Weekly Sun, 24 June 1911

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    21 1 The Weekly Sun. GREATER STRAITS SETTLEMENTS EDITION. 126, CROSS STREET, SINGAPORE. ►RICE 5 CENTS. SINGAPORE, SATTKDAV. -UNK 21. 1911. NO. M.
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      316 2 *sfas&*L 0. H.WILLIS, THDIQTIP TURF ACCOUNTANT. Lit Kid 11C 8 THE ARCADE AND BC F I A \Ji \f NOW DOING BUSINESS ON THE C L L A Itl I FORTH COMING vm accountants and SINGAPORE MEETING. GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS. p or f ur ther particulars and prices 11, ARCADE.
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      401 2 WAHJANG. I PHOTOGRAPHER Developing AND PrintiDg. PHOTO ENLARGEMENTS. MODERATE PRICES. \a. is, man sweet, SINGAPORE. THIS IS IT. TASTELESS. ODOURLESS.! J9^L The latest sc-ieiititii* preparation wBSBk- O«>I> LIVEH <>]L. Does all ctV'C^'^. that 7- claim e<i for it Mid super- sedex tiie oh! fasliionetl emul- > IJV v»;.ich uj'set the
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    WEST CHINA.
    662 3 Taiyuanfu. An interesting report has been sent home b\ the United States Consul at Amoy from which we extract the following When the traveller to West China steps off the train at Taiyuanfu, the capital of Shansi Province, he is bound to be impressed by the modern improvements
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    THE SECOND OPIUM CONFERENCE.
    91 3 The Dutch Minister m Peking has informed the Wai Wu-pu that he has .received a telegram from his Government :«> th^ eflrct that the second Opium Conference which was to take plftes tit the f I ague this summer has been indefinitely postponed. The ChineHe Charge
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    THE PLANET MARS.
    447 3 Inhabited or not The planet Mars is not inhabited by any form of intelligent life or of animal 'life. Observations just concluded by scientists and compared with former observa tions have settled the dispute. In lecture before 500 students and memberi} of the faculty on the State
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    HYPODERMIC NEEDLES AND SYRINGES.
    233 3 During the negotiations for treaty iwision between China smd (Jreat Kritain m 190*2. tlie Senior Treaty Comimsotonei for China, Lv Hni-hwan, suggested that tlie prohibition of the importation of hypodermic needles and syringes should go ftloM with the restrictions whioh were being imposed upon the importation
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    TIGERS IN KOREA.
    91 3 Telegrams from Chyoii Jyu, Korea, *tate that recently a tiger made its apperanoc at Paikyangri, a village m North Chyolla province, and attacked the house "of a Korean farmer. The farmer escaped with slight injury, but his twenty-year old son was badly mauled aKout the limbs. A
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    CHINA AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIES.
    530 4 It \tms recently reported that a commission of study had been sent from Chins to inquire into the condition of Chinese merchants m the l>utch Colonies and the Straits Settlements. The reason tor sendiug i^ said to be due to a conflict between Chins
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    FUSTIVAL OF EMPIRE.
    391 4 i One Party of 150,000 to Visit The Crystal Palace. That nearly all travelling England will isit the Festival «»f Empire at tlie Crystal Palace this summer, is proved by the way m which tlif organiser* of huge excursions are making arrangements for Iheir parties to be
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    THE YALU BRIDGE.
    92 4 Tin- construction of Hie abutments of the j railway bridge across the Valu has nearly I been completed, so that the work is expected to Ims tinislud m th»» course of November. According t«» the specification, reports a idcsp.ttch from Seoul, single track is to be ,laid
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    WEATHER-WISDOM OF CHINESE FARMERS.
    526 4 Th«» rulm for 'foretelling ihe weather! which Chinese farinert have framed ami i tested m the course of centuries >r rather thousand)! of years, are m reality more effective'than many Occidental prophecies of critical (lays ;u»«l the like tor they ar» i based m great part
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      390 4 THE DENTAL HALL. A/O. RAFFLES PLACE. Oj>£ostte Jokn Little f$ Co.'s Buildine UNDRTt THE SCPKRVISION- OF Or. J. IWATSUB©, DENTAL SURGEON. (Who may also he found at 82, Bra> Bhsili Road). Newly opened for tlie convenience of Patients. Treatment and workmanship guaranteed to l.« the Highest Order. To celebrate the
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  • POLICE NEWS.
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      Monday.
      478 5 >\ (l h Wee, a cart driver, was charged! European Constable Murphy with ie |ly beating a pair of bullocks and ..verloading his cart with pigs. c pleaded guilty and was fined $10 nrteen days. Lino Kiat for failing to account sfactoiily how he came by eight ed fish
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      Wednesday.
      604 5 The case against the directors of the Wer Panas Rubber Coy. came on iefore the Ist Court this morning for he first time, and was postponed provisionally to the '28th instant. Haji Drahman Glass of No. 65 'angttn Road was this morning charg- d before the First Court with
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      Tuesday.
      1008 5 tiua Hua was fined $5 or seven days, voluntarily causing hurt to Yeo v'hay at Rochor Canal Road. dris a Singhalese,pleaded guilty v i drunk and disorderly m Arab •t. He was ordered to pay $3 or -'\m days. < !heng Seng Nguang, a Chinese priest .1 Ling Lye
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    THE CORONATION.
    179 5 Favoured by real King's weather, thei Coronation festivities m Singapore < were a great success. Thousands ofp Chinese and Malays came into town r. from the surrounding districts for the! occasion and the principal streets werej crowded. The decorations and ilhimi-j nations were very beautiful, but the, 1
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    THE KING EDWARD VII MEMORIAL FUND.
    71 5 Amount previously acknowledged $83,838.39 s Messrs. Fraser and Neave Ltd. 200.— Edward Vaipy, Esq. 100.Messrs. J. L. Campbell and Co. 25.C. Hunsley, Esq. General Agent, I.C. S. 10.— L Messrs. Roneo Ltd. 10.— Messrs. Koh and Co. 5. $84,188.39 Singapore, 21st June, 1911. The
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    MANCHURIA'S NEW HOT SPRING.
    193 5 Discovery Might Lead to Great Results. A .Japanese living near Chinchou, whilst out angling from one of the rocks scattered on the western coast of the small village of Lichiatun about two miles north from Chinchou Station, accidentally discovered a hot-spring spouting forth from amongst the
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    CHINESE IMMIGRANTS TO THE UNITED STATES.
    71 5 The United States Minister m Peking has written to the Wai Wu-pu to the effect that as many members of the Revolutionary Party have lately found their way into his country and incited and deceived the people there, the local officials should be instructed
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    THE OPIUM QUESTION.
    77 5 The Governor of Kiangsu has received I a telegram from the Wai Wu-pu to the; effect that the new Opium Convention with Great Britain abolishes likin and; other taxes and increases the import duty I and does not prevent the continuance of measures restricting the use of
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    15 5 (ao That enterprising local firm, Messrs. oh and Company, gave a children's! treat on Thursday.
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    SUB ROSA.
    628 5 He 44 Would you rather be beautifui >r clever?" She: Beautiful, I think, fou see, there are lots of stupid men. >ut only a few blind ones." m Can't anything be done for the infortunate vagrants, chiefly Chinese. vho hang about the town and die by nches of
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    The Weekly Sun. SATURDAY, JUNE 24. DUTIES OF THE PRESS.
    154 6 The Weekly Sun. SATURDAY, JUNE 24. DUTIES OF THE PRESS. I Talking much and doing little I is the general habit of the Chill nese people, writes The PekingU! Tientsin Daily News. When II one has a piece of work m hand I criticism favourable or unfafl vourable comes 'from
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    MINERAL RESOURCES IN CHINA.
    159 6 I j It is generally admitted that I China has the largest number n Of valuable mines, writes the Tiching Prj&ss Association. But I on account of ignorance abouf 1 their importance we have neg--2 lected their development It Ts I too late when we find
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    VICEROY JUI CHENG.
    195 6 1 The Imperial Daily News points out that the railway nationalization policy lately adopted by the Government has aroused no little indignation among the people concerned. The people m Wuchang have held meetings to discuss the action of the officials and resort to measures to protect their
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    ADVICE TO REFORMERS.
    184 6 I There are, no doubt, a great jnumberof our fellow country-' jmen both m this Empire and jabroad, who are anxious to save 'the country from the dilemma that she is at present afflicted says the Peking Daily News'. They go to the extremity of preaching that
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    REMARKABLE PROGRESS.
    329 6 The rise of the Shanghai Life Insurance to prominence amongst its competitors m the East hag been little short of astonishing. Setting out on its career six years ago under the able control and guidance of Mr v Parker, the Managing Director its volume i of new business
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    723 6 P first book on Military H ««w published In En" Budden. both of whom Hn were ma pried „t IJasth,^ ov aidd IIIa w ho wasfine.latw, I, f"rcreat,ng a disturbance The number of neranna ,\> i trades disputes i jr^vvr 1 as against 300,819 m 1909. Harem
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      89 6 ra fSB^^STfl m LANCET REPORT, Nouembcr 1904. -Misleading terms a »v ao often oaed udtHoribfag potable Spirits, that it ii tury m find that m the case df lls V lllsk > >t is honestly described. >n the label are printed the words •atfe ;,nd quality guaranteed,' and »very nne.
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    THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE.
    528 8 Prince Tsai Hsun m i -mggested that the r. t -*a 1 bases along the ooaat be handed over fr >m the Board of Army to the Board of Nnvy, but this proponai hg^ been strongly opposed by H. E. Yin Chang. Minister of War, and it
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    NATIONALIZATION OF RAILWAYS.
    135 8 Hi i V I Council has wired wiv ippc I 1 L>ii*ectof General Canton-K .-md Szechuan-j Hankow Railways ongratulating htm upon; 'i -\»tement i that the: j.i; tnalization ol I Canton-Haakow and S/ •i/iian-Hini :»vv railways aapfoposad byi r Government i« contrary to law ;ind tl, it
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    CHINESE MILITARY ATTACHES.
    41 8 Prince Ttai T i ha« memoruiUted the onetkat Mi itarj Attachai i»e appointed Le^ationi) abroad. The nwioml bai been .rinte.i and the oHiirerE appoiated irtll mv> Peking for theii re»j f post-4 at >^{.t^nii >f »r. 1 1
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    50 8 A >ilk fktg made by herself has beer presented by bl c Duchess of Alban> to H.M.S. Neptune at Portsmouth H.R.H. hoisted the tht^ on the quar tor-deck amid hearty cheers. Th< tune Wat launched by her m Sep to;:) her, 1909, and i- now flagship o the Home Fieet.
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    SZECHUAN RAILWAY MISAPPROPRIATION.
    118 8 Tlie Ministry of Posts and Communications has decided that Sze Tim* hang was guilty of carelessness m lending out the funds of the Szechuan Railway Company' and thereby causing it to lose over Tls. i>,000,000 owing to the failing of I certain Native banks and guilty of
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    OUTBREAK IN MID-CHINA.
    463 8 Magistrates' Vamens Destroyed. The Cabinet is reported to have received telegram fnnu the Governor of Runao reporting that the Magistrate* Yafnens m [Sinhwfl Miid Supu have been burnt by the rebels, that the Magistrates of these two I districts have fled, and that their whereabouts are unknown.
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    34 8 Westminster City Council have taken out a policy insuring them up to £10,000 against claims from third parties for injury and damage m con-! nection with the Coronation decoration and illumination of their streets.
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    CHINESE STUDENTS IN AMERICA.
    381 8 The following interesting Article ia contributed to the Peking Daily Ne\y- by newly returned student A decade* ag Chinese students m the United States oo«l be counted on one's fingers, and Owing I their wide distribution it was impotublt obtain information about then. But m r
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    CHINESE LABOURERS IN AMUR.
    37 8 The Cabinet Council of Russia has overruled the recommendation of the War Minister for the proposed employment of Chinese labourers for the construction or fclip barracks and other Government buildings m Amur Province.
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    TELEGRAMS.
    300 9 < >ne locomotive, one tender, tpn :J0 ton j cats and brake vana have gone forward by the South Manchuria Railway to Chans. jchun. The entire stock went a\?ay without a hitch. H. K. Yuan Ta-hua, the new Governor pi the New Dominion, lias arrived, lie travelled all the
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    THE REFORMERS.
    246 9 The XatiomU Review notices thai there is movement on foot for the recall of such of the leading Reformers of 'SOS ,-is are j-^U alive, chief of these being K'ang Yu-\yei Jand Liang Chih-chao, and that it is proposed rjto pardon these men an<l then place them ilin
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    CHINESE TIN OUTPUT.
    222 9 'I'lie United States Consul it Homrkona reports that shipments of tin from China are likely to he soon largely increased. {Practically all the- tin mines of the country are m Yunnan province, un<l the exports j^o utmost entirely through the port of /Mengtze :ui 1 hy way
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      418 9 HEADACHES. I The CEit^e* and Remedy. I Sick and Nervous I Icadaclics arc but the symptoms of other ail- I ments to v.hich they arc mere 1 5 s> -mpathctic, such jv Indigestion, II ]ji RiHOMMIC&i i>>nsiipalii;n, or s»;r))c other irregu- 1 i^?^!i Lfc laiit> the s>vt m Xlan >
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    IMPERIAL EDICTS.
    1943 10 iSume time ago We Uaued a Decree 11 itionalizing all the trunk lailvrav lines and appointing Tuan Faiiii as Director- < I 'rural of the Canton-Hankow and S-erhuan-Hankow Railway.', with the rank of Expectant Vice- President of a Board ordering him to proceed to his post with all
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    IMPERIAL AUDIENCES.
    85 10 Mini>ter Wang Ta-hsieh and Taotai Sung Mou of Kuangtung were received m audience recti.tlv. Prince Tnai Chan was received m audience recently. The Com missionet of Justice of Che- 1 kiaug, o, the Commissioner of Justice of Kiangsi, Chang JLsio-huo, and Prefect of >/eehuan, Kuang Hsing, were received]
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    MEMORIALS.
    1249 10 The ilsiu Pu preseiiti-d memorial reporting on the result of the examination ot the students of the Peiyaag (Tniversitv and tlu School of Western Learning m Shansi The officials and gentry of Kiangsn and jAnhui presented through the Censorate a memorial requesting that a posthumous jimme be granted to
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      288 11 The members of the Cornwall Minstrel will be at home to-night at 8 p.m. ,t their Club House m £elegie Road m honour of the Coronation. m A children's treaty was given by Koh Co. yesterday at 4 p.m. m honour of the Coronation. Over a hnn<lre<l children and their
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