The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 21 June 1890
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The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
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Title Section26 1890-06-21 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. PiiiCE 20 Cents. Price 20 cents. VOL. 11. PENANG, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1890. No. 127.26 words
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Advertisement942 1890-06-21 1 INSURANCES. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. LIMITED. The Positive Government SeenThe Marine Insurance Co., NEDERLANDSGH IMDISCHE STQ9MVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. rity Life Assurance Company Limited. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. (Limited.) THE underfsig“ned are prepared to accept Intended Sailing and expected Arrival Of Steamers. of fchmii r^C[ f U tr fc e arne,sfc942 words
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1699 1890-06-21 2 The Annual Report on the Straits Settlements Police Force for the year 1889, appeared in the Government Gazette of the 13th instant, and our Singapore contemporaries as well as our local colleague have already had their say on the same. All of them are1,699 words
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Article509 1890-06-21 2 We are glad to find, from an advertisement we publish elsewhere, that the Penang and Province Wellesley Planters’ Association have called a meeting to discuss the question of Chinese labour and to pass a resolution requesting the Government to appoint a Commission to enquire into the509 words
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Advertisement257 1890-06-21 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISH*# KVBR¥ ffKi)NKSUAV AN# SATURDAY. Kh TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum 9 l *>. 00 Half-year VX Quarter 4 w Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied oil payment of257 words
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734 1890-06-21 3 From the annual report of the Headmaster of the Victoria College at Hongkong, the appended observations are quoted:— Chinese boys, as a rule, are very intelligent, docile and painstaking. That they are intelligent is established by the large number of boys that in734 words
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Article176 1890-06-21 3 Referring to the petroleum industry of Baku and to the alleged threatened exhaustion of the wells, Mr. R. Peacock, the British Consul at Batoum, reports that for the present there is practically no ground for alarm. It should bo borne in mind, he says, that if176 words
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172 1890-06-21 3 A notice of Sir Charles Dilke’s new book, The Problems of Great Britain,” says In this work the author expresses the belief that the world in the future will be divided nmong the Anglo-Saxon, Russian and Chinese races, France, he172 words
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Article369 1890-06-21 3 The composition of the Committee on Naval Uniform is, the Army and Navy Gazette says, exciting some not unatural comment among naval men. The Duke of Edinburg, as president, has for his co-committeemen Capt. George T. H. Boyes, recently his flag-captain in the Alexandra, and369 words
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314 1890-06-21 3 route for home in a few weeks. —Free Press. Mr. Henry Norman returned yesterday (15th) by the Resident Halewyn from Tringanu from a journey across the Peninsula, taking over three months. Mr. Norman, who was accompanied by Mr. W. Warren, M. I. C. E., &c.,route for home in a few weeks.—Free Press. - 314 words
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Article759 1890-06-21 3 The Singapore Sporting Club Spring Meeting. Extra Day, Saturday, lAth June, 1890. The following are the results of the racing:— I.—THE GRAND NATIONAL. Value $2OO. —Steeple-chase for all Horses. Weight list. 71bs. Distance, about 2£ miles. 1 F. C. Johnston’s bag Wodongv list. 71bs. Abrams. 0. Nr.759 words
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Article171 1890-06-21 4 (From the Pinang Gazette.) London, Uth June.—' The London police threaten to strike on the twentieth of this month failing the redress of their pension grievances. Mr. W.U. Smith has decided to resign and go to the House of Lords if an autumn session is held, owing to(From the Pinang Gazette.) - 171 words
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Article1666 1890-06-21 4 The F. and O. mail steamer Rosetta arrived here yesterday morning and left again on her homeward journey at noon. A great battle is expected to be fought to-day between the Dutch and the Achinese, the former having advanced into the interior with the intention of capturing1,666 words
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Article1362 1890-06-21 4 (By an “Independent Jotter.”) Yesterday, at the Police Court, a case against a licensed dealer in arms, for keeping a false account of his stock, came on for hearing before Magistrate Ebden and perhaps quite contrary to the expectations of both prosecutor and prosecuted, the defendant was1,362 words
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Article348 1890-06-21 5 A correspondent of the Singapore Free Press, dating from Port Victoria, Seychelles, May 15th, says I hasten to let you know that the ExMantri who had accepted to go to Sarawak on certain conditions proposed to him and other chiefs by Her Majesty’s Government, is348 words
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Article146 1890-06-21 5 Arrivals 18th Jane —Per s. s. Lady Weld, from Port Weld —Mr. and Mrs. Lim Hock Seng, and Mr. Allan. 19th June—Per s. s. Gympie, from Port Weld —Mr. H. E. Darby, and Mr. S. Scott Gardner. 20th June —Per s. s. Gympie, from Port Weld —Mr.146 words
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Article240 1890-06-21 5 The first performance of the Oberamrnergau Passion Play lias been given. It was described as the general dress rehearsal;” but the public were admitted by payment, and nearly 4,000 spectators were present. Of these about 800 were English and Americans, who are occupying all the principal240 words
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Article659 1890-06-21 5 Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on the 23rd May 189!). Present The Hon’ble A. M. Skinner, President. J. H. Callcott, Esq. D. Comrie, Esq. F. M. McLarty, Esq. It. A. P. Hogan, Esq. C. W. Barnett, Esq. 1. The minutes of last meeting are659 words
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Article1837 1890-06-21 5 a Griffin - By a Griffin. There were three of us, a Penang merchant, a Penang lawyer, and myself; we put a good deal of silver into it, but we never got any gold out of it. And this is how it came about In the archives of the Penang1,837 words
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Article129 1890-06-21 6 Penang, 21st June, 1890. Rates rule as folloivs London, Demand, Bank 3/41 dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3/5 j- Do. 6 Credits 3/6 Do. 6 Documentary 3/6£ Calcutta, Demand, Bank 11 s. 224£ Do. 30 days sight, Private 227 Bombay, Demand, Bank 224^ Do. 30 days sight,Private 227129 words
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Advertisement388 1890-06-21 6 NOTICE. Penang and Province Wellesley Planters’ Association. A Meeting of this Association is called for Tuesday, the Ist July, 1890, at noou, in the Chamber of Commerce. Business (1) To discuss the Chinese labour question with a view to passing aresolution requesting the Government to appoint a Commission to make388 words
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