Straits Echo, 16 December 1904

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    35 1 Straits Echo I>AILV CHRONICLE 01 EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES, AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL- 2- $24 Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, 16th DECEMBER, 1904. Single Copy, 10 cents. No* 288*
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    Domestic Occurrences.
    63 1 Birth. On 1th December, at Hextable, Kent. England. the wife of It. D. Thomas, s.s. Powan, of a daughter. Marriage. On 1st December, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Shanghai. l>y the Rev. W. Gilbert Walshe. Hugh Gibson, youngest son of the late David Smith, J. P., of Woodside,
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    HIGH WATER.
    40 1 Km Week on.ling Thursday, Dec. 22, 19<M. A.M. r.M. Friday 10th 7.4' > 8.05 Saturday, 17th B.3'* 8.55 Sundae,' 18th 9.20 945 .Moiidar, 19th 10.10 10.35 l.ies.iay. 20th 11.— 11.25 A ednesday. 215 t... 11.50 riniis'lay, 22ud —4O 1.05
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    FIXTURES.
    24 1 To-i*a v. loth 1 lav, 11th Moon. Opera Stamboul, 9 p.in. TiMlaiiK'in lltll 1 lay, 111 li Moot!. Opera Staiuboui, 9 p in.
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    P &. O. SAILINGS.
    47 1 P O. SAILINGS. Mail Service. riVAkli*. iIoMKtVAKIi» Coromandel 122 Dec. Nubia 2/ Dec. Simla 5 JiUi. Bengal 7 Jan. I.xl'ra Service. UntVAlltls. i < lM R W A K !•> Java Hi Dec. Ceylon Hi Dec. Palma '27 Candia HJ l'ui pa it a nia i See Page 3.
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    THE MOON.
    18 1 0 Full Momi Dec. 23rd 12.21 a ai. J bast (Quarter 29th 12 14 p.m. j
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    War Items.
    1098 1 Pout Arthur. The Mukden correspondent of the Lokalanzeiger says Lieutenant Shupzoff, of the 10th Eist Siberian Rifles, who lias escaped from Port Arthur, states that although Erlilungshan is a strong and important fort there are three further lines of fortifications between it and the town which the Japanese
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    EXCHANGE.
    119 1 Pknan'g, 16th December (By courtesy of the Chartered Hank.) London Demand Bank ...l/ll, 7 4 months’ sight Bank ...11 I} ,1 3 Credit ..1/11 3 Documentary 1/11^ Calcutta, Demand Bank Its. 145} 3 days’ sight Private 117} Bomlntv, Demand Bank 145} 3 days’ sight Private 147} Madras, Demand Bank
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    SHARES
    205 1 Bersawall Gold M ine Co.. Ld. 13. —sates Raul) Australian Gold Mining Co.. Ld 4.25 Horn. I ted ja mx l«el*ong Gold Mining Co.. l<d 230 buyers IvadanaGoM M iningCo„Ltd. fully paid) 10.— who. Bruseii 'J in Mining Go., lei. 3.50 sellers Cliendai iaug Hydraulic Tin Mining Co., I>d
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    PRODUCE.
    174 1 p IU 77.50 buyer» Gold leaf 5 70.1 f Pepper (W. Orautt Hb.s(} sellers White Pepper 37.50 teller* Fraug Pepper out of seasou Cloves (picked) ont of season M ;ice 84 —sellers Mace Pickings 74 bO sellers Nutmegs 110 s 40. —buyers r No. 1 6.10 tiom Sugar 2
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  • Shipping.
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      ARRIVALS.
      126 1 Zamania.Bi s.s. 2,898, Achesou, 16th J>* t, Singapore, 14th Dec., Geu., —H. L. Co. Pentakota, Br. ss. 2,209, Willis, I6LI Dec., Singapore, 14th Dec., Gen.,-#-11. L. Co. Lai Sang, Br. s.s. 8,400, Tadd, 15th Dec., Calcutta, 10th Dec., Gen., —B. Co. Kistna, Br. 8.8. 524, Addeubroke, 16th Dec., Singapore,
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      DEPARTURES.
      64 1 16th December. Zaniania for Negapataui, Madras, Poudicherrv, Cudalore, and Karical. Lightning, for Calcutta. Perak, for Port Swettenhani anil Malacca. Avagyee, for Port Swettenhani <fc Singapore, Deli, for Traug and Pang Nga. It. Jluftwyn, for Batu Bahru. Chan Tai, for Perl is and Setul. Lady Weld, for Teluk Auaon. Pentakuta,
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      IN PORT.
      38 1 u A i«rtif 'i/*., H. L: a Co. Petrel, Br. s.s. 194, Keid, 16th Dec., Deli, 15th Dec., Geu., —H. L. Co. Jin Ho, Br. s.s. 110, Hastrup, 16th Dec., Langkat, 15th Dec., Gen—Quah Beng Kee.
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      EXPECTED.
      79 1 I A j*ut One Teiemaehus Singapore W.M.&Co. 17th Dee. Benlang London S.B &Co. 18 th 1 1 zeliore Singapore B.M &Co. 19th 99 Arcadia Hamburg B.M.&Co. 20th 99 C. A pear Calcutta A.A.A.Co. 23rd Oro Den bigGlasgow S.B.&Co. 25th 99 shire London B.&Oo. 25th Capri Singapore B.M.&Co. 25th *9
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      SAILINGS.
      68 1 V» •‘*'1Ajrnt* Leave» Telemachus Antwerp W.M.&Co. 17th Dec. Beularig Singapore S.B.&Co. 18tli tt Itzclioe Marseilles B.M.&Co. 19th Arcadia Singapore B.M.ACo. 20th C. Apear Singapore A.A. A.Co. 2 3rd Oro Singapore S.B.&Co. 25th Deubig- shire Singapore IB.&Co. 25th Capri Bombay B.M.&Co. 25th Palma Singapore G.W.&Co. 28th Bayern Singapore B.M ACo.
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      MAILS CLOSE
      70 1 For Langkat and Paugkalan Braudau—Per Valentijn, to-morrow, 1 p in. Langkat—Per Jin Ho, to-morrow, 1 p.m. Langkat and Paugkalan Brandau— Petrel, to-morrow, 1 p.ui. Deli —Per Cornelia, |to -morrow, 1 p.m. Teluk Anson—Per Langkat, to-morrow, 2 p.m. Port Swettenhain, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore —Per Kistna, to-morrow, 3 p.m.
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    MAILS DUE.
    27 1 Indian (Zaida) 16 Dec. China (Zamania) 16 China (Nubia) 24 English (Coromandel) 24 China (P. E. Friedrich) 26 German (7 layern) 30 China (Zaida) ’>o
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      119 1 MARTYN Co. 0° WHISKIES. The H. B. GRAIN Co. AXV old thing will do for a hat, not for horse food. Horses require good nourishment or they become thin and pool. Hanman’s Registered Patent Horse Food Keeps Horses Fat with a Coat like Satin. Crushed Food, Bran, Oats, Linseed, Paddy,
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      50 1 W. Cornfield, Tailor and Outfitter, 23, BEACH STREET. JUST OPENED A Large Selection OF THE Marlborough Excelsior Comic Pictorial X mas New Year Cards and Postcards. v 26% REDUCTION. o o 0 TOYS. TOYS. UN TOYS. 0 to 0 X w W. CORNFIELD, Temporary Premises 23c ?J t Beach Street.
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      1 1 SIRDAR.
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      160 1 SIHD-A-H. PENANG SALES ROOM. Notice of Sale. BY ORDER OF THE SHERIFF, PENANG. The undersigned is instructed to take possession and put up for sale by Public Auction To the Highest Bidders On Saturday, the 17th December, 1904 at Ayer Etam Road, At 2-80 p.m. on the Spot, The undermentioned
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      4 1 IRONMONGERY. McAlister Co., Ltd
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      4 1 mstttrm Genuine Pilsener Beer.
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      28 1 WEATHER. Ihk tolluwiiiv£ ret*'"i t i> kiihiit summed 'In* Signal Director <ii J .*n tWmv.uiiH— Hie nuutail during the -I hour* ended it ii.m. to-day was 015 inches.
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  • Obituary
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    50 1 Deaths. On lMi Dec.. at Tanjong Katong, Sing ajHirc. Philip Joseph 8eth aged Ho. On 2!*th November. at the Shanghai General Hospital. David \V idler; aged 41* years. On doth November, at Shanghai, of typhoid. Hit-iit Charles Horace MoMnUin. it. N.. h.m' S. Iphigenia, son of Colonel I. MeMnllin. Chichester.
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    Legislative Council.
    2421 2 Co nr I u<led from Wednesday.) Medical Registration Bill. The Attorney-General moved the first reading of the Medical Registration Bill which, he said, was designed for the protection of the public from quackery and in Ihe interests of qualified medical practitioners. There would lie no vexatious interference with
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      19 2 -’*r,niUNW WINK Jigwtiun. Ii to th ***»b un,l „ipu, improves botli up-bi-i’itfn buck lieal ili I lint hf, am:'
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      239 2 HUNTER FOR SALE. A JSHOWN AUSTRALIAN MARE, S years old, a good juniper, verv fast, up to any weight, quiet, in saddle. Veterinary certificate as to soundness. Price 8600. C. H. MASON, Central Hotel. 28 11-of c 846 HOUSE TO LET. IMMEDIATE ENTRY. Close to town. Apply to 11-1*2-04 oiusrt
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      583 2 WANTED Office and Godown situated iu or near to Beach Street. State rent and particulars VV c Jo St rai ft Echo. 18-11-05 821 WANTED TWO or three Compositors for Job Department. Good wages to competent men. Apply to CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. 17-11 04 FOR SALE. DISTANT’S RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA,” complete
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      1011 2 uited State Echo. 21 Limestone Lime! l)e etent Ltd SICS Cost Vcho 13 IfAii nes Icho. oad. r EE. >4 L 111 rext nese T. *ach l at in nial iind on** 868 Superior Limestone Lime can always be had at The Padang Rengas Lime Manufacturers’ Agency, 424, Penang Road.
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      1700 3 f M, j'-M# m 8, N. Co. Expected arrival and Departures. Mail Service. Outwards. Dec. 22 s.s. Coromandel connecting 1 with s.B. India Jan. 08.8 .Simla do 1U 8.8. Ch usan do Feb. 2 8.8. Bengal. do Homewards 8.8. Briannia 8.8. Mongolia 8.8. Oceana Dec. Jan. Feb. 2 t s.s.
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    The Straits Echo.
    78 4 4notice satiKfles everybody, and justice aline.-Roi'rson Established June Ist, 1903. t'nhli*he«l flaily (except Sunday*.) 4t Tii a CRITERION PRESS, Ld., No. ‘22(5-282, Itoacli Street, Penang PRICE UAiI.Y, I .OCA I. per annum OUTSTATIONS Postage Kxtxa MAIL RIHTION (Post Free) 15 CA Itl.K Ai>l>l{ KSS “Echo—Penang Telephone No.
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    Fire Alarms.
    689 4 In days gone by Penang had an effective tire alarm consisting of three rounds tired from the Fort. Singapore had the same signal from Fort Canning, and the result was that all inhabitants of these Settlements had ample warninir I of the outbreak of tires and so were
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    Russian designs on India and Persia.
    1047 4 There is a characteristic growl in the Moscow journal Rum, which discusses what it is graciously pleased to style “the successive encroachments of Great Britain in south-eastern Persia.” It says:— Once that region is finally in British hands Russia can have no direct access
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    Penang Burial Grounds.
    808 4 The Proposed By-laws (Concluded from renter day To the writer’s knowledge—and he has Ixien here a few years—there has been no complaint made of an insanitary Chinese cemetery in Penang. Not one of them can possibly interfere with the water supply. They are all in most sparsely
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  • States’ News.
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      PERAK.
      418 4 (From Our Own Correspondents.) Batano Padang, 12 Dec. —'The Tapah 4 White Elephant or, as it is more commonly known, Pahang Road to the great Never-never, is productive of some talk here. There are those who argue that because the road has been so far made it should be
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    The Malay Peninsula.
    546 4 3 Lecture iiy Mb. N. Annanimue. We are indebted to the Calcutta Dailv News (3 Dec.) for the following report of au interesting lecture on Malaya by Mr. N. Aimaudale:—Last night a descriptive leo- tore on the Peoples of the Malay Pen1 iusula wa3 delivered by Mr.
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    THE WAR.
    208 5 The Tsar's Armada Rozhdestvensky’s Squadron (Supplied by Renter.) London, 15 Dec.—Admiral Kozhdestvensky’s squadron arrived in Angra 1 Vquinsi Bny, in German W.'Sl, Africa, on the I HI, instant ami was reported to be coaline from colliers. [Auina Pequina Hay is in Lat. 26° 38' S much further South
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  • TELEGRAMS.
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      Russia.
      47 5 The Reform Movement. jk (Hujipl ini by Heuter London, l(j Dec.—Tlie growth of the Liberal movement in Russia is dajlv becoming more manifest. The newspapers are in a very outspoken manner advocating farreaching reforms, which meetings of students and t lie educated classes are emphatically demanding.
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      Hungary.
      57 5 More Ructions. (Supplied by Reuter.) London, 16 Dec. —There has been a renewed uproar in the Hungarian Diet, the disturbance being indescribable. The Premier, unable to obtain a hearing, stood with folded arrgs for thirty minutes, while the infuriated members of the Opposition howled for him to resign. Finally
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      France.
      39 5 M, fiyveton’s Suicide. -4 (8»i j>lied by Reuter.) London, 16 Dec.—lt transpires that Afous. Sy veton’s suicide was intended to cover up a domestic scandal of the most painful description, wherein ho and his stepdaughter were mainly concerned.
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      The Army.
      53 5 New Appointments. {Supplied by Reuter.) London, 16 Dec. —The Standard sayB that Major-General Sir lan Hamilton, k.0.b.. n. 5.0., succeeds General Sir Evelyn Wood, c it., ti.r.M.o., o.ii., V. c.,*iu the Southern Command on 61st December, hut will not be recalled immediately, Major-General Sir Charles JCnox, K *o
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      A Royal Tour.
      42 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) London ]C Dec —H.R. H. the i fi n l n,,ail gl fc> accompanied tie Duchess, starts early in January on board the cruiser Essex lns pect the forces and fortresses 11 the Mediterranean and Egypt.
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    North Borneo.
    783 5 Fro,n Own Correspondent.) w i^? DAT The steamer Mausang, which arrive.! here five da vs ago, left a earn tlM te Or' with tinilK-r from tlie Cltina.Bomeo Company. Lt.l f or iioiiykong. German liner Manila ar.ived here at noon to-day from Sandakan and will leave on the sth
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    Penang Hunt Club.
    514 5 Yesterday's Hare-and-Hounds. Ihe meet at the Golf Club last evening was a very gay scene, numerous carriages gracing t lie meet, and as the weather was delightfully flue three ladies were tempted to join in the hunt. Miueteen in all turned up to see what sport was
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    The Kwangsi Rebellion.
    405 5 Native newspapers published iu Cautou report that on the 29th ult. a large bodv of rebels, hitherto holding the prefecture of Sz‘cufu, suddenly attacked the Miaotse aboriginal district city of Hsinch‘t-nghsien. distant about 30 miles from the prefectur.il city of Ch'iugyuanfu. The rebels first rushed the walled
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  • PUBLIC OPINION.
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      THE BY-LAWS BUNGLE.
      829 5 To the Editor of the Stkaits Echo. i Bxn, Thursday’s Echo which contains your leading article on the Burial Grounds By-law* was not published till late in Ihe > afternoon. A few hours after its publica- tion that article became the topic ”of the day. Every second
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    Passengers.
    67 5 Inward —Per Za mania, from Singappre, Messrs Ebden, Fraiizen, E. D. Beattie,’ lav Ngi C'liin and Neo Yew Ho. Per Kistun, from Singapore, Mr. Harte. From Port Swetteniiam, Messrs Lim Mali Clive, Keng Soon. Clieah Geok, Kee Neoli, Jourdan, Ho Tiang Soon, Tan Kay Koo, Chee Seow Ctiek, Ho
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      1031 6 For Infants and Children. MELUirS FOOD. S' For Infants and Children. Dr. W. MANSON. DENTAL SURGEON. Price Moderate Consultation Free. NOTICE. JEWS of L'enaug, .Singapore, Perak, Selangor, and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft. on Bromide paper. W. JONES, '•r- r| .,Ni. ,\r King Street. Penang. Photographer.
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      996 7 EIFFEL TOWER BRAND. PORTLAND CEMENT. Tested and Pronounced Satisfactory by the Municipal Engineer of Penang. Copy of test certificate can be had on application. N. M. M. Mahomed Maideen Bros., General Merchants, Cloth Dealers and Commission Agents, 2:1, CHULIA STREET, PENANG. BEG respectfully to intimate to the public and their
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      45 7 Do not play with lung trouble. Gain the first point— Strength. STEARNS' YY T INE is an invigorating and strengthening tonic. John Bazley White Brothers’ “LION BRAND” PORTLAND CEMENT, Sandilands, Buttery Co., Sole Importers Penang. ARMOUR’S PROVISIONS. 'l’lie best ami always fresh. Ssnditands, Buttery Co.
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      868 8 Another Large Shipment of Goods Arrived. FOR WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW Co., PENANG. Christmas Presents, Toys, Games and Dolls, Dressed and Undressed Dolls, all prices. MTA The best Natural Aperient Water. Bilious, Dyspeptic, Gouty, Constipated and Obese People Graham Co., Ld„ Should always use APENTA WHOLESALE CHEMISTS, 4 Beach Street Penang. Of*
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