Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 2 October 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. ALVI. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1888. No. 78
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1942 1 KAISER BOCK BEER. From the Kaisei Bern Brewery Company Limited, Nieiennendig on the Rhine. Huttenbach Brothers Company, Sole Agents for the Straits Settlements and Sumatra. 589 peninsular A. Oriental Steam Navi- Ocean Steam Shin Comnanv ZT 7 TTZ 7”! nation Company. Holt’s Weekly I.ine. P Chartered Mercantile Bank Of lIIIIE
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    • 1729 2 INSURANCES. STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE u T The Marine Insurance Company COMPANY JI A 111 NE INSURANCE COMPANY. LIMITED Limited 1 20, OLD BROAD STREET. LONDON, E. C. Tirv j 3 qi NEW AND REDUCED RATES FOR j ESTABLISHED 1836 THE undersigned are prepared to accept /z. z»z,z. z»z»z» it. z»«
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  • 420 3 lie off with the utmost speed. Dutch Papers. From At jell the hist reports seem to be anything but satisfactory. One hears nothing but complaints, even among the officers and military,-and no wonder. There are artesian wells, but they are dry; there is no water for
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  • 536 3 With the opening of the tenders for the several Opium Farms of the Colony a somewhat unpleasant fact conies to light in connection with the interests of our own Settlement. Malacca has long lain under a cloud, and she can ill-affoid to—see her revenue suffer the
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  • 2297 3 The Articles or Agreement. Considering the issues at stake and the > steady, though slow, increase in sugar, growing in the Straits, many of our readers, whether su gar-growers or engaged in trade, will be interested by reading what has. been done in the question of the
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  • 204 3 The news of our late Acting Resident, Mr. J. P. Rodger, having boon appointed Resident of Pahang, writes the Malacca Weekly Chronicle's correspondent at Selangor. caused some little excitement and not a little pleasure among his friends here. His administrative abilities will be of great value, and his influence
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  • 258 3 Referring to one of our leaders and the rumoured retirement of Sir Hugh Low, the Singapore Free Press, with reference to the appointment of Sir Hugh Low’s successor, says If we are correctly informed, speculation is not so premature as regards this subject. Jt is stated
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  • 321 3 A correspondent to a London paper says that English writers who complain that life in the United States is lackingin interest should note the fact that there are occasionally exceptions to the alleged monotony of American existence. I have just, says the writer in question, seen an
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  • 74 4 S. GEORGE’S CHURCH. PENANG. 19th Sunday after Trinity. Octorer 7, 1888. Morning.—Venile 293 Te Denin Dykes’s in F. Benedictus 330 Anthem ll»5 Intioit 319 Holy Communion. Kyrie II Gloria and Thanks 3 Offertory Hymn 184 Evening.— Psalms XXXVII 170 Magnificat 399 Nunc Dimiltis 331 Anthem I will lift
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  • 130 4 Penang, Ist October, 1888 Kates close as follows: London, Demand Hank 3/1& dollar. Do. 1 months’sight Bank... 3/i Do. G Credits 3/2] Dt. 6 Doeumentan 3/2| CaljiUt 1. Demand Bank Its. 22G D<. 30 days'sight Private 229 B jinbiy, Demand Bank 22G Do. 30 days’sight Private 229 Madras. Demand
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  • 226 4 London, 27th September, 1888. John Redmond, M. P. for North Wexford, has been sentenced to five weeks imprisonment. The further issue of the late Emperor Frederick’s diary has been prohibited. The Government has proposed that the Cape Government should annex Bechuanaland. The rebels at Suakim are receiving reinforcements
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  • 560 4 Thebe are many strange anomalies in our penal code, but none so strange as the one which was brought to light at the Supreme Court last Friday, when Mr. Justice Wood sentenced very reluctantly a man named Loh Ah Min to six months rigorous
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  • 16 4 BIRTHS. At Rawndalc, on 30th September, the wife <>!' James Young Kennedy of a daughter.
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  • 811 4 The Emperor William will arrive at Vienna on the 4th of October, and at Rome on the 11th of October. The Municipal authorities of this latter city are making preparations for a grand ball, which will be given in His Majesty’s honour in the three Palaces on
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  • 1072 4 A new time-table, which is to come into operation on the Ist proximo, has just been printed for the Penang Steam Tramway Conqianv. The trains, which are io run regularly about every 35 minutes from 7 a.m. to 6.40 p.in. from Aier Etam to the Jetty, will
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 244 4 ROBINSON Co. HAVE JV.SI RECEIVED MILLINERYDEPARTMENT. Ladies Black and White Straw Hats in the Newest Shapes. FANCY RIBBONS. Satin Edge Ribbons. Swiss Embroideries. Do Edgings. Cream Flouncing. Canvass for Wool Work. Remington Machine Needles. The Domestic do do Singer’s do do Wheeler and Wilson’s Machine Needles. Infants Frocks. Do Robes.
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    • 131 4 SEI. A NGOlt GO lERNMENT NOTIFICATION. The Public are informed that there is no Government Rest House at any station in the State of Selangor. Sd. F. A. SWETTENHAM, British Resident, Selamjor. Kwala Lumpor, 27th September 1888. 691 NOTICE? The Firm of Everett Co., trading as Wine Merchants in Singapore
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  • 287 5 On Friday a curious case was tried before Air. Justice Wood. A young Chinaman named Lo Ah Mun was charged with enticing away a married woman named Chong Moy. He pleaded not guilty, and said in fact, that he had simply befriended the woman. She
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  • 1674 5 Additional arguments against the importation of Chinese into the Colonies are found in some statistics recently published in Victoria. According to these there were on June 30, 113 Chinamen in gaols and lunatic asylums, and 125 in charitable institutions. In other words 238. or about 2 per cent, of
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  • 223 5 The iS'h'udurd of Aug. 31 says: —"Our readers will do well not to attach too much importance to the alarming canards that have been current during the last day or two. and which represent the outbreak of war as imminent, not to say immediate. We should have
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  • 247 5 At the close of an article on the Italian defeat at Saganeiti, the Vossische Zeitung, after pointing out that the defeats of the more powerful Egyptian armies, under European and American officers, in 1876, took ylace not five miles from the same spot, concludes with the
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  • 1732 5 The site upon which the new hotel will be built is a rectangular block standing at the corner of Coleman Street and the Esplanade, being the greater portion of the grounds of the present Hotel de I’Europe. Its mean length is 426 feet, and mean depth
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  • 756 6 The following are the particulars of the fatal balloon accident which oscurred at Bishops Wickham, near Witham. Essex, on the 27th August;—The balloon was that which ascended from the grounds of the Irish exhibition at Olympia in the afternoon. It contained Mr. Simmonds, the well-known aeronaut,
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  • 251 6 An ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Manchester Ship Canal company was lately held at St. James’s hall, Manchester, Lord 'Egerton of Tattan (chairman) presiding. In moving the adoption of the report and the accounts the chairman said jliat owing to the contractors' energy,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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    • 665 6 GOVERNMENT OF PERAK NOTIFICATION. It is hereby notified that the follow»,,, alterationsand additions are made to 11" Government Notification of the Bth mJ.” 1888, calling for Tenders for the Peiak Revenue Farms for three years, conitneii ci ng on Ist January 1889 (a) On Ist January, 1889, the Bernam General
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    • 2592 7 THE ANGLO-DUTCH TOBACCO PROSPECTUS. neighbourhood but in Singapore generally, i The Posit iveGovernment Security rQTATr PHMPANY .site is unique and faees the esplanade I»ife Assurance Company (ltd.) CO IM I L UUmrHNI. SINGAPORE HOTEL COMPANY and sea ani thc advantages of the position mi 1 I'l'l' 1T P IM) I
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    • 599 8 PENANG ICE WORKS Beach Street No. 27. Open on week days from 7.30 to 10 a m and from noon to 5.30 p. m., on Sundays and Holidays from 8 a. ni. to noon. ICE WILL ONLY BE DELIVERED AGAINST CASH OR TICKETS AND NOT AGAINST BOOKS OR CHITS THE
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