Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 4 April 1894

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED D.A.ILT. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LIL WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1894. No. 75
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 558 1 pipping (Hottce®. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. rpHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang 'homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. lsth AplJ Assam 6th Anl 29th Rokilla 20th ‘p‘r7; May Tliames 4th May Rohilla 27th MaZwa 18th The above dates are only approximate 1
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    • 1364 1 Shipping (Tloficea. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,—(LTD.). banks. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. *—,4-w Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE QF STEAMERS, Agra Bank Limited x 9 Capita! 000 000 HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steaniers. (Ou« Million Sterling.) J,; i r Head Office: For Will sail Steamer
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    • 487 1 NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL HAATSCHAPPU. (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000. Reserve Funds f Special Reserve Fund... /1,000,000. Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches.—Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan. Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap.
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  • 57 2 > Mails close To-morrow. For Per str. Time Klang Port Dickson Fookching 9 a.m. Langkat... Q.uorra noOn. Deli Langkat 2 p.M’ I’angkor T Anson Canton 2 P.M’ do. Ngapoota 2 P.M' Europe, via Brindisi Assam sp.m' Friday, 6th. Langkat Jin Ho 2 p.M. The homeward P. 0. Packet
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  • 215 2 Arrivals. To-day. s. s. Jin Ho from Baballan. s. s. I’anton from 'l'. Anson. s. s. Ngapoota do. r. s. Qaorra from Langkat. Y esterday. 8. s. Rosa from Edie. 8. s. Artsadong from Trang. s; 8. A. Apcar from Calcutta. s. 8. Flying Dragon from Port Weld. Departures.
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  • 135 2 Passages booked for the Straits. March 16th.— Per I' <t O s. s. Arcadia from London for Penang Mr. W. Heppleston; for Singapore, Mr. E 11. Herrick, Mrs. Howard Bentley and Mr. 11. A. Scott. From Brindisi for Singapore, Mr. J E. Earle. March 29th.— Per P. it
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  • 54 2 riiriisnir. sth Town Band, Datu Kramat Gardens. Friday 6tii Annular eclipse of the sun. 9-3 a. in. Homeward mail closes, ria Brindisi. Saiukuav, 7th Town Baml; Golf (’lub. Mahoniedan Festival (Flari Raya). SnwKAV, Bth 2nd Sunday after Easter. Monih t, 9th Town Band, Espliina<l< I'ukhuav, 10th Wri>mrBi>av, 11
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  • 129 2 Pf.nanh, Ith April, Ihh4. Rates ri.nsß as mi i.ons ••<>ndor>. Demand Bank 2 2 dol. Do. I months’ sight Bank'* 22J Do. 3 Credits 2'2f Do. 3 Do< uim nl.ary ‘ulciil la, Demand Bink R* 190 Do. 30 days’sight Pri val e Bombav, Doimvrl Bmk 190 Do. 30 days’sight
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  • 72 2 Penang, 4th April, 1894. Tin $3730 I Trang 38.45 Black Pepper < -West Coast.. 8.25 Acheen 7.40 White Pepper... 12.90 Cloves (picked) 31-50 Mace No. 1 90. Mace No. 2 72. Nutmegs 84. No. 1 7 10 Sugar „2 4.8 J firin Basket 4.05 sellers. Tapioca Flour
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  • 54 2 MARRIAGE. Lamb—Crowe. —At St. Mary’s Church, Butterworth, on Monday, April 2nd, by the Rev. H. C. Henham, John Lamb, second son of the late Hon. James Lamb, m.1.c., of Prye Estate, Province Wellesley, to Harriet Jane Caroline, second daughter of 11. J. Crowe, Esq., Prye Estate, Province Wellesley.
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  • 602 2 THE RIKISHA CARRIAGE REGISTRATION REVENUE. It is well that Mr. Hogan, at the meeting of the Municipal Board on Friday hist, prefaced his remarks by saying thab Commissioners within the time that pa pci s were circulated before the meeting were unable to go carefully through them, amj (hat lie
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  • 1232 2 The entries for the Taipeng Races close at 8 p.m. on April sth. The annual vestry meeting of the congregation of St. George’s Church, announced to be held this morning, Avas postponed. Commander Lovett Cameron, the African explorer, met with his death while out hunting. He was
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  • 86 2 To-night Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew will play in Penang for the last time, as they leave for the Fast and America to-morrow. The play to be presented is called “In Soci fy,” known in London under the title <>f the Fnnge of Society.” It
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  • 138 2 The captain and the managing owner of the steam launch Eh Eng were summoned by Mr. Baker, the 2nd Boarding Officer, for bringing on the 28th of March list 102 passengers from Kuran, being 27 in cx< ess of the license.. For the defence a passport
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  • 182 2 A REMARKABLE career was recently closed in Denver, Colorado, by the death of “Billy” Deutsch. Twenty-one years ago he bought, for £2(’o, the well known play of The Mighty Dollar and, thanks to the ability of the late W J. Florai ce, during the next five yens
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  • 185 2 The Legislature of British Columbia has adopted unanimously a resolution calling npon the Dominion Government to increase the per capita fax on each Chinaman entering the Dominion t l,ooodo’s three-fourth» of the taxes to be apportioned to British Columbia. One member suggested that, in addition to
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  • 164 2 The report of the Currency Commission appointed by the Government of Ceylon to consider—(l) the probable effect in Ceylon of the recent action of the Indian Government in putting an artificial value on the rupee and (2) the measures which it may be expedient to lake
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 785 2 Received. NOTICE. rpHE Entries for the Taipeng Races close 1 at 8 I’. M. on April sth. 11. A. W. AYLESBURY, 108 Hon. Secretary. NOTICE. IWE interest and responsibility of Heap Htvr Co, of 156 Beach Street, in oiir firm, carrying on business at NT). 206 Beach Street, as Commission
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  • 117 3 For the first lime in the history of the Mints, I heir accounts during the coming year are expected to show a loss. During ihe past foui-years the Mints have yielded a net revenue varying between fourteen and twenty-three lakhs of rupees per annum. At present the
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  • 119 3 The Maxim gun has been well tested in the Matabeleland campaign. In the skirmish of October 25 the Maxim gun effectually checked the native». Although the natives were armed with Martini-Henry nml Winchester rifles, they were powerless before its terrible fire which mowed them down like wheat
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  • 141 3 An Intel national Commission of three eminent Engineers, the British representative being Sir Benjamin Baker, left on Feb. 25 for the Nile to advise on the most suitable scheme for damming the waters of the Nile to irrigate the cultivated lands during the dry
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  • 125 3 Dr. Thin strongly dissents from the report of the Leprosy Commission in India in its finding that the disease is rarely propagated by contagion. He adduces much evidence on the other side. He explains that leprosy is a parasitic disease. A very minute vegetable organism inhabits the
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  • 115 3 M. Times. The outflow to Burma—2o,323 —was very large in comparison with the inflow thence, 5,929. Ceylon figures showed a small balance only, 19,048 passengers having proceeded to Ceylon and 18,921 arrived thence. Similarly, 3,643 proceeded to the Straits Settlements, while 3,537 returned. To “other ports”
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  • 225 3 Mrs.Biddulph Martin (previously known as Miss Victoria Woodhall j and her' husband where the plaintiffs in an action in the Queen’s Bench, recently, against the British Museum Trustees, for libel contained in. two books, the Beecher- Til ton Scandal and the Story of Henry Ward
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  • 1538 3 Bombay Gazette. The statement made by Mr. Westland that the Budget when produced will show a deficit of three and a-half crores, will occasion no surprise except ns to the smallness of the deficit. 'lhe proposals made so far will only meet
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  • 330 3 {Times of Ceylon.) Mr. E. A'. Carey, who has returned here on a brief visit, speaks hopefully of the coffee enterprise in Selangor, where he now is, but says that it is a case of sheer hard work, and that he cannot leave his
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  • 335 3 The Australian Cup, run on March 6th, and which forms the principal event of the V. R. C. Autumn Meeting, resulted as follows The Australian Cup. A handicap of 1,000 so vs.; second horse to receive 200 and the third 1W sovs. out of the stake;
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  • 75 3 The Directors of the Hank of Australia have sued the publisher of the well-known work of reference, Whitaker’s Almanac.” The action was brought because of the almanac’s having included the Bank of Australasia, in its list of Australasian Banks which failed or suspended during 1893.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 1399 4 insurant atrito. NETHERSOLE Co., MCLARTY COMPANY. UM WlFniriW. FAHQVHAB STREET, funano. C NSULT s I ?RVETORS 6 l R ?bNTRACTORS. rpHE undersigned having been appointed SUPPLY ALL MACHINERY MATERIALS, FITTINGS, TOOLS, APPLIANCES AND STORES I Agents for the above Corporation are t in use by now prepared to accept MARINE
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    • 393 4 jStationeriJ, FOR OFFICE, ESTATE, STORE, or PRIVATE USE, FOR SALE AT THE Pin ang Gazette Office. Account books— various sizes. “AT HOME” BA LL PROGRAMMES—Iarge assortment lateU designs. Baskerville cabinets, containing 120 sheets Note Paper and 100 Envelopes. quality paper. In great demand. $2.60 each. BLOTTING PAPER, white <t red.
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