Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 16 October 1909

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833 No. 236 VOL. LXVII, SATURDAY, 16th OCTOBER. 1909. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    THE PITFALL OF QUOTATIONS.
    1187 2 Since the days of Mrs. Malaprop there has been an increasing tendency among nearly all classes of the community to “disarrange their epi'aphs” Whether this is mainly due to a looser manner of thinking since our public schools abandoned much of the classical side of their
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    Collapse of a Calcutta Building.
    420 2 Onb Hundred People Buried. Calcutta, 30th Septeml>er. News reached the police this evening to the effect that a huge three-storeyed building, known as Monoh ir Dass Kuttra Burra Bazaar suddenly collapsed, burying about a hundred person*, including women and child) en, mo’t f whom, it
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    A Japanese Love Song.
    206 2 Your small feet are white, But the willows are blue Your small lips are red, But the great clouds are grey The waves are so many That whisper to you But my love is only One flight of spray. The bright drops are many, The dark
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    THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
    237 2 In the Penang Municipality for the week ended September 25 there were 60 deaths—--44 males and 16 females—equal to a deathrate of 30.78 per mille (estimated population, 102,520). The death-rate and chief causes of mortality were •g -g 2 c® eg coo vQv 9 v 9 jw
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    Lord Rosebery and the Liberals.
    383 2 A Claim for Complete Independence. Lord Rosebery, in a preface to the author ised version of his Glasgow apeech, published by Mr. A. Humphreys, Piccadilly, under the title of The Budget, its Principles and Scope,” remarks “It is difficult to know whether anyone who gets
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    THE WEEK.
    104 2 Saturday, I6th October. Penang Golf Club: Special General Meeting, 6-30 p.m. Cricket: P.C.C. v. Volunteers, Esplanade. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road. Sunday, 17th October. 19th Sunday after Trinity. Monday, IBth October. St. Luke, Evangelist. League Football: Crescent v. C.R.C., Victoria Green. Lodge Scotia, 9 p.m. Japanese Cinematograph, Penang Road.
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    TO-DAY IN HISTORY.
    145 2 October 16. 1813 —Battle of Leipsic. 1894 British dollar sanctioned for Straits and Hongkong. 1895 Raub Railway opened. 1901 —King of Siam visited Pitsanuloke. 1904 King of Saxony died. 1905 Swedish Riksdag passed Bill repealing union with Norway. 1905 —King laid foundation stone of New Post Office,
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    TENDERS.
    157 2 F.M.S. Railways :—Five steel lighters tenders close noon, Oct. 20. Penang Municipal Commission.— Brick and lime, firewood, various materials, uniforms, supply of disinfectant, bullocks for street watering carts and road-roll-ers, etc., and bullocks for night-soil vans tenders close noon Oct. 27. Penang Municipal Commission.— Renting of Noordin St. Ghaut
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    HOUSES TO LET.
    86 2 33 Northam Road apply Kennedy Co. Westlands Bungalows, Nos. t, 2, and 3; appl Wreford Thornton. Westlands House apply Wreford Thornton. 66 Cantonment Road (furnished); apply Adams Allan. 17 Logan Road (furnished or unfurnished); apply H,” c/o Pinang Gazette. 14 Logan Road apply M. M. Noordin. u
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    AUCTION SALES.
    36 2 Monday. Wednesday, and Friday, Oct. 18, 20, and 22. Engineering and Electrical Stock-in-trade; 40 Weld Quay and 30 Beach St. Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Friday, Ot. 22.— Mining lots; 11 a.m.; Taiping Land Office.
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      58 2 The Troubles of Digestion, 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 Hvnysdi Janos natural aperient water the first thing
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      98 2 The Tides. Date. H. W. L. W. H. W. L. W. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. Oct 16 1-36 7-36 2-01 801 17 2-24 8-20 2-49 8 45 18 311 9-12 336 9-37 19 4-00 10-00 4-25 10-25 20 4-47 10-48 5-13 11-13 21 5-34 11-36 6-02 12-02 „22 623 12-24
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      72 2 The Moon. First Quarter 2.04 pm. 22 Oct. O Full Moon 5.07 a.m. 29 Last Quarter 438 a.m. 5 Nov. O New Moon 9.18 a.m. 13 The Sun. Apparent times of Sunrise and Sunset in Penang From Sunrise. Sunset. Oct. 13 to Oct. 19,... 5-57 a.m. 6-3 p.m. Oct. 19
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    1200 3 JANUARY MEETING, 1910. (UNDER S. R. /L RULES OF RACING.) PROPOSED PROGRAMME To be submitted to a Special General Meeting to be held on Monday, 15th November, 1909, at the rooms of the Penang Chamber of Commerce, at 4-30 p.m. NOTICE. No amendments to this Programme will
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      864 3 INTENDED SAILINGS. Tronoh Mines, Ltd. Straits Steam Ship Co., Ltd. notice. t T BEG to inform you that I have received For Intended to Sail. I Steamer. cable instructions from the head office, London, that an interim dividend of I/- Every Tuesday, at 5 p.m. per share free of income
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    Saturday, 16th October, 1909.
    1280 4 Iu the five separate schemes for the extension of the water supply of Penang there is surely one which should meet the needs of this town for a considerable number of years to come, and that irrespective of whether we are favoured with a regular distribution
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    THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.
    812 4 INVITED TO PENANG. We understand on good authority that negotiations have been set afoot, on the initiative, we believe, of the Committee of the Penang Cricket Club, with a view to inducing the Australian cricketers to stop in Penang on their way to Singapore next month aud
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    491 4 Mr. C. W. 0. Parr, Acting Commit sioner of Trade and Customs, F.M.S., iu Ipoh on Wednesday. Dr. McDowell, c.m.g, P. C. M 0 expected in Perak next week on his anm la inspection of the Government hospitals Major-General Perrott. c. 8., Officer C,, IU manding the
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    Lectures on Hygiene.
    404 4 Air and Water Dr. Kirk delivered his four h lecture u Hygiene at the Fete School yes e day evening, choosing the above as hi subject Speaking firs’ly of Air, he explained that it was a mixture as distinguished fr m a chemical compound, and consi-ted mainly
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      407 4 .yr i !:!i!!!:i T- :;;::::K:i T- T rll Ij In Consumption “Suitable to the most (delicate stomach.” Dear Sirs.—Some tune since I became a victim of phthisis, and rapidly lost weieht. When, however, on the advice of my doctor, I availed myself of Angier s Emulsion my health liegan to
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    THE JAPANESE BOYCOTT.
    173 5 CUE AGAINST A TOWKAY. LENIENT TREATMENT. Front. Our Own Correspondent.] Ipoh, 15th October. The caae against Towkay Au Chok Phang, w h> is alleged to have insulted Mr. H C. Hi iges, Protector of Chinese, was taken to day. Mr. R J Wilkinson was present on behalf
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    THE BARCELONA ANARCHISTS.
    94 5 THE EXECUTION OF FERRER. [Reuter’s Service.] London, 15th October. Serious rioting occurred yesterday in Florence, Milan, Naples, Trieste, Lyons, aud elsewhere, many persons being injured. Th- Labour Federation has decreed a general strike for 24 hours throughout palv a-> a protest against the execution of S. n
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    RAILWAYS IN CHINA.
    71 5 CAPITALISTS’ CO-OPERATION. THE ATTITUDE OF JAPAN [Reuter’s Service London, 16th October. A telegram from Washington states that a group of British and American capitalists are completing arrangements with China for the construction of a railway from l liin-Chowfu anil Tsitsihar. I is understood that Japan has notified
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    AVIATION IN ENGLAND.
    55 5 AN /EROPLANE WRECKED. [Reuter's Service] London, 16th October. An aviation week has opened at Don-ca-ter. Several leading Frenchmen have entered. With a half gale blowing, Col. Cody alone made a short flight. The aeroplane of an Englishman named Capt. Windham bee hud overturned by the wind while
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    DOVER’S NAVAL HARBOUR.
    36 5 THE OPENING CEREMONY. [Reuter s Service 1 London, 16th October. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales opened the Naval Harbour at Dover amid great ceremony. The new harbour can accommodate Dreadnoughts at all tides.
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    DR. COOK'S EXPLORATIONS.
    36 5 A STATEMENT IN DEFENCE. [Reutrr’s Service London, 15th October. Dr. Cook declares that if an expedition will go to Mount McKinley it will find on the summit the records that he deposited there.
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    THE "DREADNOUGHT" ERA.
    28 5 [Reuter’s Service] London, 15th October. The Admiralty have invited tenders for the building of four contingent Dreadnoughts, which are to be laid down in January.
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    SINGAPORE RACES.
    68 5 POOR PROSPECTS FOR TO-DAY. A PLETHORA OF SCRATCHINGS. [Prom Our Own Correspondent Singapore, 16th October There has been a sad amount of scratching since the weights for to-day’s races were published. The whole of the Johore horses have been scratched. The weights appear to have frightened the owners,
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    MALAY PENINSULA RAILWAYS.
    66 5 PENANG’S INTERESTS AT STAKE. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, 16th October. Lhe Hon. A. R. Adams, who is at present in Singapore, has given notice that, at the meeting of the Legislative Council on Monday next, he will ask a question regarding the Government’s intentions as to
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    THE MALAY STATES GUIDES.
    46 5 THEIR WITHDRAWAL FROM PENANG. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, 16th October. The Hon. A. R. Adams has given notice of a question for the Legislative Council meeting, on Monday, regarding the withdrawal of the Company of the Malay States Guides from Penang.
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    THE STRAITS POLICE.
    36 5 CHARGE AGAINST A SERGEANT. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, 16th October. Sergt. J. Dickson, of the local Police force, has been charged with fabricating false evidence. Bail has been a lowed in $l,OOO.
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    POLAR EXPLORATION.
    35 5 AN AERIAL EXPEDITION [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd's Service.] Berlin, 15th October. Preparations are being rapidly pushed ahead for the aeroplane expedition to the North Pole in 1910 by Prince Heinrich and Count Zei pelin.
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    JAPAN AND ITALY.
    41 5 QUEEN ELENA HONOURED. [DbR OsrxSIATISCHK LtOVO’o SEBVICS.J Berlin, 15th October The Japanese Mission has arrived at Castle Racconigi, in Italy, and, on b-half of the Emperor of Japan, presented a Japanese Order to Queen E ena of Italy.
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    RUSSIA’S NAVY.
    32 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyds Service] Belli 15th October. Tiie Russian R'etsch News states that Russia in ends to spend a sum of 600.090,000 roubles on the construction of wharves and Dreadnoughts.
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    FRENCH BANKING.
    24 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 15th October. A French Bank is to be established at Santiago with a capital of 10,000,000 francs.
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    ABYSSINIA.
    19 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd's Service] Betlin, 15th October. The troops have been victorious iu quelling the rising in Abyssinia.
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    A REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION.
    93 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, 15th October. A revolution has broken out in the Republic of Nicaragua. The P. <fc O intermediate steamer Nile, which arrived from Yokohama this morning, has a large passenger list for Europe. Among her cargo are 927 packages of wet gun cotton.
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    THE ESTIMATES FOR 1910.
    859 5 {Continued.) THE POST OFFICE. A few alterations are noticeable in the estimates for the Post Office and the Telegraph and Telephone Departments. As regards Personal Emoluments, m >st of the salaries remain the 3*ine or are increased automatically by annual increment. Some alterations and rearrangements are
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    MALAY ARTS AMD CRAFTS.
    2505 5 Malay Industries. Part I. Arts and Crafts, by R. O. Winstedt, F.M.S. Civil Service. It is a pity that this little book, the latest addition to the Papers on Malay Subjects published by direction of the Government of the F. M.S., was not available to visitors
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      199 5 NOTICE. TENDERS will b- received at the Resident Councillor’s Office, Penang, up to the loth November, 1909, for making clothing for the Police Department, Penang, for the years 1910-1912 Pa reins of c'othing and full information can be obtained at the Chief Police Office, Penang aud Singapore. The Government does
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    SHARES.
    1384 7 sJ Capital. Subscribed. Number of Issue s I I 5 Shares. Value. Dividends. Name. g I I i| Q —I- s ?2 I M H I 1903' $300,000 $300,000 30,000 $lO Sio 19 x MINING. 19**6 300,000 225,000 22,500 10 10 12 P er cen *-year end. 31-3-09 Belat
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    SHIPPING ARRIVALS.
    94 7 Canton, Brit., 106, Sahib, Oct. 16, Teluk Anson, gen., Kong Soon. Calypso, Brit., 339, Bannatyne, Oct. 16, Singapore, gen., W. Mansfield Co. Japan, Brit., 3506, Olifent, Oct. 15, Hongkong, gen., A. A. Anthony Co. Malaya, Ger., 348, Loewe, Oct 16, Deli, gen., Behn, Meyer Co. Nile, Brit., 4179,
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    CLEARANCES.
    92 7 Avagyee for Deli. Bangala for Rangoon and Calcutta. Ban Whatt Soon for Teluk Anson. Both for Langsa, T Semawe, Segli, Olehleh, Pulau Weh, Padang, &c., Batavia. Bellerophon for Singapore. C. Apcar for Singapore and Hongkong. Glenogle for Singapore, Hongkong, Amoy, and Swatow. Japan for Calcutta. Kistna for Port Swettenharn
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    PASSENGERS.
    109 7 ARRIVALS. By Taroba (Oct. 16) from Singapore, Messrs Adeney, Chia Keng Chin, M Graeff, J C Mathieu, W Mawley, and Narayana Chetty. By Bangala (Oct. 16) from Singapore, Mrs Fue Maysda, Mr and Mrs L Smith, and Ng Nok Ung. By Tong Chuan (Oct. 14) from Kedah, Messrs J
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    57 7 Va>*n o/ from, approzimale eiat» of nrrirat, bound and Capri, Bombay, Oct. 27, Hongkong. B.M. G. Apcar, Singapore. Nov. 11, Calcutta, A.A. Ischia, Singapore, Oct. 26, Bombay, B.M. Kiel, Singapore, Oct. 19, Hamburg, B. M. Lightning, Singapore. Oct. 21. Calcutta A.A. Silvia. Hamburg, Oct. 20 Japan, B. M
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    EXCHANGE.
    124 7 Prnanq, 16th October, 1909. (By Courtesy of the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank 2,4 5/32 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 j 3 Credit 2/4 17/32 3 Documentary 2'4 9/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174| 3 days’ sight Private 176 Bombay Demand Bank 1741 3 days’sight Private I*6 Madras Demand
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    MAILS CLOSE.
    54 7 Monday. Pulau Langkawi, Perlis, and Setul Un Peng 4 p.m. Singapore, China, and Japan Poona 4 p.m. Tuesday. Tongkah Rotorua 1 p.m Asahan Mary Austin p.m.Langkat Jin Ho 1 p. m Deli Malaya 2 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore Perak (E.S. Co.) 3 p.m. Port Swettenham and Singapore
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    PRODUCE.
    192 7 Prnang, 16th Octobbr, 1909. Gold leaf $64.8'1 Pepper (W. Coast 3 lb. 5 nz) No stock. White Pepper $27 nom. Trang Pepper cut of season. Mace 92 sales. Mace Pickings $BO sellers. Cloves out of season. Nutmegs 110 $2O sales. f No. i $6.30 sales. Sugar j No. 2
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    CHURCH SERVICES.
    141 7 19th Sunday after Trinity. October 17. St. Gborgk’s Church. 8 a.m.—Matins (Choral). 8- a.m.—Holy Communion (Plain). 10 a m —Matins (Chinese). 5 p m.—Sunday School. 6 p.m.—Evensong and Sermon. Presbyterian Church. 9- a.m.—Divine Service (Prye). 6 p.m. —Divine Service. Methodist-Episcopal Mission. 74, Maxwell Road. Forty-second Sunday of the
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    LOG BOOK.
    931 7 Pieces of wreckage have been found on the ocean beach at Zeehan, Tasmania, by three Strahan fishermen. The wreckage appears to be portions of the missing boat from the Norwegian barque Orleans, which foundered at sea in July 2JO miles off the coast. Part of the crew succeeded
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