Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 16 September 1897

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. THURSDAY, 16th SEPTEMBER, 1897. No. 210.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 540 1 pipping (notices, Oriental Steam Navigation Company. tpHE mail steamers may be r expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Sept. 10 Rosetta 16 23 Rohilla 30 //hri Oct. 8 Mirzapore Oct. 14 Letta 22 Ravenna 28 P i(rt7 es v 5 Thames Nov.
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    • 1456 1 Moffett. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY—(LTD.). banks. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai Bank/aCEAN steam SHIP COMPANY. NEbAPATAM LINE 0? STEAMERS* iiig Corporation. U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. Paid-gp capital $10.000,000. SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. Reserve Fund 8 7,UOo’()00. AND For Will sail Steamer From
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    • 585 1 IKK DKKLAHDStSE HANDEL HAATSCBAF? (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital /35,783.090 00 Reserve Funds f 2,404,166.44 Head Office in Amsterdam. Hkad Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandsch* Handel Maatschanpij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia. Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan. Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London
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  • 123 2 Penang, 16th September, 1897. Rates close As follows London, Demand Bauk 1/104 Do. 4 months’ sight Bank... l/10gDo. 3 Credits l/10f Do. 3 Documentary Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 142 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 147 Bombay. Demand Bank 142 Do. 3 days’sight Private 147 Madras, Demand Bank 141 J
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  • 175 2 Pknanu. IGih S ptembi.r. Tin A 37.90 sellers. Trang 822. —sellers. Black Pepper West Coast,. 7- sellers. I Acheen t: 19 50 do. White Pepper... 27 25 do. Cloves (picked).. out of season. Mace No. 1 IOO. sellers. Mace Pickings... KM— do. Nutmegs 83— do. I No.
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  • 72 2 .Mails close T morrow. For Per ntr Time. Ceylon, Aust nilas a. Ac via Brindisi for Europe, «ic ...Romt a ...10.30 a.m. Registia ion up to 9-30 a.m Klang ...Mary Austin. Noon. P.ingkdiii Brandan C, Smith...'l P.M. P.ingkaltn Biandon ...Pontianalc ...3 pm. Edie A Olehlch G. G. r.Laneberge
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  • 31 2 From Steamers To arrive on Singapore Hebe to-morrow. Singapoie Apcar do. Singapoie Pakshan do. Singapore Tom Marti do. Liverpool Cyclops do. Hamburg Gerda 18-9-97. Singapoie Cheang Chew 19-9-97.
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  • 112 2 Eastern A Oriental Hotel. Mr. Mrs. Buckle. Mr. A Mrs. Shoarwood. Everton Esstwick. Mrs Earle. Capt. A Mrs. van do Lee. Mr. W. Bicknell. Mrs. E. E. Wilding. t E. Duller. Rev. W Murray. J. Ltisink. Mr. J. Eleum. Mac Heussy. J. Rigby. Rodermann. „R. Jamieson. J.
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  • 43 2 London, 15th September. Turkey and Greece. The Powers have accepted Greece’s proposals to resume commercial relations with Turkey. The Frontier War. General Yeatman-Biggs has recaptured Saragari and relieved the forts at Gulistan. Sir William Lockhart used his artillery with telling effect.
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  • 604 2 Wk are somewhat surprised at the supineness with which the public of the Straits Settlements, and particularly of Penang, have taken the passing of the Currency Note Bill. Against the general scheme of the bill we have nothing to say. In view of the rapid opening
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  • 481 2 The pipes for the Butterworth water supply are now being laid from Sungei Rambai. The old post office at Kuala Lumpur is going to be turned into a Printing Office for Mr. Russell. Some more extracts from Mr. Curtis’s On the Cultivation of Pot-Plants are given to-day.
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  • 61 2 Two respectable Chinese women, from Carnarvon Street, were arrested yesterday for severely beating a girl, who is about ten years of age. They were brought up this morning before Mr. Saunders aud charged with voluntarily causing hurt tothe girl, and were remanded to the 20th inst.
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  • 74 2 The Perak Government advertise inviting tenders for the supply of two Twiu-screw Steam Ferry-Boats, for service between Penang and Kuala Prai on the mainland opposite. Twenty minutes will be about the time allowed for the journey. A saloon and other accommodation must be provided
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  • 17 2 Arrivals. Yesterday. Per s. s. Tuetonia from Malacca: Messrs. Amus, Addis, and Mr. and Mrs. Dyer.
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  • 116 2 Thursday, 16th: P. C. C. Tennis Tournament, at 5-10 p.m., Finals in Classes A, B, and C. Pollard’s Lilliputians, Town Hall, in La Mascotte” at 9 P.M. Parsi Theatrical Co.’s performance, at 9 p.m., Poorun Bhagat.” High-water at New Jetty, 4-45 a.m. and 5-12 p
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  • 15 2 TELUK 16th September. The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 491 pikuls of tin.
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  • 57 2 SOME OUT-STA TIONS IN SELANGOR. body thoroughly interested in Mnlavo J. H. M. R. in the Selangor Journal.’ p'/ is scarce aud dear. The town nF t G hemmed in and Sepaug is praetijfr?' s up in a cupboard, the Uy of on board the Government launch w|,U> pt there
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  • 128 2 In spite of the notice published rea ar dj Ct the simultaneous planting of padii all the disti icts t he people are late in pl aill i L out from their nurseries, writes the Aeti Collector and Magistrate, Jelebu, in his M report. I called
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  • 256 2 In Iris report fdr July, just published, Mr. Hugh Clifford writes:— The majority of the more important native chiefs, including His Highness the Sultan, left Pahang to attend the Durbar on Bth July, and the Sultan and his sons Tungku Bcsar and Tungku Chik, bad not returned at the
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  • 183 2 Owing to the proximity of Klang town to the Sakei villages and their constant intercourse with Malays and Chinese, the Sakeis in this district are scarcely distinguishable from Malays. They dislike the term “Sakeis and call themselves “Orang Bukit.' and like to be mistaken for Malays,
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  • 244 2 Theatricals in a Washhovse. A tragic accident which happened io Birmingham recently has just come w light. Several young children took it mW their heads to arrange some amateur theatricals iu lhe wash-house at the rea> their homes in Macdonald Street. l je intention appears to
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 586 2 Pritchard Co. N A °N v gr ME TS MY wife Annie Penegar has left my protection on the 23rd of August last. I shall not be responsible for any debts contracted by her since that date. W. PENEGAR. FOR SALE. JUST RECEIVED. /ANE DOUBLE-BARRELLED, bottom U/ lever, Express Rifle,
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    • 57 2 JUST RECEIVED. A supply of CHE A P E NV E LOP E S Prices from $2 per 1,000. Pinang Gazette” Office. LBERNSTEIN,r Manufacturing Jeweller and Diamond Setter. 12 BEACH STREET, PENANG. BAGNALL HILLES, Electrical Engineers and Contractors, importers of Electrical and Steam Apparatus. Offices:— 22 Yokohama, Japan. 13 Cor-tlandt
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  • 320 3 Th< plfff UP fIUC e conse Q nent heavy v j u Bombay have made the authornl' more than ordinary interest in the IIR i j. ,'f th'' inhabitants. Extra-special at- 1S recently been paid to sanitation, care is taken to look after the food i"i of the
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  • 659 3 Sale of a Coffee Estate. The Klong Belong coffee estate in Sinciira has been sold by public auction at the British Consulate. It was bought by Mr. C H. Ramsay for 815,000. The Siamese Prince in England. The King of Siam’s son, who is receiving a n
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  • 397 3 An Explanation. Many have been asking how it was that the British troops did not advance in time to seize the Khaibar Pass before the Afridis advanced, and hold it, if even only for a time, to allow the garrisons to escape from Landi Kotal, Ali Musjid,
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  • 322 3 One of the first lessons to be learned by a British Commander across the frontier, writes a contemporary, is the necessity of having whenever possible a detachment of cavalry with the other two arms. The hill man has a great dread of mounted troops and will
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  • 188 3 The steamer Tasmania struck on a rock at Table Cape, Mahia Peninsula, on the coast of New Zealand, and became jammed on the rock with the heavy sea and rough weather. The passengers and crew took to the six ship’s boats and the
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  • 118 3 The svstemS in vogue for measuring, and the granting of height certificates to have been subjects of much diversified discussion lately. Without any desire to enter the field of controversy, writes an Indian contemporary, we would merely remark that it behoves the Turf Clubs to interfere where the
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  • 131 3 Lawn Tennis Tournament. Play to commence not later than 5.10 p.m. Ties tot To-day. Singles Handicap. Finals. Class A. Capper v. F. S. B. Lamb. Class B. Talma v. Peirce. Class C. Butler v. Pratt or Heer. Ties for Friday, 17th September. Profession Pairs. Merchants. Banks I.
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  • 79 3 His Excellency Colonel Machado, the new Governor-General of Goa, has begun his administration in a way which promises well for Goa. A private telegram lias been received at Bombay conveying the news that a general amnesty has been gianted to the Ranes and revolters, generally, without anv
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  • 167 3 Babu Kartic Charan Ghose, proprietor of the Halsa Kagan Oil Mills, who distinguished himself duiing the recent riots by pluckily saving Lieutenants Gardner and Gray from being severely injured, has been presented by Colonel Wilford and the officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment with a
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  • 195 3 Lady Henry Somerset, who has resigned the presidency of the British Women’s Temperance Association, owing to a difference of opinion on the Indian Cantonment legislation, is a daughter and heiress of the last Earl Somers, who left to her East nor Castle in Herefordshire, a mansion near
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  • 279 3 The Formosans who have been visiting Japan would seem to have been having a fine time of it at Tokio. Taimomisel, the leader of the party, in an after dinner” speech thus discoursed upon the past, the present, and the future When we heard that a war
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  • 33 3 The delay in the peace negotiations is causing greatest distress to thousands of refugees who are waiting to return to Thessaly, and their privations are becoming more intense every day.
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  • 172 3 In the Assam Gazette” appears a letter from the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner add i eased to the Government of India, and giving a detailed account of the effects of the earthquake all over the Province. The reports of district officers are printed as an
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  • 811 3 Part VI. Palms. From a decorative point of view no plants are more worthy’of attention than palms; they are easy to grow and will stand better in rooms than almost any other plant, while as regards effectiveness there can be no two opinions. Their one
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  • 207 3 (Straits Time», 10th September.) Raiibs (13/10 pd.)... »18.50 .£1 fuliy paid $19.50 Puujonis ($4 pd.) $6.50 Julebiin ($5 pd.) $2.20 Pahang Corp. (j£ I pd > $4 75 sellers. Pataling Coffee Co. ($7O pd.) $77 sellers. Pengera mrs (ssOi>d.i >4O sellers. Klang Coffee Cultivation Coy. Ltd. (Fully
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  • 161 3 Arrivals. To-day. s. s. Lady Weld from Teluk Anson. s. s. M. Vajirunhis from Padaug. Yesterday. s. s. Teutonia from Malacca. s. s. Betsy from Port. Weld. s. s. Ettrickdale from Southampton. Departures. To-day. s. s. Langkat for Deli. s. s. Canton for Pangkor and Teluk Anson. s. s.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 398 3 PENANG SALES ROOM. IMPORIANT AUCTION SALE The undersigned is favoured with instructions t<> sell by Public Auction On Friday 24th, and Saturday 25th Sept. commencing at 11.30 a.lll. each day At 337 Anson Road, Penang, All the Valuable European A (’ountryinade Household Furniture. Ac., comprising Sideboards, Dining ami Drawing Room
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    • 231 3 NOTICE. IVTOriCE is hereby given that the interest and responsibility of Yeoh Liew, deceased, in the firm or Chop Yeoh Ban Cheaiig” late of 173 Beach Street, Penang, ceased as and on the Ist div of August, 1897: the said deceased has no interest whatever in the Chop “Sin Ban
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 1674 4 BUCHANAN WHISK! Ji-i- -.,7 K.■» ui-T.■ tq i/*yr M, xx£b4 A. To be had at Messrs. THEAN CHEE Co Pe s Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 J ISirV E Nl,s SOLB IMPORTERS ~BLA.TZ BROTHERS, UMlTfi notice.
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    • 457 4 Insurance Hlofices. I The Royal Insurance Co A C 9^ S ip E BABLE reduction i n i A Life Rates 18 announced anl spectuses will be supplied and all tion obtained on application to the a »47 MessrT Marine Insurance. Mannheim Insurance Company. 'HHE undersigned have been ap p
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