The Straits Budget, 1 August 1907

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES." VOL. LXI. NO. 2580. Singapore, Thursday, August 1, 1907. ESTABLISHED OVER MAlf A CENTURY Price 25 cents.
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  • 229 1 LEADERS— Anglo-German Entente 12 Shipping Review 12 Chinese Reformer’s Fate 12 Foreign Teachers in British Colonies 13 Suggestion for the Municipal Commissioners 13 Taxation of Marriages 13 Prince Borghese’s Journey 14 Crow n Agents, Railways and Peons 14-15 Forming Colonial Revenues 15 Composite RaceB 15 Abdication of
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  • 888 1 (From Our Own Cokrehrondkvt.i Batavia, July 24. Two certified Japanese teachers have taken up their quarters in Sourabaya. With the permission of the local authorities, they have opened a school there for Chinese children, but this permission has still to lx ratified by
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  • 354 3 L'he Rajah of Stengahpour and party visited Blakan Mati on the 25th nit., as the guests of the Boyal Garrison Artillery, and they met with an enthusiastic reception. Punctually at .7 1.7, they left Johuston's Pier by the Moonstone, and, after a delightful trip, the island
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  • 949 3 The following is the report of the General Manager of the Kaub Australian Gold Mining Company, Ltd., for the mouth ended duly 18 Gentlemen. -I herewith beg to submit my monthly report on your mining and milling operations. The mine
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  • 251 3 At the meeting of the Legislative <souncil on Friday, the Liquors Ordinance Amendment Bill, to amend the Liquors Ordinance, 1906. and the Government Savings Bank Bill, to amend the law relating to the Rank, will for third reading. The Municipal Ordinance Amendment
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  • 1119 6 When the photographer and !iis appurtenances were nearly fouled by entrants in the *'>00 yards handicap, of the Singapore Cricket Club Sport Gymkhana, on .July -7. the round of merry acclamation that arose from occupants of seats in the a
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  • 402 6 Counterfeiting would appear to be a profitable business iu Singapore, judging from the number of arrests made on that charge, but there have several times been indications that the counterfeiting outfits discovered were simply plants gathered together and operated by informers, for
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  • 90 6 Tiie local steamer Karang arrived from the Natunas and the Anainbas Islands, on the 26th ult. Captain Phillips reports that the ship grounded on a coral reef at 8 p.m. on the 22nd ult., and was afloat again in the evening, at high water. The ship's
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  • 930 7 iFkoni Oi'H Own Cokrksi*ondenti. Malacca. July 21. I .ni t In a year ago. during a very hot month. *1 sat busy writing with my handkerchief tucked up in a ball under my chin, to collect the streams of inspiration that
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  • 185 7 According to the Government Gazette, His Kxcelleuey the Governor has made the following transfers and promotions in the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements:— Mr. K. C. C. Howard, Collector of Land Revenue. Penang, to be Official
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  • 103 7 A penetrating odour of durians pervaded the Second Magistrate’s Court, on July 24, there being two cases in which Chinese were accused of the theft of the fruit. One of the accused was acquitted, and the prosecutor was fined $lO for giving him in charge groundlessly.
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  • 484 7 ih iioM Oi i: Own Count- srosm n i Kuala Lumpur. July 21 Some three years or so ago, Towkay Lok» Yew, with his wonted generosity, presented the F.M.S. Government with a sum of ft.'tO.OOO for the purpose* of establishing
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  • 165 7 Sagap, a Malay seaman employed on tin local steamer Karang, pleaded guilty, on the 27th ult., before the Second Magistrate, to the theft of thirty yards of the steamer’s rope, valued at $l7. Mr. Farrer-Baynes appeared on his behalf, and said that* the accused,
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  • 837 8 (From Our Own Correspondent). Batavia, July 20. Red juug Lcbong share-, are at the moment, ns far as speculative purposes are concerned, as dead as a door nail. Who would have dared three months ago to
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  • 278 8 Report of the Directors submitted to the shareholders at the first annual ordinary general meeting, held at Cannon Street, E.C.. on July 8. Directors.—Messrs. Keith F. Arbutbuot, (Chairman), Montagu J. Battye, Matthew Lowden, W. H. Sinclair, and Sir William Krskine Ward k.u.s.i., m.a. The Directors beg
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  • 137 8 A towkay, named Soli Lim, who has a shop in China Street, was arrested at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, on July 25, while trying to cash a draft for $1,500, payment on which had already been stopped, the owner reporting that it was lost. Accused
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  • 452 8 The following in the second report, dated July 16, of the Director* to the shareholders of the Balgownie Rubber Estates, Limited, to be presented at the third ordinary general meeting. Gentlemen, —Your Directors beg to submit the
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  • 126 8 A scaffolding was erected, on the 29th ult., at the rear half of the Drill Hall, prejmratory to its demolition and removal to the new site on Beach Road, near the Chinese Volunteer Club. The builder’s plan is to tear down and reconstruct half of the
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  • 933 9 The most prominent feature at the meeting oi the Municipal Commissioners on the 26th ult., was the question of the tramways raised by Dr. Murray Robertson. Standing in his name were the following •questions: What is the Capital of the Singapore Tramway
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  • 231 9 Chinakami summoned her mistress, the Eurasian wife of a European living at Tanjong Pagar, before the Senior Magistrate, on July 25, on a charge of using criminal force against her. Her story was that she was employed as a general house servant by the accused, who sent her
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  • 521 9 The following notice, which appears in the Methodist Church organs in America, under the above heading, is not calculated to strike 1 many Singaporeans as being entitled to bear the caption given it The Anglo-Chinese Schools of Malaysia* I l ive
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  • 88 9 Mr. S. F. Concoicao was sued by Lis boy in the Court of Requests, on the 26 tb ult., for wages alleged to be due. Defendant refused to pay because the boy left wfthoot giving notice. Tbo Commissioner bald that the boy was entitled to his
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  • 851 10 *jj H( nry Campbell Ranuern an ho[>es to pam forty three bills in four weeks before )*s lament i- prorogued on August ‘21. >ing a song of C.-R. Full of artful tricks. Three and forty measures Passed in four weeks. P •ers will never keep pace Madly
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  • 146 10 Inspector Fitzgerald prosecuted J. Pattara, the High Street tobacconist, before the Senior Magistrate, on July 31, on three charges: (1) possession of an unjust weight and weighing machine, (2) possession of an unstamped weight, and (8) possession of weights not standard weights. There was to have
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  • 496 10 At a meetiug of the Executive Council on the 20th ult., (presided over by His Excellency the Governor;, it was decided that the capital sentence passed, on Drummer William Sandwell, the murderer of Corporal Hurley, of the Royal West Kent
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  • 124 10 The Java Treasury authorities notify that the new import tariff there comes into operation on August 13. Under it, the duty on table salt and on many other articles are heavily increased. For instance, says the Sourabaya Courant, the rate on motor cars has risen from
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  • 610 11 The death-rate of the State of Selangor for 1906 was only 29.275, according to the annual report on the Medical Department of that State, just published. The number of births registered during the year was 2,820, while the deaths numbered
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  • 459 11 A preliminary inquiry into the charge of cheating, against I). A. Rodeuhuis, was begun before the Third Magistrate, on the 24th tilt. Mr. Knowles appeared oil behalf of the prosecution and Mr. <». S. Carver defended the accused. Mr. Knowles stated
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  • 73 11 A reputed friend and pupil of the notorious Ali Gutta, who was arrested last week for behaving suspiciously, was sent to prison, on the 29th ult., for two months for being in possession of a coin which, it was believed, had been used, together with a stick
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  • 77 11 Three respectable looking Chiuese appeared before the Second Magistrate, on the 29th ult. as the result of an altercation they had had with a couple of ricksha coolies at Tanjong Pagar. They refused to pay the proper fare, and one of them struck a coolie and also
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  • 225 11 The silver cup which the Governor 1..i--prescutcd for competition at the Agri Horticultural Show at Kuala Kaugsar. will b«* awarded to the w inner of the greatest nun* her of prizes in Division A, Agricultural. The number of cups that will
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  • 167 11 The steamer Wongkoi, which arrived in Bangkok on the 21st ult., reported that on the way up from Singapore the launch Lloyd, which she w’as towing to Kohsichang. *ank and four men lost their lives. There w’ere five men on the
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  • 177 11 Four dissipated looking lieachcomber* two Scotsmen, a German and a Eurasian were brought before the Magistrate, on the 26th ult., on a charge of vagrancy. They were found sleeping in the carpenter s shop of a Chinaman, behind the Maternity Hospital in Hill Street, and, although fully dressed,
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1081 12 need for Hague Conicrences.- Straits Times, duly 25. We doubt whether there exists amongst the great majority ot the German population any ill-will or feeling of embitterment towards Great Britain. The German people, like the British, lay claim to frankness and the disdain of untruth as among their
      need for Hague Conicrences.- Straits Times, duly 25.  -  1,081 words
    • 557 12 the Far Eastern field.—Straits Times. July 26. Since the beginning of the year, shipping has contended against many disadvantages. Coal was raised in price, labour troubles continued the bad record of 1906, advances in wages were demanded, freight wars have affected owners’ interests, the inclusion of seamen under
      the Far Eastern field.—Straits Times. July 26.  -  557 words
    • 124 12 Strait* Times, July 26. One of our local Chinese contemporaries published the statement the other day that tin Chau, the Johorc merchant, who was apprehended in Hongkong for complicity in the recent revolutionary uprising in South China, had been extradited by the Hongkong Oovernmcnt, and sent to
      Strait* Times, July 26.  -  124 words
    • 680 13 Straits Times, .July 27. The first thought that will occur to Britons in Singapore--if they think at all—when they read the appeal by Bishop Oldham for American teachers for the Anglo-Chincse Schools of Malaysia should be why any British Colony or British Protectorate is dependent
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    • 573 13 town wherever possible.—Straits Times. .Tilly *27. At yesterday's meeting of the Municipal Commission, Professor Simpson’s report on the insanitary condition of Singapore was referred to the Health Committee in order that the Committee might formulate recommendations to give effect to the report. From the remarks
      town wherever possible.—Straits Times. .Tilly *27.  -  573 words
    • 631 13 —Straits Times, July ‘26. At a time when the local government is believed to be exercised over financial problems, we venture to bring to the notice of the authorities a new method of raising revenue which has suggested itself to the Viceroy at Nanking. We refer to
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    • 1430 14 accompanied her to the Kant.—StraitR Times, Jfaly 29. Prince Borghese arrived at Moscow ou Saturday. He has now’ got over the almost in-nrmoinitable difficulties in roadless and little civilised Asia, aud from Moscow to Paris will en joy the luxury of driving over rca*miably good roads. Nearly
      | accompanied her to the Kant.—StraitR Times, Jfaly 29.  -  1,430 words
    • 1608 14 —Straits Times, July tttt. Tiie West Iudia Committee Circular outers the lists against the expensive and generally unsatisfactory system of conducting colonial enterprises through Crown Agents, culling some pertinent facts from a Parliamentary paper recently published, which gave particulars of the remuneration received by the
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    • 381 15 Straits Times. July Hi. Much might 1m* said, much, indeed, has been said, in abuse of the Farm system of raising revenue; but the prospect of a speedy abolition of the Opium Farms iu the Straits Settlements and other Far Fasten) Colonies renders it sit|>eiffuous to reiterate*
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    • 373 15 by the mixture is not to bo denied. -Strait* Times, July 81. The virility of the Fnglish race is geucr ally conceded to be the result, iu largt* measure, of its composite character. Not only have three important sub division'* of the human race each had a part
      by the mixture is not to bo denied. -Strait* Times, July 81.  -  373 words
    • 406 15 Straits Times. July Hi. After forty-four years on the thtoue of Korea, the arch-intriguer, who, in a vs ay, ruled its destinies, submitted to wiser counsel of Ministers and abdicated in favour of the Crown Prince. One pictures the Emperor of Korea, the twenty-eighth
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 91 12 Ihe tree price ui the Straits Tmu't is t3® a ytai. The post free price ot the Strain HuJg<t is fl 4 a year. It is not necessary to subscribe for a year. The subscriptions for shorter periods are at the same proportionate rate as for a vear. 1 he
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  • 19 12 DEATH. Bn\w»v—On July JO, at No. 4 Wilkie Road, Singapore, Marie Rosalie (Mimii Branson, Aged *2‘> years. Deeply regretted.
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  • 855 16 At a meeting of the Direetors of the Straits Times Press, Limited, on the goth inst., it was derided to pay an inteiim dividend for the past half-year of V# |>er share. A Hylam passenger oil the Kohsiehang, nt noon on the 20th ult., attempted to jump
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  • 640 16 The conflict between the Gohs and the Lims, which has been the cause of several violent breaches of the peace on the water front, led to the death of Lim Chua on the steamer Pin Seng, soon after her
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  • 1382 17 The Singapore Chamber ot Commerce met on -July 31, to receive the report of a Sub c ommittee appointed by a general meeting of the Chamber on April .*> to draft replies to certain questions from the Colonial •Office on the matter of
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  • 194 17 The mortality returns for the Colony for the week ending July 27, published by Dr. Ellis, acting Registrar of Births and Deaths, show that there were 268 deaths during that period. Of this number, 228 were Chinese, 187 males
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  • 171 17 Babu, a Malay witli five previous convictions for theft, was sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment by the Bench Court, on the 30th ult., the charges against him being theft and the disposal of stolen property. He asked to be sent away to another country,
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  • 16 18 Str-i;!- 1 rv.e- u respuisibl*' f" 1 the »p,!c 'a- »f t* 1 r-'siv.uh nt-
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  • 365 18 I tl K.iit-.r <>t tin Straits Time-. Mngapore. I«» 1 y 20, 11MJ7S:r. Will um kindly allow us space in ymn paper t" insert a tew words of gratitude wi icli Doctor tin* officer now in charge of the District of Sil>u. Sarawak, and the
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  • 222 18 Tu the. Kditor of the Straits Times. Singapore, duly 27. Sir, Why does the Municipal President say that the only way for the Municipal Commissioners to improve matters regarding the hackney carriage service is to reduce the present gharries to third-class, at lower lares, and make it compulsory
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  • 81 18 To the Kditor of the Straits Times. The Auglo-Chinese School. Singapore. July 29. 1907. Sir. May wo respectfully inquire if the item which you printed concerning the School on Saturday is an exact and ungarbled reproduction of our Circular as it appeared iu the Church papers which
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  • 526 18 The long-postponed case of Sergeant Payne- against Kzra Joseph and Maslioda Prare-s. for obstructing him while iu the performance of his duty, and the cross charges against the Sergeant of wilful re*straint and using criminal force, were heard at last before the Second
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  • 220 18 The body of a Chinaman was found in a pool of blood iu the roadway on Ann Siaug Hill, on the night of November 29 last. As the result of inquiries made, it was ascertained that the name of the
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  • 221 18 Sinoaporb, July 31, 1907. PRODUCE. Gambier buyers 6.75 do (Cube No. 1) unpicked 10.35 Copra Bali 9.25 do Pontianak 8.95 Pepper, Black 17.90 do White 5% 24.87* Sago Flour Sarawak 3.02 do Brunei No. 1 2.97 Pearl Sago 4.50 Coffee Bali, 15% 19.00 Coffee, Palembang, 20% basis 22.50 Coffee,
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  • 915 19 (From Our Own Correspondent.! Kuala Lumpur, July 27. Only a little more than a decade and a half ago. there were in force in the Negri Sembilan certain laws, which, were they existing now, would, although most of them were
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  • 697 19 At the seventh ordinary general ineetiug of the Krnseh Hydraulic Tin Mining Company, Ltd., held at the company's office, 1 Robinson Road, at noon on July 31, there were preseut: Messrs. W. Patchitt (chairman), E, F. H. Kdlin (directors),
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  • 126 19 A Chinese man and woman were before the Second Magistrate, on the 29th ult., on a charge of the possession of 10,106 grains of morphia, 1,418 grains of cocaine, 12 hypodermic needles and three hypodermic syringes. The outfit indicated that a large business was being done
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  • 632 20 lYngata bin Amoh, a Javanese cloth seller, w hs dealt with leniently by the Chief Justice, >ir W. 11. Ilyndman Jones, for causing the death of Karissa, on the Beach Road, on April 18. The man was originally charged with murder, hut
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  • 753 20 iFkom Our Own Corrksponuknt.) Penang, July 30. There was only a moderate attendance at tho opening day of the Penang Turf Clubs Race Meeting, to day. owing to the showery nature of the weather. The going was heavy. The winners were as
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  • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 160 20 Sepoy Line* Golf Club. The Men's July medal was played ou Saturday and Sunday last, the scores being as follows: K. I). Keith 38 41- 79—10-69 W. G. Ellis 38 39- 77— 5 «*72 R. A. Campbell... 38 34- 72+ 2 74 Cl. A. Finlayson... 36 41 77 3
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    • 63 20 5.R.C. 2nd XI. v. Medical School. The Straits Medical School met the second eleven of the S.R.C. in an Association football match on the latter's ground on July 26, and a fairly good game took place. The Medical School scored a goal in the first half. The home
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    • 84 20 Jackson Millar Cup. The weather was adverse on the 28tli nlt M when the 200 yards race for the Jackson Millar Cap took place at the Swimming Club. There was a strong tide and a heavy swell. The result was as follows: —M. B. Brockwell. 1 E. D. Butler,
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  • 3774 21 Loudon, July 24. His Highness Sir Ganga Singh, Maharaja ot Bikaner, Bahadur, K.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., Major. 9th Hodsou's Horse iu the Indian Army, in a long letter to The Times stating clearly the position of the Iudian Princes, declares that, while the present policy of Great Britain towards India
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  • 812 23 Berlin, .July 24. The German military balloon has twice made ascents in which it remained for several hours in the air. The experiments proved that it was steerable. The Hague Peace Conference has agreed to the proposals put forward by the German and American delegates regarding international collection
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  • 514 23 i Fkom Our Own Corrksfokdrxt.) Hongkong, July 29, 11.20 a.m. His Excellency Brigadier-General Sir Frederick D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., D. 5.0., the new Governor of Hongkong, arrived by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company s steamer Flmpress of Japan from Vancouver (British Columbia! on Sunday. His Fixcellency took the oath
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  • SHIPPING IN PORT.
    • 489 24 July 24 Denver, U. S. cru, Caperton, Colombo Cleveland. C. S. cru, Newton, Colombo S\ria, Brit str, Gregor. Japan, P. <V O. Coy Nord, Brit str. Prynn, Shanghai, Katz Bros Culehas, Brit Htr, Williams, L'|>ool. Mansfield Ban Poll Guam. Brit str. Smith, Macassar, Wee Bin 25 Pr u/ K.
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    • 364 24 July 2 H Japara, Dut str, Batavia Unity, Nor str, Rangoon Hiroshima Maru, Jap str. Hongkong, Japan Kdendale. Brit str. Samarang \ia ports 24 Wye, Brit str. Dalny Teresa, Brit str, Goroutalo \ia ports Ban Liong, Dut str. Cotie via [iorts Valeiitvn Dnt str Singkawang \ia port** Hop Sang,
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    • 763 24 Name, port, probable date of arrival, and name oj Agents, STEAMERS. Agamemnon, Liverpool, Augt 14 Mansfield Agapanthus, L'don, Aug/Sepfc, Hut’bach Bros Airlie, Sydney, Augt 24 Bonstead Antenor, Liverpool, Angt 21; Mansfield Arcadia, Hongkong, Angt 30 P. A O. Coy Austria,‘Hongkong, Sept 8; Rauteriberg Anstralien, Marseilles, Augt 26; M.
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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    • 353 25 NOTICE. THE HOTEL DE LA PAIX. This well-known establishment, which has changed ownership, is now open and ready to receive visitors (Boarders Passengers). The House has been thoroughly renovated, and will be made comfortable in every respect. The management intend to keep np the good name this Hotel has always
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    • 366 25 MARTIN’S APKm&il£§ /mifeMegj PI i>LS MsttLScrj u'“,r“. nsCuf&s. sssstvt Irti oftomy of a. lySm > Hillfliiw wmf BUCHANAN’S WHISKIES. fyVr TiAcjCk 1 v af.’L J?*' -jk f •re not aa experiment. They halve been the favourite blende at home for many yeare and are,rapidly gaining similar popularity in the Colonies.
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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    • 495 26 lea PERRIMS j j H SAUCE D fr 51 I I NjfS Assisis digestion and gives a delightful 8 piquancy ami flavour la all I wtAT DISHES, SOUPS, FISH, CHEESE, CURRIES, I I GAME, POULTRY and SALADS. 1 Worcestershire. B t* n c Have You Considered how very many serious
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
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  • Page 28 Advertisements
    • 154 28 J. MOTION GO. Watchmakers. Jewellers. Opticians. REPAIRS PROMPTLY EXECUTED CHARLES HEIDSIECK’S White Seal Champagne. mom: AfihNT't Behn, Moyer A Co Ld. Stng'ipnn: ntul I'rming. DEPOT Singapore f flrssrs. join uniit: <»., Ltd. March HO m.w.f. ti.c. itaiitiaiiiuttiafiufeitAftiiikiftiaiBAf Hall’ S Coca Wine Woml<l von like to say 0m *o!;»yc to in;,:
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    • 466 28 A (J* ha U rs wt I U J n «t «S *i 4»' h *i i r li >i *i Aim r SCIATICA, NEURAL6IA, PROSTRATION AND DEPRESSION. Apollo" tells how to avoid wasted effort. APOLLO.” the Meal Athlete, th3 enilvxlimmt of phv-ieal "race a»'«l minmetrical muscular development. pivs a
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