The Straits Echo (Mail Edition), 26 March 1930

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  • 19 1 Straits Echo Weekly (Mail) Edition. 18 PER ANNUM SINGLE COPY 40 CTS. 01.28 PENANG, MARCH 26, 1930. No. 12
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    • 254 1 CONTENTS LEADERS. Agricultural Education 232 Little Support for Ipoh Show 235 Why? 222 Taiping Turf Club 237 Honesty 222 Tiger Kills Malay Woman 237 Restriction 227 Stole From His Parents 238 Secretitis 231 Legislative Council Meeting 239 Better Luck 232 Negri Sembilan Planters 241 Important 235 Singapore Supreme Court 244
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    • 144 2 THE STRAITS ECHO WEEKLY EDITION. Published the day prior to the depar* ture of each mail for Europe, it contains the latest local news originally given in the daily issues ag well as the leading and special articles. The subscription is $lB per annum, poet free to any part of
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  • 496 222 'he Earl of Balfour had lived irough so many wars and so many abmet dissensions and played ten--8 at an age when other ien were being wheeled about i chairs or had spent a few jars in the grave, that one Jgan to wonder whether he was le of
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  • 258 222 As might be expected of him the Hon. Mr. Lim Cheng Ean gave common sense advice to the Asiatic Planters of Penang who met to consider the adoption of the May tapping holiday. Before giving their assent to the scheme, he said, those present should consider whether they were
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  • 141 222 FAREWELL TO LIE FT. W. J. CURRAN SHARP. A very successful dinner party was given on Tuesday night at the Penang Volunteer Headquarters, in honour of Lieut. W. J. Curran Sharp, Officer Commanding, Signal Section, P. and P.W.V.C., who is proceeding on leave this week. Sgt. S. Shunmugam
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  • 148 222 MESSRS. STORCH BROS. Beach Street, Penang, wh'ch was recently compared to Bishopsgate, London, by Mr. E. W. F. Gilman, the Acting Resident Councillor, at the opening ceremony of the Chartered Bank, will again add to its importance as a business centre with the opening of the new
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    • 25 222 IflE STRAITS ECHO, 4 WEEKLY EDITIONS PUBLISHED DAILY. the news of the week prior departure of Mails for Europe. •‘Strain Echo" Building. Penang Road, Penang.
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  • 467 223 WHEN THE ATTRACTION CEASED. __2 [By G. B.] Troubadour, bii Kupert Croft-Cooke, Chapman A Hall, 7/6. His father was wealthy, a cynic about women. She worked in a shop, and her drunkard mother kept a lodging house. They met in a tube in London. “He knew at
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  • 299 223 SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY. TWO THOUSAND ATTEND C E L E B R A T lONS. Butterworth, Wednesday. The seventh anniversary of the only Muslim Religious school of Butterworth, held at Telaga Ayer grounds, was attended by 2,000 people from ail parts of the mainland and Penang. Election of
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  • 360 223 PENAXG MAN'S CONFER STORY OF CHOPPEe attack. .1 Chinese who admitted he had been “very much mad appeared at Penang Court yesterday charged with an assault alleged to hav. been committed in July, Cheah Eng Leong of Pew charged at the Penang yesterday before
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  • 155 224 A SINGAPORE VIEW. hopes of “distinct improvement.” (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 18. At a «eneral meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce yesterday the Chairman Mr. H. W. Hawkeswood referring to the May holiday said. Producing interests have been greatly eoncorned with the low
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  • 42 224 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 18. Mr. E. B. Evans, a well-known European, was convicted in the Second Police Court for occupying a common gaming place and receiving monies relating to a Football coupon competition and was fined $lOO.
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  • 81 224 ST. PATRICK’S DINNER. (Trom Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 18. Patri^rcelebrated St. ‘^thevnff y I" tr e IriBh st vle at the Pi' tf > nearly 200 guests pitality for P »-k < i. tel 1 l t tl,at hos inch Ireland is renowned. T, ‘e
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  • 402 224 TAMIL IN TROUBLE. SPILT HOLY ASH AT TEMPLE. The beard o/ a Sikh constable was discussed at the Penang Police Court yesterday. Veerasamy a Tamil, was charged with ‘‘disorderly conduct by creating a disturbance at the Chettiar Temple at Waterfall Road on March
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  • 404 224 EX THEM ELY LUCK Y. EMPLOYERS WILLING TO TAKE HIM BACK. Lee Hong Cheng, the eighteen-year-o’d clerk who was charged on Saturday with criminal breach of trust in respect of a $BOO cheque belonging to Messrs. Ban Tin Lum Co., of Beach Street, Penang, again appeared
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  • 1039 225 MOTOR AND COOLIE SHED THAT WAS “REMOVED”. A case was begun in the Penang Supreme Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Sproule in which T. H. Lebbai Tharnby Merican sued Ong Hean Chor of Penang for damages for alleged trespass. Mr. K. D. Hume appeared for the plaintiff
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  • 408 225 BUTTERWORTH STORY. TICKET COLLECTOR AND EXCESS FARE. “A FALSE CHARGE.” Butterworth, Wednesday Yahaya bin Itam, ticket collector on the F.M.S. Railways, was charged with alleged criminal breach of trust before Mr. N. Ward at the Butterworth Court this morning and acquitted. Mr. G. H.
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  • 560 226 PENANG HEADING. DON’T WANT HIM next door.” Ppnang Licensing Justi\“;sr^h n e%rict Court r J„ the acting District Judge, ,V a W. Arthur, presiding. Two applications in connection with eond class and two with thud class X bouse licences were “application for a lord class iblic house
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  • 223 226 ONE-SIDED MATCH. T H E “PITS ’o* N RENONG FIELD. The Penang Cricket Club scored a fairly easy victory over the Eastern Smelting Co. yesterday in a league match on the Renong ground. In the first half the Club scored three goals, King being responsible for
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  • 268 226 ADDRESS OF WELCOME. PERAK “THANKS IN TERMS OF MALAYA”. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, March 19 His Excellency the High Commissioner paid his first official visit to Ipoh to-day, meeting the members of the general public at the Town Hall. Au address of welcome, enclosed
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  • 137 226 MRS. DICK TO SING AT E. AND O. HOTEL. Mr; J. Dick is to sing at the E. and 0. Hotel Penang on Sunday at an orchestral and vocal concert in aid of the funds of the local Y.W.C.A.. The concert was originally fixed to take place three
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  • 464 227 R ESTRICTION. Ar»' receptions and farewells in Malaya overdone? An interesting article on the subject appears in the current issue of our Malacca contemporary in which the writer appeals for restriction in these ceremonies. While it is true that life would become too prosaic if nobody, whether he deserves it
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  • 500 227 —HOT TAMIL DOESN’T! SNATCHED PENDANT S T 0 R Y. .4 Tamil and a Chinese were congratulated by the Magistrate at the Penang Police Court yesterday for helping the Police to arrest a criminal. The case was one of theft from the person of a young
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  • 276 227 —MR. JUSTICE SPROULE. I PENANG WIDOW’S CLAIM FOR MAINTENANCE. I Mr. Justice Sproule had occasional inform counsel in the Penal Supreme Court yesterday that tvl wrongs do not make a right. I Tbe matter arose out of an appii&| tion for sale of
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  • 1108 228 THE EEV. p. L. PEACH AS A gANDAVRITING EXIKRT. “CROSSWORD PUZZLE EVIDENCE IN PENANG THEFT CHARGE. Humorously describing a report on handwriting submitted by Rev. P. L. Peach as a crossword puzzle Mr. ictor Mendis successfully applied for an adjournment in a case in the Penang District
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  • 271 228 I‘EXANG STOKY. GAMBLING RAID SEQUEL. The trial of Att bin Hassan, a Malay P. C. who stands charged with the theft of a watch from a Chinese who was arrested during a gambling raid, was begun in the Penang District Court yesterday, before Mr.
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  • 497 229 SOON THEAM CO. RUBBER SHARES STEADIER. TIN FLUCTUATES. Penang, March 21. There was little change in the price of rubber during the week, closing today at 7jd. which shows a gain of jd. The rubber share market was quieter but steadier. In the absence of sellers quotations were marked higher.
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  • 359 229 BOUSTEAD CO., LTD. RUBBER SALES DEPARTMENT. Penang, March 19. The market has continued quietly steady during the past week and there is little of interest to report. Local values after hardening yesterday to 25$ cents per ib. on firmer advices from London and New York close a cent below that
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  • 409 229 (From Our Own Correspondent) Singapore, March 20 An echo of the sensational Sikh mur der trial which was concluded at th Singapore Assizes in December when Sunda Singh was sentenced to death for the murder of Messrs. Paterson, Simons and Co.’s jaga, Jewa Singh was heard
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  • 766 230 harp going. a FAVOURITES’ D A Y. (From Our Own Correspondent). Kuala Lumpur, March 21 The Selangor Turf Club s Amateur Jeting opened to-day. The attendance was fair and the going good but on the hard side. It was more or less a favourites’ day. Rain threatened
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  • 160 230 “PEH BIN.” SEVERAL WOMEN FINE D. (From Our Own Correspondent). Ipoh, March 21 Local detectives carried out a sensational gambling raid resulting in the arrest of Chua Thean Poh, the bankrupt principal of the defunct broker’s firm of Chua and Company, also nine nonias. When they surprised,
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  • 1144 231 FURTHER RESTRICTION OF TIN NECESSARY? EXCESSIVE STOCKS. Thursday Evening. Tin during the past week has been a very dull luaiAet and there is a growing feeling that owing to the low consumptive demand further restriction will be necessary in order to raise the price. Tin like most
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  • 103 231 PENANG STORY. ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. The case against Chin See Goon, 18, a carpenter's apprentice, for the attempted murder of Chin Chung, 18, also an apprentice, was set back until a later date at Penang Police Court yesterday. It was said that Chin Chung, who is alleged
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  • 196 231 Miss Elizabeth M. Brown was married to Mr. Roy James Willicot Brown at St. George’s Church, Penang Thursday. The bridegroom is an assistant o Messrs. Lyall Evatt. Raffles PW Singapore, and son of Mr. «D® Brown. The bride is the daughter oi William L. Brown of “Poplar House.
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  • 541 232 There are suspicions in the minds «h» control e S P a P e L S new disease has taken hold die organisers of public funct.ons J meetings in the count!y-se-It is remarkable to notice SXUUaI manner in which most of the organisations in I t U tn auote
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  • 164 232 Apparently little interest is being displayed in the new invention of Professor Oswald Flamm. A submarine capable of twenty-two knots, and carrying four six-inch guns, is out of tune at present. No one seems anxious to finance the scheme. The most vital question before the Naval Conference is
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  • 126 232 PENANG EFFORT’S PROMISE OF SUCCESS. Sunday night’s concert at the E. and 0. Hotel, Penang, in aid of the local Y. W. C. A., shows every promise of being a success from every point of view. Many visitors are expected for the event not only from George Town,
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  • 53 232 CHINESE CLUB TO VISIT PENANG. During Easter, the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club will visit Penang for water polo matches against the local clubs. Races will also be held. The visitors are described as the best swimmers in Malaya and captured nearly ,-dl the trophies at the recent Fur
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  • 135 232 ENTERTAINED AT IPOH. (From Our Own Correspondent). I poll, March 20. His Excellency the High Commissioner was entertained to an informal lunch yesterday at the Council Chamber of Mines by the Committee of the Perak branch of the F.M.S. Chamber of Commerce. Col. Cecil Rae. the Chairman
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  • 197 232 (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Malayan School of Agriculture is to be opened at Serdang. Kuala Lumpur, March 20. Lust evening the Sultan of Selangor performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the School of Agriculture for Malaya, at Serdang. The Acting Chief Secretary, the British
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  • 558 233 MALAY WOMAN SUED. CHETTY WHO HAD “GONE TO INDIA.” Further evidence was recorded at the Penang Police Court yesterday by Mr. F. K. Wilson in the case in which Chi binti Bakar, a young Malay girl from Kedah, sued Pah binti Hassan alias Chi Pah for criminal
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  • 239 233 EX-OFFICIAL OF ABATTOIR. “SUPER-CONSCIENTIOUS” MAN. n zl Jaffna Tamil and an exSuperintendent of Penang Abattoir, thirty years of ago, was yesterday charged at the Penang Police Court before Mr. h. K. Wilson with having attempted to commit suicide by drinking half a bottle of liniment. Murugasu,
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  • 141 233 In the Penang District Conn, day a Chinese na „w Pak, charged with hoj mg mid theft said, “J out of employment for a period and I was so very I thought I would steal sonX* oat. Although there may have be» touch of pathos
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  • 231 233 S. X. R. C, VS. BOATMENS UNION. There was a record gathering at Xavier’s grounds yesterday when Boatmen’s Union met St. Xaviers creation Club and lost by two goal* nil. From start to finish the match forded much interest, both sides h equally balanced though the Boes
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  • 427 234 effect of lower e bank rate. J)ULL SHARE MARKET. Monday, March 24. nt nf a further reThe o f England wdisdueuon b h ceut. should stimuwum r j te ml the rapid reduction of the tMde M eer cent, to 3i „te from 6i P“ roo nths
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  • 374 234 EUROPEAN’S STORY. MAN’S “AMUSING” MEDICAL REPORT. zl a Indian tv ho “hung around" a European's house and eventually, it was said, found his way into a bedroom appeared at the Penang Police Court yesterday. He was charged with committing trespass into the compound of a
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  • 388 234 MISSING PENANG AUCTIONEER RETURNS. STORY OF A HOUSE SALE: $3,750 INVOLVED. A charge of criminal breach of trust iii respect of $3,750 was later preferred against the man, Cheah Chye Seng, at the Penang Police Court before Mr. F. K. Wilson. The Magistrate: Where has he come
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  • 471 235 There seems to be an inclination in many parts of the world, and particularly in Malaya to disregard the actual and potential importance of the Naval Conference in London and to dismiss its possibilities with the quaint remark, <lt is so far away; there is nothing but quibbling. Possibly
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  • 546 235 MADE DOUBLY SURE OF w ENDING HIS LIFE. The inquiry into the death of Lew Ah Kwok (37) was held at the Penang Police Court on Saturday by Mr. F. K. Wilson, the Coroner. Inspector G. A. Miller, who watched the proceedings for the police, said that
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  • 135 235 SLUMP CONDITIONS.” PERAK TO ASSIST AH ft’.o x HIMALAYAN EXHIBITION? 0 (Iroin Our Own Correspondent) Ipoh, March 23. At a meeting of the Central P erai[ Branch of the Agn-horticultural Association, Sir Abdulla the Raja di Chilian presiding, it was reported that ven little support
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  • 218 235 PEN A N G PR ESE N TATION An interesting function took place at the Dato Kramat Anglo-Chinese School on Saturday evening when the Rev. G. 11.I 1 Pykett presented Mr. N. G. Manikam with the diploma, gown and hood of the Bachelor of Divinity of the
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  • 632 236 against non-benders. ISITORS' POOR FIELDING. „> ckt it is the unexpected that Ig» P. C e C. o n-Benders match played over the 6 Who would have believed of the first dev spin y that P c. c. would succeed in putting '2oo runs against
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  • 347 236 C. R. BEAT EASTERN SMELTING CO. The Chinese Recreation Club beat the Easti in Smelting Company on Saturday by 14 runs. The C.ILC. opening the batting sent in Tan Kim Lum and Oh Eng Leong. A good partnership was witnessed and Tan Kim Lum hit two sixes in succession.
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  • 148 236 Charged with ‘‘voluntarily causing curt” to another Chinese, Ho Tok Seng, (25) was allowed bail in $2OO and bis •as*- postponed to March 25, when he appeared at the Penang Police Court on Saturday before Mr. I. K. Wilson. When the charge was explained, Ho
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  • 591 237 I’KoFIT OF $»,190. -«> MANY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE TRACK. A net profit of $50,190 is shown in the statement of accounts for 1929 of the Taiping Turf Club, whose annual meeting will be held on March 29. Expenditure and depreciation, improvements to property, maintenance uf the course
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  • 148 237 A Malay woman, living at the 13th mile, Sintak Road, Kedah has been carried away by a tiger. She had been cutting grass a few yards away from the house and as she did not return at seven o’clock, her relatives went in search of her.
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  • 121 237 PENANG WOMAN CHARGED. Another case of “criminal breach of trust m respect of jewellery, this time to the extent of $270, was mentioned at the 1 enang Police Court on Saturday before Mr. F. K. Wilson when Inspector ight charged a Malay woman, named Hawammeh, with
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  • 252 237 POLICE RAID SEQUEL. I A raid was carried out bv ChU tl I tective Inspector Fowler aid hi M at Cintra Street, Penang, 0B J tL leged gaming house. As a sequel eight Chinese, Wpfk I with two men charged with being I keepers of the house,
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  • 123 237 Chew Wong was charged at Police Court yesterday with stealing katties of copper wire, worth $18» the Telephone Exchange. He was also charged with failing to report himself wlrlst under police sup#' vision. Chew Wong pleaded “guilty” Inspector Blakeslee said that the stealing of copper wire
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  • 459 238 The Penang Municipal Commissioners who meet this afternoon are be asked by the Government to express an opinion as to how a decision to develop shipping facilities on the mainland will affect the question of the desirability of improving Weld Quav. This surely indicates confusion of thought as
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  • 413 238 We were not alone in abstaining from comment upon the decision of the Governor to ban the Kuomintang Party in Malaya, for the obvious reason that anything said at the moment might easily have been misinterpreted in various quarters. It was clear that the Governor’s decision was final—and
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  • 382 238 UNGRATEFUL MALAY. HAD “GOOD TIME IN PENANG.” The story of the ungrateful Malay youth from Butterworth. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Butterworth, Monday Salleh bin Abu Bakar, a youth of 18, was produced before Mr. C. H. hitton at the Butterworth Police Court and charged with the
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  • 1301 239 PRESSURE TO PREVENT COMMENTS ON KUOMINTANG BAN.” (From Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, Monday At the Legislative Council meeting this morning, Sir Cecil Clementi presided for the first time in the presence of all members, official and unofficial. Rising at the motion of adjournment, Mr. Liin Cheng Ean
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  • 903 240 PENAN G POLICE COURT. E SD of PENANG JEWELLERY CASE: BROTHER AND SISTER DISCHARGED. The case concerned u young Malay .irl named Che Aisha and her brother, 5 \I Noordin, alias Pawanchee, who Le’ both alleged to have misappropriated jewelleries belonging to Nyak khubit Khatijeh. at one time the wfe
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  • 426 240 GUTHRIE CO., LTD. WEEKLY RUBBER REPORT. Since last reporting the market has been quietly steady, with, on occasions, an inclination towards dullness. At time of writing prices are as follows:Singapore 24 cents London 7 7/16d. New York 14$ cents gold. and, while these figures are slightly below the best during
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  • 590 241 No more important news lias been received from the British political stage than that concerning the pact between the Liberals and the Labour parties. It is suggested, by newspapers of authority, that the present British Government is likely to remain in power for two years because of an
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  • 281 241 Xegri Sembilan rubber planters have agreed to suspend May tapping. (From Our Own Correspondent) Sereinban, Monday. At a meeting of Proprietary Rubber Planters of Negri Sembilan, European and Asiatic, held in the Seremban Miners’ Association on Sunday under the auspices of the Asiatic Planters’ Association of Malaya,
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  • 538 241 MINOR INDISCREATIONS AT THE TEA TABLE. (By Candidas). Somebody rather majestic wandered into a Penang picture house the other day and 1 felt almost convinced that it was Lady Peel, but a familiar voice tells me that “she is not here yet.” Voices reminds me of the
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  • 329 243 GOY CH AUG ED. “HE RAN FROM THE BUILDING.” A fire at rubber factory had a sequel at Penang Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that a Chinese vouth deliberately set fire to some nJbU making use of other inflammable materials. Tan Ah Leong, the accused, had
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  • 523 244 xo licence. PENANG WOMAN FINED. 1 Penang Malay woman was fined W yesterday for practis- n} midwife. She had no licence. On a charge of practising as a midwife otherwise than under the direction of the medical practitioner, and not bein* 7 licensed,” Chia Binti Sahan, an
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  • 307 244 CASE DISMISSED. “ASKED TO LOOK AFTER BABY.’’ Inspector Pearson, of the Penang Police Force, was the defendant in a case yesterday. He was sued by his syce, Hashim, for “refusing to pay $33 as one month’s wages in lieu of notice.” Inspector Pearson claimed trial and
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  • 612 244 •■WISH TO GOD I HAD NOT TOUCHED TIN SHARES." (Irozn Our Own Correspondent.) Singapore, March 25 An interesting case commenced in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Stevens in which Mr. Jack Murray, the well-known Kuala Lumpur Visiting Agent, was the plaintiff and and Mr. J.
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  • 105 245 BURIED BY EARTH SLIP. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Ipoh, March 25. A fatal mine accident occurred at Ban Foh Leong Kongsi at Pusing when a mining coolie was buried as the result of earth slip. L’p To The Neck. I'he unfortunate man at the time of the
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  • 164 245 PENANG EFFORT. PARENTS ATTEND A.C.S. PRIMARY SCHOOL. Better Health Week” is being observed this week in the A.C.S. Primary School. Chulia Street, Penang. A meeting was held yesterday when 300 parents heard a talk on ‘‘Better Health. Special emphasis was given to proper feeding of the growing
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  • 768 245 A.A. ANTHONY CO.’S DAILY SHARI LIST. Penang March 27th, 1930. Name of Company Buyers Sellers Tin—Dollar Companies Sets Self Ayer Weng 1.00 Batang PaJanw LI 5 0.20 Batu Cave'. 0.9 j 1.00 Hitam 0.35 .40 Johan 0-39 0.41 Kinta 1.25 1.27 j Klang Rivers 2.27 i 2.32$ Kuchai 1.2 j
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