Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 21 September 1897

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. TUESDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER, 1897. No. 214.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 546 1 Oriental Steam Navigation Company. frpHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Sept. 10 Rosetta 16 J'-’f 23 Rohilla 30 ll '.:Hiiil Oct. 8 Mirzapore Oct. 14 22 Ravenna 28 J',"” Nov. 5 Thames Nov. 11 19 Kaisar-i-hind
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    • 1359 1 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. jiwww. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai Bank/acean steam ship company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. ing Corporation. U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. Paid-up Capital l ji0.000.000. SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. Reserve Fund 8 7.00o’ot»0. AND For Will sail Steamer
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    • 404 1 KKOKKUnWRIII HANPKL BAATSCBA ft (Net her land Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000 06 Reserve Funds f 2,404,166.44 Head 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,
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  • 123 2 Penang, 21st September, 1897. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 1/1 If Do. 4 months’sight Bank... 1/1H Do. 3 Credits l/ll|to 2/ Do. 3 Documentary)'2/ Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 149 Do. 3 days’sight Private I’3 Bombay, Demand Bank 149 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 153 Madras, Demand Bank
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  • 171 2 Penang. 21st Si ptember. I >97. •piu $37.90 sellers. Trang 822.—sellers. Black Pepper West CoHst,.. 18 sellers. A<*heen 22 do. White Pepper 29— do. Cloves (picked).. out of season. Mace No. 110<>.— sellers. Mace Picking*... 88— do. Nutmegs 85 do. I No. 1 •'■!><• do. Sugar 2
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  • 64 2 Mails T<--morrow. For I'er air Time. Rangoon Medusa ...11 am. Singapore ...Ganymede Ipm. Pangkor AT. Anson...7’itt’ Tony 2 pm. S’p re Hongkong Lightning 2 P.M. Tonk’iih, Kopah, Mergui. Ta v»-y Moulmeiu Host 3 p.m. Singapore ...Dem 3 p.m. Thursday, 23rd. Deli ...V<dar 1 P.M. Madras. Ac, taking mails
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  • 25 2 From Steamers To arrive no Singapore Cheangt'hew to-inorrow Singapore Loodiana 23-9-97 Colombo > nnda 23-9-97 Singapore M. Vajirunhis 24 9-97 Liverpool Sarpedon 25-9-97
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  • 26 2 The Crag Hotel. Mrs. Uldall. Mr. H Muirhead. Darby. J. Irving. Arrivals Dr. Vellin Dr. Ton Isiailes Spaan. Departure. Mr. C. van Hoff.
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  • 73 2 London, 20th September. Cuba. AN IMPORTANT INTERVIEW. Mr. Woodford, the new Minister from the United States to the Court of Spain, has had a long interview with the Spanish Foreign Minister. AMERICAN INTENTIONS. It is understood that the American Minister said, courteously but firmly, that, if the war
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  • 472 2 According to the telegram received from Reuter to-day, the United States’ Government have instructed their Minister in Madrid to state definitely to the Spaniards how long the war in Cuba is to be allowed to continue, without American intervention. Apparently frum this, the Ist of November, 1897, would seem
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  • 665 2 The body of a male Chinese infant was found in the harbour yesterday evening, The Selangob Opium Farm will be leased next year to Mr. Tambusamy Pillay. The 8.8. Lightning arrived here from Calcutta this morning, bringing 1,200 sheep and goals for this port. The High Commissioner
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  • 64 2 There was a large audience at the Town Hall last night to witness “Les Cloches de Corneville.” It should be stated that the performance was a great success in every way. As the s. s. Medusa, by which the Company intend to travel to Rangoon, will
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  • 143 2 On the 9th of September two men attempted to break into the premises at 42 Armenian Street. They had obtained entrance to the roof by climbing up from some neighbouring stables. They then let themselves down by a rope into the well of the house, and
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  • 454 2 A TRIBUTE P A ID TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE HON. D. LOGAN. There w sa ’’"ge attendance O f jurors and the public at the ope! Assize Court yesleiday mor.iii t g f ‘l special request Mr. Justice Justice Hyndman Jones t< <fcq U't the Bench. Among the
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  • 353 2 The London Daily Mail thus cor.,relengthy description of the recent tiwi the coast of Acheen:—“ Feeling is iu Penang that, although the Dutch I realize their inability to d al with theii nese, some heavy compensation shosiii demanded by the British Government.’ The following letter, also,
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  • 41 2 Arrivals. To-day Per 8. s. Vidar from Deli. Comfiela, and M. Donoth. Per s. 8. Taw Tong from Telu Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, aud Mrs. Yesterday. Per 8. s. Flying Dragon Do* ll j Messrs. L. Ebert, D. Grabar Newmarch,
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    • 919 2 D’l li J 0 fl New advertisements PIT.CiH APfi AT. I ift THE BANKRUPTcFoRDINANCE, 1888. j JL X X vVXXUIX VI y/Vl in the supreme court of the j STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. Settlement of Penang. In Bankruptcy. No. 8 of 1897. Summary Case. t .Re Tan Ghee, Tan Guan, and Ung
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    • 215 2 Klang Coffee Cultivation Co., Limited. pHE adjourned Annual Meeting of ShatVeI holders will be held at the Office of the Company, 9 Wild Quay, nt 12 o’clock noon, on Saturday, 2’>th September. 1897. 462 F. O. HALLIFAX, Pciiiitij. 9ih Sept 1897. Secretary. Perak Government Notice. i PPLICATIONS are invited for
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  • 50 2 DEATHS. Logan.—At Payah Truboug, on the 19th instant, Daniel Logan, Senior, m.1.c,, late Solicitor-General of the Colony of the Straits Settlements. Symonds.—On Monday morning, 23rd August, at 20 Clarendon Road, St. Heber’s Jersey, Maria Louisa Cottam, the beloved wife of Major-General J. C. Symonds (late Royal Marines), aged 55 years.
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  • 19 3 [From our Correspondent.] TELUK AN>ON. 21st September. The shipments to-day are.— To Penang, 514 pikuls of tin.
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  • 25 3 THE STR AITS AND SOUTHERN INDIA. The postal authorities of Singapore have adopted the Colom bo-Tuticorin route for the despatch of parcels to Southern India.
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  • 163 3 Yesterday afternoon Latchman Singh, Tvatehnian to Mr. Dow, went to the house of Surdar Singh, Veterinary Inspector, and on returning home he took a dog belonging tl) the Inspector with him, without permission. The Inspector on being informed of tliis ordered his syce, Veeran, to go
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  • 383 3 Yesterday morning before a special jury Kornelis Marinus vauWeel, third officer on board H. N. R S. Ha vile, was charged as follows: —that he on or about the 18th of July 1897 in Province Welleslev did commit culpable homicide not amounting to murder by causing the death
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  • 144 3 The feasting of the Queen’s health on board the wrecked Aden would Sjeem to have been anticipated by Guy de Maupassant in bis The Wreck, where an Englishman and his three daughters sing “God Save the Queen” on a wreck which was breaking up. This reminds one that the
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  • 199 3 A Japanese contemporary gives details of the arrest at Hakodate of several Chinese belonging to a British man-of-war. It appears that eight Chinese cooks in the service of a British man-of-war, and four Chinese residents in Hakodate, were found gambling in an inn by the police, and were,
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  • 32 3 The Governor of Ceylon is in favour of granting higher pay to the European Police in Colombo. Each grade will receive t an increase of Rs. 20 per month.
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  • 23 3 The Maharajah of Patiala, and Maharajah Sir Protab Singh join General Elies’ staff as extra Aides-de-Camp, with the Mohmand expedition.
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  • 32 3 A novel Company has been formed in Calcutta for the removal of the carcases of domestic animals free of charge, for the sake of the skins and bones.
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  • 32 3 When the new mail contract commences, the P. O. Company, says an Australian exchange, will substitute new and larger boats for the Massilia,” Valetta,” Paramatta,” and Ballaarat.”
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  • 36 3 The recent earthquake in India is described in a preliminary report by the Director of the Geological Survey as being a cataclysm rivalling the classic earthquake of Lisbon in violence and extent.
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  • 56 3 From a Ceylon paper it appears that in the Passengers’ Wards of the Colombo Civil Hospital are, among others, Mrs. Ridges and Mr. H. W. Ridges. The last-named, who has acted as Treasurer in Selangor, was admitted on the Btb instant with bis wife,
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  • 699 3 sth—l4th September. A Warning from France. The Temps, in a leading article regarding the Anglo-Egyptian advance in the Sudan, warns England that, if she forgets her engagements, she will in the end be obliged to admit that she is not the only one interested in
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  • 763 3 The Latest Peerage. It is officially announced that Sir Donald A. Smith, High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of Canada, has been raised to the Peerage by the title of Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Glencoe, in the county of Argyll, and of Mount Royal, in
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  • 67 3 Lawn Tennis Tournament. Ties for To-day. Championship. Hallifax v Heuham. Doubles Handicap. Bell and Henham v Scott and Mosley. Wednesday, 22nd September. The Mixed Doubles will be played. Ties Played Yesterday. Championship. F. O. Hallifax beat A. H. Capper. 2—6, 6—3, 6—4. Doubles Handicap. Rev. H. C.
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  • 704 3 The Cattle Dealers in Hongkong raised their prices for beef on the Ist September last, owing to the short supply imported from China into the Colony. Russia and Corea. A Seoul despatch to the Nichi Nichi dated 21st August says that the drilling of Corean
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  • 123 3 Arrivals. To-day. 5.,8. Vidgr from Deli. 8. s. Pontianak from Brandon. 8. Taw Tong from Teluk Anson. s. s. Lightning from Calcutta. Yesterday. s. 8. Rosa from Moulmeiu. s. 8. C. C. Smith from Brandou. s. s. Mary Austin from Klang. s. s. Flying Dragon from Port Weld. s.
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  • 221 3 (filiail, 'l'inie». IoTH SEPTEMBER.) Hh..!,- (13/Io |ml.) 19 sales. XI hilly pai.l :20 buyers. Puiijoina ($4 pd.) {6.50 J.a.a.un p<i.) .2.20 Pahang < oi p. (XI p-l '4 7o sellers. Pataling Coffee Co. 70 pd.) >77 sellers. Peiigerain'b /.*so 40 tellers. Klang Coffee Cultivation Coy. Ltd. (Fully
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    • 74 3 NOTICE. IN consideration of the sum of 34,553.25 f having been paid by me to Ilian Thut and Loo Beng Choo, the Executrixes of the Estate of Loo Chuan, deceased, who had a share in the firm of Tong Aik Co., at 259 Beach Street, Penang: I hereby give notice
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    • 325 3 NOTICE. A MEETING of the Board of Licensing Justices will be held in the Court of Requests at 2.30 p.in., on Friday, the 24th September, 1897, for the purpose of considering the undermentioned applications under sections 32 and 33 of The Liquers OrdinanceXl of 1894”: T 5 Name of House
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    • 250 3 CASH CLEARANCE SALE. fiSFGreat Reductions in all Depart* nients. James L. Woodford, PENANG, will offer for Sale from Monday, 20th September, to Friday, Ist October. His surplus stock of Drapery, Outfitting and other goods at greatly r« duced prices, for CASH only, and would call special attention to some of
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    • 1587 4 i-i.,, BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST. To be had at Messrs. THEAN CHEE &Co P Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GHAT CHENG BROS. 11 x GOON YEN FRIENDS. SOLE importers— KATZ BROTHERS, LIMITED notice. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy The Penang Khean
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    • 299 4 GEORGE TOWN DISFEtJSARy/ SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED THE 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3n m Sunday hours 11 a.m. to Ip.m. P Prescriptions accurately dispensed. SPECTACLES to suit every variety of defective sicht
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