The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 21 November 1922

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  • 21 1 The Straits Echo. MAIL EDITION. «30 PER AVVIII Single Copy on cis. VOL. 20. PENANG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST, 1922 NO. 47
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    • 233 1 CONTENTS I Leaders: Miscellaneous: (Continued): On the Eve 1438 Government Buildings 1449 Restriction and Friction 1444 Income Tax 1453, 1458 1468 Quaint Sinology 1450 Health Returns 1452 The New House of Commons 1454 Effects of i estriction 1453 “The Boom in Rubber” 1458 Fierce Fight in Singapore 1457 “Immoral and
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    • 194 2 IB TME 8 “STRAITS ECHO” I SxL g MAIL EDITION. qJj© ■*»»*****08 %2yz< L-wK /?Y> Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts
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  • 1012 1438 Frankly, we cannot see at all clear in the situation of the political parties in Great Britain on the eve of the General Election which takes place tomorrow. Only an ignoramus or a master of bluff would attempt to predict the result, for there is no clear-cut
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  • 1149 1438 Fascismo.” The Consular fasces in Republican Rome were 00ra p 08 ed of bundle. P o f rod. enclosing an axe, the head of which ThT’consY he e d f hß the Consul in power was preceded by ninLThL 10 f r tW6lve ic to« car 7 hctn?«
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    • 29 1438 cue Straits Echo PUBLISHED DAILY. MAIL EDITION Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Maili for Europe. PUBLISHING OFFICE: Tie Criterion Pres», 69, Beach Street, Penaag.
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  • 797 1439 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, Please allow me to append the following facts for the enlightenment of the correspondent who addressed you on November 9th with regard to Eurasian representation on the Penang Municipal Commission. 1. None of the Penang Eurasians raised a voice of
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  • 216 1439 CELEBRATIONS IN K. LUMPUR. (Emm Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, November 13. The Armistice Day celebrations, m accordance with the programme, were successfully gone through under mos favourable weather conditions. w parade on the Padang in the forenoon was watched by a large throng. Chief Secretary and His
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  • 1510 1440 —M.O. Mr. A. S. Jelf, director, Political Intelligence Bureau, is granted eleven months < leave. Mr. A. H. Miles, we are glad to say, < continues to improve and hopes to leave for England in December. The King’s exequatur empowering Mr. Jjo Ching to act as Consul-General
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  • 839 1441 —Free Press. A SERIOUS INCREASE. The public cannot have failed to notice that of recent months crimes of violence seem on the increase in Singapore. Here are three typical ones. A man was taken from the town to a lonely place and killed. A Chinese detective was
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  • 251 1441 Figures for the Third Quarter. The return of imports and exports for the Colony during the third quarter of the current year shows the following figures: Imports. 3rd Qr. 1922 3rd Qr. 1921 $146,759,864 $158,472,145 A decrease of $11,712,281, Singapore values were $106,273,338, or a loss of
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  • 531 1441 s O’o the Editor ol lhe Free Ihe chief reason that forward for the retention of n put lax is the unstableness of th/ 00 1116 revenue. and J consid very vague, as it does not stated such revenue would be reduced nr out. In
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  • 796 1442 local legislation. Further “Rules.” exercise of the powers vested in him the Export of Rubber (Restriction) finance, 1922, the Governor in Coun- makes the following Rules to be added to the Bules published as Notification v 1820 in the Gazette Extraordinary of October 31, 1922: 324. Rubber imported
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  • 1045 1442 We have been getting (says the Straits 1 lines in the course of a leading article) Some remarkable figures about small holdings. One owner claims 1,272 lb. per acre per annum. Another claims that he gets about 850 lb. and very frankly we have to say that
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  • 1115 1443 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Dear Sir, To a casual observer, it would seem that the concessions outlined in the October address of the Governor have gone a long way to satisfy popular demands. To me this is not so. The reduction in the rates of
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  • 285 1443 “Home” Receipts— PTg AuguBt Acc<,unt By Cash from Hon. Trea surer 5 by Sale of Dry Bice Fi Uttl 1,*****2 By Sale of Articles pro- UW duced by the Inmates of the “Home” in Bept..„si 2 4 fi Outstanding debts P P 3,432.03 layrnents received during the
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  • 25 1444 BIRTH. Marshall—At the Maternity Hospital, D anff on Sunday, the 12th inst-, the of George Marshall, of the Mercantile Bank, of a son.
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  • 1035 1444 RESTRICTION FRICTION. While it was hardly to be expected that a far-reaching measure like the compulsory restriction of rubber export, limiting as it does the output of the principal product of the country and closely affecting the interests of thousands of mostly uneducated Asiatic cultivators and many more thousands of
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  • 1158 1444 ice and Veracity. It was Mark Twain, we believe, who claimed that because he smoked to excess he suffered from George Washingtons inability to depart from the truth. But the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate holds different views. “If you smoke so much opium as that,” he remarked to an
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  • 946 1445 Kapitan Chung Thye Phin returned to Ipoh by yesterday’s mail from Penang. The Hon. Mr. J. H. M. Robson and Mrs. Robson have gone to the sea-side for i a week’s holiday. Reuter sends news of the death of the well-known music-hall artist, G. H. Chirgwin, the
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  • 517 1446 EFFECT on small holdings. Government’s Promise. (From Our Own, Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, November 14. j n a n official statement the Governoent promises to investigate the contention that the flat-rate imposed on small holdings under the restriction roles is inequitable. Evidence will be taken on the point and
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  • 2328 1446 THE COLLAPSE OF THE MARK. (I3y a Recent Visitor from Pinang.) Brtdbu O rv P f months Sir John Bradbury, the representative of Great warned th** An® R fP aration Commission, warned the Allies that if Germany got nJ X’f F^ Ce ir Uld g6t D -Paration" and'that
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  • 561 1447 MORALsToTaLAYA. Si/ 3 Ilie Ellilor of the <«’ir ra. vv raises a question which is brought to one’s notice X YouVy :‘“Tbe“» a S l y > h lead celibate livX J y th would like to ask those 1 to live a celibate l W 089 deliberately
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  • 600 1448 (fo the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, Syn)pathi ser n your issue of last night says: 4 *so the local Shy. locks are well patronized by them” (Eurasians). VYe Eurasians are not the only people who patronize local shylooks. 1 could name several Europeans in
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  • 569 1448 Ihe Malay Mail to the late < 7 Winif EaC p nl tri well-known hunter and Hay the after a lorn? and n« r Y tra PP or who, blackwater fey er i n V I Carr T eer died of Sunday. Th e writer
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  • 492 1448 Mail, an Adelaide Weekly, Mr. Wallace Sandford, who haa Just eom nreJoT Em doBcribe he/hafASMOns of the various countries visited. In contradistinction to the land of the Using Sun and the land of the Dragon, she terms Netherlands India as the land of the Wayang. 1 hough
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  • 561 1449 To the Editor of the Free Press.) Sir, t j (Jpe hopes to have it explained at the Second Meeting why our local politicians takĕ.no interest in any taxes except one, namely, the particular one which is an appreciable burden on the well-to-do. The tax has already been
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  • 533 1449 The Government has adopted what we believe to be a new policy in connection with the tenders received for the construction of parts of the General Hospital, and other public works. The Gazette contains the list of all tenders received, the accepted one being marked with an asterisk.
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  • 500 1449 Largely Signed Chinese Petin». the btraits Settlements Association has received fo u gapoCc > taming the undernoted petitiJ, 5° n over SIX) Chinese Werch^W 1 currying on business in Sm™» understood that about nine more' W n similar terms bearing a X numbeer of signatures are The Secretary,
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  • 27 1450 BIRTH. K HO o Hock-tye-At 349 Dato Kramat d a Penang, on Wednesday, the 15th tt °t the wife of Khoo Hock-tye, of a son.
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  • 1720 1450 Always something new from Africa, gayg the Eldar Pliny, repeating a «.mark of Aristotle’s to the same effect that has to-day become a commonplace in Singapore; and if he had had any idea of what lay beyond the Indus he would have added in contrast, that from China
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  • 520 1451 Dr. J. R. Aeria, who has been in Penang on a short visit, returns to Johore by the s. s. Kinta this evening. Mr. H. L. Hopkin, of the Straits Times, passed through Penang to-day on the Fushimi Maru, homeward bound on leaveReuter cables from Marseilles, that
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  • 792 1451 THE DUNCAN FIGURES. Appeal for Action. (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, The Stevenson Committee’s reports on restriction are to hand. The Duncan figures are i ecognised as wild and are generally condemned. The local and central committees, appointed by the Governments of various States,
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  • 404 1451 KEDAH CELEBRATIONS. Sports at Alor Star. 1 I To commemorate the Armisti™ !Mrij I were held last Saturday in the forenoon 1 a j J ove ont English School Pa >UDd J A r° r Star wlllcll WM suitably I beflagged for the occasion by Messrs Kashtd and
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  • 716 1452 the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Dear Hr, With reference to a para which ope ared in the Malay Mail a short while ago to the effect that the AuditorGeneral, F.M.B. had made representations 0 Government that the present examination of Revenue and Expenditure was inefficient and inadequate,
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  • 37 1452 (Erom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 16. A wire from Tokio states that American dealers are endeavouring to buy rubber from Japan owing to the difficulties of getting it aheap from the producing countries.
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  • 390 1452 The health statistics for the Munici pality of George Town for the week ending November 11, 1922, give a total of 69 deaths—32 males and 37 females, the death rate being 29.44 per mille per annum compared with 22.18 in the preceding week and with 26.70 in the
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  • 622 1452 Editor of th e Straits Echo.) “A 1 w VQ F ad with intereB t the letter of A Woman to the Malay Mail under the heading of -Morals in Malaya” which you reproduced in your issue of yesterday. A leading writer once said that modern marriages were
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  • 167 1453 SMALL HOLDINGS AND YOUNG ESTATES. Committees Appointed. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, November 16. The Malay Mail is officially informed that the Chief Secretary has invited Mr. A. S. Haynes (chairman), the Raja di Hilir, the Dato of Rembau, Mr. T. W. Hodge and Mr. R.
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  • 338 1453 SINGAPORE PROTEST. The Bishop’s Attitude. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 16. The second public meeting at Singapore held under the auspices of the Stians Settlements Association yesteiday, pass u the following resolution This meeting is of opinion that the Government is n>t justified in re-imposing the income-lax,
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  • 884 1453 —China Mail. PENANG WILL CASE. Important Hongkong Judgment. Nearly a year after the action was actually begun, the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees-Davies, k.c.), delivered his reserved judgment on November 1 in cue of the longest and most complicated law suits that has ever come before the
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  • 189 1453 Fonpibon Extended, No Liability, for the Ist half of November, 210 piculs. Nawng Pet, for the first half of Nowmher, hours run 360, yardage heated A&W, ore won piculs 168. Kampong Kamunting, for the first. bait of Novemier, hours run (two dredges) bIV, cubic yards treated 52.U00, total
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  • 21 1454 BIRTH. q ba NT—At the Maternity Hospital, Penang, on 16th November, to Mr. and jlrs, Geo. Grant, a daughter.
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  • 1061 1454 VVith commendable and characteristic enterprise, Reuter has been cabling us the results of the Elections at Home every half-hour, just as they are received in London; but his laudable intention of keeping us supplied with ‘‘red-hot” nows of these important events, straight off the wires,
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  • 1166 1454 Sunday Labour. Lookers, on are said to see most of the 5 Tl 0 u an auon ymoas correspondent to the Malay Mail, a visitor from other P r 8 Gie world supports the movement in favour of Sunday rest for pan era and coolies, with the argument
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  • 970 1455 Mr. W. Duncan is due in Penang about the 10th of next month. Mr- S. Ratnasabapathy has been elected Hon. Treasurer, Selangor Ceylon Tamils’ Association, vice Mr. A. R. hitchingam resigned.—M.M. According to a vernacular paper, the Corps Diplomatique has decided not to attend the wedding ceremonies
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  • 606 1456 a difficult business. The unhappy quarrel which has deJnned in regard to the Penang Turf ci b and the accounts of the Selangor 1 rf Club, shows again, says the Singapore morning paper, how difficult it is H run racing clubs under the condi!L S which exist
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  • 643 1456 ANNUAL MEETING. Ibe third annual general meeting of Bukit Ibu (Bandar) Tin, Limited, was held on Tuesday, November 14, 1922, at 4 p.mThere were present Messrs. Lim Seng Hooi (in the Chair), Lim Boon Haw, Lim Cheng Kung, Khoo Soon Chee, Ong Hock Beng, H. Welham, J. D.
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  • 492 1456 The Singapore Meeting. (To the Editor of the Straitn Timet.) Sir, When the announeament was made that a second meeting to protest against the Income Tax was to be held, I asked permission from the Committee of the Straits Settlements Association to move the following amendment;— That the
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  • 360 1457 GANG ROBBERS AND POLICE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, November 16. About 25 gang-robbers during a police raid on their stronghold in Lavender Street, Singapore, this morning defied the police upon whom they opened fire as they endeavoured to enter. The firing on both sides raged
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  • 580 1457 P.C.C. vs. S.M A.A. Although hockey is not so p<u ui;r in Penang as association footl a'l, the fi w who indulge iu it are quite ustiui exponents of the game as evident d by the match on the Esplanade yestmdiy evening between the Penang C icket Club and
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  • 199 1457 ompared with yesterday’s p:i<ea a ■lu'ht rise both in London and local prices is shewn. The London Market is reported to be steidy at 12id. for Crepe as well as for Smoked Sheet. Smoked Sheet in Singapore shewed an improvement by j cent and Crepe by A
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  • 448 1457 the annual^ Repo{(t Ihe Directors’ renort lhe Directors submit herewbk o ment of Accounts, duly audits^? tate year ended BOft j une 19® Dredges:- three Tin ok"' «te No 2D re d B6 iIS No. 2 Dredge 553,844 264.97 7 No. 3 Dredge 579,815 316.99 1959 K T<>t
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  • 672 1458 It is quite like old times to find this beadinj in the financial columns of a Home paper, as we do in the latest Saturday Westminster, which declares that ‘‘After a very long period of neglect and depression it certainly begins to look as if the
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  • 132 1458 A HUGE CLAIM. Food Control Recalled. The Central Milling Agency’s action against the F. M. S. Government for damages arising from the requisition o their Chop Kuh Foh rice-mill by tne Food Controller, and for a declaration that the requisition was ultra vires, and for
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  • 134 1458 SINGAPORE CHAMBER’S PROTEST. “Overwhelming Majority.” (From Our Own Correspondent,} Singapore, November 17. The Chamber of Commerce to-day by an overwhelming majority passed Mr. W. P. W. Ker’s resolution for the abolition of the income-tax, and urging the Government to withdraw the Bill. Mr. Kemp’s Amendment. The Hon. Mr.
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  • 161 1458 In spite of the drop of |d. in the Loudon price for rubber, the local prices are unchanged. o: —7-7 The Association of British Malaya is advertising at home for a secretary, at a salary of £‘2so. “Knowledge of Malaya essential. It seems pretty poor pay for such
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  • 527 1458 -M.M. Mr. J. D. Kemp returned last night from a trip to Setul. Commander C. A. Peal, rn.k, left this afternoon in the Seagull on a tour of inspection. Mr. C. G. Boutoher has gone to Kaala Lumpur in connection with the War Memorial in the Federal
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  • 915 1459 RUBBER AND OTHER PRODUCTS. Malaya undoubtedly possesses the climate necessary for the cultivation of most tropical products. It is to its climate that the acknowledged success, in the past, in the growth of our rubber plantations may be attributed more than to any question of superiority of soil
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  • 320 1459 His Excellency the Governor has received news of the safe arrival of Lady Guillemard at Pm t Said on' the BUn Lady Guillemard was to travel by the Kaiser-i-Hind as far as Aden and there tranship to the Plassy und is due to arrive in
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  • 486 1459 LEAN 5 CO.’S WEEKLY REPORT, Pen 'November IJ, 2 fto 6 riS S «180.i7.6“re«07"cd to fhflLd*? close, at £182.17.6 above last week’s level and A easier Near-Eastern po-ition ‘l* meat both at home’ and’ i «■,’nin appears to f aT)Ur J r levels, lhe. i oca l pteas
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  • 21 1459 j !<■ nr l’in.fPi- s^ 3 Liability. >,i B ii'oii i ;ii i,ii'U- s !4 j| Snf.ni'UH 11UU yaids 11,'A’J.
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  • 12585 1460 THE SINGAPORE MEETING. Bishop’s Dissent. The second public meeting convened the auspices of the Straits Settlements (Singapore) Association calling r r the abolition of the income tax was held in the Victoria Theatre last evening, 8 fne Straits Times of Thursday. As L the first meeting, the hall
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  • 670 1466 (7’o tAe Editor of the Straits Echo) Dear Sir, For humanity’s f-.ake, I hope you will kindly allow your paper to be the means through which the obscurity, in which events in China are hidden, may be dispelled This civil war can bo avoid 1 if
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  • 748 1467 We learn, says the Times of Malaya, that the irritation of the small holders at the working of the rules under the Rubber Restriction (Export) Enactment has in no way abated and we think much of this irritation is mainly due to tlie fact that the
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  • 346 1467 Previously acknowledged $16,499.28. Co!, looted by Mr. Tong Toon Nam, Penang: Chop Sam Yik $lOO. Chop Kwong Yuen $lOO, Mr. Leong Cho $5O. Chop Sin Hup Wo $5O, Chop Yoon Fat Thong $5O. Mr. Ng Foo Teng $3O. Chop Cheong Wo $3O, Mr. Tho Lok Phne $25,
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  • 1182 1468 Lurd Buckmaster, the Loro Chancellor o f Mr* Asquith’s Coalition Ministry in 1915 16, has the country with him in bis protest against t «e immoral and nujubt divorce law of England, To the leab majouty in the Straits tae subject cannot be of much more than
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  • 1189 1468 A Useful Little Bill. Deed» Cl-d 0 a ,e lh Miration of -«eousO.dmauco yenwtiu;f tbat D nstrnm’^" C of an strument affeclmg any laud that Las not •-atisfa*"" 8^'1 I J tie u ,Matj d to the at, s fa«,ou of the Snrveyor-Geueral the pe.eon ln wl se
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  • 944 1469 Mr. A. W. Still has been on a visit to Kuala Lumpur in connection with matters Masonic, The Rev. B. C. Roberts, the new chaplain of Selangor, has been accompanied out by Mis. Roberts. Mr. V. Patterson, of the Borneo Company, is returning to Singapore by the
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  • 622 1470 PENANG vs. TAIPING. Unfavourable weather, combined with the f«ct th it the ground was under water, ma rred the rugby match between Penang and Taiping, played at Taiping on Saturday evening. The home fifteen W ere much superior and won by I twelve points (four tries) to three
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  • 153 1470 PERAK v. JOHORE. (I'roui Our Own Kuala Lumpur, November 18. A po o match was played to-dav between H. H. the Sultan of Perak’s team and the Royal Johore team. There was heavy lain overnight and again continuously from noon to-day till short- ly before five o’clock, which
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  • 376 1470 In Singapore Smoked Sheet di opped < half a cent to 43| cents a lb., where.is m Loudon, New Yoik and locally theie is no change, the market being quiet. o: According to a Reuter’s cable from New York, M. Clemenceau has arrived in that city. Responding to
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  • 2898 1470 SINGAPORE CHAMBER MEETING. lhere bus a good attendance at the special meeting of the Singapore Chamher of Commerce held on Friday for the purpose of defining its attitude iu respect Of the Income Tux. Mr. W. P. W. Ker presided over a good attendance, and after the secretary
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  • 4957 1472 pikul including freight, etc,—Malay Mail. chief secretary sueo. Echo of Food Control. There commenced iu the bupreme Court, Kuala Lumpur, on Wednesday, betoie the Hon. Mr. Justice Fairer- ‘iimy, a civil suit which was first listed in 1921, namely the Central Milling Agcik-y of Penang and Kuala
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  • 171 1475 a Mui Mr. J. Cameron, General Manager, Tupai Tin Dredging Co. Ltd., writes concerning the recent drowning accident in the mine paddock which reselled in the death by drowning of Mr. Lane and a Chinese time-keeper. It transpires that the Police and the Mines Department have held
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  • 702 1475 MORALS IN MALAYA. Some Diverse Views. {To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir, With regard to the letter to the Malay Mail under the heading “Necessity knows no Taw which you published in your issue of yesterday, if mankind were to be guided by such a pernicious
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  • 264 1475 icetor. ,_T O M. AN IPOH CASE. Alleged Damage By Tailings. Ln the Supreme Court at Ipob, on ThucsdayMr. JusticeM atson commenced the hearing of a suit in which Mohidin Baelia, of Bata Gajah, claims rom LOT Yew Guan, also ol Batu Gajah. sum of .<2,500 damages
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  • 665 1476 (To t/ic Editor of the Straits Echo.) Sir right-minded person, be he Chinese citizen or foreigner, who is a well-wisher of the young Republic, will undoubtedly agree with your correspondent Mr. C. B. Teat’s opinion under the above caption that prospects for the stability of the
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  • 336 1476 NEW BOOKS. I The following new books have been received at the Penang Library: Agricultural Co-operation in England and Wales, by W. H. Warman. The Art of Cricket, by Warwick W. Armstrong. The Beggar’s Opera, by Mr. Gay. The Beloved of Sennacherib, by Baroness Alexandra de Soucanton. Ben
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  • 273 1476 <7’o the Editor of the Straitg Echo.) Sir, hy are the people of Penang so quiet about the Kent» Restriction Ordinance while the rack-renting landlord* are doing their level best to strangle petty shopkeepers as any one can see in a walk round Chulia Street and Penang Road. 1
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