The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 12 June 1917

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  • 15 1 Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. TEN CENTS SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JUNE, 12, 1917. NO. 9,081
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  • 247 1 Late wires on page 4. Notes on a Volunteer camp in Kelantan appear on page 10. The Court of Appeal opened in Singapore yesterday Page 10. One of Mali's articles on flower garden* ing appears on page 10. The Italians have had to fall back from Hermada
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  • 1204 1 Mesopotamia I. Tho reality of the lives pictured in the Bible has appealed most strongly to one people in Mesopotamia. Fighting men, doctors, nursing women have all spoken of the wonder of finding even the smallest detail of Eastern customs and Eastern folk lore, so absolutely true
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 671 1 GOODRICH TYRES SAFETY TREAD RAFFLES HOTEL Kelly Walsh Ltd. SPECIAL DINNER ON SATURDAY, i China Revolutionised by J.S. Thomson $7.50 The Real Malay by Sir Frank BwetDAFFI F^ DFFDFCHMCRJT DAAiI The Ma io of Malaya by 0Wt Harrison 25 ennam 3 75 K/ll I LLJ KLIK OIIITICII I KUUiVI The
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    • 120 1 LATEST ADVERTISEMENTS. Bungalow to let Page 9. Firestone tyres for efficiency Page 8. Kelly and Walsh's lilt of books for tale —Page 1. Notice re sale of valuable landed property at Klang Page 8. Powell and Co's latest list of sailings Sale of property by Ching Keng Lee Page 8.
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    • 2 1 Jeffreys Beer
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 92 1 THE WEEK. Tuesday 12th. High Water— 2.4 a.m., BCB p m. Lodge Zetland Regular. Moon Last Quarter. Vednudaj 13th. High Waiar— 3-49 a.m., 1-51 p.m. Thursday 14th. High Water— fl-ll a.m.. 5-52 p.m. Italian Circus, Beach-rd, 9 33 p.m. Horace Goldin at Victoria Theatre, 9.16 p m. Friday 15th. High
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  • 611 2 At a meeting of the Zoological Society Mr Alfred Ezra gave a lecture illustrated by lantern slides on Big Game Shooting in India." He said that in that country the grass was so tall that it was quite im possible to do any shooting on
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 509 2 STUDY AND EXERCISE. Study does not. usually hurt a obild at school unless the studies occupy time that should be spent io out door exercise. Overstudy and lack of exercise make thin, bloodless children. It ia a combination that provokes Bt. Vitus' Dance especially in the East If yonr boy
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    • 579 2 STRONG STATEMENTS— NEVERTHELESS TRUE 3 'HE PALLADIUM entertained more people LAST WEEK, than ever were entertained efore by any Theatre In Singapore In the same length of time and WE ARE STILL GOING STRONG POSITIVELY TBE LAST TWO NIGHTS-SEE IT TO NIGHT THE FILM THAT SHOULD STOP THE WAR THOS
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    • 716 2 A COMPELLING PHOTOPLAY !5^ Powerful Lesson Taught By Fihns. Excellent Cut li A Strong p~ AT THE 8 PfHUIH A LH AM BRa THE PIONEER AND PREMIER HOUSE OF QUALITY n BRACB 6 Presenting a Vltagraph Special Rlne Ribbon F, A PHOTODR&MI OF TREMENDOUS GML> 'THE WHEELS of JUSTICE' *n
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  • 187 3 The Brazilian navy, which may Boon be cooperating with oars, once fired on the Union Jack— fortunately, not in any hostile spirit. Forty years ago a couple of adventurous blue jackets from a British warship anchored off Riode Janeiro, climb ed to the top of Pao d'Azncar, or sugar loaf,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 625 3 I wN«M To Nl«ht fMMH AT THE POPULAR PHOTO-PLAY HOUSE BB^B EmpirE Tanjong Pagar Road. Tiams Pass the Door. fIMHHHHfIi SECOND SHOW 9.30 P.M. SHARP. OIIVBISIL PRESEMTS A Tremendo-* Dramatization of Daniel De Foe's Immortalised Thrilling Story i RCSINSON CRUSOE i With robert Leonard, Margarita Fisher and an All Star
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    • 119 3 GARGOYLE MOBILOILS. On and after Jane sth, 1917, the price of Gargoyle Mobiloils "A" B "B.B" "E "Arctic" and "Arctic Medium" in one gallon sealed, lithographed tins is $2.25 per tin. When purchasing Gargoyle Mobiloils in one gallon tins always be Bare that the inner seal bearing our trade mark,
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    • 723 3 I AUCTION SALE OF Valuable Leasehold land and House and Freehold Land At Messrs. Chlng Keng Lee ft Cos saleroom Raffles Chambers, Raffles Place. On Monday, 18th June, at 2-30 pm. I Lot l. All that piece of land situate in the district of Rochore estimated to contain an area
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    • 436 3 j MUNICIPAL NOTICE. I The Municipal Commissioners of the Town of Singapore Invite lenders for the demolition of buildings on and the clearing of the bite of proposed back lane at the rear of houses Nos. 63 to 59 Buffalo Road and Nos. 68 to 69 Kerbau Road and for
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    • 242 3 DRESSER. Dresser wanted for Kuantan. Apply to BARKER ft Co Chattel ed hank Chambers, Singapore. !t g B 16 8 WANTED TO RENT f R LEASE A Store of abaut 40.000 Coble Feet capacity must be dry and near Baffles Square. Need not necessarily be of one story. Apply Bex
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 423 3 Mabket Price List. Singapore, Jnne 11, 1917. Beans, Long per catty 09 do. French do 18 Beef perlb. 22 Beefsteak do 34 Bean Sprouts per catty 2£ Bamboo Sprouts do 0* Rl*4»Tifr»f do 18 Brinjals do 08 Cabbage, Batavia do nil do. China do 28 do. Salted do 08 Carrots,
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  • 21 4 Domestic Occurrences. DEATH. ffTURROCK.— On 10th Jane, at Maternity Hospital, Singapore, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. A. T.* Sturrock.
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  • 845 4 The Singapore Free Press. Tuesday, June 12, 1917. Never a revolution in the world has been so widely advertised as that in Russia, and never has every little body had such a chance to get into the limelight. This is the more striking, for the first news was sprung upon
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  • 482 4 Mr. C. A. Fitcb, of Batu Estate, has reached Home and joined the Artists Rifles. (M. M.) A successful amateur dramatic show at Jesselton recently resulted in 1700 being realised for the War FundsMr W. O. Maxwell, cm. o British Adviser, Kedah, has been appointed to act as Secretary to
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  • 447 4 London, Jane 11. The King has wired to Mr Redmond we wen grieved to hear of the death of Major Redmond who has given gallant service and a noblo example in the war." Mr Lloyd George wired that no man ever won the affection of the Commons more
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  • 595 4 The Soidels^ Reply [Routed Serriotf Petrogrsd, June If -The r nmnd,r in chi.f M*d 6 a Russian troops K ud 6Gg g t ,> e e an arm76tjc« m the P-^or Kft wry op, ralloCfi could Russia deserting her *^ont that Germany and her a<u eg e
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  • 465 4 The qantity of rubber exported from Selangor io 1916 was 26,162 tone, compared with 19,192 tone in 1915, the value increasing by 121,418 801. Copra increased slightly in valve but decreased in quantity. By the end of the year New Zealand will be practically depleted of all her able young
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  • 18 4 London, June 9— Silver it at There are filMEt tnppliee but the nv is steady.
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  • 132 4 Rome, June 0 -An Italian torprdoed and s«nk \u*inaD fl«^ I in the Adriatic on Jut" 4 The British North Borneo ports the eDgegemenr of H r Mis* Rose, eieter of Mi 8 w Rose The Change (1.C64 tone J^ Australian OtieLtal Line ftrrl J e eDrO
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 178 4 IMACGREGOR'S I "V. O. S." I Ijr 1 IS SUPPLIED TO THE I I "frA*^ Bouse of Cords I I m^^& ponse of Commons I y Macgregor.Caldbeck&C 0 1 LON G^ S6OW It is also supplied to the principal I I residents" throughout the Straits I I Settlements and Federated
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    • 64 4 6. R. Lambert Co. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS j Si Ortktri Road, Telephone Wo. 10SS. The Oldest lid Leading Studio, First In 187S, Foremost in 1917. Unequalled Facilities, Ample Resonrces. and the Requisite Experience, are all at out Command, thus ensuring always the production of only the best results in Studio Portraiture,
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  • 1026 5 By Submarine Cable] [Renter 'a Service] Iclzc, June 10 (1. 25 p m) Mar I Wa gained farther ground at i of points sooth of Ypres. We r_ m£ ymtcrd»f night south •by, mill cf Armentieres, t: YpMfc W« repulsed hostile icrs sml of a Vdrgaier and
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  • 130 5 Good Net Gains [By Submarine Cable] [Beater's Service] London, Jane 9. A correspondent at Italian Headquarters says that the Italians have momentarily lost bold of the slopes of Hermaia and are back on the Low ground. They made a magnificent attempt to regain the lost ground
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  • 80 5 Raids Drive oat Shipping London, Jane 10. The Admiralty says ihat the latest reconnaissance at Ostend show the removal of all large shipping, aud two destroyers, which it is reported are being towed towards Zeebrugge. They are probably those damaged in the bombardment. The harbour appears deserted. London,
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  • 101 5 London, June 9.— The Times eaya the report of tbe Meisopotamian Commission is now before tbe War Cabinet. Tbe con clarions reached arc expected to have an important bearing on the present organization of the higher commands of the Indian army. The concentration in one individual of the
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  • 49 5 Petrograd, June 10. The Congress of the Peasant delegates of the whole of Kua aia passed a reeolntioa in favour of a Federal Democratic Republic. A Commission engaged in framing a law relating to the constituent assembly, has decided that voters aged eighteen should receive the franchise.
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  • 44 5 London, June 10. The Hungarian pol itical crisis has taken a surprising turn for the cause of democratisation of the government through the universal secret ballot which is now progressing. Count Eezter hazy, mentioned on June 9, is a moderate statesman.
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  • 929 5 WHY AMERICA IS AT WAR Unity Means Victory Washington, Jane 10. The following is the text of President Wilson's cow manioation to the Russian Government, which the American Ambassador deliv red at Petrograd. la view of the approaching visit of the American delegation to Russia to expteai
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  • 138 5 GOVERNMENT TO ACT A Call to Surrender [By Submarine Cable] [Renter's Service] Petrograd, June 10. The Eronstadt: Sol delhavingre affirmed its independence, the Provisional Government has announced *hnt drastic meftstirep are necessary. X&cicefote it has proclaimed that the citi zens of Eronstadt must unhesitatingly obey all orders of
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  • 245 5 Held Prisoner by Seamen London, June 10. Among the delegates to the Russian Conference whom seamen are refusing to convey are Mr George Roberts, M P, and Mrs Pankhurst. London June 10. At a meeting in Trafalgar Square to protest against Ramsay Macdonald's visit to Petrograd
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  • 141 5 Madrid June 10. The Cabinet has resigned. The Premier told pressmen that the Government deemed it their duty to allow the Crown to consult public opinion. Madrid, June 10. The Spanish crisis is due to differences between the Government and the army. It transpires that General Marina
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  • 62 5 Paris, June 10. Mr Eikus, ex-ambassa-dor of the Uojced States at Constantinople, states that generally spanking the Turks behave generously towards their enemies, Townshend in particular. On many occa sions he had assured the ambassador that he had only appreciation to express for the way he
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  • 21 5 Stockholm, June 10. Invitations have been issued for a conference of the Inter national socialists in Switzerland in September.
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  • 12 5 Cairo, Jane 10. Japan has recognised the Venizelos government.
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  • 12 5 Rome Jane 10. The Italians have oo copied Janina.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 195 5 ROBINSON Co. FRESH SHIPMENT OP MELACHRINO'S EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES No. 8 in tins of 100s Price $2.05 No. 9 100s $2.15 No. 4 50s $1.65 NO. 5 50s $1.40 THE SINGAPORE STRAITS HOUSEKEEPER'S DAY BOOK. Names cf Articles in English with phonetic equivalent in Malay. Contains Bazaar Acooant (52 weekfi), Cook's
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 739 6 "ELLERMAN" LINE. ELLEKIAN AND BUGRNALL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND FOR LONDON. j For particulars as to rates of freight and passage apply to McALISTER Co., Ltd., AGBNTSJ KONINKL2JKE PAKETVMRT MAATSCHAPPIJ (Incorporated In Holland, Royal Packet Navigation Co., of Batavia. 2—3, COLbYBB QUAY, UOKB COSTKAOT WITH THE METHBHLA2IDB UCDIA
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    • 608 6 P. O. British India AND APCAB Line ICJompanleß Incorporated 111 England.) Mail and Passenger Services. peninsulas and oriental sailings. (Under Contract with Bla Majesty Government.) Far; China. Japan, Ponang, Caylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Modlterranaaa Forts and London. MAIL LINES. Homeward (fob Europe), I Outward (vob Obiwa) INTERMEDIATE DIRECT SERYIOB
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    • 762 6 UwsorpSS BRIHCH LlKg For further iu£cr:^tia a&W7lc KOBE-BOMBAY The (Joj-panr malruSt LiNP •etvlec with six J .«|aiu foidcalciil, Eougtor.g SteSLS? 1 u 8 torn, Penan* Colombo aK^ B^ me retarn voyage catling B t,? I stare, Hotgkong acfi Mojt lal:CS 1 S^ PACIFIC LINE The Company malnt&Jn* a from Hongkong
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  • 869 7 The Situation In Greece, Mr Ward Price, telegraphing from Salonika, says one of tba keys to the mystery of the Balkan campaign is the fact that the Greeks in the rear have engaged the attention of the higher command alincet las much as the Bulgarians in front.
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  • 532 7 Much will depend on our recognizing that Briton and Teuton are very different natures, if we are to safeguard our posit icn. It is far too often contended that recent German con -Zuet is lbs outcome of education as if conduct were fiver a mers mattes of evocation.
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  • 378 7 Lafcadio Heacn tells us that in every Japanese cottage, in each of the principal roome, an alcove ie provided tor the display of art treasures; the objects are changed at regular intervale. Among the different things of beauty he had noticed in a certain alcove, at varions
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 598 7 Was or Peacb, Fawnb or Plenty. Life Insobance js wosth too cents on the dollar. WHAT OTHLii PROPERTY 18 P M GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COW ANY, LIMITED, (INCORPORATED IM STRAITS BBTTIdUffIKNTS). HEAD OFHCEi WtnehMter Boom, Singapore. LONDfu DITICE SS, Old Wry, RC. 1 1 Oomyuv a*'? £-20.000 flcpocltea with
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    • 526 7 THE HO HONG BANK, Ltd. Head Office SINGAPORE, RAFFLES CHAMSFRS.S &6. Branches Malacca, 155 First Cross Street; Muar, 77/79 Jalan Suleiman. CAPITAL. Registered $9,0C0,000. q K e £.T"i S4,oiC r OO. wntiscrlbea 53. 500,000, Pala n P 91.750.C00. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Llm Peng Slang Esq Chairman. Thj Eon'ble Dr. Llm
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    • 831 7 INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION. (Incorporated in the U.S.A.) Capital. 1 U.S. $3,250,000= Straits $5,800,010 Bnrplus U.S. 53,?5C.000= Straits $5,8G0,C00 Undivided Profits.. .U.S. $1,010,0 2 81= Straits $1 800,000 Head Offlca 55, Wall Street, New York. London 36, Bishopsgate, E.C. BRANCHES: Bombay Hongkong San Francisco Calcutta Kobe San Pedro deMacoris Canton London
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    • 3 7 I Vitafer **^tT^
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  • 1357 8 REVOLUTION ROT ABOUT GERMANY. A Few Facers. You have Been pictures of Belgian de portees bending beneath the German lash. If you have a mental picture of the masses of Germany in a somewhat similar relative position to their authorities get rid of it. It is not a real picture,
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  • 1107 8 The many admirers ol RndyarJ K pling in the Straits will read with Interest the appended criticism of his new bock A Diversity of Creatures." We might take this new bock of Mr Kipling's from several points of vitw. It consists, as usual, of some baker's
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 537 8 Yet lif the game— Sargol makes Pony, Peevish People Plump and Popular. SARGOL, the concentrated food that puts on good, healthy fle&h sometimes at the rate of a ponnd a day, builde up the thin and weak, brings back the rooy blush of health, rounds out the skinny, scrawny figures
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    • 138 8 STAMFORD HOUSE, PRIVATE HOTEL Bras Baoah Road. CENTRALLY SITUATED A.wuye cool acd exposed to hq& breczt FURNIHKED IFOilttn with Boar.^ :»i.-;oftable F,oom& wttt Bathrcom* attach <iu Klectrlo Plttlnga throughout Large Reception Hall and Biuiarat Separate tablbc In spaciens dln!rc rc< sr TEEMS fte »ost reasoocbSe in Tovn Fot further parttoalarF.
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  • 1516 9 Issued by FRASEK Co., Exohange and Share Broken, Jane 11th. 'All lUOtollwiß of Sterling BtaftiM moat fee regarded ta yaiei? aomlßtJ for the presett* 0-J-. ißflUar. Pat^ Labi Div. Bijyobb. saaaaas 100,000 IB 18 AUftfar 12ft% -26 80 878,880 IB Sb An#o-J**_ 10% let 5 0 6
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 140 9 TIT TROPICAL ROOFING GENASCO Supplied with patent "KANT LEAK" KLEATS tfhich do away with the necessity of using sticky cement at the overlaps. GENASCO is the result of over 30 years experience in the manufacture of Ready Roofings. Its durability makes it the most economical of any roofing on the
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    • 258 9 TO BE LET Bungalow furnlsbel eitaatfd at the 7^ mile, fiakit 'Jiiaad Hoaa vithi; Ut'e minote'e walk from Rnlwjy Station. Kent moderate. Apply 8. B KOURT SOPHIA. 126 uc TO lET. Large room, top floor No. 4 Cecil Btrett, Immediate Entry. Apply en tbe Premises. 1-5 nc T3 Hi Fnrnishe;
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 716 9 EXCHANGE. (Oobbsoxbd or <rc June 11.) Bank 4 ra/t 34i dtrcand 2&\ PiWa^a enridlla Broa 2413-16 Fiaoc--* demand Bank 818 iiSi. v-) >l il HORSFOSWi doaianfl BS%Prew YOKQEAUA, demanfi 109 di7-ikGci I iL4i B^aaKpK) dtmard 85l §'ot 3B3KH*!? j B ank B n fjtot W.f < Baik of assist ?rta
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  • 1071 10 SOME INTERESTING CASES. The Court of Appeal opened in the Sup teme Court yesterday morning, there being tone Judges the Chief Justice (Sic John Bucknil! k c), Mr Justice Wood ward, Mr Justice Sprcule and Mr Justice Edmonds. In all the list comprised 28 appeals, bnl a
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  • 90 10 The following is the total of subscriptions to May 81, Applications Amount < November 1916 239 $429 260 December 146 288,040 January 1917 198 244,880 February 210 886,680 March 824 247,000 April 141 812,960 May 116 266,220 1,867 $2,117,940 Less 10 transfers 10 1,867 $2,117,940 The
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  • 105 10 The following have been appointed Assessors to advise the Collector in fixing assessments within the Settlement of Singapore The Hon'ble Dr Lira Boon Keng, Messrs A M Angullia, Bagomall, J A Blias, Heng Phang Kiat, Kader Sultan, K H Hadjee Mohamed Said, Lau Long Teng, Lob
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  • 119 10 Batavia, June 9. Rubber. The Market shows a further decline in prices, First Grades and Out puts being quoted at F 1.66 and F 1.60 per half kilo respectively, but sellers of the latter are demanding 5 guilder cents higher. First Latex Crepe per half kilo
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  • 56 10 (Saundera and Macphail's Report) Monday's Business. Rubber is dull and abates are generally slightly lower. Sellers, Malaka Pindas 92.57|, Jimah's 91. 875, Ayer Kunings- $1.80, Scudaia 96.75 United Malaccas 91,20, and Lunas Co, 97.05. There are buyers of Punggora 80 cents and Menglembua 32$ cts. There ie
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  • 45 10 Agents Evatt and Co. Pulau Bulang 6,922 total for 11 mos 52.04P. Nyalas 9,668 total for 12 mos 124,298. Agents Gattey and Bat em an Pelepah Valley 29,000 Jimah 23,241 Kota Tinggi 20,100 Siginting 11,700 Clovelly 9,848 Burma Development Synd 4,709
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  • 83 10 When Hipolito Irigoyeu was inaugurated president of the Argentine Republic he went into office with the simplest ceremonies on record in Argentina. He wanted to ride to the capital in a streetcar, but was prevailed upon by friends to take a taxicab. Outside of taking the oath of office, he
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  • 613 10 One so often hears the complaitt that the soils of some gardens are so poor that nothing will grow in them unless they are first heavily manured. This is usually such an expensive and troublesome process that many gardens are often left neglected in the way of bright
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  • 114 10 At the Harima Hall this evening mote of The Purple Mask together with "The Boopton Affair" "Woo by Grit" and a fine ,LEo comedy will be amongst the pictures screened in the new show. There is real enterprise at the Gaiety, which is a clean and bright piotnre
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  • 182 10 The Imperial Air Fleet Committee has G6ented an aeroplane to General Smuts, 1 behalf of South Africa, for use on the estern front. General Smuts, in accepag the gift, Eaid he wa3 convinced ritain would combat the submarine men e efficiently. He foresaw the period hen the Empire's air fleet
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  • 302 10 Kelantan. The Volunteer forces of Kelantan, strengthened by the Police, went into camp, under canvas, At Kuala Kelantan on B lit. May for five days. This is the second camp held linoe the European Community and a number of Asiatics elected to go into training at the
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  • 172 10 Mr Parr in his annual report on Pahang has Borne interesting notes on practical handiwork taught in the schools, lie notes that half aa hour each day was set aside in the schools for making models of common objects such as fish and bird traps and cages, basket?,
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  • 226 10 The following donations have been received by Mr A W Vick at the Chartered Bank. Already acknowledged 11,180.60 In His Name (Chinese) 6 Barlow and Co. (E F A S *2L H S. H I J, W F C, and J H f 1 each)
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 470 10 GUARANTEE?^ UNDER THE PURE FOOD AND DRUgTT^ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. On every bottle oi Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills O U States of America there is placed an extra label, Wring an n^ word "Guaranteed" which denotes that the proprietors ot D^M an <i tiu Root Pills guarantee that
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 43 10 S.V.C. DRILL PROGRAMME. TO-DAY. 5.15 p.m. Drill Hall S V A Recruits. •in do SfiE v., N C Os. ii it do Maxim Co. 5.10 do Chinese Co. 6.16 Bras Baeah Road Malay Co. G G Wace, Captain Actg. Adjutant, S. V. C.
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