The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 16 January 1923

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  • 22 1 The Straits Echo. MAIL EDITION. S3O HKttiMS ‘I Single Copy 60 cis. VOL. 21. PENANG, TUESDAY, J4NUARY. 16TH, 1925 > Litt NO. 2
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    • 289 1 I C O M KT S I S 4 1 1 Leaders'? Misceclaneow (Contiwietl'): r The Lise in Rubber 28 II M S Garlisjh 43 The Rent Scandal. 34 &46 Health Returns 45 Felf-Govtrnrnent 38 Cotton in Malaya ...45 Gues* Again 41 Malayan Tin Dredging 45 The Passport Nuisance 51
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    • 190 2 frp TME $M “STRAITS ECHO” 8 MAIL EDITION. Jf fi2 Published the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, M?a and contains the latest local and States news originally published in the daily issues, as well as all important news from various parts of the Far CK
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  • 1060 28 Rubber at fifteen pence a pound is satisfactory enough for the time being, and estates which even under restriction cannot pay with the product at this price must be either very peculiarly situated or very wastefully managed. But it cannot be too strongly emphasised th it
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  • 546 28 His Excellency the Governor is expected to pay an official visit to Kedah next week. rL ß ’i?n le tfc 1S due back from Calcutta on the loth instant to ride at the forthcoming race meeting. The Royal Humane Society’s certificates for acts of gallantry are presented
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    • 30 28 Cbe Straits €cDo PUBLISHED DAILY MAIL EDITION Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe PUBLISHING OFFICII: The Criterion Press, Limited, 59, Beach Street, Penang
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  • 1431 29 1 Break with Tradition Two Chines. lawyer» in Singapore, Me»*r«. Slew Qni Wong end bze Jin Chan, figure among the reoent tint» ar J osticee of the Peace, reproiente a diatinot breach with the tradition of the elder», for we cannot remember any lawyer m the paet teing
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  • 64 29 After touching the minimum price of Is. 3d. aimed at by restriction, yesterday’s London cable shows a fall of |d. In Singnpire both qualities are quoted at 51 cents a pound, a fall of half a cent, while locally a fall of 33 cents a picul is recorde
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  • 124 29 UNITED TRADERS’ REPORT. y* lo ure the latest quotations m the United Traders’ Share list I esterday. To-day. Mining Buyers Sellers. Buyers. Sellers. Hi tarn Tins 1.25 1.30 1.27| 1.30 Johan rms 0.47 J 0.521 0.481 0.51| Things 1.10 1.15 1,121 1.15 Nawng Pet Tms 1.30 1.35 1.27|1.32|
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  • 1288 30 RUBBER RESTRICTION SMALL HOLDERS (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) S, 8o much has been said from time to time on the above subject by persons who are more or less interested in the Rubber industry, that I do not feel inclined at present to trespass too much on
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  • 615 30 a*K minu -M. P. the Editor of the Straits Echo.) 1 have read, with interest, your leading articles of the sth and Bth January anent the rent question and quite agree with you in your comments thereon and the tacts elucidated. Since the action of the landlords
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  • 488 31 Th«» f,,r rnin? to Atch the tr*»o> n Year’s meeting which torthcom-M >e« care A n f them »re under E. I» work, hut are are potting ,n jan a three furlong 'Ta.’XS «■»> d HorMe tl L *P' ,Dt v a j r Dinkum were tne Helanel
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  • 425 31 STOWAWAY GETS AWAY In the Penang Police Court this mommg, before Mr. Bathurst, Mat bin Nacob police constable of 22 years i ice. aU( J Mat Lain bin Mar, police constable ot 10 years’ service, were charged with neglect oi duty by allowing a prisoner to scape whilst
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  • 125 31 up lit. nresenm| On 111 s l!;l I ’b summed P tm, P oSiti jri uf Eu enh h m hL 'y, sai<l "1 ean op,■fate .|.f" i ll r d ‘y co. I idi.. 11, k r, al interests of v’V ,ill ‘hat the F.a,t uch
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  • 488 31 SUCCESS OF CHEN CHIUNG-MIN’S TROOPS Hitherto it h;is been the object' of the Kwomin T.mg troops to send a punitive expedition to Canton as soon as things in Fuki< n me resioied to a normal condition. But General Chen Chiungmin does not wait until the Kwomin 'lang
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  • 1227 32 wo received a visit This mornwg 10hd> wllo ,ro rea t dual among the mov iJLeq in Penang and is h “n in touch with their opinions, «“t Im is himself by no means thong maD and bis sympathies aie P k° r d.miv way rather with
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  • 585 32 nonto, ne .—M. M. The first Assizes for 1923 opened before Mr. Justice M, H. Whitley in the Supreme Court yesterday morning. There were only two cases on the calendar: a charge of counterfeiting King’s coins and a charge of robbery in which deadly weapona were used and
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  • 871 33 A mowm born to Mr. and Mrr. Harold Dove on December 27. Mr. Mid Mr., A. 8. Mwkie children have returned to the F. M. ofrom leave. Mr. H. C. Wilton, formerly secund A. D. 0., Tanab, has been transferred to the Land Office. gif Walter Shaw,
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  • 1573 33 Scots Wha’ hae The gallant Singapore Highlanders have at last received their kilts which are being issued to them to-day. The Southern Settlement will soon be a country fit for heroes to live in; and, if they add the pipes as well, fit only for heroes to live
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  • 209 34 The London price is again up to Is. 3d, with the market steady. In Singapore Smoked Sheet advanced half a cent to 51} cents a pound while locally a rise of 50 cents a picul is recorded for both grades. Amongst Kuala Lumpur residents going Home for or
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  • 213 34 Ihe Singapore Court of Appeal was presided over on Monday morning by Mr. Justice Sproulewho heard two appeals against the judgments of the District Magistrate. In the -case of Mr. W. Lennard, a contractor of 1, Oxley Rise, Singapore, who was fined $5OO, or in default two
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  • 124 34 The next meeting of the Legislative Council will take place on February 12, and will be held in |he Council Chamber. In this connection some changes are being effected for the reconstituted Council, for which seats will have to be provided for 27 members. Experiments are also
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  • 226 34 Results of the matriculation and senior local examinations, Hongkong University, in November last, include the following King Edward VII Scholarships, Ong Huck Leong, Free School, Penang. Proximo Accessit. —Ong Chong Keng, Free School, Penang. Matriculation passes, Penang.—Free School.—Khor Kok Seng St. Xavier’s Institute.—Lye Cheng Lim St. John’s Institution,
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  • 957 35 uopiov,---M M. RELATIONS of CHURCH STATE BWop .1 Oarham oo Secularization (To the Editor of the Timet.) h, Tbe .Utility Of the marriage *>’*“““) a concern of such deep community that no factor «h.eh J tbening factor. PO*»P 8 Mnociatkm of the Church v-i in the handling
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  • 565 35 FURTHER COMPLAINTS (To the Editor of the Straits Echo.) In view of your remark in yesterday’s leader that an Ordinance once lapsed is not an easy task to be revived, may I suggest that the fixing of rent of houses should be in the hands of the
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  • 1027 36 United public opinion is necessity to the working of representative Government, and John Stuart Mill., one of the greatest philosophers, logicians and nolitical students whom Lugland has produced, writing sixty years ago, expressed the opinion that fiee institutions were almost impossible in countries made up of different nationalities, because
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  • 83 36 Rubber has now touched its highest mark since the slump; for, according to yesterday’s cable, the London price is given at Is. 3 3 8.1. a pound —an advance of 3/8d which is the biggest rise yet on any one occasion. The market is reported to be firm.
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  • 389 36 (To the Editor of the Straits Echo Sir, Since the abolition of the House Rent Restriction Ordinance, the landlordi immediately take the opportunity of issuing notices to the poor tenants notifying them that the rent of the houses occupied by them shall be raised by a high percentage,
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  • 164 36 —T- >.M. (To the Editor of the Straits Echo Dear Sir. I feel sure that the rates for assessment levied by the Municipality for the current year have not received the protest and publicity due to them. If 1 remember rightly, in the report r of the
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  • 914 37 Mr. and Mr»’ Barwise are returning to the F. M. 8. shortly. Mr. J. G. Black, policJ magistrate, Malacca, w on a fctnight’e holiday in Bangkok. Dr. T. B. Sandeman, M. C., is arriving from Home shortly to join Dr. AnsleyYoung in practice at Klang. Mr E.
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  • 164 37 His Excellency the Governor and Lady Guillemard will come down from “Bel Retiro” to-morrow morning and will stay at the Residency till 8.30 on Monday morning when they will proceed, accompanied by the Staff, to Butterworth by the Government launch Booby, and motor to Alor Star on
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  • 386 37 Championship Draw The following is the draw for the Club Championship: First round to be played* by Sunday, January 21. < G. Grant: Bye. 1 F. J. Hill v E. E. Watson. F. Duxbury v W. W. Roger. A. F. Goodrich v J. G. Brown. A. J.
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  • 1775 38 W So mu'h K >s heard these da y 8 > aboat nraniation of the German mark, that one de P ,‘t forgotten that the pfennig used of a mark Just how much would a pfennig buy to-day Pomp and Circumstance I Apropos of the rivival of the
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  • 289 39 Comment* on Magistral Mistakes heard again* l the <b cwon trict Magistrate „„„i Tb I fir tT “Jmedl AHr. d Perreau ury '“'I I'* 1 charge of receiving w». convicted > sentenced illeeal gratification* and rigorous impriHo»» }< three n*onth yn went. Ebe and Whitlev. .tpp<an-4 for h
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  • 182 39 The result of the bowls tie played off yesterday was:—Final, Mixed Doubles Handicap, Dr. and Mrs. C. Henry Hertz b< at Mr. and Mrs. E. Reimann ‘2l 17. :0: A committee of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners had decided to inform Government that though the Municipal Commissiom rs
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  • 518 39 the watchman awakened Before Mr. iTnee Saipan «al! h, remanded r trial on a charge of theft, was called, inspector Livingstone P ros h( chiew Leng, watchman, of longhair/699, now lying m Penang harboui, .aid that h e was sleeping in the cabin on the night of December
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  • 178 39 Nothing m the nature of a gallop was attempted this mor mug, the work being confined to pace exercise only. Helanel was taken round slow!-’ twice, while Fair Dinkuni and Florace L. worked toaether finishing down the straight at a useful pace. The Baillie went Joy himself at
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  • 356 39 Mr. K. A. James, writing in “Koloniale Studien” about the cultivation of pepper on the East Coast of Sumatra, mentions that Sumatra supplies one-third of the world’s requirements. In former years, Chinese speculators got the better of the trade, owing to the influence they exercised on the
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  • 19 40 birth. F fMßS ON—December 15, at Boseombe, WMke of C. T- Ferguson, Malay States, of a son.
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  • 1172 40 A remark was made here, the other d&v in Ike course of an article i to*’ the effect that young people in school should be allowed to dis- i □over thing for themselves as far as possible. The point was brought home < to ns again, a day
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  • 87 40 CAPTURE IMMINENT Flight of Chan Keng Ming {From Our Oivn Correspondent,} Singapore, January 12. A cable from Hongkong reports that the, capture of Canton by Dr. Sun YatSen s Cantonese and Yunnanese troops is imminent, Chan Keng Ming’s troops refusing to fight because they have not
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  • 324 40 A. A. Anthony Co.’s Daily Rhpobt, Share Market Firm. Rubbers. There is a good demand fnr all the better class shares with few sellers in evidence. Prices are written up all round without attracting sellers in any quantity. Buyers Allenbys 90 cents, Amalgamated Malays $1.27i, Ayer j Kunings
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  • 75 40 I As will be seen from an advertisement I appearing elsewhere, the time of the I departure of the 10.20 am. train from I Penang to Taiping will be altered to I 11.35 a.m. as fronuthe 15th instant, the I train ai'iving at Taiping at 3.26 pm. I
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  • 934 41 -B. T. Mr.. F. W. Doogla. hw returned from Home. Rir Arthur Adams and Mr. D. M. bX arrived in Kuala bumpur from Penang on Tuesday evening. Mr C. B. Boerts, who has been.on the editorial .UR of The Malay Mail for eometime, he. left for a
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  • 120 41 Criminal Appeals In the Supreme Court, Penang, yesterday, Mr. Justice Whitley allowed the appeal of Khoo Chin Teong from the Court of|6e District Judge by whom he had been convicted of receiving tin knowing it to have been stolen. Scully’s Case James Scully’s appeal against the decision of
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  • 66 41 H. M. S. Carlisle is due at Singapore from Hongkonar on the 19th instant, and will sail the following day for Colombo and Bombry. After recommissioning at the latter port, the ship will proceed, via Colombo to Penang, where she is due on February 16, and
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  • 368 41 Yesterday’s London shows a further rise of jd. to Is 3|d. a pound, the market being still firm. In Singapore both grades touched cents a pound and, locally, Good F. A. Q. and first Quality Crepe are quoted at $70.50. :O: w m It is stated that Lord
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  • 1443 42 How is it Done The financial editor of a Home paper is engaged in measuring the pulse of the international financial and polltioal tension produced by the Reparation deadlock.” A tension that has its pulse measured can hardly fail to feel anxious A Call for the Cat The
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  • 368 42 Work for the Penang, Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur race meetings, which all come very close together, is proceeding apace and despite the wet going local candidates are putting in a very solid training and should make a good show at the three places. Some of pur horses
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  • 526 43 WHO IS TO BLAME (To the Editor of the StraiU Echo.) S *H w will bat lend a bon to the Rant Question to which the bulk of the populace area&cted, we cannot be Ur from the truth ae to who should be blamed for thia great
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  • 200 43 Of late, says the Free Press, there has been a general disposition to organise all branches of sport in this part of the world, a disposition probably to be traced to the greatly increased interest which is being taken in such events now that other than the
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  • 329 43 The health statistics for the Municipality of George Town for the week ending January 6, 1923, give a total of 75 deaths—49 males and 26 females, the death rate being 32.00 per mille per annum compared with 29.86 in the J preceding week and with 26.91 in the
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  • 182 43 Notification No. 1777 in the Government Gazette of October 27, 1922 prohibits the landing in the Colony from any place outside the Colony of any plant of any species ot cotton except with the written permission of the Secretary for Agriculture, S.S. and F.M.S., and subject to
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  • 405 43 Better financial results are hoped for in the current financial year than those disclosed by the Malayan Tin Dredging report for the twelve months ended June 30 last. Indeed, the market price of the company’s shares, which js still at a premium, suggests that the resumption of
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  • 1080 44 Unless rumour lies, the Government is not indifferent to the situation that has been created by the passing of the Rent Restriction Ordinance and if it can be shown that the cases of hardship, where rent has been increased out of all proportion to the value of
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  • 590 44 GOOD ENTRIES 1 here are satisfactory entries for the JNew bear Race meeting in Penang on January 23, 25 and 27, and the Committee have reason to congratulate themselves. Ihose who thought that the abolition o the selling lotteries was going to effect the entries have been sadly
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  • 89 44 domestic occurrence DEATH. Cheah.— Un Thursday, the 11th inst., at 34 Presgiave Street, aged 78, Mis. Cheah Choo Khin (u6a Kam Boon Kim) the beloved mother of Cheah Keoug he, Cheah Khuan Ee, Cheah Kte Ee, Cheah Bian Ee, and Cheah Keng Ee. The funeral will take place on Sunday,
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  • 992 45 Mr. G. Colbo, head of the detective department, is on leave.—S.T. Mr. W.F. Nott, 0.8. E., who has been on a visit to Sangei Patani, returns to Singapore this evening. H. K. Phys Medha Dhibodi, Madam Medha Dhibudi and child are returning to Bangkok next Thursday from
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  • 630 45 LEAN CO.’s WEEKLY REPORT. Penang, January 12. Inspite of the sei ions events which are taking place on the Continent and which, even if they do not lead to political complications, are at all events bound to further considerably retard the economic rehabilitation of the World’s markets. Tin
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  • 1062 46 Modesty Personified I’m the Mayor! Beyond compare. I’m a most tremendous local swell Admiration I compel! But —I never, never, mix In local politics! And yet, I seem to be doing very well! warbled Arthur Roberts, in his well known, ierkv style, in The old Guard” but the
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  • 74 46 Rubber is still rising, and according to yesterday’s London cable the price has exceeded by Id, the minimum aimed at by restriction. With the London quotation of Is. 4d. the Singapore market is firm with both grades at 54$ cents a pound, a rise of another cent. Locally
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  • 580 46 Treasure Trove One would hardly expect to find electric hght bulbs lying intact in the gutter of so busy a thoroughfare as Carnarvon Street at a quarter past ten in the morning Yet, according to Paik Keh, that is exactly what he did find in the course of
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  • 183 47 Il spite of the the.e was a very Urge attendance at the 7 yesterday afternoon when t.e R* dent-Cooncillor and Mr.. A. B. Vouies were “at Home” to meet HiJ Excellency the Governor and Lady Sailbmanl. The guest, we received downstair, by Mr. and Mrs. We.
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  • 305 47 ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD A Kerosene-like Smell Very serious allegation, are made against the chop Kwong Hang Yuen of Singap re, by the directors of the Sin ere Insurance and Investment Company Ltd. which they are suing, to rt cover 130,000 the aggregate amount of two policies of
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  • 1144 47 more points of law Is Mr. Peck Entitled to Sue a Director From The Straits Times Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, January 10. Th. MSC in which Mr. I’. C. Peek on behalf of himself and other shareholders, 3j J. A. Russell, J. A. Russell and I Company and the
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  • 580 48 On several occasions we have exhorted the local authorities to see that the passport inspection in the ports of .this Colony is carried out with a due regard for the convenience of travellers, which should not be subordinated to the convenience of any official or government department.
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  • 466 48 Malays, and Mahomedans generally, in the Colony appear to be somewhat perturbed at the delay in appointing a Malay member of the enlarged and reformed Legislative Council. They need not worry. The apjjpintment will certainly be announced in the near future and the delay is only due to the
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  • 366 48 SMALL AND SELECT bled at Ui l£ r ß r“ PaUy thau UBnal M. nkht Th 7° D S reet t 0 gamble 00 »y night, lhere were six of themA Mothers’ Meeting linti > M nB 7 lU J >egrndge MB6d -mes Ham linti Majid, Wan binti
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  • 185 48 —T.O.M. J" irst Cas e in Singapore nr id noli Uet tlVB lospector Costello pniduced a Chinese named Tan Ang Choon before Mr. Dawson in Singapor! on Saturday and charged him with forging rubber coupons as issued hy the Controller of Rubber Exports. The accused was anested
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  • 897 49 Mr. G. C. G. Mtiller is to act as Collector, Income Tai» Penang. Mr. G. F. Jackson is to be Auditor of Municipal acoounta for the current year. TW Hon. Mr. Hayee Marriott has retamed from leave and resumed his duties as General Adviser, Johore. Mr. M.
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  • 549 49 —Free Free»- First Day’s Handicaps The following are the handicaps for the first day of the Penang Turf Club New Year Meeting on January 23: 1. New Year Plate C class Horses- Distance, 5 furlongs. St. Fitz 10.2; Clovelly Boy 10.0 1 Idle Girl 9.2 Helanel 9.5
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  • 1751 50 h Please Note! The General Purpose Committee of the L C. C. recommends a reduction from And to £250 a year in the rate of tem forary additions to the salaries of the San (Sir R. Wallace, K. C.) and deputy chairman (Mr. A. J. Lawrie) of the
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  • 252 51 a A. ANTHONY CO.'S DAILY REPORT. Penang, J»n°ary 15 Sham fcuo-»"* wi h aD firm P ri s iLU*» l25 wt«-95 cents, BalgownHordangn «80- M i 6 O o‘ H«0 K.m.MM »4.00- H.25, Kual* Sriim. h 4M2 55. Ked»h« •HA049.00, Malakoffs |3 00-14.00 MalaKa Pindae •1-65-H.75, i T
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  • 153 51 The monthly Med»l for January will be played for on Saturday and Sunday, the 20th and 21st. inst The Gold Medal for 1922 will be played for at the same time. w The annual conference of the Methodist Church in Malaya began in Singapore cn Wednesday morning
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  • 839 51 PERAK vs. PENANG Home Fifteen Well Trounced Perak, the NortherrTSection finalists ,or H aVwo a Bu Au4: K«t tbe tal fifteen o/the and after a keen, though onesided, contest defeated the home side to the tune ot 26 points (four goals and two tries) to ml. There was
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  • 254 51 The following were the results of the two swimming events yesterday morning A Class 100 Yards 1 F. D. Thompson. 2 S. A. Gray. 3 J. Ford. Won by 5 seconds- Time 83 seconds net. “B” Class 50 Yards 1 E. Basson. 2 N, E. Anyon 0:
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  • 535 52 y for t S.T. ready for defence “Battle to the Death” (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, January 15. A Hongkong cable states that Chau Kweno- Ming explains that his letreat was due to financial troubles that have now been overcome. He has decided that battle to the
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  • 1170 52 THE PRELIMINARY POINT Argument Concluded (From the Straits Times Correspondent) Kuala Lumpur, January 12. 'l’lie argument of the preliminary point as to whether Mr. F. C. Peck, as a shareholder of the Malayan Collieries, is entitled to sue Mr. J. A. Russell and J. A. Bussell and Co.,
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  • 1579 53 Tat Fdgm Of the Malay Pem.smla. Vol. L PolypeU*. By Hkmby N. Ridley, C.M.G., F. 8.8., F.L.8., late Director of Gardens and Forest., Strait* Settlement With JUuatratioM by J. Hctchinhom, F.L.S. (L. Reeve. Ws ne M Though a “Flora” appeals more particularly to technical
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  • 515 54 ■“VXVIt; tl —S.F.p. SATURDAY MORNING’S RALLY The Rally of the Girl Guides at the Race Course on Saturday morning, was the occasion of the presentation by Lady Guillemard of the Challenge Cup, which Mr. Gardner had given for competition among the Guides. Lady Guillemard, accompanied by Mr. and
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  • 499 54 -S.F.P, The Ponggal Festival was celebrated by the Penang Hindu Sabha yesterday, when a large number of the leading and prominent members of the Sabha, the Hindu Community, and the Chetty Community, took part in the proceedings. Prayers were offered and refreshments supplied. After a lecture by
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  • 536 54 LULU WUS t.-S.T. WEIRD SIGNS AND SYMBOLS Mr. Ingham and Mr. W. G. Stirling, of the Chinese Protectorate, produced twelve Hokiens before Mr. Gourlay in the third court, at Singapore on Friday and charged them with being members of an unlawful triad society. The accused were arrested
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