Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 March 1924

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. ESTABLISHED 1833. No. 65. VOL LXXXII. WEDNESDAY, 19th MARCH, 1924. PRICE 15 CENTS.
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    • 654 1 I NIKKO” modern art I j PHOTOGRAPHIC j STUDIO I j No. 7, Nortbam Road, PaMRf. j TeleP hOOC No 579 j I k i B The beat salad oil for Baking, Frying, Salad-dressing and Mayonnaise is I BLACK ""> WHITE! delfia ,JL id*L w w A A jL AJ
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    • 39 1 estd. Mjbls ,172 P PATNMZED BI BDYALTT.i X in 'j PLENDID SELECTION OF y il DIAMOND AND GEM |j SET JEWELLERY x OF EVERY DESCRIPTION il AT ALL PRICES. g B. P. de SILVA, f 1, Bishop Street, Penang.
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  • 1004 2 MILITARY INTRIGUES. Mr. Perceval Landon, writing to the Daily Telegraph says it would be absurd to pretend that the situation in China has not undergone a distinct change for the worse during the last two years. So complete and disgraceful is the present chaos that the only
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  • 325 2 A chase which led two New York detectives across the Atlantic ended, quite accidentally, in the corridor of a Paris prison, where the American officers found the man they had been seeking for many months. The prisoner, who is known as Sir Robert Tourbillon, and Dan Collins,
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  • 445 2 ory of the nominal bridegroom Daily Telegraph.’’ Love and law have always been apt to quarrel. It Js not surprising that a law so new, so subtle, so mathematical as that which the Unted States has devised for the restriction of immigration should offend the old, simple,
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    • 1035 2 S PENANG CRICKET CLUB. mi a NIPPON HOTEL! Notice is hereby given that the princi-1 pal and interest secured on the under«ll IM mentioned Debentures will be paid on »t r KINDS OF presentation thereof to the undersigned jiii lij| at their office on or after the Ist day of
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    • 884 2 banks /HZ Z yCHARTERED I AUSTRALIA AM) c ,*Ja I (Incorporated in England 1.,, n H u g-p Charter 1853.) n I /7 7/A Paid-up Capital H I Reserve Fund I Danger lurks BeBereLiabi,i o l a r 0 p ,m *S I rte b r?s eV d r an
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  • 589 3 S. F. P.” wh it we have been told some f ens ion is stirring amongst a good ai’P r t iie more responsible of our q in Chinese circles particularly, citiZ f”ird to what may perhaps rightly be n r j the boxing epidemic which has
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  • 349 3 Sentiment in regard to the development of new outlets is distinctly cheerful, especially on the other side of the Atlantic, and in this connection interest has been aroused by the progress made witli the preparation of rubber by the spraying process. Some months ago. it will be recalled,
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  • 636 3 GOLF MEET AT SUNGEI PATANI, Under the auspices of the Kedah Branch of the E. S. A. M., a very enjoyable day was spent at Sungei Patani on unday last, the occasion being the first sports meeting held by the Kedah Branch of the E. S. A.
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  • 161 3 S.F.P. A dispute with a driver of a hired car led to a serious assault being committed on Mr. James Mairs. Chief Warehouseman of the Singapore Harbour Board. The incident occurred on Saturday night in the vicinity of Tanjong Pagar Police Station. Mr. Mairs hired the car and
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  • 905 3 TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY. At the London School of Economics -Ir, Pett Ridge, who always looks on the bright and light side of things, and Sir Charles Biron, London’s chief magistrate at Bow-street, spoke on the topic. So this is London.” Mr. Pett Ridge said that the first
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  • 743 3 MOTOR ARMY OF THE FUTURE. An interesting lecture upon Tanks and their Development.” by Colonel F.J. Fuller, D. 5.0., was read at a meeting at King’s College, Strand. Colonel Fuller said that, in his opinion, the tank was the greatest invention of the war. Poison
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    • 21 3 t EA RONTAGE Rights and Titles, 50 per book or $2/80 post free, '•tocked by the Pinang Gazette Press, btd., Penang.
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    • 55 3 NEW HEALTH AND NERVE POWER quickly gained with I regular use of SANATOGEN Mr*- Bjornsterne Bjornson. the wife of the celebrated Norwegian poet and ggg novelist, wrote: "Bjornson uses Sanat ogeii every day and finds that the effects of this admirable revitalising food are exceedingly beneficial to irn. Oil’- ioctor
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    • 62 3 HAEMORRHOIDS otherwise Piles, are aggravated by costtiveness. In most cases when the constipation is dispelled by Pinkettes the Pile® dry up and disappear. the dainty little gentle-a^-natare laxatives aiteo banish biliousness, sick headache, liverighness, purify the breath, clear the skin of pimp-os and blotches. Of chemists, or post free, 60
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    • 414 3 rAfroßft I I «7 G«orr« StrML Baker Strwt LmJm. W.l. FT W A CAR to u«e whilst on leave will be a real Zfl I II I joy. Buying ie cheaper than hiring and more 4 j. J IT I eatisfactory when we guarantee to buy the car r i
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  • 3683 4 Story of a Coal Concession. IGNORED PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY. When it is completed, the action Peck v. Russell which began on Monday before Mr. Justice Whitley, in the Kuala Lumpur Judicial Commissioner’s Court, will stand in the records as one of the most important and the most
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  • 350 4 EDITOR KILLED WITH AN ARROW. (Translated.) Batavia. March 10. Noring Genting. editor of a newspaper called Batak while sitting at his writing table was shot at with a poisoned arrow through a window and died on the spot. Gang Robber Killed. A gang robbery is reported at Tjilame,
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  • 364 4 Through many generations popular wits have sought to be facetious over the attentions lavished upon the clergy by adoring ladies. This vulgar fashion we disdain. It must be clear to any sensitive mind that anxiety for a man’s welfare can te very embarrassing to him. Therefore we
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  • 662 4 GENERAL MANAGER OF ppp, I estates. Ert -W I Hia many friends in this I and other parts of Malaya will I with the deepest regret, of th I which occurred at Home last <leat b I Mr. Percy N. Mitford, General I of Bertam
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  • 607 5 ARMY ESTIMATES MEMORANDUM. London, March 6.In his memorandum on the Army Estimates Mr. Stephen M alsh. Secretary of State for War, states that on taking office he found the Es timates in an advanced state of preparation and it was impossible to do more than satisfy
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  • 169 5 London, March 10.That Government regarded unemployment as just as much a national responsibility as the payment of interest on the War Loan was one of Mr. Thomas Shaw’s retorts in the House of Commons to-day to gibes thrown at Government by Liberals and Conservatives for Government’s
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  • 501 5 London, March 6.The British Indian I nion to-day, under the presidency of Viscount Erleigh, gave a luncheon to Lord Goschen before his departure for Madras, and to Sir George Lloyd on his return from Bombay. Lord Goschen, emphasising his desire to do his best for India, urged
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  • 91 5 London, March 11.The Indian Exhibition Commissioner in London, interviewed by Reuter to-day, said that careful inquiries showed that there was not the slightest foundation for the allega tions of a London correspondent of a South Indian newspaper that Indian visitors to the Exhibition might find it
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  • 143 5 London. March 11.In the House of Commons to-day Mr. Wardlaw Milne asked why the Government of India had not insisted on the surrender of the Kohat murderers. Mr. MacDonald replied that in the absence of any extradition treaty with Afghanistan on which to base the request for
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  • 44 5 London, March 11.—A Reuter wireless message says that Mr. Stephen M alsh, Secretary of State for War, in the Hous° of Commons, stated he had agreed with the Government of India that there should be six cavalry regiments in India.
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  • 245 5 London, March 12.In the House of Commons yesterday, on adjournment, Mr. Lansbury drew attention to the Jaito disturbances, the Bombay strike and Government’s refusal to hold a round table conference. He said it was an extraordinary thing if the police were hemmed in at Jaito by tremendous crowds
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  • 234 5 London. March 11.The scheme for a subsidy of a million sterling spread over ten years to the Imperial Air Transport Company was being faithfully carried out. Government felt that the Burney airship scheme needed still more examination, and Commander Burney would have full opportunity
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  • 106 5 London, March 11.There were lively scenes in the House of Commons to-day at the committee stage of the Rent Restrictions Bill that Government did not intend to back up. The measure was indicated by the withdrawal of Mr. John Wheatley and Sir Patrick Hastings from the committee
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  • 116 5 PENANG, MARCH 19, 1924. (By Courtesy of thf Chartereh Bank.) Ix>ndon Demand Bank 2f4 1/32 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4 7/32 3 Credit 2/4 17/32 3 Documentary 2/4 9/16 Calcutta Demand Bank Hhl67}) 3 days’sight Private 170| 5 Bombay Demand Bank 1671 j 2 Madras Demand Bank 167] z
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  • 94 5 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. Kalmoa for Asahan. Scheer for Sabang, Colombo Port Said. Wakasa Maru for Rangoon (Mergui and Moulmein via Rangoon) and Calcutta. Numidia for Singapore, China Japan, The following ships are in communication with the Wireless Stations at: PenangBegum. Cape Cross, Ceylon, Chalister, Eelbeck, Gothic Prince, Hartington, Ixion,
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  • 401 5 CLOSE DAILY (except Sunday). BT TMIN. Federated Malay States, Malacca, Johore and Singapore. Registration and Parcel Post, except where otherwise stated, close half an hour earlier than the Ordinary mail Resumption o> Night Mail Service. The following additional mails will be closed daily (Sunday excepted) by the 7-30
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  • 200 5 STILL ALIVE AFTER FOUR MINUTES. An experiment with a cat having proved successful, the animal dying painlessly in fifteen seconds, the first execution by lethal gas in American history was carried out when Gee Jon, a Chinese convicted of murder, was put to death by thig
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    • 348 5 4 tl yj /wd'?* r- Wl'V") W i Al® WBi\\ I K? /2»o I I VfRwOI I I W F22JTV/ fs*l > Mr». E. aut: -Baby has had rX 1 Jx f n ?r year or She is tCfc full of life and has never been rif/h >.; the slightest
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  • 31 6 Thomson-Porter.—On March 17th, 1924, at the Presbyterian Church. Singapore, by the Rev. G. H. Douglas. .James Stephen Thomson, of Messrs. Barlow and Co., Singapore, and Elizabeth King Porter, Peterhead, Scotland.
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  • 340 6 When the announcement was made of the gift from the Straits Settlements to the Imperial Government of the land for a Singapore naval base, the possibility of the gift proving to be premature was voiced in these columns. Events have shewn that there was good reason for
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  • 505 6 Mr. John Blunt, that ruthless prober into the dark under-spheres of life, ha 8 for some time past conducted a feature column in the Daily Mail in which he tells the world the results of his reflections. London and the lives of its dwellers, are to him as an
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  • 189 6 It is suggested that an unaccountable gloom hangs over bachelors in Penang just now. Young and old. eligible and ineligible, it appears, are exhibiting a moroseness quite foreign to their usually sunny natures. If the truth be told they are slightly envious of their Singapore fellows for
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  • 1083 6 Mr. Herbert Hoover, the American Secretary of Commerce, Self-Deception, contends that rubber is controlled by British and Dutch interests. If the price was 2/6 a lb., we could see the point of the joke. The Melbourne Age” directs attention to a report by Mr. E. T. Are
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  • 339 6 ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING. The annual business meeting of the congregation of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church was held, by kind invitation of Mr. and jHrs John G. Brown, at their residence, No. 4 Brook Road, last evening. Tea was served on the lawn, after which the large
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  • 111 6 Under the auspices of the Christian Federation of Malaya, special addresses will be delivered in the Fitzgerald Memorial Church. Burmah Road, Penang, at 6 p.m. as follows:March 20 The New Birth,” Mr. T. E. Dibbs; March 25 The Promises in St. John’s Gospel and the First
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  • 44 6 The B. I. Packet Teesta, with mails despatched from London on the 28:h February, is expected to arrive here at 6 a.m. on Friday the 21st instant. The homeward mail, by the fara, closes at 10 a.m. on Friday, the 2Dt instant.
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    • 217 6 THE POPULAR !‘CORONA’| g PORTABLE TYPEWRITER. g JBjWr 1 Q MODEL I p S Full Width Keyboard. Visible Writing. g Complete with well-made 5 g Carrying Case. p Huttenbach, Lazarus Sons, Ltd., g (Incorporated in he Straits Settlements.) ~7 R PENANG. p j— e KuTiTiTTi i i.i ».ii.i.i-i.ri7ti.ii.OTmTiym-rrTrCT?:i.i.».! P Fl
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    • 24 6 o." Guest Night and Dancing Every Tuesday and Friday. Special TiffinEvery Wednesday and Saturday—Orchestra. Orchestral Concert Every Other Sunday Next Concert23rd March, 9-30 p.m.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 153 6 TIDE TABLES. Penang P. Sw’ham Singapore Mar. H.W. L.W. H.W. L.W. H.W L.W. 1? 11.51 a 5.34 a 3.51 a 10.22 a 9.03 a 3.11 a 11.46 p 5.51 p 4.1 q» 10.47 p lO.lOp 3.38 p 20 0.22 p 6.08 a 4.29 a 11.0 a 9.44 a 3.49 a
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  • 90 6 DEATH. At Penang on the 17ih March, after a prolonged illness. Janet Mary Nelson, widow of the late Peter John Nelson, Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphs. Taiping. Aged 67 years. English and New Zealand papers please copy. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mrs. Paul and Mrs. Houston desire to thank all friends for their
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  • 1391 7 Government’s Decision. Reuter s Telegrams.) London, March 18. the House of Commons, in his h on the Navy Estimates, M r C. J. f «mon announced that after full conhrition of all the relevant facts, and witlf the Dominions a sea g, the Government had decided proceed further
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  • 81 7 foreign susceptibilities. London. March 18. As an apposite example of foreign susceptibilities on naval matters, Lord Chelmsford, defending the Government s policy in the House of Lords quoted the stir caused in the choice of the Mediterranean for naval manoeuvres which was a perfectly innocent act on
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  • 95 7 Question in the Commons. (Reuter's Telegrams.) London, March 18. The question of the Prince of Wales’s riding accidents was raised in the House of Commons by Lt.-Col. J. T. C. MooreBrabazon, who asked whether it was within the province of the House of Commons to represent to
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  • 128 7 EVIDENCE LEAKING OUT. Washington. March 18. According to accountants who testified before the Senate Oil Committee, Mr. Daugherty, Senators Curtis and Elkins, and also Mr. Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge, are among the officials who had transactions in the Sinclair or Doheny oil stocks about the time
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  • 47 7 BONUS BILL PASSED. Washington. March 18. The House of Representatives, by 355 votes to 54, passed the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill, providing for paid up endowment life insurance policies and cash payments. Estimated Cost. It is estimated that the present bonus plan will cost altogether #2,000.000,000.
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  • 25 7 New York, March 18. It is announced that a new Sunday evening newspaper called the New York Star will be published shortly.
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  • 55 7 DIRE EXTREMITY. London, March 18. A correspondent writes to the Times calling attention to the dire straits of 1,000 Russian refugees in China as instanced by the fact that some are applying for licences as rickshaw pullers in Shanghai, and urging the Government to draw the Russian
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  • 46 7 London, March 18. In the House of Commons, in reply to questions, Mr. Sidney M ebb stated that the Government was communicating with the Chinese Government regarding those provisions in the Chinese trade mark law which affect British interests in China.
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  • 27 7 Rotterdam, March 18. An unauthorised strike, led by extremist agitators, broke out at the harbour and spread quickly. No steamers could be discharged on Monday.
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  • 40 7 LOWEST PRICE SINCE OCTOBER 1922. London, March 18. Rubber in London yesterday fell to eleven pence farthing a pound, the lowest since October 1922. The fall is attributed to heavy selling by speculators, principally of forward positions.
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  • 110 7 French Secret Service Agents Convicted. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) Berlin. March 18. The Supreme Court at Leipzig sentenced a Swiss cinema manager, named Bienz, to 11 years’ penal servitude for espionage on behalf of France. Three German accomplices, two soldiers and one woman, were sentenced respectively to 13, 2?
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  • 81 7 TAXATION OF STOCKS. Paris, March 19. The Senate adopted, by 216 votes to 166, 32 articles of the Finance Bill, among which are taxation of stocks and dividends through rigid control and coupon books. The Government imposed a vote of confidence, a number of Senators having desired
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  • 46 7 Paris. March 18. A Bill for the reorganisation of the Army, introduced in the Chamber, provides for an active army of 32 divisions, in addition to special troops, which are divided in sixteen Army Corps. Ten divisions will be stationed in the Rhineland.
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  • 41 7 DUTCH FLORINS FALL. London, March 18. The franc continues to show’ improvement. The London market closed with French francs at 84.65 and Belgian francs at 101. A feature was the fall in Dutch florins, which closed at 11.63}.
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  • 90 7 COMMUNIST CONSPIRACIES LAID BARE. Cawnpore, March 18. The trial opened of eight Indians, alleged to be Bolshevik agents, charged with conspiring to establish a Communist international organisation throughout India. Four of the accused were absent. Two of them, Mahendra Nath Roy and another, are residing outside
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  • 149 7 INDIAN FINANCE BILL THROWN OUT. Delhi, March 18. The Viceroy returned the Finance Bill to the Legislative Assembly with the recommendation to pass it with a salt tax of one rupee four annas, and other minor changes. Sir Basil Blackett introduced and recommended the Bill to
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  • 46 7 London, March 18. Reuter understands that according to the latest news from Moscow, there are indications that Russo-British Conferences in London will begin early in April. The report that M. Chicherin is coming to London as Ambassador is not credited by the Foreign Office.
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  • 354 7 PROVINCE MURDER CASE. Culpable homicide not amounting to murder was the verdict of the special jury yesterday afternoon in the case against Munusamy, who was charged before the Hon. Mr. Justice P. J. Sproule at the Assises with murder by knowingly causing the death of his five-year-old son,
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  • 686 7 Before the Hon. Mr. Justice P. J. Sproule at the Assizes this morning Batchen Singh, Nadan Singhand Ramkol (a Sikh woman) were placed in the dock charged that they on or about December 8, 1923, at Pengkalan Bahru, Dindings, did commit murder by knowingly causing the death
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  • 432 7 S.F.P.” BROKER’S GRUESOME DE 1 I’H. Enquiry into the gruesome death of a Chinese broker named Lim Tok Ang, occupied the attention of Mr. Justice Acton and a special jury at the second Singapore Assizes when a coolie named Ng Tang Kiang was charged with murder. According to
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  • 44 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 19. At the Assizes, a Tamil named Ponusamy was sentenced to death for the murder of a Tamil woman whom he stabbed 23 times after bemg told that she was no longer his mistress.
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  • 273 7 EXTRAORDINARY MEE TING. An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Yarak Rubber Company, Limited, was held at the registered office of the Company. No. 8, King Street, Penang, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of submitting for confirmation as special resolutions the resolutions passed at the adjourned
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  • 364 8 FILM OF LIFE AND WORK. To-day is the anniversary of the birth, in 1813, of David Livingstone. In the room where David Livingstone paid one of his last, if not his very last, visit in London before sailing for Africa a distinguished company gathered to hear some particulars
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  • 358 8 M. Georges Carpentier gives the weight of his authority to the dictum that dancing is a sport which combines the useful with the agreeable.’ Few are the sports which are equally agreeable and useful. Even that illustriously practised by M- Carpentier seems to some of us to
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  • 90 8 According to the Excelsior,” the Unnited States Government is now willing to accept in payment of the French debt to the United States of the French is -lands of the Weet Indies. It is stated that negotiations on the subject have been going on for sometime
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  • 619 8 THE CAPABLE LOOK. Mr. John Blunt, writing in the Daily Mail one of the most fascinating ways of passing the time that 1 know is to sit, unobserved, in the lounge of some large restaurant or hotel and watch the faces of the people who are entering or leaving.
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  • 140 8 Mar. 19, 20Moonlight Band, Esplanade. 20Penang Library, Annual Meeting. 4.30 p.m. 20Football League, Albion v Casuals, Esplanade. 22Cricket League, P.S. v E.S. Co., Esplanade. 22Taiping Tin Dredging Co., Ltd., General Meeting, Katz Bros., Ltd., 12 noon. 22North Tai ping Tin Dredging Co., Ltd., General Meeting, Katz Bros., Ltd.,
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    • 290 8 tiih The j|l|i ijjji OuHjjlciru. Mil» 0 LIGHT CAR AOa The four-seater Standard is the I I family car de luxe. As reliable as I I it is powerful; as comfortable as I I it is roomy, and exceptionally II I easy to control. W WEARNE BROTHERS, LIMITED. Jk ATA
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    • 23 8 Planters’ Medical Guide, by Dr. E. N. Graham, $3/- per book or $3/30 post free, stocked by the Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd., Penang.
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    • 308 8 Remirigtofi, 10 12 bore 6 shots 1VT OVE the slidin s forearm simply and quickly operated. Hammerless well balanced with beautiful lines. Easily taken apart for cleaning and carrying. MODEL 17 20 bore *5 shots This latest Remington Repeater is built on similar lines. Weight.but 5% lbs. Splendid for all
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  • 598 9 ROVERS BEAT NOMADS. Despite the fact that the Nomads were the stronger side and had the better of the exchanges in their match on the Esplanade, Penang, they had to acknowledge defeat to the tune of one goal to nil at the hands of the Rovers, who
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  • 35 9 The following is the result of a tennis tje played yesterday: Profession Pairs (Final).E. H. Everest and E- G. Bird beat A. K. A. B. Terrell and A. W. Harries 6l, 75
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  • 37 9 Fallowing are the resulks of yesterday’s ties: Single Handicap Class A 3O Lee Tiang Liat beat 5. Saw Tiang Sooi 62, 63. Single Championship. Oh Eng Leong beat Cheong Eng Kim 6l, 36, 6—3.
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  • 138 9 A model of a rubber factory is being sent to the British Empire Exhibition to be included in the Ceylon exhibits. The model is an exact representation to scale of a typical rubber factory as installed in the island and consists of two floors. The lower and
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  • 446 9 ANNUAL REPORT. The Directors’ Report to the Shareholders, for the year ended 31st December, 1923, states: Accounts—The Profit and Loss Account shows a net profiit of $65,610.70 as against $31,034.01 for the previous year. To this must be added the credit balance of $23,340.23 brought forward from last
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  • 307 9 NON-SUCCESS OF THE PAST YEAR S 7]IN OPERATIONS. Tho annual meeting of the Sungei Gau Tin Mining Co., Ltd., was held at «Singapore on Saturday. The Hon. Mr. D. J. Ward presided, and the others present were Messrs. H. C. Atkin-Berry, A. W. Sturgess, W- E. Rayner,
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  • 140 9 The following are the latest quotations in Messrs. Kennedy Co.’s share list Yesterday. To-day, w Shares. >» a 1 Ic. sc. sc. c. Mining. Asam K. 41/6 42/ 41/- 42/Tdris Hyd. 21/9 22/3 21/6 22/Ipoh 21/9 22/3 21/3 22/-cum Johan 45 47} 44 46 Kamunting 39/- 39/6
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  • 65 9 19th March. 1924. Local. cts. (Smoked Sheet 39 Fine Pale Crepe 39 Unsmoked Sheet 35 Si ng A- (Smoked Sheet 41 pore (Crepe 41 London and New York. London (Smoked Sheet ll|d (Crepe lljd New York G22’> The following were the rubber quotations in London on March 18:
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  • 82 9 London. The Straits Trading Co., Ltd., gives the following prices, on March 18 Spot £263 down £2O 3 mos. buying 263 20 3 selling 263.5 s 20 Local. March 19th Singapore sold 400 tons at $131.50 Penang buyers no sellers at $l3O. Messrs. Bonstead and Co., Ltd: To-day’s
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  • 46 9 Ratrut Basin Tin Dredging Co., N.L., output for first half of March, 120 piculs, 302 hours worked, 40,000 cubic yards treated. Kamunting Tin Dredging, Ltd., first half of March, output (three Dredges), 519 piculs, hours run 873 piculs. Estimated realised value of ore $42,700.
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  • 209 9 Benares Opium p. chest $5,000.00 nom. Cloves 110.00 sellers Gold leaf 72.00 sellers Mace Pickings 115.00 Nutmegs 80s 100.00 110 s 90.00 Coconuts per 1,000 50.00 Copra Sundried 11.35 sales Rattans 11.20 sellers Rattans Coarse 10.50 Green Snail Shells 13.00 Siam Rice No. 1 15.00 per bay do
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  • 1095 9 KENNEDY CO’S SHARE LIST. I r NAMES 7 3 I =3 S 3 BQ i oo Hi RUBBER [Dollar.] 8 c* 8 o I Allenby Rubber Co 1 12} 1 1 15 Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 1 10; 1 25 Amalgamated Malay Estates 2 CO Ayer Hitam Planting Syndicate H
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    • 584 9 jjEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Rambutan, limited. ('n COrporated in Englantl) s- iias ,Jeen received by cable that OX) waiting for best sporting twin a Dividend of Eightpence per\share (less lo Motorcycle offered. heavy Income Tax) has been declared 5 chines Brough preferred, electric Local mach” 1 ,r niapKTON Perlis n; i i
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  • 440 10 It is recorded of Betsey Trotwood that she wanted a niece. AV hen she found that her brother’s child was a boy she said never a word, but took her bonnet by the strings in the manner of a sling, aimed a blow at Mr. Chillip’s head
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  • 397 10 Soroptimists we cannt tell. Daily Telegraph.” A Soro])timist, by a process of derivation for which we take no responsibility, proclaims herself to be a woman and a sister who declines to be downhearted. We regret to add that there is at present only one sodality of them in
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  • 482 10 CHOWRASTA MARK ET Penang, March 19, 1924 Government MuttonMutton Indian np Mutton 47 Head, sheep or goat ;ach Liver with heart lung do Tripe > Goat or Sheep per >7 1 Sweet Bread B P pa 5 Leg of Mutton P n Lamb 50 P '3O Fowt(full each°°
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    • 29 10 Millets, their Nutritive and Econoin Value, Cultivation, etc., in Malaya, by L. M. Berenger, $l/- per book 01 $l/30 post free, stocked by th Pinang Gazette Press, Ltd., Peoang
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  • 667 11 Ex. MRS. STARR S TALES. One of the most daring exploits ever carried out by a womenthe rescue of Miss Mollie Ellis from the hands of Afridi raiders last year by Mrs. Lilian Starr is recalled by the publication of a book by the latter Tales of
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  • 196 11 Which is the soberest large town in the I nited Kingdom The honour is claimed by Plymouth. Mr. H. H. San ders, the Chief Constable, has prepared a return showing the proceedings for drunkenness in 15 towns of more or less comparable size. This puts Plymouth in
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