Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 30 August 1922

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 195. VOL LXXX. WEDNESDAY, 30th AUGUST, 1922. PRICE 15 CENTS
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    • 488 1 f NIKKO ii J WIOPERW ART L j PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO NO. 7. NORTH AM ROAD. ;l J Tel. No. 57». 1 RHlHHUlllUliiiUliliiiiiiilUittiilHil lllllilllllllimilHllil»HHIMIIIHIill RIIIIIiIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIiIIIIIIIE GORDON S SLOE GIN j 1 CIGARETTES 1 I BOBwl T I S ilk I S ql- J^ e We °f thousands p #r c h
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    • 28 1 BRITISH BOND Writing Pad I ef 100 leave» with 25 envelope» $1 i > HvresieDe Box contain» 50 faney- i lined Notepaper, 50 Envelopes $1 Pinanf Gazette Pre», Ltd. >
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  • 582 2 FORGED CHEQCE CASE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, August 28. At the Perak Assizes, to-day, before thp Hon. Mr. Justice E. C- Watson, Mok Choi San was charged with having dishonestly used as genuine a cheque which he knew to be forged, at Sungei Siput, on May 22.
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  • 118 2 Here is a good story of something thal happened in Egypt during the war: A padre, on making his way to his open-air pulpit for camp service, was struck by the number of Tommies whos*conversation appeared to consist chiefly of Damn that fly”for the day was hot and
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  • 94 2 The prospect of the Prince of Wales visiting South Africa next year prompts the Gape Times” to suggest that the conference of Dominion Premiers should he held there simultaneously. The Times” points out Capetown’s geographical advantage, being between Britain and Australasia, and goes on Obviously it.
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  • 853 2 HOW MR. PAGE FIB ST HEARD THE "GREAT NEWS.” We’ll be in at the final lickin big, and will save our souls yet.” was the way Mr. Walter H. Page, the American Ambassador in London, expressed his relief, in a letter to his son, when he
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1529 2 SHORT CLASSIFIED NOTICES tenders invitedADVERTISEMENTS. THE PAWNBROKER’S Wanted, For Sale, To Let, &c., t 0 the Ra,lwfly ORDINANCE, 1898. can be inserted in the Pinang 14 is3l-tf Gazette at TiUfPOPTANT NEWS Tenders are invited for the sole right THREE CENTS A WORD IMrUKIAIMI ntYVa. to open one pawnshop for the
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    • 187 2 I dog siefy .V I Dog Medicines! will help B to mal{e. him c t well Yoix Save Money and secure an Al! Br*, WHi 1 flF** X Bi.-yclc of morkl-Hi.l,. A includes V ""’up- i-lated richly enamelled and lined Alt 'I ol dI at JAiaaf t -A c a
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  • 1163 3 SCIENTISTS’ OPINIONS. To what extent, if any, can alcoln 1 as a beverage be considered to have an influence on the human economy, mental disorders, industrial efficiency, and infant mortality?’’ T<> this general question several eminent scientists addressed themselves in a remarkable series of papers in the
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  • 323 3 China Express Mr- S. Kennard Davis has lost his appeal brought against an assessment, to super tax, which was supported by the Commissioners for the Special Purposes of the Income-tax Acts. The appellant contended that the personal allowance” of £225 granted by th > Finance Act, 192,, in
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  • 133 3 Paris, July 28.For the first time in the history of aviation, an aeroplane has landed on the edge of the crater of a volcano which was in full eruption. This feat was accomplished by the French pilot Chanteloup- Starting from Malang, Java, in a Caudron machine, he
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  • 91 3 n view of the action of the Bishop of Rangoon in declining to accept denations from the Rangoon Trif Club, the Stewards have decided that the receipts I the Charity meeting to be held on Sc teinber 30 will go to St. Dunstan s Home for the
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 363 3 Mur i I Abolition of Income Tax. q Retrenchment. I 0 D A PUBLIC MEETING I r under the Joint Auspices of I Penang Chamber of Commerce and rn Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce U will be held in the o TOWN HALL, PENANG, D I Thursday, 31st August, 1922
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    • 151 3 MICHELIN CABLE CORD TYRES The famous oversize Tyres. >»♦»< t Prices Greatly Reduced. Cable Cord Tyres Mean The Mile at Pre War Cost. A MICHELIN Cie. Head Office: Clermont, Ferrand, France. I Stockists Throughout Malaya. I Why not have THE BEST? BURKE’S BOTTLED GUINNESS s f ame d throughout Lgr'Uy
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  • 5328 4 Alleged Extravagance. SIR L N. GUILLEMARD’S REPLY TO MR. CHURCHILL. The supplement to the F. M. S. Government Gazette on the 26th August, contains a despatch from the Kt. lion, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, dated the Sth February, 1*922, upon the subject of the financial
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  • 1741 5 viiaM.’V of A SCOTTISH I novelist. t H (hir Own Correspondent). Edinburgh, August 2. T 1„. birth <>»’ Janies On.nl, one of the ,„l a r of Scottish novelists on Kl 1 |S’’2. is worthy of some reA”- 11 1 Descended from an old Sand hnnily, he was
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  • 861 5 PLIGHT OF THE WOMEN. Vienna nowher life, her poverty, her war profiteering, her surface pleasure, tho deep anguish underneath- -are like terrible and beautiful music a choral symphony on a vast seal 0 embracing not only the sounds of the great city, the thoughts, the heart-breakings, the
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  • NEWS FROM INDIA.
    • 222 5 Allahabad. August 18.In connection with the Delhi trunk mystery the following account has been published here. Among other stations a telegram was sent to Aligarh as the train had stopped there. Inquiries quickly elicited the fact that a coolie had loaded a very’ heavy box into
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    • 194 5 A Burma Press communique say’s Prominence has been given to the announcement of the engagement of a persons described as His Highness Maha Min Hla Thugyaw to an English lady’. Ihe person so described is apparently one Maung Mating Gyi, the son of an Assistant
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    • 112 5 Peshawar. August 21.A small commission headed by Major Brett, of the Political Department, is about to proceed to Kabul to discuss with the Afghan Government the details of a trade convention in pursuance of the terms of the treaty of 1921. AVith the increased traffic, especially heavy motor
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    • 106 5 Peshawar, August 21.It is reported that the harvest prospects in Russian Turkistan are bad and that of the last harvest, which was a good one, the So viet officials commandeered nine-tenths, nominally in accordance with their communistic theories but- actually for mi litary supply purposes. If this
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    • 109 5 Simla, August- 18.—It is officially stated that Earl Winterton. Parliamentary Under Secretary* of State for India, has. with the permission of the Secretary of State for India, accepted an invitation extended to him before he took office by the Governor of Bombav to pay a private
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    • 36 5 Poena. August 17.Mr. Raymond Smith- a Canadian, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for cheating a motor service company. It is alleged that a similar charge is pending against him at Meerut.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 265 5 SHIPMENTS 1 Just Been Received I g OF j I DUERR’S I JAMS AND J I MARMALADE I s s S made up in Glass Jars of 11 lb. nett weight. jg Ask for these if you I want good quality I I I AGENTS: I Katz Bros., Ltd., (INCORPORATED
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  • 1336 6 It will be observed from to-day’s Reuter’s cables that the people of Sweden have been holding a plebiscite on the question of prohibiting the making, selling and possessing of intoxicating liquors within their country. By intoxicating liquors was understood to mean all beverages containing more than
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  • 1590 6 In a note on Thursday, we suggested that the majority of H.E. and the people would find in the A. B. M. provokingly indefinite speech” by Sir Frank Swettenham at the annual meeting of the Association of British Malaya just sufficient material for keen speculation. According to
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    • 145 6 VIRGINIA MBhM«<wf~ > yr< SOLE IMPORTERS: G. H. SLOT Co., PENANG. -i£U 111 111 lllil—- J. II Fine Du jGRAND EMPEREUB BRANDY J THREE STAR 8 1 FIVE STAR I R h A Established 1779 X AT COGNAC, FRANCE. SUB AGENTS: I R. T. Reid Co., Ltd., PENANG and KUALA
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    • 18 6 E. O.” Wednesday, 30th August.—Special Tiffin-Orchestra. Friday, Ist September.Dinner and Dance. Saturday, 2nd September.—Special Tiffin-Orchestra. SARKIES BROTHERS, Proprietors.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 163 7 Military Operations Resumed. Reuter's Telegrams.] London, August 29. The re^iiiiipt ion of military operafjoiis in Asia Minor is definitely indi rated communique from Athens de that fighting has bee i procer'ling continuously from the |ver Akai- to Hassanbel for j] Je p ;l st three days and estiIlia
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  • 51 7 Riga, August 29. It is reported that several wellknown Communists have seceded from the Party as a protest against the deportation of intellectuals. Several Social Revolutionaries escaped from the com tud rat ion c amp at Archangel, whereupon the remainder of the prisoners were deported to Nova
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  • 27 7 NINE ARRESTS. Chicago, August 29. Nine arrests have been made and others aie expected in connection with th»’wrecking of a train on August 21.
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  • 38 7 A WET” VICTORY? Stockholm, August 29. lhe prohibit ion plebiscite resulted n 89(M)0(> votes in favour of prohibition and 939,000 againsti The message reads; 890 thousand in favour of prohibit ion and 939 against.]
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  • 206 7 London, August 19.Five hundred survivors of the British Cruiser, H. M. S. Raleigh” which went ahore ou the night of 9th August off Point Amour, Newfoundland, arrived in Liverpool to-day and have proceeded to their homes in Chatham and Portsmouth. They have lost all their possessions.
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  • 119 7 Ixi.'idon. August *2o. The wisdom of Indianisat ion of the Indian Civil Service is strongly challenged by M,r. Harold Cox, in the Sunday Times, on l”' ground of the differences of langu '‘K'*. rac e and ri‘ligion in India, and the ,as te system. Mr. Cox concludes his arby
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  • 67 7 '""don. August ]<♦.—[-t is officially renil' f 1,1 ,J "'usalem that the Wahabis nji",. ,W B< Sfl khr villages twelve jh s s u, h of Amman, in Tran*-Jorda- '''d killed thirtv-fiv? men wemen Die British Trans-Jerda-d.-i v a l>!'ar< n< ly drove off the mini'. W|
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  • 2586 7 A Defence of Incom Tax. Dr. R. M. Connolly writes us as follows For once the Doldrums of the Colony’s political life are being changed into the Rotiring Forties. Retrenchment is in the atmosphere all over the world and has struck British Malaya. It has
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  • SPORTING NEWS.
    • 211 7 The following tennis ties have been fixed for Thursday, 31st August: Doubles Handicap Class A- 15 F.’N Syer and W. Boger v- 15.1 C. E. B. aldron and W. P. Webb (5). Doubles Handicap Class B- l5/2 C. P. Liston and R. Liston v- l5 E. Newbold
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    • 159 7 MINIATURE RANGE COMPETITION. There was a large gathering at the Rifle Range to witness the 30 Yards Miniature Range Competitions between seven Platoons of the local Volunteer Force, including Province WellesleyPoints Brought Out. 1 Selection of best Target, 2 Coolness. 3 Quickness of aim and rapidity of fire.
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    • 187 7 The most interesting match of mail week was between Oxford Authentics and Stilling County, the University men having an easy win—2B7 for 9 against 94 and 113. The County Championship was notable for Clackmannan’s tine win, 134 for 7, against Stirling’s 99. The clock robbed Perthshire of a
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  • 161 7 Mr. Alexander M. Thompson writes: British merchants of my acquaintance who have lately returned from the Continent are of opinion that the advantage conferred o." German trade by the depreciation on the German marks is turning in our favour. For though German exporters have been careful
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  • 417 7 MALAYA’S POPULATION. In the report of Mr. J. E. Nathan of I the census of Malaya for 1921 Chapters I and 2 deal with what may be called the mechanism of the census and the exteu--1 sive preparations that had to be made j for its 81(>,(MM>
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  • 482 7 Taxpayer” writes to the Free Press.”:On Thursday next, at the Victoria Hall, we shall once again have the opportunity- of seeing an illustration of the old fable of the Cat, the Monkey and the Hot Chestnuts. The Cat, represented by that well-known comedian Mr. Braddell, will,
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  • 1230 8 PREPARATION' OF RAW RUBBER No important discoveries, says the report of the Acting Director of Agriculture, F.M.S., for 1921, have been made during the year in respect of new or improved methods of preparation of raw rubber on estates, and smoked sheet and pale crepe continue to be
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  • 276 8 A strong protest against boys being educated merely to become clerks in banks and offices was made by M’". L;»cki’f, headmaster of Bungay Grammar School, in his report delivered at the annual prize giving. There is nothing more heart-break-ing,” he said than to see a boy <-n
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  • 137 8 The following is a letter written to The Statesman” on the subject of Tainted Money,” and may prove of interest in view of the Rangoon contro versy. In these days of economic pressure-to find people indulging in cheap principles is only to be expected but there is nc
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  • 1384 8 FUTURE PROSPECTS. The 12th ordinary general meeting of the members of the Anglo-Java Rubber and Produce Company, Limited, was held at Winchester House, Ohl Broad Street, E. Mr. R. F. McNair Scott (chairman of the company) presiding. The Chairman said The value of our property and buildings stands in
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  • 232 8 Messrs. William Jacks and Co.. London, reported on the 2nd August The position in Europe cannot be so black as it looks now that the Prime Minister has added peace to his political portfolio. Business in America continues good, irrespective of strikes and the demand from there
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  • 41 8 It is announced officially that a concession is being granted the Batavian Oil Company for a period of 75 years for the exploration of an oilfield of 3.515 hectares, situated in the Palembang Re sidency, Java-
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  • 766 8 IMPROVED YEAR'S WORKING. The fourteenth annual general meeting of the shareholders of Kramat Pulai, Limited, was held at the registered offices of the company, Portland House, 73, Basing hall Street, E. C., Mr. S. H. B. Blandy (the chairman) presiding. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the
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  • 469 8 PENANG, AUGUST 30, 1922. Set, GOVERNMENT MUFTON--Head, sheep or goat each Liver with heart k lung j 0 i Tripe do i'7 Goat or Sheep per jj, Sweet Bread each <> Leg of Mutton h, Kidney pair on Feet the four pj MUTTON— Head, sheep or goat eb
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  • 94 8 PENANG, AUGUST ><», I l (By Courtesy of the UHAirtEKK” Bank.) 0/3 29/32 London Demand Bank 4 months’ sight Bank -I .u 3 Credit .1; 3 Docunientar.' J’ 1 Calcutta Demand Bank I3 days’sight Private 1 Bombay Demand Bank Madras Demand Bank 3 days’sight Private j Rangoon Demand Bank
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 88 8 EVERYBODY HAPPY—BUT YOU? If that’s how you feel your trouble most likely is constipation or disordered liver, and the remedy you need is Pinkettes, the dainty little laxatives which neither gripe nor purge. Pinkettes restore brightness to life by gently stimulating digestion dispelling constipation and regulating the liver, thus banishing
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 533 9 Gazette."] < years ago Reinforced Con'R; nstruction was the patent medit t H ..n-ineering business. Every <’ llir therein was an expert,” ".h "liaH his own special brand of 4!)l1 'l' ><sess<‘<l if some minor pecu- ol an name. ince been discovered by the as Oscar Faber,
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  • 98 9 A Municipal Case. ltl District Court, Penang to-day, K. Scott. Messrs. F. Duxbury E- M hitlock as receivers in the y" Mohamed Noordin, were charg- J' 11 failing to comply with a -if se,v, d on them, on June fespect of houses in Beach thulia Street. |)r s
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  • 88 9 l‘f.\ X s lri>p Cij- Bs Donation. >x< Secretary, inform Dirf ('|n| "i ulll,U4 ttee of the Penang 111 of decided to donate the <‘nd <•(,,* l|, Sw atow Relief Fund, 111 M "I'l V” th” amount has been *'•"112,1 J,' Gardner, of the HongBank. Penang. Hip
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  • 480 9 LIBEL ACTION SETTLED In the King's Bench Division on July 28 th<* settlement of a libel action was announced to Mr. Justice A very which the British North Borneo Company had brought against Charles Scribner’s Sons, the well-known American firm of publishers, who luive a branch
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  • 207 9 The following new books have been received at the Penang Library:^ Berenice, by Jean Racine Translated by John Masefield. Thp Book of Cricket, by P. F- WarnerChasing and Racing, by Harding Cox. The Chronicles of Rodrigues, by Lord Dunsany. The Dominion of Canada as a Market for British
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  • 31 9 I asked her to lean out to see if the tyre was flat. Not enough to hurt,” she reported. It’s just flat on the lower side The Motor.”
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  • 68 9 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day. 2 Shares. 2 t 23 X X X c. c. sc. c. Mining. Nawng Pet 95 97j 1.02 A 1.07 j Rawang 85 90 87A 92} Taiping 80 N2l 80 85 General. Malayan
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  • 388 9 A M ERIC N STR IK E EEFE< TS. Despite the unsettlement of the foreign exchanges and the anxieties connected xvith the European situation, and despite also the continuance of the strike in America, the metal markets have continued to show great strength, ami this condition of things
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  • 77 9 Benares Opium p. chest $5,000.00 nom. Cloves no stock Gold leaf 72.00 sellers Mace Pickings 70.00 Nutmegs 805... 40.00 noin. 1105... 30.00 Coconuts per 1,000 30.00 sellers Copra Sundried 9.50 buyers Rattans 11.20 sellers Rattans Coarse 10.50 Green Snail Shells 13.00 Siam Rice No. 1 15.50 per bag
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  • 1061 9 KENNEDY CO'S SHARE LIST. X 35 ,CD NAMES f 5 l'3 £1 RUBBER [Dollar.] c g c S Allenby Rubber Co 50 60 Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 1 00 1 10 Amalgamated Malay Estates 1 10 1 25 Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate 9 0010 00 Ayer Kuning Rubber Estates 1
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 770 9 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. I 31 H. P. tvrin-cycle Zenith Motor I Cycle, not used since recent overhaul by I /r® manufacturers. Tyres new. No reason- r able offer refused. H. C. Bathurst, 9, Scotland Road. 1432—28 30 1-9. -k I STOtJ Bakau Piles.— The following' sizes and lengths in
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  • 224 10 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. Al. S. Siberg for Deli. Ka(lnoi>bire for Colombo Dhanushkodi and London. Laisang for Calcutta. M. S. Loudon for Singapore. Tanda for Calcutta. Kutsang for Singapore, China Japan. The Chinese steamer Jui An” with a Chinese master, was lost in the Shanghai river at a place called
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  • 336 10 CLOSE DAILY (except Sunday). BY TRAIN. Re-i'iration and Parcel Post, except where otherwise stated, close half-an hour earlier than rhe Ordinary mail. FOR AT Federated Malay States. Malacca. Johore Singapore and Hongkong Ipoh. Batu Gaiah. Tapah Road,'] By train Teluk Anson.Kuala Kulm. Kuala i 7.15 a.m Lumpur. Klang.
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  • 14 10 The homeward mail, by the Chilka, closes at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
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  • 91 10 \ug 30Football, A Cov B” Cov, P.V. Aug 30—Athenaeum, Penang, Paper on Kellections on the Slump." (.M. Club, 9.15 p.m. Aug 31Chin Seng and Co., LtdMeeting, 41 Farquhar St., noon. Aug 31 Public Meeting. Town Hull. 4.30 p.m. Aug 31C.W.A. Committee Meeting. Parsonage. 10 a.m. Sept 3 P.S.C.,
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  • 906 10 Ex. The recent naval air exercises off the Isle of Wight were memorable for two reasons. In the long series of attacks carried out by bombing aeroplanes against an old battleship in motion a considerable number of hits was effected from an enormous height, and at close ipiarters
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 427 10 I I? I II Vtejf x 1 3| I V I v| xj A M<r> **Ow Bahr ho» y t hrowhc M Gkao. I thUh f Jfr bo wmJj thonh you all K ho It 4N oooW feo the UmX* ha hoc do- U jfld Nwd too* tho woodorfwl food
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  • 639 11 THE PATRIOTISM OF ENGLISH LABOUR. Mr. Malcolm Sumner, who has arrived in London on his way to Berlin, is one of the leading authorities in the Lnited States on problems of foreign trade and finance, and is well known in New York as a Corporation
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 381 11 I -1 I 25,000,000 men shave each mom I in pleasant comfort I million men now I JL shave the Gillette way. In every I corner of the globe, men are enjoying a I new kind of shaving comfort. I MAOe a. Until you try the New Improved I I
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    • 41 11 I WILL YOU SOON BE RICH Here.is good opportunity Make haste semi ns your name ji and address TO-DAY! 1 We will give you the way how S to quickest and easiest fortune. WEST-JAVA CREDSET AND j HYPOTHEEKBANK, I BATAVIA, (JAVA).
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    • 802 11 I RUSTIKOL” I 5 j The Artistic Wood j Preservative j s Made in Four Standard Shades. 3 E Proof against White Ants, 8 S Dry Rot, etc., in Timber. a E Used by Hundreds of 5 J Estates throughout Malaya. I I i Manufactured by the well-known makers of
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 1563 12 MESSAGERIES MARITIMES COMPANY. JS U a a^*"*A CO LTD Uncb’T Contract with the French Government Singapore to Java ports, Port Darwin, Mail and Service., Thursday Island, BRISBANE and (Incorporated in England.) DIRECT FORTNIGHTLY MARSEILLES-FAR EASTERN SERVICE. zL.and ELLERMAN’yLINE. OUTWARD MAILS. Guinea New Britain and South Sea The following fast steamers
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    • 614 12 HENDERSON LlNp Fast Passenger and Cargo Steamers between Rati Port Said, Algiers and England with through n I tions from Penang. I Leave Rangoon I Steamer. About Steamer. I Burma Sept. 12 Pegu I Amarapoora Nov. 21 Martaban I Henzada Uc i I Chindwin Dec. 19 Bhamo °ct I The
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