The Straits Budget, 9 December 1898
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The Straits Budget
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Title Section145 1898-12-09 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” S V> n g .t o rculat on of anv news paper in Asia, British India excepted. It circulates in Singapore and Penang, throughout all the Protected States of th<s Malay Peninsula, in Siam, Borneo, the Netherlands Indies, The145 words
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STRAITS TIMES FRIDAY, 9TH DECEMBER. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
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Article41 1898-12-09 1 —At the Marine Police Station, mi the 30th November, the wife of 1- -.si Kcoene Carroll of a son. WrisiKii.— On the 6th instant, at Burn--v. orange Grove Road, the w ife of Law- V, i LsTKK, of a son.41 words
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Article91 1898-12-09 1 \«,K \/ie Barr. At Collinmount, K i:tnrrr.'»*K, on 8tli November, by Rev. V. K i i. f ’ee Church, Hurlford, and the :>v. U lii-ich Thom, Free High Church, k. James McKenzie, Manager of ,i Dispensary Company (Ltd.), Straits Settlements, to Janet \1 j.) daughter of Arch. Barr, J.P.,91 words
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Article413 1898-12-09 1 Uimm, Articles. i h:i<l License. N Excitement. 1 Me (iowrnor. ihe W iter Supply, hjlic* Trouble. Bn* li utal Saxon, b i* !Wce d-r Charles. P 'liv*- Trouble. H Kitlev's Message. Quotations. >hi[»ping News. 'linger List. Poli( »> News. u-Touse or No of Perjury. in Orchard Road.413 words
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Article544 1898-12-09 1 Singapore, 9th December, 1898, PRODUCE. (Rates are corrected to 12.30 p.m.) Gambier Copra Bali, do Pontianak, Pepper, Black,. j*-™-do White, (6%) Sago Flour Sarawak, do Brunei Pearl Sago tf 4.05. Coffee, Bali, picked 29.00. Coffee Palembang, picked.... 3050. Coffee, Liberian, No. 1 22 50 Tapioca, small Flake, 4.90. do544 words
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Article442 1898-12-09 1 The mail for Europe, .this week, leaves by the M. M. Indus. The mail from Europe, of the 11th November arrived by the P. <fc O. Parramatta on Saturday. The German mail from Europe by the Prim Heinrich is due on the 10th instant. The German442 words
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REUTERS TELEGARMS.
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Article83 1898-12-09 1 AN IMPORTANT SPEECH. Jjondon 1st December. Mr. Balfour, speaking at a meeting at Bristol, stated that the collective action of the Vowers in Crete was a happy augury of peace. Turning to the Fashoda question, Mr. Balfour said that the French Colonial party alone were the83 words
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Article75 1898-12-09 1 Mr. W. C. Cowie, speaking at the annual dinner of the British North Borneo Company, stated that the British Government was recognizing the strategic value of Borneo. Referring to the Mat Sail eh rebellion, Mr. Cowie expressed the opinion that this originated through a misunderstanding. Sir Charles75 words
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Article56 1898-12-09 1 BRITISH ORGANISERS COMING. Major Bruce, and Captain Watson of the West Riding Regiment, three other officers and five non-com missioned officers are to leave London on the 15th instant to join Major Bower at Wei-hai-wei. The above officers are being sent out to raise and train56 words
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Article25 1898-12-09 1 The Austrian Deputies have passed the Japanese Commercial Treaty. [The last of the Revised Treaties made by Japan with the European Governments.]25 words
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Article13 1898-12-09 1 IN MADAGASCAR. Several cases of plague have occurred at Tamatave in Madagascar.13 words
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Article43 1898-12-09 1 GOVERNMENT AID. London 2nd December. The British Government has made a free relief grant of, it is believed, forty thousand pounds to the stricken West India islands, with regard to certain classes of property which had been damaged by the hurricane.43 words
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Article46 1898-12-09 1 EXPULSION TROUBLES. A great sensation has been caused in Austria and Germany by a declaration made by Count Thun, the Premier of Austria, in the Reichsrath, that, if the expulsion of Austrian subjects from Germany continued, Austria would have to defend her rights.46 words
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Article22 1898-12-09 1 THE NEW TREATY. The Upper House of the Austrian Parliament has also passed the treaty between Austria and Japan.22 words
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Article65 1898-12-09 1 FROM TEA TO SUGAR. AID FOR BARBAD08. London 3rd December. Sir Thomas Lipton, at the prompting of Mr. Chamberlain, intends to send several experts to Barbados to inquire into the prospects of the sugar industry in that island. Should the report of these experts prove to be65 words
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Article46 1898-12-09 1 THE FRENCH SENATE ADVERSE. The Senate of the French Parliament has passed a motion extending to military tribunals the abolition of secret examinations. M. de Freycinet, the Minister for War, opposed an amendment which proposed to except cases involving questions of the national defence.46 words
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Article25 1898-12-09 1 MUNIFICENT GIVING. Mr. Waldorf Astor f the American millionaire, has subscribed X5,dbo towards the building fund of a Gordon Memorial College at Khartoum.25 words
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Article20 1898-12-09 2 London sth Decemlter. The date for the reassembling of the British Parliament is fixed for February 7th next.20 words
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Article42 1898-12-09 2 Surgeon William J. Maillard, M. D., of H. M. S. Hazatd has received the Victoria Cross, on the recommendation of Lieut, and Commander P. Vaughan Lewes, for his gallantry in assisting the wounded under fire during the massacre at Candia.42 words
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Article46 1898-12-09 2 The Bill submitted by Mr. Schreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, to the Cape House of Assembly, for the purpose of appropriating £BO,OOO per annum to the Royal Navy, has been read a second time. Both parties in the House heartily supported the measure.46 words
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Article49 1898-12-09 2 NATIVE TROOPS PROPOSED. Mr. Alger, American Secretary of State for War, recommends that a part of the new force to be added to the United States Standing Army shall be recruited among the natives of the Antilles and the Philippines, for service in those countries.49 words
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Article36 1898-12-09 2 It is also proposed by Mr. Alger that the United States Government shall forthwith undertake the construction of a railway through Cuba. The cost of this enterprise is estimated at I*o million dollars.36 words
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Article62 1898-12-09 2 PROPOSED ADDITIONS. A Bill is to be presented to the Reichstag in Berlin asking for further additions to the German Army. It is proposed to add 15,000 annually to the present yearly enrolment until an addition of 40,000 men annually be reached. The Bill also provides for62 words
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Article65 1898-12-09 2 BID FROM GERMANY. London, 8th Xoretnlter. The Times correspondent at Washington telegraphs that Spain has opened negotiations with Germany for the sale of the Caroline islands to that Powder. It is believed that the United States Government will raise no objection to the proposed sale, although it wishes65 words
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Article94 1898-12-09 2 PROBABLE TENOUR. COLONIAL POLICY UNDEFINED. According to a forecast of President McKinley’s approaching Message to Congress, that document will not define the policy to be pursued in the new American colonial acquisitions. But the President will urge Congress to deliberate earnestly on the subject. INCREASED ARMAMENTS. Next, the94 words
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Article37 1898-12-09 2 BRITISH SURVEYORS. Captains Twiss and Purvis of the Royal Engineers are passengers for the Far East in the P. O. Himalaya. They are proceeding to Pekin for the purpose of making railway surveys in China.37 words
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Article107 1898-12-09 2 THE CHINA QUESTION. ARMY AND NAVY INCREASE. London 7th December. President McKinley’s message to Congress declares that the construction of the Nicaragua Canal under American control is indispensable. With reference to China, the President claims friendly and undiscriminating treatment of American commerce from the newoccupants of Chinese ports.107 words
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Article15 1898-12-09 2 Sir Charles Mitchell starts from London for the Straits Settlements on Wednesday (to-day).15 words
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Article127 1898-12-09 2 THE PIN-PRICK POLICY. PERSISTENCE DISASTROUS TO FRANCE. lA)iulon y 8th Dccemftcr. Sir E. Monson, the British Ambassador at Paris, has delivered a speech at a banquet given by the British Chamber of Commerce of that city. In the speech, he expressed the hope that the idea of127 words
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Obituary67 1898-12-09 1 DEATH. Mit iku.-On the 21st of October, at i--t l. ri. of Mr. R. Hand, Penrith, Va South Wales, Mr, W. Mitchell, L-iir, late of Perak, in his 68th year. 1 it Penrith, New South Wales. we thought when he bade us L »vl-‘.ve 1 v m left u- for67 words
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Article391 1898-12-09 2 (Straits Times, Ist December.) Lord Chief-Justice Russell and Mr. Justice Wills have given judgment in the case of Williamson v. Norris.*’ It was an appeal from a refusal by the magistrate to convict the respondent for selling intoxicating liquor without a licence to the appellant, who was(Straits Times, Ist December.) - 391 words
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Article485 1898-12-09 2 (Straits Times, 2nd December.) Reuter has done his best to explode a new sensation, a bomb in honour of the Emperor of Austria’s Jubilee day. The statement is very explicit, so far as it goes, as an announcement of the national dignity of Austria. It is most(Straits Times, 2nd December.) - 485 words
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Article375 1898-12-09 2 (Strait* Times 2nd December.) Prince George of Greece has been, or shortly will be, duly installed as Gover-nor-General of Crete. The appointment made by the four Powers has been sharply criticised, both in regard to the nominee himself and in respect of the suspected motives of at any(Strait* Times, 2nd December.) - 375 words
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Article465 1898-12-09 2 (Straits Times 2nd December.) There is considerable murmuring at the recommendation carried at the Municipal Board last week, that from the 1st of January next meters shall be attached to all private water services existing in,orhereafterto be supplied to, hotels, eating-houses, and other places of entertainment, good,(Straits Times, 2nd December.) - 465 words
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Article386 1898-12-09 2 (Straits Times 3rd DecemJ>er.) The Pinang Gazette makes guarded allusions to the alleged police strike there. It stoutly maintains, on the 29th November, that protecting Penang by a garrison of police is at the best no easy matter; then it adds: Now, however, a development has appeared, which(Straits Times, 3rd DecemJ>er.) - 386 words
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Article572 1898-12-09 2 (Straits Times sth Decemlxr.) When well fitted with a subject the Cologne Gazette can be so terribly in earnest as to become, to an impartial reader, extremely amusing. It is rarely in better form than in depicting over bearing Britain’s aggressions upon German rights and interests. .Since(Straits Times, sth Decemlxr.) - 572 words
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Article1013 1898-12-09 3 (Strait* I'imes, 6th Decemher.) Contkaky to all expectation, neither mail nor the telegrams received inv Friday have done anything to ix Jain the statement against Germany thick Reuter then attributed to the Austrian Premier. But, yesterday, there tin** a declaration from Berlin which, although foreshadowed, bears all(Strait* I'imes, 6th Decemher.) - 1,013 words
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Article285 1898-12-09 3 (Straits Times, 6th December.) According to Reuter’s Pekin correspondent, Lord Charles Beresford, during interviews with the authorities there, impressed upon them the absolute necessity of reorganizing the army on European models. He represented to them that unless China did something to help herself he would be obliged to(Straits Times, 6th December.) - 285 words
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Article291 1898-12-09 3 {Straits Times 7th December.) hatever trouble there was in the ranks of the Penang Police force seems to have flickered but for a moment, and then to have quietly expired. For that moment, however, there were sufficient ot heated feelings and words in the section concerned to justify{Straits Times, 7th December.) - 291 words
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Article2988 1898-12-09 3 {Straits Times, Bth December.) The London telegrams yesterday not only arrived too late to admit of any comment whatsoever, but actually delayed the publication of the paper for some half-hour after everything else was in readiness. The news ultimately was not of any special interest. The forecast of{Straits Times, Bth December.) - 2,988 words
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Article213 1898-12-09 4 Capt. Duff, A. D. C., arrived to-day from Penang by the s. s. Loodiana. The sunken Spanish cruiser Don Juan de Austria has been raised at Manila Bay, and was to go on the slip at Cavite at once. 10,000 cases of kerosine salved from the British213 words
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Article127 1898-12-09 4 WORK-HOUSE, OR NO TO THE EDITOR OF THE u STRAITS TIME8.” Sir, —Relating to the above question which has found comment in your columns recently, there is nothing like lealthy criticism when the controversy is conducted in a right-minded spirit; and as the subject under reference appears to be of127 words
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Article177 1898-12-09 4 The final stage of the Foursomes competition for the Ladies’ Prize was finished yesterday. The course was in a very sloppy condition; as a result, a score of 85 won; and again we have to congratulate a scratch couple —Messrs. Fowlie and Vade—on their win. We believe177 words
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Article169 1898-12-09 4 Paris 24 th November. The Council of Ministers continues to examine the question of railways in French Indo-China. At the next meeting of the Council, a definitive solution of the matter will be reached. M. Doumer Ivis explained to the Colonial Standing Committee in the Senate the situation169 words
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Article204 1898-12-09 4 Three months’ imprisonment each have been awarded to four Chinamen for theft, one of them who stole some carpenter’s tools getting 25 cuts in addition. A Chinese earring snatcher got 9 months’ imprisonment and 25 lashes. A Malay charged with snatching a gold bangle is under remand, bail204 words
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Article332 1898-12-09 4 Yesterday afternoon, a special meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held. There were present: Mr. Gentle (President), Messrs. Nanson, Evans, Sohst, Meyer, Moses, Tan Cheng Tuan, and Choa Giang Thye. In placing before the Commissioners a resolution to authorise Sanitary Municipal officers to enter and inspect premises, the332 words
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Article159 1898-12-09 4 Something in the nature of a free fight touk place in Orchard Road, near the foot of Oxley Road, yesterday evening. Two men of the West Yorks., who were returning to barracks in a somewhat excited condition, seized upon a rikisha and 3tarted oft’ with it.159 words
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Article225 1898-12-09 4 A charge of perjury has arisen against six Mahommedans in cont neetion with the theft, some months ago, from Mr. Gosling’s shop in Battery Iioad, of a quantity of pipes, and cigar and cigarette holders. The case came before Mr. Justice HyndmanJonesinthe Supreme Court yesterday. It225 words
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Article697 1898-12-09 4 speech at shakgha,. I China papers, received this I contain reports 0 f t 1 Beresford’s speech to the pk* Ch *5l ciation at Shanghai November. Lord Chari, the audience that he had to make any remarks duri^V" round the British cotn m country. He was goine those697 words
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Article28 1898-12-09 4 [The Petit Journal (Pans) 1m Caft tfiat, to secure the succe.= tl-Alexandria project, E “P >ref tbt afeout the Armenian mass us SZL.'A*™'*"'*' with the natives.28 words
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Article547 1898-12-09 5 THE ANNUAL DINNER. Usper the presidency of Sir G. W. tw.Yo.-ux, ex-Governor of Hongkong, o T nual dinner of the China Asso-tne-in was held in London, on m her 1st, amongst those attend- Sir Charles Mitchell (Gov- the Straits Settlements), Sir Smith (ex-Governor), and v other gentlemen more547 words
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Article139 1898-12-09 5 bxsonie points, no doubt, the favoured 'esi lent of Singapore will be able to fall with the views of Professor A. R. Wallace, who has been writing on the beneficial effects a tropical climate had for him. The favourable portions of die t rr*pi,-s. extending about139 words
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Article104 1898-12-09 5 )s the 18th November, Mr. P. E. La >»y, dresser in charge of the General f> pital, Jelebu, received information a buffalo had been taken by a tiger. J** reuser immediately poisoned the r na:n>* of the animals. On the 20fch, Party went out and found near104 words
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Article, Illustration785 1898-12-09 5 CONDUCTED BY KING8 PAWN.” All chess correspondence should be addressed to King’s Pawn.” Solutions: Problem No 72(Nemo) K-Q2; No 73 (I’ospisil) Q-Bsq. Correct solutions received from Caissaand Nil Desperandum, Locally, there is very little chess ~oing on just now, and, except on wet afternoons, the chess club is as785 words
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Article557 1898-12-09 5 AFFAIRS AT PEKIN. It is reported that the EmpressDowager intends to celebrate the thirtieth birthday anniversary of the Emperor next year by a Special Act of Grace, to hold extraordinary examinations for literary degrees throughout the Empire. The object is obviously to bring the whole body557 words
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Article53 1898-12-09 5 A little girl, aged 7£ years, the daughter of Mr. F. Camegy, who is in charge of the Pauper Hospital at Penang, was burned to death there, on Sunday last. She was lighting a match when her clothes caught tire. She received such injuries that death followed53 words
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Article1413 1898-12-09 5 THE ARMED CUBANS. The Times correspondent telegraphed from Havana, on Nov. 2nd., as follows: —I have visited the headquarters of General Menocal, commanding the Sixth Army Corps of the Cuban army, which numbers 7,000 and occupies the provinces of Havana and Matanzas. Excellent discipline is maintained, but1,413 words
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Article102 1898-12-09 5 Mr. Consul Beckett, in his last annual report on Jhe trade and commerce of the district of Chiengmai, Siam, men* tions that some excitement had been caused by the discovery of sapphires at Muang Ix>ng, a district on the right bank of the Me Yom. A body of102 words
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Article156 1898-12-09 6 Yesterday evening the front of two houses at Jalan Sultan gave way and fell into the roadway. Mr. A. H. Capper, the Clerk of Councils, and Mrs. Capper left for London by the P. 0. mail, this morning. At Pekin, bulletins as to the Emperor’s health are156 words
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Article46 1898-12-09 6 Our Tientsin contemporary is said to have received a copy ot the report furnished by the French doctor who was recently called in to advise upon the Emperor of China’s condition. The paper briefly describes the diagnosis as u quite unfit for publication/’46 words
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Article49 1898-12-09 6 At the athletic sports of No. 9 Mountain Battery at Katapahar, in India, the other day, Gunner ilson unloaded the mules of a gun and carriage, limbered, fired one round, then unlimbered, and loaded the mules again. The gun weighs 450 pounds. Wilson lifted it alone.49 words
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Article50 1898-12-09 6 A Pekin despatch states that the Empress-Dowager has been recently enlisting soldiers. The standard of admittance into the army is the ability to lift a weight of eighty catties and to bend an eight-strength bow, one 44 strength being equal to ten catties’ strength of the arms.50 words
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Article62 1898-12-09 6 A Chinaman reports that last night, as he was walking along Lpper Nankin Street, a Chinaman eamo up and snatched a diamond ring from his hand, valued at $530. The complainant states that he caught hold of the thief, but had to let him go as four or62 words
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Article68 1898-12-09 6 A gentleman from Cape Colony was robbed of articles worth about J3OO guilders in a hotel at Batavia, on the 22nd November. Suspicion fell on a Kaffir servant he had brought with him, who, in fact, was his factotum. The Kaffir is supposed to have bolted to68 words
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Article67 1898-12-09 6 A telegraph line, that from Bangkok to Chiengmai, an important town in Northern Siam, has been interrupted for the last ten years. Nothing was done in the way of repair until the inland lines came lately under the control of Prince Damrong, the Minister of the Interior.67 words
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Article75 1898-12-09 6 In Banka Straits, the Dutch steamer lleynst which arrived at Batavia on the 28th November, from Deli, spoke the Russian sailing ship Aldebaran which had grounded off Point Lalarie and which asked for assistance. The Reynst offered help, but the master of the Aldebaran could not agree75 words
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Article83 1898-12-09 6 In answer to a correspondent, the Bishop-Designate of Calcutta (Rev. J. E. C. Welldon) says that while, personally, he prefers open-air exercise, at reasonable hours, to dancing, he is not aware that any special evil or danger attaches to the latter. For a clergyman,” he adds, dancing is one83 words
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Article81 1898-12-09 6 A couch is delivered, which the carmen say has been ordered; an hour later it is fetched away again, with apologies regarding a mistaken address. That couch is modelled upon the famous Trojan horse, and contains William Sikes and a bag wherein to pack the swag. During81 words
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Article105 1898-12-09 6 The case in which six Maliommedans are charged, before Mr. Justice Hynoman-Jones, with aiding and abetting in the fabrication of false evidence, again occupied the attention of the Court the whole of yesterday. Several Kling witnesses for the prosecution were examined, most of them alleged to belong105 words
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Article118 1898-12-09 6 The Straits Settlements, which last year exported over $370,000 worth of coco-nuts may find a seriouscompetitor in that trade in Paraguay. In that country, there exist millions of coconut palms, the productive value of which has only recently been appreciated. The exploiting of the industry has been118 words
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Article172 1898-12-09 6 A SALE AT BATTERSEA. Tiie classic groves of Battersea Park must have presented a strange spectacle the other day. The County Council it seems, ordered a varied assortment of live-stock, surplus specimens, to be sold by auction. Victoria Park contributed a couple of young fallow deerandsix goats.172 words
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Article264 1898-12-09 6 INSTALLATION OF M. W. 3. The regular quarterly convocation of the Mount Calvary in tiie East Chapter Rose Croix, No. 47, was held at Freemason’s Hall last night. Certain reports were received, and the principal business of the meeting, viz. the installation of E. and 1*. Bro.264 words
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Article70 1898-12-09 6 The returns from the Pahang Corporation’s mines for the month of October were as follows: SUNGEI LEMBING. Tons of stone crushed 1,582; oxide of tin produced 70 tons. Twenty-five heads of stamps ran for 27 days. The working expenses were *16,250* JERAM BATANG. Tons of stone crushed 904;70 words
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Article134 1898-12-09 6 A month or so ago, we announced that the cotton-spinning companies of Japan were combining to form a monster association for the purpose of reducing production and thus maintaining prices. The ten cement firms of Japan are* about to adopt the same policy. At one time they134 words
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Article203 1898-12-09 6 A PACK OF BEAUTIES. Yesterday morning, a Malay was ingeniously swindled by three Chinese by means of a variation of the confidence trick. The Malay had been sent by his master to get a *40 note changed. On his way back the man noticed three Chinamen walking203 words
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Article360 1898-12-09 6 Consequent upon the return of Mr. Stringer, the British vice-consul, to Bangkok, Mr. Black proceeds to Chiengmai, relieving Mr. Beckett who proceeds to Europe on furlough. Mr. Archer expects to leave for Europe in March, and, during his absence, Mr. Stringer w ill act for him. On the360 words
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Article167 1898-12-09 6 The youngest Bey in the Egyptian army is Kaimakam Matchett, a Captain in the Connaught Rangers, who joined the Egyptian army in the early part of the year 1896. Having raised one battalion (the 17th), he afterwards raised a second battalion (the 18th), which was ready for167 words
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Article254 1898-12-09 6 INTERVIEW AT MANILA. HE FAVOURED SURRENDER. We reproduce the following story for what it is worth, only remarking that its reputed source seems to entitle it to every credence. It is said that Father McKinnon, holding the rank of Captain in the 1st California Regiment, and acting254 words
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Article384 1898-12-09 6 NEWLY OPENED PORT. AN IMPOSSIBLE DISTRICT. One of the places recently opened to foreign trade in China by the West River convention is Szemao, in the extreme south of Yun-nan, which has been frequently mentioned of late in connection with the suggested extension of the Burma Railway from the384 words
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Article187 1898-12-09 6 benefit of the elected I Previous to the time the electric light to “.Si J Suez Canal, there wmRJSmI of vessels every night inl&tSB this is said to have immorality that gave the Bt enviable reputation. I t 2. for its gambling saloons fame, and hostelries f Use187 words
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Article566 1898-12-09 6 what brazil is doisg. I POOR OUTLOOK FOR INDIAN PLANTejj I Ten years ago, it was the r«,, J opinion that the emancipation of ]TI slaves in Brazil would inflict a cru!j9 blow on the coffee-fflanting indusS there. But the planters warded offtjSB blow by engaging labourers566 words
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Article224 1898-12-09 7 gKmperor of Japan visited Kobe Ta j9th ult., after witnessing the manoeuvres in the Osaka disV j inspect the Standing Squadron -V had assembled in that port. r the special police instructions fin connection with the imperial V-l through the town, were some -I details as to224 words
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Article256 1898-12-09 7 MINISTERS AND DREYFUS. then and now. Charles Dupuy, in becoming [jme Minister at the moment when t Court of Cassation has ordered the vision ot the Dreyfus case, must feel at. what most surprises me is to see v*elf here." It was under M. Dupuy as fjme256 words
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Article267 1898-12-09 7 increasing trade, forest conservancy. sundeofBurmawith Northern Siam 4*'ing, and, according to a report Beckett, our Consul at Chiengi'conducted mainly through the uMoulnieinand Iiaheng. Through u large quantity of cotton and manufactures finds its way to consumers, and also a consider- an »ount of raw silk from the p^rri267 words
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Article156 1898-12-09 7 PREBENT BUPPLIEB AND PROSPECTB. Not only is the world’s supply of tin getting very scanty but there is, according to an Australian geologist, an actual scarcity of the mineral. This authority points out that, while the known gold-fields of the world cover more than 1,500,(XX) square miles,156 words
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Article395 1898-12-09 7 CONSTABLES AND THEIR CORRUPTERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 44 STRAITS TIMES.” Sir, —Those who take note of the cases frequently called in Court, in connection with the police, will range them in two categories. The first contains those in which the police are charged with 44 squeezing,”395 words
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Article468 1898-12-09 7 THE MOSQUITO AND CIVILIZATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STRAITS TIMES.” Dear Sir, —The other day I received a letter from Singapore, from a friend who complained grievously of the mosquito pest. By a strange coincidence I read elsewhere, the same day, that the mosquito disappears before468 words
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Article654 1898-12-09 7 London 4th Xovemher. The sum of twenty pounds is all that the National Cyclists’ Union received, in response to its appeal for the sinews of war to carry on a fight with the railways for the free carriage of cycles as passengers’ luggage. The cycle traffic is too654 words
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Article352 1898-12-09 7 HIS JUBILEE TO-DAY. LOCAL OBSERVANCES. To-day, Francis Joseph 1st, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, completes a reign of 50 years. He ascended the throne on Dec. 2nd, 1849, when nineteen years of age, and found the Empire shaken by internal dissensions. Since that time, his efforts have been directed towards352 words
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Article413 1898-12-09 7 This morning, Mr. Sharp appeared before Mr. Elcum and asked for a further postponement of the hearing of the charge of being in possession of short weightspending against the Opium Farmer, as Mr. Napier and Mr. Khory were engaged at the Supreme Court. Mr. Elcum remarked that the413 words
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Article1082 1898-12-09 7 THE TRANSVAAL. General Joubert sent an ultimatum on October 24th, referring to the chief M’pefu’s attack on the Boer laager, and informing him that if he did not come in and have a personal interview within 24 hours, he (General Joubert) would be obliged to take up1,082 words
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Article240 1898-12-09 8 BOTH VESSELS DAMAGED. Writing from Anjer, on November 25th, our correspondent says: —At 5.30 p.m. on the 23rd, the British ship City of Benares, from Batavia to Delaware Breakwater, beating down the strait against a W. S. W. wind, collided with the Britisii four-masted barque Craigearn, lying240 words
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Article185 1898-12-09 8 —Hong hong Daily Dress. MOKE AMERICAN TROOPS COMING. It is generally understood that 7,000 troops are en route for the Philippines, having left San Francisco about October 22nd. The transport Indiana left San Francisco on October 17th and the Ohio on October 22nd for Manila. The Spanish Governor—Hong hong Daily Dress. - 185 words
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Article369 1898-12-09 8 The next Singapore Assizes open on the 10th January next. The 26th and 27th inst. and the 2nd January next are gazetted as public holidays. The Municipal Engineer conducts the service at the Presbyterian Church to-morrow morning. It is reported that the rent has now been paid369 words
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Article42 1898-12-09 8 The Government has passed the Penang Municipal Budget for 1899, with revenue estimated at #384,665. The expenditure conies to #.383,256. The Malacca Municipal Budget, as finally passed, provides for raising #30,135 in 1899. The outlay is expected to be $29,00*.42 words
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Article56 1898-12-09 8 The case in which six Mahommedans were charged before Mr. Justice Hyndman-Jonos with aiding and allotting in the fabrication of false evidence collapsed yesterday. After the prosecution had closed, Mr. Napier addressed the Court; at the close of his remarks, the jury decided to stop the case.56 words
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Article61 1898-12-09 8 Penang rumour has it that Government have issued a circular among their clerks, drawing &45 per mensem inquiring whether any of them would accept an appointment in the Post Ofliee there at a salary of $45 per mensem without the 10% allowance but with the necessity of61 words
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Article118 1898-12-09 8 The cricket team to represent Singapore during Xmas week, in Penang and Perak, will probably leave here by a British-India boat on the 21st or 22nd inst. After the Penang match they will go to Perak, and return thence to Penang, where they will probably join the P. dr.118 words
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Article286 1898-12-09 8 London, 22nd November. The Time*' correspondent at Pretoria telegraphs that the Transvaal Executive have adopted regulations for the removal of Asiatics into locations, and have approved of the establishment of bazaars. fc Colonel Sir Herbert Chermside has been promoted to be Major-General. The death is announced of286 words
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Article391 1898-12-09 8 THE RAILWAY SCHEME. M. Doumer, the Governor-General, w ho had gone to France to win over the Home Government to his fiscal and administrative reform schemes in Cochin-China, Annam, and Tonquin has been so far successful, judging from the Semaine Coloniale and the Courtier (le Saigon. His railway391 words
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Article1189 1898-12-09 8 The improvement which has been effected in front of the Scotch Kirk, in Orchard Road, is a good example of what can be done by pursuing a friendly give-and-take policy in such matters. On the one Land, the Church authorities have a nice view of their Kirk1,189 words
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Article235 1898-12-09 8 A Chinese clerk, employed by the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., lias beet sentenced to six months’ imprisonment lor theft. For snatching a bag containing ten dollars from the shoulder of a Chinaman in a crowd, a lad has gone to prison for three months; ht will receive fifteen235 words
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Article116 1898-12-09 8 The proprietor of A Emporium recently related! 1 y{ experience. lowaids ti tbaik season he had a good left on his hands. I hese jp clear “at greatly reduced p eve rt filled his window with loot shape, size, and quality. an j finished he was ealic ~^t116 words
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Advertisement96 1898-12-09 8 LAND SALE. At Messrs. Crane Bros/ land sale, yesterday afternoon, a piece of land on a 099 years lease, containing an area of 9,366 square feet, and the dwelling-house and shop-house thereon, known as Nos. 504 and 505 (respectively) North Bridge Road, were bought by Shaik Ali bin Omar Basabren96 words
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Article431 1898-12-09 9 BIVALRY in THE LEVANT. A STRUGGLE PREDICTED. hK EXCKS calculated to weaken the V,-Russian alliance are increasfrequent. The unannounced j*> t tlie Czar’s eirenicon and aloofness during the Fashoda -tinctly disincline the suscepnchmon from new” concessions. lookers often see the most of is very true, and it431 words
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Article304 1898-12-09 9 I -KNTATION TO LORD KITCHENER. I The circumstances of the presenta-; I 1 1 a sword of honour to Lord j p* iicner in the Guildhall have been reported; but of the nature off P* sword itself w r e have heretofore j r ai nothing.304 words
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Article964 1898-12-09 9 FURTHER PROCEEDINGS. FINED $100 OB A MONTH. The action for defamation of character brought against Mr. Allison by Messrs. Donaldson and Burkinshaw, acting on behalf of the Rajah of Sarawak, again i occupied the attention of Mr. Elcum in j the Senior Magistrate's Court this morning, having964 words
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Article104 1898-12-09 9 Yesterday, wdien Mr. Cuscaden was taking his tillin, he perceived that his food was gritty. He sent a portion of it to the Acting Government Analyst, who decided that pounded glass had been mixed with it. HisHylam servant, who is an old man, and who has been with104 words
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Article119 1898-12-09 9 Malay Mail. MINING PROGRESS. There has been an influx of Perak and Selangor towkays into Bentong latterly. They are awaiting the completion of Mr. Raymond’s survey before putting in applications for mining land. Tin smelting lias been going on night and day this month there. A veryMalay Mail. - 119 words
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Article418 1898-12-09 9 Dr. Treub, the director of the Government Botanical Gardens at Buitenzong, kept, on the 22nd ult., the twenty-filth anniversary of his attaining the dignity of doctor. The doctor, so the Batavia AiemrsbUul points out, has secured wide renown by raising the gardens to their present state ol excellence.418 words
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Article866 1898-12-09 9 FRANCE INCLINED TO 8ULK. It was reported in Paris, on October 28th, that the British Cabinet had finally decided not to enter upon any negotiations w r ith France before the evacuatiou of Fashoda. The rumours evoked a kind of answering admission that there was no intention866 words
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Article401 1898-12-09 9 (From our Correspondent.) Kuala Lipis, 26th November. During October, the Pahang Corporation exported 2,410 piculs of tin ore, contributed by the different workings as follows: Sungei Lembing 1,937 piculs Jeram Batang 37u piculs and Baias 94 piculs. A shipment of over 20 tons of copper ore was also401 words
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Article263 1898-12-09 9 FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. We are asked to give the particulars of the programme arranged for the annual meeting of the above Club on the 8th, 9th, and 10th inst. Time and space prevent our doing so except in a much summarised form. On Thursday, the firing commences263 words
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Article44 1898-12-09 9 Under the new Selangor police regulation, whoever cruelly beats, illtreats, abuses, or tortures any animal, shall for every such offence be liable to penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding three months.44 words
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Article920 1898-12-09 10 AN ABYSSINIAN ARMY. IN THE ENVIRONS OF FASHODA. According to information from Abyssinia, an Abyssinian force was in the neighbourhood of Fashoda some weeks ago, under the command of Ras Wald Ghiorgis and Djaz Tassama, who despatched a messenger to Menelek announcing the arrival of a British920 words
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Article509 1898-12-09 10 Bishop Hose has arrived from Sarawak by the Vorwarts. Lord Charles Beresford left Shanghai for Hankow on the 23rd ult. The usual yearly Chingay (Teochew and Macao) procession will take place to-morrow. The Finang Gazette prides itself on having secured a Chinese lady subscriber. The Pawnbrokers’ Ordinance509 words
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Article46 1898-12-09 10 In 1896, 1809 persons were suffocated in bed, 148 were choked with food, 925 were killed by falling downstairs. All of which, and much besides, goes to prove that a first-class compartment on the railway is the safest place in the world.”46 words
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Article44 1898-12-09 10 Cases of river theft are now seldom heard of, compared with a few months back. If a separate division were created of harbour police, as the importance of the shipping trade here demands, cause of complaint might be done away with altogether.44 words
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Article48 1898-12-09 10 A visitor at Allison’s Hotel has lost a gold bangle and brooch, valued at 8200, from her bedroom. On Saturday night, four men entered a bedroom in Sago Lane, and forcibly appropriated jewellery and money from the inmate, a Macao woman, to the value of $217 odd.48 words
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Article49 1898-12-09 10 S. MiBso and Reyhardt, the two Ceylonese engaged by the Singapore Public Works Department, arrived by mail on Saturday. It is said that they will commence work on a salary of 840 dollars a year, receiving besides a horse allowance of R2O a month, and free quarters.49 words
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Article55 1898-12-09 10 At noon, on Saturday, the wreck of the Earl of llopetoun as she lies in the vicinity of Alceste Reef, Caspar Straits, was put up for sale by Messrs. McAlister «fc Co., and was knocked down to Cheng Toon Co. on behalf of a Batavia Chinaman for55 words
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Article51 1898-12-09 10 Mr. J. O. Scott, of the Indian Civil Service, has been appointed Her Majesty’s Commissioner under article VI of the agreement of February 4th, between Great Britain and China, relative to Burma and Thibet. Mr. Scott is well known for his work in connection with the Aiiglo-Siamese Boundary51 words
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Article88 1898-12-09 10 In the match against the Regiment, which was continued on Saturday, the S. C. C. made 124 runs for 7 wickets, Noon being “not out for 40 R. T. Reid scored 30 and H. W. Sharp 25. The military men” replied with 83 for 6 wickets, ere time was88 words
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Article75 1898-12-09 10 The Bombay plague returns, for the week ending on the 22nd Nov., show a slight decline. Karachi reports live deaths, and six districts of Madras are now infected. The disease continues to rage severely in Bangalore. The deaths there on the 19th instant, from plague numbered 112. A75 words
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Article73 1898-12-09 10 The story is told of Major Bower, who has recently been sent to Wei-hai-wei to raise a regiment of Chinese, that he once sent home to the British Archaeological Society, a valuable Buddhist document he had unearthed in Thibet, together with a hurriedly-written covering letter. Only one73 words
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Article136 1898-12-09 10 Choa Ah Ong, a bullock-cart driver, states that on Saturday morning while on his way to Kampong Kerbau with $65 to buy a bullock, two men, a Bugis and a Chinaman, stopped him. They alleged that they were detectives and had been ordered to arrest him because he,136 words
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Article64 1898-12-09 10 Ten years ago, 11 million gallons of whiskey were distilled in Ireland during the year ending last March, the total was over 14| million gallons. In Scotland, for the two periods, the returns were respectively million and million gallons. The present production is said to exceed the consumption by64 words
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Article83 1898-12-09 10 A recent edict issued at Pekin appoints Hu Yu Fin director of the Northern Railways and member of the Tsung-li Yamen. This appointment, a correspondent says, is regarded as distinctly favourable to British interests, since Hu Yu Fin took a notable part in the negotiation of the83 words
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Article116 1898-12-09 10 Despite the fact that very little of the moon was visible on Saturday night, a large assemblage gathered in the Botanical Gardens to listen to the strains of the West Yorkshire band, which was in as fine form as ever. The choice of moonlight nights has been rather116 words
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Article114 1898-12-09 10 Dr. Leask is now appointed to act as a Coroner for Singapore; Mr. W. C. Mitchell becomes Acting Senior District Otlicer in Province Wellesley; Mr. I\ M. Murphy is to combine the duties of Harbour-master and Post-master at Malacca; Mr. E. G. Broadrick has taken uptheduties of Acting Assistant114 words
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Article140 1898-12-09 10 The German flagship has arrived at Hongkong. Admiral von Diedericlis has transferred his flag to the Kaiserin Augusta, to return to Shanghai, anc the Kaiser will be docked at the former port. More particulars of the accident, of November Kith, are now known. The Kaiser struck an uncharted140 words
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Article195 1898-12-09 10 Lorulxm, 1 6th Novem/vr. Luccheni, the assassin of the late Empress of Austria, is appealing against the carrying out of his sentence of imprisonment for life. Germany has signified her intention of increasing her military force by several thousands. The leading French papers now recognise the195 words
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Article79 1898-12-09 10 The Spanish steamer p arrived at Colombo from 21st November. aT Manil deaths occurred on the v DOn %< one soldiers died on tfof' N Singapore. The cau«e of ,i ft* said to have been a kiln* anmmia, which was proh.i i of the privations the79 words
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Article270 1898-12-09 10 —Malay Mail At a meeting of the v„ Sanitary Board, on the -Mth v 3 L I5 B letter was read from M r T r ?H complaining that a liiriier, Li t the one submitted by I! u ender tfe Chetty and himself for during If:99 had—Malay Mail - 270 words
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Article399 1898-12-09 10 SATURDAY’S SMOKER.” A CAPITALLY-REXDEREI) PROG RAJHI The smoking concert arranged bjMr I Powell Robinson and held in the Misnr ic Club on Saturday night passed of J with great success. The room, which w’as tastefully decorated with plants, was none too large to hold the audience which attended. Wo: Bra399 words
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Article180 1898-12-09 11 —Perak Pioneer N j r Vane, the State Auditor, has fined 8100, or in default seven simple imprisonment, by the r Magistrate sitting at Teluk m for contempt of court. The concerned had received a but failed to put in an ap•^p U ,oke, the Clerk of Works,—Perak Pioneer. - 180 words
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Article626 1898-12-09 11 crown oil. Thk discovery of several new wells haveasain raised the Royal Langkat Company’s output. It is now confidentlv asserted that its oil out-turn .this vear will come up to the mark. The Company’s manager in Holland has stated that there was no ground for the alarm arising626 words
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Article271 1898-12-09 11 FOREIGN OFFICE NEGLECT. The Globe correspondent at Shanghai wired to London, on November 11th, as follows: 44 Sir Claude Macdonald has refused his support to the application of the AngloEastern Syndicate for the contract for a I ientsin-Chinkiang railway because, supporting as he does tlie Anglo-German Syndicate,271 words
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Article281 1898-12-09 11 From the Ist January next, the importation of tobacco to Pahang is to be farmed, and importations since Noven*ber 11th have had to be declared both as to quantity and quality, and as to value in the Singapore market. Since November Ist, export duties in Pahang have been281 words
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Article196 1898-12-09 11 Play for the December Medal —the last of the year 1898—took place on Saturday and resulted in a win for J. Campbell with a score of 85. The course was not in very good condition and accounts for the high scores handed in. The twelve winners196 words
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Article519 1898-12-09 11 THE FASHODA ANNOUNCEMENT. BRITISH ARMAMENT8 CONTINUED. Lord Mayor’s day was observed, on Nov 9th, in London as usual. A procession took place in the morning and the Guildhall banquet in the evening, when the Lord Mayor entertained a dis-1 tinguished company of guests. Lord Salisbury, acknowledging the519 words
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Article700 1898-12-09 11 ACROSS THE CHANNEL. French Opinion on Lord Salisbury’s speech at the Mansion House as expressed by French newspapers in time for the mail received on Saturday, is a most perplexing thing. They have not realised in the slightest degree that in sending M. Marchand to bar the700 words
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Article356 1898-12-09 11 E. A. Sou raj in is on bail ($300) for a week, he having been arrested on Saturday on a charge of defaming Inspector Bourne. Two Chinamen are in gaol for a month -one dishonestly disposed of ft pig, the other stole some zinc. An olu offender has356 words
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Article1316 1898-12-09 11 RUSSIA AND EGYPT. The Pel it Parisien (Nov. 1 1th) contains a despatch from its special correspondent at St. Petersburg:—Certain French journals have manifested doubts as to the efficiency of the support which Russia offers to France in the diplomatic questions directly affecting the interests of France,1,316 words
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Article233 1898-12-09 12 Paris 28th Noveml>er. As explanation of the railway scheme of M. Doumer, the Governor-General of French Indo-China, has shown its unquestionable utility. The financial situation of Indo-China allows of the railway loan being raised now. The necessity for each line in the proposed network of railways, from a233 words
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Article806 1898-12-09 12 London, November 21st. General Bundle has been appointed to the command of the South-eastern District of England. Allahabad, 23rd November. A Pioneer special telegram from London, dated the 22nd November, states that the publication of the Franco-Italian commercial settlement lias caused general surprise even in Tar is806 words
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Article79 1898-12-09 12 The November number of Echoes of Service, which records the progress of missionary enterprise in all parts of the world, contains an interesting account of a recent journey, undertaken by Messrs. Green and Williams, of the Singapore Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in79 words
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Article243 1898-12-09 12 This morning, a Eurasian detective named Nash died from small-pox at the General Hospital. Mr. Justice Hyndman-Jones left last evening for Malacca, where he will conduct the Assizes. The Spanish cruiser Isla de Cuba (1,048 tons) is practically a new* ship. Now that she has been raised,243 words
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Article42 1898-12-09 12 A fine mural tablet in brass has recently been placed on the south wall of St. Andrew s Cathedral, the gift of several friends in the Civil Service to the memory of their two late companions—H.*A. O’Brien and II.T. Haugliton.42 words
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Article45 1898-12-09 12 Another Chinese “ehiugay’' passed round the streets this morning. It was similarly composed to that which paraded the streets a week or so ago, and included gaily decorated ears, and various monstrosities, not to mention the accompanying din raised by tom-tom thumpers.45 words
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Article54 1898-12-09 12 A Hokien Chinaman livingatTanjong Rhu states that, while lie w as out fishing with another Chinaman off Tanjong Kotong, five Malays in a boat came up and robbed him of his nets. The Malays were armed with sticks and knives, and threatened to murder the Chinamen if54 words
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Article52 1898-12-09 12 Mr. Van Cuylenberg applied to Mr. Woodward this morning to disallow the issue of any warrant against Ebramsah (on the prosecution of the parties recently acquitted of perjury) as he was at this moment ill. Mr. Woodward said lie would not dream of issuing a warrant under52 words
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Article57 1898-12-09 12 Tiie Sarawak Committee of Administration met on the 2nd November, and considered adespatch from Mr. Chamberlain notifying the adoption of a postage rate of Id. per oz. within the British Empire, and also the adoption of a reduced parcel postage. The members were of opinion that57 words
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Article57 1898-12-09 12 Major-General Merritt arrived in London from Paris on November 17th, and is expected to make a tour of some weeks in England and Scotland with his wife. He told an interviewer that he expected the States would adopt for the Philippines a form of colonial government similar to57 words
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Article71 1898-12-09 12 The voting for the election of a Municipal Commissioner, to represent the Rochore W ard, took'place to-day at the Municipal Office. On the register there are approximately 400 voters, mostly Chinese, Arabs, and Tamils. By one o’clock only seventeen electors had voted for Mr. W. Nanson, who71 words
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Article69 1898-12-09 12 It was stated in Washington, on November 19th, that the naval programme prepared by Secretary Long, for the formation of a strong European squadron, included some of the finest ships in the American navy. The plans called for three first-class cruisers and five second-class cruisers, the69 words
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Article71 1898-12-09 12 A meeting was held yesterday afternoon at Nassim Hill, the residence of Mr. James Miller, with a view to the resuscitation of the above club. There was a considerable attendance. A committee was appointed; some excellent sketches were shown, and it was decided to hold an exhibition71 words
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Article97 1898-12-09 12 The story is known already of the German Emperor’s mistaking an allusion to Shakespeare as the divine William The latest thing on these very improper lines is as follows: Two Germans meet, and one inquires of the other, Do you know why the Kaiser is coming back in97 words
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Article107 1898-12-09 12 A DENIAL. The Sarawak Gazette denies the statement made in the Straits Settlements Legislative Council by Mr. Allinson that the Sarawak Government offered discount in its anxiety to get rid of its copper coinage. That journal says no time since the Sarawak Government took to supplying the107 words
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Article389 1898-12-09 12 Yesterday afternoon, a public meeting was held in the Exchange Rooms to consider the desirability of holding the New Year Land and Sea Sports. Among the gentlemen present were: Sir Lionel Cox (President), Messrs. G. I*. Owen, Itodesse, Scoular, and Makepeace. Mr. Owen said that the meeting389 words
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Article64 1898-12-09 12 18 DWT8. TO THE Toy A telegram from Raub o., states that the rough the battery yielded 3 i amalgam. The estimated 3 stone crushed was 1,460 ton 8 qUiUu t J« [This gives an average of .1.*, pennyweights of gold to the n h <*» previous crushing,64 words
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Article76 1898-12-09 12 The Spanish steamer />.©* lr calling at Colombo on her J Barcelona to Manila, took um lro piementary bill of health 8 i«CJ American Consul. Ti,;* v through recent ashiugton that American r c were to issue supplements™ health to all vessels bound fur lippine Islands. All76 words
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Article155 1898-12-09 12 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STRAIT? T I M Dear 8ir, Can you or any u f J numerous readers who may or uJl be directly interested in the the bingapore-Jchore Railway H ..*l anything which would tend t’u k,!, light on the inexplicable action of th,155 words
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Article214 1898-12-09 12 Yesterday afternoon, one man got nine months, and another six, with the addition of twenty cuts, for theft: a third got twelve months for housebreaking, and a fourth six for robbery. The two men charged with rubbery and personating detectives have been released on bail of 8500 each.214 words
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Article199 1898-12-09 12 An ordinance regulating the storeag > sale, use, transport, etc., of all sives is shortly to be submitted 0 Legislative Council. Very satisfactory reasons are advanced for legislating this connection. Chemical science multiplied the varieties and P° w j explosives in an astonishing degree, the public safety demands199 words
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Article1053 1898-12-09 13 LL HUNG-CHANG. Pekin despatch states that Li fiiing-chang was expected to leave that j tv j"..r Tientsin on the 28th November, J 0 Examine the Yellow River. It is i. 0 alleged that Li s Private Secretary, q r N. J. IVthick, wiil engage two f1,053 words
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Article296 1898-12-09 13 SPAIN OFFERS TO SELL. REUTER REVERSED. (Ahead of the Mail.) Washington 21st November. A CABLEGRAM was received at the office of the Secretary of State to-daj from Chairman Day, of the American Spanish peace commission, now ii session at Paris, asking definite instructions regarding the latest Spanish296 words
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Article215 1898-12-09 13 An exciting thief chase occurred early this morning, in connection with a robbery committed on the premises ol a Chinese shopkeeper at 54 Bencoolen Street. About 4 a.m. the owner was aroused by hearing a noise in the shop below. Getting up, he looked through a hole215 words
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Article1633 1898-12-09 13 EVICTING TURKISH TROOPS. Particulars are now given of the measures adopted by the British Admiral at Candia when, for some unexplained reason, the Turkish Commander coyntermanded the embarkation of his force which had been peaceably commenced in Suda Bay. Rear-Admiral Noel seized the lighters in the harbour,1,633 words
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Article1497 1898-12-09 13 WHEN IS IT SAFE? i SINGAPORES MUNICIPAL 8UPPLY. Water was Dr. Ellis’s subject la9t night, for the third in the series of health lectures, at the Tanglin Club. He dealt with the subject exhaustively, and the advice he gave as to the paramount necessity, especially in the1,497 words
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Article497 1898-12-09 14 ARRIVALS OF TROOPS. The American transports Valencia and Senator arrived at Manila from San Francisco on the 21st November. They brought the following troops: —The Second Battalion of the First Washington Volunteers, a hundred men from the California Heavy Artillery Volunteers, two assistant surgeons, and several hospital stewards.497 words
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Article150 1898-12-09 14 Chop Hock Ban Guan at Penang won a case against the Po Ann Insurance Company of Canton before Mr. Justice Leach on the 28th November. The plaintiff* sued the defendant on a policy of marine insurance to recover a sum of $68:1 for damage sustained to a cargo of150 words
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Article119 1898-12-09 14 Sweden is about to follow the example set by Denmark in founding an East Asiatic Trading Company. The negotiations arc almost concluded. The concern is to be managed by Mr. Einar Bjornson, a son of the Norwegian poet. On account of the company laws existing119 words
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Article91 1898-12-09 14 It is reported that one Chinese physician has been reprimanded and another dismissed for administering unsuitable nostrums to the Emperor. On the other hand, the treatment of Chen Lungfang has met with approval. Chii Kun, another noted medico only feels the pulse of his Majesty, which is91 words
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Article69 1898-12-09 14 The German mail steamer Prinz Heinrich left Colombo this morning, and may be expected to arrive here on Saturday. Among her passengers is Princess •Henry of Prussia who, on arrival here, will be met by the Acting Governor, Sir Alexander Swettenham, and will visit Government House.69 words
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Article284 1898-12-09 14 H. M. S. Daphne will shortly be leaving us and will be replaced for a time by H. M. S. Archer. The telegraph lines inland from Bombay were interrupted this morning. Delay in forwarding messaged has resulted. The King of Siam has issued a proclamation, stating that284 words
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Article51 1898-12-09 14 The desperate Chinese burglar, whose arrest we chronicled yesterday, made a daring attempt to break out of the hospital lock-up this morning. He succeeded in removing several bricks, hut in his haste he did not sufficiently enlarge the aperture, and he w as found "tuck fast therein by the51 words
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Article57 1898-12-09 14 Information is still being got together for tlie commission as to the number of tongkangs, twakows, and sampans that are moored in the river at certain hours of the day and night. They number several hundreds, and seriously impede navigation between Cavenagh and Elgin Bridges. Several boats are57 words
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Article127 1898-12-09 14 More petroleum is produced in Burma than anywhere else in t he 1 ndian Empire, the refineries of the Burma Oil Company turning out about 4,000 tons per annum. The total amount of petroleum oil produced in Burma in 1597 was 18,904,710 gallons, being an increase of127 words
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Article127 1898-12-09 14 emigration to the straits. The North China Daily News notes that the chief exports from Swatow are sugar and coolies. The latter go under the name of emigrants, for free they are in all their movements. Shipload after shipload go to Siam or Singapore. Is there any danger ofdeplctingthe127 words
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Article43 1898-12-09 14 The China Mail complainpthat details are still lacking of the arrangements for the reclamation of the Naval Foreshore at Hongkong. Such work as can be pushed on is rapidly taking shape, a large quantity of new machinery being already in position.43 words
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Article154 1898-12-09 14 A correspondent writes thus to the North China Daily News from Moukden, the chief town of Manchuria:— ‘‘It is with great gratification we in the interior learn of the progress of the Russian railway from Newchwang northwards. It is now stated that, towards the autumn of next154 words
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Article135 1898-12-09 14 Lloyd’s returns of vessels totally lost or condemned during the second quarter of 1898 give the following figures as to steamers: —Abandoned at sea, one (Spanish); broken-up, eighteen, of which ten were British, measuring 14,755 net tons; burned, one (American); in collision ten, nine of which (of 5,4116135 words
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Article148 1898-12-09 14 A PROPOSED SURVEY. A number of British and American residents in Western China have addressed a memorial to Lord Salisbury on the obstacles to' and delays in communication between the upper and lower waters of the Yang-tse. These are, the memorialists say, not only a hindrance to148 words
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Article272 1898-12-09 14 What may be styled the Singapore Bisley takes place, as we have previously announced, on the Balestier range to-morrow, Friday, and Saturday. The Committee of the Garrison Rifle Club, who are the promoters of the meeting, are looking forward to what, it is hoped, will prove the272 words
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Article62 1898-12-09 14 The prospectuToTthe w tralian International \i!• f *W trial Exhibition, to bife? *‘4 in March next, has been S5 Ihe exhibition will i! fikSC patronage of the Gov e L Ur,dtt 4 Colony. Coolgardie j s m nt of of the goldfields in the S tion of the62 words
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Article178 1898-12-09 14 TO THE EDITOR OF THE u STkA’TB Sir,— Some few month, i residents of l’p, )e r Win’ 5 ti* applied to the Municipality ht: the scavenging cart, that circuits Sophia Road and t Koadlwic.'d.ilj^a^Vr*. up their road once a petitioners were informed Commissioners were heretofore 4178 words
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Article205 1898-12-09 14 RAPID REFINING. A French engineer, M. Robin Lanf. lois, has just invented a process, described by the French scientific review La Nature as very simple and inexpensive, for transforming rapidly into cubes or square blocks, possessing absolutely the external appear ance and' properties of refined sugar, all205 words
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Article180 1898-12-09 14 AUSTRALIAN GOLD. In 1896 the Australian gold outpj was 2,378,126oz.; last year 1 2,899,6o0oz.; for the Aft nine of this year it exceeded To this aggregate the leading tors are West Australia, < r■ Queensland 664,524oz.; an M 634,971oz. The splendid yield of* of gold has been obtained trom180 words
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Article611 1898-12-09 15 I> SYRIA AND PALESTINE. Thk German colonies of Haifa, Jaffa, i- ir .*n:i, and Jerusalem, in Syria and n v-rine, have a history which is not ,,ut its interest, especially in view T the recent tour of the German i; ,.ror in those regions. These four is they611 words
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Article174 1898-12-09 15 v,) rikisha pullers have lost cases their fares, for refusing to '°ni|)lete the journey; a third sucked, got his man fined, and obtained and compensation. IG* case against the two passage rij kcrs tor alleged cheating in respect 1 of tickets for Jeddah, which good only for Calcutta,174 words
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Article1191 1898-12-09 15 DEMORALIZING CHINA. IS ENGLAND TO BLAME.? Year by year, the number and influence of the protests against the export of opium from India to China are growing greater. To abolish the trade at one blow .would, it is reasonably contended, be an impossibility; but the argument on1,191 words
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Article447 1898-12-09 15 ANOTHER CATHERINE II. The Em press-Dowager of China is an unfailing attraction to magazine writers. They do not all succeed in giving so good a character sketch as a writer in the November Blacknood. She is without doubt the most interesting personage in China, for 50 years past,447 words
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Article959 1898-12-09 15 PEACE IN THE KHAIBAR. The conclusion of the negotiations with the Afridis gives promise of peace in the Khaibar in the future, all sections of the clan having formally affixed their seals to the agreement. The question of the construction of the bed for the railway still959 words
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Article502 1898-12-09 15 SUGGESTED CREATION OF A SINGAPORE SEE. In this month’s issue of the Straits 1 Church Magazine, appears an article headed The Extension of the Colonial Episcopate/' With a view to awaking new life among the churches,—and no one can doubt, says the writer, that some such quickening502 words
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Article80 1898-12-09 15 Mr. Pandeli Ralli, whose guest Lord Kitchener was on his arrival from Egypt, telegraphs as follows to the Press Association Kindly contradict the rumour of the engagement of Lord Kitchener to my niece, Miss Evelyn Moreton. The rumour is absolutely false” Lord Kitchener has contradicted the80 words
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Article616 1898-12-09 16 APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT. SPEECH BY MR. YERBURGH, M.P. At a crowded meeting of merchants, and others, under the auspices of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, Mr. II. A. Yerburgh, M.P., delivered a powerful address. He pointed out that China was of the most vital importance to616 words
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Article132 1898-12-09 16 despoiling the kind-hearted. A Parisian lady was travelling to Paris in a railway carriage, the sole occupants of which were herself and an extremely young lady, who, from the difficulty with which she spoke French, was evidently of British nationality. In the course of the journey the132 words
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Article58 1898-12-09 16 The Siam Free Press contradicts the rumour that Mr. Lillie seeks to be naturalised in France. Mr. Lillie has given that journal to understand thafr he intends to remain a British subject. Early next year, Mr. Lillie leaves Europe for Japan and China, but whether in a commercial58 words
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Article78 1898-12-09 16 The Penang Municipality have passed new dog regulations, to be laid before the Governor. Under them, dogs will be allowed to be imported into theSettlementfrom Malacca, Singapore, and the Federated Malay States, provided that a statutory declaration be made that the dog had been in the owner’s78 words
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Article783 1898-12-09 16 The late Rev. Isaac Fiddle once declined the offer of a degree in divinity on the ground that he objected to being nicknamed Fiddle, D. 1). i The Prince of Wales has practically recovered the use of his injured leg, and experiences only some slight difficulty in mounting783 words
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Article249 1898-12-09 16 At 11 a. m. to-day, a Dutch mail steamer passed through the port from West to East. The Malay Mail hears that there is to be a Blue-book issued, dealing exclusively with the Malay Peninsul^. One hundred and tifty-four deaths were registered at Singapore during the week249 words
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Article102 1898-12-09 16 Yesterday afternoon a Chinaman for theft was sent into retirement for six months. Ten cuts were administered to a lad for snatching an earring; another got eight cuts for stealing a coat. For theft as a servant, a young Chinese assistant at Messrs. J. Little Co.’s lias been102 words
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Article155 1898-12-09 16 A large number of religious people in;New South Wales appear to be averse, rightly or wrongly, to the totalisator. They are equally prejudiced against the book-maker, but they are at one with him on the one point -undying hostility to “the machine.” The book-maker sees in155 words
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Article203 1898-12-09 16 probable breakdown. A report was received yesterday afternoon to the effect that the s. s. Euryalns, bound to Singapore from Australia, had gone ashore on a reef in Banka Straits. Captain Stratton of the s. s. Ban Poh Guan which arrived here on Tuesday last, however, contradicts the203 words
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Article41 1898-12-09 16 A couple of Hokiens paid nine counterfeit guilders yesterday to a woman in Holland Road. She followed the men and had them arrested. Nineteen other counterfeit guilders were subsequently found close to where the men were taken into custody.41 words
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Article161 1898-12-09 16 A table recently compiled, gives the fortunes left by a thousand persons in the past ten years. It is significant, a contemporary points out, that neither art, literature, music, nor the drama appear therein, and that the learned professions, medicine, and law are well last. The knack161 words
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Article171 1898-12-09 16 At 1.45 this morning, a gang of Chinese thieves forced an entrance to 84 Kallang Road. They first secured the door of an outbuilding in which a number of coolies, in the employ of the master of the house, were sleeping and then removed some boards from the171 words
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Article191 1898-12-09 16 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STRAITS TIMES. Dear Sir, —With reference to the article “A Desperate Thief” in your paper of yesterday, I bog to state that the thief would not have been caught if the two Eurasian lads had not captured him, in doing which they191 words
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Article200 1898-12-09 16 I NON-COMS, at fort canning. The Sergeants’ Mess at Fort Canning did things in great style last night, at a Smoking Concert arranged as a farewell to their comrades, the Warrant Oflicers and Chief Petty Officers of H. M. S. Daphne, which is daily expecting orders to200 words
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Article813 1898-12-09 16 A moral EEB WE SHALE BIDE OLE On October 28th, \j secured another of hi• i de Km views, this time politician, who has hi N perhaps, again hold n < posititioDS in the G 0V( .J“ e country.” The present unofficial standi informed of what is k813 words
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Article26 1898-12-09 16 monologue. j A General cham y being established ta f rt .ni formerly a foreigners were e» lu aistinc-uo* *1 Chamber the* wiU be uo nationality.26 words
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Article1730 1898-12-09 17 y .y Municipal Commissioners met tt-rdnv afternoon, under the presif* of Mr. A. Gentle. There were ae n t: Messrs. Evans, Fort, Nanson, PPL r Moses, Sohst, Tan Cheng Tuan, Jfrhoa Giang Thye. FINANCE. 'j'jfinancial statement submitted r that the balance in favour of Commission at the last1,730 words
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Article311 1898-12-09 17 A despatch from Harar, in the middle of October, says that Has Makonnen had left for Ad is-A be bn, whence he was to go to 1 igre. Six y officers were left in prison, refusing to go on. All the Rases of the Gojam had revolted, to join311 words
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Article297 1898-12-09 17 COL. picquart’s enquiries. M. Francis de Pressensc is the author of a volume, just published, which contains 12 unpublished letters written during the period from November 21st, 1896, to March 23rd, 1897, by General Gonse to Lieut.-Col. Picquart. These letters are posterior to the inquiry made by297 words
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Article95 1898-12-09 17 TANGLIN AND TEUTONIA CLUBS. This mate!) was commenced last night, at Hie Tanglin Club, the result so far being in favour of tlie Tanglin Club by a small margin. A good match is anticipated on Saturday, at the Teutonia Club. The scores are as follows Tanglin Club. Teutonia Club.95 words
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Article1711 1898-12-09 17 London, 1 2th November. The text of Lord Salisbury's speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, in the Guildhall, does not appear so pacific to the French as the telegraphic accounts seemed to indicate, and it has awakened serious misgivings throughout France. Some journals recognise that it1,711 words
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Article409 1898-12-09 18 THE REGISTRATION QUESTION. The British North Borneo Herald seeks how to overcome the difficulty of legally proving marriages among Chinese there. Marriage certificates are unknown in China. Their repute is accepted as sufficient proof of marriage unless the facts are challenged. Such proof,” of course, does not409 words
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Article220 1898-12-09 18 Captain Mclntyre, of the barque Strathgryfe from New York, reported at Melbourne, early last month, having seen, on September 22nd, Captain Shaw and the crew of 12 of the barque Glenhuntly posted as missing at Lloyd’s. They had been some months on the island of Tristan220 words
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Article1306 1898-12-09 18 i THE ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND. I The Times adverted (Nov. 11th) to the abundance of comment and criticism which Lord Salisbury’s speech called forth, nnd pointed out that the Debats (Paris) admits, what every serious politician must understand, that since tint victory of Oindurman England's position on1,306 words
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Article377 1898-12-09 18 A WELL-WORN SUBJECT REVIVED. The jury service question has long been a matter for discussion among mercantile men in the Straits both on account of the inconvenience and dis location of business which the present system involves, and the expense which has to be incurred. Under377 words
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Article837 1898-12-09 18 arrivals. Per s. s. Ophir from Palembang—Messrs. Mendelson, and Hulloman. Per s s. Sappho from Klang via ports— Mr. Hamertou. Per s. s. Sumatra from Deli—Mr. T. H. David, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. K. van Aalst, and Mr. Otio Braun well. Per s. s. Loodiana from Madras837 words
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Article94 1898-12-09 18 Under this heading tbe f ol KT tions ore used bq.— barque Brit ~Pri^ a L mer States; fV. French G fe t>| Dutch; Joh—Jobire i2’ ern! »n'V*| 'ft^l tent Slip Rds.—Roads u-u 01: s.5| is named, the month currer, a ‘tJ mentis j I Daphne, H.94 words
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Article1052 1898-12-09 18 Arrivals Sirck Noon op Yr Calypso Brit. str. 339 tnnc p I 8th Dec. From Deli. 6th TV &P r 61 d.p. W. Mansfield and Co f *1 10th—Rds. l 0, Forr-^B Cheang Chew Brit, str 1 91. I Webb, 7th Dee. From Iv'r,, v r «t>I1,052 words
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Article571 1898-12-09 19 port, probable date ol arrival and name of aqents. Steamers. Aurora. Hongkong, Dec 3 Boustead. Ballaarat, Colombo, Dec 16 P. 4 O. Bamb'Tg. H'kong, to leave Dec 21 B. M. Bant »m. Sourabaya, Dec 4 Daendels. Bayern. g. Dec 12 Behn Meyer. Itniiow, London. I ft Oct 15571 words
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Article1108 1898-12-09 19 as FLAG i 5 Vessel’s Name 4 Tons Captain Fbom Sailed j Consignee* Kig. Nov i sn f;lr/* l,OCh n". 4 8 r 'S* eters Tenang Nov 28 Wee Bin and Co. 80 Ophir Out str. 2&5 Tannay Palembang Nov 29 Eng Seng Guan 30 Sappho Brit str. 3291,108 words
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Article732 1898-12-09 19 1)*tf Vessel’s Name Flag4Rig! Captain Destination j Nov 30 i Lady Longden Brit str. Nicol j Pahang and Kuantan 30 Pyrrhus str. Batt Jeddah and London Dec 1 Chow’ Phya str. Jeilicoe Malacca and Klang 1 Calypso str. Lowry Penang and Deli 1 Hong Wan str. j Sellars Khio732 words
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Article164 1898-12-09 19 PASSED SUNDA STRAITS OR ARRIVED FOR ORDERS. Flag 1 Date Date. and Ship's Name. Captain. of Fkom where Dcstin- ReI Rig. Sailing atjon. marks Nov 27 Brit s.s. Jumna Sanders jOct 21 London Batavia 27 Am bq.Samar Forbes Nov 4 Singapore Mauritius 28jAm s. Emily Reed Nichoils Nov 7164 words
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