The Straits Budget, 28 November 1901

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  • 154 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” g» \BLI3HEt) OVER HALF A CENTURY. VO I*. uv Cable Address: Times, Singapore.) Stkaits Budget, 40 Cents. Straits Times, 15 cents. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1901. The Straits Times is widely read throughout Asia generally. It circulates in Singapore
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  • The Straits gadget. THURSDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER.
  • 163 1 Aktici.ks. M;,* Stone* Captivity. 1 tit* lilt "St* i 1 Case. Lxai.. Market Quotations. 'hipping News. l'asseitger List. Poli«v News, liv :iie Way. Mate <>f the Roads, n...» Church Anniversary. In- .l»>i/»er«/ wrecked, lanj -mir Pagar Dock Co. 'liinva Memorial Concert. Anglo-Chinese School. Chinese Volunteers. l.ari'1 *aie.
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  • 594 1 s *n(iai*ork, 28th November, 1901. PRODUCE. 16.50 Bali 9.60 l0 Ponti>;nak 8.70 1 VP**r, R]%:-k buyers 81.CO ,l0 White, (5%) 50.00 Flour Sarawak 8.75 do Brunei No. 1 8.30 '♦•ari I’stfo.,.. 4.2(1 Hali,* 15% basis! i!!! jj 27.75 PMembang. 20% basis 30.50 Uberian No. 1 21.00 ‘■’pi'X-a, small Flake
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  • 221 1 Thb mail from Europe, this week, leaves by the P. &O. s.s. Parramatta. The mail for Europe, next week, is fixed for the M. M. s. s. E. Simovt. The mail from Europe of the Ist inst. by the M. M.s.s. Yarra arrived on Sunday last.
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  • REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 74 1 Straight Words froj|$ the 44 Times.** London. Nov. 23rd. r N The newspaperi comment upon the seriousness of thcKjerman anti-British agitation. v The Times reminds the Germans that we claim an equal right to defend the honour of our gallant soldiers, and to
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    • 34 1 London, Nor 2[ird. The Bank of Liverpool announces defalcations by their cashier, who has absconded with 170,000. The directors state that the stability of the Bank is not affected.
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    • 39 1 The Times urges that it is necessary there should be a worthy representation of British manufacturers at the Osaka (Japan) Exhibition in 1903, aj our trade with Japan is now as important as that with China.
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    • 26 1 London Nov. 24th. The offer of the Canadian Government to raise BOO more mounted troops for service in South Africa has been accepted.
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    • 15 1 Eighty Boers belonging to Ackerman’s commando have been captured in Cape Colony.
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    • 58 1 Count Hatzfeldt. German Ambassador lo Great Britain, is dead. [Count Paul Von Hatifelt-Wildenburg, had been German Ambassador at the Court of St. James’s since 1885. Ho was7o>enrsof age. Count Hatzfeldt had been Secretary of Legation at Paris and the Hague, Minister at Madrid, Am 1 assador at Constantinople, and
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    • 16 1 Three batteries of Field Artillery are returning to India from South Africa.
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    • 91 1 Many Killecf and Wounded. A a extraordinary fanatical outbreak has ocourred among students at Athens in reference to the proposed translation of the Gospels into modern Greek, whioh is regarded as profena^t*. The students attacked fte of6c& df the newspapers whiefi
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    • 29 1 London 25th Kovemf>er. The German press has assumed a normal tone, although Anglophobe demonstratioiw continue, and pastors throughout the country still deliver Anglophobe homilies.
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    • 21 1 Greek Cabinet Resigns. Athens is quieter, but Cavalry still occupy the streets. The Greek Cabinet has resigned.
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    • 38 1 Commandant Buys has been captured after attacking a patrol and one hundred railway pioneers at Viliiersdorp. The British loss was Major Fisher killed, two officers wounded, and some prisoners taken. The Boers lost ten men.
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    • 17 1 London 28/ k November. M. ZaimiB has got together a new Cabinet at Athens.
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    • 28 1 Austria Takes no Part. The German agitation against Mr Chamberlain does not find the faintest echo in Austro-Hungary, which looks askance upon the German tariff
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    • 23 1 A combined movement by various columns near Reitz has resulted in the capture of 39 Boers. Several Boers were killed.
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    • 40 1 Later. A despatch from Lord Kitchener shows that the bulk of Colonel Fisher’s j force who were captured have been released by Major-General Riinington, who pursued and scattered a body of the enemy, capturing eight of them.
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    • 45 1 Marians Landed The Americana have prohibited the Colombian Goveifcffeent from bombarding Colon, the town on the Isthmus of Panafon. American marines have entered Panama. They have gone to clear the railway, and* to maintain means of transit thereon.
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    • 49 1 Experiments. 27 th Novembe r. A report fkoru the American Secretary for Agriculture asserts that tea growing in the United States has proved to be successful. The leaf cultivated ie found to be equal in flavour and aroma to the best quality of imported tea.
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    • 22 1 The Cape Government (Juzette announces that the Colony resumes control over the Colonial forces in certain districts.
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    • 13 1 The Marquis Ito has arrived in St. Petersburg.
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    • 24 1 Later. Lord Kitchener's weekly report brings the total Eoer losses— this month, up to date—to 1 278 killed, mounded, captured, and surrendered.
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    • 27 1 Removal of the Body to Germany. Count Hatzfeldl’s remains were conveyed from the German Embassy Loniteo i4fcjjVirtftrip Station, with the fullest military honours.
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  • 640 1 {Straits Times 26th Novcmlter.) Though rigid in the conviction that the conversion of the Infidel Turk so-called, to the Christian faith is no fit work for women *of piety and refinement, we cannot help extending a certain amount of sympathy to Miss Ellen E. Stone, the m
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  • 3194 2 (Straits Times $1th November) Earl Russell’s case has finally reached a presumably happy ending. At all events it has terminated in a manner calculated to furnish as much satisfaction all round as could reasonably be expected from the circumstances. A romance in which the leading character is
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  • 143 2 A gentleman, who prefers to fig an anonymous benefactor, k* 8 0 a scholarship of £5 for the g general progress in the 6th a Standards of the Anglo-Chinese Hannah of the s 8 who recently paid the school gave a £2 prize for the studen tlie greatest
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  • 570 3 rr v prchange compensation rate is set at 1/101 per dollar. V Government Gazette noti- »h*. signals to boused in case of fire ae in i whips in Keppel Harbour. hkR ***** of 150 Boer prisoners- r jn Ceylon have consented to oi t iih-giance and serve
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  • 146 3 N Thursday night, after the reports read at Prinsep Street Church, uev. J. A. B. Cook unveiled the )et to the late Mr. Song Hoot Kiam or many years was connected w r lt n hat congregation, first as member r *d then a 6 local preacher.
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  • 144 3 The Municipal Engineer thus describes the roads here in his last monthly report:— The state of the Municipal roads is worse than it has ever been my lot to experience. I have tested the depth of metal in a large number of the roads and in
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  • 170 3 Ihe output at Redjang Lebong in October reached 2,460 ounces of gold, and 13,813 ounces of silver —estimated to be 14*1,750 guilders in value. 3,206 tons of ore were bandied which yielded 1,639 tons of sands, and 135 tons of slimes —1,432 tons of stuff being held over
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  • 494 3 Government Offer Prizes Of £2,250. That we are to do our best to profit by the lessons of the war goes without saying. One of our stiffest tasks has been to transport fodder, provisions, cartridges, and new boots across dried up deserts and pathless wildernesses. Several agents have
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  • 2986 3 For small blessings, may the Lord etc., and now I have to thank Providence and the Editor for the opportunity of slating a correspondent and making a doubtless pleasant acquaintance. Having lived some time in “The Land of the Free—and Easy as the Occasional Correspondent in last
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  • 290 4 Alfred E. Tysoe, one of the most famous a nateur athletes of recent years, a prominent member of the Salford Harriers, died recently from an affection of the lungs after a lingering illuess. Just befo e the gravest symptoms manifested themselves, a movement for raising funds
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  • 182 4 (From a Corresp<mdent.) A very sad accident took place on Wednesday morning last at Ayer Moleh. A young Chinese lad a keen sportsman was out hunting when suddenly the barking of one of his dogs drew him in the direction of the noise. He found the dog fighting
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  • 2867 4 (Via Australia.) Home. A London Liberal Federation has been formed, consisting of delegates from the various metropolitan associations. It held its first meeting on the 28th Oct., and began its existence by passing a vote of confidence in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as a leader of the Liberal
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  • 1309 4 ADr ltk rating milk with rice water is becoming common at Penang. i The establishment of municipal slaughter houses is now under 1 hi siJeration at Penang. It is rumoured that there is 1 Risibility of an amateur dramatic society being formed in Bangkok. The Dutch gunboat
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  • 400 5 A TOTAL LOSS. Thirteen Drowned. information has reached Singapore that Messrs. Wee Bin <fc Co.’s steamer Amherst, Capt. Angus, 108 tons, has been wrecked at Kuala Pahang while on a voyage from Singapore for Kelantan. About 9.30 in the morning on Sunday, 17th, the Amherst struck t
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  • 69 5 The returns from the Pahang Corporation’s mines for the month of October were as follows Suwgei Lemhivg. —Tons of stone crushed 1,600; oxide of tin produced 55 tons. With 35 heads of stamps running for 27 days. Working expenses $21,500. The Pukavg Kabang hid. —Tons of stone crushed
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  • 841 5 The following letter appears in the latest issue to hand of the Ixmdo,i and China Express in reply to a recent article in that journal on the question of a Port Trust for Singapore: To the Editor of the London and Chinn Express" &i R —I
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  • 742 5 The War. A Blitk Book of 400 pages on concentration camps in South Africa, which has been issued, contains the reports of medical and other officers, which attribute the high mortality to tiie dirty habits of the Boers; their ignorance and prejudices; their recourse to quackery and their
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  • 200 5 The Penang Turf Club met on Monday last. The President, Mr. F. I. C. Ross, dwelt upon the satisfactory i working of the Club as evidenced by its closing the year with a profit of over 5,800 dollars. The profit had been steadily increasing during the last nine
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  • 594 5 New Rubber. A new source of supply for rubber has been found out by M. Deiss, a French scientist at Saigon. The forests inland in that quarter abound with lianas —creeping and twining plants which grow to a large siz* These lianas yield rubber out of the juice
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  • 1136 6 M There be rats, and rats.” Hamlet. London, Is/ Nov. Czolgosz was electrocuted on Tuesday, and the same evening the Anarchists and Socialists in London celebrated the occasion by M a dance in honor of his noble death,” and by sympathetic meetings at their clubs, at
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  • 210 6 W. B. Mead, a New York millionaire, proposes to catch fish by temporarily blinding them. He has fitted out four boats, each seventy-five feet in length, and will send them to the Pacific Slope. In this connection he has consulted leading Yale zoological professors and
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  • 242 6 A Voice from Penang. The writer of “News and Comments” in the Pinang Gazelle makes the follow ing remarks on the constitution anc performances of the team which represented the Straits at Hongkong When one reflects how unrepresentative and second-rate a team were sent to play
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  • 673 6 Horses for the Selangor races were to leave here to-day in the s.s. Malacca. The 8. s. Lightning left to-day with the following passengers:—Mr. J. White for Penang; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Sarkies for Calcutta. The new Federal Chief of the Forest Department, Federated Malay States,
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  • 952 6 Assassin’s last Words. An Impenitent Death. Czolgosz, the murderer of President McKinley, suffered the penalty ot his crime at Auburn Prison on October 29th. Reuter’s correspondent describes the final scene as follows Czolgosz retired at ten o’clock yesterday evening, and slept soundly nearly all night. He awoke
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  • 144 6 Ihe Malay Hail notes -\lr Noyes is contributing a serin. 11 11 to the Straits Time, on Thl°/ ar,icl tin mining in the Malay I& 0 In view of a uos«ihlp ri;J- en osul4 supply from alluvial ,volt j7 10n o! Noyes thinks that in the near
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  • 466 6 The concert in the Town llall !>; night in commemoration of the late Aithur Sullivan (died Nov. 22ud, 19oi was extremely well attended the hail being absolutely full, despite the unsatisfactory state of the weather. All the items on the programme were ui Sullivan’s composition. That they
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  • 874 7 H I Apis 18th November. B Javanese Labour. I In every large undertaking the labour I ies tion is always a most important I !ne, but this truism applies in a far I r *.jter J*£ ree t0 ril n ing and planting I "..ncerns in Pahang, where,
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  • 1088 7 An allegedly rich Virgin Field. Is a recent issue of the City Leader appears a leading article anent Australian tin which, though obviously insp'red by the promoters of a company, will be found of some interest to the Straits generally:— I in, although one of the base metals
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  • 56 7 First entries for the Cup are slightly in advance of those last year when fourteen were down. The number, at the date of la9t advices, was sixteen and included Security, Vened. Sincerity Stmui Off, Goldsmith, Pintus t Wild Raven, Strothroy Loch, Clievendjon, Tubal Cain 2, Cherry, Alix,
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  • 63 7 The November medal was won by Mr. J. H. D. Jones. Scores:— b’c.ip. total J. H. D. Jones 67 46 4 99 Gapt.Winter R.A.M.C. 65 64 6 104 Col. Oake«, R.A. 67 69 12 104 G. B. Stratton 65 69 7 107 Dr. Middleton 66 62
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  • 115 7 The Temps devotes a striking leading article to the Duke of Cornwall’s journey round the British Empire. The imagination, it says, cannot help being powerfully impressed by the spectacle of this Empire on which the sun never sets. Its purely material grandeur is of a nature to
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  • 267 7 Some deterrent Sentences. A couple of the offenders convicted in the Police Courts, this morning, had no occasion to complain of any undue leniency on the of the bench. For instance: Slay man bin Dollah, a Malay police constable, was charged before Mr. Beatty with theft of
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  • 1390 7 1 he following is the acting manager’s I report to 17th Nov., 1901, on the mines of I the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co:— Mining. Bukit Jellis Mine —The 150’ south J I level has been extended 12,’ and is 287’ I from the east crosscut. The reef in
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  • 441 7 The report on the Pahang Corporation fortheyear ending June 30th last,states During the year 26,822 tons of stone I were crushed, which produced 555 tons 3 cwts. of black tin, of a value of £46,707. This output compares with 37,220 tons of stone, producing 807 tons 13
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  • 678 8 The wreck of the s. 8 Amherst was *old by auction this morning at Powell Co’s, sale room for Si,700. Messrs. C. W. Laird and Gunn arrived from Port Swettenhara by the b. s. Ban Whatt Jim this morning. The annual Chingay procession of the Teochews, Macaos,
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  • 91 8 The first drill of the newly enrolled StraitsChineseVolunteerCompany took place at Teluk Ayer yesterday afternoon, when all those who had been sworn in turned up and were put through the preliminaries of squad drill by Lieut. Pritchard and Sergt. Major Mugliston. Major Murray and Lieut. Jennings were present.
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  • 186 8 Appointments. Mr. A. L Ingall, district magistrate, Batang Padang, to act as district magistrate, Kinta. Mr. R. G. Watson, Acting Secretary to Resident, resumes the duties of his appointment, with effect from the 16th November. Mr. R. C. Edmonds, collector of land revenue, Kuala Kangsar, to act as
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  • 411 8 Outcome of a Wedding Party in Lodgings. At the Cierkenwcll County-court recently, before Judge Edge, James Crowley, of 8, Gibson-square, Islington, sued Thomas Peacock, 290, Christchurch road, Boscombe, for 19s for rent and damage done. Mr. J. Pophara appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stewart was
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  • 224 8 It is acknowledged that the Boers have taught us a good deal as regards the art of entrenching a position, especially in a hilly country or on the flat where ravines afford cover, and our troops in South Africa have profited greatly by the experience
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  • 213 8 A photographic reproduction of the famous French painting of “The Coronation of the Empress Josephine by Napoleon is to be used as the background to the 50 cents share certificates of an American ,gold mining company. The shares are being recommended, therefore, on the strength of the
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  • 353 8 Career on the Turf. Sam Loates, the well-known jockey, was, says a Reuter message, lately thrown lroni his horse alter colliding with a spectator on the Northampton Race-course, and broke his thigh and collar-bone. The news of the accident will be received with regret, for in
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  • 344 8 That a man can sustain serious burns from a small quantity of cold mineral substance carried in his pocket seems almost too absurd for belief, yet there is no doubt that this paradoxical accident has taken place. It is now well known that Roentgen rays,
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  • 374 8 The Secretary of State for the Colonies has ordered that regulations 39, 40, and 41 under Chapter II., section 3, of the Colonial Regulations, be omitted, and that regulations 421, 422, and 423 under Chapter XVII. be amended as follows Presents. 421. Governors, Lieutenant-Gover-nors, and
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  • Correspondence.
    • 165 8 To the Editor of th* vi* 4 Sir,—With reference to Ti t pendent’s Pahang .W J OUr Wrr*. ■ssue will I think he your correspondent w iU nf Pr a origin of so useful an KrJJl m tt Pahang Labour Law" n sympathetic feeling 11 4 the interests
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  • 229 8 The military authorities in Wei-kai wei, says the Shanghai Xeie lw.<s centlv set up a fine large clock in the new barracks, and after much work cot it going, but it only went for half-an-hour. Then the hands stuck at 12-> and all the Kings
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  • 348 8 Bata Pahat Nov. 25 th. Rubber planting is all the rage in Batu Pahat at present. Chinese, Javanese, Malays, etc., are all going h for it. Towkay Poon, who holds large concessions of land Irom Govermneii lias planted a few hundred acres o! rubber among his coffee
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 62 8 LAND SALE. At Powell <fc Co’s sale-room yesterday, the following property, was disposed of: —Freehold land, containing an area of 24,123 sq. ft., being portion of grant No. 67, together with the European residence thereon known as No. 10 Selegie Road, and also the shop house thereon known as No.
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  • 323 9 C V. 35 th Co. R. A. j rivals met lust evening in -ime on tho Esplanade Va;r crowd of spectators and rV spirited match the Club j 1 ;ii is by 5 goals to nil. The )W without a rival as regards n Football in Singapore, f
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  • 514 9 HOW TO PLAY POKER” PROFITABLY. I. Don't buy but haif as many chips at the start as the other players. The i expectation is that you will win, and you lo.-e it is better that you borrow r owe up. i. Neva r ante up until someone vlls you to,
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  • 1476 9 THE BIG MOUNTAIN SCALED AT LAST. A Story of Perilous Adventure in Malaya. As was briefly announced in yesterday's issue, Gunong Tahan, the hitherto inaccessible mountain of Fahan?, has at last been ascended to the very top. This is no mean feat, considering that three successive expeditions to
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  • 157 9 Thursday, 28th November. High Water. 11.4a.m. Tanglin C ub. At Home. P. <fc O. homeward mail due. 8. V. I. No. 2 Co. Drill Teluk Ayer. 5.30. Friday, 29th November. High Water. 0.2« a.m 11.45 a.m. p. to O homeward mail closes. 0 a.m. 8. V. C.
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 151 9 Undertbisbeadingthefollowin* abbrev’ tioQB are used:—str.—steamer ah.—shi; bq.—barque; ach.—schooner; Yet.—Yacht; Cru.—Cruiser; Qbt—Gunboat; Tor.— Torpedo H.p.—Horse-power TVit.British U. 8.—United States: ?x French; Ger.—German; Put.— l>u*ch Job.—Jobore Ac., G. G^r^rai cargo d.p.—deck p.%ssongtn*. U.— Urnse* tain; T. P. W.—fanjong Fagar Wh«.rl; T. P. D.—Tanjong Pagar Dock B. W.— Borneo Whrrf;
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    • 1191 9 Arrival* 8i»c* Noon op Yevtrrdat. Ban Whatt Hin, Brit. str. 196 tons, Capt Forbes, 27th Nov. From P. Swettenbam, 26th Nov. O.c. and 61 d.p. Straits Steam«hip Coy. Ltd. For P. Swett-enham, 29th—Rd*. Chmo Rhya Brit. str. 370 tons, Capt Jellicoe. 27th tfov. From P. Swottenham, 26th
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    • 419 9 yarn*, fxyrt, probable dale *cr»>*i, ami nai*e oj agents. Htbambes. Achilles, China, Dec IA; Mansfleld. Alboin, Sarawak, Nov 29; Borneo Cot. Amara, Hongkong, Nov 28; Hou*t*ad. .*miral, Excel man, Dunkirk, lefl Oct 39; Ambria, Hamburg. Dec 11; Rebn Meyer. Anna, Japan, Dec 8; Huttenbaeb Bro*. Annam, Colombo, Fob
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    • 775 10 I C b \v) 5* C N*ns a low Caftai* From Sailed Cofsionmb. S' Ri* irii W! 3337 i H ill New York (Oct 6 Behn Meyer Co. .J. oheiMi Chew »tr. 131# Prampton Penang |Nov 3&Khoo Aik Seng m ffftrfAHA H*l str. 147 Gaggi.»o Malacca Nov 21 Soon
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    • 535 10 DAT*. V*w«L’« Nam*. Fia<» Kio. To*» Dwtiwation. Cheanc Clierr Brit Mr 1*1-1 Hongkong, Amoy and Swatovr 5j Ophif v l* F*l«mb»0(j» i TrVngganu' via port. ■a i Indrani 1 »P«n yu portm* 1 Annam Marseille* v* port® i* Yarra •tr M r Saigon. China and Japan 2ft La tfevne
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 551 10 LEA PERRINS’ SAUCE. Purchasers are requested to see that every bottle bears, upon its RED LABEL, the signature in WHITE of Lea Perrins. None is the original and genuine Worcestershire without this. Persons infringing this label will be prosecuted. LEA PERRINS’ SAUCE. I PERFECT DIGESTION is th* )-.i :h ro?*d
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    • 395 10 jforTadlpc" A Remedy f 0r MARTIN, Cbemitt •WWSB^-uiT ir. lfff* tual nie&riMif i, <u and fuuctional dcbilitv, r,1:VY din ctions for removing cemi^ 10r I troy the happing of wedded derangement!, discharge* Ar., and no sufferer should f*;i tr T r p,nB v*^' Post l,« W ',> Obtainable also®ftrwchi* c
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