The Straits Times, 7 October 1909

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times. NO. 23.084 SINGAPORE. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1909. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 381 1 Ladies' Trimmed Hats A CHOICE SELECTION Now On Show. KATZ BROTHERS, Ltd. THE HOTEL of the Highest THE only Hotel of its nniqne Standard and Repute V^ffipSS^ Style in the East, in Singapore. Y ,<*V<^s3^O-j "RAFFLES" SPECIAL RACE DINNERS Tuesday, Oct. 12, Thursday, Oct. 14-, Saturday, Oat. 16. MUSIC By
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    • 193 1 ROBINSON CO. On View from Oct. I, and Following Days CORRECT AND EXCLUSIVE STYLES IX Trimmed Untrimmed MILLINERY For the Races. ROBINSON CO, HARIMA HALL Cinematograph, NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. TO-NIGHT I New Pictures. K. HARIMA, Sole Proprietor. FANCY BAZAAR. I CASH OA I C- f CLEARANCE W«l—C I 3STO"W IPROaE^EIDTJSrQUreat
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  • 752 2 PAN-BRITANNIC CONFERENCE AT SYDNEY. Presidential Address. On September 14, tbe delegates to the CongresR of Chambers of Commerce of tbe Empire were welcomed by tbe Lord Mayor and the Oovernor-Oeoeral, Lord Dudley, declared tbo congress open. Sir Albert Spicur delivered his presidential address. He said Wo have
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  • 248 2 King Leopold Sends Them to the Auction Room. King Leopold of Belgium has decided to sell his modern pictures. An auction is to take place in the autumn at Brussels. Belgians are most indignant at the news, especially as tbe King has ordered three halls of tbe Brussels
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  • 698 2 REMINISCENCES IN CAREER OF MR. ROBERT SEFTON. Seeking for Fortune in Borneo and Malaya. The Western Mail, of Perth, has published the life story of Mr. Robert Sefton who is regarded as being among the best known explorers and prospectors in all Australasia, From early boyhood
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  • 221 2 Extraordinary Story of Cruelty I Related. A petitioner in the Sydney Divorce Court, on Septcmber7, in telling tbe reasons which had impelled her to leave her hnsband, gave a tale of systematic cruelty which seems t" be almost incredible. She said she bad been taken by the throat
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 218 2 Moet and Chandon CHAMPAGNE. Bulmer's Herefordshire CIDER Jeffrey's Edinburgh ALE STOUT. IMPORTERS: The Borneo Co., Ld., SINGAPORE. The Straits Times, AMD The Straits Budget SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Payable la Advance. Daily >k, jo per year IBC.OO do per quarter 7.60 do per month 3.60 do p° r co V 7 10
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    • 181 2 BUCHANAN'S WHISKIES are not an experiment. They have bum the favourite blends at home for many years and are rapidly gaining similar popularity in the Colonies. No expense is spared in keeping both, up to the mark RED BEAL AND BLACK AND WHITE 46 SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD, (NEAR
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    • 64 2 RHEUMATISM. More than nine out of every ten cases of rheumatism aro simply rheumatism of tbe m uscles. due to cold or damp weather or chron ie rheumatism. In such cases no internal treatment is required. The free application of Chamberlain's Paiu Halm is all that is neede d aud
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    • 241 2 Phi* Oiif I Tht v.lLdralntd cup ttlis tht storr of "Codbarps g00dn,,,. from tht first to Jhtlajt drink It grloi tht polalt. Tht flavour Is dtlightfol, lit pmrita 111 Qotsttontd, and its Votat as a fooiS intstirnahlt St If tht dtaltr jlSon/j ask voor cocoa cholc*. laa M«^« IK 9r\^_^^3^^^^^
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  • 556 3 TRUE AND CLEVER EPIGRAMS GLEANED. Smart Pickings. The other week saw a new theatrical production nearly every night, and an occasional correspondent of The Pall Mall Gazette has succeeded in gleaning some of tho best lines from them. One point before giving the difficult to-obtain-extracts, as
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  • 278 3 Imperial and Foreign Work for the Second. Mr. Henniker Itcaton gave notice recently of his intention to call attention in the House of Commons to our neglect of Imperial and foreign postal and telegraphic commonicationn. He proposes that there shall be an Imperial and Foreign I'ontmantcr-Gencral, as
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 411 3 Howarth Erskine, Ltd. CIVIL, MECHANICAL ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, IRON BRASS FOUNDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRIDGE BUILDERS GENERAL CONTRACTORS. SOLE FOR. Worthington Pump Co.'s Patent Pumps Puleometer Engineering Co.'a Pulsometer Pumps Kobey and Co.'s Portable Engines and Machinery Richard Hornsby and Son's Oil and Gas Plants Waygood's Ijif ts and Hoists Robert Roger
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    • 58 3 CHAMBERLAIN 8 PAIN BALM. You will hunt a good while before you find a liniment that is equal to Chamberlain's Pain Balm. In cases of rheumatism and sciatica it relieves the intenese pain and makes sleep and rest possible. Soreness of tbe muscles, swellings and lameness are quickly relieved by
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    • 227 3 7%atis /%4S££&A&4V£S SINGAPORE SODA WATER HsfuMsJiedover 2Sjteaxs. mj^^ The Greatest W W£P. i/^ t of all Tonic* J% g^TJ A Prar.o Kamedy tor all N«rral^<§ Y/r* Dta«co«fa. MARTELL'S Blue and Silver Label is an accepted guarantee, all over the world for the BEST quality in BRANDY (THREE STAR k ONE
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    • 447 3 PEARSON'S HYCOL (Carbolic Co.-Efficient 18 to 20). ITfHE most powerful Disinfectant in the World. Guaranteed 18 to 20 times more effective than pure Carbolic Acid. Ask other manufacturers of fluids for a Guarantee of the SKS> Germicidal Strengths of their products (in relation to Pure Carbolic Acid) under the Standard
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 687 4 STEAMER SaiLINSS. P. O. STEAM NAVIGATION GO. For China, Japan, Penang, Ceylon, Australia, India, Aden, Egypt, Msdlterraoean Ports, Plymouth and London. Through Uil<* of Lading issued for China Ooast, Peraian Gulf, Continental, and Amerioan IMb, Htearaeri will leave Singapore on or about MAIL LINES. Outward (for China) Delhi Oot 8
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    • 595 4 STEAMERS SAILING. N.Y.K. JAPAN MAIL BTEAMBHIP CO. LTD. Two rognlar servioe* are maintained between JAPAN and EUROPE by the Company's well-known TWIN-SCREW STEAMERS, under Mail Contract with tbe Imperial Japanese Government, specially designed for tbe Company's European Service, lighted throughout by Electricity, provided witb excellent accommodation for Finit and Second
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    • 876 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. STEAMER SAILINGS". BTOOMVAART-MAATSCHAPPM BURNS PHILP UNE (STEAMSHIP COMPANY) I-UIU. U XTI7TM7IST AXTT\ H SINGAPORE TO -JAVA PORTS, PORT IN Il.lJli I". LA I\ II DARWIN, THURSDAY ISLAND, B A BRISBANE AND SYDNEY. ALSO TAK'NO CARGO FOA OTHER FORTNIGHTLY MAIL SERVICE j NORTH QUEENSLAND PORTS, BETWEEN JAVA AND AMBTERDAM
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    • 597 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE. HAMBURG. The steamers of this Company maintain a regular service between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and tbe Straits, China and Japan. Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and onoe a month for Bremerhaven direct, calling at Penang and Colombo. Taking cargo
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    • 722 4 STEAMER BAILIHBB. N. D. L. Norddeutscher Lloyd. Bremen. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE. The fast and well-known mail steamers of this Company sail fortnighty from BremtD Hamburg, via Rotterdam, Antwerp. Southamp ton, Qibraltar, Qenoa, Naples (oonneotkn Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, and vioe versa) Port Said, Saez, Aden, Colombo, Penasg. Singapore, Hongkong Shanghai,
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  • 200 5 FIXTURES. Ihiir.^day, October 7. High Water, 1 SB .uu BJB pm. P. and O. homeward mail dim Tabernacles, Bth Day (Jewish Festival. Choral K.-tival, St. Androw"n Cithedral, 9. 1 I: er M ;i-;ni Ik-siiis. PtiUbarmoaic Orohertra, 6.1.".. Alhambra Cinomatograph. Haruna Cinouiatograph. Marlboron<>h Cinorcatograph. Friday. October 8. ll
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  • 256 5 To-DiT. Malacca, Port Diokaou, mil P. Swet'iuham Poh Ann 3 pm liativi<\ Clieiibon nnd Hamarang Kdcndale I pm ltit.li. Macassar, Mrnado I'crnate. et. Ban Poh Guan 3pm S'baya and Bali Nam Vong 3 pm Penang, Rangoou and Calcutta Nuddea 4 pm Pntavia K Willem It 4 pm
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  • 131 5 The P. and O. outward mail steamer Delhi left PMMg at 11 p.lll.p .111. yesterday, and may bo expected to arrive here to morrow morning. The company's mail steamer KoningWillcm II left Siiliang »v the sth instant, at 5 p.m., ami is expected to arrive here today,
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  • 475 5 Latest Arrivals. MAN-OF-WAR. Brak, Dut Oovt.. str. 125 ton", 23orew 1 gun SCO h.p. Capt Wink. Oct 6. From Bhio. Oct 6. For Ilhio. Oct 7— Rds. Delia. Brit stir, 4780 tuns. Capt Snow, Oot 7. rrom Shanghai, Sept 28. O.e. and p. and mails. P. *0.8. N.
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  • 49 5 October 5 Kni, /at. Fch etr. Faißon Choir ha, Ocr Bir, lfciiul;. k Pin Seng, Brit sir. P. Swettonham ;ind Penang Hrd.l, Nor str. Bangkok /win f,. Dut Ktr, Sambas l.nT'ialui, Uritstr, .Melbourne and Sydney 6 silttin, Gcrstr, Japan via ports 7 Wt/Jtm, A-.s atr, Tr>atu via ports
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  • 87 5 Wharves at which Vessels are Berthed To-Day. tan.jon6~paoar. Run Whasf Bisim—CiangSeng. EiST W. Bectios 1-Nippon. Ssctioh No. 1 (Kniniw Wumik)— Taki'aki Mam. KlOTIoa n 2- Hydra. Sa<lo Mara. B—Naddea. m H i— Hreconshire. 6_Nil. K e-Beniiionc m 7-1! :nov.iu. I B—l'linm,8 —I'linm, Ciiicnj<mai.
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  • 156 5 The strain, r C':n Macintisli, which was reported lost. aTivL-d in Calcutta, on the night of September Site ami smini. From 11 .ni;U k and Kclautan, the local Gainer Siu^aporc arrived, this morning, with a general cargo, four saloon passengers and 140 bullocks. From the Natuna and Auamb.i
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  • 692 5 Coming to Singapore; Per P. and O. steamer Macedonia, due Oct. B.— Mr. and Mrs. 11. J. Crunney, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kerr, Mrs. W. H. Williams, Rev. W. 0. Horley, Mr. ami Mrs. K N. Miller, Mr. F. M Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Keating
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  • 41 5 I'cr steamer Sclangor, Oct 6.—From Tcluk \nson Messrs. Wharton and G. Ekcroth. I 1..in Port Dickson Mr. James McClymont. From Malacca: Messrs. G. Hloch, L. E. P. Wolferstan, E. B. K. Hunt, L. V. Roots and L'han 1 'liiiu Ek.
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  • Finance & Commerce.
    • 138 5 SiNOiPou, u< raan t, iooe. On London Eai.k 4 m/s 2;.) rcmaEd v/4A I'rivatt e ni/s 2/4J do 8 nj/h SMI] On Cetmatiy— Iiank d/d gu I'matoaiii/H 241 J do 6 m/f 24a On France- 1'aDk d/d 2P5 1'matu 8 bq/h 2fc6 do 6 m/fi 800 On India- Papk
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    • 117 5 BnMNBB, (I. mi: 7. 1SO0 oan Djtr tuyen III M do (Colt Nc. 1) ODpickcd 1.". 60 I lira I'ali H do PiDliarnk 7.711 Pepper. Black |«iOfl do White t% buj.is mi Sato Floor Sarawak I n do Brunei No. I 1,, Pearl SaRO 4 i n C'oflif Fali
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    • STOCKS AND SHARES.
      • 258 5 Issci Paid Vall-i Up d£S» Ulvkks Skllkm.h r 10 10 10 io 10 10 1 1 10 10 1 1 1 1 10 10 1 1 10 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 10 1 1 1 1 18/10 1 1 6 5 10 10
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      • 572 5 Sterling:. 2 2/- Anglo-Malay Rubbor 00., Ltd. 80% for '08 1 Bata Caves Rubber Co., Ltd 10% for '08 1 1 Batu Tiga (Sclangor) R. Co. Ltd. 6% for 'oB 1 1 1 Bokit Kajang Rubber Estate Ltd 1 7/6/ Contributory 1 1 Bukit Lintang R. Estates. Ltd 1
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      • 192 5 10 10 60 10 100 100 100 100 10 100 100 10 60 1 100 100 10 10 7 60 10 100 100 10 100 100 10 I 60 1 100 100 I 10 Eastern Smelting Co., Ltd. f 10% for 12.50 a 1 10% for W 10.10 Kraser
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 224 5 Players J Iftavy (DiKture In Ib. I'attnt Vv Air-Tit,'ht Tins. OBTAINABLE AT PRIC Per s rl CTSi John Little Co, Ltd., Robinson Co. AUCTION SALES Powell and Co. Oct. 9— At Burnbrae. No. 1, Anderson Itoad, Tanfjlin, Teak, Household Furniture, etc., property of O. Kiehmann, Esq nt UK. Oct. 15—
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    • 31 5 Oct 9— At No. 8, Mount Elizabeth. HouseIIOM t'uruiture, etc., at 1.30. Oct 12 At salerooms, Haro Chinese Porcelain, at 10 30. Oct. 13 At salerooms, Hare Chinese Porcelain, at 10.E0.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 342 5 V'EATHER REPORT. Mandang Ktrhau Hospital, 0M >, 2309. 9 a. S r. «.;8 r. u.\£LumujT Bar. 32 Fab.. 23 .901 29.77 J 29.865 Temp 85.11 89.0 82 0 Nil Wet Bulb Ther 79.0 79 5 78 0 OirofWind.. S.W. H.W. calm Max. Temp.. 89.8 Mm 73 8 Mm. InSuu.. 116.
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  • 1180 6 The Straits Times. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. RUBBER MYSTERIES. In onr mcanderings through many rubber company prospectuses we have often paused to speculate upon the method, if any, which the gentlemen adopt whose valuations are set forth with as much confidence as if their authors were endowed with a kind of
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  • 11 6 Cebn is declare 1 infected owing to the existence of cholera.
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  • 15 6 Mr. Robert Sef ton's adventurous career in Borneo and Malaya is related on page 2.
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  • 17 6 Twenty-five Chinese laundry men have not been allowed to land at Folkutone, by order of the authorities.
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  • 16 6 A Rttrt has been made at Vancouver with enrolment of naval volunteers. 175 have been enrolled.
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  • 19 6 The War Office is experimenting with the nse of the Boy Scouts in connection with the regular army manoeuvres.
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  • 18 6 A wire from our correspondent at Kuala Lumpur states tbat the Japanese boycott movement at Kinta is spreading.
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  • 25 6 The Presidential address at the Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, which opened at Sydney, on September 14, is printed on page 2.
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  • 31 6 A number of members of tbe Craft are going up to Knala Lumpur from Singapore at the end of tbe week for the consecration of the new Masonic Lodge at Klang.
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  • 36 6 Owing to the scarcity of labour the farmers in Western Canada are paying 16s per day, with board, to the men who are assisting to gather the harvest which is one of thu largest on record.
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  • 31 6 At Preston, 28 miles from Liverpool, throe Police officers have been dismis-e 1 and nine others have been reduced in rank owing to accepting bribes and indulging in drinking and betting.
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  • 30 6 A notice was posted on the shipping board at Brisbane, on September Z. as follows: Bustard Hi ad, September 5 Steamer Airlie passed north 10 p.m. yesterday apparently broken down.
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  • 30 6 There are 1,000 taxi-cabs lying idle in London owing to a lack of competent drivers. The motor cab companies complnin that the new police requirements regardiug drivers are too rigorous.
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  • 35 6 The costly undertaking of the new Admiralty harbour at Dover is neariog completion, and it is intimated that ihe openiug ceremony will be performed by H. R. H. tho Prince of Wales on October 15.
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  • 36 6 The British Weekly, a religious journal, urges tbe formation of a Free Church Urgency League t > wage a crusade against the House of Lirds. Tue Rtv. Dr. Clifford is, it asserts, prepared to lead the crusade.
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  • 41 6 Eight hundred prisoners of the Central Gaol, Lucknow, have been encamped, since August last, outside the walls of the Gaol on account of an outbreak of cholera within the precincts if the prison which had claimed no less than 25 victims.
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  • 44 6 The final sitting of the Young Egypt Congress was held at Geneva, on September 15, Mr. Keir Hardie, M. P., presiding. The Congress resolved to demand (1) The British evacuation of Egypt; (2) representative Government (3) liberty of the Press and (4) free schools.
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  • 49 6 M. Cochery, French Minister for Finance, -v bit Budget for 1910 proposes to meet a deficit of £8,000,000 by increased duties to tho e:.t. ut of £.2,500,000 00 tobacco, £l..)00,0(k) on wine, brandy, and absinthe, and £1,500,000 on legacies, taxes on motor cars and petrol, and by receipt stamps.
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  • 54 6 The Government of Hayti (the Black Republic) is favouring a scheme, formulated by the German Minister at Port au- Prince, to create a German bank to supersede the Frtuch National Bank of Hayti, hitherto predominant. New York bankers own onethird of the shares in the French Hank and are suspicious
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  • 49 6 Information received in Sydney, from Noumea, states that New Caledonia is in a di p'orable condition, owing to tbe retention in France of the loan of £120,000 (less the £32,000 already taken possession of by the home Government for colony's arrears). The money was urgently required for relief works.
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  • 71 6 The V. S. Department of Agriculture recently commissioned an investigator to find out what is the best way of driving away the mosquito from camps, etc. and the result has been the following recipe Take one ounce of oil of cedar, two ouncos of oil of citronclla, and two ounces
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  • 66 6 The Durban correspondent of the 1) iiy Mail states that experiments will shcrtly be made with a view of establishing a wirele-s telegraphic service between Sooth Africa and Great Britain It is proposed to elevate kites to a height of I,oooft. in Cornwall and to collect the Hertzian waves, and
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  • 73 6 Dr. William Newton, Crown licensee of the Marion and Prince Edward Islands (between Capetown and the Crozots) states that it is common knowledge among Cape seafarers tbat whalers and ou.er suips often drift to those islands. Searchers for the Waratah should, he asserts visit the islands. The latter are at
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  • 77 6 The wireless telegraph station in Bombay for communicating with P. and O. steamers is to be in working order by the third week in October, with a range of some three hundred miles. The first ship of the P. and O company that will be communicated with will be the
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  • 85 6 Mr. M. 11. Hilckes sued Messrs. Cbing Keog and Co. in the district court before Mr. Siunders, yesterday, for the roturn of certain goods in possession of defendants. Mr. Johaunes appeared for the plaintiff. Defendants presented a counterclaim for $81 85. Plaintiff claimed that he had overpaid defendants by 133.26.
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  • 405 6 Dr. Dowden of Sereniban hasboen granted long leave. Dr. Meldrum is to take his place. Rev. Father Mariette, of the R. O. Mis .ion at Taipiug, is shortly to be transferred to Singapore. The N. C. Daily News is informed on good authority that a letter has
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  • 51 6 We understand that a Rangoon syndicate is negotiating with a view to the purchase of Mr. Tully's mining property at#>. rui.l ih ttahrn. Mr. T. Francis, a raining engineer has come down from Rangoon and visited the property and has wind to the syndicate tint the proposition is
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  • 54 6 Festival As an erroneous impression has got abroad that all the seats in St. Andrew's Cathedral have been reserved for tho Choral Festival, this evening, we are asked to state that this is not the case. There are fivo hundred free seats available, quite a
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  • 93 6 At Friday's meeting of tho L»gis'ative Council Mr. Baker will ask: Will Government lay on the table of Ihfa council a copy of the Governor's despatch No. 46 i t > thu Secretary of Sate f r thu Colonies, dated Singapore, December 9, 1903, to which the letter
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  • 127 6 Mr. E. 0. Ellis is about to introduce into tin 1. i;imiuivu Council an ordinanco to Mueud 111* law relating to the subdivision of shares ol regi-tered companies. Hk points out that the power of subdivision of shares conferred by section 24 of the Companies Ordinance
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  • 214 6 There was a fire at a wedding celebration in Cimpbell Lane in July last, and one man was burned to death and others were very badly injured. At the coroner's ioijuest, which followed, Liuw Ah Nian, the coolie who was sent by the eye'e nhr>p
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 178 6 AQUARIUS CO.'S Sparkling Mineral Table Waters. SO well-known throughout China. IN QUARTS, PINTS AND SPLITS. IN WNTS AND SPLITS. Free samples on application to Caldbeck, Macgregor Co., I- 9 $9 each. AND CO., LTD. 1 PARTLY RUBBER A SOLID INVESTMENT. Intending investors seeking a solid investment wonld do well to
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    • 301 6 ALHAMBRA and Show, at 9.30 p.m. ENTIRELY NLW PICTURES. "THE MARVELLOUS GARLANDS." A very pretty pictu c suowmg t! wers thrown on to a sceen immed ately assume fantastic and picturesque shapes. AN EXTRAORDINARY DUEL." A picture full of Tricks. Very amusing. "FRANCIS I, AND THE JESTER'S DAUGHTER.' A Drama
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  • 221 7 KING CALLS LORD LANSDOWNE TO BALMORAL Hopes of Settlement With House of j Lords. i Land Taxes may be Abandoned. y t IRkctkh'h Tklki)ram| t LondoD, October 6. Tim Kmi4 retiirn» to London on Monday. > Hence tin: excitement of Mr. Aequith's depar- turo for Baluioral. The
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  • 70 7 I Preparing a Balloon for Arctic Tour. Das QnaMHi Lloyd Tri.kgraul Berlin, October 6. Count Zeppelin, as a preparation for his polar expedition, intends to make a preliminary expedition as far as Spitzbergen in 1910, and a balloon is under construction for a trial trip in
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  • 40 7 I Speech on Happily Mixed Races in America. [Dbr Ostasiatiscdb Lloyd Telboram] Berlin, October 6. Admiral Kocster has made a speech at New York in which he commented on the good understanding of the German-Ameri-can and Anglo-American people.
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  • 34 7 I [Der Ostasutichb Lloyd Telborams] Berlin, October 6. Tbe Spanish Ambassador at Paris declares that thcro will be neither war against Mulai II ifid nor occupation of Tetuan, Lairasch, or Taga.
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  • 32 7 I [Der Ostasiatischb Lloyd Teleoram] Berlin, October 6. The new U. S. Ambassador to China, Mr. Crane, was specially instructed on the M*nchurian question before he started for China
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  • 25 7 IDtH Ostasiatiscue Lloyd Tkkoamlk' Berlin, October 6. General Von der Goltz has received additional three months leave for service in Turkey.
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  • 28 7 I (Dee Ostasiatiscbi Lloyd Tblbobaml Berlin, October 6. The NordeuWio Zoitung celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Triple Alliance, between Go. many, Austria and Italy.
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  • 24 7 I [Deb Ostasiabiscbb Lloyd Teleorah] Berlin, October 6. An international conference on the White slave traffic ip being held at Vienna.
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  • 14 7 I[Dbr Ostasiatischb Lloyd Teleoram] Berlin, October 6. Revolution has broken out in Paraguay.
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  • 16 7 I (Dee Ostasiatischb Lloyd Tbleoram] Berlin, October 6. The press has appreciative memoirs of Tchang-tshi-tung.
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  • 27 7 I Dm Ostasiattschb Lloyd Telegram] Berlin, October 6. Mr. Von Muller, formerly in Berlin, has been appointed Minister of Commerce in the Russian Government.
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  • 774 7 Selection from Oratorio at the Cathedral. Last night a large congregation, which included His Excellency the Governor, was preient in St. Andrew's Cathedral to hear a rendering of portions of Mendelssohn's Elijah and Handel's The Messiah. The proceedings were devotional in character, bat tbis apart they wore musically
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  • 75 7 A dinner to commemorate the victory of General James Wolfe (the Conqueror of Quebec) over the French under Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham On September 13, 1759. was held in the Franco-British Exhibition Building at Shepherd's Bush, on September 13. Field-Marshal Sir George White, who
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  • 131 7 A Chinese pauper who spoke English exceedingly well was before the third magistrate, yesterday, on a charge of begging for alms. He stated that he was from Kuala Lumpur and had been in the Tan Tock Seng hospital on account of dysentery. He was discharged yesterday and had
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  • 319 7 HIGH AND CLOSE BIDDING FOE MONOPOLY. Lowest Tender from Singapore. There must be money in the opium farrx business of Hongkong, says the S. C. Morning Post, of the Ist instant. At least that is the conclusion one naturally comes to when the} consider the prices that
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  • 516 7 Important Provisions in Proposed Measure. A Government Gazette extraordinary was issued yesterday afternoon, containing tbe text of several new bills about to be introduced into the Legislative Council, the most important of which is the ordinance to give the Government the exclusive right to import and export
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  • 173 7 In the Supreme Court, this morning, Mr. justice S«roombe Smith continued the hearing of the claim of a broker named Manap bin Daud against Syed Allowei bin Ztin Al Joffrre. The plaintiff, who is represent* d by Mr. Everitt, seeks to recover 110,000 for services rendered in connection
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  • 1576 7 CENTRAL BUILDING PRACTICALLY COMPLETED. The Latest Fire Fighter. The greatest of many improvements which the Singapore municipality has within recent times undertaken to place its fire department upon an efficient basis is to all intents and purposes completed we refer to the new central fire station which
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  • 284 7 Plea of Guilty and Sentence of Three Years. Charles Roberts was charged in the British Conrt at Bangkok, on the Ist inst., before Judge Skinner Turner with having received on April SO, 1908, from Chin Law Chan Huat the sum of Tcs. 3,000 as a deposit for
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  • 284 7 Unsatisfactory Returns Issued by Government. The Government of India Finance Department returns continue to be anything but :beerful reading. The figures were issued at Simla, on September 27, lor the period April 1 to August 31. They show fallings off in revanue even as compared with
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  • 57 7 A Eurasian named Thomas K. Hill was before the second magistrate, yesterday, on a charge of criminal breach ot truitt in respect of a cheque for $25 which was given him by Victor (iomez to cash. Accused described himself as a telegrapher newly arrived from India. The hearing of the
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  • 156 7 AN HEIR-PRESUMTIVES WIFE ENNOBLED. Sequal to Austrian Prince's Marriage. IRictir's TblboramJ London, October A. The Emporor Francis Joseph has con. ferred on the wife of Archduko FramFerdinand, Heir Presumptive, the rank of Duchess and the title of Highness. It is simultaneously announcod that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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  • 47 7 Concession Made by the Prime Minister [Rbuter's Teleoram I London, October 6. While declining to accede to all the Irish demands on the licensing schedules of the Finance Bill, Mr. Asquitli has announced concessions for which he ban been thanked by Mr. Dillon.
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  • 45 7 Handsome Offer by Sir Alfred Jones. [Rbcteb's Teleoram] London, October 7. Sir Alfred Jones, presiding at a meeting of the British Cotton Growers Association, offered another £25,000 to the association, provided that the cotton spinners obtained £150,000 during the next sis months.
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  • 34 7 The loch Kenneth Dividend. (From Ocr Correspondent.) London, via Penang, October 6. The Inch Kenneth Company declare a dividend of five per cent, place £2,500 to reserve, and carry forward £506.
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  • 30 7 (From Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, October 6. The death ia 'announced in Scotland of Mr. John Olassford, a well-known planter and sportsman of Selangor.
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  • 132 7 (From Oik Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, October 8. The September crop of Seremban Estate is 18,8fi51b. Messrs. Ounn and Co. inform us that the manager of the Bnkit Lintang Hubber Estates Ltd., advises that the output for September wax 1,175 lbs. dry rubber. The dry rubber harvested on
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  • 42 7 (From Our Own Cokbbspondsnt.) Kuala Lumpur, October 6. The tin exports from the tbvee western states for the nine months ended September 30 are 664,595 picuk as against 598,751 piouls in the corresponding period of last year.
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  • 25 7 (Kbom Our Own Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, October 6. According to a London wire the average price of plantation rubber is 9s Ojd.
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  • 127 7 Ad application was made before the Chief Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta, on behalf of Arthur Crawford for a warrant against Henry Bruce, author of The Native Wife on the additional charge of insult. The magistrate lid not see there were grounds for an additional charge as under
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  • Sporting Intelligence.
    • 210 8 A return furnished in Melbourne, on ■^■ptetnW 8, by H» Minister for Mm slnws that out of 57.S."ii> riflemen no fewer than 24.2?'-' were non-efficient. The Prrak Pioneer has hoard, from a corieNpondent, some talk of a Grand Council in connection with the different ladies riflo clubs
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    • 66 8 Sepoy Lines Uolf Club. Pull details of the Ladies Hogcy competition for prizes presented by Mr. and Mrs. A. Pearce are as follow Miss McNair I up Mrs. Saunders 2 up Mrs. Fowlie 1 up Mrs. Hartnell 1 up Miss (ientlo all square Mrs. Keith Miss Wartors 1 down
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    • 158 8 The Interport Fixture. In an article dealing with sport in Hongkong the S. C. Morning Post sa\ With regard to tennis, there is not much to report. Excepting the Y. M. C. A. tournament, which is still in progress, this particular sport is practically at a standstill, although
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    • 96 8 5. C. C. v. 3rd Middlsex Regt. Hockey was resumed by tho S. C C.. yesterday, when they played a representative eleven of the Middlesex regiment. Play was fast and interesting as is usual when these teams meet, and some good passing and conio. nation were seen. The club
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    • 292 8 The Interport Match. Local cricketers, says the S. C. Morning Post, will be pleasod with Mr. Maitland's statement to the effect that tbe players who will be chosen to do battle for Hongkong in the forthcoming interport matches will be drawn from the whole colony. Wo do not know
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  • 121 8 .ludgmeut has been delivered in the suit i hi libel which has been occupying the Japa- ue-e Court at Kobe for many in mtliß. pays I a wire in the Hongkong Daily Press, < the plaintiff being Mr. W. T. R. Prexton, until lately Canadian Trade
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  • 653 8 Notes and Comments on Racecourse Training. Thursday morning. Last but one of the gallops was done this morning, and judging from the exceptionally hard state of the track it is really surprising that a lot jf good horses have not gone sore. We have still five days
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  • 273 8 Proposed Changes in Jurisdiction of Kathis. An ordinance to amend tbe Muhamiuadan Mnrriage Ordinance 1903 is about to be irtroduced into the Legislative Council. In tbe objects and reasons, Mr. Rowland Allen, the acting attorney-general, explains that when the principal ordinance was passed it was not thought desirable
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  • 160 8 Abdulrahiuan. I. C. 57U. and Ismail. P. C. < (V2'2. prosecuted a ricksha puller named Teng Ah Xi in tli- second magistrate's court, yester- iUy afternoon, on a charge of assaulting them I Another puller named Tin Chun prosecuted I tbe same constables on charges of
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  • Correspondence.
    • 358 8 To tbe Editor of the Straits Times. Sir,— Like 0.. I have spent along term of years in this part cf the world, but have reached some very different conclusions from those arrived at by your correspondent of yesterday. Rash would bo a strong term to apply to
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  • 356 8 Report on Operations of Royal Survey Department. Mr. R. W. (iiblin a annual general report on tho operations of the K iy.il Survey Department, of Siatu is dated May IS, 1906, and the period reported on is from October 1, lOOti to September :)0, l!H>7. Despite
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  • 149 8 Experimenting on Microscopic Animals. The collections brojght home from I lie Ant arctic by the Nimrod are just buing unpacked. Some of the weed from the lake- was handed bo Mr. Scourfiold, a well known naturalist, who reported that some of the microscopic Antarctic animals were
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  • 66 8 The Avon River hax owing to -.i\ y tl >■ > I— butnt tlte b.mks. states a wire, dited September :10. The town of Aberavon (on the banks of the river) is rloodod, and immense jamagc has been done to property. Bridges liavn been deuioli^hod, houses
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  • 71 8 The Rank of Bjrmt case was before tbe :hit-f presidency magistrate, at Madras, on September 27. There are two charges, with lix countn, against the late manager, Mr. Joyce, and the cashier, Paraoaasiva Modelly, ilU'giog wilful falsification of a bink book with intent to defraud, under section 477 A P.
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  • 809 8 Prices Quoted in the Market This Morning. Singapore. 7th October, 1909. Mew*. Lyall and Evatt, Exchange and Share Brokers, issne the following list of potations this morning Norn. Value. Bayers. Sellers. il, 1 1 liiy v 1 '1 pm II- Anglo-Malay l.'>/6 1« £1 Anglo- Sumatra 2*7/-
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 609 8 SALE OF Paints, Varnish, Oil, Stoves, etc., TO BE HELD AT POWELL AND CO'.S SALE ROOM, On Friday, October 15, at 11 am. v?nvi 11 C MM i IXEI) .i P'V NTS. TuioU<t colo"rs ia OUI K*llou au '1 I ««'^n ARNISH, excellent coach xarnish in 1 yullon emSuperior Walnut
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 350 9 NOTICES. THE RAGALLA RUBBER CO.. LTD. NOTICE IS HEREBY G.IYEN, that the traiirtftr books uf the Company will be closed from October U, to October 1">. MOV, both dates iucljsive. for t!io following purposes A. To r i i-parc Preference dividend Warrants. It. To prepare the IM I SbanhaUan necessary
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    • 595 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. INDOCHINA STEAM NAY. CO., LTD. Tea ateamers of this Company maintain a regular direct service between Calcutta, Straits, Hongkong, B K ft"B > 1 and Japan, taking osrgr, 0* Ibrough BiUs ot Lading for Canton, Bwatow, Amoy, Chefoo, Tientsm, Nawohwang, Yangtsie Pjrts, Formosa, tbe Philippines, Ac, 4c. Steamers
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    • 508 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. AND CHINA MUTUAL BTEAM NAY. CO. LTD. The Companies' steamers are detpaohed frtm Liverpool outwards tor the Straits, China and Japan every week and from Japan homeward s for London, Amsterdam and Antwerp every fortnight for Genoa, Marseilles and Liverpool and for Marseilles,
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    • 562 9 STEAWEB SAILINGS. O. Jr. K. Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Royal Mail Sttamsblp Lint. THB RATIONAL HIGHWAY TO EUROPE ru CHINA JAPAN, OARADA ul IBS UNITED STATES. Boot* bom Hongkong, via Shanghai, Nagasaki, (Island Bea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama, Victoria and Vanoonrw, R.M.B. 'EtrrßMS of Irou" lTwln sor«w steaF.M.S. "Enraiss of
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    • 441 9 Proprietor: J. CARAPIET. Special Diner Musicale AND AFTEIi DINNER CONCERT s «\>°' Saturday Next. \A^ ADELPHI N^ ORCHESTRE MIGNON. Telephone No. 9& SLEDGE MILK E^)a.. .m. I I I <->■£. I Tii. l)c-t Sanatorium in PXCj\/ rW rffjl Singapore. First-class Vs# V d 111 Vs# \m^* I Milliard Tables A
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  • 748 10 PLAYERS OF GAMES SAY THEY ARE A NUISANCE. Golfer's Complaint. Are women a nuisance in sport? That they are is evidently the view of an angry golfer who wrote to The Daily Mirror asking if they could not be prevented from playing his favourite game. My game last
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  • 97 10 Lord Curzon writing to The Times says be does not deciro to express an opinion as to tbo amnxing reappearance of certain of his remarks in Lord Kitchener's urcwi-ll speech, but he desires to correct the statement of the correspondent who Npoke of Lord Kitchener
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 502 10 INSURANCE. GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO.. LIMITED. Head Office Winchester House, SINGAPORE. Board of Director* 1 O. A. Dsbbick, Epq., Chairman. Ad. Asmcs, Ewj., Vice Chairman. A. H. Faih, Esq Managing Director. Pbtbb Fowlib, m.b., cm. Chief Mod. Officer. F. M. Elliot, Esq. Rot. N. J. CoDVREnB. Tow Noan Pan,
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    • 445 10 INSURANCE. THE IMPERIAL FIRE OFFIOB. DRITID WITH TBB AU.IABCB ASBBBANCS CoMFABT, LIMITED A I Bartholmew Lane, London. BBTASLISDBO 1803. Capital «S,ttO,oOo Total Funds exceed.. £lo,ooo,ooo General Manager, Robebt Lewis, Esq. BARLOW A CO.,— Agnu LANCASHIRE IN6TTRANCE COMPANY LIMITED. BOW MIROED IB THE ROYAL INSURANCE CO., FIRE A LIFE. INVESTED FUNDS
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    • 575 10 BANKING, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. paid-up capital tis.ooo.ooo RESERVE FUND Sterling Reserve $18,000.0001 130 500 0 SllTerßeserve $16,250,000/ i3 J l> u lo B«wrv« Liability ot Propriators $18,000,000 COURT OP DIRECTORS Hon. Mr. W. Qresson, Chairman. H. E. Tomkins, Es 4 Depnty Chairman. E.G. Barrett, Eaq. R. Lenzmann, Esq
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    • 173 10 THE 82E HAI TONB BANKING AND t INSURANCE CO.. LTD. •7 AND BS, HLiNO STREET. Bstablished January 7, 1907. Capital, Nominal $1,000,000 Capital, paid np •1,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietors 11,000,000 1 COCIiT or DIRKCTOB3. Tab Teoe Joob, Esq. 7 Sim Ku Jan, Esq. I Luo Cbu Himo, Esq. 8
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    • 1077 10 SALES BY AUCTION. -A.TJCTIO3ST SALE OF VALUABLE TEAK HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, COTTAGE PIANO, HORSES AND CARRIAGES, AND PLANTS, ETC., ETC. The property of G. Rietinann, Esq., AT BURNBRAE. NO. 1. ANDERSON ROAD. TANGLIN. On Saturday, October 9, at 1.30 p.m. i A e oellent j oned cottage piano by E. KRAISS
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  • 814 11 NOTES AND COMMENTS OP CURRENT TOPICS. Motor Car Legislation. At a meeting of the Chester Rural District Council Mr. T. Butler (Cbris'.leton) moved a resolution protesting against the Government scheme to make special roads for motoi traffic. He said that we have got road lions already, and next we
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  • 71 11 A bill is to be presented to Parliament to amend section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 by repealing the words Every person wanderiDg abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in
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  • 517 11 New Volumes Ready for Singapore Subscribers. Tbe following new books will be ready for issue today Annesley, Maude, This Days Madness, S 10,245 Appleton, G.W., Doctor Dale's Dilemma S 10.246 Birmingham, G.A., The Search Party S 10,247 Caiue, Hall, The White Prophet, 2 vols. S 10,248-9 Campbell, Mrs.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 392 11 Cost of running dcp< nds largely on WOLSELEY-SIDDELEY. the weight a car may usually carry, tlio r ,.-1 mileage it runs, and, lastly, its horse* f^^.. S| power. I hiring the past year an owner ilB5?<^|tv of a 10 12 li.p. WoIrcIi ySicldeU y car that C:..... «£^^gSPyH[ A jf\
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    • 95 11 A REMEDY THAT CUREB COLIC. "Some time back I had a very bad attack of colic," says Mrs. C. Pienaar of Middelburg, Cape Colony. "I saw an advertisement in the paper of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I at once got from the chemist, Mr. W. C. Turpin.
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    • 87 11 FOR WHOOPING C0U6H. Give Cbamberlian's Cough Remedy. It will teep the cough loose, expectoration easy and ender the fits of coughing lees frequent and ess severe. For sale by All Dispensaries and J ealerx. GAS OIL ENGINES. Gas Engines for Town Gas, FROM 2 TO 150 B.H.P. rfk Gas Engines
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    • 439 11 Jnsure your TTTT 7" <A>f io I 0 ar an our Motor (Sar $k instead of AND COVER YOURSELF W^ljL Dollar AGAINST RESULT OF RMiOT A OSV CAR ACCIDENT8. iufi/ II Don't take the risk. iM* I J8I any longer. You may be H9| called upon for HEAVY Eg "i
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    • 532 12 WANTS. Ian t-toM I.Ira, on or two Iwttlom. 11.00 Hr Mb* 1Mb, m* 8e»U of ChJUfM. EUROPEAN BO3K-KEEPtR WANTEO. Wanted immediately, an experienced European Book keeper to take charge of the Books of a Mine. Apply with copies of references, etc., to- Accountant,' c/o Straits Times. 1095 CLERKS WANTEO. Wanted,
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    • 513 12 TO BE LET OR SOLD.! Kirn i-Fom Lldh, OM ot tw lu— mon. |I.M Bt th. iMh. mi Koala ol Ofcaiß«a. OFFIBE ft 6000WN TO BE LET. With Immediate entry Ho. T, Malacca Street. Apply to QUTHKIE A CO., LTD. 0 IMI HOUBE TO LET. No. 28, Sopliia lioad. Immediate
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    • 600 12 TO BE LET OR 80LD. Rin —ton Llbm. on or two luertioa 11.00 Bf th« lich, ieal« cbart.. HOUSES TO BE LET. Not. 81 and 88, UsUtnUoa Hill, River Valley Road. Apply to LEE OHENQ YAM aadOo. 1171 HOUBE TO BE LET. N*O9. 8a and Bb, Chancery Lane. Superior European
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    • 853 12 NOTICES. turn —l.t Month, 110 ptr inch. Sibwiqii.al nanttu, 13. For ■horUr ptriodi Seal* of Charges. NOTICE. Our office has been removed from 7a, Prince Street, to 4 Prince street, from this date, October 4. 1909. BREMER STI HLROHRFABRIK, LTD., (BREMEN CHAIItCANE MFG. CO.. LTD.) tan SINGAPORE SPORTING CLUB. AUTUMN
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    • 1193 12 SINGAPORE RUBBER WORKS. Netherlands Gutta Percha Co., Ltd. Motor-tyres retreade-d at Moderate Prices. All kinds of India Rubber Articles, Shoots, VALVES, Rings, TYRES, HOSES (Suction, Steam, Hydraulic), Gardenhosos, Tubes, ENDLESS BELTS, FLOOR-TILES, MATTING, EBONITE and Hard Rubber Articles, Bicycle Tyres. Works Offices: PassirPanjang, Singapore. Sola Agents i MESSRS. HOOGLANDT CO.,
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