Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 1 April 1896

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAIL7. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LIV. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1896. No. 75.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 578 1 HSvippvag QlofkeSe Kliisular Oriental Steam «Navigation Company. 9 f PHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang ,s?%¥ homewards, on the following dates I Outwards. Homewards. irel!rt a Apr. 11 I Rosett Apr. 2 ■if 24 Kaisar-i-hind 16 May 10 i Peshawar 30 24 Pekin May
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    • 1458 1 S6wmn« (Hoftcea. British India steam navigation company, -(ltd.). banks. a J n KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai BankOeean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. ing Corporation. HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamer a, Paid-lp Capital ...$10,000,000. I—T-lVy1— T-lVy Reserve Fund $5,750,000. w Wtt, a-.. m
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    • 518 1 REDERLAWDStfiE HANDEL EAATStBAPOJ. (Net her land Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000. Reserve Funds f 2,216,514.01 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, Tcgal, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London
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  • 123 2 Penang, Ist March, 1896. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 2/2J Do. 4 months’ sight Bank 2/2f Do. 3 Credit2/2-3/16 Do. 3 Documentary... 2/31 Calcutta, Demand Bank Ks. 185 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 188 Bombay. Demand Bank 185 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 188 Madras, Demand Bank
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  • 122 2 Penang, Ist March, 1896. Tin $31.20 sellers (Trang small supply. Black Pepper West Coast... 9.70 sellers. (Acbeen6lt> 10.50 do. White Pepper 13*i do. Cloves (picked) out of season. Mace No. 1 80.— sellers. Mace Pickings 65. do. Nutmegs 73. do. No. 1 7. do. Sugar 2 4.
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  • 56 2 Mails close To-mokrow. Ear Per ttr. Time Rangoon Framnes 11 a.m Edit», Teluk Semawe, Segli and Olehleh \'<<lar 11 a.m. Pangkur X T. Anson Canton 2 P.M. Klang xk Malacca Teutimia 5 p.m. Deli Ho Kicei 5 P.M. The homeward P. A O. steamer Roeetta was to leave
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  • 40 2 From Singapore (h. h to-raorrow, s. s. Palaincotta on Saturday. h rom Rangoon -<h s. Li adt</«) to-morrow. From Olehleh— (s Maha i'ajtruahin) to-morrow. From Calcutta—(a. s. A. Apcar) tomorrow. From Colombo—(s. s. Maria Ta/en'e) tomoi row.
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  • 96 2 LONDON. 31st March, 1*96. Bnluwftyo. The position at Buluwayo is serious. A 'general rising is feared. Communications southward are threatened. The defenders at Buluwayo are short of arms and have only a month’s supplies. The Matabele men have plenty of arms. The Soudan. The Dervishes are preparing to
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  • 614 2 There will be no band performance to-m<>rr<>w afternoon at the Datu Kramat Garden*. The Exchange Banks close on Friday, Saturday, and .Monday next, being the Easter holidays. The Perak Government yacht Mena arrived livre this morning from Port Weld, and returns to-night with the cricket team. The
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  • 1022 2 We publish the following extract from the Hongkong Telegraph of the 19th ultimo, as it throws some light on the special telegram received to-day in connection with the serious position of matters in Canton:— A gentleman who returned to-day from the fair City of Rams informs
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  • 86 2 [From our Correspondents.) SINGAPORE. J 31st March. J Canton has been posters urging the Chinese d tack Shameen, and offering a I dred dollars reward for the lip a j each foreigner. The ill will J arisen over the boat regulatkl and the foreigners are blamed j the
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  • 17 2 Arrivals. Yesterday. Per B. I. s. s. Secundra from J. West and Mr. Taylor. L
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  • 199 2 Wednesday. Ist: Town Band. Esplanade. 5 p.m. Evening Service at 5-30, S Church. High water at New Jetty, 3-05 3- p.m. j Thursday. 2nd (Maundy Thursday Evening Service at 5-30, S Church. High water at New Jettv. 3-58 4- P.M. Friday, 3rd—Good Friday (P u
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  • 402 2 TELEGR APHIC EXCHANGES. Via Madras.) Tin: Dongola Expedition. London. March 21.—Mr. Balfour, i winding up the debate last night on the Egyptian question, affirmed that therein» nothing in the action of the British G'eminent to excite the smallest suspicion d any Frenchman, and that the demolitiond the power of the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1057 2 n_r’£ V r(« Mrw ADVERTISEMENTS. o( uO. EASTER HOLIDAYS. rpHE undermentioned Banks will be closed I on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, LADIES’ DEPARTMENT. tl,eB mebei Public 5 For the Chartered Bank of India, AusA large choice selection ot 11 all l audCl j l williamson jones, New Seasons Goods received
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    • 251 2 EXPRESS NOTICE. The Aerated W ati k r Co., Penang. Works 50, Cantonement Road, Palo Titas. Proprietor ARCHIBALD KENNEDY. Telegraphic Address ARCHIBALD- PENANG. Great increase of the A. P K. Aerated Water Trade. We are now able to supply orders from 10 to 1,000 dozen daily. All our Machinery being
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  • 1041 3 from Annual Report for 1895.) J] The alterations and additions to the molding were not completed until the end o® the year, and as a consequence part of trhe Museum had to be closed for the greater portion of the year. Zoology. A specimen of the Malayan
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  • 272 3 (Madras Times.) Who is unaware of the great multiplication, and immense expansion, of Government Presses? At first all the work was turned out by private presses—even Government Gazettes being printed by them. But, as the poet sings, sweet is power;” and sweet it was to have one’s own
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  • 480 3 Some very remarkable opium frauds were perpetrated during last year on the Indian merchants trading in that article in Hong Kong. In several instances the Government of India’s stamped and otherwise well secured chests have been found to be tampered with, lumps of Indian coal being put in
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  • 229 3 The cricketing season in England will shortly begin, and a well-known player who often appears at Lord’s and the Oval has expressed bis wonder that ladies are not selected to act as umpires—“ their love of the game, sharp eyes, and aptitude to catch every movement admirably fitting them
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  • 1180 3 Information respecting this great waterway and the province of Kwangsi will doubtless be acceptable to our readers, to the majority of whom the districts through which the Si-kiang runs are a terra incognita, and but for the gentle pressure recently exerted by the British
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  • 622 3 or, the peril of insulting the kaiser. Mr. A. Eubule Evans, in an article in the Contemporary Review for February, describes his impressions of Germany after twenty-five years of Imperial Government, Jle says The aspect of affairs in modern Germany is by no means exhilarating.
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  • 249 3 Arrivals. To-day. P. O. s. s. Bombay from Singapore. s. s. Deike Rickmers from Hamburg. B. I. s. s. Camorta from Rangoon. s. s. ho Kwei from Deli. s. s. Mena from Port. Weld. s. s. Canton from Telnk Anson, Yesterday. B. I. s. s. Secundra from Madras. s.
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  • 66 3 Taken at Prison Hospital Observatory. 31st March, 1896. 9 a.m. 3 p.m. 9 P.M. Bar. red. 32 Fah 868 .728 .842 Temperature 77. 80.— 76. Wet Bulb Thermometer 75. 77. 75. Max. Temp, in shade 90. Min. do. do. 72. Max. in Sun 146. Terr, rad Ther 69'8
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  • 211 3 (Straits Times, 30th Makch.) Jelnbus ($5 ]><].) $3.30 sales. Rauhs 13/IO pd.) fo sales. .£1 fully paid $8 to 84 Punjoins ($4 p<l.) $7.60 sal s Pahang Corp. (JEI pd.) $2 Maynard A Co. (§lOO pd.) $3O Pengerangs ($5O pd.) »70 offering Straits Insurance ($2O pd.) $27
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 136 3 NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership between us, Lim Kok Soon and Teoh Chong Beng, trading as Merchants, at No. 62, Beach Street, Penang, under the firm of Seng Chin Co., was on the 11th day of October last dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due and owing
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    • 867 3 f NOTICE. MR. ADOLF LOOSER is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this date. SCHMIDT, KUSTERMANN Co. Penang, 19th March, 1896. 165 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. rpHE Municipal Commissioners of George .1 Town, Penang, invite tenders for the supply of a certain number of 18 in., 6 in., 4 in.,
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    • 121 3 WANTED. WANTED to rent a fair sized CompoundHouse within one mile and a half of the Jetty. Should have three Bedrooms and Bathrooms, Carriage House and Stabling for three Horses, together with Syces, and Servants Rooms. House with Upper Verandah preferred. 161 Apply to R,” c/o Pinang Gazette. TO LET.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 2055 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY (Houses of J X JEUrZX JL To be had at m. SBB ..™L s n pi cheeT“», Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs, GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 J SOLE IMPORTERS— KATZ BROTHERS. HIN LEE Co. THE I EN A
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    • 219 4 brown c«; Monumental Sculptors 42, BETINCK STREET, ~&onuw.v&yib tJciibßSn 0.1852 OjOMw Zj 3 PENANG ICE WORKST BEACH STREET OPEN on week days from 7.30 to 10 a and trom noon to 5 p a M Sundays and Holidays from 8 a. m. to noa ICE WILL ONLY BE DELIVERED AGAINST
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