Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 21 May 1897
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Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle
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Title Section22 1897-05-21 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. FRIDAY, 21st MAY, 1897. No. 116.22 words
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Advertisement523 1897-05-21 1 Qwffceo. jpniiisular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. rnHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang 3 homewards, on the following Vdates Outwards. Homewards. May 21 Coromandel May 27 June 5 Rohilla June 10 K... 19 j Kaisar-i-hind 24 >a,e Rosetta July 8 j Ravenna 22 Mirza pore523 words
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Advertisement1319 1897-05-21 1 SKturnntf Moftcea BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY-(LTD.). banks. tiwwro. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. V p--v 1 u-a-li. MFPAPATAM I IMF nr 3TFHMFRQ Hongkong cc Shanghai BankOCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY. NLUArA lAWI LINE. UT OI CAMLnO. ing Corporation. EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. QtTTp fOMPIKY Ltd1,319 words
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Advertisement713 1897-05-21 1 18D8RLAHDStflE BAHPKL «AATSCBaPPJ (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital /35,783,600.00 Reserve Funds 2,282,814.38 J Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Ncderlandsch* Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London Bankers. —The713 words
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Article128 1897-05-21 2 I’ knanu, 21st May, 1897. RaTKH CLOSE AS FOLLOWS: Loudon, Demand Bank 1 114 Do. 4 months’sight Baid... 1/llf Do. o Credits Do. 3 Documentary 2,0 Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. 164.J\ Do. 3 days’sight Private... 16 I Bombay. Demand Bank 164$ 1 Do. 3 days’sight Private... 166 y 2128 words
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Article135 1897-05-21 2 Penang. 21st M y, H 97. Tin $35 95 (Chinese) Trang out of season. Black Pepper West (’oast... 131>3 tellers. Acbeen Hit» 15.50 do. White Pepper 21 Cloves (picked).. 36. sellers. Mace No. 1 80 do. Mace Pickings... 75 do. Nutmegs 80— do. (.No 1 6.90 do.135 words
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Article49 1897-05-21 2 Mails close To-morrow Etrr Per str Time. Klang Mary Austin... 1 P.M. Pangkor and T Anson Taw Toni 2 p.m. Deli h'u<i ■> p.m. Tongkah... Petrel 5 P.M. The P. A O. ni >il steamer Minapore left Colombo for Penang at t a. m on the 17th instant.49 words
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Article22 1897-05-21 2 From Singapore—s. r. (leneraal Pel, s. s. Hong I eong, and s s. (Heeia to-morrow, and Chelgdra on Monday22 words
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Article107 1897-05-21 2 LONDON. 20th Mat. Announcement by the Porte. The Porte announces that it is willing to negotiate regarding its demands in respect of Thessaly and the indemnity from Greece, but that it absolutely insists on the abolition of the capitulations. The Battle at Domoko. The Greeks defended Domoko splendidly107 words
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Article329 1897-05-21 2 Under the heading Bicycle v. ’Rikisha a correspondence has commenced in the Straits Times. When it will cease or whither it will tend, if all Im* inserted in the columns of our contemporary that can be written on the subject under discussion, we shall not pretend to329 words
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Article205 1897-05-21 2 Mr. Claude Ley Kum, a British subject and a resident in Hongkong, is an enthusiastic member of the local branch of the Navy League, and is certainly ingenious. He has had a large picture painted in oils, of the China Squadron as it should be,205 words
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Article241 1897-05-21 2 A correspondent, who signs himself Prospectus,” wishes to know whether the rubs of polite society requite a manto take off his hat to religious persons’, with whom he is not personally acquainted. In answer to this we can but give the reply to a somewhat, similar inquiry, which241 words
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Article697 1897-05-21 2 The s. Perse brought 528 bales of tobacco from Langkat this morning. Mb. Kirkwood, who has been on a visit to the Straits from Japan, has left Selangor for Pahang. He intends to look up Rauh. Thk Dutch gunboat Albatros arrived here from Olehleh this inorninsj. She697 words
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Article116 1897-05-21 2 The case against Mari, charged whk murder of his wife at Bukit T iltnb concluded yesterday afternoon who., i found guilty of the capital Justice Law assumed the black passed the usual sentence of death a!li The next case called was that of and eight other Klings, charged116 words
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Article120 1897-05-21 2 A very interesting debase on “Which' the happier, a Savage or a Civilized life“ was held at the rooms of the above ation last night. Thirty members 1present. Mr. Ng Liu Heng opened th debate, taking the view that a savage* happier than a civilized life. Mr.120 words
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Article470 1897-05-21 2 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.”) Sir, —From a dispassionate review of the proceedings of the Straits Legislative Coin, cil meeting, as reproduced in your issues of thw 4th and sth May, the following point suggest the mselves as worthy of note ii connection with470 words
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Article73 1897-05-21 2 Arrivals. T DAT MigsC Per B. I. 8. s. Sirsa from Singapore: ■»> Benarth, Mr. Benarth, Mr. J. O eniana jj r PeF s s. Calypso from Smgapoi Morton. r TruerPer b. a. Ho Kwei from Deli: Mess man. A. P. Van Wely. B. Fisher. J. R. E. Skeels,73 words
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Advertisement611 1897-05-21 2 i 1 O fl New advertisements. Pritchard Co. queen s birthday. 'I’HE undermentioned Banks will lie closed I on Monday, the 24th May, 1897, the same being a Public Holiday. For the Chartered Bank of India, Aus- tralia, and China. I ARIFS J. WILLIAMSON JONES, Lnui u. Ag Manager For611 words
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Advertisement104 1897-05-21 2 Gosling Co., licach <(: Union Streets. JUST ARRIVED. Cheddar Cheese, Streaky Bacon, AND Hams. Ex. a. 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, §‘2»s, with 50104 words
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Article863 1897-05-21 3 Raub Its Origin. (Straits Times.) Thr. story of lhe origin and rise of the mines of Raub is a most remarkable one, and it will be convenient, perhaps, to tell that story, briefly, before proceeding to deal with the mines as we know them to-day. Jt is a(Straits Times.) - 863 words
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Article100 1897-05-21 3 Friday. 21st Abadie's Menagerie at 7-30 p m. Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners. Town Hall, 3 P.M. High-water at New Jetty, 2-59 P.M. and 3- a.m. Saturday, 22nd Abadie's Menagerie at 7-30 P.M. Sale of Furniture, &c., at Langdale, Sepoy Lines, 11.30 A. M.100 words
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Article159 1897-05-21 3 (Deli Cour ant.) A steamer of the Paketvaart Co. has imported for the Government contractor 100 slaughter bullocks from Java. The Manager of the Deli Railway Co. has received a telegram announcing that at a meeting held on the 12tb May all the following concessionary proposals(Deli Cour ant.) - 159 words
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541 1897-05-21 3 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.”) Sir, —I have an important communication to make to you, and I trust you will be pleased to give it publicity, as I have come to the conclusion that this is the best way for me to ventilate541 words
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Article281 1897-05-21 3 The Board of Trade have at last made the much-needed change which we, says Steamship, have frequently urged in the interests of marine engineers, and a new Chief Examiner of Engineers has been appointed in the person of Mr. J. A. Rowe, a selection which281 words
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Article585 1897-05-21 3 A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held on the 10th May at which H. E. the Governor announced that it was not his intention to appoint a commission to inquire into the working of the Opium Farm and the possibility of substituting bonded585 words
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Article235 1897-05-21 3 A very important settlement has just been made in regard to the passage of goods under transit pass up the West River. Mr. W. F. Wenyon, who for years has been > engaged as a tnfjy into the interior, as an experiment to teL jhe efficacy of235 words
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Article179 1897-05-21 3 Lady Foley, W lO died last week, savs the World of the A pr i 1, was the eldest daughter of the thirteenth Duke of Norfolk, who married on eo f the daughters of the first Duke of Sutb er i an( S j ie was one of179 words
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192 1897-05-21 3 It came somewhat as a surprise to us, says the Swatow correspondent to the Hongkong Telegraph, to have this port declared infected with plague by your Government, and all emigration to Hongkong suspended. The Straits Government soon followed suit and declared quarantine on arrivals from192 words
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125 1897-05-21 3 The Resolutions of the recent Venice Plague Conference have reached the Government of India, says the Englishman, but will not be published or come into force until after submission to the various Ambassadors for confirmation. It is understood that the general principle agreed upon is that125 words
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Article182 1897-05-21 3 Japan is fully aware, says the Saturday Review, that Russia aims at being supreme in the North Pacific, that Russia is steadily stretching out from Siberia into Chinese Manchuria and Corea, and that when the anticipated break up of China, comes Russia will seize as much182 words
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Article203 1897-05-21 3 A serious disturbance, almost amounting to a rioQsays the Hongkong Telegraph, took place on the 2nd instant, the third day of the Spring Race Meeting in Manila. It appears the owners of the horse Heraldo lodged a protest against the horse Aquiles for having improperly occupied203 words
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Article316 1897-05-21 3 A rrhals. To-day. B. I. s. s. Sirsa from Singapore. s. s. Calypso from Singapore. s. 8. Perse from Langkat. 8. 8. H<> Kwei from Deli. s. 8. Taw Tony from Teluk Anson. 8. 8. Jin. Ho from Langkat. Yestekday. s. s. Titan from Liverpool. s. s. Deike Rickmers316 words
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Advertisement161 1897-05-21 3 TO LET. HQUgENo. 1 Contonment Road, known •is A'" er R jah Estate. 228 Apply ,o C TEK SOON LET. TUNE House, No. 207 BurI mah Road. ATOTICE is hereby giv'l 1 that all persons IN desiring to register t ]eir dogs for the year commencing >st June, F'*G. ani161 words
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Advertisement671 1897-05-21 3 its® international IS PREPARED TO SUPPLY TIFFIN’S or A T short notice. TERMS MODERATE. PORT, SHERRY, MADEIRA, M ARSALA, TOKAYAR, GRAVES, MALAGA. These are the finest wines in I h<* market and defy competition as regards prices. SEND FOR A PRICE LIST. BODEGA BEER STOUT. Try these: you will be671 words
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Advertisement1715 1897-05-21 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY KJ *THI2 To be had at Messrs. THEAN CHEE Co pe M n g Rd g ame as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 J THEAN SIEW Co. mm» GOON YEN FRIENDS. SOLE IMPORTERS I IMITFn HIN1,715 words
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Advertisement314 1897-05-21 4 GEORGE TOWN_DISPENSAR). SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED. 55 6 THE 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9am. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3 D m Sunday hours 11 a.m. to I’p.m. F Prescriptions accurately dispensed SPECTACLES to suit every variety of defective314 words
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