Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 January 1895

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. 20 CENTS. VOL. LIU. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1895. No. 18
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      582 1 pipping (notices. I’m i nsular&Oriental SteaTn Navigation Company. B r pHE mail steamers may ,)e expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outward.. Homeward.. 2nd Feb. Pekin 24th I, i« t i, n lla jA"; Ganges 2nd Mar. <utlej .»t P 16th A'aLar-Z-ZLud 7th Mar
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      1482 1 pipping (Hofices. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. Qk KONINKLIJKE. PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong 4 Shanghai Banking Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Corporation. HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. Paid-up Capitalslo,ooo,ooo Reserve Fund $4,500,000 IK Wt...... Q. tn tn RESERVE LIABILITY OP PROPRIETORS $10,000,000.
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      737 1 NEDERLANDSUIE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ. (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. I Paid-up Capital 35,783,000. Reserve Funds f 2,086,155.60| Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of Nederlsndsche Handel Maatscnapjnj, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London Bankers. —The
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    81 2 Penang, 22nd January. 1895. $35.50 nominal. (Tm ng 925 buyers. Black Pepper' West (oast... 8.50 sellers. Acheen .Mb B«>z. 9. do. While Pepper 1240 do. Cloves (picked) ‘JoMace No. I (1 Mace Pickings 70. d“Nutmegs <»'»- No. 1 7.2 d-.. Sugar 2 .70 ».> Basket ‘2 BO
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    EXCHANGE.
    129 2 Penang, 22nd January, 1895. Rates close as follows: laoiidon. Demand Bank 1 Hi Do. I inoiii hs* sight Bank 11*1 Do. 3 Credit 2Vj Do. 3 Dorumentart 2 Calcutta, D« uhukl Bunk M*» ISS Do. JO days’sight Private 192 Bombay, Demand Bank l sS Do. 30 days’ sight Private
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    70 2 Maus closf To-MORHOW p,,f- />• stt. Tune. Langk;it Qnorra ...11 a.m. Edie, T. Si-minve Segli A Oleldeh Kar nig 1 P-M. Pimgkor mill Teluk Anson Taw Tong 2 P.W. Do. ...Rosa 3 PM. Rangoon Ukeaug Hye I'eng 3 p.m. 4 Thursday, 24tii. Deli Ho Kwei 2 P.M. The
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    33 2 From R«ng«x»n —By the B I. s. s. Tentakota to-ilay. From Negipatam:—By the B. I s s. Camorta t«>-«lay. From Singapore. —By ihe B. 1. s. s. Pumea on Ftiilay.
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    SHIPPING.
    353 2 t rrl nls. To-i> s. s. Ho Kwei from Deli. s. s. Quorra from Langkat. s. s. Toic Tung from I. Anson. s. s. Rosa <l<> s. s. Chestng Hye Teng from Singapore. Yesterday. S. s. Kar-nig from Oleldeh. s. s. R Haletcya from Asa han. a. a. Chan
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    PASSENGER LIST.
    70 2 Arrival*. Y ESI EH DAT. P«-r P A a. a. Ku isar~ I- Hi nd form London, Sir W. Brampton Gurdon Mr. D Hickie ami Mr. Thoa. Livesay, Depart lire». Y t m Eiin Per a. a. Isidy Weld for Port Weld, Mr. Manook. Per I’ A 0.
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    BANK SHARES.
    74 2 The following were the London pricea of certain shares as receive»! bv the mail of Dec. 28lh Banks. £2O; all p«i The Chartered £2l’. to 22| £281; Th»* II kong A -S’gliai£3o 31 £25; £l2s pd Mercantile Bank:— A share* 10 to 11, B shares I', to 5|
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    WEATHER REPORT.
    71 2 l iiken at Prison Hospital Oli*i*i v at««ry. 21 ST J ANU A RY. 1895 9 a.m. 3 r.u. 9 p.M. Bar. red. 32 Fab 959 845. 931. Temperiit tire 79. 86. 78 Wet Bulb Tlk-i inomelcr 70. 7-5. 74.-5 Max. Temp in shad»* 89 5 Min. do.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    66 2 Wehnesday. 23i«D:— Town Band. Esplanade, 5-’.io P.M. Tut h.siiav, 24tiI Town Band, Dal u l\ rmioil ><< •l>-«<>. Homeward mail closes, via Brindisi. Friday, 25th Mi’B. Trotter’s “At Home" Residency. Saturday. 26th —(Public Holiday New Moon, 21-3 a m. Town Band, Goll Club. Chinese New
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAM.
    61 2 LONDON, 21st January, 1895. The War. 25,000 Japanese Lave landed at Yungcliing, 35 miles from Wei-liai-wei. Warships previously silenced the shore batteries. A British stpiadron is cruising in the vicinity. The French Cabinet Crisis. M. Burgeois is unable to form a cabinet. The crisis is likely to be
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    OUR LOCAL TELEGRAMS.
    286 2 We regret that through some cause or another there is an •■xtren delay in passing our telegrams over the Perak lines. It took one telegram 6 hours and 21 minutes to come from Batu Gajah and another |5 hours and 47 minutes from Teluk Anson. As our
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    LOCAL.
    529 2 It will he high water at the Jetty tomorrow at 9.16 a.m. ami 9.43 p.m. The Kxchange Banks will L* closed for business on Saturday 26th and Monday 2 ■'th. Two hundred and ninety-two Chines»' passengers arrived here this morning from Amoy jier steanwr Cheang Hye Teng. Mrs. Trotter
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    THE FIRE AT NIBONG TEBAL.
    214 2 The exact cause of the fin? at Nibong Tebal is not known, but it is rumoured that a body of Chinamen who were engaged in preparing their food near the wayang which was playing at that time were accidently the cause. Fortunately for the village’of
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    THE PENANG REPRESENTATIVE'S MOVEMENT.
    49 2 The Straits Mail says: —The movement in Penang for an enlargement of the constituency, which shall have the privilege of nominating for consideration by H. E. the Governor ami the Secretary of State the names of Penang representatives to the Legislative Council, continues to grow.
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    "GAZETTE" NOTIFICATIONS.
    146 2 "GAZETTE" NOTIFICA TIONS. (18th January.) The Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of the Hon’ble T. Shelford. c.m.g., the Hon’ble A. L. Donaldson and the Hon ble Seah Liang Seah, as members of the Legislative Council. Licenses to conduct sales in SingajMire have l>een granted to Messrs. H.
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    SINGAPORE NEWS.
    312 2 (Free Press.) It is believed that Mr. H. A. O'Brien will go home on leave about the eml of the month. The annual prize distribution in connection with the Anglo-Chinese Sch«»ol. Coleman Street, took pla«t* on the 18th in the presem-e of H. E. the Governor ami of
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    129 2 [Fko.U OUH CoitHESfONDENTs TELUK ANSON. 218 T January. The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 1,226 pikuls of tin. [Time from Teluk Anson, 5 h. 47 min BATU GA J AH. 21bT January. The following is the result of the cricket match :—Batu Gajah made 217 and declared their
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    PENANG MARINE ASSOCIATION.
    84 2 A billiard handicap is being started by this Association. The first prize is a valuable silver cup, and the second aar article to lie selected by the winner to the value of 820. The silver cup is n..w on vie» at Messrs. Gosling and Co’s., and as
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    A SAD OCCURRENCE AT SEA.
    337 2 Thre* deaths by drowning. The P. A 0. mail steamer Kaisar-i-Hind, which arrived from Colombo last night at 7-45 p. m., reports a very sad occurrence at sea. On Sunday morning at 10-30 a. m. whilst the ship’s crew were at general muster on the
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    THE SINGAPORE RESIGNATIONS.
    310 2 Formal Acceptance by* His Excellency. We give below the text of a letter fn® the Acting Colonial Secretary notifying Sir Charles Mitchell’s acceptance of the resignations of Messrs. Shelford, Donaldson and Seah Liang Seah Colonial Secretary’s Office. Jan. 17th, Gentlemen. lam directed by the Go’* ernor to
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      381 2 pfitchard Co. have just received a large supply of RACING SILKS in all colors WHITE RACING CASHMERE for breeches. WHITE RACING STOCK I NGNETT E for breeches. RACING SADDLES. RAC ING BRIDLES. WEIGHT CLOTHS. RACING WHIPS. Cobbett’s, Duke’s, Ayre s and Bryan's Cricket Bats. Match Cricket Balls. Leg Guards, Stumps.
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      353 2 MEW ADVERT ISEMEN I NOTICE. rpHE undermentioned Exchange Banks 1 will lie closed for business on Saturday. 26th January. 1895. Monday. 28th being Public Holidays. J B LEE. Acting Manager, Chartered Bank. J. C. NICHOLSON, Agent. Hongkong rf- Shanghai Bank H W. A. DETERDINO. Sub-Agent, Netkerlaud Trading Society. Penang, 22nd
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    GENERAL.
    156 3 A report has reached Rangoon, on what is apparently good authority, that Robert Stevenson, the novelist, is not dead after all. Up to the middle of October, savs a Kobe contemporary, there were 14,195 soldiers em-1 coolies invalided by wounds and sickness in the Japanese First Army Corps and
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    MAIL ITEMS.
    395 3 The Manchester Guardian expresses the current opinion in Lancashire on the Indian cotton duties as the attempt to tax Lancashire in order to help India to pay to the bondholder two rupees where she onlv owes one.” The Central Agricultural Syndicate of Eastern Prussia has passed a motion
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    A COCOANUT CRACKING MACHINE.
    321 3 (L. A- C. Express.) A new patent cocoanut cracking or splitting machine, which is very simple in its manipulation, has recently lieen placed on the market, and seems destined to supersede the old-fashioned and tedious method of preparing cocoanuts for coir fibre and oil manufacture. The
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    SUMMARY OF HOME NEWS.
    859 3 (L. <f* C. Express, Dec. 28th.) The Court. The Queen as usual spent Christmas at Osborne. The Prince of Wales and his daughtei s Were at Sandringham. The Princess of Wales is still in Russia. General. Christmas Day was observed on 25th inst. in the usual
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    THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
    998 3 The London Times publishes the following interesting notes:— Chinese Generals are an old-world curiosity, scarcely conceivable in our age. They might be described as army contractors rather than fighting agents, for, like the civil mandarins, they buv their posts as an investment. The battalion or
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    GOLD CURRENCIES IN CHINA.
    853 3 In the long course of Chinese history every kind of currency that the world has known has at some time or other found a place in the Flowery Land. Within the borders of the Chinese State's we can trace the development of the media of exchange,
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    TELEGRAPHIC EXCHANGES.
    146 3 (Vid Ceylon.) THE REICHSTAG AND THE SOCIALISTS. Berlin. January 13. The Reichstag has referred the Anti-Revolutionary Bill to the Committee of the House. COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK. It is reported that Count Herbert Bismarck is to lie appointed German Ambassador at Washington. THE PRESIDENT OF THE SUEZ CANAL. London,
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    187 3 (Straits 'rimes, 18th January.) Jelebus ($5 pd.) $4.50 sales. Kauiis 13 lOp&lt;l.) $4.60 fully paid $6) Punjoms (s3} pd.) $6 buyers. Pahatiif Corp. (4JI pd.) s3j sales. Maynard .t Co. (SlOOpd.) $3O sellers. Pengeranjjs ($5O pd.) $7O sales. Straits Insurance ($2O pd.) sl9’ sales and buyers. Straits
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    OFFICIAL MINUTES.
    788 3 Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners HELD ON THE 4IH JaNUAKY, 1895. Present.— Capt. Anderson, k e., (Actiny President), K&lt;&gt;h Seang Tat, Esq., K. A. P. Hogan, Esq., and G. F. Adamson, Esq. .Ihs-’iif.— J. Y. Kennedy, Esq. (President on leave), and J. Gibson, Esq. 1. The minutes of
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      23 3 FOR SALE. THE “PINANG GAZETTE” CALENDAR FOR 18 9 5 TOGETHER WITH A USEFUL BLOTTING PAD. Price 6Q cents. Posture 15 cents extra.
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      497 3 PENANG FLOWER SHOW. TVTOTICE of intending exhibitors is called to the fact that entries close on 24th January, at 4p. m. Entries can now be made to the Hon. Secretary. Geo. F. ADAMSON, 28 Hon. Secretary. NOTICE IS HEREBY given that Wong Seow Seng an employe of W. Jones, photographer.
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