The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 6 May 1904

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  • 21 1 THE STRAITS ECHO MAIL EDITION. Single Copy, 40 cents. 515 Per Annum. Vol. 2. Penang, Friday, (»th May, 1904. No. 18.
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  • 207 1 JiIRTHK, MAKJ> 1 A< i ES, I)EATHS Leading Autiokis: Our Local Affairs The Malay States 4 Leaderettes and other Articles: Current Topics:— i New Chinese Flay IMracy France and Siam Childrens* Treat Coming Continental Complications The Deadly Cigarette Rubber The Military Mulct The China Times Affair hilia’s Trade Physical
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    • 166 1 TO LET. m \'t. •i > v I THE STRAITS ECHO i i MAIL EDITION 1 u 'V V L S published the ilav prior to the departure of eacjr mail for Europe, A and contains the latest loyal and States News originally published in the daily issue as well
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  • 1518 1 The Police Contribution. At the last meeting of the Municipal Commissioners the much-vexed question of the contribution of $24,000 towards the policing of the town was brought up by Mr. Quah Beng Kee. That this annual contribution is an old sore was made clear by
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    • 90 1 fhe Straits Echo. Xii m Mjr.»t»ce eatisfles everybody, and justice alone.— tfmerson Established Jnne Ist, 1903. published daily (exc-pt Sunday.**.) AT TIIR CRITERION PRESS, Ld., Xn. 220-232, Head) St-rent-, Peuaiig. riMOK: )Allj y i,OCA 1 s*» perauimm oi’TSTATIOXS Postage Extra MAII< KIHTION (tost, Pn*o) 15 ('A |{|,K A DDIIKSS s
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  • 120 2 The annual general meeting of the George Town Dispensary Ltd. was held yesterday afternoon, at which there were present a number of shareholders, Dr. Avetooin, Managing Director, presiding. The report of the directors and accounts for the year ending 29th February were unanimously adopted. The accounts
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  • 356 2 The Kistna went alongside the wharf on her arrival from Singapore this morning and landed fourteen horses The passengers paid 10 cents each as a lauding fee. The libel case against the Criterion Press Ltd., brought by Madar Bi, which occupied the attention of the Supreme Couri the whole of
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  • 873 2 Brooks Discharged without Hearing Defence. H. Brooks appeared on remaml before Bench Court, consisting of Messrs Bryant and Talma, yesterday afternoon on the charge of enticing away a married woman, the wife of T. Richardson. Mr. E. Farrer-Baynes was for the plaintiff and Mr. VV. R. Armstrong
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  • 1352 2 Its Pioneers, Resources, Population, Prospects, etc., etc. Tucked snugly away iu a well-cultivated valley in the south-west district of the Island of Penang lies the little-known town of Balik Pulau. Slightly over twenty miles from George Town by the well-kept load, the trip to Balik Pulau and hack
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  • 978 3 {From Our Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, April 16.—This so-called Venice of the East may be —and is—out of the beaten track of the world’s highway, and it may be at times deserving of the opprobrium of being a third-rate centre for news interesting to outsiders, but the accumulation of copy
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  • 51 3 The Amoy Commissioner of Customs estimates that the remittances made bv 2,500,009 Amoy Chinese who are earning money in Manila, Java, and the Straits amount to over ten million dollars a year, aud that the 66,000 returned in 1903 probably brought back with them over six million dollars in hard
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  • 222 4 (Echo Special.) (Supplied by Reuter.) Singapore, 29 April. The Russian Consul here has plnced at the disposal of the press a Fort Arthur telegram of 28th instant reporting that on the 25th instant the Vladivostok squadron blew up two Japanese ships in the vicinity of Geusan and, on
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  • 59 4 The Chartered Bank Forgery. (Echo Special.) Bangkok, 28 April.—An action has been entered against Mr. T. Jones, the local Agent of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, by Hok Chong, the ledger clerk, claiming Tcs. 3,000 for malicious prosecution in the recent forgery case. The hearing of
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  • 18 4 Shk: “You are unusually brilliant this evening.” He: Yes. I just had a radium cocktail.”
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  • 55 4 Ihe Japanese gunboat Maya, mentioned by Reuter to-day as having ascended the Yalu aud engaged the Russian land forces, is a vessel of Gl5 tons, length 154 ft., beam 27 ft., draught 10 It, 700 horse-power, bhe is armed with one 8.2-in., one 4.7-in. ;uid two machine gnus and carries
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  • (30 April.) Current Topics.
    • 174 4 Owi n o to the similarity of the China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Co.’s house flag to the Japanese mercantile flag—that of the 0. M. 8. N. Co. is a red flag with a yellow ball in the centre, while that of the latter is a white flag
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    • 227 4 We like independence and, being human, we like a little puff now and again, but this doesn’t excuse the Ceylon Independent calmly appropriating our very own Port Arthur Puffs and other special articles without acknowledging the source of the supply. Such may be an independent course, but journalists call
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    • 233 4 To understand the different attitudes adopted by various sections of the French Colonial Party, says a writer in the London Morning Post, it must be borne in mind that those differences really have reference only to the probable effect which the new treaty will have on the
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    • 299 4 We hear that Madam Harmstoii-Love is prepared to give a special matinee performance at her circus next Saturday, chiefly f or the benefit of the orphans of Penan? and other children whose parents and guardians cannot afford to pay the usual rates. Mrs. Love is, we understand willing
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  • 32 4 Horujkontj Telegraph. According to ;i private letter from Hankow from one that ought to know, itw learned that His Ex. Chang Chih-tung u i seriously ill, and not expected to h ?e
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  • 136 4 Consul-General Williams, Sinpvpo Straits Settlements, has reported government that a very rapid advance o people of the Federated Malay States nn®» the general direction of Sir Frank 1 tenliam, Governor of the Straits can l>e reported. The establislnnen limited control by the British over these States was owing to tl,ee
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  • 215 5 /’urrent Reports Exaggerated. vuv sensational reports current in town AL*t) that "liie Tnmoh Mines have vTn'tkwJeJ <iwi»S to an undnrsroand river !*f° «truck:” himfluently tnere is'creat excitement in lpoli,” and (<•) it is expected that there will lie a long delay Li* re work is recommenced are not
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  • 309 5 Yesterday was the 15th day of the 14th lunar asterisin, called by Hindus “Ckethiraparvam.” The day is annually celebrated bv Hindus who then offer special supplications to god Supramaniam, the son of the god Siva, who according to Hindu mythology, is the third of the Hindu Triad in the
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  • 90 5 JLSnnamLD, Ohio, mob has Ivnched in V //T H niu >'derer and thou spent iTv ,ur u 'ho manly occupation of ipr bullets into his swinging body, Poh£ »y s !*-Xbĕy explain tier (‘if"' 'i j! ,eca use tliere had been mui ‘ders iu the county in the v ars
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  • 1457 5 Con ti n ned fro m y ester day) W i: hav e before us a good deal of data concerning Lalik Pulau—the roads, industries, dm», leading landed proprietors, traffic, launches and modes of conveyance —kindly supplied by Mr. Yeow Sew Beow, and have revised and supplemented it
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  • 803 6 The Kbpout for 1903. The departmental report of the Federated Malay States Railways for 1903 has been issued- We have not yet received a copy of it, but the Perak Pioneer appears to have been more favoured and came out on Thursday last with a review of
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  • 272 6 Russia has purchased the Hamburg* American liner Furst Bismarck for marks 4,0.0,000. The French destroyers Dauphin and Aquilon left Brest on 7th inst. for Bizerta (Tunis), en route for the Far East. The Dungeuess new lighthouse, with one exception the most powerful in the English Channel, lias been brought into
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  • 244 6 (Echo Special.) Tokio, .>0 April.—An official,, port issued here states that the 9th Company of the :37th Infantry |> e girnent, while returning to Gen, an m the transport Kinshiu Maru, wag stopped off Sin pho on the 25th instant by a Russian squadron consist ing of three
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  • 155 6 (Deli Co nr ant Service.) The Hague (via Batavia), 2-i April. —Admiral Skrydloff, who succeeds the late Admiral Makaroff as Commander-in Chief of w® Asiatic Squadron, is expected to arrive at Port Arthur on or about 3rd May. The Havas News Agency confirms the news respecting Adniira Alexieff
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  • 81 7 A Significant Speech. (Supplied by Me titer.) London, 29 April, ihe Kaiser, in replying to an address presented t.. the Burgomaster of Karlsruhe, mentioned that he was now completely restored to health, uefeiring to the great war which had led to the unification of Germany, he said that
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  • 369 7 Pretty Polly Wins the One Thousand. One Thousand Guineas Stakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for 3 year-old fillies, 9st each the owner of the second to receive 400 sovs and the owner of the third 200 sov. out of the stakes. K M —97 subs.
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  • 27 7 Outbreak of Plague at Sydney. (Deli Covrant Service.) The Hague (via Batavia, 23 April.— 1 lie port of Sydney, N.SAV*., is declared infected with bubonic plague.
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  • 477 7 Major James Deane has been appointed Military Secretary to Lord Milner. The Tibetan Mission at Gyantse has heard rumours that a fresh force is moving from Lhassa. The Goldsmiths’ Company has handed over to the Royal Society a sum of £l,OOO to constitute a radium research fund. The Selangor Chinese
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  • (2 May.) Current Topics.
    • 235 7 In connection with the very interesting article by Mr. Demetrius C. Boulger, published in our issues of 27 and 28 ult., on “Coming Continental Complications,” it is instructive to note that Sir Roland Blennerhassett has contributed to the Nineteenth Century a carefully-written article on the Emperor William’s
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    • 235 7 Thus the Colombo Observer on the evils of cigarette smoking, a pernicious habit which has, we regret to note, ‘caught on to an alarming extent in these fair realms of the blest: —In Ceylon one seldom sees the one without the other now-a-days. The habit is particularly
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    • 378 7 A dyspeptic whisky-sod-den pessimist, who gave himself clean away by dubbing himself Anti-rubber,” in other words a person interested in tea, sent a screed to the Colombo Observer the other day in the course of which he expressed doubts about the success of the rubber industry in Cevlon vaguely
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    • 404 8 In another column we publish the Estimates for the garrison of the Straits Settlements for 1904-5. The Free Press, with which we are in complete agreement on this subject, deals with the “military mulct briefly yet effectively as follows: —Tempora mutantur indeed, when we look at our
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  • 476 8 The texts of two new Bills about to be introduced into the Legislative Council are published in Friday’s Government Gazette, viz, a Bill to amend “The Conveyancing and Law of Property Ordinance 1886”, and a Bill to amend The Pilgrim Ships Ordinance 1897.” The Bill for amending the
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  • 153 8 c members of w Stall to-dav, concerning the truth or t |T wise underlying the sensational report Ji lished in the Penang Gazette last SatX that another hbel action, ip which prominent, official figure in Penan* i. involved, is pending, has resulted in slight confirmation. It appears thattU has
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  • 206 8 ,—Shanghai Mercury. Peking, 12 April.—The portrait of Her Imperial Majesty, the Empress-Dowager, that for the past several weeks was being painted by Miss Carl, the American artist, bag just been completed. It was to-day conveyed to the Board of Foreign Affairs on an immense catafalque with
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  • 254 8 From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, 25tli April. —On Saturday last Colonel R. I). Vizard, of the Manchester*, arrived and inspected the local Volunteers. Colonel Murray of the S. V. C. was also present. About sixty of the Volunteers and forty boys of the Cadet Corps paraded ou the
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  • 295 9 Thk "“olden wealth of Celebes lias long attracted notice in the mining world. The results, however, of pioneer work have proved to be disheartening. Signs of gold were found plentifully enough by prospectors, but none of tiie finds could be mined at a profit. It took, however, a
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  • 441 9 The Bulletin of the Imperial Institute (V01.11.,N0. 1 contains some interesting particulars concerning gutta-perchas from the Straits Settlements/’ These samples of gutta-perchas were forwarded from Penang for the purpose of ascertlining their chemical composition and commercial value. The inquiry has shown that the Gutta aban Puteh is very
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  • 1148 9 The Hongkong Telegraph reports that on the Ist inst., a Russian destroyer, cruising outside the entrance to Port Arthur, picked up the corpse of a Japanese naval officer Boating close to where the Fukin Maru was sunk on the night of the 27th ultimo. Death had evidently beeu
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  • 112 10 Chief Inspector Dickson of Penang returned to duty on Friday after a period of leave at home. Chief Inspector Black of Singapore, who has in the meantime been stationed in Penang, goes to the southern Settlement, taking over duty from C. I. Gordon who returns to Malacca. Inspector Williams, who
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  • 396 10 .Straits Settlements. Rejimental Establishment. -Artillery: 861 of all ranks. Engineers: Half a company, eight officers and 110 men. Infantry One battalion, 1012 of all ranks. Army Service Corps: Four officers and four men. Royal Army Medical Corps: Fiveofficers and 24men. Colonial and Native Indian Corps Eight companies of
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  • 641 10 Mr. J. M. Logan, Second Boarding Officer, Chinese Protectorate, Singapore, arrived here by the Bengal on Saturday last, to succeed Mr. W. F. Zehnder. The notifications whereby Manila was declared infected on account of cholera and Mauritius on account of plague have beeu withdrawn. The steps of the Jettv at
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  • 622 11 (Echo Spectal.) Singapore) 2 May.—An oHicial telem received from Tokio by the Japanese Consul here and placed at the disposal of the press says, General Kuroki reports that detachments ot‘ tie Imperial Guards and Second Division attacked and dispersed the enemy from islets in the Yaiu and occupied
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  • 58 11 A New Appointment. (Echo Special.) Bangkok, 1 May.—Mr. T. F. Carlisle, British Vice-Consul here, has been appointed to the newlvcreated British consulate at Hanoi, which post, it is believed, lias been created as the outcome of the recent Anglo-French negotiations. It is understood that Mr. Carlisle will take
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  • 34 11 Revenue and Expenditure. (Supplied by Reuter.) London, 1 May.—lt is stated in Washington that the estimated revenue of the United States for the coming year is 140,800,000 sterling and the expenditure £150,300,000.
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  • 86 11 The Tronoh Mines. (Echo Special.) La hat, 1 May. —The water is decreasing in the Tronoli Mines and the flooding is not looked upon as being anything serious. No. 1 shaft will be able to raise karang from the first level within four days and the other shafts, say
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  • 447 11 Selangor Club Meeting. (Echo Special.) Kuala Lumpur, 1 May.—The annual general meeting of the Selangor Club took place on Saturday evening and there was a record attendance eighty members being present. The proceedings were of the most lively description. Mr. Campbell, the Resident, was in the chair. The balance
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  • 93 12 (Straits Timas Special.) Hongl song, 29th April.—Another disastrous fire occurred at the Kowloon godowns last night, and a quantity of merchandise —principally matting aud matches —was destroyed. The godown was insured for 322,000, the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. and the China Fire Insurance Co carrying §ll,OOO each.
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  • 271 12 The output of tin ore by the tributers of the Koval Joliore during the month of April was 225 piculs. The Telegraph Company's cable steamer Restorer arrived in the harbour yesterday evening, her services having been requisitioned on account of a break in one of the three Siugapore-Penang cables some
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  • (3 May.) Current Topics.
    • 162 12 There seems to be good reason lor believing that the threatened deportation from Tient- sin of Mr. J. Covven, Editor of the China Times, because, forsooth! be severely criticised the Rooskies, has been abandoned, as Mr. Cowen, jpho was recently in Shanghai on legal business connected
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    • 200 12 The shipping tonnage at the ports of China, as recorded in the carefully edited Imperial Maritime Customs Trade Report for 1903, shows an increase of 3,300,000 tons, all Hags sharing in the increase with the exception of the Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The British llag shows the largest
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    • 189 12 The Times has received from Dr. Bond, of Gloucester, a pamphlet advocating the employment of skipping as an unsurpassed form of home gymnastics,’ and also an improvement upon tlie common skipping-rope of toyshops, an improvement to which lie lias given the 11am# of ‘Girbola,’ and which is intended
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    • 264 12 Sydney Sunfc J unes takes a very monsense view 0 f th hollow outcry again»! n! introduction of Chi». iti-i a -j. rr* labour into South Africa, evidently mg no sympathy with those who rave about a white Australia’ without knowing or caring j what that
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    • 263 12 A return giving statistics relating to trade between India and Tibet shice the date of the signing of the uare ol me Convention of 1890 has been publish as a House of Commons consists of two tables. It was in ed that the return should, under export
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  • 37 13 We are indebted to the General Manager of the Kinta Mines, Ltd., for the returns for Anril, which are as follows B4O pis. Approximate value ...$15,300. Receipts from water rent. 5,136.25 Approximate working expenses /,000.
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  • 146 13 This festival, of which mention hasal ready been made in oar columns, came to a close on the night of the Ist inst. Mahomedans from various parts of Penang and Province Welleslev vied with each other in making the festival as grand-and solemn as possible. The mosque
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  • 298 13 The Hon. J. Thomson is Acting Governor of Madras during the absence of Lord Ampthill, who is Acting Viceroy vice Lord Curzou. Gold production in the F. M. S. last year again shows a decrease, the output being estimated at only 15,171 oz. The Negri Seinbilan return has increased, but
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  • 574 13 In Original Jurisdiction. (He/ore the Hon. A. F. G. Laic Puisne Judge.) THE MALAY LIBEL CASE. Lada it Bee cs. The Criterion Press iiTl). f 3rd May. Ihe above ease was resumed in which a claim was made for 31,000 as damages for libel. i Maxwell K. Thornton
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  • 32 13 Mr. W. N. 8. Aserappa, Advocate, lias been appointed to act as an unofficial meinlier of the Legislative Council during the absence of the Hon. Dr. W. Or Rock wood from Ceylon
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  • 1996 13 KoADS TO AND FROM BaLIK PULAU. (Continued from Saturday Is*ue'.) The main road leading from George Town to Balik Pulau runs through very pretty stretches of country, and is kept in good order throughout its entire length. It traverses a number of hillocks, but is mostly fairly level
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  • 91 14 The Ceylon Independent of 21st ult. says:—Mr. N. H. Hunt, sub-accountant of the local branch of the Chartered Bank, is under orders to go to Penang. He leaves by the German boat next Friday. He will lie succeeded by Mr. N. Hodge from the Taiping branch. On Friday night last
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  • 441 14 Frv 0,,r Om Corrcfondenl) Bakooo». 2» April. -It U abo J «mue the mcviuble ,notor came to sblfi u S ami iuruiB that time the um/JS these Uangcrmm vehteles ha» j* leaps and hounds in and about KauuZ A strange occurrence took place this .uthe very heart of the
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  • 190 14 A Dunn an press despatch states that an extraordinary discovery of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds has been made near Kicksburg, iu the Orange River Colony. Nearly a bucketful of these precious stones, totalling 39b carats, was exhibited to the shareholders of the company owing the ground at a meeting at
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  • 817 15 ociW ok Hopeful ash Significant. the lie port of the Inspector of liut trees, F. M. S., for last year we .ter that the area uinler coconuts at the S I J 903 in the Federated Malay States inav he estimated approximately at
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  • 457 15 Report for 1903. Mr. 0. E. Veloe, the Registrar of the Singapore Supreme Court, thus describes the course of judicial work, last year:— The number of criminal cases in the two years [l5O in 1902 and 151 in 1903] is practically the same. It would lie unsafe
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  • 49 15 Captain Macnamara, 113th Lancers, met with a fatal accident at Jodhpur on the night of the 10th ulto. He was sleeping on the roof of the Guest House, and apparently walked in his sleep, as he fell from tile roof to the ground, fracturing the base of his skull*
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  • 77 15 The returns from the Pahang Corporation's mines for the mouth of March were as follows:-- Sungei Lembing.—Tons of stone crushed 1,830; oxide of tin produced 28 tons with 40 heads of stamps running for 19 days. Working expenses 324,500. The Pahang Kabang, Ltd. —Tons of stones crushed 170;
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  • 189 15 The Opium Farmer’s Tester had a pretty lively time of it. at the hands of Mr. Song Ong Siang during the hearing of a case brought against, five Chinamen for being in possession of illicit, chandu at No. 95 Cross Street, says the Straits Times. There was
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  • 1389 15 Wanted: A Man! The Hhaoshsing correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes under date of Bth April:—The editor of the native local paper of this city is a man of rather bellicose nature. His “Ideal China” is one which can successfully contest and triumph over, all Foreign competition
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  • 725 16 Mu. YY\ E. Macklin writes to the Shanghai Mercury as follows: I have read with great interest Sir Robert Hart’s method of raising revenue for China. Ilis advice is consistent with Chinese thought from the most ancient times. The great Emperors Yao and
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  • 30 16 He Oh, I say, you have changed »in<* last year.” f She: “For the better, of courser He: “Oh, I Bay. a» if YoU could change for the worse.”
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  • 68 16 Nearly 700 wild animals seut famous firm of Herr Carl Hagen > Hamburg, have left that town or 1 Louis Exhibition in the steamer They are accompanied by 2« four Europeans. It is the larg» ment of the kind ever shipped. At include 30 elephants, 20 camels an daries, 50
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  • 82 17 [Echo Special.) Singapore, J May.—Official reports 0 from Tokio state that, at [he battle of Kiulicngclieng, the Japanese losses amounted to seven hundred men, while twenty-eight Russian quick-firing guns were captured. The Russian losses were heavier than those of the Japanese. A telegram from Seoul, dated 29th April
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  • 178 17 France and Belgium come to the assistance of the Great Bear. (Deli Courant Service.) The Hague (via Batavia), 28 April. —It is reported from Berlin that Russia lias succeeded in raising a loan of eighteen hundred mil ion francs from Belgian and French bankers. The loan was put
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  • 62 17 (Deli Courant Service.) The Hague (via Batavia', 28 pril. -The Russian Government as decided to lay a second line of r aiL throughout the entire length °1 the Trans-Siberian Railway. Indeed! Rather late in the day to arrive i Uc a momentous decision, but better tin! ,an never.” We
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  • 56 17 vear UE \r NU e R iree mouths of the DknL c? ri Seiubilau exported 19,256.14 »297 duty on which amounted to increjul eBe figures represent an a fall* I Ji> P* e, ds m tin output and hebj f 39 150 in the duty, the latter tij f L
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  • (4 May.) Current Topics.
    • 306 17 Lv the course of an interview with a representative of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Mr. Austin Chapman, the Austra- linn Minister for Defence, expressed his views with remarkable frankness. He said lie was very much astonished to find that the naval force in New South W ales has
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    • 308 17 In the City of London Court, on Ist March, Mr. R. A. Blagden, solicitor, 5, Henrietta-street, Co- vent Garden, sued Messrs Ashley and Smith, Ltd., proprietors of Tim Sportsman, for tl Is, for an article contributed by him, An Amphibious Rabbit.” The plaintiff said the action had
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    • 484 17 The striking success of the All India Conference of Sikhs held at Amritsar on the 12th ult., on behalf of the Klialsa College, will show to the world, says a correspondent of the Madras Hhuiu how the Sikh community can rise to a great occasion. The subscription list
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  • 28 17 \Ve have discovered who the prominent official figure” is, but withhold publication of particulars of the M breeze for a day or two for good and sufficient reasons.
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  • 377 18 Mu. H. D. Bassett, Manager of the southfern branches of the Hongkoug-Shaughai Building Loan and Investment Co., Ltd., arrived in Penang a few days ago with the object of introducing the Company to the public and furthering the interests of the Company in all parts of Malaysia.
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  • 351 18 ,—Honglcong Telegraph. The ordinance to provide for aud regulate the employment of pilots passed through its final stages at the Hongkong Legislative Council meeting on the 19th iust. The Attorney-General (the Hon. Sir H. S. Berkeley), in moving the second reading of the Bill, explained that its
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  • 1161 18  - Are we Unfit Eulogy of the Chinese and their skill. By Sir Hiram Maxim. Silt Hiram Maxim has addressed the following letter to the London Daily Mail I have read with a great deal of interest much that has been written regarding the employment of Chinese labour iu South Africa,
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  • 1056 19 (from Oar Own Correspondent.) Bangkok, 23 April.—Since the date of last letter there have not been very ,U a t thimrs* happening here beyond what f'TVSv «afteJ over the cables. Ativtliing else cun l>e brought into very ‘mail compass and, therefore, one line or so 5 he spared for
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  • 273 19 To tuk Editor of tub Straits Echo. Sik, —I have perused witli the greatest pleasure your article on dead bodies lieing viewed by native constables. I am glad that you have driven the nail home by rightly and fearlessly exposing the crude system in vogue here.
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  • 1865 19 Interview with Japanese Consul-General. Is Australia in Danger if Russia be Defeated r The reported remarks of Mr. Seddon as to the possibility of a Japanese descent on Australia after the present war were naturally noticed bv Japanese residents of Sydney. I have been much amused and
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  • 379 20 A Commonwealth Exhib ITIok (Sydney Bulletin.) T'.IK Australian Prime Mmi stw ’■‘/Ply to ii suggestion that ponulT should bo attracted by holciL^ A «f rilll m Uotmnonwealth 6, In Bit ton, Ims been, very properly nJ committal and snubbv. public affairs nothing more mtu? than the notion thaf
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  • 120 20 VUp to the time of going toP«* to-day we were unable to unearth prominent official figure,” whoiscoiwpw ous by reason of the secrecy in c identity is enshrouded. He 's l»eiu}g remarkably dark horse,” but, like mu the trutii will out some day and be the noise thereof. A guessing
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  • 331 21 (Echo Special.) Tokio 4 Mav.—General Kuroki reports 'that on the afternoon of Sunditv the enemy steadily resisted during the pursuit, adding ->OO to the Japanese casualties. I lie Russians fought- bravely to the last and iinallv two companies, with artillery, after' losing the majority of their men and
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  • 36 21 {Supplied by Reuter.) Replying to so* i rt C(,n, phunt that it had jt etl wusultud with regard to the Anglo-French agreements, Great Britain declares that the agreement does not affect Turkey’s suzerainty over Egypt.
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  • 74 21 1 Ron goon Tiiiics Service. I Simla, 22 April.—There were 46,812 deaths from plague last week ;is against 17,759 in tlie previous seven days. Ot this large total 20,961 deaths occurred in the Punjab, the Shahpur, Jullunder, Guydaspur, Simla, Hoshiarpur, and Gujrat districts alone contributing to the mortality. There
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  • 138 21 Charge Against an Advocate. (Rangoon Times Service.) Madras, 22 April.—At the High Court, Joseph Natya Nadar, through his counsel, was called upon to explain his conduct in giving a certificate to an insolvent with regard to an insolvency matter. The facts of the case are that tin* advocate in
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  • 264 21 (Rangoon Times Service.) Clialu (Tibet), 20 April.—The Viceroy has telegraphed to Colonel Younghusband and all tin* members of the Mission escort his congratulations on their having reached Gyautse in the face of difficulties unexampled in warfare. The message caused much satisfaction, for indeed the force came though great
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  • 544 21 There are 125 industrial schools iu Inlia with 8,405 pupils attending them. The Burma petroleum revenue now amounts to nearly seven lakhs annually. All departments of the Government of India have now reopened at Simla for the hot season. The mail steamers of the CanadianPacific Railway Company have been ordered
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  • 1499 22 Why Government should Hncourage Planting. 4 The Example of Ceylon. It was the late lamented William Shakespeare who first averred that “all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players,” but, had he lived in these latter days the great playwright
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  • 152 22 The Hongkong C ham her of Coinuierw lias just concluded a five years agreeme with Reuter’s Telegram Co. for pel* ll telegrams, at a cost of £5OO per moutli. Upwards of a million rupees have be® realised hv the Ceylon Government at tne pearl fishery as the result of 33
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  • 923 23 -T g. Talbot, which arrived here this «rniutf from Singapore, is a second-class, gt 4w cruiser of 5,600 tons, 9,600 horseLttrwd 4« knot» «pwl Her unnameul Lsi.to of eleven C.-m. mno I'2-pdr., one Jr two mac]line and one light gun and Se has three torpedo tubes,
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  • 445 23 In the Supreme Court on Monday, 2nd May, their Lordships the Chief Justice and the Hon. Hyndman Jones handed down their decision in the chaudu test case reported in the Echo ou the 28t,h ult. Sir Lionel Cox, C. J., said the question they had to decide
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  • 123 23 Mr. J. B. Carruthers, Acting Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, in the course of an interview’ with a Times of Cevlou representative on the subject of rubber canker said:—lt turns out. that, Mr. L. Davidson was mistaken when he told us that there was no canker in
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  • 274 23 (Supplied by ll&Hter.) London, 4 Mav. —A despatch from General Kuroputkin. desoiibing the Yalu battle, refers to tie extraordinary vigour of the Japanese artillery attack. The Russian losses are very great and are not yet exactly known. The Eleventh Regiment lost three colonels and the Twelfth Regiment nine
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  • 65 24 {Deli Covrant Service.) The Hague (via Batavia) 2D April. —After the recent engagement off Gensau (Wonsan, on east coast of Corea) the Russian squadron retired to ludivoslok pursued by the Japanese, but heavy logs prevented the latter from attacking. Admiral Alexieff reports that 10 Japanese cruisers and 0
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  • 389 24 The Ilun. J. K. liircli, Resident, Councillor, made an official call on H.M.S. Talbot this afternoon. Norodan, tlie King of Cambodia, died on the 24th April. He had to tight against rivals for the throne which he ascended in 1850. a few years afterwards he accepted a French protectorate and
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  • Domestic Occurrences.
    • 63 24 On Ist April, at do-a. Blufr. Yokohama, the wife of W. F. Harley, of a son. At 7a Penang Road, on doth April, the wife of M. Gilroy, of a son. On 6tli April, at Dimoon. Scotland, the wife of T. G. Scott, of a son. On April 30.
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    • 214 24 On sth April, at Yokohama, Agues Lam ina Beatrice, daughter of David Ross. F.R.1.. 8.£.. of New Zealand, to William Edward Laxon Sweet, of Kumamoto, son of the late Rev. L. E. Sweet of Bathford, England. On sth April, at Tokio, the Row John Thomas Bryan. M.A., is. d.\
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  • 113 24 Penang, sth May. (lit/ courtesy of the Chartered Haul;.) London Demand Hank ...1/lUf m 4 months’ sight Bank ...1/30| 3 Credit ...1/11, 1 3 Documentary ...1/1 Calcutta, Demand Bank Us. MOf 3 days’ sight Private 1425Bom bay, Demand Bank 110 5 3 days’sight Private M2£ Madras, Demand Bank MO5
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  • 170 24 BtTs-i wall Gold Mine Co., Ld. 16 Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., lab a no 5 S./o&w. kedjaiig Lebong Gold Minm*>' Co M KudanaGold MiniugCo„Ltd 5 10.-»«*, Bruseli Til. Mining Co., U. 7.50 Chendariaiig Hydraulic Tin Hiiiiug Co., i;,l j 20-«ia Karaugau Tin Mining Go *lx Kiuta Tin 10.50£l
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  • 150 24 !m 77.55 Gold leaf .8 81.— B. Pepper (W. Coast 31b5.50/,.)$ 26 seller! While Pepper 45 .—huybrt Trang Pep|>er 291 buyers doves (picked) 8 43.— nom. M ace 86.— sales Mace Pickings 75. Nutmegs 1 Ms 45.— nom. i No. 1 7.50 Sugar 2 5.20 (.Basket ti.ybieUett Tapioca Flour
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  • 68 24 Deaths. On llth April, died aud buried at sea. 300 miles South of Hongkong. W. H. Leslie, 3rd Engineer of s.s. Pelayo. On 10th April. Rev. Henry Zehr. Missionary Christian and Missionary Alliuuce. of Geneva, Ind., U. S. A., at Kwai Ping. Kwougsu Province, aged 27 years. At Rock Ferry,
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