Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 June 1919

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 143. VOL. LXXVII. MONDAY, 23rd JUNE, 1919. PRICE IO CENTS.
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    • 598 1 Envelopes ALL SORTS AND SIZES PRINTED OR PLAIN The PiNang Gazette Press LIMITED. INSURANCE. THE 0 H M* AMURANOI CORPORATION. <• "W- Mnf nr Car! guinnesss stout. > PATERSON. SIMONS CO.. LTD.. Q WW 3 IXIPOBATBD IN BNGUUTO. Q H q |MI MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD. Jg Fas above Company
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    • 45 1 ■■Maaa oaeacaeaaooaiaß I BP-TO-DATE PRIITiIB j I ef erery description undertaken, I 1 frem a viaiting card to the large*! J Mae eoeter. by Tk PuMit fiaretu Prm, S with «are and promputade. I IrtbnatM given free and artirtie J f diiplay guaranteed. 5 vnaauißMmnHißßMaaaHWßßaßS
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  • 662 2 will have to do the enduring.—“ Manila Bulletin.” U.S. TO RETAIN POSSESSION OF THOSE IN HER PORTS. Growing dissatisfaction is being felt at the fact that America has been allowed to retain possession of the German liners driven into her ports by the British Navy at the
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    • 561 2 POSITIONS WANTED. Englishman, ten years Robber Planting F.M.S., mostly as Manager in Perak, whose costs, results and dividends compare favourably with any other Estate, is open to FC* engagement. Apply Box No. 169, c/o Pinang Gazette. 920—u o An experienced Book-keeper, having five years’ experience in Siamese Western States seeks
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    • 275 2 THE EMOTIONS DIGESTION. WHY LAUGHTER IS GOOD AT MEALTIMES. There is a curious relation between the emotions and the process of digestion. It i* a scientific fact that sudden grief or joy will instantly arrest digestion and the functions of the stomach will not be resumed until the unusual emotion
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    • 2215 2 AUCTIONS. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1889 1915. PENANG SALES ROOM A special Meeting of the Municipal FRASER NEAVE, LTD. Commissioners will be held at the Munici- fIA pal Office, at 4p m on Tuesday, the 24tb fl fl If OmX th nit qOT n instant. Notice is hereby given that
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  • 391 3 “The most Awful Collapse in History.’ A correspondent of the Mar Chester Guardian,” writing from Berne, says If 5 on were as near to it all as I am, you would feel the utter absurdity of the economic clauses of the Peace Treaty. Save for the telegraph, which
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  • 207 3 “All Clear ’’sends to The Times two examples of the seriousness of this matter. We had cabled to one of our travellers in Hongkong to proceed to Japan, but owing to the telegram taking a fortnight to reach its destination h® had left Hongkong for Europe before the
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  • 189 3 “Charleston News and Courier.” Madrid, May 13. —The group representing three types of aeroplanes sent by the British Government, and at present enjoying the hospitality of the Spanish military authorities at Cuatro Vietos, near Madrid, has been giving in the ideal weather of the past
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  • 1201 3 jfiutumn Jrfeeting, 1919. RACE DAYS FIRST DAY Tuesday, 12th August, 1919. SECOND DAY Thursday, 14th August, 1919. THIRD DAY Saturday, 16th August, 1919. [FIRST DAY. TUESDAY, 12th AUGUST, 1919. k 1. The George Town Stakes. Value $5OO and $lOO to Second Horse. A Handicap for all Ponies
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    • 300 3 «UmEMT THE SUBMARINES AND ssta BOVBUILS i During the War food supplies were greatly restricted in the United Kingdom owing to the submarine blockade, and Bovril was so indispensable to the soldiers, wounded, and the people that it had to be retained in the British Isles, where it is made,
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    • 57 3 Bisle of SKYE WHISKY FINEST WH I S[K Y ON THE .MARKET. IMn Obtainable throughout the I’II Straits Settlements, F.M.S., |I an( J ie Outch East Indies. j I of’i2£bottks 11 $24. g.;h. slot co., II PENANG. TELEPHONE 453. I JAMAICA CIGARS. I Golofino perfeefos AND j I Golofino Bouquets
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    • 114 3 TO-NIGHT THE imperial Picture Palace, AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE, PENANG ROAD. Extra Special Attraction Pictures and Variety For 5 Nights Only from To-night (excluding Sunday) Every Night at 10-45 p.m. Special Engagement of SMITH and BELLA JACKSON or better known as Mr. and Mrs. JACK JOHNSON of the Stage. Original
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  • 1649 4 JAPANESE SHOPS LOOPED. TOWN WITHOUT RIKISHAS. Rice Godownb Attacked. The serious anti-Japaneee outbreaks that occurred last; week ia Singapore, of which we give a full report to-day, from the Singapore Press, were re-echoed in Penang on a much milder scale during the week-end. There has been considerable
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  • 1939 4 IN SINGAPORE. Armed Forces Called Out. The Straits Times of Friday save The Guices? buycjit of all things Japanese in Si-igapore c’me to a l ead last ni>ht in the looting of Japanese shops in various parts of the town tnl the d?struc ion and burning of good*,
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  • 1606 4 effective government MEASURES. The “Straits Times” of Saturday says Thanks to the effective show of military force yesterday and throughout the night there was no repetition of anti-Japanese disturbances on the scale of those of Thursday night. Armed forces patrolled the town in considerable strength and any lawless
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  • 67 4 [From Our Own Correspondent. Singapore, June General Sa’urday night ani were quiet, thanks to the Mar 11 Proclamation and continuous patro s. Rikishas, after sum? inducement oj cials and prominent Chinese, came ci There were a large number of arre= carrying weapons of various sorts. So far as
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  • 36 4 [From Oub Own Cobbes poNDE Si ’f por? There was a serious fire on night on the American Auxuia took Esperance. Flames broke ou-» twelve hours to extinguis cargo was not touched.
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  • 48 4 BAND PROSHA The Bend Ul Xl.o»de 6 gramme of music at tne r p.m. to-day:— g ar tffl» ca 1. Selection ...English R > j JO Tb isr 2. Galop LecoCO q 3. Selection Girofle Giro 4. Waltz Incognito' Le hnb# ra6 5. March Death or Glory.>
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  • 2123 5 MS. HAMILTON ON THE INDUSTRY. yhe uinch annual general m a eting of the Rabbet Company (Limited) was j oa May 16 h at Winchester ose, Old Broad-street, London Mr E L g oiiitoo, the chairman presiding. 7 ie Chairman said :—Gentlemen, since j sai the pleasure
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  • 466 5 Messrs. Fraser and Co’s Weskly Circutar. Messrs. Fraser and Co., m their weekly report dated. J one 18, state Business in rubber shares has been far from active since our last reert and the market devoid, of any special interest. The tone generally was daill, nearly all
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    • 60 5 Kmind aad San Set Jewellery. Wedding and Engagement Hinge. LIVER WRIST WATCHES AND NOVELTY BANDS IN GOLD AND S'LVSR N. D. DE SILVA. 74. Bishop Street. Penang. Re-setting and c-c-r •«'<-> Repairing and Ae-moanting. Re-guding. j JAPANESE J DENTIST T. NAGATA, 1 NEXT DOOR TO THE DISPENSARY. i «•A THAD
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    • 583 5 Minting gazette. I RATES FOR ROTTERDAM CASUAL WViRTISEMIMTS. FOR SALE, TO LET. SITUATIONS VACANT, ETC. -1 Minimum Charge 52.00 For 1 insertion 1.20 per inch 2 insertion» I.IS •/< 5 0.95 i f uMk „12 or more insertions 0.50 Advertisements are charged by space. V, A line of ordinary advertisement
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  • 1555 6 The Architects BJI wfs read a first time in the Legislative Council on March 31st, 1919, and was withdrawn on Jane 16th. The Bill did not attract mach notice from the public, who probably looked on it as something of a technical nature
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  • 1946 6 Penang baa not escaped boycott dis* turbances, so called, Boycott Troubles, and a certain amount of wanton damage has been done, at the expense of Japanese. After the events of Saturday it was deemed necessary to impress upon those responsible for tbe disorder, by a display of
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    • 337 6 I* THE GREAT DISTILLERS OF PURE SCOTCH WHISKY 2 JOHN HOPKINS CO., LTD., I PROPRIETORS OF I I Tobermory Distillery, Mull. Speyburn-Glenlivet Distillery, Rothes I are again exporting their famous Blend of Old and I PURE SCOTCH WHISKY I “GLENGARRY” J AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS 100 YEARS,
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    • 567 6 PEACE CELEBRATIONS AT THE "E. O." Night before the Victory Bail. I could remove some of the misapprehensions A under which these people labour. Their e duty is to do all they can in this direction, r and we shall be pleased to see conc ete r evidence that they
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 34 6 THE TIDES. The following are the tides for To-day and To-morrow, Penang Standard Times High Water. Low Water. To-day. 8.21 p m. 2.27 p.m. To-morrow. 9.13 ».m. 2.24 a m. 9.32 p.m. 3.53 p.m.
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  • 337 7 cebman counter-proposals ANALYSED. HO FUQTHEfi CHANGES 'Ritteb’b Txlegbjlms.] —Havas. Paris, Jane 15. Jne Allied reply to the German coun'er..pcgnlg which will be handed to Count р. at Versailles at noon on the 16th 3D r comprises a long letter analysing tne German counter-proposals from the a
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  • 114 7 :.—Havas. June 15. A beginning has been made towards a rert.ement of the strikes. The petrol refiners met their employers and agreed to resume work M Clemenceau conferred with representative? of the transport workers and traffic e xpanies and appealed to their patriotism a: the present grave
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  • 36 7 —Havas. Paris, June 15 —The Lille Section of L Syndicate of Posts, Telegraphs and -•rj .onts has issued a vigorous protest Against the attempt to use trade corpotAti.ns for international political manoeuvres —Havas.
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  • 13 7 Ostend, June 14. d e port of Zeebrugge was ceremoniously re-opened.
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  • 30 7 I.—Havas. taris, June 15.—Mr. Katsura Inabata, Resident of the Chamber of Commerce of kaka intends to study in Lyons the 1 development of French and Japa- exchanges.
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  • 36 7 London, June 14. beat Warwickshire by an and 63 runs Derbyshire beat Nortbants by nine •■csets Hampshire beat Surrey by six wickets. -■:ex beat Sussex by six wickets. Leicestershire beat Gloucestershire by wickets.
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  • 41 7 P. O. Bookings. Melbourne, June 18. Qe Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. Cs ’<*acted by its Bombay Office not to passengers for ports beyond India at ow c g to thousands of soldiers and ers in India awaiting passengers to
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  • 516 7 THE VICEROY’S REPLY. [Bxtmß's Tilkwh] Simla, June 22. The Amir's reply to the Viceroys letter of the 3rd June, which reached Simla on the 18th. is couched in terms of studied friendliness. He state? that the Amir is impressed by the peaceloving inclination of the British
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  • 201 7 KING'S APPEAL. London, June 15. The King has issued an appeal to the nation in connection with the Victory Loan, namely “Whereas throughout the war I appealed to my people to unite for victory, I now urgthem to another common eSort in order to set peace upon
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  • 67 7 London, June 17. Silver is at 54 78d 54 7/81. The market is steady. London. Jerne 19. Silver is at 54fd.; 54fd, There is an absence of demand. The market is quiet. London, June 19, Messrs, Montagu <fc Co.’s report da el the 19tb June says supplies are large
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  • 235 7 AVIATORS’ EXPECTATION. [Rkuteb's Tblbgxamb S\ John’s. June 14. The Vickers machine climbed slowly, owing to the heavy load and left the coas* at a height of 1,000 feet with a following breeze. It was out of sight in seven minutes. The airmen before leaving said they expected to
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  • 307 7 London. June 15. It is stated that Captain Aloock hopes to fly to London to-morrow. Lieut. Brown is going by train and is due in the metropolis on Tuesday morning. Both are fatigued but are in the highest spirits. The ickers machine is said to be unable to rise
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  • 360 7 Of the pilot's problem the great majority of people are entirely oblivious. Mots people are totally unaware that to fly an aeroplane for the greatest possible distance is by no means the same thing as flying it so that it remains the longest possible time in the
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  • 308 7 We see. said a writer in "The Field”, before Hawker’s unsuccessful flight, that the bookmakers are said to have betted 5 to 1 against Hawker on the Sopwith accomplishing the passage, and 7 to 1 against Raynham in the Martinsyde. To our mind the odd* are ridiculously
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  • 135 7 When learning to fly, the chances were that one would not be killed till one had flown 70,000 miles so that, in the procesi of learning, it would be possible to fly to Australia and back several times without danger. This interesting calculation was made by Major-General
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  • 259 7 THE KUALA LUMPUR DISTRICT. [Fbom Ovb Own Coreespondent. Kui'a Lumpur, June 21. At a general meeting of the Kuala turnfur D P A. to day, th° Chairman said the Food Committee had gone into the question of 35 estat s circularised, of which 26 replied, giving particuars how
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  • 144 7 Weekly ia-ue will be Pari Passu for Furmah, Saigon or Siam. Maximum prices for whit° and parboiled rice. Burmah White Rice. 1. By Importers $l2 30 per bag 2. By Wholesale dealers $l2 70 per bag. 3. By Retail 47 cents per gantang. Siam White Rice (frcm
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  • 638 7 Messrs D F Topham »idCD Mathewson lefc for Home by the Steotor. The Hon Mr John Mitchell and Mrs Mitchell are going Home early next month. Mr P G Stirling left tor Home on Saturday» via Singapore. He goes by the Bencleuch. The Hon Mr W C
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  • 38 7 Gomes. —On June IJ. at C. 8. Owen Road. Singapore, the wife of L. H. Gomes, of a son. Flanagan. —On Friday, June 20. at the Maternity Hospital. Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. Ge>. Flanagan, a son.
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  • 89 7 The total number of births registered for the year was 8.843. equivalent to a birthrate of 23.4 per mille of the estimated population. In 1917. the number of births was 8,674 and the birth-rate 23.7. The greatest number of births occurred among Indians, with the
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  • 390 7 $25,000 WORTH OF JEWELS SToi It had been arranged that on Sunday Mr. and Mrs. A. E. T. Murray and family should leave the house which they have long occupied on Northam Road and take up residence at Spring-grove,” Sepoy Lines, The last night in tbeir old
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  • 132 7 AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE. A Perak correspondent informs us that the murderer of Mr Carl van Cuyitnberg has been captured by the police on the railway line near Karrpar station, having in his possession at the time the revolver cf Manikam, the conductor, who witnessed the murder. The pri-oner
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  • 190 7 Malakoff v Casuals. The Casuals motored to hospitable Malakoff on Saturday afternoon and played a football match with a Planters eleven» The game was a very well contested one» Malakoff scored through Donald in the opening half and led at the interval by one goal to nil. In the
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  • 37 7 June 23.—Influenza Relief Fund, Meeting Chinese Town Hall, 3 p.m. June 85.—Licensing Justices Meeting. June 25.—P.A.M. General Meeting, SereQk ban 10 a.m, June 25. —Penang Choral Society, annual general meeting, Town Hall, 5-M p-in. J
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  • 35 7 DEATH Low Teng Ngah.—On Juns 19. at 13. Talping Itoad. formerly Beng Hoon Road, Singapore, Mrs. Siow Hay Yam, nee Low in her 28th year. Balik Pulau is reported to haVe Tug out of rice.
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  • 725 8 A CITY OF CONTRASTS. A correspondent in South China says the Great Wall still remains, but the walls of the cities of China are crumbling. They kept out the wandering band* of robbers, but they are useless before modern artillery, the pioneer of the British in
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  • 87 8 Vladivostok, May 22.—Fire broke out in the warehouse No. 15 on the naval wharves nt about 11 o’clock last night and all the goods stored in the warehouse were destroyed after three hours of burning. The goods destroyed included cotton, paper and other goods. The American and
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 182 8 ["PRITCHARD 4 C» L° (INCORPORATED IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.) I NEW SEASON’S I =GOODS= IN OUR I DRAPERY DEPARTMENT Particular attention has been I paid to selecting these —the I Latest in Ladies’ Wear. I Sports’ Coats. I I > Frin S ed Knitted Woollen Coats and Jumpers I W
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    • 290 8 THE ECSTASY OF FEELING WELL. No one can know the ecstasy of feeling unless they have suffered the agonies of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, or ether acute forms of pain, and then been cured. We have thousands of letters which express this ecstasy of feeling the pain go, the ecstasy •of
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    • 430 8 jRUNNYMEDE HOTEI"] I NORTH AM ROAD. PENANG. I The MOST reasonable Hotel in the Settlement. I A HOME OF COMFORT. j 8 RATES $5.50 to $lO per day. I I Special terms to monthly guests and Xsfjeatrieal Companies KERDYK HENDERSON, 9>rop rielo I Telegrams: RUNNYMEDE.” Telephones: 543 635 I U
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  • 625 9 IN “DAMAGED GOODS. There was quite a large audience at the Town Hall on Saturday night. The advertisements about the bil ed piece ought to have conveyed its exact nature and an opportunity to retire was afforded any oce who had come under a misapprehension. Befoie the curtain
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  • 355 9 The following noificatiofi waS, by Joianiand of His Excellency the Governor, published for general information in Government Gazette Extraordinary. In exercise of the powers conferred by the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council dated October 26. 1896, as amended by the Order of His
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    • 283 9 [SYNOLEO] I I fW\ \y 1 The Oil Bound Wuh.W. Dlitompnr for Interior and Exterior Decorations A soft flat finish. Does not rub off. Proclaimed i unrivalled for Tropical use. f 77c/> for Pu **nge of Artistic Slades *vA and Colour Schemes. I PATERSON, SIMONS i C«. Ltd. awoaroBATUD m
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    • 722 9 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. T POSITION WANTED. |U N I LECTRICI An Energetic Young Man has some ELECTRIC LIGHT A POWER GENEHATORB. I spare time to sell. Box No. 178, c/o is 3 Pinang Gczette. fl A complete self conuiaed u»it— sleeve valve, four cycle engiae DHciTinwc uacamt and electric generator mouated
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  • 673 10 AMAZING MEDLEY ,OF LOVE LETTERS. Paris, May 17.—The mystery of Landru, the Bluebeard who is supposed to have done to death at least ten women, and subsequently to have burned their bodies at his lonely villa at Gambais, remains as incomprehensible as ever. The magistrates and detectives
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  • 126 10 It is, proposed to establish a Masonic Club in London which will be open to Masons from all the English-speaking countries of the world. The object of the enterprise is to provide a headquarters where English Masons will have the opportunity of meeting brothers in the
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  • 93 10 Melbourne, May 22.—Numerous letters, couches in indignant terms, are appearing in the newspapers, complaining of the excessively high fares now ruling to London. Of course the accommodation is strictly limited, still the rates ruling do seem “over the odds.’" Here is an instance. A friend
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    • 262 10 MAKE this test. Take two Firestone Holdfast Cementless Tube Patches and stick them together. Then try this lace-on boot “tug of war.” Pull, yank. Fits any style or type of n They will hold fast. ‘V- Io d H On style also. Here you have a practical demonstration of the
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    • 246 10 g Wtf leyres that are Superior n r and tbe Reason Why! If QIXTY YEARS of reseaich aad experiment have made the factory of 0 52 the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., one of the most perfectly organised SC H and completely equipped works in the Empire. Neither time, money,
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  • 1311 11 By General Sib O’Moobe Creagh, V.C, General Sir O’Moore Creagh, V. C., G.C.8., G.C.S.I, is one of the greatest living authorities on Indian afiairs. He has spent forty-eight years of his life in India, and was for two years Secretary of the Military Department of the
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    • 561 11 A Great Politician And A Great Tonic lron Jelloids. \O|I 2? C f the reate t of ANGLOES—Printer, writer, Statesman and Ambassador, also Inventor of the Lightning Conductor—eripuit caelo fuimen which, the simplest of contrivances, has averted BENJAMIN FRANKUN. great disasters. In the matter of Health, Iron Jelloids are as
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    • 167 11 nT-iMowr-i— i —ipmr—is—i^r—i^r R. YOUNG (0., Ltd., i PENANG. 5 MMsaaußMßi S i <xxjrrx4 FANCT “MOSAIC” y Pressed Concrete Flooring Tiles. Q 1 8 H B Great Variety in Artistic Colors Patter». 9 IA s 4 SS HI fly nBP 0N VIEW AT OL’R OFFICBf. B o I Q o
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    • 141 11 I JUST ARRIVED I A New Shipment cf CYRUS PRICE Co.’s., Ltd., S GOLD MEDAL S FIRE AND THIEF RESISTING SAFES. .fa*.- i I V WWIIJ*, ’~—TTT-Jirr. •2 Tg fW '3L l. M B!• i 1 ll' .fl I i IW-- B H FOR PRICES AND PARTICULARS APPLY TO S
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    • 1589 12 P go -B RITISH INDIA K. P. M. M■ V k/ A i (ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION Co.) UNDER MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE IbJgl XSft AND IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. (INCORPORATED IN HOLLA APCAR LtINID. (Subject to alterations without Notice.) I Jfo. 582. 13elegra.ru■“ Paketvaart," Companies Incorporated in England.) U I EUROPEAN
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    • 659 12 BANKB. CHARTERiF bank of AU.TRALIA AND DHINA I. E PI I. H t R w Paid up Capital Reserve Fund tteser.e Liability of Pro pr i eto Head Office: ,00G 38, BISHOPSGATE, LONDON, fi C Agencies and Branches. Canton, I IMti bay R C lou tta, Medan, New York, Peking,
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