Straits Echo, 7 October 1907

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  • 37 1 Straits Echo 10-PAGE EDITION. DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY. VOL. 5. $24 Ter Annum. PENANG, MONDAY, 7th OCTOBER, 1907. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 230.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1099 1 tiger brand cement. *1258 h £</ 4* s* 2« *6 IN *0 flfc'Sr A-Off ALL PURPOSES. BANKS. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. i*Boo,ooo -C1,075,000 .£BOO,OOO Capital Paid up Reserve Fund Reserve Liability of Prr prietors Hoad Office: HATTON COURT, TUREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON. Agent Its
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    • 18 1 SOLE AGENTS. GUINNESS’S STOUT. s£f. fS )i Pi Is» O > ,0 Ss> NO 3iv s.ssva TIANG LEE Co.
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  • 1265 2 While partridge shooting, at busted, a sportsman suddenly had hundreds ot wasps settle upou his hands and face, tut Led.d not anger them, aud in about ten minutes the wasps Hew off in a body, without having stung him. Cremation makes great headway in the Alps. Geneva
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 76 2 Quick and Safe Remedy for Bowel Complaints. Twenty years ago Mr. Geo. W. B*>ck discoveied that Ciiambetlaiu’s Colic. Chole:a an»l Diarrhoea Remedy was a quick and safe cme for bowl complaints. During all of these years,” he says, I have used it and recommended it many t mes and the
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    • 305 2 Prompt Relief for a Sprained Ankle. Some time ago I sprained my ankle very badly on a loose stone,” says Mr. Geo. Steveus, who lives near Durban, Natal. A neighbor gave me a bottle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm with which 1 rubbed my ankle and then bound it up with
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    • 588 2 I GRAMOPHONE NEW SHIPMENT JUST UNPACKED RECORDS. $1 EACH. PRICES FROM THE ROBINSON PIANO C° L Tl). TIE EDISON’S BIOSCOPE COMPANY. Location: Corner of Kedah and Transfer Roads. TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! GRAND PROGRAMME!!! Hie EDISON’S BIOSCOPE does not claim to be a new concern, in fact it is tlie largest and
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    • 804 2 NOTICE. Applications having bemi made for the issue of duplicate certificates of the undermentioned shares in the laujoug Pinaug Ice Coy Ltd the originals of which are declared to have been lost, notice is hereby given that, one mouth from this date, new certificates, in lieu of those declared as
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  • 24 3 \~etsel* Frotn Atffuh Due Ueuioiiiuud Loudon Atiiall Glasgow G-. Apcar iSiugapore Autautor ISingapore S.l> <fc(Jo. 8ih SBAl'u. lutli A.A.ACo. 14th YV.M.&Co. iDtb
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  • 23 3 1 eaneh For Aijeutg [.eaves Beulouiuud Siugap» re S.B <fcCo. Oot. Atball Singapore 3.B &Co. 0. Apcar Calcutta A.A.ACo. Aoteulor Loudon WM.ACo.
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  • Shipping.
    • 142 3 Nam Seng, Br. s.s., 12.591, Wheeler, 7tli Oct., HoDgkoug, 28tb Sept., Qen B. Co. 1 elemachus, Br. s.s Goodwin, 7lh Oct Singapore. stb Oct., Geu.- W. M. Co. Perak, Br. ss, 519, Olseu, 7th Oct Singapore, 4th Oct., Gen.—A. G. Co. Oolabaria, Br. s.s., 5,295, Lemercband, 7tli Oct., Rangoon,
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    • 38 3 7th October, PelemacJius, for Colombo and Tuticorin. Deli, for Traug. Malaya, for Deli. Canton, for Paugkor and Teluk Anson. Nam Sony, for Calcutta. Clan Mackintosh, for Raugoou. Ooloharia, for Singapore. Flying Fish, for Port Weld and Taiping.
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  • 62 3 For Port Swettenham aud S ugapore—Per Pin Stay, to-morrow, 3 p.m. Port Swetteuham and Singapore—Per Perak, to-morrow, 3 p.m. leluk Anson Per Ladi/ \V*Ui, 10-morrow, 3 p.m. Batu Babra—Per It. Halewyn, 9th instant, 1 p.m. leluk Auson—Per Lanakat, 9th instant, 2 p m. Paugkor—Per Sree Banka, 9th iustant,
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  • 470 3 Per P. aud O. s.s. China, connecting with the steamer Arcadia at Colombo, due at Penang on lOih October To Penang (from Marseilles, Sept. 20) Mrs. Fiuuis, Mr. W. W. Pelliug (from Briudisi, Sept. 22) Mr. C. da Pra. To Singapore (from London, Sept. 13) Mr.
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    • 766 3 £S£5 m N, Co. Expected Arrivals and Departures. Mail Service. Outwards. FARES BY MAIL STEAMERS. Ist Cla-« 2nd Clam To London by Sea £66 £l4 To Marseilles or Gibraltar £6l-12,,. £4l-16 EXTRA STEAMERS Intermediate Service. WITH excellent accommodation for a limited mimber of passengeu. Outwards. Homkwards. For Negapatain, Karrical. INTENDED
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    • 472 3 (SHIPPING.) HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINE. PASSENGER SERVICE. By the new steamers, Rhenania,” llabsbuko,” Hohenstaufen.” These steamers offer to the public the highest comfort 'yet attained in Oceau Travelling. They have very large cabius, provided with only lower berths. The Cabins are amidships and fitted with fans. Laundry on board. Doctor and Stewardesses
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    • 15 3 Andrew Usher Co.’s SPECIAL RESERVE O.V.G. Whisky. SANDILANDS, BUTTERY Co., AGENTS FOU PhNANU <£ M, s.
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  • 99 4 Justice satisfies everybody and justice alone.— Emerson. Published dally (except Sundays,) AT TH CRITERION PRESS, Ltd., No. 22(5—232, Beach Street, Peuaug. PRICE DAILY LOCAL $24 pci annum OUTSTATIONb I’otage Extra MAIL EDITION (Poet Free) $l5 CABLE ADDRESS: Echo— Penang.” Telephone No. 343 2’--> I p A. fl.
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  • 19 4 Birth. On October 2nd. 1907, at Seraugoou Road, Singapore, the wife of Albert "Woodworth, of a son.
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  • 433 4 Reform movements are like two-edged swords. If not carefully adapted to existing circumstances and introduced by slow degrees and with necessary precautions they are worse than useless. It is a strange, but nevertheless indisputable, fact that during the last ten years the old time enthusiasm for civilising efforts
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  • 297 4 li*j'ore Mr. Wol/eratan.) Detective Sergeant Kumarastuiy raided premises No. 19, Su Hong Lane, on Saturday afternoon aud arrested a Chinaman who was injecting morphia into the person of a rikisha-puller. The accused was brought up before »he First Magistrate this morning and fined twenty-five dollars, with the
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  • 255 4 The Government Gazette of October 4 contains the following items of information From the Ist November, 1907, telegrams for transmission vix Kedah aud Moulmein to India, Butma aud Ceylon, handed in at any Government Telegraph Office in the Straits Settlements, will be charged at the following rates: To
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  • 43 4 anted, Only 19 More Recruit**. No more names have breu received since our last issue for the proposed Penangborn Chinese Volunteer Corps, the total standing at 81. Intending recruits should lose uo time iu sending us their names.
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  • 65 4 The date of the next week end camp has been altered from the 19th to the 12th inst. Parade at the corner of Race C.urse Road at 4 30 p.in. The date of the General’s luspec'iou will probably be the 26th inst. A Church Service is to lie
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  • 115 4 Ihe Royal Mail steamer Arcadia, having left Colombo at 6 p.m. on Saturday last, is expected to arrive here at 6 a.m. on Thursday next, and will leave for Singapore and China at 10 a.m. the same day. Opium is quoted here to-day at #BOO and Rangoon
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  • PUBLIC OPINION.
    • 183 4 To tub Emtor of inE Straits Echo. Dear Sir, —Allow me please to heartily congratulate you on the advent in your most popular paper of so charming and interesting a story as Told by a Police Officer.” If I mav suggest you should have added to its heading
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  • 245 4 To riii: Loiioe of the Straits Echo. Sir, —I am not surprised at your editorial article of yesterday. It is iu tie usual strain. The policy of your paper now a days, if it has any policy at all, seems to be jto vilify tlie East
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  • 199 4 To the I£i»itc>c or tiii; Struts Eriia Sir,- I write this to draw theatteutiou of those concerned to what amounts to an unmitigated nuisance. A buffalo-cart can be seen every day going along the Dato Kramat Road carrying n'ght-soil iu a large wooden j tin. 1 saw
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  • 288 4 Residents Asked to be a Little Less Apathetic. Au appetl signed bv three well-known i! residents, says the Straits Times, has been published iu our Penaug contemporaries in I reference to the Penang Town Band the I question asked beiug Is the band to be left jto
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  • TELEGRAMS.
    • 93 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) Circling the Dmn« of St. Paul’s. London, 7th Oct. —The Airship left Aldershot on the forenoon of Saturday and proceeded to Loudon. It circled above St. Paul’s aud visited the War Office where the surprised Army Councillors rushed out to witness the unique spectacle.
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    • 91 4 {Supplied by Reuter.) Paris City Councillors Visit Loudon London, 7th Oct.—The Paris Municipal Commissioners who are visiting Loudon have just arrived. M. Ballan. member of the Municipal Coun cil of Paris, informed a representative of the Echo de Park, early last manth, that the programme of the
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    • 33 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) Down with the Lords!” Loudon, 7th Oct.—The Premier, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, has opened the autumn Parliamentary campaign with a renewed attack on the House of Lords.
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    • 23 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) Work Resumed at the Thread Mills. London, 7th Oct.—" Work has been resumed at Paisley aud Ferguslie.
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    • 52 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) National Appeal for a Campaign Fluid. Londou, I th Oct.—The Labour Party has issued a national Appeal for a campaign fund aud welcomes the anti-socialist campaign as improving the Party’s prospects. Ihe appeal say 3 the branches of the party are holding two thousand
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    • 66 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) Internal Dissension. Loudon. 7th October.—The Socialist leader Bernstein, in an article in the Dutch newspaper Vorwaerts, attacks the section of socialists desirous of discarding the Dutch colonies. He says it would be making immature communities self-govern-iug. No one would ever dream of giving the Bengalees political
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    • 105 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) British Columbian Oriental Exclusion League. London, 6th October.—At a Mass Meeting held at ictoria, British Columbia, it was decided to form a branch of the Oriental Exclusion League. A Warning to be .Moderate. London, 6th October.—At -Washington Sieretaiy Straus?, addressing “the cottou manufacturers' convention,--referred
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    • 29 4 (Supplied by Reuter.) Roberts Defeated on the Oval Table. London, Oct 6th.—Weiss has defeated Joliu Roberts on the new arc-oval billiard table. He scored 14,000 to Roberta’ 12,534.
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    • 81 5 (Supplied by Renter.) Hu Ini HhAil’m Army Rapidly («rowing:. St Xondou, 6th ()ct.—Reuter’s correspondent at Marrakesh reports that *2,500 fresh volunteer horsemen have joiued Mulai Hatid at Marrakesh. Mulai llatid’s followers are so numerous that difficulty is being fouud in arming them all. Freurh Socialists' Protest. London. Oth Oct.—At
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    • 49 5 (Supplied by Reuter.) Hmre Cotton ami Rubber Estate. London, sth October.—A native of Berlin uainel Otto has acquired 200,000 acres of land at Kilos.sa in German Erst Africa, which will be plauted with cotton aud rubber. Only Germaus will be employe 1 on this huge estate.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 468 4 PENANG CRICKET CLUB. The Annual General Meeting will be held in the Cricket Club Pavilion, On Mon., 14th October, 1907, AT 5-45 P M 4 r Y*. M: i:'-: AGENDA. 1. To read aud approve the Miuutes of tbe last General Meetiog. 2. r J'o receive the Annual Report aud
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  • 47 4 Obituary. 1 (Supplied by Reuter.) Lonl Brunt pton of Bnunptoii. Loudon, 6th Oct.--Lord Brampton of Brampton, belter known as Sir Henry Hawkins, is dead. [Lord Brampton was a judge of the Queen's D on of tl,e Court from 1876 to He was created a Baron in 1899.—
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  • 47 5 Pusing Lama Tin Mines, Ltd. The output from the Pusiug Lama Tin Mines for September was 1,002 piculs of tin ore, of au approximate value of $53,000. Srreudah Hydraulic Tin Mine. The output from this mine for September was 1)4'» piculs 10 catties.
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  • 572 5 Ou Saturday evening at 5 o’clock His Kxcelleucy the Governor aud Miss Anderson embarked at Singapore m the Sea Merc b>r Pahang, for the purpose of iustalling the Tungku Besar of Pahang as a Companion of the Order of St. Michael aud St. George. Colonel
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  • OUR SHORT STORY
    • 2789 5 No. 2. I’ll»* True Story of the Fotlierint'luuii Murder. l!y Southern Crow. You want to hear tho true story of the Fotheringhain Murder, do you said my friend, Chief Inspector Kirkton, as 1 sat out on the verandah with him one uight. It’s a tale
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  • 1259 5 ANNUAL REPORT. Following is tire repoit of the Co nmittee of the Penang Ciicket Club, for the year ended 31st August last. t> le presented at the Anuual General Meeting at the Club Pavilion on Monday next, the 14*b October, at 5.45 p. m. To tub Members
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  • 115 5 Arrived. Per ss. Perak, from Port Swetteabam Messrs. R. H. Pinhorn, C. C. Seat*, S C. Ambrose. A. H. VVemyss, G. C. Ash. J. Martin, C. A. Lumbefafer. B. Hickie, Papageor. Departed. Per s.s. Perak, for Singapore Dr. M. J Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, Messrs. Burchard, Z etliu,
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  • 108 5 To-dat. Ist Day of 9th Moon. Town Band, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p in. Football League Meeting, 9 p m. Roval Cinematograph, King Street Theatre, 9 p m. The Besau Cinematograph Co., Ltd., coiner of Penaug Road and Campbell Street, 9 p.m. 0 The Edison's Bioscope, corner of Transfer
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  • 17 5 E glish (A>cadiu) ...10th Oct. China (Delta) ...12th China Goeben) ...15th German (Piinz Lulwuj) ...16th
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  • 16 5 0 New Moon 7th First Quarter 14th O Full Moon 21st Last Quarter 29th
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  • 38 5 P. O. SAILINGS. Mail Service. >t'T«v K l>h. ’IoMRWA ROft. Arcadia 10 Oct. I Delta o<t. Detnnha 9-7 I Oceana 26 bxtra Service. O'JTWAKIM II OMR WARDS Palermo lo Oit. I Namur 19 Oct. Banco, Mani’a 2 Nov.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 430 5 Mr E A Sica a. i*. I». v. NOTICE. f ITENDERS are required for the purchase X_ and removal ot the whole of the buildings, out houses etc. of the premises kuowu as Renoug House, Peaang. Particulars of s:ile aud coutract can be obtained at the Othce of the Executive
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  • 1788 6 Oil III N All V MKETIMi, OCT. 4. Pkesfiw. His -Excellency the Governor (Sir John Ainlerson. K.C.M.O His Excellency Major-Gen. 1. lerrott. c.n. Hon. Capt. A. H. Young (Col. Secretary). Hon. W. J. Napier (Attorney-General). Hon A. T. Brvant (Act. Col. Treasurer). Hou G. A. Hall (Act. Auditor-General;.
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  • 120 6 Penano. 7th October. B,j courtesy oj the Chartered Bank.) London Demand Sank ...2/*»U 4 months’ sight Bank ...2/4Ye 8 Credit --2 /4s* 3 n Documentary ...2/4*l Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 173$ 3 days’ sight Pr.vare 175$ Bomi>»y. Painand Bank 173£ Moulmein, Demand Bank 172 3 days’ sight Private 1751
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  • 577 6 Last Dividend. Name. V ►> 3 Mining. 25 for vear ending,3l 3/07 Belat Tin Mining Co., Ltd. Bruang Ltd. 20 p.c. for year ending 30/4/07 Gruseh HvdraulicTiu Mining Co.,Ltd Jbeudai (Meng’enibu) Lode Synd.Ltd Duff Development Co., Ltd. Jopen/ Tin Mining Co. Lid. leber Hydraulic Tin MiLiugCo. Ltd. Lid. Karangan
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  • 148 6 Jold leaf $65.10 B. Poppet (W.Coast 3lbs.. t oz.) 16$. no stuck vV bite Pepper 21. -tellers Dang Pepper 17$. sellers Cloves (picked) out of season Mace 76.— sellers Mace Pickings 63.— sellers Nutmegs llUs 23.— sales No. 1 5.30 sales Sugar < 2 no stock Basket 3.80 tales
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 97 6 MACKAY’S LIQUORJ/HISKY. KARTELL’S BRANDY. G eislers’ Champagne. THE CELEBRATED “S. B. Co.” GIN IN RED CASKS. Sarulilands, Buttery <S Co f! N» W > f CO I o -J \M UJ N < G Ttti c» s'* r;V** o i,; i -*6o*TO BE HAD RETAIL FROM Ban Seng Co., Gim
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  • 98 7 Xti/jLine, or paper yarn, is made in Germany iu large quantities at a third of the price of the cheapest cotton. It ia said, to be exceedingly dm able, and to wash wall. It has b *€u used for carpets, dress materials, imitation Panama bats, grain bags,
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  • 168 7 Jn America, of course, things aie done on a much larger scale than in the Straits Settlements or the Native States, and this accounts for the following item being transmitted over the cables, from New York, on August t>o. The owuer of a performing elephant, which
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  • 168 7 The Netherlands India Government has just takeu a risky step by deciding to tax the Malays iu the province of the West Coast of Sumatra. At the time of the Dutch conquest, over 00 yeirs ago, it was understood f iat the reveuue would be raised
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  • 156 7 A Berliu telegram says:—The first Jrial of telephotography between Munich and lieiliu, ou Frofesscr Korn’s system, took placeleoentlv and was wonderfully successful. A distinguished company gathered in the Zoological Gardens there, and at nine o’clock the wires to Muuich were tested, the wires by means of a simple leversiog
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  • 240 7 The Cause of the Deereasiug Numbers. It is stated that the Chinese students in Japau uredecreasii g in number. This is attributed by a certaiu Chiuese resident in Tokvo to the attitude taken by the Chinese Government, which is endeavouring to put a check ou more
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1438 7 BORDEN'S PEERLESS BRIM EVAPORATED CREAM. Absolute Purity Guaranteed, AGENTS: SANDILANDS, BUTTERY Co., PENANO. FLOORING TILES of Various Sizes. WROUGHT-IRON TUBES AND FITTINGS. Moderately Priced. Apply to SOON CHEANG Co., No. 3, Bridge Street. 27-7-07 533uc RIGAUD’S a OF JAPA.V TOILET WATER Rigaud's Kananya Wa- MS* ter lias the sweet perfume
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    • 50 7 A Safe Cough Midicine for Children. In buying a coujh mediciue for children never be afraid to buy Chamberlain’* Cough Remedy. There i9 uo danger from it and relief is always sure to follow. It-i* espec’ally valuable for colds, croup and whooping cough. 'lbe George Town l>i»peusarv, Wholesale Agents. V»
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1165 8 NOTICE. YIEWS of Penang, Siugapore, Perak, Selangor, and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft., on Bromide paper. W. JONES, King Street, Penang. Photographer. 16c Kim Keng Leong Co., 1/7, BEACH STREET. IMPORTERS 0» EVERY DESCRIPTION OK W. MANSON, American Dentist, Late of Dr. Allen Co., Pha, U.S.A.
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  • 1712 9 [By W. R. Holt SOME RISING LIGHTS. (’wll. Lord Robert. A tali, wavering, uncertain form, of indefinite height a thin, sharp face with thiu sharp lips, aud an outlook ou kuiiiau kiud which may also be described as thin and sharp. Lord Robert provided Mr.
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  • 237 9 Chinese women who bare beeu educated iu America will receive a distinguished recruit when Miss May Liang Cbeug, the only daughter of Sir Cheutuug Liaug Cheng, the Chinese Minister to the Cuited States, returns to her native laud. Miss Cheng is a particularly bright young
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  • 823 9 T,ie .Sphere* in Persia, Afghanistan ami Thibet. London, September 24th. Reutkh’s correspondent at St. Petersburg I telegraphs that the A uglo-Russiau Convention begins by expressing the sincere desire of King Edward aud theTsir Nicholas to settle various questions affectiug Great Britain aud Russia in Asia.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 38 9 Rheumatism. Why suffer from this painful maladyr One application of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm will relieve the pain and make rest and sleep possible. Many cures Imve been effected by its continued use. The George Town Dispensary. Wholesale Agents.
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    • 207 9 JUST RECEIVED. JOEAJN FABER'S STATIOffEET. Pa P er 15 cents Fasteners per box. New Flat Reversible Pocket Pencils Nickle-plale l Pocket Pencils, Automatic Pocket Pencils 10 to 15 cents each. 30 cents each. 30 cents each. blue Pencils, 60 cents per dozen. ifj.l mum Drawing Pencils, 888, 80 cents per
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    • 1355 10 Guide to Penang, BY THE LATE FOR SALE. Nos. 2, 3 4 of “THE REVIEW OF THE FAR EAST,” KDiTEL» UY Price 50 cents. A. CUNNINGHAM, Worth a Dollar a copy.”) of the South China Morning Dost. E. F. Skertchly, f.e.s. Price $1 each number. TO BE HAD AT THE
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