Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 13 May 1897

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    22 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE published daily. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. THURSDAY, 13th MAY. 1897. No. 109.
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      509 1 Oriental Steam Navigation Company. SrpHE mail steamers may be -L expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. l.Tlini May 7 f Mirza pore May 13 „21 Coromandel i 27 a June 5 Rohilla June 10 Rarenaa )[iriapore INTERMEDIATE direct SERVICE. vfith excellent accommodation
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      1405 1 MMm MM" BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. tiwxwe. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Shanghai BankAcean steam SHI p company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. H ngk ?n J Corpora U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamer». SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. Reserve Fund 6,500,0«»0. AND F° r Will sail
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      421 1 <KDEKi.AHDSLfIE RANDKL JAATSCHAfI’IJ (Net her land Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000.00 Reserve Funds 2,282,814.38 j Bead Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandsch» Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches.—Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London
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    EXCHANGE.
    123 2 Pmna.ru, 13th May, 1897. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 1 H£ Do. 4 months’ sight Raul 2/0} Do. 3 Credits -Of Do. u Documentary Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 164 Do. 3 days’ sight Private... I 6J Bombay. Demand Bank 164 Do. 3 days’sight Private... 1 <>6s Madras,
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    141 2 Penang. 13th M <Y, 1 m 97. Tin 831.85 Trang 18.— sellers. Black Pepper West Coast... 13(3 Acheen 6i. 15.50 White Pepper 21 50 sellers. Cloves (picked).. 36. do. Mace No. 1 80— do. Mace Pickings... 75 do. Nutmegs 77 do. (No 1 6.90 do. Sugar 2
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    107 2 Mails ci.ohk To..MOßit<>w Per fh Vnur. Ceylon. Australasia. ria Brimli i for Europe Ac, Mlrzapore 10-30 a.m Registration up to 9-30 a.m. Rangoon Fitzpatrick II a.m \sahan It llaletryn I P.M. Deli I.anokat 1 P.m. Kling M Austin I pm Pangkalan Bracdon C c Smith... 1 I’M Pangkor
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    44 2 From k I ngapore—s. s. I ftimbro n s llatar>.er to-moniev, and s s. >icciola on Saturday, s. s. .1, Ap<-'ir ami s i'im'ohana on Monday. I rom R a %«;>•<■ s. s. Nebudda on Sunday From CaM’UTI’A s s. Kut S'lh</to-morrow
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAM.
    92 2 LONDON, 12th May. The Note Accepted Unreservedly. The Powers have presented their Note, containing the conditions suggested by Germany, which Greece lias accepted unreservedly. Strong Opposition in Turkey to an Armistice. The Ambassadors at Constantinople are now urging the Porte to agree to an armistice, but the party
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    EURASIAN.
    390 2 EUR ASIAN. There are several definitions of the above compound word. According to one authority, an Eurasian is a person born in Hindustan of a Hindu mother and a European father. According to another, 'an Eurasian is the son or (laughter of parents, either one of whom is of pure
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    544 2 Advertisers in our columns are reminded that advertisements and alterations in previous advertisements should be notified to the Manager of the Pinang Gazette before 11 o’clock on the date selected for insertion. In future the 21st Hussars are to be called the 21st, Lancers. The hook of
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    THE ASSIZES.
    236 2 Y ksterday morning a leper, named Teh Ah Guan, pleaded guilty to the charge of voluntarily causing hurt at Pulau Jerajak, ami was sentenced to three months’ rigorous imprisonment The Solicitor-General entered a nolle prosequi on the charges of manslaughter and of causing death by a rash act
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    CHINESE INTERPRETER v. CHINESE DETECTIVE.
    147 2 This was a case in which Chan Wa Hem, a Chinese Interpreter, charged Lim Bok Bam, a Chinese Detective, with having used criminal force. From the evidence given before Mr. Innes yesterday, it would appear that the Chinese Interpreter saw two men assaulting another man,
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    SUICIDE AT SEA.
    38 2 A son of Sir William Hudson, who with his parents left Bombay in the mail steamer Australia, had a touch of sunstroke in the Red Sea and committed suicide. He was twenty years of age,
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
    23 2 (From our Co RRESPONDEN r I ELUK ANSON. 13th May. The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 279 pikul s of tin
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    PERAK NEWS.
    240 2 {Perak Government Gazette 7tw Ar Appointments’ AT) Mr. R. C. Grey, Assistant Spcr etaf Government, has been promoted ,O in the Government of Selangor from the Ist May. e Ulth Mr. William Colbv King T, ar Audit Clerk, Perak State Railways Assistant Accountant, Perak Stat n'* ways, with
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    GOLF.
    19 2 A mong Ihe deal hs recorded at the end nf April was that of Hugh Kirkcaldy, famous golfer.
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    THE PERAK FARMS.
    91 2 It is announced in the Perak Govenment Gazette that tenders will be received up fa noon on the 8111 of August 11« xt for rentier the General Farm (Spirits, Pawubrokiuu, and Gambling Farms <>f Perak, except th: part included in the Coasi and Upper P-ra'i Farms) and
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    THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL METHODISTS.
    106 2 The R»‘V. Dr. Kensit of the American Episcopal Methodist Mission, who is in win Kuala Lumpur, is actively engaged, savs (lie Malay Mail, in the search for suitable land whereupon to erect a place of worslnp and school house. The body which Dr. Kensit represent» has
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    STARVING ON AN ARAB DHOW.
    168 2 The Captain of the Prinz Heinrich nports to the Tinies of Ceylon, that on the 17th April when near Aden in long. 13’1 aud lai. 49’54 E. he sighted an Arab dbo« showing signals of distress. He went 1miles out of his course to see
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    TORTURE IN MOROCCO.
    217 2 A recent issue of ALMoglireb AlAkca.” the English journal published 1 Tangier, copies of which have just I’card"' this country, contain particulars of the (aibarons tortures meted out by the SuL ;U of Morocco to offending subjects A eotrespondent of the journal at Paral!' 1 describes the
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      781 2 DIAMOND JUBILEE New Advertisements. CELEBRATION.’’ to let. HOUSE No. 1 Contonment Road, known as Aver Rajah Estate. 228 Apply to C. TEK SOON. I I *****11(1.1 11 (Vl IjlL TWO COMPOSITORS. Must be fast AIVVIAWI Wf workers. Pay SIS a month. “Malay Mail Office, Kuala Lumpur. 227 NOTICES. Desire to
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      98 2 Gosling Co., Beach <(• Union Streets. JUST ARRIVtD. Cheddar Cheese, Streaky Bacon, AND Hams. Ex. 8. R. ADEN.” ENGLISH HARNESS for (’ob I lorse. SILVER or BRASS MOUNTS. TENNIS BOLES NETS (Avres). GOLFERS’ REQUISITES. MARTINI REPEATING RIFLES, Winchester Model, §35. MAUSER MAGAZINE GUNS, $25, with 50 Cartridges. IRON SAFES DEED
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    MARRIAGE OF PRINCE LOWENSTEIN AND LADY ANNE SAVILE.
    52 3 jy <• ns quence of what has appeared iu l t ,r.ril newspapers, we, the Morning Post, re requested by Prince Lowenstein to state that La lv Anne Savile’s marriage with His jj; rhness is t<> be an equal union, and not
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    MAGISTERIAL IRREGULARITY.
    80 3 '[’he Magistrates Appeal set down for iii_' this afternoon, A. Gentje v. W. A[ n eii". >avs the Singapore Free Press of jp,;'. inst., in which the latter appealed .Just a conviction by Mr. O’Sullivan p,, eiving bribes, was not heard. The Y vi st rate had sent
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    THE BALFOUR COMPANIES.
    89 3 Mb S. Wheeler, as Official Receiver and piqui Liter, has issued bis report on the »s of the liquidation of the London L General Bank during the year 1896. far:tier realizations of the assets have re- p-. l in =£7,090 being brought to credit, and melv a
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    RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE.
    94 3 Thi. Amir of Cabul. the Bombay Gazette understands, has dispensed with the services Mi Lucas, the Armenian who bad charge Jti e gunpowder factory at Jellalabad. The r rl' sud to be that the Amir does not, a Mohammedan ruler, wish to retain in his einph vment any
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    THE SECRETARY TO THE BRITISH COMMITTEE.
    88 3 Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jekyll, R E., who has been appointed secretary of the British Committee tor the forthcoming Uuiversil Exhibition iu Paris, was military secretary to Lord Houghton (now Lord Crewe)' during that nobleman’s Irish vi Hioyaltv. He is an excellent man of business an
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    A BABOO IN COURT.
    149 3 Thebe was some excellent dialogue iu a diverting case heard at Shoreditch the other day. says the Perak 1 ioneer, iu which a Baboo medical man (we gather, an Eurasian) was sued by bis partner and former schoolmate. For instance Judge French Are you an Asiatic
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    THE JAIPUR LIBEL CASE.
    195 3 The Jaipur Libel Case, which has caused much excitement iu India aud iu which the lit n- and the proprietor of a native paper were charged with publishing a libel <>u Rai Bahadur Kanti Chunder Mukerji, Prime Minister of Jaipur, has ended, says an Indian contemporary,
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    A FIND IN THE GULF OF CORINTH.
    164 3 A fisherman iu the little bay of Livadosfowo (a village in the innermost northeast corner of the gulf of Corinth, close to w bere the ancient Creusis is supposed to bavc stood) has brought to light the fragments of a Bronze figure a
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    EAST INDIA COMPANY OFFICIALS.
    47 3 The Government has introduced a short Bill to remove all doubt as to the rights of a small number of officials, about a dozen, transferred from the East India Company to the Government of India, to special rates of pension when thev retire.
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    LIBEL ON A CHAPLAIN TO THE FORCES.
    55 3 The Rev. Thomas Belcher sued Colonel Kuollys for libelling him in his Life of Sir Hope Grant,” in which it was said that the plaintiff preached an indecent sermon at Aldershot, when Chaplain to the Forces. Colonel Knollys apologized, agreed to withdraw the
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    THE LANGUAGE QUESTION IN THE TRANSVAAL.
    103 3 The following, says the Central News, are sine of the stipulations of the measure to be introduced into the Transvaal Raad next session with the object of ensuring supremacy for the Dutch language as against English —All market notes and inland consignment notes must
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    RAUB GOLD.
    295 3 The March-April Crush. Over an Ounce per Ton. (Singapore Free Press.) The Local Secretary of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Ltd., Singapore, has received the following Telegram from Riub dated sth May, 3.20 p.m. (aud odlv received 9th May, 9 a m Crushing finished, 2,420 tons stone
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    WUCHANG.
    361 3 Murderous Placards in Ch’ishui Ch’ishui is a district city in the prefecture of Huangcbou, writes the Wuchang correspondent to the N. C. Herald. For many years the agents of the Wesleyan Missionary Society have bad work in the neighbourhood. Earlier in the year the missionary who is in charge
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    PASSENGERS.
    43 3 Arrivals. To-day. Per s. s. Calypso from Singapore: Mr. Gehring, and Mr. and Mrs. Blewental. Y ESTERDAY. Per s. s. Teutonia from Malacca: Mr. Hamp: shire. Per s. s. Flying Dragon from Port Weld Messrs. G. Bain, A. F. Plough, and Norton,
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    SELANGOR.
    991 3 In his Report ou the Posts and Telegraphs, for 1896, Mr. A. S. Baxendale writes: Postal. Correspondence.— There was the usual satisfactory increase in the postal business. The general traffic returns show an increase of 18%. The amount of postal business done per head of population is naturally very
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    FRANCE AND MOROCCO.
    107 3 Mobilization of Troops. A Reuter’s telegram from Algiers to Paris on the 15th of April states that there is a great excitement at Marnia owing to news from Morocco of the arrival of several squadrons of Chasseurs d’Afrique at the frontier, where they are to be posted.
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    THE KANDY CONTRETEMPS.
    131 3 The Times of Ceylon learns that it was not only the refusal to let him touch Buddha’s Tooth which annoyed the King at Kandy. While being shown round the Library he asked to be allowed to make an extract from a certain book—so we were informed in
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    THE PROPERT MINIATURES.
    128 3 The collection of miniatures formed during many years by Dr. Lumsden Propert, says the St. James's Gazette, has been purchased by the Fine Art Society, and will b« exhibited at their Bond Street Galleries very shortly. The collection has been formed with the dual object of comprising
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    THE MINGOON PRINCE.
    179 3 The Courrier de Saigon gives details of the capture of the Mingoou Prince, who had escaped from guardianship at Saigon to the frontier of Burma. It was his intention to raise a rebellion there against the Government of India on the ground that he was heir to
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    76 3 Thursday. 13th High-w iter at New Jetty, 8-27 A.M. and 8- f m. Friday. 14th Meeting of Planters, Chamber of Commerce at Noon. High-water at New Jetty. 9-16 A.M. and 9- pm. Saturday. 15th Cricket Match. Penang r. Butterworth, at Penang. Town Band. Golf Chib.
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    SHIPPING.
    211 3 V rn mix. To-day. s. 8. Lady Webl from Teluk .Anson. s. s. Betsy from Teluk .Anson. s. s. Fan Goens from Padang. s. s. Calypso from Singapore. 1 ESTERDAY. s. s. Teutonia from Malacca. s. s. Fook Ching from Brandon. s. s. Flying Dragon from Port Weld. 8.
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      196 3 CHEAP ENVELOPES. pREAM LAID SECURE. 1,000, Sl.BO. L SMALL BROWN, 1,000, §l.BO. TO BE HAD AT THE “PINANG GAZETTE'' PRESS. DENTAL NOTICE. 1 fR. J. F. TEUFERT, Dental Surgeon, iVL has arrived and may be consulted at the Sea View Hotel. Office hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3
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      487 3 IS PREPARED TO SUPPLY TIFFINS or DIHIT—.US at short notice. TERMS MODERATE. PORT, SHERRY, MADEIRA, MARSALA, TOK AVAR, GRAVES, MALAGA. These are the finest wines in the market anil defy competition as regards prices. SEND FOR A PRICE LIST. BODEGA BEER STOUT. Try these: you will be pleased. Straits Steamship
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      179 3 TO LET. ORANGE GROA’E, No. 54 Northam Road. Entry from Ist May, 1897, or earlier. Applv to 168 MAHOMED ARIFF. D. PIENTKOVSKY, Gentlemen's Tailor A Outfitter, No. 21 PENANG ROAD. A IR. Pientkovsky is well-qualified to x'L remove stains from cloth, silk, or any kind of weai ing apparel. His
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      1370 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY H®®#® is THE BEST. To be had at x Messrs. THEAN CHEE kCo POTMgK d Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. GHAT CHENG BROS. 11 goox'ye'nT friends. SOLE IMPORTERS— BLA.TJB BROTHERS, lIMITED HIN LEE k Co. > mwiilu, JgSSSJCMM
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      292 4 GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY. SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lnzarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED. 555 THE DISPENSARY? 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3p m Sunday hours 11 a.m. to I’p.m. F Prescriptions accurately dispensed. SPECTACLES to suit every variety of
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