Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 January 1894

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. ESTABLISHED 1833. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1894. No. 15
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 707 1 pipping (notice. j.Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. mai l steamers may 5' A L be expected to arrive j ’4 outwards, and leave Penang 1 homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. 7Ji»enna 2lstJan. Gauyes 25th Jan. Rosetta 4th Feb. Thames Bth Feb As,v t a 18th Jfd/ra 22nd Rohilla,
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    • 1602 1 Qtoftcee. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,—(LTD.). banks. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. The Agra Limited. HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamer». °'(Ono Miiiion Stcrlhlf) 10 -x Th. i i Head Office: For Will sail Steamer From Expected on Nicholas Lane,
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    • 425 1 NEBERLANDSCHS HANDEi MAATSCHAPPIJ. (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital y 35,783,000. Reserve Funds f 1,753.427.23| Fi-ecial Resekve Fund... /1,000,000. Head Office in A.msj eiidam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Facforij of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Peealongan,
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  • 76 2 Expected. jan* Names. From. Destination. Consignees. 18 Kutsar g Calcutta Singapore China Boustead Co. 18 M. Vajirunhis Singapore Padang vid ports Huttenbach, Liebert <fc Co. 18 Secundra Do. Coromandel Coast Do. 19 P. &O. Malacca Do. Colombo London Gilfillan, Wood ACo. 20 Stura Hongkong Bombay Behn, Meyer A Co.
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  • 100 2 Mails close To-morrow. For Per str. Time Klang Malacca Teutonia ...10 a.m. Langkat Quorra ...11 p.m. Edie &T. Semawe Rosa 1 p.m. Deli Ho Kwei 1 p.m. Asahan R. Haleivyn 1 p.m. Edie, T. Semawe and Olehleh Karang 1 p.m. Pnngkor. T. Anson and Fort Dickson Ngapoota 2
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  • 66 2 Thursday, 18 th Penang Races, 3.30 P.M. Town Band. Race Course. Homeward mail closes, via Negnpatam. Fkiiiav, 19th Municipal Commissioners’ Meeting. Saturday, 20th Penang Races. 3.30 P.M. Town Band, Race Course. So ni>a v, 21st 3rd Sunday nfter Epiphany. Outward mail due. P. A O. Ravenna. Mondat. 22nd
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  • 117 2 Penang, 18th January, 1894. Rates close as folt.O'vs: London, Demand Bank 2 3} Do. I months’ sight Bank 23} Do. 3 Credits 2 4 Do. 3 Document iry t'alculla. Demand Rude R« 183-181 Do. 30 days’sight Privi'e Bombay. Demand Bmk 183-184 Dn. 'BO days’sight Privi <• Madras, Demand Bank
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  • 81 2 Penang, 18tii January, 1894. Tin *’7.30 Trang sellers. Black Pepper West Const.. 8.00 do I Aclieen 7.75 'l° While pepper 12 50 Cloves (picked) small sn| p)ieMme No. I 84 sellers. Mace No. 2 80.— do Nutmegs 82. do No. I 6.80 Sugar < 2... 4.50 firm
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  • 43 2 London, 17th January.— Mr. Secretary Carlisle invites tenders for fifty millions of five per cent, ten year bonds for gold redeemable in coin. A state of siege has been declared in Province Nassa, Carrara. The Czarina is suffering from influenza fever.
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  • 69 2 We publish in another part of the newspaper the letter of the Chairman of the Chamber of Commercelo the Act. ng Colonial Secretary, communicating the result of Friday’s meeting. The letter has probably already reached his hands, ami as His Excellency the Acting Governor has no doubt perused
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  • 1082 2 The Church Street robber was bi ought up at the Police Court yesterday and remanded for a week. The prisoner is not on bail. A MEETING is announced to be held tomorrow, at 5. 30 p. m., in the lown Hall, when addresses will be delivered by Miss Gurney
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  • 417 2 By last advices, the King of Siam was still in a very weak state of health, and his condition was the cause of much anxiety. The sales of Bengal Opium to the end of December show a result worse than the estimate by nearly 52 lakhstof rupees. The Hon.
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  • 92 2 A wonderful nugget of fill has been discovered in I lie tin mines at North Dundas in Tasmania (according to the Hobart Mercury). It is estimated to weigh 2 tons 14 cwt. The assay of a small piece shows that the large mass of
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  • 167 2 The Colonial steamer Sea Belle, with IT. E. the Acting Governor and H H the Sultan of Johore, arrived this morning at quarter past seven o’clock. Soon after her arrival, the Hon. A. M. Skinner, Resident Councillor, proceeded on board to meet H. E., who
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  • 604 2 I The Acting Governor left Singapore on Wednesday evening, the 10th instant, in the Sea Belle for a short visit to Malacca, Negri Sembilan, Snngei Ujong and Penang, He was accompanied by the Private Secrt. tary (Mr. Cliarleton Maxwell) only. Malacca was reached at daylight on
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  • 489 2 Penang, 15(7i January, 1894. Hon. A. P. Talbot, e Ag. Colonial Secretary, Singapore. Sir, I nave the honour to refer again to your letter of 20th December last re the election of a nominee by the Penang Chamber of Commerce for the vacant seat on the Legislative Council,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 500 2 New Advertisements, L. BOZZO, No. 440 d, Chulia Street, Silver and Gold Plating Guaranteed. REPAIRING SEWING MACHINES, BICYCLES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 3l NOTICE. A PUBLIC MEETING will be held, D. V., TO-MORROW, FRIDAY, 19th instant, at 5.30 p. m. in TH E TOWN HALL. Addresses will be given by Miss Gurney
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    • 11 2 Pritchard and Company’s CASH SALE will end on the 25th instant.
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    • 135 2 NOTICE. FOR Sale by Public Auction on TUESDAY, the 23rd January, 1894, at 3 P. M., on the spot, a set of Machinery for a workshop (supposed to be complete) lately imported by Messrs. Chong Moh A Co, and now lying at lower Bench Street, the corner of the end
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  • 640 3 {To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.") Sir, I have noticed an extract from the Pinang Gazette in one of the Singapore papers referring to the Kedah-Singgora Railway, how that an attempt has been made in London to prevent its construction —also that some correspondent in Bangkok,
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  • 464 3 The Japanese Diet Avas dissolved on the 30th ultimo, the reason for this step being the attitude adopted by the Opposition with reference to the strict enforcement of the Treaties. The object of the Opposition Avas to have all privileges as to residence outside
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  • 263 3 A SCRATCH match for visitors only, one round over each course on the Calcutta maidan, was played on Friday last and resulted as follows: Mr. J. B. Robertson (Singapore) 42+16= $8 C. W. Burn (Nagpur) 45+51 66 L. C. Bjown (Penang) 47 59= 97 R. M. Spence
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  • 243 3 After three years parleying, Mr. G Dubail, the French Consul-General at Shanghai, has succeeded in settling (he Kiangse claims of the French missionaries. 'l’he Chinese have at last consented to indemnify the missionaries and their converts and to reinstate the mission building. A Chinese Medical School.
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  • 86 3 I’llE D.li authorities may be interested in knowing that on the Windmill Road. Bangkok, where most of the cat t ie export cd to Deli are kept, many cases of confluent small-pox exist. Apparently no precautions are taken to isolate (he cases indeed it is stated
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  • 458 3 To 22nd December. Cid Rangoon.) Fire at Sheffield. A destructive fire has taken place at Sheffield. the damage done being estimated at quarter of a million sterling. The Agra Bank. Mr. Justice North has confirmed the recent resolution of shareholders, reducing the capital of the Agra Bank,
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  • 329 3 Calcutta, January S. —Mr. J. A. Anderson. Vice President of the Indian Currency Association, has addressed a letter to the I Secretary (o the Government in the Financial Department regarding the large! imports of silver into this com.try and the j bearing which they have on the
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  • 644 3 The Viceroyalty. M London, January 6. Lord and Lady Elgin and family, accompanied by Colonel Durand, have started for India. London, January 9.—Mr. Babington Smith, of (he Treasury, has been appointed Private Secretary to Lord Elgin. Calcutta, January 10—According to present arrangements, Lord ami Lady Lansdowne Avill
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    • 276 3 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. MIHE next Ordinary Mectingof tlieMnni1 cipal Commissioners Avill be held in the Town Hai l, at 2 30 r. ai., On Friday, the 19iii Insiant. (By Order) J. W. HALLIFAX, Sec rein ry to the M uniripal Commissioners. The Netherlands Fire Insurance Company. Established 1845. 'PIIE undersigned is
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    • 920 3 DANDO Co. TAILORS _A_ZN~ZD GENERAL OUTFITTERS. No 1, Beach Street Union Street, PEIT2LITG-. A. KAULFUSS JLFFJLIB.S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO OF THE 27, Farquhar Street. COLOXT*? Open daily from 7 a.m. to 4 pan. except Sundays. BEING A HISTORY CONCERNING THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS AND THE A LARGE STOCK OF BRITISH PROTECTED STATES
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    • 631 4 MCLARTY- COMPANY. NETHEBSOLE Co., CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, SURVEYORS CONTRACTORS. x Farquhar street, penang. SUPPLY ALL MACHINERY MATERIALS, FITTINGS, TOOLS, APPLIANCES AND STORES IN USB BY SHIPOWNERS, MILL OWNERS, MINERS AND HOUSEBUILDERS. DESIGNS AND SPECIFICATIONS PREPARED 'T’HE oldest and best known Mineral Water Manufacturers in the bti aits, WORKS SUPERVISED
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    • 1004 4 the straits INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED. I ESTABLISHED 1886. ESTABLISHED 1883. Capital fully Slbpcb.bed: Cap.tal fully Suuscpibfd 53,000,000—£500,000. i $2,000,000= £330,1X)E, Capital paid-up I Capital paid-up s6oo,ooo=£ 100,000. s4oo,<'oo= £66,000 I Reserve Fund Reserve Fund: 525,000=£4,000. $60,000=£10,000. Reserve Liability of Shareholders: Reserve Liability of Sharehoi ders §2,400,000=
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