The Straits Budget, 21 October 1909

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget VOL. LXIII. NO. 2697. Singapore, Thursday, October 21,1909. BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE "STRAITS TIMES." (STUMMED ona HAI/ A CENTWr Price 25 cents
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  • 226 1 leaders— India’s Currency Struggle 12 The Crown and the Commons 12 18 Explorers’ Billingsgate 18 Coincidence? ...13-14 Anonymity 14 Opium and Finance ...14-15 Local and Gbnbkal legislative Council 2 5 Government Appointments 6 Planter and Actress 7 Malacca Notes 7 S. S. Association 8 Municipal Board 10
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  • 518 1 The many residents of Singapore who have spent pleasant hours at the Swiss Rifle Shooting Club will sympathise with the hospitable mt tubers of that organization in the loss of their building which was destroyed by tire
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  • 69 1 Falling Off Expected in Brazil and Congo Outputs. (From Ock Own Cokkksponoknt.) Kuala Lumpur, October 19. Messrs. Zacharias and Co. have received a rubber report from Antwerp stating that the demand from manufacturers is most satisfactory. Tho receipts from Brazil for October and November will be lower
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  • 187 1 A Government Oaxette extraordinary was issued, on Tuesday afternoon, giving the estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the municipality of George Town, Penang, for the year 1910, framed by the President and published in accordance with the provisions of section
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  • 542 7 The following appears in the New York World of September 6: All actresses of charm and many whose beauty is rubbed off with the cold cream at the close of the performance receive letters
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  • 62 7 Assistant Estate Manager Fined at Ipoh. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpar, October 1J. Mr. M. Macdonald, assistant manager Nova Scotia Estate, who was originally charged with culpable homicide by causing the death of a coolie, was to-day convicted at Ipoh of voluntarily causing hurt and was
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  • 381 7 The suit brought by the Crown against various old Singapore Malays for alleged intrusion on foreshore land” at Kampong Sambu, near the Palmer godowns at Taujoog lagar, was disposed of on Friday, when Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith delivered judgment. -l-he defendants, on
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  • 71 7 Ex-Accountant Sentenced to Two Years’ Imprisonment. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Hongkong, October 17. Butler Wright, chief accountant recently employed on the Canton section of the Kowloon-Canton railway, has been sentenced to two years’ hard labour for embezzling railway funds. The trial took place at Canton, Sir Haviland
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  • 110 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca. October 17. This year Malacca was extremely quiet on Hari Hay a. No more noise than a stray cracker here and there disturbed the peace and there was no parading of bands of Malays in gorgeous raiment. Had it not been for the
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  • 246 7 Estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the Singapore Municipality for 1910 artpublished in the Government Gazette of on Friday’s date, in accordance with the provisions of section 72 of the Municipal Grdinance, 1896. The balance sheet for
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  • 260 7 Sailing Without Full Complement of Officers. Osman bin Tahir, master of the steamer lloug Ho, was tried before the fourth magistrate, on Monday, on a charge of leaving the port on October 2. without the full complement of officers, one of the engineers being missing. Mr. Hastings
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  • 950 10 At the regular fortnightly meeting of the Municipal Hoard, on Friday afternoon, the following officialH and commissioners were prewentMessrs. E. G. Broadrick (presi dent), John Polglase (secretary), H. Peirce (engineer), W. R. C. Middleton (health officer), J. Carapiet, W. Macbean, P. Fowlie,
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  • 65 10 Trouble with Chinese in State of Perak. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, October 19. The Resident of Perak held a Banishment Court at Ipoli, yesterday, in connection with the recent disturbances, and the acting manager of Chop Wah Yik was bound over in the sum of $2,000,
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  • 157 10 A bill intituled an ordinance for the incorporation of the Titular Roman Catholic Bishop of Malacca resident in the Straits Settlements is about to be introduced into the Legislative Council, at the instance of Bishop Barillon. c It seems that a good deal of immoveable property
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  • 1918 10 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—In the leading article you devote tn me in your issue of last Monday, you yourself as at a loss to understand why i should not have addressed a letter of mine to
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  • 100 11 The report of Dr. D. K. McDowell, the registrar of births and deaths, shows that during the week ended October 9, 205 deaths were registered in Singapore, equal to a death-rate of 38 40 per thousand of the estimated population. Malarial fever claimed 86 deaths, dysentery 15,
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  • 381 11 1 he statutory meeting of the members et the Tangkah Rubber Estate, Limited, was held on September 20., at the registered office of the company. .7. Whittington avenue, E.C., Sir William Hood Treacher, K C. M. G. (chairman of the
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  • 91 11 The following interesting paragraph occurs in the gaol report of Selangor for last year. In the middle of September it was noticed that mosquitoes were very numerous, more so than usual, in both the hospital and the halls, and, at the request of the medical
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  • 161 11 The Perak Pioneer reads, in the last Selan gor Government Gazette, that the Ledbury Rubber Estates, Ltd., have been served with a notice, issued by a Collector of Laud Revenae, the terms of which are as under:— Take notice that, whereas you have failed to comply with
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 170 11 Sale of Properties. The following properties were disposed of by auction at Messrs. Powell and Co.'s saleroom on Tuesday afternoon The Chinese dwelling-house (two frontages) known as 81, Telok Ayer Street, and No. 16, Stanley Street, area 3,4*20 square feet, statutory grant, quit rent $8, monthly rent $70, bought by
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  • 36 12 Mont. —At Lochanhead House, Dumfries, on September 4, the wife of Alexander Moir, of a daughter. Fkanzkk. —On Wednesday, October lit, at 30, Cavanagh Road. Singapore, the wife of Mr. A. Franzen, of a daughter.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1059 12 .—Straits Times, October 14. Whoever reads tue history of the currency reform in India, and compares the long drawn agonies thereof with our experience in Malaya, will be inclined to thank the gods that wo have not fared as these other men. It is, perhaps from a
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    • 1293 12 ,—Straits Times, October lft. There is an absorbing interest in the present political* situation in Great Britain to all who have made any serious study of politics. It is a complex situation, because the interests of great classes seem to be in conflict quite outside
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    • 1197 13 dards of appreciation.—Straits Times, October Jfi. A witty American has observed that the latest history of Arctic exploration is being written in Billingsgate. That is the result of two American citizens having chanced to make a claim to discovery of the earth's theoretical pivot almost simultaneously. Dr. Cook
      dards of appreciation.—Straits Times, October Jfi.  -  1,197 words
    • 1080 13 COINCIDENCE —Straits Times, October 1H. There is a delightful little controversy in The Times over the farewell speech delivered at Simla by Lord Kitchener. A good man whose memory is abnormal—is it possib'e that it was Lord Curzon himself ?—has discovered that the great soldier's remarks are almost word for
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    • 1259 14 —Straits Times, October 19. The press is in some danger of being spoiled. Scarcely have the echoes of the Imperial Conference died away before we hear that yet another conference has been sitting in London, and that its scope was even wider than the other, because it is described
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    • 1123 14 are narbarian in their crudity.—Straits Times, October 20. We have never been particularly partial U the substitution of State control for opium farming. The grave objections are, first that there will be a greater immediate loss of revenue, and, second, that the Government will be liable to
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 90 12 The poitfree price of the Straits Times I* 938 year The post free price of the Straits budget is $l4 a year. It it not necessary to subscribe for a year. The subscriptions for shorter periods are at the same proportionate rate as for a year. The Straits budget can
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  • 1107 15 Kuala Lumpur is lit with’s9 I.COO-candle-powor arc lamps and 590 25-candle power incandescent lamps. J Mr. M. S. 11. McArthur, of the F. M. S. government service, is acting clerk of couni fils v ce M r A. H. Lemon, who is proceeding home on leave. At the
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  • 548 16 Mr. M. Hellier, in»pector of schools, Singapore and Malacca, returned from borne by the P. and O. steamer Namur. Mr. M. S. H. McArthur has come to Singapore from Kuala Lumpur to take up bis duties as assistant colonial secretary. Chief Insp. Cullen, of the detective branch
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  • 537 16 Mr. Walter Peacock, of the Chinese Protectorate, entertained the third magistrate for nearly the whole day, again on 13th inst., with a learned dissertation on Triad Societies and a pointed application of the sub-heads of his discourse to numerous exhibits which he had
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  • 100 16 As Monday was the birth-day of Miss Sophia Blackmore* superintendent of the Deaconess Home, Mount Sophia, a surprise party was given in her honour by her numerous friends, who thronged the building last night. An excellent programme had been prepared, refreshments were served and numerous tokens
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  • 50 16 (Fbom Oob Own Cobbesfondsnt.) Kuala Lumpur, October 13. The Protector of Chinese at Ipoh is takin. BtrouK measures to stop the boycott bv Chinese of the Japanese. 06 understood that the men who insulted Mr. H. C. Ridges will be banished.
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  • 200 16 Two Chinese, one of them a cripple wU were sentenced by Mr. Howard to six months’ gaol for putting a stall-keeper in few of personal injury in order to commit ex tortion, appealed against the decision before Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith, in the Supremo Court, on Monday, when
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  • 123 16 The Consolidated Uabber and Balata Estates, Limited, has been formed to acquire the concessions or licences for collecting balata and rubber in British Guiana held by Garnett’s Balata Co., Limited, S. Davson and Co., Limited. Messrs. McKinnon and Co., Downer and Co., the New Essequibo
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  • 141 16 Three Macaos, a man named Wong Tah, and two women named Lee Ah See and Chong Ah Yeo, respectively, were prosecuted by Supt. Howard, of the T. P. D. police, yesterday, on a charge of possession of 400 tahils of illicit chandu, valued at $1,200, at
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  • 193 19 Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Leicester celebrated their silver wedding at Gaylang House on Saturday night. A short service was conducted by the Rev. G. Cobb, of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Rev. W. Murray, of the Presbyterian Mission,
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  • 89 19 Firm Attitude with Rickshamen at Taiping. Kuala Lumpur, October 19. Further details of the Taiping ricksiia pullers’ strike show that it was due to the police arresting a few pullers for obstruction. Mr. Birch, the Resident, was out early and ordered the arrest of the leading owners.
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  • 875 19 Before Mr. Justice Sercombe Smith, in the Supreme Court, on M<today, Then Tsz Voe claimed from the proprietors of the Union Times $10,000 damages for an alleged libel published in that Chinese newspaper, in February of this year. The alleged libel whs
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  • 376 19 The housing and sanitary questions are ones that loom large on the local horizon at the moment, and for that reason we reproduce the following interesting comment by the Builders’ Journal upon an aspect of the Housing and Town Planning Bill at
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  • 35 19 (From Our Own Corrksfondknt.) Penang, October 16. A cable has been sent to the Australian cricketers inviting them to stop at Penaug tor a two day’s match with a Peuang Perak team.
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  • 1886 20 London, October 18. There has been a hurricane in Havana and Florida, and widespread devastation has resulted. It is estimated that the damage amounts to two or three million dollars. Hundreds of dwellings and cigar factories have been destroyed. The Irish Land Bill has passe <1 through Committee
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  • 593 21 Berlin, October 13. The Spanish Council of Ministers has rejected recommendations made in favour of pardoning the Anarchists who recently took part in a revolutionary movement at Barcelona. The Parsival balloon bas started on a long distance trip. The Stock Exchange is weaker, owing to the increase of
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  • 267 21 An English-speaking Ceylonese, named Mohamed. was arrested, early on the 20th inst.. in Kallung Road, with a pair of pincers and bunch of keys in his possession, and charged with having housebreaking implements and with vagrancy. He was tried in the second
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  • 26 21 (From Our Own Corrksjom»kn r.) London, via Bonang, October 19. The Anglo-Malay Rubber Co. is declaring a second interim dividend of 12! per cent.
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  • 181 21 A meeting of the Planters’ Association t* Malaya will be field at 10 a m. on October 31, at the Masonic Hal), Kuala Lumpur, the following being the agenda Minutes of meeting of August 10. The Truck Enactment. Motijn brought
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  • 83 21 (I* Rom Ouk Own Cokrksrcndkvt.) Kuala Lumpur, October 15. The death is announced, from biackwater fever, of Mr. Alex. Ulassford. The late Mr. A. G. Glassford was a very good Rugby football player It is said that he played full ba k for Edinburgh Academicals,
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  • 192 21 On Friday, there was a largo gatltcring of members of the Chin* so Christian Association and their guests at Prinsep Street chapel, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary. The room was prettily decorated. The chair was taken by the Rev. .1. A. Gray, who was supported by the
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  • 88 21 Constable 106, Chuttcr Singh, pleaded guilty in the third magistrate’s court, on Friday, to being drunk while on duty at the supreme court,on the 14th inst. FanreCorpo ral 15 said that lie was on rounds at 8 :i() p.m. on Thursday, when he found accused sitting
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  • Sporting Intelligence. NOTES IN GENERAL.
    • 144 22 Sepoy Lines Golf Club. Play in the ladies medal for October, resulted as follows: Miss Worters 49 3—48 Mrs. Hartnell 87 8 82 Mrs. Emerson 81 H 53 Miss Gentle 85 40 55 Garrison Golf Club. Play for the October medal resulted as follows: Lieut. G. N. Humphreys 93—14—79
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    • 382 22 Singapore Shield Competition. A large crowd watched the league football match between the S. C. C. and the S. R. C. j on the Esplanade on Friday. Opinion leaned in favour of the S. C, C. who were expected to easily dispose of their opponents with a line
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    • 405 22 Our Australian Visitors. The five Australian cricketers, Messrs. M. A. Noble, F. Laver, W. W. Armstrong, A. Cotter, and A. J. Hopkins, who will visit Singapore on their way home, and will play here during their stay, will arrive from Colombo by the P. and O. Assaye on Friday,
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    • 246 22 The Interport Match. The Hongkong Interport shooting team loses a tower of strength shortly, says The S. C. Morning Post, in the departure from the Colony by next German mail steamer of Mr. J. C. Gow, who was certain of a place for his high position he has
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  • 14 22 [The Straits Times is not responsible for th. opinions of its correspondents.] lbe
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  • 141 22 To the Editor of the Straits Times Sir,—There is no getting awav tr .i VerlaD i° ur “ey *ro he M. b. to .Singapore is a very tedious one and a suggestion by which some of t h e discomforts may be overcome, will no out of
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  • 509 22 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—There has recently been instituted in Malacca, by the government, what is called the Rural Board, the duties of which are to impose extra taxes on agricultural lands and produce outside the municipal limit. These taxes, are levied
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  • Shipping in Port.
    • 619 23 October u naiypno, Bril str, Bannatyue, Deli, Mansfield /apa>», Brit str, Olifent, Hongkong, P. Simons Will o'the Wup Bril str, Morris, Bagan, Wee Bros Laurent Pit Dat str, Brogsma, Indragin, Ships Agency s>i Muar Brit str, Hudson, Malaooa, Soon Keck pan Hin Guan, Brit str, Huuter, Pontiauak, Ban Lee
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    • 388 23 October u Banka Brit str, Anamba la. and Natuna Is. Rajah of Sarawak, 8ar atr, Sarawak Profit, Nor atr, Bangkok Solva, Nor str, Bangkok Ban to Soon, Dut atr, Sambas Ophir Dnt atr, Patani via ports Fumi Maru, Jap atr, Batavia Flevo, Brit atr, Pontianak Hock Lee Brit atr,
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  • 247 23 SlNGAPOBB, OcTOBBB 20, 1009. PRODUCE. Gambier buyers 11.12} do (Cube No. 1) unpicked 14 76 Copra Bali if 8.70; do Pontianak 7.80 Pepper, Black 16.60 do White 6% boy era 27.50 Sago Floor 8arawak 8.00 do Brunei No. 1 nom. Pearl Sago H 4.00 Coffee Bali t..
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  • 188 23 Per P. and O. steamer Nore, due October 29. —Major and Mrs. Stephenson and child, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker, Misses A. Piper and F. Cliton, Mr. D. M. Cameron. Per N. D. L. steamer Kleist, due October 30. Mr. and Mrs. Westenholz,
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  • Page 24 Advertisements
    • 243 24 M -.HM': The Physician* Care lor Govt, Rheumatic Govt and Grand. of the rf Stomach Afiectiona. Eruotationa Bilious Sour Use. SET. a m 'V Yb L 4 > r HAVE VOW TEIEO OUH Most delioiooa and refreshing. AH oar waters are L .*< A i V SpPP k ffM' iL'
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    • 407 24 RUBBER ESTATE WAITED. Wanted, Rubber Estate for a Limited concern moat be a sound Send reporta by Expert, age of planted bud an planted. Copy Lease, plans, and lowest price cash and Option mast be given os by Owner far months from date of mailing particulars. The Para Robber Syndicate,
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  • Page 25 Advertisements
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