Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 20 April 1926

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  • 20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE ESTABLISHED 1833. PUBLISHED DAILY. No. 88. VOL. LXXXIV. TUESDAY, 20th APRIL, 1926. PRICE 15 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 616 1 fOKISATSU, PHOTOGRAPHIC I art studio ’Phone 772. 68. BISHOP STREET. —I «be ■■isiMlllißisiinsrißiiMMlMltiiaaiii 2s a a h sR i >1 ms Mm “stop BERGER’S “Mr. berger g gg g DECAY Made Fine b I 11 JR THE BERGER 44 |U| ITD IJ, Colours in g HH l|| I WAY.’’ lVi/\
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    • 12 1 I T. NAGATA, I DENTIST. ij fcEXT DOOR TO I “THE DISPENSARY.”
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  • 1167 2 BY A GENTLEMAN WITH A A DUSTER.” There is no room for those ivhose continuous cry is All is lost This can only come from those who do not know the facts. Optimism and confidence are still to be found among those who get out into
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    • 1081 2 MISCELLANEOUS. I BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. J Wanted: Used and nr need Postage Including free town delivery or II Stamps of Malaya Highest r X prices paid. Prompt cash. Registered K poetage. m correspondence only. Box No. 41, c/o I PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. x Pinang Gazette. II 350—tu th s 19-5
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    • 187 2 HEAD COVERED W TH_ERUPTIONS Itched Badly. Hair All CameOiit.Cuticura Heals. My little girl’s head was about covered with sore eruptions of a wet nature. Later the eruptions scaled over and itched badly causing her to scratch, which made them bleed. Her hair all came out and I had to keep
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    • 296 2 The George Town Dispensary Ltd,, the LEADING CHEMISTS, I PENANG. I OUR REPUTATION —YOUR GUARANTEE. THE I Cheapest House in the Trade FOR I Estate Medical Supplies. I SAFETY FIRST. I You are absolutely safe when you deal with “THE GEORGETOWN.” Each order is exe- I cuted by a QUALIFIED
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  • 1124 3 DREAMS FROM THE HILL OF MONTMARTRE, To thousandis-, doubtless, the conception of Pa;is as a panorama would be based on a wonderful glimpse of a city laid out in miniature, taken through the by-no-means cry st al-«clear windows which surround the highest platform of the Eiffel Tower,
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  • 231 3 ONE STRONG BODY URGED. Calcutta April 6,—Presiding at the annual meeting of the Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Association, Colonel Gidney emphasised the necessity for forming one strong All-Tndia and Burma organisation of the community. He said •he had noticed of late a marked awakening of political and economic
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 235 3 Keep your Teeth clean with Ca I ver Ks J “Both Powder for it is big help to anyone who wants her or his teeth to look well and last well. It cleans them so easily, so smoothly, so thoroughly, and polishes beautifully without scratching or in any way injuring
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    • 227 3 I 1 '’L** WHEN BABY'S TEETH ARE COMING THROUGH. How Baby’s Own Tablets Help. Teething time is a period of anxiety pud worry to the devoted mother. The child is generally cross and irritable and unable to sleep properly. Its gums become hot, swollen and tender. Sometimes there is feverishness,
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  • 1079 4 SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. The seventh annual general meeting of the Mentakab Rubber Company, Limited, was held on Friday, the Hon’ble Mr. J.. Mitchell presiding, and others present being Messrs. Chew Woon Poh, A. E.. Baddelcy, D. Phillip (for the Secretaries,. Messrs. Harrisons, Barker and Company),J. I. Dawson, G.
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  • 228 4 PLEA IN ASSAULT CASE. A sequel to the scene in The Drive, a fashionab’e thoroughfare of Hove, was heard at a special sitting at the Hove Court when Nurse Catherine Mary Lynch, of Norton road. Hove, was fined 4Cs. and costs for assaulting Edmund Vaughan
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  • 76 4 Jubßulpore. .Apnl 4. thunderstorm liroke last evening '’Vith rain and lasted thi’oughont the night With short intervals. This morning it iss reported, that while a. barber was shaving a soldier of the Hampshire Regiment- at the Ridge Barracks. at-about 6 o’clock, botfi men were struck by lightning
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  • 17 4 May S, 1 —Singapore Summer i• > lur» X. t” l q StflaPgor Summer Races .I.'
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 359 4 /^3C "HiC 1 ll R e move Bamn and ordinary depilatories merely re- I more hair abow the skin Surface. Vcet melts a Cha hair art>y beneath it. Veet is a perfumed < velvety crefin that is as easy td apply as a face cream. Juft spread it on as
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    • 56 4 ■il- Coughs, Bro? t -LigßX zre not trifling. They are e' enacing j.' allowed to bang on and,} <• 'he- a.sstem- Chamberiain’s I Qougl m ;lv jps.t wffiat,you ought to fake f«. n-1,.J 1 C enza and la grippe I coughs qo-opiates a pleasant feeling v v. .fb aqd comfort-follows
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    • 391 4 T AHI V- A j i i •-LL' -ft. ilJiv. n' t-! dl£ oT i- I Sfry I’.' i A fl mJ A “Valet” Auto Strop is the I only Safety Razor in the world I V that Strops its blade without I Y removal from the frame. There l
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  • 382 5 NEW BOOKS. Americana 1925, Edited by H. L. Mencken. As the St irs Come Out, by Netta Syrett. Beethoven, by Paul Bekker. Books and Theatres, by E. Gordon Craig. Bread of Deceit, by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. Bring I Bring by Conrad Aiken. The Burgled Heart, by Gaston Leroux.
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  • 84 5 We are officially informed that recruiting has been generally resumed in the Madras Presidency, but the following taluks are closed to recruiting owing to prevalence of disease South Arcot District —Chidambaram and Kallakuruchy Taluks. Tanjore District —Papanasam, Nannilam, Mayavaram, Negapatam, Pattucottai and Sbyali Taluks. Trichy District —Odayarpalayam laluks.
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  • 102 5 All past members of the Middlesex Regiment who are not already registered at the Drill Hall, Singat ore, are asked to write to Captain G. A. Stephenson at the Drill H ’lI, Beach Road, Singapore, giving their name, addrf ss and the battalion they served with. The
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  • 55 5 Brazil Immigrants Boom. Tokio April 16. It is estimated that seven thousand emigrants to Brazil will sail this year. Great Forest Fire Near Kobe. Over three thousand acres of land have been demolished by the furious forest fire which occurred at the feet of Rokko and Maya mountains
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 357 5 I Van Ess Scalp Massage < Clarks Reducing Paste a Mitcham Lavender Water < Collosol Ferromalt a Cuticura Talcums J Amami Shampoos 1 Metrolac < Phyllosan S Molevac < Agarol 1 Shavex 5 t GET THEM AT < 1’ BOON’S The Chemists 182/186, Penang Road, Penang. d Coty’s Houbigant’s Toilet
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    • 468 5 r ikm Give your I of I Lactogen Z THERE IS EVERY EVIDENCE to shew that many children grow and apparently thrive on indifferent nourishment. A baby can look well and even grow fat, but yet not be thoroughly and properly nourished. Mother’s milk gives complete nourishment to a baby
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  • 1631 6 ALACCA “Society” must be com_/vf posed of some queer freaks, if a correspondent, signing himself Subscriber, whose letter appears in The Malacca Observer of Monday last, is correctly informed. He says I hear ike Residency gave a Dance to the Naval officers on Wednesday night, at ivhich
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  • 331 6 Haunting Melodies. AN ATTRACTIVE SHOW. It is difficult to describe the quaint haunting melodies xvith which the Royal Hawaiians, led by Miss Amie Maynard and directed by Miss Irene West, captured all hearts in the Town Hall, Penang, last evening. One might as well attempt to capture
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  • 278 6 AS A GERMAN SEES HIM. A vivid impression of the daily life of an Eton schoolboy by Herr Kircher, a German subject, is contained in the current issue of the Eton College Chronicle. It is made more interesting by the addition of comment and criticispi a,nd
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  • 166 6 The following teams, representing the Eastern Smelting Club and Pritchard's wall meet to-morrow on the C. R. C. ground Eastern Smelting.—Hassan Rodrego, -nd Fng Keat; Sa,aid. Meh, and Noble: Francis, Jones, de Cruz, Euisoff and Daud. Pritchards.—A. R. Jennings; Wang Pak How and Lean Teik Um; D. Lirnuco,
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  • 349 6 LOST OPPORTUNITIES OF WAR YEARS. Little has been heard so far of the new departure, inaugurated last November by the Ministry of Labour, for training unemployed mon, but it is known that the scheme is already showing good results and that it promises well. There are
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  • 239 6 ADDRESS BY COLONEL GIDNEY. Colonel Gidney, the President-in-Chief of the Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Association, paid a flying visit to Ajmer on the 31st March. Representa‘ives of the community met Colonel Gidney at the railway station on his arrival, and had (an informal talk with him on questions
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  • 184 6 Judgment for plaintiff for amount cairned «tth costs w 3 s given in the Supreme. Court to-day. in the case Lor Teng Khoaintg v. Beh Gok Kee. H °^t n ap P eared for plaintiff and Lim Cheng Ean defended, for iq c° gt T in a P
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  • 1010 6 SOCIAL PERSONAL. Dr- Rattray has returned to Singapore after a short- visit to Penang. Reuter announces the death of Lady Blake, xvidow of ex-Governor Blake, of Hongkong. Mr. Cecil Pearse, of Intern, Upper Perak, has been granted a first class Appraiser’s licence for PerakMr. P. F. Godfrey, Assistant District Forest
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  • 248 6 POTATOES, ONIONS, ANT) VEGETABLE MARGARINE. “May I draw the attention of thwl interested in the cure, by fasting,” write B a correspondent of the “Mornino- Post.'B j “to an account of some remarkable ex-B periments conducted by Dr. M. Hnd B hede, Director of the Laboratory for
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  • 157 6 Set in a xvhirl of intrniue. 1 Forbidden Paradise st"”rii 2 I' da 1 Jfi a story of a series of love afl’a n' 1 1 upon incidents in the 'ife of 1 the' Great of Russia.. Tire film is the chief attraction at Theatre Royal, fiwr
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    • 36 6 BRASTAGI. THE FAMILIE HOTEL Catering especially for Eurasian a n Asiatic Families. Clean and comb' rla TERMS MODERATE. Cars for Hire English > For full particulars or special apply to The Proprietrix, THE FAMII TE Brastaub SuU)
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  • 1295 7 TO-DAY’S DEPARTURES. Rimba for P. Langkawi and Alor Star. Pungah for Asahan and Ratu Bahra. Kopah for Belawan (Deli). Klang for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Tottori Maru for Rangoon and Calcutta. Fooksang for Calcutta. The new order of the Admiralty abolishing the consumption of salt pork in the
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  • 419 7 CLOSE DAILY (except Snndav). BY TRAIN. Federateu Malay States, Malacca, Johore and Singapore. Registration and Parcel Post, except where otherwise stated, close half-an-hour earlier than the Ordinary mail. Resumption of Night Mail Service. The following additional mails will be closed daily (Sunday excepted) by the 7-30 p.m. train:
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    • 288 7 sssfj w^MWy*^ ”•?•>’V <l>4y -/jHjJ<<v<—— --4 Simply rinse JW the mouth and ==j cleanse the teeth with Odol in the morning and before retiring. You will thus protect your teeth from decay, the breath will be always delightfully fresh and the mouth free from dangerous impurities. CUCKOO! CUCKOO-'.' 32 ft
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    • 365 7 WHITEAWAYS DOLLAR WEEK NOW IN FULL SWING. The following are a few types of the wonderful DOLLAR bargains now offering: ■‘V.F.M Writing Pads 2 <t>l Mens White Handkerchiefs J Each containing 200 sheets for T a. e 9 hnvPQ -I Mens Cotton Socks 2 1 Toilet Soaps t f t
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  • 450 8 All things will seek to revert once more to pristine chaos,” wrote Lucanus in his Pharsalia. Could the old Roman poet return to this troubled world to-day and pay a visit to the Swettenham Wharf, Penang, he would have ample ocular evidence of the truth of his statement.
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  • 672 8 Siam is jubilant over the fact that its budget, which had been causing very grave anxiety, is to be balanced this year: but if, as is only too probable, it is to be balanced at the expense of Siam’s honour, it will be a matter
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  • 1076 8  -  W6y fiot Amateurs .v BY HARRY VARDON. (Six Times Open Champion.) What would happen now if a contest were to be held between representative teams of amateursand professionals? One is moved to ask this question by the very excellent show which was made recently by the amateurs
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 155 8 L To the Editor, Pinang Gazette.”] Sir In your By the Way column of February 26 you quote Mr. J. Samuel’s criticism on the 1 ick of a public telephone at Bukit Mertajam railway station. It is grievous to see that the Railway administration has made no attempt
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  • 235 8 WHY STORM RAIN IS WASTED. A Popular Fallacy. How many resident of Penang cheerfully sluiced dipper after dipper full of water over themselves this morning and offered up a light-hearted prayer to Jupiter Pluvius for having solved the problem of a water famine in Penang At any
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 197 8 1 Unsweetened Condensed I MILK, j As supplied to the British r 5 Army, Navy, and Air 3 Force, the South African Government, the British X j Indian Government, etc. I 1 $ll-75 per 48 large tins. 1 i 1 $l2-75 per 96 small tins. g >«♦'< Obtainable from all
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    • 45 8 “ID. O.” ST. GEORGE’S DAY. FRIDAY, 23rd APRIL. Special Dinner by the Chef. Dancing. 'pr~A >. YOh r~A 9 K‘j rf PEARS H H B GOLDEN SERIES. M ■(3 f -d IJ •1 H P> i» M 1 X'- h v W<s<yjX/ ■<' A<xkx x>z «J 5
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
  • 176 8 DEATHS. Jones. —On April 15, at Montana, Switzerland, Edith, beloved wife of W. H. Jones, late of Malacca, Negri Sembilan and Pahang. De CRUZ. —At the General Hospital. Singapore, on April 16, Gweneth Norah De Cruz (nee Foston) aged 26 yeirs, the dearly loved wife of Rene De Cruz. Deeply
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  • 169 9 —Reuter. Dangerous Manoeuvring. TURKS mobilising London, April 19. Clouds of war overhang the blue IV f. rs of the Mediterranean. The situation there has obscured East and West. To-day intricate negotiations at Ujda to a Pinnt to define the French, Spanish and Ritli zones in
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  • 163 9 MoINC OPERATIVES DOWN TOOLS. Calcu'ta, April 19. The operatives at Gonripore have regutn*‘d w rk. Thirty-five thousand operat ves of five differently owned jute mills here have struck work as a result of a prop i reduction of wages.—Renter. [On April 7 our Calcutta Correspondent wired A very
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  • 177 9 Danish airman’s plight. Shanghai, April 19. Tne Finish airman Botved, missing since he left Canton for Shanghai yesterday, was last seen flying over Foochow. Copenhagen, April 19. The Foreign Office has received word that Botved was forced to land at Ninghai, Chekiang. R A. F. MEN. l9. The R.
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  • 80 9 —Reuter. MARSHAL WU’S COMPLAINT. Hankow, April 19. Marshal Wu Pei-fn has telegraphed to the various peace delegations in Peking appreciating their intentions, but pointing out that certain foreign aggression has caused a grave position at Home, and unless the root of this troubie is destroyed it is impossible
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  • 46 9 —Reuter. STRIKE BALLOT PAPERS TO BE ISSUED. London, April 19. The London joint Engineering Trades Committee has decided to issue ballot papers, to be returned on May 31, on the question of a strike to enforce the London application for an increase in weck-
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  • 225 9 Reported British Concessions To U. S. A DENIAL London, April 19. It is announced that there is no truth in the report, emanating from Washington that Britain has entered into a new agreement in the United States’ fight against rum-runners. The British aim has always been to try
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  • 178 9 —Reuter. U.S. REFUSES TO PARTICIPATE. Washington, April 19, Mr. Kellogg has sent a form I notification. that America will not participate in the World Court Conference at Geneva on September 1. to the American Legation at Berne for delive*y to the League. Mr. Kellogg says he thought it
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  • 84 9 —Reuter. ATTACK IN U. S. SENATE. Washington, April 19. Signor Mussolini was oratorical! y attacked in the Senate by Mr. Walsh who declared that the Tripoli trip bristled with bellicose bluster. The Kaiser never rattled the sword more ominously. Mr. Walsh contended that the approval of the
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  • 44 9 —Reuter. DEBT SETTLEMENT. Washington, April 19. The French Ambassador, M. Henri Berenger, announces that he has been authorised to negotiate for a settlement of the French debt and that the Finance Minister, M. Raoul Peret, will not visit the United State?.-
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  • 89 9 —Reuter, Detrimental To British Prestige. F. B. I’s WARNING. London, April 19. The Federation of British Industries has drawn the attention of the President of the Board of Trade to the practical monopoly obtiinei by foreign film producing concerns in cinema programmes throughout the Empire, and says
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  • 75 9 NOT YET RATIFIED. (Rugby Radio Service) London, April 19. Sir Austen Chamberlain, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said none of the contracting parties had so far deposited their ratification of the Treaty of Locarno with the League of Nations at Geneva. A Labour member
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  • 165 9 SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP. (From Our Own Correspondent.) London, April 19. Special sports service to the Free Press from its special London correspondent Bedford School won the annual Athletic Championship among Public Schools, scoring 33 points. Charterhouse scored 16 and Eton 15. Bedford won the steeplechase and half mile, the
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  • 63 9 OFFICIAL WELCOME. (Rugby Radio Service.) London, April 19. The Australian cricket team had an official reception to-day at Australia House. Three thousand people were present. Mr. Amery, the Dominion Secretary, welcomed the Australians on behalf of the Government. He said their visit would not only strengthen good cricket
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  • 127 9 —Reuter. ELKY CLARK RETAINS HIS TITLE. London, April 19. Elky Clark, the British fly-weight champion, retained his title in gruelling 20-ronnds contest at the National Sporting Club, where he beat h’S challenger, Kid Socks. The referee stopped the fight in the 20th round. It was a fast and clean
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  • 37 9 —Reuter NEW WORLD’S RECORD. Boston, April 19. John Miles, of tbe Sydney Mines (Nova Scotia), won the Boston Marathon, creating a world’s record for the full distance in 2 hours 25 minutes 40 2/5 seconds.-
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  • 44 9 The homeward mail bv the b.s. Devanha closes at 6 p.m. on Saturday the 24th instant. The P. O. Packet Khyber with mails despatched in London on April 1 is expected to arrive here at 2 p-m- on Thursday the 22nd instant.
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  • 206 9 Ceylon Enters Market. WHAT ABOUT THE TAX? (Rugby Radio Service) London, April 19. Lieutenant-General Sir William Furse, Director of the Imperial Institute, lecturing before the Royal Society of Arts, said that a strong advisory committee of the Imperial Institute was dealing with the subject of silk production within
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  • 262 9 —Reuter. RESULT OF ERUPTION. New York, April 19. A message from Kona (Hawaii) states that an avalanche of lava from the volcano Maunaloa, yesterday, overwhelmed the village of Hoopuloa, eighteen miles distant. The fate of a hundred inhabitants is unknown. Several houses at Karma also have been
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  • 109 9 (Rugby Radio Service.) London, April 19. Sir Austen Chamberlain stated in the House of Commons that the British Ambassador left Constantinople on April 16 for Angora, where he would resume negotiations with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject of the Mosul frontier. Constantinople, April 20.
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  • 65 9 (Rugby Radio Service.) Yesterday’s fore’gn exchange rates were Paris, 145| New York, 4.861 V; Brussels 132; Geneva, 25.19; Amsterdam, 12.12}; Milan, 120.85 Berlin, 20.42 Stockholm, 18.15 Copenhagen, 18.60 Oslo, 22.16 Vienna, 34.50 Prague 164 Helsingfors, 193 Madrid, 33.66 Lisbon, 2| Rio, 6it Buenos Aires, 45 Bombay. Is. Shanghai,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 246 9 I 8 Pl?ti WITH a PEDIGREE FOR BiSCERNRifi SMOKERS. 1 a i I i XI We Lave a wide range by the beat makers at prices which aie 111 moderate. Dunhill’s From $lO-00 to $l2-00 each. B. B. B.” From 500 to 9-50 Abdulla Dribaccy 6-00 B “Odik” 5-50 h
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  • 1355 10 AMUSING REMINISCENCES. Interesting reminiscences of the cricket field, with amusing references to the performances of literary lights in the great game, were forthcoming at a dinner of the Authors’ Club, in London, at which the Rev. F. H. Gillingham, the Essex county cricketer, was the guest of
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  • 237 10 PENANG. APRIL 20, 1926. Beip res Opinm p. ehopt f 5.000.00 non. Clovne 100.00 buyers Gold leaf 72.00 sellers M ice Pickings 160.00 sellers Nutmegs 80s 100.00 nom, 110 s 95.00 Oocon nt a per 1,000 50.00 no it. Copra Snnd $11.60 buyers Rattans 11.15 sale-i Rattans Coarse
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  • 52 10 A motorist at Hoghton, near Preston, found a woman’s hand-bag. He pulled up, searched the bag for an address, and found that it contained seven lace handkerchiefs, three Japanese flags, eighteen cigarettes, three Felix cats, a powderpuff false teeth, a mascot dog, a French penny, and a
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 36 10 Take With Sweetened Water. Saves the babies, helps the grown-ups, comforts elderly peoplo-that’s Chamberlain s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. Used for infantile cholera, sudden pain in stomach, griping cramps, nausea with prostrating diarrhoea. For sale everywhere.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 173 10 town HALL, TO-NIGHT and TO-MORROW NIGHT at 9-30 p. m CHIS MARGELIS Presents AMIE MAYNARD Royal Hawaiians Complete Change of Programme Nightly. REAL HAWAIIANS and HULA S Booking at ROBINSON PIANO Co. Prices $3, $2 and $l. TOWN HALL. i; RETURN VISIT OF THE Russian Light Opera Co., FOR TWO
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  • 1180 11 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. YEAR OF PROGRESS. The eighth annual general meeting of the Bassett Rubber Company, Limited, was held at the Registered Office, No. 1, ■Weld Quay, Penang, this morning. Mr. J. Cruickshank presided, and > I others present were Mr. J. Crabb-Watt and Mr. H. O. Maas
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  • 58 11 LONDON STANDARD (LOOSE) S. R. Sheet 74| cts per pound per p], $99.33 No. 1 Crepe 73| cts per pound per pl. $98.00 Steady. (By Courtesy of Messrs. Allen Dennys) The following were the rubber quotations in London on April 19 Smoked Sheet 1/10} Plantation Ist latex crepe
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  • 100 11 The Straits Trading Co., Ltd., gives the following prices, on April 19 London. Spot £284.5s Down £1 3 mos. buying 271.15 s I.los 3 selling 272 I.los Local. April 20 Singapore sold 150 tons at $137 Penang 25 tons at $137. 7he Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd:— London, April
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  • 128 11 The output of Kamunting Tin Dredging Ltd. during the half month of April was 926 piculs, hours run 929. Estimated realised value of ore $72,000. The output of Taiping Tin Dredging Co. Ltd.. (2 dredges) for the first half of April was piculs 304, hours 638, yards 80,000.
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  • 137 11 PINING APRIL 20 19D. (By Courtbhy Of Tis Ca kRTSRSD Bank Djji n I B i..k 2/l H 4 m BLu,. 2/4 13/3’ 3 Ora it 2/4 17/32 3 2,4 9/16 Caicicbi Daman 1 R»155 3 day’s sight Pri vi*;a 157 y Bombay DamanJ Bank 155 1 q Madras
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  • 279 11 Tie following are the latest quo. tations in Messrs. Kennedy <k Co.'& share list at 1 p.m. to-day Yesterday. To-day. Sharks. J J so m cS m to. 4 c. sc. c. Rubber! (Dollar.) A. Hitam 21.00 22.00 21.00 22.0'» Aver Panas 14.20 14.50 14.00 1».25 Bedford
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  • 166 11 THE MALAYA COMPANY, LIMITED report the following changes in to day’s share prices. Rubber Shares. Bayers. Sellers. Allenby Rubber Co $2 90 $3.10 Ayer Molek Rubber Co 2.85 3.10 Batu Lintang Rubber 1.22) 1.27) Broga Rubber Estates 1.60 1.70 Jeram Kuantan Rubber 1.62) 1.72) ex Perak River
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  • 101 11 The following are our latest quotations Rubbers. Buyers. Sellers. Amalgamated $4.50 $4.75 A. Kunings 1-15 1.20 Brogas 1.72| B. Jelutongs 1.15 1.20 Connemaras 2.55 2.65 Himiltons 3.17| 3.25 Jerams 1.62} 1.67} Kempas 9 75 10.25 Lunas 4.15, 4.30 cum Mentakabs -57} .60 Nellmays -62} .65 U. Benuts
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  • 39 11 The General Produce Agency Ltd. Beach Street, Penang, report that the following prices were realised at their auction room to-day: Good F.A.Q. Ribbed Smoked Sheet 98 to $lOO F.A.Q. do 95 97 Low F.A.Q. do 89 94
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  • 1246 11 KENNEDY CO’S SHAR LIST. names. j co I 1 HUBBHB [DoIUr.J 9 c 8 c Allenby Rubber Co 3 00 3 20 *lor Gajah Rubber EaUte 2 80 3 00 ei Malay Katatea 4 50 4 75 Ayer Hitun Planting Syndicate 21 CO 22 00 Ayer Kunfng Rubber Katatea j
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 578 11 New Advertisements. Royal Society of St. George position vacant. Annual Ball. Wanted: Experienced Chinese The Ball will take place at the to take charge of small office in I’cnang with knowledge of ship- PENANG CLUB l ing. Salary $lOO/-per mensem On Friday April 23rd. plus commission. Excellent opi ortunity for
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  • 1604 12 important point before court. Does Moneylenders’ Act Apply? An important question relating to whether there is available in the Colony relief from exorbitant rates of interest charged by moneylenders occupied the attention of the Chief Justice, Sir William Murison, land Mr- Justice Deane, sitting as a court of
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    • 93 12 Stops Neuralgic Pains and Headache. Tormenting neuralgia is eased and stopped by Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. Being penetrating, it reaches the congested spots, starts the circulation, removing the pressure and inflammation that causes the pain. Helps headaches, backaches, stiff, swollen joints, bruises, sprains and sore muscles. Sold and recommended every 7
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  • 905 13 SHOULD WILLS BE PRIVATE SIDE LIGHTS ON HUMAN CHARACTER REVEALED. There is much to be said for the plea that the money’ and family details of yyiHs should not be disclosed. An eminent Chancery lawyer has just stated that he has known many instances where such publicity has very seriously
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  • 770 13 THE BETTING TAX. r < 1 New Source of Revenue. I hear that the latest form of the scheme for a betting tax is one which would require bookmakers to give/along with their own income-tax return, a list of the persons to whom they have paid winnings, in
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    • 392 13 Alkali in Shampoos Bad for Washing Hair MaiiV soaps, prepared shampoos and shampoo powders, contain too much free alkali, which 1S ver y injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use raggwrur is Mulsified cocoanut oil fol this is pure t is
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    • 61 13 How It Gained a Good Reputation. The way to gain a good reputation is to be what you appear. That is precisely how Chambeilain’s Cough Remedy has gained its reputation as a cure for coughs, colds, crQup and bronchial trouble. Every bottle of this valued medicine is fully up to
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    • 137 13 THE --.V “PREMIER” RUBBER CHEST I 3 PLY WOOD. I hr ->> r- r 1 T Y 1 SI y I j AN ECONOMY IN ITSELF. j, J L re > Ji g Free from Splinters. 10 o Increased Packing Capacity. f p £>. U > '■> t 1 ‘«f
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  • 1082 14 —Financial Times. AN ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. The sixteenth ordinary general meeting of the Jasin (Malacca) Rubber Estates, Ltd., was held on March 19, at Winchester House, Old Broad-street, E. 0. Mr. T. Ritchie (the Chairman) presiding. Mr. V. R. Matthews, A.C.A., representing the Secretaries (Messrs. R. G.
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  • 502 14 LANDING PROBLEM NEARLY SOLVED. The success which has aittended •experiments made to devise a means of enabling aeroplanes to land during fog was described in a paper by Flight-Lieuten-ant H. Cooch, read recently before the Royal Aeronautical Society. The principle on which the instrument has been devised
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  • 38 14 The most powerful foghorn in the world is to be set up in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg. The horn, which will be furnished with a 40uh.p. motor, will be audible at a distance, of thirty miles.
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    • 232 14 Proper feeding in infancy is r essential to future health and develop- I fl 1 ment. That is why thousands of mothers, *v U unable to breast feed their babies, give Mellin’s Food. f Mixed as directed it is the nearest equivalent to nature’s own j| food and lays the
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  • 578 15 CHOWRABTA MARKET. Penang, April 20, 1926 S oka Government Mutton— Mutton Indian per lb 55 Mutton— Head, sheep or goat each 1.00 Liver with heart A lung do 1.30 rri P® do 1.00 Goat or Sheep per lb 55 Sweet Bread pah- 30 Leg of Mutton lb 55
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    • 639 15 BANKS AND SHANGHAI banking CORPORATION. (Incorporated in Hongkong.) Aotbonsed Capital 150,000.000 Indued an» l fu,l v paid P 120,000,000 Reserve Funds: a £4,500,000 Sterling r 127,000,000 Silver guerre Liability of Proprietors 20,000,000 Head Office,—HONGKONG. Branches and Agencies. 4mov Bangkok, Batavia, Bombay, Calcutta, r.ntor’, Colombo, Chefoo, Dairen, Foochow, Hankow. Hongkew, Harbin,
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    • 526 15 I Assets over $6,500,000. S. C. Assurance in force over $22,000,000. The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Ltd. (Incorporated in Straits Settlements). HEAD OFFICE: Winchester House, Singapore. LONDON OFFICE: 32, Old Jewry, E. C. The Company has X 20.000 deposited with the Supreme Court of England and complies with the
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    • 1251 16 gIBWWTWMrWTITim -J ”TT 1 HlffTriTl-1 L 11 IMjW |TFW THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE. agS INTENDED SAILINGS FROM PENANG- H k W 3 WEEKLY SERVICE. LONDON AND N. CONTINENT. B 9 BjMgg Ivffirj; Ok e| B. R §MA CHA ON Apr. 22 London. Rotterdam and Hamburg. JP^,.-,-M IS nPCri WJp B
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    • 515 16 P. 0.-BRITISH INDIA AND APGAR LINES. (Companies Incorporated in England.) MAIL, PASSENGER CARGO SERVICES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S. N. Co. (Under Contract with His Majesty’s Government.) P. a O. SAILINGS, LONDON*-FAR«BABTERN service. hghy M i,: For co,o k A A. p d o u KHYBER Apl. 22 DEVANHA Ap|. 25
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