Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 3 September 1915

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833 k No. 201 VOL. LXXIII. FRIDAY. 3rd SEPTEMBER. 1915. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1077 1 1J YOU WANT TO SHIP, 4 RUY OR SELL D R U S 3 E> R X To n FORWARD GOODS y fl TO AJSY PART or THB WORLD [1 ®O TO 8 ALLEK DENNYS Co., 0 P 1. B*K)I ITUUR. n L-rw- _q- ir-ix-rrg-TT ii bm NY f ■—w*
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    • 61 1 ■aaoDaoHaaaaoßQ □<>□□■ n FOR $BO g g can have the Pinang g n A Ganette" posted every day n for a whole year to your address. (LOCAL SUBSCRIPTION, $27). n Proportionate Quarterly and 2 g Half-yearly rates. a q Subscriptions are payable in advance and remittances should g be addressed
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  • 577 2 Miss de Rees has left for Home.— T.0.M.” Mr. H. B. Ward has returned to Penang after a trip to Ootacamund. Major the Hon. A. R Adams has gone up the Penang Hills for the week end. Mr. A. E. Senger-Davies, of the Forests Department, F. M.S.
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  • 144 2 [To ths Editor oj the Pinang Gazette.”] Sir. —My atten‘ion has been called to Pit’s” letter in yoar issue of Ist in«t. It is rather tiring to have to answer the obvious and point out that my letter was written before the Bandmann Company came here and was based
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  • 414 2 SUICIDE BY OPIUM. In the Coroner’s Court, Penang, yesterday, before Mr. E. E. Colman, Coroner, and a jury consisting of Messrs. W. B. Perkins, Ooi Chye Hock and S Mohamed Ibrahim, an inquest was held touching the death of a Chinese named Cheong Say Leong, which occurred
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  • 303 2 The current number of the The Gardens* Bulletin (Straits Settlements) contains some interesting notes in regard to Philippine yams, and the results of experimental cultivation of upwards of eighty yam-tub rs, received from Manila, in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. The tubers were p'auted iu trenches at a distance
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  • 159 2 A Hardt Veteran. A Home correspondent write? to the “M.M.":—I was standing at Hyde Park Corner the other day while detachments of the National Guard were filing into the Park, and was rather astonished to recognise in the ranks Mr. H. A. Wickham, to whom Malaya and
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  • 857 2 PRISONER’S NARRATIVE. In a lengthy dispatch from the special correspondent of the Central News, at Petrograd, a German prisoner is quoted for some interesting statements concerning the doings of the Kaiser on the Eastern front. The prisoner, a talkative, halfeducated burgher, happened to mention that on the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1138 2 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. JAT SIKHS L_J—L™ Q NE HUNDRED JAT. SIKHS re[XJ'EED quired for the Kelantan Police:— RATES OF PAY. AN ASSISTANT on Rabher Estate in Coogtableg $168—5 192 per annum. Krian. Salary $l5O rising $5O per L ance Corporals $204 do annum to $250. Reply with full particulars Q or
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    • 516 2 notice. NT OTICE is hereby given that Mr On IN Thye Peng has from to-lay service and I wdl mt be responsible f 7 any debts contracted by him on aud a f t r this date. er LIM GEOK KO')I, HUP KEE i Co' ,4 W Sungei Krian Rubber
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  • 1260 3 AMENITIES OF GALLIPOLI. Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the official representative of the Allies in the Dardanelles, in jmessage dated the 16th July, states:—The P igitions of the Australians and New Zeaanders are unchanged. For six weeks they occupied an area extending only, 2,000 vsrds from the seashore northwards, but
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  • 602 3 S.F.P.” London, July 30.—Since I last wrote there has been no material change in the situation affecting enemy trading. The China Association duly took up the modification of the Royal Proclamation and ascertained that the Foreign Office is not friendly to it and was not consulted
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  • 113 3 Bonbrvals Attack British Camp. Simla, August 9.—A message from the nor.h-west frontier says Early on the morning of the 17th instant our pstrol from the Rastam front reported hostile bodies of P>onerwa's on the low hills at the mouth of the Ambela pa&s. In the afternoon of the
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  • 58 3 I heard a good story last week from a suburban clergyman. He was baptizing a child, who, unlike most children, was exemplary in its behaviour. He was so pleased he asked the fond mother the reason. “Oh,” she replied, “it’s only natural, My husband has been sprinkling it
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  • 48 3 When Mr. Lloyd George became Minister of Munitions he bad a private room at Whitehall Gardens furnished with sample shells, some of which are split open so that their construction can ba seen at a glance. [He works literally in an atmosphere of shells.*
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  • 425 3 lhe Siamese Government has this yea determined to call out a certain number of its reserves for a brief training (as stated in the P.G.” yesterday) as is provided for by the conscription law and ic is officially announced that this practice will be adhered to
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 27 3 STILL GOING STRONG. ASAHI BEER (SUN BRAND) The Recognised Brand in the East zrr GRAND PRIZE International Exposition, San Francisco, U.S.A. 1915. THE EASTERN TRADING CO. I
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  • 878 4 While the military side of the present conflict has, of course, a paramount place in our minds, and the bringing of the war to a victorious close for the Allies is the first consideration, it is impossible to exclude reflections upon the likely effect of the war
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  • 507 4 We can appreciate the uneasiness of the American Press abou" the new German submarine policy. For what it is worth, Count Bernstorff has given au undertaking that liners wili not be sunk without warning and without en-uring the safety of the lives of non-combatants, provide liners do
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  • 1133 4 A day or two ago we discussed very briefly the question of thrift and economy in war time. Margaret Macgregor, m.a ,in an article under the heading, Our Contempt for Economy,” says truly enough that economy is not a virtue in the popular mind. In the bulk
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  • 34 4 To-day’s quotation for unrefined tin in Penang was $75.90 per picul, busing done—-an increase of $l.lO. Tin is quoted in London to-day ati X 153 10s. Spot, and £155 three months.
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  • 648 4 The output of Rahman Hydraulic Tic Limited, during the month of August was 500 piculs. The output of Rahman Tin Co., Ltd during the month of August was 911 piculs (Pls 404.59 Mill Pls 506 82 Tributes). The output of the Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredge Co., Ltd, for
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 552 4 RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS Original Library Editions at Greatly Reduced Prices Scott’s Last Expedition These two monumental volumes, nearly 1,200 large pages in all. give the Journals of the heroic Capt. Robert F. Scott and reports of the journey to the South Pole, etc., the scientific work of Dr. E. A.
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    • 14 4 “E. S’ O.” MOTOR GARAGE. CARS ON HIRE $4 AN HOUR. TELEPHONE No. 322.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 35 4 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for today and to-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. 4-20 a.m. 0- 0 a.m. No inferior high. nor low. water 8-42 a.m. 4-23 a.m. 10-39 p.m.
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  • 19 4 DEATH. Balavendrum —On September 2nd, Agnes Thayamoni Balavendrum, daughter of Mr. H. T. Balavendrum, Govt. Pensioner, aged 22 years.
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  • 355 5 HARD BLOWS BY RUSSIA. ADVANCE IN GALLIPOLI. THE SUBMARINE WAD. german reply indefinite. While on the Western front the opposing forces are content with artillery end aerial activity, the armies on the Eastern line are in desperate engagements in quite a number of sectors. The German communiqes claim
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  • France and Belgium.
    • 57 5 [Retuer’s Telegram?.] GERMANS DEFEATED. [Copyright Telegrams.] (By Submarine Telegraph.) Paris, September 2. There were numerous artillery actions All night. The communique says the Germans, in the Vosges, carried on a bombardment with poison shells, then violently attacked at Linge and Scbratzmaennele. We ffiaintained our positions. In the evening
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    • 76 5 AERIAL ACTIVITY. VParis, September 2. A cimmuuique reports continued artillfcry duels, particularly north of Arra«. The French artillery efficaciously bombarded the fnemy’s trenches on the Aisne, and in Champagne. The Germans, in the Argonne, repeatedly bombarded the French positions, using guns and tomb-throwers of all sizes. All were
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    • 57 5 Havre, September 2. The Belgian Army is ro-day in a wonderful state of efficiency, aid is well supplied with arms and ammunition. The Army has been equipped with new khaki uniforms, and is ready for anything. All unmarried Belgians up to 25 have been called up, as
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    • 79 5 SHOT WHEN IN THE AIR. Pari«, September 2. M. Pegoud, the French aviator, was shot dead at a height of 6.000 feet. Ti e Germans had long vowed to destroy Pegoud, who has been a thorn in their sides. He had acted as an aerial guard
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    • 596 5 Writing from Paris at the beginning of the year, a British war Correspondent said The heroism of French aviators will make a thrilling chapter of adventure. In the history of this war, at present, they are without publicity few people know the names of those men who
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    • 31 5 Amsterdam, September 2. The German economist, Herr Richard Calwer, estimates that the ccst of living in Germany in June was 48 per cent, higher than in June, 1914
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    • 637 5 A GALLANT LANCER. London, September 2. Several fresh Victoria Crosses have been awarded, all for mist conspicuou? bravery and devotion to duty. Major G. G. Wheeler, of the 7th Hariana Lancers, at Shaiba, Mesopotamia, on the 12th April, asked permission to take his squadron in an attempt
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    • 52 5 Melbourne, September 2. The Hon. Andrew Fisher, the Au’tralian Premier, announces that nearly £10,000,000 bad been subscribed, as a first instalment of the War Loan, and that the Government would give allotment to the whole amount £13,000,000 Subscribed. Melbourne, September 2. The Australian War Loan subscriptions now
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  • 47 5 ALLIES’ SUCCESSES. London, September 1. A Press Bureau announcement states that the Government of Nigeria reports the occupation of the town of Gaschaka, in the Cameroons, while cur forces on August 29th surprised a neighbouring enemy position, from which the enemy were forced to retreat.
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  • Russian Campaign.
    • 790 5 TERRIBLE ENEMY LOSSES. Petrograd, September 2. A communique says The enemy were inactive on the Riga-Dvins-k front, except at Friedrichstadt, where the situation is practically unchanged. The Russians continue to advance on the right bank of the Vilna, and captured, on 30th August, four guns and machine guns.
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  • Turkey and the Near East
    • 100 5 CAPTURES FROM TURKS. London, September 2. General Sir Tan Hamilton reports tha* further fighting, on August 27th and 28th, in the northern section of the line in Gallipoli,resulted in the capture of an important practical feature, commanding the BiyukAnafarta valley, eastwards and northwards, with an appreciable gain
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  • Naval Operations.
    • 242 5 GERMAN REPLY TO U. S. London, September 2. Count the German Ambassador, on instructions from Berlin, has notified Mr. Lansing, Secretary of State, that Germany accepts the American Government’s principle that passenger liners be warned before an attack by submarines. Treatment of Liners. Washington, September 2. Count
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  • General News.
    • 112 5 AMBASSADOR’S STATEMENT. London, September 2. Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Ambassador at R me, interviewed at Paris, said Since August 23; d, last year, when Japan commenced hostilities, we have not ceased io the role assigned to us, to co-operate with our Allies. lam unable to enlarge on the
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    • 86 5 PURCHASED BY HOLT’S London, September 2. Messrs. A. Holt Co., of the Blue Funnel Line of steamers, have purchased the Indra Line, Ltd., of Liverpool. THE INDRA FLEET. The steamers of the Indra Line, Ltd., (T. B. Boyden, 20 Brown’s Buildings, Exchange, Liverpool) are as follows —lndrapura,
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    • 59 5 London, September 2. Ranjitsinbji, the Jam of Nawanagar, who wa? on a few days* leave from the front, while grouse-shooting near Scarborough, was accidentally shot in the face- His injuries were more painful than serious He was removed to Leeds for treatment. Later. Ranjitsinbji, the Jam of
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  • 91 5 A report was made to the Police this morning that premises No. 46b, Noriham Road, next to Chakrabongs House, belonging to Mr. Heah Swee L< e, J. P., had been broken into the night previous and a quantity of jewellery valued at about $5OO from
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  • 49 5 The Band will play the following programme of music at the Esplanade from 6 to 7 p.m. this evening 1. Selection Ze Pre. Aux Cires ...Herold 2. Lancers Round the Town ...Williams 3. Waltz Eepana Waldteufel 4. Gavotte My Sweetheart Sabathil 5. March The Mountaineer Bidgood
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  • 129 5 The following were the results of the ties played yesterday Championship—F N Syer beat E A Swan by 10—8, 6—2. Singles Handicap B—Turner beat Terzano by 7—5, 6—4. Profession Pairs—Harvey and Harries beat Bennett and Prentis by 6—2, 6—3. The following ties have been fixed for to-day
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 34 5 Obituary. LIEUT.-GENERAL GOODFELLOW VC. London, September 2. The death has occurred of LieutenantGeneral Charles Augustus Goodfellow, V.C., an Indian Mutiny veteran. Deceased, who was born in 1836, entered the Royal Bombay Engineers in 1855.
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  • 1130 6 S.T.” DEBTS AND QUESTION OF FUTURE DIVIDENDS. The twenty-eighth ordinary general meeting of the Kinta Association, Limited, was held on Tuesday at the offices of the Association, Winchester House, Collyer Quay, Singapore. The Hon W W Cook (chairman) pre-ided, others present being Messrs W H Macgregor, W Lowther
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  • 566 6 THE WAR RELIEF FUND. A general meeting of the Kapar D.P.A. was held at the Kapar R j st House on August 24fh. Mr. L. Mooijaart presided. The meeting was unanimously opposed to the introduction of smaller coinage. The Chairman said that it was practically impossible to obtain
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  • 78 6 Is there any connection between long hair and Parliamentary fame, or is it simply that some eminent men are too busy to find time to have their hair cut But you must have noticed that both Mr. and Mr. Lloyd George are wearing their hair in this
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  • 509 6 M M.” THE BUSINESS QUESTION. We are asked to state that BrigadierGeneral Ridout regrets that he omitted in his speech on Monday to emphasise the point that one of the reasons why an organisation on the lines of this proposed Volunteer Civil Guard should be formed is that,
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  • 209 6 Advantage is being taken of the new interchange of tickets between the P. and O. and Orient companies to incorporate the surtax in the fares and to discriminate in the rates between Euglan i and the different ports of Australia. The surtax of 10 per
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 363 6 P. 0. S. N. CO. Marseilles Special Train The public are hereby informed that the P. O. SLEEPING CAR SPECIAL TRAIN is to be reestablished commencing outwards in connect i o n with the “Medina” leaving Marseilles on 12th September ami homewards in connection with th e Persia due at
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    • 68 6 NO MOTHER can expect her children to escape all the ills to which childhood is subject, but small regular doses of the tiny laxatives, will help to make their battles i 'for health easily won. Correct Constipation, relieve Biliousness and Headaches. Do not Gripe. Of Chemists, 50 cents per phial,
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    • 147 6 THE EVER POPULAR HOUSEHOLD REMEDY I Which has now borne the Stamp of Public Approval for fl OVER FORTY YEARS. ENO’S ‘FRUIT SALT’ j Pleasant to Take, I Refreshing and Invigorating. IT IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN ALL CASES OF I Biliousness, Sick Headache, Constipation, Errors in Diet—Eating or Drinking, Thirst,
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  • 387 7 There are two things that strike us in connection with the General’s speech, says the “T. O. M.” First, the tone of his utterance makes incontestible that the military authorities are faced with a different set of circumstrnces to those that moved them when the idea of
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  • 246 7 T.0.M.” A Contractor’» Claim. A case in which a Chinese contractor, Low Learn Bak, is suing the Tronoh Mines, Ltd., in respect of a sum of $1,460 due on a contract alleged to have been arranged for the building of a General Manager’s house, is proceeding
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  • 160 7 Colombo, August 18.—Among the passengers on the P. and O. Malwa, which has just passed through Colombo, was Mr Norman Brookes, the celebrated lawn tennis player who won the world’s tennis championship last vear at the All England meeting at Wimbledon. Mr. Brookes, who is
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  • 98 7 The Hon. Treasurer eends us the following list of further contributions to the above Fund, forwarded to the Chartered Bank, Penang. Balance on Sept 1 ..,$31,400 57 Three Musketeers monthly subscription 45.00 W H Threifall, monthly subn 10.00 A F Richards, Parit Buntar
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  • 163 7 Bavarian Princes Gloomy Statement. I am able to-day to record a prophetic statement made recently by the Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria in conversation with a member of the Reichstag who was visiting the German lines in Artois writes a correspondent from Northern France. After admitting
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  • 177 7 It may interest the friends of Mr P J C Daniels (of Klang), now a Corporal in the Motor Transport A S C attached to the Ist Indian Cavalry Supply Column, to know that he is serving in the North of France and that he was
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  • 42 7 OUTPUT FOR AUGUST. The following are rubber outputs for August Bakap ]bs. 28,082 Batu Matang 11,220 Consolidated 24.059 Gula Kalumpong 97,470 Jong Landor 40,205 Karan M 13,000 New Columbia 30,090 Padang 22,300 PadangJawa 17,852 R. E. of Krian 32,000 Samagaga 11,100
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  • 98 7 Arrivals. By Ipoh (September 3) from Singapore, Capt Lyons, Rev W Murray, Mrs SB Archdeacon, Mrs Wald, Mrs M T Mclntyre, Mrs L Vander Harot, Messrs J Frost, F Diuiz and C A da Silva from Port Swettenham, Mr and Mrs F S Williams, Mr and Mrs Movijaart and
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  • 132 7 In August last, Mr J. H. George of the Dindings-Selama Coc >nut Company, sent to the Botanic Gardens specimens of a white fly found feeding in numbers on the juices of coconut leaves at Matang Kubu in the Dindings. This insect was Eent to the Imperial
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  • 98 7 In the night of January 10th—11th, 1914, a grove of coconuts on the coast near Bedok, east of Singapore, was struck by lightning, and the number of trees which died at once or slowly over the months which followed amounted to one hundred and four. The case is
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  • 74 7 For the period from the 3rd to 9th September, 1915, inclusive, the value of the highest grade of rubber is fixed at two shillings and four pence half penny per lb., and the du‘y on cultivated rubber on which expert duty is leviable on an ad valorem
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  • 31 7 London, September 2.* The following is the rubber quotation for to-day Plantation Ist Latex Crepe 2/4|. Para to arrive Oct.-Dec. 2/4£. *By courtesy of Messrs. Bou-itead Jr Co].
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  • 30 7 Friday, September 3. Band, Esplanade, 6 p.m. Empire Theatre. Penang Road Electric Polyscope Co,, Argylo Road George Town Cinema. Saturday, September 4. Band, Golf Club, 6 p.m.
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  • 52 7 SHIPPING ARRIVALS. Ipoh, Brit., 528, Daly, Sept 3, S’pore, gen., Adamson G. Co. Ban Watt Soon, Brit., 199, Taylor, Sept 3, Langkat, gen., E. S. Co. Trang, Brit., 73, William Pithie, Sept 3, Trang, gen, E. S. Co. Pin Seng, Brit., 378, Davidson, Sept 3, S pore, gen., E.
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  • 70 7 To-day. Tong Chay Un for Alor Star (Kedah). Menggala for Deli. Menggala for Singapore. Hok Canton for Tongkah, Kopah, Renong, Victoria Point, Mergui and Tavoy, Pin Seng for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Hong Wan I for Singapore and China. Pangkor for Dindings Sitiawan and Bacan Datoh. Un Peng for
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  • 103 7 CLOSE AT GENERAL POST OFFICE. To-Morrow. For Per Close, Alor Star {(Kedah) Lian Choo 10 am. Alor Star (Kedah) Aing Thye 10 a.m. Deli and Asahan Brandan 10 a.m. Trang, Tongkah and Pang Nga Perlis 2 p.m. Bagan Datoh and Teluk Anson Jin Ho 3 p.m. Tongkah and Renong
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  • 125 7 Penang, September 3, 1915. (By Courtesy of ths Charted Bank}. London Demand Bank ...2/4 1/8 4 months’sight Bank ...2/4 7/16 e 3 >i Credit ...2/4 13/16 3 ii Documentary ...2/4 27/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rg. I"s| 3 days’ sight Private 1771 Bombay Demand Bank Moul mein Demand Bank n
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 217 7 ACETIC GLACIAL *****07° I Guaranteed free from Copper. ACID NOW IN STOCK. I BOELEN Co., 49 Beach Street, Penang. I f A -s T2aDE MattfL 7*J n ft W- is ft ik/ I it ffi >£ tit No. 92. BEACH STREET, PENANG. Phe, 1 ’IICE is hereby given that the
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    • 202 7 Hew Stocks Just Arrived. Benger’s Food II Huxley’s Nervigor Syrup Savory Moore’s Food with Formates Allenbury’s Food Nos. 1, Californian Syrup of Figs 2 and 3. Lactagol Allenbury’s Rusks Cassel’s Tablets Allenbury Teats Valves Astol Dinneford’s Magnesia Brown’s Chlorodyne Robinson’s Patent Barley Fellow’s Syrup Groats Autostrop Razor Blades Horlick’s Malted
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    • 63 7 MARTIN’S j A A Frenoh Remedy for all Irreg'uiarl'lea. Thousands of Ladies keep a box of Martin’s Ptlla in the house, so that on the first sign of any irregularity of the System, a timely dose m.iv be administered. Those who use them recommen t them. ience their enormops sale.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 273 7 Absolutely Unique! Absolutely Unique! An Extra-ordinary Strong Programme TO-NIGHT TO-NIGHT 11 With a $lOO.OO Purse for a WRESTLING CONTEST BETWEEN Professor HAGIO and BANDRAM Cabul, Watchman, Sungei Pinang. AT THE THE STRAITS CINEMA, Phone No. 628. EMPIRE HALL, PENANG ROAD. BOOK NOW TO SECURE YOUR SEAT ’PHONE NOW A Great
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 2390 8 P. &O. intended sailings. straits Steam Ship Co., Ltd. Ocean Navigation Co. E9diticu INDIA i sitmsmpc, H Tort nwettenham and Singapore. Every Tuesday, at 5-30 p.m. Klang. Wireless Telegraphy fitted on ali Do. Do. Every Saturday, at 5-00 p.m. Ipoh. num. Steers. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. n from th? ga
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