The Straits Budget, 24 October 1912

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1 8 The Straits Budget
  • 29 1 The Straits Budget VOL. LXVI NO. 285 4 BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” Singapore, Thursday, October 24, 1912. ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CEHTI’AV Price 25 cents
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  • 354 1 leaders— Crisp and Brittle 10 Life Cost of Rubber 10 The Balkan War: ...1011 The Municipal Bill 11 Technical Dduc&tion 11 Turkey’s Armageddon ...11*12 Local and General L.xval and Personal I*2 The Balkan War 8 4 Education in the F.M.S. 4 The Mac Watters Quaretette 4 The
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  • 4639 1 t Tho next Singapore Assizes open on November 5. Thero are now twenty-five Europeans at Kota BLiaru, Kelantan. The Federal Council of tho F.M.S. will hold a meeting next mouth. The Singapore branch of the Ovor-soas Club has been exempted from registration. Quarantine restrictions against Haichow on
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  • 216 4 The Chin Secretary F.M.S. iu his annual report, referring to education iu the Native Staten, nay* that the total atuouut, exclusive of buildings. expended in 1911 upon education was or considerably less than one per cent, of the revenue. The number of schools was 369, an
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  • 126 4 On the 19th inst., the MacWattcrs tjuarti tte sang to one of the largest audiences the Y.M.C.A. Hall has ever held. The favourable impression made by them on the previous Tuesday placed the audience iu a mood to anticipate a good entertainment, in which they were not
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  • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 117 4 The Milk Trophy. Following are the returns for this month s competition for the Mills shooting trophy:— Perak 1«4 Singapore 1^3 Penang Selangor I®® Kiuta Malacca L35 Matches at Balestier Range. The monthly handicap shoot of the Singa pore Rifle Association took place at Balestier range, on the
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    • 342 4 Sepoy Lines Golf Club. The Sepoy Lines Golf Club, ladies’ spoon for October was won by Mrs. Hartnell. Several cards were taken out but only two returned, the scores being as follows: Mrs. Hartnell 54 —7 47. Mrs. Peirce 60 —5=55. Singapore Golf Club. The October monthly medal was
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    • 111 4 S.C.C. v. S.R.C. An interesting hockey match was played, on the 16th inst., on the S.C.C. ground, between the S.C.C. and S.R.C., tho former having only ten men. In the first moments there were attacks on each goal and, despito tho S.R.C. custodian’s good work, the S.C.C.’s centre forward
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    • 164 4 Stockdale's Suspension. We understand that Stockdale lias lodged an appeal with the Straits Racing Association against the sentence passed upon him by the Singanori Stewards last week for his riding ot Lodestar. The stewards, it will be recall- •<l, raw'* ll' <t Stnckdalo’s licence for the meetmi; and rt
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    • 1038 4 M F.A. Shield. The drawn match between the Personam gan Stia Club and the Singapore Peranakan Association, in the Malaya Association Shield football competition, was played off on Mouda, on the Raffles Reclamation ground. The game was fast though the ground was wet. Neither side was able to score,
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  • 232 4 Another large copra-crushing concern is setting up a plant in Marseilles for the refin ing of coconut oil, which will bring the nurn ber of important manufacturers up to four, besides other smaller concerns. This pro duct seems to find more and
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  • 131 4 Lady Lockwood, widow of Sir I* rank Lockwood, tho famous Q.C.— Solicitor bn iu ral 1804-5, has died at Scalby, near >car borough. Tho deceased was taken ill proceeding to Scalby Station some little m ago, and since then had been lying in a < cal
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  • 1038 6 The Government Gazette contains the draft of a hill governing the constitution and work of Municipalities in the Colony which it is proposed to introduce shortly into the Legislative Council. The measure, which is of a very Lull
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  • 699 6 In the (ioverumeut (ia/ette are printed drafts of several new measures about to be introduced into the Legislative Council. The followin'; explanatory details are taken from the objects anil reasons of the respective measures as framed by the Attorney■ General The H<-ttin** Hill
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  • 1401 6 Apparently the energy displayed by the j Administration of the Federated Malay States, and the resulting expansion iu trade aud prosperity, have indicated the possibilities of, and stimulated activity in, other Far-Fasteru countries. There are, says the Financial News,
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  • 194 6 A press note issued by the Government Bombay states The Government coiisi'ki it desirable that the following recent stati* tics in connection with plague inoculation should be published for general information During the year 1911 the number of person* in Bombay Presidency who were inoeulat. against
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  • 76 6 The mortality returns for Sin-gal’ M sued by the Registrar of Biith on show that during the week enoiiig 12, then* were 224 deaths. gi'mg per mille of population of lev* r accounted forc'd d« ntbs, p convulsions 22, btii beri 1,11,11 dysentery Id, cholera l 1
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  • 2222 8 The Lev. W. Huneiman, at the opening ol the Si ssimi M.l'.A., delivered an inti resting and instructive leet ni e, on 1 i id ay ev* niiig. on Technical I).location, and. inter alia, dwelt on the move
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  • 246 8 Increased importance has been given to the recentiv-appoiuted Special Commission on Oil-Fuel, which has commenced its la hours under the chairmanship of Lord Fisher, by the report that in the ships of the new battleship programme, one of which is to be laid down on
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  • 194 8 The case in which T. 11. I'erera of Ceylon is charge'l with voluntarily causing hurt to Mrs. Kv* nberg, of 90 North Bridge Hoad, on October 1 *>, came on before Mr. I*\»rrer on Friday. Mrs. Evenberg said slm remembered the night of October 1 t.
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  • 48 8 Owing to a miscalculation, the tons crush ed at l.uki* Km iau Mill for {lie four weeks ended Oct r .*> I.i-t \\»ie giv<n inooneefiy. figures fiem this mill should lead I’.ukit Iv,man. stone crushed, 11.127 tons; gold obtained, K.*2 ounces; avi rage pi-r ton ’’.n dwt.
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  • 454 8 Earthquake in J ava INHABITANTS PREPARE FOR CATASTROPHE. Alarm at Madjalengka. I lie Samara!]*' [.outmintii m a f0110w,,,*. Jett. t from 1 Umnoon about stranjio tartb.l jaleugka:—■ 1 1,1 -'LI Gn September 4, small earth were first noticed at Madjalon-lv, f l !>y a tow Kliitbt vortical sboekg (of 1
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  • 213 8 The Maccassar Courant gives particularof a serious motor accident that occurtel lately at Menado. Whilst the car was mg tiatin g a dangerous turning, one of the bar* tyres h irst. At this moment the cbautlc ;r seems to have lost control of the steom~ wheel
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  • 74 8 According to the Brisbane Comic Minister for Kxterual Affairs. M- n»om sent a special oflicer to Hongkong purpose of endeavouring to (h-i'U'M responsible for the Iriipient 1 1 Chinese to gain entrance to wi ~ltl» raid was mam on blisliment in Hongkong, natm.dilation n ituicut, s (iov»
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  • 428 9 t necessity for caution in connection .1 the revenues of the F.M.S. is touched vlt m the report of the Chief Secretary for U P!' U Having regard, he writes, to the do j p o Hcy of His Majesty’s Government
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  • 424 9 iKuom Our Own Courkspondknt.) Malacca, October 2*2. The new Club in receiving its finishing touches, and will be officially opened in the course of the u* xt few weeks. It occupies a prominent {n>sitiou ou thepadang, overlooking the sea. The ltugby match arrauged for Saturday last agaiust Negri
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  • 13 9 Correspondence [The Straits Times is not responsible for tbe opinions of its correspondents.!
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  • 674 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,-As you pointed out iu your leader of thi' 11th iunt., it is true that superstition, in one form or other, exists among* all the uatiouu on the face of the earth; and wherever there is superstition there is the
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  • 241 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —In reporting* the distressing* eircum stances attending; the death of the late Lt. (J. A. l’»etti»Jg;ton who, it will he reini inheied, was killed recently by tailing tiom his mono plane w hen M} im* ever Oxford. no mention uppi
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  • 695 9 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —I have been asked by many British subjects of tlie Colony to write to you protesting against the Betting Bill, which is to Is* laid before the Legislative Council next Friday, uud 1 would premise my remarks by assurin'*
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  • 191 9 T 1 a Singapore Lads i.lunior i.M.i'.A i Club picnic was held at tin Swimming Club on the I'dtb, (fry kind permission of tin coin mitten) and despite the st. rmy morning tin* outing pro veil ago cat Mice s.s, 11 i' lung, til I'm, football,
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  • 631 9 The* following is the report of tho committee of the Singafioro Recreation Club for the year ending .line 30, 1912, to bo pro sen tod at the annual meeting on Tuesday uext:— Ihe number of members on the roll was 161
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  • 289 9 Tin Vsalii reports tbit tin* competition between the Nippon A usen Ivii-dui and tin Lritisii India Steam Navigation Company on the Calcutta service is glow mg mote and more acute. Knights ate now reduced to a punt less than a ipiarter of the regular rate. The Li
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  • 33 10 Frost. —On October I'4, at A lor Star, Kiklrli, the wife of Mr. Meadows Frost, of a son. Ksowuts.— On October 21, 1912, the wifo of V. I). Knowles, of a sou.
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  • 88 10 NlKHitiV'.iiK Mclntyrk. —On Saturday, October 19, at the Cathedral of tho Hood Shepherd, Singapore, by tho Kovd. Father Nain, Johann Friedrich Nicbriiggo to Miss Cecilia Dorothy, second daughter of the late Joscelyn Swithiu and Henrietta Marian Mclntyre, of Penang. Netherlands India. Penang and F.M.S. papers please copy. Quiolky— Fohton.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1015 10 Straits Times, October 17. Without knowing anything of him person- ally wo are inclined to class Mr. Crisp as a financial meteor. Bright examples of the class appear from time to time and bla/e luxuriously, then they go out and leave mere dust or at most a
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    • 1149 10 not be counted a disadvantage.- Strait, Times. i »etober 18. Iu the Federated Malay States during the year 1911 the number of deaths reported was 38,792 or 97.09 per thousand of the total estimated population. In the previous year the rate was 92.19. So that 1911
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    • 1008 10 ,—Straits Times, October 19. War lias been formally declared all round. I and Turkey has to contend with Bulgaria I Servia, Montenegro, and Greece. There will I be a period of mere skirmishing and of con I siderable uncertainty as to where the decisive I struggle will
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    • 1048 11 Straits Times, October 21. The Municipal Bill covers nearly 200 pages »f the Gazette and there is a good deal of it that we have not attempted yet to digest. A -'u< re genera! survey of its main features is *ll that seems practicable for the moment,
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    • 983 11 technical schools lieinj* foiin<lo<l.—Straita Times, October 'll. The thanks of the community are duo to the Rev. W. Kuncimau for his efforts to promote the cause of technical education. We remember some time ago, when the Chinese community was cutting off its queues, and otherwise cclebratiug the dawn
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    • 1109 11 oMut will tukc Ik i place*, straits Times, Octolx i 2-\. We have seen no reason yet to change out view about the prospects of the combatants in the Near Fast. The Unitarians, Orccks and Servians wore better prepared for a do claration of war than the Turks,
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 94 10 I it Font fret price of the Straits Timrs is |H8 a year The post free price of the Straits HuJgrt it $14 a year It ia not neceasary to aubacribe for a year. The tul&gt;ecriptions for shorter periods are at the same propor tionate rate aa for a year.
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  • 14 10 DEATH. Trottbh.— On September 22, suddenly, Cecil C. Trotter, late of Federated Malay States.
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  • 1015 12 '1 ho case in which the Xcdorlandscho Handel Maatschappij sued engaelasalam and Selvaraman, Chittics, for over half a million dollars, to be paid from the estate of the defendants’ deceased father, was continued hi fore Mr. .Justice Kbelcn in the Supreme
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  • 365 12 The appeal of S. Forschmidt, recently convicted of living on the proceeds of his wife’s prostitution, came up before Mr. Justice Kbden, on the *2lst inst. Mr. I)e Me 1 10. who appeared for the appellant, said that the prosecution originated in
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  • 244 12 A Straits-born Cliiut so, named l’oh Tang i Seng, employed as a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Houstead autl Co., living at No. 16, Hukit l'asoli, was producer! before Mr Firmstone, on Tuesday, charged with failing to report a case of small
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  • 117 12 A salute "t guns from Fort Canning, at cliven o’clock on Tuesday, unuounc. d the arrival in ‘Singapore of 1 1 is Highness the Sultan of Selangor. The royal guest Clime from I'ort S »vet.ti nliaiu ill the F.M.S. (iovetnmcnt yaeht Sea Helle, accotn* pauied by
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  • Local Telegrams.
    • 36 12 (tuoM Ouu Own Correspondent Iv Penang, October In Disaster overtook the Eastn». n wi Company'* launch Tamlor. y. st. r.Kv‘'‘‘v?' «ank after striking a rock in Itukit Ta, river, Province Wellesley. 1 Uibun
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    • 32 12 (Fuom Ouu Own Correspondent., Penang, October 17. The sale of town lots vesterdav at Patani, Kedah’s new model town, proved S successful. The upset price was $7.7. and
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    • 67 12 (Fuom Ouu Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, October 17. 1 here was a Chiuese gang robbery Sungei liesi yesterday evening. The rubbeu, entered a house occupied by tour nude Chinese and one woman. The woman esean ed, but the four men were slashed with paraugs, one of
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    • 36 12 (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, October 17. Four Chinese were buried in a fall of earth at a mine in L’lu Klaug, on Tuesday. The bodies have not yet been recovered.
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    • 53 12 (From Our Own Correspondent). Luala Lumpur, October 2*2. The death has taken place, at the rt-sid euce of Dr. \V. S. Milne, of Mr. Glover Registrar ot the Supreme Court. Sympathetic references to Mr. Glover were made by the bench and bar, in the
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    • 44 12 (f’uo.M Ouu Own Corkkspondkst.) Kuala Lumpur, October J'2. Mr. Farr, formerly actin'* Kesideutot Negri Sembilau, assumes temporary charge of tin Federated Malay States Agency in London, during tlie absence of Sir William F.iyloi (who goes on an official mission to Mauritius'.
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    • 87 12 (From Our Own Corrkspondknt.l Kuala Lumpur. October ’gk. The recent heavy rains in Kuala Lump u and throughout Selangor have flooded low 1 yiu *4 lauds. The river had risen early thi* morning, almost up to .lava Street bridge, and several linns, as precaution,
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    • 247 12 About two to four years ago, we reconli the discovery of a hot spring in Singapore, and interest was at once aroused in tt‘• medicinal properties of the vater obtanieu therefrom. The Singapore Natural Mui. ia Hot Springs Company was formed to \p'" u the discovery, and
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  • 1284 13 ’I M present autumn is, according to those |„ive already been actively engaged in p il ing for it. to see Cornish tin brought i(( prominently before the public than r it lias been before, writes a Cornish .undent
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  • 203 13 To complete the formation of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Malacca, a meeting was held at the Lice Dealers’ Association on the l'Jth iust., Mr. Chan Koon Cheng being iu tho chair. Over one hundred were pro sent, including all the well known merchants and
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  • 188 13 The North-Cleriiian Lloyd of Ihemen an nounccs an important extension of the wire less news service to their steamers on the Far Kastern lines. 1 p to now it has only b en possible for these to reel ive inipoitan: news on board on 11
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  • 118 13 Tlio I.liamo correspondent of the Fan noon (la/etto uillioiinees disturbed condi tioiJS on the North Kaster n Froliti* r. The French, it is stated, have station* d 1 ;&gt;ii men at Yunnan tu. .Mr. Forest, a natu lahst, and Mr. and Mrs. Loss (of the hinese
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  • 494 13 There was a fascinating display of illti minuted flying at Hendon on the night of September 2b. everything and everybody seemed to be illuminated. T he stewards had illuminated buttonholes. The mechanics had an illuminated motor-car. The various en closures, marquees, and stands
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  • 194 13 A student of the An*&gt;ln-Chinese School, named Tan Chew Chaw, was product*! he fore Mr. Forrcr, on Tuesday, cliur«*t d with the theft of a bicycle from Mr. McLachlan, oin of the masters of the institution. There had b* n constant tin fts of btcycl*
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  • 235 13 A strange story was relatid to the autlio r iti&lt; s at IVnann, on Friday, by a yoonj* luoiaii, a holer, aned ‘JO yi ars, wlm wa i a passi noi r from Caleutta on tin I. ii Salt; which ariived m IVnann two days
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  • 601 13 Tim Lev. John M.A., 1&gt;.1)., passed away at l.ati&lt;&gt;knk, on October LI. It was on tint previous Sunday that tho deceas ed suffered a stroke of paralysis, and al tl» uo|| at first it seemed that he re
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  • 264 13 The inajoiiliceiit new of tlio I'atln:'ll il 'it tin &lt; iood Sin pin ii|, limit liy .Mi ssi s. I»i:v iiii'ton ami Sun. of London, and i n cLi d liy Mr. W. .1. (iaicia, of Singapore, was opened mi
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  • Shipping Intelligence.
    • 299 16 October 16 Piiln, Fell, sir., Gor, WooHonif. M.Maritiines Taltybins, Hi it. str, Allen, Liverpool, W. Mansfi* Id Hombay Maru, Jap. str., Nof»rchi, Hombay. P. Simons Lai Sanp', Hrit. si'.. Tadd, Calcutta, Hoii stead ll.ivtrn, Ger. str., Hrelmu r, Pt liohr M&lt; y, r Kink«snn Maru, Jap. str., Ivoid/ imi.
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    • 234 16 October 16 Piornt-tlicns, lit it. ‘■tr., II konj) A Shanghai I H )iu\&gt;\y Mam, .lap. str., Japan (i. J. 11. Abk.rs, &lt; o r &lt;ti.. I Iamb urn via ports IV do, Poll, ‘•tr., A ll* vvt rp v i.v jyj m liy in, (»&lt; r. str.. ll’U.icy Skurmhui
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  • 323 16 SiMiAi'oitK. on.i a 26. 1012. HXChANOK. On I.oM'on Hank I m* 2 1 i5 heiuauti 2 1^ Pi ivate 6 m 2 IJ 6 m 2 1 iJj j IIN (ii i.mw Hank d &lt;1 26s 1 Pi ivate 6 m 2121 &lt; I'K.xM'K Hank ti &lt;1
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  • 1034 16 SlNti\ioi:r. Oi'TollKK 2.5. 1012 MINING. [r\" "P. liuver*. Sellri*. alur 10 7.00 Ampang 6.7.7 10 10 llelat 'l ill 2.77 2.00 lo lo Hrunng l.lo 1.7.7 10 10 Kauaboi 2.10 2.7.7 XI XT Kinta Tin l.s.o 1.14.7 1 lo lo Kanipar pai IP lo Kinta Asset iatimi
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  • 333 16 Ibo 2nd Battalion South Wales P. i which is about to proceed from i' k rtrs Tientsin, to take the place o t r orii to tahon I loyal Fusilu r s to Secunderabad, India-rrpres,. ut rT "V 1 and
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  • 301 16 The recent speech of the Governor-(lenenil of French Judo China on tlic atl.nrs of tin country to the Council of (Jovcruincut cou taiued the following, according to the Saigon Opinion “No statement of the situation in ludu China would be complete without
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  • 139 16 I’ei P. and O. Nankin, sailing Novt n*ht: 0. —Mis. Aid worth, two children, intuit u muse, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cockney, M'- 1 Mrs. I’raser ami infant. Mr. Norman h Mr. Stank Smith. I’ei K. and (&gt;. K Ita connecting at t ok llll w
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