The Straits Budget, 6 December 1906

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  • 37 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES." VOL. LX. NO. 2546. Singapore, Thorsday, 6th December, 1906. v p.,'D' VE8TABLISHI0 OVER HALF A CCNTVRY. Price 25’Cents. ►.<• rMVEkE ,7 iV. r i i <,v 1
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    • 180 1 t- I m.> MECHANICAL. ELECTRICAL 4 CIVIL BWMEERS SHIPBUILDERS IN BOILERMAKERS 7£L A DDRKSS Hr SINGAPORE, IFOR (Perak). ENGINE WONKS No. 4. teLCPHONS. NOS. J *L«CT. DIPT. 4. i SHIPYARD 122. ’TOWN STONE 104. Sole AfOOtS for Rustoc Proctor f PP Portable Engines. > J x 4 4b TANGYES IN.
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    • 566 2 LUX ALIGHT The Incandescent Kerosene Lamp. LUX >* v X* v sold Medal witd Special of.Jionour, Jsiege, 190 5 COMPLETE TOWN INSTALLATIONS HAVE BEEN SUPPLIED TO; THE Perak Government for Ipoh AND TQ THE Sarawak Government for Kuohlng. Orders Now Received for Complete Illumination of Ktiala Kangsar. V v 1
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    • 159 1 n Hotels Recommended by tbe Straits Budget” Recreation Hotel AT THE TERMINI'S OK ’I III: Faya Lebar Tram. Excellent accommodation for boarders. Special rate* by the week or month J. F. de CONCAICMO, Manager. HOTEL VAN WIJK. Nos. I. 2 and 3, Stamford Road. Singapore. I his lorst Class Newly-opened
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    • 68 2 Straits Times Annual, 1006-7 XShree Royal Portraits. Best Christmas and Now Year’s Gift Throughout the Known World. CDysterious jßtory bV Mr. Hugh Clifford, C.M.G. FULL EDITION ARRIVES THIS WEEK ORDER IMMEDIATELY If Yeu Want An Annual Kept for You. PRICE $1 ONLY: WITH POSTAGE $1.20 “MALAY TIN FIELDS” tfa RALPH
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  • 213 1 Legislative Council 1- Municipal Hoard Registration »t Partnership* 3 Tiling Pluvial St. Andiv'V s Hull 4, 'h h* A Bitter Complaiut d Tin- work of tin* earnest* in the F. M. S. JJ (i.nhl-l»ye Sherwoods 7 Arrival of rut KtMits < Malay Tin Fields 7 A Now
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  • 1156 1 I »i*i legislative Council met on Friday iiftcrnoon at 2.80, when the following were present: Prkskx r. His Kmkllknly thk Govkksok <Siu John* ANUKKSOS, K.C.M.ti.) 'Phc Hoti’hle the Colonittl Secretary (Captain i A. H. Young, c.m.ci.) Hon’ble the Acting Attorney-General (>1. R. limes Hon'ble the
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    • 77 1 price the Me-"* Turn; a year H l,« price of the Strain M'* *M a year „,.,„.tirccc«ry w .utacribc for a year. The Mbs- I,.r-l-rtcr iterirKl* arc at the same prop...ti..natc rate as for a y*ar. s>( lh4llllt i can sent to meet returning passenger 1 from Kurope. I* the
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  • 1582 2 An ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held at the Municipal Board room ou the 80th ult. Mr. E. G. Broadrick, the President, occupied the chair, and there were also present:—Dr. Murray Robertson, Messrs. K. Stevens. J. W. B. Maclaren, Cheng Keng Lee, also J. Polglase (Secretary.)
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  • 411 3 The report by the Select Committee on tl,r Partnerships Registration Bill has at last hocn put on the table of the Legislative Council. The ivport is rather a long one, hut the chief points wenv he noted at first vjght. The
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  • 743 3 A lion regardant beneath an outspread 1 umbrella. This is emblematic of Singapore, J or at least one judges it to be so from the 1 various portrayals of the same which may be viewed any day in
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  • 239 3 An entry is lining raised in tin* Filipino Press against Mr. Dean C. Worcester, who has been a nieinlier of the Civil Commission in the Philippines since its institution. and is now Secretary of the Interior. An effort lias been made to get Mr. Worcester to resign, Imt
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  • 143 3 Man or Beast It is m*: an easy matter to distinguish forms in tin* dark, and in lonely districts of tlie F.M s. on** might- 1m- -.rdoned for thinking that an object muring on all fours wan not a hum tn !-< iug. A Mil iy n mied l.’din heard
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  • 97 3 Mr. I*. .1. Cornewell-.lhHes and Mr. A. X, 1 Gunnery. respectively second and fourth officers of the I*. and O. steamship Isis,” have been sp* daily promoted, in recognition of the service which they rendered on the 1 occasion of the recent loss of the
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  • 46 3 A lew days ago a Sikh watchmau was found shot tnrough the heart at 166 Thomson Koad. Au old five-chambered revolver was found near him. The police have ascertained that the Sikh was trying to clean the loaded revolver when it went off.
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  • 516 4 wad s 'Dic power the pftie gie us Tae see oorselves us ithers see uv. When Hums wrote* these* familiar words lie must have Ikh*u conscious of the* fact that he* was guilty of an error of judgment concerning one of tlu* most ini|K>rtant traits inherent in
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  • 4069 4 Friday last was St. Andrew's Day, one of thu merriest of the year from a Scotsman's point of view, and it was the occasion of much enthusiasm and jollity among the Northerners, not only in Singapore, but throughout the w jrld.
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  • 106 6 In thk Day ok thk Comkt.—Ry 11. K. Wells. Londou Macmillan and Co., Singapore: Kelly and Walsh Ltd. Coniston.— By Winston Clmrcbill. London Macmillan and Co.. Sineaporw Kelly and Walsh Ltd. Ri NNiN.i Hohsk Inn.— Ry Alfred Tresidder Sheppard, London Macmillan and Co.. Singapore Kelly and
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  • 527 6 The* following extract from British Malaya.*’ Sir Frank Swettcnhaiu’s new hook, is referred to in our leader columns 1 have said that the protected Malay States depended mainly on the tin mines for their revenue,
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  • 81 6 Waterloo.'* River Valley Road, lias been taken by the Committee of the Singapore Y. W. C. A., and will shortly he opened as an Institute and Hostel for \oung Women. Miss Kllis, who will have charge of the work, comes as a World’s Y. W. C.
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  • 426 6 Thc f-oo,! |iropl<! who (Iwell j„ t |.e K district have, tor a long ti mc i‘ plaining liitU-rly of t.ufi tluy K.irtor tlir<m M h the lack of ,1. moans of truiiatt across tlio time* ago. oar readers will
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  • 72 6 Polling took place on Tuesday for the ek e tioti of a member of the Municipal Commission. in place of Dr. Lim Boon Kong, who had resigned. Mr. Dug Teek Lim was nominated for the vacancy. He was pro posed by Mr. Lee Clioon Guam and seconded by
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  • 95 6 Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught will visit Burma tln> winter. Their Royal Highnesses will am'* at Rangoon about the middle of hebruan. leaving there on the 2nd ot March, and arrive at Calcutta on sth. on a visit to His Kxcellenev the
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  • 270 12 ti t 29th Police Sergeant Mulcock charged a Chili, nan named lh>ng Siew before Mr. (ireen. i Second Magistrate, with possession of n. .v than live grains of morphia. After evideuct «»f arrest had been given, hr. Invoke, assist ant
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  • 277 12 Ha iLi 28th inst. Keug Chuau, until roceuti> in the employ of Messrs. Allen and Gledhill as a cashier, was charged on three counts of criminal breach of trust as a servant. Mi. I*. .1. Sproule. Deputy Public Prosecutor. appeared for
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  • 294 12 Three Chinese, Lint Yong Hong. Lim Bun Huan and Lim Chye Cliuali were charged before Mr. Micbell. the Senior Magistrate, on the 4th inst. w ith being in possession on November 21. of two wooden stamps, used for the purpose of counterfeiting the
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  • 202 12 <h: Saturday night. Mr. Lee Peck Moon, ol the Straits Steamship Company, was in bis theatre in North Bridge Road, when a Boyancse named Hadji Abdul Rahman, a diamond merchant, of 10 Jalan Pisang. struck him in the
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  • 47 12 A burglary is reported from No. .‘lO Cavemigl: Road, the residence of Mr. H. Meyer. Mi hile tlie occupants of the house were at dinner on Sunday night, a thief entered the house and stolen gold watch and two clocks valued at *ho.
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  • 414 12 Wulwscluy is ISiiiiUniptcy uv j„ ti smiromt' Court, ami vottnlav I,is 1 10 lighter than usual. "as Tim Official Assign-, luul most „f i.,v "wU js.st'Hnu.l tor *iil>sci(imtit 'ti Mr. Montagu Harris appeared on 1 K .loscph s hernia. asking that the time
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  • 143 12 There were twenty-one eases on the small cause list in the Supreme Court on the *‘»otL lilt., hut only if very few are being proceeded with, the first eases called being unusually lengthy ones, though unimportant. Before the Chief Justice, the morning was occupied with the part-heard case
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  • 1004 13 (Kkom Our Own Corrkspondkxt). November 2o. Dry 5ubject. Sim*i‘ we have had a real live Cadet at the lu-ad of our Municipality, affairs seem to be mil on real red-tape lines. That is to say, #vervthinfi has to be done by rule of thumb. If there is
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  • 787 13 < From Our Own Corrkspondknt). Kuala Lumpur, November 28. The “Hoys Own Paper” for November contains a short article on Rubber(irowing; or how we get our CycleTyres by J. A. Owen. It is an interesting article iu its way, and
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  • 198 13 (From Oil: Own Corrkspondkm). Malacca, November 28. There is a regular demand here for the •pituxj cure. Min Ong Kim Wee now keeps a constant supply in his house in Heeren Street, aud there may ho seen daily many folks getting their bottles re filled, as ,i gilt
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  • 140 14 Brio. -At Kemvyn (Jootlwooil Estate, on December *2, Hie vile of V* H A» Stuiits Kettleim-nls i i\il Soia ice. of it daughter. Bkvas.--On Nowinbiu* 16, nt Tiiiyuenfu. glt;Mi-i. tho \Niff of 11. K. (>. lUvan. of the Imp ii 1 l*i i\ ivelx '■'hand, :i son. s t
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  • 163 14 Bi:vw>\ -C’himmo.- On October 31. sit Westminster, 1.. 11. Branson to l-.tnilv Winifred, daughter of Into A. (')iinuno. i *a\mastor-in-Chief, R.N. Bin\s<i\ itiM'io. —On Octnlu :»1. at St. Margarets, West minster. h\ tlie Rev. ('anon Hensley Henson, assisted hv tie R**\. 11. Hcvis. Lionel Hugh Branson, 110th Matlirnttn L.
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  • The Straits Budget.
    • 834 14 Ihci’o has arrived in Singapore, a Chinese Official named Chen J'ao Seng, who comes here ns tho emissary of the Chinese Govern, ment to induce the Chinese resident in the Straits Settlements and Java to invest money in Chinese railways. His Excellency Chen, who is a Hokien, came
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    • 268 14 Hu* I'leetion of a l oiliest it pit m ii tat is < to tin* Municipal Commission t»> slurred i»i Lim Uoon lung (resigned) takes pl.ic, t« liioridw. There is only one candidate t >t the |iositioii. Mr. Ong Teek I Am. son of tin late Mr. Ong
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    • 436 15 One portion ut least of Heater's t, li grains, is of special interest to tunny ,t onr readers. Tanjong l‘agar Dock lias uv n again the subject of question and ti.surr in the House of (.'ominous, and I tenter's representative within the sacred porincts of the Speaker's
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    • 407 15 frw day s ago, we commented upon the relative merits, i’rum the sanitan point of v U‘\v. of administering the oath to witnesses .v t in* Knglish and Scottish methods. The s,i jt ct,as we already said, is receiving eousi*lt cable attention at Home, and it is highly
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    • 346 15 The Hon. .1. Anthonisz presented his Loan Hill, on Friday afternoon, for the consult rations of the Legislative Council, and it was read a first time. The sum total which the Colony is about to stand committed to raise is huge £8,12:>.0 fosterling Tanjong Pagar is responsible
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    • 349 15 Mr. J. W. H. Mnelaren, as a lover of tin* io-ithctio. has opened a campaign against j posters. At Friday’s meeting of tho 1 Mllnicip.il ommissiou.li,' protested against what hi*, as a lover of the a'stlietic, chooses to style unsightly posters and advertiseHM'iits on the corrugated iron fence
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    • 1034 16 In istiivn countries. just us Christian people. have patron saints. Some countries cl lose their patron saints in tin' distant past: while, in oilier cases, the patron saints were thrust upon them. The latter experience would seem to have been the late of Scotland, for in saint patronage
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    • 739 16 om m,Hen, tho.v apjM'Uis a letter ax;„„ kll lm'iit that there is not a .Municipal d.m v in Singapore. with a good milk rcstaunmt open-air tables, ami a band, whole h can and drink it (milk, at leisure. ur it guaranteed pure in sealed bottles/ Tj|is is a
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    • 940 17 I ii mala a virtue of necessity has been so ,.tt« e tin plight «>f the Straits Settlements in l„ j, ,1 matters that we ought to bo able to sympathise witli the people of Australasia in to tin new Anglo-French Convention tui the future government of
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    • 263 17 The Member for East Renfrewshire would appear to bo taking up gambling in distant regions, such as the *F. M. States, as one of the questions for investigation and home interference. He is in favour of temperance reform,and w*c have nothing much to say about
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    • 346 17 At a time- when a yomi*» and almost unknown Chinese gentleman is elected to fill the vacancy on the* Municipal Hoard, caused by the retirement of so experienced and so well-known and distinguished a member of the Chinese community as U hr. him Hoon Kong, it seems opportune
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    • 388 18 Renter s* nds us m word or two about the annual dinner of the British North Borneo Company, sir Charles d. Jcsscl. Bait.. Chairman of tin Board, presided, and umono the .‘hull persons present was Mr. Cow ie. It would appear that Mr. Cowie spoke; and. as Mr.
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    • 382 18 The Cnited States are again face to face with that particular danger which overhangs all federations. Reuter gives us something about Bresidi ut Roosevelt's .Message uncut tlu attitude of California towards the •la panose, and that something is sufficient to show that the President is aware of
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    • 1628 18 )r *W. koeUo lias been nominate! Municipal ommissioner for Pcnam*. I The now Government l>ivp,imWy at ross Street was opened on Monday 11.M.5. ••Robin.” which went ashm the West River recently, was refloated uj Ml out damage. ’Hie superstructure of the WiM.am moored off the Cyrene Shoal is
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    • 1067 19 Mr. d. iI. Tyte has arrived in Kualar Liimpor tY«jin Singajiore. Major Douglas has won tlm men’s h nuis championship of ’Tientsin. Mr. W. C. I*. Kcmi has been app linted acting Depty Kegistrar of Siiipping at Singapore. Captain D Arcy Symonds, Chief ikilico Otticer, has been
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  • 81 14 DEATHS. TUnkki:.— O.i November 23, .'it 31, Sovniour Road, Hongkong, H. H. Hanker, ngeel 00 yea is, widow of the* lutt* William Swallow Hanker, of Newell wang. Ci.Mi’c —On November 16. at Weilieiwei. Annin LI i /.abet 1 1 Victoria, hcleuod wife of Duncan Clark. Uitgunurr.—On Non ember Id. at
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  • 13 20 The Straits Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents;
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  • 214 20 To the Kditor of the ‘‘Straits Times.” Singapore. December 1. Sir—H. K. Chang Bat-szo, better known as Teo Tiaw Siat, was at one time Acting Consul-General for China in Singapore. Brevious to this H. K. was Contractor to certain Revenue Farms in Java, and Purveyor to
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  • 265 20 To The Kditor of the Straits Times." Singapore, December 3. Sir. -I am sure that most of your readers will be grateful to you for championing the advertisement posters along Keppel Road. As you put it concretely wliieh is the most pleasing to the eye—a plain
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  • 1345 20 To the Kditor of the Straits Times.” Sir: On Saturday, you drew attention to some remaiks which were made bv Mr. J. B. Maelaren at Friday's meeting of the Municipal Council, in reference to the advertismg posters ou the corrugated iron fence, winch runs along
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  • 88 23 His Excellency Chen Pao Seng, the uperintendent of Railway Construction in tiie l iikien Province, arrived in Singapore on the 26 th inst. He is staying at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and will leave for Penang and
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  • 959 23 The following extract from the “She Man l*o, a Chinese newspaper published in Honghong, was sent 10 the China Association by the lion. Mr. T. Scrcombe Smith, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong:— 1 he Canton-Amoy Hailway is the main
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  • 91 23 A correspondent assures the Sourabaya Handelsblad” that every steamer coming from China to Singapore brings any number of coolies who really are no better than slaves. They are sold at Singapore for about two hundred dollars each, and go to w ork on Chinese gambier estates in
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  • 88 23 The stone lighthouse at the headland known as Java’s Fourth Point was lately shaken to its foundations by an earthquake, and severely damaged. Workmen are nowengaged there pulling it down. It will be replaced by an iron structure, which is expected to be earthquake-proof. But the operations are
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  • 664 24 I'., Orn t ax i'oi:iiK>roNi*KM.» Kuala Lumpur. Dee. 4. Ybr following arc tin* results of tin* first «f .4. racing of the Selangor I urt flubs Mec t»iug, which was op< nod to-day and will b( c .nfciuucd on Thursday
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  • 448 24 The ground was in splendid condition on Thursdav when tin above teams met on the Esplanade and played a good diawu game of one goal each. Tin* alteiidauci was the largest that has been -ecu since the Wociatioii final and
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  • 682 24 No Hugby was played this last wM[ ii. siiiKapoie the Ksplauade on Kn,l„ beine move like a mud heap than a plaS ground. The last game of the Sherwood Forest*... in Singapore was played on Tlmivlav against the S. G. G. on the Esplanade Tl result as has
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  • 234 25 heppcl Club, I'll, following is the result ot the play for t u November medal: Gross. ll'ep. Nett. .1. N. Hick H5 H 71 M. Sellar 91 19 75 .1. Murray 1H) 20 70 .1. I,. Iconic *5 77 K.T. Keid Hi 2 79 H. Tongue 97 10 HI
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  • 173 25 k. E. Beat the S. C. C. Tin* H. E. toniud the opposition to S.f.r. on Tuesday afternoon on the Esplanade. The ground was in fairly good condition hut the 25 at Esplanade end was rather heavy. The K. E. had all the best of the tirst half, Horspool
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  • 84 25 By Special arrangement with Ler Oataaiatiscae Lloyd Hongkong, NoTember 29. The hauish salvage-ship Protector has raised the French Torpedo Destroyer 1 bromic,” which sank during the recent typhoon at Kowloon, several of her crew being drowned. The Fronde” is damaged apparently beyond repair. Soerabaia, December 1. In close
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  • 3246 25 London. November 2s. Mr. Winston Churchill, tlie Under Sec retary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question from Mr. J. C. Wedgwood, Liberal M. P. for Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the House of Commons, stated that the cost* of the Tanjong Pagar Award would largely exceed £40,000
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  • 984 27 sprr<«l arrangement urith Det ()*t«*iati*che Lloyd"\ Berlin. November 2#. Prince von Bm4ow delivered a apeedi in the Kcichstag on affairs in Herman SouthWest Africa- In his opinion. Uiat OUmy required further outlay to recover from the «tfeets of the rebellion! He admitted errors in colonial policy, ami promises!
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  • COMMERCIAL. SINGAPORE, 5TH DECEMBER, 1906.
    • 95 27 Gambier buyers 6.87^ do (Cube No. 1) unpicked 10.50 Copra Bali 10.40 do Pontianak 9.80 Pepper, Black ,,18.50/65 do White 5% 25.10 Sago Flour Sarawak -TOO do Brunei No. 1 2.95 Pearl Sago 5.40 Coffee Bali, 16.1% 19.00 Coffee. Palcmbang, 20% basis 22.50 Coffee, LiUu'ian No. 1 20.50 Tapioca,
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    • 129 27 Loii'fc/i Mank 4 ru/s 2/4& Demand 2/4 Private 6in fk 2/4 Jf do 8 m/s 2/4 On German;/ Bank d/d 2.39’ Private 3 m-s 2.44 do 6 m/s 2.46 On bra nr* I—Bank 1 —Bank d/d 2.93 Private 3 m/s 2.97$ do 6 m/s 2.99$ On India- Bank T.
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  • SHIPPING IN PORT.
    • 400 28 November 2N Benalder. Brit str, Thomson, Kobe. I*. Simons Chun Sana, Brit str, Oox. Hongfcfmg. Boustead Banka, Brit str, Stewart. Anaml.as Island, leo Hoe Lve Van Hogendorp. Put str. Huykman. Swk, Paendels •29 Ting Suey. Brit str. Warrall, L'pool, Mansfield Sarie Bandjir, Put str, Koclix. Rourabava, Teo Soon Toll
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    • 491 28 November 27 t C. Apcar, Brit str, Hongkong Pitcanulok, Ger str, Bangkok Manila, (ier str, Sydney Ainhria, Ger str, Hongkong, Shanghai. Japan Kagoshima Maru, Jap str, Colombo, Bombay Palembang, Dut str, Palembang Simongan, Dut str, Samarang babine ltickmers, Brit str, T jilatjap •28 Wray Castle, Brit str, Manila Singapore,
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    • 585 28 Xame, port probable iint&lt; »&gt;/ &lt;inival a/fti wdwi? o f A yen ta. Steamers. Airlic, Sydney, Dee. 21 Bousteai Alcinous, Liverpool Dee. 26; Mansfield Andalusia, Hongkong, Jan. Helm Meyer Apanma. Calcutta, Dee. 7 Botmtead Arcadia, Colombo, Jan 5 P. iV O Australien, Colombo. Juu. 24; M. Maritime* Austria,
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    • 454 29 Straits Shipping and Parcels Agency. Goods rerutvtxl packed, shipped to all parts weekly*. ou delivery system, or delh 85 Robinson Road. ery paid to GOSLING A Co., ALBERT L. A. DALEY Undertaker St Torn!) Build *r 150 MiddU Road. Sole Agent (or Mediar*. Dottridge Brothers, Ltd., Loudon, u 2188 Telephone
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