The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 8 May 1894
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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly)
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Title Section18 1894-05-08 269 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. WEEKLY MAIL EDITION. THIRD SERIES. TUESDAY, MAY Bth, 1894. No. 35418 words
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Article337 1894-05-08 269 v. Art i< LEs. Grand Committees, 2 6q IVaf md Commerce, 2 6q nperi il and Colonial Relations, 2^o k 1 Ni ws. c Court <ni iiy to a Horse, 2*4 RT, &C. Pennis rhe SC. Tournament, 270 v toting |*he li'U'iI i'U'i -Settlement Ki:lc Match, 271, 2"8 <337 words
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Article186 1894-05-08 269 Corrected up to May 7.) On London. Bank 4 m/s 2/1 j demand 2/1 j Private credits 3 m/s 2/1 1 documents 3 m/s 2/2 credits 0 m/s 2/2^ On India. H mk demand 193 On Hongkong. Rank demand par. On Java. (tank demand 1.28 iw.it 3«. d/s 132186 words
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Domestic Occurrences.
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Article32 1894-05-08 269 On the 23rd ult., at Kuching, Sarawak in the R. C. Church of St. Jo,eph, by the Rev. O. Dribssbn, Jacob j. Aroozoo of the Postal Department, to Aljce N. Gabit.32 words
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Obituary25 1894-05-08 269 On the 4th inst., at Pasir Panjanjr, Sungei Ujong, suddenly, the result of a fall, George W. Orton Assistant Collector Coast District, Sungei Ujong.25 words
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Article486 1894-05-08 269 Ihe next in til from Europe is expected t-> arrive, by the P O. S.S. Sutlej On the 16th inst., with English mails up to the 20th ult. The M. M. mail steamer Oceanien arrived to-day with London dates to the 13th ult. This mail leaves by the486 words
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Article381 1894-05-08 269 Grand Committees. (May 1st.) Of the present movement to parochialise the yet United Kingdom the fomentors may be quite sure that, once rashly begun, it will not be easy, nor reasonable, to stop it. What is claimed for one local section will soon be claimed for another, and every little381 words
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Article, Illustration922 1894-05-08 269 War and Commerce. (May 3rd.) A GENTLEMAN by the name of ZOSSENHEIM submitted a proposal the other day, to the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, of an ingenious and highly utilitarian character. It was to the effect that a memorial be presented to the Government that the Navy be used for922 words
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Page 269 Advertisements
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Advertisement69 1894-05-08 269 EVERYONE HERE SWEARS by it! EVERYONE HERE SWEARS by it! The late Mr. Walter Knaggs, who for many years vms a resident of Singapore, wrote. "All my friends here swiar by Anteczema.' AnUcxema is a grand outward remedy for insect bi>es, prickly heat, eczema, Dhobie itch and all tropical skin69 words
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564 1894-05-08 270 Imperial and Colonial Relationship. (May 4th.) To-day is printed a letter to the Times written by Sir JULIUS VOGEL, which is, as will be seen, particularly in its concluding portion, an impoitant contribution to the discussion on that great question which it has beer, the fate, and if our leading564 words
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Article1599 1894-05-08 270 The various events in this tournament are now concluded. Full details of the play throughout are Championship. First Round. Sergeaunt beat Makepeace, w.o. Bra'ddell beat Muir, 7—5, 6-2. F. M. Elliot, beat F. D. Mactaggart, 6—1,6—1. Woodward, Scott, Jackson, Egerton GuggisSecond Round. Scott beat Woodward,1,599 words
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Article839 1894-05-08 270 ECCLESIAS TICAL NOTES. The Wishing op Ps*r. The Roman Catholic Pro-Cathedral, X- nttng. ton, was crowded to the doors on the 22nd nit. t witness the performance by the Bishop of WeM minster of the ceremony of the Washing Feet," gone through in the Roman Catholu churches on Holy Thursday839 words
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Page 270 Advertisements
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Advertisement79 1894-05-08 270 NOW READY: PRICE Si. People in a Native State, BY J. H. 11. ROBSOX. A Reprint of the Scries of Articles .'ippearing in the Singapore Free Press* Neatly bound in Paper; 64 pp. Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Singapore. Messrs. John Little Co., Singapore, and The "Singapore Free PresV Office A79 words
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Article826 1894-05-08 271 Capt. Mackenzie, Superintendent of Police, Sungei Ljong, has arrived in Singapore on leave.^ Mr. C. O. Blagden, District Officer, Maacca, proceeds on leave to Europe by German mail. fhc i >< al agent of the Messageries Maril M de Bure, notifies alterations in return fares t»826 words
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Article438 1894-05-08 271 Excitement ran high this morning in Lamangkang, a small Chinese village about 10 miles below KotaTinggi, Johore, owing to a piratical raid on the Opium Farmer's premises there. So far as can be learnt a party of between 20 and 30 Bugis and Chinese, strangers to438 words
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Article139 1894-05-08 271 SEL ANGOR NEWS. I t [Gazette, April ***** Chancres in the Districts of Officers are Mr. AlJworth to Ulu Langat Mr. J.I!. M. Kobson to Klang Mr. M. M. Hatchell to Ulu Selangor; and Mr. C. N. Maxwell to Kuala Kubu. Mr. Alfred Beck and Edward Spinks have been appointed139 words
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Article145 1894-05-08 271 We have received a postcard bearing the following announcement With t lie April number (Midwinter Fair Number) the editorial and business control of the Overland Moifthly will be assumed by X >unsevelle VVildman, iate United State^Consul at Singapore, and at Barmen, Germany, and United StateWorld's Fair Commissioner145 words
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71 1894-05-08 271 THE INTER SETTLEMENT RIFLE MATCH. Mr. A. Chapman. Hon. Secy. Hongkong 1 Rifle Association, in forwarding the certiti<_<l scores oi ii»<; Hongkong team to Mr. \V. G- St. Clair, Hon. Secy., Singapore Rifle Assoi iatiun, says We only beat you by tlie narrow margin of six points, and congratulate you71 words
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Article875 1894-05-08 271 The Hongkong Score. (China Mail, 24th Aprii.) The Hongkong team fired off at the rifle range at Kowloon this afternoon in the annual Inter-port Rifle Match with Singapore and Shanghai. It was somewhat unfortunate that the team had to shoot to-day, as they were deprived of the875 words
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Article58 1894-05-08 271 I i Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., has received a letter from the ex-Sultan Abdullah of Perak, stating that he is about to visit j England under certain conditions laid down I by the Marquess of Ripon, Secretary of j State for"the Colonies. He will leave the58 words
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Article155 1894-05-08 271 At a conference of representalives of the Town Council and Chambers of Commerce in the midland districts of Scotland, held in Edinburgh on 2nd inst., resolutions were adopted in favour of the construction I of a canal connecting the Forth and the Clyde, and a Committee was adopted to obl155 words
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Article128 1894-05-08 271 H.M.'S Government Considerik the Subject. A correspondent having written to Lorrf Rosebery, drawing his altention to the currency <juestion, and urging the necessity and importance of the Government dealing promptly with the subject, has received the following reply v 10, Downing-street, Whitehall, SAY Sir, —la answer to128 words
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Article197 1894-05-08 271 The first annual report from Feb. 4, 1893, to Dec. 31 last, to Le presented at the meeting 0:1 17th inst., states: The net pro'it-; ior that period, after providing for bad and doubtful debts, amount to £21,} 12 iis. od. From tins, however, it197 words
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Article516 1894-05-08 271 The Queen has given directions for the reappointtnetit of James Montague Bent Vermont, Esq., to be an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. Mr. J. Benloe Wilkinson, the managing director of the Straits Development Co., which has taken over the Pahang Exploration and Development Co., was516 words
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1848 1894-05-08 272 (Translated for the Free Press.") In the Indischc Mercuur an interesting account is given of a lecture by the celebrated Leyden Professor J. J. M. de Groot, on the subject of the flow of Chinese immigration into the Dutch Colonies and -whether precaution against this1,848 words
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Article813 1894-05-08 272 The British members of the Opium Commission will assemble in London on the earliest convenient day after the arrival of the Sunbeam for the purpose of agreeing upon the terms of their report. It is understood, the Times says, that Lord Brassey explained to his colleagues before813 words
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Article880 1894-05-08 272 The Orient is wreathed with bamboo. A con siderable proportion of the houses in the East are built of bamboo, and at one season of the yea' many thousands of natives are fed on bamboo. There is nothing else I should find so impossible to wipe880 words
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Article234 1894-05-08 272 The s.s. G tang Ann, from Samarang, o: her way to Singapore, passed a barque supposed to be the Ephraim C. lielntonf bound for Singapore*, 25 miles to the X. \Y The next ordinary meeting of the Singapore Amateur Photographic Society will be held in the Society's Rooms, on Thursday234 words
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Article1564 1894-05-08 273 The report of Mr. Kershaw, the Official Assignee, for 1893 is published in the last (icrernment (iazette. Taking figures first, we get the following: At the end of 1892 the Chambers of Commerce were asked Whether it is at all expedient to maintain any State organisation for1,564 words
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Article447 1894-05-08 273 The Undaunted, armoured cruiser, was to be commissioned on 16th April for the China Station, to relieve the Leander. The Imperial German mail steamer Preuss- having left Colombo on the 28th instant at 7 p. m., may be expected to arrive here on Thursday. In the Kuala Lumpor Civil Courts,447 words
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Article885 1894-05-08 273 Mr. C. O. Blagden, Malacca, has arrived in Singapore, and will leave for England on Saturday. The "Card oi the Matches" for the Cricket, May and June, Season of the S.C.C. is now in course of preparation. The Russian transport Orel, from Odessa, bound for Vladivostock,885 words
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Article672 1894-05-08 273 Reorganization Schemr. The general outlines of the reorganization of the S. V. A. Corps have now, it is understood, been in the main approved, subject to ceitain details being sanctioned by Col. Jones Vaughan on arrival. The reason for reorganising the work of the Corps, and to672 words
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975 1894-05-08 273 Head Quarter Oftice, Singapore, 2nd May, 1&94* 1. In connection with the reorganization of the Corps now under consideration, it is proposed to include twelve Cyclists. Members who desire to bs detailed Cyclists, and gentlemen wlio may wish to join the Corps in that ctpactty. will975 words
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Article160 1894-05-08 274 [Gazette. April 27th Mr. E. W. Birch, Secretary to Government, has been granted nine months' leave. Colonel Walker, C. M. G., acts as Secretary to Government Capt. Talbot acts as Commandant Ist Perak Sikhs; and Mr H. T. Duhan as Deputy Commissioner, Ist Perak Sikhs An amending order160 words
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Article570 1894-05-08 274 The district of Kinta. Perak, is par excellence the land of tin, nothing else being exported but a few buffalo hides, the revenue consisting almost entirely of the customs dues on tin, and the receipts from licences, $1,565,939 is the total of the revenue collected, which570 words
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Article137 1894-05-08 274 The other day in Hankow, during a game of golf the favourite amusement in that port the ball was driven close to a milestone whereon a kite was resting. The kite immediately began inspecting the ball, and, on the approach of the players, seized it in its talons and flew137 words
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1003 1894-05-08 274 Proposed Exhibition of Produce. Among the passengers arriving by the British India S. S. Pentakota from Rangoon this morning were Messrs. Rowe and Kelly, Commissioners of ihe Victorian Government, and Mr.'E. J. Dyer, the Special Commissioner of the Melbourne Argus and Australasian, Messrs. Rowe and1,003 words
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Article609 1894-05-08 274 The Japan-Bombw Live. Ho ugkong Telegrap h As far as the current rates of freight imintained for weeks past between Bombay and the Far Hast are concerned, there can be but tittle doubt that things are rapidly going from bad to ivorae tie natural outcome of a fierce609 words
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Article209 1894-05-08 274 Uis safe to predict that lite finding 4 t\\<i Hemp Drug- tMnniitision i« India cill be ar« commeiui'iiion nut u> ii»lei/«-rc i\ the habits of the [teoide. I h<* existing 1., a •ill doubtless l»e enforced in .illilu- jc >- iino*s <>! India, as is tiit* irase at |>i<s<! in209 words
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Article917 1894-05-08 275 A New Treaty. A special despatch to the San Francisco Chronicle, dated Washington, March 2;st, reads as follows The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations h*s been considering an important Chinese treaty negotiated by the new Chinese Minister and Se- < reiary Gresham. The treaty was917 words
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Article207 1894-05-08 275 I he Government of India is making systematic inquiry into the efficacy of hypodermic injections of strychnine in the treatmeni of snake-bite. The Punjab Government has forwarded a list of cases so treated in the movince during the past year. Hongkong correspondent of the A. C Herald wiites thus on207 words
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Article950 1894-05-08 275 Moromi was a Jap. He had been discharged from a ship at Singapore, and he was wandering, without a cent, about the boarding-house quarter of the town, by the Tanjong Pagar Dock, when he met a Godserang (crimp), who told him that he could get him950 words
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Article191 1894-05-08 275 The Lf.ntcrne, commenting upon the result of Phra Yot trial gets impatient. It says: Those who know the duplicity of the Siamese may form two hypotheses either the men put forward as Phra Yot, at the trial, was a dummy, a man of stnnv, on the chance that our witnesses191 words
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Article782 1894-05-08 275 The Mail despatched from Singapore to London, via Brindisi, on the 4th April, was delivered on the 30th ultimo. In consequence of a bereavement in his family Mr. Paton Ker will be unable to ride at the forthcoming race meeting. The loss of Mr. Ker's services782 words
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Article306 1894-05-08 275 The cable steamer Seine, which is laying the second section of the Hongkong-La-baan cahle, is expected to arrive at Hongkong to-night, or earjy to-morrow «norning, when the cable will be cut and buoyed to 0 allow of the necessary pieparations to lay the shore end, so that306 words
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Article146 1894-05-08 275 (Special Telegram to the Free Press-* y The Setthiy from Rangoon to Penan g, was wrecked on Friday last. April 27U1. „rf Kalegouk and has been abandoned. Sinwas not insured. [The Setthi wi> a vessel of 4 v tons trading under the Siamese lli^ between Tongkah,146 words
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Article101 1894-05-08 275 (I'iti Bangkok.) April 2 »ih. The socialist deputy Toussaiftt w •> interfered in t!ie strike of steel workers at T: 4nios will be prosecuted. The stipend of the Archbishop of Lyons has hev.u suspended \o\ 1 is action in candemiMJig \'v new regulation that ;»!l church funds shall101 words
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Article275 1894-05-08 275 The postponed annual general meeting of the Singapore Philharmonic Society ivitl be held at Raffles Boys' School, on Monday, the 7th inst., at 5 i s p.m. A Cycling organ says: There are always differences of opinion as to what wheel men should imbibe, but every one is agreed that275 words
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Article1222 1894-05-08 276 K Ry a Special Correspondent of the Free Press." Koh-si- Chang, April 23. April, as you know, is ilie hot month in Bangkok, and the present April happens to dc, in the opinion of the oldest inhabitant, the hottest ever known. Hut there are compensation.*. First,1,222 words
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Article649 1894-05-08 276 The French cruiser Bayard, the new flagship of the French squadron in the China seas, seems to have slipped past Singapore in a quiet sort of way during the flight about the 12th inst. on her way to Saigon. The Bayard and the Centurion, the649 words
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Article872 1894-05-08 276 The ninth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the above Company was held in the Exchange Rooms, at noon to-day (3rd). Mr. J. P. Joaquim was in the chair, and among those present were Messrs. John Anderson, A. Reid, W. H. Frizell, E. Nathan,872 words
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Article214 1894-05-08 276 The terrific storm of yesterday aftenuvm expended itself over the inland of Singapore in rain, the lightning and thunder being apparently some distance away. The full fury of the storm was felt in Johore where it broke about a quarter past three, the lightning being vivid in in**214 words
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Article89 1894-05-08 276 Dr. Max. F. Simon, the popular Principal Civil Medical Officer of the Straits Settlements, has turned his trip home to good professional account by adding to his li-t of qualiiications. On March 30th, after having passed the necessary examination^ Dr. Simon had conferred upon him the89 words
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Article670 1894-05-08 276 Commenting on the question of legislation on the above subject the Hongkong Dally Press remarks The object ot the Bill, if it can be effected, i«, an eminently desirable one. European rirm>, m.l rul«*, advertise their partnerships, and in their ca-o it is seldom that any misapprehension670 words
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Article43 1894-05-08 276 A roposal oi nun f n- \n Simm «s Ic. i ask i la.ly to inartj y«»a by id r ,iy i)iiv i h i Hover or by lakit^* H Uffiit fiom a cigireuc i i (uppcfis to be in lici mo iih.43 words
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Article1389 1894-05-08 277 STRAI TS-BORN CHINESE IN SIAM. Rkmarkabli < kmetkry Litigation. Fesg-Shui and Cross Sticks. 1,500 Tit als Damages. On Thursday 26th inst., in H. B. M. Consular oort, Hangkok, before Mr. Beckett (Acting- onsut] in^ a J ur y» c P*>w, widow of Ong Kek Kee, a Chinaman, for herself, and1,389 words
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Article239 1894-05-08 277 The Bangkok papers announce the death of Dr. Hasse, Director of the Royal Museum, which occurred on the 24th inst. The Bangkok Times gives this notice of his career Dr. Hasse came to Bangkok about three years ago as Director of the Royal Museum. He was239 words
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Article619 1894-05-08 277 A junior civilian sends the Pioneer the following facts in connection with the competition for the Indian Civil Service before the grant of exchange compensation (> At the time the entries closed for the open competition last year the Herschell Committee were still considering their report, exchange compensation had not619 words
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Article532 1894-05-08 277 The Italian Consul asks us to announce that an international exhibition of publicity and advertising is being held at Milan this year, from May to October. Particulars can be obtained from M. Goyzueta. Mr. Carle, of the Chartered Bank, will presently rHieve Mr. Forbes at Kuala532 words
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Article888 1894-05-08 277 CAPT. E. A. SNOW (82nd Success on the Operatic Stage. There must be a good many Singapore residents who have a lively memory of the excellent rendering of the important part of Eccles, given by Lieut. Krnest A. Snow, of the 82nd (South Lancashire) Regiment, in an amateur representation of888 words
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Article227 1894-05-08 277 There has long been felt a necessity for a revised chart of the shipping and other signals flown from the flag-staff in Singapore. Mr. B. B. J. Rozells has taken the matter in hand and has prepared a full and useful chart, which is to be sent227 words
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338 1894-05-08 278 (Pinang Gazette.) A Teluk Anson correspondent sends us the following account ot the accident but without date:— The s. S. Canton came in this morning bringing up 50 men who had been rescued from the Kwang Tung. It seems that the unfortunate Xgapnota, when quite close338 words
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Article437 1894-05-08 278 A Chinaman Runs Amuck. A Chinaman named Ng Buck Tong is in irons en roard the City of Peking, which arrived in Yokohama en April 16th, tor the murder of a felon-countryman. About half past two on tl c afternoon of 31st March, when437 words
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Article379 1894-05-08 278 Foom.i, April 2,}. The execution of Private O'Hara, of the Leinsicr Regiment, which came oft iX Ytrn-wda Jail this morning at 7-15 was a ccmaikaLle scent*. The whole Leinster Regiment z. r.d one Company from each ol the other Regiments in Poona were present to379 words
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382 1894-05-08 278 HONGKONG VICTORIOUS. To-day the Hon. Secretary of the Singapore Rifle Association is advised by telegram from Shanghai that the Shanghai team have fired and that their score amounts to 760. The order of the scoring in the InterSettlement Rifle Match for 1894 is theretore as follows382 words
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Article125 1894-05-08 278 The Match List of the S. C. C. for May and June is appended. Except the matches marked *(\vhich begin at 1 1 a. m.) play commences at 2 p. m May sth. Over 2 yrs. Members v. Under 2 rs. Members. ♦May 14th. First XI v. Garrison. May125 words
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Article232 1894-05-08 278 It is the Chinese custom to cut a mark on Japanese silver yen as a sign of their being legal tender according to Japanese Law this is strictly prohibited, and coins so marked are not allowed to circulate. There are many such now circulating in Yokohama and Kobe, and consequently232 words
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671 1894-05-08 278 (To the Editor of the Times) Sir,— Sir Saul Samuel, in his admirable reply to Sir John Colomb, dealt with the whole subject comprehensively. Sir John now complains that he was not answered more in detail. He especially wants a response to his question,671 words
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Article382 1894-05-08 278 The members of the Retrenchment Committee go to Penang this afternoon in the Colonial steamer S.a Belle. The story that a deviation of lief comJ pass resulting from the presence of steel in a cork leg wogi by the man at the wheel caused the steamer Susan E. Peck to382 words
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Article182 1894-05-08 278 An Anti-Opiumist Methodist Missionary Co victed. Compensation Award* d to thr Bomrw Opium Farmer. Bombay, April 20.— The Chief Presidency Ma gist rate yesterday delivered his decision in the ca^<> of defamation instituted by Mr. Damjee f Tjrjhmt chund, Manager to the Government Opium Farm er of182 words
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Article246 1894-05-08 278 We understand that there is a feelino among the junior members of the Cricket Club that the Cricket Sub-Committee might direct a little more attention to second eleven cricket than has heretofore been done What seems to be desirable is that when a first eleven is playing246 words
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Article409 1894-05-08 278 Mr. David Christie Murray, the author oi some 21 novels, the latest of which is >( I; Direst Peril," appeared at Bow-street oil the 3rd ult. charged wit li neglecting to maintain his wife. Alice Lydta Mary Mftrray. Counsel alleged that dekndant allowed Ilis wife to live as a machinist409 words
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Article2041 1894-05-08 279 The Dutch steamer Swaerdecroon reported on arrival, this morning having sighted the British fuur-masted ship Matterktr*! ol Liverpool, bound to Shanghai in long, o 10S. and lat. io6 c 130" E. She wished to be reported all well. Mr. A. KeiJ gors home fora few months2,041 words
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Article386 1894-05-08 279 {From ctt>- vwn Cc respondent.) Although the sum of §4,140 has been fixed as the yearly amount the Municipality will have to pay the Government for the Waterworks, nothing has yet been paid, and the Municipality have been informed that nothing will be demanded until the water is fit386 words
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Article292 1894-05-08 279 Engineers— Home and Locxi.. To the Editor. Sir, The Municipal Commissioners* advertisement for a Chief Engineer for the Singapore pumping station would appear to be a sort of bogus advertisement, as their requirements are a mattet of impossibility, at all events with regard to Certificates. Applicants, it is stated,292 words
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Article474 1894-05-08 279 Particulars as to the tenders for the Opium and Spirit Farms from Jan.ist, 1895, are published. Whitmonday, May 14th, and Thursday, May 24th, the anniversary of the Queen's Birthday, will be observed as public and Bank Holidays. Mr. E. H. Bell is appointed chairman of the Licensing Justices474 words
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Article19 1894-05-08 279 The :mi-L:an w'mo wants to keep his eye- on lh* sc t!-^ ii.-i.: have no scales on his eye-.19 words
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Article55 1894-05-08 279 Respcctitig our 'chit" methods of ordering i^oods, a Madras paper remarks that ii a resolute cash principle were to bo enforced, the Straits would be a much cheap- cr place to live in than it is. Where chits i are in vogue, those ulio pay cash have Lo I pay55 words
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Article1190 1894-05-08 280 The Pinang Gazette has a penchant for quoting the Weekly Topics of the S. F. P. Nothing that the Editor of our Northern contemporary puts in his paper pleases us so much or convinces us more strongly that the Editor is a man of taste. But1,190 words
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Article423 1894-05-08 280 No Reduction of Capital. The following circular has been issued to the Shareholders of the Jelebu Mining and Trading Co. by the general agents, Messrs. Huttenbach Co. In the Directors' report under date Jotli April lor the recent half-year the following paragraph was submitted to423 words
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Article262 1894-05-08 280 The jinrikislia, *which has successfully conquered the Straits and Ceylon, has now (says the Madias Mail) invaded Bombay. Those jinrikishas that are in use there an*, it is true, private property, but, they are the usual forerunners of the uon I. ire type which, when they come, come generafIv like262 words
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Article436 1894-05-08 280 {Madras Times.) Reuters announcements yesterday that Lord Ripon has at length given his consent to the construction of the Malacca Railway will be received with great joy in the Straits. If ever any place was ambitious it is the Straits Settlements, and the linking in of the436 words
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408 1894-05-08 280 A lecture on this subject was delivered at the Royal Institution lately by Professor Y. Horsley. The lecturer commenced his address by observing that the subject presented itself under two aspects, the physic *l and the pathological, and that it was with ihe latter he408 words
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Article68 1894-05-08 280 Coßrs Orders Head Quarter Office, Singapore, May sth, 1 894. 1. The following having been duly elected are posted to Subdivision as follows Gr. F. S B. Gaffney to A. Subdivision. M. E. Plumpton to C. Do. J. Sihbons to D. Do. 2. Members are reminded of68 words
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Article202 1894-05-08 280 Says lite writer of Science Notes in \Ut D*ti! Chronicle, the conuovcisy regarding the origin of gold nuggets has always been nearly as kn".\ :t--ihe eagerness !o get them. 'Jr. Srlwyn, Dir.cl uf Ihe Canadian Geological Survey, ami who a* the incumbent of a similar position in Victoria had plenty202 words
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Article854 1894-05-08 280 Says the Indian Planters Gazette Every racing man will be glad to learn that a jockey having struck another jockey over the face with his whip during a race, is not considered by the FVnang T. C. a seriuus matter." Cavenagh was warned off for life by this body for854 words
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Article229 1894-05-08 281 The Mail despatched from Singapore to London, vim Marseilles, on the 10th ultimo, iras delivered on the sth instant. Amongst the passengers leaving by the homeward bound German mail steamer Sv ksen yesterday afternoon were Mr. S. j Mr. A. Reid and Mr. C. O. Blagden.229 words
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Article242 1894-05-08 281 A i ru ket match, Over 2 years v. Under 2 hears members of the S. C. C, was played |he Esplanade on Saturday, with the I i low ing result. Over 2 Years. I ii (irant b Morren o I 1 .H. Darby c Plumpton b Shell'ord 3242 words
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Article294 1894-05-08 281 n Saturday evening last there was a special meeting of Loyal Orange Lodge No. 615 and the Sir \V. Harnden Chapter ol ihe Royal Black Preceptory combined l« bit good bye to Revd. Hro W. H. B. Ureh, Chaplain to both institutions. The Chair was takrn by294 words
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Article430 1894-05-08 281 Civil v. Military. This match, five a side, was shot yesterday on Balestier in weather that, although apparently not unfavourable, turned out to be altogether against good scoring. Owing, perhaps, to the effect of the heavy rains and storms just over, the elevation was abnormally high at the430 words
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Article310 1894-05-08 281 Fatal Result 01 a Faij A Port Dickson correspondent sends the sad news of the sudden death of Mr. G. \V. Orton, of the Sungei Ll jong service, at his residence at Pasir Panjang, in that State, the result of an unfortunate accident. Early310 words
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Article80 1894-05-08 281 The Mail despatched from Singapore to London, by German Packet, on the 9111 ultimo, was delivered on the 3rd instant. On the Sepoy Lines Links on Saturday Mr. J. B. Robertson did two exceedingly good rounds, 36 and 38=74. The record for one round was previously 37, while for two80 words
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Article836 1894-05-08 281 The Court of Enquiry. The enquiry into the collision between the Ngapoota and the Kivang Tung on the night of the 23rd ult, took place at Penang on the 2nd. The Couit was composed of Mr. H. T. Haughton, First Magistrate, Lieut. Hayes Sadler, R.N., Mr. H.836 words
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Article279 1894-05-08 281 Mr. Edward Atkinson agrees (in the North American Review) that the gold basis of currency is iixed by commerce itself, and, both metals being used on that basis, urges that the plan now known as Bimetallism would be more truely called" Bi-Icgal-tenderism." Mr. J.279 words
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Letter155 1894-05-08 281 To THE RDITO*. Sir, Your correspondent "Would be Applicant" is mistaken when he says that the possession of both the home atH local certificate implies some shanonocking." When I passed in Glasgow the examiner told me he had nothing to do witli my local certificate. It also might be inferred155 words
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Letter149 1894-05-08 281 Engineers Home and Local. To the Editor. Dear Sir, Referring to the 1» tter in your Saturday's i<sue from a Would he Applicant regarding an advertisement for a Chief I gineer at Pumping Station the writer deserves much credit for calling attention to the absurdity of the spec ification. To149 words
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Article349 1894-05-08 281 A correspondent writes to a Shanghai paper as follows Of course everything is more or less topsyturvy in the Kast. hut the rules with regard to marriage are well-known to be particularly so. With us, money on the patt of a son in-law is desir ilile if349 words
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Article197 1894-05-08 281 The prize list of d.c Flower Show to be held in the S. V. A. Drill Hall on Lite 14th and 15th June has now been published, Hrst and second prizes being offered as usual for (1) ornamental Inline plants in pots, (2) plants in pois, in flower, (3) plants197 words
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6626 1894-05-08 282 Notes and Anticipations. Coming to the Deibv, which will be a much more interesting race, there are five 1 u tries, two short of last meeting, but on the whole it may be considered a fair field, as we have seid ;m more horses running6,626 words
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Article31 1894-05-08 283 Amongst the passengers arriving by the Malacca, this morning were Mrs. Treacfaer Dr. Craddon and Mr. Skinner. Mr. F. A. Swettenham, Resident of Peiak, arrived in the Mena from Port Dtckson.31 words
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Article131 1894-05-08 283 (May 7th, 1894.) Homeward freights continue steady, tonnage being only in moderate supply. Tor London, via Canal, 25/- is still current rate for Bag Goods, 30/- for Bale Gambier and measurement. For Liverpool rates are 30/- and 32/6. Kor the Continent there is no change, Hamburg quotations are 25/-131 words
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Advertisement24 1894-05-08 283 rJUST PUBLISHED, NEW REVISED EDITION English Malay Vocabulary, BY F. A. SWhITKNIIAM. Price $3. To BE il AI) O i JOHN LITTLE Co., Singapo.e.24 words
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Advertisement415 1894-05-08 283 G. R. Lambert Co., PHOTOGRAPHERS, GRESHAM HOUSE, BATTERY ROAD, AM) 106, ORCHARD ROAD. HAVE JUS T UNP A C XXI) 3 Sherv's Palent Hand Cameras, plait-, cornpVe, specially constructed for the tiopics. A LARGB XSSORIMKNT SOLID BOUND ALBUMS. KOR Portraits and Views. Scr IP-Albums. Murastwding Sc Fan< v Framfs. Complete-415 words
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Article91 1894-05-08 284 London. Ist May, fSgjMr. H. H. Fowler, Secretary of State for India, declared in the House of Commons that neither the Government of India nor the Secretary of Sate contemplates the re-opening of the Indian mints. Russia and China. In the modus Vivendi between Russia aud China91 words
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Article75 1894-05-08 284 The Labour Anniversary. London, 2nd May. 18^4. The Mayday celebrations on the continrnt passed off quietly. Bulgaria. Ihe Paris correspondent of the Times states that the Emperor of Austria and j ihe Sultan have undertaken to mediate with the Czar to obtain recognition of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Disestablishment in75 words
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Article79 1894-05-08 284 The Chester Cup." London, jrd May, /Sgj. The result of the Chester Cup was 1. Qua-si turn. 2. Daredevil. 3. Spindleleg. The Bimetallic Conference. The international bi-m<-Ltllic Conference has opened its proceedings at Mansion House. There are prerent German, French and Dutch unofficial delegates. The Conference is purely consultative and79 words
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Article113 1894-05-08 284 London, 4th May, is94> During the course of the debate in the French Chamber on the foreign budget, M. Blanc said that the Triple Alliance was solely defensive that the pacific wishes of European sovereigns excluded all danger of war and that there is nothing to113 words
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Article54 1894-05-08 284 THE NGAPOOTA— KWANTUNG COLLISION. f Special Wire to the Free Press." j Penang 222 pm. The Court of Enquiry into the collision between the Ngapoota and Kwantung has resulted in the suspension of the certiorate of the Master of the former (Capt. Witt) lor six months. The certificates of the54 words
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Article308 1894-05-08 284 London, 5/// May, itfyj. The Registration Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons. Anarchi ts convicted. The Anarchists Ferrara and Polti who were arrested in London have been sentenced to twenty and ten years penal servitude respectively. A Billiard Ereak Breaking the308 words
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Article362 1894-05-08 284 MAY 7th, 1894. Quotation. Capital Paid up Shares Pd. Div, Hongkong &S'haiß^nk. 89 rem. $10,*****0 $10,000,000 80,000 *****s yr r 1 IQ,Q7OA £8 NafonaJ Bank of O ma $35 <^- ooo.ooe 150 2 £g Founders. $150 Nominal 75° l Bk. of China, Jap. Straits $2 \l* ooo.oeo £249.84!362 words
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Advertisement60 1894-05-08 284 ANGLO-FRENCH COLLEGE FOR LADIEg Linden Hall. Clapham Road London. Principals: Misses Lc Boutillier, HIGH class education for Gentlemen's daughters. Preparation for all Examinations. Great attention paid to languages, music and physical development. Spacious accommodation and comforts unsurpassed. Fees moderate and inclusive. Reference J. J. Macbean, Esq., Howarth Erskine, Limited, Singapore.60 words
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Advertisement126 1894-05-08 284 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.. LIMITED. F'ENANG, RANGOON &CAIJCUI A. One of the Compariy's steamers is Httsnded HI leave [;i\.)ov.£ Pagar Wharf every week. Passei per- and Cargo are booked by the au^e steamers at through rates to all portb in \mdm wnd Ceyioti also to Kast African Ports, Mauniu-,126 words
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Page 284 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous582 1894-05-08 284 CLEARANCES. May 7. Gerd\, Gcr. str., Ehlers, for Havre and Hamburg. Kian Yang, Brit, str., Nacodah.for Maar. Nbbra, l>rit. str., Morris, for T. Anson, via ports. Isabella, Hi it. str., Hudson, for Muar. Amhekst, lint, str., Shimmen, for Selangor, via ports. Sumatra, Ger. str., Zachariae, for Asahan and Deli. Bawkan,582 words
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Miscellaneous1037 1894-05-08 284 VESSELS IN PORT. Flags Ton. Captain Arrived From Consignees For, When Men-of-War Peacock Brit, g.b., 755 Saxton Mar. 27 Bangkok Sr. X. Officer Other Vessels Pa;; Wuatt Soon Brit. 199 Delmage May 5 Pontian^k Ban Seng P tianak, May 8 Ban Seng Guan Brit. 499 Geary May 6 Bangkok Ban1,037 words
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