The Straits Budget, 29 October 1914

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  • 28 1 The Straits Budget BUNG THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES.” VOL. LXVIII No. 2959 Singapore. Thursday. October 29. 1914. fSTAUISHED OVil HALF A CCfcLllV. Price 25 cents.
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  • 281 1 leaders—iitaation Clearing 12 Here and There 12 Mure International Law 12-18 The Sigh of the Veterans 18 Germany's De sperate Effort ...18-14 Hoern at the Front 14 Local and General— Local and Personal 1-2 Education in the Straits 2 Oldham Literary Society 2 Labour Party and the
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  • 2424 1 Giia 5* n Kk° n 8 on Octobor 14 Inspector OTQon, ot the VV r ater Police, made an appli(6:f lon or ft magistrate’s order for the tor»bf U e taels of opium, valued at Bln v was found on board the llunti lioor Telemachus. The applit»l
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  • 1208 2 The Hod. J. B. Elcum, Director of Education, signs the annual report on education in the Straits Settlements, for the year 1913. lie points out that the total revenue collect ed from school fees und the education
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  • 315 2 A very interesting and instructive course of lectures have been organised under the auspices of the Oldham Literary Society of the Anglo-Chiuese School, and the first lecture of the series entitled Electricity aud Modern Civilisation, by Mr. P. M. Robinson, of the United Engineers, was given on
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  • 204 2 A British Legation telegram received at Bangkok from the Foreign Oftioe, Loudon, and dated October 16, says A manilesto issued entitled, Brit sb L ibour Movement and the War,” signed by laboui nr tubers and leaders of tho labour m .vemeut, declares that false statements
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  • 232 2 e have this afternoon received the fol lowing message forwarded from (iovernmwi House for public information October 28, I9U, The German cruiser Emden entered Penang harbour early this moreins: by the Southern Channel, engraced the Russian cruiser Zhemtchu* with gun-fire,
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  • 241 2 Thursday Island, a fortified North Queensland settlement, is famed not only for its lug guns, but also f. r pearl shells, pearls, turtleshell and a succulent black slug (beloved by the Chinese, who buy it for soup-making). These things arc the marketable products o Thursday Island. Last year
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  • 880 6 The following report of proceedings at the third ordinary general meeting of the Ampang (Kinta) Tin Mining Co., held at Winchester House on the 21st inst., is forwarded by tho Secretaries, Messrs. F. W. Barker and Co.:— Mr. W. Lowther Kemp
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  • 579 6 The directors of the s».i. n Co., Ltd., have issued the follow* VOr under date October 26:-- W,IJ Oentlemen,—Your director*. w 1, tl, oumpiiny's account, foMl‘1 ended June 30, 1914. Tl... 1 6 1®** writing off deprcciaL directors and auditors’ foes
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  • 112 6 When all the German male residents i Singapore were gathered iu and sen 0 John’s Island for internment, it was un stood that some steps woald be taken y authorities later to deal with the w°^ R children. Now those measures have announced. We understand tha
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  • 90 6 The mortality returns for SinCM 1 b o by the Registrar of "“f/Stub, r l that, during the week K r n s 's4 fouiales), there were 209 deaths (lfD 1 p u l ft tion of giving a ratio per mlUo f /J 21 deaths, 33.07.
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  • Article, Illustration
    90 7 As far as can be gathered, all the country cast of a lino drawn from Ostend past Lille, through Guise on to Laon and thon turning sharply cast through Argoune and north of Verdun to the frontier is in the hand sof the Gormans, while the allies appear
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  • 319 7 The depredations committed in the Bay of &t>j>al by the German cruiser Emdcn liavo gireu the Government their first taste of the heissitudfs of an underwriter’s life, states the Finaucial Times of September 25. Tho •owes arising cut of the sinking
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  • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 183 7 Singapore Golf Club. The Autumn Cup competition was played on Saturday and Sunday, and resulted in a win for Mr. E. L. Talma who returned tho excellent net score of 77. The sweep was won by Mr. Gilbertson on Saturday and by Mr. Talma on Sunday. Forty-four cards were
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    • 377 7 S.C.C. V. Public Services. This match was played on Saturday on the Esplanade and resulted in an eaHy win for the Services. The club put up 101 as their total, but thr ir opponents replied with 205 for the loss of only four wickets, Galistan scoring 79 not out.
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  • 314 7 Considerable satisfaction, says tho Westminster Gazette, is being expressed in the City over the announcement of the shipowners controlling the Eastern freight charges that the war increase of 25 per cent, is to ho reduced by one fifth. The new
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  • 1724 8 (From A Cokkkrpondknt.) Kuala Lumpur, October 21. There is now but small excitement over the nows from the Heat of war ami even the abandonment of the Antwerp foils lias been received complacently. Our local shipping is however keeping it eyes skinned for the Emden w hich
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  • 56 8 Rkutkk’s Tblbgkam. London, October 25, 10.35 p.m. The death is announced in London of General Sir Charles Douglas who has been Inspector-General of the Home Forets since 1912. lie had seen much active service with the Gordon Highlanders in India, aud in command of a
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  • 1391 8 The home papers to baud by Sunday's mail contain accounts of the shelling of Madras by the (iorman cruiser Emdeu and the propounding of many theorios why the ship has so far evaded capture. Before referring
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  • 203 8 A Simla wire, dated October 14, s.. The immigration of deck passengers the Madras coast lias been temporal: >P hibited by the Gov< rnnnnt of the > Settlements. The rrasons winch the Colonial Government to wfc step are that the quarantine s u the Colony
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  • 1995 9 From Our Special Correspondent. London, September 25. it A rc we downhearted is the war cry of ijj e British soldier, fighting up to his waist fc water in the trenches with the German ibells .screeching overheard, and the answer
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  • 896 9 Ceylon contemporaries to hand by the mail contain quite a number of interesting telegrams which have not been published in Singapore. Following are a few selected London, October 15.—Never has Plymouth witnessed such scenes as on tho reception of the Canadians
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  • 468 9 The Shanghai contingent, concerning which there has boou considerable discussion and speculation in Singapore, has resolved itself into a very material fact, for the N.Y.K. steamer Suwa Maru, on her way to London, has arrived in port with 100 men
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  • 62 9 (Fko.M Out OWN CuuitKM'UNDKNT.) Ipoll, October ‘27. In the President's ('tip at'lie Ipoli K.ices, on Friday, Lily Klsio’s Ini dicap lias been altered to 12 7, tho Marne an in t he llorneo Cup. Splendid (ortii has beeu shown hy several and as one or two of the
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  • 105 11 (From Our Own Cokukspondknt.) Ipoh. October 22. VN ithout formal ceremony the opening of the Province Wellesley sectiou of the railway from Rukit Mcrtajam to Kedah, which ultimately will form part of the connecting link with the Royal Siamese
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  • 24 11 Rkutkh’s Tklkouam. London. October 21, 1.40 p.m. Petrograd The Czar’s temperance decree means that the Government sacrifice 93 millions sterling annually.
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  • 215 11 This is a bad timo for any Chinese to be convicted of theft of any description. There have been so many complaints lately as to tbe audacious methods of these thieves and so much concern shown at tho danger which has tneuaced people waylaid in quiet
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  • 185 11 An example has been made of tbe two Chinese, Guh Lcaug and Soo Chow Chean, who were arrested after an audacious attempt to rob two Annamile ladies. There have been a great number of such outrages lately aud tho police authorities in this instance pressed the
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  • 131 11 News received in Paris gives a vivid pic turo of tho distress prevailing at Hamburg. All traffic has stopped 1,500 ships aro lying idle with their crows on shore suffering from hunger; and business is at a standstill. The population is completely deprived of butter and milk,
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  • 1606 11 Tho third anuual general meeting of Selangor Coconuts, Limited, was held at Kuala Lumpur, on the 17th inst., Mr. J. H. M. Robson in the chair. After the notice convening tlm meeting aud tho minutes of tho last
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  • 105 11 It )iah apparently beou decided by Hovern ment that the system of paroles for the enemy's subjurts resident in Singapore shall cease. Intimation was conveyed by *tbo 'police on Kiiday to all Herman arid Austrian males that they must present them selves at the I', and O. Wharf
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  • 69 12 Barclay. On October :22, at I‘ringgitt Hill, Malacca, the wife of J. (i. Barclay, of a daughter. CointiNGTON. —On October 2.1, at Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. S. Codriugton, a son. Pkhalta.— On (October 28, at 2, Dublin Road, to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peralta, a son. Day.
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  • 33 12 Court—Woodward.— On Monday, October 26, at Saiut Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, M. O. Court, of Messrs. Simc, Dary and Co., Limited, Malacca, to Minuie Leigh, fourth daughter of Edward Woodward, E.*q., of Birkonhead.
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1146 12 Straits Times, October 22. J The situation in Franco and Belgium is gradually clearing up. By putting one fragment to another wo are enabled to form a pretty clear idea of what is happening, though the fragments themselves seem almost inconsequential. Thus we may conclude from a report
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    • 1027 12 out longest will wiu.— Straits Times, October 28. The latest exploits of the Emdcn may be inevitable. There may be no one to blame for the fact that this one German ship has destroyed no less than about eighteen British ships and some millions of pounds worth
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    • 1174 12 greatest local industry.—Straits Times, October 24. A correspondent whose letter wc publish to day raises some questions that are full of interest. He shows that Germany ban flag rantly violated international laws iu ber conduct of the war, and that, we think, no one. not even a
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    • 1298 13 Straits Times, October 26. The success of the new volunteer unit is, we think, fully assured, and instead of proving an obstacle to the existing units there is good reason to believe that it will assist them. We offer our congratulations to Mr. Frank Adam,
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    • 1088 13 culturo has been a mere disguise.—Straits Times, October ‘27. There has been heavy fighting in many places since the war began, but it seems to us that the groatest strugglo of all is that which is taking place between Ostend and Arras. Thero have been gains and
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    • 1302 14 .—Straits Times, October 28. Simultaneously with the close of our effort to find what number of men in Malaya are willing to go to the front, an announcement is mado that power has beeu received by the local military authorities to examine and pass recruits. This
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 95 12 The post tree price 1 of the Straits Times i* |3B a year 1 he poet fre price of the Straits Budget it $l4 Tear It is not necewarv to subscribe for a year. The tub criptions for shorter periods are at the same proper* ionate rate as for a
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  • 70 12 DEATHS. Tan Moon Waii. —On October 20, at the General Hospital, Singapore, Tan Boon Wall, third sou of the late Mr. Tan Chin Hoon aged *14 years. Interment took place on the same day at Alexandra Road Cemetery. Bkiir. —On October 20, S. Behr, of 12, Kidderpore Gardens, West Hampstead,
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  • 140 14 The Admiralty announces that nine German cruisers are at present roaming the seas on destruction bent and that seventy of the Allied warships are endeavouring to account for them. The nine roamers we take to be the following;—Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, formerly in China, last report ed bombarding
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  • 149 14 A London cable of October 8, addressing a Trade Deputation, Mr. Lloyd George said he believed we would shortly experience an unprtcedented trade boom owmg to the enormous demand of foreign countries for goods unobtainable elsewhere. We were now constantly receiving orders from othor countries. As the
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  • 147 14 An Anglo-Chinese Agency message dated from London on October 12 and published in Shanghai states:—lnasmuch as the fall of Antwerp was allowed for, it has not affected the military situation, as the Belgian army is intact and unbeaten, and is now able to co-operate with the Allies in
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  • 229 14 Tlie installation meeting and banquet of Read Lodge was held at the Masonic Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday. Wor. Bro. B. Day installed Bro. S. H. Kedfearn Shaw rh W.M. for the ensuing year, and the latter invested his officersas follows :—I.P.M. Wor. Bro. B. Day;
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  • 703 14 Poultry and Dairy Farm. LIQUIDATOR FAILS TO ATTEND COURT. Papers to Go to Public P rosecutor On Monday, in the Supreme r H the Chief .Justice, Mr. UuckuiU kTS 1 1 mention was made of n W Mr. M S. Guest, as li.juiGator iV 0 pore Poultry and Dairy Farm
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  • 150 14 T~ p., naD unlike Tbo German community in J p ini og their brethren of Singapore,.*»;> ft {ri 0 Gazette, of Saturday., l'»’'*• J vV must dom, since the outbreak o To dllV howhave surprised thorns &n .m i ever, this state of tiling p ,rc\ the
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  • 15 17 The Straits Times* is not responsible for jj C O pioions of its correspondents.]
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  • 693 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. S j r —Could you got liold of a statement of p re sent position of international law on V cuU ,luct of warfare and print a summary the benefit of your readers? It is a tiling we are
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  • 661 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times, air, —H u the Volunteer Mi tin;' l ist llL strike you as rather pathetic It was j |JU to auy ouo who looked round the s of t io men present that an ago limit of v
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  • 721 17 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —I have read with surprise, and I may say rather pained surprise, the thinly veiled criticisms of some of jour correspondents of the apparent failure of the fleet to capture or destroy the Eradco. I would point out to them
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  • 369 17 London, September 25. A few days ago the Press Agency Bureau corrected a statement in tho Evoniug News that the Russians wore in Frauco and for tho present we must abido by this—but what I do not understand is why so many of
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  • 180 17  -  A. S. Jun, Oh Thou, wha in tho heaven dost dwell, WJia, just because it pleased tliysel’, lias made the German nation hw« 11 Wi’ pride an’ glory, An’ no’ for a’ the guid or ill They’ve done afore thee If twa three jealous huddiew seek To
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  • 436 17 There was mention in the senior magistrate's court, on Wednesday, of proceedings wliicb, in present circumstances, are likely to bo of considorablo interest, Messrs. Behn Moyer and Co., Ltd., being the defendants. There aro four summonses against tho company
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  • 366 17 Wo have received several copies of a circular headed Post Van i>kii Hu ltd ani> Co. Itottordam (Holland) Kni'inocrs—Merchants Forwarding—Insurance Com mission Merchants The firm claims to have boon cstahlishod since 1H72. 'I’lio circular states that Holland has been able to remain nuutial” and
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  • 1140 18 The current issue of the Government Gazette reprints a notice which appeared in the London Gazette, of September 2, relating to vessels detained in British ports on the •outbreak of war or which have been captured at
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  • 533 18 Dr. Lim Boon Keng signs the first annual report of the directors of the United Saw Mills, Limited, for the period August 22, 1913 (the date of the actual commencement of business) to June 30, 1914. It states: The
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  • 140 18 SlMUAPORB, OCTOBKH 28, )9 l4 exchange Or London Bank 4 m/s Demand 2/41 Private 8 m/s */H On Indu Bank T. T. a /4j On HoNoaoNo...Bank d/a On 8HANoHAi....Bank d/d 26^ On Java Bank T. T. 104| On Japan Bank d/d Ul( Sovereigns—buying rate India Council Bills
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  • 424 18 Sinoapoki, October 28, 191*. MINING. Issue Valee (2 Bu J“' 6 10 10 Ampang 7.00 9.50 1 1 Ayer Wen# 0.15 C.35 10 10 Belat 1.00 2.00 10 10 Brn&ng 0.75 1.50 10 10 Kampav 10.00 10 10 Kanaboi 1.00 1.(0 10 10 Kinta Association 8.50 £1
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT.
    • 79 1 General- Rubber Items 1 The Rubber Market 1 Export of Raw Rubber 1 Rubber Company Dividends 2 Rubber Export Tax 2 Coconut Milk "as Coagulant 2 Tklkokams Batavia Exhibition 1 Loudon Rubber Specials 1 CORRESPONDENCE The War and the Rubber Industry. 2 Mkktinos and Reports— Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and
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    • 182 1 Mr. I*. S. Guise, of Holm wood Estate, has enlisted at home. News has been received of the death from dysentery at Kuala Lebir hospital on the 20th inst., of Mr. Stephen Robert Avery, of Kdantan Rubber Estates, Ltd. Xoriuau Durege, merchant, of Beach Street, Peuang, has been
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    • 319 1 The report of tho Bajoe Kidoel Rubber and Produce Company, Limited, states that (luring the year to March 31 802 acres of now clearings were added to the cultivated area, which now consists of about 4,152 acres of Hevea, interplan ted with coffee. The coffee
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    • 278 1 (From A Correspondent.) Woltevreden, October 23. The juries appointed to docide the awards in the various sections at the International Rubber Congress and Exhibition, now being held on the Koniugsplein (north), have granted the following special prizes offered
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    • 107 1 (From Our Own Corrksfondrnt.) London, October 23. There has been a sharp rise in rubber duo to the capture of the Troilus by tho Emden with her large cargo of rubber. Sungei Kari pays a fiual dividend of 12$ per cent. Sungei Choh 5 per cent., Sungei
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    • 170 1 The report of the Xunah Datar Rubber Estate, Limited, states that the planted area was increased during tho year to He comber 31 by 118$ acres, making a total of 696$ acres under rubber. Tho whole of tinrubber trees art* planted 20 by 20, or about
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    • 619 1 Tho Singapore Chamber of Commoroc Rubber Association’s 162nd auctiou was held on Tuesday, when there were offered for st'a piculs 1,599.25 or 213,233 lbs., and sold piculs 1,120.42 or 149,389 lbs. The prices realised wore:— Sheet smoked
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    • 376 1 Tho directors of Kempas, Limited, in thoir annual report and statement of accounts for tlio year ended Juno IK), atato:— After charging the whole of secretarial expenses, depreciation, and charge a in connection with the reduction of capital against revenue, the profit
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    • 129 1 It is notified iu the Government Gazette tlmt the prohibition of tlio < xjn>rt of raw rubber notified in a Gazette Kxtraordinary issu ed on October 1, is rescinded and that the export of raw rubber from any place in the Colony to any place other
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    • 13 2 [The Straits Times is not responsible for tho opinions of its correspondents.]
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    • 550 2 To the Editor of tho Straits Times. Sir, —In a recent issuo of your paper I noticed that you had received a telegram from England anticipating a‘‘glut of rubber in tho market.” It would bo interesting to know’ on what argument such a promise
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    • 199 2 The report of tho directors of the Tanah Merah Rubber Estate, Ltd., for tbo year ended Juno 30 contains the following:—The profit for the year amounts to Tls. 7,263.80. which with the balance brought forward from previous year makes a total of Tls. 49,863 88, an
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    • 80 2 Tho Sungei Choh Rubber Estate is paying an interim dividend of 5 per cent, less income tax on November 2. Mi ssi s. Whittall and Co., Klang, write that tiny have received a cable to this effect. Mohsth. Harlow and Co., Kuala Lumpur, iuform us that they
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    • 961 2 The following resume of action taken by the Rubber Growers’ Association in regard to the revised scale of rubber export tax in the F.M.S. is quoted from the Financial Times of September 22 In viow
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    • 281 2 The report of the Sungkai-Chumor Rubber Estates says that, tor the year ended June 80, tile total rubber collected was 347,621 lbs., auaiust an estimate of 344,000 lbs. and a yield the previous year of 279.354 lbs. Tho gross price realised was 2s. 8.25d. per pound (London equivalent
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    • 272 2 Coconut Milk as Coagulant. The Kandy correspondent of the Times of Ceylon, writing on the 19th inst., states: An important discovery has beeu just made by a well-known planter of the Kandy district in the use of the milk in the coconut, or the water as it is commonly called,
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    • 495 2 BUKIT KUBU RUBBER. Report of an Australian-Ow n ed Estate. Messrs. McAlister and Co rll us a copy of the annual renortii hubu Rubber Estates, Ltd. of IJ ki t are the Eastern agents. Th n tllt y registered in Melbourne and th< h Pa y 8 who signs the
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    • 369 2 Mr. H. O. White presided over the fourth annual general meeting of the See kee Rubber Estates, Limited, which was held on September 30, at Shanghai. Mr. J. E. Bingham (the auditor) said tnai before the business of tho meeting coni
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