Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 7 August 1888

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  • 25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. ESTABLISHED 1833. New Series.] [Price 20 Cents VOL. XLVI. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1888. No. 62
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    • 1925 1 KAISER BOCK BEER. l«rom the Kaiser Beer Brewery Company Limited, Niedennendig on the Rhine. Hottenbach Brothers Company, Sole Agents for the Straits Settlements and Sumatra. 589 I Ce ‘SonTw^^r i lr NEGA^JaA^H NE 0F Chartered Mercantne Bank of «m rjUIE following are the appointed '*s| *l4 India, X>ondOH China» Vacke'ts
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    • 1726 2 INSURANCES. STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE I TATO7Tn t w The Marine Insurance Company COMPANY MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITFU ‘1 Limited. 20, OLD BROAD STREET. LONDON E C U I THE undersigned are prepared to accept NEW AND REDUCED RATES FOR ESTABLISHED 1836. J Risks and issue Policies on behalf of the
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  • 1661 3 From the Hongkong Daily Pre»». j The Chinese Foreign Customs Reports lor last year contain numerous references to the opium trade, and the effect on it of the regu- lations made under the Additional Article of the C'hefoo Convention. Mr. White, the Com- > missioner
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  • 267 3 M. Blowitz, the Times" Paris correspondent has been greatly ridiculed for his description of the.Lebel rifle, the merits of which he has been charged with enormously exaggerating. Accounts furnished by other authorities, however, show that M. Blowitz was well within the mark. The members of the
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  • 336 3 .—Globe. Irreconcilable mutual antipathy is the ground alleged by His Ma jesty ihe King of Servia in the petition he has addressed to the Servian Synod for a divorce from Queen Natalie. The storm which has been long a-brewing in the Royal iiivnit'ie has broken at last, in
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  • 311 3 The financial difficulties under which the Ottoman Empire is at present labouring threaten (the Constantinople correspondent of the Duili/ < kioiiicle says) to have exceptionally serious consequences. The troops of the 1883 class, having been disbanded, were embarked on board State transports for the provinces,
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  • 508 3 The following ate given by the Cincinati correspondent of the A<w lurk /Jerald the details of a sensational affair which is agitating the people of Memphis, Tennessee. Mrs. Dicie Webb keeps a grocery store in Beale-streef. and is well-known to hundreds. Two years ago John Webb,
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  • 826 3 The following, purporting to give the substance of a conversation which, according to the Berlin correspondent of the >taiul aril, took place on June 28th, between Prince Bismarck and several Prussian notables, is evidently inspired by the Prussian Foreign Office for the edification of the British
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  • 69 4 S. GEORGE’S CHURCH, PENANG. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. August 12, 1888. Anniv. of Foundation of Penang. Mobning Venite 321 Te Drum 299 Benedictus 289 Anthem 370 Holy Communion. —Kyrie 4 Gloria and Thanks 4 Offertory Hymn 365 Evening.— Psalms LXV LXVI 57 LXVII 55 Magnificat 70 Nunc Dimittis
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  • 119 4 Penang, 2nd August, 1888 Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bunk 3/0 dollar. Do. 4 months’ sight Bank... 3/0; Do. 6 Credits 3/1 i Do. 6 Documentary 3/ Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 224} De. 30 days’sight Private 227 Bombay, Demand Bank 2241 Do. 30 days’sight Private 227 Madras. Demand
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  • 150 4 London, 2nd August 1888. The Emperor William will proceed to Rome in the Autumn and visit the Pope and King Humbert. A semi-official note despatched from Paris, in angry terms denies the reported designs of France upon Tripoli, and declares on the other hand that the Italian armaments
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  • 1034 4 As civilization progresses, so do a great many of the evils inherent to that blissful state of society make themselves painfully felt in Penang; grubbing humanity is the same all the world over, and our swarthy and yellow brethren are no exception to the
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  • 496 4 Some time ago attention was called in these columns to the fact that dollars had actually been sent from Europe back to Mexico. This transaction indicated an abnormal state of tilings in Mexico, showed that, for the time lieing at least, that country required for its own
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  • 1494 4 On Saturday morning h male infant was found in the compound of Mr. Smellie. The child was in a dying state, but was carefully attended to by the police. The Sisters at the Convent very kindly sent word to Mr. C'uscadcn that they would take the child
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 223 4 ROBINSON Co. HA VE J VST RECEIVED Picot Edged Ribbon in all colours. Cream Silk Gloves 6 10 button length. Tan Suede Gloves 8 button length. English and French flowers. Black, Cream, and coloured Aigrettes. Untrimmed, white straw hats. Untrlmmed black straw hats. Untrimmed black white straw Bonnets. Children’s white
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    • 26 4 All matters intended for publication to be addressed. EDITOR, PIN AN G GAZETTE. All advertisements, business eommunicAttious, and payments to be addressed PROPRIETOR, Pl NANG GAZETTE.
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  • 516 5 At about six o'clock this morning, says flic '•inynjnnr rr /'-r-x of July 30tl>, the boy of Mr. Friedrich Leo, living at the Hotel de la Paix, went as usual to cal] his master. He was horrified to find him hanging by the
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  • 1868 5 The powerful turret ship A'ictoria, so named in honour of Her Majesty's Jubilee, has just completed her steam trials at the Nore. In respect to the essentials of speed, protection, and armament, the A’ictoria is without a competitor in the navies of Europe. Her armament will consist of two
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  • 630 6 The C7F we*e Times, in the course of some notes on the contempt in which foreigners arc held in Peking and the forbearance of the Foreign Ministers, says But whatever the motives may have been—and we may be sure they were all of them false,
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  • 200 6 In the House of Commons, Mr. J. Ballon recently asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether a petition had reached the Foreign Office from British subjects, merchants, bankers, and others, resident in Java, praying Her Majesty's Government to make representations to the Government of the Netherlands
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    • 254 6 ROSS PRITCHARD. TA I LORSAGEXTLEMEX S OUTFITTERS No. 1, BEACH STREET. Are now opening out a choice assortment of new goods selected from the Home Market, comprising the follow ing. TAILORING DEPARTMENT. Black A Blue Superfine Cloth. Black Ar Blue Woisstead Coatings. Colored M orated Coatings. Fancy Tweed Suitings. Home
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    • 1208 6 SELANGOR GOVERNMENT PDAMR Ur\TP"i~ NOTIFICATION. I MnAIW MU |FL BEACH STREET. Tenders will be received at the British L. KELLERMANN, Proprietor Resident's Office, Kwala Lumpor, up to noon This Hotel, the largest in Penan» on 3rd September 1888, for the following situated in the heart of the business quayf' R
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  • 677 7 August, 1888. FIRST~DAY. Thursday, 9th Auyust, 1888. FIRST RACE. The George Town Stakes.—Value 875. For all Subscription Burmali Griffins. Weight lOst. 71bs. Distance 5 furlongs. Forced entrance 5. Half amount of entrances to 2nd pony. European professionals allowed with a penalty of a stone. Native professionals
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    • 289 7 11. J. MARTYN, Conimisison Agent, 10, Beach Street. Has in Stock The well known CIGAR Brands. FANCY TABLĔANO TEAPOY COVERS. FANCY ARTICLES. NIERSTEINER AUSLESE A SPLENDID HOCK. TOBACCO IN TINS. EAU DE COLOGNE AND SCENTS FANCY BOTTEES. DUTCH COCOA, IN POWDER AND CAKES. No recommendation needed try U ONCE. CLARETS,
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    • 1000 7 THE LONDON ASSURANCE. I The Posit Ive Government Security I Life Assurance Company (Ltd.) INCORPORATEY BY ROYAL CHARTER. m n e Ihe Company request the earnest attention of If ZU. thoughtful and intelligent Assurants to the un7? <7 rs j exampled success which has attended the prinr L t! UIISILI
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    • 1413 8 DR. LALOR’S Hunyadi Janos. "THE RICHEST OF NATURAL PTJOSPTTOBYNE r JSa aLJk JLJL JL Jaw JLal Mild, certain, and most valuable!' Sir W. AITKEN, M.D., F.R.S. Is the only Patent Medicine of the kind or name awarded Certificate of Merit uetnrmu nnnr J /iriimTn n at the Calcutta International Exhibition,
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    • 631 8 I PENANG ICE WORKS. Beach Street No. 27. j Open on week days from 7.30 to 10 a. ni land from noon to 5.30p.m., on Sundays I and Holidays from 8 a. m. to noon. ICE WILL ONLY BE DELIVERED j AGAINST CASH OR TICKETS AND NOT AGAINST BOOKS OR
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