Straits Times Overland Journal, 21 February 1881

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    17 1 The Straits Times OVERLAND JOURNAL. \ol.. XXI I.- No. :>!!>. SINGAPORE, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1«8I. Prick lo (km
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    Domestic Occurrences. BIRTH.
    16 1 Domestic Occurrences. BIRTH. (l tlu- Is b tVl>ru:iry. tbe f Mv .1 |»Kl' UK- V ter.
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  • STRAITS TIMES MONDAY, 21st FEB., 1881.
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      LATEST MARKET QUOTATION
      119 1 $\W UPORE. 2\ST FICBBU VKY. LBSI. (iaiiJ el i i 1". :k Pt-ppt-i l.C>. Wli, lirqnjiliti 17. Bruni i.20 :> (>u Til J7 7"). tti 8 Mil *j ilw. St. ■•n.-k'--7 do <l-» i 4-"> 6 do T. v;.«>tli 7 du do B«ni<reti upimu.. EXCMANOK On ]j4>Dd»n
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    Summary of the Week.
    635 1 Thk la»t oveilaud issue of t\m Straitw Timks was tlateii Monday, the 11 th instant. The M. M., steamer Iraouadtiy arrived here From Saigon yesterday eveuing about 5 o'clock and leaves to-day with the present homeward mail at 1 p. m., tlie post clo*in«^ at lla.
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    Government Gazette, 18th Feb, 1881.
    373 1 Tiik following Dew notifications appear in v< QmzetU His Honour tlu' Chief J iwtice bat, witli 1 the concurrence of H. K. the Governor, tixed Monday, tlie 7th March, 1881, for holding the Criminal Assizes ;tt Malacca, and Wednesday, the Kith March, 1831, tm holding
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    Penang News.
    382 1 The following items ;»iv from the PMMny Chuette of the Oth February -4 '.ilmnr Bill. it is satisfactory to le«rn that a new labor bill pro* i posed to be passed in apper India, retjulattag district emigration. oontaUM such commendable clauses as stated below. If the bill in
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    Hawaii.
    729 1 Correspondent of tiie Hongkong I tally Prest. I hasten to inform my friends in Hongkong that they are shortly to have conferred on tbem an honour greater than any they have ever had before. They are about to have a Royal visitor not u mere «oion of royalty, nor
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      112 1 P Isstngrrs. I Per steamer Jn)>> 18th -natant. Fr>m Hongkong Mr, ind Mr Lim Soo Tee. For CtUfutla.— From Hongkont; Meejsrs. Oxley. Prtce, Jet i F. M. Ij;tl< act:a. tor Penany Fj n -intiavvjr' Mrs MarNair, Miss MucNair, Mrs. <i ;tli"l«. ind Miss Gottlieb. P^r M. M. Bteatmr Tr,i<>\i<uidij. For
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    Topics of the Day.
    1040 2 bail.ii Thin'*, \hf/i /''<'■'/ r n a rjf. Ti: Cham i. i iik I'oi.wk. Thk rnetamorpln". our local police force has und« within the past twelve or fifteen years, the experiments that have been and are about to be tried, while they show a laudable desire
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    H.E. the Governor's Visit to the Native States.
    1045 2 H.E. the Governor's Visit to the Native States. ll i- Excellency the Governor, accompanied by bis Prival S Mr. Edwin de Li>le, and Acting A..D.C. Lieat. Cosmo Gordon, left Penang od v i. lay evening the 28rd of January, ifter taking leave of General Anton and hia family, and steamed
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    Tree-Planting in Hongkong.
    833 2 The Hongkong >r era weal dazed' of the s(h February contains one or two despatches addressed by 11. E. Sir 1 .John Pope rlennessy to tin- Colonial Office, giving some interesting particulars of the progress nude in the I lonv in tin' preservation and re-e hlishment i
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    The Year 1881.
    1784 3 By all accounts, tlu> present year should be a very critical year, if r< be taken of a curious conjunction of ronomical phenomena, old savings, and prophecies regarding it. We have got through the first month ami well nigh the second, without anything portentous happening, and it
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    The Retention of Kandahar.
    1261 3 The Marquis of Hartingtou has m< t with his Marvin, as the Marquis u I Salisbury (lid. Renter told ua the other day that his lordship had refused to produce memorandum of Lord N 1 pier of Ma;:da!u ;i'h ting the ivn Mtioii of Kandahar. Well,
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    Netherlands India News.
    1829 4 ■•tod <>'■ <-'<"■ i raries that, in rc|3|^^^Hftbc9e tiauslH'i'iis. their .>ikina) ai>l*"' ux may be ackuowle I "Macassar, i->ti .Jan We Luv. been informed that the British bar.jue /•'•<■ Smith, which left this on the Ith November last for the Sanyir islands to take in a cargo
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    Manila News.
    1161 4 Ppwtod <•( 'iur oamtmmpatmnm taat la w- .i.'iiitr thf-<' 1 1 utir,hit ions, tlieir original apfMUaaoi be >4ckiH>wledir<vl i Root CMfM. There have now 4>een KOMI* the cups which the Munila Jockey < lub intends to allot as i>ri/.Hs at the approaching races. is tin' MM t-V'-ry year,
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    The Municipality.
    3263 5 of the ..i*Siuli«TjiifiriMfl at meeting on Thursday, tht Juth February, 188 Comwfasion P mm/. Hon" ble •Major McNair, 1 Major iMnlop. ni<l j Iwiu Koek, K« L J. Fraser. fc*t crit The Minute of the las^ston^S v read an ied. Head th» fortnightly 1 liej>ort 't The Knlin
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    Colonial Surpluses.
    1159 6 Oik Hongkong friends have i\ <>t been nnobservant of the treatment accorded to the Straits Set t lenient s n the matter of the lVrak Wnv D\pen.« although they have said nothing about it or displayed the lea^t sympathy it the injustice committed. They also occupy the happy
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    Indian Labour Legislation.
    1077 6 Thk following hVimtnariL's Erom thu Englishman ot proposed legislation in India iov the emigration of Labourers will probably be of considerable interest i<> PUatera in the Stouts, and should bave tin' ftttention of the an- thorities and the Legislative Coimcil The Supplement t<. Last Wednesday'" CactUta Gazette
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    The Liquidation of the City of Glasgow Bank.
    3141 6 The Liquidation of the City of Glasgow Bank. Tiik (il;i-_w correspondent of tli> l),,w'jnf thi' <'qllomH(mp .iN of the liquidation of the City <it rlasgoM Mank The great event of the week has been the issue of the report the liquidator* „f t. f Glasgow Bank for the year •2nd
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  • Correspondence.
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      The Telephone Exchange.
      539 7 To f/if Editor of the Daily Time*. Sik. -Your correspondent of Saturdav ili>»>< ni.t apjM-.ir to have given a correct copy of the order of the l'o>tnia.ster<i ni-ral in Knglaud iv-prctin_; tin- chary.' for Telephone inter-communieat 1 enclose copies of this order out from two >eparate .lournal<,
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  • News of the Week.
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      MONDAY, 14th FEBRUARY.
      1188 8 AMONG the places says the Frin a, his Koval Highness the Crown Frincß of Portugal will vi>it during liis tour in htdia. we lean nil be Uotnbav, Uoa. hunaiui Din, Madias, and Calcutta. Tmk Itussian corvette Raxboi/nirk^ says I lie Shiuufhui (Jo'/ritr oi the Ist l**eb.. isaki
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    TUESDAY, 15th FEBRUARY.
    506 8 Twkhti-thbee Indian gold-mining companies, with a nominal capital of nearthree millions sterling, were rp^'i stored last i. six of them beinu' in the first half of LBBO, and seventeen in the second. Wk art- glad to learn that the formation of a proper Rn Brigade has been
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    The Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. Limited.
    325 8 Thk following is the Report of the Director* of the Ttnjong Pagar Dock Co. Limited for the last half of 1880, which is to be presented to the share holders at the b«lf yearly ordinary meeting to be held at noon on Thursday the
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    WEDNESDAY, 16th FEBRUARY.
    443 8 A COBPBE, apparently that of a Chinaman, was found in the brushwood at the fa Tannin back off Maaonic Lodge, by some Chinese boys who frequent the place for plaj. Mfe noli' cen ■atifymli isu'l 1 isluM sc<i rarv rail»l..' corner of\K°a<l bridg. was indml'*'»ltinjf m accident
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    THURSDAY, 17th FEBRUARY.
    171 8 "We are informed the: been received here, anno m result of the Court of Inquiry into the desertion by her officers of the steamer Siseie, to f>e that the ctrtificate of the captain and engineer have been cancelled, and that a criminal prosecution has been* instituted againut
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    Cricket.
    659 9 ernoon,a match between the iid Army ami X<i>y, which i on the sth instant, was result being- an utter defeat Club. The following were th sides C. 111'! Dr £gan. l>. »r--rigan -t Hu^hesnian, l). Orrigaa Mr. 1 h.ruuout 2 (subs.) not out... 0 Shaw, Howarth, 0 b. Orrisjan
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    A Mad Plot.
    665 9 Ax extraordinary conspiracy to rebels against Qoverwent and rrmssncro Europeans ha> been discovered in the Native Stale of kholapore in the Bombay Presidency. Kholapore i> one of the most prosperous of the Native States in India, with a High School and a handsome Rnrplaa balance. At first
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    FRIDAY, 18th FEBRUARY.
    1391 9 Tin tUngur >i permitting the use ot na'' about stables and in the syces and servants' quarters, emphatically illustrated two or three nights ago at the residence of Mr. A. .1. Qunn m Grange Koad. The syce carelessly upset a taper lamp in his room, and almost
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    SATURDAY, 19th FEBRUARY.
    3754 9 The total return <>f visitors to the RaihVs Library ami Museum during the week undiiig Friday, iNth Keb., ls*O, wa> A Koi m decree ha» b. 1 in Italy announcing that some mark tinetion i* to lx* bestowed <»n mII |>an"! of the Province of Kome who
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      793 11 ,'n!n IPPING IXT ELLI(r K X C B Sam,- j l i r >^ a l S h a rnbate— VotUin wed. «th Br it h ,G a uTbn: J rCo SB jlt li! t DS i^bZ m e,..X ray 1,427 tons. Batcher. H-,^ ISA "British .tWmer Na'ple^" 1,473 w
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      793 12 <v J I islands, no I SHIPPING IN THE HARBOUR 1^ T*?W a building f "*<i^> Ship"? Namks MAFTMVn. Kla^j A Rio. j 5 \oW AM I/'v^erbFrov ,;onsionkksJ Dbstinati-n. c, hitaij j I( MEN-OF-WAR v hJgeria Job list one H. M's sir. 8M Jan. r Jruise Senior N^™ r 2~°"
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