The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 30 October 1929

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  • 20 1 Straits Echo Weekly (Mail) Edition $lB PER ANNUM. SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. Vol. 27. PENANG, OCTOBER 30, 1929 No. 44
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    • 233 1 CONTENTS LEADERS Opposition Temples Built in Penang 1124 Who 1102 Co-Operation in Penang 1124 11A£1 The New China In Penang 1125 Achievements 1108 y )35 Sacred 1108 Snatched a Woman's Sarong 1125 Real Drama 1112 Penang Hill 1116 Blushes 1116 Everv Dav 1119 111 u OUTSTATION NEWS. Too Much I>
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    • 144 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published 'the day prior to the departure of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local news originally given in the daily issues as well as the leading and special articles. The subscription is $lB per annum, posit free to any part of the
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  • 591 1102 There seems almost a hurry ir. some quarters to appoint a successor to Sir Hugh Clifford. Speculation in fact has reached the stage of “betting" on certain names. Lord Passfield who will make the choice is one of the methodical, careful persons in the present Cabinet and it would
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  • 235 1102 PERAK INTER-DISTRICT COMPETITION. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Taiping, October 21. A new feature of Perak Football this season is the competition for the Wong Fook Hong Cup among the champions of the various District Football Leagues in Perak to determine which of (hern has the best
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  • 432 1102 PEA’.-LVG VISITORS Two British motor cyclists who are travelling frum London to Australia arrived by B. I. Steamer in Penang yesterday, and leave for Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Singapore to-day, having completed over nine thousand of their twelve thousand miles journey. They are Mr. J. Gill,
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    • 26 1102 THE straits echo. PUBLISHED DAILY. WEEKLY EDITIONS Containing the news of the week prior to departure of Mails for Europe "Straits Echo" Building. Penang Road, Penang.
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  • 548 1103  -  Secret of Discover? of Gar paint. [By W. IV. M.] Many and various have been the improvements embodied of recent years in the motor ear as we know it to-day. Some have been dictated by Dame Fashion, who, by the way, is just as powerful in the matter
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  • 49 1103 FORMATION OF A CLUB. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, October 22 Mr. J. W. Davidson, Rotary Commissioner, arrived here yesterday evening. Interviewed he stated he was staying here a few weeks to find out the feeling here for the establishment of a I to. tary-Club.
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  • 54 1103 ONE MAN DISCHARGED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, October 23. Proceeding in connection with the Sikh Murder commenced in the Police Court this morning when Chief Court Inspector Meredith withdrew the charge preferred Against Bishen Singh, the second accused. The trial of Sunda Singh, Bhagat Singh
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  • 137 1103 WELCOME IN IPOH. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, October 22. The Chettiar community and a large number of other Indians assembled at the railway station to welcome Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar on the occasion of his first visit to Ipoh. Letchumanan Chettiar and Mr. Dorai Raj
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  • 425 1103 TEST REFUSED. penang magistrate and his car. have had a great deal at trouble with my drivers, t Wc 2 them ran away, one in the morning and another i n a! coemng. I got fed up 9 eif m and 1 drove th& car
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  • 2782 1104 t BRILLIANT MALAY PUPIL. TEACHER and tennis STAR WHO IS NOW IN SHANGHAI. "I pay my personal tribute to the F who received me, a stranger, so openly friendly, so courtesy helpful, so frankly co-operative, that I feel it a privilege to be admitted “ths
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  • 1462 1105 MR. ABDOOLCADER’S PROMISE, A promise that October 21, would be declared a public holiday was jestingly made by the Hon. H. H. AbduWr last night at the annual reunion dinner of the Penang Old Frees’ Association. A large gathering including Mr. H. h Cheeseman, Mr. 1). W. McLeod,
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  • 114 1106 PENANG MAGISTRATE. The case of the Penang cooly uho wreaked vengeance on his employer by stealing her wallet containing $8.70 again came tip for hearing before Mr. F. K. W ilson, the Magistrate, at the Penang Police Court. “It is a very peculiar case and
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  • 471 1106 ARRESTED AFTER PRAYING. PENANG PULLERS IN “CONSPIRACY”? The Penang riesha pullers case against Low Chooi Hong, the young Chinese who posed as a “Toukay“ and is alleged to have duped the pullers, was resumed yesterday at the Penang Police Court before Mr. F. K. W
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  • 1163 1107 "IMPOSSIBLE BURDEN." FAMILY’S EXISTENCE ON $143. In a lengthy and interesting judgment yesterday in the Penang Supreme Court Mr. Justice Sproule dismissed the action of the first plaintiff but found in favour of the second, in the case brought by Che Puteh bin Ba Kader Mydin and
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  • 191 1107 (From Our Oivn Correspondent.) Taiping, .Saturday. Mr. R. E. Ince, the Assistant District Commissioner, Boy Scouts Association. North Perak, reviewed the Scout Proops in Taiping, Selama and Trong on Saturday on the King Edward VII School padang. Those at the saluting base included Mr. A. Keir,
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  • 103 1107 MATCH WITH “PRESENT At the Penang Free School Green Lane, yesterday the deserved their victory against sent Frees. H 30 he- A feature of the game wao the give work of the fo rWa B n the Velupillay proved good be posts for the School, whose
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  • 218 1108 The gentleman who pleaded at tbe half yearly meeting of the p/mne Chamber of Commerce P Lrday that something should be •j Lto establish the registration Of pa rt«r»hips in the colony did to justify the gathering. He realised, as few people seem to do, hat the absence of
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  • 287 1108 As the sharpness of the irnprescials. We must assume that his comments were made on the spur to lose the spirit which originally spelt the historic duet November 11. Eleven years will soon have passed since the day when the world turned from a road of madness to consideration
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  • 458 1108 “Why are these children here?” asked Mr. F. K. Wilson, the Magistrate, at the Penang Police Court yesterday when four Mohammedan hawker b' ys were charged for criminal breach of Municipal by-laws together with two other men—who were also hawkers—for selling cigarettes and food-stuffs on
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  • 504 1108 NEWCOMER S SKETCH OF PENANG. [By G. B] They were singing that strange old tunc, “Do you remember,” or “You forgot to remember”—whose refrain was so popular not many years ago. And then they broke into the Volga boatmen’s song. There was silence. One o’clock. Three or
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  • 633 1109 A considerable amount of telephone and telegraph development in the Straits Settlements is foreshadowed during the year 1930, according to the Colonial Estimates which show that a sum of $527,000 is ear-marked for the Departments, compared with $345,000 spent in 1929. In the current
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  • 544 1109 ■COWS MADE OF gol 0 I DEFENDANT Wins. I An allegation that a most v i I document was stealthily ns box while he was awav i a l?| was made by Soku Thaver“ a M Penang cattle owner, a J n rl nephew Ramalingam Thaver ia
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  • 3038 1110 bagan luar is OPPOSED. PENANG HILL development. So said the Hon. Mr. M. Milne yes.erdav presiding at the half yearly meet- of the Penang Chamber of Comwree in the Chamber of Commerce jgoni, Downing Street. The others present were: the Hon. vp p M. Robinson (Vice
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  • 452 1112 A drama as arresting as any m tbe most successfully conceived theatre production has been enacted recently in a country that is near to Malaya. Those who have led Australia for about six years are in the wilderness. Their chief, a young man of 46. is soon to
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  • 466 1112 Pet Subjects. Lord Baden-Powell sent no fewer than six pictures, including his humorous black and white sketch entitled ‘The Soldier and the Flea,” and the I same number c urie from Sir John Adye’s brush. Vance, in the Alpes Maritimes, has a particular fascination as a subject for
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  • 537 1112 WITNESS TO BE CALLED TO-DAY. Charlie Chaplin—Film a “Professor of Magic” of the East attracted much attention yesterday in the I’enang Poiict Court, when he was charged (befoto Mr. F. K. Wilson), with being “drunk and disorderly by shouting iu public” at 10.30 p.m on Tuesday. When
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  • 755 1113 PENANG ADVICE. MEETING OF G. S. C. SOCIETY. The fifth annual general meeting of the Government Servants’ Co-operative Thrift A Loan Society was held yesterday at the Survey Office, Penang. Out of the 558 members 114 attended. Mr. A. L. Birse, M.C.S., presided and on his
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  • 219 1113 “He is considerably fatter than bis bullock” said Mr. F. K. Wilson, the Magistrate, in the Penang Police Court yesterday, when Mr. M. V. Pillay, Municipal veterinary surgeon charged Lim Cheng Ann, the owner and his Malay driver with cruelty to an animal. “The
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  • 343 1113 PENANG COURT STORY. young Indian REMANDED. It was a very precious iewelL. and 1 knew that it did not belong ti, my mother. 1 therefore gave it tn ft owner of a toddy shop for safety Illg. r So said Perumal, a young Indian cooly when charged
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  • 45 1113 PENANG CASE. Detective Inspector orilo Lee Ah Chee red handed «Ink b stealing seven singlets from a S came from Si-* District Judge day sentenced him to, prisouinent to be followed by nl The accused admitted- two pre'*» 1 couVictlonß;
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  • 1088 1114 impressionists’ Exhibition of Two Hundred Sketches and a Woman’s Mystery Picture. -Academy” day in Penang proved a attraction yesterday when the Im issicnists their At Home in the Llav Drill Hall. There was a con'iUt‘procession throughout the aftern ind the visitors included the Hon. to
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  • 126 1114 PENANG MAN’S DASH. SENTENCE INCREASED BY 9 MONTHS. 1 ell the Judge I had one motive when 1 ran away from prison. 1 expected to be captured by the Police. 1 want another chance to tight for the injustice of my last charge. Won’t the Judge hear
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  • 339 1114 FURTHER DONATIONS. '1 he following is the list of donations to the Port Swettenham Mariners’Club. I'he Committee are grateful to the donors and the Hon. Secretary (Capt. H. S. Shepard) requests donations to be sent to the sub-agent of the Chartered Bank, Klang. Previously acknowledged *****.54
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  • 543 1115 BLACKKAR'S surprise. SEAPLANE WINS IN CONVINCING STYLE. I poh, October 23 The weather was fine and cool for ;he second day of the Perak Turf Club Autumn race meeting and there was a fair attendance, including His Highness the Sultan of Perak and the British
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  • 321 1115 Under the auspices of the Penang Hindu Sabha, a meeting of the local Hindu Community was held at the Sabha premises, under the Chairmanship of Mr. G. Samy Pillay. There was a large attendance. The subject discussed was, “What steps should be taken to suppress the new
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  • 307 1115 bail IN ILooo POLICE RAID in PENANG. As the result of a raid No. 35, Beach Street by hJC"’* 1 Livingstone and Hoche on Ah Sin Kay, a Hokkien! (fe charged yesterday at the Penang? Court before Mr. F. K th The°fT eS Und f OrdiMMe
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  • 114 1115 FINED $3 IN PENANG. hariie Chaplin, the gic, again slocnl his tnal Police Court yesterday W •>“ b charge of being drunk and d. shorn ing in public at r Tuesday. t fch liJilv (’hariie appeared in taC he a' l l dressed and his close
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  • 523 1116 It would be idle to deny that a considerable amount of surprise exists in Penang at the slow, almost stationary rate of progress in developing Penang Hill. Only a few Europeans have built or are completing bungalows and as many Chinese have also erected homes in what is
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  • 253 1116 A few unpleasant discoveries about Penang were revealed yesterday by Mr. Cavendish who is visiting Penang in an effort to induce more people to join local co-oper-ative thrift societies and to prevent others from getting into the hands of chetties. Mr. (’avendish is of the opinion for instance, that
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  • 199 1116 PENANG COURT SEQUEL TO ROW. A Chinese sweet seller and an Indian Mohamedan named Noor had an altercation at about 9.15 p.m. on October 23 at Transfer Road. They fisted each other with all their might. The Chinese fought for his sweets, and the Indian fought for
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  • 775 1116 SERIOUS REFLECTIONS ON AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT. An international Labour crisis has been happily settled and the American who nearly upset the entire British I'rade Union Movement is no longer the arch enemy of home barbers. Frankly I am convinced that the English barbers were unreasonable in
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  • 290 1117 A Chinese carpenter named Suah Eng Lee was charged at the Penang Police Court yesterday before Mr. F. K. Wilson, the Magistrate, with “flying kite on the public road at 4.45 p.m. on October 23.’’ “I am not a small boy to fly kites. Two boys were
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  • 582 1117 AMERICANS AND TIN. VISIT TO MINES IN THE F. M. S. (By the Financial Correspondent.) Tin Prices.—Spot: £lB2, Up 10/-; 3 Months: £lB6, Up 10/-; Singapore: $95 3/8, 175 tons sold, Up $2.87|. Rubber Prices.—London: 9 11/16d Down 1 16d.; New York: 19£ cents, Down 1/8 cent.
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  • 159 1117 MOHAMEDAN INDIANS HEAVILY FINED. Before Mr. -J. F. F. Gregg, in the Fourth Magistrate’s Court, Singapore, on Tuesday ten Mohauiedan Indians, mostly employees of M. Kader Sultan and Co., of Chulia Street, were prosecuted in connection with the sale, in Singapore of tickets which were said to have
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  • 176 1117 INDIANS FINED. That toddy does more harm than good to mankind was suggested yesterday a tlie Penang Police Court when tn l Indian coolies who stated that they rving to separate each other from fig tag and yet fought with one. anertta were charged with “fighting
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  • 1360 1118 CAVENDISH S PLEA. address to chamber of AU COMMERCE. Talks co? co-operation were given in Penang yesterday to postal employees, teachers and members of the Chamber of Commerce. general meeting of the Penang Posts°and Telegraphs Co-operative Thrift aD d Loan Society, Ltd. was held in the
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  • 147 1118 COURT SEQUEL. Found loitering in Campbell Street at 1,40 a.m. Beh Seng Hfxji could not give any explanation. So Detective Inspector Gordon produced him for sentence at the Penang District Court yesterday. At the Police Station he was found in possession of Hospital baju and trousers.
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  • 464 1119 France may be a long way from Malaya and her politics may not be of direct importance here, but he would be very unwise who would suggest in 1929 that the movements uf statesmen in one country in Europe do not affect almost every .other nation in the
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  • 187 1119 A police court prosecution in Penang yesterday disclosed a somewhat amazing statu of affairs which the Monopolies department wbuld advised to consider Tt was revealed that an officer of the department whose salary is ‘twentythree dollars a month had accepted a bribe from a Chinese and had not
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  • 144 1119 The retirement after fifty years’ service of one of the most popular Fleet street journalists marks the passing from the field of modern newspaperdom of a figure who was one of the shining lights of the profession long before the twentieth century. There can be few of the
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  • 186 1119 LONG FELT WANT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) I poll, October 24. On the occasion of the opening of the additional wing to the Convent the pupils gave a successful entertainment wfiieh was attended by the British Resident.of Perak and many leading numbers of the public. In
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  • 403 1119 JUDGE’S COMMENTS. In the Penang P o U cp daj morning Inspector Boey Cheng Heng, the Government Monopolar** ■ng a bribe of 20 cents and om»,* 1 exunnne the baggage of on. co, er to the Colony Ibe charge which was read the accused was:— out That
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  • 588 1120 SOON THEAM CO. tin opens WITH I DEPRESSION. I weekly market report. Penang, October 25. I The price of rubber was slightly weaker elpsiug to day at 9|d. against 9»<i. '“llie“rubber share market was lifeless and the volume of business was on a Mulcted scale. Changes ill quotations were few
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  • 147 1120 KEEN INTEREST SHOWN IN THE GAME. (From Our (Jum Correspondent.) Taiping, The Hockey season in Taiping has star ed and bids fair to be. successful, owing to the keen interest taken in the game. The Perak Club. Burmah Rifles, Teachers, King Edward, VII School, St, George's School,
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  • 166 1120 CHILDREN’S TOYS MR. LIM CHENG EAN PRESENT. In connection with the fifth annj” Vcrsjary of the Old Association. Penang there was an informal gathering of members, friends and children at the Club premises last night. In the brilliantly illuminated hall am under flags of many nations, about
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  • 749 1120 LEAN AND COMPANY S WEEKLY REPORT. i MATTERS UNCERTAIN. Thursday Evening Tin suffered further heavy falls in srice earlier in the week, the lowest level recorded being Spot £lBl 10s. and 3 months £lB5 10s., but a sharp reaction of L 8 per ton has brought the
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  • 188 1121 PENANG SEQUEL. FRIEND IN DEED —IN NEED. “A friend in need was a friend indeed” was what Muttan—an Indian Cooly—thought when he attempted to obtain the release of two of his friends, Narayanan and Chellan, by bribing a constable who arrested them for fighting in public.
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  • 735 1121 SELANGOR STORIES. MR. CHOW THYE IN REMINISCENT MOOD. Mr. Loke Chow Thye delivered an interesting address at the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club last night. Mr. Choo Kia Peng presided and there was a good attendance. Mr. Chow Thye said: When I spoke to you last about
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  • 267 1121 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. RUBBER SALES DEPARTMENT. Penang, October 23 The market remains dull and there is little of interest to report this week. Values in all markets have eased and the local quotation for spot closes cent down on balance at 32| cents per lb. London and New York close
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  • 609 1122 rUjL'DY HGKIZOX. further fall in tin COMING? THE GIIUL'P'S .1' 71 1 IT lES. Our Einancial (oirespondent] Tii/Prices: Spot £lBB 155.; Down IX 3 Months £192 17s. 6d.; Down i;,. txt Singapore $95 58; 290 tons Up 12| cts. New York 42 cts. (G); Up ct. (G).
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  • 324 1122 PICCADILLY DRIVING. FINED $9O AND LICENCE SUSPENDED. i Eroin Our Own Correspondent.) London. Octobt r 4. Pleading guilty to being drunk in charge of a motor car in Piccadilly on tin evening of October 3, and scattering pedestrians as he drove. John Stott, aged 39, a
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  • 488 1122 MR. CHENG EAN PRESENT. “HAS SHOWN FINE INITIATIVE.” Ihe pit si lent, tie' Holl. Ml. Lilli i.em_ lui Mi.t pre.-..,e<| at Saturlay du.in r of tin' Penauu Old Naveriaiis Association. We have had several commemoration dinners before but this one is different from them be•ause you hi\c
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  • 294 1123 To-morrow the George Town Commissioners hold their fortnightly meeting, and if precedent be followed, the proceedings will occupy us the report usually has it, “less than a quarter of an hour.” Were this body a model body, with every complaint satisfied and a stringent form of control exercised
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  • 407 1123 Labour Ministers are expecting to remain in office for four years. After the re-assembly of Parliament, a few days hence they will doubtless be less certain of their stay, for they -will then have met those who control their destiny more than do the foreign statesmen with whom
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  • 763 1123 n 4. j “Imp.”) I Jiccent discussions at r I t |av e for their object the^ V a measure of economic of common tariff arrangement tlie nations of Europe 6 h M bring buck to amalgamation of the differenjDl stratums in Malaya. M The problem has cropped
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  • 537 1124 THE BURMESE SIAMESE FEUDi COURT SEQUEL. lhe fued between the Burmese and Siamese reached a climax last week when there was a fight between the Siamese living at the Siamese ton pie, Pulau Tikus. and some Burmese who attended a religious ceremony at their own
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  • 233 1124 Il dead men can lell no tales, dead fmvls will sav none either. The Penang Magistrate Mr. F. K. Wilson dealt with a rf, ther peculiar case on Saturday when dead fowl alleged to have been stolen bockanathan—an Indian coblv —was Produced in Court. lhe charge was
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  • 491 1124 MR. CAVENDISH’S SPEECH. DOLLAR TO DAY: B I G LOAN TO MORROW. Mr. A ('avendish, Director of Cooperative Societies. Kuala Lumpur delivered another address on Co-operat >n on Sunday afternoon when he met the Penang Mercantile Employees at the Extraordinary general meeting at the Penang Chamber of
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  • 646 1125 FAVOURITES’ DAY. HAZEL BOY BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, October 26. There was a record attendance on the last day of the Perak Turf Chib Autumn race meeting, including His Highness the Sultan of Perak and the British Resident of Perak. Unfortunately the
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  • 94 1125 GOING ON LEAVE NEXT MONTH. LIKELY SUCCESSORS. It is understood that Mr. N. D. Mudie, the District Judge, Penang., will be sailing for Home on leave in November. There are two probable candidates to act for Mr. Mudie. One is Mr. C. Wilson. M. C. S.,
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  • 92 1125 PENANG SENTENCE. An Indian Hodov n coolie, age 25 pleaded guilty before the District Court, and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. Inspector Blakesley stood before the Judge. “What is you case?” he was asked. “I want to report to your Honour that this man was
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  • 412 1125 SPORTS FOR GIRLS. HOPES OF RECREATION CLUB. lans for the new building of Gie Chinese Recreation Club hove already been passed by the Penang Municipality and management arc inviting tender* for construction which it is hoped will begin before the end of the year. “It
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  • 644 1126 daily share list. Penang, November. Ft 1929. Name of Company syers Sellers Tin— Dollar Companies Sets Sets Ayer Weug 0.75 1.00 Batanu Padang 0.25 0.27 j Batu Ca-es 1.171 1.221 Hitam 0.65 .70 Johan 0.35 0.371 Kinta 1-424 1.471 Klang 2.521 2.6 u Kuchai 1.30 1.35 Kuyoh 0.10
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  • 68 1126 UNIQUE PENANG SCHOOL CEREMONY. A special meeting—Cambridge Night —was held at Fitzgerald Memorial Hall. Penang. Mr. W. A. Schurr gave a talk before a large gathering of Cambridge boys and girls from local schools. Students from the Anglo-Chinese Boys’ and Girls’ Schools turned up in good numbers. The
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  • 55 1126 CHINESE IN SHIP. A Chinese fireman belonging to the crew of the Blue Funnel Liner s.s. “Mach eon” died on board yesterday evening as the vessel entered the harbour. It is stated that the death was due to heart-failure. I’he body will brought ashore t! b morning
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