Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 11 August 1921

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1838. No. 182. VOL. LXXIX THURSDAY. 11th AUGUST, 1921. PRICE 15 CENTS.
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    SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
    926 2 ST” Capt H Berkeley is on a vi-it to Koala i Lumpur. Mr W R Turing Mncketz e has left for East Africa. Mr G F Monee bas bean appointed as Actirg T»1 grah Engineer, Johore. Tanka Ydcob ha< been transferred from Langkawi to the L*nd Office,
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    SELANGOR TURF MEETING.
    281 2 THE LOLTERIES. (Krom Our Own Corrbspondsnt). Kuala Lumpur, August ’O, The drawings in the lotteries on the day’s events resulted v Race I.—-Five furlongs. Waukover $l3O, Gentle Eva $75, Peace $7O. Race 2—Five furlongs. Duke Aryan $4O and $BO Hugbeslier and My Laddo $BO and $7O, Van
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    THE GAUNT CUP.
    243 2 FERAK QOMFETITOR SELECTED. (From Our Own Correspondent) Spooner of Tapih met Chung Ah Ming of the Perak Chinese Rec ea’io i Club in the semi finals for tne selection of the Betak competitor on the courts of th** Ip >h C>ul‘ The first ser was easily won
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    P. C. C. Tennis Tournament
    227 2 The following ties been fixei for to dav. Ch ampio r ’sbip—M K Wbi lock v—N A Sedw'ck (5). Chimpionship P*irs— HG R T.eona d F N Syer v E E Chambers <fc W H Threlfa’l (4) Mixel Diubles Handicap—ls 4 Mr» Powell 4FC G
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    ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL SPORTS
    118 2 ANGLO- CHINESE SCHOOL SPORTS A Record High Jump The ’■ports of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipob, were held < n the school ground on Sa urday in fine weather. A large number of visiters and old boys were p’-esent. Teluk At son had about six prize winners out of 10 or
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    F. M. S. Customs.
    451 2 In exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 4 (i) of the ‘‘Customs Enactment, 1920," the Chief Secretary has cancelled with effect from 9ch Aug 1921, No ideation No 3690 published in the Gazette of the 6th D c mb°r 1918, and the import
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    EXCISE INCREASES.
    325 2 A G»z rte Extraordinary published, contains orders under the Tobacco and Liquors Revenue Ordinance, inc easing the duties payable. Under Tobacco, c'gars and snuff are $1.20 a lb; and ma-ufac’urfd tobacco 80 cents unmanfac ured tobacco $2O a pikul Spirits,—Arrsck or silent spirit $3O a gallon, brandy, whiskv
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    SUNKEN WHARF CASE.
    953 2 FINAL PROCEEDINGS. Final evidence in the P and O Coy v Eastern Shipping Company’s cise was given by’Mr H W Oxenham yesterday. He stated that he was manager of the Eastern Shipping Co, Ltd., in December, 19 6 and hft the Company in February 1920. He knew
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    THE TIN OUTLOOK
    718 2 STEADY RECOVERY ANTICIPATED Under the heading Tin shows Strength the Metal World of July 7 says:—"We said last week we could not subscribe to the bearish views circulated about tin. Early this week the market, after a firm close nt the end of the last week, went
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    Rubber Crops.
    105 2 The following are additional rubber outputs for July Anglo-Malay lbs 89,193 Bikarn 20,C00 Broome 33,707 Changkat Salak 50,000 Emerald 54,483 Golden Hope 21,917 Glengowrie 23,463 Hidden Streams 7,836 15,348 Kuala Kubu 13,844 Kundong 3*630 London Asiatic 137,329 Lumut f 95,200 Morib Plantation 9 672 North Labis Johore 2tjtOO
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    PETALING TIN
    334 2 A dredger lai xched Those who were invited <, n s morning to be present- at the launr-k r < Petaling Tin Dredging Company's v Cutter Petaling went exp et t n 11 most to see the christening p n r some tiny flat-bottomed tHiinn-.n overland by rail
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    THE ADVERSE TRADE BALANCE
    220 2 -Ex. As we had anticipated, the trade returns for June make a worse showing than those for May, a further heavy decrease in exports being accompanied bj an increase in imports. As a result, the adverse balance of trade, which was 3' millions in May, rose
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    BREAK IN THE DROUGHT.
    286 2 London, July 26. —An hours drizzle London to-day was the first real ra-u three months. It was followed by shine with the experts predicting a' tinuance of the weather, but rainfall is reported from the ,,u and the west and north of Bnglan In spite of
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    STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AFFAIRS.
    1627 3 COLONIAL SECRETARY’S ANNUAL REPORT. Tht Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. 1. S. James in his annual report to the Legislative Council on Monday dealing with the affairs of the Colony in 1920, says:— Tht* year 1920 was not eventful in any peculiarly local sense, but it will
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    Public Debt.
    813 3 The indebtedness of the Colony in respect of the loan raised by the issue of per cent Straits Settlements Inscribed Stock under the provisions of Ordinance IV of 1907 amounted, on the 31st December. 1920, to £6.913,352, of which the equivalent in local currency is $69,257,302. The expenditure
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    BIRTH.
    20 4 Edgar—At Medico bursjical Clinic, Sin aspotc, on Aosust 8, 1921, to Mr ai d Mr? George Eo'gar, a dauahre'’.
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    PLANTERSAND COOLIE WAGES.
    1416 4 At the quarterly general meeting of the Batang Padang District Planters’ Association, held at the Sungkai Club on Monday last under the presidency of Mr Graeburn, a discussion, reported at length in the Times of Malaya took place on the question of coolie labour. Special consideration was
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    HERE AND THERE.
    1604 4 Ib is rather unfortunate that one of the ve r y occaUnemployment: «oo»l. direc» incur. The Two Extremes, sions into the realms of publicity made by the present head of the Malay States Information Agency, Sir Edward Brockman, should be marked by several inaccuracies. The “Daily Chronicle”
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    TIN OUTPUT.
    16 4 Ngow Property of the Stai--?» 1 c.te. Limited, for the moeth ol 2,259 pikuls.
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    TIN PRICES.
    115 4 PBIC ES rtl) ,i„.M The Straits Trading Co., L following London prices. rjss Spot £159-5’ down 3 months baying £l6l as 3 selling £l6l Iva ,< Local Fa ri, y Aagustllth. Singapore sold HU g Penang buyers no selk 9 Th- Eastern Smelti' g Co I'*' London 9th
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    SUPREME COUNCIL MEETS.
    854 5 IIAKM OXIOUS proceedings. britA in AN cTa settlement. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Paris, August 9. I here a 6 eneral feelijlg that the cnie Coune:i opened under favourable conditions. The atmosphere has improved, compared with a week »go. Experts’ Statements. Paris, August 8. A communique states the Supreme Council
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    LUXEMBURG WAR MEMORIAL
    38 5 Paris, August 9. The French. Belgian, and Italian Governments were represented at the unveiling of the Belgian Luxemburg monument to the memory of the 282 inhabitants who were shot by the Germans in 1914. —Vale.
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    PROPOSED BIG BUSINESS DEAL.
    74 5 Berlin. August 9. A ‘Boersen Courier” message from Hamburg sta’es that an extraordinary general meeting of the Renner 1 aiming and Dyeworks Company on September 12 will corisidei proposals for the transfer of the entire concern to a forestal. land, t’inber and Railways company in London
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    FINLAND AND LATVIA.
    25 5 C< iMMERICAL TREATY. Riga. Augus 9. Preliminary steps have been Wken foi ’he conclusion of a commeicial treaty between Finland and Latvia.
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    THE PREMIER.
    21 5 Paris, August 9. Reuter is informed that Mr. Lloyd George expects to return to London on the 14th inst.
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    BRITISH PREFERENCE.
    207 5 TERMS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN TARIFF. The House of Representatives has now completed the tariff, and the Senate began its consideration of A. The general effect is substantially to increase the duties on all goods which can be manufactured in Australia, but in allotting a rate against such imports
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    LEGALISED BETTING.
    90 5 The German Government intends to legalise betting through bookmakers The Bill for this purpose provides t bookmaking without a State licence wi be illegal. Bookmakers will be obliged to give a receipt to then dents and they fail to pay redress may be had m the law courts.
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    AMERICA AND JAPAN.
    159 5 STATEMENT BY COL. HOUSE. London, August 9. In a message from London to the “Philadelphia Ledger,” Cod. House declares that Japan, s acceptance of the Washington Conference was not so unreserved as might be; but her statesmen are proverbially caut ous. She probably does not wish to
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    JAPAN'S REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSSED.
    166 5 London, July 18.—A Tokio cable states that Japan’s representatives at. Washington are the cause of the most anxious speculation. In the newspapers many notables have been mentioned of whom Count Chinda and Baron Kato are authoritatively considered the likeliest. The wisdom of the Government’s conditional acceptance is
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    AN ATMOSPHERE OF SUSPICION
    139 5 London. July 26. —The position of Japan in rhe discussion of the Pacific question in Washington will piobably be the most .crjr tical of the outstanding preliminaries. It is disquieting therefore to know that in Tokyo it is considered that the progress of the last few
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    LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
    149 5 THIRD BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE. London. August 9. In the House of Commons, after question time. Mr. Chamberlain announced that Sir James Renr-ell Rodd. w.ould be the third representative of Britain at t-ie League of Nations Assembly, in addition to Mr. Balfour and Mr. Fisher. Lord Rovert Cecil’s Protest.
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    AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.
    47 5 Washington, August 9 The Commissioner General of the Bureau of Immigration has ordered that immigrants in excess of July and August “now held up in various parts be adnfftted under a personal bond and charged t-Q the year’s totals.” The order admits about 1,000 immigrants.
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    THE STRATFORD FIRE.
    44 5 UNEMPLOYED EXONERATED. London, August 9. Scotland Yard has issued a statement that the police are satisfied the Stratford fire is not connected with the unemployed. The fire broke out a quarter of a m-le from the place where the men demonstrated.
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    THE IRISH TERMS.
    227 5 DOMINION STATUS. London, August 9. It is reliably reported from Dublin that the terms which Mr. Lloyd George offered to Mr. de Valera include, Dominion status for lieland, who will also comp I’etcly control the policing and Irish taxation. The defence is to be controlled by the
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    RAILWAY DISASTER AT GEMAS.
    586 5 ENGINE CAPSIZES. The unenviable reputation which Gemas has gained in recent years as the scene of railway accidents will be empha S’sed by a disaster which occurred there about midnight on Monday, and which, resulted in a complete breakdown of the, railway system between Singapore am.
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    CRICKET.
    73 5 AUSTRALIANS WIN AGAIN. London, August 9. At Birmingham, Warwickshire made 118. McDonald took 6 wickets for 52. The Australians won an hour after lunch by an innings and 61. County Results. Derbyshire beat Leicester by 172. Gloucester beat Worcester by 200. Lancashire beat Essex by 10 wickets. Yorkshire beat
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    FAMOUS GOLFER KILLED.
    25 5 Atlanta, Georgia, August 9. Douglas Edgar, the internat'ional golfer and ex-champion of Canada was knocked down and killed by a motor car.
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    NANKHANA SAHIB CASE.
    80 5 A DENIAL. Lahore, August 9. The priest in the Nankana Sahib case, categorically denied the allegations mentioned yesterday. [Reuter wired on August 8: —One of the arrested men n the Nankana Sahib fighting has confessed how a priest secretly collected IUO good fighting men, including Pathans who
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    SINGAPORE NEWS.
    165 5 THE SALE OF MERGUI. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, August 11 At the general meeting of the Mergui Rubber Company, Mr. -C. V. Badey, liquidator, presiding, the report stated that the eMate had been sold as a going concern for £72.000. The sale was completed in May 1920.
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    LORD NORTHCLIFFE’S TOUR.
    176 5 WHERE HE WILL CALL. Lord Northcliffe left L verpool on July 16 on his world tour, travelling via New York and Vancouver. From Vancouver, he i-s proceeding to Honolulu, which port he is expected to make on Saturday. After vis ting Honolulu, he will proceed to Auckland
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    RICE MARKET.
    126 5 TO-DAY’S PRICES. The local rice market is qu et, but there is a distinct decrease in the quotations for Siam rice, although Moulmein No. 2 quality has increased in price by 30 cents per bag. There are good supplies of the Siamese article on hand, while Rangoon stocks
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    STRAITS CHINESE AFFAIRS.
    802 5 SECRETARY ANNUAL REPORT. The annual ueport of t|ie Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Straits Settlements, for the year 1920, states that the total number of immigrants from China arriving in the Colony in 1920 was 126,077, being 55.165 or 77.7 percent, more than the figure for 1919, and
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    ENEMY PROPERTY IN THE STRAITS.
    570 6 Included in the supplementary orders of the day at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday, was the follow ng question by Mr. Song Ong Siang. “The War being now over, will Government consider the advisability of repealing those clauses of the AEen Enemies Winding-up Ordinance,
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    STRAITS SETTLEMENTS ASSOCIATION.
    565 7 SEP" VARIOUS SUBJECTS DISCUSSED,’ A meeting of the Committee of the Straits Settlements [Singapore] Association was held in the Chartered Bank Chambers, Singapore, Mr E A Brown presiding. On the question of rubber restriction and the advisability of holding a public meeting, Mr Peck said that rubber
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    Loan Disposal.
    194 7 At the meeting of the Legislative Council the Treasurer, in asking Council to approve of a loan to the Singapore Municipal Commissioners of $3,500 000, and of ’he loan to the F M 8 Goverment of sums not exceeding a to*al of fifteen million dollars, said that the
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    The Band Programme
    72 7 The Band will p'ay the following programme of made at the Dato Kran at -a r d* ns 530 p.m. to-lay. 1 March ...Wbe p lme’s Patrol... Ban» a 2 Overture ...Brorz* Horee ...Auher 3 Wal z ...Happy Thoughts Prout 4 Gavot'e ...Pame Margery ...Holden 5 Galop
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    LOCAL SHARE LIST.
    108 7 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list■• Yesterday. To-day. S E Ĕ SHARES. -2 o "S n "5 00 OQ fiQ so S c. c. S c. So. Miaiag. Cherok Petai... 80c 85c 75c 80c Hitam Tin 1.45 1.50 N Taiping 1.35
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    Klang D. P. A.
    357 7 The R. G A, Bchemu. A epscial meeting of the Klang District Planters' Association was held in the Klang Club, presided over by Mr T J Cumming: Gang Robbers.—ln answer to the letter under thia heading the Chief Police Officer advised that the proposals were no*
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    PRODUCE.
    343 7 F'knano, August 11, 1921 SP. Tapioca 58.75 sales. M P. Tapioca $8.75 sellers. Cold leaf $72 sellers Black Pepper $l9 00 se lers. White Pepper $32 nominal Trang Pepper $25.00 nominal Mace Pickings $37 sales Cloves s9’ nominal Nutmegs 80s $45.00 sales 110 s $3 ».00 sales !No. 1
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    SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
    210 7 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. Jin Ho for Langkat and P Brandan. Laisang for Calcutta. Pungah for Pang Nga, Perak |E 8 Co] for Deli. Pangkor for Teluk Anson. Tara for Port Swettenham and Singapore, Kinta for Port Swettenham, Port Dickson, Malacca and Singapore. Warawala for Moulmein. ExpuoTun Ab rivals, Kalyan,
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    Municipal Commission.
    262 7 Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners of George Town, Penang, he’d on Tuesday the 26th July, 1921. President: Messrs S Codringtou President, Dr P Liston, J L McFall, Dr Lim Gaan Cheng, Yeoh Gum Seok. P K Nam byar Absent Mr W H Thorne 1 Ths
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    EXCHANGE.
    121 7 Penang, August 11, 19Z1. By Courtbsy of thb Chartered Bank) London Demand Bank 2/3 3/4 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 1/8 3 Credit 2/4 7/16 3 Documentary 2/4 17/32 Calcutta Dema* d Bank Rs. 176] 3 days' sight Private ~183 Bombay Demand Bank „176 c Madras Demand Bank 176
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    Coming Events.
    54 7 Aug ll P.A M. Special General M’eting: 12 Marker St, K L. 11 B.m. Aug 16—Court of Appeal. Arg 20—Ipoh Gymkhana. Aug 28—Penang Swimming Club, Special General Mec’ing—noon, Aug 31 Ba’u Lintang, Ltd, Gene r al Meeting, Chamber f Oom nerce, 3 p.m, Sept 21—Board of Licencing Justice-,
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