Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 May 1897
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Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle
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Title Section22 1897-05-19 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED daily. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE. 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. WEDNESDAY, 19th MAY. 1897. No. 114.22 words
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Advertisement533 1897-05-19 1 pipping (ttofices. Oriental Steam Navigation Company. rilHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive out- wards, and leave Penang i homewards, on the following Jz dates Outwards. Homewards. May 21 Coromandel May ‘27 e 1 June 5 Rohilla June 10 W lin 1 19 Kaisar-i-hind 24 Rosetta July 8 j533 words
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Advertisement1445 1897-05-19 1 SfeWn/r BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. ywncc*. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. ~7' n 0E AN steam ship company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. ship company, ltd. VSZ: AND For Will sail Steamer From Expected on ftBsl!RVl! Liability of Proprietors1,445 words
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Advertisement544 1897-05-19 1 NEDERUIiDSCfIE BARBEL UATSCBAPN (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-op Capital /35,783,090.00 Reserve Funds 2,282,814.38 J Hiad Offick in Amsterdam. Hsad 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 Bankers.—The Union544 words
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Article126 1897-05-19 2 I*mNanu, 19th May, 1897. Rates close as follows: Loudon. Demand Bank 2 0 Do. 4 months’sight Bank... 2/0-pL Do. 3 Credits 2 Oil Do. 3 Documentary Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 164 J Do. 3 days’sight Private... 1 (L Bombay, Demand Bank 164;« Do. 3 days’ sight Private 166 Madras,126 words
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Article141 1897-05-19 2 Penang. 19th M y, 1*97. Tin r. $35.60 (Trang out of season. Black Pepper J West Coast... 131«3 sellers. Aeheen 6H« 15.50 do. White Pepper 21 50 sellers. Cloves (piefked).. 36. do. Mace No. 1 80 do. Mace Pickings... 75 do. Nutmegs 78— do. i No 1141 words
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Article61 1897-05-19 2 Mails close To-morrow For Per th Timr, Pangkor and T Anson Canton 2 p m. Friday. 21st. Klang Deli 1 P.M. Madras. Ac., taking mails for Europe. Ac, ria Negapatam Sirsa 4 P.M. Registration up to 3 p. in. The P. A O. mail steamer M irzapore left61 words
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Article31 1897-05-19 2 From Suez—s. s. Deike Rirkmers to-day. From Singapore—s. s. Sirsa on Friday, ami s. s. (leneraal Pel on Saturday. From Calcutta -s h C A pear on Fri«lay.31 words
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Article109 1897-05-19 2 LONDON, 18th Mat. Retreat of the Greeks to the Mountains. After one day’s fighting, the Greeks have abandoned Domoko and retreated to the Othrys Mountains. Cessation of Hostilities. The ambassadors at Constantinople drafted a Note on Sunday, in which they virtually ignored the demands of the Porte and109 words
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Article854 1897-05-19 2 THE “PALL MALL GAZETTE.” Mr. Frederick Greenwood, the first editor of the above-named journal, has given a rather lengthy account of its birth and infancy. When we say that such names as the following occur among those of the contributors, our readers will perceive how interesting the account854 words
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Article622 1897-05-19 2 The Tanglin Club will be At Home” on the 27th instant. Five Hindus were this morning fined $lO each by Mr. Hall for attempting to leave the Settlement without passes. The Perak Pioneer hears Mr. Mathews has not accepted the award of the arbitrators of the Ulu622 words
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Article64 1897-05-19 2 The only case heard against a Malay woman, named V.' 41 was charged with the murder another woman, near the SwUehback W»J. Mr. Wreford appeared for Ihe accused was unanimously the capital offence but convicu-d < homicide not amounting to m Ur UV majority of five to two.64 words
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Article166 1897-05-19 2 (From a Correspondent.') Somh boards on the pontoon Bagan Serai are getting loose and lie looked to, otherwise there may accident. aa On the 14th instant the dead body of, Chinese pauper was found in aw J •bed at Bukit Mertajam, and remove?} the mortuary. On n post166 words
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Article112 1897-05-19 2 The case of which we spoke a few issua back as being put into trim by Mr. Vai Somen u, says the Perak Pioneer, will pron a veritable cause celebrt and will induce Kuala Lumpur to flout Perak more tine ever. Messrs. Napier and112 words
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Article57 1897-05-19 2 A Sinhalese gentleman, the son of a millionaire who died a few vears agn of hydrophobia, has offered to the Cevlon Government a sum of Rs. 10,000 as a nucleus for the foundation of a Pasteur Institute in Colombo in meinorv of his father. The57 words
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Article90 1897-05-19 2 The Rhea Syndicate, which was formol in Colombo some months ago for the cultivation of Rhea grass on a small scale, has been wound up. The Syndicate tried the cultivation on 12 acres iu Kurunegala,and R 3.000 were sunk in the scheme. Capt. Whitley’s letter from90 words
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Article208 1897-05-19 2 The Matabkle War: Distinctions and Awards. London, 7th and Bth May. The London Gazette publishes the following distinctions for the Matalw-le WarCaplain Nesbitt, of the Matabele Mounted Police, and Trooper Henderson, of Buluwayo Field Force, both get the Victoria Cross; General Carrington becomes a Knight Commander208 words
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Advertisement696 1897-05-19 2 n 1 J 0 fl New Advertisements. Pritchard bo. co.. lw. rpHE 8. s. “Neeba” will leave here reguI larly every Sunday for Klang and Singapore. For freight and passage apply to ll™ H. J. MARTYN, Jb I /X UI H 206 Agent, Straits Steamship Co. D E PA RTM696 words
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Advertisement102 1897-05-19 2 Gosling Co., Heath <(• Union Streets. JUST ARRIVED. Cheddar Cheese, Streaky Bacon, AND Hams. Ex. S S. ADEN.” ENGLISH HARNESS for Cob Horse. SILVER or BRASS MOUNTS. TENNIS POLES NETS (Ayres). GOLFERS’ REQUISITES. CRICKETSETS,BATS,STUMPS, BALLS, LEG GUARDS, &c. MARTINI REPEATING RIFLES, Winchester Model, $35. MAUSER MAGAZINE GUNS, $25, with 50102 words
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Article19 1897-05-19 3 (FkOM OUR C<H< RESPONDENT.) TELUK ANSON. 19th May. The shipments to-day are—'|’o Penang, 496 pikuls of tin.19 words
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Article487 1897-05-19 3 (Written for the Pinanq Gazette.') The Prince of Wales won his first race this season when Mousme (St. Simon F.iuchette) romped home in the Two-Yea r--011 Plate” at the Newmarket Craven Meeting. Mornington Cannon steered the gllv and landed the handsome odds of 5 to j for the487 words
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Article189 1897-05-19 3 The Turks, from the heights of Maluna, fired on the retreating Greeks in the plain bc-Liw, and effected terrible slaughter, the shells bursting among the battalions when in close marching order. The Greeks left 1,000 men killed or wounded on the plain. The struggle has been189 words
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177 1897-05-19 3 H. E. Chang Yin-hu an, Special Envoy to Great Britain, takes with him a number of presents from the Emperor and EmpressDowager of China, says the Japan Advertiser. They consist of rare porcelain and jadestone cups or vases of fine workmanship and great antiquity some177 words
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Article409 1897-05-19 3 (Reuter's, Dalziel's, Central News Telegrams.) NEW CATHOLIC BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK. The Right Rev. Francis Bourne, rector of St. John’s Seminary, near Guildford, has been appointed to succeed Bishop Butt in the Roman Catholic see of Southwark. The new bishop was consecrated last year as bishop coadjutor with(Reuter's, Dalziel's, & Central News Telegrams.) - 409 words
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77 1897-05-19 3 The French Consul-General, it is reported at Shanghai, has just brought to a happy conclusion two thorny affairs, which had been hanging over, the one for fifteen and the other for five years. They were two claims of the Roman Catholic mission of Kiangnan.77 words
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Article109 1897-05-19 3 Now that Captain Mahan’s Life of Nelson has once more directed general attention to Lady Hamilton, says Truth, the following extract from Our Medicine Men,” by Mr. H. Strickland Constable, may interest many: “Dr. Graham, about 1780, got a great name. He fitted up with every109 words
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Article152 1897-05-19 3 Brother Jonathan views with a growing disfavour the export of rich heiresses to Europe. It has long been thought, says the Englishman, that the State would have to interfere, and now the aid of the protectionists is to be invoked. President McKinley is said to be contemplating the152 words
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Article73 1897-05-19 3 Wednesday, 19th Town Band. Esplanade. 5 P.m. High-water at New Jetty, 1-21 p.m. and 1- A M. Thursday. 20th Town Band, Datu Kramat Gardens, 5 p.m. High-water at New Jetty, 2-10 p.m. and 2- a.m. Friday. 21st Higfc -water at New Jetty, 2-59 p.m. and73 words
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153 1897-05-19 3 Though the prospects of a Parisian So-cial-Puiity crusade, on American lines, would not appear to be too promising, it will be interesting, says the World, to watch the result—if any—of the action of M. Berenger, the senator who demanded of the French Government, last week,153 words
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Article168 1897-05-19 3 For the last few years of the late Professor Sylvester’s residence at Oxford, says the Saturday Review, he lived the life of a recluse in his rooms at New College, and his eccentricities and feebleness were the occasion of considerable anxiety to his friends and of annoyance to168 words
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Article178 1897-05-19 3 What have the Turks done Their government has been carried on in the spirit of destruction and nothing else despotism over their slaves, massacre of any who resisted, without distinction of age or sex. “They have founded nothing, improved nothing, built nothing, have produced no literature, advanced178 words
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Article249 1897-05-19 3 The distinction which the capital of Cevlon enjoys as the Clapham Junction of the East,” says the Times of Ceylon, is a privilege for which the residents have to pay. For some time past the cost of bungalow life in Colombo has been rising,249 words
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Article257 1897-05-19 3 Again a story of the sea reaches us, says the Saturday Review, thanks to the enterprise of the Daily Mail, which thrills the blood like the account of the going-down of the Warrew Hastings. But as that was a story of British discipline this is a story of British257 words
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Article738 1897-05-19 3 In the little village of Tissington, just where Dovedale begins, there is held once a year—on Maundy Thursday, too, of all days —a ceremony that smacks most delightfully of heathendom, says the Pall Mall Gazette. Well-dressing is the name it is known by, and it738 words
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Article208 1897-05-19 3 Arrivals. To-day. s. s. Vidar from Deli. s. s. Canton from Teluk Anson. 1 KBTKRDAY. s. s. R. Halewyn from Asahan. s. s. Flying Dragon from Port Weld. Depar I iircs. To-day. s. 8. Fook Ching for Pangkalan Brandon. s. s. Cornelia forjTongkah, Kopah, Renong, Mergui and Tavoy. s.208 words
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Advertisement121 1897-05-19 3 TO LET. ORANGE GROVE, No. 54 Northam Road. Entry from Ist May, 1897, or earlier. Apply to 168 MAHOMED ARIFF. FOR SALE. Coloured Cement Flooring Tiles. rpHE prettiest, best, and cheapest flooring for Halls, Dining Rooms, Bathrooms, Stables, &c. Cement Drain Pipes, Stronger and cheaper than Burned Pipes 115 HUTTENBACH121 words
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Advertisement481 1897-05-19 3 FERGUSON’S SUCCESS is entirely due to giving the very best WHISKIES. TRY THEIR H S 1 11 fl -B S mb 1 St S AXD ALSO Isiiß UMi g -B MSjj s Scotch whisk/1 w |nUU*RI AND COJTVINQE TOUHSELF. SOLE AGENTS: PRITCHARD'& Co., mvo TO LET. HOUSE N<>. 1 Contonmentßoad,481 words
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Advertisement191 1897-05-19 3 TO LET. FINE Comfort aide House, No. 207 Burma!) Road. Rent 535 per month. Apply to Elias A. MANASSEH, 196 No. 17 Market Street. FOR SALE. AN American Gig, with English leather hood in good condition, suitable for a Pony. Price SI6O. Apply to W. PENGELLY, 214 11 Clove Hall191 words
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Advertisement1881 1897-05-19 4 L». BUCHANAN WHISKY (Houses of To be had at Messrs. KHEE SAW SONS, Penang Rd. 1 1 TT /> TT D 1 11 i 1 T i Messrs. THEAN CHEE Co. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. THEAN SIBW A Co.1,881 words
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Advertisement296 1897-05-19 4 GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY? SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED. 556 THE DISPENSARY? 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3n m Sunday hours 11 a.m. to I'p.m. P Prescriptions accurately dispensed. SPECTACLES to suit every variety of296 words
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