The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 20 February 1929

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo WEEKLY EDITION $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. Vol 27. PENANG, FEBRUARY 20 1929. No. 8
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    • 222 1 I Leading Articles Miscellaneous (Con.) Another String 134 The ('harm of Canton 150 o-lA The Postal Service 134 Interesting Origins of Ancient Customs 150 wßr ’I The E.S.A.M. 135 I 1 Chinese New Year 151 rdW Gleanings from the Home Mail 135 I Penangs Feiry Services 153 |«r pl Education
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  • 941 134 /hose who would really appreciate jomething Of Malaya roust srudj he, only in books, but on the grouna as well. It is not possible lot every body to travel frequently about tin country, and yet it must be confessed how surprising it is tor the traveliei to find
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  • 1119 134 We cannot commend the citizens oi Penang on their efforts to improve the terrible postal facilities that at present exist here, On January 10th we wrote idly on the subject of Penang’s abortion —the Penang Post Office. We concluded: “The public would very much help the postal
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  • 950 135 It IS difficult to believe that there is already a generation of young people m our midst to whom the Great War is merely a name. They cannot begin to imagine, and let us hope that they will never have the chance of experiencing, what members of the
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  • 1756 135 '1 he Home papers this week are! jf interest. Ilian the King is cons» out oi danger, or was in. Mail w inigiit be discovered from the fact li in “The Times’’ he w’as no longerai column item on the telegram paged weeks “The Times”
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  • 1223 137 In the near future this paper hopes to produce an Educational Supplement. Ibis will deal mainly with education in Penang. It is hoped that it will be possible to have regular Educational Supplements at stated intervals, and thus to survey the whole field of Malayan Education. Jt may be
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  • 145 137 1 he farewell dance to Regimental c, geant-Major C. Jeffries organisedtt Eurasian Company Volunteers on g? turday last proved an unqualified BUC cess A very large gathering turned up including Major J. J. Saunders, Officer Commanding Penang Volunteers, during the course of a speech eulogised
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  • 60 137 (From Our Own Correspondent.'Kuala Lumpur, February 28 “When a woman is bad, she is wont than a man” declared Mr. Justice Thorne to-day in imposing a fine of $5O on a female defendant, who was asked to show cause why she should not be for perjury
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  • 126 137 IMPRESSIVE MEMORIAL SERVICE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 1# The memorial service to Sir W e! and Lady Marriott yesterday !n g at St. Andrew’s Caihedral was very impressive, A ’as a large congregation of a communities. 1 Mr. John Scott, the new Colonial
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  • 3117 138 j knows Wells s Time u E hme b which enabled its. possessor to h backwards or forwards in time, himself what the past was S S what the future willl be. But p“do not always rea ize that a great ffofthe advantages of
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  • 282 139 BULLETIN of the league I BUREAU. For the week ended February 2, W I Basrah: 1 smallpox case and 1 death;l Bassein: 3 Plague deaths; 1 cholenl death; Bombay: 2 plague deaths; k| smallpox cases and 25 deaths as again»: I 42 cases and 17 deaths during
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  • 836 140 „ite understand why it is that '.““nOnand again to Isako ple 6 To have a P erol ti,CUS head and then to find oneself the one s u «50 00 is an experience not s t On poor gir l, th “the «‘her night, did mor. 'merely sneeze-she
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  • 279 140 We have been favoured with a cop) of the Secretary’s report and statemem of accounts for the year ended Decemoer 31, 1928, of the Selangor Association Football League to be presentee at a meeting to be held in the Railway Institute, Kuala Lumpur, on Monday, February
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  • 993 140 MAN IN WOMAN’S DRESSTRESPASS INTO RUNNYMEDE COMPOUND. An unusual case of a man dressing as a woman and roaming the grounds of the Runnymede Hotel on the night of the 9th instant was heard in the Police Court yesterday morning. Detective Inspector Miller, prosecuting, charged the accused,
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  • 1024 141 [From a Special .Correspondent in Johore.] We gladly print this article received yesterday from Johore: it may give our readers another side of the picture from that seen in articles reproduced from “The Sunday Mirror". We do not, however, necessarily endorse what our Correspondent has
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  • 2342 142  -  tales from malaya.bush whacking and oth By Sir Hugh Clifford. (Heinemann. 10/6.) T wrifpr is fortunate enough to owe V, friendship with Sir Hugh Clifford to Stam of a book review. He must pfthat nothing said herein will dun S friendship which he values very R
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  • 1053 143 j By S. C. Yeomans.] Recently the Indian Conference of Malaya met in Perak, and passed a resolution requesting the Government to take steps to provide more schools for children of Indian nationality in the main centres of life here. This resolution was duly embodied in the
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  • 1765 144 h A c«resp» nde good tips regarding I that is to be soon t» market and requests mj J* I the matter. The nature ol a driee on tl e king is a bit vague h e e mine is g good, bad, or whether h case L
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  • 125 145 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 9 The Coroner this morning returned a verdict of causing death by a rash act against Mr. Ellis in connection with the recent motor smash in East Coast I load resulting in the death of Mr. McLean. He stated that any
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  • 69 145 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 12 In the Johore Magistrates Court Syed Mohamed, a grandson of Syed Hassan, a prominent Arab land owner, was charged with committing an offence on a young Chinese girl under the Women’s and Girls’ Protection Ordinance. The defence asserts
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  • 93 145 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 12 The usual holiday crop of accidents occurred here. At least a dozen cars went into the ditch between Singapore and Johore Bahru but there was nothing serious. A Malay was knocked down by a mosquito ’bus in North Bridge Road
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  • 99 145 SEQUEL TO A COLLISION. (1- rom (fur hvn Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur. February 11 11 owner of a Buick car. which Was damaged in n collision with an I baling x„ V e n >t r (st w awarded $5 (l0 damages by Mr J llstice h7"-b
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  • 1030 145 [By “Buriani”.] Kuala Lumpur, February 7 In the course of his enterprising and praiseworthy effort to produce a brighter •‘Echo’’ the"editor has been good enough to entrust me with the task of producing a weekly commentary on passing events in the Federal Capital. From my point of view
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  • 817 146 ON PUNCTUATIONS— II. fear, are not very I Bead t e ?in this subject of punctua-| if thev a r e interested, they Whether to write and point out n that we make. In treating S'fWMubject a fortnight ago we forgot h e that short dashes and big can be
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  • 80 146 DEAD BODY FOUND ON BEACH. A Coroner's inquiry, was held on Saturday into the death of a Chinese whose dead body found at the Tanjong Tokong beach. Evidence was given that it bore marks of violence and that death had probably 7 been due to drowning. At the
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  • 166 146 STATIONERY ABLAZE. A small blaze was caused on Saturday afternoon near the entrance to the F. M. S. R. pier by the burning of stationery. It seemed that no one attempted to make use of the street alarm to summon tin fire brigade, for the Fire
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  • 517 146 STRAITS CHINESE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Malacca, February 15. At the annual general meeting of the Straits Chinese British Association held at the Chinese Malacca Club the report and accounts were adopted. The Report showed a total membership of two hundred and six out of which
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  • 3546 147 REPORT BY ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. INCREASING NUMBER OF CONSUMERS. PRESENT SYSTEM FULLY EXPLAINED. The following report by the Electrical Engineer on the distribution of power in Penang, called for by Mr. Hogan, was supplied to the press at yesterday’s meeting of the Municipal Commission. There was no discussion on
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  • 220 149 ADMISSION TO F. M. S. BAR. (brom Our Own Correspondent J Kuala Lumpur, February 18 Before Mr. Justice Farrer Manby, Acting Chief Justice, to-day Raja Musa bin Raja Haji Bot was admitted to the F. M. S. bar. The Hon. Mr. Veerasamy, in moving the admission, remarked
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  • 732 149 COMFORTABLE HOUSES i*OR CLERKS. A SUCCESSFUL CLUB. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Seremban, February lb. There have been only two heavy showers of rain since the first downpour on New Year’s morn and the parched earth would welcome another temporary spell of wet weather. The intense heat during
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  • 55 149 (From Our Own Correspondent) I Singapore, February 18 Tn the Coroner’s Court to-day d enquiry was opened concerning the fed of a carpenter through touching ekt trie wires at the Cold Storage depot. Mt-1 dical evidence showed that death was lue to myocarditis as the result of dectric
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  • 46 149 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 18 Dr. Clement Theophilus de Souza fe suddenly at his residence in St. Michael's Road. The deceased was in normal health yesterday evening and wa? taken ill at nine at night, dying afe wo hours.
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  • 185 149 RETURN SEASON IN PENANG. After most successful seasons in Kong and Shanghai Heughan, the ms Actor-Singer, with his brill® 1 issociates, Maud Bell and Gladys Sajor.l will pay a return visit to Penang, will appear at the Town Hall on Wind Saturday, March 1 ano Heughan’s previous visit
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  • 1138 150 w Xf or TheS rai s B rhe commercial capital of China '.“'lA-t my wish was gratified in spite of 41 Sculties. One can get to Can'“"in two wavs from Hong Kong, first Krj to Kowloon. This service runs tly between Hong Kong, and Xn, taking
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  • 248 150 [By “Phoenix.”] Now that the season of Lent is drawing near, it may be of interest to readers to hear something of shrovetide. Shrovetide, in its original meaning signifies the time of confessing sins. Tide refers to time, and shrove, shrive, or shrift, are derived
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  • 130 150 NEWS OF MR. CANAGASABAY. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 14. After three months news has been received concerning Mr. Canagasabay, who left for London by car. In a recent letter to a friend in Singapore Mr. Canagasabay describes his experience in negotiating the worst part
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  • 75 150 UNLAWFUL SOCIETY CASE. Two Chinese, Kwek Say Poli and Kwek Liew, were charged in the District Court with assisting in the mauigement of an unlawful society called the Firewood Dealers' Association durn<r the mouth of December 1928. Mr. J. S. W. Arthur, Deputy Public Prosecutor, appeared for
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  • 1659 151  -  (By Lim Kean Chuan.) Special to “The Straits Echo.’’ Of all the festivals in their Calendar none is of such importance to the Chinese or looked forward to with so much joyful anticipation especially by the children (as I used to when I was a kid) as
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  • 1414 152 PENANG BRANCH. WAR MEMORIAL TO COST 810,000. The sixth annual general meeting of th? Ex-Services Association of Malaya, L.,,, Branch, was held at the Penang Cricket Club at 7p m. yesterday. Mr G D A Fletcher (Chairman) presided and the others present were: Mr. H.| E Collins,
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  • 182 152 ELECTION OF VICE-CHAIRMAN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 14. A special meeting of the Planters’ Association of Malaya has been convened for February 20. The most im>ortant item is the election, of a ViceJhairman to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. R. S. Chanties, of
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  • 508 153 A COMPLAINT. The fact that we arc more or less marooned here on an island can only be materially mitigated by the provision of an adequate ferry service. That has been by no means always forthcoming in the past: neither is it at the present moment. Hence
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  • 655 153 [By “Phoenix”] 1 am going to give my readers various methods of cooking eggs which 1 think will please them. EGGS A LA COLBERT. Take four to six new laid eggs, break each very carefully in a cup, and season to taste with pepper and salt, then sprinkle
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  • 472 153 ORANGE BASKETS I Take six good sized oranges, 'of lt( r form size so far as possible. K Make in each one two perpefi* E cuts to the centre of the orange, ab® one inch apart. Make two side cuts K as to remove a
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  • 1372 154 ncc/F” AT YESTERDAY’S brEEZE meeting. n ,< M MISS 1 o N E R OF “WASTE C 0 OF TIME.” 11. I H Pedlow, Deputy President, iedat'au ordinary meeting of Cader, f \r H M Noordui, Mr. B. E. L Mr. C. D. D. Hogan, Mr. J I*,
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  • 55 154 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 14. A young Chinese lad, who pelted stones at a theatre at Sungei Besi, said hat he did so because he and his pal were not allowed admission with a single ticket. He was given ten cuts )f rhe rottan
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  • 39 154 (From Our Ow n Correspondent.) Singapore, Febrnarv 1 I. A memorial service to the late Sir Hayes Marriott will be hud al St-. Xndrew’s Cathedral on Sunda\ evening, Sir Hugh Clifford will attend.
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  • 868 155 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore Feb. 8. Baby elephants have come to Singapore— two kinds of them. A resident of Katong thinks there is no reason why a man should not keep young elephants as pets in his front garden. The people who have been passing by
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  • 197 155 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, February 14. A fatal accident occurred near the .unction of Upper Hokien Street and New Bridge Road yesterday morning, when an Austen Seven driven by a Jhinese lady, Lee Nyah, knocked Jown a Chinese pedestrian, inflicting a broken skull
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  • 424 155 SUPREME COURT REFERENcf MR. BALFOUR Rn S c. t STRIKING TRIBUTE Before the ordinary work of the'e began, and in the presence of „7? attendance of the Bar and other officials, reference was made vesiJ to the death of Mr. Thomas Gawtfi which occurred suddenly
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  • 82 155 (From Our Own Corresponden Kuala Lumpur, February A railway engine driver named was charged before the Magistrate o* > with obstructing the Court Bailiff» attempted to attach his property- g Accused said he only asked the to stop as a settlement with his cr appeared possible. The
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  • 500 156 THE weather. r Our Own Correspondent.) (Hom oir Alor star, February 12 ri Mnndav we had had no rain for X Zth; therefore the P.W.D. mailing the water-supply. Crowds t the stand-pipes daily, and S carriers charge high prices tor C tlll of waterthey carry Handcarts, and even
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  • 1066 156 [By ‘‘Nondum’’.] Dress me in my motley give me leave to speak my mind. How are the mighty fallen! In the un-revised Prayer Book, about which there was so much controversy in Parliament of late, we read against the date February 14th: —“Valentine, Bishop and Martyr.” In the
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  • 550 157 A Cantonese prisoner in the Police Court yesterday, who appeared to be a boy, but about whose age a doctor and the police are at variance, was convicted of a charge of theft of a bracelet horn the person of a little girl in Carnarvon Lane. The
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  • 669 157 BEACH STREET. [By “Keytop”] To many Penang residents that section of Beach Street between China Street and Light Street must be as familiar as the locality in which they live. To others Beach Street is regarded as one of our busiest and most important thoroughfares. Ihe thought of
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  • 120 157 ALLEGED ASSAULT ON TWO WOMEN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, February 15 In the Kuala Lipis Police Court this week serious allegations were made by two Malay women against a European 0. C. P. D. and several Malay Police Officers, who have been charged under Sections
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  • 36 157 FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS. We h ave to acknowledge receipt ol the following for the Distressed Miners Fund:— Air. C. D. Quarmby “A.” 5.00 Sardar Sahib Matab Singh, J. P. $25.00 Previously Acknowledged Tefal $750.00
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  • 127 157 TWO MURDERERS SENTENCED TO DEATH. (From Our Own Correspondent-' Ipoh, February B Two Chinese were sentenced to dea at the Assizes for the murder of a 1 car driver. The accused were aceoffi' oanied by a third person, who has sinedisappeared. They hired the decease 3 car and
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 183 158 [To Tse Editor of thb Straits Echo. 1 We prospectus of Renong Valley Mining Company Limited winch has .-■st been issued, requires very careful reading and analysis. No one will tavil at Messrs. Osborne Chappell s but can the property stand a ial of $340,000/-? After
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    • 207 158 (To The Editor of the Straits Echo 1 bir, J ILth reference to the minutes apE‘? g t V ,ur pa P er ot ***** instant, ask that the following questions j su y^ tcd 111 ur paper of the next J'2' as a l y
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    • 264 158 Sir, Your correspondent “Interested’’ after remarking that no one will cavil at Messrs. Osborne Chappell’s report, immediately cavils at the capital recommended by that firm in its report. “Interested” recommends very careful reading and analysis of the prospectus, but has “Interested’s” “careful consideration” been either careful
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    • 238 158 [To The Editor of the Straits Echo.j Sir, 1 would thank you if you would kindy publish my letter in your valuable paper. I have noticed in one of the columns if the ‘Straits Times’ dated the lot! instant, under the heading of ‘Flood md
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  • 470 158 POSSESSION of MOUSEBREAKING IMPLEMENTS. Sentence of 6 months’ rigorous imprisonment was passed in the Police Court yesterday on a Cantonese named Wong Yap, who claimed trial on, and was convicted of, a charge of being found in possession of “a house-break-in g implement,” to wit a long
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    • 45 158 should boar in mind be short and to the le untf epistles are liable to be 11 down. Correspondents ‘Eclose their names and addresses, ""’'«essar 1 for publication but as a lai h No letter unSpanied by the writer’s name and ■Hdress can be inserted.]
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  • 1177 159  -  [By If. Milton.j The writer has just experienced the joj of having his own piano again after Ix-ing without it foi a period of nearly two "months. In the first moments of caressing the black and white keys again it is possible to savour the joys that came
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  • 737 159 LESS CRACKER FlßlMp I THAN USUAL. NG I ALL ABOUT~NEw BRIc R J [By Buriani] I Kuala Lumpur, February u I 1 here was a big rush o f I Lumpur folk to the hills during I Chinese New Year holidays and I told that Fraser’s Hill in
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  • 314 160 THE DECEMBER RESULTS. The following names appeared in the pass list of the Bar Examination held in December. —Roman Law: Class 11, Swee Onn Chin (Middle Temple); Class 111, Chan Tun Aung (Inner Temple). Constitutional Law: Class 111, Chan Tun Aung, Choon Peng Au-Young (Lincoln's Inn), Eng Cheang
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  • 752 160 Surely the year 1929 will go down to posterity as the year in which Penang was a most attractive place in which to live! The year is but seven weeks old and already we almost feel as if we had the attractions of a metropolis (using that word
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  • 376 160 A CEYLON TRIBUTE. The appointment of Mr. Elphinstone to the Chief Justiceship of Malaya has not come as a surprise. It will be remembered that he was on his way to Singapore to take up an appointment there as Puisne Judge when Sir Henry Gollan’s appointment
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  • 1027 161 MALAYAN RACING—CRICKET NOTES. (By Oar Sporting Correspondent). From every point of view the first day of the Ipoh races on Saturday proved highly succt sful. Punters alone appeared to have a bad day Such dividends as $236, >156 and $144 are seldom paid out < n om- afternoon
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  • 665 161 QUIET CHINESE NEW YEAJ (I rom Gur Own Correspondent, lp°h, February Chinese New Year, which in f years was celebrated with so ostentation, passed off very auieti,, Ipoh. This rather unusual state? iftairs was more or less due to th action taken by the Perak Chined Chamber
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    • 201 162 X IK' I THE STRAITS ECHO I K I WEEKLY EDITION. <| ■V* J 4 E n 1 Published the day prior to the departure bf eaeh mad for Europe, and contains ts the latest local and States news originally pubK4rtd in the daily issues, as well as all |j
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    • 95 163 E Penang Sin Poe I f I I (ESTABLISHED 1896,> I <• I Chinese Daily Paper ft t r 1 k_ The Oldest Chinese paper in Penang 24-28 PAGES. 1 S R 4 The most comprehensive and the most up-to-date news service in Malaya. J It reaches the homes of
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