The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 28 November 1908

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  • 16 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS NO. 6AM SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1908.
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  • 147 1 At the legislative Council yesterday afternoon, a vote of $30,000 was made fur lighters for Penang Page 5. Tbe regulations for heavy gun practice have been sanc!i-»ned, after inspection of the area by representatives of shipping firms —Page 5." Vienna Bourse has got panic- struck, fearing trouble
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  • 820 1 There is nothing half so noble- m thfci world a.s a man el sentiment The School for Scan "Even sloppy hentiiuent M bitter thau none An Unidentified Writes.] Sir Peter 1\ a/ Vb idea?, as txpnsei m the grandiloquent n-a MUSt givtn ab. \e. received, as we
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 27 1 IV v I GREAT STOCK TAKINC FOR GASH ONLY COMMENCES ON Tuesday, Dec Ist SPECIAL LINES TO BE CLEARED IN LADIES' GENT'S Outfitting Depts. ASK FOR CATALOGUE.
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    • 439 1 Entertainments. Entertainments. The most wonderful and unique A TT A l\/f T"> f^ A show m the East. J\ Lr JTI J\ IVI D X HAT FC^ TAITDC PHONE...NO. 982...9 a.m. to 5 pm. ALiLfllJ IUUiIIJ No 639 7pm to 10 pm NEEDS NO fie^c^ Road. PUFF This marvellous illusion
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    • 69 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. Messrs. Katz Bros. Sale corumenei s on Dec. 2nd— Page 1. Jnstin van Maurik's cigars— Pago 10. Auction sale of residence by Coghlaa and Co Page 5. Wanted a European store keeper— Pag< 5. lioom wanted by a gentleman m private bouse Page 1. On the berth, Teesta
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 370 1 THE WEEK. Saturday, 28th i High Water.— l.2 2a, 0.33 p B I Mail Outward dns. Cricket, S.C.C. Ist XI v S.V.C 2nd XI v R G A. Sunday, 29th High Witer:- 2.13 a 1.20 p lit m Advent. Sw. Club launches 9, 10, 11 a., LSB A. 3.30 p
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  • 355 2 At a meeting of the Bristol Naturalists Society, la^t mouth, Mr. P. A. Thompson, a. M. I. C. E., gave a lecture upon Siam, illustrated by many striking lantern slides. Towards the ciose of the lecture he said the ruins of wonderful temple buildings, erected by
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  • 256 2 Major K. T. Knapp, R '<■ A., contributes paper to the Artillery Journal on the need oJ j hjwit/crs m the field army. He Sftys W« j require botfa heavy and tight field howitzers, I the foOMI to F u P are e wa >' or ie
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 245 2 John Little Go, Ltd. A GENUINE SALE OF IRISH LINEN GOODS LAST DAY. WHEN THE WHOLE OF THEIR VERY LARGE STOCK OF LINENS, CURTAINS, TURKISH TOWELS &c. WILL BE OFFERED FOR CASH AT A DISCOUNT OF 15 PER CENT UPON REGULAR PRICES. Any Length Cut! Any Quantity Supplied JOHN LITTLE
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    • 1995 2 NOTIGES. INSURANCES. BANKS. notice. TVrf"l r PTr i TF Hongkong Shaxighai Banking V-/ X lv_j« CornonitinTi Notice is hereby given that the business VAJipui <Xi IUU. of granite trader and mason lately carried on Paid-up Ca.pit_l 000 000 by Tan Cheow Kirn at No. 11 Beach Koad, THE Risaimi FundSingapore,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 204 2 SUNDAY CHURCH SERVICES. St. AITDUW'S C.VrHEDUAL. Advent Sunday. 7 am. Matins. Hymn 47 7.45 am Holy Communion (Choral Intro'.: 53 Service Smart Hymn at Offertory 52 Hymn at Communion 4t»3 Hymn at Ablution...... 55S 3.40 pm Sunday School. 34- pa Bible Classes (Adults). 5.30 pm Evensong and Sermon. RBfOMW Ferial
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  • 1637 3 B. F. B. S. Vcom Mr C. E. G. Tisdall, the Singapore j v WS hive received copies of the British and r oreign Bibi^e Societies two year books— Tk i\ HlghwaJ ia the Wilderness and f k aun ual report. First, as samples of book-making, those two volumes do
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  • 159 3 It it had depended upon him alone (the Servian Grown Princa declared to Router's Belgrade correspocdent) he would have declare! war against Austria on the first day. The Crown Prince (addl the correspondent) is a very frequent visitor at the Foreign Office, vhere he is pursuing a
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  • 491 3 Finds Peace from Suffering. Rheumatism. Headaches and Digestive Troubles Permanently Cured m Java by DR. WILLIAMS' PINK PILLS. It was a fortunate day for Mr. Charles Louis Ro^gen, a tea and coffee planter of Radjamandala, Java, when be read abont Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and resolved
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 83 3 ALEXANDRA PRESSED BRICKS. We are now prepared to supply these at the following prices Ordinary $125) per 10,000 at the Specially selected $140 works P. Panjang Our quotations for fireclay goods are as follows Fireclay $20 per ton firebricks 5 cents each V at the works. Arch 6 Any shaped
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    • 88 3 i PUKLNESS OF OIL. AND COATIN& Of MEMBRANE. OP CURt. WITH NO INCONVENIENCE^ I FIJLU DIRECTIONS. ALL CHtMI*TS. I ASKfoa, SAVARESSfe." YOUR TEETH YOUR HEALTH. Keep your teeth m condition by consulting NG PQO CHOW DENTIST DENTAL SUPPLIES 94, South Bridge Road, Singapore. Special Consulting Room for Ladies and Gentlemen,
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    • 580 3 White Ants!! Teredos, Dry Rot, Decay m Timber. JODELITE. The ONLY SAFEGUARD has been on its trial m large quantities for the past 10 years m the Straits Settlements, and proved all that is claimed for it. Six pieces of deal were partly coated with Jodelite and buried m a
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    • 576 3 THE Singapore Free Press. Morning Daily. To Our Readers. The Singapore Fiee Press is now a Morning Daily, and is on sale at depots, from an early hour each morning (Sundays excepted). Cash price Ten Cents a copy. Subscribers' copies will be delivered at their private residences, (or town offices
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  • 478 4 No Wealth but Life In a lecture to the Eugenic 3 Education Society at Denison House, on Oct. 28th, Dr. C. W, Saleeby said that we need a new Imperialism, which knows and teaches that there is no wealth but life. Hlstoriana are beginning to learn that
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  • 150 4 This anivaing little note refer 3 to reoJ the alootlk light at Government Home at Hongk<>*]£ on the occision of the King's Birthday B;!i I must > iv I adatired the mxmgfroid of the Govern^- and aii guaaU when the lights went out m the
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  • 127 4 K.irly m the New ear, th afortitfrrrmoaii I will ba*e an opportunity of Bbowing itality to on American cousins. About the end ol January Urn Louisiana (flag) and Virginia, belonging to the Third Division United Stales Atlantic Fleet, and com- Banded by Rear-Admiral Emory, are
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  • 131 4 And Bomb Makkrs. U a mi kts c-f his emotionalism m reHg» be will be content cither to let polities ■IOM jr tJ deal with them m a sober, rightißd tjodiy fashion Strip an emotional Til, however, ot his religion, and it will not r i i r:
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  • 83 4 Kven for a Cape Horn voyage the sailing vessel Arracan seems to have had an unusually exciting time. Her log reads Sept. H— Encountered large icebergs, and was surrounded by ice. Sept. 15.— Set all possible sail, and steered various courses to mrth and west- surrounded
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  • 499 4 A Queer Proposal. I)r Richard Arthur, the President of the Immigration League of Australasia, writes from Sydney to the London Morning Post making a suggestion which for cool impertinence has rarely been equalled. Leaving aside the ordinary rhetoric about welding the Empire together, Dr Arthur's letter (says
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  • 328 4 A correspondent writes to the Rangoon Gazette" The Burmese call ordinary ginger ginseng. But they are two ijuite different articles. The best ginseng comes from Man churia and is highly esteemed m China the best deaeription selling for its weight m gold. Even the semi-wild quality from
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  • 167 4 Some further trials which have been made with Dr Schlick's gyroscopic apparatus seeui to give promise that sea sickness may one djy become a thing of (ha past. The first apparatus of the kind actually made m Ecgland has been constructed by Messrs Swan, Hunter, and Wigham
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  • 383 4 Singapore, Csth Novemler, lfl 8. Beans, Long per catty 4do. French do |f Beef per lb. 3 8 Beef Steak do. M Bean Sprouta per catty H Bam 100 Sprouts do. i Blachan do. Brinjals do. Oabbtge, Batavia I*. ml do., China do. U do., Salted do.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 23 4 Nothing to Fear. Mothers need have no hesitancy m giving Chamberlain's Cough fiemedy to their little ones, as it contains bsolute.lv nnt.hin rt
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    • 848 4 I The Most Sustaining Tonic. I m (i'^t^i lie oxtremes a tropical climate are a heavy strain VfrW on the average human system, often reducing strength m l*if^l to that low ebb which openly invites disease. To keep j up strength, nourishment is essential. Common- Rlw? sense points to "Wincarnis"
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    • 22 4 SIAM IN THE MALAY PENINSULA A Short Account of the position of Siam m the States of Kelantan, Patani Legeh and Sai.
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    • 80 4 APIOLINE (CHAPOTEAUT) For functional troubles, delay, pain and those Irregularities peculiar to th-> sex. Prescribed by the hiphest FreßOfc lie Heal Biithoritlet and saperiot to Tmn§n y. steel Dr^j* and Penny royal. CHAPOTEAUT, 8. rue Vmenne Paris. Sole by cU Chemists An Anecdotal History OF OLD TIMES In Singapore, from
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 765 4 VESSELS EXPECTED, STEAMERS. Giving port of departure, and (where knom) date due here, ai*d nane of Agenti. Airlie, Sydney, Dec 23 Eoustead. Andalusia, Hongkong, Dec 24; Behn Meyer. Aparima. Calcutta, Dec 8 Boustead. Armand Behic, Saigon, Dec 14; M M. Astyanax, Liverpool, Nov 29 Mansfield. Assaye, Bombay, Dec 18; P
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  • 1144 5 Ordinary Meeting, Friday, Nov. 27. PkksßNT His Excellency the* Jov.rnor Sir John Anderson. His Excellency Maior-Gen. T. Perrott.C.B OCT Th* Hon'ble the Res. Cum. Penan*, R. X. Bland The Hon'bU" the Col See. Capt Sir A. Youn°-. The Hon'ble the Act. Attorney-General W. G. Maxwell, the Treasurer J.
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  • 304 5 The Straits MeViie.il Report for 1907 shows an increase m births of about 700 over 1000, an increase m deaths of about 900. The birth rate was 20 11, the death-iate 30 07 It is noted that there has been a marked increase iv deaths m Singapore
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  • 210 5 A Javanese was before Mr Green, yesterday afiernoon, charged with trespass m the compound of No 76 Macpliersou Road with inteat to commit, theft. Naiu Singh, a watchman, said about midnight he saw the aeeusea standing near the fowl-house, and when he was about, to run away witness
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  • 107 5 Quill UiOieosus. Curai. 11, n. You ask me what tin bellicose Bengali wants, or why Calcutta Should, on a sudden, turn morose And splutter. Yet why when other topics pale OVrtask a mind of doubtful nbre With thoughts of politics from Galle To Kbyber The frangipanni fades
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 650 5 WANTED. WANTED An European Storekeeper, for an Engineering Works. Apply to Industry" c, o Free Press. _Nov_2B n.c CHINESE CLERK WANTED. One who understands shorthand and typewriting preferred. Reply stating experience and speed. Apply X. Y. Z. c, o Free Press." Nov 26 29.12 AUCTIONS. AUCTION SALE OF A Valuable
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    • 816 5 2WQTEONS. AUCTION SALE. Wednesday, 2nd Dec, 1908, at 2.30 p.m. Freehold coconut and fruit plantation situate off Payah Lebar Road, about 6i miles from town estimated to contain an area of 10 acres. Quit rent $10. per annum. O. A. FERNANDEZ Co., Auctioneers. Nov 27 3 12 Estate of Chia
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    • 378 5 I CONTINENTAL I TRADE .(^C^tR MAKK MOTOR TYRES. Singapore Knmpers Co. Kuala Lumpur Federated Engineering Co. DlwWl/'\fV»l/w« BiYiu^rdß, Bombay Our new patent Low Sot Express Cushions can V.c fitted to any Billiard Table, making it fo playing purposes as good as new. (FreigLt on a case of Cushions to Bombay,
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  • 1260 6 Here sfcafl Pn t'i.- People*! -L-'u mainta-n, v nu. by influence am] unbribed by poo H--i patri A TVntfa h~» p o'-io".- (aecepU liraw. Pledged to Religion, Loyalty and I^iw. Even a reader comparatively uuins!ructed m the course of foreign affairs must have his attention arrested
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  • 119 6 Two Chinese were arrested m Macao Street charged with depositing a corpse m a public place. A Keh named Chang Lee Leong alleges to the police a criminal broach of trust on the yxr: of his servant, a bill collector, m respect to a sum of $6,200. A Chinese tramway
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  • 931 6 The Mildlesex Eegt. Arrives. Lite yesterday eve iiug the It M S Dafferin anived io the R ais from H tngkoac with the Middlesex Regiment <» x poshL The Trooper is to go to the Wharf to-day, for a feh >rt time only, to ci»einbirk to^ Middlesex Regiment,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 128 6 ilßiiii, Ijk I j/' v S vwMnp A 'i NOW I I OPEN I < I ii I 5 i i RA7 A A D i i un^nn n if »< i ,T ulm fIBBBHBJBBI HB n B^BVTQk)bI m v Pure, Refreshing, Gheap ill V% 1^ F™ 1^ I'Lillli D
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    • 246 6 THE MOST WELCOME X'MAS PRESENT. To send to Folks at Home is H Good Photograph, one that will not only do justice to yourself but also bring credit to the country of your adoption and incidentally to WILSON CO. G. R. Lambert Co., LIMITED, ESTABLISHED 1875. Court Photographers. Our Firm
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    • 143 6 CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. B. I. S. N. CO., LTD. Return Tickets at Single Fares will be issued by B. I. S. N. Go's steamers to Port Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon, Calcutta, Madras and Coromandel Coast ports, available for use between the 15th December, 1908 and 15th January, 1909. For particulars of passage
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  • 104 7 Divergence Alleged Between "Russia and Austria. (By Submarine Telegraph.— Reuter's) Rttfc Nov. 27, 8 30 pm. A panic prevails on the Vienna bourse 3tU to a combination of Jisquietiag rumours legvfiag the Bdkan situation. Reassuring affidd statements hive failed to restore confidence. Interest centres ia the nagotUtMMfl proceeding
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  • 34 7 An Unpleasant Intimation. Austria has intimated that unless the r<nrkiea bojeoU agaiaal Austrian goods and ■hips ceases before Dee. 2, the Austrian ekatraatadot at Constantinopk will take a prolonged holid it.
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  • 34 7 Bee. Nov. -27, 9 90 a.m. isaian (rOTernment his introduced into 'he Duma a b.ll authorising a loan of V: 9 aulfioai roubles which will be discussed with closed d- ora.
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  • 202 7 'I he. S::m Observer prints the text of a proviakn*] translation of the low Gold Standard Act. The Act is too lung to reproduce but i! may be state*! that tho theoretical unit is to be the tiea] of •")"> 8 centigramMi— pure gold The silver tiea]
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  • 372 7 c'-iii-L: > D:> OEMS'fI Fir-t Lo\ Dijk-. nsi.ina have received an inU resting i. ->a by the publication of authentic let b n a: passed between the anthoK uf David I rfiel 1 KB i the original of havid's child wiiV P r>. The correspondence
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  • 28 7 > < In the House of Commons Mr John Burns ■tatcd thit the local ftsbl of the country ..mounted to X^C r,t>4s •2IK), compared with Ike national debt ot £7*8,000,000.
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  • 68 7 EDUCATION AND LICENSING BILLS. Church Support. (By Submarine Telegraph. Reuter's) Received at 6 16 pm. The new Education Bill has been read a secou<l time by 3:23 votes to 157. la the Housa of Lords, the Archbisbop of Can'erbury announce! his intention of supporting the Licensing Bill. He approved
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  • 32 7 The Liberal papers are exasperated with the action of the House of L-jrds over the Licensing Bill, and lli3 Daily Xaws urges the swamping of the House with new Peers.
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  • 42 7 The French Army Committee has adopted the Government's proposal to iacrtuse the number of artillery regiments from 40 to (">4 and the batteries from 506 to 634 thus giving each army orps 120 guns instead of 92.
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  • 29 7 1L j c. No? 27, 35 am. Dorando kept a few feat ahe.id of Htyes throughout the wlole of the Marathon race an<l won by sixty yards.
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  • 25 7 All the European passengers of the S irdinia, which caught en lire outside Malta were s.iv<_d with the exception of one child
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  • 556 7 We (Asian) regret to fitul that a small error crept into the^e cotes last week, and one moreover that we cannot with any show of decency, fasten on to that scapegoat of every sell respecting pressman the person called the Printer's Devil. We stated that on Saturday
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  • 39 7 The Admiralty experts have reported m favour of Dundee, Scotland, as a submarine depot. Negotiations are progression for the establishment of p^nny postage betwein Germany and the United States. a nfLU- t>..^.^» JC nu.) Kr i Vi« War Ofticp
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  • 940 7 FORMATION OF A LOCAL BODY. A very largely attended meeting was held at tho Exchange last evening for the purpose of forming a St Andrew's Society m Singapore. Captain Sir Arthur Young, K. C. M. G., took the chair and there were also present: Dr Murray Robertson,
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  • 995 7 Quicquid agunt homines nodri eM farrago Übelfu Juvenal. Europe is not out of the wood yet by a long way, so that there is no room for halloaing on the part of these who imagine that there can be no international trouble. It is something that
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 172 7 ROBINSON Co. Toy Bazaar NOW OPEN Q.IIMI 'Xmas New Year's Presents of every DescriptionPRICES TO SUIT ALL POCKETS. ROBINSON and COMPANY. MHave you seen j£ j^. of These Jft 1^ |T'iv r o Machines. M k Njir Jm VP iff- s^S S'^f m Mm I IF NOT, IT IS |f^
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  • 342 8 War Memorial Unveiled. Oen. Sir lan Hamilton unveiled on Oct. 24th handsome statue which has been erected m St. AnnV?4uare, Manchester, m memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Manchester Regiment, Imperial Yeomanry, and Volunteers who fell m South Africa, where the brigade to
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  • 225 8 BaM months ago lunacy proceedings were instituted, under Chapter 39 of the Civil Procedure Code. lfW, agaittft the well- known Malay millionaire, Manomed Anff. by Jelliab, one of bis wives, and Pawanteh. one of hi? Mr X.unbyar appeared for Urn applicants. while Mr Armstrong opposed the
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  • 217 8 Mr Lim Cheng Teik's An hat.. It will be remembered that on Oct. 1 Mr I* EL Clayton, Superintendent of Indian Immigrants, prosecuted Mr Lim Cheng Teik. proprittor of fcbe Khie Heng Bee Kice and oil mills, Sungti Pinang. before Mr B. Nunn. Third Magistrate, for failing to
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  • 109 8 The fares for the motor service between Klang and Kuala Selangcr have been raised, and the rate per mile is now 10 cents first cla>* and third instead of 7; and 2 V respectively. Recently two of the railway motor buses have been out of
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 9 8 Lame Back. This ailment is usually caused by rheuma-
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    • 509 8 SHIPPING. KTK JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP Co., Ltd. A regular FORTNIGHTLY Serrice is maintained between Japan and Europe by the following NEW TWIN SCREW STEAMERS. Undib Mail Contracts with THI iMPniAL JAPANKS* GOVHBNMBNT. Specially designed for the Company's European Service, lighted throughout by Electricity, provided with excellent accommodation for First A
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    • 729 8 SHIPPING. P. O. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. For China, Japan, Penang, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports, Plymouth and London. Through Bills of Lading issued for China Coast, Persian Gulf Continental and American Ports. Steamer* win Urn Singapore on ox abort MAIL LINES. Outward (for China) 1908 1909 Delta Dec.
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    • 697 8 SHIPPING OCEAN STEAM SHIP Co. Ltd. AND China Mutual Steam Nay. Co. Ltd. The Companies' steamers are despatched from Liverpool outwards for the Straits, China and Japan every week, and from Japan homewards for London, Amsterdam and Antwerp every fortnight for Genoa, Marseilles and Liverpool and for Marseilles, Havre and
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    • 621 8 SHIPPING. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE, HAMBURG. The steamers of this Company maintain a regalar service between Hamburg, Bremen Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and the Straits, China and Japan. Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and once a month for Bremerhaven direct, calling at Penang and Colombo. Taking cargo at
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    • 582 8 SHIPPING. ND L Norddeutscher Lloyd. Bremen IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE The fast and well-known mail steamers gthie Company sail fortnightly from Bremen Hamburg ria Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, (connection Marseille^ Naples, Alexandria and vioe vena) Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hon? Kong, Shanghai, Nagasaki Kobe to
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  • 1586 9 HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS l-^ll UiGiirs RnsaaT&o.i FOR LAZY MEN. m. PARAGUAY, CAPT. F. H. SHAW gkm i"w -I the V 7; 1 tambk to think v s£ts week voui litci i,- Mr working i v of the 1 3 7 A eo-the wh< I. rot P good, anyway- No t;,/,,h|.
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  • 143 9 Qaeeo Wilhelrninii. who bus recently started Btbto daarn, which is attended by her I entire boosdbold, is one of the many Royal n lariea of the simple life. Year, m year out, saja a writer m the "Gentlewoman, she rises at 7 a.m., then having had
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 23 9 Croup. Give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after th< crcac^couch aoDears, and the attack may b<
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    • 59 9 I ROM THE ANTILLES. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Benefits a City Councilman at Kingston, Jamaica. Mr W. O'Reilly Fogarty, who is a member nf'the City Council at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, writes as follows One bottie of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy had good effect on a cough that was giving me trouble
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    • 372 9 //Em ML By Special Purveyors to Mt M B^B m Warrant irCSSIS^ H.M. Ihe King. g HI Celebrated Oilmen's Stores Imm#w m> pickles, soups, jams, jellies, i^m Wm m potted meats, malt vinegar. m p^ r MM I Agents for LEA PERRIN'S WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE W up Crosse Blaekwell, Ltd. Healthy
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    • 282 9 SHORTHAND, TYPeWRITING DUPLICATING cf all kinds at shortest notice. French translation ,*t copying undertaken. Absolute secrecy guaranteed. Mrs. E. F. HOWELL. Caccnagh Bridge Buildmgß, (opposite G.r.0.) After 5 p.m. apply at Raffles H-jtel. GOVfRNMtNI MATIRMITY HOSPITAL Notice of removal to Sepoy Lines and Sca'e of Charge. The Maternity Wards m
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    • 599 9 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. WATER SUPPLY BY METER. The Municipal Commissioners of Siu^apoHJ hereby give public notice tliat on Ist January, L9OO, tbere will bo introduced a system of payments m advance on account of water sapp ied by meter. These advance payments will be used to defray the cost of water
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  • 532 10 Sect ass of Rblief Work. Allahabad. The United Provinces Government has issued a mammoth resolution giving the narrative of the late famine and the measures adopted to relieve it. The document runs to 160 printed pages, and is m every way a remarkable story of what, without doubt,
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  • 208 10 Chkki^hkd FotSEMBOnS." A Japanese paper at Seoul reports an untoward erfect on the Chemulpo tr ide canted 'oy the order t:> Koreans to cut oft" their top kn^t* It is coaiplained. by Chemulpo merchants that Governor Kirn was a little too eager m enforc m? his instructions on
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  • 226 10 FaVuIRITES IX THE M.VBKET. A droll report has reached Casablanca from Fez, seating that Mulai Hafid had manifested a desire to enter into possession of the harem of Abdul Aziz. It should be noted that m Moslem States the harem is regarded as a mark of
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  • 901 10 A Designation for the Sons of the Empire. There was recently an animated correspondence m The Standard of Empire concerning the objection of Britons Oversea to the term Colonial as being out of date, and only properly applicable now to the settlers m a few of the smaller
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  • 44 10 A Word to Travellers. The excitement incident to travelling and change of food and water often brings on diarrhoea, and for this reason no one should leave home without a bottle of Chamberla n's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. For sale by all dealers.
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  • 504 10 Loed Macdonnkll Mentionfd The London correspondent of the Times of India wrote on the 23rd October Although Lord Minto has not yet completed his third year of office, rumour is already busy as to the cho ci of a. succsss >r ie the event cf the present
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  • 247 10 The Ye'ilov Dragon for Rotember has an excellent little i.itcle upon the Chinese scbooll'oy as ccnip.wtd with the European boy, frou: a pl.j standpoint. Up to the age cf 6 yean the Chioaaa bop n ■tated to OOinpara favour. illy vrith his Esglisb fellow, he v taller by
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  • 180 10 Correspondents' Lazy Sunday. Monday is always a dies non, comparatively speaking, m the matter of telegraphic news from Europe, the daj of rest being really as well as nominally observed Ky news-agents m the Webt. They legin to wire the opening week's intelligence on LloncLy uorning, which
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  • 40 10 Five hundred cases of typhoid fever were treated with glycogen during the December 1903 epidemic m western Pennsylvania, and Dr. A W. Hill, who was especially commissioned to see that glycogen was supplied to J,he public hospitals during this epidemic
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 68 10 NOTICE. Dalian's Australian Horse Repository. I beg to notify the public of a great reduction m the price of horse fodder as from November 15, 190 S. My earnest desire is to keep the price of fodder low, so as to facilitate business m the horse trade. Also note, that
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    • 392 10 gap^Areyou easily tired? I V oil Oil ETC CD p^3V l 3 y° ur work a ""y «Urr tit al^TXburden? Do you From any Skin or Blood Disease, IIW V such a» 4 tajCf often feel weak Eczema, Scrofula, Scurvy, Glandular P\ WW^and faint? Is Swellings, Bad Legs, Ulcers, Abscesses,
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    • 351 10 r Refreshing. 1 To be dean and fee! clean M a hot dusty day that is j the delightful feeßng which I follows the use of Calvert's I Carbolic Toilet Soap, j i Purr, antiseptic nicely perfumed S U t m:\sts an.l t F C Ca'vert A Co. Manchester Eni(
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 389 10 Passengers fcr the Straits. P.r P O Delta. At) D- 4 —Ml f'owdrey, Mr G W. Crawford. M M Mr W. A. Qtlmore, Mrs SMtpaon tnd child Mr P. F D.Md, Dr A. Uitfa, Mi B I Reid, Mr tad Mrs J R IniMt, Mr W 1! Drayson, Mr E
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  • 73 11 (COBEECTED UP TO Nov 27.) Bank 4 m/s M nom demand 2/3| PriTatecrecitj 3 m/i 2/4 T credits 6 m/s 2/4f Feakcs, demand Bank m 291 h GnsiLurr, demand M w 236 Iwdia,T. T, 174| HoNaKONa, demand 26% Yokohama, demand M norn 113; Java, demand M 139 1 Bangkok,
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  • 806 11 Capital Capital Issot Paid n lotted paid op Valoc op Company. QuoUrtoa 1300,000 300,000 10 10 Belat Tin Mining 00. Ltd 750 $300,000 225.000 10 10 Bruang Limited 72$ $600,000 600.0C0 10 10 Braeeb Hydraulic Tin M. Go. Ltd w". <* £400,000 350,000 1 1 Duff Development Oo Ltd
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  • 141 11 Nov 27 ♦Tin w 69.124 Gambier buyers 9.87 J Gambier Onbe No. 1 13 50 Gambier Oube No. 2 12.75 Pepper Black (ord'n. Spore) 11.55 Pepper, White (fair L. W. fp c 18 50 Nutmegs (110 to the lb.)«, 19.00 Nutmegs (80 to tb.« lb.) 21.00 Mace (Banda) norn
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  • 503 11 A Killing anp a CoMPUfSATioir. There were tears ani larnantation*. weepiag, waiting, and gnashing of teeth, oaths lulv administered \>v the usher), anJ hard swearing 1 m the I\l cc Court over which Mr E. E. Gobma presided yesterday. la tba witness b x Mrs Sarah Siiberman,
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 14 11 PIANOS Fought, Sold or Exchanged Pianos at $150 and Upwards, by different Makers Guaranteed
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    • 544 11 STONE IN THE KIDNEY. Agonising Bladder Disorders. Mr. James Moss resides at 65, Brace Street, Walsall, England, and is highly respected. Speaking of his terrible suffering from stone m the kidney one of the most agonising of all diseases he says I have passed three stones as large as a
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    • 557 11 On the Berth. BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO LTD. FOR Port Swettenham, Penang, Negapatam, Madras, Pondicherry, Cuddalore, Karikal, and Negapatam. The Company's T. S. Steamer "TEESTA," 6,296 tons, C. Willis, Commander, will be despatched for the above ports on Monday, the 30th instant at 5 p.m. She has excellent accommodation
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    • 399 11 TO LET Immediate entry. Ground floor godown and upper floor office. No. 4, Prince Street recently occupied by Messrs. Sharpe Ross Co. Rent $150 per month. Apply to PATERSON Sl-fONS CO, LTD Feb 13 v.c TO LET. Ban Kee, a Commodious Chinese dwelling house being Municipal No. 199, llavelock Road
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    • 257 11 BjSsj^ljHft 1 11 i ~^^li3's£j WHY I'lffX* UNSWEETENED jy buy lnferior milk when you can get I$P C^ ff> the beSt at lhe same P r 'ce pf^^K^: SLEDGE Pl^™^!?l GUARANTEED cc from ail erm s and added < *^^]rr^^ preservatives. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD. No. 1 DOCK. No.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 279 11 *)VEB THE CHESS-BOARD. gentlemen, to solace their wearied minds *>y honest pastimes, playe at chesse, the astronomer s game, antl the philosopher's same which whettes thyr wittes, recreates iheyr aunds and hurts, nobody m the mean season All communications should be addressed to ttoe Cheaa Editor, "Singapore Free Press." >^n
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  • 217 12 The handsome silver cup presented to tihe Darul Adab Club by the Tramway Company, aod twenty. two medals presented by Mr Gairatt, will be played for under shield conditions by the Malay Football Clubs of Singapore. The Darul A.lab Club met last night and discussed the conditions
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  • 179 12 Scotland Thi World. The following are the Teams for the Golf miteh Sootfatd fg. The Reft which will be I pUye 1 on Suc-l.iy. F. Ferguson v l>r. Campbell. .1. C Watt v C. v. Miles. I>r. Finlayson v Magliston. W. Macunilan v 11. H. Sh&rpe. A.
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  • 80 12 The PresideaVa Priis (sealed handicaps] for which there are thiitv-six entries, commenced on Thursday night and was continued list sight and goes on to-Bight. I Some very good scores were put up, but no figures will be published till after the finish to-night when the sealed handicaps
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  • 133 12 On Tuesday next there will be a meeting of the Provisional Committee c f theLmd Bection of the above Sports m Mr Mactaggaits 1 offioa at 5 1"» p.m. to draw up a programme and make other arrangements. I The Rugby Match arranged for last night •was
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  • 167 12 Q mioHoi EmnmncAnoH. Chioag On was brought before the Senior Magistrate, Mr Howard, yesterday, chirge.l with huusebreaking at :>45 Gaylang-road. Mr Campbell appeared to prosecute, and Mr Everitt defended. The Btotj of the prosecution was that the ■Cißimfl, ieeooipnaed by two others, broke into the hoQM on Nov"
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  • 429 12 Application kor Costs Dismissed. la the Supreme Court, yesterday, Mr Justice Sercombe Smith gave judgment m a claim for co3ta on the motion of a creditor of Sved Hood bin Mohamed Al Jotree, on a valuation of a mortgaged property. The motion was opposed by the creditor. His
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  • 521 12 Coral reefs harbour an innumerable mutitude of organisms of rarjing sorts and >i/.es. Among t'..-' 1 more interesting of thes? oreatnres are the borers and tin sand-eaters." The boring Organisms are either animal or \egetable. Both are destructive to the coral poljpe. They pieroe the
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  • 799 12 (Via Ceylon.) Law Breaking m India. Calcutta, November 18th. The present political situation m India is such that it is probable an emergency meeting of the Viceroy's Executive Council will be called m Calcutta shortly. Sir Harvey Adamaon, Mr Erie Richard, and Sir Harold Stuart were summoned to
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  • 242 12 The outward bound German mail steamer Buelow arrived here yesterday afternoon, the guv going about five o'clock, but not reaching the Post Office till <> 15. Passengers by her were Mr and Mrs O. Jaeger, Mr and Mrs I). J. Kick, Mr Myram, and Ray. and Mrs J.
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 41 12 V General Carriers. Removals Superintended. Baggage collected delivered, j PASSAGES BjOKED WITHOUT 1 EXTRA CHARGE. < SINGAPORE =TOURIST AGENCYzz=rj 1, St. Andrew's Koad, Corner of High Sieet. motoiicars for hire 1 CARRIAGES Ivl llllV. {FORWARDING AGENCY. I Baggage Stored Insured < LOW CHARGES.
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    • 260 12 DE KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Csdmr Contract with the Nkthfrlani-t India (/ovirnmkst Ag-enu at Singapore, Ships' Agency, late J. Daendels Co., 2-3. Collyer Quay THE UNDERMENTIONED DATES OF DEPARTURE ARE ONLY APPROXIMATE. .Tapaka I'aleiubang CoKN PenMg, Tjafauag, CVOac Lbemu >.tl.rc. M< nlaLul,. Tapal. Totan. sinabang. (Simeuloe), Singkel. Bar Si-Bolgft, Goenoeng-Sitoli, Sißomboe,
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 335 12 CLEARANCES. Xov i! 7. Zeelandia, Dut. Halk, Van Oppen, for Saigon. Stanley Hall, Brit, str., Henderson, for Chemulpo. G. Apoar, Brit, str., Belson, for Hongkong and Japan. Profit, Nor. fatr Olson, for Bangkok. Resident Schieff, Dut. itr., Onus, for Rhio. Ban Po Soon, Dut. str., Udink, for Pontianak. Glenogle, Brit,
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    • 544 12 VESSELS JN PORT. Man-of-war Flag and Tons Commanders Arrived From For Wh*Tromp Dut. cm. 50C Rappard Nov 20 Sourabaya T. Pagar Waterwitch Brit cur. ship 640 Douglas Nov 18 Water I eld. Nov 27 Sea Mew Col. Yacht 500 Coleman Oct 8 Malacca CaMrtain Ship Flag Tons Master Arrived From
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