Straits Times Weekly Issue, 12 April 1892

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    28 212 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE. K^fAHUSIIED, lS.il. I Published for Transmission by Every Homeward Mail Steamer. I Price 40 Cents. ■lxlviik SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. APRIL 12, 181)2. NO. .{.072
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    STRAITS TIMES CONTENTS.
    75 212 gL jLJlarkct (Quotations. ffl& -^^■ttuiary of the Week. Telegrams. lioc and General News JBleetin-al Transmission of Power. T^i" French m Africa. Mid Cliiua. jSSfht' Pnlmi£ hisiuij. iftke Oadt't's Romance. PHHSe Str.iii Insurti c^ Co. S^Palianu: Rebellion. Thf ment GazetU Supr» H JPfl>- .ist. Ai«ra fro n Penang,
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    424 212 HknGAPORE, 12th April, ISHJ Produce. v%l>>ior ft": 1 do Cube No. 1 !»>•». m do do No. 2, 7><>. SJB§*» Ba 3.S <I%W1 %W* 'po Pontianak, 3.5.V ftyper Black ,9.50. j#Msi~ r, Sarawak 2.75. fee Bali, 29.50. Libermn. :>l.oi>. |i W^bpft small Flake, 3** w> do Ist
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    SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
    227 212 The disturbances at Pahang continue to eitend, an«l have spread from the BeUtngOT border to the China Sea. By last advices tlie reh.-ls u-re Uireateniog Tekan, which lms consequently been abandoned by most of the Asiatic traders. Defensive measures have been taken there, and men-of-war have
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    BELTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    373 212 (For Straits Times.) Attempted Outrage m Madrid. London, sik April. A Freuch Portuguese anarchist has been arrested at Madrid while entering the Chamber of Deputies with two metal bombs. Papers have been found which show there was a conspiracy to Explode these bombs m th c Chamber of
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    MONDAY, 11th APRIL.
    544 212 The Russian transport Saratof left yesterday morning for Vladivostok. Thl Deputy Governor held an Executive Council Meeting to-day to discuss some matter relating to the deportation of some Penang Chinamen. The Italian warship Cuniatonr arrived at Singapore from Europe wsterdav and exchanged salutes with the fort. She
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    Late Telegrams Via Rangoon.
    446 212 if York l<> A}>, </. Tl\" Tre*Mirv topurcha^ed :;j"..< ounces of ~il\<-r ko 87.68. London, 'Jntl Apri I—Owiuar1 Owiuar to a dispute regarding want's the Majors of the Federation will, from the ItJih instant, close ninety- cent. of th-ir cotton mills m I ire. This will
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  • Page 212 Advertisements
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      49 212 I; raits Tinias has tha largest felation of any newspapar msia, British India excepted. fcrculates m Singapore and bang, throughout all the otected States of the Malay .Bpsula, m Siam, Bornej, the Netherlands Indies, the Philippines, and French Indo-China. m other Eastern newspaper has so wi lespread a circulation.
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    WEDNESDAY, 6th APRIL.
    275 213 The Hongkontj Telegraph says tint a continental merchant of that port is missing and that the cause is supposed to be financial. F&om Japan advices we Dotice that Sir Edwiu Arnold has arrived m Yokohama by the O. &O.s. s. Belgic. Sir Edwin became ill while lecturing
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    Deli News.
    408 213 r The di>ecl Chinese emigration from China to Deli which has beeu set on foot the planting iuterest at ln-aw expei mis to n>i ou insecure foundations. The Chinese authorities at Swatow, the port of ipment.haveuever formally sanctioned it. but moivly wink at carrying on this branch of
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    Telegraphic Summary.
    972 213 Supplementary t<> Strait* Times Telegrams. i Via Ceylon.) London, 'J-ifh March. It is stated that Defining his confess* d to having 1 committed the murderH «t Kuinhill villages near Liverpool, where fiv« In d w were riiacovered, mid also t) the last tv%o Whitechap 'l m nlivs. The
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    Statistics of the Indian Empire.
    1447 213 lln mm of t'i« LiMpiD isautte over milli >n (1.«153,925) pqutre mile's but this does not include cot tain tracts \vlkis-» im has yet to he determined, 'i his ares contained S:MHM.7»M mbal»ited houses, being m tlie proportion nf .'U lo eaefc squat* m le.
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    The Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Company.
    284 213 Ihk annual general me.-tmj of oKH holders m tins (\>ni).anv was he^| Shanghai on th" ITr lT ultimo. ffa^Bfe' Chairman alludiii.; to the fall i U '«*3EP^ values m Deli made v point Company l»-'iti«: one of the few w 1> bJVjHlft weathered the storm
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    THURSDAY, 7th APRIL.
    222 214 t A -Tiii: N". D. L. steamer Prmssen with L>udon mail of the 14th March ar--1?™ at the Borneo Wharf at 1> o'clock frst night. Mr. W. Naus,)n is among thKrrivals. Thk return Association football match between (he Tanjon- Pa^rar Football (Mub pu the Straits Chinese Recreation
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    Post Office Prosecution.
    89 214 H&E Chines.' engine driver on hoard the ,%tv,: ml: from X:. was t -l, the magistrate thi> nii<niii)-_r with i° ]>>>-> >siou <>t' a ihuhlm r milotti'rs. Tlu* acrusi'd pi. 1 t iwi\ id the Actiiii: Postmastor-Ge tlu> ot't't'U I tilt' La t the Chinese cook >f
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    Shipping Casnatiy at New Harbour.
    184 214 A: >rning a< the fyto Sell tr <t t'n»m I>■ -:i w is <j le the Borneo Wharf, she ran iuto, ■p sank, the steam launch S/tu,m\>rl: and ti into the wharf doing damage to :^^^^Hent of two or three hundred 1 that the SchimlJH
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    The Supreme Court.
    185 214 Magistrates' Appeals. Hf Too Tye Apprllant. Yeo Ah Kirn sf: Respondent. Hp this case there had been a summons m out under Section 45 of the Summary v *> Ordinance, asking for an order :< '^BM appellant to continue maintaining The man was living m China, aQl^6*been
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    Mr. Reith's Lectures.
    1377 214 Scottish Church History. The Rev. G. M. Reith gave the first of two lectures ou Scottish Church History m the Presbyterian Church, last night. Then- was a large attendance. The proceedinsrs opened with devotional eiercises, after which the ohoir sang the Anthem In all their affliction He
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    "Williams" or "Deeming" the Alleged Murderer.
    555 214 "Williams" or "Deeming" the Alleged Murderer. tCKGARDiNQ the murder at Melbourne, and Deeming or Williams the illegal murderer, so often mentioned iv recent telegrams, the following further particulars are drawn from Australian papers to the 12th March Th< first indication of the crime arose from an empty house m Audrew
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    Java Coffee.
    473 214 I month the a Iviee of the Java Government Upon the irpnrt of a Stal C culth tion m .1 iva \\a> r. iwd m Hollaud, from which that the «i >veruor-G«n. •ral <lis ipproves the ide by the Co mm xcton r iti.m of the i woni-i
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    THE PAHANG RISING.
    647 215 Disquieting Humours. {Wednesday, April 6th.) Thk latest information to hand froua Pabang supports and enforces the native rumours that yesterday we published. It seems that affairs are m a most unsettled condition m that country and that the disaffection, amongst sumo classes of the i Malays, is
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    Two Europeans Killed.
    2280 215 Pekan Threatened. The Population Seeking Refuge on the "glanggi." Rumoured Danger to the Resident H.M.S. "Rattler" With Steam up Waiting Orders from the Ahsent Governor. Friday, Sth April. By the Lady Weld which arrived this morning from Pokau there comes the most serious news which has vet
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    FRIDAY, 8th APRIL.
    239 216 A fctric lauuch was preparing for a tria> rip at Bangkok by last advices. ■Maxwell's first reception, yesterj very numerously attended. Her eption will be on 'the 21st. A Xi ■■hy football match was played on :ii *^CP laDaJe lasl evoaia g betweeu the SeKces and the
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    The Kedah Railway.
    110 216 The Pinamj Gazette builds great hopes O the scheme for a railway from Peuauir to !edah which Mr. U. Duiilop has brought id, because tirst and foremost he has ad the cordial backiui; of Sir Cecil Smith. Fhat journal says that terms as to the confiom Prai
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    Legal Competition.
    145 216 Bie folio win- > an extract from the m a Chinese veruaculai ue\vspaj>er |>v ished. m Singapore. It is believed "*K* tue translation is a correct one, but iv .UjttHptnese lan-'ia^e then- are words #r might have a different construction Kith the same rfiV-t as iv the traus--1
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    The Board of Licensing Justices.
    262 216 The general meeting of the Licensing f° r Singapore convened for .yesterday to hoar applications for new V i^^B an(^ or transfers of licenses proved I *Sp rtive ow n to want of a quorum. It 1 nnctually at 3 p. m. the hour fixed
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    SATURDAY, 9th APRIL.
    528 216 H.M.S. Hyacinth returned this forenoon from a cruise to Penang. The return of visitors to the Raffies Library and Museum during the weekwas 1,030 The British steamer Mogul arrived this morning from Liverpool and reports that at 5 a. m. she picked up a man at Cocob.
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    The Governor in a Jinrikisha.
    81 216 H. E. the Governor, accompanied by his Private Secretary aud Aide-de-Camp, arrived at Penang by the &ea Belle from Singapore at 7 o'clock on Saturday evening last. H. E. landed the same night m the midst of a heavy downpour of rain, aud as carriages
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    The Gazette.
    83 216 In the Government Gazette dated yesterday and issued to-day it is notified that:— Mr. J. R. Cuthbertson has resumed charge of the Swedish and Norwegian Consulate. The official adjustment rate of exchange for the second quarter of 1892 is 2s. lQd. And that the Governor has nominated Messrs.
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    Natheriands India.
    659 216 The indigo crop m Mid-Java, this season, has proved short owing to the ravages of caterpillars, the yield being only half of that m ordinary years. The mission societies and associations m Holland are said to occupy 56 posts with 58 missionaries m Netherlands India. Advices from Deli
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    Telegrams.
    157 216 i Via Rangoon.) Washington. 29tk March. Mr. Bland km abandoned hi* Silver Bill for the present Session, the Democratic advocate* of tho Bill fearing to support it m view of the impending Presidential Election Mr. Stew.irt will move m the Senate, on Mondiy next, th.it his Bill for free
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    EDITORIALS.
    949 216 Electrical Transmission of Power. (Strait* Times April 6.) Superior persons have long been smiling over the story of the practical-minded Yankee whose sentiments on first beholding the Falls of Niagara resolved them- selves into an expression of regretful as- tonisbmeut that so much power should be allowed to run
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    The Trench in Africa.
    310 217 (Straitt Time* April 7.) Dahomey Las been a thorn m the Bide of France ever since that Power began a forward colonial j> l i yin West Africa. One of the result ing fields of activity is the Slav*' Coast abuttiug ou Dahomey, an inland kingdom
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    The United States and China.
    929 217 The United States and C hina. r (Straits Times April 7.) Our telegrams of to-day announce that .ue Lower House of the United States has passed a Bill providing f o the absolute exclusion of Chinamen. It is a remarkable proposal and i Q this part of the world where
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    The Pahang Rising.
    875 217 Btrait* Times April S. Thb present news of the Pahang Rising is that an imitator of the Orang Kavah l\thlawan has killed two Europeans, the servants of a London c tmpanj. The P&nglima Ifoda Jempol, who b'as done this deed, >--s t hat he acts with the
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    The Cadet's Romance.
    1333 217 I'tst for coy bian Xi-hts" with tl. rm were prh) -i|;iv and bej|H I morrow is a most < In !u t I mthful ifl fv ally, it i ivj>roacS^^^| the iuvasioo of 1 East by 1 and partii-ularix l.y tin- Kuijlisli t li.it th*^^| destroy." 1
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    The Pahang Rebellion.
    1081 218 (Straits Times April, 11 Ox Sunday the Qlamggi arrived from Pekan, bringing the news thai the friendlj Malays who were relied upon for assistance m the defence of Pekan had deserted to the enemy; thai the rebeli irere m tbeimmediate vkiuitv of Pekan and thai the European
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    91 218 According to telegraphic despatches received by the Deputy GoverDor to-day, via Selangor, no attack, so far, has been made on Baub. The auoual full dre*s inspection of the Singapore Volunteer Artillery Corps was held at Fort Fullerton on Saturday afternoou bufore Li.'utenant-0010 I" mkett, commanding t.h,. liovul Artillery m that
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    The Chinese Christian Association.
    268 218 Ibe debate on I-Yiday evening last m the Ibinese Chi isl i.in A cidtion <>n the subject. ''That education by m ;ms of private tuitiou i> to 111 it given m public Bfhools divw .1 „1. *n< M Tan 11 >on !hin for I affirmative i
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    The Football Association Cup.
    474 218 R. X n POL* Tin sec >ud Fo >tball Association tie w,i> played ou the Esplauade. last eveuni- betweeu the X >yal Euginee i 1 I Police, aud resulted m a victory for the Engineers by lour goals to two. The tine was :i t oue,
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    THE PAHANG RISING.
    464 219 Thirty Siklis sent to IVkan. No Gunboat to go. To-day, (Saturday), at noon, the Sncietariat informs us: That to-day at 11.30 a. in. thirty Sikhs, two Corporals, a Beriiit, aud a European inspector of police, 14 which is the reinforcement asked for by M Mr. BelBeld," left
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    Interview with Mr. Bibby.
    4842 219 Unofficial News of the Situation. Thk Sultan's Garni of Hide and Seek. The Sublime Confidence of the Officials. Mr. Bibby, the mining manager ou the pioj rrtv nf the Rtiub Australian Syndicate, at Raub, Pahaug, arrived iv Singapore this morning with the result of the last
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    The Purpose Of the Warships' Cruise.
    3339 220 The Purpose Of the Warships' Cruise. rrotn various sources ire learn that so late as two o'clock, afternoon, of JSuudav the D.putv-Governor had no authority to despatch warships to lVkan. In the morning the Senior Naval Officer bad telegraphed, ou his own account, t<> the Governor asking if be* were
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    The Melbourne Tragedy.
    1373 221 hi:<; \i;i>i\<; Deemiogor Williams against whom, us t <»-il«iv's tt'!« Mjs acoioD< jury at Melbourne lias returned verd of wilful murder, the following further particular! appear m Australian advices After arrang. <1 for Mm Mleofihe murder <1 woman's effects, h i 1- ft HVlb turae for Sj
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    Raub Australian Syndicate, Limited.
    261 221 The Direct r- \wg to submit hercw.th th< Fifth h;tlitu-e iSlit-.-t „t tlt» < 'oinpany's O^^H tion*, covering a period of six inoii .Imji i.-irv lfi.t. ,iii"l including the >in^np re t^H Rmli Accounts to A sf Decent be A lit r lt- d«-l:i\ ::i- occurred
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    326 221 IN- OKI'ORATIN,; SIN-lAPoR,, fi A 1 bHEET TO .'HST DjtCBMIIKR, 1^? M9B. Liabilities. Jan. 31 —To Capital— To 1,000,000 Shares at 4*l each tl imxmmi'i i^©'^ Uuir>sueil SliAreK.so,ooo Ht £1 ench t'.">o,<J<JO To Uneiilh'd C^»itAl t 7O(),(K>O Shires at Is. I Id. c-«- 67,083 117,083 Btmdry OmUtors Brisbane -i.TH 4,928
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  • Correspondence.
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      The United States and China.
      1123 222 ij the Editor of the Straits Times." WKI, The view takeu iv your yesterday's y" ditorial upon the American auti-Chinese [jialatiou ia the one held by disinterested Diilanthropists everywhere. On eoniderations of abstract justice, nothing v .^pvo-- more evident than that every mem'^?>Mpf the human
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  • Page 222 Advertisements
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      269 222 K-TAHLIBHKD l» RILEY. HAR6KEAVES CO. BoiLERMAkKKs, Brihg»e BriL"HR^, ShipitflLl>BftB. (iENKKAI. I'ONTUA SINOAPOKE KAVALA LUMPUR. Ship Huildiiific Vnnl. HtOHeUss STEAM VES3*L3 siway. under const ructjoi.. fr m 88 ft. to 150 ft length of keei si be<t depiff« and finish. MACHIXHHY t rora loaili-jr BrtHsk Firm* with Board i.f Trade Certificate*
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  • Page 222 Miscellaneous
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      432 222 Passenger List. f Arrival. Per s. s. BiUit,,n from Klaog Mr. [and I Mrs. Dare, nn<l Mr. J. Fernando/. Per s. s. Preufixtti from Bremen: Mr N Eisenhan.r, Mr. W. Sturm, Mr. R. Bftssler] Mr. Qeorg Mull.-r. From Antwerp:— Mr «ml Mrs. VV. Westenatam. From Sonthamp. I (ou —Mr. a.
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  • Page 223 Miscellaneous
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      1408 223 SHIPPING. f tilka, Brit, str, 2,698 tons. Oi|>t. LoVell, 1 From Newcastle, N.^.W.. ia»h M 4.106 tons I Bonßtead O &9t .Sydney, 12th-T. i I. W. n»nWidr. Prtt. str. 1,661 tons, Oapt. Elaaaey. Ft- u> Colombo, 21-th Ballast. QilfiUan Wood a c Rds. 5 ,,i,,i, Gter. «tr. 866 tons rapt.
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      1130 223 ARRIVAF/S H Vessel's N'amkJ 4 hV,M. Captain. From. Sailv Km vUhwkaben Qer. »*r! »lt \f\mmm* > Hun Hih A 0 Biliton <"5 Übßparii Klang Apl. i Straits Steam hip Co. tM 6 KWrul li wi "ti- ll«ij Himebrrindt Hon K konK Mar Ml f^utrnberer Schmidt i|F t\ lt (titi mil
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      252 224 1 »V 3 H U Vlßl IT fill PREPAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ri U> meet tlie convenience of occasional adJ_ vertisers the Straits Tunes offers a cheap prepaid scale applicable to the following advertisements Situations wanted j servants wanted j articles lost or found houses wantod or to let, specific articles for
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  • Page 225 Advertisements
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      494 225 YARROW'S SHALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS. QTERNWHEEL STEAMERS have b^ £o*«d br experience to be the b*Bt type of tchi r» for shallow river navigation, and of theso Messrs. Vaki;<«w liave constructed a Large mnnber of successful examples for all parts of the world. Yeassll on this system are constructed, when required,
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      329 225 JKjlg Crab-Apple Blossoms, iifnitHH -•*lfl^ 1! S lU "I>DK f>>W| i^ 1.-.l nil others. |^H i York i A.-+ I' 1 Not lx> tVk^^^H Bioss\?ms BrOWJ l trf n r >' I :ir..t,,.i..f spring > it f>r* iif.T ime and nereri^l I M>t Bo '-j it." > P«»'d evrvwhrre by
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