Straits Times Weekly Issue, 20 March 1886
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Straits Times Weekly Issue
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Title Section27 1886-03-20 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE. ■kw Series. Published for Transmission by Every Homeward Mail Steamer. [Price 4Q Cents OL XLII. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1880. NO. 3,35827 words
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DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
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262 1886-03-20 1 STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY, 20th MARCH, 1889. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. singapore joth march, 1050. Produce. Gwnbior 6.05. Cube do. No. 1 7.8*2*. do. do. No. 2 7.:!0. Copra Bali -I :>V do. Pontiauak 4. <>.">. Black Pepper !7.7<>. Sago Flour 3ar 2.:H. Pearl Sago 2.(>2A. Coff<>.\ Bout hi n-- 13.00. Tapioca,262 words
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Article625 1886-03-20 1 Tu-; Urt w.'ckiv issu.' of the Strait* Time* was dai Saturday, M ir.li LBth. The homeward mail was despatched <>n Monday, the K.th instant iu theM.M. Co's iteamer Oxut. The mail from borne of the 12th nit. arrival on Saturday in the M. M\ Co.'i steamer625 words
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Article299 1886-03-20 1 Last night the first performance of this talented juvenile company took place, when Gilbert and Sullivan's ever popular Piraiet of Penzance was played to a well filled house. The piece was very well sta-ed and dressed, and all the artistes were thoroughly w,-ll up in their299 words
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Article162 1886-03-20 1 1m: Sarawak Gazette ot the lwi March just received contains little news of an\ lilt »T The Supreme Council was convened on the 17th February, and again on the Ist March, but there were no ratten of importance brought forward at either date. Tablet of the trade returm162 words
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Article241 1886-03-20 1 (Penang Gazette, 16th March.) We regret to loam from Langkat that the s. s. Aummiui, belonging to Messrs. Holt's line, while coming down the river from Clainbier with a full cargo of tobacco on board, when reaching a bend of the river suddenly took a turn over to241 words
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208 1886-03-20 1 The. foll«> wini: letter aj.j h lon Observ rof th< ith instant. nang, ith Feh. U Deai! Si i;. It may pi-rlmps be .as well warn j> rsons in Ceylon who ar Strait- Settlements a- a Hold fi aLTiuist reckoning a dollar asoquiv;W.S.F. - 208 words
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Article231 1886-03-20 1 V\ i <>!-.-rve from the linllan His Hi-lm-ss tli Nizam, as a m appreciation "t" the valuable .M r. A, .7. Dunlop, the [nsp of Revenue, in connection covorv of the sunnud frauds, and ticularly in connection with the .36, in which li G n payment of over 1 1231 words
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Page 1 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous209 1886-03-20 1 passkn<;ers Per M. M. steamer Melbourne, on the L3th For Sinqifrpuri From Marseilles: Messrs. 1 B. R. Wallace. Dhcrs. Ro^erux, F. Gagf^ino and B i. From Ad n Mr. and Mrs. Hinnckind( i »m Colombo Mr. and Mrs. Lfcon, H. S. Roberts and G.J.Alexander. For lintn riii. -From Marseilles Mr.209 words
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Article6144 1886-03-20 2 ■rs to the Ka fan during the week March, was 719. ng Gazette states that there is our that the fourth judgeship is to 1 to Mr. Bonser, the Attorney )THEE man has been arrested on susof having been concerned in the >f the Bengalee woman MeerOverland Mail; Ex; L. & C. Express; Courier - 6,144 words
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Article1274 1886-03-20 4 Thb Second Criminal Assizes >j ium] od Tuesday with a light calendar, only eleven cases being eommitted for trial Bince the last A>si/ t s, amongst which is a charge <>f Mnnlcr against five men, the trial of which before a Special Jury was fixed for Tuesday next.1,274 words
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Article177 1886-03-20 4 For Straits Times. France. Paris, 14th March.— A net* French loan announced for one milliard, partially debt. Metroi-olitan 1' London, 14th Marcl has been appointed C Metropolitan polio- vice Sir Kdnm: derson. Egypt. London, ir>th March.— The 1 of occupation will l>e reduced 1 nients. Servia and Bulgaria.177 words
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Article361 1886-03-20 4 {Ceylon and linmj<nm paper*.) London, !><Hh h\h. In t Commons, Mr. Trevelyan has ii.^H a bill granting crofters fixity under tair rent. Lmnlnn. :>?th Th< War, in reply to a .jii.stion m of Commons, said that ther< for appreheuding thai Britia In- employed to IV-mrll],; I >„ The361 words
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Article579 1886-03-20 4 ns Home papers give the following of the new ministry v, Mr. Gladstone. ■11. j For rvtary. E the Colonism, Earl Granville. Secretary for India, Earl of KimberSey. Secretary for War, Mr. Campbell-Banner-man. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir W. Y. Harcourt. First Lord of the Admiralty, Marquis579 words
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Article1365 1886-03-20 5 Er Markets for British Trade. 3. T. March IH.) Messrs. < \>lquhoun and hilt and surveying the trade routes ItctwoMi India, Burin and Ciiina, mid then urgin-j; Importance <>f opening up these routes railways are now beginning ur fru M i|iiboiiii has now Burniah t»> enter the lit <1,365 words
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Article542 1886-03-20 5 (S. T. March 15.) The Home papers received by last mail contain full accounts of the riots which took place in London on Monday, the Bth of February. It appears that the London United Workmen's Committee had summoned a mass meeting of the unemployed to be h'-ld542 words
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928 1886-03-20 5 (8. T. Mar* 16.) The gambling question has so often been treated of in our own and contemporary columns that readers may well feel j a disinclination to peruse any further remarks on the subject. Upon this oi sion, however, we desire to bring928 words
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Article383 1886-03-20 6 T. March i; I ion is now occupy in in the attention of the ■I its attempted .sett lenient \>y ill probablv lead t<» anoThe n..;: which eraWe premier has bronchi before must have been of the nature ler to the I\irnellil le and nio>{ devoi berlain and Mr.383 words
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Article345 1886-03-20 6 {8. T. March tB. > The telegram received to-day gives us little more information regarding Blr. Gladstone's proposals for the settlement of the Irish difficulty. Jt appears thai In addition to setting up a Parliament in Collage Green he proposes to give thai body the control of345 words
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Article469 1886-03-20 6 (8. T. March H>.) o.n Wednesday lasi we gave a short repori <>r two which were brought uj> ;ii the Assizes agaiusi a Chinaman named S. mli All l\ow, which require some notice on account <>r their peculiar nature. In 1 1 1# first case the prisoner >469 words
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Article520 1886-03-20 6 SIiNUTEfI of Proeeedinga of the Municipal Oommissioiiers od Thursday the 11th March 1886*. Commissioners PretttU Son. Major BfcCallum, r. i:.. President. < S. I Kinlop, m. I >r. .1. If. Robertson, .1. I*. ■Toaquim, Esq. The Minutes «>i't!);- last meeting were read and confirmed* The Secretary submitted Mr.520 words
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Article1285 1886-03-20 6 Translated for the By last advices from BataviaJH March, to hand in the Do I eminent lias decided upon <^H LOO additional soldiers t<> Deli i quence of the alarming situatio in Langkat. That journal po; however numerous may he the feroaß field it will have to1,285 words
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Article1515 1886-03-20 7 firs' further to an 1 id i re $uc of th \\v 13 i are lilwly to c >me off in A!pril .1 S >:n •:.1 1 tha panic brought about by fli A -Inn 'in Lingkat will I > by t'i fa t!i r d i ien1,515 words
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Article735 1886-03-20 7 I(Tra i for th I I gi th t par ii> n^k it s c >.t •i i ipot if Any p i tinte Iw. b i.i kirs in L igkat > find hard fco r >v.u anv id i of the pa lon iii 1 8th F735 words
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Article1280 1886-03-20 8 No. 11. ►BE Trotter of fifty years ago was 1 with the Euro] ean Continent and nss of the Mediterranean, but now •y alphabet .of travelling is incomhout the principal cities and of interest in Europe, Asia. Africa, a and Australasia. Amongst places Interest open to the1,280 words
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Article2513 1886-03-20 8 (Front our own < orrespondent.J I'-wix, 13th Ft'l>. T M(> UKin Jlll( l the event of the <luv, ar*\ MuntyacsY and his new picture, the Death ofufosart" The artist has selected the culminating incident in the life of the inspired n.'usician. of whom Havdn said in 17«5, to2,513 words
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3336 1886-03-20 9 The Stranding of the P. O. Steamer Thames." China Mail.) A Marine Court of Inquiry was held ut the Harbour Matter's office at Hongkong on the loth intent, to enquire into the circumstance* attending the itranding of the l\ .V O. Co.'s steamer Thames on 1 1m- south inner point3,336 words
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Article2547 1886-03-20 10 IOUg US prilitiiiu tlnl:i ill tli.- „„<} C>" is r who visitod th< At an\ rat tin I are ■^^Hpiely iut. wa as others reprint tlinu iritish official or meivhant i ipacit) w)u se pi»M uded beyond the e suddenly transplant) <l \<> the units of 1 he Strait2,547 words
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Article538 1886-03-20 10 >wing i th" complaint lim to tiin ntic in quality of I !ii fail H iv: ;i Id lowing l"< t< r to t!i I the Bubj Tii eign luring th or fi I t iiinj| in.* couu thai 11 is h.'iiiL'" taken n hare h -en making538 words
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Article3666 1886-03-20 11 AND Ii i," i.M EDY." BY 1.IORI) ,F. Mo'.KSWORTH. rom fh> Englishman.) 'a meeting of the International Monetary Hfcjjjl Association. Mr. Arthur Balfour. reference to the difficulty of stir- !ic opinion on the silver question, with the geii"ral depresion inted out that this difficulty was by3,666 words
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650 1886-03-20 11 Proceedings of meeting of International Monetory Standard Association, 31st May, 1855. 1 H. H.Gibbs, Ex-Governor of the Bank of England. Speoch by Samuel Smith, Esq., M. P., President of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 1833. S< Tables in the appendix from Molesworth's Text book of650 words
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Article1711 1886-03-20 12 British North Borneo Gazette. Ist Marc The Animal Flower Show was held on the Chinese New fear*! day the sth February. The Pony and Boa! Races, which owing to had weather did not '.ike place on our New fear's day were also run off to-day. The Show1,711 words
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Article847 1886-03-20 12 A correspondent in S.ni Franeic the China Mail writes on J'.HJi Jan. as f lows You will have heard of the lawles against the Chinese on tin's about 5<U mm) who speak the Can ton branch dialects ill present residii State. In tliis city tJioy are847 words
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Article623 1886-03-20 13 ■When Smith's invention, patented by Death and Ellwood, was lirst in*. Mkiueed to the public, it was believed r a machine had at last been found ca--f fulfilling all the conditions pivsed for cleaning fibres economically •mniercial scale. In November [>ecimens of the invention exinThe Statesman - 623 words
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Article578 1886-03-20 13 The Shuck bo rough Correspondence. in ins letten to his Bister, lately j > 1 1 > lished l>\ Mr. Murray, Lord Beaconsneld makes reference to "the Shuckborough, Correspondence." These letters w< re printed in the Lewspapers at the time, and that ;ill the world should talk of them" is578 words
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Article516 1886-03-20 13 Take away my first letter, take away my second liter, take away all my letters, and 1 am still tin; iame. The postman. An affected singer atone of the theatres was told by rude person in the gallery "to come out from behind his nose, and Bing like other516 words
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
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Letter90 1886-03-20 13 Sir, —The River Valley Road seems to have l>een subjected to a raid of turfBtealers. The sides of it where the trees are planted, and where the bonny gr. grows, are mutilated to such an extent to turf that we only require a Gladstone t<> complete the90 words
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Letter120 1886-03-20 13 Dbab Sis. Four correspondent in terday's issue, Jones Robinson, must surely have forgotteo all aboul the Russian war scare. j think it was then said that the Government were taking the turf to help in making the fortifications. If so, and I think Jonrs Robinson will find120 words
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Letter176 1886-03-20 13 Di Mi:. Editor, Sour innocent correspondent in yesterday's issue, "James takes upon himself the duty of giring Lessons bo Jon* a Robinson," without any knowledge of the matter. Russians and fortification have nothing to do in this business, and "Robinson" was quite righi in speaking of Vandals,176 words
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Letter142 1886-03-20 13 l>i:.\iv Sir, i onr three correspondents Jones Robinson, Jmmes Bafe, and .1 Mar/t--ing Walk* r niav have aesthetic eyes, bui there must be something radically wrong with their nodes it 1 thei did noi ootice the 'iiM mi River Valley Road, the Duckeries to wit. The stench142 words
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Letter856 1886-03-20 13 Sir, In your issue of L. A CV 1 I il I I i il) L< id Chin 01 of Singapore and oth< tter« impugning the merit of the art: as you iv, no <loul>t extreni »'st !i._r" to Singapor I as well to remark on t \s856 words
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Letter296 1886-03-20 14 Training [\>r the Spring oj It his morninj; with soiu.id in -lu.' form. It is true there ivnioin H. was //<-/ Tlu- FJau.l ofth,- -allant Unit's j not tluro, but thi- was made up a duet 1)- -t tlic Clerk of the j Uhlan on the Grand and296 words
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Letter203 1886-03-20 14 I > i 1 Mi:. Kihtor. In your yesterday's paper again you bring up the Singapore Hotel accommodation question, or at N-ast the "duel" does that's taking the notes, the reason he gives being thai the large Hotel lias got the only position worth having, and consequently there203 words
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Letter173 1886-03-20 14 I>!:ak Sir. I fancy you must be gettin^ tired of correspondence about the River Valle\ Road, as the odourof "Smelfungus's" letter is a little high, and, besides that another word might have 1 u substituted forth' Chinamen's Duckeries. would draw your attention to the state <>f another road in173 words
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Letter235 1886-03-20 14 Dear Sir, Are you quite sure that Baron Renter's young man in London or Bombay has not been playing B practical joke upon you in yesterday's telegram announcing that Mr. Gladstone has proposed not only to give Ireland a separate Parliament, for that is what the telegram235 words
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Page 14 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous596 1886-03-20 14 ARRIVALS. Ft.\.. VpiMBL": v i M'TAIN SAILXD i Ma. gb. 500 Penang Mar. l<»si, .>ul sch. 86 Kacodah K" Ma tan 6 Hai I Brit.str 1156 Sanderson Hongkong Mar. I mona A i «M.M.str 2568 de la Marcelle Marseill Feb. UMessageri Brit.str. 1650 Brown London Jan. 11 W. Mansfi etbsbiiv596 words
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Miscellaneous942 1886-03-20 14 CLEARANCES. I>ate Yksskls N'ame Flag 4 Big Captain Dkstinati Mar. Il' PyahFaknet Brit.str. Wahl Malacca and Klang 12 Hongkong str. War Jambie l m 2 Binghorn Nor. bq. Beck Hongkong 13 Bilhton Brit. ans Penang via n 19 f >uisa 111 str. Kiddie and Klang 13 Kenneti str. Bandenon 1'942 words
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Page 15 Advertisements
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Advertisement516 1886-03-20 15 rp li E sTHA IT S TIME S. Rates of kuhs<;rii«th;n vnd AdvertißlN-; rOB I Local D»:i.ivkk\ Payabli QuABTIBLt 1 N A I>\ N(K. Daily Edith h i.v Enn ion. le copy 15 <-i Single co]m ts. Per Annnm S'2-4. Per Annum §li». Foreign :> i stai !<>n Delivi PAI516 words
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Page 16 Advertisements
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