Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 January 1897
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Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle
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Title Section22 1897-01-09 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED BjAILT. N£W SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE AO CENTS. VOL. LV. SATURDAY, 9th JANUARY. 1897. No. 7.22 words
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Advertisement566 1897-01-09 1 NOTHING EQUALS CALVETT’S CARBOLIC SOFT SOAP As a remedy for Mange, Sores, Greasy Heel, Barsati, or Mud Fever and us a destroyer of parasites on animals. It prevents skin Irritation and keeps the Coat in good condition. USED IN HER MAJESTY’S KENNELS. In 1 lb. and 2 lb. Jars, Is.566 words
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Advertisement1426 1897-01-09 1 Sfiwmncr ftloftctt. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY-(LTD.). BANKS. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Shan L” fACEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. r° n cofooration\ U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. Paid-lp Capitai slo,o<M),Uoo. AXB For Will sail Steamer From Expected on1,426 words
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Advertisement403 1897-01-09 1 N3D.':i!!..u;')SUIE HANDEL tiAAYSCiiifHI (Neiuerland Trading Society.) Established 1821. Paid-up Capital f 35,«8'b000.--Reserve Funds f 2,282,814.38| Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India. The Factorij of the Nederlandschn Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tplatjap. London Bankers.—The Union403 words
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Article124 1897-01-09 2 Penang. 9th January. I >97. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 2/1-/. Do. 4 months’sight Bank 2/1 Do. 3 Credit 2/lf Do. 3 Documentary 2/2 Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. I<> Do. 3 days'sight Private 171 Bombay, Demand Bank 16 J Do. 3 days’sight Private... 171 Madras, Demand Bank124 words
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Article144 1897-01-09 2 Pknang, !th Januart. 1897. Tin 132.0. (Trang out of season. Black Pepper < West Coast... 960 sellers. Acheen 6II> 13. —sellers. White Pepper 13.—sellers. Cloves (picked).. $29.00 Mace No. 1 72 —sellers. Mace Pickings... 68— do. Nutmegs 68. do. No 16.50 do. Sugar’ 2 385 do. Basket144 words
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Article86 1897-01-09 2 Mails close on Monday. For Per str. Time. Edie. Telok Semawe, Seg i ami Olehleh (r (r. r Lansberqe 1 P.M. At-ahau Deli 1 p.m Klang I'idar I P.M. I», j i p.m. Panukor ml Teluk Anson I’u’don 2 P.M. Ed e, Telok Semawe, Segh and Olehleh Pegu86 words
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Article41 1897-01-09 2 From Liverpool s b Priam to-day. From Olehleh -s. s. Both on Monday. From Singapore h. b C. Hock Kian tomorrow, s. s GlenfalltKh on Monday, and s Pitndua on Wednesday. From Suez —s. s. Canton on Tuesday.41 words
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Article185 1897-01-09 2 LONDON, Bth Januabt. The Plague in India. The plague at Bombay continues unabated. Business is paralysed, and nearly half the population have fled from the city. Several mills have been closed. The plague is bad also at Karachi. An Indian Famine Fund. At the request of Lord George185 words
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Article551 1897-01-09 2 Reuter's telegram concerning the prevalence <>f the plague at Bombay, which we received last night and have published to-day. is indeed terrible news. That the plague continues unabated is in itself most sad and discouraging, but that half the population have fled from the plague-stricken city,551 words
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Article423 1897-01-09 2 The counting, checking, and examining of all the books iu the Penang Library was completed iu the early part of last month, and we are informed that the results are so far satisfactory that no works have been found missing and practically no mutilation of books has423 words
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Article326 1897-01-09 2 The 8.8. Couch ahrived this morning from Batum with oil, and is discharging now at the Butterworth oil tank. Lord Burford, son of the Duke of St. Albans, has just arrived in India and will act as A. D. C. to the Viceroy. We have received a326 words
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Article59 1897-01-09 2 (From our Correspondent.) SINGAPORE. 9th January. ’Rikisha Owners and Registration ’Rikisha owners at Singapore object to strict registration and have refused to let out their vehicles to pullers. Yesterday no ’rikisha was out, and a slight disturbance took place at a depot which was attacked by the coolies.59 words
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149 1897-01-09 2 THEFT ON BOARD THE S. S. GOOD LUCK.” The s. s. Good Luck came in yesterday from Klang flying the police flag. Wb-n she was properly moored, the police boarded her and took into custody a Chinaman who was accused of theft of money and property valued at $3l/-. It149 words
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Article150 1897-01-09 2 (From our Dutch Contemporaries.) The Dutch Upper House has accepted the Bill to settle the sugar duty. The cholera is on tbe increase at Sourabaya especially at Djabakota. According to information from Sedajoe and Lamangan, people are daily succumbing to the cholera. For the protection of150 words
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Article295 1897-01-09 2 (From our Contemporaries The N.D L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, with the German mail of tbe 14th December, arrived on Thursday morning from Bremen. Amongst her passengers to Singapore were Phra John Anderson, the Consul-General for Siam, Mrs. Cuthbertson, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Romeuij. The Secretary of the295 words
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Article106 1897-01-09 2 The following is the order of the services at St. George's Church on Sunday 10th January, being First Sunday after Epiphany. Morning Service at 8. —Hymns 7 and 80 Evening Service at 6.—Psalms LIII. LIL LV. Anthem 2,9 Steggall, and Hymns ,6 and 79. Service in connection with106 words
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Advertisement793 1897-01-09 2 Tl *1 1 IDA New Advertisement. 1 ritdiard uO« lce and Aerated waters. I BEG to notify to the Public that the Ice and Aerated Waters made at all the JJtELIt 1 Factories in Penang may be had at the premises No. 112, Pitt Street, at the same prices as793 words
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Advertisement38 1897-01-09 2 POSADA WINE COMPANY. The Largest Wine Shippers in the East. Champagnes. Ports. Sherries. Clarets. Madeira. Marsala. Malaga. Hocks. Chateau Wines. Liqueurs. Connossieurs pro invited to test the above Choice Wines. I SOLE AGENTJTFOR Damson’s /'Whisky, Sloe on, &c.38 words
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Article63 1897-01-09 3 The experiments made by the Russian Government in the cultivation of tea in the Caucasus have proved a great success, and the Odessa correspondent of the «Times states that it is expected that in the near future the product of the Russian tea plantations will prove a powerful63 words
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Article63 1897-01-09 3 Dr. Linger. a member of the Austrian Eeichsrath, a Socialist and anti-Jewish advocate, has instigated the Vienna Municipal Council to erect gasworks at a cost <>f £3.300,000, in preference to paying „£1,350,000 to an English company for the works. The citizens are opposed to this extravagance,63 words
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Article90 1897-01-09 3 Cecil Rhodes is not usually a hilarious person, but he is said to have laughed immoderately on the occasion of the capture of Utnsavu, a very old woman and one of the numerous wives of Umzilikatze, founder of the Matabele nation and father of Lobengula.90 words
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Article110 1897-01-09 3 George Newman, who was sentenced to a term of penal servitude in connection with the Liberator frauds, was released from prison on sth ult. on ticket of leave. Newman, who was a builder, was charged in conjunction with Hobbs, another builder, and Wright, the solicitor to the110 words
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Article117 1897-01-09 3 The Manchester Courier states that in the course of another twelve months we are likelv to witness, a surprising development in trade between Great Britain and Siam. Orders not only for railway material, but for factory machinery, are expected in this country shortly. It is worthy117 words
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Article156 1897-01-09 3 The biggest ship that has ever crossed the line and visited the Australian Colonies is the Frederick the Great,” which recentIv passed through Colombo and carries the German flag. Her register is 10,500 tons as compared with 8,000, the tonnage of the largest P. O.156 words
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Article141 1897-01-09 3 The improvement in exchange brings down the exchange-compensation payable to Government servants to a lower figure than has been reached at any time during the last three years. Last quarter, it stood at R 13-9-3 ‘per cent. For the current quarter it drops to RIO-14-2 per141 words
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Article117 1897-01-09 3 G If is a noxi us weed T ansplant d here [Tweed From that bleak baron land beyonl the To kited Sc ts so dear. Ceas-! Van lais Goths, and Huns Thi uame un blest. Or t ach it to your own dull breechless eons,117 words
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Article54 1897-01-09 3 An Odessa correspondent says that an Admiralty Order has been issued to all ports on the Black Sea calling upon all naval officers on furlough, including pilots and boatswains, to hold themselves in readiness for active service. The cruiser Pamyat Merkuri is being fitted out for54 words
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Article121 1897-01-09 3 IS CUBA WORTH RETAINING> With the two staple industries, tobacco and sugar, of Cuba ruined almost ppst mending, the Globe (London) says the termination of the rebellion must endow Spain, already hovering on the brink of bankruptcy, with a veritable white elephant. For a long time afterwards she would have121 words
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Article122 1897-01-09 3 Judgment was given by the House of Lords on 19th Dec. on the appeal of Mr. Arthur D. Clarke, owner of the yacht Satanita, from a decision of the Court of Appeal holding him liable to pay to the Earl of Dunraven <£7,500 as damages for the122 words
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158 1897-01-09 3 Lord Tweedmouth was entertained at luncheon at the Liverpool Reform Club the other day and, replying to the toast of his health, his Lordship said that, as one whose business it had been closely to watch electioneering, he believed that the Tory party158 words
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173 1897-01-09 3 —Times of Ceylon. The Skipper, who ran third in the race for the Melbourne Cup in November, has been purchased by a Singapore syndicate, who are very dissatisfied with Mr. S. Hordern for the action he took in respect to the horse. The conditions of—Times of Ceylon. - 173 words
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Article187 1897-01-09 3 Last month, Pillsbury was twenty-four, and Blackburne entered his fifty-fifth year. Pillsbury was educated for business, says a correspondent to the Overland China Mail, and made no study of Chess till six years ago, when Steinitz gave him Pawn and move and lost the game. Since then,187 words
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Article75 1897-01-09 3 Saturday. 9th Prize distribution. Golf Club. High water at New Jetty, 4-51 am. and 5- p.m. Sunday, 10th Ist after Epiphany. High water at New Jetty, 5-44 a.m. and 6- P.M. Monday, 11th Town Band, Esplanade, 5 pm. High water at New Jetty, 6-37 A.M.75 words
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Article217 1897-01-09 3 Irish farmers have suffered disastrously from the results of recent flax crops, and it is believed in authoritative quarters that if the industry is to be saved, immediate steps must be taken to ameliorate the existing depression. Mr. Frank Barbour deals exhaustively with the subject in a letter217 words
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Article306 1897-01-09 3 —L. <f- C. Express. A Record of the Buddhist Religion as Practised in India and the Malay Archipelago (a.d. 671-695). By I-Tsing. Translated by J Takakusu, 8.A., Ph D. (Oxford: Clarendon Press.) Professor Max Midler remarks in a letter to Mr. J. Takakusu, I was’—L. <f- C. Express. - 306 words
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Article432 1897-01-09 3 New York, 13/A December. The Six Days’, or rather 142 hours’ Cycle Race in Madison Square Garden, which ended at ten o’clock last night, we are informed by a contemporary, has excited I immense interest, 12,000 spectators being I present at the finish. The winner proved432 words
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213 1897-01-09 3 The terrible gale which resulted in the complete destruction of the Chain Pier at Brighton continued with unabated fury throughout the night of 4th ult. and until the following afternoon, and caused serious damage to the West Pier and to the new electric213 words
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Article310 1897-01-09 3 Dr. Sun Yat Sen was a guest at the Savage Club dinner on 14th Dec., says the L. and C. Express, and in response to an urgent demand gave an account of some of his recent experiences at the Chinese Embassy in Portland Place. In very310 words
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Article181 1897-01-09 3 A r rivals. To-day. s. s. Canton from Teluk Anson. s. s. Avayyee from Deli. s. s. l/uorra from Langkat. s. s. Pegu from Olehleh. s s. Couch from Batum. a. 8. Hebe from Singapore. s. s. Chvcnshan from Singapore. Y esterday. P. i O. s. s. Kaisar-I-Hind from181 words
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Article196 1897-01-09 3 (Straits Times, 7th January.) Jelebus ($5 pd.) $2.70 Rauhs (13/10 pd.) $9.10. -t“l fully paid $11.25 Punjonis ($4 pd.) $l3 Pahang Corp. j£l pd.) S4J. Pataling Coffee Co. ($4.5 pd.) $5O sales. Pengerangs ($5O pd.) ?55 Straits Insurancej(s2G pd.) $26 sales. Straits Fires ($2O pd.) 10 cts.(Straits Times, 7th January.) - 196 words
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Advertisement285 1897-01-09 3 FOR SALE or TO LET. tpWO Spacious Houses lose to GovernI ment Offices, Batu Gajah. For particulars apply to 640 J. HARFLEET, Batu Gajah. FOR SALE. ONE Australian Bay Horse, six years old, 14.2, with Dogcart and Harness complete. Price 8450. Any trial allowed. 701 H. J. MARTYN, Jr. NOTICE.285 words
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Advertisement410 1897-01-09 3 ELLWOOD’S PATENT AIR-CHAMBER HELMETS. A HOUSEHOLD WORD in INDIA. Worn in the East by all AWARDED THE OFFICERS* THE CIVIL the gold medal SERVICE St THE COGNOSCEKT. I. H. E„ LONDON, 1084. ELLWOOD’S PATENT AIR-CHAMBER HELMETS. MELLIN’S FOOD For INFANTS and INVALIDS. MELLIN’S EMULSION Of COD LIVER OIL and HYPOPHOSPHITES.410 words
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Advertisement17 1897-01-09 3 THE A. P.K. Aerated Waters ARE OF THE BEST 4) QUALITY. GST Outstation orders promptly attended to.17 words
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Article901 1897-01-09 4 PROGRAMME. January Meeting, 1897. 12th, 14th, and 16th January. FIRST DAY. TUESDAY, 12th JANUARY, 1897. 1. —The Maiden Plate. —3.15. Value $2OO. —For Maiden Horses (per Rule XIV, Straits Racing Association). Weight per scale (10 st. 9 lbs.) Horses entered in 6th Race, Ist Day, or 7th901 words
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Advertisement1401 1897-01-09 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY t hou f p uamc tj IS THE BEST* 1 o be had at Messrs. THEAN CHEE Co. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. GUAT CHENG BROS. I J GOON YEN FRIENDS. SOLE IMPORTERS BJtOTHEHS, HIN LEE 4 Co.1,401 words
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Advertisement132 1897-01-09 4 Robinson Co., SINGAPORE. Dressmaking, Millinery, Hosiery and Gloves, Ribbons and Laces, UnderclothinManchester Goods, Evening and Walking Shoes, Lace Curtains Tailoring, Outfitting, Rugs and Shawls, Electro-plated Ware, Steel Trunks, Sheffield Cutlery, Cricket Goods, and Tennis Goods Sole Agf.nts: Singer’s Sewing Machines Winnfield ft PnwhnthA.ms Putbr? The Raglan Cycle Co Lid., Coventry.132 words
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