Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 March 1887

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  • 25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. New Series.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [Price 40 Cents. VOL. XLV. FRIDAY, MARCH 18 1887. No. 22
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1931 1 CTTT'PPT'M’fI For JUoulmein, Rangoon and INSURANCES- The Positive Government Security P- 0 Calcutta. Life Assurance Company (Ltd.) Peninsular Oriental Steam Navi- The B. I. St. Nowshera, is expected to The Marine Insurance Company pation Company. arrive here on Saturday, the 19th iust. Limited Capital 500,000. for the above ports. TU[7
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    • 2102 2 FOUNDED 1825. ”S CHWE I Z" MERCANTILE- GRANITE DOST. MARINE INSURANCE. unDCi’C DATE&IT nW*MITE Granite dust, the best material for STANDARD LIFE COMPANY. NUotL u IAItNI UlNAlnilu, making roads and foundations, can reASSURANCE COMPANY. Xurlch. f| 'HE undersigned have been appointed 3 supplied at 1.25 per cubic IT rnwnFPATIM TpHE
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  • 121 3 Penang, 18th March, 1887. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 35.2 dollar. Do. 4 month»’ sight Bank 35.2 J Do. 6 Credits 35.3 j Do. 6 Documentary 3b.3| Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 221 Do. 30 days’ sight Private 227 Bombay, Demand Bank 221 Do. 30 days’ sight Private
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    • 1165 3 North China Insurance Coy. (Ld.) Robinson co. REDUCTION OF RATES —<">— The following reduced bcale ofrates is in force from this date selection of TWEEDS AND COAT- INGS from Paris which have been To London. Producs. S°B specially selected for this climate. F P A. F.P.A. T 3 P. 4
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    • 454 3 NOTICE. THE undersigned has removed 10 No. 1 Farquhar Street, next to the Free School. Dr. MkD. K. RIEdHL, Penang, 4th March 1887. Is hereby given that the partnership hitherto existing between Lee Ah Tiew and Tun Tun Cheong, (commonly known as Tan Beng Kee) under ihe chop or firm
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  • 299 4 London, March 10.—The completion of the armament of Singapore and Hongkong is included in the Army Estimates now before ParliaBerlin, March 10,—The German Army Bill has been voted bv a large majority [in the new lyelccted Reichstag]. Bombay, March 11.—A serious accident happened on’the Great Indian Peninsula Railway
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  • 538 4 In the last issue of this paper the question of the high prices at present being paid for Chinese coolies for Sumatra was discussed, and two remedies were proposed for reducing and keeping prices at a reasonable level. A third remedy has been suggested. It, however,
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  • 864 4 (Communicated.) The Chinese in Queensland, South Australia, appear to be quite as unpopular as t heir Celestial brethren in San Francisco, and the reason is, perhaps, not fur to seek. We do not, however, agree with our colonial friends to the effect that “the practice
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  • 1010 4 Wk see that thesteamer ‘Alary Austin” is now running regularly between Penang and Klang direct, with the object of gradually opening up a trade between these two ports. It is astonishing to find that although Penang and Singapore are nearly equidistant from Klang—Singapore is carrying on a large and
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  • 786 4 At the Club a few days ago the conversation turned on our two members. “I wish,” said one man, “that Kennedy would go for them—first touch them up a bit in the Pinang Gazette.” Innocently asked, Why What have they done to go for them
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  • 1317 5 LOCAL GENERAL. 11. M S. Ami aciou?, with Vice Admiral Hamilton on board, is expected to arrive here almost immediately. We learn that Mr. Fawkes, Registrar of the Supreme Court, Penang, has accepted an appointment, as Magistrate, at Gibraltar, ami has already proceeded to take up the duties of bis
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  • 352 5 Monday, lAtk Marek. Kidnapping from the Colony. Queen vs. Mat Salah ami Kassim. The following gentlemen, comprised the Jury in the above case. A. G. Scott (Foreman') Messrs. M. M. Merican Noordeen. E. G. Gregory, Yeoh Seng Chong, P. P. D’ Oliviero. M. M. D'Souza, John Magness. The
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  • 625 5 Queen vs. Li Ah Teng and Tan Ah Seam. The following gentlemen comprised the Jury. H. Lee (Foreman) Messrs. M. M. Merican Noordeen, Koo Eu Yong, Yeo Seng Chong, E J. Gregory, Tan Cheng Ho, John
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  • 391 5 Monday, 14th March, Before Mr. C. W. S. Kynnersley Esquire.— Ibrahim, a Syce was fined 82, for neglecting to have a table of Rates and Fares, fixed up in his carriage. A Chinaman was fined 8 1 for depositing 2 tubs of night soil on Transfer Road. A
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  • 858 6 Adjourned Seventeenth Half-Yearly Ordinary Meeting. Minutes of the adjourned seventeenth Half-Yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of the Frye RiverDock Company, Limited, held at the Office of the Company on Monday the 14th March 1887 at 3p M Present John A. Brown Esq., in the Chair,
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  • 400 6 AN IMPORTANT CASE. Lemarchand V. the Agra Bank (Limited.) This was an appeal from a judgment of H.Ji.M.'s Supreme Court for t liina and Japan at Shangh ii, made on Sept. 24, 1885, in an action winch was commenced by Mr l.etnai chand.
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  • 1181 6 We publish the following from Die Indische Mercuur: Of all the Tobacco exhibited, the sample from British North Borneo sent in by the British North Borneo Company, elecited the greatest attraction and was at least the haute nouveaute, expectations of which had already- been veryhigh Every one, who
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  • 546 6 —Overland China Mail. The principal event of the week has been the holding of a public meeting to consider as to bow the community were to celebrate the jubilee y-ear of Queen Victoria. There was a large gathering of tjie foreign community-, but the Chinese element was represented by
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  • 759 6 —L. C. Express. 'I here is no change of moment to note in the European situation. 'I here is; at any rate, no recurrence of acute anxiety. The critical stat e indicated by tbe late financial alarms seems to have passed over, and though the outlook
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  • 116 6 “Steke Ferry, January 2th. 1883. Gentlemen, I have used Siegel's Syrup for seveial years, and have found it a most effic» tioua remedy for Liver complaints and generd debility, and 1 always keep some by me. ancannot speak 100 highly in its piaise.— I remaal yours ti
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    • 1924 7 MAYNARD AND COMPANY, NI li m?ted AVY THE ROYAL HORSE MART. FAMILY <fc DISPENSING CHEMISTS. Branch F 8 87 l J ÜBL,N L«ith Street. Pending, PENANG DISPENSARY. A *****0 ESTABLISHED 1884. SALES, 2,250,0.00 a jnnnnw i IMPORI’aN I ANNOUNCMENr. PERFUMERY TOI LET REQUISITES. Junior Army AND Navy Stores Limited. nn
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    • 1598 8 ■r- fe.„ T AGENTS WANTED |^EraHSi^BxV^RBN^Mnlß^^H^HH^^a9B|MHß jn the principal Eastern Ports for the sale oa cli commission of MJ|MIiM LAMPS OF ALL KINDS, German and English IRONMONGERY GLASSWARE. >. Parties applying must be able to influence flk Wholesale Orders (Indents), from the leading W. J3MMI native traders. The indents to
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    • 527 8 NOTICE. The undersigned beg to give notice to the Public of Penang, the Native States, Acheeti and Deli, that on the Bth day of January 1887, they will open a new Shop or Store under the style or firm of “Goon Yen and Friends,” opposite the Chartered Bank, iu Beach
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