The Straits Budget, 22 November 1906

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1 4 The Straits Budget
  • 43 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES.” VC-. LX. N 2544. Singapore, Tbnrsday, 22nd November, 1906. *4 V .,.'y vV^ 4«:. ESTABLISHED QVM HALF A CEMTVBY. Price 25 Cents. t+1 4 r r +*l > V:» v *VNI r ,v
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    • 178 1 il > E x' k Tr i 4 v M MECHANICAL. ELECTRICAL CIVIL ENGINEERS. niuninAIin -mSsB sMPtuHtas IM ewiRNAMis. SIHCAPOKE, IPOH (Perak). Tel. 400*1 W| HA*Q**aw«s. t 1 >. ij'*i r> •JC. L.-> k v r vVivrW > Sole Agents for— Rustoft Proctor 8 Co., ltd. 't». X Portable Engines.
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    • 300 1 m mr n K8 <*• '•fc and mm 3 St r 9 i *r V- •> *>N •A *r* .»•> Vi By Royal Warrant to Hla Majeity the King mi GENUINE AND ORIGINAL THE r. *s, •on V 5 V >», USE ONLY a USE ALWAYS I M e Liry
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    • 366 1 III o-> *< m n i as fill i <*i g < C cife ALBERT L. A. DALI Undertaker dc Tomb- Build.: 150 Middle Road. Bole Agent for Measra. Dottridge Brothers, Ltd., L< c 2188 Telephone No. i MARTIN'S &STEE pill: KTSS,-'’"' >n« L *o thaw Mmely arecommend th ptonTe
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  • 164 1 Municipal lUii’il L Innch Work Association I'li Chinese Hiots 2, 8 M r i> Pagan Races 4. Singapore Kxcliange St. Andrew's Hall Hi iti*h Malavn •••6- i u a Agent System 6, 9 11, ;u!i ut a Singapore Resident 9 tnan Penang 6 V<te* irom Pahang 19
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  • 1082 1 An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held in the Municipal Hoard loom yesterday afternoon. Mr. K. Hroadriek. the President, occupied the chair and there were also present: —Messrs. A. W. Hailey. Howland Allen, Cheng Keug Lee. J. W. H. Maclareii. Dr. Lim Hoon Ki ng, also
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    • 88 1 lv r .„t l toe price i’t the .S/r»iifc 77w«*oi it SJB a year l u .1 tree price ot the Straits Budget is $l4 a year l> nece»ar> to subscribe fora yea' The subsv,% tor .'lwitet periods are at the same propoi- ue rate a> tor a year. j
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  • 154 3 Javanese coolies are in demand now in the Straits Settlements and in the F. M. S. The general idea is that coolies are easy to recruit there, owing to the island being ov< rpopulated. The Samarang Locomotief does not share this opinion. Java, it says, can
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  • 76 5 comes from a small Singapore ri SS i !h! v cook was sent for. m bread was certainly French, but of a aieuess that beggared description. Cookie ‘aaie and soon stood convicted on his own n 11 ssl, J, i -the bread was stale; yet that was i
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  • 998 5 1 ofrnTM S ener »l meeting of tlie Chamber i Exchange Koom on the 19th mat. The Hon. W. H. slid.* ford presided and there wore also present L. S. Lewis. I\ and O. S. X. Co. Ltd. h. Anderson, Messrs. Mansfield ft
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  • 276 5 There was a large attendance on Nov. 15 at the first of the r.hree practice dances for the St. Andrew's Hall. The particular dances for which practice is considered necessary are the Eiglitsome Reel, the Foursome Reel and Strathspey, and the
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  • 241 8 'I l»i <>• »ii 11 hfi ii I«« 11 Volt IN.i lit tilllvi I fi om I ,ni *<| >l.l In ii Oil l|i« I 'Ml* it.-I tit 111 t. fit lit.i i»l in t l,i t'liifl. sin i hound ftn Ui# f'lii!1 It|i«ii«1t|i« ii«
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  • 1215 8 e* i \i hr Fraal* ymtreahaxn. r-»r.» lil y.-> uul v\nui ii r ti %i»- w- tro* l uul 1 r Jkrj.~ .i#.- *avl rnu-n iia:#*t';*. lien mn; ir a J u'.:> *11*! r t»—u »*»p» list*"'.«’*#*• t *»>». »> v*
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  • 192 9 with reiMVt that wo havo to record jl <tb of Mr. Arthur Holley, formerly the s jjtemlent of the Singapore Abattoirs, win i. l**ek place at Hull on October 24. Y:„ deceased gentleman, who was fifty-four ’<f age, was u
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  • 226 9 Tii. "Manila i’ablenews" of Nov. 10 ic|> ■i-.-: Lute on Thursday uight the British freight Indravelli,” Captain Culf.. put into the harbour Id days out t. n. i iiefoo, having been blown out of her coiir-e. l ii. Indravelli,” 4.521 tons net, belongs to tlir India
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  • 115 9 lln- captain of the British steamer Victoii bus been exonerated from all blame 1°* the stranding ot liis vessel on a cf in the Strait of Macassar u tober 18 last. The naval court I 1 it the British Consulate-General, l.imii. on November 1 found that the
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  • 1342 9 (Fuom Ouu Own Cor:ik.-*i’om»knt). Penang, Sunday, November 11. As I told you in my last notes, th> re were considerable heartburnings when the Munioipal Budget for 1907 was published in the Government Gazette,’’ and Penangites tound that it was proposed to raise the rates by one per
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  • 46 9 We have received intimation Lh.it tin Bev. Manteath Thompson, Vicar of Hinton Admiral, Hampshire, has accepted in. chap* lerinoy of St. Mary’s Church, Kuala L unpur, Mr. Thompson is expected to an ive here in time to ttiko the Christmas services.
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  • 618 10 Fk »'l Ol"! )W CoStKKsS'ONlCAT >. Lipis, November 1J. I i Two Chinese coolies, tin miners, were killed the other day at Sutigei Chuclio, Bentong. on land belonging to Towkay Loke Yew. It was the usual sort of accident, which lias Ix'cn pretty frequent of late. The
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  • 529 10 iFuom Oik Own Cokki:si om»km i. Kuala Lumpur. November 17. Intended Memorial. There seems to lie some dissatisfaction among a certain section of the members of the Government clerical service here. Those who are in the 2nd and Hrd Classes according to the Clerical Scheme, have it under
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  • 70 10 The Government Gazette*' states that the following is the Board of Licensing Justices for the Settlement of Singapore, constituted under Sections 00 (2) and 110 of The Liquors Ordinance 1900": —The First Magistrate (Chairman», the Master Attendant Chairman>. the Municipal Health Officer, Mr. A. Gentle appointed by
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  • 259 10 Piimi!** Ua/.t'tto.” A farewell tiffin to the Hon. f retiring Hoddent-Councillor of lW hl Mrs. Rirch. was given at tin PciWYi!‘l l on Thursday by tlio Civil Servants stTri,, in Penang and Province* Wellesley. Y ,w sixty persons sat down to
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  • 173 10 Mr. A. W. Hailey, of the Chinese l*i «>t« c toratc, prosecuted an elderly Strait* bun Chinese woman named Oug Liang the Bench Court, consisting of M, *>is. Michell and Xathan. on the 20th inM.. for selling a young Chinese girl,
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  • 150 10 hi this issqp, we publish a special artak. written for the Straits Times by the willknown cricketer aud football player, h H. D. Sewell, for some time Sputm* Editor of “The Standard.” Mr. St>\Ul learned his football at Bedford, whose m-.mx’ s have turned out so
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  • 141 16 Rku>. —At Benliolm, Kyel AH K on l«tli iiivt to Mr. and Mrs. Alex Reid, a daugbtoi. Mff'ri.iA.- On November 1(5, IWW, at r L lie Thistle.” No. "> Wilkie Road, the wife of J.A. McCully, of a daughter. Fniuv-Nkvi On November 12. at Cosinopnlitan Dock, Hongkong. the wife
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  • 161 16 pin \jijn Aiskmi vm. —(hi November 10 at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, Elizabeth, daughter of the 1 Ae A. P. Abraham, Hongkong, to William Gibson, youngest son of the late (iilbert Pitcairn, of* Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Pim i iin.iMi- Sii.n On Novender 11. at the Homan Catholic Cathedral Hongkong,
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  • The Straits Budget.
    • 233 16 Mr. Thomas Hart-Davies, the Liberal Member for North Hackney, called attention on Thursday last to certain salary grievances of Straits C’ivil Servants, by which Nve understand him to mean, members of the. Civil Service and Colonial Service, two very different pairs of shoes. Members of the Civil
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    • 443 16 The request made by tin* jury in tlie llogan ease to be exempted trod attendant o fora whole your seems so reasonable that \\o arc astonished to learn that the i hiet Justice did not agioo l«> tin suggestion. 1 is Pordshi statetl that ho had no
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    • 493 16 iio.ii tlioKuinnuuy that h,, M vl.x. Ml,. of U.o«,oni.au \:LZ t L o;kiiiii" the ltdcliKtag apiKiarx to lm, t;io whole field of foreign polities. j„ j u it is emblematic of tho -iHi i ,,u 'lULtnl,. M i«»*t in.iti people Uiwards other "'ll 1 1 peoples, and it
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    • 318 17 small pamphlet, entitle*! An Appeal to Indian Common Sense, has been sent tons jm iisiil. ami apparently the object of the l iter. Mr. C. M. Chelliuli, is to warn fellow-subjects, of Hindu nationality. Unit the Swadeshi movement will iU \,i lead to tlm self-government of Hill,|lis in
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    • 602 17 v•« i many, to refer to the German Empire ami all its inhabitants as an individual, lias “imv excellent qualities ami characteristics, ami one of the best among all this aniouut “I excellence, is a sturdy and independent im><lc ~f speaking out. No other State peaks out, or, if
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    • 497 17 In a recent Government Gazette,.a notice appeared under the number 1002, which informed the public that the Cantonese cemetery, otherwise known as Cheng San Teng, is needed for a public purpose, viz., the harbour reclamation scheme. The cemetery, as our readers know, is bouuded on the north and
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    • 581 17 Why not a Secretary of State for the Far East? asks the China Mail 51 and our northern contemporary proceeds to discuss the necessity for such an official. This is not the first occasion on which the necessity for a responsible Minister being entrusted with the
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    • 456 18 In this issue of the Budget we publish a review of Sir H'tiuli Swetton lin m s new I»ook. along with his opinions on the Crown Agent system. As everybody knows, the Straits Times" lias taken up a position of most determined hostility to the Crown Agents,
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    • 470 18 The issue of a proclamation on Friday morning by His Kxeellency the (Governor, under the Preservation of the Peace Ordinance. marks tin* oilicial recognition of the seriousness of the Chinese rioting which has distm bed the business of the Colony. Cudcr the powers conferred by the Ordinance invoked
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    • 750 18 •lust now. when so much is being said Jl bmi tariffs and tariff-reform in refcience to fbcHritish Empire, it may l>e interesting and instr, c tive to consider the attitude assumed by tin Military authorities in the Straits Settlements towards a British Syndicate, in fact tl 0 solitary
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    • 517 19 A copy of the second report of the Wellcome Research Labqratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartum, with which we ha\e been favoured, gives ample evidence of the valuable work being done in the centre of the Dark Continent, at the College founded by the energy and genius
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    • 1528 19 Kvt 1 ything connected with the Singapore River i-i of interest to us in Singapore, and t!ie proposed improvement of the River is regarded as a matter of much importance. His Kxcelleniy the Governor, it will be remembered, in his address to the Legislative Council on the sth
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  • 80 16 DEATHS. Anxoi.n.—On October *20, Thomas Arnold* 1 ito of Hongkong, aged tV2 years. Bnxick. On November 0. at the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, after a short illness, Thornes Bunks, Pngineer. China Sugar Refilling Co., aged u 4 years. (loxsAi.vKs.—At his res deuce. No. 1J Caine Hoad. Hongkong, C’onstiincio J. Gonsalves, <
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  • 416 20 Singapore, Nov. j], Lite Scruits Times Animal" is on j* >; U;(v out. mid should reach Singapore ihi* atl( r lmou or tomorrow morning. Delivery and m*. packing will take a little time, and tin u, Annual will ho on the
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  • 137 20 On Saturday afternoon last Mr. J. C. full, lato Superintendent of the Workshop and Testing Departments of the Eastern Kxtension A. and C. Telegraph Co. Ltd., was presented with an address, enclosed in a polished teak box, and a 400 day clock as a
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  • 373 21 It was only quite recently that, as a stilt of a collision with the Haversham aiige,” the Straits Steamship Company’s “sting steamer fleufcong was sunk in Straits. Now the Haversham Grauge <. n met
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  • 195 21 it i** understood that His Excellency M.ij<»i General Inigo-Jones is about to retire from the post of Officer Commanding the Troops in this Colony, and will proceed, on leave. from Singapore by the German Mail »n December 10. Colonel Sankey, R.K, who is in command of the Hoyal
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  • 508 21 In response to an imitation issued by Mr." D.Arulannndaiu Pillai, an exceptionally laigo and representative gathering tool* place at the Anglo-Tamil School, Seranggoug Hoad, on Monday, to welcome the Senior Kcv. Iv. Pamperrien and Kev. T. Joseph of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in
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  • 100 21 A correspondent writes as follows in a Hongkong contemporary:—ln the course of my business, I have to forward many parcels to all parts of the world, lhe other day I sent one of 11 lbs. weight to a jungle part of Malaya, that is, the Negri Sembilan; the
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  • 1511 21 The S. V. A. ten pounder guns wero returned to the store at Pearl’s Hill ou Monday, The total number of deaths iu the Hatton railway disaster in Ceylon is now given as sixteen. Up to tho 9th inst. the subscriptions |o the Hongkong Typhoon Relief Fund had
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  • 935 22 Mr. U. Scott has been aimoin t«>il if Officer of the Bindings. 1 The King «f Siam returned to Bai.m l from Bang-pa-in on the 14th inst. kK k Police Inspector Williams, of the p,.,,.. police, is on a short holiday in Singapo,!. ,L M. Olarovsky, the
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  • 781 23 The following is the report of the General Manager for the four weeks’ ending Novem ber a. The Chairman aud Directors Raub, Australian (iold Mining Company, Limited. Singapore. Gentlemen,—I beg to submit my monthly report on your mining and milling operations. The
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  • 108 23 The Sercuihau Suugci Rayah Tiu Mining* Company, Limited, the capital of which has been fully subscribed privately, is now issuing its share certificates. The capital consists of 8,000 shares of 610 each. The undermentioned gentlemen, well known in the local mining world, constitute the first Board of
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  • 84 23 A new rubber venture, the Tatnpoy Rubbcl Company, Ltd., has been formed with a capital of $350,000. The subscription list will close at 5 p.m. on November 30. The bankers are the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the solicitors Messrs. Rodyk and Davidson. Messrs. Dunman
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  • 135 23 The output tor the mouth of October from the various properties, belonging to this Company, was *276.69 piculs of tin ore. Netherlands India has now a pearl shell scandal somewhat comparable, with the Ceylon one. Tlie fishery in the Am islands, off the Dutch New
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 82 25 The Selangor Turf Club are holding a, $lO,OOO sweep on the race for the Planters (’up at the forthcoming meeting. As at present arranged, the Straits Cricket team will arrive in Rangoon on December 17 and leave again by the steamer of Decern her It is stated
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    • 71 25 The following are the results of the second day’s racing in Batavia: Kuala Lumpur Prize: Fragilite 1. Doke 2 Taipinu Prize: Tivoli 1. Cinderella 2 Calcutta Pkizk: Bedil 1. Oberon 2 Serkmban Prize; Ciugalee, 1. Nipper 2 lUitkszoku Prize: Milo 1, Dulmina 2 Sklanoor Prize: Tivoli l. Carlton
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    • 898 25 Saturday was a poor day for cricket. On tlie Esplanade, the game was early disturbed hv ruin and declared off. At Pulo Braui the play was restricted to about lifteen minutes. Hie rain came down in torrents and play "as finally abandoned when 17 runs had been made. Tlie
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    • 156 25 A small audience assembled at the Jubilee Hall in Beach Hoad on the 19th inst. to witness the boxing entertaiument arranged by Jack McAuliffe and Sain New'man. A. Siddous, of the Sherwoods, and Bob Jervis, of the R. G. A., fought a ding dong battle, and Jerry Bushel and
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    • 62 25 A hockey match was played on the Esplanade on the 20th inafc., between the S.C.C. and the 95th Russell’s Infantry. The Club scored in the first half through Gold, and at half-time the Russell’s had equalised. Ou resuming. Hannaford put iu another goal for the Club. No further scoring
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    • 60 25 Malacca Golf Club. A Bogey competition was played on the Lereli Golf Links on Saturday with the following results: C. O. May receives 6} 4 down> H. W. Firinstone d M. McKenzie 2—6 down. Mrs. May 80—7 down. A. L. Knaggs 4 —9 down. Hon. W. Evans, Mrs. Evans,
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    • 38 25 L L. T. C. American Tournament. Owing to the wet weather the entries for the above Tournameut will not close until Saturday, November 24. The Entry List and full particulars will be found in the Pavilion.
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    • 68 25 The Rugby players of tlie S. C. C. scraped up nine men on Nov. 16, afternoon to meet a Dutch XI. The S. C. C. were opposed to more than their match and retired beateu by 8 goals to love. The second goal was the result of an
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  • 2361 26 London, November 1 h Mr. Vngustinc roll. Minister of Kdm m tic*ll, speaking a Sristol, stated tluu tin* KdMention Hill a- ored by the Lords was a sheer impossibi.i He hoped that on tin* report stage M b. >g reached, the Hoiw ot Lords would reeog »i-*e that
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  • 1060 27 [By special arrangement with J>> r OztaHiatische Lloyd Berlin, November 14. llie toasts drunk at the Museiini festivities in Munich were of the heartiest kind, and gave the lie to rumours of political discord between North and South Germany. The Kaiser had a most enthusiastic farewell on his
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  • SHIPPING IN PORT.
    • 79 28 Man-Of-War, etc. Leipzig H.I.G. M. cru. 1,178 reg. tone. 306 crew, 10 guns, 10,000 li. p. Captain Von Roth Rirch und Panther, 19th Nov. From Medan* Deli, 18th Nov, For Phillipines, 22nd —lids. Sea Belle Light-home tender, 48 tons registered, 39 crew, 100 h.p. Nacodah, 12th Oot. From Malacca,
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    • 534 28 November 14 Giang Ann, Dut str, Mom, Samarang, Heap Eng Mob Van Hogendorp, eDut str, Huykmau, Siak, Daendels Banka, Brit str, Stewart, Anamlas Island, Teo Hoe Lye Gaea, Nor str, Lyderson, B'kok, Ban 6. Soon 15 Amiral Exelmans, Fch str, Gens, Antwerp, Moine Comte Namur, Brit str, Kanrick,
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    • 409 28 November 14 Nile, Brit str, Antwerp via ports Devawongsee, Ger str, Bangkok Nam Yong, Brit str, Gorontalo via ports Cheang Hock Kian, Dut str, Bagan Edendale, Brit str, Samarang via ports 15 Bharata, Brit str, Penang, R’goon, Calcutta Ban Whatt Soon, Brit str, T. Auson via ports Islander, Brit
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  • 955 28 Kame, port, probable date of arrival and name oj Agents. Steamers. Achilles, Liverpoo Dec. 5; Mansfield Airhe, Sydney, Dec. 24 Boustead d Ambna, Hamburg, Nov. 23; Bohn Meyer Anda usia, Hongkong, Jan. 5 Behn \i Aparim. CakftU, heo. 1 A read a, Colombo, Jan. 5 P. it O
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  • 427 29 Per P. O. a. s. Victoria, connecting with the Colombo, from London Oct. a 34th O. Thorne, 11. Si Vryian J Chaldecott, fcr, R. Hamtsch, Hon, and Mrs. R. N. Bland, Messrs. w Q Lane, J. 9, Lane, and W. M. John, J ;v vv>* v TwlAr** Nvbi
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  • COMMERCIAL. SINGAPORE, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1906.
    • 90 29 Gambier buyer** 8 0.00 do (Cube Na 1; unpicked 10.75 Copra Bali 10.824 do Pontianak 9.80 Pepper, 18.871 do White 6% 90.28 Sago Flour Sarawak 2.92$ ao Brunei No. 1 2.89 Pearl Sago 5.40 Coffee BaH, 164% 19.00 Coffee, Palembanc, 20% basis 22.50 Coffee, Liberian No. 1 $3.' 20.50
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    • 125 29 London B*a^Wni/. Private 6m/». 2/4^ do 8 m/e 2/4A On Germany—Bank d/d 2.89 Private 8 m/s 2.44 do 6 m/a 2 4#2S On trance— Bank d/d 2.98 r V Private 8 m/r v 2.974 A do 6 m/s 2.99| On India—Bank T. T. 1781 JPrivate.Bo d/s 174} On Hony/pong—Bank
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
    • 284 29 r? MidMmtf th9 kind awarded a caie at the Caicutu Exhibition, 1883-84, open to nit Cvi \urHL urn nfre &*u i 'j HA8 THE LARGEST SALE OP ANY PH08PHORIO MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. hM maintained Us -ItaenergLring effects ire shewn from tbt de reputation as the Heal ano lafi reliable
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 86 29 WEATHER REPORT. J- rS'rvSlS Kandmi, 7 Kerbau Hospital, MOlh For ember, 1906 Bar. 3‘> Temp Wet Bulb Ther D»r of Wind w. Temp Mm. Max. i,« .Sun Terr r, Ther Bainfali J —>~ 8 9, ft.'9 u. 29.038 84.8 78.8 v.m; 88.5 72.8 5 154 4 70.2 29.828 28.918 86.0^6.4
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE STRAITS BUDGET,
    • 7392 30 His Honour Assistant Judge Vincent i.ave judgment in the British Court for Sian, oil November 5 in the case of Mr. ,|olm Andersvm vs. the Bush Estate trustees. Km the plaintiff Mr. \Y. J. Napier of Singapore, with whom was Mr. Gibbins, appeared at
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