Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 November 1908

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 271 VOL. LXVI. TUESDAY, 24th NOVEMBER, 1908. PRICE 20 CENTS.
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      1079 1 THE PINANG GAZETTE.” FOR SALE. COMMERCIAL SALES ROOM. NOTiCE, M!— lIy HFRSI'RIPTION 'T* ENDERS are invited for the supply of OIJ odd rubber stumps, io months Important Auction Sale 1 stationery and office requisites for S' B For Daily Issue, in Town, $27 per annum, ld MANAGER AT Messrs THE
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    BORNEO’S RESOURCES.
    590 2 COMPARISON WITH MALAYA. Mr. F. W. Foxworthy, of the Bureau of Science, Manila, stopped off in Zamboanga a few davs on his return from a three and one-half month’s trip through Borneo, the Straits Settlements, and Malay States, says the Mindanao Herald, of Oct. 31. He spent some
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    Wages on Rubber Estates.
    285 2 A correspondent writes to the Times of Ceylon as follows Can any sane man have any doubt that a substantial increase in coolies’ wages is absolutely inevitable The testimony of the native witnesses before the Labour Commission on this point was disbelieved because they were interested
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    PICKED UP AT SEA.
    692 2 adrift in a sampan. It is seldom that a steamer nowadays comes across a boat adrift at sea. I his, however, was the experience of the British India steamer Shirala which arrived in Calcutta on October 31, with a cargo of molasses from Java. How thia
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    Next Year's Calendars.
    226 2 Messrs. Koh and Co., stationers, and booksellers, Singapore, send us a copy of their 1909 calendar, showing a month on a page in clear, bold type. The Scottish Union and National Insurance Company’s calendar for 1909 gives an excellent portrait of His Majesty King Edward. This Company,
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    STRAITS SURVEYS.
    509 2 A YEAR’S WORK. At Friday’s meeting of the Legislative Council, Captain Sir A. H. Young, C.M.G., the Colonial Secretary, laid on the table the annual report on the Survey Department of the Straits Settlements for the year 1907, as prepared by Mr. A. Murray, the Colonial Engineer and
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    National Service League.
    219 2 The Singapore list of the National Service League now stands at 100 members and associates. Twenty-four adherents are promised from Malacca, ami Major A. B. Hubback, Commanding Officer of the Malay States Rifle Volunteers, has promised to beat up recruits in the Native States. Colonel Murray, Singapore,
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    The Indian Student in England.
    119 2 London, 4th November. At a meeting held under the auspices of the East India Association last night, Doctor Pollen read a paper on The Indian Student in England.” Lord Lamington presided. Many Indiana were present and participated in the discussion, which was of an animated
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    GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISE.
    293 2 S.T. In Netherlands India, the Government grows coffee, cultivates cinchona, and works tin and coal mines. Coffee has had its day, owing to low prices and disease among the plants, and the crop has shrunk from 1,243,000 piculs, in 1883, to 82,000 piculs—the figures for 1909. The Java
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    THE WEEK.
    155 2 Tuesday. 24th November. Band, Golf Club. Lodge Scotia, 9 p.m. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road, 7.30 and 9 30 p.m. Wednesday. 25th November. St. Catherine. Reel Practice, Town Hall, 6 to 8 p.m. Nursing Association, Town Hall, 4-30 p.m. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road,
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    TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
    25 2 November 2./. 1642—Tasmania discovered. 1814—Peace with America. 19<'7—At request of Governor of Java, Salvation Army took charge of criminal pauper leper population.
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    AUCTION SALES.
    65 2 Wednesday, Nov. 25.— Low Hye Chuah’s property, Province Wellesley Butterworth Police Station 10-30 a.m. A. M Joseph, auctioneer. Wednesday, Nov. 25.— Stock-in-trade Thean Chee Co.’s, Bishop St.; 10-30 a.m. Joe de Mello, auctioneer. T/mrsday, Nov. 26.— Stock-in-trade 21 Chulia St.; 11 a.m.; J. R. McFarlane, auctioneer. Saturday, Dec.
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    TENDERS.
    52 2 Straits Government.— Rations, etc. tenders close: noon, Nov. 26. F.M.S. Railways.— Selling Refreshments at Stations tenders close noon. Nov. 30. Prye Dock.— Firewood for 1909 tenders close noon, Nov. 3'». Kedah Government.—Tenders for Gambling and Spirit Farms; close Dec. 5. Kedah Government.— Tenders for Stationery, etc.; tenders close noon,
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    21 2 Westlands House, No. 4 Westlands, and Morningside apply Wreford and Thornton. 39 Green Hall apply 19 Green Hall.
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      53 2 The heart can ne’er a transport know, that never feels a pain,” says Lyttleton. Fortunately this is not true of the head. The less headache one has the better off he is. It is well to be provided with Steams’ Headache Cu which always cures all sorts of headache quickly.
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      657 2 When buying Lime Juice Buy the Beet» W The Best is W I “Montserrat” I Lime Juice. I "MONTSERRAT” is prepared from cultivated limes* and is I always fresh and pleasant to the taste. Mixed with plain or I aerated water, it makes a cooling, refreshing, healthful drink, B Try
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      66 2 The Tides. High Water. Low Water. Nov. *24 12.00 m. 6.00 p.m. 25 12.48 a.m. 6.47 p.m. 26 1.36 a.m. 7.36 p.m. «> 27 2.24 a.m. 8.23 p.m. 28 3.12 a.m. 9.12 p.m. 29 4.00 a.m. 10.00 p.m. 30 4.47 a.m. 10.42 p.m. The Moon. O New Moon 4.53 a.m.
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    Tuesday, 24th Nov., 1908.
    933 4 From the accounts given by our Bangkok contemporaries of the celebration of the King of Siam’s record reign, it is evident that every section of the cosmopolitan community united together to emphasise their appreciation of the progress made under King Chulalongkorn’s regime. The Siamese as a
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    To-day’s exchange rate is 2/3 ⅞.
    345 4 To-day’s exchange rate is 2/3 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $68.55 per picul, buyers no sellers. Tin in London is quoted at £135 15s. spot and £137 I 2s. 6d. three mouths. The following were the dealings in tin to-day —Singapore (Straits Trading Co.), 75 tons, $69;
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    CORRESPONDENCE.
    233 4 “INTERNATIONAL” FOOTBALL. [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette."] I Dear Sir, Two years ago, following a most melancholy exhibition of Rugby football, Scotland versus The Rest,” I presumed to suggest that, unless every facility were given in future for practice, Rugby should be deposed by soccer on St.
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    Tamil Labour.
    213 4 Mr. Lim Cheng Teik’s’Appeal. It will be remembered that on Oct. 1 Mr. L. H. Clayton, Superintendent of Indian Immigrants, prosecuted Mr. Lim Cheng Teik, proprietor of the Khie Heng Bee Rice and Oil mills, Sungei Pinang. before Mr. B. Nunn, Third Magistrate, for failing to send in
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    Penang Assizes.
    162 4 The Assizes were opened in the Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Justice W. W. Fisher. The first case called was that of Law Ah Seng, who was charged with being in possession of instruments for the purpose of counterfeiting King’s coin and with being in possession of
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    Ladies Rifle Shooting.
    153 4 The twentieth practice shoot by the members of the Penang Ladies’ Rifle Club took place on the Rifle Range at Kampon» Bharu, yesterday, when there were sixteen members present, but two were unable to shoot owing to the rain, which kept several other members awav. Appended are
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    774 4 Sir E. N. Baker, the new Lieut.-Goveru-or of Bengal, has started for India. Sir William Taylor, k.c.m.g., F.M.S Resident-General, left Taiping for Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The death occurred on the Bth inst at Banchory, Kincardineshire, of Colonel J. A. Man Stuart, C.B. Mr. H. C. Nicolle, the
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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 j name and address, not necessarily for insertion but as a guarantee of good faith. LL MONIES must be paid at the Pinang iT* Gazette Office, Penang, to the General Manager,
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    TUB EDUCATION BILL.
    85 5 SOME OF ITS FEATURES. THE COWPER-TEMPLE CLAUSE. I Reuter’s Service London. 23rd Nov. Among the features of the New Education Bill is Cowper-Temple teaching for three-quarters of an hour daily in provided schools, which can be replaced by denominational teaching two mornings a week at the cost
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    PERSIAN POLITICS.
    75 5 SHAH AND THE CONSTITUTION. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 23rd Nov.' A telegram from Teheran says that the Shah has proclaimed that, as the learned people do not want a Constitution and a Parliament, he has decided to defer to their wishes. In Conflict with Islam. Moreover, as the Clergy
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    TRUSTS IN AMERICA.
    69 5 J. D. ROCKEFELLER’S EVIDENCE. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 24th Nov. Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, who was severely cross-examined for several days in the Federal Court of New York in the retrial of the suit brought against the Standard Oil Company, narrated circumstantially and nonchalantly the history of the
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    CHINA AND AMERICA.
    49 5 PRINCE TANG SHAO Yl’S MISSION. [Reuter’s Service.] Loudon, 24th Nov. Prince Tang Shao Yi, the Chinese Commissioner, has arrived at San Francisco on his mission to thank America for the remission of the Boxer Indemnity and to enlist American co-operation in the development of North China.
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    RUSSIA IN THE FAR EAST.
    37 5 EFFECT OF CHINESE COMPETITION [Reuter’s Service.] London, 23rd Nov. The financial committee of the Duma have recommended the abolition of freepori privileges at Vladivostock and other Asiatic ports owing to Chinese competition
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    THE NEAR EAST.
    36 5 A SUGGESTION REPUDIATED. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 24th Nov. A semi-official statement in St. Petersburg repudiates the suggestion that Russia will seek territorial compensation in Azerbijan, Persia, for the annexation of Bosnia by Austria.
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    PRESIDENT CASTRO.
    28 5 A PROPOSED VISIT TO EUROPE. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 24th Nov. President Castro, President of the Republic of Venezuela, is coming to Europe to undergo an operation.
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    Penang Nursing Association.
    50 5 We may remind our readers that a meeting of subscribers will be held in the Town Hall to-morrow at 4.30 p.m., when all those interested in the Association are cordially invited to attend. The business is to consider and, if approved, pass the proposed Constitution and Rules.
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    THE CORONER’S COURT.
    749 5 AN ALLEGED MURDER. The inquest on the body of Mat Salleh, who is alleged to have been murdered by Mohamed Hussain, a Bengalee, on Wednesday last, at Perak Road, was held in the Second Magistrate’s Court, yesterday afternoon, by Mr. A. V. Brown, Coroner, and three native
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    Opium Traffic.
    156 5 Private Conference at |Westminster. London, Nov. 20. Thirty members of Parliament who take a special interest in the opium trade have conferred privately at Westminster. They strongly advocate the earliest suppression of opium dealing in the Crown Colonies. It is reported that these members intend to start a
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    IPOH JOTTINGS.
    1097 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.] Ipoh, Nov. 23rd. The most important piece of news I have for you this week is the assault on the young European assistant on Cicely Estate last Wednesday by Javanese coolies employed on the Estate. No one knows quite what happened as Mr. Green,
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    Siamese Malaya.
    356 5 D writes from Renong to the Singapore Free Press I have recently read an article in the Pinang Gazette, copied from your newspaper, under the heading A trip up the West Coast of Siamese Malaya to Victoria Point.” As some of the remarks of your correspondent F are
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    A Business like Hint.
    218 5 Thus the Malay Mail One often wonders why the Government business departments are not conducted in a more business-like way. For instance on more than one occasion we have heard that applications for telephones could not be immediately entertained because there were no instruments in stock.
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    SPECIAL GERMAN SERVICE.
    217 5 MOROCCO. Berlin, 23rd Nov. The French Yellow book on Morocco does not contain anything of vital interest, while the recent incident at Casa Blanca is not touched upon. THE NEAR EAST. Baron von Aehreuthal, the Austrian Foreign Minister, has consented to an Austro-Servian commercial treaty notwithstanding the
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    SHARES.
    1141 7 Capital. Subscribed. Dividends. Name. J E j 1 i s o I CQ QQ O' I j j |j j j MINING. 1903 $300.000 $300,000 30,000 $lO $lO 10% year end. 31-3-08 Belat Tin Mining Co., Ltd. 741 7} 1906 300,000 225,000 22,500: 10 10 Bruang, Ltd. 7 1901
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    96 7 Coen, Dut., 823, Hut, November 24, Padang, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert A Co. De Kock, Dut., 565, Visman, November 24, Langsa, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Glenogle, Brit., 2399, Larkins, November 24, Rangoon, gen., E. S. Co. Gregory Apcar, Brit., 2961, Belson, November 23, Calcutta, gen., A. A. Anthony A
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    CLEARANCES.
    59 7 Arratoon Apcar for Calcutta. Carlyle for Teluk Anson. Gregory Apcar for Singapore, China, and Japan. Glenogle for Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow, and Amoy. Hong Moh for Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow, and Amoy. Ipoh for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Kleist for Ceylon, India, and Europe. Leong Ho for Trang. Pin Seng for
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    PASSENGERS.
    52 7 ARRIVALS. By Malaya (November 24) from Deli, Mr and Mrs Oldigs. Mrs Day, Miss Heiligers, Messrs H Keitel, Kriens, Holst, Denholm Young, Spakier, Enklaar, v d Brand, Schicke, Schlundt, besides 92 deckpassengers. DEPARTURES. By Lian Choo (November 24) to Kedah, Mr and Mrs G H Lees and Mr Yeoh
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    EXCHANGE.
    122 7 Penang, 24th Novembbr, 1908. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank 2;3f 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4| 3 Documentary 2/4 5/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174} 3 days’ sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 174} 3 days’sight Private 176 Madras Demand Bank 174|
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    PRODUCE.
    192 7 Penang, 24th November, 1908 Gold leaf $65 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 0z).... No stock. White Pepper slsj buyers. Trang Pepper $10.95 sales. Mace $7l sales. Mace Pickings $6l sales. Cloves (picked) Out of season. Nutmegs 110 $lB sales. {No. 1 $6.65 sales. No. 2 No stock. Basket
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    71 7 To-morbow. For Per. Close. Batu Bahra Padang 1 p.m. Teluk Anson Cornelia 1 p.m. Dindings Deli 4 p.m. Thursday. Singapore, China and Japan Bulow 11 a.m. Langkat Jin Ho 1 p.m. Pang Nga Sportsman 1 p.m. Ashan Mary Austin 1 p.m. Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, and > Vidar
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    European Mails.
    40 7 Home- Ex- Positivri.v Fu Stkamer. WARD. PKCTBD. Duk. ftAIL. P. O. Oceana 5/12 B. I. Thongwa 28/11 N.D.L. P. Ludwig 8/12 Outward. P. <k O. Delta 3/12 B. I. Teesta 26/11 7 a.m. N.D.L. Bulow 26/11 6 a.m.
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    811 7 Per N.D.L. s.s. Buelow, from Bremen, Oct. 21, from Southampton, Oct. 27, due Penang Nov. 26 :—To Penang Mrs Madden and child, Mr and Mrs G C de Grann, Rev. and Mrs G F Pykett and family. Messrs F F L Platte, P W Koenig, K
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    THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
    256 7 The health returns of the Penang Municipality for the week ended November 14 show that there were 96 deaths—7s males and 25 females, and one unknown—-equal to a death rate of 49.44 per mille per annum. The death-rate and chief causes of mortality during the three weeks
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    Unclaimed Letters.
    129 7 Ihe following unclaimed letters, parcels, and telegrams are lying at the Penang Post Office Anderson, Col. J. Morris, C. M. Abbot Meinesz, A. Bosh, E. van der Morris, E. P. Erskine, P. K. Maitland, N. G. Fletcher, J. Price, W. G. Finkelestain S. M. Paget, A. K. Houston,
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    Sunday Rest for Coolies.
    260 7 Ou a rubber estate in Deli—Laut Tador, in the district of Padang Bedagei—managed by Englishmen, trouble has arisen with Javanese coolies on the Sunday rest question. Ihe estate belongs to the Sumatra Deli Rubber Estates Company, and the Englishmen recently took charge of the property on
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