The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 23 May 1911

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  • 15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1911. NO. 7.222
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  • 135 1 A terrible aviation accident has occurred at Paris, lhe pref ent and a past Minister of War losing their livee, and the President being severely hurt by an aeroplane which got out of control Page 5. Nellmay Co. has decided to sell to a London Company Page
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  • 927 1 She was not always what the s today— a superior Stw tew \Mman. Time was when she *vas a children's Amah. "I likea children vellee mucbee," the says m her pidgin talk. "But now I pettee too old.'* She admits to 50 years and if she has the
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 532 1 THE STAR OPERA Co. THE DUTCH AND MALAY VARIETY ENTERTAINERS AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. To. Night! To. Night THAT POPULAR FAIRY PLAY 'FARROK SABHA" WILL HE f-TAQED. After this Play, A Comical Farce will be performed by the "Star" Clowns. DON'T FAIL TO COME SEE. NEW SCENCES
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    • 265 1 'gramophones f NEW MODELS AT SPECIAL PRICES 9 SEE OUR WINDOWS ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LIMITED. THE BEST YOU CAN GET IN ANIMATED PICTURES AT THE Lux Animated Picture Co. Tan.iokg Pagar Road. WATERPROOF TENT To. Night To. Night I An Excepton&lly Strong Series with A TJeally rniqne Combination of Subjects
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    • 83 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. Sale of horses, including ex-griffins, and carriages at Dallans on Friday next by Powell k Co Page 8. Federal Life Assurance of Canada Page 8. Har ima Hall new selection of films Page 1. Apcar and Pacific Mail sailing dates Page 6 Pr Eitel Friedrich for China Ban
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 435 1 THE WEEK, TGE3DAY, 23rd: High Water.— s 8 a., 73 p Lodge St George Regular. Hockey, England v. The World. Teutonia Club. Neth.- Ind. Variety Co. 9 p. Wednesday, 24th i High Water.- G 38 h„ 7.45 p Raffles School Prize Day. Soocer, S. C. C. 2td Raffles Old Boys.
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  • 414 2 "Swearing is as necessary as any other form of language. When you burn your finger you do not stop to consider what you are going to say. lt is natural to break out with some 'swear word,' some oath which has served mankind for many years. "Swearing is
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  • 259 2 Dolphin that Piloted Ships to Port. Everybody who h*s sailed up the Sound into the harbour of Wellington, New Zealand, will hear with regret of the death of -'Peloru.s Jack."' This famous dolphin bus for years acted as tbe pilot of .ships, and his loss will
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  • 158 2 Professor Robin thiuks that stout paopl" will K row sleuder if they eat five good m^als a day. Banting, like Professor Robin, held that fat people who want to grow thin should eat. In his Letter on Corpulence," which ran into ten editions and was translated into French and Germen,
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  • 857 2 A REMARKABLE BOOK ON THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH. The French have a particularly happy phrase which, literally translated, mens The Joy of Living." It conjures up m the mind's eye a picture of buoyant health and happiness which appeals with particular force to the jaded resident m the Tropics. Yet
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 46 2 J. REANY TURF ACCOUNTANT 25 years before the Public HAB OPENED ON THB EMGLISH DERBY AM) ALL FORTHCOMING EVENTS. No. 2, THE ARCADE. Apl 27 27-5 fTreworks OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. PLEASE APPLY TO M. H. TH. GORS, Batavia. or to Y. TAN, Singapore. May 17 W8
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    • 363 2 JCmnc mi B*l AAnt ts KEPLER' (TRAPI- MARK) SOLUTION (OF COD LIVER OIL IN MALT EXTRACT) This delicious, digestive body builder exerts its influence upon the very source of nutrition the blood. It fills the veins with rich, vitalising blood, and rapid improvement takes place. The cheeks fill out, the
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    • 125 2 FOR SALE. The British Steam Launch BUSOO Built m 1906 Registered m 1907. Length 60 feet. Breadth 13.5 Depth 5.5. Gross tonnago 10-85. The vessel is m excellent condition. She goes 9 Knots easily. For further particulars, please apply to BOEY CHUAN POH, c o The Union Times Press Ltd.,
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    • 707 2 WANTED* ANGLO-CHINES* FREE SCHOOL. LADY TEACHERS WANTED For the Primary clashes. Applicants must hare at least passed Standard VII. Apply by letter to the Principal. May 17 245 WANTED for British North Borneo three telegraph operators. Apply m writing to No. 803 Free Press Office. Api 20 tts nc WANTED
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    • 809 2 NOTICES. The Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1888 j In the Supreme Court of the Straits SettlementSettlement of Singapore IN BANKRUPTCY. No 27 of RE (1) quek Guan Seng. Receiving Ord r made 15th March, 19]] Date of Order for Summary Administratis I 17th May, 1911. HIJC Date of Adjudication 15th March. 19H
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  • 337 3 A communication has been j Government from Downing T J* bj to a despatch of An^t f* t'Zt v n last, covennc copies of a prospects ofthe Bulletin of th African butomclog.eal Research Committed The present despatch is accom pani^d < opies of a press notice of the
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  • 421 3 P AR ALYSIS OF THE BLADDER. f Part"' Hv?k let f The Gardens, Sandling! ing from nn .l' descr l bm terrible ■offer. X wonTler P fu >BIS f the b!adder «n of < B^che^LTpUlZ thr Ugh UBiDg D an 8 I terls h het c IT beiDg ne f
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 124 3 F. CLARKE GO. 207, Queen-st, Sinoafops. Livery Stable Keepers Fodder Merchant*. For Rnbbert-yred Gharries and Best Rubbi 1 lyred carriages, ring up Telephonh 918. FODDER delivered to any part of ihe Islanr SPECIAIIT. FURNITURE REMOVALS m our own vans, by our own men. GENERAL CARRIERS. c. zmsnuii, ftmmu -Tun I*>
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    • 399 3 TO LET. TO BE LET. Viila Massilia, Gilstead Road near Newton Station furnibhed or unfurnished. Apply to Messrs. TOMLINSON LERMIT, Rubber Exchange Buildings. May 16 jjO 5 TO LET. Furnished rooms with or without board m private hou-e. Tanglin. Apply to S. A. c o Free Press. May n nc
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    • 496 3 FEDERAL LEFE Assurance Company of Canada Established 1882. 8 S C INSURANCE m Force, over 139,806,000.00 New Business, 1910. over $6,640,000 00 fiSptnJ Surplus above liabilities for RESERVE and all outstanding claims. Direct Government Supervision. Cash Loans, Settlements, etc, made locally. Policies are WORLD WIDE J. H. EVANS, Manager, South
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    • 758 3 AUCTIONS. LAND SALE. At Messrs H. L. Cogblan k Co's Salerooms On Wednesday, May Slst at 2.30 pm. All that piece of land situate m the District of Tanjong Pagar m the Islsnd rf Singapore marked Lot No. 156 of Town Sub-division V containing according to the Government Resurvey an
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    • 880 3 AUCTION SALE OF HOR SB S AND CARRIAGES. To be held at Dallans Australi m Ho se Repository, Nos. 3 aid 4, Koek Road. On Friday, 26th May, at 5- 1 5 p.m. A number of horses and carriages to be sold, including EX (ITUFFINS. Riders wishing to race at
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    • 210 3 FORTHCOMING FURNITURE SALES. May 26th^-At No. 24, Waterloo Street. 4 p.m. Household Furniture, Ac. May 27th -At Laura Villa, No. 4. Scotts Road. The property of Khaw Joo Choo. May 27th —At Glenalmond. Keppel Harbour (near Tramway Terminus) The property of G. M. Ross Esq. May 29tih-At Saleroom, 11am. Java
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  • 18 4 Domestic Occurrences. Birth. Tom —On 15th May, the wife of T. Ransom Toby, of Tasmania, of a son.
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  • 15 4 Hrn 4ml Am Pr<^s tV I'-opl- übt n.un'wi*, bribtri v.; i.n
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  • 1528 4 As a variant of the well known adage -t ft >if> /to*!e doceri, we might substitute for hotte the word pstr<tneo, and affirm that it is a wholesome thing for us to take a lesson by the action and policy of foreigners. Just lately Gjrminy has
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  • 498 4 Mrs Walter, wife of the late Mr Walter, proprietor of The Times, London, is m Peking, and is on a trip rouad the world. An order made by the Governor- in-Council at Hongkong and published m the Gazette proclaims compressed oxygen and compressed acetylene to be dangerous goods. The President
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  • 339 4 Forcbd Sale Owing to La. k ok Funtk {From our >. •>■ tm g^ Fenang, May 22. An extraordinary general m«eting of th» shareholders of the Ndllmay Rubbar Company was held on Saturday. Representatives of the press were not a<J. mitted to the meeting, but it is
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  • 77 4 Fi-'ui nut •>>>-« i|) Ipvh, 18 im. Cholera m L>wer Pjrak is bid at present. A company of th" < J I 1 «s is now t+afl ed at Aver Kunin^ to prerent all A^iitici moving eastward. [Eight casos of cholera, one f f which profed
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  • 325 4 Mr C. C. Mdlet has a two column article m the Financier on "Coconut V ns, on base.* of prices and proti s," with a viluation sc ile. The m -mthly Record of the Work of tbe B. at_d F. Bible Sjcietv lor M l_y, among otli^r interesting matter, hat
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 288 4 IMACGREGOR'S V.O.S. finest Ciqueur scocci. imsvs Macgregor Caldbeck Co, LONDON Sl GLASGOW. ESTABLISHED 1864AS SUPPLIED TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS, THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND TO THR HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, CANADA. Caldbeck Macgregor Co, Sole Agents .BM_D-__a__-___K_Mn__-__se__u_^^ BASS'S CELEBRATED GREEN DIAMOND LIGHT BITTER AIE t Bottled by E. J. Burke
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    • 78 4 CALL AT 'MOUTRIEY I FOR THE PIANO PROVEN BY 38 YEARS EXPERIENCE. GUARANTEED POR 5 YEARS j OVER 1,200 Distributed m all Parts of China and the Straits. S. MOUTRIE AND CO., LTD. THE ARCADE. t BILLIARDS. The Anglo- Australian Cushion. (Alcock'b Patent with Impbovements by John Robebts, RetibedWobld's Champion)
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  • AEROPLANE DISASTER.
    • 201 5 Premier Injured. (Bf Submarmt^Telegraph.-Ileuter's) May 41 a.m. At the beginning of the Paris Midrid B race, an aviator named Train swerved md came to earth abruptly, dashing into a ;p of distinguished spectators. The Premier and the Minister for War eral Brun) were pinned under
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    • 85 5 The Cause of the Accident. Received at 7 pm. M. Barteaux's death was instantaneous hit right arm being severed and hurled to a 3 i stance. lhe accident was mainly due to the crowd .uvading the Course and the movement of .'uirassiers driving them back. The Ministers had
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  • 213 5 In the Cathedra] of the Good Shepherd on Ascension Thursday the hieh mass will at 7 am. and the vespers at 5 pm. Monsieur Henri Lebrun, the representative of the Exportation Fraucaise of Borleaux, is expected on Sunday morning by the M. M. steamer Haiphong" from Batavia on return from
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  • 226 5 lieri beri, which six years ago was a serious scourge m the F. M S. Gaols, has now practically ceased to exist, and no new c^ses are reported as having been contracted m the g-iols during last year. All prison. r« are fed on cured rice, and the following inures
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  • 58 5 INSURGENT GENERAL'S FAREWELL. (BySubmarine Telegraph.- Router's.) XT 22ad, 5 p.m. Madero, the General of the Insurgents, who goes to Mexico City as the chief adviser of the new President, Senor B.raos. has i^ued a farewell address to the Army saying that he goes to Mexico Cty to modernize the
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  • 36 5 Delighted with Reception. Renter's Agency has been authorised to state that the Kaiser is delighted with his stay i Q England. He and the Empress wete greatly impressed with the warmth of the reception.
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  • 20 5 Maj 22nd, 11 am. The death is announced of the veteran cricketer Dr. E. M. Grace.
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  • 423 5 The following Cricket results are announced Oxford University beat Keat by seven wickets at Oxford. Yorkshire beat Somersetshire by 272 at Taunton. Worcestershire beat Surrey by two wickets at Bourneville. Lvncashire beat Leicestershire by 18 runs at Leicester. The match, Sussex v Notts at Brighton was drawn. Chief
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  • 376 5 The re will be great regret m the cricket world at the news of the death of that fine encketer Dr. E. M. Grace, of Gloucestershire, who has for many years officiated as coroner for one of the divisions of the county Well does
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  • 272 5 Their Majesties the King and <^aeen, Queen Alexandra, Princess Christian, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and mem beis of the Diplomatic Corps are among those who have already given their patronage to the benefit matinee for Sir Cnarles Santley, which is arranged to
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  • 351 5 At the Children's Coronation Treat m Pen an g, the M»lriy children will hay* a curry aiid rice dinner m the Birracks. The children from the o'her schools will lv given money to purehaM refreshments from stalls which wi!! be licensed to open m the fancy lair to be held
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  • 185 5 A fashionable, though quiet, wedding took place m the Armenian church of St. Gregory yesterday afternoon when Monsieur P. P. F. Horounjieff, second officer of the Russian Volunteer F.eet steamer Veronej," at present m the roads on her return to Odessa, was married to Mademoiselle de Wyvodzcff,
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  • 397 5 A Visitor's Opinion. A visitor to the Ceylon is Mr R. E Stephens, a retired London merchant, who, as much a? a hobby as anything else, has made a special study of the rubber proposition m general. It is, as may well be im^'ined, a hobby
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  • 191 5 As a factor m longevity, attention is called to the fact that those people who have been accustomed to the continued disciplinary use of the r brains daily, and who have thus placed their nerve power under highly-de-veloped condition of constitutional training, are enabled by thes^ very
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  • 38 5 "Now, 6ir, what do you think of that P* 1 said the mother, after she had boxed Sobby'a care. "I don't think at all," replied the youngster. "My train of thought has been delayed by a hot box."
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 75 5 German newspaper dispatches say that a moaorail system for carrying passengers and freight, will open for traffic this summer, says the "Railway and Eogineering Review." The line, which is being constructed by August Scherl, the Berlin newspaper magnate, will be some twelve miles m length and run between Bid Homburg,
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    • 253 5 ROBINSON CO. I Now Showing Latest Styles m High Class IVjSxSr Neck Wear, Belts, &c. fi SILK BOWS TIES, PETER PAN COLLARS SETS. Leather, Elastic _^____S__________H In all the Newest Colors. nPlqy-er's navy mixture. m In 1 lb. Patent w AirT^ht Tins. Price 55 cts* obtainable at 1 Robinson Co.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 604 6 Singapore to Bangkok. Vhe steamer Ban Hong Liong," Captain Rushton, will leave Singapore on Tuesday, the 23rd May. i9ll, at 8 a.m. Comfortable accommodation for first and second class passengers. Electric Light. Single passage £60 or 95 ticals. Return passage $100 or 160 ticals. For freight, etc., apply to LOW
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    • 650 6 INDO-CHINA S. N. CO., LTD. FOB HONGKONG. The Company's s.s. "KUM SANG" 3,237 tons, Captain Wheeler, is due here on Monday, the 22nd instant and will be despatched for above port at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the 23rd instant. She has excellent accommodation for first cla=s passengers, amidships, carrying a
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    • 750 6 N.D.L. Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE. The fast and well-known mail steamers of this Company sail fortnightly from Bremen, Hamburg via Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Genoa, Naples, (connecting Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria and vice versa) Port Said, Suez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hongkong, Shanghai, Tsingtau, Nagasaki and Kobe to
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    • 574 6 P. o. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Foi China, Japan, Penang, Ceylon Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Mediterranean Ports, Plymouth and London. Throngh Bills of Lading issued for China Coast, Persian Gulf, Continental and Ameri oan Ports. Steamers will leave Singapore on or about MAIL LINES. Outward for China) 1911 1911 Delhi May
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    • 786 6 HOLIDAY-TICKETS, I Between 15th April and 15th July, 1911 Holiday-Tickets to and from all the places of the Netherlands-India Archipelago (Singapore and Penang included) will be issued. These tickets entitle the passenger to make a return voyage against payment of single fare and are available for ar steamer of the
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    • 217 6 The Heap Eng Moh Line of Steamers Singapore to Batavia. Cheribon and bamarang sail twice a week To:- t s.B Giang Seng 1,1 M J. C 8.8 Giang Ann Byo 8.8 Zweena 1.200 Jau. s.s Edendalo 1,128 A. Dunlop. They have excellent accommod..' Saloon passengers. For freight or passage and
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  • 433 7 I Peace and contentment prevail m tbe Philippines the civil service m the islands is being Filipinizcd as rapidly as possible the free trade established with the United States by the Payne Law is ushering m a new era m Philippine prosperty. These three points
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  • 431 7 The Strand Magazine has a most comforting article under the above title. As the writer says John Bull is very addicted to the rabit of self depreciation. It is good sometimes for him to look on the goldeu bide of his shield. In Act and Law.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 434 7 T° BE SU^-the Teeth are so important that it would be a pity to neglect them-especially when Lyou can clean them so well and so easily with Your local dealer stocks and sells it. Makers F. C. Calvert «c Co.. Manchester, England. THE BERNESE ALPS MILK Co.'s Products were awarded
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    • 121 7 SELF CURE NO FICTION NO SUFFERER NEED NOW DESPAIR. THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. THERAPION NO. 1 m a remarkably short time, often a few days only. Cures dischar|jes( either st-xt superseding injections THERAPION No 2 Cures blood poison, bad legs, ulcers, sorei, painful swelled joints. &c. when mercurial treatment fails.
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    • 445 7 The Patent Automatic "Rapid Darner." duickly executes all darning-work, turning jr r \*i**^ up m a household and makes it appear like newly woven. Cjgjr^E^A Every apparatus is packed m a box and ac- companied by directions of use easily to /jk T^jA be understood, and by a commenced pat-
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    • 550 7 1 Hongiong Snan^nal JBankiEg Corporation. *>*7- tfP v-ttat.^^...,^^ w sls,ooo,ooo Sterling £1.500,000 at 2/. $16,000,0007 tQI o nrtnn _u>*r Resern $16,250,000 J W -*>***> Rnbbbvx Liability aw PMnifNM. M OOUBT OV DIBBCTOBB. Hon Mb Hbnrt Keswick, Chairman. G. H. MißHChti Etv» Dbputt Chairman. F. H. Akmbtbong, Esq. CR. Lbnzmann, Ebq.
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 530 7 SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT RAILWAY. From Ist February. 1911, and until farther notice. TRAIN SERVICE FOR WEEK DAYS ONLY. UP TRAINS. 1 84 56 789 10 am. am. am. am. am. am. pm. pm. pm. pm. Passir Panjang 7.87 4.40 Borneo Wharf 7.45 9.08 4.48 People's Park 7.54 9.12 4.57 Tank Road
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 293 8 BUCHANAN efeBBBBB^BBV m**m^^^m^^^m BBBSBBS B_B__ B *m^m^**^* mmmw _a £f' c f *s9[ £j~^*)\ \^f 3-Jy l^^^^fc bsbbbv fJP^ W*^__ 111 nl IV AJ^H Iflß In I If ■HBciß p_Zr__t/_____^^^^^l bb H M H WHITE b_H HP SEAL I 'scotch wHiliirr rsa. HL- L J I I J I n^r
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  • 353 9 Poison 25 'IS a 200 55S ft.. 1,498 ISrO 6 246 Kiba Robber 19 £50 Riverside 3iloB 2,824 8,812 J™ n 25,000 19,000 69,000 £ri£l m n B'soo8 500 B'7lB8 718 18 468 Robber Growers Assn. 8,707 4,251 16,672 wT^li i 580 650 2 2 90 Scottish Malay
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  • 486 9 Mar. Apl. Total. t, g t T 4 1 50 *.830 1*2,205 Aor Fongsn 3 (791 3|041 14)38 Aor Gajab 285 490 2,128 Alm a 1,6<0 1,600 6,250 Anglo Malay 42,290 158,200 Ayer Kanmg 560 620 2 Bgl Ayer Molek 8,049 9,420 AyerPanas 1 i685 2 ,016
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  • 1408 9 (10 10 Eastern Smelting Co Ltd 10% 10.00 norn $1,500,000 10 7 m Oontrib 10% 700 $360 000 10 10 Fraser and Neave 25% &5% bonus 1910 38.00 40 00 (100 100 Howarth Erskine Ltd 24% 50.00 $2,400 000 100 10Q n m 7 preft 7% 9100 rt t
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  • 518 9 T«Bear.ra Brit 3925 Hollinshead May 22 Philadelphia Stand. Oil Co HonekoL't gp I kite Ml Alioant, BpM23iS Z.na^ora M.J 2 2 Barcelona B™ Co aar— ass D 9 Si SI gsp: Fla ST and Tons Commanders Arrived From For When Mew Col. yacht s<>o Murphy Apl 12
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  • 133 9 May 22. L 95 82J Gambier 8 50 Gambier Cube No 1 14 50 Gam bier Onfce No. 3 non, Pepper Biaek (oilfe. B'pen) buyers 16 7. > Pepper. Whit* (fair) buyers 20 75 Nutmegs (110 talk* noia tfntmc&i (80 to ik« Vm.) UOM Xfw» (S»n*a) ncia Olcre. (AmbotaA)
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  • 64 9 (CoimiCTSD uf to May. 22.) Bank 4ms 2 /H demand 4. Private credit* 3mi 2/4|* credits 6m 0 2/411 Branch, demand Bank. 294' Germany, demand 23-| India, T. T. ,74/ Hongkono, demand Ji j Yokohama, demand IH* Java, demand i 4o^ Bangkok, demand 66 Sovekkigns, Bant Buying $8.54 Bank
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 267 9 \A^j DYSENTERY AND DIARRHOEA. BROWNS SPECIFIC. To be bad at the Singapore Dibpenbabi and of Mibb Brown Grasedale, Paver Valley Road, Singapore D ©c 14 tths 18.8 INDO-CHINA STEAftT NAY. COY., LTD. The steamers of this Company maintain regular direct service between Calcutta, Straits, Hongkong, Shanghai and Japan, faking carj?o
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    • 29 9 De X JNINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ Undkb Contract with thb Nkthbbdand 8 India Go/ernmknt Agents at Singapore, The Shipsagency, Limited, 2-3, Collyer'auav JIB* nNOIRMBNTIONID DATIB OR D.PARTUR. 4R« ONLY 4FPROXIMAH
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  • 426 10 ittviii tm» L •■'>. *t n.ier.t.} Kota Bahru, May 18th. The Hon'ble C. J. Saunders after his re ception sat on the next day as Protector of Chinese and inquired into tbe case m which a singkeh who was beiDg towed up the river by the Doi Development
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  • 62 10 A Novices 7"» yards Handicap will be swum eff at the Swimming Club on Sunday morning next, the 2^th inst. on the arrival of the 10 o'clock launch. Entries will be received up to Friday night by either tbe Captain, Mr E. K. Thomas (Telephone No. 220) or
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  • 58 10 The members of the Teutonia Club will be "At Home" on Tuesday tbe 23rd iDst and Saturday the 27th inst when the First Netherlands Indies Variety Company will give a performance. Members of the Tanglin, Dutch and Swiss Clubs and their friends are welcome Admission cards, $2, to
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  • 42 10 The Malay community propose to hold B ports on the Beach Road ground on H. M. the King's birthday, Judo 3. The programme will include a relay race for the Braddel! Shield, kicking the football, and flat races for boys.
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  • 59 10 24 members competed for the May medal which was won by E. Shenton with a nett score of 77 thus 4o plus 44 10 77 winner Other scores were R. H. Ellis 45 47 9 83 L. J. Wishart 48 47 12 83 J. H. Sunner 51
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  • 101 10 The S C.C. met a team representing the Officers of the Garrison on the Esplanade last evening and a keenly contested game ensued. The military team was strengthened by several of the rank and file. An interesting but some what (-crappy game resulted m a win for the
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  • 98 10 To be Redeemed by Government. Peking, May 12. The several Viceroys and Governors of China have been instructed by the Board of Communications, that after the inspection has been made of all the branch railways, by the special commissioners, the shares held by the public will be
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  • 963 10 London Asiatic. Tbe third annual general meeting was held on April J. 7th at the London Chamber of Commerce, Mr Arthur Lampard presiding. The Chairman stated that the net profit for the period under review was £13,642 Ss., to which had to be added tbe amount brought forward
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  • 665 10 Successful Salvage Operations. After being stranded on the Blenheim Shoal, near Port Swettenham, for ten days the N.D.L steamer Aragonia came m to the wharves at Tanjong Pagar yesterday morning under her own steam. She is apparently none the worse for the mishap and will not
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  • 368 10 Disappearance of a Shanghai Ladt. A very sad affair occurred on the N Y.K.S. Tamba Maru on her way across from Shanghai, says the Kobe Herald of May V Amongst the passengers who embarked at Shanghai were Mr and Mrs J. W. Sneed and family, consisting
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  • 322 10 A second cabin pussenger died on the P. O Sicilia" on Sundsy morniDg of dysentery and w ts buried at sea. The Imp. German Mail steamer Prinz Eitel Friedrich having left Colombo on Saturday at 4 pm. and may be expected to arrive here on Thursday at 6
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  • 183 10 The Far Eastern Review for April deals with the docks and repairing ship establishments of the Far East. It is splendidly illustrated with plans and photographs and gives an excellent idea of the capital and interests involved m Chinese, Japanese, and foreign shipbuilding firms. Tanjong Pagar
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  • 176 10 CLE ARENCES May 20. De Klerk, Dut str, Chevalier, for Muntok and Bank a ports. May 21. Van der Capellen, Dut str, Hobma, for Bandjermassin via porth. Amherst, Brit str, Scott, for Pontianak. Samsen, Ger str, Petersen, for Bangkok. May 22. Unda, Brit str, Land man. for Shanghai. Hainam, Brit
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  • 64 10 Per Kinta: Mrs Duncan, Messrs Barch, Pearless, Macaulay, Welsh, Buckingham', Potter, Stouton, Fallon, Carey, Benway. Jones, Steadman. Per Bremen i Messrs Boersma, Barlow, Lofts, Richardson and Miss Mitchell. Per Boribat Mr Barnett, Mr Robertson, Capt Svarrer. Per Lama K. S. Smith, A. S. Ginger, Capt Vaz, Dubedat, Chuah Tiang
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  • 36 10 Ban Hin Guan, Brit str, 243, May 22, Wataon, Pontianak, Thong Ek, Pontianak 24. Ophir. Dut str. 205. May 22, Koeing, Patani, Poh Hin, Patani 24. Mengalla Dut str, May 22, Sobelo, Indragiri 25.
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  • 12 10 Per B. Hiu Guan S. H. Foot. Per Mengalla Mr Tasinan.
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 337 10 -Q 1 AA A YEAR FOR LIFE FOR YOUR la/fp^, 3^ I V/V/ (CHILD OR YOURSELF) IJP W Capital may be lost through investment and those dependent left penniless. One of the strong financial institutions of the British Empire will, for a small payment, guarantee to your wife, should she
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