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Carter of Portugal to the comets which were observed in their years. Of course, instances could be multiplied of comets whose visits have coincided with great public calamities. But

"ARMED ROBBERIES AT MACAO.

ALLEGED DETENTION OF

L877ERS.

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CHINESE PORTMAN CHARGED.

Before Mr. Ri Word, Becond Police Magistrate, in the Police Court this morning, Chen Wai, Postman 99, of 34, Cochrane Street, was charged with that he did on divers dates between the 1st and 4th May last unlawfully and wilfully open and delay contain corres pondence, the property of the Postmaster.

the General For Office, prosecuted and Mr. J. out lawful authority or excuse, Mr. Lewis, of

H. Gardiner appeared for the defendant, Chief Detective-Inspector Hausen watched the case on behalf of the Police."

sinf, the great, astronomer, In Paris, and the Austria, a sweet and gracious lady, fell in 1899 | asserts, they are libellous, he should pro observations he made formed part of the by the dagger of a maniacal anarchist and secute with the utmost rigour any culprit,

FANTAN SALOONS HÉLD, UN foundation upon which Newton in his "Prlock called Lucchool. Perhaps we may not blame the first culprit, he can fasten on, and get pin" vorified bis deduction of a camel's orbit for this the comst of that your any more than him punished severely, in terrorem. These

A series of daring armed robberlen has-just- from the theory of gravitation. He established we attribute the tragle deaths of King Hum- are civilized legal methods of dealing been perpetrated at Macao, in two Insiances with that section of the Press for whom fastan salons being held up and the inmates its identity with the coinets of 153 und 1627, best of Italy, President McKinley, and Dam

buch methods were devised.

But to (errorised. The first of the attacks was carried A. S. WATSON & CO., and confidently predicted its return in 1759. The prediction, unlike most predictions, came

penalize all in oue dawning prohibition out in the en ly hours of the morning on Mon true, and it is for that reason that this periodic

"carrying things to an excess," as Con- day. According to a reliable report, which has fucius did not say (though Bret Harte reached us, two Chipamen, with paruled faces, sa as to disguise their identity, entered a fantan comet is named after him, the discoverer

This part the philosopher whose reason deals not merely says he 'did) when he heard that Chạng | den at 3 am, in the Rua da Jogo, and, levelling Genaral, then in his custody for delivery with...... of the periodicity of comets.

bad beheaded an entire province. Our cular "hairy star would seem to have with the observation of isolated phenomena, he sympathies are not with obscurantism, instantly ordered the man, to "Stand and do thair, loaded revolver at the keeper of the bouse, contributed not a little towards giving a bad silates to make geocratstions-bis cyos pero and we have

horror of censorship liver, Terrorised at the, appearance and game..., to all his tribe, 'We have' certain trate for deeper than those ofthe mere star guzer, and shutting up." Away with dark-evident determination of the highbinders, the konwledge of its appearance twenty-seven, Evidently there are many calamitous events ness, more light! More light This is owner of the saloos instantly made over all the times, God on almost every occasion it accom-unuliended by the appearance of a comet, and not the time to recapitulate all the reasons money in his possession or under his keeping Mr. Lewis stated that he was instructed by in the premises at the time. When the rub the Postmaster-General, who wished to have panied some event fraught with misery to also many comels are seep without any pertiwhy the utmost freedom of the Press com- mankind. to the year B.C. 87 Rome was

cularly untoward or unusual event occurring, patible with the public interest and safety ise had got what they considered a sufficient. the defendant dealt with summarily. The facts besieged by four armies, thoice of Marius, Human nature is alw lys prose to the fallacy almost vital to national life. We can only pedition, the scoundrels promptly took to their defendant with instructions to deliver the Carbo, and Sestdrius; was, forced to post hoe ertu propier hos fafter it, therefore, an impian the of the attitude of the Provincial hels and in their haste to leave the saloon, let letters on the days on which they were handed Burrender and was put'ta frightful pliage and accounfufit), "It is always well to ascertain applause of the attitude of the Provincial drop a portion of their ill-gotten tool. Ap-bimo but defendant failed to do so, massacre. Some voe hundred thousand Romani the true character and cause of any evout be. Assembly and regret the glatinacy and purently with theviotestion of scaring away any would-be puitúers after them, the thieves fired di agus lost their lives in this hideous butchery.fore venturing in generalizs bout it." Astrono- backwardness of the Viceroy.

[ìnè riund from their revolvers as a parting mers have acquately determined the date of Without tracing its ill-omeued cärear-through,

salute to their hosts whom they succeeded in the centuries we have only tu look at the year theperlidiesl appearance of at least seventy-five

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LOCAL AND GENERAL,

1066during which Psgland lost her beloved king, comets, and are also able to tell us a great deal An imported case of plaque from Canion is

good King Edward, Suroamed the Confestir, whose laws and customs were long remember ed as the "models after which all subsequent sovereigns should rule the English. The same year Harold Godwinson, the last of the Augle, Saxon kings leil, defeated near Hastings to place which the Normans afterwards called Senlac, the lake of blood. Norway had Inst her king aHarold's hand, which was, also red with the blood of his bather Testig, in that some fatal year. In the year 1378 occurred a quarrel which split Europe in two, and divided Christendum for seventy years. The Papicy bad succeeded the Roman Empire in altempting to unite all Europe under one sway and was now divided against Itself, Avignon'rivalling Rome. This, the Great Schism, caused audless strite and misery, Halley's comet's bext appearance "heralded an attack of what

one might call the earth quake habit, for in 1459 it killed, or rather looked down upon the killing, of 40,000 people is Naples) in 1531 Lisbon lost 30,000 people; and lu, 1607 Syria 20,000-all by cariliquake. The

year 1759 was portentous in that ji was az annus mirabilis for births of mon destined to influence for good or for evil the forfunes and the future of mankind... William, Wilberforce- was the protagonist on the areas of buman emancipation; he was born that year. So were Robespierro and Danton. How far the liver of those two gruesome characters made for liberty or the reverse we may not discuss bere Just after the perihelion passage of this. comet in 1759 William Pit was born; his name has power to stir our hearts even now. That you

reponed, to day.

SEVERAL correspondents report hearing and sesing the fall of a mateorite near Bombay oy the afternoon of April 25th.

Tex first ordinary general (statutory) meeting of Glenealy Plantations, Ld., will be held at Singapore on Friday, the 13th ini.

GUNNER A. R. Ellis of No. 2 Company, H.V.D., is granted leave of absence for a months with effect from the 4 May.

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A few minutes after the man had decamped,] ad alarm was raised by the gaming hours koopers, but iba policu were nowhere to be foudll, at any rate, none answered to the cry for help, and the robbers are still at large,

ANOTHER "HOLD. UP.".

about the nature and composition of a comel itself. The spectroscope and telescope in the hands of mathematicians have revealed the senso of what once was a mystery, and beyond full doubt comets are simply stars which do not

A sacand "hold op "took place the following differ essentially from other planets, including

morning, on Tuesday. In this caso the cir- our own earth. We are informed by men of

cumstances are even more serious, since the perpetrators science that they are compased of maller such

of the outrage, are said to be Euro- peaus and strangers to Macao. Shortly after "we are.accustomed to, that they follow

midnight on Tuesday two Europeans entered a the universal law of gravitation and other

gambling house in the same street of the physical laws, as beseems "somewhat. eccen-

THE P. and O. 5. N. Company's 5.8. Persia, previous night's raid. They pretended to visit tric but orderly members of star society," which left London an 8tt akt, took the follow-the house with the fareation of trying their lack. As soon as they got hold of the croupier The comet consists of two parts visible to using, spec.e for Singapore: Coin gold £350.

and were in the act of compelling the mas the nucleus, or kernel, and the coma, or hair

MR. B. W. Bradbury joined the Hongkong to part with all his "casb, a Chinese We usually eat the latter the comet's Volunteer Corps on the 5th May, was assigned boy, a folf in the house, realising the evil The pacleus in Corps No. 135, and posted to No. 1 Company. design of the foreigners, began to scream · ODI "tail", like tlie Coincao.

MR. W. G. Worcester has joined the Hong

"Save life," "Save life." One of the men who the bright star-like point, and may consist of a

carried a knife with him denfi blow with it huge swann of meteors, in diameter anythingkong Stock Exchange, and has become a from one hundred miles to eight hundred miles, member of the Singapore Stockbrokers Assoon the boy's arm in order to silence the fukt, but as the latter, paised by the wound, re- (and each separate meteor may be anything in ciation.

doubled his energy in calling out for help, the diameter from many feet to tiny particles of REAR-Admiral Hugh Pigott Williams, who cowardly ruffian slushed his hapless victim on dust. They are immensely far apart. The succeeds Rear-Admiral it Dodgias Gamble in the arm, infliction several nasty wounds. head. Eacko's comer has a diameter of 300,000 he capacity of Naval Adviser to the Turkish miles when it first becomes visible at a dia-Government, was Commodore at Hongkong, and was made a rot-admiral exactly two years tance of 130 milion miles, As the comet approaches the sun the size of this diameter Sia Henry Blake, G.C.M.G., is interesting him- diminishes, but evou so, at a perihelion disselt in the oil boom. He is chairman of New tice of 33 million miles the head has a foundland Olifields, Ltd., and also on the board diameter of about 14,000 miles. Some comets of the British Roumanian Oil Co, Ltd., with a have enormibusly vatt tälls, being more than capital of 200,000, which has just been fined 200 million miles long and 200,000 miles in diameter gear the head. Such comats ara

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Foiled to their attempt lọ rab the house, the

men bul ed out into the street and were lost to sight. Agaid the police wars 'n wit, and so

far no arrests have been made.

The Chinese boy was removed on sa na- balance to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed. The injuries, though serious, are not likely to prove fatal.

A THIRD GUTRAGE. The third case of armas robbery in the city of Macao within two days occurred in the Travessa de Palma, just below the Hotel Bon

Visin. Considering how badly patrolled this secluded district is, it is little wonder that the robbers managed to carry out their nefarious plan and succeeded in cluding the eyes of the Police. It was known that a well-to-do Chinese

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Mr. Gutierrez, Acting Chief Clarke'at 'the General Post Office, stated that the defendant's- sumber was formerly 13, but that number was · changed to 99 owing to defendant's superstition that 13 was an unlucky number. His duty was to deliver Section 9 in the whole of May at the hours of 8 a.m., Doou and 4 p.m. Defendant. war on duty on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th but not on the 5th, on which date he took the 8 a m. delivery only.

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At this point a quantity of letters and printed matter was handed the witness, who said he recoguised them as belonging to Section 9. with the exception of two letters.

Mr. Lewis (pointing to certain letters)-Wers those letters in good condition before?—Yes. What is the present condition with regard to the enclosures -They are now toro,

What was defendant's duly ?—His duty was to deliver Section 9.

"In case of the undelivery of any letters, what should have been his next stop ?—He should have returned the letters to ane before his next delivery.

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You had no report from the defendant re- garding the undelivery of any letters ?—No.

At none of those periods?—No.

Mr. Gardiner What is your duty?—I sort the letters that come to my departmypl

"Do you sort all lotters that come to the Pust Office?—I soit all town correspondence except

box lotters.

You collect all town correspondenco' pari sonally? Yes, I put it in a box.

It's an open box aud'anyone passing up and down can take out lettera?—Ob, no, what right bas he?

Quita.so, Mr. Gutierrez, I don't pay anybody. has a right to do it, but can, ha or ca'a he not?- Impossible.

Nobody can take out any letters?-My'oyan are constantly on the box. I should stop him from doing it,

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During what hours are you engaged in the Post Office?-From 9 am to 5 pm.

And during all that time your eyes are con stantly on the box?-1 can't say. The Fost master may and for me.

You can't swear that nobody can take out

Indy was occupying one of the small houses letter's?-1 can't swear. in Chanambeira

A little before four o'clock

AUGUSTINE Rodbel, a quatermaster on, French steamer Haiphong, was fined $2,500 or of so alleausted a density that however three mosths' lupissament by Mr. Grego, they come to the earth, the latter's motion second magntrate, at Singapore, for possession of cap dot be ever so slightly affected by them. do tails of contraband opiumvalued at $384, and The feats of many have been excited by the for attempting to export the stuff to Baturia." thought that, this earth might be injured by Ws have been favoured by Mr. Mee Cheung passing through the comet's tall. Now as to oft, Ice House Road, with an excellent photo.

our graph of the proclamation ceremony on Mon- on Monday morning two burglars armed with this we may authoritatively reassure readers, in begin with, we have already passed day. The picture gives a complete view of daggers managed to secure admission into the the brilliant spectacle and should form an inter-house. Seiring the defenceless inmate, they through in by cnets' tails, notably in 1861.on June 3 th at 6.14 m. when this earth esting souvenir of the occasion to home friends. asked her to baud over all her money and traversed the tail of the great comet 30,op THE directors of the Hongkong and China valuables. Refusalio comply with the demand would, they said, mean instant death to her, Gas have declared a dividend of 5 per cent, and So as to induce the woman to yield, they at the bonus of 1 per cent (ingether 125, per share) same time produced a murderous looking miles loside it, and about two thirds of its

for the halfyear, making it per cent, for the dagger with which they threatened to kill her. year. £gou to general reserve, £500 to reservs. for meeting fluctuations in reserve, £131568 Frightened beyond words, the woman gathered forward."

men fought at Minden and two heroes died that Quebec might become a jewel in the English crown, and that their two games, Montcalm and Wolfe, should live in the histories of France, of England and of Canada, Paris saw in 1835 the troubles which culminated in the complete downfall of the Bourbons in France; the same city was convulsed by the firing of an infernal machine consisting of ag barrels of explosives.gth bom the head. Nothing happened. A One Fiaschi by this attempt on the life of

for a collision with the nucleus of a comel, any extra charge. On poples sent by post an Charles X. of France inaugurated the first of tant there is only one of the periodic comes which suditinal 11.80 per quarter is charged for postage. sikening recurring decimal, the Italian aba evit litely to mishehave in such a manner, The postaga on the weekly isans. to any part of the

world is 30 cents per quarter.

chist outrage on Royalty. Belore we proceed and that's Enrke's and as that cannot become even conceivably possible for the next 4,500 Single Cuples, Daily, tel canta, Weekly, twenty to the misdeeds of other comets we may briefly

Eva cents (for cash only).

refer to the cruel loss which Europe sustused years, we may sleep peacefully, c'eights. It Just after the appearance of Halley's conter in may be useful to note that the chances of any April tr, at Brighton, E. F. Aucou, of Hong-1456. At that time the Turks threatened to over individual comet striking the earth are as 7 to kong, to Jean Farquharson,

This is not good sporting whelm all, Europe, and would have succeeded but for the valeur of Joba Kunniades, who, after chance in favour of a comet bitting us.

MARRIAGE,

291,000,000,

Che Hunghong Celegra sioriously defeating them before Belgrade, we're not alrond.

VICEROY YUA VS BAN,

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You remember sorting Section 147—Yes. Did anybody help you or did you do it exclu-

sively? I always do it myself except when I am sick...

Were you sick at any time between the 1st

and 4th-1 was not sick. I was capable of doing it myself. ;

postman has access to any pigeon bole?- I don't understand you.

Any postman has actually access to any pigeon-holé ?.-Yes, but not when I am there.

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Postman 66 could have easily taken out the letters when your b.ck was turned?—He could' no! have done so,

Why? Because the hours of his deliveries are 8 min., p.m. and 5 p.

together a precious hair ornament set io. valuable pearls, a gold bair pin and sundry A FIFTRON-year-old youth was awarded ten pieces of jewellery, all of which she sur strokes with the birch and 4 hours' detention rendered in the burglars. Whea they had by Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy this safely tucked away their low, the two men morning for stealing a pair o trousers, while beat a hasty retreat lesving the poor another Chinese of mɔ e mature years wa A in the house minus ber valuables. Cood after sentenced to 14 days' hard labour for stealing she rushed out to the sheet and called for So that anybody can gain access to any a jacket.

the police who were conspicuous by their | pigeon-hple not in his section ?—It's difficult to absence.

TEN Chinese appeared at the Magistracy this maroing for gambling in the Sai Wan Ho market. The keeper was filed Sto while fines värying from $7 to $3 were imposed on the rest of the gamblers. Another batch of six were each fined $4 for gambling at Shau-ki-wan, with the exception of the keeper, who was fined $30, -

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WOMEN

It is far from creditabi's that such outragas could be perpetrated in the very heart of the city wabout the members of the police force being niyah re near at hand to render as- sistance, when help was urgently wanted.

The DEWEY DOCK.

died leaving all Eastern Europa beir prey. 1848 was a year of revolution and horror Tal HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1910:

year Backo's comel was pparent. We shall have more to say presently about 18ly Tittle THE PUNTENTOUS. COME7.

come: which has a period of three and c "It is not to be wondered at," said a learned tenths years. In 1866 Austria was humbled, in Chinese pundit that this year your great Em-the dust at Sudowa and many remembered 'pire loses its master and is troubled #ith Tempel's prophecy, which was fulfilled, but a yellow or a red hat, or a white hat, or it is possible to obtain the support of the Ame-the Pacific Fleet, in a report to the N vy Da-

The search for truth, especially in the East, has been likened to looking in a dark room for a very black hat that isn't there;|| Sometimes it is more irritating than even that, for a long search may be ironically rewarded with the discovery of not a black

THE Rev, Lord. William Gascoyne Cecil, rector

of Hatfield, left England un 6h utt, for the United States, bis mission being to see how far

reballion, for the tailed star la 'is the sky and of an appearance of a comet that year.

no hat, but a ladies' bonnet. So when we rica Voiversities in promoting the scheme that is always the sign of grief and disaster to In 1881 Encke's comet and Tempel's brought great empires." Superior as many of us think with them the dreadful murder of Tsar applauded the success of the Canton Self-with which bis name is associated for a Univer. Government' Society and of the Provinciality in China. Lady Florence Cecil is accom- ourselves to mera superstition, we wonder how Alexander, the assassination of President Assembly in persuading Viceroy Yuan to pasying her husband, many there are who may venture to plead not Garfield, the death of Lord Beaconsfild, cancel his prohibition of the entry into L'Avenir de Tonkit is wrathful at the supine guilty if accused of sharing to some extent the the blowing up of H.M.S. Dofere in the

Canton of Chinese newspapers published in

ness of the Government to permining the theories of our Chinees friends on the subject Straits of Magellan and the reign of Tener in Hongkong, we had not found our black bat, introduction of Foreigners and Chinese for the of comets. Many people who pride themselves Ireland-and-plast the Majuba business. In True, the Hongkong Chinese newspapers were exploitation of agricultural and mineral to on being strong-minded feal vague fears and 1870 a comet accompanied the downfall of being successfully sent to Danton; true, they their part are calling for the explusion of the sources of Indo-Chins while the Chinesa on forebodings at the appearance of a phenomenon Napoleon the Third, and 1819 the death of hir were exposed there for sale, but it was not Annamites, French protégés, and employer of which has always had calamitous parecipitings only son under the assegain of the Zulus. Ip by the will of Viceroy Yuan that these things the Yunnan railway, and their replacement by among all cations and in every age of history, 1867 the Emperor Maximilag of Mexico wus

were done, and his prohibition remained in Chinese. There are many reasons for this bad charecter shot by Juarez and Porfino Dax (who pow force-a force not always felt acutely, but, YESTERDAY, three painters went to a tea-shop being given to comets. The, to the ignorant, occupies his place but under the speciuus nevertheless, occasionally violent, and always ip. Queen's Road and after having regaled extraordinary and isexplicable apparition in the name of President) and his unfortunate irksome. The undiscovered truth was that themselves, refused to pay for the same. By sky of a thing like a flaming sword, is of itself Enapicas lost her tenton President Lincoln these papers when sent by post are delivered; way of adding insult to injury, the recalcitrants sufficient to cause excliement and even appre- was assassinated on April the 14th, 1865, if sent in bulk, they are handed over to the made short work of the crockery and then hension; Add to this the accumulated obier- but the peritalion pasinge of the comer of that Customs where their fate may be anything. quietly walked out of the establishment. This vallon of centuries, and a prima facie casa is year was not till May 27th. Perhaps the pro- Sometimes they pass through. Sometimes morning, each of the man was fined S6, in

the master of the tea-shop. made out against the apparently erratic travel clamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of zealous or well-informed Customs officer which was included the compensation due to

scizes the lot. Usually, however, they ap lar through space. dar present visitor, now ladis in 1877 may not console good Russiaus pear to have a good chance of entry. What THE Chios Mutual steam Navigation Com- visible from about ibrek in the morning till a for the fearful loss of life at Plovna and the His Excellency cares about most is the brangat forward, the profit for last year was pany's report shows that, including £14,30% little before daylight, in called Halloy's Comet; Shipka Pass, in 1888 two emparers, that principle of the thing, and that is where we 119,530. Of this £35,440 was written off for Got because Halley made it or even discovered great old Willam of Prussia whoan gchius and join issue with him. For if he objects to depreciation, and, after payment of directors it. That philosopher, second only among great welded together the states of Germany into an these newspapers on the ground that fees, tacoma tax, &c, and placing £100 to English physicists to Newton, noted the so- Empire, and his son Frederick the Noble who, they are seditious, it is open to him to reserve, the directors declare a dividend of 6 markable regularity of the recurrence of the by blood and iron, had helped to make it prove his accusation clearly by taking per cent, on the ordinary shares, and a like comet which bears kls name. At the time of possible, pasted away to the infinite grief action in the Courts against the paper and dividend on ordinary 15 shares, carrying for fis appestancy in idla he observed it with Cone of all loyal Germans, The Empress Elisabeth of 14. vendors. If he objects because as he wand 15,870.

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GOOD WORKS AT MANILA,

Rear Admiral Uriel Sebres, commarder of

pariment on the docking of the feet prep tr

how valaible the floating duck Daway is to the Klory to departure for the United States, shows

U. F. Navy in the Orient. Ha states tb'il the eight armoured ctoisers of his fl sat were docked in less than six working days, and that by working overtime he couli have docked them all within three days. The first ship went in at 6.20 am. Nov. 28, and the last one came three coats white in the dock, nut at noon, Dec. 3. Each ship was painted

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A Chinese postman spoke to having found certain bundles of correspondence under de fendant's bed in the servants' quarters of the Post Office and in a brothel at,No, at Gough Street.

The case was remanded, bail being allowed in the sum of $500.

RUBBER SBARES.

TJIE FALL IN VALUES, wwwwwwFeature

The following table will easily show that falls in prices ará liable to be simost as rapid as rises, and the difference in values In.s. month amounts on a genèral average to a drop of about 20-35 per cant, and there is every likelihood of the fall continuing for some time ta como yet, and many of the shares of younger local companies are likely to go back nearly to par.

April 7,

May 5,

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Auglo Malay £i 17.0° Balu Tiga.£6 26 Chartonese s Edinburgh

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THE Assir di Torking estimates the cast of Yunnan railw y at about 175, millions of francs. The cost in human life is something terrible, Owing to the frightfal unhealthiness of part of the country traversed, ovaried thousand coolies perished during the construction of stie line, MB35B. Fraser & Co, share brokers, of Sings. Highlands pare, write:We bave so record a general Kamani g......... falling off in prices of dollar and starting shares, Lacadron which inter have dropped to the erect that Linggi they no lenger nitract sales by local holders to Seafield...

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sraum prianaL4 5.0° Bertam United Serdang manum £8 17:0 Vallambros United Sumalta are

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Lopdeo, bence an exceptionally dull week has passed. Rabber.-Most of the dollar quotations are purely nomical, and apart from a few forced.

THE tin statistics for April show that the dell

as there has been little doing.

varios in the United Kingdom totalled 1,:00 Changkat Sordang tons, the Continent 7,000 tons, and America Riphinstone and the visibla supply on May 1 was 18,158 Pajam 3,700 tons. The consumption was 6,700 tons | Indragiri... mone tons. The Straits, shipments for April ware Pageh 4035 tons, much below the average. The Sandycroft statistical position is favourable, the visible Singapors Rubber supply having declined to semily z,son tons, United Blogapore but there was no Banca sala in April.