Straits Echo, 27 December 1913

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 11. $24 Per Annum PENANG, SATURDAY, 27th DECEMBER, 1913. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 297
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    • 106 2 ■MM—-■s-a EWAR HAK 9 0) A •u mohn Dewar&SonsI 0 L (distillers) i Cxlro Special teScoiciWis® Vk OF GREAT AGE £1 V -X y >■;- rfvyv-i v \k SSSQ i£iz CrondPrix r=r —j Sf<» Paris ($OO Sr Louis x\ O’ st*_ SSi SO COLO «mss PHIZC MEDALS i PCRIH,is«m*HO.'Si LONDON
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  • 1223 3 A RMS AND THE Armt. The Mexican army is recruited from the criminal classes, officered from the lower middle and equipped by the upper; the result is sublime comic opera varied by touches of tragedy. 3 When a person has committed a few prominent crimes of
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  • 129 3 Mr. Rudyard Kipling told a story the other day at a dinner party that deserves repetition here. The author was staying in the Hills at Simla, where all the lovely Anglo-Indian ladies go in summer time when it is too hot for them to endure the climate
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  • 108 3 The late Lord Salisbury was rather fond of appearing in the guise of an Elder Brother of the Trinity House on State or official occasions. Qu’ est-ce que e’est done c«-t uniforme que M. le Marquis de Salisbury porte ce soir?” a member of the French Embassy once
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  • 79 3 We sympathise with the protest made by the Journal d°t Debaie against the Biitisht tendency, exemplified in recent theatrical controversies, to call everything improper or immoral in art and literature” Irench. The Journal,” points cut that, apart from other considerations, the practice is both discourteous and indicative of the
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  • 109 3 It has been a curse to the Chinese race for young men and women to marry at an earfv age, and it is not unseldom that youths of 15 years of age are married, says the Peking Gazette. This custom not only injures the health of
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  • 31 3 wife of a Rvton (Warwickshire) miner E av. b'th to triplets l-t "'•nth »d M Tbfintoto B d!3 ‘in** same month, and the death-rate reached 51 2 per 1,(00-
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    • 49 3 Unnecessary Words. Why waste words and advertising in dpscrihincr the nnnr pou' s o fpogt Chamberlain’s Couch Remedy fastidious are satisfied when we s? an( j cures colds and coughs from t ics or that it contain, absolutely no injurious substances. For oale *>7 aU 171 pensaries and Denier*-
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    • 53 3 A danger wbSerer from lock poiHOU from a wound WmbI Iain’s Pain Balm is promptly wbe n < bam aDti6e ptic and destroys applied. I» these diseases. It the perms wbicb can j hout maturaalso causes wound. to ired tion and in one-third tbi ti H u Dl8 the usual
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    • 427 3 Mr. 8 Mrs. Wright-Motion’s AFE HANTANT ICAR ICARETTE OSTUME ONCERT OMEDY OMPANY 3rd, 6th 10th January, 1914. Different Programme Every Night! No Reserved Seats Tickets $2 each. Bar Open in Hall! NO CHITS! REFRESHMENT TICKETS, $1 for 4. 9-15 P.M. PUNCTUALLY. TICKETS AT Robinson Piano Co. Z> OFFICIAL TIDE TABLES
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  • 8779 4 SPEECH BY SIR HENRY McCALLUM. THE QUESTION OP A NEW F.M.S. POET. —CURRENCY. THE GOVERNMENT*S RUBBER POLICY. The annual dinner of the Strait* Settlenoots Association was held on the 2nd inst. at the Whitehall Rooms, London,and proved a highly successful function. Colonel Sir Henry E. MoCallum,
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    • 651 5 m m m m m m m m m o Buchanans Famous Scotch Whiskies. rn BOTTLED IN SCOTLAND.) -:<>:« a n c Household the Royal BLEND AS SUPPLIED TO ROYALTY BLACK and WHITE OF GREAT EPUTATION m m m m m m m m m m m m m m
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    • 634 5 GENUINEBOER TOBACCO o o a jo Packed in 4 oz. Sealed BagsPrice: 30 cts. per BAG. OBTAINABLE AT Messrs. Pritchard 8 Co., Messrs. Kong Fook CheongSCo.,) PENANC MUNICIPAL NOTICE. MUNICIPALITY OF GEORGE TOWN. PEN'.KG. Electricity Supply Department. Applications are invited for the post of clerk at a commencing salary of
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  • 93 6 flhTuhail daily (except Sundays and pvklie holidays) at run cbuezlzz rzzz&, ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pilot Daily Leeal 124 per tinrm OshsUtioa... Postage Extra. Mail Edifeiea (Poet Free) 917.50 M OilU AODBIII ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Noe. Echo 586 Priatiaf Department 343 M.M.-All kuIMM araa«unioa*iomi ahould W»
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  • 1295 6 Eleewhere our readers will find a full report of the speeches made at the Straits j Settlements dinner in London at the l>egiuv ning of this month. The re o-t ia, we know, somewhat belated but it makes really interesting reading and we have been quite pleased to
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  • 850 6 Mr. John Turner who arrived here by the Egypt on Thuraday waa at Prai Estate the aame afternoon. Mr. E. E. Colnian, who is on ten days’ leave, left on Wedneaday morning by train for Singapore. •e• t Mr. and Mra. Lloyd Cowdy and Mr. W. S.
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  • 1019 6 i The disease becomes epidemic about this i time of the year and it mainly affects the office tambies who approach you with an ingratiating air and a large, blank smile. It is not idiocy, it is not even a preliminary to a humble petition for a Christmas
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    • 220 6 4 > S CDO CZZZDfcCD BCD*CZZID#C —_J 4 Wolffs Eau dc Cologne Ice Water IS JUST o fsjafi Sr rfm ft tifvri’nrN’Yir En COlOftHt►■••Vi so nr l to *>PLSRO K' hi )OCDO«C THE THING u for that racking Headache in you. Most Refreshing end Cooling. m Sold Everywhere. F. WOLFF
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  • 218 7 (Reuter.) Calument, Michigan, U.S.A., December 25 Eighty persona, mostly children, were killed in a panic which resulted from a false alarm of fire at a Christmas Tree celebration which was being held hero in aid 0 f the striking copper miners. The victims were trampled to death
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  • 127 7 (Reuter.) London, December 26. Christmas Day this year was the finest and coldest for many years, the day being bright and dry with frost early in the morning. Snowstorms are reported from the north of England and Scotland and the railways were overcrowded with the rush
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  • 191 7 Reuter.) Washington, December 24. The new American Currency Bill has now been approved by the United States Senate and signed by President Wilson. President Wilson, when appending his eignature to the Bill* said that it was the first of a series of measures designed to benefit the
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  • 58 7 Aa Extraordinary Development(Reuter Berlin, December 24. Hen- Ton ow, V*f P^prthe 0 sentence passed on Ueu-. Raron Ton Forstner by the &tras*uuig nxnt Baron tod eg tbat a 8 military Court-martial. Qf»ta authority eiercises are funct.on. of the State jj any prosecution fo' J inadmissible the exercise
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  • 25 7 (Reuter.) Tokyo, December 27* The Emperor, in °P e g“ g at t BriUin was that the alliance with Die continually growing firmer.
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  • 50 7 (Reuter.) Georgetown Dec- ,n the Twenty-three pe geTera l othera are fire here yesterday an missing. Eight persona are have l»een killed and To or ij B factory result of an explosion at a at Torr# Annuuxiata near Naples. Later. —The casualties were killed and five mjuied.
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  • 228 7 (Reuter.) Durban, December 24. Government has rejected Mr. Hand hi s demands for the addition of repesentatives of Indian interests on the Commission of Enquiry and the ease of all the imprisoned Indian passive resisters. Calcutta, December 27. The Viceroy, replying to the address of welcome
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  • 110 7 (Reuter.) Beilin, December 24. According to the Franfurter Zeitung the German Minister bt Peking and the Chinese Foreign Minister have signed an agreement for the construction of a railway from Kaumi to the north-westward of Tsin Tao to join the Tiontsiu-Nanking line where it crosses the border
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  • 108 7 Reuter.) Gibraltar, December 26. The British steamer Ludgate is ashore on the African coast opposite Tarifa. The Moors fired on the vessel wounding a seaman. The cruiser Roxburgh and the Spanish battleship Pelayo are steaming to the assistance of the Ludgate, salvage operations being suspended owing
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  • 54 7 Singapore. {from Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, December 24. At the Singapore rubber auction 117 468 lb. were offered for sale and 109,604 lb were sold at the following prices Smoked Sheet S 103-Si2o per picul Unsmoked \°X~\\ 6 First Crepe JJ'2 ri wMioi: Fourth W-* f» Virgin Scrap
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  • 156 7 T**tar«l*r. To-dar. K o r gny>>ra Sa'lor- Buyer» S*Uer» V*HRUBBER. f* 1 J- H »u 4«4 9 9 9 +4'*d Aiiglo M#l*J. c 111 1 S llt R.tkit Mrrtajsnt. 1 4 1 104 2 4 Oberstr.trse 1 l g 3 774 8 4 +ly d Malay* 5 Q 47
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  • 103 7 (Reuter.) Washington, December 24. The Chairman of the Commerce Committee has introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution suspending for two years the provision exempting United States vessels engaged in the coasting trade from the Panama Canal tolls. After the expiration of these two years the
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  • 836 7 (Reuter.) London, December 24. The first poena written by Dr. Robeit Bridges in his capacity as Poet Laureate has been sent to the King and is published in the Timet by His Majesty’s desire. The subject is Christmas Eve.’’ The Tim ’s points out that by this
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  • 295 7 (Reuter.) Washington, December 24. The Mexican rebels have sent a communication to Lloyd’s to the effect that all vessels of whatever nationality bringing munitions of war te General Huerta will be destroyed. The communication makes special mention of a contract for the sale and delivery
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  • 92 7 (Reuter.) London, December 25. A Harrow schoolboy named Geoffrey Ansell has just died as the result of injuries received when toboganning in the Cresta Run in Switzerland two years ago. Under his father’s will £250,<>00 out of the estate of £300,000 which the boy would have
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  • 100 7 (Reuter.) Sydney, December 24. An inter-State matoh here between South Australia and New South Wales had a sensational result, South Australia made 281 in their first innings and 290 in the second, to which New South Wales replied with 307 and 245, South Australia thus winning by
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  • 83 7 Reuter) Paris, December 24. M. Caillaux, Minister of Finance, announced at a meeting of the Budget Committee of the Chamber of Deputies that he intends to issue a redeemable loan to cover extraordinary military and naval expenditure. The loan will exceed thirty-six millions sterling. The French Government
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  • 63 7 Reuter. London, Decenjl>er 24. An Order in Council published in the London Gazette and dated Deceml>er 19th proclaims the establishment of British Consular Courts in Alvssinia These court* will have both civil and criminal jurisdiction and the latter will be exercised in conformity with the law of British India.
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  • 100 7 (Reuter London, December 26. The second test match between England and South Africa wa* played in showery weather. South Africa scored 160 in the first innings towards which total Hartigan 5l. barms took 8 wickets for 56 runs. Reuter cables from St. Petersburg
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  • 36 7 Til iii Copra. The following bus ness in tin haa been done to-day Penang Penang Tin Exchange, 6$ tons at $B4. Singapore Straits Trading Co., 175 „{B4 60 Total 181 tons. Copra sun-dried $l3.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 424 7 For Sintaporc, Honjkonj, Swatow 8 Amoy. The s.«. Hong Wan I, Captain J. Mason, i« expected to arrive here on Sunday, the 28th inst., and will leave for the above ports on Tuesday, the 30th inst., at 3 p m. For Freight or Passage, apply to CHIN HIN Company, Agents
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    • 395 7 The Chinese Steamship Co. Ltd. For Singapore, Hongkoit*, Amoy S Swatow. The *.B. Seang Bee, 5,799 ton«, Captain J. Travis, is expected to arrive here from Rangoon on TVodnesday, the diet inst, and will leave for the above ports on Thursday, the Ist January, 1914, at 4 p.m. For freight
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  • 528 8 FIRST PAY’S HANDICAPS. Tuesday, 6th January, T 914. The following are the handicap» for the first day of the January Meeting:— 1 —The Opening Stxkbe. Value 1500. Selling Race. A Handicap for all Horee». The winner to be put up for Auction under 8. R. A. Rule
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  • 122 8 There i* not a %rt of doubt that the popular show George Town Kinema will pet a hamper houap to-night as the programme introduced by them is an excellent oue including two pood features, The Kelly Gang,’ 3 reels, Heroes on and all,” 2 reel* The predominant
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  • 382 8 The many friends m Bermah and Malaya of Captain Oscar Vivian Cotton, late master of the Eastern Shipping Company s Kedah, will hear with regret of his death, which took place at midnight on the 25th inst. in the General Hospital at the of
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  • 480 8 There was a large attendance at the Race Course this morniug to watch the work of the candidates for the forthcoming Januaiy r meeting Lodestar is in fine fettle and should be J returned a winner. The Friar traversed the last six furlongs in 1 minute 21 seconds
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  • 59 8 Sunday, December 28. Sunday in the Octave of Christmas. Holy Innocent’s Day. 3 8 a.m.—Matins. 8- a.m. —Holy Communion. 9- a.m.—Matins (Tamil). 10- a m.—Matins (Chinese). 5 p m.—Sunday School. pm. Evensong and Sermon. Processional Hymn—s 9. Psalms— Williamt, Felton Elvey. Magnificat and Nune Dimittis— Maunder AUnt™
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  • 262 8 La» Tea»’» Working. The Local Board of Directors have received cabled advices from the Directors of the Company in London as follows The nett profit earned by the Company for the year ended 31 August 1913, is 425,693 To whic hmuit be added the balance of Appropriation
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  • 335 8 Third Annual Meeting. The Third Annual General Meeting of the Perak River Valley Rubber Company, Limibd, was field at the Chamber of Couimeice at noon to-day. There were present the Hon. Mr. R. Young (Chairman), t e Hon. Mr. A. R. Adams, Mr.
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  • 43 8 To-night is positively the last performance of Edison’s Kinetopbone in Penang and judging from the big bouses since Monday, the specially selected programme of tonight, should see the tent filled and intending patrons should be early in procuring their seats.
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  • 387 8 “Shall Sarawak be Sold Mr. Harry de Wradt, in a letter to the Daily Express, writes:—Having been abroad, 1 have only jest seen your interesting article, Shell Sarawak be Sold which so ably oomments upon the Ranee of Sarawak’s recently published work. Mr. Arnold White's introductory query is one which
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  • 214 8 In exercise of the powers vested in him by section 21 (ii) of “The Agricultural Pests Enactment, 1913,” the Chief Secretary to the F.M.S. Government makes the following rule:—Every owner and occupier of land whereon any plant shall be found to be attacked by or affected with any
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  • 135 8 The following students obtained the licence in medicine aud surgery of the Medical School as the result of the midterm examinations i Lim <'hwe* Leong, Tan Sang Tee, On- B«k Hip, L-m- Chow I Seng, K Thillyampalan. H. i* B*wuel *ud C. Chelliah In the first year
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  • 102 8 The mortality returns for Singapore issued by the Registrar of Births and Deaths show that, during the week endnig December 2*», there were 204 deaths (158 males, 46 females) giving a ratio per mille of population of 33.14, including six deaths at St. John's Island, and of
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  • 484 8 To thc Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, —An Educationist's Suggestions which appeared in jour issue of the 18th inst. give food for reflections. I bare no doubt that your correspondent was actuated by the best of motives in his suggestions and hope that Govern
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  • 455 8 Another of the aspects of the wage reduction question has not, we consider, been given sufficient thought or perhaps one might better put it, sufficient expression, for it may have exercised moie minds than one is aware of. And that aspect is what effect are the reductions
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  • 328 8 A Legend of Sinoafork. [Mr. Ferrers, in his pamphlet on the Banishment Enactment, states that, when Mr. Ktir Hardie visited Government House, Singapore, “there was quite a competition between the* Aide de-Cxmp and the Private Secretary as to who should have the honour of fetching the carpet
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  • 428 8 In the course of a letter to the Singapore evening paper, X says L T^ preSent Engineer is drawing 7, l, trL per a num He cam# out in 1887 at the bottom of his service. The present P.C.M.O. is drawing an equivalent dollar salary
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  • 60 8 baTO k* 6ll r Monday, the 29th instant W it HanJ icap. W Sharpe vs H L Nicholson K Butler mRCB Hay E H Syer vs C Cunradi. lowing ties have been fiiod tor Tuesday, the 30th instant p v Single Handicap. Vvo wia vg W
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    • 38 8 E. 8 0. HOTEL. New Year Eve. 3l»t December. FANCY DRESS DINNER f DANCE. Prizes on view now for the Best Fancy and Most Original Dressed Ladies and Gentlemen. M E. 8 0. ORCHESTRA f* AND TOWN BAND.
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    • 50 8 The ChiUrei's CoUs. V> atch the children’s colds and cure them before weaken the vitality. Use Chamberlain s Cough Remedy freely It is perfectly safe. It has been teited b T chemuts and pronounced free from injurious substances and costs but a trifle. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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    • 41 8 *»4 Taste ia the Mouth. If 70U haTe a bad in J our mouth in the morning, jour stomach is no t in proper order. Chamberlain’s tablets regulate this 32 reUih ,0r T0Ur For 8 b 7 11 Dispensaries and Dealers.
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  • 33 9 Vessels 1 Irons 1 Agents Due Delta P. Alice P. Ludwig D«tanfca Singapore Singapore Colombo Colombo A.G.ACo. R.M.AJo. BM A Co. K G.ACo. 27th Dec. 30th I 1st Jan. I 8th
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  • 24 9 Vtttelt For 1 Agtnit Lea*" IUlta i Colombo A.O.*Co. Dee. P- Alice Colombo B.MACo. i P Ludwig Simrtpor* Dfvanha Singapore B.M ACo. !A,O.ACo.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 355 9 W 4 Expeetea Arrival» and Departure». Mall Service. Oatward. Bails on Friday instead of Saturday. FARES BY MAIL STEAMERS. A M Accommodation. Ist class 2nd class To London by Sea $565-72 $377-14 To Marseilles or Gibraltar $528-00 $356-29 B Accommodation. To London by Sea $5lB-57 $339-43 To Marseilles or Gibraltar
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    • 1271 9 <S H I P PI N G.) BRITISH INDIA' STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Fom m, S n a P° r v 1 uroe times a week). Port Swettepham and Sin|apore. (Twice a week). Tavoy. Tel aid Moulmmn. (Fortnightly). Singapore andAuetralia. Rangoon Calcutta. (Weekly.) N«g»p»Um, Pondicherry, Cuddalore and Karital. (Weekly). ierms
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  • 445 10 Victoria (Malaya) waa one of the least desirable plantation issues of the Rubber boom, and it has now reached the stage in its career when reconstruction is the only course open to it if the concern is to be kept alive. In the original prospectus the revenue
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  • 310 10 It is always difficult to draw the line hetwteu an interesting new scientific process and tho financial side of it, if the concern is a public company. To fail to draw it is souietitres to risk losing money, for interesting projects and processes are not always successful financially,
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  • 138 10 To Lord llardinue. The carpers set a croakin’ up, I'-iU I in right clad you’ve Fpoken up. Our coloured subjects hive their rights, .lust every bit as much as whites. Old prejudice and racial slights— High time that, they were broken up l’erchance the e was in
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  • 591 10 How Brazil is Preparing for the Struggle. The September issue of a journal published in Brazil under the direction of the Minister of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, and with the title Superintendence da De/eta da Borraehe has just been received here. It contains an exhaustive survey of
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  • 255 10 Committee on Grievances op Indian Students It is officially announced from the India Office that the London Advisory Committee has appointed a sub-committee to investigate the alleged grievances of Indian students in the United Kingdom. Sir Mancberjpe Bhownaeree will be chairman, and Mr. R E Field, of the
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  • 93 10 Prebendary Hobson, the rural dean of lottenham, at a meeting at Tottenham urged the necessity for some test to show th7r‘ 161 Per OD m and He said that when one saw the miserable weeds who went to the churches and the nXnf 7 > ffiC6S J
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  • 450 10 Official Minutes. Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on Tuesday, the 9th December, 1913. Pretent. Dr.G. W. Park, (Deputy President) F. Duxbury, Esq. Quah Beng Kee, Esq. P. T. Allen, Esq. Absent. Yeoh Guan Seok, Esq. Lim Eow Hong, Esq. John Mitchell, Esq. j 1.
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  • 195 10 An amusing story is told by the Vicar of Monmouth (says the Western Mail). A doctor instructed the wife of one of his patients under the Insurance Act to take her husband’s temperature. When the doc- tor next called the woman said she bad placed the barometer upon
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 12 10 \*ood«’ Pfpperuiiut Cure, For Cough» *ni CoM», Uil», i t> c ,j
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    • 637 10 11l il CSm |Mj|g| Il 'ML 55st jv tT it: >V. Cleaning the teeth with tooth powders or pastes can never, under any circuinstanCCS» prcG20 r e them from destruction. That follows from the simple fact that the localities which are most exposed to injury-—the haat* of the molars, the
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    • 421 10 THIS IS IT! Waterbary's Metabolized Cod Liver Oil Compound W.wrW-j* I TASTELESS ODORLESS stgini ®S: I y I he latest scientific preparation of COD LIVER OIL. Dees all that is claimed for it and supersedes the old fashioned emulsions which upset the stomach. Highly re commended by the medi cal
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    • 267 11 f TO H. M. THE KING BY APPOINTMENT CONTRACTORS TO The British Admiralty. The India Office. The War Office. The Government Hospitals in Singapore, Penang, Malacca and the Federated Malay States. m r«£i i&K'i 5&.T m THE USES OF milkmaid STERILIZED MILK, No. n 1 l ffl is* n .L
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    • 1304 12 HOTEL NORMAN, Penani’» Select Residential and Transit Hotel. (Under the Personal Management of the Proprietor and Proprietress.) Public and Private Dining Rooms. The recognised place for recherche dinners* Cola Storage Meat V Better. Most Moderate Monthly Rates. Special Terms to Official! and Planters. THE BODEGA (Late Restaurant Norman and braneh
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