The Straits Budget, 8 October 1908

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES/’ VOL. LXII. NO. 2643. Singapore, Thursday, October S, 1908. ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTUIY Price 25 cents
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  • 235 1 LEADERS: Political Crisis in Eastern Europe 12 Preparing the Filipinos for SelfGovernment 12 Americans and Chinese as Allies 13 Rubber Planters Seek More Representation 18 Combating Malaria in the F.M.S. 14 Proposed Chinese Mercantile Marine 14 Comments on the Governors Budget Speech ...14-15 Planters’ Meeting 1 TVamcar
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  • 665 1 (From Oor Own Correspondent.) Penang, October 0, 12.5 a m. The meeting of the Planters’ Association of Malaya was held here yesterday, and the delegates sat till a late hour discussing important resolutions. The opening of the meeting
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  • 118 1 About six o’clock on Tuesday night, an old Army pensioner, in attempting to alight from a tramoar. which was in motion. «t the junction of Buffalo Road and Sorangoou Road, me* with a nasty accident. Under his ami. ho had a couple of framed pictures, and they got
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  • 794 3 i nw Tin Prices Affect Imports and Exports. The commerce of the Colony in 1907 ad!1C( d slightly over 1906 in both imports i ,-xnorts, the value of goods imported i,j n 322*9 million dollars (£37,668,000) ami the exports 282 2 million (£82,921,000), incn oses of 1J per
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  • 497 3 Proposed New Ordinance Concerning Gold Reserve. A considerable depression took place in the exchange; value of tho dollar in tho latter part of the year 1907 ami continued till August this year. The lowest limit reached was 2s. 3,}d. for demaud drafts iu February and from that
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  • 1326 3 Municipal Commissioners' Scheme for Improvements. There were 15 deaths from plague in the Colony and 6 from small pox and 180 from cholera during 1907. The death-rate was 39 07 per inille, and the birth-rate was 2611 on an estimated population of 619,776. As you are aware,Jegi*lative sanction
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  • 379 4 Introduction of a Divorce Bill at Early Date. Fourteen Ordinances were placed on the Statute Rook between the date of ray last address and the end of 1907. Amongst them were the important Courts and Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure Amendment Ordinances, prepared by a Committee presided over by
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  • 798 4 The Opium Commissioner's Report Almost Completed. A certain number of advance copies of the Opium Commission's report have recently beeu received, ami tho Government Printing Office is still busily engaged in completing the work on the evidence and appendices, which will form a very voluminous and in-’ teresting
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  • 454 5 F. W. Barker aud Company, of have just issued the following s .i°^V r i n reference to the Ledbury Rubber vT t s Ltd which was mentioned in our corn spondeut'a telegram from London last We are informed that
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  • 185 5 I 1 our C’liineso wore tried before the Third Magistrate, on Friday, on a charge of possession of more that the legal amount of morphia and of a hypodermic syringe. One of them claimed ail tho morphia and the fringe as his, the others accused being ujcr<
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  • 13 5 [The Straits Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents.]
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  • 369 5 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Singapore, October 1. Sir, Under the above heading in the issue of your paper on September 30 is published an extract, purporting to be au interview with a Chinese ex-editor returning from a visit to Australia. In this interview* the
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  • 188 5 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Singapore, October 1. Sir, —Will you allow me a few lines iu answer to your criticism on tho H.G A. withdrawing from tho Singapore League. You say you think it must be because we cannot get a match over on
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  • 643 5 Ali. the Malay who attacked three women, two Javanese and a Malay, savagely, iu Ah Hood Hoad, off Balestier Hoad, on Saturday morning, met an ignominious death in a well iu Moulmein Hoad at dusk the same day. One of the
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  • 1070 7 T Singapore team tired on Monday in ht annual rifle match with Hongkong and Shanghai tor the luterport Challenge Shield. Singapore has beon doing well in practice, but with Corporal Cliator absent distinguishing hiuiself at Bisley, and
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  • 95 7 Another of the Hong Lira Quay rioters appeared before the Third Magistrate, Mr Maurice Thunder, on Friday afternoon-, and received sentence in the following doses Three months’ rigorous imprisonment for assaulting the Chinese detective who was so brutally maltreated ou that occasion, three months for wrongly
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  • 203 7 (From Our Corrkhpondkn r.) London (via Penang), October 4. It has been decided by the Judges at the Rubber Exhibition atShepherd'a Bush not to award the prize offer by Mr. Patrick Oow, managing director of
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  • 79 7 Shortly after 6 o’clock, on Saturday there was a fight between two Chinese boatmen in the Singapore River. Ouo knocked the other into the water and then tried to keep him under the surface. The unfortunate man had a narrow escape from death, being rescued by
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  • 81 7 It ia not safe to try to sell a stolen watch to a Malay in ordinary dress, as he may prove to be a constable ofi duty, as a Chinaman learned to hia sorrow, on Thursday. The watch proved to be one that
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  • 74 7 The annual report of the Penang Cricket Club shows a profit on the year’s working of 82.060.72, the largest profit ever made by the Club in one year. A balance of 85,063 57 stands to the credit of the pro it and loss account. Six'y seven new
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  • 36 7 A telegram has been received by Messrs. Gunn and Company, s« cr*-taries to tho Balgownio Rubber Kstates, Limited, stating that the harvest for September is estimated at 2,927 lbs. of dry rubber.
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  • 743 9 Hi Kxcellency the Governor, Sir John Wdetson. K.C.M.G. spoke for thirty-live ’nutes when making Ins annual address to rs of the Legislative Council, on Friuv“ iteruoon. Captain A. H Young, C.M.G., c 0 ionial Secretary, followed with a lasting for aD hour. Other
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  • 208 9 The October issue of the Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States is another interesting publication. Mr. T. W. Main does not beat about the bush in writing on Improvements of Fruits in Malaya, for he says that the industry has
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  • 116 9 Foo San was fined $2 for wasting Municipal water and a friend paid over the money to Lim Tek Sia, that the latter might pay the fine so that Foo San might be released. Unfortunately, poor Foo San had to stay in custody, as the
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  • 55 9 Lim Ah Kow, a Tcochew, decided that lib was tired of life and started to cut his throat with a knife in the five foot way in front of No. 17 New Market Hoad, on Ihursday morning. He was stopped before fatal in juries had been received,
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  • 273 9 At the special meeting of the Municipal Commissioners, held in the Board Room, on Friday, the following gentlemen were present:—Messrs. J. Polglase, Deputy President; F. J. Benjafield, Acting Secretary H. Gostwyck, Acting Engineer; W. M&cbean, A. W. Bailey, Cheng King Lee, Ong Tek
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  • 188 9 The death took place at his residence, Scrangoon House, Craiglockhart, near Edinburgh, on September 3, of Dr. Robert Jamie, who for many years was one of the best known and most respected men in Singapore. Since he left Singapore in December 1883, Dr. Jamie has resided
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  • 106 9 At 11 a.m. on Thursday, there was a collision in tho Singapore River between a tongkang propelled by Klinns and a twakow whose steersman was a Chinaman. The latter was thrown into the river by the force of the impact and narrowly escaped losing his life,
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  • 20 12 Montoombbik. —At tho Lake, Thompson Road, Singapore, on September .‘JO, to Mr. «nd Mrs. J. Love Montgomerie, a (laughter.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 465 12 bo spared to avert a conflict.—Straits Times, < )ctobor ft. Whether or not tho efforts of diplomatists avert, for tho moment, an actual disturbance of tho peace in Eastern Europe, it is evident that tho long dreaded crisis in the affairs of that part of
      bo spared to avert a conflict.—Straits Times, < )ctobor ft.  -  465 words
    • 1344 12 ,—Straits Times, October -&gt;• It is always pleasant to And a man who is responsible in any degree for the government of a subject people expressing himself cordially and sympathetically in regard to them. There can be no doubt that long familiarity has a tendency
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    • 999 13 —Straits Times, October r &gt;. 1,, connection with the New York Herald's dvocacy of an alliance between the United States and China, the representative of that journal in Hongkong has interviewed a large nuiuber of personages of more or less local celebrity. Like Li Sura-ling,
      —Straits Times, October r>.  -  999 words
    • 959 13 —Straits Times, October 6. The resolution passed at yesterday’s meeting of the Planters' Association of Malaya at Penang need not come as a surprise to anyone who has given more than passing notice to the development of the administration of British Malaya in recent years.
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    • 887 14 much evidence of success elsewhere. —Straits Times, October 1. The dissemination of malaria iu Selangor does not *eem to have abated during the l&nt couple of yearH. and it is reported that in the previous year there was a very marked increase in the number
      much evidence of success elsewhere.—Straits Times, October 1.  -  887 words
    • 361 14 Straits Times, October 1. Prince Ching, the President of the Board of Agriculture and Trade at Peking, is interesting himself in a scheme for starting a purely Chinese Steam Navigation Company which will carry on business under Government protection, in the style of the Japanese concern
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    • 896 14 has &gt; l u tit to grant. —Straits Times, October #&gt;. His Excellency the Governor lu.l ao pleasant task to perform when he mads w annual statement on the fin»„ ct s l Straits Settlements to the Legislative Coat cil yesterday. It is never
      has >( lu tit to grant.—Straits Times, October #>.  -  896 words
  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 92 12 The post free price of the Straits Times i» $'W a year. The po»t free price of the Straits Budget is )I4 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 year. The Straits
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  • 887 15 The co&gt;t of the new Kuala Selangor lighthouse i&gt; estimated at $77,965. The increase of railway traffic from Port Swetteuham has been 45 per cent, in five years The manager reports that the output of tin trom the Sipiau Tin Company, Limited, for the month of September
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  • 468 15 Mr. H. C. Xacharias, of Kuala Lumpur, arrived in Singapore. Wong Ah Fook, of Singapore, lias been granted a certificate of naturalisation as a British subject. Mr. A. V. Brown, of the F.M.S. service, lias been appointed Second Magistrate and Assistant Judge, Penang. Lieutenant A. A. Sutcliffe,
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 1017 19 Singapore Shield Competition. f mt and lively game characterised tb e meeting of the Royal Went Kents ,1 t |,o Warders and Royal Engineers \ssociation football match in conwith the Singapore Shield Comtition on the S.R.O. portion of the Esplanade, on Wednesday. The West Kents L| a few
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    • 218 19 S.C.C. V. 99th Deccan Infantry. An interesting game of Hockey was played ontheEsplanadeonTlmrsdaybetween elevens representing the S.C.C. and the 99th Deccan Infantry, and a good many spectators were present. The S.C.C. proved the better team and displayed not only superior passing and stopping powers, but possessed faster men in
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    • 285 19 S.C.C. 2nd XI v. S.R.C. 2nd XI. The cricket match arranger! to ho played between tho first elevens of the S.l-.C. and the S It C., on S .turday, had to bo postponed, as the ground was f,.. wot after the downpour of rain at noon. 'Hie second eleveos
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    • 62 19 Ladies’ Ciolf Championship. The semi final in the Ladies' Golf Championship, played on Thursday, resulted as follows: Mrs. Sauudcrs beat Mrs. Gansloser two up and one to play. Miss Darbishire beat Mrs. Koigwin three up and two to play. The final will be played this afternoon, and will bo
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    • 54 19 Tanglin Club Monthly Medal. The following are the scores for the September monthly medal in connection with the Tanglin Club J. Waddell 087 150- 837 ,J. Denniston 684 +150—734 V. A. Flower 075+ 30^705 A. H. Withers 779— 80 =399 D. M Craik 599 r 100 399 F. E.
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    • 115 19 Competitions at Swimming Club. There was the usual good attendance aft the Swimming Club, on Sunday. The team race, which was t 0 have taken place on tho Sunday preceding wjh swam off. and won by the lub, despite the excellent form of the Garrison team. The military team
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  • 2374 20 London, September 30. Prominence is given in the Press to a suggestion made by Mr. It. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, that seventeen thousand of the unemployed cau tide over the winter mouths by enlisting in the special Army Reserve. Some of the Labour leaders approve,
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  • 1576 21 Berlin, September HO. Cholera is on the decrease iu St. Petersburg, and there is rejoicing throughout the city. A rumour in Berlin is to the effect that the Sultau of Turkey desires that the reorganisation of the Turkish Army shall be carried out by General Goltz Pasclia, formerly
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  • SHIPPING IN PORT.
    • 582 23 September 3° CtM gtr, Deinat, Hongkong, Behn Arubna. rcl str, Olifent, Hongkong, P. Simons J»P an Hrit str, LarkinB, Raugoon, Taik (Jlenoyio. 1,1 pruvl Nor" str, Folkman, Bangkok, Joo (ir'str, Cordes, Bangkok, B Meyer Brit str, Buller, Calcutta, Boustead October i Ca y pgo lint str, Bannatyne, Deli, W.
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    • 435 23 September 30 Kouang Si, Fch itr, H’kcng, Shanghai, Japan Pataui, Ger ttr, Bangkok October 1 ■f Tannenfela, Ger str, Calcutta Minilva, Brit str, Fremaotle via ports Nam Yong, Brit str. Macassar via ports Dovre, Nor str, Bangkok Teesta, Brit str. Negspatam via ports Solva, Nor str, Bangkok Janet NicJl,
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  • LIST OF PASSENGERS.
    • 172 23 Per P. and O. China, connoctiug with the steamer As«ayo at Colombo, due October 9.—Mrs. J. M. Watt, Miss Condon, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Desborongh and child, Mrs. W. H. McKerron, Mr. E. J. Wood, Mr. J. Cowap, Mrs. A. B. Milne, Mr. R. Perice. Per P.
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  • 297 23 SlNOAPOES, OcTOBKR 7, 1908 PRODUCK. lambier I 7 871 do (Gabe No. 1) anpicked 1185 L/Oprs Bali 7 60 do Pontianak 7 15 Pepper, Black 10 10 do White 5% buyers 15 371 Saso Floor Sarawak 8 00 do Brunei No. 1 2 85 Pearl Sago 8 50 Ooflee
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  • Stocks and Shares. Singapore, October 7, 1908.
    • 380 24 IiRle ot Numoer i iioe p ft j d Shares fnr ni»- Capital 4nbaoribed of a p to Unissued Company Quotation*. tioo Shares r L__ 1903 9800,000 300,GOO 30,000 10 10 Belal Tin M. Oo., Ltd. ..7 00 1907 1800,000 990,000 99,000 10 10 7,600 Brnang Ltd. 6 50
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    • 344 24 mmm\ *u&gt; I J nJ if*. 190ft 9900,000 126,000 12,60 &gt; 10 10 7,400 Balgownle Rnbber Estate Lid. (fully paid 15(0 1904 £30,000 22,750 22.750 1 1 19.000 Baiu Oaves Robber Go. Lid, (f.p) 2 13 1908 £70,000 66.700 66 700 1 1 8,800 bufclt Rajah Rubber Oo., Lid.
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    • 188 24 1894 £5,877.10.0 4,805 7 *&lt;&gt;* 19/6 19/P 916 Bella Asbestos Extern Agency, Lid s*o 1898 6295,000 995,000 4,600 50 60 Fraser A Neave, Ltd. 140 00 1865 916.000,000 15,000.000 19 000 195 1»0 Hcngkonp aod Shanghai Bank 60 0 0 .908 M,400.000 *.,00.000 }2o HtWir lh E k e
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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    • 380 25 Published dtUj it LRADIH6 paper is «a Medan, Deii, to the THE RUBBER WHEEL AND CYCLE WORKS 47 Hui Street, (opposite Armenian Church). "Bieyetes on hire, for sale and repaired. We do all of Sr**** n—. cart and Rickeha of Robber Tyree. naviaieoeioB guaranieea. ■Ptcee mod mtar^^m BAHTIN L *i
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
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    • 310 26 UV. 8* ■V rt -V &gt; ✓J 1 I delightful ves a m d to all i' f m Mr OHC ra MEAT CHEESE ncii non CURRIES, POULTRY GAME, SALADS *s Thf Genuine Original Worcestershire l&gt; doyal Warrant thc king fefif a F.M.S «r a 'it*. I t*C v.-.. 2*?
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