Weekly Sun, 13 April 1912

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  • 22 1 The Weekly Sun. GREATER STRAITS SETTLEMENTS EDITION. 126, CROSS STREET, SINGAPORE. PRICE 5 CENTS. SINGA TORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1912. NO. 85.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 603 1 WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW U CO., LTD. SPECIAL OFFER, WHITE COTTON CELLULAR TENNIS SHIRTS. SIZES 14. 14H, 15,154, Ijl, 16**, 17, 17^. PRICE $1.50 EACH. SINCAPORE. WHITEAWAYS FOR STYLE AND 01AL1TY. fgfc VIYELLA PYJAMA SUITS. ZEPHYR SHIRTS. if-^fe /^K^mS^^ f (f^£^|N Striped Zephyr Shorts soft front, soft single /^>CP^T^ The new seasons
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    • 60 1 WHITEAWAY. LAIDLAW S CO.. LTD. HANDKERCHIEFS. HEMSTITCHED LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS 18 INCHES SQUARE 1 IN. HEM. STERLINC VALUE. $1.00 PER DOZEN. SINCAPORE. COAT SWEATERS. PLAIN WHITE ALL WOOL COAT SWEATER. 6 BUTTONS DOWN FRONT. 2 POCKETS IN MENS AND O.S. MENS. SIZES ONLY. PRICE $5.00 Each. HEAVY ALL WOOL COAT SWEATER.
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  • 496 2 Separation Desired Instead of Divorce. Change of religious belief induced a Mrs. Griffiths to ask the Divorce Court to rescind the decree nisi granted to her and pronounce a decree of judicial separation jin lieu of it. Mr. J. L. Pratt, for peti- tioner, said on March
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  • 221 2 By the death of Monsignor Stonor, which took place m the Via Sistina at Home, an interesting chapter m Garibaldi's campaign is recalled. Shortly before BlonsigttOf Stonors end came, following a stroke which he had some time |ago, Captain Teeling, who was with deceased at the battle
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  • 67 2 The report of Mr. Mcßae, the accountant who was employed by the Stanley Committee to examine the hooka of the United States Steel Corporation, finds that that concern has sicted m restraint of trade through the control of prices and domination over the supply of raw material.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 374 2 Ladies' Diamond YOU CWI GET THE BEST SLECT,ON Gentlemen's Gold Signets at all and Gem set n ()F Prices Necklaces of Newest > DIAMOND RING gg*** Pendants of every Kind m Ladies' Gem Rings 6 FROM m Great Variety r. c .n Gold Scarf Pins at all Prices Gold Brooches
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    • 302 2 FORD CARS. 80,000 FORD CARS are m use to-day. 40 000 FORD CARS were manufactured and sold during 1 the past year. This was insufficient to supply the demand therefore the FORD WORKS have decided to manufacture. 75,000 CARS DURING 1912. THE FORD CAR is designed m strict harmony with
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  • 3651 3 Bi* Financial Syndicates Reasons For Stopping Advances Of Money A Bad Mess £60,000,000 Loan Planned. The Loan Situation. Peking, March 2V— Ths forei<i minis. tsr called ou Prs.ideut Yuan Bhih-k'ai to day and discussed the loan aituui.m, gir ing their views
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 123 3 ■^aVaaHPVßaHtaaVaMaaHavaVai If you really want a First I Class CYCLE TYRE a Cycle m i U Tyre that is known the world over for its durability <j_ and reliability you should r fc liii i i ii— —i wi a lawiamx i_ l__ ia— t i^— always fit "■"■■■■■■BawaaamaDHSMaMaaaMLajHa^jaiHHi v^
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  • 380 4 Takes Up His Duties as DirectorGeneral of Naval School Here. Admiral Sah Cheng Ping, K.C.M.G, who has been appointed by the Nanking Board of Communications Director-General of the Nanyang Nautical Training College of the Nanyang University, called his students up for inspection yesterday morning
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  • 278 4 Rapid Expansion of tbe Motor Car Business m tbe United States. The announcement that the largest automobile company m the world is to build immediately is California a branch factory that will cost $3,000,000 (gold) and be capable of turning out 5,000 machines a year
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  • 120 4 Former Magistrate of San Yang Will be on Trial For Murder. LhaT 0 ,D ese Court has established under the direction of Dr, Wu Ting-fang and will hold it. 6r«t session this whTYa'oY lh Chines Town H.H when Yao Yuan Zeh, former Magistrate
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 82 4 UNCLE PLEX draws your attention V to his DUPLICATOR. X^A^wyf It will produce with perfect ease 2to 100 gQ^J^^ perfect copies of any document m one or 1 ft various colours. HL It will duplicate HANDWRITING, TYPEWRITING, COPYING PENCIL. DO YOU WANT more tbat) ONS 60PX of a LETTER, PRICE
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    • 289 4 Siemens Brothers. MANUFACTURERS OF Electrical Machinery. Cables Wires. Apparatus and Accessories tor Electric Light, Power and Traction Purposes. HEAD OFFICE Caxton House, Westminster, LONDON. Supplies Department Upper Thames Street, LONDON. WORKS. Stafford. Woolwich. Dslstoi. BRANCHES. Cape Town, Melbourne, Calcutta, Toronto, Bombay, Penang, Madras, Rangoon Sydney, AND Winchester House. COLLYER QUAY.
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  • POLICE NEWS.
    • 553 5 A Hokien named Yeo Chiam, living at Tanjong Pagar Road, gave his servant Teh Chow Ka 51.82H cents to buy some goods. He went away with the money and did not return until evening. The towkay reported the matter to the police, and he was arrested. This morning ;he
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    • 458 5 Doraisamy a Tamil, pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly at Queen Street. He was fined $3 or five days. For failing to account satisfactorily how he came by two bottles of Samsu value 50 cents. Tan Nwee a dock coolie was fined $10 or fourteen days. The Hockohia
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    • 384 5 For exhibiting to public view obscene pictures. A queueless Hokien named Chu Kan, was fined $15 or twenty-one days* rigorous imprisonment. For stealing three cocoanuts and two baskets of betel nuts value $1.30 cents from a plantation at Changi Road belonging to one Yeo Sa Liew. A Hokien named
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    • 344 5 Two Hokiens Lim Yu Mo and Ong Chwee Lian, were fined $5 or seven days, for assaulting one Lim Ang at Rochor Canal Road. Lee Kee Tong and a woman Goh Guan. were fined $1 each for disorderly conduct by creating a disturbance m public at New Bridge Road.
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  • 142 5 Lieutenant Frenzied Attack on Bluejacket. A Yokosuka telegram reports that on the 15th instant, a sub-lieutenant attached to the battleship Kawacki now m the port, so cruelly treated a sailor named Sakaguchi, a member of the crew of the Kawachi, that the poor fellow has lost
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  • 68 5 Yesterday a party of about 40 cadets, ranging from 13 to 18 years of age, picked from various towns m Australia, reached Liverpool on the liner Celtic on a world's tour undertaken for educational and imperial purposes. The boys had a civic reception on landing, and, after
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  • 878 5 Demanded Money and Clothing of Patrons at High Class Restaurant* FOLLOWED BY ROWDIES. Native Pastor Released and Saluted When He Mentioned Occupation. Soochow, March 29.— Things are quiet and peaceful to-day but something will have to be done toward the punishment uf the
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  • 295 5 Baronet's Wife's Plea for Her Children. Lady Brinckman asked for a decree of restitution of conjugal rights against her husband, Sir Theodore Francis Brinckman. It was stated that m 1906 there was a separation, under which Lady Brinckman had custody of the three children and an allowance. The
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  • 209 5 Two Chinamen, Wong Koie Chong and Ah Sing, Chinamen, were charged on remand with being concerned m the keeping and managing of a gaminghouse at 13, Limehouse-causeway. On the night of Fridiy week, Sapt. Bixhall, chief Insp. Fraser, SaVdivinsp. Hexamer and other officers of the K. Div.,
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  • 94 5 Will be 10 Cents Per Unit Hereafter, Instead of 13 Cents. The Shanghai Municipal Eteotrtcrtv Department i>sue t notice venter lav that neginning April 1, the pri c »f elnotrieitv for lighting will be re lv ;e 1 from Tig. 0 13 to TJ*. 0.
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  • 118 5 Groups of people, mostly wom^i, gather~d outuide the court at Knareshorou^h when Father Dime, Roman Catholic Priest, of Scotton Grange, who is charged with grave offences against a boy of 14, was due to appear on remand. Accused is a great. uncle of King Manuel, and he
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  • 400 6 The Weekly Sun. SATURDAY, APRIL 13. RIVALRY OF THE AIR. The wonderful imaginings of! Jules Verne, m the light of more modern days, do not ap)ear to be so vain as perhaps •ye were won't, not so long ago, to regard them. Man is nd longer content to marshal his
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  • 152 6 Derbyshire Bridge's iNervous Collapse. Yesterdiy the wedding of the Rev. F. Conquer, of Salisbury, Rh ktoaUa, with Miss A. Barrett, of Bakewell, Derbyshire took place quietly at the Wesleyan church, S;udiey-ru\ Clapham, S.W. The Rev. Marshall Hartley, secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, officiated, and only the immediate
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  • 156 6 Treasury Returns Show an Increase. After about 10 years of steady decline the nations drink bill has taken a jump m tho opposite direction. In the 11 months of the financial year covered by the Treasury .returns just issued the receipts under the head of excise amounted
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  • 271 6 Receive a Warm Welcome m London. Tho 40 Australian cadets win hive paid a visit from Australia to the United btates, and were invited to this country by the League of Empire arrived yesterday at Euston. There was a crowd numbering several thousand persons on the platform,* waiting
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  • 231 6 The output of the Sembrong Rubber Estate Limited, for th3m :>nth of March is 514 lbs. Tan Choon, while carrying two buckets of water m Beach Ro ad, on Wednesday dropped dead. Eighty-nine Chinese were arrested at Sourabaya m connection with the recent disturbances. Four were released
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  • 94 6 A new and interesting telephone system has been installed by the police department m Berlin to facilitate the calling of branch stations and headquarters. All the members of the department, uniformed and secret service, are provided with pocket telephone sets so compact as to be easily carried m
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  • 302 6 We regret to announce the death of Mr. Leong Fee which took place at his residence m Leith Street at 2 p.m. yesterday. Mr. Leong Fee, who was Mr. Tye Kee Yoon's predecessor as Chinese Vice-Consul m Penang, had been ailing for some time. He
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 37 6 I ARE i YOU PARTICULAR? 0 You know quality, j ii demand value We supply only W nes and Spirits of choice quality. 1 Garner Quelch&Co. BATTERY ROAD, j SINCAPORE. AND AT SHANGHAI, HONGKONG AND LONDON. 6-1
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  • 561 7 Awaiting Answer to Protest Foreign Bankers Stop All Payments. Peking, March 27.-- In answer to the representations made by the foreign minister m protest to the Belgian loan, President Yum Shih-k'ai has referred the matter to Premier Tang Shao-yi. No decision has been
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  • 151 7 Desperate Encounter With Weapons In a Sexton's Cottage. Entering his cottage, the parish sexton of Whiteshill village, near Stroud Gloucestershire, found his daughter entertaining a youth of seventeen named Charles Wheeler. The father, John Gay, is stated to have entertained a strong objection to the friendship
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  • 431 7 Loan Situation at Peking is Unchanged. Rumours Heard of Plots by the Manchus. Peking, March 23.— Considerable uncertainty prevails m Peking regarding the loan situation. Neither the diplomats nor the bankers have received an answer to Monday's protest. It was understood that
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  • 264 7 Danger of Peacemaking when Couples Quarrel. That the path of the peacemaker is not always strewn with roses was shown at Clerkenwell, when Ernest Tucker, 25, a clerk, of Hillmarton.road, Islington, was charged with assaulting Arthur Whitehair, a bricklayer, by striki »g him m the face at
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  • 343 7 Consul General Fraser Explains Tenor of Telegram to Peking. The British Consul-General, Mr. E. D H. Fraser yesterday denied the statement of General Cheng that he had informed the British Minister m Peking that Manage. Sung Han-chang of the Bank of China was seized
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  • 229 7 Jumped From Window. The trial took place at Cheshire Assizes of Hugh Sadler Beech, of Torton Hall. Malpas, who was accused of acting m suohi a manner as to make a nurse, named Margaret Powell, jump out of her bedroom window and injure herself severely. It was alleged
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 249 7 A TOKEN OXGRATITUDE. TO THE MANAGER THE SHANCHAI LIFE INSURANCE CO. LTD., SINCAPORE. Dear Sir, I desire to thank you for the prompt settlement of my claim against your Company arising out of the death of my son, Yeow Cheng Lee, which occurred on the 16th February. He was 21
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  • 1172 8 Papers Tell Why the Country Was Invited to Participate In the Big Dead. PLANS OF AMERICANS. Tokio Asahl Tells of Project of Loan Fukien Province A Large Amount. Recent issues of Japanese papers received m Shanghai yesterday indicate that there is a great
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  • 245 8 Twice Married to the same Man. Charged at Westminster, Edward Thomas Howe, 33, formerly m the Army, admitted having twice bigamously married Florence Gertrude Marshall, employed m 'a subordinate capacity at a poor law injstitution. Detective-Sergeant Steel said it was rather a sad case, as the second
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  • 199 8 Portland, Or., Man In Court Asked to Make Choice, Does So. Portland (Or), March 2.— Because her husband thought more of his white bull terrier than he did of her, Mrs. R. T. Green caused the animal to be taken away
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 86 8 To Business Men. A new departure m Insurance. We offer insurance against lj Sj I able possessions, your let- t i J ters, correspondence and (it bj s 1 other records. In the I I event of these being burnt, I Ir—, i-i-3 ttieir l° ss wou 'd be irrepar|UiJi
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    • 732 8 -tT*-^^^ "--La. vnnru^ lv^ A x^TL,AA^^.vvirv^^rj g w*, jrp f M j ,^A I I'a-.WtrtjaWla^a^H f 7r^ I ■■A a4 f a^aMK WV 4l a A.' ArllO A -J AX I Jill inn WMM HM S LOSING WEIGHT 1 1 T o u^ l i nr ~A iby the pound
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  • 1274 9 t One Juror Offended at Questions Put to Witness, Refuses to Sit and Walks Out. The first trial by jury m a Chinese Court was begun at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon before Judges Alex. Ting, Ivan Chen and r Tsai Ying
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  • 602 9 SAYS CONDITIONS IN SZECHUEN ARE NORMAL. Robber Bands Put Down and Establishment of Republic Celebrated. Tbe conditions m Szechuen are once more normal. Travelling is quite free from danger, all along the main roads. The fact that we came all the way from Chungking witbout an escort of any description
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  • 880 9 Two Prominent Chinese Captured at Jessfield and Taken to Nantao. LOCAL POLICE ANGERED. Appeal Made to Dr. Wu Ting-fang; Gen. Cheng Tells His Side of It. Seized by a party of Republican soldiers who were detailed to arrest hi n for alleged Unlawful
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  • 300 9 Death Sentence on Young Mothers. Another attempt ig being made to deal with the legal fiction by which young women guilty of infanticide are sentenced to death with all the awful solemnities of the black cap though invariably the sentence is commuted to one of
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 138 9 Hj I ft-fc^a-Dai E-fl ■flj umt*mft B^a^^K %f mm\\ -aa-B P ■flfia-^ tm Ifl ~%L maßkr^Bm^^^™Wßm&\ "LANCET" REPORT, 25th Noucmbcr 1904. Misleading terms are so often used m describing potable Spirits, that it is satisfactory to find that m the case of this Whisky it is honestly described. On the
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    • 297 9 BEFORE WE CAN use them, iron and gold must first be got out of the ore. The. same principle applies to cod liver oil. Its virtues are not m its fatty matters much less m its sickening taste and smell. No consumptive, or sufferer from any other wasting disease, was
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  • 751 10 FIRST PAYMENT OF THE BELGIAN LOAN PAID, AMOUNTING TO HALF MILLION TAELS. Premier to Resign German Telegram Mentions Dr. Wu Tingfang as Possible Successor. The protest of the four powers against the Kalgan loan which has been concluded with a Belgian syndicate probably will not be presented to President Yuan
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  • 411 10 TSINGCHOW-FU LOOTED AND BANKS SACKED. Trouble at Weihsien Stopped by Merchants Paying Soldiers for Two Months. Special Correspondent to the China Press. Weihsien, Shantung, March 23 During the past week or so, all three departments iof the University have opened and are Inow running smoothly. In the Arts and 'Science
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  • 181 10 Kwei-yang Troops at Changteh Rioting Other Wu-chang News. General Li has given instructions that the Army Bureau should abolish the Northern Expedition M so that the troops m the north may not be made suspicious. According to information received m Hankow some rioting of Kwei-yang
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 15 10 Dr. FDRDMOTO, JAPANESE DENTIST. 98. North Bridge Road. Best treatment available m Singapore. Reasonable terms.
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    • 248 10 BEHN, MEYER CO., LTD. I Engineering Department, SINGAPORE. aaaßaßaßaßaaaa^^^^aa^^^^^^aaMßVa»a*a*aa*a«a*a*a*.a*a«a»a*al REPRESENTATIVES FOR: FRIED. KRUPP ag GRUSONWERK. J RUBBER MaeHINERY. Latest Design. Hand or Power Driven. Complete Installations of Factories. Roller Washing and I Rinsing Machines can be inspected at our office. f ©UR DRESSING PLftNT I For tha Treatment of all
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  • 857 11 TANG SHAO-YI HERE; NO BAD FAITH IN THE ANGLO-BELGIAN LOAN WHY IT WAS CLOSED. Four-Power Group Withheld Loan, 'According to Official Statement. o*H. E. Tang Shao-vi, the Premier, arriv- ed from Peking on the China Merchants steamer Hsin Chi jestetday afternoon anr^i s now a guest al the Kalee Hotel.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 274 11 An Eastern Company for the Eastern People GREAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, UMITED. HEAD OFFICE:- SINGAPORE. •aWBaIaVafaVHaVaVaVaWaVaVMaVaVI LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES. "^^"i^^.™^™^^™^^^^ BOARD OF DIRECTORS. G. A. DERRfCK Esq., Messrs. Derrick VOW NGAN PAN Esq., of Messrs. Lot* <k Co. Chairman. Kie Seng and Towkay Loke Yev AH. FAIR, Esq.,
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    • 346 11 Jodelite Registered. The Great Timber Preservative. All kinds of soft timber, such as serayah, are, after treatment with Jodelite, permanently protected against attacks of white ants, dry rot and decay. Protection of Para Rubber Trees. After pruning the trees apply a thin coat of Cold Jodelite to the wounds with
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  • 959 12 Officer What on earth are you fellow*doing There hasn't been a hit signalled for the last half-hour l Private M I think we mu*t have shot I the marker, sir An actor and a retired Army man were g discussing the perils of their respective callings. How could
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  • 61 12 The "Globe Room" of the Reindeer Inn, Banbury, said to be one of the finest specimens of Jacobean architecture m England, has been sold to au American gentleman, and will be removed to America. Various attempts has been made to secure it for the town, but without
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  • 38 12 Lord Kitchener, at El Oheid, Egypt, reviewed 900 Sudanese camelry and infanjtry and afterwards witnessed races and dancing. A thousand horsemen and five hundred camelry charged past at full gallop, offbrding a magnificent sight.
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  • 672 12 Sir Alex. Taylor's Death Recalls Stirring Memories. Memories of the stirring days of the rn^ian Mutiny are revived by the death at the age of 87 of General Sir Alexander Taylor, G cb. For some time before his death he had* been the last surviving officer
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  • 87 12 Twa women fought a duel with pitchforks at Dijon. They both worked m a biscuit factory, und were continually quarrelling. The women m their workroom, tired of the perpetual bickering, advised them to settle their differences m a fight. The two women armed themselves with pitchfork* and
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 117 12 COMPLETE AND QUICKEST RECOVERY. Against Asthma, Cough, Consumption and ALL AFFECTIONS OF THE CHEST, THROAT, 'A/YD LUNGS /nm*** by #§i POUMOFOR If j^ 7VC EL «IR ANTI-ASTHMATIQUE PULMONAIRE dft V DR SAUL BERNARD, m„ /^'s^ Th l1 ex cellent and energetic preparation is based f L A^rapm n th latest
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    • 269 12 ADVERTISEMENTS. M. N. K. MOHAMED NOORDIN A 60., CENERAL MERCHANTS. Boots, Shoes, Shirts, Ti«s, Hats, Collars, Hosiery and General Goods. 86-88, NORTH BRIDGE ROAD. 8-7 For Sale] The British Steam Launch Busso built m 1906. Length 60 feet. Breadth 13.5. Depth 5.5. Gross tonnage 10.85. The vessel is m excellent
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 285 13 m I -.aa. I\A I HMkana"' mm, lv II BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. The undermentioned mail steamers of the alxve Line maintain a regular service between Calcutta and Japan, calling at Penang, SingaHongkong and Shanghai en route. FLEET. i Tom, Coounandor. fapai 6,013 A. Stewart. Gregory Apear SOQ
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    • 445 13 KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. (ROYAL DUTCH PACKET COMPANY.) USUBK CoVIItAOT WITH THK NKTHBKLANDS INDIA GoVKKNMEKT. Agents at Sinqapore IK Slips Agency. Bi. 2-3 Collyer Onay. MAIL TABLE APRIL IST TO 15TH, 1912. The undermentioned dates are only approximate. STEAMSHIP. From Expected. Will be Despatched for:— 8 apara P&lembang April 1 Muntok
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    • 232 13 THE POPULAR BRAND. MACKIES I 7 I I alaV *4 mmrmmaS**' |(V J^^innf ff*IHHHHHHHI nHHHHHHHHHHrY *^HHHHHn^^^a^aW *^^aS 11 JEH If nnr^. jBaB alala^afc— MM Mnnnnninnnnnnnnn^l H KMGLEDTAESEETEII SOLD EVERYWHERE. THE DENTAL HALL. m j m^g m^ggMgm%gm^mm%w^mmwWggggm^mm%m%m%ii^gmm^a^mm^^ggggm%mmmm^^^g^^m^^^m BRAS BASSA ROAD. UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF Dr. J. IWATSUBO, DENTAL SURGEON. (Who way
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  • Page 14 Advertisements
    • 143 14 A Martell's Brandy. a In England more Martell's Three Star Brandy' is sold than any other Brand. In London more than three times g^MgM^ the quantity of Martell's is i Illißlllf so,d than an y other Brand °f flllllglllpllll OBTAINABLE FROM ALL DEALERS. H II I "ala»afalalalalala?anaalalalllananananan»naaniananan»»»ananannnana»aa»aaaaaaaaaa*^a»a»a«a«a« fl II aH
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