Straits Echo, 9 June 1904

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    35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUuHOII THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES, AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 2. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, THURSDAY, JUNE 9th, 1904. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 129«
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    Domestic Occurrence.
    18 1 Bikth. On stli June, at Tanjcng Katong, Singapore the wife of James Patterson, of a son.
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    HIGH WATER.
    39 1 For Week ending Wednesday, June 15, 1904. am. r.M. Thursday, 9th 11.40 005 Friday, loth 0.80 0.55 Saturday, 11th 12) 1.45 Sunday, 12th 2.10 2.33 Monday, 13th 300 325 Tuesday, 14th 350 415 Wednesday, 15th 440 505
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    THE MOON.
    26 1 O New Moon June 14th, 3.8 a.m. Fii*st Quarter... 20th. 12-32 r.M. O Full Moon 28th. 1.42 a.m. Last Quarter July sth, 12.35 r.M.
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    FIXTURES.
    45 1 1 O-lUT. 26th Day, 4th Moon. Town Band. Golf Glub, 5.30 p.m. Wayaug Yap Chow Thong, Campbell Street, 9 p.ni. To-Moaitow. 27th l)av, 4th Moon. Town Band. Esplanade, 5-30 p.ni. Wayaug Yap Chow Thong, Campbell Street, 9 p.m. Henry Dallas Comedy Co. 9 p.m.
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    P & O. SAILINGS.
    41 1 P O. SAILINGS. Mail Service. OIiTWAKI»*. Ho.MKW Akl»S. Bengal It Jane /Simla 19 June Malta 23 Coromandel Jo Hxtra Service. Ourw A KOS. IIoMKWAKOH. Bocolra 11 June Peru 17 June Borneo 18 Ceylon 1 Jo y For particulars See Page 3.
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    War Items.
    1055 1 (Hongkong Telegraph Service) Yokohama, li) May.—Japanese naval i officers) severely criticise the careless- ness on the part of the Russians in laying mines. They have been so put down as to exhibit no thought for the i ultimate interests of commerce. (Shanghai Daily Near* Service.) Tokio, 13 May.—Troops
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    The Kedah Wedding.
    546 1 Lexuthy Pkogkamme of Festivities. A numkkk of the many invitations to be j issued for the great Royal marriage to lie celebrated at Kedah shortly have l»eeii 1 despatched. The guests attend by hivita-: tion of His Highness the Sultan of Kedah. The contracting parties are His
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  • Money Market.
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      EXCHANGE.
      115 1 Pknano, 9th June. (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.) London Demand Bank ...1/10‘j 4 months’ sight Bank ...1/11 3 Credit ...1/111 3 Documentary 1/11 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 143 3 days’ sight Private I I*s Bombay, Demand-Bank 143 3 days’ sight Private 115 Madras, Demand Bank 142| 3 days’
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      SHARES
      187 1 I BersawahGold Miue Co., LI. 15. —sellers j Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Ld 0.25 buyers Kedjaug Lebong Gold Mining Co., Ld $225. buyers KadauaGold MiniiigCo„Ltd. (fully paid) 10. nom. Bniseh Tin Mining Co., Ld. 7.50 seller» I Cheudariaug Hydraulic Tin Mining Co., Ld 20. —sales i Karangan Tiu
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      PRODUCE.
      153 1 Tin 73. —buyers Gold leaf 81— B. Pepper (W. Coast 31b5.50z.)$ 231 —buyers White Pepper 41w—*c//er# Traug Pepper 28£ sellers Cloves (picked) 43.— nom. Mace 95. —sales Mace Pickings 75. Nutmegs 110 s 45. —sales No. I 6.30 Sugar 2 no stock. (Basket 4.10 buyers Tapioca Flour 1.70 sellers
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  • Shipping.
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      ARRIVALS.
      60 1 LiuHTNiNti, Hr. s.s. 2,122, Spjuce, 9th June, Hongkong, 26th May, Gen,, A. A. A. Co. A I.KINOUB, Br. s.B. 4,378, Pulford, Bth June, Yokohama, 10th Mav, Gen., —YV. M Co. Perak, Br. s.s. 297, languid, Bth June, Malacca, 7th June, Gen., —K. G. Co. Malaya, Ger. n.s. 848, Block.
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      DEPARTURES.
      41 1 9th Juue. Jin Ho, for Langkut. Cornelia, for Deli, Petrel, for Langkat Pangkulau Brandau Chan Tai for Perlis and Setul. Un Petty, for Perlis and Setul. Canton, for Pangkor and Teluk Anson. Lightuiny, for Calcutta. Bengal, for Singapore and China.
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      IN PORT.
      43 1 Ai.einous, Br. #.s. 4,378, Pulford, Bth June, Yokohama, 10th May. Gen., W. M. Co. Perak, Br. s.s. 297, Lingard, Bth Junt, Malacca, 7th Juue, Geu„— K. G. Co. Malaya, Ger. ss. 348, Block, 9th June, Deli, Bth June, Nil.—B. M. Co.
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      EXPECTED.
      57 1 I riwrlr From Ayentt One Peutakota Singapore H.L.&Co. 10 th June van Outhooru Singapore H.L.&Co. 10th Nam Sung Calcutta B.&Co. 10th Glenlochy London B.&Co. 10th Simla Singapore P&O. Uth C. F. LaerizColombo B.M.&Co. 11th Oldenburg Singapore B.M.&Co. 11th Kuni Sang Singapore B.&Co. 13th Muuuiouthall ire Singapore B.&Co. 13th Benlarig
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      SAILINGS.
      105 1 1 m For Ajenln Lea vet 1 Peutakota van Rangoon H.L.&Co. l Oth June Outhuoru Sabaug H.L.&Co. 10th (ilenlocliy Singapore B.&Co. 10th Nuin Sang Singapore B.&Co. 10th 99 Simla Colrabo P.&O. 11th 99 C. F. Laeriz Singapore B.M.&Co. ,12th 99 Oldenburg Colombo B.M.&Co. 12th 99 Kum Sang MonmovtbCalcutta B.&Co.
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      MAILS CLOSE
      79 1 For Deli—Per Hebe, to-morrow, 10 a.in. Traug—Per Deli, to-morrow, 1 p.m. Port iSwettenhani and Malacca Per Perak, morrow, 2 p.m. Teluk Anson —Per Lady Weld, to.morrow, 3 p.m. Tougkah—Per Rotorua, lltli instant, 1 p.ui. Ports wet tenliam and Singapore—Per Aragyee, lltli instant, 2 p.m. Port Swetteiiliaiii—Per Tate Tong,
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      PASSENGERS.
      42 1 Inward —Per Lightning,” from Singapore, Messrs. Holloway, de Fonteine, Sempill, Johns, Valuutine, Ketschker, Mit-ter, Casper, Katun, Miss Baynes, Mrs, Chan Look. Mrs. Li Sze. Per Mulaya,” from l>eli, Messrs G. D. Luuszeiris, Kouse, Et/i, Moller, Miss Esain, Nus Kufal, Mrs. Lauszeiris.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Planting Notes.
    933 2 Cotton. Sib George Watt read a paper re ently 1 on cotton improvement before the mem liens of the WWt India Committee in London. He said that a survey of the cotton area of the world would have to lie personally conducted by one or two experts before
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    Chinese Reformers.
    239 2 Me. Rowland Mulkeru, honorary member Chinese Reform Party, writes On April 6, Dr. Sun Yat Sen arrived at San Francisco. After being detained at the docks for ten days, under the Chinese Immigration Law, lie was informed that lie would not be permitted to land, and lie has
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      5 2 PAINTS. McAUSTF.R A Co.. Ltd.
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      182 2 R. Madigan Latham, MINING ENGINEER, IPOH. Mining properties bored, prospected end reported on. Mining plants designed and erected. SOLE AGENT FOR The Humboldt Engineering Works Co. Specialities in Mining Machinery. WINDING Engines, Cages, Trucks, Skips, Jiggers, Sline Tables. Ac. Pumps of all descriptions. Air Compressors, Boriug Machinery, Slag Granulating Mills,
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      2185 2 Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Agricultural Shows. THE Agricultural Show for 1904 has been fixed to take place at Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, Friday aud Saturday, the 4th, 5tli and 6th of August next. Exhibits received will be classified in the following main Divisions Pkodccb Fruit, Vegetables, and Flowers
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      1885 3 tr -f P.&O.IiMISJ. Co. as /JK j/Vt\ w\ /V*> Norddeatscher Lloyd, Bremen. hxyocled arrival and iJujm vt ures. Mail Service. Outwards. June 9 s.s. Bengal connecting with 23 8.«. Malta July 7 8.8. Chtixau 21 s.s. Simla «lo do do Homewards J une 11 s.s. Simla do 25 s.s. Coromandel
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    The Straits Scho.
    80 4 (wtice mtiflln everybody, wtd Jwtk* n'w.-tKi'r*"» Established June Ist, 1903. daily (eiccpt Smnbiy». I AT TUI CRITERION PRESS, Ld., No. 22(1-282, Beach Street, Penang PIUCR DAILY, I AXIAL Ki iw x'lH-nn n OI'TSTATIOXS Portage Extra MAII. EDITION (Pom Prei) 15 OAHI.K ADUKKiW: E c*h o—P enang" Telephone
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    The Railway Question.
    641 4 The bi-weekly Perak Pioneer came out last Tuesday with a leader headed (“The Chinese and the Railway” in i which our Taiping contemp expresses extreme regret, that its esteemed contemporary the Straits Erho, which has I just completed its first birthday arid is I now iu vigorous
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    Current Topics.
    222 4 L’Avenir du Tonkin Sir Robert says that Sir Robert Hart Retires. Hart lias retired from tinpost of Inspector-Gener-al of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, and that he is succeeded by his relative Mr. Aglen, who was at one time Commissioner at Shanghai. Our Gallic neighbours appear to be
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    Theatre Royal.
    587 4 Kitty Grey.” This was an amusing musical play, the t plot being that Sir John Binfield (Mr. Frank Cochrane), disgusted at the puritanical behaviour of his wife (Miss Ernestine Walter) and also being iu love with Kitty Grey (Miss Alice Wade), a well known London actress, wires to
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    The Electricity Fizzle.
    901 4 i Ou <le ir, where can that current be. Oh dear, where can that current be. Oh dear, where can that current bs Lout in invisible air Thev promised they'd give us a light that should please ns. On units and wiring they plague and they tease
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  • States’ News.
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      PERAK.
      414 4 [From Oar Own Correspondent) K am par, 4 Jane. —-There have been main transfers in the Police department lately, the Inspectors having transfers from one place to another within short periods of their stay in various districts. Our former Inspector was sent to Ipoh and another took his place
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      Burma.
      581 4 r J (From Our Own Correspondent.) I Rangoon, 2 June. —The sensational I arson case I reported some weeks ago is i i now concluded, and h.is resulted iu the 1 bringing in of a verdict of guilty against •all the accused. The Judge, agreeing with the verdict, sentenced
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      71 4 Pritchard Co., PBNANO. h« ti Ladies Department *i Half Yearly Cash Clearance Sale. Last Week of Sale. Genuine Reductions. r 4 Great Bargains. PRITCHARD CO., 7 PtEN/YNC. 15c "-“*i McAlister Go., Ld. 19 Bench Street f Penang. Cyrus Price Co.’s 9 Thief and Fire Resisting. All Sizes kept in Stock.
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      327 4 To-day’s Advertisements. The International Bodega Restaurant Company Ltd. WE beg to inform our customers and the general public of Penang, that we have appointed Mr. A. Hoogerwerf Jr. Manager of the Bodega from 2Qth May, ‘1904. THE DIRECTORS. 409 lw. 9-6-04 Eastern and Oriental Hotel. Special Curry Tiffin. On SATURDAY
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      6 4 METTAIi’S STOVES. McAlister A Co. Ltd
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      4 4 CUTLERY. McAlister Co., Ltd,
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    The War.
    210 5 More Russian “Accidents.” The Murdered Correspondent. Ahe Siege of Port Arthur. (Supplied by Renter.) London, H Juno.—Resides the Russian gunboat of the Gilyak type which was destroyed off Port Arthur on the Gth instant, it is stated in lokio-tbnt another Russian gunboat, of similar type, was destroyed at
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  • TELEGRAMS
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      Somaliland.
      48 5 A Victoria Cross Awarded. (Supplied by Renter. Loudon, 8 June. —Lieutenant C. L. Smith, of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, has been awarded tlie Vmtpiva Cross for conspicuous gallantry aft the action which resulted in the routing of the Mullah’s troops at Jldballi, on 10th January.
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      The War in Tibet.
      42 5 Thirty Canadian Veterans Volunteer. (Supplied bij Reuter.) Ijondon, 8 June. —Thiity South African war veterans have retjuested the authorities at Ottawa to for ward to the imperial Government an offer .volunteering their services for the war in Tibet.
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      War in Acheen.
      81 5 Many Killed and Wounded. (Deli Courant Service.) Koeta Uadja, 4 June.—Colonel van Daalen has captured the fortified rebel post at Tam pen g. 'Phe enemy lost 17d dead. Lieuts. Watrin, van Brauiu, Morris and Christoffel and Sergt. Dolleniau were slightly wounded, while 29 privates and a number
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      Canada.
      43 5 The Fiscal Question. (Supplied by Reuter.) Loudon, 8 June,—ln introducing the Canadian budget statement, the Hon. William S. Fielding, Finance Minister, declared that .Canada would continue her preferential tariffs in the hope of the ultimate triumph of Mr. Chamberlain’s fiscal policy i*
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      Chinese Labour.
      41 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) Loudon,9 June.—l tenter’s Shanghai correspondent wires that oir Ernest Satow, the British Minister at Peking, refuses to sanction the contract for Chinese labourers for the Transvaal drawn from Aorth China and is considering an amended contract.
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      East Africa and Uganda.
      56 5 ITo b: Transferred to the Colonial Office. {Supplied by Reuter.) London, 8 June. —Earl Percy, Parliamentary Under Secretary for foreign Affairs lias announced that the East Africa Protectorate, at present administered by the Imperial British East Africa Company and tho Uganda Protectorate will Imi transferred to
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      Morocco.
      68 5 Effect of the Naval Demonstration (Supplied by Renter.) London, 9 June.—The Sultan of Morocco has appointed a new local Governor, thus complying with one of the Raisidist demands. It is reported that the Sultan is granting all tl ic other demands in order to expedite the release <>f the
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      The Congo Horrors.
      131 5 Publication of Correspondence (Supplied by Uniter.) London. 9 June.—Correspondence relative to the administration of tli Congo Tree State lria been published and shows that the Congo Government having demanded the names of the informants of Mr. Roger Basement, the British Consul, who reported upon tin* horrors, Lord
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      Cricket.
      334 5 (.Supplied B»j Renter.) London, 9 June. —Kent has beat t*n Worcester by 204 ruus. The ISouth Africans have beaten Cambridge by 70 runs. Warwickshire has beaten Essex by an innings and 110 runs. Lancashire has beaten Somerset by ten wickets. Sussex has beaten Derbyshire by an innrngs and 05
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  • PUBLIC OPINION.
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      THE WATER SUPPLY.
      363 5 r« THtlKulTMt ur tUEliriUl|i Elllv. i u Sir, —Wlmt is the midsummer madeebj» j which has come upon our Municipal- CV>uu- cil y After waiting for month* fin- Mr j louilinson costly report, f after having studied it for a considerable time mi l compared it with
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    BRITISH BORNEO.
    797 5 A Protest anu a Plea for Justice. To nit Keiroit of the Sihaits Kcii<>. Sir.—What I am inclined to "stylo an interesting comedy was gone through the other day in the Lower Courts of British North Borneo--proceedings worthy insertion in the Civil Procedure Code. lu February last A
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    THE “COLOUR LINE” IN THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
    1488 5 'lV> Tih! t!tSTT(7S"ov Echo." Sir, —I am extremely glad that tiie “colour line” question in the Federated Malay States has befclf t&kĕll "Tip t*v Cosmopolitan and “.Chinese, Britisher' in Penang, for thd Railway authorities threaten to oppress Asiatics ami especially the Chinese.
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    STOP PRESS TELEGRAMS.
    115 5 This space is rSSr'ruM foVtlie publication 6f stwsftinh' .ifjet'tJic li.ij inv,> !i.n been impoectl. lv iinuvfi^ American marines have been, landed at Taftgier to guard the Belgian Leg»turn. A telegram from Liaoyang, received at St. Petersburg, says that the Chinese report iliat, on Gtli instant, the Japanese
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    Port Swettenham.
    339 5 This number of vessels entered and cleared from Port Swettenham last year wim 2,620 of an aggregate tonnage of $60*,451 tons, as against 1,949 vessels with a tonnage of 612,813 in 1902. f Iu addition, 1555 native sailing ortft>'entered,an3 The delay and inconvenience' Ib'shiptfing'' caused by the present
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      1490 6 JAMES BUCHANAN C.o’s “HOUSE OF COMMONS” WHISKY. SANDILANDS, BUTTERY Co. THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER A.D. 1720. 11HE undersigned having been appointed Agents for tlie above Corporation, are now FIR to accept MARINE and risks at current rates. PATERSON, SIMONS St Co. LEE CHYE DISPENSARY, No. 268.
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    1297 7 THE FOLL<<WIN<1 IS TUB PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN MEETING, 1904, to bo p.issed at a General Meeting to 1m* held on Friday, 20m may,*1004. ETC No amendments to this Programme will be considered unless due notice is given in anting to the Secretary at least ten days »K*fmt.
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    The Dysentery Bacillus.
    545 7 .Important Discovery in Ceylon. The (Colombo Observer (24 May) says:—l)r. Aldo Castellani, the Director of the Bacteriological! is to be cotigr;i in luted be lias just made of tli»?Jj«ivfrl ItJfiliiis. Dr. Cnstelinni, >vj|o fii|e iTisrtlAAi the best of ci bis reputation ill original research work. His greatest
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