Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 8 July 1897

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED daily. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. \PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. THURSDAY, Bth JULY, 1897. No. 152.
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      561 1 QMtas* Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. BrpHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Jul y 17 Ravenna July 22 80/ufe Mlczapore Aug 5 Aug. 13 Thames 19 Raeenna 27 Rohilla Sept. 2 u ~-l lMr e Sept.
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      723 1 MEDKRLAn HANDEL BAATSCSAFKIJ (Netherland TrAing Society-) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000.00 Reserve Funds f 2,282,814.38 j 9a ad Office in Amsbbp.dam. Hiad Agency in Netherlands India. The Factorij ’of the Nederlandsch* Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and BranMtcs. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia. Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap.
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    EXCHANGE.
    125 2 Penang, Bth July, 1897. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 1/1G Do. 4 months’sight Bank 1/11|.|5. Do. 3 Credits Do. 3 Documentary 2/0| Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 159 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 16 < Bombay. Demand Bank 159 Do. 3 days’sight Private 16 t Madras. Demand Bank
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    143 2 Penang. Bth July. H 97. Tin 836 67 A Tnmg out of season. Black Pepper West Coast... 13 63 sellers. < Acheen 6i>- 15.25 vlo. White Pepper 21 -’0 do. Cloves (picked).. out of season. Mace No. 1 88.— sellers. M:ice Pickings.. 77 do. Nutmegs 77 do.
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    31 2 Mails close To-morrow For I er str Time. Klang A Malacca Teutonia NOON. Pangkor A T. Anson. Beley 2 PM. T. Anson a Port Dirkson Lidg Weld... 4 pm.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    36 2 From Hamburg —s. s. Irene on S<<urdav. From Singapore m. s. Chelydra ou Saturday. From hoNDox-s.*. Benlomond on Sunday. From Calcutta- —a. s Okara ou Monday From Suez s s. Ceylon <>n Monday.
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    4 2 (None Received.)
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    THE INDIAN IMMIGRATION BILL.
    1095 2 Elsewhere we publish a letter from Mr. J. Turner, Attorney for the Penang Sugar Estates Company, covering an extract from the Madras Mail, which gives a summary of the report of the South of India Planters’ Inquiry Committee. That Committee was appointed by U.E. the Viceroy
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    EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS IN PERAK.
    195 2 Under the above heading a correspondent sends us soiue*iuformatiou in connection with a case recently tried before the Acting Senior Magistrate at Teluk Anson. It would appear from this account that Ong Eng Hong and Koe Nee, if those be the correct ways of spelling the
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    488 2 The Sultan of Perak is, we regret to sav, at present suffering from ophthalmia. Seven Chinamen were each fined $lO by Mr. Bryant yesterday, for criminal trespass at a brothel in Campbell Street. The Judicial Commissioner of the Federated Malay States and Mrs. Jackson are now staying
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    THE YOUNG MEN’S ASSOCIATION.
    33 2 The Debate on Which make, nni happier, wealth or education will bebdi at the rooms of the Young Men’s Ami*, tion, on Thursday next, the 15th instant,\ 8 p.m.
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    THE STATUE AT SINGAPORE.
    68 2 Mr. E. E. Geflowski, a sculptor who fa executed many important works, has jus completed a statuette, a reduction of h large statue of the Queen at Singapore This statuette which lias been submittedtc aud approved by, the Queen, is to be repnduved in plaster and
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    THE JUBILEE PAMPHLET.
    58 2 There was a Idler lying in the Perak Post Office the other day w hich had found it» way thither under the following address Perak, Penang, Straits Settlement!, South China. After this, we think the readers of the Pinang Gazette Diamond Jubilee pamphlet will scarcely regard the
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    DARING ROBBERY AT JUGRA.
    93 2 A most daring robbery took place late last week from the District Officer’s bungalaw at Jugra, says the Ma ay Mail. It appears that Mr. W. Grieg arrived in tbe af ernoon with a box containing SI,2W. Whilst he and Mr. Skeat were having dinner somebody
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    SAFETY FOR THE KINTA AND LOWER PERAK MAILS.
    143 2 Now that the Railway is opened to Sungei Siput, says the Perak Pioneer, the mails for Kinta and Lower Perak are despatched by gharris to that station only, and thus the possibility of a raid upon them is a thing d the
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    105 2 Thursday, Bth: Tennis Tournament, Golf Club. High-water at New Jetty, 6-40 P* and 7-07 a m. Friday, 9th Golf Club, Monthly Medal Cup. Tennis Tournament, Golf Club. High-water at New Jetty, 7-22 and 7-56 a.m. Saturday, 10th Golf Club, Monthly Medal Cup. Tenuis Tournament, Golf
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    PASSENGERS.
    26 2 Arrivals. Yesterday. Per s. s. Teutonia from Malacca Me Fisher and Greenberg. q-u Per s. s. Thaiping from Port nei Judicial Commissioner and Mrs. JacKs
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      512 2 Pritchard Co. l,:t tpHE TOWER,” Anson Road. I Apply to H. J. MARTYN, Jr. T(f LET. Are now. showing TTOUSE No. 7 Logan Road. 11 L. SURAWONGSEE, Logan Road., WANTED, a very large stock of "IYUPILS to teach Music. Terms moderate. I -Apply t° “Miss C. W.,” 322 Post Office,
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      73 2 Gosling Co., Beach <(• Union Streets. JUST~ARRIVED. ENGLISH SALTED Beef 4 Pork. Ox Tongues. Hams. Bacon. Cheese. Egyptian Cigarettes. Cigars. Tobaccos. Ceylon Teas. American Bicycles KOR LADIES and GENTLEMEN. Saddles. Harness. Sporting Goods. IRON SAFES X’ DEED BOXES. HAND BAGS. Large Assortment of (ilassxvare. St. RAPHAEL and NOSS’ VIN (suitable
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
    20 3 (From our Correspondent.) TELUK ANSON. Bth July. The shipments to day are— To Penang, 471 pikuls of tin.
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    HIE INDIAN IMMIGRATION BILL.
    315 3 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.") The Penang Sugar Estate# Co., Ltd. Penang, 7th July 1897. g IB Ju the Madras Mail of 26th June there is a leading article dealing with the ort of a Labour Committee appointed by the Government of India, the
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    THE FIRE ALARM NUISANCE AT SINGAPORE.
    197 3 At the recent meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners the Deputy-Presi-dent stated that he had received a letter from Government on their proposal to reintroduce the system of firing guns on the outbreak of fire. The Government stated that they had been in communication
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    MAIL ITEMS.
    315 3 Mr. Alvan Clark, the famous American manufacturer of telescope lenses, has died of apoplexy. The Drapers’ Company have offered to spend £15,000 in building a new Radcliffe Library at Oxford. The Voe-ische Zeitung learns from Vienna that Dr. Wilkens, Professor of Animal Physiology, has committed suicide by shooting
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    THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS.
    52 3 The World declares that the Oil Trust has committed every known crime to crush opposition, from blowing up rival oil refineries to bribing senators, congressmen, judges, and juries. Its early history reeks with murder, arson, forgery, and perjury, for which President Rockefeller feebly atones by
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    RACING IN ENGLAND.
    61 3 The Royal Hunt Cup at Ascot was won this year by Mr. McCalmont’s Knight of the Thistle (Allsopp), with Victor Wild (M. Cannon) and Green Lawn (Bradford), second and third. The great weight-for-age race at the same meeting, the Hardwicke Stakes,” was won by Mr. L. Brassey’s
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    RAS MOME.
    132 3 The eastern end of Socotra is thus described in the late Mr. Theodore Bent’s article to the Nineteenth Century Before leaving this corner of the island we journeyed to the edge of the plateau and looked down the steep cliffs at the Eastern Cape, where Ras Mome pierces
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    GOLF AND THE LATE HOME SECRETARY.
    177 3 The “Diarist” in the Speaker tells an amusing story about Mr. Asquith’s apprenticeship to golf. With characteristic courage Mr. Asquith learned the game after He became Home Secretary, and at the very Mecca of golf, St. Andrews itself. Like every other learner, he was
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    THE HAWAIIAN DIFFICULTY.
    470 3 The American papers have for a long time noticed the increasing seriousness of the triangular difficulty between Japan, Hawaii, and the United States, and the English press is beginning to allude to it briefly. In view of Reuter’s telegrams the following extract from the London and China
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    MAIL NOTES.
    944 3 Cuban Train Wrecked by Dynamite. According to a report which has reached New York from Habana, the insurgents have blown up by dynamite a passenger train at a place twelve miles distant from that city. Over a hundred persons, mostly soldiers, are stated to have been killed or
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    PENANG GOLF CLUB.
    114 3 Lawn Tennis Tournament. The following ties have been fixed: Friday, 9th July. Men's Doubles. J. F. Lamb and A. S. Anthony F. O. Hallifax J v and A. Diirler. Saturday, 10th July. Ladies' Doubles. Final Tie. Mrs. Hallifax Miss Jones and Mrs. Kerr J Miss Hogan. Mixed
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    SIR WILLIAM’S SECOND BLUNDER ON THE GOLD COAST.
    264 3 The Topicist thus discourses upon the recent news from Cape Coast Castle.- When the Israelii ies of old went forth unto war it was after the manner of a kind of processional tactics that they assailed the strongholds of their gods. They
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    SHIPPING.
    242 3 Arrivals. To-day. V. Goens from Padang. Cromarty from Liverpool. Lady Weld from Teluk Anson. s. s. Betsy from Teluk Anson. Yesterday. s. s. Teutonia from Malacca. s. s. Thaipeng from Port Departures. To-day. s. s. Langkat for Deli. s. s. Canton for Teluk Anson. s. s. V. Goens for
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    180 3 (tflraiL-i Times, 26th Jlne.) Raabs ()3')o pd.)... >3O buyers. .£1 fully paid $3l Puujoins ($4 pd.) $7. Jelel.us (55 p<l.) $2.40. Paliamj Corp. I pd.) »5. sales. Pataling Col Tee Co. ($7O pd.) $7B sellers. Pen<ieram{s ($5O pd.) ?40 sellers. Straits Insurance (S2C pd.) $l9. Hongkong Bank
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      319 3 The Aachen Munich Fire Insurance Co. OF AIX LA CHAPELLE. Capital £450,000. Total Assets £1,266,481. rpHE undersigned having been appointed I Agents of the above Company are prepared to accept Fire Risks at current rates. KATZ BROTHERS, Ltd. Penang, Ist June, 1897. 216 FOR SALE. SUPERFINE Commercial Note Paper Ruled,
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      546 3 Internationa] IS PREPARED TO SUPPLY TIFFIN’S or at short notice. TERMS MODERATE. PORT, SHERRY, MADEIRA, MARSALA, TOK AY AR, GRAVES, A MALAGA. These are the finest wines in the market and defy competition as regards prices. SEND FOR A PRICE LIST. BODEGA BEER STOUT. Try these: you will be pleased.
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      40 3 DENTAL NOTICE. A R. J. F. TEUFERT, Dental Surgeon, 1U has left for Kuala Lumpur anti will re-visit Penang about four weeks hence. THE A. P. K. Aerated Waters ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY. KaT Outstation orders promptly attended to.
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      1683 4 i,„BUCHAKAN WHISKY IS THE BEST. To be had at MXBKKB. THEAN CHEE Co Same as supplied to the Houses of* Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GUAT CHENG BROS. THEAN SIEW Co. hin N lee co FRIENDS SOLE IMPORTERS— BROTHEB,Sj LIM'TED Insurance (notices. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm RE7^ID! New
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      304 4 GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY. SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED. THE DISPENSARY, 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY fom9am. to 5 p.m.; Saturdav to 3p m Sunday hours 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 1 Prescriptions accurately dispensed SPECTACLES to suit every variety of defective sight
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