Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 May 1911

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  • 20 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833 No. 119 VOL. LXIX. FRIDAY, 26th MAY, 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1839 1 caaannDannunoDaDnaanaaDnaa g For $3O \7 ou can have the Pinang D 1 Gazette posted every day g for a whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUBCRIPTION, $27.) Proportionate Quarterly and Half-yearly rates. c Subscriptions are payable in advance and remittances should o g be addressed to g The Managing Director:
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    • 79 1 □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□on g II 7 hen you are away on leave n V V you want to keep in touch g with Malayan affairs, Social, Com- D mercial, Mining, Planting, &c. This you can do in no better way g than by subscribing to the Weekly c Edition of the “Pinang
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 408 2 [To the Editor oj the Pinang Gazette."] Sir, The Paradise of the Pacific gives a very erroneous impression of things in Hawaii to a mind’that is not American. In Hawaii there are no coolies but plantation labourers and the Japanese can live on 20 per
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    • 92 2 [To the Editor oj the Pinang Gazette"] Sir, I wish to take this opportunity, through the medium of your well-known paper, to remind the Municipal Sanitary Inspector that the drain running on the right-hand side of Love Lane is seldom or never kept clean. If you were
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  • 337 2 A telegram was received in Singapore on Tuesday announcing the death of Mr. William Nanson, senior partner of the firm of Messrs. Rodyk and Davidson. Mr. Nanson died in London, having been ailing for some time. His health has never been good since an expedition
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  • 853 2 HOME POLITICS. London, May 15.—There is much activity in political circles at present. In the House of Commons the third reading of the Parliament Bill is being taken while the Lords are discussing the second reading of Lord Lansdowne’s Reform Bill. There has seldom been such indifference in
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  • 518 2 THE GENERAL POSIT.ON. The market, says the Ironmonger of May 6, has been uncertain, ami after showing strength up till Tuesday morning took a rather sharp dip downwards, a little selling, both in the nature of realising and of bear operations, finding the market comparatively stripped bare of buying
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  • 236 2 The arrangements for Harmston’s circus tour through Malaya are now completed. The show will reach Singapore from Java on Sunday next, and will go through at once by rail to Johore where the first of three performances takes place on Monday night. H. H. the Sultan has
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  • 158 2 Friday. May 26. St. Augustin. Queen Mary’s Birthday. P.C.C. Bowls Tournament. Band, Esplanade. Golf Club Tennis Tournament. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road, George Town Cinematograph. Saturday, May 27. Venerable Bede. Homeward English (B.I.) Mail. Golf Club Tennis Tournament. Cricket Tournament :—M.R.C. v. P.C.C., Victoria Green; P. R.C. v.
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  • 87 2 Saturday, May 27.— Unserviceable Stores, P.W.S. Stores, Sungei Pinang 11 a.m.; Canningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Monday, May 2!) Vacant land facing Soo Hong Lane, 11 a.m. 38 Beach St. Kok Eng Hin, auctioneer. Tuesday, May 30. Share in land in Province Wellesley; 11.30 am.; 21 Beach St.; Cunningham,
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  • 36 2 The Grange,” No. 9 Logan Road apply P. J. Duval, No. 2 Arratoon Road. 5 and 14 Logan Road; apply M. M. Noordin. Sea View Cottage, Butterworth apply Jos. Gawthorne, 9 Beach St.
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  • 275 2 June 2.—The Oaks. June 2 and 3.—Flying Demonstration, Racecourse. June 3.—King’s Birthday. June 3.—Cricket Tournament C. R. C. v. M. R. 0., Victoria Green; P. C. C. v. Butterworth Esplanade. June 3.—Hunt Club Paperchase. June 3.—Garden Party at the Residency. June 5. P. L.R.C.: 109 yds. deliberate,
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  • 32 2 Pknang The E. &O. Hotel, The Crag, Raffles by the Sea, Runnymede Hotel, and Sea View Hotel. Kuala Lumpur :—Grand Oriental Hotel Ipoh The Grand Hotel. Rangoon Strand Hotel.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 126 2 He Suffered Day and Night With Sciatica. Mr. W. Knowles, Tragant Street, Bath, England, says I was prostrated with Sciatica from my right thigh to the bottom of my foot, excruciating pains would dart. Day and night I suffered. Every medicine I knew of I tried, but nothing seemed to
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    • 428 2 George Town Sales Room. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES, TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, AT THE Archway of Logan’s Buildings, Beach Street, Oh Wednesday, the 7th day of June, 1911, Commencing at 11 a.m. The following property belonging to CHAN KANG CHOON. LOT 1. All that piece of land
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    • 246 2 IELLIMANSi EMBROCATION f I J j i vl\>l>.l..L i. I’ll raT r? 11 H.L.1l Uli 111 11—■— ■^■ll l. iIIJII II J|II Jlllllf M CMBROCtff FOR USE ON ANIMALS. FOR HUMAN USE. ji I K n pm j KI kwyif’’' Sprain», Sore Shoulders. Rheumatism, Sprains. [I L' g! f U.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 126 2 Straits Cinematograph co., Penang Road. Grand Programme TO-NIGHT! L Jeanne Lachette. 2. The Cowboy’s Ruse. 3. In Lapland. (New). 4. Arab Customs. 5. At the Cinematograph Theatre. 6. Why the Engageiueut was Broken. (New). 7. Her Rival. 8. Murder Fire Police. (New). 9. Pathe Animated Gazette No. 95. (New). 10.
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  • 1227 3 The Financier HEVEA’S FUTURE. Thoughtful investors in Plantation Rubber shares have asked from time to time for an opinion as to whether Hevea in the Middle East, and under the conditions attendant on its cultivation, can be reasonably expected to last as long as it is known to
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 355 3 <- Lemco and Milk. Weak, backward children, careworn men and women, become strong, healthy and vigorous, on a daily glass of health-giving LEMCO and MILK. I T r r r B A? n ne S No preservatives, no f n° flavouring in LEMCO, wonderfully strength- PIIOT only port beef concenenmg;
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    • 344 3 IF YOU SUFFER From any Skin or Blood Disease, such as Eczema, Scrofula, Scurvy, Glandular Swellings, Bad Legs, Ulcers, Abscesses, Tumours, Boils, Sores, Eruptions, Blood Poison, Rheumatism, Gout, Ac., DON'T DELAY but at once start a course of Clarke’s Blood Mixture (the World-famed Blood Purifier), and the experience of thousands
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    • 257 3 Dr. H. SIMOYAMA JAPANESE DENTIST, Has just opened an Office on the top floor of The Japanese Dispensary, 266, BEACH STREET. 241—8-9 tu th s I Caldbeck, Macgregor Co., I j WINE MERCHANTS, I 7, UNION STREET. PENANG. X The name CALDBECK MACGREGOR on a > label is a guarantee
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  • 19 4 McArthur. —At Restholme, East Liss, Hants, on May 22, the wife of C McArthur, Singapore, of a son.
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  • 1370 4 The English papers by the mail give full details of two striking examples where British statesmen and publicists have risen superior to party distinctions in their attitude towards questions of great importance. We refer, in the first place, to the remarkable public meeting at the Guildhall,
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  • 409 4 RESULT OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP. The blue riband of the P.C.C. bowls tournament —the Championship—was played for yesterday afternoon when G. B. F. Southam secured a hollow victory over S. Riley by 22 points to 4. In the previous rounds Southam had disposed of F. B. I
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  • 183 4 The Aforntny Post of April 29 states Sir John Anderson, Governor of tbe Straits Settlements and High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, is due in England on the P. and O. liner expected to arrive in a few days. He left Singapore on April 7 and
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  • 92 4 From the Federated Engineering Co., Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, we have received a pamphlet describing the Krebs Patent Smoking Process of which they are the sole patentees and manufacturers. Its use is claimed to have the effect of reducing the cost of rubber latex and at the same time
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  • 102 4 The following are the prices for the period from May 26 to June 8, inclusive, of cultivated rubber on which export duty is leviable on an ad valorem basis under the rules under the F.M.S, Customs Duties Enactment Sheet and biscuit per picul $255 Fine crepe n
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  • 424 4 The death is announced of A«imi Rodney Lloyd. The death is announced of Mr. .J. q Weir, M.P., for Ross and Cromatty. We hear that the health of Mr. VV, Boteler, who is now at Ootacamund, considerably improved, and he will leave for Penang early next month.
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  • 274 4 GOLF CLUB’S TOURNAMENT The following ties were played yesterday Mixed Doubles Handicap. Mrs. Ross ifc C M Henderson v. Miss Barnett E Reimann. (Unfinished Mr Mrs W S Dunn beat Mr Mrs W R Armstrong. 6—3 6—3. Men's Doubles Handicap T B Peterkin A G Anthony v. W
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 437 4 WAT RUBBER ASSISI AN I. XTOUNG MAN (Britisher) with some QUALIFIED DRESSER. J mencing salary f 200 per annum with Apply annual increment of f 50 until a maximum MANAGER, of f 400 is reached. Apply with copies of testimonials, etc., to Sungei Krian Estate, B, 505 Bogan Serai. 506
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    • 73 4 To-Day’s Contents. Page 2.— Telegraphic News Correspondence The Late Mr. William Nanson; Tin; Harmston’s Malayan Tour and Week’s Engagements. Page 3.— Rubber Notes. p age 4.—Editorial (“State Insurance”); Bowls at the P.C.C. Sir John Anderson Smoked Rubber; Rubber Export Duty Social and Personal and Lawn Tennis. Page 5. Telegrams Municipal
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  • 12 4 DEATH. Nanson.—On May 22, in London, William Nanson, of Singapore, aged 62.
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  • 357 5 TINS SLIGHTLY IMPROVED. RUBBERS STILL WEAKER. The following are the changes (buyers and sellers only) in our share list on page 7 of this issue 1910. 25/5/11. 26/5/11. UC OD UO rn X X 2 Shares. bC > S* —< Z 4 c 3 S Q tt
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  • 73 5 PRICE OF FINE HARD PARA. [From a Malacca Correspondent] Mai acca, May 26. Information has been received by the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Ltd., that fine hard Para was quoted in London, yesterday, at 4/5, value. The market closed steady. Plantation Para. London, May 25*. The following are
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  • 79 5 A VERY SUCCESSFUL YEAR. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, May 26. The directors of the Sandycroft Rubber Co., Ltd., report a profit of $223,276 and recommend a final dividend of 75 per cent., making 175 per cent, for the year 1910. Healthy Development. During the year 218
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  • 49 5 APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATOR. I From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, May 26. At the meeting of the Port Dickson Rubber Co., Ltd. held yesterday, the old company having been sold, it was decided to wind up its affairs, and Mr. G. A. Derrick was appointed liquidator.
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  • 54 5 WINDING UP SANCTIONED. [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, May 26. A general meeting of shareholders in the Kuantan Tin Mining Co., Ltd., was held yesterday, Mr. G. A. Derrick presiding. The report was passed without comment, the winding up of the Company sanctioned, and Mr. G.
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  • 101 5 EXAMPLE OF EXORBITANCE. PENALTY OF PROSPERITY. [From Our Own Correspondent.! Ipoh, May 26. Commenting on the high duty on tin the Times oj Malaya points out that last year the Government received $50,000 from Lahat, Limited, or an equivalent of 33 per cent, of the total profits.
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  • 54 5 ALLEGED THEFT OF A WATCH. [From Our Own Correspondent,] Singapore, May 26. Two men named Hyland and Roker, respectively, were charged in the Police Court to-day with robbery of a gold watch from Mr. Kitson. They were remanded for a week on bail of $2OO each. Both
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  • 67 5 MEN SPLENDIDLY ORGANISED. [Reuters Service.] London, May 25. The Secretaries of the various branches of the Seamen’s Union, interviewed, declare that the men have been splendidly organized. Posters are being exhibited at ports in Europe and America warning the men to watch the signal to strike, tlie date
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  • 52 5 DEF KAT OF BELGIAN EIGHT. [Reuter’s Service Ghent, May 26. Jesus College, Cambridge, beat a picked Belgian eight at Ghent, on a similar course to Henley, by three lengths in six mins. 43 secs, in the presence of 60,000 spectators. Great interest was evinced in both countries in
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  • 43 5 A REPUBLICAN CONTRADICTION. [Reuter’s Service.] London, May 26. The Daily News publishes a telegram from the Portuguese Foreign Minister declaring that the rumours of an impending counter-revolution are unfounded, and are merely the death-rattle of the enemies of the Republic.
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  • 38 5 ADMIRALTY’S BIG CONTRACT. [Rkutrr’s Service.’! London, May 26. The Admiralty has contracted with the Scottish oil companies for ten million gallons of oil fuel annually, which is double what was originally negotiated for.
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  • 37 5 JAPAN AND THE NEGOTIATIONS [Rkutrr’s Service.] Tokio, May 25. In official circles it is stated that Japan is prepared to participate in the negotiations for a general arbitration treaty as suggested by the United States.
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  • 30 5 [Reuter’s Service.] London, May 26. His Majesty the King has sent a message to the Imperial Conference, thanking the overseas Premiers for their assurances of devoted loyalty.
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  • 31 5 [Rkutrr’s Service.] Berlin, May 25. The Berliner Post says it is expected that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will attend the Imperial German manoeuvres in the autumn.
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  • 22 5 [Reuter’s Service.] Berlin, May 25, The Reichstag has passed the second reading of the Alsace-Lorraine Constitution Bill after a compromise.
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  • 45 5 PROVISIONAL CENSUS RETURNS. FAIR INCREASE RECORDED [Reuter’s Service.] London, May 26. I'he provisional figures of the Census in England and Wales give the following result 1911 36,075,269 1901 32,527,843 Increase 3,547,426 The figures for Greater London are 1911 7,252,963 1901 6,581,402 Increase 671,561
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  • 35 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Berlin, May 25. The German Press criticises the Russian note to the Porte regarding the concentration of troops on the Montenegrin frontier, in view of Turkey’s peaceful assurances.
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  • 24 5 [Der Ostasiatische Lloyd’s Service.] Rome, May 25. A Papal Encyclica has been issued condemning Portugal’s measures against the Roman Catholic Church.
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  • 20 5 [Der Ostasiatischk Lloyd’s Service Constantinople, May 25. The Turkish War Minister forbids army officers to participate in politics.
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  • 256 5 A correspondent tells us, says the Straits Times, that he is feeling sorely puzzled about the extent of the fatality at the start of the Paris-to-Madrid teroplane race. He says Your Reuter message kills M, Berteaux and describes him as Minister of War Your distinguished contemporary
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  • 141 5 We understand, says the Daily Mail of April 25, that the expensive dredging machinery of the Siamese 3in Syndicate is now in course of shipment to the property, and this development, coupled with the high price of the metal, is being used to attract attention to the
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  • 68 5 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $94.60 per picul, buyers, no sellers Tin in London is quoted at £203 spot and £lBB 5s three months. The following were the dealings in tin to-day :—Singapore Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 75 tons, $95.05 Penang: Straits Trading Co.,
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  • 37 5 Homeward. Steamer. Arrives. Mails Sails. Close. 6.1. Tbongwa Sat. 27/5 10 a.m. noon. P. O. Devanha Sat. 3/6 N.D.L. Buelow Tues. 7/6 Outward. P. O. Arcadia Thurs. 31/5 N.D.L. Yorck Thurs. 8/6 8.1. Thurs. 8/6
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  • 989 5 ORDINARY MEETING. An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commission was held yesterday afternoon in the Municipal Offices. There were present Mr. W. Peel (President), Dr. P. V. Locke, Messrs. J. W. Hallifax, W. T. Chapman, and Lim Eu Toh with Messrs. W. S. Dunn (Acting Municipal Engineer), O.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 386 5 Central'Sales Room. By Ordkr of the DEPUTY COLONIAL ENGINEER, TO BR SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION, AT THE P. W. D. STORES, Sungei Penang, On Saturday, 27th May, 1911, AT 11 A.M., All the Unserviceable Stores. See Detailed Catalogues. CUNNINGHAM, CLARK Co., Licensed Auctioneers. 485—22, 24, 26-5 THE CRAG HOTEL, SANATORIUM,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 1351 6 7/ M **********0©©*****©©*****©OQ N.Y. KJ z §THE GARRICK mffflEHHaßUlla s cigarette :x n,a BARK AND IRON WINE) Z g %”M— 1 Z O a t X A LARGE HAND-MADE CIGARETTE X AN IDEAL TONIC. g .Z*TJ European line. -z— 2 Bfeflj Packed in 00’s Air-Tight Tins, 2 rt XtL'Tr l
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  • 476 7 ARRIVALS. jjok Canton, Brit., 290, Eades, May 26, T. Anson, gen., E 8. Co Lama. Brit., 537, E. B. Hirst, May 26, Singapore, gen., H.L. Co. jfossel. Dut., 1218, Schnitems, May 25, Batavia, gen., Hottenbach Liebert Co. Protesilaus, Brit., 6104, Campbell, May 26, Liverpool, gen., W. Mansfield Co. Pin
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  • 1681 7 3 Capital. Subscribed. N ber of J BBUe Ag q Shares. Value. 3 Dividends. Name. -g (S 5 2, s L 03 t» O’ 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 MINING 1903 «300,000 «300,000 30,000 «10 «10 25 10 30 n) ’it- r 5? 64 1906 300,000 225,000 22,500 10
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  • 239 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE To-Morrow. Fjr. Per. Close. Mergui, Tavoy, and Moulmein Zaida 7 a.m. Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Colombo and Tuticorin Agamemnon 9 a.m. Madras, taking mails'! for Europe, etc., vid > Thongwa 10 a.m. Bombay J Regt, up to 8-30 a.m. Rangoon and Calcutta Fultala
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  • 221 7 Pknang, May 26, 1911. Gold leaf 564.60 Pepper (\V. Coa»t 3 lb. 5 No stock. White Pepper 524.65 buyers. Trang Pepper 518 buyers Mace 5108 nominal. Mace Picking» $lO3 sellers. Cloves $42 nom. Nutmegs IIU $2l sales. [No. 1 $6.10 sales. No. 2 $6.00 sales. Basket $5.10 nominal. Copra
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  • 453 7 The ss. Fin Seng, which arrived here yesterday from Singapore, brought 297 coolies to Penang. The Blue Funnel steamer Protesilaus, which is on her second trip to the Far East, arrived here this morning from Liverpool. She is discharging 676 tons of general cargo. On the departure, on
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 610 7 Sun Life of Canada. (Kstnblished Assets exceed £6,000.'><>0.0.0 Surplus over all liabilities according to Government Standard 840,265.0.0 Incom k, 1908, £1,428,000 0.0 W. A. VVHITK, 7 AA .K tr KKNNKDY JU Co,, Manager, South-Eastern a c General Agents. Penang A«ia. Singapore. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEE
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    • 44 7 KINNEY SONS, Assam Government Surveyors. 30 years’ experience in all kinds of L,ANL> surveying. Open to Engagement for Surveying and Blocking out RUBBER ESTATES. Address: c/o PLANTERS’ STORES 8 AGENCY Co., Ltd., KUALA LUMPUR. 1407—u c MACKAY S LIQUEUR WHISKY, The Whisky of Connoisseurs.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2307 8 R r IK>> Sailin B Norddeuischer Lloyd, Bremen. tej Steam Navigation Co. L 1„. rm™ British India Steam Navigation Co., 4 I MAIL SERVICE OUTWARD. '-1 yfk connectiug wiib A. radio May 31 OCCfIR StCdlll SKIP C»., j Moldavia do Assay© 28 For Intended to Sail. Steamer. d r /II
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