBAMBR PEOTBD. DUS. SAIL. P. &U. Devanha 10/10 B. I. Teesta 3/10 N.D.L. P. E. Friedrich 29/9 Outward. P. &O. Assay e 8/10 B. I. Putiala 4/10 N.D.L. P. Alice 1/10
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    764 6 Per N. D.L. s.s. Prinzess Alice, from Bremen, August 26, from Southampton September 1 due Penang, Oct. 1 :—To Penang: Mr C H Burgerdyk, Mr A de Vries, Director J H Fock, Mr G Overdykink jr. Mr Paul Gotze, Mr Ferd Hinnaens, Mrs Meinesz de Weerd,
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    146 6 Avagyee, Brit., 247, Campbell, September 27, Tongkah, gen., E. S. Co. Bharata, Brit., 1957, Swanson, September 27, Singapore, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Canton, Brit., 106, Gillies, September 26, Teluk Anson, gen., Ah Heng. Calypso, Brit., 339, Bannatyne, September 27, Singapore, gen., W. Mansfield Co. Germania, Ger., 1713, Jurgessen,
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    CLEARANCES.
    66 6 Avagyee for Tongkah. Canton for Dindings and Teluk Anson. Deli for Trang and Pang Nga. Flying Fish for Port Weld and Taiping. Glenogle for Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow, and Amoy. Kum Sang for Singapore and Hongkong. Malacca for Tongkah. Poona for Port Swettehnam, Singapore, China, and Japan. Sree Bangka for
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    43 6 Aame of Steamer, where from, approximate date of arrival, where bound, and Agents. Bena von, London, October 2, Japan, S. B. C. Apcar. S’pore, Oct. 8, Calcutta, A.A.A G. Apcar, S’pore, Oct. 29, Calcutta, A.A.A. Glenturret, London, Sept. 29, Japan, B.
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    PASSENGERS.
    115 6 ARRIVALS. By Lin Dola (September 28) from Rangoon Messrs. J. B. Fressauger, P. Hafermann, and Jhaga. DEPARTURES. By Kistna (September 26) to Port Swettenham, Mrs. Ho Seigh and Mr. Chong Quee Wah to Singapore, Mr. and Mrs. J. Sargant, Inspector and Mrs. Frayne, Mrs Peralsvog, and Mrs. Rosie Grossmann.
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    EXCHANGE.
    120 6 Penang, 28th September, 1908. (By Courtesy oj the Chartered Bank.) London Demand Bank 2<3 15/16 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 3 Documentary 2/4 5/16 Calcutta Demand Bank It*. 174 j 3 days’sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 174| 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras, Demand Bank 174|
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    PRODUCE.
    188 6 Penang, 28th September, 1908. Gold lent 65 Pepper (W. Coast 3 II». b oa.) no stock. White Pepper $l5 sellers. Trang Pepper $lO nom. Mac» $7O nom. Mace Pickings $6O nominal. Cloves (picked) out of season. Nutmegs 110 $l9 sales. (Mo I $6.65 sales. Sugar. <„ 2 x. no
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    SHARES.
    1156 6 x g .2 o, j No. of Issue p Dividends. Name. E t; ■g Capital. Subscribed, shares. Value, ts b c ffl x §> MINING. 1903 $300,000 $300,000 30,000 $lO $lO 10% year end. 31-3-08 Belat Tin Mining Co., Ltd s 6 1906 300 000 225,000 22,500 10 10
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      465 6 PENANG VOLUNTEERS. ORDERS BY CAPTAIN J. H. G. MARRIOTT, M. S. G., Actg. COMMANDANT. September, 1908. 1 Police Shooting Friday and Saturday mornings. Ladies’ Shooting Club every Monday afternoon. .ppngth» —No. 35/ Pte. J. H. Keer taken on the strength and posted to “B” 2, dated 7-8-U8 No. 358 Pte.
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      8 6 SCALES. McAlister MF Co,, Ltd. IF, U‘ IF*.
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