The Straits Budget, 6 July 1917

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1 7 The Straits Budget
  • 27 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” VOL. LXXI No. 3099 Singapore, Friday, July 6.1917. ESTABLISHED OVER NAIF A CENTURY Price 25 cents.
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  • 236 1 LEADERS Mesopotamia 12 The Beginning of the End 12 Labour and Capital 12-13 Indemnity 13 Military Prospects 13 Tbe War Tax ...1314 Local and General— Local and Personal 1-2 Tbe War 8 9 Notes from Malacca 9 Bishop Brent's Sermon 10 Scotsmen in China 10 Municipal Commission
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  • 4779 1 Mr. J tho best known singers in Holland, Shaman- aIsm an, has just arrived in who u °i D llH Wfty to ava Mr- Zalsman, r eportnir has a most extensive Wood’w i 0 nsef to with Sir Henry Landon u™*? 1 in L omloD, and with
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  • THE WAR.
    • 3391 3 Rkutkr’s Tklrgrams. United States Men Arrive. FRENCH WIN DRAGON’S CAVE. Kkutkr'8 Tklbobams. London, Juno 27,10.80 p.m. Kidd Marshal Haig reports We repulsed •lira north otKoeux after sharp fighting [id considerable enemy loss. We brought n six and drove down two enemy eroplanes. None of ours islmissing. London, June
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    • 3103 4 British Progress. PRESSURE ON GERMANS CONTINUES. London, dune ‘29, 1‘2.15 a.in. Field Marshal Haig reports: Wo made considerable further progress south of Souchez River and captured a number of prisoners. Our lino in this area has again been advanced on a front of two miles, reaching the outskirts
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    • 5438 5 Western Position. HARD FIGHTING AT MANY POINTS. j*. London, June 30, 1.55 p.m, J 1 re P° rfc8: Additional 015^ 1 8 CUr 8ucce88 in khe Portant advan Ijen8, We made an im0Ver a miip in a ront 0Qr and •W°no defftn B an< ca Pt° r ed
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    • 2806 7 Progress of Lens. EARLY CAPTURE FULLY EXPECTED. London, July 2, 8.25 p m. Field-Marshal Haig reports: We sucoessf .iiv rai itd to tbe east of Hargicourt. Enemy raiders reached rnr trenches to tbe east of Loos but were ijn ckly driven out. London, July 2,1.40 p.m. It is
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    • 1807 7 Petrograd Rejoices Greatly. BRL'SILOFF GIVES BRILLIANT LEADERSHIP. London, Jaly 2, 6 20 p m. Wireless Russian, OHioial: After two days’ artillery work wo attacked Koniucby and advanced as far as Keniuchy stream southward of the village. Thu prisoners so far number H,r>64, and wo captured seven Hun*. Wo
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    • 3081 8 Russian Offensive. REJOICINGS IN ALLIED CAPITALS. London, July 8, 4.45 p.m. A wireless Russian official message announces the successful continuance of the offensive in the direction of Zolochesfc. It records the capture yesterday of 6,300 officers and men, 21 guns, 16 machine-guns and several mine throwers. Prisoners continue
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  • 153 9 News has been received in Siantar that some kampongs on Tobameer, and especially Prapat, on the frontier of the East Coast of Sumatra have risen in revolt. The movement must have come from Samosir, where very great discontent still appears to reign. The rapid departure of tho
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  • 120 9 The rate of mortality in the Settlement of Singapore for tho week ended Juno 80 was 40.82 per mille of the population. Tho total number of deaths was 278, of which 198 were male subjects and 80 female. Convulsions claimed 22, phthisis 88, malaria fever 42, beriberi
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  • 370 9 A Bombay despatch of June 26 says: The postal authorities have recovered 16 mail bags (some containing letters for Burma) ot the steamer Mongolia; of these six were picked up at Alibagb, six on the Bunder, one out
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  • 458 9 (From Our Own Corkkshondknt.) Malacca, July 4. Owing to the unsafe condition of the bridges on the Kemendore Hoad, the field operations of the Malacca Volunteer Hides, fixed to tako place last Saturday on the new manoeuvre ground at Kemendoro, Jasin, had to be postponed. Instead, there
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  • 2241 10 Ur. Brunt, Bishop of the Philippine Islands, vran the preacher at tho service in St. Paul’s Cathedral to celebrato the entry of America into the war. Tliking for bis text II. Maccabees, chapter xiii., verses 13-15, ho
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  • 448 10 Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, has given a very important and very vital decision in the British Supreme Court at Tientsin, in the matter of the late Mr. A. H. Mackay, for he has rnled that a Scotsman who died in China,
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  • 44 10 Reuter’s Telegram. London, July 2, 4.45 a.m, The Queen this afternoon opens a great exhibition in connection with baby week,” which is a movement throughout the country intended to promote infant welfare work and fill op gaps caused by the war
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  • 666 10 was held on Friday aftern£m. Tbe l f (Mr. F. J. Hallifax) was in the chi others present were Messrs. A. W iw!i n i khe Namazie, Dr. N. Veerasamv \w a M A< Tiong Wah, J. A. EliaJ“£ Major J. A. R.
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  • 77 10 Reuter’s Telegram, London, June 30, 1.10 p.uiThe Times says that it is understood Gov ernment is working on a scheme of adminis trative reform in India. Nothing is disclose with respect to the course Governme propose to pursue regarding the Mesopota report, but it must be remembered that g
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  • 1191 11 r Frederic William Wile, late Berlin of The Daily Mall, writes With bis prcjeot for a British Trade Corporation Sir Albert Stanley has taken a onloadid step in the direction of arming the Empire for the war
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  • 80 11 Rkuter’s Telegram. London, Jane 27, 6.5 p.m. At a meeting of the P. and O. S. N. Co. a resolution was passed unanimously con firming the arrangements for the acquisition of the Union Company of New Zealand. Lord Inchcape, presiding, mentioned that the purchase price of
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  • 263 11 A sister of Mr. R. V. Cuthbert, formerly of the Nestles Milk Company offices, Singapore, sends some further particulars of his death in action while serving as Second Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders. Mr. Cathbert’s parents are still alive, the father aged 90, the mother
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  • 468 11 In their weekly circular dated June 27, Messrs. Fraser and Co. state Our market is experiencing its customary June set-back in rubbers; the fall in the commodity is not reflected to any great extent in the shares and on the whole
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  • 43 11 Rictkr’s Telegram. London, July 2, 2.25 p.m. Toronto: Owing to wasbaway an electric car plunged over a twenty foot embankment into the river at the edge of the famous whirlpool rapids of Niagara. Twenty seven were drowned and 40 injured.
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  • 275 11 The Pinang Gaaette of June 27 says We regret to record the death of Dr. C. E. Durrant, Penang, which occurred tbis forenoon at his residence under distressing circumstances. He had recently been suffering from nearasthenia, and had only jast come oat of the General Hospital.
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  • 373 11 The secretary to the war loan lottery writes to the Bombay press: As there appears to be some doobt as to bow the drawing of the Western India Turf Clnb war loan lottery will be carried oat may I ask you
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  • 368 11 The statistics of (be course of retail prices of food given in the Board of Trade Labour Gazette published on May 16 show that on May 1 prices, as compared with July, 1914, had increased by 98
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  • 120 11 The following telegram from Lisbon appears in a supplement to the Boletin Official of Macao:—“Tho Prime Minister read yesterday in Parliament tho following commtiniijiie from tho officer commanding tho Portuguese Kxpcditionary Force:—' I bog to inform you that our first division will in n f.-w
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  • THE Straits Budget.
    • 1118 12 Straits Times, June 29. All that the Mesopotainii report does is to confirm what was already well kuown. India entered into a task quite properly assigned to it by tho Imperial authorities and made a dreadful haHh thereof, with the result that thousands of men and some of our
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    • 1079 12 man -Straits Times, J UDe 30 The first contingent of United States troops has arrived in France, and the incident has a great significance. The fighting power of a nation which is capable of becoming the greatest fighting power in the world is now on
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    • 1160 12 libt-vty an! justice are maintained.—Straits TimeH, July 2. We bad some remarks the other day 0I what has become known as reconstruction and these are emphasised by a statement of the Ministry of Labour printed in our issue on Saturday. The War Cabinet, we are told, is
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    • 1089 13 -Straits Times Jane 8. bke the tone of Mr. Lloyd George’s at Glasgow, It is robust, and it is 1 n telling phrases. What better for tiip lo tliis passage: “Can you Imagine the Kaiser beforo the war a swagger Rpeech to the Prussian Jard saying My gallant warriors,
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    • 1062 13 -Straits Tuiiea, July 4. The British are gradually working their way round Lens and its capture may be expected soon. At the same time, operations about which we hear little appear to be going on farther north, and it seems likely that the next big offensive will be
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    • 1298 13 the law which be has to administer.—Straits Times, Jaly 5. It in very far from our intentiou to carp aimlessly over the collection of a tax which, in principle, wo most strongly advocated. Equally it in far from our intention to carp at the officers who havo
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  • 175 14 A civil suit, which threatens to beat the Perak Water Rights case in intricacy and abstrusenoss of detail, was commenced on Saturday in the Jndioial Commissioner’s Coart, Ipob, says the Times of Malaya. In tbe ordinary course of events tbe hearing would not have commenced for about
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  • 185 14 Thofollowing message from the War Office, dated May 1, sets oat the medical qualifications (or recruits for active service:— I am to inform you that recruits to be passed as fit for general service should be well formed and developed and should be able to hear well
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  • 704 14 On Jane 14 we intimated that we bad paid the last of ten monthly contributions made by the fond we organised to assist the Overseas Club in providing smokes for onr soldiers and sailors. The total sent in the ten months,
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  • 300 14 on jZ' Which can be moved dose T «l fighting lines in France, cokU iTL? 1 furnished. We are very phased ifi® 00 ,0,1 J those collecting for Ponig, mod Negri Sembilan have “P* they each hope to raise the toUl for one tent. These tents
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  • 270 14 The following list of subscriptions to tie Officers’ Families Fund is inserted by Mrs. Ridout, the Honorary Secretary, wbo bega to thank the donors for their kindness. Mrs. Ridont will be glad to receive at the General Officer’s House, Tanglin, any sums—either by monthly subscriptions or donations.
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  • 2047 15 From Our Special Correspondent. London, May 11. The promise of the secret session of the of Commons, which took place yester- u an excellent weapon in the armoury d ?JhP War Cabinet for putting a stop to awk- 0.1 pnauiries. There are
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  • 1246 15 Mr. G. E. Cator, the British Resident, Brunei, has forwarded to us a oopy of his annual report on the State for the year 1916, from which it is gathered that, on the whole, the period nnder review was one of prosperity
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  • 143 15 The lion. Mr. H. W. Firmstone, Diroctor of Education, in the course of his report on education in the F.M.S. says It has been stated in earlier paragraphs that a certain number of boys and girls enter each year for the Cambridge University Local Examinations. Very few
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  • 39 16 [The Straits Tirnos is not responsible for the opinions of its correspondents. Correspondents should bear in mind that letters must be short and to the point. Long, rambling epistles are liable to be rejected or ruthlossly out down.]
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  • 108 16 To tho Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —As a habitual theatre-goer 1 quite agToo with “Victim’s” remarks regarding the insufficiency of ventilation at the Victoria Theatre. 1 love to see a play whenever it is a good one and therefore often go there, but am
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  • 327 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,—l shall feel greatly obliged if you could publish this my final letter on this subject. 1 am inclined to think your correspondent subscriber’s nervos are rather unstrung probably by his music. Fear not subscriber. No reasonable person will doubt
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  • 426 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —The war makes and unmakes men, and the fate of Lord Hardinge seems to tremble in the balance, and yonr leader of the 29th alt. is a refreshing contrast to the hysterical outburst of the London Morning Post. The
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  • 254 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —You may remember that some time ago 1 wrote a letter under the above heading. At that time I was not sure, whether tho refusal to sell postal-orders was only applicable to Indians, but afterwards I found that
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  • 82 16 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —May I trespass on your paper to draw the attention of the Municipal authorities to the .very bad state of Upper Serangoon Itoad between Biddadari and Paya Lebar. No one expects this road to be kept in the same
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  • 218 16 We have to acknowledge a draft for 96,652.76 from the Editor of the Malay Mail, Kuala Lumpur, being the total amount received by our esteemed contemporary on behalf of the Union Jack Club. The fund now stands thus Already acknowledged 921,761.87
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  • 21 16 Rsutbr's Tklkokam. London, July 2, 11.66 p.m. The death is announced of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
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  • 641 16 Judgment was given on Jane 28 with regard to an appeal arising oat of an action entered by I. Ellison against the Rangoon firm of Lim Soo Hean and Go. and Lim Chin Tsong. The case in tbe lower court has not
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  • 189 16 It is notified in the Post Office Express that after August 2 next the mail service from the Straits Settlements to Europe will be restricted to one mail per fortnight. The Post Office hopes to be able to revert to the weekly service by using
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  • 597 16 A romance of the East engaged n, tion of Mr. Justice Darling and a srl he po April S6 in lacquer. J rare Mr. William Bruce Lockhart an ant, sued Mr. D. Bamsey Blair T Piccadilly, for the retur/of Certain
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  • 197 16 Shortly before 5 p.m. on June 28 new 9 reached the Singapore Harbour Board that a Chinese-owned ship was afire in the roads. The fire floats Varunha and Titho were despatched without delay with Capt. t Capt- W. C. Edwards, Inspector Meredith, and Mr. W. Hocquard
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  • 2121 17 From Our Special Correspondent. London, May 17. sir Douglas Haig has botnchittiy occupied this week with a g™up of detail operation, uoHt efficiently and prohtably carried out. T aH cleared the enemy completely ouw ot a position which dominates the urmthern
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  • 228 17 The Bangkok Times of June 22 says:—A proclamation prohibiting the export of silver lias been issued in a special Gazette dated yesterday. The price of silver has been rising for a year or more, and, in view of tho figures reached last month and this,
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  • 705 17 Mr. St. P. Rudinger, ia the course of ao article in the N. C. Daily News, Shanghai* nays; Sinco the oatbreak of the war, varioua German newspapers, inter alia the local rag Deutsche Z dtuug, have published occasional articles, dealing
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  • 88 17 (From Oi;r Own Corrkkpondknt.) Penang, July Prospects aro good for tho raocs to bo helil a fortnight hence. The lottery Gieets bavo tilled and possibly secoud lotteries will bo necessary. Tbo horses iu train ng on tbo Penang course are Prince Mitncr, Pr» tty Boy, Loadder, Gloria, Midas,
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 220 17 Property Sale. Tbe following properties were disposod of by auction on tbe 2nd instaut by Messrs. Cbcng Keng Lee and Co. at their saleroom 90 years’ leasehold land and bouse 34, Palembang Road, area 2,265 sq. ft., bought by Shaik Omar bin Maffor Ba Ubaid for 91,600; freehold land at
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 685 18 S CC. 2: Wireless 0. It happt uh if ten i:i port that a uian or a team will m» -Ire a hetttu show uguiuht a good opponont than aguL-u a mediocre one. The play of tin- Nava. U m-less in their league match again* 11 u S.C.C o
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    • 171 18 Id connection witli the Malacca Volunteer Battalion R e. ladies’ section, the first shoot of the seam-u camo off on June 12 at the Bukit Sebukor Rifle Range. A sighter and sevon shots to count woro allowed for the 100 and 20d yard ranges, and five shots to
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    • 682 18 Following aro tho results of play in the S.C.C. lawn tenuis tournament on Friday C. Singles, Thomson boat Layton, 7—6, 7—5. Watt boat Holden, 6—0, 6— 8. Moss boat Pedlow, 6 1, 6—8, 6—0. Gibson v. Bond (postponed). Newcomifs’. Lindon v. Bordman (postponed). Hurst v. H tukiu (postponed).
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    • 215 18 In the Malacca Golf Club June medal competition three cards were returned for the men's medal, T. M Shervington running out winner with a net score of 85. T. M. Shervington 49-1-48—12=85 J. W. Gilman 50 49 12 87 E. E. Smith 66 52 20 88 The ladies' medal
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    • 196 18 A draw was the result of the meeting between the S.C.C. and the S R.C. on the former’s ground on Saturday afternoon. The home eleven batted first and made 182 for eight wickets. James took five wickets for 66, Qauder one for 22 and Goelho one for 41. The
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  • 243 18 IIkutkr's Tkuu.kam. London, June 2< 10 in Peking: Tlie President has a number of Chan* Hsud’s denjan T Pk eluding the reorganisation of tL* rV° with a reduction of its powers President is re drafting a ron.'iu he for the re-election of a Parham** m on a reduced
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  • 177 18 Reuter’s Telegram London, July 3, 5.50 a.u. New York A labour dispute led to serious racial troubles in east St. Louis where negroes killed a policeman. A crowd of whites caught two negroes, whom they shot and killed. The crowd was most aggressive. They wrested arms from the
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  • 164 18 The wedding of Mr. James Henry Atkin Trowell, chief engineer of the steamer Kaka, and Miss Dorothy Frances Ricket was quietly solemnised at the Wesleyan Church on Tuesday afternoon. The bridegroom is the eldest son of Mr. W. J. Trowell, Surveyor-General of Ships, and Mrs. Trowell, and
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  • 130 18 Pointing out that bicycle thefts are occur* ring in Singapore at the rate of about odc ft day, a correspondent suggests that regish® tion might prove a useful precaution. Ibe Municipality has the power of imposing a yearly tax of one dollar on each bicycle, but 1 is
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  • 937 19 It is with much regreUbat we teoord the death »t the early age o th.rty mne of Mr. »s;-vTism st las rii -.“vST ts taken seriously ill only as recently M last Thursday when he was removed to
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  • 141 19 The report of the Registrar of Criminals F.M.S., is a most interesting document exhibiting great efficiency in the registration of orime. Not the least important benefit derived from the Registry, says Mr. W. L. Conlay, Commissioner of Police, in bis annual report is the detection
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  • 150 19 Under the heading of German subjects in the Settlement, the captain superintendent of Police, Shanghai, reported last month:— During the latter half of April and the month of May the Municipal Police have almost daily accompaniod parties of Chinese Government delegates in their visits to premises ownod
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  • 149 19 An order appears in a Government Gazette Extraordinary issued oa Monday applying Regulation 4 of the Food Control Regulations, 1917, to milk held by or belonging to the Nestle and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Company, Limited, and Messrs. Connell Brothers Company, respectively, who are required to make
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  • 90 19 A Berne telegram to the Agenzia Libera states (says a Central News Rome telegram) that since the beginning of the war FieldMarshal Hindenburg has been ill four times. On the whole his health is fairly good, but he has lost a lot of his former
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  • 75 19 Messrs. Sime, Darby and Co. furnish particulars of the outputs from the following companies for June. Kamunting Tin Dredging piculs 700, hours run 560, yards treated 84,000, value of output $43,000, cost of mining $10,500. Chanderiang Tin Dredging, Ltd. Dredge piculs 320, hours run 617, yards treated
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  • 75 19 The Batavia Nieuwsblad understands that American capital is being interested more and more with the Dutch East Indies, especially with regard to rubber growing in Sumatra, seeing that, elsewhere, ground is practically unprocurable. Atjoh and, particularly, Perlak are the favourites. A short while ago, a block of
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  • 312 19 The following telegram received by His Exoellency the Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies is published in a Government Gazette Extraordinary issued yesterday for general information I have been asked by Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of
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  • 42 19 Andbrson. —On July 1, at the Maternity Hospital, Singapore, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Anderson, Sungei Dangar Estate, Johore, a daughter. Bakrr. —On July 4, at Kuala Lumpur, the wife of O. J. Bakor, of a son. Japan papers please copy.
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  • 49 19 Thompson—Hbrmitaob. —On July 2, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore, by Ven. Archdeacon Swiadell. Colonial Chaplain, Erie J. Thompson (Miri, Sarawak), eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson, Higham Ferrers, Northampshire, to Beatrice Wolls, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. G. Wells Hormitage, Dover, Kent.
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  • 173 19 Sinoapou, July 5, 1917. BXCHANOB. um Lonulm ......Bank 4 m/a 3/4f Demand M 2/4± PtivaleBjm/s 2/4tf On t rangr Bank T. T. 818 On Imuu Bank T. T. On HoMaKONo...8ank d/d On Snamubai ...Bank d/d 614 On Java Bank T. T. m. 184 Om Japan Bank 109
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  • 331 19 KiNeaPomn, July 6, 1917* MINING. Buyers Sellers. 10 10 Ampang 6.60 6.00 1 1 Ayer Weng 1.80 1.50 10 10 Kanaboi 1.26 1.60 10 10 Kinta Association 9.25 9.60 41 41 Kinta Tin 1.10.0 1.17.6 41 41 Lahat Mines 4.00 6.00 10 10. Malayan Collieries 12.25 12.76
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 130 19 NOTICE. The post tree price of the Straits Times to the United Kingdom and foreign countries ia |a» a year. Toe post fre* price o( the Straits Budget is $14 year to any part of the world. It is not necessary to subscribe for a year. The subscriptions for shorter
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  • 197 19 OBITUARY. Reuter’s Telegram. London, June 28, 12.40 p.m. The death has occurred of BrigadierGeneral G. E. Holland. London, June 28, 10.55 p.m. The death of Sir George Birdwooii has taken place suddenly of heart failure. The death has taken place at her residence, No. 30, Enggor-street, of Mrs. Lim Mah
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  • The Straits Budget RUBBER SUPPLEMENT.
    • 88 1 Gbnbral Rubber Items Penang Robber A net ions 1 Java Produce Market 1 Robber Results 1 F.M.S. Robber Export Duty 1 Singapore Robber Aaction 2 A Labour Puzzle Jane Robber Returns 5 Tamils in the F.M.S. 5 Telegrams.— London Robber Market 1 Meetings and Rbports— Highlands and Lowlands 1
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    • 219 1 Punggor Rubber estates are paying a final dividend of 5 per cent, free of war tax, making 8 per cent, for the year. Messrs. Guthrie and Co. have received advice b J cable that the directors of the Sendayan (F.M.S.) Rubber Company have declared an interim dividend of
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    • 88 1 Messrs. Allen Dennys and Co. advise that the undermentioned prices were realised for rubber sold at their auction sale on Wednesday and Thursday of last week Smoked ribbed sheet $llB to $124 No. 2 smoked sheet diamond 196 117 Unsmoked sheet 110 115 No. 2 unsmoked sheet
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    • 76 1 From Our Own Correspondent. London, Jnly 2. Tbo London rubber market is quiet with prices at a lower level, quotations being Fine sheet 2/4 to 2/5 Crepe 2/5 2/6 Fine bard Para 2/11 M 3/• The last report was as follows London, June
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    • 136 1 Messrs. Francis Peek and Co., Singapore, supply us with the following report on the position of the Java produce market for the week ending July 2 Batavia, June 29,1917. Rubber.—The rubber market is weak with a downward tendency in prices.
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    • 124 1 The profits of the Khota Tampan Rubber Company for last year, after allowing £761 for depreciation, totalled £12,047, to which is added £4,609 brought forward. Dividend 15 per cent, (less tax) £4,000 to reserve; forward (subject to excess profits duty), £7,672. Last year tho dividend was 10 per
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    • 93 1 For the period from July 6 to 12, 1917, inclusive, the value of tho highest grade of rubber is fixed at 2s. sd. per lb., and the duty on cultivated rubbor on which export duty is leviable on an ad valorem basis in accordance with the
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    • 1249 1 The eleventh annual general meeting of the Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Company, Limited, was held on May 14 in the Council Room of the Rubber Growers’ Association, Incorporated, 88, Eastcheap, E.C., Sir Frank A. Swettenbam, G.C.M.G. (chairman of the
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    • 1054 2 Tbo first annual general meeting of sharehnldprs in the Shanghai Kelantan Robber Ltd. was held at the offices of the Jecretaries and general managers, No. 4, Yuenmingyaen Road, Shanghai, on June 5, the N- C. Daily News. There
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    • 465 2 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association’s 301st auction was held on June 27 and 28, 1917. Offered for sale 9,363.69 piculs or 1,248,478 lbs. (tons 557.36) Prices realised:— Sheet smoked fine ribbed 9120 to 9128 good ribbed 100 119
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    • 681 2 Mr. Koli San Hin signs the following report for presentation to the shareholders of this company at the annual meeting next Saturday:— Gentlemen, yonr directors submit herewith a duly audited statement of the aooounts of the company for the year
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    • 823 2 Mr. W. D. Scott, senior magistrate, Ipob, baa, says the Times of Malaya, just given bis decision in an interesting and important labour oase in which Mr. U. M. Snepton, manager of UIu Pari Estate, was charged with
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    • 1484 3 In the Clab at Sungkai, Batang I’adang district, on Juno 27, a geueral meeting was held of the Planters’ Association of Malaya, Mr. R. C. M. Kindersley (chairman) presiding over a good attendance. In the course of
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    • 1951 3 The Chairman in introducing this subject said the local Government had pointed oat the desirability of all planters doing their utmost to farther the supplies of local food stuffs, such as rice, maize, paddy, etc. Rioe was the staple food in this oountry,
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    • 763 4 r The fourth annual ordinary general meetiog of the South Perak Rubber Syndicate, Limited, was held at the offices of the comEiny, Mincing Lane House, 59, Eastcheap, ondon, E.C., Mr. M. Sidney Parry (chairman of tbe company) presiding. The Chairman said: We
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    • 1911 4 The eleventh ordinary general meeting of the Anglo-Malay Rubber Company, Limited, was held on May 7 at the Cannon Street Hotel, E.C., Sir Frank A. Swettenbam. GtC.M.Q. (chairman of the company), presiding. The Chairman said Oentlemen,
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    • 769 4 The eleventh annual meeting of the shareholders of the Sbelford Rubber Estate, Limited, was held at Glasgow on May 2, Sir John Ure Primrose, Bart., presiding. The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said: Gentlemen, you have had
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    • 165 5 It is Manufactory that the Government of the Malay State of Perak is taking a good deal of interest in the education of the ohildren of Tamil immigrants, of whom so many have to Perak to work on or in connection with the numerous rubber plantations
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