The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly), 21 May 1895

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (Weekly)
  • 18 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. WEEKLY MAIL EDITION. THIRD SERIES. TUESDAY. MAY 21st, 1895. No. 408
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  • 304 1 LAOIKG ARI H.LES. p eri k and the Singapore Garrison, 305 V.t:- Foreign Feeling in Japan, 305 ire Billiton Mystery, 305 French Irritability, 306 i>e Strangling ot Education, 306 The Bntish Minisier in Japan, 306 The (io\ eminent Note Issue, 306 Supreme Court. The Assi/es, 307 Sh toting. Inter-Settlement
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  • 113 1 i" 30. G s*« 3.55 do. Cube No. 1 12.50 go. do. No. 2 1150 Pepper, Black (ordinary Spore) 11.25 do. White. (Fair L/W= 5 „19 50 wfesegs 150s to the Ib.) 91. M*- ,Banda) 96. v-'3v_i v Amboina) 22. Jper.;.- Coffee 41. ragcrang Libenan 44.50 *yocai pearl (Fair
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  • Domestic Occurrences.
    • 116 1 At Bangkok, on the 9th instant, Beatrice Clement, the beloved daughter of Mr. Mrs. H. C. Johnson. At Xavier's Cottage, Riverside, Malacca, on Sunday the 12th May, Louisa Christina, the beloved wife of Mr. Robert John Shepherdson, Bailiff of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements, aged 49 years,
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  • 70 1 (Corrected up to May jo.) On London. Bank 4 m/s 2/2^ demand 2/1; Private credits 3 m/s 2/2^ documents 3 m/s 2/2$ credits 6 m/s 2/2^ On India. Bank demand 194 On Hongkong. Bank 4 demand On Yokohama. Bank demand par. On Java. Bank demand 130 Private 30 d/s
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  • 647 1 Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, L'nawed by influence and unbribed by gain I lere patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw. Pledged to Relicion, Loyalty, and Law. (May 14th.) EACH edition of the Statesman's YearBook, for the past four or five years, has
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  • 176 1 (May 15th.) It was only the other day that a private correspondent writing from Hongkong expressed his conviction that foreign political interference with Japan, especially in the line of depriving that nation of what it might conceive to be the legitimate fruits of its victory in
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  • 253 1 (May 1 6th) Late in the afternoon comes serious news implying that in all probability the s. s. Bil!itun now amissing, has been destroyed as the result of an explosion of an undefined nature. Burning wreckage has been observed floating in the sea off Muka Head of
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 36 1 PRANK HOLLEY'S F SHOEING FORGE, SSION i RAINING STABLES. No. 9, Armenian Street, SHOD b\ old and experienced^snoeths under special European cia-s acccrr-.mudaiionfor Race Horse v. ORSES BOUGHT w SOLD on corr, mission. Ac i v.c
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    • 21 1 TO BE LET, IMMEDIATELY piREPROOF Depot Tanjong Pagar, capable of being sub-divided. Apply to No, 6, Collyer Quay. April 3. cc.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 352 1 THE WEEK. The next mail from Europe is expected to arrive by the P. and O. S. S. Pekin on the 25th inst, with London dates to the 3rd inst being followed by the N. D. L. S. S. Prim Heinrich on the 31st ult., with English mails of the
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  • 669 2 (May 17th) FRANCE has been in a mood for some time which must be an unhappiness to berself as it is a danger to others. In proportion as the irritability of her temper increases so does an apparent readiness to seize, even to create, causes of misunderstanding and
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  • 999 2 (May 1 8th.) The education report of Mr. Hill for 1894 has already been largely quoted from in these columns not by any means in approval, but as raere'y indicating the present trend of the Government in matters educational. The retrenchment policy adopted in respect to
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  • 321 2 If ever there was a time when the best and most experienced man the Foreign Office has to spare to represent Britain in Japan should be sent there, now is the moment. In Mr. Satow the Government have fortunately been able to put the right
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  • 434 2 (May 20th.) TO-DAY the Singapore Chamber of Commerce almost unanimously adopted a resolution approving of the Government proposal to establish a Treasury note issue concurrently with the bank note issues now current in the Straits. The Chamber further almost unanimously expressed its approval of the proposal
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  • 501 2 i-ia. The following is the report of the Dimi the Membeis ot the Straits Trading Co. 6 months ending isi March, iXoa, second half of the business year, 1694/180- Out of the available net Profits of 6- m (including J53'.793-5^ brought forward from previous halt year)
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  • 1553 3 uy\*> Mercury, Capt. Fawkes, left f&r Pcnang this morning at eight o'clock. Hi Charles Reginald Hoffmeister, »^r.at-law. of the Society of Lincoln's Inn has tiled a petition praying to be Emitted as an advocate and solicitor of a t! Supreme Court, Straits Settlements. I ist evening
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  • 1057 3 The annual medical report on the civil hospitals for 1894 by Dr. Simon, p.c MO is issued as a supplement to the Gazette. The general health of the Settlements during 1894 was good, with very little epidemic disease, although small-pox was prevalent in the Northern Settlement. Dr.
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  • 32 3 The steamer Specialist is expected at Hongkong with upwards of 10,000 packages of gunpowder. This is seated to be one of the largest consignments of powder ever brought to fbat port. t
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  • 232 3 Hongkong Score. {China Mail, 6th May.) The Hongkong team fired off at Kowloon this afternoon in the Jnterport Rifle Match. The wind was very changeable, changing several times from right to left across the range, and the light was very unsteady. Except that they have not
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  • 238 3 On the assembling of the Assize Court this morning, the Chief Justice gave judgment in the case of Thazen Bee, a case which stood over from the last Assizes. This woman, he said, had been convicted of giving false evidence in a civil suit before the Court of
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  • 440 3 Sub-Lieutenant H. Tirhard, of the French man of-war Isly, died at Kobe on the 28th April, and was buried on the following day. The illness to which he succumbed is believed to have been the result of a chill he caught while attending the St. George's Ball at Kobe. Hard
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  • 821 4 Lord Dormer Interviewed. Lord Dormer passed through Hongkong the other day en route to England after fourteen months' sojourn in the interior of Japan, this being his fourth trip to that country. His- connection with and knowledge of matters Oriental may be said to have commenced
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  • 170 4 The following rich story is printed in the j Malaysia Message. It is too good to be lost in the columns of that publication A little Chinese giil belonging- to one of the mission schools went home for a few days. Her molher keeps a little shop, and one day
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  • 867 4 We observe that an article from the Singapore Free Press of March 18th has been reprinted in a Cornish paper the West Briton. The editor of that paper has obtained the opinions (given below) of two other gentlemen of commercial authority on the views expressed in
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  • 80 4 The Japan Mail thus expresses its view of the results of the war so far as China is concerned Japan has shown the nations what China is has laid her prostrate for them to dissect at their convenience. What and how rapid will be the advantage they take of the
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  • 1119 4 Mll Englism^or None. The >iollowi ng paragraphs from Mr. Hill'syWucational report discuss the quesixoxJbi the kind of education which should bj^given in the vernacular schools of the /Tolony The proportion of Malays who attend the English Schools of the Colony, in comparison with other
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  • 17 4 A proposal has been mooted at Bangkok to start a Siam Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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  • 149 4 A PLEASANT INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT. The council of the Institute of v Architects has decided that the n*,, tal is the best of the year read at the' meeting of the Institute and mo«t T^ to receive the gold medal, is that h* v Constructor Taylor, of the Unite/ S^ This
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  • 187 4 The German Naval Department despatching to the Far East a considerable reinforcement in the form of two ships rf war. One of these, the Kaiser, k m armoured central-battery ship eqifctleai to a second-class battle ship, of 7,676 tons 7,800 horse-power, and a speed of ml kn6ts.
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  • 563 4 Dr. Robertson's Diary. Simla, _>6th April. -General Low sends mo*l important news received from Dr. Kobertsoi-, dated Fcyt Chitral, April 20th. The position, hi? says though difficulf, was not h >peless until ih 3rd of March. After thit all the I hitialis oufsid< the Fmt were
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  • 30 4 Mr. A. R. Colquhoun, who «a> at ti.neintl.e Burma Cojnm.f on '> to go to Nicaragua on behalf He will also for the same paper repo« the Nicaraguan and Panama Canals.
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  • 1058 5 as the head.n R Topics of the Week f*Tb no*, too oft, portend dead languages. lf iiomities nostri est farrago libelli J Juvenal. -cent decease calls forth the follow- e pitaph HIC IACENT U PK DSFUMHM ■1 u \is«VK IN'LVSTRTSSIMI OVI WVONDAM sU ns\ STJ ttVOTIDIAVA
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  • 880 5 Selangor is not usually reproached with being a slow going place, but even amidst its financial prosperity and growing importance there still remain a few unfulfilled aspirations in the public mind that render it impossible to describe the State as being absolutely complete in itself. The
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  • 946 5 {From out' own Correspondent.) The heat in Malacca still continues to he excessive and little or no rain has fallen for more than a week. No one here can remember a year when so little rain fell as during the present one and what the Town would have done
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  • 352 5 On the 4th instant, two planters were fined before the Resident's Court at Medan 550 guilders each, for harbouring and employing coolie deserters on their estates. Justice moves so slowly in Deli that the case has been pending since June last. Mr. Justice Maule, says the Central Law Journal, once
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  • 1532 6 Captain Fawkes, H. M. S. Mercury, has paid a visit to Taipeng. The final match in the Association Cup Tie was won by Aston Villa, who defeated West Bromwich Albion at the Crystal Palace on the 20th ult. by one goal to nil. Saturday. May 25th,
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  • 2470 6 Proposed Government Note Issue. A general meeting of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce was held in the Exchange Rooms at noon to-day to consider and resolve upon the proposal of Government to establish a Government Note issue. Mr. J. Andersen presided, and there were also present: Messrs.
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  • Correspondence.
    • 329 7 K*KMKKT TO TIIK CbAMBBH O9 Commerce. Ha. Singapore, Ist April, 1595. > J2" d re «edby the Governor to state, «*W*Qa O f the chamber of Commerce, that His Excellency has received a despatch from the Secretary of State in which His Lordship expresses his opinion that it is. desirable
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    • 99 7 Sir, —K< fen ing to my letter No. 2255/95 of the Ist iifstant, I am directed to state, for the information of the Chamber of Commerce, that the matter of issuing one dollar notes has been left to the decision of the local Government by the Secretary of State, subject,
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    • 428 7 From the Chamber or Com mbrce to Government. Singapore, 30th April, 1895. Sir, I have tbe honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of Ist instant informing the Chamber that His Excellency the Governor has received a despatch from the Secretary of State in which His Lordship expresses his
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  • 929 7 Sir, In reply to your letter of the 30th ultimo relative to the proposed note isssue by the Government, 1 am directed to state that it is intended to exchange coin for Government notes and vice versa to an unlimited extent, at the
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  • 259 7 Writing to the L. C. Express on the subject of the Pahang raiders whose movements Mr. Clifford has anticipated by going into Kelanlan in search of them "R," (Mr. W. H. Read, C.M.G.) makes these remarks This is, I think, the fourth year these wretched marauders have
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  • 126 7 By the last mail (says the L, and C. Express) we learn that a new note issue for the Straits Settlements has been authorised by the Secretary of State. There can be no question that the colony requires more currency in the shape of notes than either the Chartered Bank
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  • 241 7 THE BILLITON DISASTER. According to the Pinang Gazette, the Captain of the Fook C/iing, which arrived this morning (16th), reports that on her way to Langkat he passed Pulau Remao on Monday last «t 5-10 p. m. At 545 he saw the smoke of a burning vessel bearing W. by
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  • 121 7 Sir C. B. H. Mitchell, the Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, forwarded to Lord Ripon on June 30 last reports 'for 180,3, which had been sent to him from the British Residents of the native States of Perak Selangor, Sunguei Ujong, the Negri Sembtlan.
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  • 154 7 The report of I lie Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company (Limited) for the half-year ended Dec. 31 sta'es tivU the gross receipts, including Government subsidies, amounted *****,322/., against 251,698/., and the expenses, including 29.791/. for cost of repairs to cables and expenses
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  • 37 7 A regulation for the better protection of women and girls in the Siate ot Selangor has been passed. A case of rabies having occurred at Klang, dogs in that district are ordered to be confined.
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  • 267 7 S.CC. v. R.A. and R.K. This match was played on the Esplanade on Saturday, and resulted in an easy victory for the S.CC. Major Lambton proved a host in himself and batting for the Club made 101 not out. It was a capital innings and only once was there
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  • 15 7 There will be a Rifle Association Silver Spoon Competition at Balestier on Saturday, June »st.
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  • REUTERS TELEGRAMS.
    • 50 8 A special agreement between Japan and China fixes the terms upon which the Liaotung Peninsula is to be abandoned. The Armenian Atrocities. The representatives of England, France and Russia have presented to the Sultan of Turkey a scheme of reforms in Armenia. London May, 14th. 1895.
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    • 59 8 The Japanese Excited. The Times correspondent at Kobe states that the Japanese are excited and disappointed at the abandoning of the Liaotung Peninsula and that the Ministers and Foreign Legations are guarded. The Armenian Atrocities. Evidences Available. The Commission has discovered the pits at Sassoun where
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    • 269 8 The Duke of Portland's... The Owl i Mr. A. \V. Cox's Solaro 2 Lord Roseberv■'s Sir Visto 3 The Debt of Newfoundland. The Imperial Government have declined to guarantee any portion of the Newfoundland Debt and the Federation scheme is considered doomed. London, 16th May. iS'gj. (Special
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    • 85 8 Gen. Sir Robert Low, and the headquarters of the expeditionary force, have reached Chitral. The Chinese Loot Shanhaikwan. The Chinese troops at Shanhaikwan have revolted and looted the cit\. The population are taking to flight. The Chinese Customs, China objects to a European control over the Customs
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    • 106 8 1 here has been a wonderful week's cricket in England, thirteen centuries having been scored in big matches. In the match between Nottingham and Sussex the former made a record score of 726 in county cricket, defeating Sussex by an innings and 378. The French in
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  • 65 8 "PHK public are informed that the address of the x Society's Inspector, Mr. E. F. Paelai ;•> at he Old Gaol site, Brass Bassa Road. AH persons wishing to report any cases cf cruelty which ma} cotee under their notice are requeued
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  • 575 8 May 20, Bexgkalis, Brit, str., Hunter, for Bagan, via ports. Sri Hong Ann, Brit, str., Rozells, forT. Anson, via ports. Ban Whatt HiM.'Brit. str., Olsen, for T. Anson, via ports. Isabella, Brit, str*., Hudson, for Muar. Arthur Head, Brit, str., Kelby, for Port Said, f.o. Ernest Simons, Fr. str.,
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  • 184 8 (Specially compiled for the Singapore Free Press.) [Date of passing Anjer Nationality and description of vessel Captain's name Where and when sailed. Destination.! May 8. Out. str., Ardjoexa I.c Clercq Batavia, May 8 Rotterdam. May 9. Brit, str., Duke ofArgylb Condy Batavia, Ma\ 9 London. May <>.
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  • 333 8 v Quotation. Capital Paid up Slur©, P<L Hongkong S'hai Bank. 190 prem. J 10,000.000 $10,000,000 80,000 i 2 < r s 541.51 fr National Bank of China $18 £500,000 £400,150 9<97oa /ft Founders. Nominal j S5 8 Bk. of China, Jap. Straits Nominal. <.. ££2,000,000
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  • 141 8 (May 20th, iS«^. I There i^ a full supply ot tonnage on with not a great deal ot car^o c ffering, ai ward rates arc inclined to weakness. For London, pm Canal, Bag Goods are < at 20/-, Bale Gambier _'5 (tf 22 ai.d '''n and measurement -5 For
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 30 8 SPORTSMEN ANDOWNt^r* W. BIGNAIJ J« key aw> J rt engagements. IVell-known tnrou Mediterranean, Ittlj and i'^>pshould l»c addressed to the abmi s c/o H. ABRAMS LIVER1 SI vl- Bra* Ua»alw
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 853 8 VESSELS IN PORT. Flags Ton. Captain Arrived From Consignees For, When Men-ot-War Blommendal Out. 300 Hummel April 30 Bengkalis Neth. Consul Bengkal^, M tv Other Vessels Amherst Brit. 10S Shimmen May 20 T. Anson Wee Bin T. An>or. |fg* Banjermassis Dut. 261 Kramer May 19 Sandakan Mansfield Sandakan. Ma\">; Carolina
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    • 123 8 Passengers for Straits Settlements. Per Pekin. from Bombay, due May 2;. "S'-' and Mrs. E. Finch, 2nd Lieut. H. S. Toppin, Mr, and Mrs. R. S. Stephens. Per Khedive, from London, June [O. -AJtML H. M. Lennox. Per Siiirhdlieii, from Marseilles, dueluw \> Mr. and Mrs. Turner, Mr. Osono, Mr.
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