The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 17 December 1892

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  • 27 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED IVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. Pkicb 20 Cents. Price 20 Cents. VOTn IT. PENANf, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1892. No. 356.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 703 1 TUetfortli-SritishandMercan- THE STRAITS INSURANCE tile lusnmnoe Company. BR,TSH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. COMPANY, LIMIT ED. KstaHislied 1809. A TST TOTT-cvn ioo« Gapitj £3,000,000. KONINKLIJKE PACKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. established 1883. THE nnder«i|ned, being the appointed MrnantTlii i lair nr OTrAyrDO Capital fu£ly Subscribed acrcnts of this C/mpany, are authorized to NtbArAIAM
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  • 3284 2 As will )o seen by the letter and the extract*from the Glasgow Mail which follow this, the Penang Policemen luve been fortunate in having their cause taken up hy that most influential and widely read journal, aid, if Reuter is to bo believed —an]
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    • 273 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED KVKP.Y WKANKSDAY AND SITUIIHAY HIDINGS. +<>+ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: 8 12.00 Ter Annum v 70 Half-year tt Quarter Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR r > for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied on payment ot
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  • 598 3 Before the Royal Geographical Society ou tlie 14th ulto. Dr. Nansen delivered a lecture, iu which he enunciated his theory as to the currents which enter the Polar regions north of Nova Zenibla and northwards through the Behring Straits, emerging iu a southerly direction off the
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  • 471 3 A correspondent of the London and China Express, comes forward rather late in tiio day, with I he following choice in formation, which is almost tantamount to telling us that Queen Anne is dead The cause celebre, the Government prosecution for criminal breach of of two
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  • 1003 3 (From our Exchanges.) Cairo 2nd December. —The Dervishes at Dongola having been reinforced by some three hundred men, have started to attack tlie Egyptian post near Korosko. The stay of Os main Digma at Amit is regarded as an indication of a possible hostile movement of the
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  • 153 4 Penang, 1 7t 1» December, 1802. Rates rule as follows London, Demand, Hank ‘2 S\ dollar. Do. *1 months sight, Dank 29} Do. 3 Credits 2/9§ Do. 3 Documentary... 2/91 Calcutta, Demand, Hank Its. 223 Do. 7 days sight, Private 221} Bombay, Demand. Hank 223 De. 7 days sight,
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  • 109 4 (From the Vinang Gazette.) London 12 th December. —lt is expected that the Monetary Conference will end on Thursday. Davies, the Tory member for Rochester, has beou uuseated for corrupt practices. London loth December. —lu the Senate, Senator Stewart moved to amend the Sherman Act by the free
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  • 1847 4 Mail Moticis.— 'Tlio IVTitil lespntched from Penang to London, vH Brindisi, on the 18tii ultimo, was delivrodon tlie 12i ii iust. Uufoun dkd Rumours —(oncoming certain rumoured transfers it tlio Medical Department, consequent li on tlie retirement of Dr. McClosky, tin Free Press understands that, there has
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    • 128 4 EASTERN ORIENTAL HOTEL K>h X'MAS CRIT2HION” DINNER. Fridat, 23rd December, 1802. MENU. llors d’Okuvres. Caviar on toast. —Savoury eggs. Soup' s Par Kail.—Ox tail, clear. Fish. Boiled Slanging and Lobster sauce. Fillets of S des. Entrees. Afpic Pate do foie gras. Lanil cutlets with Green peas ind. Tomato sauce. French
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    • 257 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. A Special Merth." of the Municipal Commissioners will bo held at -.30 r. M., lon Tuesday next the 20th instant at the Town Hall, to consider anil pass ceitam by laws for carrying out the purposes of the Jinricksha Ordinance, 1892. Business for Special Meeting. 20th December, 1892.
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  • 217 5 lliittenbaclis supporters are very evidently determined not to let the grass Kvow under their bet. To remove bis disability under se<bion 29 of tlie Muni* CI H Ordinance, a Company, to becallod J 1 Light jig Company, L>mie(b Capital slo,o()fin 200 shares of $5O eac, b i'as
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  • 99 5 STRAITS settlements. (Goiernment Gazette, Dec 9 r«i The Clines» Recreation Clnh, Penan" TC I I lie provisions of the Societies Ordinance Messrs E. C. C. Howard and W. L. C.utei, Calets, Straits Civil Service, have passed their final examination in Malay. 'I he appointment of Tlaji Sahumi, as
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  • 326 5 PERAK. (PerakGovernment Gazette, Dec. 9.) 1 J. Leech, Collector and Magistiuite, lviita, in his monthly Report for Ootobei, :ays the Chinese are very well satisfied vitli the high price of tin, but complain oudly of the great risk to life aud pro petty from gangs of robbers
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  • 349 5 (From our own Correspondent.) Rumours fnm Kelantan assert that tlie ex-Orang Kayah, Pahle wan Si Rahman, is agaiu up aud stirring, and is endeavouring, might aud maiu, to collect a following with he says he will again enter his DisWct of Pahang, with a view tc re-establishing
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  • 279 5 The following remarks by H. E. Sir Charles W arren, Major General Commanding the Troops, S. S., regarding his inspection of the Ist Perak Siklis, were published by Lt. Colonel Walker, C.M.Q., Commandant Ist Ferak Siklis, for the information
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  • 743 5 Sinking of a Japanese Cruiser. Sixty-two Lives Lost. The Superintendent of the P. O. Co. at Hongkong received on tlie 2nd instant telegraphic advice from the Company’s agent at Kobe that tlie commander of the Ravenna reported having been in collision with a Japanese cruiser in tlie luland
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  • 251 5 An unfortunate election enthusiast ~at Anderson, Indiana, will probably die in consequence of a foolish bet. lie wagered that if Mr. Cleveland carried the State he would swallow a live turtle, and he has honestly done so, the specimen being small, but lively. Now it refuses to digest, or
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 456 6 yT-ttY! TT~f\~*°* OPEM KXIY ii 11 U UNDER EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT. FOUNDRY COMPANY. VICTORIA HOTEL. Weld Quay. MA IN HO AD, TAIPIN G. engineers, Ceutrally situated; close to the Railway Station, and BOILER-MAKERS, Government Omces. IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS immoous newly furnished. Excellent Cuisine, Mines, Spirits, Arc. AND Table d’llote—Separate
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    • 295 6 Boral r I ho undersigned having w Agents for the above nppoi,l U to accept Fire Insurance Ebks e I Jre Pared favourable Terms. 0u die iqq s BEUN, MiYEif 4 (j 0 Penang, 9th Sept. 1892. AfJents oQ Cautomusnrauce Office, L i mUe(l I HE undersigned haviuo- Agents for
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