Straits Echo, 6 December 1913

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS. TliE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 11. $24 Per Annum, PENANG, SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER, 1913. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 281
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    • 1015 1 If ron rraairt n Tonic and some* thing’ to nourish you, drink DOC S HEAD GUINNESS** STOUT and look SfTfe for thia label /V to MO that jou&>t il TIANO LEE 9 Co., Solo A goals. Andrew Usher 8 Co.’s SPECIAL RESERVE. O.V.G. Whisky. SAND1LANDS, BUTTERY 8 Co.. AGENTS FOR
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    • 17 1 TIGER BRAND CEMENT. Nt2sB <ri «9 'va -3 'ft. ft» IN kZ li BEST FOR ALL PURPOSES.
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    • 95 2 I 1 M .vV HAR ff. 9 S MWW PfT nitt; I SSM R! JOHNDEWARiSONSjf; N V (distillers! €»fr<i Special US 83SES WIWV'V'- 1 OF GREAT AGE a&i« v >■• Grand Prix £5gS Paris «00 JflfUis W 4 1: OV£« SO COLO 7 It »9 p«lie mcoal* 1$ PERTH 'SCOUAKD
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  • 2360 3 Tm Westkrn-Educated CHINESE Btpdent. The China Society opened ita winter ifgaion at the Caxton Hall, London, on the r,th inst., with an intereating paper on The Weateru-educated Chinese Student,” by Mr. P. K. C. Tyau (First Secretary of the Chinese Legation) The Chinese Minister was prevented by
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  • 58 3 Dfoember, 1913. li. YY r L. Y\ r H. YV. L. YV DATE. AM. AM. PM. PM. Tti L 7, Nil. 7.41, 12.01 7th 6.33, 1.22, 8.11. 1.11 Bt.li 8 22, 3 16, 9.15. 2.26 9th 9.10, 4 00, 9 48, 3.41 10th 9.56, 4.39, 10
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  • 436 3 and the «4« rl who doesn’.. Your spirits before breakfist am the best biro-neter of health. Some girls sing as soon is they j imp out of b~* 1. Their sle p lias d mo them good they are ref reshed aul to tbe
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    • 55 3 Umcce;s»fy Words. Why waste wordB and advertising spuctj •ii describing the many points of merit .n Cbamberlaiu B Corch Remedy* The mod a*tidious are satisfied when we state that 1 cure» colds aDd coughs from any cause, an that it contaius absolutely no narcotics or injurious substances. For sale by
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    • 63 3 A I era D.strojrer. There is no Janger whatever from look hw or blood poison result.ng from a wound iZ u Chamberlain's Pam Palm ta prompt., applied. It is antiseptic and destroy Hie germs which cans- these d.sr.ser It 1 causes wounds to heal w.tbout matura- '„,t m one-thud the
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    • 481 3 ®i GOODRICH TYRES i f”*N S V w V I T r--O “N Sv "T& V- W VS r id vws 1 < r r-MSC ,w v^ ,sS't 4 W'AS J* 3i v ViL.~ i> ?j :f >-?rfiL W V* w wv c v V ss s? w *>o ••y
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 193 4 Jin Ho, Br. s.«., 93, Dyason, Dec- 5, Aaahao, Dec. 4, Gen.—E- S. Co., Ltd. Alma, Br. s. c t 354, Bell, Dec 5, Deli, Dec. 4 Geu. —E- S- Co., Ltd. Janet Nisoll, Br s s-, 474, Campbell, Dec. 5, Tavoy, Nov. 29, Gen.—E. S- Co., Ltd. Leomedon,
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    • 148 4 December 6. Taroha, for Madras taking mails for Europe, etc., via Bombay. Ban Lee, for Alor Star Kedah). Bp-elman, for Laogsa, Edi, T. Semawe, Olebteh aud Saba g. J o Ho. 1’ r A a! an K II n Jl'+, j eff Hi IJJIUFor Coughs au*l Colds. never fails.
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    • 28 4 Fo* l Yen—Per Jit Seng, Bth instant, 7 a.m. Tongkah—Per Sappho, 9tli ius*aot, 1 p m. j Port Swettenham and Siugapore—Per Klang, 9th instant, 4-3 > p.m.
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  • 119 4 Penang, December 6. (By courtesy of the Chartered Bank.') Loudon, Demand Bank 2/4yV 4 months’ sight Bank 2/4J| 3 Credit 2/4| 3 Documentary 2/4 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 173f 3 days’sight Private 175^ Bombay, Demand Bank 173j Moulmein, Demand t ank 173 3 days' Sight Private 175f Madras, Demand
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  • 60 4 Gold Lnaf ...{64 40 Black Pepper In 75 huyens' White Pepper iS.~s.les Pepper 24 —nominal j Clove» ...39 out of season Maet 120 nominal. Packings 80 —seVers Nutmegs IP's 24.- sellers No. 1 6.10 sales Sugar 2 5.50 tales Basket 5 15 buyers Copra (inlx»*!) 13 sales 1 i
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  • 2027 4 O 3 j J f I -2 Number of ci, 1 3 Capital. Shares P Dividends. Name. *J Q I W8Qed 3 s fe J -S P 3 flu s p .1 w O 1 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913) I U. BLR DOLLAR SHARES. Pol* j# 450,000 130,000
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    • 120 4 Ask the tale of the glorious old flag. And read the blood-wrirten replies. Of Britons whose deeds sowed Liberty’s seeds From Arctic to Antarctic skie>. Australia’s land* are marked with their hands. And as long rs the race shali i du-«. If coughs and colds come, th-*v‘l: .ways succumb. To
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    • 133 4 •iiiii ULIUM. idSiir^raXiizHx^s S'- xSmmS-Smm *t— .2^ m m rc p- *x m 2 I i (S.* s=o o o 0 <TJssf *5 c I*T| I 0-' 3t C' o t. t; ll *4.H?3 54 ■*3P5 3 5» .«)<-> i*St;#—» ■«1:1 im 'n% r a w Y r? W 1
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  • 1269 5  -  [BY TOM WRIGHT] lu journalistic profligacy, I hare sown my wild oats. For mv literary offspring lawfully begotten I am asking Mr. Welbam to let me have this new headline. I am living alone, in a lonely country cottage on au island, in order to "live delil>erately, to
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  • 270 5 To the Editor ok the Free Tret* Sik, —lf vou study the tariff of rates iu the list issued by the Homeward Conference you will find that only ceitaiu classes of ports are including under the ordinary so and so much per 12 cwt scale, and shipments to
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  • 248 5 To the Editor ok the Straits Tim Sir, i would like to draw attention through your columns to a matter which irtimate'.y concerns parents. During the pa-t two months I have employed, successively, three Chinese amahs, al 1 possessing e\c* ih-ut references, to attend my infant daughter
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  • 266 5 When we approach tlin general res Its of the agitation agaiu>.t Opium, there cau be no doubt that there has beeu a g eat improvement in the life aud habits of the people. \Ve reme i.ber to have heard that some few veers ago a captain
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    • 355 5 i Buchanans m m m m m 9 m m Famous Scotch Whiskies, (BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND.) :0: Household THE Royal BLEND. AS SUPPLIED TO ROYALTY. BLACK and WHITE OF GREAT S EFUTATiOW u RED m 9 m 9 A WORLD-WIDE FAVOURITE. WHISKY IN CASKS PRICES OH APPLICATION. 9 9 9
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    • 10 5 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure, It. 6d.
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    • 286 5 ;v vy XA 2 a 3 egnGJS^ o C—c Fabrique de ~o Cigarettes Egyptiennes ERO FRERES mm? 5S1T r*6t<Qbi r&tftlS L T > V 9MPC|*PN#£ rfc l2sBs2£3b BZ FELUCCA >. mv&a “W %pr -n FRtREs O-wJl H U^i? fABBICOt P A WT AUSPERO FRERESlrD ST CAM ItUR /*\ANUFACTUBt AU J
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  • 97 6 ftblUh*] daily (except Sundays end pofeiit holidays) AT TXI CRITERION PKE3B, Lin. No. 59, Bea-h Street, PenaDg. Pbiob Dmly Leenl M »24 per Annum. OmteUtion... Postage Extra. Mail Edition (Poet Fine) »17.50 CABLB iDDIIII ECHO—PENANG." Telephone Not. Echo 586 Printing Department 343 If A.—All bu»i*«M ••taßunicationi chould
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  • 21 6 Foo Choo Choon\ At 1 Penang Street, this morning, Mri. Foo Choo Choon of a son Perak pipers ple.se copy.
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  • 1353 6 “Tuan Ketchil”, who wrote to us yesterday from the Province on the subject of discharge ticket, must be credited with the possession of rather more liberal ideas re r arding labour than uiauy of his fellows. But we may as well state frankly at once that we
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  • 744 6 Mr. L. W. Tivy, of the Escot Estate, Taujong Malim, Ulu Selangor, left for Home on leave last night by the s.s. Nubia. Mr. G. Tomlinson, European Warder of the Taiping Gaol, proceeded Home last night on long furlough by the s s. Nubia. Mr. A. B.
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  • 253 6 BUILDING FUND INCREASED. {From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 5 Sir Arthur Young presided at the general meeting of the Singapore Golf Club yesterday when it was decided to increase the building fuud from *3,000 to *5,000 and to fix the entrance fee at 125 aud the
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  • 101 6 The Tribute System. (From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, December 5. Mr. Reuss presided at the general meeting of the Royal Johore Tin Company. Mr Robertson explained the circumstances leading to the proposal for a new agreement with the tributors binding them down for twenty jeare. The
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  • 111 6 E&ciae Derailed At Teipieg. (1 rom Our Own Correspondent Taiping, December 6. lne 1-35 p m. train for Penang was derailed near the Taiping Station yesterday blocking ail the ways to Penang,' and the passengers by the 435 p.m tram had to lie train aud
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  • 124 6 Huge Speculations in Silver. (Reuter.) London, December 5. Messrs. Samuel, Montagu A Co’s circular on the Silver market says that the huge «peculations of the Indian Specie Bank on December 1 caused much uneasiness during be three years past and negotiations have I beea completed whereby
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  • 178 6 A Thirst Strike. (tCeuter.) w London, December 5. p, iS P a nkburst, who was arrested at V®outh on her arrival from New York lat1 at once conveyed to the jail at Exeter, has gone on a thirst strike. A Fire Fiends. tw I, London, December 6.
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    • 99 6 SIEMENS 6. BEACH STREET, PENANG. Telegrams Siemens, Penang. Telephone No. 479. SIEMENS WOT AN LAMPS Pure drawn TUNGSTEN WIRE filaments. °r •rS V!<> jS* The 11 Electrical Times,’ June stl«, 19i3 THE BEST ‘After very exhaustive tests.’ A»*’ W'tQo** Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works, Ltd. Head Ojfice —Caxton House, Westminster, London.
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  • 165 7 royal proclamation. (Renter.) London, December 6. Th« London Gazette contain* a proclaman bv the King, prohibiting the importation ~tn Ireland of arms aud ammunition and the component parts thereof such as ern ty „rt ridge cates, explosives and combustibles Suitable for warlike purposes. tecond proclamation prohibits
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  • 49 7 (Reuter.) London, December 5. The Armv Council has suspended the proceedings of the court martial which is trying the Quartermasters in connection with the Army Canteens scandal, being legally advised that its jurisdiction is too limited for action which a further enquiry shows to lie ru^essary.
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  • 58 7 A Marvellous Escape Renter.) London, December 6 The Federal, Colonel Barbosa, has reached Mexico City. He was one of the nineteen officers who were shot by General Villa after the capture of Torreou. Colonel Larbosa was shot in the breast but, recovering con sciousness, he crawled to
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  • 56 7 Kaiser's Deeisioa. (Reuter.) Donaueschingen, December 6.. The Kaiser has ordered the garrison in the town of Zabern, which wai the seat of the recent outbreak of anti-German feeling in Alsace, to go to the manoeuvres unti further orders. He baa also ordered_ a military court of enquiry
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  • 16 7 (Reuter.) London, December 6. The Great Western Railway «trike has been settled.
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  • 133 7 Yesterday. To-day. Kjw Buysrs Sel’ar# Buyers Sellers Fall. RUBBER. s. d. s. d. s. d. d Anglo Malay 9 9 9 t— 9 9 lufcit Mertajam. 1 9 3 g u j Cberaonrae OH 2 g 9 md Cons Malaya ft 14 8 104 48 9 —6d Highlands 46
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  • 133 7 Ti*. The following but ness in tin has been duns to-day Penang Q u Penaug Tin Eichauge, *2=» tons at *B6 Lfloug Fee A Co., 25 Singapore: Strait» Trading Co.. 150 Total 200 tons. Tin it quoted in Loudon to-day at Jtlf 1 >s. cash and jE 170
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  • 495 7 THE MISSING LINKS. The annual speech of the High Commissioner for the F. M S. to the Federal Council at Kuala Lumpur is always interesting to Siam. It is particularly so this year since it contains the declaration by Sir Arthur Young on the question of the
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  • 59 7 Presideat Sun’» Secretary Arrested. An anti-Governmental plot has been discovered at Shanghai. It is aimed at Yuan Shih-k’ai. The ex-Secretary of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who had taken up his quarters in the French concession in that town, and from thence, was carrying on his intrigues against the
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  • 334 7 In his report for October, the CaptainSuperintendent of Police at Shanghai says that unless severe measures are taken against offenders in the shape of reinstituting corporal punishment or inflicting long sentences followed by expulsion, it is feared that the coming winter will be a bad one
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  • 639 7 Israel Zangwill baa an article on The Militant Suffragists in the November English Review which, in view of the return of Mrs. Pankhurst to England, her arrest, and adoption of the thirst-strike”, is more topical to-day than when it was w ritten. It is well worth reading
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  • 100 7 Says Thursday*» Straits Times: Mention was made this morning, in the third court, of a charge of defamation of character, which has been brought against Mrs. Frances Rodyk at the instance of Capt. J A. J)n s. of the steamer Kinta Ihe accused was arrested
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  • 236 7 Canton, November 18 The present value of paper money is only seventy par cent of its face value. Business is affected. No transactions are taking place Public opinion generally is against the present heavy military expenses which amount to *1,5( 6,000 a month. It is also pointed
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  • 1425 7 The Malay Mail in its critique of the Kuala Lumpur Art Exhibition —which seems by the way to have been an exceptionally good show—says that the remainder of its criticisms have been written specially for the Malay Mail by Mr. John G. Withycombe, “a member of the Roval
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    • 238 7 Tenders for Perlis Police Uniforms. "ENDERSare invited for the supply iu 1 1914 of a’.out, 100 Malay Police Uoif >rin$ au 00 Sikb Polica Uniforms, and will 1»« received up to noon of 15th IVeendier, 9 3 at the GuTeuimcut Offi •e- t K'-iim-.r. Tenderers nque-ted to forward si?» pies
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    • 334 7 MUNICIPAL NOTICE A SPECIAL MEETING of the Munieipal Commissioners will be held at the Municipal Office at 4 p in. on Tuesday, the 9th instant. BUSINESS To consider and pass Supplemental Budget No. 2 of 1913. To be followed by the usual ordinary Fortniybtlv meeting. L. A. Coutier BIGG*, Secret™
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  • 798 8 It W3U11 impossible to give a final quietus to the hardened fable that the plantation seeds which were brought to the East came from an inferior variety of trees growing in some of the Islauds near the mouth of the j Amazon. Eaily in the career of
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  • 213 8 i Piesidtnt Yuan Shi Kai has received a j telegram from Kang Yu-wei, which reads as i follows: 1 aiu a fugitive who has been wanderj iug abroad for many years. 1 neglected to serve my aged mother, and she forsook this world. My heart
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  • 24 8 Sealed Handicap. The following tie has been fixed for I Monday, December 8 Southam and Haslam vt. SUrr and Hall.
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  • 848 8 StORT OF AS J hSACLT UPON GHARRY DrI VfcR. On Wednesday morning, before Mr. Firmstoue, in the First Court, Inspector C. B. Bartede, of the Straits Settlements Police, was called upon to answer a summons for using criminal force to a gharry syce named Kasam. The proceedings
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  • 1082 8 In most novejs, when one of the cbarac- ters does a wrong or foolish thing, the consequences of it pursue him all through the b.ok. It is one of the m mv delightful points about Tolstoy's War aud Peace that its plot is not made
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  • 158 8 More than any previous action does hi« handling of tie difficult Kuomintang problem show that Yuan Sliih-kai is capable of arising to anv emergency and that he may be depended upou eventually to consolidate the North and the South, and thus evolve an administration that will make
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    • 402 8 THE Drury Lane Cinematograph, Drury Lane Theatre Hal!, will ucreeu one of the most exciting pictures j of Mediaeval Warfare The Knights of Rhodes.” IN TWO RELLS Showing an eternal conflict between Cross au<l Crescent in the time of the reign of Solirmn the Second, Sultan of Turkey. The L.Ast
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    • 320 8 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IVTOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that i.1 a Special General Meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce will be held in tiie Chamber on Wednesday, the 50th December, 11)13, at 2-30 o’clock p m. Business To propose a Nominee for the Legislative Council in accordance with the Rules
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    • 441 8 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. ■vtotice is hereby given th at -Ll the books containing the Annua! Valuation of and rates imposed on ail buildings and lands situated within the Municipality of George Town, Penang f or the year lit 14, are open to the inspection of Ratepayers at ti e Municipal Office,
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  • 31 9 Vtudt brom Agenit Due Jlimal iya Asra Yorclc Luelzinr Colombo Singapoia .'*’n^ap3re Colombo A G ACo. \.G ACo. H M AJo. SM A Co. lOtb Dec 13th lt>tb lbth
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  • 29 9 V’.ii fit For Sg T>1 L r* Himalaya I l &nR&pore A.OiC» Doc. Attaye {Colombo A G ACo. Yorck i Colombo B.A1 A Co. L'dtftcu 'Singapore B.M *Co.
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    • 338 9 S.N.C Expected Arrivals and Departures. Mpil Service On-ward. 1913 IV* lOHimalayaconnecting withs s.Mooltan 34 Egypt s.s. Morea Homeward VVill run diect to Marseilles and London via Colombo. FARES BY MAIL STEAMERS. “A” Accommodation. 1 stcinss 2ndclass fo London by Sea $565-72 $377-14 To M ’-soil'es or Gibraltar $528-00 $356-29 B”
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    • 1196 9 SHIPPING. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. For Sin jJ a por <3 (Three times a week). Pert Swettenhdra cud Singapore. (Twice a week). Victoria Point, Mereui, Tavoy, Yeh and Moulmeiu. (Fortnight!?). Singapore and Australia Rangoon Calontte (Weekly.) Negapatam, Madras, Pondicberiy, Cuddalore and Karikai (Weekly). HUTTENBACH, LlESERT Co., Penang, elei'Hone
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  • 1108 10 AMENDED PROGRAMME. (UNDER S. R. A. RULES OF RACING.) RACE DAYS. MLS I DAY Tuesday, 6th January, 1914. Sh( OND DAV Thursday, 8th January, 1914. THIRD DAV. Saturday, 10th January. 1914. FIRST DAY. Tuesday, 6th January, 1U14. 1.—The Opening Stakes. alue $500. Selling Race.
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  • 1490 10 <Bt Horace Hutchinson.) Is it not just a little astonishing, to such as are still capable of any astonishment at the doings of themselves or their fellowmen, that all golfers do not make a practice of stamping, or of having stamped, their initials
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  • 620 10 The strange spectacle of three thousand British Indians marching into the Transvaal, and beiug arrested, is something to arouse the atteution of the Empire and give cause for thought,” says the Morning Post The Union of South Africa follows a policy to wards British Indians closely
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    • 163 10 Entries Close s nu Becfmkcf 19». Handicaps f 0r the First Day will be published 00 pr before the 29th December, 1913. of tho A obt4Unab l e from th Secretaries of anv Fees, and Tut,T5£ZS Ent J7 P TrainBeach Street, Penang. to the IVuang Turf Club, No. 23, reserve
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    • 19 10 Bid Taste in the Moatk. If you have a bad taste in Tour mouth in «1« bv For i
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    • 50 10 Tke Children's Colds Jl atch tbe children’s colds and cure them r aken the us” Chamberlain s Ccujjh Remedy freHr tV® perfectly safe. It Las Zn tilt Jut chemists and pronounced free from injurious tfSr* and c oBts but a trifle. For a le b 7 »UX> upenaarie* and Dealers.
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    • 531 10 ccft r* «3 Odol is the first and only preparation for cleansing the mouth and teeth which exercises its antiseptic and refreshing powers not only during the few’ moments of application, but continuously for some hours afterwards. Price per flash 90 cts. Of all Chemists Stores. csm. mama v. -a*
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    • 68 11 Mil M 113 Milk BY APFCtNTM* NT TO H. *VI THE KING THE WAR OFFICE. CONTRACTORS TO THE INDIA OFFICE. MILKMA THE ADMIRALTY MILK HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR USE IN THE PENANG GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AS WELL AS FOR THOSE IN Singapore, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and The Federated Malay States. THIS
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    • 1373 12 EUROPEAN AGENCY. 'The Insular Life Assurance Co., Limited. CAPITAL Ps. 500,000. omc Dm: )JC D&c ZDjme. 2)1 Indents promptly eiemted at lowest cash prices for all kinds of British and Continental goods, including:— Books and Stationery, Boots, Shoos and Iweather, Chemicals and Druggists’ Sundries, China, Earthenware and Glassware, Cycles, Motors
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