The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 10 September 1892

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1 8 The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
  • 28 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. j, c 2«) Oknts. Price 20 Cents. vou iv. PENANG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1892. No- 328.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 836 1 7“ i TVTftrcan THE STRAITS INSURANCE rM .J, #r iSaS ‘«company. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. company, limited. I KONINKLIJKE PACKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. h^o^.-s.k..^ v ital £,2.000,000. t Subscribed capital #3,000,000 Icraignod, being tho appointed NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS- j Paid u P eoo,ooo f-'jf il,*s Company, are authorized to
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  • 1007 2 Tub Report, iu anticipation ol the Straits Settlements Blue Book for 1891, appears in the Government Gazette of the 2nd inst., and more than justifies our anticipations, indulged in in October last year, that the measure of our misfortunes is not yet full. Then we had to
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  • 1273 2 In accord unco wit h a promise given in our issue of the 31st ult., in which number ot our paper there appeared a letter signed bCUWATOU adversely critical of our leader on Municipal Penang, we are now going to, in tarn, play the critic, with the intention
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    • 260 2 the straits independent. lULISID EVKRV WIMBIAT AM SVTIUHAV EVESIXfiS. terms of SUBSCRIPTION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: S 12.00 Per Annum qq Half-year 40 0 M Quarter Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR: 5 for tliree tnontlis, after which paper will only be supplied on payment of the arrenr.” Postage,
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  • 1735 3 (Times \2th August.) Ue intelligence which we receive concerning affairs in Afghanistan continues to ho of a disquieting kiud. We U'nr now little or nothing about the Ameer s aggressive tendencies iu what iay he called the neutral zone betweeu Afghanistan proper and our Northwestern
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  • 557 3 (From our Exchanges.) Loudon, 27 th August. —Sir Theodore Hope, in a letter to The Tunes, proposes to allow India to settle the curreucy question aud send delegates t 0 the Monetary Conference to make an in r -a- tional agreement which shall no bo binding on
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  • 365 3 London, 29 th August. —A sailor coming from Hamburg died of cholera at Middlesboro yesterday. Cases of cholera have appeared at Grimsby and Berlin. The epidemic is raging at Havre, aud the number of deaths at Hamburg amount to nearly two hundred daily. London, 3Qlh August.
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  • 142 4 Penang, lOih September, 1892. Hales rule as follows London, Demand, Bank 2,9 dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 29| Do. 3 Credits 29| Do. 3 Documentary 2 1(3 Calcutia, Demand, Bank Its. 226 Do. 7 clays sight, Private 228 Bon PAY, Demand, Bank 226 Do. 7 days sight,Private 228
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  • 124 4 (From the Pinang Gazette.) London, bth September. —It is officially declared that England is now tree ol cholera, which is spreading in Germany. The Treasury lias idcclared its willingness to allow New South Wales and Victoria to coin silver, the Treasury receiving protits but recouping the Colonies the
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  • 2634 4 Lady Ci.ementi Smith's Return- We understand that Lady Clement. Smi will return to U,e colony by the M steamer Natal, wb.cl. leaves Marseilles on the 2nd prox. The Prosecution on the Browns.— The hearing of the charges against John A. Brown and L. 0. Brown has been
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 39 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The next ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held in the Town Hall, at 2.30, p. m., On Friday, 16th September. (By Order), J. W. HALLIFAX, Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. Municipal Ollice, Town liall.
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  • 222 5 si Ha ITS SETTLES! ENTS. i“ ,Uo U, Secretary of wi.i,^'; 8 J 1 18 bee p l ,j ui tlioOil. v H «U«iry, for ouo week ■'*C tlio leave u nci.n. ‘J' cietry and Clerk of t,: •ir'u.a i lu U,e Secretary of l V ,H
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  • 723 5 Per ah Government Gazette, Sept. 2. Appointments.—Mr. W. P. Thorpe, Assistant Treasurer, Larut, to be Assistant Auditor, with effect from the 28th August. Mr. G. Bain, Financial Assistuit, Kuala Kangsar, to be Assistant 1 rci.surer, Larut, with effect from the 28i I August. Mr. W. Mahoney, Land
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  • 292 5 The Bangkok Times stales that the Government of Siam intend, in April next, to start a linancial scheme for a State issue of paper currency to the value ol Tes. 19,200,000, or something over one and a half million sterling. Ihe project is not altogether
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  • 500 5 Ceylon Mail. Thursday, August 25. L tdy Havelock held a reception sit Queen’s House on Friday evening, and it was the best sittended one since her ladyship’s arrival in Ceylon. Later in the evening the gubernatorial party were present at the Turf Club Ball held at the Club.
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  • 308 5 The following passages have been engaged for the Straits Home Passengers. Per Peninsular and Oriental. Per I*, and O. S. s. Massilia, from London, A eg. 15. —To Penang: —Mr. Gaunter. —To Singapore: —Mr. U. Hooker, and Miss M. Davison. Per P. and O. s. s. Britannia,
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  • 480 6 Sydney Telegraph. The detectives at Adelaide have been supplied with the particulars of a swindle* perpetrated by a former resident of Adelaide named Augustus Wilhelm Meyers, and whose career forms a striking chapter in the history of swindlers. From a statement supplied to
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  • 890 6 Raiu-making experiments in Madras have produced no very decided results, and the local Government Ims jest direc ted that no more money is to be spent on them. A Clotty recently died at Saigon at the age o! fifty-five after living a wretched and miserly life and leaving two
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    • 813 6 TOWN HALL. Tf TJ Vp'r-Tn IN AH) OP THE PUNKS OP THE XJj HI) itPENANG BANK, A PROMENAKE V rare»! I FOUNDRY CORI-m OF VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WJli Ail I, WILL BE GIVEN, Weld QU(UJ. On Wednesday, the 14 September, at 9 0 ’clock p. m. EN <HNEERS, PATRONS.
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    • 1009 7 McLARTY COMPANY, p -graphic Address. CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, FFI E “MEL ftRTY P £NANG SURVEYORS No. 30, BEACH STREET, tH „ESA' C 0 DE l88 7-) PENANG. A > .c.”,4th Bdition. general JtUnaccr flJ \rATE codes. CONTRACTORS, F. M. McLARTY, MULE. WE SUPPLY THE UNDERMENTIONED: Tobes’ BH^k°s f Fire
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    • 637 8 BANEEGTJNGE FIRE OLAY NOW OPiM FOTTEBY WORKS. UNDER EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT. Having been appointed Agents for the T A TTO^PII^T Hanexgunge Fire Clay and Pottery JL \x JD/ JLJLVX JL XjJUI Works, we are prepared to enter contracts for the undermentioned M SALT GLAZED STONEWARE PIPES MAINROAD9 TAIPIbIG* All sizes
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    • 249 8 Caatonlnsurauoeo^^ Agents for Uds’ Office 1,660 Hf»-, accept Marine ln s „™’S“°, w favorable terms. Kiskn, oar F r fallpartici *iar fl .pp ljtt B oUBTead 4 Cl Result of the wr.ll>' 0 for tl.e year 18^- nSOt 1116 Vito dlv ide as follows h,th n r A Dividend of
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