Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 September 1921

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 219. *VOL. LXXIA. FRiVAV 23rd SEPTEMBER, 1921. PRICE 15 CENTS. <
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    • 591 1 I Obtainable everywhere wholesale fro£ < 1 i 1 < 7 Ong Sam LeonA 4 Co Penang. C i a /mm*»* I ins "Price, <« i 1 BLACK WHITE I is described by Medical mtn as me most s•’1“ f J "OT TT T CJT7"V I B dipstilHc to science,
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    • 26 1 J THE BESI CAR <N TOWN I h J i' 1 v w 1 iaia ttferttw M. A F R.t I Or>M, o»«o*x x.4*c*c»4, A 00.
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  • 759 2 iff r R P Thurufield naa been appointed to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Batavia. Mrs Kellie Smith is staying at the Crag Hotel, Penang Bill. We regret to learn of ’he death of th® infant son of Mr and Mrs Victor Lunberg* Mr Macdonald baa
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  • 48 2 The Band will pUy the following programme of music at the Esplanade at 6 p m to-day. 1 March ...Ginger ...Wurm 2 Selection ...Leis Cloches n m d Cornville...Planquette 3 Waltz ...Our Day ...Verrat 4 Fox Trot ...I never Knew...Eagan 5 One Step ...O—hi—o ...Olman
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  • 870 2 SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING. The half yearly general meeting of the members of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce was held in the Exchange Buildings. The Chairman, the hon’ble Mr V Gibbons presided. The Chairman said Before dealing with general matters, I wish to call your attention
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 597 2 To the Editor of the ‘Pinang Sir,—Let me congratulate you on your able leader on the subject of the Butterworth Ferry in ycur issue of the 220 d inst. But there are some facts which you misled which are of the utmost importance. We have often and often
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    • 527 2 [To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.] Sir, —I should like to endorse the opinion, expressed by a Planter of manv tears standing" in his forceful letter of l9th on Keeping the Sabbath," that there would not be any serious opposition to the fixing of Sunday as a
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  • 459 2 SUCCESSFUL THREE DAYS’® CONFERENCE, Unprecedented success attended three days’ conference of Malabo Agricai tnrists which was brought to a close on Wednesday at Kuala Lumppr. Everyone who was anyone in Agriculture, was present to listen to the interesting papers read aud remarks made and the general verdict was
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  • 132 2 Penang, September 23, 1921. (By Courtxsy of the Chartered Bank) London Demand Bank 2/3 7/8 4 months* sight Bank 2/4 1/8 3 Credit 2/4 1/2 3 Documentary 2/4 19/32 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 155' 3 days’ sight Private „160 b Bombay Demand Bank 155 o Madras Demand Bank 155
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  • 448 2 HALF YEARLY MEETING. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipob, September 22. Tbe half yearly general meeting of the Ipoh Gymkhana Club was held at the Ipoh Club this evening, with Mr P G Short, the President, in the chair. Mr H L fkrm the Hon Secretary, and
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  • 61 2 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day. CD SHARES. I. J 1 S 3 4> a» on on a? Rubber (Dollar) Sc. Sc. Sc. Sc. K.-Sidim 1.30 1.40 1.25 General. E. Smelting 6.25 650 6.00 6.25 United E. Ord 15.75
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  • 69 2 Messrs The Borneo Company, Ltd., advise that the undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold by them by private and auction sales held this week Ct> Per Smoked diamond sheet No. '1 20 to .24 diamond No. 2 13| 19| Crepe good pale blanket 17 18 j
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  • 113 2 The Straits Trading Co., Ltd*give the following London prices, Sept 22nd Spot £156 2?.6d up 2s. 6d 3 months buying £l5B 2a6d 25.6 d 3 selling £158.786d 25.6 d Local Parity fl Sept 23rd Singapore sold 50 tons at s7B|; Penang buyers no sellers at s7B|. The Eastern
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 365 2 A w J> arisi de Vctriefks' I 2>ir CC ri on J, »/R E CJ FROM PARIS FRENCHSONG& H FRENCH DANCES H FRENCH french gi»,; S eU y I Ji iffnlhant Success in Xi 3 2 SL Plan I Ap Attraction Extraordinary I MARV MCGREGWI *IHE HIGHLAnB WITCH I In
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  • 2878 3 MR. STILL IN THE BOX. The action ju which the Singapore Cold Company, Ltd claim damages for libel fr°m the -‘Straits Times” Press Ltd., and Mr A W Still, was continued in the Supreme Ci art, before the Chief Justice Str Walter S Shaw, on Wednesday, reports the
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  • 204 3 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. Ban Whatt Soon for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Glenamoy for Colombo, Dbanushkodi and London. Gbirbi for Dindings and Sitiawab. Sappho for Teluk Anson. Elephant» for Rangoon Calcutta (Mergui and Moulmein via Rangoon). Expected Arrivals Nelens, Singapore, Sept 23 Kitano Maru,'Singapore, Sept 24. Hyson, Liverpool, Sept 27,
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  • 28 3 135 coolies arrived yesterday per ss Tara, of whom 43 were sent to Pulau Jerajrk for quarantine. Th“ balance proceed to Port Swetteuham, for quarantine there
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  • 252 3 DAILY (except Sunday). BY TRAIN. Barit Buntar, Bagan Serai, Taiping,' Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Tapah Road, I Teluk Anson, Kuala Kuhu. |By train Kuala Lumpur, Seremban, 15 am Malacca, Johore, Singapore |&6 p m. and Hongkong J Parit Buntar and Bagan Serai By train alstf 10.15 a.m it;
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  • 11 3 TO-MORROW. Bhuket (Tongkah) and j Malaya 2p.ro. Renong, j
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  • 23 3 The B I Packet Ter sea, with' mails from Europe is expected to arrive here on Wednesday morning, tbe 28th instant.
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  • 55 3 Sept 24—Parish Hall, Prize-Giving and Concert, 5-30 p.m. Sept 24—Entertainment, Town Hall, 9-30 p.m. Sept 28—Athenaeum Meeting, 1 Leith Street, 9 p.m. Modern Spiritualism.” Sept SIB—P C C tfennis Tournament Championship Final. Sept 28—P C C Tennis Tournament. Presentation of Priz?». P.O O. Gymkhana, end of September Oct
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    • 433 3 POSITION WANTED. ff j n epr British 12 fears practical Irjaud exp® r e,,CP m-cbanical, i trical and motor work, requires billet, capo'- ry- A B>x N 247 c <o Pinang Gazette. ,539—30 m w f miscellaneous. Straits School of Accountancy. Book-keeping r »n-ht bi Six Eisy Postal lessons h
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    • 682 3 AUSTRIAN DEBTS. TREATY OF PEACE (AUSTRIAN) ORDINANCE 1921. British -Creditors aie hereby notified that particulars of their claims afftinet Austrians should be forwarded to the Local Administrator before tbe 30th September next. The claimant roust be British Subject resident in tbe Serai s Settlements and the debtor an Ans rian
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  • 1160 4 Ranking, as we are told, among the most appalling explcsions in history, the terrible disaster that has occurred at the works of the Badische Anilin and Soda Fabrik at Oppau will evoke mixed reflections amongst people oatside Germany. The death and mutilation of thousands of work people and
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  • 1751 4 Advocates of Rubbec Combines, pricefixing, and restriction, will The New and fifd much that will inteThe Old, rest and them in < the recent history of tlft Australian wool industry, and the problems largely attributed to whab is accurately described as the familiar phenomenon of over-production, or
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    • 183 4 iMir^mwnnMM— —T*~ w lr BOOTH’S <♦ I I RECOGNISED AS ”?.r| "THE GIN" ESr a H over India China. BOOTH’S The OBTAINABLE FROM ALL LOCAL DEALERS. Original Dry Gin 1 DISTILLERY, LONDON. englan» SOLE IMPORTERS z BEHR CO., PENANG. I W. Briggs Sons, Ltd., S Dundee and London, f I
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    • 9 4 Dinner AND ANCE AT THE “E. O.” Every Friday.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
  • 51 4 DEATH. Lunberg— At Elsvic,” Penang, on the 22nd September. Victor Bruce, only son of Mr and Mrs Vidor Luuberg, aged 6| month?. (Singapore and F M S papers please ccpy). OBITUARY. SIR ERNEST CASSEL. London, September 22. The death has occurred of the Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Cassel, P.C., aged
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  • 707 5 huge deathroll in GERMANY. POISON C* S TO M SHATTERED. (Reuter’s Telegrams.] H London, 2l. I message frofi Mainz state® that I chemical works at Oppau, near |ba i i n the Bavarian Palatinate were I blown up' There are over 100 casualties. I Hundreds Killed and
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  • 62 5 9 tIEASURES CONTEMPLATED *♦> 1 London, September 21. The Ambassadors’ Conference ha® no yet despatched an ultimatum to Hungary with regard to. Burgenland, but it is understood the terms afe practically settled. Hungary will be given from 10 to 14 days to evacuate Burgenland, fading which, the Allies will
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  • 19 5 Berlin. September 22. Herr Lerchenfeld, of the Bavarian People’s Party, has been apponted Premier of Bavaria.
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  • 105 5 THREATENED SPLIT IN RANKS. Paris. September 21. The burning question now dividing French Labour, namely, dissension between the, Moderates and Extremists, who favour adhesion to the Moscow Internationale, was dealt with at a meeting of the National Committee, of the General Confederation of Labour, which passed a resolution
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  • 46 5 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS’S ACTION. Paris, September 21. The International Textile Workers’ Congress, at present meeting dn Paris, attended by 100 delegates, notably British and Dutch, voted 200,000 francs for the textile workers in France and Belgium, who are striking against the reduction of wages.
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  • 38 5 TWO «YEARS’ CONTRACT LOST. London, September 21. The recent strike at the Swansea steel works, it 'is stated, prevented the acceptance of an urgent order from Japan which would have occupied the mills f“i two years.
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  • 59 5 REDUCTIONS ON FAR EASTERN CARGOES. London, September 21. The liner companies engaged m the Far Eastern trade are further reducing freights from Europe, based on both from Britain and the Continent. The reductions broadly range #om ss. to 16s. 6d. per ton on rates between 57s ba. and
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  • 45 5 Le Havre, September 21. General®Pershing arrived and preceded to Paris, where he. will be the guest of the French Government. Besides attending the selection of the body of America’s unknown soldier, he will inspect the American troops in occupation at Coblentz.
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  • 23 5 RESTRICTION 0F 'AREAS. Cairo,September 22. The Government has decided to contig nue the restriction f the cotton-growing areas for two years
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  • 270 5 MR. BONAR LAW’S ATTENUATE DOUBTFUL. W London, September 21. Reuter states it i s doubtful whether Mr Bonar Law will be able to attend the Washington Conference. Sir Worthington Evans, Secretary of State for War, will attend if land disarmament is discussed but such a discussion is doubtful
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  • 52 5 THE PEACE TREATIES. Washington. September 22. Congress has re assembled. President Harding sent a messenger with the German, Austrian and Hungarias Treaties. Senor Lodge, thei Republican leader, previously conferred with President Harding. It is understood it has been arranged that the treaties be referred to the Foreign Relations
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  • 44 5 LEAGUE OF NATIONS ACTION. Geneva, September 21. The Assenib’y of the League unanimously adopted the report of a committee. urging the Council to take steps to impress on the Supreme Council the necessity for a prompt settlement of the Armenian question.
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  • 280 5 Dail Eireann like all other human institutions. has its diversities of opinion. It is upon those di versifies and the men who cause them that the whole situation turns. Right names have not been spread abroad. There appears little doubt that the man who may endanger what
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  • 177 5 ,—Vale. > FRENCH EXPORTS. Paris, September 27. —The official returns again show a substantial advance in French exports during the first eight months of 1921. The Textile Dispute. M. Briand’s personal offorts to settle the textile dispute resulted in the MTorkmen’s Syndicate accepting arbitration, as outlined by
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  • 191 5 Peshawar, September 10. —It is repor ted that Djemal Pasha and Suritz, the late Russian Envoy at Kabul, have left Kabul recently Suritz has been relieved by Raskoln'kov, an officer of the old Czarist regime and a man of considerable ability and reputation who has thrown
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  • 143 5 Simla, September 10. —Commercial circles in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif are reported to be much interested in the prospect of a revival of trade w ith Bokhara. It appears from the Afghan newspapers that the Amir’s Government has accorded recognition to the new Bokharan Republic, as an account
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  • 117 5 The Berlin “B >erse,” now exper en cing an extraordinary boom, differs materially, from the Stock Exchanges of London, Paris and New York. It is really an open board of brokers which anybody can join, and for a nominal fee do business, subject only to the general
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  • 62 5 London, September 9. —It has b?en decided to establish shortly /as part, of the peacetime organ'sation of the Royal Air Force, a class of N. C. O. pilots similar to the class introduced in the latter pkrt of the war. Hitherto under peacetime conditions all pilot-ng
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  • 349 5 GENERAL MEETING IN PENANG. A general meeting of the above Association was held in the Penang Club, on Tuesday, when there present the follow, ing Messrs. W. S Goldie, (Hon. Pre sident), N. R. Allan (Hon. Pipe Major), E. V. C. Thomson (Hon. Secretary and
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  • 77 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 23. A.t the inquest into the death of W. V Gray, who died after taking part in a boxing contest at the Star Opera on August 25, it was stated that the boy was examined by doctors before entering the ring
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  • 41 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore), September 23. With reference to the discussion on the tramways, the Municipal deputation to H. E. the Governor was heard in camera. It was agreed that the Municipality should submit proposals to the Government.
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  • 45 5 ASSIZE JURY DISAGREE. tFrom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 23. At Singapore Assizes, in the case in which See Ah See is charged with murder by stabbing, the jury twice disagreed. Accused will be re-tried before a fresh jury at a future Assizes.
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  • 31 5 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, September 23. Nothing is known at Government House regarding the Kuala Lumpur rumour that H.E. Sir Laurence Guillemard is proceeding to England.
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  • 148 5 RACING GANG WHICH PROMISED 5,050 PER CENT. A gigantic system of bribery and trickery on German racecourses is dsclosed by the bankruptcy of the Carl Koehn betting concern, of Berlin. Light s also thrown on the gambling fever now ravaging Germany. 'Koehn,’s “bank” and its affiliated branches
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  • 301 5 VISIT TO PENANG AND P. W.« A party, representative of the Engineering Association of Malaya, arrivecra| Prai from Kuala Lumpur to day, on a three days’ tour of works in Province. Wellesley and Penang. This morning the party proceeded from Prai to Bukit Serayah by motor,
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  • 419 5 -“S.F.P.” H. E. the Governor and Commander Chief, Sir Laurence Guillemard, attend ed by Mr. Osborne M. C. private secretary and Lieut Sul van R. N. and Lieut Foulger A. D. Cs, attended divine ser vice at the Garrison Church, Blakan Mati, on Sunday morning last and
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  • 83 5 We understand that the registration of the unemployed Chinese labourers was suspended as from the 18th instant, when the total registered by the Executive Committee of the Penang Chinese Labourers’ Unemployment Fund at the Chinese Town Hall reached the total of 829, being an excess of 157
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  • 81 5 Miss Mary McGregor, who is described as the Highland Witch, from her skill in second sight and mental telepathy, will give a seance at The Theatre Royal on Monday next at 10 p.m. The lady, while blind-fnlded, answers questions on unknown subjects, reads your thoughts, and tells you
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  • 845 6 POADS AND RAILWAYS TO BE BUILT. The movement for the development of Siam wh>ch is strongly supported by the present Commissioner-General of Railways, who is also in charge of the highways of the kingdom, has gained considerable strength of late, not only in Bangkok but also in
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  • 749 6 < SITUATION IMPROVING. Th-- following report has been received from the General Officer Commandiiig the 'Madras district, regarding the-mili-tary situation on the 9th September: .Since- the 2nd instant the columns operating from Malappuram have visited the following places —Manjeri, Pandakkad, Wandur, Mambat, Edavanne, Perintalmanna. Mannarakkad and Malattur. No
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  • 62 6 Simla, September 10>—-Complaints are frequently made in the Afghan papers of the many mistakes occurring in the copies of the Koran printed in In dia. A movement is now on foot t<| start an up-to-date State Printing IA esl mainly for the production of Koransl The subscription
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    • 589 6 CHINESE UNEMPLOYMENT FUND j NAI REURK I In His Latest Acrobatic Feats Played before S H. M. THE KING OF SIAM In conjunction with Chinese Bicycle Tricks i AT THE EMPIRE THEATRE I On Friday and Saturday, the 23rd and 24th Sept. Popular Prices of Admission. Weak Wasted CMidren Grateful
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    • 156 6 W. D. AND H. O. WILLS 1 THE THREE I Castlee K a £TI r>' In Virginia Cigarettes. fe i ALSO:I’IUXS»- T EE castlk MAGNUMS.” IL I Bristol &Lond° n “MAGNUMS” A 1 z AKTtci *.a2 -i— alY e ext JMKIniiwHW reliance] yj 4-’ {fl I H UHH n a
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  • 894 7 CEYLON CHEMIST’S VIEWS. tThe following is from the Times of C The report by the Director of A Jicalture of the f MS on the rajjd Lterioration of the Malaya rubber-growing •1 ffcim which were published in i,9ne of tbe T,mea of Ceylon,” i ft considerable amount
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  • 859 7 EFFECTS OF ECONOMICAL POLICY. The J 7th ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Vallainbrosa Rubber Company. Limited, was held at Edin-B burgh on. August 16, Mi-.• Charles L. Dal-’ zi(*, C-A.. presiding. In moving ,he adoption of the ii|)ort and accounts the Chairman said: Tfie profit
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  • 971 7 “M.M,” IPOH CIVIL SUIT. There was heard in. the Supreme Court, tb<>h, on Wednesday, before the Hon. ,Mi. Justice Branch, a civil appeal *case. the interested parties being Mr. Samuel Lung, solicitor, and his wife, Ma dame Cheak Paik Har, and two Chinese towkays. In tj|e list
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  • 332 7 THE ANNUAL REPORT. The annual general meeting of the Penang Automobile Club will be held in the Municipal Health Office, on Friday, 30th September, at 4-30 p.m. The report for the year ended the 30th June, 1921, states that the total membership at the end of the
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  • 321 7 Scientists are puzzled over the pre vailing plague of mosquitoes at Home. Seeing that the early stages of these insects are spent in water, writes a “Daily Chronicle” representative, it would naturally be supposed that, with the drying up of pools and ponds owing to the drought,
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  • 145 7 No improvement has been seen in the conditions ruling in the Rubber Share Market, and prices have continued to dwindle says a London Mail paper. There is practically no support from aaiy quarter, and sellers find increasing difficulty in disposing of their shares. Argu ment stiM runs high
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  • 241 7 The Nangsue Bimh Dai (Bangkok) states that a numbw of years ago when two young Siamese students resident in Paris lost their lj ves in a railway accident, Prince Charoon put the matter mto the hands of a lawyer, and the Courts ordered the railway company to
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  • 159 7 Hankow, 7.--Hard fighting continues, with Hupeh troops holding their own throughout Tuesday in thq outskirts of the city of Tohang. 'Two hundred Northern troops were driven into the Yangtsze and drowned. The ca-ualtW total) 10,000. Residents of lehang are escaping on boats, not wishing
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  • 152 7 Mr. T. H. Chapman, the Director of the Public Works Department Ceylon in his annual report for 1920 says that the surveys and plan work in connection with the Aberdeen-Laxapana hydro electric scheime have been continued under the supervision of Mr. D. J. Wimalasurendra, District Engineer, and have
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  • 88 7 who wish to retain their charm find Pinketts of espeSial e for the pre servation of the comp|exi|on and of the general health. The when need ed. of these dainty little laxatives keeps the skin free from pimples and blemishes, ensures daihSregularity, dis pel s bilious attacks and
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  • 371 7 THE SENTENCE. The hearing uf tbe case in which ilideo Torigeo, a Japanese, is charged using as genuine a forged document, a bank draft for $46,000, and obtaining payment of that sum from the Singapore branch of the Netherlands Trading Society, was continued before Mr. Justice
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  • 232 7 —“M. M.” ALLEGED ATTEMPTED FRAUD, ('han Tam Seng, a Chinese under custody since September 19th, who began his statement to the Police by saying he was a clerk in the Chartered Bank, was 20 years of age and had 5 children, was produced before the Police Magistra'ie at
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  • 235 7 The Meteorological Observatory WeVhvreden report* very heavy earthquake shocks as having occurred at about 11.30 a m. on Sunday, the 11th instant. Its centre was localised in the Indian Ocean about 111 deg. E. and 11 deg. S. a'| a point about 250 kilometres to the south
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