The Straits Budget, 17 August 1897

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  • 131 1 The Straits Budget Established, 1831.] VOL. L. BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” (Cable Address Times, Singapore.) Straits Budget, 40 Cents. Straits Times, 10 Cents. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1897. The Straits Times has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Asia, British India excepted. K circulates in
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  • STRAITS TIMES TUESDAY, 17TH AUGUST.
    • 18 1 At I poll, Perak, on the 31st July, the rife of Mr. Charles Lowe, of a son.
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    • 69 1 On the 7th instant, at St. Andrew’s rathedral. by the Ven. Archdeacon Perham, £sgent Alfred John, eldest son of John Bid* ell. of Cuddington, Surrey, to Edith, khir<i daughter of the late Charles of Gaylang r Singapore. Hansay-Lowe— On the 24th July, at lpuh. by the Revd. Father Perrichon,
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  • 278 1 Lea hi w Articles. Wednesday’s Telegrams. Thassaly. Monday’s Telegrams. Mr. Bailey’s Advice. Local. Market Quotations. Shipping News. Passenger List. Police News. Spanish Transport. Soldiers’ Home. Two Malays and a Rikislia Puller. A Burglary. Mr. A. S. Murray. Fire in Amoy street. A Cock and Bull story. A
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  • 508 1 Singapore, 17th August, 1897. PRODUCE.. (Rates are corrected to one p.m.) oamtner, 6.00. Copra Bali, 6.16. do Pontianak, 6.70. Pepper, Black, 16.00. do White, (5%) 27.00. Sago Flour Sarawak, 2.76. do Brunei, 2.26. Pearl Sago 3.36. Coffee, Bali, picked 32.50. Coffee Palembang, picked.... 39.00. Coffee, Liberian, No. 1 23.60.
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  • 426 1 The mail for Europe, this week, leaves by the P. &O.s. 8. Thames The P. <fe O. Rohilla with the mail from Europe of the 23rd July arrived on Sunday. The German mail from Europe by the s. s. Prim Heinrich is due on the 19th
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  • REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 81 1 CAPTURE OF ABU HAMBD. London, 10 th August. General Hunter’s column left Merawi on the 29th July. It attacked Abu Hanied on the morning of the 7th instant. The column captured the place after severe house to house fighting. Major Sidney, and Lieut. Fitz Clarence were killed. [Major
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    • 25 1 THE NEW PREMIER. General A/xarraga, the Minister for the War Department, temporarily succeeds the late Seiior Canovas in the Premiership of the Spanish Cabinet.
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    • 27 1 THE N. W. FRONTIER. Five thousand men of the Mohmund tribe have crossed the border into the Peshawur Valley. The British forces there liave repulsed them
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    • 41 1 TI’RKISH PROCRASTINATION. London 11 ih August. Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, has submitted fresh proposals regarding the evacuation of Thessaly and the war indemnity. The Ambassadors at Constantinople are referring these proposals to their respective Governments.
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    • 14 1 HOSTILITY TO BRITAIN. The Turkish journals are violently attacking British rule in India.
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    • 40 1 THE GERMAN EMPEROR’B VISIT. London 12 th August. The Emperor of Germany has left St. Petersburg after a cordial farewell. The Russian press is satisfied with the visit, and view it as an augury of future peace.
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    • 70 1 GREEK FINANCE. The Powers have informed Greece that the Turkish Government has declared its inability to evacuate Thessaly owing to want of funds. The Turks will begin to move from Thessaly on payment of one million as first instalment of the indemnity. Greece has replied that she can
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    • 19 1 SEQUEL TO THE BENIN WAR. The King of Benin has surrendered after eluding pursuit for six months.
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    • 57 1 DUEL IMMINENT. London 13 th August. Prince Henri of the Orleans family h<m returned to Paris from Abyssinia. He has been forthwith challenged by the Italian General Albertone for aspersing the cliaracter of the Italian prisoners in Abyssinia. The aspersions were contained .in letters from the Prince which
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    • 22 1 CASUALTIES AT ABU HAMED. The Egyptian loss at the capture of Abu Hamed came to twenty-one killed and sixty-one wounded.
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    • 11 1 ARMENIAN RAID. Armenians from Persia are raiding into Turkish territory.
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    • 48 1 THE X. W. FRONTIER. lAnulm i, 14th August, It has been found out that the attacks on British posts in the Peshawur valley were mainly made by Afghans who are in constant communication with the Afghan Commander-in-Chief. Heavy military reinforcements are hastening to Peshawur and Rawal Pindi.
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    • 38 1 PRINCE HENRI AGAIN CHALLENGED. It is reported that the Count of Turin, a nephew of the King of Italy, has started secretly for France. He is said to have challenged Prince Henri of Orleans to a duel.
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    • 19 1 REFUGEES IN LONDON. The French and Spanish Governments are expelling Anarchists. The banished Anarchists take refuge in London.
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    • 76 1 DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. London 16//1 August. A duel has taken place at Paris between Prince Henri of Orleans, and the Duke of Turin, a nephew of the King of Italy. The two princes fought with swords in the outskirts of the city, yesterday. The encounter was of a desperate
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    • 22 1 INDEMNITY DIFFICULTIES. The difficulty arising from settling about the payment of the Greek war indemnity still delays the peace negotiations.
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    • 18 1 MILITARY PREPARATIONS. Upwards of twenty thousand troops are concentrated at Rawal Pindi, in readiness for all eventualities.
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    • 30 1 NEW LOAN. Sheng,as representative of the Chinese Government, has signed a provisional contract with the Hooley Syndicate for a five per cent, loan of sixteen millions sterling at 95.
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    • 29 1 A CHINESE Q.C.M.G. Chang Yen Hoon, the Chinese Ambassador at the Jubilee, has been appointed Honorary Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.
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    • 21 1 At Cricket, Surrey beat Essex by ten wickets, and Lancashire beat Yorkshire by an innings and twenty six runs. v
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  • 33 1 DEATH. On the 17th ult., at Rockbourne, Fordinebridge, Kojjert Walter, youngest son of the late Sir Benson Maxwell, aged 49. OBITUARY. Mr. Samuel Laing, the well known financial and railway expert, is dead.
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  • 389 2 (Straits Times 11 th August.) Another financial celebrity of the past generation has passed away in the person of Samuel Laing, whose death is announced in to-day’s telegrams. Mi*. J Laing, who died in his eighty-seventh year, was a Scotsman, and first rose to eminence, more than. half
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  • 198 2 (Straits Times 1 2th August.) The Sultan has now found a pretext for holding on to Thessaly, which the Powers seem to think reasonable. Instead of rejecting it at once as previous pretexts had been, they sound Greece whether the latter can meet the Turkish claim. Turkey’s case is
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  • 326 2 (Straits Timet, 16th August.) Trpobles thicken on the north-west frontier of India. There, fanaticism stirred up the tribesmen in the valley pf the Swat River to attack a British post at the Malakand Pass and also an outpost at Chakdarra. Early this month, thesfe posts were relieved and
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  • 510 2 (Straits Times 16 th Aug fist.) On Saturday, we published a letter from Mr. \V. W. Bailey that cannot fail to command the attention of all who are interested in the future of coffee planting in the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Bailey wrote in view of an approaching
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  • 722 2 MEDICAL REPORT FOR 1896. Dr. Simon signs the Annual Medical Report on the Civil Hospitals of the Straits Settlements for 1896. The report declares thafthe general health of the Colony, last year, cannot be said to have been good; the death-rate being higher
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  • 1213 2 From the Times of Ceylon. 1 London, Ist August. Great Britain has proposed a new commercial Treaty with Belgium. The King of Siam yesterday drove to Harrow, and visited his son and nephew. •The Albanians continue raiding on the Servian frontier, and have attacked blockhouses and retired
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  • 95 2 The Canton mint now produces cash as well as silver coins. Mr. Bredon, the Commissioner of Customs, reports that in 1896 the mint produced more dollars than subsidiary coins. The dollar is chopped, defaced, and deformed, and simply accepted at bullion value. The subsidiary coinage seems to meet
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  • 158 2 BUB-DIVS. B. C. V. BUB-DIVB. A. D.K., 8. V-A Played on the Esplanade on Satur day 14th inst. Scores: b. c. SUB-DIVS. 2nd Lieut. Beniafield n cA b Southam 8 b Gray Gr. Scott cA b Parsons 0 not out Tr. Ryan cA b Parsons 7c 1 arson* i>
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  • 76 3 I the passengers leaving for I O> L. the Melbourne are: Mrs. Syers, I and Mr. Ba*endale. I f| lr Rangoon rice market on the I rlv shippers to the Straits were I !n*ble to work at covering rates I Jjtfthe present lowexchange. T «r Municipality of
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  • 29 3 £a j,i that the Dutch steamer which was recently damaged >l’i-ion in Banka Straits, will be Slimi at Singapore. The damage fene i- estimated at :>O,OOO guilders.
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  • 38 3 I jr j. <tat**d that Russian tea formed J bulk of the Aden's valuable cargo. TV,, thousand five hundred tons of ,-bri-k’* and other teas for Russia were 0D ‘board, valued at something like OOO,M>.
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  • 31 3 ITfIK Spanish transport. Leu Xlll y tons. guns, and 700 irrivt'l from Manila to-day en route for Barcelona. She carries eight hundreland eighty-two officers and men from the Philippines.
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  • 261 3 A PLEA FOR CHINESE GIRLS. At Hongkong on the 31st July, Sir John Carrington, the Chief Justice, distributed the prizes to the girls attending the Belilios Public School there. That school was mainly intended for Chinese girls, but very few of them attended it. Mrs. Bateman,
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  • 321 3 RELATIONS WITH FRANCE. His Siamese Majesty has been received fight royally in England. He will appreciate this attention, of course, and w ill help him to remember when visiting Paris that he has a better and jfiore consistent friend in Great Britain. Regarding the reconciliation effected
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  • 209 3 THE MONTHLY “CLEAN-UP." We have to-day received from Mr. G. A. Derrick, Local Secretary of the Raub Company, a copy of the following telegram from Raub, dated 10th August:— Rough cleaning up of Battery yielded 2,050 oz. amalgam estimated quantity of stone being 1,250 tons." 2,050 ozs. of amalgam
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  • 183 3 Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman, of San Francisco, is, says the Japan Mail, to be the new Consul for the U. S. at Hongkong. It is generally understood in San Francisco that Mr. Wildman was appointed through the influence of Senator Stewart, to whom he is related, and that
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  • 321 3 POLITICAL MURDER. At Belait, in the territory of Brunei, which is under British protection, a Sarawak Chinaman was recently murdered by Dyaks. On the latter venturing into Sarawak territory, they were arrested. One of them acknowledged the murder, but alleged that they were instigated to it by the
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  • 287 3 THX RUSSIAN OUTPUT. Thb world’s resources in raw petroleum are opening out at such a rate, says the Times of India, that during the last ten years the known deposits have doubled. About two and a-half years ago, the world’s business was divided between two syndicates: the Standard Company
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  • 564 3 A Despatch, says the Calcutta Englishman, has gone Home from the Government of India to the Secretary of State on the subject of the Red Sea lights. The question is one of such importance, in view of the increased speed of the mail service under the
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  • 320 3 MR. GRANT’S XI V NEGRI SEMBILAN. The following are the full scores in the match played at Seremban, last week, between Mr. F. H. Grant’s Singapore Team and Negri Sembilan:— MR. GRANT’S XI. (18T INNINGS). Capt. Ainslie b Scott 18 A. J. Woodroffe c Scott b Birch.. 0 F.
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  • 347 3 The advent of. Japan among the Powers of the world, says the Morning Post of the 15th ult., is not the least remarkable occurrence in the present century. For the spirit and the success wherewith the Island-Empire conducted a war against a gigantic neighbour was such a surprise
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  • 80 3 Thb Saturday Review says:—“ Much attention lias recently been paid.to the possible decrease of the supply of rubber. If, as already stated, as much as £100,000,000 is sunk already in business requiring a continuous supply of this product, it is clearly essential that the industry should be
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  • 767 3 The debate on the Naval Works Bill, which was read a second time on the 14th ult., shows, says the Tunes, the ippid growth of the wholesome Parliamentary tradition by which it has of late years become usual for the House to accede without demur to
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  • 62 3 Paris, sth Aug. There have been fearful floods at Kertch in the Crimea, where about 150 persons have perished. The British casualties in the fighting at the Ifalakand Pass are estimated at 105 killed and wounded. At Krementsching, in Russia, four hundred women bathing in the sea were
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  • 547 4 AN INTERESTING LETTER. A correspondent writes to the Financial Xews In connection with the continued trouble which Spain is having with her Philippine possessions, and the enormous expense which the fighting must be to a country which islll-equipped to face it, I venture to suggest that,
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  • 216 4 Peking advices state that negotiations are in active progress between Li Hung-chang and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank respecting a fresh loan to the Chinese Government. The amount of the loan is =£16,000,000, to be taken at 85| per cent, with 4J per cent, interest. Report says
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  • 44 4 A Seoul telegram states that, in accordance with the provisions of the Russo-Japanese Convention, Russia has, it is stated, already despatched some thirty officers and eight hundred soldiers to Corea for the purpose of stationing them at Seoul ana all the open ports.
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  • 2350 4 protests against the lack of method displayed by French naval constructors. He says“ It is with onr Navy as with our Colonies and our foreign policy. Everything is carried on without method, without continuity, and without principles, for the reason that all is controlled by persons who wish
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  • 127 4 METHODISTS AND BILLIARDS. The Malaysia Message says that, among the Methodists, very little regret is felt at the abandonment of the Soldiers* Home. That journal further says:— From the commencement many members of the Methodist Mission were strongly averse to billiards being provided in a Methodist institution,
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  • 74 4 We are informed on good .l (wye the China that Yin-huan, who was charged the neeociations which Ohl opened last year with the Western Governments with the of increasing Chinas Custom, t’** reports by telegraph to Pekine his efforts to induce the* p„’ hi consent to the proposal
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  • 721 4 The German Emperor’s recent acrid., on board his yacht has, of course subject of endless discussions in th, man Press. One outspoken organ ,*I dwelling on the accident, goes on to that the lives of Koyalties have more ri« gerous. moments than is generally know “Few persons travel
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  • 138 5 of Johore returned here ■Jf* Penang. tllis morning, in the I tkk in Southern Asia says that I world’s production of tin ■Sl'ffrojoth.- Malay Peninsula. I Japanese steamer Taihoku Maru TH V. Junk off Lisbon after collision. to j >e j nslir ed for .£57,500. T are
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  • 19 5 I Mr Falshaw, Government VeteriSurgeon, has left for Malacca oting to an outbreak of rinderpest there.
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  • 27 5 Ii is reported that, at Penang, respectable native people are regularly blackmailed by the ruffians of the place, in order to escape molestation.
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  • 30 5 I The agenda at the Municipal meeting t<>-niorrow, at 2.30, includes matters Matin" to the new loan, the taking over ot Rattles Quay, and the nuisance from manuring gardens.
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  • 43 5 I Kxtkiks for the Captain's Prize close I this evening, at 6 o’clock, wdien the I handicap will he posted in the Club holm 1 and tics for the first round, to be coni|b-ted by 14th inst., will be drawn.
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  • 50 5 L\>r niizlit. two Malays took a rikisha a- far a- the four and a half milestone on the I'assir Panjang Road. Tlien they i:<*r out. refused to pay their fare, thrashed the puller, and ran off with the rikisha cushion. They are “wanted" now.
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  • 54 5 At ten o'clock, last night, two burglars entered the house of a Hokien, Kho Khim Cheng, at No. 6, Tan Kim Chuan Lane. They disturbed the 0" who sprang up and caught (jDe °t them, the other decamping with property valued at s&4O. Kho Khim handed over his
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  • 60 5 I >T ring tin; absence from Singapore "i Mr. A. S. Murray of the Straits Insuranrf oy. Ltd., Mr. H. J. Price and r h. Catto have been authorised to joint Acting Secretaries. Mr. “urray expects to leave early in Sep-tend-er, having been ordered to Europe
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  • 218 5 A HAUNTED HOUSE. A tire broke out, last night, in the of No. 116, Amoy Street, a house jttupied by a brother of Mr. Tan 800 hitormation was at once sent to jj. Ayer Fire Station, and the ngade and two engines were Thickly on the
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  • 205 5 THE EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN ADDREBB. HER MAJESTY’S REPLY. Mr. C. Stringer has received the following letter from the Colonial Secretary, conveying the thanks of the Queen, through the Secretary of State, to the European and Eurasian community of Singapore for their address of congratulation on the ocasion
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  • 717 5 TRIAL OF INSPECTOR WITCHELL. In the trial of Job Witchell, Inspector of Police at Hongkong, on a charge of receiving bribes from gaming house keepers there, the case for the Crown concluded on the 3rd instant. The trial arose from a police raid in a gambling house
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  • 2302 5 NOTES AND NEWS. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT. The Times gives prominence to a letter from u Civis,” who makes some strong comments on the open secret” that the Duke of Connaught is to succeed Sir Red vers Buller as AdjutantGeneral. Civis” asserts that at Aidershot the
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  • 75 5 PRINCE TSARV’S JEWELLERY. The other day, at Christie’s salerooms, London, a gem of consequence came under the hammer. It was a diamond called Noor-ud-Deen,” or Light of Faith the property of Prince Alexander Tsarv ”of Singapore. This precious stone is said to be of the size of a hazelnut, and
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  • 83 5 Last night, a Kling m and ore, who lives on Mr. Chater’s brick works at Passir Panjang, telephoned to his employer that a great riot was going on at the works. Mr. Chater informed the Police, who ascertained that the Kling went to a Chinaman’s shop, and
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  • 1015 6 AN IMPORTANT ACTION. An important land case from Malacca has been heard in the Supreme Court before Mr. Collyer, the Acting Chief Justice. The cause is between Eechi binte Pesang and Ibah binte Pesang by their next friend Alimat bin Hussan, Appellants, and Tijah binte Rawi, Respondent.
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  • 710 6 Some one has been collecting specimens of odd advertisements in Chicago. “Get your daily bread from this wagon” is on a baker’s cart. Our bicycle ambulance w'ill call for crippled wheels,’’ reads a sign. A shoe store advertises, “Quality, all kinds; prices, your kind.” A knowing druggist has
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  • 996 6 WILL THERE BE WAR > The publication in New York of a despatch sent in May by Mr. Secretary Sherman to Mr. Hay, the American Ambassador in London, ought, says the Morning Post, to set our countrymen thinking. The text has not yet been published
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  • 35 6 Raubs have fallen to 5i 9.50. The day before yesterday they were $23. H. M. S. Pigmy arrived at Bangkok on the 3rd instant, and was to remain about one week there.
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  • 36 6 The Bangkok Times notes the establishment of a record there, the other day, at the Royal Golf Club Links. The record was achieved by Mr. James D. Macintosh with 75 for the eighteen hole course.
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  • 53 6 A kling man, who was working on the s. s. Juno at Tanjong Pagar Docks, tried to get to the bottom of the dock. His foot slipped, and he fell to the bottom. He was picked up with a wound on the side of the head, and
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  • 55 6 A new regulation has been issued by the Siamese authorities abolishing arrest for unpaid debts, and making tiiese claims civil cases as in English law. Hitherto, the police have had, at the instance of creditors, to take into custody any person who is said to have left
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  • 77 6 Arbitration proceedings in the Cheek case and Kellett outrage claim by the U uited States Government against Siam are said, by the ISiam Free Press to have been postponed to February next, owing to the need for Mr. Kellett remaining in charge of the Legation in
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  • 82 6 THE JAVA OUTPUT. The petroleum industry in Java makes rapid progress. Statistics show that the production of refined petroleum in the island has increased from 8,000 cases in 1889 to 1,250,000 cases in 1896, and that the net receipts of the Compagnie Lordt'sche, which works all the petroleum wells
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  • 97 6 Mr. Michell is about, says Penang rumour, to be transferred from the Dindings to Singapore to act as 2nd Assistant Colonial Secretary. Report there has it that Mr. Brockman on his return from leave will take over the post of Acting Assistant Colonial Secretary, Mr. L. E.P. Wolferstan
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  • 129 6 DUTCH SUCCESSES. Teleubams in the JJeli Courunt announce a signal victory of the Dutch forces at Segli on the Pedir coast, where the Achinese stood tlieir ground in eighteen forts. Two regiments with artillery moved upon these works on the oth instant. The first onset resulted in the capture
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  • 105 6 A Kung, employed Pearls’ Hill, and liwl at Co '*e, Cross Street, met his death l ’Pt* hours of this morning i n circumstances. He returned sl o clock, and told his had thrown an acid liquid in hlh^ 0 never spoke again, and died B, °k
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  • 137 6 Lord Charles Beresford has i n to a correspondent, written a letter 1 pecting the policy of accepting £5 butions from the Colonies W Imperial defence He is of opinion J Colonial contributions to imneS defence should consist entirely 0f22 naval bases under their own' conw thoroughly equipped
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  • 519 6  -  BY PRINCE RANJITSIXHJI. The princely Indian cricketer open* Black nood for July with a panegyric on cricket in general and cricket in the Victorian era in particular. He remarks at the outset The rise and development of athleticism, until it has become a most important aspect
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  • 256 7 native opinion. voi’RABLB strictures in regard to l* rfA ts 0 f the British occupation of so often been made by the Rf pt h !> r e«s and disappointed Egyptian fr Dl t a t the uninformed public, P^^ C standing that such accusations •rf* 1 i, ;IS
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  • 580 7 i Dr. Charles VV. Purdy contributes to the Sorth American Review for June an interesting practical article on •‘popular Errors in Living.*' He asks himself the following questions :—(1) Arc we not becoming more and more addicted to the use of drugs for the relief of
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  • 210 7 A M HOLY WAR.” The Saltan of Turkey has, it is stated, started a Jehad or Holy War Committee at Constantinople, and intends to send envoys to India, Arabia, and the Trans-Caspian Provinces, calling upon all Moslems to help the Turkish Empire and not to let it
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  • 619 7 The title of Sir Ed win A mold’s contribution to the July—and J übilee—number of the Woman at Home is “The Womanhood of Her Majesty the Queen," but the reader will probably remember the glimpses it gives ot the writer more than the discursive
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  • 18 7 A Chinaman was fined one thousand dollars at Penang, on the 9th instant, for managing a wahwhay lottery.
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  • 1451 7 ANNUAL MEETING. The annual general meeting of the members of the Singapore Volunteer Artillery was held, last evening, at the Drill Hall. The Commandant, Major Dunman, presided, and among those present were: Captain Barker, Lieutenants Derrick, Hilton, and Benjafield. The Chairman said that, betore bringing up the
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  • 150 7 (Via Australia.) London, 28th July. At the Bisley shooting meeting, colonial representatives won further prizes, but the Queen’s prize won by Private Ward, of the Devonshire Regiment, who made the record score of 304 out of a possible 330. Last year's winner took second place with 302. Australia was
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  • 1769 7 THE LONDON MARKET. At London on the loth July, a depressed tone ruled in the spot coffee market. The bulk of the Liberian offered was bought in A parcel of East India was partly, sold at 4is. Terme values had declined further. The total receipts of the Brazil
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  • 1531 8 The Royal Family, and especially Her Majesty, had all a great love for Dr. Macleod. How intimate he was with the Queen may be guessed from what he once wrote: “The Queen sat down to spin at a nice Scotch wheel while I read Robert Burns to her—‘Tam
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  • 57 8 It is. reported that a new issue of 25 cents Perak postage and revenue stamp is out. Richard H. Ryan, quartermaster on the P. 0. steamer Thames, was tried at Shanghai on the sth instant for the manslaughter of a coolie whom, it was alleged, he pushed
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  • 44 8 Eight hundred and sixty-seven deaths were registered in Singapore, last month, with a ratio of 49.05 per thousand. One case of cholera was included. The figures for the week ending on Saturday last were one hundred and sixty-six, with a ratio of 41.81.
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  • 41 8 It would appear, says the Perak Pioneer, that in Penang there is no market for Liberian coffee, and, consequently, producers in Perak are sending down shipments to Singapore instead. Large quantities of coffee leave Teluk Anson every week for Singapore.
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  • 60 8 The Insurance and Maritime Telegraphic Code compiled some years ago by Mr. A. S. Murray of the Straits Insurance Company, has reached a second edition. It has been revised and brought up to date, and will be found indispensable for carrying on insurance and shipping business. Copies of
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  • 72 8 Clean Japanese yens were at a premium of six per cent, at Hongkong a week ago. On and after the Ist October next, these coins will be exchangeable in Japan for the gold coins of the new currency, and in view of the decline in silver they are being
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  • 210 8 PACIFIC ISLANDS. H. M. S. Wallaroo which has lately been on annexation business in the Western Pacific, has hoisted the Union Jack upon Rennell Island, and Stewart Island. Some inquiries were made amongst South Sea Island traders by a Sydney Morning Herald representative as to the commercial value
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  • 262 8 DISHONESTY RAMPANT. Persia is not a country where one would care to keep a large balance at one’s bankers. With some notable exceptions, the banker-merchant —almost all merchants being bankers to a greater or lesser extent —is, as a rule, only honest as long as it suits his purpose.
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  • 253 8 return to-day At half past nine o ’cU,i, I morning the Singapore ArJ d p* contingent arrived in s;;„ W .i« XS'im vities, in London, by X *<*■ O. steamer Japan. The X Guides numbering twenty. Lieut.-Colonel Walker and nde l dar Major Bole Singh ,rB
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  • 329 8 ITS ORIGIN. Though the jinrikisha undoubtedlj first saw the light in Japan, ani hence was introduced to other co\in tries, its precise origin is not gener ally known. From its design ani the date of its first appearance, i is evidently an adaptation of the Eng lish hansom-cab,
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  • 165 8 THE STATE FA KM? 4 It is stated in *tln* with regard to the letting «>t t.i<* revenue farms, that seven t«*nu' 1 been received for the general.. rm j u highest being Captain Ah kiu E _> thl> is five per cent, higher highest of the others.
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  • 810 9 TRIALS kok murdkr. f from our Corresponfleni. Pekan sth August. judicial Commissioner arrived 1 ()I1 t he 30th July in the colonial 3<>ri r Ihrsburgh on assize duty, accompanied by Mrs. Jackand Mr. Van der Straaten. The returned to Singapore the night, taking Mr. Ellerton, who ,ne on
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  • 281 9 A pleasant and interesting programme was presented, last evening, at the Town Hall, by the Orchestral Section of this Society, under the management of Mr. W. G. St. Clair. The Orchestral items formed naturally the bulk of the entertainment, and they w *re all rendered in excellent style.
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  • 363 9 PROGRESS IN JUNE. The revenue receipts for the first six months of this year amounted to $414,098, against $399,202 in the corresponding period of last year. Thenumberof ’rikishas licensedduring these months fell oil' by 687, and that of hackney carriages licensed decreased by 44 on comparison with the
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  • 93 9 CHINESE VICEROY* DENOUNCED. It appears the Censors at Peking have been turning their attention to the doings of Tan Chung-lin, Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces, resulting, finally, in his denunciation by a Censor named Cheng Sz-chau on the charge of senility, loss of will-power, and being made
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  • 2544 9 QUEEN’S MESSAGE OF THANKS. THE MARKET GARDEN NUISANCE. The ordinary fortnightly meeting oi the Municipal Commission was held yesterday afternoon. There were present Mr. W. Egerton, Deputy President, I Mr. <Nanson, Mr. Sohst, Mr. Evans, Mr. I Moses, Mr. Meyer, Mr. Choa Giang Thye, and Mr. Tan Cheng
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  • 818 10 London Friday, July 16th. The one absorbing topic of the week in the cycling world has been the action of one of the best known firms in announcing that they will in future charge only £US l«s. for their highest grade cycle, instead of listing them at
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  • 81 10 The Punjom Mining Co. has received the following telegram from Punjom, giving the result of the July mill and cyanide clean-up:—The mill ran 30 days, crushing 450 tons of ore, yielding 135 ozs. smelted gold; 1,850 tons of headings crushed for a yield of 198 ozs.; forty-five tons concentrates
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  • 185 10 REBEL MOVEMENTS. The Japan Weekly Advertiser of the 24th July, contains the following advices from the Philippines The aspect of the war has changed. The revolutionists are following Cuban tactics, surprising convoys and detachments of Spanish troops, and up to date have been generally successful in almost all
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  • 515 10 S.C.C. AND RIFLE‘BRIGADE. A friendly game between the above teams was played, last night, on the Esplanade, before a fair crowd of spectators and, much to the discomfort of the Club supporters, the Brigade retired winners of a one-sided game by 2 goals to nil. From the start, the
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  • 107 10 The Syers memorial fund at Kuala Lumpur reached $336 on the 10th inat. Mr. M. Schiflfmann has resumed duties as Vice-Consul for Denmark at Penang. Captain de Hamel has been appointed to be Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Straits Settlements. Mr. E. L. Brockman has been
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  • 37 10 Tuesday, the 12th October, 1897, and the following days have been fixed upon as the dates for t heassembling of a Com t of Appeal and a Council of J udges at Singapore.
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  • 49 10 Pollakd'B Lilliputian Opera Company is advertised to be opened at the Town Hall, on Monday, the 23rd instant, with The Mikado. Other pieces will follow. The Company has been here before and achieved a great popularity, and they will doubtless be warmly welcomed on their return visit.
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  • 55 10 It is notified that the stamp duty on written agreements made under the Crimping Ordinance, to labour in the Protected Native States and Johore shall be fifty cents for each emigrant, and, in the case of all other written agreements made under the said Ordinance, it shall be
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  • 119 10 S.R.C. AGAINST. A general meeting of the Singapore Recreation Club was held last evening to discuss the new Town Hall Scheme. Thirty-nine members, out of a total of about one hundred, were present: Mr. Reutens, President, in the chair The scheme was not approved of
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  • 323 10 THE REBELS IN THE FIELD. Engagements with parties of rebels in the central parts of Luzon taKe place almost daily with the umlorni result that the rebels are represented to be worsted. The particulars given in the Cumercio show that the rebels are active in harassing the troops
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  • 1149 10 THE LIBERIAN BERRY AND ITS LOW PRICE IN l OMPARISON iU OTHER COFFEES. BY W. W. BAILEY. I have just come from Selangor, where I occasionally pay a short visit; the last two visits I made, I went over several native and European plantations chiefly to
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  • 891 10 ACHEEX. I The main seat of war has now shifted I to Segli a seaport on the coast of Pedir a petty state in the N. E. section of Acheen. It lies on the right bank of the Segli river. The left bank is held by the Rajah
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  • 1131 11 Thk Moralist, like all men, hates bt‘ii,_ iil women appear to like it, at any r te, in the East. Men loathe one oftunr sex perhaps the one who beat them mi t lie golf course last Wednesday <»i nowled them out in the match on .Saturday
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  • 223 11 THE GAKKIBON. The Pinang Gazette hears that, on the military detachment now stationed there leaving that Settlement, no European troops will be sent to take their place. That journal points out that, in that case, the Settlement will be left to defend itself, from internal as well as from
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  • 4265 11 WHERE THEY WENT AND WHAT THEY SAW. HEARTY RECEPTIONS EVERYWHERE. MR. JENNINGS RELATES THEIR ADVENTURES. SOME QUAINT MALAY IMPREBSIONB. The detachment of the Malay Armed Police, which represented the Straits Settlements at the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations, has returned from its travels. That the men have
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  • 63 12 Mr. Keyskr, says the Malay Mail has been very ill during his voyage home. Writing from Suez, his Malay attendant states that Mr. Keyser had been suffering from fever and head troubles, that the passage had been a rough one, and that Mr. Keyser had the services of
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  • 58 12 TRIAL AND SENTENCES. The trial of the second batch of Mohamedan rioters at Calcutta concluded. on the 31st July. The Magistrate found all five accused guilty. The ringleader was sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment. The remaining four were convicted as members of an unlawful assembly, and
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  • 98 12 The Hongkong Telegraph gathers from the revelations at Inspector Witchell’s trial that a cunningly devised system of bribing the police by gaming house keepers has been carried out there for years. One syndicate of them is said to have been wealthy enough to he able to pay out
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  • 154 12 THE HONGKONG—SINGAPORE MATCH. The match by cable of the two games between Singapore and Hongkong is now as follows: game 1. Ruy Lopez. Singapore. Hongkong. White. Black. P—K 4 P—K 4 Kt—K B 3 Kt—Q B 3 B—Kt 5 P—Q 3 .P—Q4 PxP KtxP B—Q 2 Kt—Q B
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  • 823 12 The third volume of the “Annee Psychologique,” published by Binet, Beaun is, and Ribot, well-known French psychologists, has, among other matters, an article on the pulse at different hours of the day, which shows the influence of meals on the circulation and tends to confirm the remark of
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  • 163 12 It is said that'the Durbw Ui l cost the Federated States The steamer ~Vlodimi r i,„ to'tal loss while on the vr rne i Vladivostock to Shanghai ’u fr were saved. Ulfl cr* Thk of seditinn Messrs^Tilakandßalattba^ resulted in the accused y ba mitted for trial aXg>^
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  • 72 12 The Jubilee contingent of the SineJ pore Malay Police were to have gone\o Government House this afternoon atthe request of His Excellency the Governor Owing to the shortness of the notice given, however, it was found impracticable to get the men together in time
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  • 82 12 A TERRIBLE RIOT.” •Yesterday evening, while Inspector Maxwell was on the Gay long Road, he was informed that a terrible riot was going on higher up the road. He hastened to the spot, and found that the terrible riot consisted in an attack made by two Chinamen upon a third,
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  • 104 12 It is advertised that the Standard Photographic Studio, at No. 4 Orchard Road, has been reconstructed and entirely refitted, and that it is now replete with all the most modern improvements relat ing to the art of photography. A reference to the advertisement will show that
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  • 148 12 The news of the death of Mr. R. W Maxwell, which was received hy the mail, will cause regret among many who knew him in the Straits for a long period of time. The cause of death was the bursting of a bloodvessel in
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  • 145 12 SHOCKING MURDER AT SI RANGOON ROAD. At eleven o'clock, on Saturday 'J the Police at Rumah Miskm were informed that a Javanese. IK Hadji Mohammed Damim, had wj stabbed in a garden about two half, miles along the Sirangoon W■ When the Police arrived at thei pi indicated,the man was
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  • 3582 13 VOTES, NEWS, AND REPORTS. jKAFALOAR SQUARE SIR CHARLES. Majob-Oenebal Sir Charles Warren, M „.undine the Thames District, has c#nl instructions that Secularist p TPn not to be allowed to address #r in's on Chatham Lines; and one. lecturers who had taken up a Lotion in the field was
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  • 512 13 REGISTRATION AND CAVENAGH BRID6E. Two Bills are now in readiness to be introduced into the Legislative Council. One of them seeks to amend the law with respect to the registration of births and deaths. This Bill has been drafted upon the instructions of the Secretary of State to
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  • 48 13 MUNICIPAL OFFICES. The Government is reported to have handed over the sum of $40,000 to the Municipal Commissioners of Penang, advanced for the purpose of purchasing fJtpset Lodge for their new gffcces. The advance is repayable, by yearlyt instalments of 56,000, with interest at 4% per annum.
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  • 463 14 THE SECOND ORCHBBTRAL CONCERT. The Orchestral Section of the Philharmonic Society gave the 44 Second Edition” of their Popular Concert at the Town Hall, on Saturday evening. The programme was considerably varied from that given on Thursday last. A very fair audience attended, and everyone seemed pleased with
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  • 563 14 MONDAY’S RESULTS. A. MIXED DOUBLE HANDICAP. Miss Salzmann and Mr. Muir scr. v. Miss Cook and Mr. Carver scr. (unfinished). Mrs. Kerr and Mr. F. D. Mactaggart, rec. 1 beat Mrs. Adams and Mr. Evans, 6-4, 6-2. Mrs. Stringer and Capt. Parsons, owe 1, v. Mr.
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  • 716 14 ARRIVALS. Per s.s. Leon XIII from Manila:—Messrs. Lucia Alraham, Jose fa Solorer, and Betty Kinsberg. Per M. M. s. s. Melbourne from Shanghai:—Mr. Fujise. From Yokohama:— Mr. L. Brockman. From Hongkong:— Madame Gonzals, and Mr. R. Baba. Per s. s. Sultan from Fremantle:— Messrs. J. Snodgrass, J. M.
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 182 14 Under this heading the following abhrevia tions are used —str. —steamer sh.—ship bq.—barque; Brit.—British U. 8. United States; Fr. French; Ger.—German; Dut. Dutch; Joh.—Job ore; Ac., G.c., General cargo d.p.—deck passengers; U.—Uncertain T. P. W.—Tanjong Pagar Wharf; T. P. D.—Tanjong Pagar Dock B. W. Borneo Wharf; J.
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    • 1679 14 Arrivals Since Noon of Saturday. Amara, Brit. Rtr. 1,600 tons, Capt Kent, 16th Aug. From Hongkong, Bth Aug. G.c. Boustead and Co. For Java, 20th—W. Amigo Ger. str. 822 tons, Capt Hemmet, 14th Aug. From Olehleh, 12th Aug. Ballast T. C. Bogaardt. U—Rds. Ban Seng (Juan, Brit. str.
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    • 817 14 To-day, as I pen these lines, one picUw from the long-vanished past rises in m? memory as clearly as though it hung on a wall before my very eyes. It is of a bo? about fourteen years old, propped up in a great arm-chair with pillows
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    • 1087 15 J? LAG j Br T fl \amk A Tons. Captain From Bailed. Consignees. m VIS^ LS Rig Wj Brit str.l 996 Farrell Penang Aug 7 Behn Meyer A Co. W**Tnr i Btr 68 Taylor Bagan Aug 7 Khoo Teong Pan. I? 1 strj 1434 Peters Penang Aug 7 Wee
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    • 553 15 Vessel’s Name Flag&Rig Captain Destination lO Sultan Brit. str. Chopard Bagan via ports 10 Peetan str. Hocken Marseilles 10 Kongsee str. Eddie Saigon 10 Glenfarg str. Selby Hongkong, S’hai and Japan 10 Batavier »tr. Robertson Klang via ports 10 Gi? ig Ann Str. Cummins Samarang via ports 10 Ganymede
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    • 155 15 PASSED SUNDA STRAITS OR ARRIVED FOR ORDERS. I J*lag Date 1 7" Date. and Ship’s Name. Commander. of From where Destin- ReI Rig.* i Sailing j ation makrs. Aug 3 Nor bq. Alicia Bodtker June 25. Saigon Reunion 3Ger bq. J. C. Julius Lan Apl 28 New York Soerabaya
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