Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 27 March 1912

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 71 VOL. LXX. WEDNESDAY, 27th MARCH, 1912. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 678 1 ■■■■■■□□□□□□□□□□□□□oaaaaaa For $3O S m V 7 »u can have the Pinang a I Gazette posted every day g for a whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUUCRIPTION, 527.) Proportionate Quarterly and n c Half-yearly rates Subscriptions are payable in o D advance and remittances should o be addressed to
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    • 86 1 ■■■■■■□□□□□□□□□auDDa aaaaßM W HBN YOU ARB AWAY on ,ear S Tou want to keep in touch with Malayan affairs, social. Com- E 2fF c,al Mining, Planting. c S g you can do in no better way n C t h n b y subscribing to the We-kly O q edition
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  • 122 2 Wednesday, March 27. Golf Club Ladies’ Monthly Medal. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Straits Cinematograph, Penang Road George Town Cinematograph, Kuala Kangsar Road. Thursday, March 28. Outward English Mail. Municipal Commission, 4 p.m. Lodge Scotia, 9 p.m. Friday, March 29. Outward German Mail. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Saturday, March
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  • 40 2 Friday, March 29.— Stock-in-trade, goodwill, and assets of Chop In Eye Thong, 59 Penang St., 11 a.m.; Central Sales Room Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers. Saturday, Match 30.— Furniture; The Aloes, Northam Road 11.15 a.m.; Cunningham, Clark Co., auctioneers.
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  • 56 2 Homeward. Stkamkr Arrives. Mails Sails. Cloix. 8.1, Teesta Sat. 30/3 10 a.m. noon. M. Tourane Mon. 1/4* 5.30 p.m.l 30/3 P. &0. Sat. 6/4 N. Tues *From Singapore, f Mails close in Penang. Outward. 8.1. Thongwa Thurs. 28/3 3 p.m. 4 p.m. N.D.L. Kleist Fri. 29/3 3 p.m.
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  • 705 2 Mr. F. O. Sander has gone on a trip to Ceylon. Mr. E. V. Carey and Miss Carey left for Home on Thursday. A fancy dress dance took place at Klang on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Archdeacon returned to Singapore by the ss. Delta on
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  • 649 2 GANG ROBBERY. The case against Chin Fat, who was charged with the above offence at the Assizes yesterday, resulted in the acquittal of the accused. The Judge and the evidence of the principal witness thoroughly unreliable and threw th«F case out without calling upon the defence, Gang Robbery
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  • 110 2 The following is the business for the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners to-morrow 1. Minutes of last meeting to be read and confirmed. 2. Any special business the President may bring forward. 3. Questions. 4. Statement of Receipts and Disbursements and Progress Report for February, 1912. 5.
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  • 69 2 On Friday His Excellency the Governor received a telegram from Sir West Ridgeway, dated 21st inst., in which he says I yesterday inaugurated a Legislative Council. It was a very impressive ceremony, and Europeans, natives, and Chinese were extremely gratified. The Council consists of six official members
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  • 772 2 The China Mail learns that Messrs. David Sassoon Co., Ltd., will continue to act as agents in Hongkong and Shanghai, as heretofore, for the steamers of the Apcar Line. The Austrian Lloyd steamer Africa arrived here yesterday from Shanghai after calling at Hongkong and Singapore. This is her
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 253 2 =g| sffissSS^ lpixoApyrt A most delightful feeling of comfort is experienced after a shampoo with Pixoap. This is a mild fluid tar shampoo, from which, by a special patent process, the disagreeable pungent odour commonly associated with "tar has been eliminated. It cannot be too widely recegnised that tar is
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    • 67 2 When an advertiser in the Pinang Gazette requests you to accept a sample or a catalogue of his goods, he does so upon his merits. It costs him many dollars to ask it, it costs you a three cent postcard to obtain it, and you benefit by a comparison of
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    • 78 2 MARTIN’S A French Remedy for all Irregularities. Thousands of Ladies keep a box of Martin’s Pills in the house, so that on the first sign of any Irregularity of the System, a timely dose may be administered. Those who use them recommend them, hence their enormous sale. At all Chemists
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    • 680 2 AMUSEMENTS. SITUATIONS VACANT TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT I CLUB SECRETARY REVOLUTION IN CHINA. gECRETARY for the I Commencing sa l ary The Revollltional War in Quarterscan be arraJj* 10.00 per month. tt 1 1 111 II SI Applications to be addressed to FILM PART I. 1626—9-4 SECRETARY CITY OF NANKING ATTACKED BY
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  • 600 3 i.— S.T. IMPROVED POSITION OF COMPANY’S FINANCES. The sixth annual general meeting of Kanaboi, Limited, was held at the Company’s Offices, Winchester House, Singapore, on March 19. Mr. M. E. Plumpton presided and there were also present Mr, Solomon, Mr. Lowther Kemp, directors and shareholders. In presenting the
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  • 256 3 A Paris Correspondent writes M. d’Ollone, a distinguished French officer, who is estimated a first rate authority about things Chinese, passes in the Gaulois a most pessimistic judgment about the durability of the republican constitution of China, He reminds us that it is
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 231 3 Jas. L. Woodford’s GREAT cash Clearance Sale WILL COMMENCE ON Monday, April Ist., Unique Bargains Great Reduction in Prices, as Stock must be Cleared. 4 4 nnnnundddddddddddddddddddddddd i JEFFREYS I n n i CASTLE BRAND. 1 n I PILSENER BEER. I d n d d BREWED IN EDINBURGH. n n
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    • 726 3 r INSURANCE. L <vA N A Tonic II c MARK 1w 4W WillP kl The above Company is prepared to acV V 111 C F l cept Marine risks at lowest current rates. r pi The Company also accept risks on A daily dose Oi V ANA Will I 1
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  • 19 4 Donough—Ou March 21, at No. 5, Owen Road, Singapore, the wife of H. W. Donough, of a son.
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  • 561 4 The Jesuitical argument may be used in defending strikes that the end justifies the means. As we tried carefully to explain in yesterday's article, our objections are not so much to the motives or the objects sought to be attained by labour leaders, as to the anarchist
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 570 4 RESULT OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE. Lincoln, March 26. The following was the result of the race for the Lincolnshire Handicap this afternoon The Lincolnshire Handicap of 1,500 sovs.; second to receive 50 sovs.; and the third 25 sovs.; entrance 3 sovs.; the only forfeit if declared by Tuesday,
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    • 81 4 —Reuter. King Unable to Attend. London, March 27. There is a likelihood of the Liverpool Spring Meeting on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday being abandoned. The King will not attend the Grand National, having telegraphed to Lord Derby The continuance of this disastrous coal strike makes it impossible
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    • 79 4 [From Our Own Singapore, March 27. The annual report of the Singapore Swimming Club notes a good year. The membership has increased to 467 against 392 in the previous year. Allowances of $3,229 were made during the year for the upkeep of the seawall, etc. There was
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    • 104 4 C.R.C. BEATEN BY POLICE. Members of the Chinese Recreation Club are going over to Taiping during the Easter Holidays to meet the Taiping Recreation Club, and, as a practice, a challenge was sent to the Police Athletic Club for a friendly on the Esplanade. A large crowd
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    • 62 4 It is likely that the griffins for the July meeting ordered by the Penang Turf Club will arrive by the Ewryalus which leaves Australia on April 23 and arrives here on May 14. A dozen griffins a r e being sent up, and those members intending to
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  • 612 4 Daily Service, 10 30 a m. Wednesday, March 27.—Evensong and Sermon, 5 30 p.m. Choir Practice at 6.15 p m. The addresses on Good Friday morning at 10 a.m. will be given by the Rev J. H. Smith (S.P G Chaplain, Province Welleslev. The Geneva Convention Act,
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  • 520 4 —Statesman. EXPERIMENTS IN ENGLAND Among the many remedies < the constant unrest in the coal industry' Home, is the adoption of the princinl/ co-partnership. How far this princinll applicable to the special diffi mlties i,V coal industry we do not feel competent say, but there is no doubt that
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  • 183 4 Last Saturday we published a letter from the Rev. W. G. Shel labear, of the Metho-dist-Episcopal Mission, Sitiawan, enquiring about the whereabouts of four missing individuals from Badge, in the Toba district of Sumatra, who were last seen at Siriawan, their father Johannes having come over to
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  • 98 4 His Excellency the Governor, with t approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonie*, has been please tc make the following appointments in 1 6 Civil Service :—To be officers in C asa with effect from September 11, 19 Mr. F. J. Hallifax and Mr.
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  • 60 4 To-day’s Quotation for unrefine tl Penang is $95.75 per picul, done. Tin in London is quoted at spot and £l9l three months. The following is the lo™' to-day :—Singapore Strait, Ira Ltd., 125 tons, $96-371 «.,1 Trading Co, Ltd., 100 ton,. I Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd., n°
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 289 4 By using x m. Hall’s Distemper your home can be made brighter, f healthier and more picturesque, f at a cheaper cost than wall-paper, and without V u K the objectionable smell of paint. I I Hall’s F? I Distemper l</ (Tradt Mark.} is deservedly the popular wall covering of
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    • 58 4 To-Day’s Contents. Rage 2.— Social and Personal; The Straits Civil Service The Assizes British North Borneo The Municipal Commission; Log Book and Weeks E ngagement s. Page, 3.— Kanaboi, Limited. Page 4- —Editorial: The Better Plan Co-Partnery; Sporting News and Telegrams. Rage 5. Telegrams. Page 7. Shipping and Mails Exchange
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  • 261 5 TONCKAHS DOWN; TRONOHS DP. STERLING RUBBERS AGAIN IOWNWARD The following are the changes (buyers and sellers only) in our share list on page 7 to-day Yesterday. To-day. XX XX SHABBS. S S> K tn Minina. Tongkah H. 20 20 j 20 20| Tronoh 30j 32 30J 32
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  • 87 5 LATEST PRICES IN LONDON. I From a Malacca Correspondent.] Malacca, March 27. Information has been received by the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, that the following were the prices of rubber iu London yesterday :—Fine hard Para 5/- buyers; 5/1* sellers. Plantation Para 5/7, value. [The previous quotations
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  • 111 5 THE NEW KES ER VOIR OPENED. I /'ro?n Our Own Correspondent. Singapore, March 27. His Excellency the Governor and Lady Evelyn Young, Major-General T. E. Stephenson, Officer Commanding the Troops, and many representatives of all classes attended the opening of the new reservoir. Mr. R Peirce, Municipal
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  • 36 5 from Our Own Correspondent Singapore, March 26 To-day’s (Tuesday’s) quotations for rice and other produce are Rice, Rangoon $175.00 Gambier 10 30 Pepper, black 22.00 Pepper, white 31.2» Copra, Bali 11.00 Copra, Pontianak 10.30
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  • 50 5 [From Our Own Correspondent. Singapore, March 27. At the annual meeting of shareholders *ii the Singapore Slipway and Engineering Co., Ltd., it was stated that the profits amounted to $28,779 and a dividend of four dollars per share was declared. Mr. Agnew was elected a new director.
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  • 102 5 Balkhan question.— Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. DISCUSSING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. THE PORTIS CONDITIONS Rome March 26. Peace negotiations will be touched upon during the discussion lietween the Kaiser and King Victor Emmanuel but no steps will be taken yet at Constantinople. The Porte has expressed its readiness to receive peace
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  • 98 5 SINGAPORE PRICES YESTERDAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.") Singapore, March 27. At yesterday’s rubber auction 133 piculs were offered and sold at the following prices Sheet No. 1, smoked $2BO to $298 Sheet, unsmoked 280 291 Sheet, No 2 276 No. 1 Crepe 290 300 No. 2 Crepe 275
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  • 107 5 REPENTS AND PLEADS GUILTY. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Singapore. March 27. Jesudian, a clerk in the Municipal Water Department, pleaded guilty to a charge of forging and uttering a cheque for $lOO.. Mr. Braddell, who appeared for the defence, said that accused was a Christian, and the
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  • 21 5 [From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, March 27. The Labuan murder case is not finished yet at the Assizes here.
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  • 63 5 —Reuter. St. Petersburg, March 27. The following diplomatic transfers have been published :—M. Korostovetz to Tangier, Mr. Krupensky to Peking and a new Councillor of Legation, M. Stichepkin to Tokio.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. Confirmation. St. Petersburg, March 27. M. Korostovetz at Peking has been appointed Minister in M
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  • 60 5 A VALIDIATING BILL PASSED. London, March 27. The House of Lords has passed the second reading of a Bill validating the marriages of Britishers contracted in Japan after July 16, 1899, which would have been valid if contracted before that date. This settles doubts that have
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  • 44 5 t.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. AN OPTIMISTIC CHAIRMAN. Berlin, March 27. At a general meeting of the shareholders of the Hamburg-America line, Herr Ballin declared that business was favourable and that the situation in the world had never been more peaceful than at present
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  • 35 5 —Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. St. Petersburg, March 27. The Times's report that the Kaiser sent a letter to the Tsar regarding the AngloGerman negotiations is declared by authoritative Russian circles to be an invention.
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  • 265 5 BARON HOLDEN OF ALSTON. BRIEF SKETCH OF CAREER. London, March 26. The death is announced of Baron Holden of Alston, who was Liberal M.P. for East Bradford from 1885 to 1886 and for the Buckrose division of Yorkshire from 1892 to 1900. He was 79 years
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  • 114 5 Reuter. PUBLICATION OF A WHITE BOOK. London. March 26. 3he White book, promised by Lord Emmott on February 19, has been published. It concludes with a minute of the South African Union Ministers of December 2, repeating the assurances that it was not proposed to interfere
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  • 122 5 Reuter. REIGN OF TERROR IN FRANCE. Paris, March 26. A panic prevails owing to the raid on a bank at Chantilly (where the cashier was killed, two clerks shot, and a haul made of forty thousand francs), as this is only one of a series of automobile outrages
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  • 61 5 The Kaiser has left for Brioni.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. WELCOME FROM ITALIAN PRESS. Rome, March 26. The papers welcome the Kaiser. They declare themselves convinced of the firmness of the Triple Alliance. People and Ruler. Rome, March 27. The manifestations of the people for the King of Italy
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  • 18 5 Reuter. Paris, March 27. The Chamber has voted an additional sixteen million francs for military aviation.
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  • 43 5 r.—Reuter. COASTAL STEAMER OVERDUE. Perth, March 27. A heavy death-roll is reported through the West Australian typhoon. The coastal steamer Koombana with fifty pasengers is overdue at Broome from Porthedland by five days. The voyage usually takes one day
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  • 31 5 Porte’s distrust towards Greece.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. Constantinople, March 26. The assassination of the Prince Governor of Samos by a Greek has increased the Porte’s distrust towards Greece.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
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  • 1337 5 —Reuter. MORE MEN RETURNING. DIVERSE VIEWS ON PROBABLE DURATIONLondon, March 26. It is stated that the attitude of the owners is hardening in the belief that the strike will collapse in a fortnight, but a miners’ leader, on being interviewed, said he believed that the strike would
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  • 34 5 —Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. LIBERAL LEADER IN TROUBLE. Berlin, March 26. At a meeting of National Liberal representatives, vigorous opposition was raised against Herr Basserman’s Radical tendencies in favouring the young Liberals.
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  • 37 5 Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. A SWEDISH STEAMER SUNK. Berlin, March 26. The German battleship Eslass collided with the Swedish steamer Pollux, which consequently sank. The Eslass was not damaged. There was no loss of life.—
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  • 24 5 have arrived here.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. Berlin, March 27. The Prince and Princess Chira of Siam have arrived here.—Der Ostasiatische Lloyd.
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  • 22 5 Der Ostasiatische Lloyd. Paris, March 26. M. Crozier, the French Ambassador in Vienna, has retired owing to ill health.—
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 372 5 Everybody knows the standard OF Buchanan’s Whiskies, Quality, Quality, Quality. Firstand last they have Quality. HILTON Co.. PENANG, AGENTS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. One Rubber Tyred Elgin Cart by Simpson ifc Co., Ma ira-% in splendid condition. Apply DR. BRIGHT, 1633 J/, Beach Street. The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1888. In the
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    • 1655 6 CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA SPECIAL DRIN If N’\r 'TJT nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnnnn Australia, and china. a special drink Y.K.| Sanatogen Formamints "COFFEE GLACIER» Japan Mail Skamship’Co. U. g Pixoan E wh.l be served n riAUap Jg BIBH0 p BGArBi LONDON, B. O. j *v. 5 a«»moi«b amd bbamob». Every 'Suturdiry IVlght a
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  • 2325 7 i Capital !Su «cn e<l Shares. f j Value. 3 Dividends Name >» J 2 o.® C I If I i i I 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 MINING. ttrt xortAAQO S3OO 000 30,000 810 810 10 30 30 ’lOint Belat Tin Mining Co 4$ •JLj. onnnno 225 000
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  • 930 7 ARRIVALS. Africa, Aust, 2614, Mareglia, March 26, Shanghai, gen., S. Kustermann Co. Ayuthia, Ger., 2t>o, Friese, March 29, Asahan, gen., Behn Meyer Co. Avagyee, 'Brit., 247, Harvey, March 27, T. Anson, gen., E. S. Co. Cornelia, Brit., 194, Eades, March 26, Malacca, gen., E. S. Co. Chantaboon, Ger., 760,
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  • 151 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close Yen Jit Seng 7 a.m. Alor Star (Kedah) Kedah 10a.m, Calcutta Vorwaerts noon. Tongkah Sappho 1 p.m. Rangoon Tong Hong 2 p.na. Port Swettenham Singapore Chiaa and Japan Palawan 2 p.m. Langkat Chantaboon 2 p.m. Asahan Petrel 2 pm. Port
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  • 126 7 Pbnang, March 27, 1912. (By Courtesy oj the Chartered Bank). London Demand Bank ...2/4 1/8 4 month»’ sight Bank ...2/4 11/32 3 Credit -2/4 1/2 3 Documentary 2/4 9/16 Jalcutta Demand Bank Rs. 174 3 days' sight Private 175| Bombay Demand Bank 174 M 3 days'sight Private 175| Madras
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 111 7 SUN LIFE OF CANADA. Incorporated 1865. BUSINESS IN FORCE. £29,500,000 INCOME 1910 2,000,000 FUNDS (EXCEED) 7,500,000 Chief Office 1 Norfolk Street, Strand, Great Britain, j London Chief Office 1 Canada Building?, Indian Empire. J Bombay. Chief Office Battery Road, S. E. Asia. j Singapore. W. A. Whitk, Manager. A. R.
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    • 205 7 TANSAN. A Choice water is delicious to the palate and invigorating to the System. Tansan is both delicious and invigorating, and it is more easily digested than any other water known to Science. Consequently, either alone or mixed with Spirits Tansan can be enjoyed without danger of the unpleasant after
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous

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    • 2596 8 p lntenJcd Sailin e Norddevtscher Lloyd. Bremen. w Steam Navigation Co. JTg* Wja Nav ga(i|)ll Co p EXPECTED ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES. ,F' ZA\ !i LIMITED. >Z7/Jl\/V< K wi2 MAIL SERVICE OUTWARD. OCCAB (ft Apr. 5 Assaye connecting with Malwa For Intended to Sail. Steamer. 4ND HOMEWARD. CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAV.
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