Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 29 September 1909

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833 No. 221 VOL. LXVII. WEDNESDAY. 29th SEPTEMBER. 1909. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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      2268 1 [HF PINANG GAZETTE.” the ahclo-chinese store, i he Government of the cJLoX S U BSC KI PT lON. We are now large consignment of Straits settlements. r'7 K, d h DR' N K 3 provisions from the well-known firms, Crosse and Thn PAI/nmmnnf of .$70.000 which will he subsequently *7
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    IS HOME TRADE IMPROVING?
    878 2 of the fact on its own account.—Henry Burton in the Investor's Chronicle. In a perfectly organised State it ought to be unnecessary to ask the question which form* the above title. There should exist such an extensive register of economic data as would enable any one
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    The Kitchener Statue.
    28 2 London, 20th September. Ths Standard this morning published an article again calling attention to, and supporting, the Calcutta Fund for a statue to Lora Kitchener.
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    British Warship Ashore.
    19 2 London, 21st September. The destroyer Itchen has gone ashore in a bad position on the Shetlands.
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    THE STRENGTH OF A GIANT.
    661 2 home.—F. G. Aflalo, in the Pall Mall Gazette. One afternoon last week I wandered up and down the winding paths of the neglected gardens which once hedged the majesty of Abd-ul-Hamid in his kiosk of Yildiz. Yesterday, I stood outside the low wall which, with
    home.—F. G. Aflalo, in the Pall Mall Gazette.  -  661 words
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    Lord Kitchener's Future.
    254 2 Thus our sprightly contemporarv, the Asian, on the future of Lord Kitchener Our greatly esteemed conteinp. of Allahabad Bays that it feels it in its bones, so to speak, that when the next Viceroy is wanted Lord Kitchener will be the man that they will ring up.
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    Persia.
    59 2 London, 1 6th September. In th® House of Commons Mr. Dillon asked for the probable date of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Persia. Sir Edward Grey said he hoped that Persia was on the way to a better state of things but she was in a transitory stage
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    ENGLAND’S CRAZE FOR SPORT.
    620 2 A GERMAN VIEW. A German correspondent has sent to the Times the following free translation of an article on English Sport in Der Tag According to statistics, which the London Press only repudiate as too low a capital of 45 million pounds sterling is laid out
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    Anchylostomiasis in Ceylon.
    238 2 Increasing Severity of the Disease In his annual Report just issued the Hon. Mr. Arunachalam says: —1,256 death were registered as due to anchylostomiasis or dochmius duodenalis against 951 in 1907, of which number 345 were in Kandy, 237 in Ratnapura, 124 in Kalutara, IC6 in Colombo,
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    THE WEEK.
    126 2 Wednesday. 29th September. St. Michael and All A. Outward German Mail. Band, Esplanade, 9 p.m. League Football: C.R.C. v. P.W., Victoria Green. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road Thursday, 30th September. St. Jerome. Outward English (B.I.) Mail. Municipal Commission, 3-30 p.m. League Football G. S. v. Free School, Esplanade. Japanese
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    TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
    79 2 September 29. 1865 —Great hurricane at Manila. 1879—Singapore Club, Chamber of Commerce and Exchange opened. 1894 —Impounding Reservoir, Singapore, opened after enlargement. 1905 Goldsmith’s College opened by Lord Rosebery. 1906 Sir W P. Treloar elected Lord Mayer of London. 1906 Steamer Charterhouse foundered off Hainan Head. 1907
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    TENDERS.
    191 2 Penang Harbour Department:— Tin number plates for cargo, passenger, and fishing boats, and boards for fishing stakes; tenders close noon, Sept. 30. Honghong Government —Opium Farm tenders close Sept. 30. Straits Government :—Opium, liquors, and tobacco farms, Labuan tenders close noon, Oct. 1. Straits Government:— Opium Farm of Penang;
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    37 2 33 Northam Road apply Kennedy Co. Westlands Bungalows, Nos 1,2, 3, and 4 appl Wreford Thornton. 66 Cantonment Road (furnished) apply Adams Allan. 17 Logan Road (furnished or unfurnished) apply H,” c/o Pinang Gazette.
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    AUCTION SALES.
    63 2 Saturday, Oct. 2.— Shares in Land, etc. 88 Beach St. 11 a.m.; Koh Eng Hin, auctioneer. Monday, Oct. 4- —Land in Huttoh Lane 11-30 a.m. Logan’s Buildings Cunningham, Clark Co. auctioneers. Monday, Oct. 11.— Shares in land 11 a.m. Logan’s Buildings; J. R. McFarlane, auctioneer. Saturday, Oct. 16
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      49 2 An Eminent Physician says: “I think Hunyadi Janos mineral water a very good aperient for a tropical climate. It seems, to me to be one of the best—if not the best—of the mineral waters for restoring an overworked liver to its normal condition. Average dose, a wine-glassful before breakfast.”
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      127 2 The Moon. Last Quarter 1.44 p.nj. 6 Oct. O New Moon 3.13 p.m. 14 First Quarter 2.04 p.m. 22 O Full Moon 5.07 a.m. 29 The Tides. Date. H. W. L. W. H. W. L. W. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. Sept. 29 6-05 12-18 6-31 30 12-44 6-57 1-10 7-22
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      814 3 tssmosouito curtains ’Required month!, will ba NaUdlD tCO Gate Ct)., Lt(L, g •^S1^ O,1OW8: Q penang-medan. STOCKED IN ALL SIZES. 50,400 pikuls, Q 0 At Port Weld. 0 Discount bills and advance loans for 0 4 Prai 340 pkU1S ©short periods on produce, import goods, O V 25,704 pikuis O
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    Wednesday, 29th Sept., 1909.
    1966 4 Events appear to be moving pretty quickly in Greece and we shall not be surprised to hear of a coup d’etat during the next few weeks. The whole trouble which is now worrying good King George, who is a statesman as well as a boulevardier, may
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    LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
    1051 4 ST. XAVIER’S v VOLUNTEERS Considerable inter est was taken hy t j devotees of soccer in the League Inat played on the Esplanade yesterday a fu noon between the St. Xavier’s and the Penang Volunteers Sports Clu? as a win meant a good deal for either the matter
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      194 4 r I I THE DISINFECTANT STANDARD is IZAL A TRIUMPH OF CONCENTRATION. A recent Scientific Discovery Officially adopted by the Imperial Government. insures efficient disinfection at a cost so trifling as not to be worthy of consideration on the ground of expense. AGENTS I GUT HRIE CO., Ltd., Penang and
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    TANJONG PAGAR BOARD.
    78 5 half-yearly report PENANG wharves work. \From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, 29th Sept. The report of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Board shows an increase of $BO,OOO in ipts for the half year ended June 30, 1909. The Government Wharves, Penang, with 121,615 tons of cargo and 58,657 tons
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    THE RUBBER INDUSTRY
    79 5 another f.m.s. flotation. From Our Own Correspondent.'] London, 29th Sept. The Carey United Rubber Estates, Ltd., A *en floated with a capital of £150,000 f,-’he purpose of acquiring Paradise and K mg Estates, and also 5,000 acres of f, e-t fiom the Jugra Land and Rubber Estates,
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    EDUCATION IN THE STRAITS.
    51 5 A BOARD TO BE ESTABLISHED. From Our Own Correspondent. 1 Singapore, 29th Sept. A Government Gazette-Extraordinary n tifies that a Bill will be introduced iu the Legislative Council to establish an Education Board for the Colony, with p wer to collect a rate of one per
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    THE SUFFRAGETTES.
    65 5 “A HORRIBLE OUTRAGE” [Reuter’s Service London, 29th Sept. Replving in the House of Commons to Mr J Keir Hardie (Labour member for Merthyr-Tyfil), Mr. C. F. G. Masterman, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Home Office, confirmed the reports that the Suffragettes imprisoned at Birmingham are refusing to take food
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    BRITISH SHIPPING.
    75 5 THE EMPLOYMENT OF LASCARS. [Reuter’s Service London, 29th Sept. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, ieplying to Mr. W. Thorne Labour member for West Ham, South), relative to the employment of Lascars as «.men, said chat the records did not support the view that Lascars
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    SPAIN AND MOROCCO.
    52 5 THE RIFF WAR. Reuter s Service London, 29th Sept. The Spaniards have captured Zeiuan. Dkr Ostasiatische Lloyds service.] Berlin, 28th Sept. The latest Spanish victory over the R.ffians has aroused great popular enthus.asm in Madrid. Constitutional guarantees have now been I •'-established in almost all the districts
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    HUNGARIAN POLITICS.
    63 5 RESIGNATION OF THE CABINET. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 29th Sept. A telegram from Budapest states that Dr. Alexander Wekerle, the Hungarian Premier, announced iu Parliament that the Carmet had resigned owing to a disagreemerit among the parties supporting tle Government. He had advised the King to summon M. Kossuth
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    THE CRISIS IN GREECE.
    138 5 MASS MEETING IN ATHENS. KING GEORGE’S HOPES. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 29th Sept. At a mass meeting, practically the whole of the population of Athens demanded reforms in the Administration. The King of Greece replying to the deputation, said that he trusted that the Government and the
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    THE VICTIMS OF THE AIR.
    60 5 KAISER’S DELICATE ATTENTION. [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 28th Sept. At the funeral of the victims of the disaster to La Republique, the French military dirigible balloon, the military attache to the German Embassy in Paris, on the instructions of the Kaiser, laid a wreath
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    THE HUDSON CELEBRATIONS.
    42 5 GERMAN ADMIRAL’S SPEECH. [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 28tb Sept. In connection with the Hudson-Fulton celebrations in New York the German representative, Admiral Koster, made a speech at the Metropolitan Opera House which has been unanimously praised in America.
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    THE MONSOON.
    30 5 EXCELLENT PROSPECTS IN INDIA. [Reuter’s Service London, 29th Sept. The Indian monsoon has ended and there are excellent prospects everywhere of heavv crops of cotton and grain foods.
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    PROGRESS IN AVIATION.
    23 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 28th Sept. At Berlin M. Latham made a flight of ten kilometres in thirteen minutes.
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    The Municipal Commission.
    310 5 The following is the bu-iness for the meeting of the Municipal Commission to-morrow 1. Minutes of last meeting to be read and confirmed. 2. Any social business the President may bring forward. 3. Questions. 4. Letter from Government appointing Mr. F. J. Hallifax as President Municipal Commissioners
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    PENANG ASSIZES.
    2331 5 A CHARGE OF MURDER. The special jury cases on the calendar of the present Assizes were commenced yesterday morning before Mr. Justice Thornton. The first case to be called was that of murder against a Javanese named Hassan bin Para, and after the jury had been empanelled, the
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      546 5 Central Sales Room. AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT AND Ai Enormous Sale BY PUBLIC AUCTION, (without limit OB rbsrrvb) OF All the Stock-in-Trade of the Dissolved Firm of Messrs. ALLAN IRVING, COMPRISING 2 Steam Launches, I Tongkang, Engines, Boilers, Machinery, Drilling, Mortising and Mitreing Machines, Hydraulic Screw Jacks, Centrifugal Pumps, Rivetting Forges,
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      1852 6 Nwz municipal notice. NOTION. j|] e standard Lila Assurance Co., oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooq g THE next Ordin«ry Meeting of the WorM’j Grrttest Industry at Present. (SSTABLISUBD lees). O n I U«l lel on WANT», who British Lif. Offlw in the tot O Dr fill AL Japan Mail Steamship to. Ld. Thursday, the
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    SHARERS.
    1420 7 a. c i ;u~i Number of Issue E E Capital. Subscribed. shares. Value. Dividends. Name. 3 J m ac MINING. mt# $300,000 oS’SS *l2 810 12 per cent, year end. 31-3-09 Belat Tin Mining Co $6 6$ ;<90,000 223,000 22,;>00 10 10 Bruanz Ltd. 5? 6 ♦jWj.OOO 1° 10
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    62 7 C. Apcar, Brit., 1730, Hudson, Sept. 29, Hongkong, gen., A. A. Anthony Co. Cornelia, Brit., 194, Williams, Sept. 28, Port Swettenham, gen., E. S. Co. Canton, Brit., 106, Sahib, Sept. 29, Teluk Anson, gen., Kong Soon. Hok Canton, Brit. 295, Scott, Sept. 29, Langsa gen., Ban Ho Hin.
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    CLEARANCES.
    48 7 Ban Whatt Soon for Teluk Anson. Deli for Trang and Pang Nga. Flying Dragon for Port Weld. Hong Wan I. for Singapore, Hongkong, Amoy and Swatow. Hong Bee for Singapore, Hongkong, Amoy, Malaya for Deli. P R. Luitpold for Colombo and Tuticorin. Tong Chay Un for Dindings.
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    PASSENGERS.
    23 7 ARRIVALS. By Malaya (Sept. 28) from Deli, Mrs Hirsch, Messrs O Magnee, H Meissel, S Hattori, R Hattori, and Dr F Schaefer.
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    116 7 /Vame oj Steamer, where from, approximate date of arriral, where found and Agents. A. Apcar, Calcutta, Oct. 11, Japan, A.A. Astyanax, Liverpool, Oct 6, Japan, W. M. Atsuta Maru, Singapore, Oct. 1, Antwerp, B. Borneo, P’Swettenham, Oct. 1, Antwerp, A.G. Bena von, London, Oct. 2, Japan, S. B.
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    EXCHANGE.
    126 7 Penang, 29th September, 1909. By Courtesy oj the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank 2/4 5/32 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 5/16 3 Credit 2/4} 3 Documentary 2*4 9/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 176 3 days’ sight Private 177$ Bombay Demand Bank 176 3 days’sight Private 177 f Madras Demand
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    PRODUCE.
    197 7 Penang, 29tu September, 1909. Gold leaf s64.B'* Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 0z).... No stock. White Pepper $21.50 sales. Trang Pepper $15.75 sales. Mace 87 sales. Mace Pickings $BO sellers. Cloves out of season. Nutmegs 110 slB} buyers. fNo. 1 $5.80 sales. Sugar < No. 2 No stock.
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    114 7 To-Mobrow. Kedah Lian Choo Ba.m Deli Calypso 11 a.m. Aaahan Mary Austin 1 p.m. Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, and > Cornelia 1 p.m. Malacca j Deli and Langsa De Kock 3 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Teesta 3 p.m, Friday. Tongkah Rotorua 1 p.m Rangoon Tong Hong 2
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    Passengers to the Straits.
    563 7 Per P <fc O ss Macedonia, from London, September 10 —To Penang Mrs Hamilton and Mr W W Acton. To Singapore Mr and Mrs H J Crunney, Mr. and Miss McClymont, Mr and Mrs J Kerr, Mrs W H Williams, the Rev W E Horley, Mr
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    LOG BOOK.
    895 7 For training purposes the Home Fleet, now in Scotch waters, has been divided into five groups stationed at Lossiemouth, Cromarty, Dornoch Firth, St. Andrew’s Bay, and Moray Firth respectively. Battle practice was to begin on September 7, and extend over October. A new feature was to be the
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      101 7 The Troubles of Digestion, of pain, flatulence acidity, and so on, are happily in most cases simply the expression of some fleeting disturbance of function The best way to restore tone and regularity to the intestinal tract is by taking a wine-glassful of Hufiyadi Janos natural aperient water the first
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      202 7 Skin Troubles are often the direct result of digestive disturbances. Waste products, instead of passing off in the way intended by Nature, attempt to escape from the body by another route—namely, the skin. To redirect the stream to its proper channel all that is needed is a wine-glassful of Huny&di
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      33 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 “HunyndiJinos”natural aperient water. Average dose a wine-glassful before breakfast.
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