The Straits Budget, 17 February 1910

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  • 27 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” VOL LXIV NO. 2714 Singapore, Thnrsday, February 17,1910. CSTABUSttCD OVER HALF A CENTWV Price 25 cents.
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  • 239 1 leaders ln Banks and Their Business 10 Fighting Malaria 10 *JJ Conspiracy of Silence J* The Wreck of a Railway British Shipbuilding *2 Local and Giniral Social and Personal Medicine in Malaya The Cabinet Yunnan Railway Notes from Labuan 8 Notes from Malacca 8 Chinese New Year
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  • 723 1 Mr. Eyre Kenny aots as senior warden of Mines vice Mr. Dykes. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bailey, of Tapah, are going on a trip to Shanghai. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hubback are dne in Penang from home on April 1. Mr. B. J. Eaton, F.
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  • 275 2 MEDICINE IN MALAYA. BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’ S LOCAL BRANCH. Conference of Doctors. IMPORTANT GATHERING AT KUALA LUMPUR. Summary ol Proceedings. (Fbom Our Own Cobrkspondbnt.) Koala Lumpur, February 15 At the moetiag of the members of the Malaya branch of the British Medical Association, presided over by Dr. G. D. Freer,
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  • 162 2 The case against Anthony Gomes, charged with theft of ten sovereigns and a gold watch and chain from a Turk named I«mail, was withdrawn, on Monday. Acting-lnsp. Nicol explained to the second magistrate that he was accompanying Mr. Savi on a gambling raid in Bali Lane
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  • 91 2 Commander Radcliffe, R. N., had a full of boatowners, ou Monday, who had neglected to roister their craft for the current year. Thirty Chinese owners of samp iqh and twakows and three Indian owners of tongkangs were fined, the rate being $1 50 each for the sampaos and
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  • 269 2 Mr. It. C. Edmonds, acting registrar, Singapore, reports as follows on the working of the Registry of Joint Stock Companies in Singapore during the year 1909: No less than 41 new companies have been registered during this period,
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  • 74 2 (From Our Own Corrbspondknt). Kuala Lumpur, February 9. A charge of alleged serious defalcations in the court moneys at Seremban has been made against the clerk. The trial takes place on Monday. It is stated that a similar case has occurred in Pahang. In the defalcation case,
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  • 269 2 Captain Stockley’ s Departure. Capt. H. H. F. Stockley, who has for some years so efficiently and so tactfully filled the post of Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor, has decided to vacate that appointment in order to enter into business in Lindon, and will leave Singapore for home, accompanied
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  • 163 2 (From Our Own Cobrkspondbnt London, February 15, Several important changes in the Liberal Cabinet aro now announced. Mr. Winston Churchill succeeds Mr. Herbert Gladstone (who is High Commis-sioner-elect of South Africa) as Secretary of State in the Home
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  • 303 2 In a recent issue of one of the London financial papers we read the following:— One of the reasons, and not the least of these, why the Plantation rubber shares of the Middle East have come into so mnoh favour
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  • 277 3 e ooinion has received advices Tb f i ;»iiwav from Tonkin to the prothat the ay b reao hed completion. rince have been laid to the capital of The rails ha entered the city Y r an ’*«m The opening
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  • 271 3 (From Our Own Corrbspondint.) Labuan, February 9. Tbe Paris Cinematograph, which was showing in Singapore a little while ago is now in Labuan ana had their opening night on the 8th infant when their tent was fairly crowded. The pictures shown are exceed ingly good. The show
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  • 28 3 1 1 '>m Ode Own Correspondent.) Koala Lumpur, Febrnary 14. Pmino i nnin^’tho “anaging director of the KintEL ilDa rou P urineB, is now visiting
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  • 266 3 You are exercising a trade which is against the law, saidthe third magistrate, on Monday afternoon, to a fortune-teller, who was charged with stealing a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, bat who informed the magistrate that he was an old man
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  • 249 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, February 18. The Resident Councillor of Malacca has gone to India, and he is expected to be away for about a month. In the meantime, the Settlement is in charge of Mr. R. Scott, the collector of land revenue. His Excellency the
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  • 44 3 (From Oor Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 9. Dr. E. A. O. Travers has written a letter to the Malay Mail, criticising the dilatoriness of the Government in regard to preventing malaria in Kuala Lumpur and calling for immediate action.
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  • 396 3 The first day of the Chinese new year celebrations on Thursday was not remarkable for anything particularly out of the common, so far as we have ascertained, except perhaps that the weather was fine, itself a remarkable fact
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  • 72 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 14. A gang robbery took place at Kampar in broad daylight, $2,000 being taken from Towkay Eu Tong Seng’s krani. Five robbers attacked him with pistols and parangs, almost hacked off his left leg,
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  • 47 3 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 14. It is reported that big sales of rubber estates in the north of Selangor have just been completed. The January output of dressed ore at Serendah Mines was 219 piculs, giving a profit of $4,685.
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  • 441 4 A ft:w months ago, say** a writer in the India Rubber World, 1 re ferred at some length to the remaking of vulcanized rubber ander Garb's patent. The recent patent of Hutchinson and Milne*, of October, 19C9, for a process of reclaiming
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  • 94 4 npiteof a continaod advance in thepri*» of the raw material, the week opened with drooping advices of rubber shares from London, a sympathetic tone locally, and with a few exceptions, a shrinkage in Drices all round in this section. Wires on
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  • 27 4 (From Our Own Corrkspondbnt.) Kuala Lumpur, February 12. The Chinese New Year is passing quietly. Theio are signs of greater progress.
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  • 13 4 [The Straits Times is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents.]
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  • 167 4 (To the Editor of the Straits Times.) Sir, —One often hears or reads of complaints mado by drivers or riders of the way in whi< h motor cyclists frighten their horses. The fault lies more often with the horseman or driver, than with the motorist. The
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  • 134 4 It is reported from Nagasaki, says the Kobe Herald, that Capt. R. Hayes, of the Suire line steamer Pembrokeshire, which arrived there on January 24, from Kobe, sighted a wreck in the sea Dear Esaki
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  • 247 4 The Hongkong Daily Press, of the 8th inst., says We understand that the sanitary authorities have just been warned of the importation from Canton of large quantities of mosquito larvae. The discovery, apparently, was only made yesterday, but it seems
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  • 318 4 SUIT FOR SALVAGE. Norwegian Skipper’s Claim fo r Saving a Lighter. Suit has been filed in the Court of First Instance at Manila, says the Manila Tim es by C. L. Halvorsen, master of the Nor! wegian steamer Tungus, against the Uuion Assurance Company of Canton, the Hongkong and Whampoa
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  • 165 4 Mr. Colman sat at the police coarts, on Saturday, to dispose of the large list of petty cases whioh had accumulated during the holidays. Many of the offenders, particularly those arrested for throwing sand crackers, and a good many of those found gambling, were discharged by the
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  • 147 4 The Pinang Gazette, of the 9th inst., says:— Messrs. Hickson Brothers issue a revised table of crops and prospects of some of the leading rubber companies. Their estimates of profits carried on actual crop, where completed for the financial year, for which accounts have yet to be issued
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  • 964 5 the Supreme Coart, on the 9 th inrt., Mr. sercombe Smith reserved judgment Ja8 tho action brought by Messrs. W. L. and H. H. Barley, trustees of the t nhl F. do Souza, deceased, to recover T. SoIibI
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  • 56 5 (From Oub Own Corrbspondbmt.) Koala Lumpur, February 9. The following robber crops are reoorded: F. M. S. 22,860 lbs. against 18.014 lbs. The total for the eight months is 188.816 lbs. against 72,817 lbs. Koala Lumpur 45,1861bs. against 18,522 lbs. The total for the seven months
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  • 145 5 The report on the working of the Bills of Sale Ordinanoe 1886 during the year 1909 in the Settlements of Singapore and Penang shows that in Singapore the fees collected amounted to $384 60, against an estimate of $460. In 1908, the fees amounted to $581.25, and
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  • 108 5 Many amusing stories are told by police of the consternation created by their gambling raids and the attempts of the gamblers to evade arrest. One man was found doubled ap in a box with his head between his knees. Another had covered himself with old shoes
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  • 410 5 The eighty-ninth report of the oonrt of directors to the ordinary half-yearly general meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on the 19th inst., contains the following:—The net profit for the period including
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  • 170 5 It may be of interest to know that on the first day of the Chinese New Year 6,248 people—men, women and children—and of course nearly all Chinese, visited the Raffles Museum, and on Friday 8,878, i. e. a total of 10,121 for the two days.
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  • 1531 7 Y(|>1 OH'. Sl’KCIAL COUUBSPONDEM.) MM w Mew left the roads on Friday last 1 n i n m for Muar. With Hia Excelf* 0 W er<- Miss Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. le 1 Mr 1) Y Perkins,
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  • 253 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Muar, February 9. There left yesterday, by the steamer Poppy for Johore, 39 prisoners, who have been sent thither to stand their trial in connection with the gang robbery case at Tangkah. Among them is the penghulu of the district who, it is
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  • 231 7 A remarkable seditious conspiracy case is proceeding in East Java. So hard was it to trace the conspiracy that the police took three years to work up tne case, the arrested plotters being kept in prison all the time. The particulars given show that, in January 1906,
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  • 757 9 r t «»B Lean before Mr. Green, oo the 9th f': c a i“ n El that he wished to with. for 1 ?h C > charge against the second accused, dra w the charge a a witne s8 for I°°tviwn This
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  • 115 9 The Nation in Arms, the jonrnal of the National Servioe League, referring to the overseas branches of the League, remarks that one of the most valuable recruits obtained recently was Col. A. Murray, of Singapore, who, during his tenure of office as honorary secretary, obtained more
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  • 42 9 (From Oub Own Correspondbnt Kuala Lumpur, February 12. An engine has been derailed at Taojong Malim on the Selangor-Perak border, and the mail train from Kuala Lumpur to Penang may be slightly delayed if delayed at all*
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  • 265 9 (From Odr Own Corrksponpmnt.) Kuala Lumpur, February 14. The following entries have been reoeived for the Kiuta Gymkhana Club races to bo held on the 22nd, 2 4th and 26th inst First Day. Maiden Ex-Griffin Handicap.—Blits, Bill of Costs, Lucretia. Champion Griffin
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  • 213 9 The fire brigade had a eall to Kallang, a run of nearly four miles from the central fire station, on Sunday afternoon, the scene of th& fire being about 600 yards off the Kallang lid., down one of those lanes of a very rough character,
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 368 9 Property Sale. Molars. H. L. Coghlan and Co., have Bold the following eleven lots of property. A threequarter share in seven plots of freehold land situate at the corner of Bukit Timah Road and Mackenzie Road, sold to R. M. Shokalingham Chitty for 92,200; freehold land in Toah Pyoh area
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  • 48 10 Hornhtiin Silvkroilt. —On February 15, •A Triwto Hotel, Singapore, Z. IlornHtein to Jalie Silvergilt, daughter of Silvergilt, of GoriU, Herkutsky, Russia. Hamilton —Homk. —At St. Andrew sCathe* draJ, Singapore, on Friday, February 11. Lorn a Margaret de Conrcy Hamilton to George Home, of Padang Tjermin. Deli, Sumatra.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1033 10 guarding each other.—Straits Times, Feb ruary 11. Some details are becoming available of the railway, banking, and other profits which are a more reliable teat of the progress of British trade than the return of imports and exports published monthly. The latter were on the whole
      guarding each other.—Straits Times, Feb ruary 11.  -  1,033 words
    • 1040 10 malaria beds may produce.-Straits Times, February 12. We see from our Kuala Lumpur contemporary that a good deal of dissatisfaction exists in that town with reference to the prevalence of malaria, and the failure of the authorities to take efficient measures to combat the disease. The matter is
      malaria beds may produce.-Straits Times, February 12.  -  1,040 words
    • 1119 11 —Straits Times, February 14. A considerable time has elapsed since we drew attention to the state of the new filter beds in Bnkit Timah road and suggested that it would be an advantage if some statement were made with proper authority as to the reason why these
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    • 1043 11 here what would be dono elsewhere. —Straits Times, February 15. This is a land of silence, as we had occasion to remark yesterday in connection with some other matters, and we have to be content with the scantiest scraps of more or less unreliable information.
      here what would be dono elsewhere.—Straits Times, February 15.  -  1,043 words
    • 958 12 —Straits Times, February 16. A review of the past year’s shipbuilding, issued by Lloyd’s Register of British and Foreign Shipping, has just come to hand. In one respect, it is satisfactory because it shows a substantial increase over 1008. But to compare with that year is to take
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 89 10 Thi Fact (m price of fcho Strain Timet i» W y w:tr Tb« pout free price of the Straits budget it $l4 yearIt it oot oeceatarv to tubtcribe for t year. The tub•cnpttons for thorter periods are at the tame proportionate rate aa for a year. The Straitt Budget can
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  • 829 12 Direct telegraphio communication with Penang and Kuala Lumpur has been restored. The fees leviable in the medical and veterinary departments of the Colony were gazetted last week. There are now about forty Europeans employed on the estates of the Malacca Rubber Plantations, Ltd. Mr. Knight’s rubber store
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  • 779 13 ULLV Contributed by Frbk-Whkkl.) a ;i fltniliDU morn that tips the hills with an easy conscience and "‘‘ndlnwmdand limb, I and my youthful 8011 d ?nn who was fresh lrom the old C0U) P“ and wart overflowing with interest TsMa
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  • 75 13 (From Oub Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lnmpnr, February 16. At, the annual meeting of the Selangor Golf Club, the following fixtures were played:— Championship.—Baker 174. Herrington Medal.—G. S. Magill 85. Medal play handicap.—Baker 174. Medal play competition.—(senior) Dainton 79 (junior), H.
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  • 227 13 Mole Cricket sends the following communication to the Malay Mail:—Upon an estate on the alluvial in which I am interested, T find that as soon as my stumps begin to shoot, the shoots are very soon nipped clean oh and removed. 1 have been told that
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  • 147 13 At the date of l&9t advices from Saigon, a dangerous character, Italian by nationality, was at large there, after escaping from custody. He was extradited from Singapore to Saigon, a few months ago, on a charge of burglary. At Saigon, he escaped twice before his trial,
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  • 412 13 A Ceylon-man, named C. Edward, has been before Mr. Green daily for the past three days in connection with a charge of being drunk and disorderly, brought against him by Sergt. Donovan. In his defenoe, Edward gave the magistrate a copy
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  • 203 13 Mr. Gardiner, the chief police offioer, »s administrator of the estate of the late Chew Ah Lip, who died in the insane asylum on Oct. 25 last, was the defendant in two cases in the civil district court, on Tuesday afternoon, the plaintiffs being Tan Afi
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  • 1375 16 London, February 9. It in announced in Teheran that Persia has applied to Russia for the extradition of Kakhim Khan, and it is understood that Russia ha* refund to hand him over. It is Minted in Stockholm that the King is expected to be better in a fortnight.
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  • 859 16 Borlin, February 10. The rivers in Franoe and Germany are rising again, and renewed floods in Paris are threatened by the state of the Seine. It is stated that the King of Sweden is progressing very satisfactorily. M. Isvolsky has a communication in the semi-offical German organ, the
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  • 223 17 When the Glenfalloch arrived in the roads from Amoy, on Tuesday, she was hoarded by Mr. Howard, chief of the Govern ment Opium preventive service, with other officers of the department. Acting on information received, Mr. Howard desired to
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  • 125 17 Messrs. Hooglandt and Co., inform us that in order to promote and facilitate travel locally between all parts of the Far East, including all the principal places of interest in Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria, Siberia, Formosa, Philippines, Siam, Java, Sumatra, Borbe, Indo-China,
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  • 185 17 The statutory meeting of shareholders of the Batang M ilaka Co., was held, ia Loudon on January 18. The report of tbe directors was approved aud adopted. The chairman explained shortly the position of the company's affairs, and referred to the promising outlook as disclosed in
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  • 558 17 Wong Tek Cheong was tried in the district court, before Mr. Mitchell, yestering, on charges of possession of stills for making or preparing intoxicating liquors, possession of dutiable liquors on which duty h id not been paid and also
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  • 47 17 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Koala Lompur, February 9. It is rumoured that there will be no successor to Sir William Taylor as R jh d nt General, F. M. S., bat that His Excellency the High Commissioner will pay frequent visits to the Native States.
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 73 18 Golf. Garrison Golf Club. The following are the resulfcH of the February Monthly Medal: Ladies —.Mrs Fowlie. Net score 53. (tour cards were taken out). Men.—Sir Arthur Young. Net ncore 78. (Thirteen cards were taken out). Sepoy Lines Golf Club. Play for the ladies’ modal for February
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    • 154 18 L. L. T. C. Tournament. The L. L. T. C. tournament began on Monday. when the following ties were played Milan Douhlkh Handicap. —Miss Gardiner and W. J. Haskins beat Mrs. Hartnell and A. Boyd 6—8, 6 —2. Mrs. Gardiner and V. G. Savi beat Mrs. Hargreaves and
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  • 138 18 The northern section of the Tientsin* Pnkow railway was successfully inaugurated on January 10. The country-side, says a correspondent in the 8. C. Morning Post, is agog with excitement at the news of the actual arrival of the fiery wheel cart
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  • 72 18 The secretary of the Serendah Hydraulic Tin Mining Go., Ltd., sends ns the following particulars of working for the month of January:— Output dry dressed ore piculs 21,9.17 Value 99,512 02 Tribute paid 832.10 Expenditure 98,994.10 p *ofit 94,685.82 Owing to scarcity of water we were only able
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  • 340 18 Fire broke out on board the German steamer Hilary early this morning, and continued to rage until early this afternoon, reports the Kobe Herald of January 28. The steamer arrived here the day before yesterday from Hongkong with
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  • 246 18 in the utmost secrecy the partition of the fortune of King Leopold took place at the offices of the Societe Gennerale, Brussels. Having given much to his morganatic wife, the Baroness Vaughan, during the past seven or eight years,
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  • 567 18 The Englishman, of Calcutta, dated the 3rd inst., has the following account of a fire, which should be of interest to the mercantile and shipping community of Singaporea serious fire broke out on board the steamer Gregory Apcar, which
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  • 26 18 (From Odr Own Corrbspondint.) Kuala Lumpur, February 12 The Selangor Ladies’ rifle club have soared 196 in the shoot for the Mills’ Cup.
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  • Shipping in Port.
    • 613 19 February 6 Fo Soon, Dut Btr, Odink. Pontianak, IT W Jui J“ g Dut str, Brogsma, Indragiri, Ships Btr, Toroboahia, Trieste, BautenPin ft* Brit str, David.cn, Penang, Taik Lee gawTsiem Btr. Bv.rrer, Bangkok. East A,, *!'cr Btr Minkwitz, Bangkok, B. Meyer S'.B Brit Btr.'Towuiey, kremaetle, W. MuteKmrtn Egoik, Hambnrg,
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    • 339 19 February 6 Heim, Nor str, Bombay Koul on, Ger atr. Hamburg via ports f Bangkok, Ger str, Bangkok Swaerdecroon, Dut str, Bandjermassin Menggala Brit str, Anamba and Natnna Is. Bun Yong Seng, Brit str. Billiton and Palembang A inherit, Brit str, Pontianak 7 Reichenbaeh, Ger str, Hamburg via ports
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  • 264 19 Scnoapobi, Fbbbuabt 16, 1910. PRODUCE. Gambler buyers I 1100 do (Oube No. 1) unpioked 14 25 Copra Ball ff 9 95 do Pontianak 9 86 Pepper, Black buyers N 4 87} do White 6% buyers 25 00 Sago Flour Sarawak 8 90 do Brunei No. 1 nom.
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  • 183 19 Per M. M. steamer Tonkin dne February 21.—Mr. Justice Brad dell, Mr. Antier. Per P. and O. steamer Mongolia, connect* ini* with the steamer Macedonia at Colombo, due February 25. —Mr. and Mrs. N. Fisher, Capt. and Mrs. J and Miss Hope, Mr. K,
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  • 360 20 CUTS Namber g~g p, id Shore. Compmy Last Dim*, forma Capital Subscribed of "2 up to Unissued noM 0(1 Shares > I tM |BOO,OOO 000,000 80,000 10 10 Bel*. Tin Mining Oo: Ltd. ..0.00 10% in 'O9 X h£:WO So.SS *****0 T 7.00 i 1800 <OOO,OOO 444,800 1 444,300
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  • 746 20 1909 130,000 105,000 1 1 Alor Gajah Robber Estate 12.50 1909 £86,000 75,000 750,000 2/- 2 Allagar Bobber Estates, Ltd. 6/* 1905 £150,000 £150,000 1,500,000 2/- 2/- Anglo-Mai ay Robber Co., Lid. (fully paid) 1.4.0 24% in. *09 1905 9900,000 161,200 15,120 a* *0 4,880 Balgownie Robber Relate Lid.
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  • 223 21 00 0 202,800 2,026 100 00 47# Brunei OU Royalty Ltd. 7#.00 1901- IIU 18,000 10 xo 8,880 EMtern Smelting Co., Ltd. ll.jo l(to i5(K),000 1,068,160 U 6.480 w 7 8.28 10%,fer’00 1 000 lU.OOO 4.100 M 4C Fmmi «Mn.it. l.id. ***** 11%far 'OB :'F 228,U A f M»000
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  • Page 21 Advertisements
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    • 424 21 HOW TO GET WELL. If there is not a motion of the bowels onoe or twice a day, you will soon grow heavy, drowsy and dull the head will throb and aohe, there will be an unpleasant tast* in the mouth, the tongue will be ooated, and the sight spotty
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  • Page 22 Advertisements
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