The Straits Times, 6 July 1878

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  • 16 1 The Straits Times. MM XXXIV. PUBLISHED EVERY SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1878. SATURDAY EVENING No. 2,914
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  • 61 1 STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY, 6t h JULY 1878. LATEST MARKET QUOTA TIONS. SINQAPO»[r. i ih JULY, 1878. •unbier S -t.JTi. j.T 7.:.0 (ii.ility 1:;.7">. UV ■r See, Bontynt' nominal. i- I .V,. I X, l.orj. 4 dn \;11\. "i7-J. lo'.. Private 3/10| v -j-7 1 I'm :..l I dts. In. di«.
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  • 729 1 M> 'allowing summary of th« week's I in our Overland Journal une. 'verland issue of tbeSnurrS Saturday the g£nd °n which day the P. and O. i lespatohed with st homeward mail. The M. M. arrived here tb«mW London mail of 81st M M. steamer ft.#.lW Present homeward mail.
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  • 940 1 Thk following summary ol the week's appeared in our Overland Journal of 6th July. Thk last issue of the overland Sn: urs TIMES was dated Saturday the 20th June, the homeward mail being despatched next day at I P. m The P. k Q, steamer Suuda arrived here tins morning
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  • 1328 1 The Report on the Police for 1877 Thk Report on the Police Force for the year 1^77, which we published yesterday, appeared in the Gazette only on last Friday, although it is dated the "2nd April, and we notice the fact as one of many symptoms which have been apparent
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  • 2551 1 Common Sense, v. Sentimentalism in Politics Wk deem it a pleasant duty to lay before our readers the speech of Mk. RoEBtTGR, the member for Sheffield, in a late debate in the House of Commons, on the question of the movements of Indiau Troops, for it has the true English
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 170 1 kde known i nt" lor bag i t,ub«crip1 !> >ns will be Oflo i also i'i 8»i n Al.'iAR. Cl.Mlwut"s itji M.it. 11. ii.lv in (\il«utt;t. Messrs. I ,)v. in tii.- copy, fcfee ions required, eU. 1 tU ed till ■■■uiit-riiiiiinlcd .rdittgly. l.nfi- tally i nation to tho proiiii.'. or
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 2156 2 Report on the Polic e For ce for the Yea r 1877. The year 1577 has been, lam glad to le ablet., report, unusually free from those and disturbances which have so o/'ten caused auiiovam c and anxiety in tlie Strait* Settlement*. There have been of course the differences between
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  • 2299 2 The Austrian Version of Baron OverBeck's Expedition to Borneo. Tramiatedjbr the Shanghai Oounfrjrom the Oesterrriekueie Monatssdn-ift fur den Orient. It was during the year of the exhibition (1878) that our Consul -(Jeiieral in Hongkong, Overtook, for the first time unfolded, to a circle of intimate friends and (iovernnient officer*, his
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  • 758 2 (Titinxlatetl for the v (It in requcste.! of our oooton •liu-iuir these tr&uslatiou* Mm i hi tin- iiuiy I«M>"< Thk following telegrams from Governor of Acheen are tran-'.r from the Batavia papers. "Since the expedition previous telegrams. Oedong has enttr-. into negociations through the Mahar« of Telok Semawe.
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  • 223 3 Mini proceedings of the Munissionerg, on Friday, the 1 tth 1878. „winners Present llon'b Captain COLfcnrswoOD, I.a nt. Governor —Pretidt nt. •I M U. Mai. w.h leys, Eaq. CX CH« I no. Esq k HOXG, Esq. the last Meeting were contirmed, letter I rum the Superintendent dated 25th May last,
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  • 214 3 Malacca, 30th June,1878 s N Co I*,1 steamer 8a:,h,1a,1, 'Wiii Mann, f roln your I>orl t(l the intermediate ports,) this morning. •I tho 28th April last, I 1 "iblieation, a copy of a Peti- Advocate and Attorney Court here on behalf oV mU residing in the DisTuddong and MarlieK. t1,..
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  • Correspondence.
    • 373 3 T he Gas Contract. To thr E.I i tor of tlie Dm'lj/ Tim,*. Sir. —I quite agree with Mu. (in.i.wb that it does seem a pity we should be bound to the Singapore Gas Company for the next l(? years, when, mail after mail, we hear not only of the
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    • 532 3 Penang And Its Grievances To the Editor of ihf Daily Tmm. Sir. In your issue of the 27th ulto., you gave an extract from the Prumitj fla zette of the 22nd, one of the ■objects of which was a review or description of the working of the Court of Requests
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  • 118 3 The Government Gazette, 5TH July Ihk following new notifications appear in yesterday's Gazette His Hawaiian Majesty's Consul at Singapore has notified to Government that he has obtained leave of absonoe to proceed to Europe, and that, during his absence, Mr. llkixrk ii Hkrwk, will act provisionally for him as Consul
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  • News of the week.
    • 1873 3 Tiik Hon. Mr. Doici.as, C. M. G Colonial Secretary, was a passenger by tlie M, M. Co.'s steamer Emirne from Hatavia, on Saturday last. A.v loqoeet vrai held yesterday, the Ist instant, at the Criminal Prison, on the badyol a male Chinese, named Lira Ah llee, by
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    • 637 3 Wk understand 11. M. S. Fly has left for Formosa Bank to make borings with the view of a report being made to Government as to whether the Bank would be a substantial site for the erection of a lighthouse, should it be decided that one should
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    • 1949 3 We are informed that $30,000 worth of 20, 10, and 5 cent pieces was delivered today by the Treapiry at the Oriental Bank, a supply which ought to obviate for some time all complaints of the scarcity- of small change. A telegram from the Owners of tin
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    • 522 4 Thk American barque Soulinj, alluded to in our issue of yesterday, and respecting whose safety tears were entertained in Hongkong us fhe had left Newcastle K. S. W. with coal for that port on the 19th March la>t, arrived, we learn from the Ch'nm Mai/, all safe
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    • 339 4 liAtt Thursday, the Ith inst., being the anniversary of the declaration of Independence of the United State.-- of America, the American merchant shipa 10 tin- roads honored the day with a profuse display of bunting, but, in the absence of a ship of war of the United
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  • 117 4 pie only knew the important part which the teeth play in the economy of health, they would be more careful to preserv. I them. This cannot be done more effeciu 1 ally than by the regular use of KOWLAjidk' I Odonto, or Pearl Dentrifiee. an elegant
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  • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
    • 399 4 Saturday, 29th June. British str. Orestes. 1,3-23 tons, Webster, Shanghai 1 Kh June. German str. Egeria, 1,<'87 tons. Jokamen, Foodmw 20th June. M. M. steamer Eniirne, 727 Urns Pichat, Batavia r .th June. M. M. steamer Yang Tse, 3,600 tons. Rapatel, Baiffon '27th June. Sunday. 30th June. Brit. str.
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    • 285 4 Saturday. '29th June. German steamer Egeria. J.hansen, for London. Brttwfa steamer Bagltiad, Mann, for Calcutta vn R.u-.,,,,, British steamer Poutiamk, Milnes, for Billiton A I untiannk. Rritish steamer Petrel, Bruhns, for Saigon. Brit i«b steamer Paknam, Stratton, for Hai^on. B itish steamer Glenlyon. Wallace, for New Yo.k. Rritish steamer
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  • 707 4 ;>ATk mi's N.V.UI-'.- ii\in>. at, V Rio. f ab- Uni Fkoyl n\ hkkk Lyi.v. .ixsiuneks ott AOBNr* |I>kstinati'>< i KIVALS .UEN-OF- A Fly M.Ni.'l H. M.'s str. 100! Apr. WLabuan Roads Benior Hfval Officer. Station Diamond Bosai).|iiet H. M.'s str. 2155jMay 21 Tiincomalee D<>. Senior Naval
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  • 192 5 Ii the timt i |uili>iri.uii. v .n. ad in fell lowed .tion t<> and Uitnrui FY in Tegul we j -On Ug monster i 'ni)le it [•Cl i ,-iists of twins r.\. with only ,1. breathing rodepen- i four let's. At bead, a head is nre the sbottlderi The four
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  • 495 5 MANILA NE WS. I 5 ■hi", in rcproi.ll .l|.|4MrcilhV B 9 mils of I p at Manila H amount realized H liars, including I I reed with perf 1 1111 50..l m>, ry mtcllitj and sanitary oon- vl>, within a period I c h s nof been, a sin- only
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  • 1257 5 An Important Bankruptcy Decision His Honor the Chief Justice, Si it Thomas Sibguavbs, delivered the following Judgment in the Supreme Court 00 Monday last In thk Sui-remk Court of the Straits SETTI.t MKNTS. lv the matt K of SHAIK MoHAMED bin Aboobakar B.v.akkuj. Bankrupt. Mr. Burkinshaw appeared in suprort of
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  • 741 5 P enang News If there is any truth in the following paragraph Bern the Pinaiuj Guttte of the 28th June, somebody should got a rap over the knuckles \lt(iistf,inl ntfr i,i Pertik From one ofthc Malay State* ire learn ofatrange tilings indeed and* we anticipate a considerable reduction in the
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  • 2894 5 Paris Letter Paris, Ist Junk. The Voltaire Centennials, for we have i had two, France must ever have something original, paused off well, and being well, according to law," under cover, proved most fortunate, as the rain came i down like a cataract. The proceedings at the American Circus were
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  • 105 5 Ffuni our own CorrrgpouJent.) M vi.acca, 29th .Jink, 1s7-< Thk Klaug steamers Rainbow and 7>Irymph, arrived here last Thursday morning and return to that port this evtning The Colonial steamer Pluto, Acting Commander Huddle, arrived here from Singapore the day before yesterday. The following passengers came by her viz
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 807 6 itttsrfllanroud. X HIB1TION OF 1878. ...irn t hat V Mem. But.the Queen' n(^ v special warrant to H. F II. b, will I" 1 onp of the of Horticultural It irnl Pvdnce ever brought Taking adwrtajre n will be thp most wonderful ir" ever held, and of their kwb j.
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    • 879 6 itfiSfeHaneous. SARSAPARILLA. WILKINSON'S ESSENCE OR FLUID EXTRACT OF RED JAMAICA SARSAPARILLA IS THE ONLY PREPARATION RECOGNISED BY THE FA TLTY AS A WONDERFUL PURIFIER OF THE HUMAN BLOOD. It is not too. much to say that those suffering from the effects of TROPICAL CLIMATES, such as TORPID LIVER, DEBILITY. ATTENUATION
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    • 836 6 iHtsfrenarttous. OXYGEN IS LIFE. Although the modern Materia Medica includes tnany valuable remedies for human a^ictjons. it is a matter of certainty that in alfcases where the animal vitality j is failing, Phosphorus is decidedly superior to every other remedy at present known. It will work effects such as nothing
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    • 831 6 iHisfrfllnnrous. DR. J. COLLTS BROWNES' OHLORODYNE. Is the Original and only Genuine The Public -are Cautioned against the unfounded statements frequently made that "the composition of CHLOHODTNE is known to Chemists and the Medical Profession." The fact is. Chlorodyne was Discovered and Invented by Dr. J. Collis Browne (ex Army
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    • 955 6 iWtdallanrmtS. lIOLLOWAY-'S OINT>rENT. OLD SORES AND OLD SKIN DISEASES. The seeds of these disorders are affec tually err-elled by this penetrating Unguent, not only from the superficial parts. but from the intenal tissues likewise. Any case, even of twenty years' standing, spec- dily yields to its influence. A CERTAIN CURE
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    • 637 6 BOUrn'S CHOICE P lE] Ihlang, Jockey Club, Toilet Vinegar of Toilet Water, Lavand Water. Ean de Cologne T i'm T y Glycerine for the Han. Wir-Nor, and other Soap* y. powder, Aquadentin- for M,.. T *a'l R Strand. 128. Regent St,. hill. London. Sold by Chemists. Registered trade marlT^ »»1
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