Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 April 1894

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. NEW SERIES.] PUBLISHED D2LILT. ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LIL THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1894. No. 88
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 582 1 pipping (llottcee. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Bril HE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Ganges 29th Apt. Rokilla 20th Apl. Sutlej 13th May.' Thames 4th Maj’ Rohi'lla 27th Maltca 18th Rosetta Ist June Phe above dates are
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    • 1508 1 pipping (lloficeg. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,—(LTD.). banks. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Agra Bank Lmnted Capital £1,000,000. HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. (One Million Sterling.) I I 1 Head Office LlVx For Will sail i Steamer From Expected
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    • 541 1 «EDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ. (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 Nederlandeche a ndel Maatscbappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean,
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  • 51 2 Mails close To-morrow. For Per str. Tims Klang Malacca Teutonia ...10 a.m. Deli Langkat 2 p.m. Pangkor, T. Anson and Port Dickson Betsy 2 p.m. Colombo, S. India and London Java 5 P.M. Europe, via Brindisi Rohilla The homeward P. O. steamer Rohilla left Singapore at 6 p.m.
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  • 215 2 Arrivals. To-dat. s. s. G?. G. Loudon from Padang. P. O. s. s. Java from Singapore. Yesterday. s. s. Rio from Rangoon. s. s. Teutonia from Malacca. s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld. s. s. Flying Fish do. Departures. To-dat. s. s. Fook Ching for Klang P. Dickson.
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  • 152 2 Arrivals. To-day. Per P. A 0. s. s. Java from Singapore, Mr. J. Gibson. Y ESTERDAT. Per s. a. I.ady Weld from P. Weld, Messrs. Scott, Stuart, Metcalf, Brown, Hewet and Rymond. Passages booked for the Straits. March 29th.— Per P. A O. a. s. Valetta from London
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  • 63 2 I’nvßAntT. 19th Full Moon. Town Band, Datu Kramat Gardens, 9 p. m. Friday 2< »tii Homeward mail closes, via Brindisi. Football match, P. C. C. vs. The Lines, Esplanade, 5 P.M. Saturday, 21st Town Band, Golf Club. Sunday, 22nd 4th Sunday after Easter. Monda t. 2 3rd St.
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  • 125 2 Pknano, 19th April, I8»4. Rates close as follows: Condon, Demand Bank 2'-f dol. Do. 4 months’ sight Bank 2lf Do. 3 Cro<lits 21| Do. 3 D< icntneni n-y Calcutta, Demand Bank It* 182 Do. 30 days’sight Private Bombay, Demand Bank 182 Do. 30 days’ sight Privre Madras, Demand Bank
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  • 80 2 Penang, 19rn April, 1894." Tin 538 80 sellers. Trang 9.35 do. West Coast.. small supply. Acheen 5 lbs. 8.505e1. White Pepper 13 25 sellers. Cloves (picked) no supply. Mace No. 1 88.— sellers. Mace Pickings 75, do. Nutmegs 85, do. No. 1 770 do. Sugar < 2...
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  • 56 2 London, 17th April. Colonel Nolan s bill for the repeal of the coercion act has been read in the House of Commons the second time. Eighty-seven supporters of the Government voted in its favor. Mr. Balfour’s amendment re the Scottish Committee has been rejected. The House of Lords
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  • 256 2 Owing to bad inter-seltlement communication” no newspapers from Singapore of later date than Saturday bad arrived yesterday. We therefore telegraphed to know what is going on there, nud have received (he interesting telegram from our correspondent which we publish in the third column. But the money spent by
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  • 421 2 Superintendent E. H. Bell has been appointed Acting Inspector General of Police. The FOOTBALL match, P. C. C. vs. the Lines, has been postponed till to-morrow, Friday, the 20th instant. It was a great disappointment to many that the rain prevented the moonlight band performance on the
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  • 346 2 A correspondent writes —Tn connection with the cock-fighting case arrested by Inspector Gordon on the Ist instant in premises No 11 Macalisfer Road, and duly reported in our columns at the time, it is to be remarked that the police have not discharged their duty with that strict
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  • 99 2 The F>e? Pres* says:—Let the promoters of the movement however recollect, that money, in the days of the enhanced contribution, is a difficulty. As to machine gun equipment,the wealthy Penang Chinese and other natives could well afford to put together, as their Singapore fellow’-Colonists did, the
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  • 138 2 Commenting on the excise proposals the Straits Times says: —The quantity of spirits, beer, and wines imported into this colony is large and the revenue will be considerably augmented by the duty to be imposed. It has frequently been urged by sentimental moralists, on the side of
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  • 226 2 The following is an abstract from the circular asking for subscribers for the new periodical. We hear that the new venture is to be edited by Mr. Doyle, at one time reporter to the Straits Times and for some years in the Perak Government service in
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  • 195 2 The Kuala Lumpur correspondent, of the Sfraits Times, writing under date the 11th inst., says that a slight accident occurred to the passenger train which left Klang for Kuala Lumpur that evening. At the 17th mile, on the other side of Bato Tiga, the saloon carriage
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  • 52 2 (By telegram from our The Spirit Duty to be doubled. Singapore, 18th April, 2.30 pni The Straits Government propose todoub] the spirit duty to put one dollar p er lon on sparkling wines; a half still wines eighteen cents per gallon boer; and to increase the penalties foropi
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  • 638 2 PROPOSED LEGISLA TION. The Government Gazette contains the tevof three Bills to be introduced into ti Legislative Council. The first one is j n tended to consolidate and amend the La/" for collecting a revenue of excise upo n spirituous liquors, fermented liquors, and bhang. Excise. The statement of objects
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  • 275 2 INFORMATION was received by the Police here sometime ago from the Dutch Consul, that a Chinaman named Cheah Ah Ng, a head tindal on an estate in Asahan, had left there on the 11th March for Penang to recruit coolies, for which purpose he had cheques in
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1114 2 pritchard Co. TsrSrf VIEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft., HAVE JUST UNPACKED TO LET. novelties WELBECK, PANKORE ROAD, in Art Muslins and Curtain Nets. Apply to Dr. BROWN. FANS in black and colored, the Very Newest. TO LET MUSLIN’S SPOT
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  • 323 3 18th April, 1891. Last week was one of unusual excitement here. It is proverbial that when Taiping goes in for a little relaxation from the turmoil of every day’s busy life, it spares no effort to make every one feel happy- It P uts ou itB holiday
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  • 370 3 (China Mail, April 12th.) Despatches from Taipeh, the capital of Formosa, state that the authorities have decided to construct a ship-building yard connected with the arsenal outside thecity. The first attempts will be with two stnallsized steam-boats, intended to be used as Likin ciuisers between Formosa
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  • 1465 3 The progress report of the Ulu Selangor extension of the Selangor Government Railway for the year 1893 is published. We take the following extracts from the Resident Engineer’s report: The Serendah Section. The Serendah section of the Ulu Selangor Extension from Rawang to Serendah (466
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  • 1792 3 M ITU a large number of us in India, writes the As’ian, solitary shooting is the rule rather than the exception. Some of us are solitary gunners from pure necessity, and follow sport, whether from the unadulterated love of it, or laxare animum to beguile the tedium of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 306 3 NOTICE OF REMOVAL. nA IR DRESSING SALOON, Beach Street, No. 9, opposite No. 2, Grand Hotel, first floor. Large accommodation and" private room for Ladies and Gentlemen. Best Perfumery, E. PINAUD’s, from Paris. G. IZOLPHE, 166 Proprietor. FOR SALE. Owner leaving Penang. 4 N upright Piano by Hopkinson of Tjon/V
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    • 754 3 DANDO Co. TAILORS -A-ISTD GENERAL OUTFITTERS. No 1, Beach Street Union Street, GOSLING CO IN THE GOODS OF KOO SEEONG JOOH, o deceased and KHU GUAN KUN, Penang and Singapore. deceased. DRINK T)URSUANT’ to the provisions of Section JL 46 of “The Conveyancing and Law of Dawson S Perfection Whisky
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 1248 4 'lnsurance (Hotter. THE STRAITS POSITIVE GOVERNMENT SECURITY LIFE ASSURANCE CO. F LTD, IKSURAHCE COMPANY, LIMITED. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. in 1870 Royal Exchange Assurance, Corpora- 1 INCORPORATED in la/o tion London. established isss. established isse. Chief Office m India; 104, Clive Street, Calcutta. THE undersigned having been appointed Capital fully
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    • 424 4 Stationery, fy,’ FOR OFFICE, ESTATE, STORE, or PRIVATE USE, for sale at the Pinang Gazette Office. Account books— various sizes. “AT HOME” CARDS. BA LL PROGRAMM ES—large assortment latest designs. Baskerville cabinets, containing 120 sheets Note Paper and 100 Envelopes. Best quality paper. l n great demand. $2.60 each. BLOTTING
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