Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 May 1902

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    23 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAlliY. NEW SERIES ESTABLISHED x8 33 PRICE 20 CENTS VOL. LX. THURSDAY, 22nd MAY, 1902. No. 115
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      689 1 pipping Jlotixes. Peninsular A Oriental Strain Navigation Company. PrilHE mail steamers may I be expected to arrive JP, outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates: Ma» Service. Homewards. lnxS l BalUiarat Himalaya W do China tnnell Ju Outwards. 29 Parramatta India p n r Rates of Passage see
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      1916 1 IMODnrMTI ITQrUP Q I I nvn British India Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Mflfta. notice. INUnUULU I □LrnLn LLUtD. Koninklljke Paketvaart Maatschipplj tjaulßkia vox wittekind, m. b c .v. s m _a__ I w it ■> i A begs to inform the Public of Penang Negapatam Lines of Steamers. Ninnjn ViliAn
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      706 1 Hanks. Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIET F 8 Established 1824’ Capital fl. 60,000,000 (abt. .£5,000,000 Issued Capital fl. 45,000,000 (abt. .£3,750,000 Reserve Fund fl. 8,261,000 (abt. 272,000, Head Office in Amsterdam Head Agency in Batavia Branches Singapore, Rangoon, Medan, (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang, Chore, bon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean, Tjilatjap,
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    THE WEEK
    189 2 I’iii'rsi»av. 22nd Full Moon. High-water 11-40 p.m. and P 2-05 p nt. Friday, 23rd Mail for Europ? via Madras expected to leave. Auction Sal.* of Household Furniture No. 157 Anson l»o:ul. Noon. Municipal ('oiniiiiaaionerH, Special and Ordinary Meeting, at 3 p.m. Public Meeting, ('hiuene Town Hall, 4 p.m.
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    Thursday, 22nd May, 1902.
    1467 2 We umlerst ami that the preliminary preparations for the Coronation Fe-liv-I ities are in full swing, ami that a I programme will be devised ami carried out which, in spite of the Government I boycott, will lie a credit to Penang, ami a reminder to its
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    London School of Tropical Medicine.
    41 2 Amount already acknowledged $2,945. It. Swan, 10. 11. Phillips 2.50 11. Eotheringham 2.50 J. Duncan 2.50 .1. Neilson 2.50 Total $2,965. 11. Hunter, I Inii'.rarii 1 rcasu rcr. Pen mg, 22n l M iv, 19 »2.
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    Municipal Meeting.
    88 2 The following are the agenda for the Special anl Ordinary Municipal Meetings to-morrow Special Meeting. 1. Minutes of the last meeting to be read and confirmed. 2. To consider and pass Supplemental Budget No. 1 of 1902. Ordinary Meeting. 1. Any special business the Deputy President may bring
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    Coronation Services.
    274 2 The Order for Anglican Churches. The service will begin with an anthem or a hymn, the anthems given for selection being I was glad,” and Let Thy band be strengthened." The priest will then bid the people to pray for the good estate of our Sovereign Lord, King
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    German Outward-Bound Mail.
    108 2 The German outward-bound imperial mail steamer Uaiubur./ (Captain Burmeister) arrived here from Colombo at a quarter-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Among her passengers who landed here were the following Mrs. Brown and children, from Southampton Mr. T. I). Wardenburg, from Antwerp; Messrs. Hans Schwiering, F. Zeitlin, S.
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    In London.
    847 2 b'r.ua a Ih.riu./ < 'orrespondent) Kt last, thank Heaven the merry May’s begun’ as the poet sings. And though its behaviour is inclined to be soinwhat skittish at times, and the thermometer is as fall of upsanddowns as an Irishman’stemperament, still it is very welcome to the poor
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    The Colonial Camp.
    350 2 According to the Dail., Mail the military authorities have definitely completed all arrangeinents with the Alexandra Palace trustees, and the Colonials will begin to arrive on June IN. It has been decided that all the men shall be under canvas. There will in reality be four camps,
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    TELEGRAMS.
    169 2 {E TEp f Pa™ in Mnic in France owmg al| «I i, the inhabitants are t il-in m ships in their night are fleeing to Guadeloupe. Tea Consumption. The Board of Trade sl w that the ,n threat Britain in iggg six pounds per head p er compared with
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    69 2 (From dur own CorrespondentSingapore, 21st Mr. The insurgents in South ChiM have been scattered by the Vicertiri troops. They attacked the Hnhan railway and burnt the bridge materii The Belgian engineers haw withdrawn to Chengtifn. The movement lacks organisation. Singapore, 22ml Mr. The Treaty negotiations at s:.g;hai are
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    Home and Foreign News.
    586 2 Ax Indian baity Keir* special te'.egni, <late<l Lindon, May 11th, says:— The Government have received a vetr hopeful despatch from Lord Kitchen regarding peace prospects. The London Timed, in its issm of Apniiia says: Mr. Schalk Burger and i:i> •c* are also well aware that surrender
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      1324 2 MCALISTER St CO. Sterilised ia tmtn>s iVLilk A PUBLIC MEETING wiU be held in [hdiail r\_ the Chinese Town Hall, on Friday, We have pleasure in announcing that "K 7T*ff the 23rd instant, at 4 p.m., to consider the |V/| < I If /iRWSK steps to be taken in reference
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    Telegraphic Items.
    534 3 Italy. m 1 Oitolenghi has been appointed Italui» War Minister. Distressed Russia. of taxes amounting to 120 milArW files have been remitted to the peasants owing to the distress. The Fab East. Yuan Shikai’s troops encountered 3,000 fl nd kdled 1,000. The end of the Kb ,nent resembled
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    Lord Roberts on Artillery.
    102 3 Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, in presenting the annual prizes to the Honourable Artillery C mipany, paid a high compliment to the efficiency and war services of the oldest military body in England.” Addressing the company, the Commander-in-Chief said that artillery had to aim at celerity and accuracy
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    A Whisky Explosion.
    119 3 Ax Officer Fatally Injured. A curious and distressing accident happened at Meerut, on the sth instant. < iptain Carr, i.m.s., attached to the 6th Juts, was bottling some whisky in the Mess from a cask, when someone standing by ►truck a light to see if the cask
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    Spread of Tuberculosis.
    159 3 Ihe Tuberculosis Committee appointed ii the Bombay Municipality to investitite the question of checking tubercular lisease in Bombay have issued their report, which is of interest to the public ■>'every large town. A number of suggeson> are ma le for the prevention of the i ‘—a-i', amongst
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    A Remarkable Story.
    190 3 hrim.atic story is told by Sir Charles "in in connection with his heliograph '-'lam appointing Colonel Thorneycroft to command of Spion Kop, published in ''""mle for the first time in the Illustrat'lull. k^ r >’ing to the bloodstains on the mesj buries said that they suggested a
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    Missing Steamers.
    98 3 Rangoon papers say that there seems to bo small hopes entertained of the Hermoii turning up safe. She is a Norwegian vessel and left Bombay in stone ballast. It is reported that the wreckage found by the yieenatchee near the Alguada reef was com posed of English soft
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    Smart Engineering.
    239 3 A Clever Midnight Railway Feat at Battersea. A smart engineering feat was accomplished near the Old Bittersea station of the West London Extension Railway. The old girder bridge which spanned Battersea-park-road was constructed when the railway was built 42 years ago, and a bigger bridge was needed to
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    The Coronation.
    844 3 More Details of the Service in the Abbey. THE ANOINTING, THE PLACIN OF THE CROWN, AND THE HOMAGE. Th omissions from and in > lific itions of the C ironation Servic', which have been approved by the King, h ive hl 1 the desired shortening effect, an I
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    Dispensation by the Pope.
    73 3 His Holiness the Popo has been graciously pleased to grant Catholics throughout the British Empire a dispensation from abstinence on Friday, 27th June, and from fasting and abstine ice the day following, which will be the vigil of St. Peter and St. Paul, in order that
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    France and Siam.
    74 3 Lord Lansdowne, replying to Lord Lamington in the House of Lords with reference to the continued occupation of Chantaboon, explained the French allegations regarding Siam s non-fulfilment of the convention and said it was impossible for Great Britain to decide which was right. The occasion was not
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    State Emblems.
    198 3 Our Indian and Far Eastern States are not at all behind the rest of Great Britain in their desire to commemorate famous natural commodities of one kind or another, but the picturesque and the terrible play a part in these devices. Pahang takes for its representative beast a
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    The New Hongkong Colonial Secretary.
    238 3 The <t‘ T. Times says: -The appointment of the Hon. F. 11. May, c.m.g., to succeed Mr. Steivart Lockhart in the Col > nial Secretaryship in Hongkong has been received with mixed feelings in the Colony. The new Secretary's personal and social popularity and the
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    In the Hands of Brigands.
    444 3 Miss Stone Relates Her Adventures in Macedonia. The first instalment of Miss Stone’s narrative of her six months' captivity with the Macedonian brigands appears in the May Sumlaif yi'h/o zine. Judging from the extracts nude by the editor, the lady’s story threatens to be disappointing,
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    A Chinese Martyr.
    52 3 The Congregation of Rites, under the presidency of the Pope, has made formal inquiry into the elaiin for beatification put forivard on behalf of a Chinese Catholic convert, named Joseph Khang. If the claim is approved Khang will be the first native Chinamm to become a Roman
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    The Chinese in Calcutta and the Plague.
    149 3 Propitiating Their Deity. GROTESQUE PAGEANT. A strange and grotesque pageant was witnessed in the Lull Bazaar and Bentinckstreet on the afternoon of the 11th inst., when the Chinese inhabitants of these localities, who have been observing a propitiatory fast for the past four
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    The Holy Shroud.
    261 3 The Immortals are falling out over the authenticity of the Holy Shroud and the wonderful photographs upon it which have been the talk of Paris. On 21st April, it will be remembered, M. Vignon loudly* proclaimed the authenticity of the relic at the Acidcmy of Sciences. On
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    Leprosy and Salt Fish.
    482 3 (liansfoon 'Times.) The other day attention was drawn in these columns to a statement made by Mr. J. Hutchinson, Professor of Surgery, London Hospital College, from personal observation, that one of the chief causes of leprosy in South Africa amongst the Kaffirs was the consumption of
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    180 3 Phnang, 22nd May, 1902. Tin 189.10 buyers, r,, (West Coast Blbsozs2B Black Pepper Aohoon 6||) n() gv|eg White Pepper 52.25 CloveH (picked) 28.—buyers. Mace No. 90. sellers. Mace Pickings 85. -sellers. Nutmegsllo» 53.—sellers. i No. 1 7.25 do. Sugar I„ 2 4.1.5 do. I Banket 825 sellers.
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    EXCHANGE.
    110 3 Penang, 22nd May, 1902. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank Do. 4 months'sight Bank 1/8} Do. 3 Credits 1/8} Do. 3 Documentary 1/B}} Calcutta, Demand Bunk Rs. 128| Do. 3 days’ sight Private 129 Bombay, Demand Bunk 128} Do. 3 days' sight Private 180 Madrns, Demand Bank 128}
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    PENANG VOLUNTEERS.
    102 3 Orders by Captain J. G. Allan, Acting Cominan lant. Par\d:«s for This Week. Company Drill for all ranks o:i Thursday» 22nd instant, at 5-30 p.ni. Dress, Plain Clothes. Musketry. Class Firing o.i S iturday afternoon at 2-30 and Sunday morning at 6-80. Members must notify th? Sergeant-Major on
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    STEAMER REPORTS.
    98 3 The s. s. Shawjhai (Captain Spicer) arrived with a general carga from London, yesterday. Tin: s. s. 'c (('apt.tin Witt) brought 5,432 tins of petroleum from Brandan. this m H’liin Tues. s. .\huic Jcbmn (Captain Hcmmct) arrived with a genera! cargo from Singapore, this morning. The s. s.
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    THE MAILS.
    73 3 Mails Closk To-mkirjw. Fur Per »h\ Mailras, Pondicherrv. Cuddalore, Karical, and Negapatam. taking Mails for Europe, etc. rm Madras. ...Za mania 1 p.M. Registration up to noon, Pangkalan Brandan ...Pontianak 1 p.m. Port Swettenham and Malacca ...Vidar 1 p.M. Singapore ...Baikal 1 p.M. Teluk Anson ...Lady Weld 3
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    MAILS to ARRIVE.
    23 3 From Steamer T>> Ar rice. Negapat im Zaida 24-5-02 Si.igap >re Hany Bnut 21-5-02 R uigoon Sea iy Leonj 24-5-02
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    SHIPPING.
    113 3 Arrivals. YKSrKICDIY s. s. Sir. t Leak from Kedah s. s. Quorra from Port Weld s. s. Flyiay I)rayon from Port Weld s. s. Deli from Pulo Kampei s. s. Vidar from Klang s. s. llambury from Colombo s. s. Shanyhai from London Todiy. s. s. Ponfianak from Brandan
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    SHARE LIST.
    187 3 Stocks. Quotation. Bersawnh Gold Mine Co. 12 5 J Chendariang Hydraulic Tin Mining Co., Ltd. <4O. sellers Fraser and Neave, Ltd. Ss3.— Do. 6 Debs. par George Town Dispensary s2». sellers Howarth Erskine, Ltd. 1135.— sales Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Ltd. SL sellers Karangan Tin Mining Co.
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      22 3 Nervous Exhaustion is due to insufficient nerve nutrition. STEARNS’ WINE of COD LIVER OIL is a wonderful Restorative to weakened nerves. b
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      99 3 When fee ing OUT OF SORTS tak? WILKINSON’S US» We cannot speak too Qn rco i*i 11 -i highly of it.”-LAN<ET. □dlbcipcUllld Pronounced by the Highest Medical Authorities the most WONDERFUL PURIFIER OF THE HUMAN BLOOD the SAFEST and MOST RELIABLE REMEDY lor Torpid Liver, Eruptions WEAK AND LANQUID FEELINGS
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      127 3 NOTICE. BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE. The undersigned is instructed to take possession and put up for sale by Public Auction, On Saturday, 31st day of May, 190:, at 3 p.m. on the spot, ALL THOSE two pieces of land and hereditaments situate in Hutton Lane, District of Tulloh Ayer
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      765 3 Mr. J. van den BRAND Co., Municipal Notice. ir Pfl LAWYERS SPECIAL MEETING of the Muni- j Vv vjvi cipal Commissioners MEDAN DELI. will be held At the Town Hall, LIMITED, LOST. On Friday, the 23rd May, at 8 p.m. i A BUNCH of KEYS, affixed to a steel To
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    Shipping Expected.
    138 4 The information under this heading is sup plied by the Agents of the various Steamship lines, and the dates are approximate only. May. 21 s. s. Radnorshire from London for Singapore China and Japan Boustead, Co 24 German s. s. Sumatra from Deli, for Deli, Benli, Meyer Co.
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      616 4 Wanted Immediately. A FOREMAN for the Kinta Foundry Workshop, Ipoh. Applicant to state salary required. 305 MITCHELL Bros. notice ■\7TEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor, and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft. on Gomide paper. W JONES, King Street. Photographer A Remedy for al! IrrefiuSarlties. >ip< r
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      1792 4 a Federated lV|Hlay were awarded the Time Table from ist May, 1902. GOLD MEDAL AT THE MANUFACTURED BY LAMBERT BUTLER Limited l London. PARIS EXHIBITION* Province Wellesley, Krian and Larut Lines THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT WATER. PATERSON, SIMONS Co. Hunyadi Janos Chamberlain’s CoUc, Cholera Down Ihainh. a.m. a. m a.
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      176 4 $2 p er JYlontfi the “Pinanj enlarged editiok Per Month (ForLo ««^u b PENANG BA Nu NOTICE is hereby given that t the charges for the s r r will be as follows CM ol 'w Dances, 9 p m to 2 a.m. Dinners. 8 p.m. to 11 ~,n Garden
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