The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 23 March 1895

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1 8 The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
  • 27 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING. piITOR 20 Cents, Prtoe 20 Cents. VOTi. VII, PENANG, SATURDAY, 23 MARCH 1895. No. 511
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 921 1 N Insurance Company. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. f Tlie Netherlands Fire «00. KON, H?oL J n K fT^. K ?I^ ART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Insurance Company. Capital £3,000,000. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS- HJ .ta„uZL B s ACCUMCUTED Invested Fund5...£2,533,U3. n Safllnf/ and expected Arrival Of Steamers. The undersigned has been
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  • 1177 2 The gradual effaeemenfc and pauperization of Penang,is most npparrent to those who, like the writer of these lines, have been absent for some little time from the place. On every hand l he signs of decay are painfully evident. No works of public utility,
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  • 1327 2 We are glad to see that the silly ns well as depraved campaign upon which our local contemporary has for some time been engaged, with the apparent object, of relieving this Colony of a share of its Military Contribut ion, by recommending
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    • 21 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. rPLISIMII KVKIiV WMBSDM AND SATUKD.W KVKNINfI. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Per Annum Half-year 7.00 Quarter Single copy twenty cents.
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  • 462 3 The returns of I lio of the re 4 ul; ti- ;ti*iny at the close of last year k ,o\v that t here are now rather more than 222,001) officers and men on the regimental rolls, and, including tin* first class army reserve of men who h«v*
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  • 4242 3 {London China Express, Feb. 15.) IHE Coubt.—According fco present arrangements Q ue e,, Victoria and su.ie will leave Postsmouth on her way to Mm K.viera on the morning of March 13 M.es Roecker, the only lady survivor of Mi e Hjlbe, has bee,, received at Odmrne
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  • 1064 4 Rbutbr’s Agenoy. From the Pinang Gazette.) Tlic War. London, 7th March. —Newellwang has been captured alter desperate street fighting for thirteen hours. There were nineteen hundred Chinese killed and five hundred taken prisouers. The Japanese loss is two hundred. The Chinese §ed to Yinkow. London, \oth March.— Tho
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  • 136 4 Fbnano, 23rd March 1895. Rates tulf as follows London. Demand, Bank dol. D<> 4 months sight,. Bank 2/0| Du. 3 Credits 2/1* Do. 3 D cnmentni v 2/1 Calcutta. D ,•111)1111 1, B ink R* 187 D 30 davs’sighl, Rrivnto 19d Bomb*Y Demand, Bank 187 Do. 30 days’sight. Private
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  • 1962 4 Mr. T. Sl.elford 0. M. G., leaves for Europe in ilie beginning of next mouth. W« boar that there is some cbance of the firm of Paddy Tonneut Co. being reorganised. Harms! ons* Circus, now playing in Singapore, will not, in nil probability, pay Penang a visit
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    • 363 4 PATENT SLIP AT PRYE DOCK. The above has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired, and is now in excellent working order. Launches up to 50 feet length will be hauled up for $lO. For further particulars Apply to the 454 Manager the dispensary, No. 2, Bishop Street, IS NOW OPEN. And
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    • 42 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The iif'Y 1 Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal C<»mmif»aion«rH will ha h»* Id at (ha u«uial time and place on Friday the 29th instant. J W TIALLTFAX Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners' Municipal. Office, 'Town Hall, Pknano, 22nd March 1895.
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  • 549 5 If life is a ijarne of chance, Assoctahion football is rendered «'ill more so by such incapable nrnp?»*i gj* ns whs witnessed on Monday lnsfc. By favour of the referee the Regiment won, which presupposes I,lie fact tJmh that ifenhleman mush have been blind when lift «rave Ant
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  • 288 5 Grace Hawthorne, whose reputation is world wide, will, under the able directorship of Mr. S iville Sinh.fi, open a short season in Penang this evening with the 1“ O-teary Wildery's" «aoeiet v d ram a, "Lady Windermere s Fm." From press notices and other sorces
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  • 106 5 The following account, for the month of January, 1895, lias been forwarded by the Managers of the under-mentioned Ranks, duly certified by them, for publication in the Government Gazette: Average Amount op Bank Notbs in Circulation. Singapore Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Ghina, 1,254,300 Hongkong and
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  • 466 5 The following should prove of interest to some of onr very much underpaid sen-faring frionds What are the average incomes of onntaing and officers on shipboard ask**d an interviewer of a British shipowning fi'-m, f Well, that is an exceedingly difficult question to answer,” was
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  • 1538 6 The following are the official Minute» of the lost four meetings of the Mn»>* cipal Commissioners of George l own, which the forced suspension of this paper prevented us from publishing nt an earlier date: Ist February. Present. J. Y. Kennedy, (Vresi dent): Oapt. Anderson, It. K Koh
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  • 603 6 MARK TWAIN. We HI o alI mure or I ss aeq i inte«l with tbv* uom de-plume Mark i’wain, |,ut vei v lo'V ol ns an* luvnro «x s ils real origination, which has recently appeared in an American contemporary; jutd it to* accunits therein related be ti n 1
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  • 417 6 T l ra P° r f 'MI of tho Je\,i B I ..h...,z u, e fl| vl,,ul Jewish Chronicle mint, J.’W.oh il. theA*^ ,ir« Ijnul.mlly, hut surely, g in U, '"«I atesre. Baron 11, iva,, f iei i of Ue know C.e 1 1...i1.h
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  • 275 6 Tim in Mt vtondorful villniyo of cliff,|,vp!l rs exUnt luts recently been discovered in the Bradshaw Mountains, Ai iz »11 a, and an exploring pm i y <>rto Visit the pb‘C* Hiul it. i nomiiolily. Tl.e village is m ono o tin» most inaccessible CaiiyOns o ti
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  • 207 7 The President of the Bimetallic League writing in the Bimetallist predicts the early triumph of bimetal!- itn, and calls attention to tiie fuel' tha' the whole army of professors of political economy are on that side, and must ultimately win. The China-Japan war has proved ft windfall for the
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  • 291 7 Penang, 23rd March, 1895. CENTRAL MARKET’. DESCRIPTION. Soup catty Cts. 8 Roast ii ii 1® Steaks 18 Rump Steak 18 Stew or Curry Meat 14 Ox Tail each 15 Tongue >» 85 Feet »i »> Heart pel* catty f «0 Tripe Liver n I^> Buffalo meat n j,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1060 8 Tile China Traders’ Insurance NOW. BEADT. PRITCHARD CO Company, Limited. Glimpses of the Eastern Arohipelftgo, Ethnographical, Geographical, Histoi- Capital Subscribed *2,000,000. j ca A collection of twenty-five subAmount Paid-up 000,000. jects on Neth. India, translated from the DDAWIOIAMC I Reserve Fund <50,000. Dutch* I i\V# V Head Office, TTonokono. by
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    • 366 8 Caat °^^o^TL 1 Cnpilal Spbscribed Amoant Paid-nn ?2^ooo. Reserve Fund P H*« o FF ,c E Mush. M ge t8 THE ~oH, i (k pointed Agent, for the above Coil” 11 ZSZl 1 “-"-SR A Lonus is annnallv nnid tn nii uta..! i,„ .i" ..w .."iSirxt,"-* n. BOUSTKAD a Co,
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