Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 April 1900

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    25 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE I>UBIzISHI D DAIIdY. HFW SERIFS ESTAB LI HED 1833. PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LVIII. FRIDAY, i()th PRIL, 1900. Xo. 89
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      841 1 jihrtues. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. inai steamers may be expected to arrive out'l 3 waris ant leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards- Homewards. Coromandel April 19 Massilia April 21 p.allaarat May 3 Bengal May 5 C/yrf< *7 san *9 Bengal 3« oromandel June 2 C/ias<m June »4
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      2165 1 ..-rm BRITISH INDIA STEtM Nil ITION COMPANY. Limited. pipping flotirrs. crag hotel, penanc hill. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. koninkujke piked art maatschappu. e NEGAPATAM UR OF STEAMERS. Nippon YUSOO KaiSha. Four Bungalows are available:The Dia- mond Jubilee, Victoria, Alice, and Dovecot. Intended Sailing and exp ted Arrival of Steamers. japam mail steamship
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      1004 1 IJanks. Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. ETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f. 35,783,00c (abt. £3,000,000 Reserve FuND...f. 2,773,000 (abt. 225,000 Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Batavia. Branches: Singapore, Rangoon, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang, Cherebon, legal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean, Tjilatjap. Gorontalo, Palembang. Correspondents at Bombay, Colombo > Madras, Pondicherry,
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    209 2 UiiMHtV. iSihAfKIL. 7-'3 >’.M The Spionkop Affair. Despatches Gazetted” Despatches from Generals Buller and Warren, regarding the Spionkop affair, are published in the Gazette, together with a covering despatch from Lord Roberts, who severely criticizes the evolutions of Generals Buller and Warren, and of Colonel 1 hornetcroft. Costly
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    MARRIAGE.
    38 2 Geekie-Crane. On ***** insiant, at St. George's Church, l>y the Rev. W 11. C Duukeiley, Colonial Chaplain, Mab,l Adelaide, second daughter of G. Crane. Singapore, to .Alexander W. Geekie, eldest son of A. Geekie, Coupar Angus, Scotland.
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    THE PENANG BAND.
    234 2 Without exception, the Penang Band is, we understand, the best in the Straits, yet. only a few years ago, Penang had no band at all. The difficulties attendant, at that tune, upon matters musical and saltatory in the Settlement can be realized by those alone who were
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    PENANG’S SEMI-INDEPENDENCE AND THE ANNEXATION OF THE PROVINCE.
    247 2 This day, one hundred years ago, Sir George Leith, Bart., arrived here and became lieutenant-governor of Prince of Wales Island, as it was then known, thus raising this possession of the East India Company's to the dignity of a province, whereas, down
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    IMPARTIAL CRITICISM AND OUT-SPEAKING.
    204 2 Impartiality is a grand point among the many grand points of a really grand man, and it is satisfactory to note that Lord Roberts, one of Britain's grandest men, possesses this characteristic in a great degree. The impartiality of British justice and British administration have most
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    466 2 Mk G N Mai c<>lm has lieen appointe I Wing Olti' er in the B N B. C >u-> ahu ary t\ QUALIFIED ASSISTANT ENGINEER IS advertised ten l y tl.e i’ei.ik government on a salaiy of $l5O a mouth The homeward not nd royal mail steamer
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    The Penang Volunteers.
    25 2 1 he Penang Volunteers* smoking concert, which had been arranged tor this evening, has l>eeii postponed to a date, not yet fixed.
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    BRITISH OFFICERS AND THE BOER WOMEN.
    74 2 BRITISH OFFICERS AND THE B OER WOMEN. The majority of Boer females have liecome almost frant at the successive reverses of the Boer forces, and are entreating the Executive Committee of the Vo ksraad for perinissi >n to lie allowed to shoot the British off ers imprisoned at Pretoria The
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    Penang Hunt Club.
    81 2 Gymkhana Meeting It is notified by Mr H. B. Pike, the honoiaty secretary, that there will be a gen eral meeting of the Penang Hunt Club, al the Turf C'ub’s rooms, at 4 o'clock on Monday next, the 23rd instant, to arrange a programme for a gymkhana
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    Mrs Kynnersley's "At Home."
    84 2 Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. C. W Sneyd Kynnersley was at home” at the Residency, for the first time since her re turn to the Settlement, ten days or so ago: and a large number of residents at. tended. Ibe Penang Band played an excellent selection of music,
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    Cricket in Penang.
    65 2 Nil Desprrandum A cricket-match has been arranged and will be played to morrow (commencing at 3 p m.) and on Saturday (commencing at 5 p.m between the following teams: F*. C. C. Messrs. Anthony (Capt Bailey, Berg, Firmstone, Neubronner, Park, Raymond, Sharman, Slioobridge, Talma, and Wicks. Afr.
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    OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA.
    76 2 The 20th of next June will be the cenienary of the birth of Lieutenant Waghorn, the pioneer of the overland route to India, the man who in the early years of this century did so much towards the establishment of rapid < ommunicalion by steam wii
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    AN ANCIENT CUSTOM IGNORED.
    102 2 An every one knows, the vast majority of churches are built east and west but of late years a practice has arisen of ignoring this ancient custom, and the vicar of Ea'ing and other clergy have protested against the growing number of c! ur< lies now
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    HOSTILITY OF E. E. TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
    104 2 The Canadian senate on the t6'h of Marih adopted a resolution proposed by Sir Mack<-i zie Bowell setting forth that serious delays having occurred in the prn«.eculion of the Ia< ific Cable underlaki> g through the hostility of th- Eastern Exle< sion Company, wbi<
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    THE STRAITS AND THE WAR.
    122 2 The Snails papers have afforded us L and C. Express} some indication of the patrioiism and eutbu-iasm which has lieen arou-ed in Singapore and in ihe Fedetaied Malay States in connection with the war u> South Africa. That it is very leal and earne t
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    THE FRENCH AMNESTY BILL.
    148 2 t\ Paris correspondent says: I have reason to believe that the select committee of the sei ate will issue a report unfavour able to the Amnesty Bill. 1 his decision will l>e a great victory for Fiench liberals and a defeat for the nationalists. The old
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    MR. AND MRS. A. O. ANGIER.
    176 2 ~B.PI. Borneo Herald. Mr. A. G. .Angier (L. <S* C. Express) and Mrs. Angier arrived on the 19th. Tlieir tour I a- been somewhat extensive, enibracing Penang, Sumatra, Malay Native 'states, >ii’i;apoie and Johore, Bald: Papan, Samarmda and Tengaron as far as the Sat.korirang
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    Hari Raya in Kedah.
    225 2 The Sultan’s Good Health. Hari Raya began on Tuesday night, according to Muhammadan reckoning, and on Wednesday night the whole town was lighted up. On Wednesday, at 5 a.m., the guns declared to the public that the day was Raya At 8 a m. t His
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    Outward-Bound P. and O. Passengers.
    163 2 By Next Mail. Passengers by the mail steamer Coromandel, Prom London March 22 :Miss F. Jones, Mr. W. B. O. Stewart, Mr. Bryant, Mr. ynford Price, Mr. Cheesman, Mr. A. H. Withers, Mr. W. Marston, Mr. Brown, Mr. Thomas Quail, Mr. J. W. Phillips, Mrs.
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    50 2 [From ovr own Correspondent S/AGAPO/e/: {lBth April) C«lll.lon off Raffle, Ligh,), Ao bKßiocs Dam The Petersburg, hon iew bound, collided with p, Etienne, bound to M, i Raffles Lighthouse, an <] vessels were damaged Lm seriously. TEI.L K A.VSOV. (18th April) Tin Shipments The shipments to-day are—To Penang,
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    AGRICULIURAL COMPENSATION BILL.
    56 2 Mr Edward A. Gouldirg, conse rval memlrer for Devizes, las inirodu e the house of commons, as a privaie m io sure, a bill to compensate a Cn lalrourers for accidents Ih e seCond mg of the bill was move] on t'| le of March. The motion
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    PENANG TRAMWAY.
    66 2 PENANG TRAM WAY. to the unfortunate sharehoi aers—}..7: Engineering. This concern is in liquidation, and advertised to be sold n ii, e sth rf m 1900. It seems wondeifu at, v.i .j/' ti am ways pay so well in m ost p ar Penang and Rangoon, where town-pl'.’? seem to
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    SIR THOMAS LIPTON'S NEW CHALLENGE.
    69 2 The executive of the Glasgow In,national k*xhib Ul-ii Lave appoint*.j deputation 10 ask bir 1 humas Lip.?, l 0 postpone his challenge for the A e ri- a Cup for one year, so as not to ihterie're with the proposed interna' ji.ai rega t. the
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    CANTAB FELONS AND FREE PARDON.
    94 2 The Home Secretary, in response tj the petition presented to 1 i:n, pr r; iy gianted a free pardon to a 1 tie ef.?. ants recently convicted at Cambridge fcomplicity in the disturl ar-os wlrish ;1 out of the students' celebration of relief of Ladysmith,
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    RECORDERSHIP OF LONDON.
    127 2 A meeting of the Court cf A lermea was held on the 20th cf March, Er tire purpose of electing a Rec order in ihe p ...e of the late Sir Charles Hrill. A report was lead from the Genera; Purposes Comn. tee recommending that 10 aiterauoL
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    SENTRIES ASLEEP!
    131 2 From a statement made in a prints letter from a trooper in the Ccn.p:se Regiment of Household Cav i y, it i appear that two privates were resent y set at the Modder River for bei gas eep on sentry. T hough regietialse, it i» citar that iron
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    THE WAR LOAN.
    122 2 The Chancellor of t .e Exchequer on tie 19th of March, in reply tobit j. Leng, s asked for particulars with leterence to tee issue of the ar Loan, sta ed that the number of applications lor a tment 39.800, and that the total amount appied ior
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    REINFORCEMENTS SENT AND BEING SENT TO SOUTH AFRICA.
    86 2 The following table co vet» riefly many additional men ieit Eog;and March to reinforce Lotd R >berls. I ,e departures were b Week ending is! ips. n March 4 8 +-< w ii >5 18 11 9.9« 25 9 B 9°° April
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    Football at Home.
    183 2 England v. IrelandEngland defeated Ireland at u on the 17th of March, under Assoua rules, by two goals to nothing. does not really reflect the u P elk the English team over their °PP° D The visitors played wel. within strength, and were never in uli p
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      1461 2 j zm Municipal Notice. FAOT AihifFtlSHlinitS. |OM Cl 110 Hl HE Municipal Commissioners of George FOR SALE. 1I I IlljllUll tl Vk vV» 1 Town. Penang, invite tender, for Iron- (g f X VV work and other materials required for Camp- Q/\hAI«fC WAVERLEY BICY< LE. bell Street Market. A Apply
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    SOUTH AFRICA ITEMS.
    2478 3 Jiiii Bloemfontein Reverse: Severe Criticism. Tin-: reverse near Bloemfontein hascreat ed a painful sensation in London. People ltt .*is< u-sinsi the circumstance that, al J; oiigh Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, and 1( ll ttal Frem it invariably do right, their i, utetiauis, when left to act on
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    EXCHANGE.
    127 3 Penang, 191.1 April, 1900. Rates close as foli.ow- London, Demmd Btvik t/tii’ii Do. 4 mouths’sight Bru'; l/t'« Do. 3 Credits t'oA Do. 3 D vetrmentary 2/0J Calcutta, Demand Bank >-171 Do. 3 day»’sight I’riv 1 149 Bombay, Demand B ink 147) Do. 3 days' sight Private 119 Madras, Demand
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    PENANG VOLUNTEERS.
    84 3 Orders by Captain A. K. Adams, A ung Commandant Parades for The Week. Musketry Exercise at 515 pm. on Thursday and Friday, the 19th and 20th instant. Details for ihe Week Orderly Officer, Lieut. F. Coghiil Jackson Do. Sergt. A.Co., Corp). H- Starr Doi B.Co, Corpl. Harwood Musketry.
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    THE MAILS.
    55 3 Mau s C> osk Tc-morrow. Per str. Trang ...Artsadong 8 a.m. Edie. T. Semawe, Segli and Olehleb ...G G.v. Lantberge... 1 a vi Klarj; and Malacca Vidar 1 pm. Deli 1 RM. Teluk Anson and Port Dickson ...Lady II eld 4 Saturday, 2 Ist. Tongkah ...Petrel I P
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE
    40 3 Stei'ur, 1 Aime, Liverpool Laertes to-day. Colombo {with mails from Europe) Coromandel 20-4 00 Singapore Clive »0-4-00 Singapore Rosi 20-4-00 Singapore (mails for I.urope) Massiliu 21-4-00 Negapatam Pentakota 21-4-00 Calcutta -I- Apcar 21-4-00 Singapore Kum Sang 21-4-00
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    SHIPPING.
    54 3 Arrivals To-day. s. s. Loostakkcn from Singapore s. s. Hebe from Singapore s. s Pinseng from Singapore s. s. Deli from Langkat Departures To-day s. s. Langkat for Deli s. s Deli for Deli s. s. Canton for Pangkor and Teluk Anson s. s. M'uv Justin for Klang s.
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    231 3 Apl- 19 s s. Laertes from Liverpool, for Singapore and Java, NV. MansfieL.l Co. 19 s. s. Xambtir from Hamburg, for Sirg ipore. China and Japan, Behn, Meyer Ac Co. 20 Outward P. &O. Royall Mail Steamer Coromandel from Colombo, for Singapore, ami China, Gilfillau World Co. 20
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    COMING EVENTSOF THE WEEK.
    64 3 Thursday, 19m: High water at New Jetty, 3-20 p m. and 3.45 a.m. Friday, zoth Mail from Europe, via Colombo, expected to arrive at 4 a.in. Saturday, 2isr: Mail to Europe expected to leave in the afternoon. Sunday, 22nd Low Sunday. Last Quarter, Moon Monday. 23RD
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      1206 3 HAIR PRESERVED BEAUTIFIED, the only reliable preserver and restorer of the hair is Rowland's Macassar Oil. which closely resembles the oily matter nature provides for nourishing and stimulating its growth without which the hair becomes dry, thin and brittle. ft prevents baldness and scurf, strengthens the hair, ami 'or childrenit
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      182 3 NOTICE. VIEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor, and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3ft. on bromide paper W. JONES, King Street Photographer. Municipal Notice. riIHE Municipal Commissioners of George 1 Town, Penang, on behalf of Cheab Chen Eok, F sq.. invite Tenders for the construction of a Clock
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      2000 3 Have g.t to cie.r out the following lots E THE bes I SELECI lON exchange buildings, Liverpool Beach Street, 27, during the month, all guaranteed fresh Capital £1,000,000. I4AVR tn<i 12ror 1 vun and in perfect condition, at the following cheap FIT HE undersigned having been appointed n 'LJUsI RECEIVED
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    182 4 Penang, 19TH April, i 9 co. Tin »80.50 (Trang 29-5° Black Pepper West Coast... no sales. Acheen 61b no sales. White Pepper 43Cloves (picked) 3 Z 5° Mace No. 1 93.—selleiMace Pickings 80 do. Nutmegs 60.50 do. No. 1 7-75 d°Sugar I 2 4-85 do (Basket 4-4°
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    288 4 (si>.<in i6th April. 1900 I Raubsn6 10 pd I »56 5® -I i lullv »58 50 Kecliau Gold (£lO paid ..‘2- tellers. The North Kecliau Mining Co S. Rml s (»•<•«• p>i 1 »185 Do (»50 pd.) «75.— /-at,;-. Sepiau (110 pd.) #'2.50 Kedjang Leboi g (11.
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      142 4 Penang Foundry Company (Established 187 O') ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS BRASS and IRON FOUNDERY SHIPWRIGHTS Blacksmiths,Coppersmiths. I’lumbt r-BOILER-MAKERS BRIDGE BUILDERS and CONTRACT OR S for the supply and repair of STEAMSHIPS. MACHINERY STRUCTURE of all kinds. ALSO SALVING CONTRACTORS. Machinery, Engineering Appliances, Materials, hittings, Stores, &c., in Stock. Works, Weld Quay and
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      1815 4 Licme WMAtlAlmo’ A PE R AK STATE MILWAYS. COMPANY’S EXTRACT r-* v»..,,,,. ~Toilet 'Lanoline’ cttiiaps-.b:, STATIONS. Week-Days. Sundays. Should be in every house fer use In time of sickness Make, rough Mn 3&lt;oooth. pntKt, dellcat, and MIMTSOncy. Thousands have been brought completion, from uiinb and sun. through illness by Its
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      254 4 $2 Per Month the Pinang gazette." enlarged euitiok Per Month (For Local Subscribe., $2. Till. "PINANG GAZETTE” ENLARGED daily edition TERMS OF SL’BSCRIPTIox I 1 he price of the /&gt;, t 1 free is a., Ini: To Government Ofia, hsPhum Per annum... 24 payj/» in a(] By Post— Per annum...
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