The Straits Times, 5 January 1911

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  • 13 1 The Straits Times. NO. 23.466 >< SINGAPORE. IHIRSDiY. J^pARY 5. 1911. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 89 1 WATSON'S No. 1O Whisky THE BEST. KATZ BROS., LD. Are Showing this Week A. SPECIAL XilisTE OF THE $12.00 $10.00 35 Designs to Choose from in White and all Leading Colours. O- H_ WILLIS, Turf Accotmtant. HAS RETURNED AND IS DOING BUSINESS ON THE PENANG RACES, At his Office, 8,
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    • 340 1 Y«c\ <^\i» Mivni *pl Noiice is hereby given, that the firm De Erven de Wed J. Van Nelle of Rotterdam is the sole proprietor of the trade mark of which a representation is printed above, used by them for many years on tobacco imported into the Colony of the Straits
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    • 183 1 rm> sporting depot. "CHALLENGE GUN f I No. 1. Special Challenge Gun. -^(^p^^ I HQ. 1. DO.UftLK BARRKLLED CENTRAL FIRE BRBBCH LOADING GUN, top fever map action, treble bolted/wedgeiait I tsf> cross bol^ TWIST BARRELS, left choke bored, solid strikers, rebounding hammers ont of the line of sight, walnut took,
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    • 8 1 uu MORSE'S DISTEMPER HDSMBM, SILFILLAN am w in.
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  • 868 2 EXCITING CAMPAIGN-SCENES AT (iRIMSBY. Mr. Churchill's Speech. Mr. Wii>gton Churchill paid a flying visit on December 2, to Grjpmby far the" purpose of answering the argataent* aftrairoed by Mr. Baliour earlier in the evesung Between 9JOO ami 10,000 pcople.foond standing room in the Rinkerios while Ma, •sj|»ar'* meeting
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  • 145 2 The dockyard of the Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd., at Sungei Nyor, Prye, Province Wellesley, was on December 81 the scene of the launching of the new steam tug Eastern. Mrs. Keymer, wife of the Mr. A. fc.. Keymer, manager of the Dockyard, performed the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 106 2 I Solution MaKcj Fat, Flejh. "hone and Muscle Jr 'Kepler' Solution is a food— not The food that strengthens the VW' weak and fattens the wasted. \Ww The food that enriches the blood /jflL (\t and fortifiei the constitution. xHI~ T^ The food that sustains the invalid T^ s^ff* and
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    • 55 2 CURE FOR BILIOUBNEBB. BilioiUMM it doe to a disordered condition of the stomach. Chamberlain's Tablet* are essentially a stomtoh medioioe, intended especially to act on that o>Rao to eleante it, strengthen it, tone^and intinorate it, to re Rnlatu tbe liver and to banish biliousness positively an 4 effectually. For sale
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    • 200 2 YARROW'S s o h X?h w t STEAMERS. YARROWS make a speciality of SHALLOWDRAUQHT RIVER BTEAMERS. either propelled by a BTERN-WHEEL or by SCREWS WORKING IN TUNNELB, fttted ywlth YARROW'S PATENT HINQED FLAP, by which means a considerable Increaae In speed Is obtained without Increaae of cost Vessels can be
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    • 291 2 YKLOtt COMPAUT, SS 6c 80, Bras Basnh Road. Pfltitnn CHINEBE NEW YEAR CARDS lall lUll of .y^ description r\ j o NOW Ready. Dondang Sayang Bew $took Mnmn n l n l i or ew YBar Presents Baba Baba Pranakan Bunga Tajok Mambang.Santal NOW READY. des Indes, Divinia, etc., etc.
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  • 599 3 DEVELOPMENT WORK RAPIDLY EXTENDING. Natives Loot a Plantation. Among the passengers arriving at Kn mantle, recently, from the Solomon Islands was Mr. J. Schroeder, manager of the Solomon Islands Rubber Plantations. Ltd., who reports that developmental work is being rapidly pushed forward in all parts of the group.
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  • 254 3 Supineness of the Local Siamese Gevemment. The following appeared in the Pinang Gazette, of December 81 From the quarantine restrictions recently imposed by the Straits Government, writes a correspondent who lia.s lately vinited the place, you are no donbt aware that cholera exists in Trang. The HickneHH
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  • 52 3 During the week ending Deoomber 17, the total number of deaths from plague in India were 8399, or an increane by 1,000 as compared with tin previous week. The provincial figuroN were af* follows Bombay 981 deaths, Madras 842, 8enga1. 774, the United Province)* MM, the Pan jab 1,011. and
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  • 48 3 The Times lias published an article of four columns from a Hpecial correHpondent who. on the lues is of certain factft hitherto unheeded, maintains that pneumonic plague has probably exutted in Suffolk for at least four years. The correspondent emphasises the imperative nwl for a thorough Government enquiry.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 349 3 WHY IT PAYS YOU TO GET YOUR BOOKS AT THE LARGEST BOOKSHOP' IN THE WORLD THE TIMES BOOK CLUB is not only the largest bookshop, but also the most important Circulating Library in the world. Conducting operations on an enormous scale, many chances of favourable buying present themselves, and our
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    • 78 3 CROUP PREVENTED. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is not only a oertain cure for crcup, but it will prevent the attack when freely given as soon as the first symptoms appear. In many thousands of homes it is kept constant); at hand ready for inttaot use as soon aa the croupy cough
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    • 445 3 Japanese Dentist, 74. BRAS BASAH ROAD Dr. K. Tsutada is the only Japanese Dentist in the town with whom yon oan oonsnlt direct either in Rnglish or Malay. Painless Bxt«aotion from II each. Gold Oarping 6 B ilver Capping 8 Joined Crown 4 Bridge Work 6 FnU set teeth on
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    • 197 3 ss:^x- :-'x^iP^There is no need to uae boiling water when using 7Sunlioitl li SO€ip if and it does not matter whether the water ff; <<i\ Is hard or soft— the result is the same. M: '•iiSEs. A ••vtof of labour, ,^X*f* MJgUiV v A Mvlng of time, and ESTATE SUPPLIES
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 635 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. ¥7&O. STEAM NAVIGATION C 6. FOR CHINA, JAPAN, PENANG, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITKRRANEAN PORTS, PLYMODTH AND LONDON. Through Bills of Lading issued for China Coast, Persian Gulf, Continental, and Amerioan Ports. Steamers will leave Singapore on or about MAIL LINES Outward (for China.) 1911 I Devanha
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    • 554 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. N. Y. K. JAPAN MAIL steamship CO., LTD. EUROPEAN LINE. A Fortnightly service is maintained be. tween Yokohama via ports to Msrseillen, London and Antwerp, under mail contract with the Imperial Japanese Ciovernment. The New Twin-screw Steamers maintaining this service have been specially designed and constructed, and are
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    • 639 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. AND TOYO KISEN KAISHA. The two great steamship lines between CHINA, JAPAN and BUROPE, via Honolulu and San Francisco, operating the new 12,000 ton*, twin. screw steamers KOREA and SIBEIUA, together with the well known steamers CHINA. ASIA, MONGOLIA MAN CHURIA. NIPPON MARD, TENYO
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    • 237 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. cTpr CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'B ROYAL MAIL BTEAMBHIP LINE. Tbi NATIONAL HIGH WAT TO BUROPE Til CHINA, JAPAN, CANADA AND THE UNITBD STATES. Route from Hongkong via Shainghai, Nagasaki (Inland Sea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama. Victoria and Vanoouvor. R M.S. Bmpbim or India Twinsorew steamR.M.S. Empress or Japah
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    • 565 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. HAMBURG AMERIKA LINE. HAMBURG. The steamers of this Company maintain a regular servioe between Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, and th* Strait], C hina and Japan Homewards, they are despatched fortnightly for Havre and Hamburg and onoe a month for Bremerhaven direct, calling at Penang and Colombo. Taking
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    • 713 4 STEAMER SAILINGS. N. D. L. Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen. IMPERIAL GERMAN.MAIL LINE. The fast and well known "msil steamers of this Company sail fortnighty from Bremen, Hamburg, via Rotterdam, Antwerp, Southampton, Gibraltar, Oenoa, Naples (connecting Marseilles, Naples, Alexandria, and vice versa) Port Said, Snez, Aden, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hongkong Shanghai, Tsingtan.
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  • 165 5 FIXTURES. Thursday, January 5. High Water, 1.82 a.m., 0.48 p.m. Ponang Bum B. I. homeward mail oloses. Week of Prayer, Presbyterian Church, 8. Friday, January 6. High water, 3.11 a.m., 1.80 p.m. Municipal Commission, 2.80. A Royal Jester, Victoria Theatre, 6. Week of Piayer, Presbyterian Church, 8.
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  • 159 5 To-DiT IS^Penanfi and Madras, taking mails for Europe etc., Tim Bombay l'&roba 3 pm Port Swettenham Malacca pm Malacca and P. Diokson Ban Whatt Hin > \.m Bam Pahct Sri Wongsee t pm Hongkong, Amoy and Bwatow Bong Wan I 3 pm Bandjermasain, Polau Laut and Cotie
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  • 133 5 The B. I. oontraot packet steamer Tbongwa, having left Negapatam at 1 p.m. on Sunday. the Ist instant, may be expected to arrive here no Batarday morning, the 7th Instant. The Imp. German mail steamer Derfflinger having left Colombi at 8 a.m. on Monday, tbe tnd instant,
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  • 387 5 Latest Arrivals. Hanoi, Brit str 1893 tons, Captain Collye*. Jan 4. From Bombay, Deo 34. G.o. P. 40. Coy. For Kobe, Jan 8— Rdi. C. Lopa y Lopez, Span str JS9S tool, Captain Ciaa, Jan 6. From Liverpool, Nov 26. G c. and p. Barlow <fr Co. For
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  • 61 5 •aasary* I'oron^j, Rob star, Odessa via ports O. Apcar, Brit str, Panang and Caloutta Arabia, Ger str, Hamburg via port* Bdendalt, Brit str, Samarang via port* Atilang, Siam atr, Bangkok via ports Rakata Mam, Jap str, Colombo and Bombay I Aleinou; Brit str, Antwerp viajx>rta Chiang Hock Kian, Dutetr,
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  • 102 5 Wharves at which Vessels are Berthed To -Day. TANJONG PAQAR. East Whim Basis— Nil. East W. Bsonoa I— Tarobo. Sams Wbabv— Nil. Hah W. Bscr. 1- Tara, Chiengmai. a a BakataMara. a 4- G. Apcar. a a f— slinderoo. a r 6— Alcinoun,
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  • 142 5 Arrivals. Per steamer Tara, January 4. From Calcutta via ports: Mrs. Bulkly, Mrs. Boreham, Miss Williams, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. McConnell, Dr. Fischer, Count Eickstadt, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. E. Craighxad, Messrs. G. Campbell, R. Graham, G. H. Davies, O. Christian, J. A. Stephen, W.
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  • 208 5 Per N. D. L. steamer Derfflinger, due January 7. Mr. and Mrs. de Thorey, Mr. August Wehrhahn, Capt. F. M. Smith, Lieut. B. E Grey, Mr. H. M. S. Man and family, Mr. M. Sooeer, Mr. B. Maxwils, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schierbeck, Miss Senstios. Per
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  • 99 5 Mr. Alton, director of the English Radium Institute, has concluded the purchase of one graminc of radium from Uie Mines Department of the Austrian Ministry of Public Works. The price is £15,000, and the funds for the purchase are being provided by Sir Kriu'Ht Cassel, who
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  • 379 5 Ordkbs by Captain- F. Hilton, S. V. A., Acting Commandant, S. V. C. Singapore, January 4. 1911. s. v. c. S. aA. Short Range Handicap.— At 2.80 p.m. on Sunday, Bth instant. S. R. A. Long Range Handicap.— At 2.80 p.m. on Sunday, 22nd instant. (Sgd.)
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  • 243 5 Finance Commerce. EXCHANGE. BnsiPou, Jahoabt 6, 1911. On London— Bank 4 m/i 2/41 Demand 2/4 ft Private 8 m/i 2/4 ft do >m/f 2/4 i On O ermany- Bank d/d 240 Private 8 m/l 344 do 8 m/i 346) On ftoMM-BMlk d/d 288 Private 8 m/i IM* do 6 m/l
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  • TO-DAY'S STOCKS AND SHARES.
    • 177 5 Issue 12 V»lve. Bayen Spllere. 10 10 Bolat Tin 4.10 4 26 10 10 Bruug 8.26 6.75 10 10 Bruseh Hyd. 6.00 10 10 KiUftbai 1.76 WO 41 41 Kintt Tin 16.26 16 76 41 41 KledangTin 1.76 300 10 10 KmntaB Tin a 00 8.00 41 41 iAhat
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    • 580 5 lame S Value Ba jeii. Seltan 41 41 Seremban 4.7.6 4.18 S 41 41 Shelford 8.7.8 8.15.6 41 15/- Sialang 1.0.0 1.5.0 pa 41 41 Singapore Para 2.7.0 2.10.6 2/- 2/- Straits (Bertam) 6/1] 6,9 2/. 3/- Sumatra Para 10/8 11/8 41 41 Sungei Chob 8.17.8 4 5.6 2/.
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    • 124 5 Value Buyer*, SeUen. 100 100 R.HargH»TM 86.00 87M 100 100 „7% Pref. WIM 10 10 Singapore Gold Storage 92 50 28 00 60 50 B'pore Dispensary 62.60 M.OB 100 100 Bh»itn loe Co. 1«5.0C 100 100 Strait* S. Ship 216.00 '225.00 100 60 70.00 80.00 pa 41 1 Shell
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    • 49 5 Buyers Sellers Howarth Erskine 0% 1600,000 par Riley, Hargreavea 0% 1284,000 1% 8% pre Singapore Electric Tramways £360,000 S'poru Municipal 6% 11,878 COO nom. Buyers Seller* Spore Municipal 4J% of 1907 •1.800.C00 8% 7%pn Spore Munioipal 4)% of 1009 11,000,000 7% B%pn B'pore Municipal 4% 1802,900 7% dis
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 57 5 The trapper in tbe lonely ranees grim The miner gapping in the drivings dim Thoborreman winding cattle o'er the plain The farmer, basbaodi og bis golden grain The presoman scorning time at dead of nitht, The biuh, the low, and the cof mopolite Tbe shiv'iing bepgar and the epicure— Sufferers
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    • 181 5 AUCTION SALES Powell and Co. Jan. 6 At salerooms, robber, at noon. Jan. 6 At saleroom, unredeemed pledges, at 10. •Tim. 6 At the Cable Depot, Keppel Harbour, unserviceable stores, at 2.80. Jan. 7— At Mount Farcjahar, Sepoy lanes, teak household furniture, etc., property of Dr. J. Lessk, at 2,
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    • 306 5 Fascination of the East JE3^, is brought home to you in the peifectton to which J^ been brought by M-s;fs. _m£F—~ =^3B^ M.V M»»6M F^BRCS jSB-g- ""Tfife V JtV. v' in thur two brardi f^~ TlHssTJl Bontoai Rouge S «nd Felucca SgS^lHl W Egyptian Cigarettes ~*32n Th« care with wh
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    • 227 5 HARIMA HALL Cinematograph NORTH BRIDGE ROAD, TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!! GRAND GALA PROGRAMME. JUST ARRIVED W1 THE GERMAN MAIL 8 BUELOW. .The following New Films: Uaumont Gimphie No. 4, Ganmont Graphic Foolshed Does all. Knows, all. The False Coin. A Sufferer from Insomnia. The Black Gondola. How it was Greediness Spoilt Foolshesd'n
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    • 50 5 RAVENSWAY AND COMPANY, Undertakers and Monumental ■•sons. ESTABLISHED 1881. JUIT RECEIVED t New Goods ol Superior Quality and Finish. Marbles, Metallic Wreaths, etc Monuments oi every description. RUBBER-TYRED HEARSES Tbe Best to be had in the colony. With Plumes in ase. TELEPHONE i NO. 717. NO 187. OBCH4.RD ROAD c
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  • 1028 6 The Straits Times. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5. THE JAPANESE TARIFF. We tried once to picture John Bull, good man, blushing at the thought that he was on the verge of losing bis temper with his bosom friend Yen Kin Kwan of Japan. Since then he has hardly been able to disguise
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  • 18 6 The Rev. W. Murray to-night, at the week of prayer service, will give an address on, Foreign Missions.
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  • 16 6 Quarantine restrictions against the ports of Samarinda and Bandjeruiasin, on account of cholera, have been withdrawn.
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  • 24 6 It was stated at a meeting of the Leeds City Council that the police of the city were considered the best dressed in England.
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  • 25 6 A German named Krupp has tendered for the building of the new Senate House at a cost of two millions taels, states a Peking wire.
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  • 23 6 H. M. S. Newcastle went alongside Tanjong Pagar wharves to coal yesterday, and early this morning took up her anchorage in the roads.
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  • 27 6 A return of the Bangkok Medical Officer of Health shows that during the week ended December 24, there were 86 fatal cases of cholera in the city.
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  • 26 6 Miss Pauline Chase, on reaching London from New York, neither denied nor confirmed the report that she is engaged to Mr. Ctraliamo- White the well-known airman.
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  • 73 6 The B. I. steamer Kistna, which will be detained here for boiler cleaning, will not sail for Port Swettenham and Penang on the 11th instant. She will resume her usual run on the 18 instant. I It is rumoured that owing to leave difficulties, none of the Penang cricketers will
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  • 37 6 Heavy shower* of rain have been falling every evening and night at Kuala Kangsar accompanied by strong wind. Over seven inches fell on Wednesday and Thursday morning. The Perak River and Kuala Kangsar streams have been flooded.
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  • 45 6 It is reported that the firm of Wernher, Beit, and Co., of which Sir Julius Wernlier, manager of the De Beers Diamond Company, is the head, is to dispose of its assets, consisting mainly of Rand gold mines, to the Central Mining and Investment Corporation.
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  • 44 6 A new dredger by Wm. Simons and Co., Ltd., Renfrew, was christened on Saturday, at Tongkah, the ceremony being performed by Miss Miles who received as a souvenir a gold bracelet from the builders representative, Mr. McAnslin. There was a large and distinguished company.
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  • 52 6 Considerable significance has been attached to a speech made by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in which it was urged that foreign ConsulsGeneral in Ottawa, Canada, should be accorded diplomatic status. It is believed that the Premier's ultimate aim is to secure the right for Canada to conduct diplomatic negotiations with foreign
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  • 62 6 The German Emperor lias ordered Uie sum of X'2oo to be sent as a gift to M. Louis Laveaux, an ex-soldier of Uie French Colonial Army, who, on August 8, 1908, rescued, in Peking, at Uie peril of his life, several German soldiers who were threatened with death, owing to
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  • 54 6 Mr. Charles M. Connor, assistant director of agriculture in the Philippine Islands, has returned from a trip to Mindoro, where he investigated rubber conditions. He reports Mindoro an excellent country for both rubber and hemp, but with Uie one great drawback that Uie monkeys, wild hogs and deer create havoc
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  • 62 6 The German Emperor has ordered Uie sum of £200 to be sent as a gift to M. Louis Laveaux, an ex-soldier of the French Colonial Army, who, on August 3, 1908, rescued, in Peking, at the peril of his life, several German soldiers who were threatened with death, owing to
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  • 51 6 Messrs. Siemens Brothers have just achieved a remarkably quick piece of work, at Penang, having installed seven fans and twenty-nine lights in Government House, Sepoy Lines, in Uie short space of forty working hours. The order was placed on Wednesday at midday and Uie installation was ready for current on
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  • 55 6 The three million loan agreement between the Provincial Government of Klangnan, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the Deutsch Asiatische Bank and Uie Banque de l'lndo Chine was duly signed at Uie Provincial Treasurer's Yanien at Nanking on December IH. and the money was paid next day to the Chinese auUiorities
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  • 67 6 Forty brides, who arrived at Karachi by the troopship Dongola, were married on Friday to their respective finances who came to meet them from various garrisons in India, says a Madras paper of December 15. Thirtytwo were married at Holy Trinity Church in sets of six at a time, two
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  • 79 6 The following item from Madras, should be of interest to Singapore readers as we believe the Professor performed here some time ago: -Mr. Evans, a European gentleman of Rawalpindi, challenged Professor Ramamurti to stop his motor car, saying that he would make a present of the car to him if
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  • 95 6 There are eighteen cases down for hearing at the January sittings of the Supreme Court. The list includes actions brought by Tan Seng Kee against the Central Engine Works, the Eastern Shipping Company t. the Straits Steamship Co., and Boey Yeak Kum v. St. V. B. Down. In re the
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  • 112 6 King George has broken Uie record in being the only Sovereign since pre- Tudor times who has not met his first Parliament in person, though it is no doubt true that the late Parliament was not technically the Parliament of the present King, as it had not been convened by
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  • 152 6 A curious tale was related to Mr. Robinson, third magistrate, yesterday. Some time ago, it was stated, a coolie named Chan Ah Tok made peparations to go to China, and anting others, he deposited a sum of $880 with Ping Seoh Boey, 156-2 Middle Road, who gave him, in exchange,
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  • 305 6 Mrs. W. E. Hooper, of Singapore, ha* arrived in Kuala Lumpur on a few days visit* Rajah Eusoff, son of H. H. the Raja Muda of Perak, joins the Taiping Secretariat this year. Mr. Montgomery Schuyler, formerly of Bangkok, is now United States Charga d' Affaires in
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  • 23 6 To-morrow being Uie Epiphany, there will be Holy Communion at 7.80 a.m., and Choral Evensong and Address at 6 p.m.
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  • 32 6 A call of 2s. 6d. per share became payable on the Ist instant on the partly paid shares of Uie Rembia Rubber Estates. Ltd., making them 17s. 6d. paid.
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  • 85 6 The arrangements in connection with the relief of the 99th Deccan Infantry by the 3rd Brahmans have been issued, and show that the R. I. M. S. Northbrook is expected to arrive at daybreak on Tuesday, the 10th inst. and will be berthed at the P.
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  • 83 6 We understand that a complementary dinner is to be given by the members of the Singapore Cricket Club and the Singapore Golf Club, Sir Arthur Young, K. C. M. G., on the occasion of his departure from the Colony to take up the
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  • 147 6 The Comtelburo Business Calendar, for which Messrs. Kelly and Walsh are Jocal agents, in a really wonderful book. It given information about all the holidays in Uie world, names the world's commodities and their usual form of quotation, gives the world's exchange rates, and the world's money
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  • 188 6 How Successfully to Buy and Sell Stockn and Shares (London Curtis Gardner and Co. 2/6) is the title of an exceedingly useful book by the author of The Business Blue Book." Like a wiso riter, he assumes that those who are to be Ins readers know
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 138 6 Champagnes. Sherries and Ports. Marsalas and Madeiras. Clarets and Burgundies. Vermouths. Hocks and Moselle*. Rums. Brandies and Whiskies. Bitters. Beers and Stoat. WHOLBSALE AND RETAIL WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Caldbeck, Macgregor Co. JOHN LITTLE CO., LTD., Sole Agents for BURROUGHES AND WATTS' BILLIARD TABLES. The "Strmltm" Table. Complete with all
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    • 198 6 6 S pboduc lllB DIRECT FROM THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS or THE WORLD'S BEST FILMS To Educate and Amuse AT THE ALHAMBRA To-Nlfcht. 2nd Show, 9.80 to 11 p.m. Look out tor Special Handbills describing the following Elimination of tIM Stamach uadar X Ray* The first of ita kind. ever shown
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    • 13 6 Latest advertisements of the day appear on page 5 as well as 8.
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  • 87 7 MYSTERY Or THE MEN STILL UNSOLVED. Police Charged With Firing The House. Reuter's Telegram. Locdon, January 5. An examination of the remains of the desperadoes who fired the building in which they were resisting the Police showed that they were frightfully mangled and dismembered, and suggests that
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  • 55 7 NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT PERSIA PROGRESSING. Specific Agreement Expected. i Deb Ostasi vtische Lloyd Telegram.] Berlin, January 4. The Russian Government announces, and the German Government confirms the continuance of Kuss.i iii man negotiations concerning Persia. The result will be embodied cither in a special exchange of notes or
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  • 70 7 Sweden Grants Offcers to Organise Gendarmerie. Kki tkr'h Teleokam. London, January 4. A Teheran message says the new Foreign Minister has informed the Mejliss that subject to its approval a million and a half tomans out of the Imperial Bank on loan will be devoted to the maintenance
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  • 48 7 Great Suffering Among the People. Kkltkh's Telboram. London, January 5. Telegrams report an earthquake lasting five minutes at Viycrngi in Turkestan. It overthrew stone houses, and demolished stores, thereby causing great suffering, as there is 22J degrees frost there. The casualties have not been ascertained.
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  • 47 7 Filchner Ant-Arctic Expedition. jDER OBTABIATISCHE LLOYD TeLKORAM Berlin, January 4. The iniiiiau ant- Arctic Filchner expedition, constituted uuder the 'protection of the Prince Regent of Havana, with Prince Henry as Hon. President, will be ready for departure in April. The expenses are already almost guaranteed.
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  • 34 7 Dek Ostaslatischi Lloyd Telegram. l Berlin, January 4. The NorddeutHchc says that Ambassador Moiinii will leave Japan after the visit of the Crown Prince, owing to the state of his health
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  • 15 7 [Rbutib's Telegram.] London, January 5 The German Crown Prince is visiting Mut
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  • 22 7 (RbDTBR'« TELEGRAM.) London, January 4. The Manchurian loan has boen issued and is quoted at lU< per cent premium.
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  • 146 7 The result „1 o|>erations at the Trouuh Mines during tin- niiiuUi of December 1910. 11- as follows Output.— Tributers CM 1.14.6H |k;lk., mine ore :i,4-2».;f2 pelt. Total r .HI pels. Value. --TributeiV or,- $7.7:11.77. mint: ore IH-2.KIH.Hfi. Total »190,550.68. Estimated profit.— Tributers' ore »1,06f>.H4, mine ore
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  • 302 7 (From Our Own Corrmspondimt.) Penang, January 4.' The following handicaps for to-morrow's meeting are published Griftik Handicap. Dorothea 10. 7 Adara 9.11 Billiken 9. 7 Zephyr 8.12 Straightshot 8.10 Moira 8.10 Bobby 8. 2 Kookaburra 8. 0 Short and Sweet 7. 9 Try Aoain Stakes. Lossie 10.
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  • 386 7 Details of Rules for the Walker Trophy. MeuiberH of the S. L. K. A. are notified that the competition for the Walker Trophy will take place at Balestier Range on January 12, at 4.30 p.m. Immediately after the shooting, the annual general meeting of the association
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  • 55 7 I .iist month, at St. Mary's Church. Berwick-ou-Tweod, by the Rev. K. W. King, Nottingham, brother of the bride, Mr. Patrick Campbell Macdougall Watfton, of Malacca, younger son of George Watson, Sheriff Substitute of Dumfries aud Galloway, was married to Mis* Ulive Adelaide, youngest daughter of the Key. James King,
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  • 993 7 THE FIRST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Tapping of 4,000 Trees to Begin. The first annual general meeting of the United Sua Betong Rubber Estates, Limited, was held on December 7, Sir William Hood T readier. K. C. M. G. (chairman of the company), presiding. In the course of
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  • 132 7 Interviewed by an Indian Daily News representative at Calcutta, on December 22. Mr. Ernest Esdaile said there were at present in India three parties of aviators. Captain Windham and his party were under contract to fly only at the Allahabad Exhibition up to the end of February.
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  • 493 7 SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE BY LOCAL AMATEURS. The Ungenerous Public. inclemency of the weather had, very likely, something to do with the meagre audience that attended the first performance of A Royal '/ester in the Victoria Theatre last night. Bat the bad weather does not altogether excuse the absentees.
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  • 431 7 VINE GENERAL RUBBER TRUST. The Guiguet Machine in Madagascar Forests. An extraordinary general moetiug of the Vine and General Rubber Trust. Ltd.. was held in London, at Salisbury House, LondonWall, to receive a report from the directors and the company's experts' report on the working of the Guiguet machine in
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  • 104 7 The will has been proved of Mr. Melton Prior, of 12a, Carl) le Mansiontt, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, the well-known war artist, who died November 2 last, at the age of sixty-four years, and left estate of the gross value of .£2,569, of which the net personalty lias been
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  • 356 7 Successful Suit to Recover on a Sale. An briefly recorded in oar issue of yesterday, Mr. Justice Fisher has given judgment in favour of the Tarn penis Coconut and Rubber Plantations, Ltd., against Ho Yang Peng in respect of the purchase price, 162,000 less t5,000 paid on
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  • 343 7 Statement of Accounts for the Half Year. At an ordinary general meeting of the Straits Trading Company, Limited, to be held on Thursday next at noon, the following statement of accounts for the half year ended September 30, 1910, being the first half of the business year
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  • 139 7 Following is the comparative statement of cultivated rubber exported > during the years 1910 and 1909 Exported Total ex during port during November, 1910 the year. lbs. tii-.. Perak 808,228 2,209,584 Selangor 706,649 7,495,998 Negri Sembilan 142,888 1.267,456 Pahang 724 4,869 Total 1,J58,187 10.977,857 Export
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  • 60 7 The death lias taken place of the Kight Hon. John Edward Ellis, for many years M. P. for the Ruahcliffe Division of Nottinghamshire. Mr. Ellis was appointed Undersecretary for India by Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman in 1905, but office wan not much to his liking, and be resigned after little
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  • 108 7 MR. LLOYD GEORGES SCHEME EXPLAINED. State to Bear Quarter of the Cost. Rictbr'h Tflxgram. Lot don, January 4. The papers publish outlines of the aickneaa and invalidity insurance bill which has been communicated to friendly societies by Mr. Lloyd Oeorge. The bill provides compulsory insurance through societieH
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  • 14 7 Reutkr's Telegram. London, January 4. The Imperial Conference meets on May 22,
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  • 38 7 (From a Malacca Correspondent.) Malacca, January 4. Information has been received by Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, that the price of fine Para in London yesterday was 5/6 per lh.. business done. The market closed quiet.
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  • 90 7 (Fhom Orn Own Corrksponhknt). Penang, January 4. His Excellency the Governor gave a dinner party at the Residency last night, the guests including Vice < Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloe, the Hons. J. O. Anthonisz, A. R. Adams and R. Young, Lieut. Neville, (.'apt. Cayley. Mr.
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  • 24 7 (From Our Own Cohrkkpondent.) Penang, January 4. In the competition for the Walker Trophy, the Penang ladies team has scored 190.
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  • 175 7 Linggi Plantations.- December 82,000 lbs. The total quantity collected during the whole of last year is 838,500 lbs. and the figures for the corresponding periods in 1909 were December 59.000 lbs. Twelve months. 1909. ,V27.<l<>o lbs. Labu (X.M.S.) Estate.— December 20,476 lbs., making the total for the
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  • 188 7 The charge of murder and houHcbreaking by night preferred against Lee Ah Chong occupied the attention of a special jury throughout the whole of yesterday. Mr. Knowles appeared for the defence, and after liis Lordship. Sir W. H. Hyndman- Jones, had summed up the jury, after a moment's
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  • 67 7 Urowing lyrical in his fervour, a candidate, for Parliamentary honours declared, I aui prepared to offer my life, my home, my children, my country, my Empire, to the free and unfettered judgment of a free and unlettered people. The effect was wrecked by a shout from
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  • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
    • 137 8 A Sydney telogram says that the Australian, Dave Smith, lias defeated Papko, the world's middle weight champion, on a foul in the tenth rpund. Smith led throughoat. Each weighed 165 pounds. Nevor before in the history of Calcutta cricket was there such a large crowd as witnessed
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    • 171 8 Tanglin Club Competitions. Wo air bbbbbl t» kav that the following Tanglm t'liib bowling oasßaWsMosßl liavo been KCMgBd for January l'lrsi'lint \s I'li/.0. held on January 12. 13 and 14. A handicap coui|>ctition open to all imi'iiilk i>. Kntriis oioM on January 10. Qold Mclal. held on January 17.
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    • 141 8 Changes in 1911. The year 1911 will be a notable one in the history of rifle shooting, writes F. W. Walker in the Evening Standard. The Coronation Hislev of the National Rifle Association will alone make the year exceptional, with the Ring- Emperor as the new Patron and
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    • 201 8 League Matches. A London wire of December 26, gives, the following results: League. Division 1 Liverpool 1, Sheffield DeWII Sundei land 2. Oldhani 2: Notts County 1. Miriilli'sliroiigh 0 Bradford City 1, Mhih luster City H liristol City f, Preston North Kml 0 s'hclhYM WadMMM '2. Blackburn Hovers 0
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    • 145 8 The Tinnevelly correspondent of the Madras Mail writing on December 15 states Mr. A. A. Aruniugam t'hettiar, an iron merchant and MuMii i|ial Councillor, has failed. For the past twelve years he has been a prominent figure in commercial circles, and his failure is said to
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  • 145 8 SuDii i< in time, lias now elapsed since the |«aKsnm Hallcy's comet between the earth an. l the sun, on May 18, for nearly all the Hpccial olmcrvatioiui to be collected and dwcuiwed. WliiU-. owing to bad weatliur or other caUHCH. tin' tail of the comet
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  • 741 8 Members Elected and Comparison With Former Contest. We give below another instalment of the general election results, and a comparison in each case with the votes polled at the previous contest in January of last year Cork— Mid. Mr. D. Sheehan (Independent Nationalist) has been re-elected for
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  • 765 8 Prices Quoted la tbc Market Tbls Morning. Singapore, January sth, 1911. Mail. Ljall and avatt, Bxebange and Share Broken, Issue the following list of juotationi this morning i- Norn. Value. Bayer*. Seller*. a/, mien ■*/<$ 4/u >/■ OpUoa* >/• 4/8 41 Anglo-Jara 11/ B 10/8 1 An£lo.Johore
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    • 57 8 HOW TO 6ET RIO OF A COLD. It yon have trouble in getting ri 1 of yonr cold yon may know that yon are not treating it properly. There is no reason why a cold should bang on for weeks and it will not if yon take Cuamberlain Cough Remedy.
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    • 13 8 For all internal complaints, Dysentery Coughs, Colds, eto., take Woods' Great Peppermint Core.
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    • 410 8 This Is It. The latest soientifio preJjS^^ paration of COD LIVER PeW OIL. Does all that is claimMc'V7^J t -M od '<» >' aod supersedes I the old-fashioned emulsions ggf" l which upset the stomach. f j OF ALL CHEMISTS. tctJ 51.25 AND $2.00 E. AO. HOTEL. PENANG The best
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    • 503 8 Raffles ig^ Hotel. SPECIAL DINNER ON Saturday, January 7. VICTORIA THEATRE. A Royal Jester. A Royal Jester, A Royal Jester. A CHRISTMAS PATOMIME BY SMITH COOPER. January 4 7, at 9 p.m. January 6, at 6 p.m. BOOKING NOW OPEN AT MESSRS. THE ROBINSON PIANO CO. Prices at Evenioß Performance
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    • 211 8 NO HOME COMPLETE WITHOUT A I Gramophone THE BEST AND CHEAPEST MEANS OF PURE ENJOYMENT. TERMS TO SUIT ALL. S. Moutrie Co. (LIMITED). THE ARCADE. Oriental Specific. It is the Specific lor acate and chronic discharges, and of whatever ■tending. Price I.M THE CITY DISPENSARY. SELEOIB ROAD, SINGAPORE. FOR PORT
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    • 150 9 HARVEY'S WHISKY "R. V." A Genuine Scotch at a reasonable price. Where'er you go ask for R.V." Sole Agents PATERSON. SIMONS CO., LTD. HOT A BEME. "SLEDGE" BRAND HYGIENIC SWISS MW TUT'Tb-fcjgn-edinils natural t*tf*£* MUK. anjiK nd with °ul addition ot TRAVERS ft SONS LO. SINGAPORE COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.
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    • 122 9 sssssßs^sssslsssMßlßslssssssssssssssl^ THE Empire LUMPUR. c/ iUCZI FM.B. A New First-olass Hotel. Fitted with Bleotrio Light and Fans. Five minutes from Railway Station. Overlooking the Padan&. Single and Double Bedrooms, with Private Bathrooms attached. t Cuisine under European Supervision. Cold Storage Supplies weekly from Sineapore Hotel Porter meets all Mail Trains.
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    • 576 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. CHRISTMASHOLIDAYS. 8.1.5. N. CO., LTD. Return tiokets at Single Fares will be ipsued by 8.1.5. N. Co.'s steamers to Port Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon, Calcutta, Madras and Coromandel Coast ports, available for use between the 15th December, 1910, and 15th January, 1911. For particulars of passage and sailing, apply
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    • 642 9 STEAMER SAILINGS. INDOCHINA STEAM NAY. CO.. LTD. Tiik tteamers of this Company maintains a regular direct service between Calouita, Straits, Hongkong, Shanghai and Japan, taking cargo, on through Bills r,f Lading for Canton, Bwatow, Amoy, Cnefoo, Tientsin, Newchwcng, Yangtsze Ports, Formosa, the^Chilippinea, etc etc. Stemmm Tons Commander Kdtrano 4,805 R
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    • 510 9 I'ATRONI/.KI) y^3^^MEft^^^V4 BY ROVAI/IV 1 You Can Get the Bent Seleotion of Ladies' Diamond fj m*%Mfg% M gi Gentlemen's Gold and Qem-s^t Neck- MM %M B lgn«t. at all laces of Newest O «•*»••»> Designs. #1 ttiOS Gold Seals and Pendants of Every FROM kind. Ladies' Gem Rings in Great
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    • 454 9 BOARD AND LODfilNfl. BOARD MID RESIDENCE Board and apartments for single gentlemen at 11, Dhoby Ghaut. Terms Moderate. 3106 BOARD AND REBIDENCE. Rooms suitable for Bachelors. Terms moderate. Apply 108, River Valley Road. U8069 RAFFLESBY-THE-3EA Penang IS THE LEADING EUROPEAN HOTEL and has no connection with any other Establishment. RECOMMENDED
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    • 560 10 INSURANCE. GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO., LIMjTED. Head Office Winchester House, SINGAPORE. Board of Directors i O. A. Dbbbick, Esq., Chairman. A. H. Fair, Esq. Managing Director. Pbtbb Fowlib, m b., c m Chief Med. OfficerF. M. Elliot, E-q. Rev. N. J. Couvbbdb. Vow Noan Pan, Eeq. Ono Soon Tbb,
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    • 342 10 INBURANCE. FEDERAL UFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA. Ehtablihhkd 1882. Insuranoe in Foroe, over |*7,t*»,Mo New Business, 1909, over $6,50t,M0 Net Surplus above liabilities for reserve and all outstanding claims, over $2,076,000 (Straits Currency). Over 115,000 was set aside as a special addition to Polioy reserves. J. H. EVANB, Manager, South
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    • 529 10 BANKING. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA. AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER Paid up Capital in 60,000 Shares of £80 each £1,200.000 Reserve Fund £1,600,000 Ueaerve.Liability of Proprietors... 41,200,000 BANKERS. National Bank* of Scotland. The London City k Midland Bank, Ltd. SINGAPORE BRANCH. Current Accounts are opened and interest allowed
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    • 607 10 BANKING. THE BZE HAI TON 6 BANKING AND INSURANCE Cl. LTD. NO. 67 AND 68, ELING STREET. Established 1907. Capital paid up »1,000,C00.00 Reserve liability of proprietors 1 000,000.00 COUBT OF DIRECTORS. Tan Tbck Joon 6. Six Kia Jan Nam Km Sbmo 7. Tbo Hoo Lai 8. Liau Chia Hbno
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    • 970 10 SALES BY AUCTION. AUCTION SALE OF Valuable Teak Household Furniture, eto. The property of Dr. J. Lemsk, AT MOUNT FARQUHAR, SEPOY LINES (ADJACENT TO THB GENERAL HOSPITAL), On Saturday, January 7, at 2 p.m. Japanese elaborately oarved cherry wood cabinet inlaid with ivory handsome straw string woven drawing room chairs
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  • 833 11 MOTORS MOTORING. NOTES AND COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS. What Can be Patented? It is an old saying, and in certain cams a very true one, observes J. O. in the W««t- 1 minster Gazette, tliat the validity of a patent can only be established by a court of law, and
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    • 446 11 "WOLSBLEY CA.IR/S--AN APPRECIATION lt is evident that Wolseley Cars are not only popular with the buvine publio. aa oertain local motor car agents bave approached one of onr clients with a view to porohasing his 16-20 H.P. WOLSELEY CAR Onr olient has been offered his choioe of any of their
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    • 96 11 Woods Great Peppermint onre for ail internal oomplaiaU Dysentery, Coaghs. Colds, etc J. MOTION CO. Watohmakect, Jewellery, Opticians. BIPAIH3 PROMPTLY IIBCUTID FOR SALE. Tarnont consisting of a light rubber-tyred gharry, a young Australian Cob and a set of Eirnesß, almost new. Price 1860, all in firstclass oonditian. To be seen
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    • 122 11 JOHN JAMESON'S THREE STAR JOHN JAMESON ud UN. LIMITED. DUBLIN. DUtlllert tt U.M. (he Us*. TYPHOON SEASON IN CHINA. BAROCYOLQNOMBTBRS By Father Algus, Director of Manila Observatory. The beat up-to-date instrument. How to know the approaches of Typhoons. How to avoid them. Apply to GAG6INO AND CO.. SOLE AGENTS, S.
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    • 102 11 THE DENTAL HALL, 40. 1, HAFFLBS PLACE (OPPOSITE JOHN LITTLE CO. 8 BUILDING)* Under the supervision of 3DIR/. JT. IWATSTJBO DENTAL BURGBON, (Who may also be found at 82, Bras Basah Road). Newly opened for the oonvenienoe of Patients. Treatment and workmanship guaranteed o be of the Highest Order. From
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    • 435 12 •Johnson's "ELEPHANT" Brand CEMENT. The name of JOHNSON'S" is recognised as a guarantee oi GOOD QUALITY in the CEMENT TRADE. SHARPE, ROSS CO., LTD., Singapore. WANTSROOM WANTED. Wanted, room and bath room, unfurnished, Tanglin Distuot. G. P. 8., c/o Straits Times. u8054 DISPENSER WANTEO. Wanted, qualified Dispenser for a D'spen-
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    • 468 12 WANTS. BPANISH. Wanted, Lessons in Spanish. State terms to L 8., c/o Straits Times. 21 DOCTOR DIBEN6AGED. Fully qualified; British; Estate work, etc. Replies to Practitioner c o Straits Time*. 9 BOARD AND REBIDENCE WANTED. Wanted by German Gentleman. Board and Residence with private English family. No objection to children.
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    • 580 12 TO BE LET 81 SOLD. OFFICE GODOWN TO BE LET. With immediate entry No. 7, Malaooa Street. Apply to OUTHRIB <k CO., LTD. ■MM "LANG'.ANOB" TO'BE LET. Thecomjiodious dwelling house No. US River Valley Road. Tennis Court, Gas, Water, etc, laid on. Apply to N. T. Neubronuer, 1 b, Raffles
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    • 480 12 NOTICES. NOTICE Messrs. Bun Bee k Co. beg to notify that they have established a Provision Store at No. 11, Rochore Road, and also that they are suppliers of all descriptions of the Singapore Cold Storage Company's Frozen Meats and Produce, whioh can be obtained daily. 8008 CHANGE OF ADDRESS
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    • 552 12 NOTICES. KIAM KMT GO. SHIP-CHANDLERS, SovtrMMrt and Municipal Coatractors. Telephone No. 421. 106* 109, Market Street. NOTICE The Examination for entrance to the S.S. and F.M.S. Medical Sohool will be held in Raffles' Institution, Singapore, on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14 and 16, 1911, at 10 a.m. 82 TENDERS INVITED.
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    • 650 12 NOTICES. AVER PANAB RUBBER ESTATE. LIMITED NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that no Transfer signed by A. A. Gonn as Transfener will be accepted by the Company. By Order of the Board, DERRICK Co., Seoretarka. NOTICE. UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON. LIMITED. Mr. C. M. G. Burnie has been appointed Acting
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