Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 11 December 1908

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 286 VOL. LXVI. FRIDAY, llth DECEMBER, 1908. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1096 1 THE PINANG GAZETTE.” GOVERNMENT WHARVES, PENANG. WANTED. xx w H I will deliver to you |K ■my world-famed fl SUBSCRIPTION. nr ENDERS will be received at the OWce I 'VT’OUNG LADY Assistant for Music I ■“ROBEYPHONE ’JC UICIUvJ I B 1 of the Resident Manager up till A Store Pianist
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  • 886 2 Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, M.P., delivered an address on Penny-a-word lelegrams to members of the Royal Colonial Institute, at the Whitehall Rooms last month The Earl of Jersey presided, and there was a large gathering. In the course of nis speech Mr. Henniker Heaton said I propose a
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  • 712 2 —{Standard of Empire}. Reference was made a few weeks ago to the murder of the young overseer of a Fiji plantation by a gang of Indian coolies The current mail brings accounts of the trial of the murderers. The overseer, Benjamin Richard Mount Hall, was in charge
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  • 260 2 In Canada the leisured class does not exist. The daughters of Canada are all of them working women. The Canadian woman cooks and cleans, attends to the various ceremonials of the laundry, fre quently fashions and completes h<-r own and her children’s garments, yet. she i*
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  • 363 2 Appended is the list of licenses granted by the Board of Licensing Justices on Wednesday PUBLIC HOUSES. Ist Class close at Mid-nioht $4BO per ANNUM.) Applicant. Application. Establishment. A. Sarkies Renewal E. &O. Hotel. A. Sarkies do Crag Hotel. Mrs. Marcus do Europe Hotel Emanuel Fenneck do Straits
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  • 361 2 Controversy still i ag*-s a>ound the merit* and alleg'd demerits of Hie latest silent engine, and it may be note i that the Westminster Gazette expert is among th-* latest to join in. Rep’ving a correspondent who signs himself Perplexed," he stat-d Some <>f the qu-stions pur.
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  • 270 2 The Sultan of Cotie is visiting Java with the hope of arranging for coolies to work in his own country. He wishes to establish the Javanese system of rice-cultivation. The Siamese Consul at Batavia has received the u Order of the White Elephant. Mr. Dambrink gets the order
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  • 108 2 Friday. 11 th December. Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p.m. Japanese Cinematograph. Penang 7.30 and 9.30 p.m. Saturday. 12th December. Homeward English (B.I.) Mail. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road. 7.30 and 9.30 p.m. Sunday. I3th December. Third Sunday in Advent. St. Lucy. M I4th December. Ladies’ Rifle Club. 4
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  • 32 2 December 11. 1885—New Agreement signed between Queen Victoria and Maharajah of Johore. 1898— Disastrous fire at Messrs. Sandilands, Butter. Co.’s godown, Singapore damages, $60,000. 1899 Methuen defeated at Magersfontein.
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  • 23 2 .Friday and Saturday, Dec. 11 and Id.—Household Furniture, Live Stock, etc. IT ui at Rejiository. Kelawei Road Cunningham, Clarke Co., auctioneer».
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  • 54 2 Straits Gorei nment. Repairs and Minor Woiks, and supply of bullocks and carts tenders close noon, Dec. 15. Kedah Government.— Tenders for Stationery, etc.; tenders close noon, Dec. 17. Government Wharves.— Supply of Stores for Tugs and Launches tenders close noon, Dec 26. Kedah Government.— Police clothing: tenders close
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  • 41 2 Westland* House, No. 4 Westlands, Morningside, (142 a Burmah Road) and No. 167, Anson Road apply Wreford anil Thornton. 9 Perak Road and 20a Leith St. apply Mrs. Kaufmann, Leith St. 39 Green Hall applv 19 Green Hall.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 58 2 U neasy rests the head that wears an ache n fact, it doesn’t rest at all. How strange it, is that people will try to bear the pain of a headache when they might easily get relief by taking one tasteless dose of Stearns’ Headache .< alwa y s cures
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    • 38 2 Moks Evert Year. —More people take Stearns Cordial of Cod Liver Extract every year than ever before. Tha's because it is a good thi*<g, builds up their health,and they tell their friends about it. SADDLES. McAlister Co., Ltd.
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    • 33 2 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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    • 681 2 IMXI CRUSHED FOOD. W NEW STOCK JUST RECEIVED ovrje I Try it and You will bb Satisfibd. jN^ra^PREM°ERS^° S COVENTRY- T R. BELILIOS begs to inform the ROVERS^ N S?AIGERS? M PRO- I public that since inferior Crushed GRESS. NUMBERS and CEN- p oo( j offered for sale in the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 66 2 The Tides. High Water. Low Water. Dec. JI 2.24 pm. 8.20 a.m. 12 312 p.m. 9.12 am. 13 4.01 p.m. 10.00 a.m. 14 4.45 p.m. 10.42 a.m. >, 15 5.36 p.m. 11.36 a.m. 16 6.24 p.m. 12.24 p.m. 17 7.12 p.m. 1.10 p.m. The Moon. Last Quarter 641 a.m. 16
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  • 1310 3 JANUARY MEETING, 1909. FIRST DAY. TUESDAY. 26th January. 1- the maiden plate. Value $5OO. A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight as per scale reduced 14 lbs. All horses imported into the Straits or F. M. S. as Subscription Griffins at a price not exceeding $4OO allowed 7
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    • 898 3 -burns PHILP LINE.” KT wr jr SINGAPORE TO *JAVA PORTS, I W PORT DARWIN, THU RS DAY IS LAND, BRISBANE AND SYDNEY, ALSO v If He, 1 A I 1 TAKING CARGO FOR OTHER NORTH J&QAH Mftll OICBIDShiP VO. Ld. QUEENSLAND PORTS, BRITISH NEW GUINEA, NEW BRITAIN NEW ZEALAND PORTS
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    • 128 3 Commerc^Union L Assurance The Lon<Jon Assurance NOTICE. Corporation. Tamil Immigration Fund Enactment, 1907. 25 26 CORNHILL, LONDON E. C. p MPLOYERS ot Tamil labour are hereEabtubh Bramob—SINGAPORE. by reminded that returns under the L -U D J no SOO non The undersigned, having been appointed above Enactment for the preceding
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    • 547 3 I The Commercial Sale R ooms (S 6 Beach Street/ Undertake the Sale by AUCTION ef Merchandiae (either aonnd or damaged) HOUSE and LANDED PROPERTY, and FURNITURE of all descriptions. Advances to a limited extent on the latter to suit customers can be arranged prior to sale, and the payment
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  • 39 4 Kinghorn. —On December 8, at Llanishen, Glamorganshire, the wife of H. PKinghorn, of a son (by cable). Saxblby. —On December 8, at the Municipal Bungalow, Kampoug Java Road, Singapore, the wife of Herbert R. Saxelby, of a daughter.
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  • 1229 4 From the Home papers to hand, we observe that, naturally, considerable space is devoted to the subject of the deaths of the Emperor ami Empress-Dowager of China, and their probable effect on the future of that country. It is recognised, generally, that during the last few
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  • 827 4 A correspondent wi ites to a Siugapot e paper The members of the subordinate civil service are suffering from the fact that Government has not treated them with the consideration to which they consider they were entitled, especially in view of the exchange compensation granted the senior
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  • 748 4 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Welham returned from England this morning. Dr. D. M. Ford, of Ipoh, arrived by the s. s. Hye Leong yesterday from Teluk Anson. The Rev. Brother James, of St. Xavier’s Institution, returned from Kuala Lumpur this morning. Mr. T. O. Mayhew, Chief Sanitary
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    • 315 4 EVER* OWE- f I English, Malay, and Chinese 1» DIARY 1909. I PuUlih'd by Messrs. KELLY WALSH. LU. i Foolscap Folio (I2f inches by 8 inches), 150 pages C < interleaved with blotting, strongly bouna cloth back 7 WI I’H SUPPLEMENT containing 5 > ALL USEFUL LOCAL INFORMATION > Price:
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  • 127 5 THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. AUSTRIA’S ATTITUDE. Reuters Sbrvicb.] London, 10th Dec. It is stated in Vienna that the terms of Austria’s reply to the Russian Note regarding the proposed International Conference, which was trans nutted on Tuesday last, promise t<> be favourable to the continuance of negotiations. Prince
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  • 74 5 AWARD TO ENGLISH PROFESSOR. Reuter s Service London, 11th Dec. The Nobel prize (£8,000) for Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Ernest Rutherford, FKB. Longworthy Proi>'Bor and Director of Physical Laboratorie», University of Manchester. 1 he Peace Prize. The Nob*»J Peace Pr ze has been divided between a
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  • 84 5 LATE EMPEROR’S FUNERAL. [Reuter s Service London. 11th Dec. Reuter's correspondent in Peking telegraphs that ih** ceremony at the funeral of •he late Emperor Kwang Su was most imposing. The body was conveyed to the mortuary to lie in state pending the construction of a sepulchre. Six
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  • 46 5 CLOSING OF FREE PORTS. Rbuter’s Sbrvicb] London, 10th Dec. The Duma has adopted the Government’s Bill closing the free ports on the Amur and in Trans-Baikalia Its supporters declared that the closing is nece'Sary to end the peaceful conquest of those territories by foreigners.
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  • 38 5 HUGE DEFICIT ANTICIPATED. [Rbutbr’s Sbrvicb.] London, 10th Dec. A telegram from Washington states that the Hon. Geo. B Cortelyou, Secietary of the Treasury, anticipates a deficit of £29,000,000 (sterling) and that extensive taxation will be necessary.
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  • 39 5 RADICALS AND THE LORDS. [Rruter’s Service London, 10th Dec. A Radical memorial to rhe Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister, urges that steps should be taken to appeal to the country against the House of Lords.
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  • 120 5 WALFISH BAY. Berlin, 10th Dec. In the Reichstag, Herr Dernburg, the Colonial Secretary, calle<i attention to a statement in The Standard (London) regarding negotiations between Great Britain and Germany in respect of Walfish Bay, which he declared was an invention. THE NEAR EAST. M. Markgraf von Pallavaciui,
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  • 850 5 'l’his is a case in which the plaintiff, Samuel Jesudason, claims from the I enang Coach Building Co., Ltd $5OO damages for alleged breach of agreement. Mr. P. K. Nambyur appears for the plaintiff, and .Mr. B E. Ross for the defendant company. Ihe hearing commenced in
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  • 348 5 The Cicely Rubber Estates Company’s preference shares rank for a preferential distribution of 5 per cent., and then pari passu with the ordinaries. Consequently with au interim dividend of 17| per cent, on the ordinaries the preferences receive 20 per ceut. This is the announcement cabled, aud it
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  • 134 5 Au extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the above Company was held in Colombo on Dec. 4 at -Messrs Whittail Jr Co. s Offices, when there were present :—Messrs. T. C. Huxley and A. A. Hankey (Directors), and V.A. Julius. Mr. C. W. Booty
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  • 149 5 A quiet wedding took place on Nov. 29 at the Scots’ Kirk, Kollupitiya, Ceylon, the contracting parties being Mr. George Goidon Wilson, Assistant- Postmaster-Gen-eral of the Straits and Miss Mary Watt Wilson, who arrived by the P. O India from London. The Rev. A. Dunn, M a.
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  • 93 5 The Homeward mail closes at the General Post Office to-morrow at 10 a.m. Letters posted at Dato Kramat SubPost Office and in the Pillar-boxes before 9 am. to-morrow will be in time to catch the Homeward Mail. Letters, etc., for despatch by the B. I. Contract Packet
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  • 43 5 Export from Perkk. The following advance figures of the export of tin from Perak for November (liable to correction) are sent by the Secretary to Resident, Pnrak Block Tin 9,502 Piculs 28 catties. Tin Ore 29,751 Piculs 15 catties. Duty $358,694.65.
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  • 41 5 The committee appointed for the revision of the landing and shipping charges of this port meets again to-dav. It is anticipated that this body, which, we hear, will recommend some radical changes, will complete its labours to-day.
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  • 31 5 The total number of votes given to Dr. P. V. Locke, yesterday, at the election of a Municipal Commissioner for the years 1909 1910, and 1911, was ninety-three.
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  • 416 5 AN EX-MANAGER’S CLAIM. The Kuala Lumpur paper of Dec. 9 reports Judgment was given yesterday by Mr. J. R. Innes, Judicial Commissioner, in the action brought by Mr. G. M. Craib, late manager of the Plang Estate at Sungei Siput, against Messrs. Harrisons, <’rosfield. Mr. < arnelly
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  • 225 5 A Home paper of Nov. 20 has the following Linggi Plantations lnterim dividend for the half-vear ended June 30 at the rate of 40 per cent, per annum. Sumatra Para Rubber -Interim dividend at the rat*» of 10 per cent, per annum for the five months from July
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  • 122 5 According to the M M., the result of the Selangor Ladies’ Rifle Club spoon shoot for December was as follows Mrs. Trump scr. 34 Miss V. Grey 32 2 34 Miss Grey 28 6 34 Mrs. Gallagher 26 7 33 Miss Charter 26 7 33 Mrs. Brown
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  • 100 5 Monthly Returns. The following is the monthly return of the tonnag*» of ood- and coal handled by the Government Wharves Department, Penang, since July 1, 19'>8. when it came under the control of the Penang Committee of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Board Cargo. Month. Imports. Exports. Transhipment.
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    • 568 5 Pinang Gazette Weekly Edition. (NUMBERING 28 PAGES) FOR SALE I FOR SALE I I 1 11 -i v Only a few books mors at th* cash priea for to-morrows Homeward Mail by the T J of 11.00 por book. (Postage tr—). B. I. s.s. Taroba, at 10 a.in., is now
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    • 1490 6 6 !g==!== THE mercantile BANK of BROWN V Co., o-k-vafiNDIA HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE HAN ESCOMPTO-MAATSCHAPPIJ. INDIA, LIMITED. Monumental Sculptors, CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. BANKING CORPORATION. MAATSCHAPPU- 01»«».« 8.. L) CALCUTTA. AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA. Netherlands Trading Society. iT Batavia, 1857. Authorised Capital £1,500,000. Establish*» A. D. 1852. Paid-up-Capita l»ls,ooo,ooo EBTi
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  • 1216 7 I i~ 1 Capita!. Subscribed Divided. Naroe g g J *3 i s |_|2 I M 5 j p—. MINING. Jana sQnnnnn Qnnnnn s ™2’aaa 3 oo sl $lO !10% year end. 31-3-08 Belat Tin Mining Co., Ltd. 7s. 7f... 1906 !aa’°2° 225 22 500 10 10: Bruang, Ltd.
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  • 103 7 Carlyle, Brit., 335, Treweeke, December 10, Teluk Anson, gen., Adamson, Gilfillan <fc Co. Derfflinger, Ger., (M)6O, Meiners, December 10, Hamburg, gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Kintuck, Brit., 2'-'9 Lewis, December 11, China, gen., W. Mansfield Co. Kum Sang, Brit., 2077, Buller, December 10, Hongkong, gen., Boustead Co. Kistna, Brit.,
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  • 46 7 Ayuthia for Deli. Carlyle for Teluk Anson. Flying Fish for Port Weld. Guat Seng for Pulau Langkawi and Perlis. Kintuck for Colombo and Tuticorin. Perak (S. S. Co.) for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Rotorua for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Sunda for Singapore, China, and Japan.
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  • 21 7 .¥-•»/*<? of Steamer, ictw* from, approximate date of arrival, where bound, and Agents. Benvoirlich, London, Dee. 12, Japan, S. B.
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  • 177 7 ARRIVALS. By Kistna (December 11) from Singapore, Messrs H E Beales, J van de Groch. T L Wilkinson, and Sergeant Roberts; from Port Swettenhsm, Rev Brother James, Messrs R Connell. C N de Cruz, Law Yew Swee, Teh Gan Tak, and On Soon Cheng. By Prinz Ludwig (December 8)
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  • 122 7 Penang. 11th December. 1908. (By Courtesy of the Chartered, Bank). London Demand Bank 2/3? 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/16 3 Credit 2/4| 3 Documentary 2/4 5/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174| 3 days’ sight Private 176 Boinbav Demand Bank 1741 3 «lays’sight Private 176 Madras Demand Bank 174$
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  • 195 7 Penang, 11th December, 1908. Gold leaf $65 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 0z).... No stock. White Pepper sl6| sales. Trang Pepper $10.95 sales. Mace 3 sales. Mace Pickings $63 sales. Cloves $39 sales. Nutmegs 110 $l9 buyers. C No. 1 $6.65 sales. Sugar s No. 2 No stock.
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  • 132 7 To-morrow. For Per. Close Madras, taking mails') for Europe etc., rid Taroba 10 a.m. Bombay Registration 4 p.m. to-day. Calcutta Kum Sang 11 a.m. Registration 4 p.m. Pang Nga Sportsman noon Trang Tong Chay Un 1 p.m. Batu Bahra Padang 1 p.m Pangkalan Brandan Petrel 1 p.m Deli
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  • 36 7 Hous- Ex- Positivklv Lo bTKAMKR. (x W4RU. PECTED. WR >AII.. P. Q. Delta 2/1 B. I. Taroba 12/12 N.D.L. Goeben 22/12 Outward. P. AO. Assaye 17/12 B.L Teesta 24/12 N D.L. P.E. Eriederich 24/12
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  • 634 7 Per P i O ss Victoria, from London Nov. 20, connecting with s s Assaye, at Colombo, due Penang, Dec. 17 :—To Penang Mrs Gordon Brown, Nessrs B L Griffin, R. St. Seedman and E \V Harvey. To Singapore: Mr and Mrs H C Dixon, Messrs
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  • 314 7 The Queensland Government Statistician states in his annual report that the export trade has been most satisfactory, Queensland wools taking a high place in the markets, having, for the most part, reached the top point in the matter of price. The quality, which fell somewhat a year
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  • 318 7 There has been a tragic finish to a terrific struggle waged between a young Canadian corporal in the Transvaal Police and an infuriated lioness. While riding from Rhodes’s drift to Messina, Corporal Eagle passed some transport riders, who had just killed two lion cubs. Shortly afterwards
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  • 265 7 Of all the «blights that make for the attraction of the homo circle—there is none so important in its effect as that of music. Music is one of the joys that tend to brighten home life, and to suffuse the whole home into perfect
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 104 7 I pure for israil >■ HOWARTH ERSKINE, Ltd., OPPRESSION in breathing, HOARSENESS, R > I CIVIL, ELECTRICAL, AND I MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, I J STRAITS, SIAM, F.M.S., CHINA, anil BURMA. MAlirT —I SOLE AGENTS FOR I Hornsby Oil Engines, Pulsometer Engineering Co., 1 I Pulsometers, Bnllivant’s Steel Hawsers, I I I
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    • 35 7 Appendicitis, now so prevalent, is believed to arise chiefly from Constipation and local inflammatory troubles, which may be prevented by the occasional use of Hunyadi Janos natural aperient water. Average dose a wine-glassful before breakfast.
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    • 31 7 Just as Good as It Tastes.—Stearns’ Wine of Cod Liver Oil is as good as it tastes* Makes sick people well and weak people strong Tastes like tine old table nnrt
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    • 2351 8 PIN AIN Vr AL Shipping Shipping. P. a 0. Steam Navigation Company. snipping. EXPECTED ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. *I intended sniii«g«- Norddeutscher Llovd, Bremen. iYRM MAIL SERVICE. ma I Dec 17 Victoria BRITISH INDIA Imperial German Mail Line. I/ Ja "2" Moouao STEAM NAVIGATION Co., M 28 Britannia Chi.» Fl /i\\
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