Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 March 1912

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 70 VOL. LXX. TUESDAY. 26th MARCH, 1912. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1021 1 mDaDnaQaaciDonun For 830 V 7 »u can have the Pinang I Gazette posted every day 5 for a whole year to your addresi. r (LOCAL SUSCRIPTION, »27.) P Proportionate Quarterly and n n Half-yearly rates o Subscriptions are payable m n u advance and remittances should o o be addressed
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    • 85 1 ■■■■■■□aaaoaaaßaaaaamßßßß• AA7 HBN YOU AIII A WAY on lea e V V you want to keep in touch g with Malayan affairs, jocial, Com- £J?F C1M1 Mining, Planting, c 5 g i his you can do in no better way o D by subscribing to the We-kly a Edition of
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  • 256 2 ACCOUNTS FOR THE PAST YEAR. The following is the account for the year ended December 31, 1911 Disbursements. c. c. To Expenditure. Salaries 10,8 >O.OO Transports 602.10 Medical attend* ance 160 00 Medicines 69.00 11,521.10 To General Charges. Bank charges 2.19 Strings 5.55 Repairs to Instruments 50
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  • 58 2 Homeward. Stzambk. Arrivbs. Mails Sails. Gloss. N.D.L. Yorck Tues 26/3 6 p.m. 8.1. Teesta Sat. 30/3 10 a.m. noon M. Tourane Mon. 1/4* 5.30 p.m.f 30/3 P. *o. Sat. 6/4 •From Singapore, f Mails close in Penang. Outward. 8.1. Thongwa Thurs. 28/3 3 p.m. 4 p.m. N. Kleist
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  • 52 2 Municipal Commissioners of George Town.— Additions and alterations to buildings at Electric Power Station; supply of iron and steel works, etc., for alterations and additions to Electric Power Station; construction of new cement concrete drains along south side of Prangin Road and Prangin Road Ghaut; tenders close 3 p.m.,
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  • 75 2 Wednesday, March 27.— Property of late V. R. Scully; Central Sales Room; 11.15 a.m.; Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Wednesday, Mareh 27.— Property in Queen St.; 11 a.m.; Penang Sales Room; Koh Eng Bin, auctioneer. Friday, March 29.— Stock-in-trade, goodwill, and assets of Chop In Eye Thong, 59 Penang
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  • 778 2 IMPORTANCE OF MALAYA MAKING A BRAVE SHOW. (By an Occasional Correspondent.) The appeal which has just been issued by Mr. Lewton-Brain, the Director of Agriculture, F.M.S., to all producing estates to send in exhibits for the New York Exhibition will, it is to be hoped, be more
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  • 371 2 THE MODERN METHOD OF CURING NEURASTHENIA. Although Neurasthenia is a term of quite modern use, and embraces a very great number of symptoms, nervous exhaustion is a condition which has long been known. Among the commonest symptoms are head-ache, a sense of pressure within the head, sometimes a
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  • 128 2 Tuesday, Mareh 26. Homeward German Mail. Golf Club Ladies’ Monthly Medal. Baud, Golf Club. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. Wednesday. Mareh 27. Golf Club Ladies’ Monthly Medal. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Thursday. Mareh 28. Outward English Mails. Municipal Commission, 4 p.m. Lodge Scotia,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 154 2 ADVERTISING SENSE. It is fair to presume that every publication purchased is read. If that was not the intent the action of buying would not take place. With catalogues and circulars it is different. Many are consigned to the Waste Paper Basket unread, as the recipient does not always find
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    • 121 2 PENANG TURF CLUB. Griffins Autumn 1912 Meeting. THE Committee of the Penang Turf Club have ordered from Mr. P. P. Tennant, a batch of thoroughbred Horse Griffins for the Autumn, 1912, Meeting. Price delivered in Penang $625 each. Any Member wishing to subscribe will please communicate as soon as possible
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    • 1185 2 Central Sales Room. SITUATIONS VACANT. AMUSEMENTS, Estate of V. R. SCULLY, CLUB SECRETARY WANTED. TO-NIGHT! (Deceased.) OECRETARY for the Ipoh Club. THE GRAND SATURDAY PROGRAMME Tl By Order of N. D. MUDIE, Esq., Commencing salary $250.00 fer which compr SE3 Receiver of the above Estate. Q“»rten. can be arranged at
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

  • 343 3 Messrs. Morrison <fc Co.’s weekly market report, dated Rangoon, March 15, states: Paddy.—A large quantity of grain has come in during the week, but the daily arrivals are now gradually diminishing. The market is quiet and we qu>>te—For railway paddy Ps 147 to R« 145. For boat
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  • 389 3 S.T. FUGITIVE COOLIES HUNTED DOWN IN THE JUNGLE. Further information received regarding the murder of Mr. J. C. van B. Bastiaanse on Shameen Estate, Pulau Rulang, on Monday evening, points to the fact that sixteen coolies were involved in the outrage. After the murder they all
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 681 3 < T WX J 4 f 4 STAY AT THE Jas. L Woodiord s grand-. ORIENTAL GREAT HOTEL, KUALA LUMPUR. Telegrams Proprietor cash Clearance sale SLEEP E SHORE WILL COMMENCE ON I SEA VIEW HOTEL, s a g Tkc Coolest S>ot it PeiiM. Monday, April Ist., I exce l^t c
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    • 24 3 Jilts Brothers, DENTISTS, Crows mi Brlije w>rk specialists. Painless Extraction under Anaesthetic. Moderate Charges and Free Consultation. KING STREET, near the Esplanade. 71—w s
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    • 250 3 ENFEEBLED CONSTITUTIONS X —s. MADE I STRONG Tv The Most Effective vitalising and Body-Building 1 Ibg Food known to Mankind is g ‘Kepler’ Solution (i rndc Mark) I I* makes strong bones and covers them with I sound fat, flesh and muscle. It stores up strength, I and lays the
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  • 588 4 There are people who believe that wars will never cease and also seek to throw over the horrors of the battlefield a spell of romance and glory. Some see in the crash of contending armies, the huge destruction of property and life, in the widespread ruin
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  • 355 4 TALKS OPTIMISTICALLY ABOUT TIN. Mr. Cecil L. Budd, a member of the well-known metal firm of Vivian, Younger Bond, and Chairman of Directors of the London Metal Exchange, as a Director of the Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd., has ?pent a couple of months in Penang and
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  • 168 4 A DAMAGED CAR. The hearing of the case in the first Divisional Court, Chin Seng i Co., Ltd., again-t Mr. Charles Denkle, reported in our last night’s issue, was concluded yesterday afternoon, when, after the address of both counsel, Mr. Justice Thornton found for the plaintiffs with
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  • 183 4 GANG ROBBERY. The A s sizes opened in the Second Divisional Court at 11 o’clock this morning before Mr. Justice L. P. Ebden, when the first case called was that against Chin Fat, who was charged with committing gang robbery. The story for the prosecution, as related by
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  • 118 4 A Bukit Mertajam correspondent writes that owing to insufficient pay, i.e $8 each, the scavenging coolies at Bukit Mertajam have all stopped work and the village streets and drains are in such a dirty state that if the local authorities do not remedy the evil in time the
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 304 4 .—Reuter. OPENING OF IHE FLAT SEASON. Lincoln, March 25. The flat season opened here to-day with the Lincoln Spring Meeting, which continues to-morrow and Wednesday. The weather was muggy and threatening, but there was a fair attendance in spite of the strike. Lincolnshire Probables.** The following is
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    • 313 4 With Hornet's Beauty reported lame and therefore a doubtful starter, the task of spotting the winner is rendered more than usually difficult. It would doubtless be safer to delete Hornet's Beauty from the reckoning altogether but in that case she might, after all, turn up trumps.” Taking the
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    • 22 4 —Reuter. Newport, March 25. 'I he international Rugby football match between Wales and France resulted Wales 14 points. France 8
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    • 141 4 The members of the Penanc, r. jClub met at ths R,fl e RufL/'V*’ Bharu, yesterday afternoon, when thT 0 a practice shoot at 100 anc 15A y ha,i respectively. u y a rd? i The following are the scores Fiqurb Target 100 150 yds- yds. Totai Miss
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    • 24 4 The Crescent Star Sports Club will meet the Darol Muhibah to-morrow in M.F.A. competition, on the Dato Kra ma t Gardens.
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  • 157 4 The biggest single real estat“ deal, ever put through in C-nadi, was closed day at 6 p.m., sajs the Toronto Wodd of Dec. 20, the Dominion Bond Co buyino the Manufacturers’ Life Building at the north-west corner of King and Yonge Streets for $BOO,OOO (gold).
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  • 133 4 ALL UNDER NOTICE. We understand that all the officers, deck and engine-room, on the late Apcar boats have been given three months’ notice by the B. I. S. N. Company. About 40 men are involved. In several instances, the captains and first engineers in particular, this course
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  • 280 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang is $94.75 per picul, business done. Tin in London is quoted at £194 spot and £l9O 15s. three months. The following is the local report to-day —Singapore Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 175 tons, $96.37|; Penang: Straits Trading Co., Ltd., 75
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 211 4 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnDnnnnnn PERLIS JUANO. I PHOSPHATIC MANURE Best Fertiliser for all Sorts of Plants, n H Specially for H g RUBBER. g n COCONUT. g g TAPIOCA. g n COFFEE, n B SUGAR, Etc. n n n tl GUARANTEED TO CONTAIN H H 4OJ£ Phosphates (Tricalciumphosphate) q IBX Phosphoric lcid P,
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    • 64 4 To-Day’s Contents. Page 2.— Penang Band Fund; Indian Civilians; New York Exhibition; and Week’s Engagements. p age s,—Rangoon Rice Market; and The Pulau Pulang Murder. Page 4 Editorial: Strikes and the Public Mr. Cecil L. Budd Supreme Court Cases; Scavengers’ Strike; Sporting News; and To-Day’s Tin Quotations. Rage 5. Telegrams.
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  • 230 5 tonckahs and duffs weaker. STERLING ROBBERS tOWNWHB. The following are the changes (buyers an .i sellers only) in our share list on page 7 tD-day Yesterday. To-day. Hhabb*. ►> s => s cq m M tn Aftnino. Pahang C. 5/9 «/7* «/-6/IOJ Tongkah H. 2O| 20| 20
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  • 86 5 LATEST PRICES IN LONDON. [From Malacca Correspondent] Malacca, March 26. Information has been received by the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, that the following were the prices of rubber in London yesterday :—Fine hard Para 5/Is, no sellers. Plantation Para 5/Bs, buyers. The market opened quiet and closed
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  • 140 5 SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION. {From Our Otvn Correspondent.) Singapore, March 26. The Landak Rubber Estate, Ltd, a Hongkong Co., in liquidation, was sold by auction yesterday afternoon by Messrs. Powell Co, for $3,050. The purchasers were a firm in Batavia. [The Landak Rubber Estate is situated adjacent
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  • 74 5 ASSAILANT •>’ BAD RECORD. [From Our Own Correspondent] Singapore, March 26. further details of the murder of Mr. I’tstiaanse, Assistant Manager of Pulau Bulang Rubber Co., Ltd., show’ that four Javanese coolies of bad character committed the crime. Two of them have been boavicted of previous
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  • 38 5 [Prom Our Own Correspondent.] Kuala Lumpur, March 26. lhe Kuala Kangsar correspondent of the Malay Mail wires that an Indian con®table shot a Sikh sergeant dead at Klian Intan and later locked himself up.
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  • 594 5 MEN RESUMING WORK. CONFERENCE CONJECTURES London, March 25. The outcome of to-day’s conference is most dubious. It is stated that the mine owners are as opposed to an arbitrary 5s and 2s. minimum as to the hewers’ schedule and insist that all minima should be fixed by
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  • 36 5 i.— Reuter. Paris, March 25. Ihe French State railway loan of 300,000,000 francs of four per cent, redeemed bonds at par has been covered thirtv-two times. 'The deposits alone totalled 1,960 millions of francs
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  • 18 5 l —Reuter. Berlin, March 25. The Reichstag has ratified the renewal of the sugar convention
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  • 150 5 I.—Reuter. COMMENTS ON THE ESTIMATES. FOOTINS THE BILL Berlin, March 24. The National Liberal organs declare that the Navy and Army Bills are too small. The Germania announces that a thorough investigation will be made into the question of covering the expenses of armaments. The leading Socialist paper,
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  • 89 5 218,508 registered tons.— Ler Ostasi ati-che Lloyd SATISFACTORY YEAR’S REPORT. Berlin, March 24. The annual report of the Imperial Naval Office says that Kiau-chau has developed considerably. The Chinese capital invested in the territory has increased since the beginning of the year. There was another increase of
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  • 81 5 —Reuter. DESPERADOES RAID A BANK. Chantilly March 25. A sensational affair has occurred here. Six desperadoes killed a chauffeur, seized his motor-car on the M ontgeron Road, and drove to Chantilly. Four of them entered a bank, killed the cashier, shot two clerks, and seized forty thousand
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  • 51 5 —Reuter. A VISIT TO VENICE. Rome, March 25. The King of Italy has left for Venice to meet the Kaiser. Enthusiastic Meeting. Venice, March 25. There was an enthusiastic scene when King Victor Emmanuel boarded the Imperial German vacht Hohenzollern and greeted the Kaiser and the Imperial
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  • 54 5 A DOZEN PERSONS KILLED. Perth, March 25. A three days’ typhoon has raged over the north-west portion of West Australia. Many vessels and buildings have been wrecked Up to the time of cabling a dozen persons are known to have been killed. Many are missing, but
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  • 49 5 suppress the anti-Russian agitation.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. St. Petersburg, March 24. The situation in Urmia is less acute. Turkey has declared to St Petersburg that an increase of troops is not intended, and that she has sent officials to Urmia to suppress the anti-Russian agitation.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
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  • 46 5 —Reuter. Oporto, March 25 Three more bodies and various remnants have been removed from the debris caused by the recent explosion in a house where bombs were manufactured. Nearly five hundred uncharged bombs and a quan- tity of gold and notes were found
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  • 37 5 if delegates are sent to Athens.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. Constantinople, March 24. The protecting Powers have declared to the Porte that they will again occupy Crete if delegates are sent to Athens.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
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  • 31 5 danger of mines.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. MINES IN THE DARDENELLES. Berlin, March 24. Ihe Hamburg America liner Cincinnati returned from the Dardenelles owing to the danger of mines.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
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  • 125 5 MEETING IN SINGAPORE FEATURES OF THE TEA* (from Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 26. At the annual meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce, the Hon. W. W. Cook presided and there was a good attendance. The Chairman said that the accounts were satisfactory, the mos* notable
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  • 50 5 A HEAVY CALENDAR. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore, March 26. The Singapore Assizes opened yesterday. There are altogether seventeen cases, which include eight murder charges and seventeen gang robbery charges. The first case called was the charge against two Malays of murdering a Sikh Police constable at Labuan.
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  • 27 5 [From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, March 26. Two Chinese boatswains were caught importing eight bottles of cocaine by the ss. Glen ogle. They were remanded.
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  • 32 5 —Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. PLUNDERED BY RIFFIANS. Berlin, March 24. The Riffians. in Morocco, have plundered the wreck of the Hansa steamer Axenfels. The Governor of Ceuta inter- fered.
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  • 34 5 —Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. Berlin, March 24. The Imperial Chancellor will be at Corfu during Easter week. His position is absolutely firm, and the assertion that he tendered his resignation is unfounded.
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  • 26 5 military service refoi m.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. St. Petersburg, March 24. The Duma has accepted the Bill for military service refoi m.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
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  • 180 5 THEIR TASK AND TRADITIONS. Lecturing befoie a large audience in connection with the Indian School of University College, Gower Street, London, on March 13, on the principles of success in service in India, Sir William Lee Warner reviewed the traditions of the Civil Service as courage, purity, culture,
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  • 135 5 HONGKONG SHANGHAI BANK. SITE FOR NEW LONDON PREMISES. The Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation has acquired a freehold site in Gi acechurch street, in the City of London, for the purpo-e of erecting its own banking premises. The London office ha? for many years, some decade* in fact, occupied a portion
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 524 5 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, LUXURY TO LET. lor critical men oi taste. A FURNISHED HOUSE in Northam Road. For particulars apply 1631 No. 10, c/o Pinang Gazette. Household.” One 15 H. P. Daimler Silent Knight in splendid running condition. pric, »3 500. Appi, to a Genuine Liqueur Whisky. Mr. STEPHEN ANTHONY, Penang.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 2192 7 -S Capital. Subscribed. Value. 3 Dividend». Name >, 3 'g.© Q M oo GT 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 MINING. «no ftftO $300,000 30,000 >lO SlO 10 30 30 10 int Belat Tin Mining Co 44 *£S’nnO 225 000 22 500 10 10 Bruang 34 19°° rimnno 471.200 71
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  • 1048 7 ARRIVALS. Ban Whatt Soon, Brit., 199, Milne, March 26, Langkat, tobacco, B. S. Co. Coen, Dut., 823, Visman, March J 6, Padang, gen., Huttenbach, Liebert Co. Hok Canton, Brit., 294, Gully, March 26, T. Anson, gen., E. 8. <t Co. Hop Sang, Brit 1359, Hay, March 25, Calcutta, gen.,
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  • 62 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morbow. For Per Close Alor Star (Kedah) Tong Chuan 10 a. rat Langsa, T.Semawe, Segli, Olehleh and > Atjeh 1 p.m. Pulo Weh Trang Hong Ho 2 p.m. Teluk Anson and Dindings Hok Canton 3 p.m. Deli Malaya 5 p.m, Thursday. Yen Jit Seng
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  • 130 7 Pinang, March 26, 1912. (By (Jourteey of the Chartered Banh), London Demand Bank ...2/4 1/8 4 months' eight Bank ...2/4 11/32 3 Credit .-2/4 1/2 3 Documentary 2/4 9/1® Oalcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174 3 days' sight Private 175 j Bombay Demand Bank 174 3 days' sight Private 175|
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 57 7 SUN LIFE OF CANADA. Incorporated 1860. BUSINESS IN FORCE. £29,500,000 INCOME 1910 2,000,000 FUNDS (EXCEED! 7,500,006 Chief Office 1 Norfolk Street, Strand, Great Britain. J London Chief Office 1 Canada Buildings, Indian Empire, f Bombay. Chief Office 1 Battery Road, S. E. Asia. J Singapore. W; A. Whitb, Manager. A.
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    • 322 7 The Marine Insurance Co., Ltd. The above Company is prepared to ao* cept Marine risks at lowest current rates. The Company also accept risks on Specie, Bonds, Coupons, Bank Notes, and other valuables sent through the Registered post, on most favourable terms. For full particulars apply to ADAMSON, GILFILLAN A
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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