The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 23 September 1889

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357 384 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly)
  • 19 357 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. WEEKLY MAIL EDITION. fHIRO SERIES SINGAPORE, MONDA\, 23rd SEPTEMBER, 1889 Xo 113
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  • Page 357 Advertisements
    • 145 357 (U'INNESSS Bottled im Dublin. Selected pbom Choicest Bbbwimcs. Hj v,n, analysed E. «V J. Bubkb's Dublin Stout, I can certify to its being an article of the very first quality, nch and full m flavour, and its general character most highly recommend it. ARTHUR HILL HABSALL, mm. For rur STRAITS
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    • 442 357 Riley Hargreaves Co. Established 1865. Engineers, Boilermakers, Ikon and Brass-founders, Bridge Builders, and Shipwrights. MERCHANT ROAD, SINGAPORE, AND AT KWALA LUMPOR. Sole Agents for the Straits tor RUSTON PROCTOR CO.— Portable and Horizontal Engines, Centrifugal Pumps, Strain Navvies, Saw-Mill, "ml Mining Machinery. For nrhich they have received 230 Prize Medals.
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    • 100 357 BtMOAPOM and Phnang LaDll*' VM) CiKNTLKMKn's OUTHTTP.k.-v LADIES' DEPARTMENT, Umbrellas Uatrimmed Hats. Parasols. Dress Materials. Laces. Boots and Shoes. Ribbons. Haberdashery. Hosiery. Corsets. Gloves. Underclothing. h Velvets. Velvettas, Velveteens. Crapes. Plushes. (iauzes. Embroidering. Fancy Articles lor Present*. The dress-making department is m charge of a qualified Assistant. Family Mourning made
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  • 145 358 SVMMABY. 35* Lkxdinc; Articles. land Registration 159 Western Australia.. W° Ihe Wealth of Western Borneo... 3 The Money Market 3M The Public Servants Liabilities Bill )&4 Clergymen and Cantonment 8i115... 3°4 Agriculture... 3^5 The Dunlop Masonic Benevolent Society >8 Marine Court— the Haron Rlantvn Opium Case .Y/3 Hydrophobia and
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  • 61 358 (Corrected up to September 21.) On London. Bank 4 m ,'s $fll demand 304 Private credits 6 m/s 3 2 documents 6 m/s 32{ 3 m s 3/1* On India. Bank demand 225^ Private 30 d/s 220^ On Hongkong. Bank demand i% dis. Private 3od/s 2\% dis. On Java.
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  • 99 358 (September 21.) Tin M.BO Gambler „8.80 do. Cube No. 1 I 3« do. do. No. 2 11. so Pppper, Black (ordinary Spore) 20.50 do. White, (Fair L/\V=5% „34 Nutmegs (110 to the Ib.) 102^ Mace (Banda) 112. Cloves (Amboina) 25. Bally Coffee (10% Blacks) 27.50 Tapioca, small pearl (Fair
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  • 19 358 Domestic Occurrence. BIRTH. At Batavia, on the -'<>th September, the wife C. 11. E. Robertson of a son, still-born.
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  • 211 358 The 1' O. steamer Rohilla left lvi Europe at six o'clock on Wednesday morn ing last. The M. M. steamer Volga followed on Thursday afternoon. There i a mail for Europe being made up to leave this (Monday) afternoon by the B. I. 5. s Roma, which will
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  • Page 358 Advertisements
    • 86 358 TO LET. That newly built commodious Compound House with Out-houses and Stables and Water pipes laid m, situate at Orchard Road, and Municipal No. 86, with entrance from Tank Road. For further particulars apply to KHO YEW SENG, No. 85, Tank Road. Sept. 9. 9/ 10 TO BE LET The
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    • 458 358 Ruttonjee Merwanjee Co., L lndian and Colonial Merchants, 11, St. MARY AlB, London, F.C Established 15 years j n London. Large Of sin.ili orders from Town or lp-countrv for Kikoikxn and Amkkk *n sjoodl executed with promptness and economy. Consh.nmkni realized and proceeds remitted by wire or advances made according
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    • 120 358 SAYLE CO., LTD. NEW GOODS EX S. s. GLENGARRY LOWER SHOW Room Randall's Brown and White Tenacious Lawn Tennis Shoes. Bostock's Shoes. Calf Lace Shoes. Calf Elastic Side Shoes. Patent Leather Lice Shoes Bostock's Boots. Patent Leather Military Dress Boots. Calf Balmoral Lace Boots, (irain Derby Shooting B White Dress
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  • 1183 359 I- 1 I|m patriot Truth Kei I r is usually supposed that m a country where there is a Land Registiy, the fact of a person being registered according to the prescribed forms is indisputable evidence of tli*" validity of his title to the property >
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  • 784 359 The M. M. steamer Oxus arrived shortly alter two o'clock this afternoon. Among the passengers for Singapore are Mr. and Mrs. I. I. Joaquim. Mr Win. Macbean, assistant secretary of the Straits Fire Insurance < <> leaves for London by the mail tomorrow morning to take charge <>t the Company's
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  • 1248 360 In his newly published pamphlet entitled Legislation m Western Australia before Responsible Government, Mr. T. 11. HAYNES, well-known among us m Singapore as the champion of the West Aus- tralian pearling interests, makes a itrong protest against the unfair treatment §uffered by the pearling industry at
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  • 688 361 The s. s. Penang which arrived from fava yt-storday passed (lose to the wreck ot the Baron Blantyre, The wreck is -till settling down aft and but very little ot the ship is visible except the bowsprit. 'Hi;' telegraph steamer Recorder^ which arrived yesterday from Saigon, leaves again to-morrow to
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  • 650 361 Pahang is not the only region m this part of the world which is endeavouring to attract the magic influence of European capital. Borneo has taken the field and is apparently bent on bidding against Pahang on i|, e a tter f s own vantage-ground -that
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  • 760 361 Deputy Surgeon General Lewer, who has acted as Principal Medical Officer for several years at Hongkong, passed through m the Rohilla yesterday on his way home. The Mail despatched from Singapore t<» London via Mai>eillo." on the 22nd ultimo was delivered on the j;th instant. Mr. Alfred Holt shipowner and
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  • Correspondence.
    • 145 362 To thi Editor* Sir, A Former Shareholder is not by any means like Mr. (iaggino, of a sanguine temperament. Taking his view of the state of the affairs of the above Company, 1 should say he; was decidedly pessimistic. Valuing the whole concern at the present moment
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    • 160 362 To thi Editor. Sir, In consequence of the general tightness of money here and the statements m some quarters that the Banks have closed their purses to the Chetties, I am again led to rellect on the importance of the letter m your issue of August
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  • 951 362 The letter of X. published m vesterdat > issue once more draw* attention tci subject "1 local hanking facilities. Thai again, leads to the consideration of ihc sent state o( the money market and ol trade iii Singapore. To say that mom tight and that many
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  • 2312 363 The Hon'ble T. Shelford and Mrs. Shelford returned from Sarawak this morning per S. S. Xormanhy. The dog which bit the China hoy on Wednesday was taken to Mr. dime yesterday afternoon. The animal was found to be m the first sta^e of rabies and it. as well as the
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  • 425 364 A notification m yesterday's Gazette contains the 1 information that the Public Servants Liabilities [Jill will come into operation on the first of November. It will be remembered that this measure was introduced m March last, with the object of protecting "the clerical branch of the
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  • 760 364 We arc- glad to sec that among the ranks o!" the clergy there are men who ran overst ride the rigid conventional trammels that so frequently coerce the clerical profession into silence where it perhaps might become its duty to speak. The Madras Mail expresses a hope that many ol
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  • 674 365 A few days ago, m noticing the celebration held at Sarawak of the fiftieth anniversary of the landing of Rajah Brooke, allusion was made to the recommendations m Sir Charles Brooke's speech m favour of agriculture, and its solid though unpretentious advantages to the' State as compared with the more
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  • 777 365 In future the British India Steamers to Penang, Rangoon, and alcutta will leave once a week only, on Monda\s. A Gospel Service will be held on board the British barque Romanoff on Sunday next, the 22nd September, at 1 30 P. M. All Captains, Officers and Seamen of vessels m
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  • 282 366 A Chinese lad about six years of age. while on his way to school yesterday morning, was run over by a gharry m Beach Road. The gharry was stoped by a Malaxbut the Kling syce ran away. The boy was sent to Hospital but did not stay there having only
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  • 1198 366 Archibald Forbes m the English Illustrated Magazine, for August, describes vividly the act which won the Victoria Cross for Lord William Beresford, when with Buller's force before L'lundi m Zululand Beresford's advance-detachment, scouts as they were, were of course straggled out rather casually over the whole
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  • 862 366 (.S7. ymmtsi Gssttte.) The crime of husbandicide the word h .1-- p<M. mi-.-iblc as infanticide is a>> old m the dimade .1 very long time ago, thai marriage sometimes a failure. Two thousand years il; > Fabius Maximal ordered the execution women, who had leagued tOgethl r tor t
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  • 1768 367 (Rmmg-n Papers. I „m>"\, Sept. i.— The shipowners have demanded of the Dock Committee the right to employ their own labourers, and have given twentyfour hems for a reply. It conceded, they will arrange with the dock labourers. Fhe wharfingers have unanimously re* Ivcd thai the terms offered
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  • 893 367 At tlir recent statutory general meeting of the Deli ><ni\ Langkat Tobacco Company, Ltd., held m London, Mr. Berry White the Chairman made some remarks bearing on tobacco-growing, the competition of the new fields m B >rneo, and the subject o( labour supply. These
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  • 448 368 Under the Indian Act I of 1859 a Home trade ship is defined to include every ship employed m trading between any ports of the Territories of India (the old' Indian territories) or of Ceylon. The expression Foreign going ship" includes eVery ship employed m trading between any port of
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  • 512 368 At a meeting of Freemasons held on Monday night at the Masonic Hall, the district Grand Master presiding, a Benevolent and Charitable Society for the relief of poor and distressed masons, and the widow* and orphans of Masons was established. Rules and regulations were passed
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  • 380 368 {■jth Sept on bet The leading article advocates the study of Western science and arts, and says that they ought to be made part and parcel ol the annual literary examination iii China. The Tiger is the king of beasts and it inspires
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  • Correspondence.
    • 901 368 I*o THE KDITOR. Dear Sir, The movements m th< of Tramway Shares m these last few day* has been enormous, they having dro| to according to the Share List. Il^ that Km sha^s have been sold at 85, livery within three months. This i- on!\ a speculation.
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  • 84 369 S t. Andrew's Day. To Tin: Eon or. Dear Sir,— l hope this year that the Scotchmen ol this Colony will not be so backward m celebrating St. Vndrew's da\ I here should be n<> time lost I think that a meeting should be called at once and all arrangements
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  • 418 369 I'd Till Km i ok. Dear Si-. Happy i^ the man whom nature has gifted with a sanguine temperament and who sees things m a rosy liidit. never mind how gloomy they arc m reality. Mr. Gaggino U apparently sue!) a happy man, judging from his yesterday's
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  • 2637 369 At the nexl meeting of the I debating Society, Mr. W. Makepeace will propose tlu- question That Strikes are injurious to the best interests of the working classes, and the communit) at large. Mr. J. Graham ill oppose it. The) were seven. And they were discussing, after dinner, a difficult
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  • 2640 370 Mail News \\i> Notes. 1 London Telegraphy <t, .1 It i^ satisfactory to note that the new Gov< of Western Australia, Ceylon, and Natal tx c selected fro n the li ird-workinjj and iap if) men who have spent the best years of their livi m the service of the
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  • 429 372 (Ceylon Observer.) London, Sf.PT. 6. In a speech made by Lord Cross at the Cutlers' feast last night, his lordship said that the Government had no notion ot annexation of any kind m Cashmere, and that directly the Maharajah sees his mistake and we can trust him to
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  • 746 372 Varieties from the Locomotief." Sarah Bernhardt's husband, Dwnala, has become craxy. One day he appeared with his wife, "the immortal one," before Mr. Clement, PariMM magistrate, as witness m a case. Suddenly Uainala jumped from his chair and began throw. mm about him everything he could lay hands on, swearing
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  • 313 372 Says tlie Chinese Times —In removing Chang Chih-tuns from the very important posi he occupied as Governor- General <>i the Kuangs to the same office m the lln provinces, the Imperial Government has given one more proof of the extreme circumspection with which it proceeds m matters of change affecting
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  • 853 372 Among the many suggestions madr to tin* Postmaster-General by enterprising advertising agents since the matter of advertising on postage-stamps and postcards was made the subject ot Parliamentary questions is one of a particularly ingenious character. It has been proposed thai the ordinary date stamp by which postagestamps are. obliterated should
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  • 362 373 Si am News. From the Siamese Government Gusette, we gle m the following: On the 4th instant H. M. the King was graciously pleased tocreate Mr. J. D* Collins an officer of the 4th Order of the White Elephant. Mr. Louis de Richelieu was also createdi on the same date,
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  • 223 373 Gaiette, September fjM.) Mr. Norman Tempest Gray lu^ been I appointed District Engineer, Larut. Mr. X. Denison has been (granted six months leave, and Chief Inspector Busweli five months. Mr. R. Hamilton's tender for the Port Weld water supply works has been accepted. From Si lama the Collector
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  • 380 373 We hear on good authority that Johore is not to be made the Alsatia for Singapore mad dogs it the Government of Singapore should carry out the proposal to kill or df port all dogs from the island for a period of six month-. In a few
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  • 128 373 The Ga§ette contains the namei <>! thr Commissioners appointed l>y her Majesty to inquire into the amounts paid as royalties, (linhl rents, and way-lea ves on coal, ironstone, iron ore shale, and the metals of mines subject to the Metalliterons Mines Act, 1N72. andthe
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  • 704 373 The rax- of Lee Nam Seng, a Chinese doctor, charged with having possession «»l contraband chandoo, value 9goo, came on for hearing before Mr. Hudson onTuesday afternoon. This was a test cisc brought by the Opium Farmers, who found that there had sprung up a large Irade
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  • 528 374 (London Tunes./ We read m a Madras Contemporary, the Mai! that the Rev. John Crawford, Church of Scotland Chaplain, Meerut, and the Rev. Clement C>. Moore, Anglican Chaplain of Meerut, have written jointly to a contemporary with reference to the results of the abolition of the
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  • 64 374 The Hongkong Choral Society, we "l>serve, contemplate producing Barnet's cantata "The Ancient Mariner" or Gaul's Ruth," somew here about Christmas. c trust to hear before long that the very able Singapore choir, whose assistance al the recent performance <>! the Stabat Maler was so much appreciated, will take m hand
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  • 1963 374 (From our own Correspondent.) A few years ago m a quiet little valley m Massachusetts lived the Reverend William Driggs, a highly respectable and pious clergyman, who had two daughters, young, handsome and wayward, who caused him no end of grief. Nettie, the youngest, was headstrong and
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  • 1412 375 The Bill for the Isola i ion of Lepers. The following Resolution ol i\x- Government of India is circulated to the Indian Press by the Home Secretary: In Home Department Resolution of _>i>t'i September ***** the Governor-General m Council encouraged the grant of medical* and charitable relief to lepers m
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  • 535 375 {London and China Express.) The appointment ol Mr A. Spence Mn^ to br m charge ot the new railwa) lints m Per iU, m addition to the appointmenl lie now has <>i a huhl.ir nature m SelangOTe, marks a tin tin r shoi t.
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  • Correspondence.
    • 233 375 s t. Andrew's Day. In mi Kditor. Dear Sir, -In your yesterday's contemporary I Htc Klshioner" objects to a dam on St. Andrew's ciay a> he says there are numerous private dances, not to speak of Balls at Government House, on board warships, I anglin Club, &c, to be had.
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  • 1027 376 It may be to the interest of the Tanjong Pagar Hock Company to have our guardship the Orion alongside the wharvc-s tor the purposes of repairs, which are periodically necessary even m the best-regulated ships. At any rate it is to the interest ol Singapore society
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  • 62 376 An Equatorial City.— At Quito, the only city m the world on the line of the equator, the sun tS and ri-.es at six o'clock the year round. Your clock may break down, your watch stop, but the sun never makes a mistake here-. When it disappears for the night
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  • 2048 376 lluu KrAWCI COLOMIZBS. A Iku\ p Dim.. TNI MOSI EXPIMSIVI PoM i\ iuk World, a Disqi stio OMMI MTY. Special Arrangement with the i Society m Tongking is sharply Him.'. into three classes. And each of the thr i- at daggers drawn with the other twn They
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  • 386 377 In view oi the question which his suggested itsclt on more than one occasion as to how long it would be before the uld World co.il dr|)n~its would become exhausted, the Deutsche Handels-M useum supplies m>mh- interesting figures relating to Ihe world's coalfields outside
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  • 1328 377 1 Rangoon Time-). Simla, 7m September. To-day's Gaaettt of ht, iiii publishes despatches relating to the Military Operations m Upper Burma for the official yeni ending 31M March 1889. The viceroy fully concurs m liis approbation express) <1 by I li> Kxcellency ihc Commander-in-Chiefi ol Major-General Sir George
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  • 1764 378 The following is the President's Progress Report for August Meetings. During the month of August 3 Meetings were held viz, 2 ordinary on the 14th and 28th AugUsl and one special on the 17th Idem. The Special Meeting was Convened tor the purpose of considering what course should
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  • 675 379 The most practical consideration ot this subject comes under two heads, vi/., i. Prevention; 2. Preatment. We shall cursorily glance at both. As our readers know, there has been held recently m Paris a Congress for the Study ot Tuberculosis, and the result of this Congress must be pronounced
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  • REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    • 51 379 London, Sept. Kith. The st t ikt- i>> ended and work at the docks is resumed. The Monetary Conference. The congress m I'aris has dosed. Ihr debates show thai tin* Advocates ol Monometallism and ot Bimetallism are pretty equally balanced. [Received at i<> M. Sept. 17.
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    • 47 379 Berlin, 16th Sept. Prince Bismarck has declined Imperial protection to enable a German Company to exercise rights over Damaraland, saying thai it is no part of Germany's policy to employ military force t<> lirrak the opposition of native chiefs to German enterprises m distant countries.
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    • 32 379 Cairo, 16th Sept. The Egyptian Govi ernnn nt lias again appealed to France to consent to the conversion ol the Preference Stock. [Received at 3.20 I.M.. Sept. 17, [889].
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    • 65 379 London, iBtk Sept. The Dock Laboi era and the Lightermen refuse to work with the blacklegs (non-union or emergency men) and 150° have again struck. The Dock Directors insist on retaining the blacklegs and as constant fighting is going on between the two factions the Directors
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    • 50 379 London, Sept. tgth. A stringent convention has been signed m London between England and Italy tor the suppression ot the slave-trade. Henceforth all slivers will be treated as pirates. The Mediterranean is alone excepted from the operation ol the convention. [Received at 10.25 A.M., Sept. 20. 1889]
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    • 73 379 London, Sept. jo///. The Budget foi the Netherlands Indies shows an KstimatH Expenditure of 140,500,000 guilders, and a deficit of 14. 400, 000 guilders. The Government sales of otter are <*>- timated at 460,000 piculs. hills are announced for the construction <>t a cable between Macassar and
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    • 15 379 London, 20th Sept. The disputes m th^ Docks are settled foratime.
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    • 24 379 Private negociations are proceeding for an alliance, defensive and offensive between Servia and Montenegro. Received at i P. M., Sept. 21, 1889.]
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  • Page 379 Miscellaneous
    • 69 379 SHIPPING. Gka.u van Bylandt, Dut, str., 704, Cramer, Batavia, Sept. 1 General and 35 Deck Passengers, Bouf tead&to.— T.P. Roma, Brit, str., 1,742. MacKinlay, Madras, Sept 3 General and v>7 Deck Passengers, Boustead ft Co r p Billona, Ger.str., 172.'. Haesloop, Hamburg, Aug. 10 General and 130 Deck Passenger*, Putttarckcn
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  • Page 380 Miscellaneous
    • 720 380 Willo'tmi Wisp, Brit str., 166, Angus K 14. Gener.il and i|6 Deck Passengen Mansneld Co— R NoWSHERA, Brit, str., 1,938, Liddiard. ..Am: -u General and 2 1 Du'k Passengers, BousteadJi Co.— T I'. SiiKßitoßM Brit, str 1,181, Edwards, Cebu v General. Gilfillan Wood .V Co.— B.W Rohii.i.a. Brit. str. 2.
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    • 663 380 CLEARANCES. Shk i toi mi Brit, rtr !.on«i,.ii Mercury, Bnt. str Suth< rlai i »«d Deli. bk P i w G r.w for Bangkok. j; M(;v („.r rtr., I 1 •;>. for Hongkong and |ap in. mber i~. W.: Cm I rtr Colonna tor Penan Elisabeth, < Sourab K, rtr.,
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    • 685 380 SHIPPING IN PORT 'itsive of Arriva's rff>o>ted fg r [1 I.e words following <-><• names ladt, <.'ate of tin- \< --.r V utival, intended destination i prol»ab!e <!.»(«• of departure, «V<\ Mkn-ok-W vk. Orion, Bril turret-ship 4,870 tons, 383 crew a 4040 li. |> Captain Bruce. T.P. R\i 11 IK,
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  • Page 381 Advertisements
    • 283 381 KNIGHT Co. ART FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS. I)i ORA rORS Dl SIGNI K>. 14, Littli Britain 49, Hill Stri 1.1. I. ond mi. Singapore. The lai gest stock m the East ol Tapestries, Utrechts, Repps, Carpets. An Curtains specially selected from the Paris Exhibition. A fine assortment 0J Fantasie Muslins, and C
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    • 539 381 ARTHUR HOLLEYS Livery and Commission Stables. Fir.t Class Carriages and Horses on Hire by tbe Month, Half Month, Week or Day. C. images and Pair Horses if Engaged Koi one Month 83>oo 1*' 1 -1-iy. m Set en I ),i\ > $4.00 l'« r D.iy \s. Carriage with one Horse,
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    • 641 381 NOTICE. The Saiawak Government ha v< taken over, b) I -ah < h ise from V\'. Co* 11 E g., the oal Mines and a!! the rights and cessions over land situated ('ii Mll ir. 1 Daamit, and also ovei certain part-- of the o.im also the whari and frontage
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  • Page 381 Miscellaneous
    • 174 381 HONGKONG WEATHER TEI I l{,i!Miietcr. redi* ed lo \2 degra I.< ind to the level ofthesea in inchei tenths a,,,l hundredth*. femperature, in the shade in decrees, l-.iii rrnlifis. Humidity, in ptrcentajfe ol >aluration, the humidity o( air saturated with moisture being 100. i > ,i, ction ol Wind, lo
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  • 368 382 SPRING MEETING. First Day. Sniurdaw $tk October. I 0.-9100 IVi/r for Battak Ponies which have not yd won a rare Wright by icafe. Gentlemen riders, (Maiden Battak Ponies). Distance II— 34a.— 5201 Prue.— Selling races for 2nd class horses entered for the valued tsooeach with a7S Kilo
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  • 260 382 C;»p. IM. up Sharei Value Pd. Div. Remark*. Singapore Slip Co. 100,000 100,000 1,000 100 i»>o >'S"> Sellers. Bentong, Straits Tin. £100,000 £100,000 100,000 £l £1 f6| Buyers. (ioldfields of Siain, Ltd. £250,000 150,000 150,000 £<! Sales. H'kong S'hai Bank. 7,500,0007,500,0011 f>o,ooo 125 12,5! 178%
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  • Page 382 Advertisements
    • 532 382 NOTICE. Tenders will be received l.\ the hril and Militaiv Governor of Acheen and Dependencies up to l(j m., on the day after the arrival at OKhleh of the Netherlands Indian mail steamer, which will leave Hatavia via Padang for Arheen on the 3rd October next, far the supply of
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    • 71 382 FOR SALE. An Improved Wharfedale Cylinder Printing Machine, Demy, to print 24" by 18." In good condition, all complete. Lately used for Printing the Free Press Weekly, but no longer required m consequence of rearrangement of Press Room. Also an Albion Press, Demy, m good order. Also a quantity of
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    • 334 382 Commercial Union Assurance Company, Limited. MAR I N X 1) EPA RT MEN i. The undersigned have l>>en appointed Ac m Singapore tor the above ompany, and prepared to accept Marine Risks to all pai the Wo; Id. at current rates. SI RAITS INSURANCE Co., Ltd. Sept. 3. Straits Insurance
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  • Page 383 Advertisements
    • 452 383 PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY Okkick Collyer Q\\.\\ GODOWWt— NEW Hakboir. T h k under-noted are the dates on which this Coinpam I Hail Steamer*, may be expected at Singapore during the To Akkivk To LSAVM OUTWABD. Homi wakii. ISS7. I«t7. Friday, Feb. 4th Jan. loth. Monday. Mar. 4th
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    • 444 383 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING 1 OKPORATION. PAID-UP CAPITAI $7.500.0. *> RESERVE FUND $3,900,000 RESERVE LIABILITY OF PRO-/ PRIETORB »7.S«».ooo Covet op Directors: Chairman Hoi John BeLL*IRVINO. Deputy Chairman \V. H. PoRRES, Esq. CD. Bottomlev, Esq. Hon. A. P McEwen W (i Brodie, Esq S C". M^haelson, F.sm. H L Dalrymple,
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    • 469 383 LAMBERT BROTHERS. SINGAPORE CARRIAGE WORKS. AM) HARNESS MANUFACTORY, Orchard Road, Singapore. EST \KI IMI I II IMi f ANUFACTURERS of all kinds ,f Carriages *n >h* i'l newest principles and with t lie nest materials to call attention to their present large stock of mw ««4 fashionable carnages consisting ot
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  • Page 384 Advertisements
    • 371 384 POWELL CO., AUCTIONEERS, SINGAPOReT~" FURNITURE, &c, h[ RNII For Sale. C C Bedsteads (iron). Jhwii s Bed-room Suites. J; Book Cases 3 >^" B^sK Book Stands. «T Vi Chambkr Cupboards «i3Zz=2r\\ Jpj \f h Vl\ Jl Cjiksts of Drawers. U \L_ ,1 ff W I I m 1 W U
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    • 359 384 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS,' N 1 1 Local and Intersettlement Delivery payable Quarterly m Advance. Per annum, 124. Single copies can be obtained only at KiLI V WALSH, LIMITED, price 15 cents A limited number only are available. Foreign Delivery payable Quarterly m Advance Per annum, WEEK I. V ED
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    • 198 384 T HE PtKENIX FIRE INSURANCI I OMPAXY. (Established a. d i The undersigned have been appointed A above Company, anil are prepared to I at current rates. I STIVEN I I Singapore, Ist March, 1 885. PE STRAITS FIRE INSURANT I COMPANY, LIMITED. Hbao On ice, Sing ifore. SUBSCBIBBO CAPITAI
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