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1940.
THE FOUNDING OF SINGAPORE. kinds of curious omaments. Big balls, but,
tõus," chalou," spi
belle bracelets, armlets, etc, etc.". Some of the women have their collata nad even apron strings ornamented. wlik", clay, balls" and "tlaklets. Women'?of a
E. HAY, "AND"MES. BORDON.
The foe old sellor, Admiral Sir John Dalrym ple Hay, who has just celebrated his eighty eigbib birthday, entered the Royal Navy seventy five years ago, and was at the capture of Bayrust and St. Joan d'Acro in 1740." Then he went to China, and bore his share in chua- for piratical junke" and' in the' operations in Borneo, in 1845, under Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane. By the time the Crimean War broka (out he was a captaĵo, and be commanded the "Hannibal" in the Black Sea, Promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1866, he became a caval lord at Whitehall; and he is the senior living officer that has served on the Board of Admiralty, Sir John is the fourth baronet of his ancient ling, and a splendid, and now almost extinct, type of car, old-time admirals.
curtain tribe have allvar ornaments abwn in likely and unlikely places over their upper garments. Others again excel in embroidery Some bave large squares on the chest made of silver bul
buttons, others carry rows of silver but lors on the head.” Beads are also much em- played by some-made of various things, even Fred seeds.
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DOME BY TRYING.
Nobody can tell what he can do till ha tries, When a thing ought to be done the modem spirit moves us to keep working away at it until it is done. In the face of this idea the impossible vanishes. Where there's's will, there's a way. If we could but rob cod liver oil of its sickening taste and smell and then: combine it with two or three other ingredients we should possess the best remedy in the world for certain diaensas that are now practically incurable." So said a famous English physi cian twenty-five years ago." But it will never be done, he added. You can no more turn cod liver oil into a pleasant palatable medicine, than you can tum the Codfish itself into a Bird of Paridise.". Yet he lived to admit that in
4 LIKE ANNAMITES, The various tribes are physically different, Some are strong and sturdy-reminding one of Nepaulese; abers again are thin and delicate: strongly resembling Annamites both in ap Fearance and mode of life; others again are strangely new unlike any other people. Clim ate is no doubt responsible for much of both WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION It was Sir John Dalrymple Hay who told the build and appearance as well as habits. Gen the "impossible" had been accomplished. It Editor of the Singapers Free Press (who knew erally speaking their diet is very poor. They palatable as honey and contains all the Sir John in Wigtownshire many years ago) seem to live mainly on rice and vegetables nutritive and curative properties of Pare Cod when he was home last in zgoz, one Sunday asked for flour, but they said: There is solver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, wheat grown in there parts. Indian corn? No. Combined with the Compound Syrup of ergoing in the Scottish Conservative Club, in Edinburgh, that the late Mrs Bellamy-Gordon, Buckwheat? No. The Mingja tribe (possibly Hypophosphites, Extracts of Malt and Wild of Keemure Castle, Kirkcudbrightshire, an old migrated from the Talitu district) seem to be Cherry. This remedy is freed from the_bad friend of the Admiral's, rolated to him in her better off than most. They live in better peculiarities Dr. Frothingham so delasted, and ord house, that she had sailed from Penang lo houses and dress better, Flatroofed, mud for. Use it freely and confidently for Anamia, it is precisely the splendid medicine he wished
a schooner with Sir Stamford Raffles to Sings. pore in 1819, and herself saw.lbe British flag: hoisted here,
That interesting historical incident is no where on written record' (unless it ba in the
THE Undersigned have received instructions Gordon family archives at Keamura Castle
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION, ':
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
** on TUESDAY,
the 13th April, 1929, "at fi a.m.) at their
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corner of Ica House Street,
A QUANTITY OF AMERICAN BOOTS, UMBRELLAS,
*** SOCKS, SINGLETS, &c.
Also.
30,000 EGYPTIAN CIGARETTES."" TERMS:-As usual. .“
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioners. Hangkong, 7th April, 1909.
Consignees.
amongst the lady's private letiora from Penang),: but has been transmitted direct verbally from ber through Sir John Dalrymple Hay, to the Editor as above mentioned.
Mr. Bellamy-Gordon when Singapore was
taken over by Sir Stamford Raffles, was a Mrs. Bellamy, her husband beingʻa Bengal official
houses are the most common in these parts
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Hysteria, Wasting Cómplaints, Blood Impuri- ties, Asthma, and Throat and Lung Troubles, Dr. W. H. B. Aiking, F. R. C, P., London,-- ¡M. D. C. M, Victoria University,——M," B‚‚ ̈ Toronto University,Consulting Physician to Homs for Incurables, Physician to Toronto General Hospital, says :' “I am much pleased to state that the results from using Wampole's Preparation of Cod Liver Oil have been uniformly satisfactory; it appealed to me as being prepared according to correct scien |tific principles." "It increases the appetiteˇazil
influenced the digestion of food; it is delicious' to take, will not disappoint you, and is effective from the first dose." It represents the dawn MENAGERIE. of progress" At chemists everywhere.
THE
HIPPODROME
of the Honourable East India Company at CIRCUS &
Penang, where Sir Stamford Raffles was fre quently a guest of the Bellamys. On inherit ing the Kenmure estates (she was originally a Miss Gordon of Kesmure) she added the name of Gordon to her married zame of Bellamy,
Sir John Dalrymple Hay knew Singapore well as a naval officer, first visiting this place [318in the Spiteful, 'a paddle-steamer in 1843, and had much service in, the Straits, Borned and on the China- station. (He did not forget to ‚ásk ́about his old friend Mr. W. H. Read whtu, we met him) In his book of reminiscences "Liner from My Log Books," under the year, 1883, Sir John makes this reference to Mr. Bellamy Gordon -
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS,
"BÜLOW,"
"I last another old friend 1000 after at the Age of. ainety-three-Mrs. Bellamy' Gordon of Kremure Castle, which she-gestored. “She en- tertained me frequently as member for New Galloway at her picturesque old resider ca. buying arrived, Consignces of Cargo are hereby On the 4 October I played three rubbers of foformed that their Goods, with the exception whist as her partner, and she was much pleased of Opium, Treasure, and Valuables, are being. landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous that two of them were bumpers. In her early and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Honglife Mr. Bellamy, her husband, had been Re- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godows Com-silent of Penang, and and botertained. Sir pany, Limited, at Kowloon, and West Poinmfoid as when he took possession of Godown", whence delivery may be obtained.
the savage i land of Singapore and founded
No.Chxims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Goods remain one of the greatest emporiums in the East. ing undelivered after the 14th of April, willWhen Lord Keature, ber brother, died sho he subject to rent.
:
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All Claims must reach as before' ibe x'th ́nl_ April, 1909, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected., Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned,"
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„Hongkono, 7th-April, 1909,
Dentistry.
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the possessor of the ancient historical the soothers Gordons, and showed fossensed all attributes which are em bodied in the verse--
There neer was coward of Gordan blutd Nor yet of Kentaura's fine."
From Sir John Hay's data si t'i the death of Mrs Bellamy Gordon, and her age at death it will be seen that she was born in 1799, and was,
.bi 29 years of age when she took a health trip from Pepang to Singapore at the end of January 18,19 id' the schooser of Sir Stamford
Reffies, and wasthus the only European lady present at the boisting of the,dag at Singapora.
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A correspondent of the N. C. D. News who in travelling through South-westera YouDAD gives a graphic description of the strange elbnographical botchpotch which exists in this liule knowa corner of the Chinese empire: He says: The following are the names of a few distinct tribes that I came across along the
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ex Factory men are dressed like Chinese, but the women • Wmokong, 1st April, 1909. betray their nationality by their curious costumes and profuse ornements. Some dress lo darkblue, some in light blue or white; some trim their dark garments with light bige, some sse bapp, some cotton. Some nas, long skirts open at one side, and fooss jackets,, similar to those worn by the Lepcha women" in the Himalayas. Some use short patticoats to the knees; some bave a plaited apron behind and 'short bodice ; others have no skirta ́at álly, but "light Trousers to the knees and à short,jacket., Some again are peculiar for their patties, or bandages round the legs. With the exception of the Mingfa women, the women folk seldom woar more than two garments-an opper and a lower. Again, the hand-dress is often à die (logulshing mark, and pron, sorver to 'dis- linguish mothers and spinúteis, ir s
AND THE MOTHER'S. DRESS(" Thus we see the mother with a large piece of cloth on her head, artistically laid so as to prov ́ject over her forehead and also to cover her neck. It is fastened with massive plails of hair, The young maiden comes whib har black hair banging loose down her back and shoulders, with K'amikil yound cap on her head
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