The Straits Budget, 26 December 1907

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE "STRAITS TIMES.” VOL. LXI. NO. 2602. Singapore, Thursday, December 26,1907. ESTABLISHED over HALF A CEHTBtT Price 25 cents.
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  • 219 1 LEADERS: Thread, Buttons and Trimmings! 10 Australia's Victory in the Test Match 10 Rubber Production in the F.M.S. 10-11 Harbour Accommodation East of Suez 11-12 Reform in the Banka Tin Industry 12 Christmas Greeting to our Readers 12 The Money Crisis 1 Cricket in Australia 2 Lost
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  • 896 1 d'roM Our Own Courksponukst.) Hamburg, November 28. The financial situation iu the United States of America shows signs of improvement, thanks to the assistance rendered by the New York City magnates, and to the euergetic action of the
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  • 410 4 Another arrest has been made by the local police, in conjunction with the Johore •authorities, in connection with the Newton tragedy, jjlufc the accused, a Malay, named Sulong, ft at present in the custody of the Johore Police, pending extradition.
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  • 210 4 Ho Ab Chi and Lam Siew appeared liefore a Bench Court, consisting of Messrs. Howard and Gibson, on the 20th instant, to answer a charge of making a false statement regarding the death of one Lam Ah Wong. It was alleged that they had reported the
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  • 329 4 (From Oi r Own Cokrkspondknt.) Penang, December 1 1>. The auti-opium crusaders here are in high spirits at present. Thev are optimistic as to the results to be derived from the meeting addressed by Mr. R. Laidlaw, M.P., and from the
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  • 182 4 In the Full Court, on the 19th inst., before the acting Chief Justice, Mr. A. G. Law, Mr. Justice Fisher, and Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith, an application was made for the review of the proceeding of the Court of Requests in the matter of Mohamed Hashim, plaintiff
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  • 84 4 No money, no friends, no home no makan, a*d too much life was the explanation given to the Second Magistrate, Mr. C. F. J. (ireen, on the 20th inst., by a Chinaman, named Lee Ah Hoon, for attempting to hang himself on a tree, at midnight, last
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  • 454 4 There was a special meeting of the Municipal Commissioners, on the 20th inst., to pass bills and the Supplemental Budget No. 8, of 1907. Those present were Lieuten-ant-Colonel E. G. Broadrick, President; Mr. .1. Polglase, Secretary; Mr. K. Peirce, Engineer; Dr.
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  • 132 4 Writing from Sandakan on the 13th inst., a correspondent states: Considerable surprise is invariably occasioned among visitors to British North Borneo at the absence of European-owned stores, where foreign goods can be purchased as in the Straits Settlements and in the East generally.
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  • 331 5 Beware of the strangers who are gifted with the power of transforming human beings into animals! Silly, unsuspecting natives, particularly those who profess Mohammedism, and living in the district of Passir Panjaug, have been almost scared out of their lives during the
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  • 169 5 His Excellency the Governor and Miss Anderson and suite arrived at Teluk Ansou on Monday morning last by the Sea Mew, 9ays the Teluk Anson correspondent to the Perak Pioneer. Mr. Dew, District Officer, and Commander Mills, R. N., Harbour Master, were awaiting their
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  • 30 5 H^t 8 StJfJSTC Second^Magis 8 UaWon respect "of “,°OOco C UectedfortheCl.c^r charged and Mr p SraSkVW aefene. The hearing Manage Mind ♦5OO for Sng Woon.
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  • 386 5 Tlio new postal contract with the I*, and I o. begins a few weeks hence: but will bring no appreciable change with it. The public in India had anticipated that perhaps, the journey would be curtailed by 1 a
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  • 111 5 Captain Remmers, of the Dutch steamer Lady Weld, which arrived from Pontianak. on the 23rd inst., reports having encountered heavy north-east monsoons. There were sundry damages to the paddles and fittings, and the deck cargo was damaged by water. Captain R. Anderson, of the Anglo-Ame-rican Oil
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  • 84 5 A Chinaman named One Ee Tee was before flip Second Magistrate, Mr. C. K J. Lrcxp, on Saturday afternoon, on a charge of posses stan of and y selling illicit chandu andJr^H, Vn 10 Blanco Court. He admitted ws session! but declared that the chandu /as ob
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  • 332 5 M. C. S. Mohamed will have to serve his sentence of a year s rigorous imprisonment* for giviug false evidence jgefore the civul court, his appeal against the ddblfeion of the magistrate having been dismissed. The ruling of the Appeal Court *as
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  • 264 5 Mr. A. R. Slater, c.c;.» v additional assistant Colonial Secretary at Colombo, who Jias just bccu relieved as Clerk to the Legisla.iv»* Council by the return of Mr.*A. G. a i has been commissioned by the Ceylon Gov eminent to
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  • 208 8 Fuller details of the destructive tire which broke out in the Penang village of Tanjoug Tokong on Saturday week rendering some four hundred persons homeless, are to hand. v Half of the village, it seems, which was inhabited by Chinese and Malays,
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  • 1030 8 The meeting of Perak Plata tors on the 14th inst., arranged originally to discuss the advisability of reducing the working costs of mining, owing to the heavy depreciation in the value of tin, went a step further
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  • 174 8 The January Assizes bid fair to occupy considerable of the Judge’s time. During the past week, there have been several cases committed for trial, from the Second and Third Magistrates’ Courts. A Mohammedan Indian, named Hadji Meydin. was sent to the Assizes from the Second Magistrate’s Court,
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  • 92 8 Several weeks ago a Chinaman, named Lee Ah Puang, was arrested on a charge of causing grievous hurt to a woman, named Chan Chee, by breaking, or emptying, a bottle of carbolic acid on her head. The hearings of the case have been adjourned from time to
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  • 1362 9 One of the papers laid on the table at m.*, Legislative Council meeting, on the 20th iust.. was the annual report on the working of The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1888 durino the m' P t6P p arfcd bvMl C
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  • 208 9 A hench Court, consisting of Messrs. Howard and Gibson, sat on the 20th inst., to hear the charge against Gularn -leydiu of making a false charge against Siuna Tamby. an employee of the Hong kong and Shanghai Hank, the charge
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  • 101 9 The annual universal week of pray* r begins on January 5. Meetings will be hold each night during the week, beginning Monday, January 6, at the Short Str/Jpfe School, at 880 o'clock. The subject and speakers are as follows Monday, the Rev. Willi&m Murray, Timed. giving
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  • 158 9 Bnliviar Simon Frois, charged with cum. J nal breach of trust in respect of S2JJ belonging to Ins employer, .Mr. \f. (J. N.’hlett pleaded guilty to the charge, on tin- 20th instant, before a Bench Court, eonsistiug of Messrs. Howard and Gibson. Mr. Sproule appeared for tin- utiou
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  • 38 10 Dunn. 44 Fir Tree” Hill, Singapore, on December 19, the wife of R. W. Dann, of a ■on. Curtis.— -On December 20, at Mount Rosie, Chancery Lane, Singapore, the wife of C. M. Curtib. of a daughter.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 456 10 THREAD, BUTTONS AND TRIMMINGS!” S h i a f the leech t -St V it8 Times, Deecm- Some time ago, in a reference to the Crown Agents, we mentioned the fact that these agents—for we cannot believe the Colonial Office would have thought of such a tbiife,—pressed upon the Colonial
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    • 1036 10 VAVUVi J CbU -Straits Times. December 20. Members of the community who have followed the progress of the cricket test match, as mirrored in the daily service of telegrams appearing in our columns, will have learned the result with mixed feelings. Englishmen will be
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    • 1088 10 Times, December 21. It will be remembered that several weeks ago we called attention to the danger of overplanting rubber in the Malay Peninsula, arguing that any serious blow to the industry would be equally serious to the country and its interests. We ventured upon
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    • 1578 11 of this part of the world.—Straits Times, December 2o. ,Dcrettß,n ß diuiennions of summers and tlm netessity for iLun lKini( the depth ot harbours and the size of docks* Home U thp C r attrnctin ni «ch Home, the discussion of which is particularly opiiortnne
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    • 576 12 Straits Times, December 1W. Market reports dwell on the fact that tin from t’.anka, an island in the Dutch East Indies lying between Singapore and Batavia, where the Government works rich tin mines by Chinese coolies, is a disturbing element to be reckoned with
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    • 653 12 Times, December 24. The gospel of Ch ristmas possesses one aspect at least, which, after loug ages of apparent failure, now bids fair to unite in aim and aspiration all the diverse nations upon earth, irrespective of the barriers of race and creed. In the
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 94 10 Tb# pout free price of the Straits Times is $3B a year. The post free price of the Straits Budget is $l4 a year. It is not necessary to subscribe for a year. The subscriptions for shorter periods are at the same propor--4 tionate rate as for a year. The
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  • 531 12 A revenue officer ‘h’seovered *l5 worth of illicit chandu on a Chinaman a» he got off the train from Johore. at Newton Station, on Monday. The Second Magistrate fined the accused $5O. The opium revenue iu Java amounted to 11,882,922 guilders iu 1906, The figures indicate a slight
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  • 471 13 Dr. Uicesttr. Of Kuala Lutupur. l.as been transferred to Taipiug. F en Th S Ml rra y arrived iu Singapore by the P. and C). Arcadia. The Rev. I Pinhorn, the new c haplain of Taipmg, has arrived iu Singapore bv the P. and steamer Arcadia. Captain
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  • 210 13 (I-hoM Oi k Own Corrkscondkst.i Hamburg, November gs. A bill dealing with the commercial relatious between Great Britain and Germany will shortly be laid before the Reichstag. It appears from the fulsome tabulated statements attached to it that the
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  • 353 13 Before Mr. Justice Fisher, on the 23rd inst., the appeal of Saram Singh, a Police Corporal, against the decision of Mr. E. E. Column, the Third Magistrate, convicting him of theft from three vegetable sellers, named Yap Peck, Yap Beng and Ng Mok, was called. Mr. R.
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  • 143 13 planned 'mending weekly contribution* t urry and SambaL th»-ir pn>ed an i tenour We seasonably break tbo*c n-solutions Make flagstones tor Geheon i Our priutcr Gauytuede ha- now removes] Till* Curry and SatAhiA*# from off ocr^ me n u I h»- pungent, spicy morrt.ius that wo loved lo
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  • 167 13 Mr. E. E. Coluiau, the Third Magistral on the 24th inst., heard the case of allege 1 vitriol throwing, in which !l woman named Chan Chee is the complainant and a man, named Lis: Ah Puan, is the accused. Medi cal evidence was given, showing that
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  • 127 13 Altera prolonged and mature the privilege of appeal to the Privy Count il from the decisions of the Court of Appeal ha.been conferred upon F.M.S., but with tieimportant proviso that the value «>f tie* subject matter should not lx less than £5OO or about $4,800. 0 This
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  • 90 13 When the steamer Bangkok arrived from Siam, on the 19th instant, there wa-» tho usual rush of sampans alongside. A revenu*launch approached, and on tiio ehiutiug-* seeing the sampan coolies engaged iu a warm tight, they arrested ten men and turned them over to Inspector Wilson,
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  • 716 15 The following is the report of the General Manager of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Ltd., for the month ended November SO:— Gentlemen, I herewith bog to submit my monthly report on your Mining and Milling Operations. The mine
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  • 195 15 During the hearing of the appeal of a Chinese woman, named Leoug Tye I lye. against a magistrate’s conviction, which mulcted her in the sum of $5OO. or, in the alternative, six months’ rigorous imprisonment. it was stated, in
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  • 91 15 A Chinese thief entered the residence of Mr. Nathan, at the corner of irwell Hank and Grange Roads, on the 18th inst., and secured $2 and a pair of gold buttons. Mr. Nathan was aroused and got a glimpse of the burglar. There were six detectives
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  • 81 15 The Rev. J. Andrew Smith prosecutejl a Bengali tailor, named Osman, before tufc Second Magistrate, Mr.C. F.J. Green oiXlie 19th inst., on a charge of criminal breach of trust of a coat, a silver belt, and a pattern b °Accused said that he had been ill,
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  • 379 15 < Ci;..m Out! Own c'okk.\ ;.i Penang. fIA-cmh* r 16. Since the death of the late t hi* t In-pM tor Dickson there has been perhaps, Douceur rence of a like nature that ha struck -u.-h a geiieial note
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  • 223 15 There were few clmui>eM iu tlie cio.tmat.ni; of the Methodist missionaries made by Conference this year, the following being the more important in addition to tin.'** give last week Miss Holland, Principal of the Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, comes from the South India Conference to take the
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  • 76 16 (From Corrkspondknt.) London, December 21. There is not much demand for rubber, and the price foi*Para has gone to Bs. f>£d. Though there is a fair demaud foi? Plautation, the price has fallen Bd. per lb. A considerable amount of
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  • 224 16 Acting Insitector Kartells, of Sepoy Lines Station, conducted a preliminary enquiry, before the Second Magistrate, Mr. C. F. 5. Green, on the 19th inst., into a charge of gang robbery against throe Chinese, named Too Sui, Ng Kiap Pok and Koh
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  • 115 16 Mr. C. H. Oliveiro was find $5 and costs by the Senior Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Howard, on the 23rd inst., for assaulting a Chinese shop-keeper, named Yeo Ban Teat, v Complainant’s story was that the accused wanted to get credit irom him and when he refused
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  • 90 16 Before Mr. Justice Fisher, on Monday, the appeal was heard of Abubakar, Polioe Constable 685, against the decision of Mr. C. F. J. Green, the Second Magistrate, who convicted avS °i? a c^ar B e receiving $lO from one Abdullah for the purpose of securing the latter’s
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  • 86 16 (From Our Own Corrkspondknt.) London, December 20, 1.80 a.m. The correspondent of the Central News at Rome telegraphs details of a terrible explosion of dynamite at Palermo, in the Island of Sicily. The disaster occurred at the Armenia
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  • 206 16 There was another addition on Monday night to the long list of murders which have been perpetrated in Singapore during the year, the victim being a Chinese gambling informer, named Wong Seng, who has been of great service to the Police. The deceased
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  • 219 16 At 2 p.m. to-day the hired transport Sicilia is due to leave Singapore for Colombo and England. Many popular officers, and close upon 400 men, will be sailing by her as reference to the subjoined list will show:— Royal Garrison Artillery.—Those leaving this Corps include: Colonel G.
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  • 13 16 [The Straits Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents.]
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  • 210 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Singapore, December 28. Sir, —Please allow me to thank and congratulate your paper on the cable information furnished about the Test Match (great enterprise in Singapore), and also for your very sporting leader of the 20th instant—very pleasant reading for
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  • 355 16 A lire broke out in the store of (loll All Hoe, Chop Seng Whatt, at No. 04, Clyde Street, near the Clyde Terrace Market, at 9.15 o’clock, ou the 23rd inst., and before it was extinguished damage amounting to about $1,200
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 734 18 Unable to bring about the defeat of the Y.M.C'.A. in their match on the 20th iust r the S.R.C. will have to content themselves on being the woodeu spoon ists in the Singapoje Association Football Shield competition. Considerable interest was centred in
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    • 608 18 Malay States V.R.C. v. West Kents. A match between teams representing the above took place at Kuala Lumpur on Friday moruiug, resulting in a win for the M.S.V.R. by 10 |»oints. Details of the scores arc as follow Wkst Kents. 200 '.00 600 Total Lieut. Hibbert 82 81
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    • 247 18 Keppel Qolf Club. There was a large number of competitors for the December medil, played for on Saturday and Sunday. The following w*fe the best cards re turned:— Hon. Capt. A. YounufC.M.G. 84— 8—76 K. W. Dunn 97 —20—77 F. Ferguson 764- 5^-81 C. A. Leggatt 91—10—81 Straits Champjbnship.
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  • 1733 19 London, December 18. A telegram from New York states that Mr Compers, President of the Federation of Labour, speaking at a banquet of the Civic Federation, not.hed the employers that the workmen in the country will not consent to any reduction being made in their wages as a
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  • Stocks and Shares. SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 24, 1907.
    • 375 20 L>aie of umiwr p ai form*- Capital Subscribed of Company Quotatiosn I ion Shares Vslae U P 10 Un,88Ued 1903 £tt0#<>0 (00,000 30.000 »10 10 Belat Tin M. Co., Ltd. ..j 7.00 i 1007 9300,0*4) *225.* 0»- 22,500 110 tlo 7,?00 Braang Lid. 6.00 1001 $600,no*) 1600,000 tfO.Ouu $»0
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    • 355 20 1003 j *»*"«> £116,603 j| J, l A-gloMaUy Rnhb*. (>.. L«l r 1905 $200,000 $105,000 10,500 0 IK* Balgownie Rubber Estate Ltd. (fully paid, $24 00 1904 £30,000 £l3 040 j- fj} B ,u <*7B. Rubber 00. LW. (I.p, £4 17.6 1903 £70.000 £61,000 61,000 £> 9,GO*' Baku Rajah
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    • 207 20 "i *i £5,3:7.10.0 £4,805 1*2/6 U» 916 Bolls Asbestos Eastern Ag< ndy, Ltd |7.00 IH9m *224,000 1225,C00 4.500 *60 *M» FratM-r A Neavo, Ltd. 147.50 A15,0(;0.000 *15 0X1,000 4 “:;"ot *25 Uod B K u o K and Shanghai Bf nb 576 (X) M.W.0O *i,.oo.(K» ‘JJ;™ J|" 0 How.rtb
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
    • 679 22 A b BROKEN-DOWN SYSTEM. I'hi* is s condition (or disnsse) to which doctors K many names, but which few of them really understand. It is simply weakness—a break-down, as it were, of the vitalforces that sustain the system. No matter what maybe its causes (for they are almost ryimbt dess),its
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