CHINESE NAMES OF STREETS, &c. 



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Chinese Characters. 



Remarks as to Meaning. 





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there are no houses and that accounts 

 for the fact that there is no Chinese 

 name as yet crystallised for the road.) 



'Javanese street.' (Many Javanese livehere, 

 and the Chinese have distinguished 

 them as the chief inhabitants of the 

 street.) 



' Behind Seng Po's big house'. (Sing Po, 

 i.e. Tan Seng Po, a wealthy Chinaman, 

 is now dead.) 



(i) 'Water-fairy-gate stables lane within.' 



(ii) ' Water-fairy-gate stables cul-de-sac' 

 (Bain Court is a lane off North Bridge 

 Road. That part of North Bridge Road 

 is called 'the Water-fairy-gate ' , why I 

 cannot say, unless it is connected in any 

 way with the fact that there was once 

 a public bath in the vicinity. Douglas' 

 Amoy Dictionary gives 'chui sien mng' 

 'gangway' but I know of no reason why 

 this part of Singapore should be socall- 

 ed. 



(i) ' Street behind the Gospel-house.' 



(ii) ' Eurasian Church opposite lane.' 

 ( (ii) applies also to Holloway Lane). 



R.A. Soc, No. 42, 1904. 



