Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 July 1897

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. published daily. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. g[PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. THURSDAY, 22nd JULY, 1897. No. 164.
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      548 1 shipping (notices. Miusiilar Oriental Steam Navigation Company. SrpHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leate Penang homewards, on the following dates Oatwards. Homewards. July 31 Ravenna July 22 R Au 13 Mirzapore Aug. 5 27 I T/iame« 19 3. lire Sept. 10 haisar-i-hind Sept. 2 23
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      673 1 «KDKKLAIIDSUS HANDKL BAATSCBAPFIJ (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000.00 Reserve Funds f 2,282,814.38| Hsad 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 Bankers.
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    EXCHANGE.
    127 2 Penang, 22nd July, 1897 Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 1/114 Do. 4 months’ sight Bank. l/lfJ-j. Do. 3 ('redits 1 Ilf Do. 3 Documentary l/U-ff Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 155 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 157 Bombay, Demand Bank 155 Do. 3 days'sight Private 157 Madras, Demand
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    141 2 Penang. 22nd July. 1h97. Tin 836 60 (Chinese) Traug out of season. Black Pepper West Coast... 14 16 sellers. Aclieeu on. 16.00 do. White Pepper... 22. do. Cloves (picked).. out of season. Mace No. 1 88.— sellers. Mace Pickings... 77 do. Nutmegs .75 do. (No 1 6.90
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    43 2 Mails close on Tomorrow. For I‘er str Time. Ceylon, Australasia, via Brindisi for Eurtope, Ac., li iwntia... 8-30 A.M I) li Langk d 1 P.M. I’angkor A T Anson.. Betsy 2 PM. Telul; Anson and Port Dickson Lady Weld ...4t P.M.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    41 2 From Calcutta —b. s. A A pear to-day. From Olehleh—l>. s. Maha Vajirunhis to-day. From Singapore s. s Ganymede today. From Singapore—s.s. Calypso on Saturday. From Singapore—s. s. Kut Sang on Monday. From Suez—a. s. Shanghai ou Tuesday,
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    102 2 LONDON, 21st July. A Russian Diplomatic Change. M. Zinovieff has been appointed Russian ambassador at Constantinople in place of M. Nelidoff, who has been transferred to Rome. Gold Discoveries Great excitement prevails in British Columbia, ofring to extremely rich gold discoveries in Klondyke District. The Currency Question. President
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    BIRTH.
    22 2 Law.—On the 19th inst., at the Aloes,” Penang, the wife of Archibald Fitz Gerald Law, I’ uisne Judge, of a son
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    THE LATE RIGHT HON. ANTHONY J. MUNDELLA.
    309 2 Anthony John Mundella, P. C., F. R. 8., was the son of the late Antonio Mundella* an Italian refugee, and Miss Rebecca Allsop of Leicester. He was born on 28th March, 1825; at anearly age became engaged in commercial pursuits and married a
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    349 2 The Selangor Residency carriage r iu q pair fetched at the auction on $240! t r The Selangor Planters cons.' j c .in jidei the time has arrived for the Goiernme at to legislate against the coco-nut beetle. Low Ghi and Goh Her’ TT r,. j Hal,
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    GOLF.
    26 2 The Approach match is postponed from Wednesday to Thursday, the 29th inst., as there is a Hockey match at the Esplanade on the former day.
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    THE FATALITY IN PROVINCE WELLESLEY.
    71 2 The name of the Officer who shot the Malay woman is Mr. Von Weel, Third Lieutenant on board H. N. M. S. Havik. He was charged on Monday with committing a rash act and remanded to Jbe 2nd of August. He was bailed out by
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    ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.
    64 2 A Chinese woman and a >iamese man were brought up before the First Magistrate yesterday, charged with assaulting and wrongfully confining two boys in a bouse off Carnarvon Street, from which the children had been rescued by the Assistant Protector of Chinese on the I4tb instant. Mr.
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    DEATH OF MR J. C. MATTHEW.
    110 2 We regret having to announce the death, at the General Hospital yesterday, of Mr. John C. Matthew, a very promising young assistant on Cakdouia Estate. Mr. Matthew was one of the eleven who plaved against Penang in the Coronation Day cricket match. On his
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    THE ASSIZES.
    184 2 The Chinaman, named Joo Huan, convicted of attempting to commit suicide in the lock-up of the Butterworth Police Station, whs sentenced yesterday morning to six weeks’ simple imprisonment. A Kling, named Armoogutn, charged with a similar offence at Bukit Tengah, was found guilt v and sentenced to fifteen
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    TRAVELLING DISPENSARIES IN PERAK.
    164 2 -work is cariied on at eighteen different joints. One of these was started in 1895 and the rest in 1896. A Medical Officer visits each place once or twice a week according to its importance. The list of these places is Kuala Kangsar— Padang Rengas, Bukit
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    PASSENGERS.
    36 2 Arrivals. To-day. Per s. s. Lady Weld Teluk Anson: Mr. Vane. Yesterday. Per s. s. Teutonia from Malacca: Messrs. A. Fox, and Smith. Per s. s. Thaipeng from Port Weld; Mrs. Hounslow and Miss Watcham,
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    THE COLONIAL OPIUM FARM.
    41 2 The price of chandu nor rk-• and »he D lnd i I)vs>f( t )eii should be, we a, e inf<, rnH(l the present contract, aud no I .y, 1897* and nW eW< Gazette 1897, and in advertisements.
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    THE LATE CAPTAIN STRES.
    95 2 An Extraordinary issue of Government Gazette, of the N tains the following order.— 1 IDst >'«n. The Resident-General laB i deep regret that Mr. H s sioner of Police, Fcderatcd^Mj’ Coni ®i while shooting in Ulu Pal Jai)l Blat l by a bison and died of
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    RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN THE NEGRI SEMBILAN.
    115 2 An accident happened to thetra inf Seramban to Port Dickson J 1 Yang di Per Tuan. Ml and P a host of native notables for sl,in„ .he-Clio” l„ P.r«k, to JteLdte there, says (be Malay Mail. Shortly M reaching Port Dickson one of f
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    'RIKISHAS AND ’RIKISHA DEPARTMENTS.
    216 2 (To the Editor of the Pinang GaadW] Sir,-—The allusion in your leader vf th 20th rtistaut to the ’rikisha departme-' Singapore calls for a few remarks hstot) working of that department Nt»; standing the greater expenditure by the Municipality of the sifter Settle the ’rikislias in
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    INDIAN NEWS.
    352 2 Strange Earthquake Ejects at Sylhet and in Calcut There have been more shocks Si quake at Sylhet, aud from vario mention is made of a rema?,, the horizon. At Calcutta r aud the setting sun throw natural colour. A Sailing Ship j BY A B L S’fSaMER The
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      850 2 i i ip a New advertisements. iHlCIiaTu 10. New Prye River Dock Co.. Ltd NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Half Yearly Meeting of the 13 s jDCCLUU 3irWb• Shareholders will be held at the office of the Company, 9 Weld Quay, at 3 p in., on Friday, the
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      81 2 Gosling Co., aril <(• Uni (Hi Streets. JUST ARRIVED. PURE SCOTCH CONFECTIONERY. ENGLISH WHOLE FRUIT JAMS. Splendid Variety. ENGLISH SALTED B(?(‘f Poi'k 35 cents per lb. 0x Tongues. Hams. Bacon. Cheddar Cheese. Egyptian Cigarettes. From $1.50 per 100. Cigars. Tobaccos. Ceylon Teas so cents per ib. Saddles. Harness. Sporting Goods.
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    MOSCOW TO VLADIVOSTOK.
    1428 3 By John Li£l Boss. (Singapore Free Pres«.) PENANG. IT S PRESENT and its future. Presently the shores and hills of Penang f u to view, the smooth unruffled sea, CrtU f .inilia r mangrove swamps and palm 6 s all shimmering in the beat of a blazing
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    RECORD REIGNS.
    319 3 The majority of exceptionally long reigns have coincided with periods of national prosperity and aggrandizement. Rude and unsettled times have been generally associated with short reigns. The three Danish kings of England reigned only twenty-seven years altogether. During the Saxon period (*****17) fifteen kings ruled, whose average was
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    EXCESSIVE LOYALTY EXCESSIVELY PUNISHED.
    283 3 The Scene at the Imperial [lnstitute. Wilfred Charles Rundle, 28, solicitor, of Scarsdale-villas. Kensington, surrendered tojbis bail, before Mr. Marsham, at the Westminster Police-court, on Saturday, to further answer the charge of violently assaulting Mr. Edward JamesJHeron Maxwell, of St. James’s-place, S.W., at the Imperial Institute,
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    MAIL NOTES.
    1000 3 An Ancient Golfing Duel. Fores’s Sporting Notes and Sketches” forjune contains an admirable article on An Ancient Golfing Duel,” by Rockwood.” The number is admirably illustrated. Winning Jockeys. Mornington Cannon has been to the fore again, and has now ridden 59 winners. C. Wood showed excellent-form at Ascot,
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    THE E. E. TELEGRAPH CO.
    24 3 It is understood that the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company intends to lay a cable connecting Perth with South Africa.
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    THE P. & O. S. N. CO.
    37 3 THE P. O. S. N. CO. The loss of the Aden is the second Jubilee catastrophe ”of the P. &O. Company. In 1887, the Company lost the s.s. Tasmania, which was wrecked in the Straits of Bonifacio.
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    AFFAIRS IN THE TRANSVAAL.
    82 3 The Boers, according to the mail papers, are showing strong objectiou to the recent placing of British troops along their frontier. Their champions in the Cape Parliament are also exceedingly agitated in the matter, and a prominent member of the disloyal party is asking for a
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    THE FAMINE IN SZECHUAN.
    100 3 According to latest native reports from Szechuan, the famine there is still at its height, and people are dying from starvation bv hundreds every day. The charitable institutions of Shanghai, not including money collected by Szechuan merchants in that port, have already subscribed and sent under
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    DEATH OF A FAR EAST MASON.
    138 3 It is our melancholy duty, says the Hongkong Telegraph, to record the death of Mr. J M. Armstrong, G •vernmeiit Auctioneer, which occurred at his residence, “Kurrahjeen.” Peak R >ad, at a quarter to 1 o’clock this morning (3rd July). The deceased was first
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    103 3 Thursday, 22nd: Lecture, Young Men’s Association, at 8 P.M. High-water at New Jetty, 6-06 A.M. and 6-33 p m. Friday, 23rd: Monthly Medal, Golf Club. Association Football, Esplanade, at 5 P.M. Sale of Household Furniture, Ac., at 11, Union Street. Hjgh-water at New Jetty, 6-55
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    THE OPINION AND THE FACTS.
    759 3 Fihst let us have what the doctor said, then the facts upon which he based his opinion, and finally we may ask whether the facts justified that opinion. The doctor’s opinion w as this, Th m<in is suf ering from chronic inflammation of the brain
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    SHIPPING.
    232 3 Arrivals. To-day. s. s. Lady Weld from Teluk Anson. s. s. Betey from Teluk Anson. s. s. Langkat from Deli. Yesterday. s. s. Teutonia from Malacca. 8. 8. Thaipeng from Port Weld. Departures. To-day. s. s. Jin Ho for Langkat. s. s. Petrel for Tongkah. s. s. Canton for
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    318 3 (Nlraitb 7’iwie«, 19th JuLT.) ttaubs (13 Jo pd.)... 525. sales. XI fully paid $26. Punjcuis ($4 pd.) $B.OO Jelrl.il- r p l I *2.40. Pahang Corp. (XI pd $4 75 Pataling Coffee Co. ($7O pd.) ($7B buyers. Penge.-angs ($5O pd.) 140 sellers. Straits Insurance ($2O pd.) $lB
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      451 3 Opened from 7.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Tiffin from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. BREAKFASTS can be supplied at any time. Try our Bodega Beer in white glass bottles. Sure to please. Supplied to the PENANG CLUB and the NATIVE STATES. All kinds of Wines, Spirits, and Liquors moderate prices.
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    758 4 PROGRAMME. Augu st Meeting 1897, sth 7th August. First Day. Thursday, the sth August, 1897. 1. —The Maiden Plate. 2-30 p.ui. Value s2oo.—For Maiden Horses (per rule XIV S. R. A.) Weight per scale (lOst. 91bs.) All ex-griffins and ex-roadsters allowed 141bs. Distance one mile. Entrance $lO.
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      869 4 i L BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST* T,o be had at i t m ZL k ?lea s n cHß^fV eM sKd Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GJJAT CHENG BROS. 1 J GOON YEN ZfeSnds. SOLE IMPORTERS-KA.TZ BROTHERS, UMITR HIN
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      326 4 Jiwrurance (Ylofices. Eastern Insurance CoTTTt? Calcutta. qiHE undersigned having been app Ote 1 Agents of the above Company are to accept Fire risks at the lowest cn« rates. 494 boustead 4 The Commercial surance Co., Ltd. Mend Office: 24, 25, 26, Cornhill, Landon, f FIRE— LIFE—MARINE. Capital Fully Subscribed £’2
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