Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 July 1923

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 155. VOL LXXXI. MONDAY, 9th JULY, 1923. PRICE 15 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 775 1 f-NIKKO” I j MODERN ART-1 ‘PHOTOGRAPHIC I I STUDIO I I fj 0 7, North»™ Koad, Penang. L Tc p bo»« No. 579. I MESSRS. JAMES BUCHANAN CO., LTD., THE MOTORISTS SURE SHIELD. I 5 HAVE RECEIVED THE ROYAL WARRANT 01’ APPOINTMENT TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES j j
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    • 40 1 y» M"■ BTD p PATRONIZED BT «ULTY. v ii GOOD JEWELLERY II MUST POSSESS THREE VIRTUES j’j ij Beauty, Utility Quality AND THE GREATEST OF t THESE IS QUALITY. jj B. P. de SILVA, j >' 1, BISHOP STREET. II 1
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  • 100 2 AUTUMN RACES, 1923. 31st July, 2nd and 4th August. Total Stakes $27,500 10 per cent of Sweep money to be divided amongst winning owners with a Gold Cup to the winner of Division A —Horses Ist Day and a Cup to the winner Division A—Exgriffin Ponies 2nd
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  • 108 2 SUMMER MEETING, 1923. 10th, 12th and 14th July, 1923. NINE RACES EACH DAY. i 3 Races for all Horses. Stakes $1,200, $l,lOO and $l,OOO. 3 Races for Ex-griffin Horses Stakes $BOO. 2 Races for Ex-Griffin Ponies Stake $7OO. Third Day $7OO. 1 Hack Race for Gentlemen Riders
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  • 563 2 The Transport Editor of the “Manchester Guardian” writes: By a unanimous vote the Keighley Town Council have decided to apply to the Government departments concerned for powers to run trolley ’buses in their area and to scrap the tramway system. The Council have approved of the removal
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  • 332 2 —“S. T.” CHINESE COOLIE PUNISHED FOR PERJURY. A Chinese coolie named Lim Kiv Sou was sentenced to cine month’s imprisonment by Mr. Justice BarreM-Lennard in the Supreme Court, Singapore for giving false evidence. In the successful action brought by Yeap Thcan Soo against Lun Boon Teck for
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 938 2 CL i *r* J AUCTION. •Short Classified Advertisements. NOTICE OF SALE. Wanted, For Sale, To Let, &c., By Order of the High Court, Sungei Patani can be inserted in the Pinang TO BE SOLD BY Oazetle PUBLIC AUCTION THREE CENTS A WORD On WednesdayUt August 1923 “Lube" h,Ch (18.12.41) at
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    • 169 2 PENANG TURF CLUB. AUTUMN RACE MEETING. Saturday, 4th August, 1923. A Non-Selling unlimited Sweep will be held on RACE 4. 10 per cent, to the Drawer of the Winning Horse. 20 per cent, to the Drawer of the Second Horse. 10 per cent, to the Drawer of the Third Horse.
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    • 482 2 THE HO HONG BANK LIMITED. LOST SCRIP. Whereas application has been made to the Directors of this Company to issue to Messrs. Toh Hock Seng and Saw Soon Keat both of No. 48, Beach Street, Penang, duplicate certificates for 600-shares numbered I ***** to ***** and ***** ***** upon the
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    • 492 2 •ffrL 81onal men and about ,o proc-ed home on leave are offer d unusual facilities for acquiri g a Light Car. Autoveyors Ltd., London’s fading Light Car Specialists, have made arrangements by which any car may b- purchased on payment of i small deposit (from £37 10s.•, the ba’ance being
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  • 2041 3 THE GOLF DERBY. (brom Our Own Correspondent.) Edinburgh, J line 13. Troon was pessimistic about the professional Golf Tournament. You will know the result by the time this Scottish Letter is passing through the Mediterranean, but I may say that here and now some local authorities had resigned
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  • 236 3 London, June 22. —"The Times” special correspondent at Lausanne gives interesting details of the important commercial agreement signed on the 15th June between the National Turkish Company and the Import and Exports Corporation for the Economic Development of Turkey, Limited. The Scheme, it appears, contemplates the development
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  • 230 3 “The most serious age with children is between two and seven,” said Sir Bruce Porter, lecturing on child welfare at Carnegie House, Piccadilly. “Children want a lot of sunlight and very little clothing. It is a wrong idea that unless you wrap a child up it takes
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  • 138 3 Marked activity in cotton production is in evidence in Australia. A new cotton ginnery has been ereetd at North Rockhampton, Queensland. The plant is capable of handling 500,000 lb of seed cotton every wttek. A new cotton store, which has a capacity of «300 tons was full in
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    • 391 3 Does the Distance from which you do your buying make any difference to ou. providing you get good English Merchandise at MUCH LOWER PRICES Guarantee to refund th. Fears G n lt j nN Mailing; Von want to buy British goods-but not at 1 Let > ears Overseas Catalogue b
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    • 510 3 Leg Ulcers I Years of Intense Suffering Ended. Twelve Painful Wounds absolutely Cured by Germolene. Mrs. E. Holman. 69. Warden-road, Kentish Town, London, N.W.5. Eng., says “Germolene cured me of varicose vX. ulcers when nothing else had effect. For years 1 suffered with varicose veins and about eight years ago
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  • 1347 4 SOCIAL PERSONAL. Mrs. Cromie is going Home by the Malwa.— “M.M.” The death of Baron Tsusuki Keiroku is announced. Mr. C. V. Brandon has recently joined the staff of Kumbok estate. Mr. Ix'slie Atkinson is at present in Sere in ban Hospital, suffering from malaria. Mr. Maeda Tamon has been
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  • 1596 4 The Early Merchants of Penang. (By J. C. Pasqual). The first trading firm in Penang was that of Light and Scott whose partners were Captain Francis Light, the founder of the Settlement, and his bosom friend Captain James Scott who, though he kept in the background, played
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  • 149 4 To collect information that will enable him to tender for the construction of the North Shore Bridge, Sydney, a representative of a British Bridge Building Company is visiting Australia. The preparation of plans and specifications cost each tenderer about £10,060, and each must deposit £50,000 as
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  • 996 4 Kedah Planters and Reconstruction. With the object of giving the Kedah members of the Incorporated Society of Planters, and others outwith the Society, an opportunity of discussing the proposed I.S.P. reconstruction scheme, a largely attended meeting, which included several ladies, was held in the Sungei Patani Club, yesterday
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  • 115 4 The following is the business for t l( meeting of the Municipal Commission to-morrow 1. Minutes of last meeting to be read and confirmed. 2. Any special business the President may bring forward. 3. Questions. 4. Some bills to be passed. 5. Re’ transport allowance of Mr Rutherford.
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  • 188 4 Mr. Alfred Smith, Governor of the S ate of New York, once a poor newsboy but now an able political leader, replies to Mr. Bryan, formerly Secretary of State, caustically attacking the great American commoner and orator on his well-known temperance views. Mr. Smith declares that the
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 260 4 THREE CAUSES OF INDIGESTION AND ONE TONIC METHOD OF CURE. Reading at meials is a bad habit that often leads to acute Dyspepsia.. Hurried meals and bolting food without proper mastication set up mischief that sometimes means years of suffering from weakened organs of digestion. An ill-chosen diet of indigestible
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 1190 5 T the Editor of the" Pinang Gazette.”] With regard to the letter ot Sin—" 1 which von published in Exchani f yesterday, in Malaya people vo,irl T. lv through tracle and industry, the carrying out of which it is and hat people excepting the labourps*‘n l
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    • 506 5 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.”) SlR.—Reuter did well to draw attention in the message despatched from London on .July 3, to the fact that grave doubts are being expressed in the United States and London respecting the utility of the proposed international naval demonstration off
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  • 405 5 ADDRESS BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE. Mr. Lloyd George spoke at a “Fellowship” meeting at the Westbourne Park hapel, of which for many years Dr. Clifford was minister. Outlining some of the responsibilities of the churches, Mr. Lloyd George made reference to the ground landlord, saying that
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  • 421 5 The following aro the minutes of a na-eting of the Municipal (’otimissioners of George Town. Penang, held on Tuesday, the 12th June, 1923. Present. Mr. J Arthur (Deputy President), Mr. F: H. Grumitt, Mr. C. R. Samuel, Mr. J. H. Pedlow, Hon. Mr. P. K. Nambyar. Dr.
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  • WORLD OF SPORT.
    • 118 5 London, June 27.—At the International Horse show at Olympia, at which Their Majesties the King and Queen were present, the King’s gold cup was won by a Frenchman, Cap tain De Laissardiere, who accomplished the only faultless ride. Lieutenant Lemoyen (France) was second followed by British officers.
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    • 35 5 London. June 26. —Johnny Brown, who recently returned from America greatly improved, knocked out Jim Higgins, the exchampion. at Blackfriars in the fourth round after heavy 7 hitting on both sides.
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    • 120 5 London, June 26. —Considerable surprise has been occasioned in polo circles by the scratching of the Duke of Westminster’s Eaton team. In the original draw the Eaton team was drawn to play Sop wick on Tuesday, but the draw was altered. The amended arrangements were that the Eaton
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    • 82 5 London, June 26. —The entries for the Amateur Athletic Championship meeting already provide an excellent array of talent for Stamford Bridge on July 6 and Julv 7 and include athletes from Austria. Hungary. the Balkan States. France and other parts of the Continent, as w°ll as an
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    • 57 5 London. June 24. —The veteran athlete. Tom Nicholson, won four events in the annual championship of the Scottish Amateur Athletic*Association, namely, putting the "Weight 40 ft. 9in. Throwing a 16 1W Hammer. 148 ft, 2 in. Throwing the Hammer (Scottish style) 104 ft. 81 in.. Throwing a
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    • 255 5 The news that Sir Thomas Lipton is again challenging for the America Cup will be a source of general satisfaction, and the best wishes of all British yachtsmen will go out to him in his effort to secure, the success which has so long eluded him. The
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    • 50 5 London, June 22. —The Victoria Cross, awarded to George Bell Chicken, of the Indian Naval Brigade, for his heroism at Suhejnoe on the 29th September. 1858 when he charged the rebels and slew four, and the sword he then used was sold at Glcndenning’s for £BO.
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    • 22 5 Planter’s Medical Guide, by Dr. E. N. Graham, at $2 each or $2.30 post free, stocked by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd.
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    • 339 5 lr 1 —=l L I /////Ml I -Pa WaA' i Wd»] I k wk BHO Af r J begin the dag well with /T ANY thousands of people residerft IVj. in the East attribute their excellent health and ability to with- stand the trying climate to their daily habit of
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  • 76 6 ASTON. —On the 7th inst., at No. 9, Scotland Road. Penang, the wife of Mrs. A. V. Aston. (Malayan Civil Service), a son. Smith. —At the Maternity Hospital Penang, on the 9th July, the wife of Gerald A. Smith, of a son. Wishart.—On July sth. at Twyford.” Singapore, to
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  • 995 6 Although we have no official authority for saying so, we understand that the probability is that, at the adjourned special meeting of the members »f the Penang Chamber of Commerce to-morrow, the members will formally adopt the rules for the election of a member of
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  • 1489 6 A letter from B. Natural to the Free Press on the Old and subject of violins in the New. East reminds us of the unwitting humorist who advertised for sale in the Times a Real Stradivari—Quite New.” Mr. W. M. Johnston has won the world’s lawn tennis
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  • 71 6 Mails from the United Kingdom for Penang are expected to arrive at Singapore by the undermentioned I’hf' Funnel steamers Steamer. Due Singapore. For Penang, s.s. “Yangtsze” 14th July 1 Bag s.s. “Pyrrhus” 19th 1 Mails from Australia are expected to arrive in time for delivery at 8-.> a.m.
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  • 86 6 UNUSUAL SHIPPING CEREMONY (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, July There was an unusual shipping ceremony on Saturday when the K. P- steamer “Speelrnan” was handed lM to the Societe Affreteuro Indo-Chinois. She will be employed as a mail ca, l on th<* Bangkok—Saigon run. in inent of the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 210 6 J GREAT REDUCTION I 1 —IN PRICE OF f I ROYAL TYPEWRITERS. I 1 I -yO g I s i I Bi Hii i I I g FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY TO:— Hottenbach, Lazarus Sons, Limited. 11} 'TRonnoKHT J- S i WffeffiF j 30 h.p. Type “BT” Platform Lorry. PARTICULARS
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    • 31 6 “E. O.” Tuesday, 10th July Guest Night— Dancing. Wednesday, 11th July Special Tiffin Orchestra. Orchestral Concert 9-45 p. m. Friday, 13th July Guest Night— Dancing. Saturday, 14th July Special Tiffin Orchestra.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 107 6 LYRIC THEATRES LTD., Theatre Royal. Penan« Road. From Monday, 9th to Wednesday 11th July, 1923. Gasiner presents Louise Lovely with Lew Cody and Rosemarj Theby in 6 Parts “The Butterfly Man” Parts 6 At 10-30 p. m. Robertson-Cole presents Zasu Pitts and Whimsicalities in 5 Reels The Hearts of Twenty
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    • 25 6 THE TIDES. High Water. Low Water. To-day. 9. 29 p.m. 4. 14 p.m. To-morrow. 10. 3 a.m. 3 .32 a.m. 10.24 p.m. 4. 56 p.m.
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  • 30 6 DEATHS. BEINS-—At 258 Bencoolen St. Singapore. on the 6th inst.. Mary Webb Beins. Seow. —On July 6th, 1923. at 54. Spottiswoode Park Road, Singapore, Seow Chit Lin. aged 56 years.
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  • 457 7 Johnston the Victor. ENGLISH PAIR TAKE THE DOUBLES. Reuter’s Telegrams.) London, duly 7. v Wimbwlon, in the final of the s n championship, Johnston beat Hunter (America) Englishmen Win Doubles. n t he final of the men’s doubles «hampionshir. Lycett and Oodfree Englati'b b, al Con(,e de Gon,ar
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  • 246 7 'HIE FINALS. London, July 7. J’ Heiiloy, the weather was tropical p there was a large attendance. V''n y ‘'’Unwed the race for the liiii 'i ia JJ en R<‘ Cup in the Umpire’s luus- 1 IP fi ,uds resulted as folben'i". ]'l ;,1e .—Trinity (Oxford) G 'nihs?r)s^
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  • 41 7 FRENCH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. Dieppe, July 7. Two Englishmen contested the final of the French Open Amateur (iolf Championship. Lieut.-Col. Hannay (Addington Club) beat the Hon. Michael Scott, the holder (Le Touquet Club) by five up and four to play.
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  • 164 7 FRENCH CHAMBER’S RATIFICATION. Paris, July 7. The French Chamber has ratified the Washington Naval Treaty by 460 votes to 106. The Discussions. Paris, July 7. The Reporter of the Bill declared that the Washington ratio was unfavourable to France, but France did not need big battle squadrons
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  • 89 7 THE “PREPAREDNESS” STRENGTH. Washington, July 7. The Government decided to maintain the minimum naval force in full state of efficiency during the next fiscal year. The programme approved bv the Navy Department proposes to keep in fighting trim and at sea the full 'naval strength allotted to the
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  • 124 7 LATEST FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, July 7. Following representations by the British Embassy on behalf of the owners of the Tuscania and the Arabic, the Treasury decided that liquor in foreign ships in American waters shall be based on the requirements of the laws of the country in
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  • 40 7 LEAGUE COUNCIL’S ATTITUDE. Geneva, July 7. The Council of the Leagye resolved to invite Ahe Assembly to support the Opium “unmission’s recommendations, which incidentally mentioned that the initiative and keenness of the Americans largely contributed to the Commission’s progress.
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  • 17 7 Madrid, July 9. The dispute between General Agnillera and Sancheti Toca has been settled.
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  • 382 7 Belgium’s Demand. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Brussels. July 7. The Belgian Government has instructed its representative in Berlin to request Herr Cuno formally to disavow the Duisburg outrage *and to secure the co-operation of tjie German Government in the search for the culprits. The French Government is associating itself with
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  • 54 7 Toulouse, July 7. Convicted in connection with the attack on M. Caillaux on rhe 11th May, M. Ebelot, a member of the Camelot du Roi, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment End four other members of the Camelot du Roi, to a month, with the benefit of
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  • 92 7 THE BAY OF BENGAL. London, July 7. Captain William Hazel, R. N. R., in a letter to the “Morning Post,” says ithe power and importance of Singapore as a naval base will be multiplied if it is followed by the conversion of the Nancowry Harbour, in the Nicobar
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  • 104 7 UNPOPULAR AT WASHINGTON. London, July 7. The Sunday Times’,” Washington correspondent says he is authorised to state that the popular agitation 1 lunched by Viscounts Shibusawa and Kaneko at Tokio in favour of a Japan-American high commission to discuss the chief bone of contention relating to Japanese
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  • 107 7 A Soviet Announcement. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] Riga, July 7. .The Soviet announces that a new constitution of the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics was ratified at the Kremlin, Moscow. It will operate immediately. Lenin has been appointed president of the union and M. Krassin commissar of foreign trade.
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  • 23 7 Moscow, June 8. M. Rakovsky has been appointed head of the Russian Trade Delegation in London, in succession to M. Krassin.
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  • 244 7 FURTHER PROGRESS. Lausanne. July 7. Under the Graeco-Turkish agreement, yesterday. Greece restores all Turkish vessels seized since the Mudros armistice in October. 1918, while the Treaty of Athens will not apply as regards Turkish civil list properties. The Conference appears to have emerged from a fit of lethargy.
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  • 124 7 THE DANISH PROSECUTIONS. Copenhagen, July 7. The trial of thirteen ex-Directors of the Landmans Bank on charges of infringing the laws regarding joint stock companies and banks concluded. Kristen Riis and Hansen were fined 2,000 kroner and Friis 500 kroner. Ten others were discharged. The Chief
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  • 49 7 AERONAUTS FEARED DROWNED. New York, Jqjy 9. The Naval balloon No. *****. which started from Indianapolis on July 4th in the national balloon race, was found in ].ake Eerie, partly deflated. The basket was missing and it is feared that the two occupants have been drowned.
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  • 52 7 Amsterdam. July 7. The annual report of the Dutch Trading Society ascribes the revival of market conditions in East Indian produce to the economic boom in the United States. The net profit is 5.6 million compared with 6.3 and th# dividend six against seven per cent,
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  • 258 7 British Firms’ Advice. [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, July 7. Several prominent firms closely interested in China trade have jointly sent a letter to the Times dwelling on the essentialness of action in order to restore authority and thus grapple with the tendency in the direction of a revival
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  • 66 7 THE PROMOTION OF TRADE RELATIONS. London, July 7. Mr. Raita Fuyiyaoa. President of the National Federation of Chambers of Commerce of Japan, at a luncheon of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, said he thought nothing could establish friendly Anglo-Japanese trade lelations better than an exchange of visits
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  • 58 7 London. July 7. Professor Latta of Glasgow University has returned from a long visit to the East. He l»elieves that in the interests of art generally. it will l>e a good thing if Professor Lawrence Bin yon of the British Museum went to Japan to make a comprehensive
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  • 123 7 COUNCIL OF THE LEAGUE SATISFIED. Geneva July 8. The Council of the League of Nations, at a public and final session, unanimously passed a resolution that it was useless to discuss the provisional Saar Ordinance of March, which was withdrawn. As regards other extraordinary measures taken by
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  • 88 7 OFFICERS KILLED MANSION BURNT. London, July 7. A D H 9 machine, belonging to Kenley military aerodrome, dasher] with an adjoining mansion, which burst into flames and was speedily destroyed. The occupants of the mansion escaped. The officers in the aeroplane, Trapagna, Leroy and Logsdail were killed. Port
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  • 395 7 PERFORMANCE AT THE TOWN HALL. There was quite a fair attendance at ♦be Town Hall on Saturday night for the special benefit perfoimance given for Miss Tina Gerald, which took the form of four short pla\s, wherein she had the able assistance of Mr. Tom Fenwick. It
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  • 152 7 RUTTON-EAST. In St. George’s Church, Penang < n Saturday afternoon, th I marriage took place of Mr. C. Grant Hutton, Dwisional Engineer F. M. S. R. Kelautan, second son of Mr. and Mrs. M L. Hutton of Killin, Westcliffei-on-Sea to Miss Joan Margaret Hewett East, daughter of
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  • 153 7 Early, on Monday morning last, an inhabitant of Lutmboh (up the Perak River, beyond Pulau Tiga), on calling at a floating shop, which was moored in the river, found the boat stained with blood, and received no answer to his repeated calls, says the “T. O. M.”
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  • 130 7 Charges of forging promissory notes to the value of $30,000, $2,400 and $2,600 were preferred against A. R. C. Veerappa Chetty, of 84, Market Street, Singapore, in the Third Police Court There on Friday before Mr. Gouri ay. Mr. Whitely stated that the largest promissory note was
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  • 501 8 PROBLEMS OF PACKING AND TRANSPORT. A little booklet published by the Rubber Growers’ Association deals with the preservation, shipment, and uses of latex. The handbook is printed on rubber latex paper. On the question of preservatives, the Rubber Growers’ Association can only recommend ammonia as an
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  • 364 8 Mr. M. J. Kennaway writes to the .Malay Mail”: —The answer to th*' <fes tioi* as to where and why restriction in M; 11'fa has not hitherto been the success that it might have been, or has been Jn Ceylon, appears to me to be a
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  • 510 8 London, June 12.—Friday’s market closed at an advance of 13s. 9d. cash, and Bs. 9d. three months. On Monday there was a net loss of 255. to 30s. says the “Metal Bulletin.” This market shows itself responsive to any expansion of genuine trade buying, but it is
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  • 205 8 Benares Opium p. chest $5,000.00 nom. Gloves 1*20.00 sellers Gohl leaf 72.00 sellers Mace Pickings no stocks Nutmegs 42.00 sellers Coconuts per 1,000 46.00 sellers Copra Sundried 10.55 sellers Rattans 11.20 sellers Rattans Coarse 10.50 Green Snail Shells 13.00 Siam Rice No. 1 15.00 per bag do do
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 38 8 Key for Shorthand Rapid Course, at $1.56 each or $l.BO post fr e, stocked i by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd. Shorthand Rapid Course, at $3 each or $3.30 post free, stocked by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd.
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    • 1242 8 —>:— H Assurance in force over $17,000,000. J W Assets over $5,000,000 S. C. y J I The Great Eastern Life Assurance C 0 .9 Ltd. (Incorporated in Straits Settlements). U P LONDON OFFICE: 32, Old Jewry, M. C HEAD OFFICE: Winchester House, Singapore. r- A II Th. Company ha.
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  • 678 9 SUCCESSFUL PENANG GATHERING. Fine wwather attended the first sports gathering held under the auspices of Penang Municipality at tha Esplanade on Saturday. A large crowd witnessed tho events, which were contested with a keeness that not only helped to stamp the meeting a success but also served
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  • 79 9 Tokio. July 3. —Political circles are excited over the fact that M. Joffe interviewed the German Ambassador on June 29. The nature of the conversation has not yet been disclosed. At a meeting of the Russo-Jananese delegation M. Joffe reiterated that the Russian Government were not responsible
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  • 954 9 MEETING OF IMMIGRATION committee. A meeting of the Indian Immigration Committee was held in the office of the Controller of Labour, at Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, the 4th July, 1923, at 10 a.m. Present The Acting Controller of Labour, (Mr. E. W. F. Gilman), Chairman, the Principal Meflical
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  • 37 9 Recruiting has been generally’ resumed in Madras Presidency, except in the following taluks which are still closed to recruiting owing to prevalence of disease Salem District of Salen Town Taluk. Madura District of Periakulam Taluk.
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  • 231 9 The case of a Chinese at Ipoh, who has been fined S7S,(MX) and sent to prison for one year for attempting to pass forged rubber coupons, may help to bring home to the minds of sundry folk that honesty- is the best policy, says the “Straits Times.”
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  • 226 9 WORK ON THE EX- GERMAN FLOATING DOCK. The Chatham correspondent of “The Times” says the reputeil world’s largest floating dock, sift-rendered by Germany under the Peace Treaty, is being prepared at Chatham for special naval work. Tn service circles it is stated that the dock is intended
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  • 153 9 Total value of Foreign Imports of Merchandise excluding Parcel Post into British Malava for the month of June. 1923 $48.945,853—£5,710.349. June 1922 $39.044.471=£4,555,188. Increase Total value of Foreign Exports of Merchandise excluding Parcel Post from British Malaya for the month of June. 1923 $52.037,773=£6.071.073. June 1922 $40.382.142=£4.711,250.
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  • 164 9 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list Saturday To-day. E E Shares. zs ts CO CO M QO c. c. sc. c. Rubber (Dollar). A. Molek 1.25 1.30 1.30 1.40 Bassett 1.02} 1.07} 1.04 1.08 Broga 55 65 55 60 Bukit Katil
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  • 34 9 9th July. 1923 Local. cts. (Smoked Sheet Fine Pale Crepe 45 rnom Unsmoked Sheet 41 J STNGA- (Smoked Sheet 46] pore (Crepe 46] London and New York. {cXr Sh New York G24]
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  • 75 9 London. The Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd:— London. July 6, £177.155.0d spot, and £179.0«.0d three months, £179.55. Od selling. Local. The Straits Trading Co., Ltd, July 9: Singapore sold 150 tons at s9o’: Penang buyers no sellers at s9o’. Messrs. Bonstead and Co., Ltd:— To-day’s quotation for Singapore refined
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  • 95 9 The Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Co., N. L. from Ist to 7th July (being one week) was 16 tons. Messrs. Osborne and Chappel send the following list of returns for June Piculs Gopeng Consolidated Ltd. 1,100 Tekka Limited 570 Tekka Tai ping Limited 1.350 Pengkalen Limited 500 Rambutan
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  • 147 9 The agents of Ratrut Basin Tin Dreding Co., N. L. inform us of the receipt of advices from the Secretary as follows: Board of Directors has issued a Circular to all Shareholders announcing that the value of the new area was greatly overstated and negotiations are
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  • 1117 9 KENNEDY CO’S SHARE LIST. NAMES go sa up b RUBBER [Dollar.] 8 c 8 c 8 o Allenby Rubber Co 1 25 1 30 Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 1 25; 1 40 Amalgamated Malay Estates 2 12$ 2 17$ Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate 13 75 14 25 Ayer Kuning Rubber
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 342 9 advertisements. i>omti<>ns vacant. Kor lhe Perak SccretaO s llary $3OO per mensem, cinb. Tai, en M bi t no clerical assistance Innly to Hon. Secretary, i Secretary for the Klang .|Bb a Apply by letter ,o the Secre,ary Klan* Chib. 11 /7 FOR SALE. Haired Fox-Terriers (D A W (q
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    • 19 9 Rubber Companies Account Books, at $3.50 per book or $3.80 post free, stocked by The Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd.
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  • 217 10 TO-DAY’S J >EPA RT»URES. Benia wers for Port Swdttenham, Singapore, China and Japan. Elephanta for Port Swettenham, taking mails for Klang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. van Ilogendorp for Deli and Langsa. Taipeng for Teluk Anson. Kedah for Dindings and Sitiawan. Fooksang for Calcutta. A terrible tragedy on the
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  • 356 10 CLOSE DAILY (except Sunday). BT TBAIN. Eederated Malay States. Malacca. Johore and Singapore. Registration and Parcel Post, except where otherwise stated, close half an hour earliei than the Ordinary mail. FOR AT Batu Gajah, Tapah Road, By train Teluk Anson,Kuala Kubu. Kuala 7.15 a.m Lumpur. Klang. Port Swetten-)
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  • 155 10 July 10—Football, Selected team v Mr. A’eerappen’s XL Esplanade. 10. 12 and 14—Ipoh Races. 12 —Football, Selected team v The Rest. Esplanade. 15—P.ALR.C. Shoot. 17—Football, Selected team v The Rest. Esplanade. 20— Penang Race Entries Close. 21— Inter-School Sports, Esplanade. 21—Football, Selected team v Perak, Esplanade. 27—Y.W.C.A. Concert.
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  • 517 10 CHOWRASTA MARKET. Penang, July 9, 1923. cts Government Mutton Head, sheep or goat each .I.o'l Liver with heart lung do L2O Tripe do Goat or Sheep per lb 55 Sweet Bread pair 40 Leg of Mutton lb Kidney P air 30 F ee t the four 50 Mutton»—
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    • 121 10 THE WORLD’S GREATEST j ARTIST’S RECORD ON I Columbia I Hear Dame Clara Butt Sing S “The Kashmiri Song” Record No. 1245 EE Less Than The Dust x 248 S “My Ain Folk” x 257 EE also the Wizard of the Violin- EE Tosca Seidel 1 Play EE “Caprice Viennos
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    • 77 10 When a man asserts his disbelief in advertising, ask him whose soap he uses, whose beverages he drinks In nine cases out of ten they will be advertised articles, and though he states that he has not changed his taste for years it proves not so much that he is
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  • 302 11 END OF A CHEQUERED CAREER. No ocean-going vessel has loomed so large in the Indian mind and the Indian newspapers in the last eight or nine years as the steamer Loyalty, which is nowbeing broken up on the beach at Mazagon, Bombay. In the first half of
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  • 213 11 FEDERATION’S DEMAND FOR AN INQUIRY. At the annual meeting of the Master Printers’ Federation, at the Hotel Great Central in mail week, Mr. R. A. Austen Leigh, the President, who was in the chair, said that the Federation membership was about 4.600. It had gained very considerably
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  • 285 11 The Holland-America Line this year celebrates its golden jubilee, having been formed in 1873, and the directors have issued a handsome and attractive illustrated review of the history of the company, compiled by Dr. M. G. De Boer. Among the illustrations are a number of
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    • 175 11 PRICE REDUCED 'WLtfr MOTOR CAR NOW ONLY $1,650 F. O. B. SINGAPORE. I Cycle Carriage Co., Ltd., f Penang, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh. 3 n omshbhb car -fTiiw >i»w at— wi 11 wii w -aw^g.^iiKiLi s'Vi Z“ fl ■fl S&flfl ab <y m *1 .»Sh. kJ ĔE «riHiinniiiHiiiw' LATEST
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    • 1429 12 .A,.' “ELLERMAN” LINE. Nippon Ymen Kaisba. T'm? TIT T TIT TTT TN j LIN-tL ELLERMAN AND BUCKNALL (Incorporated m Japan.) AJLLIL J? STEAMSHIP CO.. LTD.. CONTRACT WITH THE INTENDED SAILINGS FROM PENANG. (Incorporated in England».) IMPERIAL JAPANESE GOVERNMENT HOMEWARD. “ELLERMAN” LINE (Subject to alteration without Notice.) MACHAON July 12 London.
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    • 731 12 P. 0.-BRITISH INDIA AND APCAR LINES. (Companies Incorporated in England). MAIL, PASSENGER CARGO SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S. N. Co. (Under Contract with His Majesty’s Government) P. O. SAILINGS. LONDON—FAR EASTERN SERVICE. From London Due Penang. To Marseilles London Leave p about MACEDONIA July 20 MALWA j uh 19 DONGOLA
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