Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 27 May 1897
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Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle
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Title Section22 1897-05-27 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. THURSDAY, 27th MAY. 1897. No. 120.22 words
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Advertisement543 1897-05-27 1 peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. BfllHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. June 5 I Coromandel May‘27 19 Rohilla June 10 V/ !>».<’»• J ll Y Kaisar-i-hind 24 17 Ro etta Ju] y 8 fawi-hind 31 Ravenna543 words
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Advertisement1548 1897-05-27 1 Sfitemna BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. (jwwee. KONINKLUKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai BankHCEAN steam SHI P company. NE6APATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. H nKk n J CorporXn U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamer». SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. Reserve Fund 6,5Q0,000. AND For Will sail Steamer1,548 words
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Advertisement613 1897-05-27 1 «EDBRLARDSGAE HANDEL IIATSCfIAPW (Netherland Trading Society») Established 1H24. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000.0® Reserve Funds /2,282,814.38$ Hiad Ornes in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandach* Handel Maatscbappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London Bankers.—The Union613 words
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Article125 1897-05-27 2 Pknang, 27th May, 1897. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank Lili Do. 4 months’sight Bant-... 1/11|_j< Do. Credits 2 Do. o Documentary 2,0| Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. 165 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 1 6$ j Bombay, Demand Bank 165 i Do. 3 days’sight Private... 166$ f g125 words
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Article136 1897-05-27 2 Penang. 27th M\Y, 1*97. Tin $35 95 sellers. (Trang out of season. West Coast... 1363 sellers. Acheen 6H> 15.25 do. White Pepper 21 sellers. Cloves (picked).. 36. sellers. Mace No. 1 80— do. Mace Pickings 75 do. Ntipnegs 78— do. No. 1 6.90 do. Sugar 2 3.85136 words
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Article70 1897-05-27 2 Mails close To-morrow /•'<>» Per sir. I'im., Langkat... Perse ..11 A.M. Asa han R. Halewyn 1 p.m. Iningkat Jin Ho 1 P M. Deli Ko Kwei 2 P.M. Pangkor and T. Anson 1 etey 2 P.M. Klang and Malacca Teu'onia 3 P.M. Teluk Anson and Port Dickson Lady70 words
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Article33 1897-05-27 2 From Calcutta —a. s. Smi Sang to-day. From Singapore— 6. s. C. Hock Kian tomorrow. From Bombay s s. A/. Bacquehem on Sunday. From Sure —s. a. Canton on Monday.33 words
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Article56 1897-05-27 2 LONDON, 2*:th Mat. Note from the Powers. The Powers have at length presented their Note, regarding the terms of pe ice, to the Porte. Agreement as to the Governor of Crete. It is stated that the Powers, including Turkey, have agreed to the appointment of Prince Francis Joseph56 words
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Article841 1897-05-27 2 THE PROPOSED GOVERNOR OF CRETE. All the Powers, Turkey being actually included in the number, have agreed as to the person who should best occupy I he new European post of Governor of Crete. According to the telegram, received from Reuter this morning, Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg841 words
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Article652 1897-05-27 2 Cases of bubonic plague are reported as having recently occurred in the neighbourhood of Amoy. The Queen’s Birthday parade in Singapore has been postponed to the time of the Jubilee Celebration. The Diamond Jubilek fireworks for Penang arrived from London by the s. s. Glengarry yesterday. Hashim,652 words
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Article41 1897-05-27 2 Arrivals. To-day. Per s. Lady Weld from Teluk Anson Messrs. Woodgate and Chappel. Yesterday. Per s. s. Teutonia from Klang Mr. E. A. B. Brown. Per s. s. Glengarry from London: Mr. and Mrs. Pinkney, Miss Cassentine, and Mr. Kellick,41 words
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Article21 1897-05-27 2 (FbOM our CoBBBs POND)tN TSI.VK AKSOIt. 27th May. lhe shipments to-day are— To Penang, 467 pikuls o f ti21 words
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Article62 1897-05-27 2 Wb bear .hat judgmeat in t case, s. s. Kwang Tung 8 8 a PW which was reserved on the 18th' v has now hen given. It j 8 stated owner of s.s. Kwang Tung (Mesl 7 and Hogan) has Won the what extent cannot at62 words
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Article83 1897-05-27 2 The case against the six Argyll p Malays, charge.! with murder ly causing grievous hurt, was <•<>„ i > half-past-five yesterday afternoon TI acquitted all the accused ou the capita but convicted the first five of cide n.it amounting to muidel P JS No. 6. who was acquitted83 words
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197 1897-05-27 2 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette."} Dear Sin,—l notice that, i n yoilr of J uesday s date on “Loyalty and Dii loyalty in Penang,” you comment onl very meagre attendance at the Lines to ness the parade All I can say is th;tt197 words
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Article56 1897-05-27 2 In the Chainlrer of Deputies, the Marquis di Rudini said that the Government propose! to reduce the military occupation of Ervthrei t<> Massowah alone. They surrendered no territory, but retroceded Kassala to Egypt as soon as possible, in agreement with Great Britain. Meanwhile the Government demands a56 words
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Article150 1897-05-27 2 British port has not as yet a high reputation in the wine markets of the world, write! a correspondent to a London contemporary, but our Consul at Naples states in his report that all that is wanting to transform immature beer into “the richest port the introduction of150 words
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Article141 1897-05-27 2 The Plague continues steadily to declio* in Bombay and other places where the epi’ demic has been raging; but in the fresh places where the plague has broken out the disease is very virulent. At Cutch Mandrie it is very serious, and the deaths average over one hundred141 words
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Article126 1897-05-27 2 In North Kiangsu some boats were c° veying a quantity of bean-cakes one of the districts which are suffering lro famine. The country people* tt,taike 8 sacked the boats, whereupon coniplaint brought, to the district capital. t|l) went out with a great flourish of and as so126 words
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Page 2 Advertisements
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Advertisement685 1897-05-27 2 i i infl New advertisements. Pritchard Co. A NURSE for a little girl of two years. Apply to Mbs. AVETOOM. 245 Donnybrook,” Penang. PENANG TURF CLUB. PENANG, rpHE Course will be open for training for I the August Meeting on and from Tuesday, the Ist June. W. N. DOW, Clerk685 words
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Advertisement105 1897-05-27 2 Gosling Co., Beach <t Union Streets. JUSTjtRRIVED. Cheddar Cheese, Streaky Bacon, AND Hams. Ex. 8. s. ADEN.” ENQLISH HARNESS for Cob Horse. SILVER or BRASS MOUNTS. TENNIS POLES (Ayres). GOLFERS’ REQUISITES. CRICK ET SETS, BATS, STUMPS, BALLS, LEG GUARDS, &c. MARTINI REPEATING RIFLES, Winchester Model, $35. MAUSER MAGAZINE GUNS, $25,105 words
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Advertisement8 1897-05-27 2 |*'?INANG GAZETTES EBTABLISHKD 1888. Thuksday, 27th May, 1897.8 words
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896 1897-05-27 3 Meetings. quinary meetings of the Council were p ]j on the 9tb and 23rd of the month. j iiert were no special meetings. Revenue and Expenditure. The revenue collected during the month f nn all sources amounted to 814,458.62, a u<l the expenditure to896 words
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Article659 1897-05-27 3 The Queen Regent of Spain is suffering from nervous prostration. L. P. Collins (Marlborough) has won the Public Schools Racquets Championship (Singles.) The Vicar of Rosliston, Burton-on-Trent, has been suspended for 18 months on account of his violent behaviour in his churchyard, in reference to the placing of659 words
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Article87 1897-05-27 3 Ir may not be generally known, says the Westminster Gazette of the 29th April, that manv Government officials in India have forgone their accustomed furloughs this rear in order to act as the medium between the donations of the charitable and the famine-stricken natives. A87 words
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Article123 1897-05-27 3 Lieutenant Peary proposes to reach the North Pole by the west coast of Greenland, and at the extreme north procure a band of natives (five or six young married couples) with whom to found a new settlement on some of the islands of the archipelago within 360123 words
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Article93 1897-05-27 3 The appointment of Lord Denbigh as a Lord-in-Waiting has been productive of numerous allusions in the press to the descent of his family from the House of Habsburg, in virtue of which it claims to possess a countship of the Roman Empire. This descent, immortalized93 words
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Article179 1897-05-27 3 There has arisen in America a physician who, holding that the proper study of mankind is the new woman,” is devoting his whole time to investigating her. His discoveries up to date certainly present a picture lurid enough to warn all whom it may179 words
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Article185 1897-05-27 3 An English volunteer, who was one of the Foreign Legion encamped at Mati on Friday night, and who has reached Athens, having been injured in the stampede from Turnavo, in a communication to the Times' correspondent at Athens, says:— “Just before nightfall (on Friday) four of185 words
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Article619 1897-05-27 3 We hear much about literary sweating” nowadays, says a London contemporary, and undoubtedly the sweater exists in literature as in everything else; but when the ordinary compiler of a six-hundred-word column is paid, as he frequently is by the weeklies with enormous circulations, at the rate of619 words
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Article77 1897-05-27 3 Mr. Henniker-Heaton, M.P., whose t zeal in the cause of postal reform has by no means abated, recently put forward in a letter to the Times many cogent arguments in favour of Imperial penny postage. The inauguration of such a system, he said, would certainly be a77 words
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Article211 1897-05-27 3 Mr. J. Barret, the United States Minister to Siam, writing in the North American Revieiv on The Cuba of the Far East,” gives a very long hearsay description of the present state.of the Philippine Islands, which, be says, is one of the lost possessions of the British Crown211 words
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Article272 1897-05-27 3 The first conception of the Invalides was due to St. Louis of France, and the first pensioners of his order were knights who had lost one eye or one leg in the Crusades. So, at least, legend says. At present, says the Pall Mall Gazette, there is no272 words
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Article83 1897-05-27 3 Thursday. 27th Town Band, Datu Kramat Gardens, 5 P.M. High-water at New Jetty, 7-53 p.m. and 8- a.m. Friday. 28th High-w iter at New Jetty. 8-42 p.m. and 9- aM. Saturday, 29th Town Band, Golf Club. 5 P M Hiirh-water at New Jetty, 9-31 P.M.83 words
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Article179 1897-05-27 3 Arrivals. To-day. s. s l ajy Weld from Teluk Anson. s. s. lletsy from Teluk Anson. s. s. Meyna from Moulmein. P. A <). s. s. Aden from Singapore. s s. Fitzpatrick frdm Rangoon. s s. Jason from Singapore. s. s. Maha Vajirunhis from Padang. Y EBTERDAY. s. s.179 words
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Article191 1897-05-27 3 (Nlrail» I'iuieK, 25th Mat.) iv;tnl>- (13 lo ]»<!.)... >24.50 Inii/ers. -l‘l fully paid $25.50 L*un joins ($4 pd.) >7. J.-lei.us (»•> pd.) .$2.45. Palmin' < 'mp. pd.) 13.75 sales. Puialing Coffee Co. ($7O pd.) $7B sales. Benge rain's (?5O pd.) 140 sellers. Straits Insurance (S2L pd.) $l9.(Nlrail» I'iuieK, 25th Mat.) - 191 words
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Advertisement150 1897-05-27 3 VINOLIA. The rumour is again circulated, and we Iwjl.ieve this time with a solid foundation, that the conversion of the Viuolia Soap business into a Limited Company is contemplated, and that the prospectus will shortly be issued The profits are said to have largely increased during the last three or150 words
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Advertisement528 1897-05-27 3 Straits Steamship Co., Ltd. rpHE s. 8. “Nkera” will h ave here regu B larly every Sunday for Klang and Singapore. For fieight and passage apply to II J. MARI’YN J■: 206 Aijenl, Straits >i u < <i. Perak Government cc. WANTED i > 'lie Trigonometrical and General .Survey Office,528 words
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Advertisement15 1897-05-27 3 THE A. P. K. Aerated Waters ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY, orders promptly attended to.15 words
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Advertisement1579 1897-05-27 4 i-M BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST. To be had at Mxssks. THEAN CHEE k Co Pe lfEd Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London dubs GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 J sole importers— SLATZ BROTHERS, I iMITm HIN LEE Co. Z Jneuranct Qtofttttr. X1,579 words
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Advertisement295 1897-05-27 4 GEORGE SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED ANJ GLASSES SUPPLIED THE DISPENSARY 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3n k Sunday hours 11 a.m. to 1* p.m. P< Prescriptions accurately dispensed SPECTACLES to suit every variety of defective TOILET295 words
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