Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 16 September 1921

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 213. 'VOL. LXXIK. FRIDAY. 16th SEPTEMBER, 1921. PRICE 15 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 588 1 > I Obtainable everywnere wholesale from 10 a *1 I Wl? C r 03 > 1 o ng s«m Le°"K 4 Co P*n*"B- I I -~3TTT"TTt I THE- ‘PRICE 0F i I iJ D I BLACK <® WHITE I lis (turned by medics! men as tie most iiiii digestible water
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    • 20 1 THE BEBI CAR Ui.TOWH <4VMNM>* Ur VteKui» I I 1 Sola Malta S.B. F.M.S. 1 Ong Sam L.»otag a 00.
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  • 925 2 We regret to hear that Mr H Welham is laid op again with fever. i Mr W Pee], the Controller of Labour (and also of the labourless) is on a visit to Singapore. j Mr S 0 Yeomans has returned from Home Mr A Beckett, of Messrs
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  • 1585 2 PLAINTIFF IN THE BOX. The actiin of Messrs Goodall and Co versus Messrs H S Godwin, J J Blaudin, R W McKerrow, R S Nelson, H T Karsten and D G W Aimers, sued personally and as members of the committee of tbe Singapore Chamber of Commerce
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  • 58 2 The following are the latest quotations Id Messrs, Kennedy Oo.’s share list Yesterday. To-day. S E E SHARES. >. s s c 5 QO CQ CD M Sc. Sc. Sc. Sc. Mining. Petaling 20c 15c 25c 20c d V.. 1/- dis par 2/- dis 1/- d Transactions
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  • 17 2 The following are additional rubber outputs for August Bukit Jelutong lbs 6,910 Bukit Katii 10,854
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  • 62 2 Messrs The Borneo Comoany, Ltd., advise that the undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them by private and auction sales held this week Cts Per Pound. Smoked diamond sheet No. 1 21 to 24. diamond No. 2 17 19f Crepe good pale 15 fine brown
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  • 40 2 Tbe rain gauge at Fort Cornwallis, Penang, registered 109 m.m, ab >ut 4 inches, for the twenty four hours etided 9 a. m. this morning. For the previous twenty four hours there was a fall of only 18 m.m.
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  • 705 2 revised rules and bye laws. A general meeting of tne members of tbe Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association was held in the Exchange Buildings Singapore, on Monday afternoon, for the purpose of considering revised rules and bye laws. Mr J M Sime presided, and
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  • 118 2 Church Services. 17th Sunday af'er Trinity, September 18 Holy Trinity Nibong Tebal. Morning Piayer and Address (Tamil) 9 a.m. S. Paul’s Chapel, Bukit Tengah. Morning Prayer and Address (Tamil) 9 a.m. The Rev. E. N. Greenhow is taking duty in Ipob on this Sunday. ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH,
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  • 206 2 Penang, September 16. 1921. HP. Tapioca $6.50 sales M. P. Tapioca $6.75 sales Cold leaf $72 sellers. Black Pepper $16.00 nominal White Pepper $3O sellers. Trang Pepper $25.00 nominal Mace Pickings $35 sellers Cloves no stock. Nutmegs 80s $46.00 se'lers M 110 s $33.00 sellers f No. 1 $l3
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 212 2 NEW M 7 vaeancy m a mess near to tOWn Apply: W. J. EDMONDs e/o “Cash Chemists” Ltd Penang. FOR SALE, Centrosema the nltrogaiwus cover -B. (JTR. at $25 per 100 [fc. Goodheart, Trolak. TIN DREDGING, LTD. (Incorporated in the F.M.S.) Notice is hereby given Rt a Tflrd Interim Dividend
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  • 864 3 DRAMATIC ENDING. 7 The Seremban murder case came to a dramatic ending when the three accused were discharged, the Chief Judicial Commissioner describing the case as a picked and abominable conspiracy.” reports Thursday’s “M M.” Subsequently, five of the witnesses for the prosecution were arrested on a charge
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  • 54 3 The Band will play the following prqgramme of music at the Esplanade at 6 p m to-day. 1 March ...The Jolly Bachelor ...Carter 2 Selection ...H. M. 8. Pinafore... Sullivan 3 Waltz ...Love and Life in Vienna...Konoz .k 4 Song ...Up from Somerset... Deuglaa 5 One Step
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  • 195 3 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. D van Twist for Lsngsa, Oiehleh, Sabang etc, Padang. Ban Wbatt Soon for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Gregory Apcar for Singapore, China and Japan. Chaksang for Singapore and China. Jin Ho for P Brendan and Langkat. Gbirbi for Dindings and Sitiawan. Sappho for Teluk Anson. Expected
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  • 257 3 DAILY (except Sunday). BY TR.”N. Parit Buntar, Bagan Serai, Taiping, Ipoh, Batu Gajah. Tapah Road, Teluk Anson, Kuala Kubu, |By train Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, am Malacca, Johore, Singapore 6 pm. and Hongkong I Parit Buntar and Bagan Serai By train alsc 10.15 a.m. 3.45 p.m. Krch (via
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  • 37 3 The homeward mail, by the Teesta, closes at 10 a,m. to-morrow. Mails despatched from Penang to London on the 20th ul’imo, by B I jacket Tai a, were delivered in London on tlie 14th instant.
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  • 121 3 Penang t September 16, 1921. (Bt Courtesy of the Chartered Bank) London Demand Bank 2/3 7/8 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 5/16 3 Credit 2/4 17/32 3 Documentary 2/4 5/8 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 162 3 days’ sight Private 168 Bombay Demand Bank 162 o Madras Demand Bank 162
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1134 3 MISCELLANEOUS! TENDERS INVITED. straits School of Accountancy. Pawnbrokers’ Licences, Negri Setnbilan. l ffSo^ S faction gu»r«nteed. Coaching for f D s on Exams. Apply Straits School of Tenders will be received at the office of Vcoaotancy. p. Of Box 564. Singapore, the Secretary to Resident, Negri Sembilan, A Seremban, up
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    • 276 3 j MEDUSA I I White Portland Cement 3 >s x STAINLESS I’ I AND I I PERFECTLY WHITE g I MEDUSA 8 X WATER PROOFING COMPOUND I S X X MAKES ORDINARY CEMENT J PERFECTLY WATERPROOF I CHEAPEST BEST, j I I X SOLE AGENTS, SUB AGENTS, X X X
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  • 20 4 Miller —At the European Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on 14th Sept, to Mr. and Mrs. G L. Miller, a sou.
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  • 1174 4 The first impulse of many individuals confronted with the suggestion that Britain had something to learn from France in the matter of colonial policy would be one of insular indignation. But the idea is not so preposterous when one reflecis that France has been a colonizing nation
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  • 1236 4 Wri’ing to the “Malay Mail,” a Colombo correspondent declares without the slightest Isolation equivocation that the 1 Rubber Producers’ Corporation can expect practically no support whatever from that Colony. If there are those in Malaya who are inclined bo derive small measure of comfort from the speeches
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  • 86 4 The Straits Trading Co., Ltd., give the following London prices, Sept 15th Spot £155.0s down 15s 3 months buying £157.5s 15s 3 selling £157,10s 15s Local Parity $77.41 September 16th; Singapore sold 150 tons at $771/8; Penang buyers no sellers at $77. Messrs Bousnead and Co To-dav’s quotation
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  • 352 4 The following ties have been fixeu Tursdav, September 20— Singles Hand c-»p Class A (Final)— Scr K J Bennett v —l5 M K Whitlock (4). Wednesday September 21 Championship (Final) —W H Tbrelfal. (Holder) v H G R Leonard (4). The Presentation of Prize- won io the
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    • 144 4 W. Briggs Sons, Ltd., s EF h Dundee and London, I “Challenge” I i =r I t I y YQK EE IROOF I N G I AND ff Bituminous Solutions. =EE 1 SOLE AGENTS g I Sandilands, Buttery Co., i SS H Penang. Singapore S’ Medan. S BOOTH’S RECOGNISED AS
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    • 21 4 Dinner AND ANCE AT THE “E. O.” Every Friday. J/r. <fc Mrs. W. IF. Dean, Miss. G. Chapman. P. P. C.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • 255 5 .aioM-'I. OFFICE IGNORANT c 0 OF SCHEME. peuter's Tejegrams.] London, September 14. The Colonial Office is ignorant of any hfine for a new form of adminis. definite sc ui the Crown Colonies a s outnation for I 'The “Times” pointed out that obvious difficulties in the way
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  • 55 5 (>N SER VAT IV E VI CTO RY. London, September 14. The by-election at West Lewisham resulted as follows: Sir Philp Dawson (Conservative Anti-waste) 9,427. Li.eittMm.nt Commander Windham (Anti-Waste) 8,580. Mr. Raffety (Independent Liberal) 6,211. Ar the last General Election, in 1918, Major Sir E. Coaks.
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  • 106 5 WIDESPREAD KEMALIST PLOT. London, September 14. Telegrams from General Harington show that the plot mentioned on September 13, was widespread. Hitherto none of the leaders has been arrested, but persons detained were found to be in touch with the Kemalists. They endea voured to play on the
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  • 75 5 list of topics issued. Washington, September 14. The Government has sent all the Lovers invited to participate in thw Disarmament Conferee; a list of topics suggested for discussion. Merely Tentative. WashingtoW, September 14. The list of topics suggested for the <inference is merely tentative and is calculated to
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  • 35 5 Ottawa, September 14. The Railway Commission has decided a gainsf a general reduction in freights leading the decision of the tribunal in ht '*-ating the question of the reduction <! the railwaymen’s wages.
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  • 55 5 New York, September 14. General Pershing sailed for France on l( steamer “Paris” to deposit the Conot' tk° nal ,ne,Jill of honour On tbe tomb l' '0 unknown French soldier. j 11 ‘8 understood he will escort from Bold‘ Vl boc^v an unknown American 1
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  • 100 5 PLENIPOTENTIARIES NOMINATED. London, September 14. The two Sinn Fein envoys did not present a letter to Mr. Lloyd George, tlw\v were merely deputed to discuss certain difficulties. Thev returned this morning to Dublin, where Dail Eireann held a 2.1 hours private session. Today they unanimously appAwed the Smn
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  • 720 5 I MR. DE VIERA’S SPEECH. In his address to Dail Eireann, the Sinn Fein Parliament, recently, Mr. de Valera said: "The reply which we propose sending to the British Prime Minister’s Government will be discussed in private session. You all understand the seriousness of that reply.
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  • 315 5 ELECTIONS COMPLETED» Geneva, September 14. Hie Council of the League of Nations has elected Professor Huber (Switzerland) and Professor Nyholm (Denmark), thus completing the election of eleven Judges. liofessor John Moore (United States) was elected on a second ballot to a judgeship at the International Court of Justice.
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  • 294 5 FURTHER EVIDENCE. San Francisco, September 14. Arbuckle, the cinema actor, was present at the inquest on Miss Rappe. Mrs. Bel mont, one of the women present at the “gin jollification” in Arbuckle’s apartments. declared that Arbuckle dragged Rappe into a bedroom, and locked the door. M’itness an
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  • 20 5 Ottowa, September 14. Canada’s total trade in August decreased by Si 10,000,000 exports, im ports falling about equally.
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  • 48 5 The Persian province of Khorassan has declared its independence. The Teheran Government refused to accept the nomination of Sansam-es-Sultanes, the’Bakhtiari chief, as Governor. The movement was organised by the gendarmerie. The officer appointed as military Governor by Zia-ed-Din has been dismissed by the present Government.
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  • 411 5 DR. NANSEN’S APPEAL. London, September 14. The following call to the British peoples, on behalf of the “Russian C rusade’ was issued by Doctor Nansen from GJqheva on September 10:—Millons in Russia are confronted with imminent death. Famine and pestilence are taking merciless toll; the cala mity
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  • 114 5 LONG DISTANCE .TRANSMISSION. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Sept. 14. The General Electric Company reports for the first time in its history, it “generated and transmitted an excess of a million volts of pressure by the transformer equipment designed along standard lines with the current at the ordinary household
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  • 57 5 London, September 14. M. Ven zelos was married in a London Registry Office to Miss Svh lizzi, daughter of a wealthy Greek merchant. The honeymoon will be spent on the continent, after which they will depart on a six months’ visit to America, where Mr. Venizelos
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  • 44 5 SIX INFECTED RATS DISCOVERED. Brisbane, September 14. It has transpired that the man who died on August 23, was a victim of bubonic plague. Another case of plague i s reported from South Brisbane, where six infected rats were discovered.
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  • 37 5 FAREWELL TO NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam, September 14. After visiting the State museum. Rear Admiral Hodges bade farewell to the Netherlands officers aboard the flagship H. M S. “Coventry,” after which the British squadron sailed for Leith.
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  • 757 5 COUNTERFEIT COINS CASE. At the Assizes yesterday before Mr. Justice* Whitley and a common jury Kang Su Si, a middle-aged Chinese, was unanimously found guilty of attempting to induce to receive counterfeit King’s coin and sentenced to 4 years R. I. I It appears that on the 19th
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  • 130 5 Paris, August 15. —It is reported from Milan that an Italian aeroplane used in the daily postal service between Tripoli and Homs (Syria, 156 miles north east of Tripoli) was obliged to land owing to damage to the motor on the coast near Tagiura. The few passengers on
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 446 5 (To the Editor of the “Pinang Gazette. Sir,—ln the issue of your paper oP the 27th ultimo a “Singhalese Sympathiser’’ advocates the inauguration of a Fund to help the Tamil Labourers thrown out of employment consequent upon the closing down of several estates. The suggestion put forward by
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  • 118 5 The estimates of the expenditure of local education authorities in England and Wales for the financial year 1921-22 show that more than £77,()00,(MK) is required. For elementary education the present net estimates total £63,648,720, compared with the previous figure of £58,730,864. The total for elementary education includes the following:—Teachers’
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  • 107 5 —“M.L.” The biggest crowd seen for a long time in High Street, Kuala Lumpur, came together at tlm junction of High Stre»*t and Sultan Street. Two Chinese women each having a street stall of her own had fallen out n their rival attempts to capture a
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  • 75 5 The full return of fore gn imports and exports from British Malaya :rre new issued from the Import and Export office. The total value <>f imp >ris in August was compart'd with •840,891,977 in July. The exports vVere 839 236,787 as against in July. The increase in inport»
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  • 2257 6 LAND OF NEVER MIND." correspondent of the ‘‘Times writes:— The bungalow lay in the very heart of he rubber —indeed, so far removed was it within the serried lines of trees that, approaching it along the track, one had the veritable sensation of apnrosching a
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  • 319 6 There are a gotd few of these along the line through from Penang to Singapore because the volume of br-inees in the little towns and surrounding estates and mines does not warrant the expenditure for separate offices says the Straits f.mes" Kq&1& Lumpur correspondent. The station master
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  • 201 6 S.F.P-" The Straits Settlements Benevolent Society is not so widely known as it shemd be. The head-quarters are in London and the trustees and committee are some of the best known business men of Singapore io former times? Mr E D Hewan is the hoo. treas. at
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  • 149 6 A representative of Aus f r^> lU Association has interviewei r g Hunter, Commonwealth Director o tion and Settlement, in re J erecc g Joseph Carruthers’s m ,lioQ B U^ c j o g of million farms” scheme, for the 0 tba# which Sir Joseph Carruthers sugg
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    • 289 6 ■j 11 ~1 AVERY H TRACTORS AND PLOUGHS. till I I I I rn i H th”! r I >---?> ’friWwiW’jsTl <- WsQk J y J I w j lr «or.: «38Qfa i r Hl n BRIEF SPECIFICATION :—Four Cylinder Horizontal Low Speed Engine. Circular j Forced Draught Radiator, Eliminates
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  • 1428 7 POSITION OF THE INDUSTRY. The fifteenth aIH iP aJ ordiua, y general of the Perak Rubber Planta meeting ei IS> Liniited, was held at 4, Lloyd's Avenue, E. <?., Mr. Montagu J. Battye .hainnan of the company) presiding. The result of the trading account a l" ss
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  • 262 7 Mr. Frank Copeman, presiding at the meeting of the Sempah Rubber Estates, Limited, said that their receipts on trading account showed a considerable decrease, due to the lower output of rubber and to the lower price obtained for then products. The net result was an actual loss
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  • 95 7 “THE BEST POLICY.” Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 16. At the annual meeting of the Sungei Bagan Rubber Company, Mr. W. F. Nutt, presiding, said tapping was stopped in December when the crop harvested was 135,857 lbs. The Board of Director were unanimous in recommending that the
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  • 396 7 ®THE INCOME-TAX ORDINANCE. The new Income Tax Ordinancewhich is made retrospective, in its inci dence from January 1, 1920, shows considerable Hit difications over the* previous enactment. The tax is divided into three parts: A, tax on yearly net in come B, tax on yearly extra profit; C,
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  • 252 7 “M.T.” A meet ng of members of the. Singapore Natural History Society was held in the Raffles Museum, at which oyer twenty members and visitors, including ladies, were» Major Moulton presided. A very interesting exhibit of the thirty most common Singapore birds was arranged by the hon secy, Mr.
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  • 61 7 We hear that a Colombo message suggesting the almost immediate arrival of the 2nd Middlesex Regiment to relieve the Ist South Staffords in Singapore was misleading The Middlesex men are coming direct from Egypt, but their arrival will not be earlier than the end of the year—probably not
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  • 903 7 SANITATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORKS. (“P. G Special.) Sanitation and public health are two subjects in which the general public evince little or no interest. Yet they are extremely important, and when their principles come to be applied in tropical latitudes, their importance becomes intensified. Refuse. With
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  • 382 7 SPAIN CALLS IT BRUTAL. Boxing seems to be one of those sport® that certain parts of Europe never will understand. Ĕngland and France, like America and Australia, .know it is a mighty clean and scientific method of physical combat. But, at present, Germany and Spain do not share the
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  • 50 7 M, Descamps,' Carpentier’s manager, announces that Carpentier will fight an English boxer, not yet named, n London in October or November, and in December before his meeting with lorn Gibbons in New York in January 1922. The last match will be Carpentier's fare well to the ring.—Reuter.
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  • 183 7 In the Supreme Court, Singapore as wired, the Chief Justice, Sir Walter Shaw delivered judgment in the case of Messrs. Swanson and Sehested v. I). Currie, a former employee of the plaintiffs' firm. Mr. Demuth appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. A. V. L. Davies for the
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  • 424 7 "LUXURY SHIPS.” The “Hakone Maru," a large) passenger and freight steamer, was launched at the Nagasaki Shipbuilding Dockyard and Engine Works of the Mitsu-Bishi Shipbuilding Co. on the 25th July last. She is intended for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha European Service, and will resemble the "Suwa
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  • 128 7 FIVE PER CENT DIVIDEND. Tha 26th Ord nary General Meeting of the Siam Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. took placg at Company’s Office Oriental Rnngkok. The following were present :-Dl. E. Phya Boriboon Rajasombati, Mr. W. E. Adam, Mr Erik Leth, Mr. O. Paludan-Muller and Mr. O.
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  • 182 7 A demonstration <’f two new firq, engines which only arrived from Lorfdon on September Bth, was given before the Resident at Ampang on Saturday after noon. The engines built by Messrs. Merryweather, are of the Goliath patternand .ire of 40 h.p., with a 600 gallon projecting
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 85 7 A MISTAKE MANY PEOPLE MAKE when troubled with Con«tip?Lloi is in following the old-fashioned practice of taking powerful purgatives which the stomach and leave the condition worse than before. The up-to-date treatment is to use Pinkettes, which, whilst promptly efficient, act as gently as nature, ’eaving no after ill-effects- Pi”k£ttes
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    • 1334 8 K P IVI “Ellerman” Line. 1 ajstral,a B j^ u NS PH,LP > Ellerman «nd Bucknall ?tn corpora, ed w Austral,.. > ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION Co.' Steamship Co.* Ltd., Singapore to Java Ports, Port Darwin, imoodpopiiTED 3N HOLLAND 1 [lncorporated in England.] Thursday Island, Brisbane and Sydney, J The following
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    • 812 8 SYNOLEO V -XX ‘l < 5 1S The Oil Bound Washable Distemper for interior y and Exterior Decorations. A soft flat finish. Does not rub off. Proclaimed unrivalled for Tropical use. i S <77 /J /or range gi Jlrtisti: Shades and eZil’Y/t Colour Sememes. 5 S .PfITERSOn. SIMORS Co., Ltd.,
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