Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 4 January 1889

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  • 25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. New Series.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [Price 20 Cents VOL. XLVII. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1889. No. 2
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1579 1 KAISER BOCK BEER. from the Kaiser Boer Brewery Company Limited, Niodermemlig on the Rhine. Hottenbach Brothers Company, Sole Agents for the Straits Settlements and Sumatra. ration Company. Holt’s Weekly* z.lne. P BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY—(LTD.) “ttts! lifa&v H!PK^I ,DSCH INDISCHE STOOMVAART maatschappij. Packets conveying the Outward and NEGAPATAM LINE
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    • 1613 2 INSURANCES. STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE ISLE OF SKYE” WHISKY. Limited. Com,any j COMPANY. DUKKERS ZOOS SPECIALTIES, THE undersigneTare prepared to accept NEW AND REDUCED BATES ?OR MEDOC, AFTER DINNER CLARET, PORT. Risks and issue Policies on behalf of the THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. ASSOCIATION VINICOLE DE BORDEAUX WINES AND LIQUEURS. above Company
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  • 596 3 (From THE London and China. Egress.') The Court. —The Queen remains at Windsor. The Empress Frederick is in England, and will attend a special service on the annivesary of the Prince Consort’s death. Parliament. —The Oaths and Land Purchase Bills have passed the Lords. In the
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  • 954 3 Present. The Hon. W. E. Maxwell, c.m.g., I’resdt. J. H. Callcott Esq. L. C. Brown, Esq. Absent. Koh Seang Tat, Esq. E. F. Thomas, Esq, 1. The Minutes of last meeting are read and confirmed.
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  • 141 3 The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Standard learns that the growing dissatisfaction with Germany displayed by public opinion in Russia, and the view taken there that the political acts of the Berlin Cabinet, and the utterances of the best accredited German newspapers, appear more and more
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  • 265 3 The Ostroff correspondent of the Warsaw Dnevnik reports another instance of the savage vengeance occasionally wreaked upon an apostate co-religionist by the orthodox Polish Jews. Franx Piatkowski abandoned Judaism for the Greek Church some 15 years ago, and believed that he had lived down the vindictive opposition
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  • 347 3 A long anil desperate fight between a gang of poachers and the Duke of Portland's keepers took place in the early hours of the morning of the 21st November last, near Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. The keepers, who were on the alert, came upon a gang of
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  • 349 3 The Mooting Post thinks that the speech of the German Emperor at the opening of the Reichstag should go a long way towards reassuring the perturbed feeling w hich has once more been manifested in political circles within the past days. William 11. must be felicitated
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  • 235 3 The Madras Standard given the following novel account of a marriage on a tree —A despatch from Norwich, Connecticut, says that Miss Miianda Elsworth and Jeremiah Simpson, a couple engaged to be married, quarrelled while attending a dance in Elisha Carndall’s farm-house one evening recently.
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  • 409 3 Horrible Details of a Premature Interment. :O: In Russia people are oftener than elsewhere condemned —unintentionally, of course—-to that most gruesome of all deaths of which E. A. Poe had such unfeigned horror —burial alive. But the circumstances accompanying this frightful torture are seldom so characteristic or so
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  • 330 3 We take the following from the Maul mein Advertiser One of the best-dressed women in Europe is Maria I’iti. Queen of Portugal, as she is also the possessor of some of the most beauti- ful jewels, her parures of rubies and diamonds i being famous. Although
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  • 120 4 Penang, 3rd January, 1889 Hates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 3/(l| dollar. Do. 4 months’ sight Bank... 3/l| Do. 6 Credits 3/l{ Do. 6 Documentary 3/2 Calculi t, Demand Bank Rs. 224 Do. 30 days’sight Private 228 Bombay, Demand Bank 224 Do. 30 days’sight Private 2'28 Madras, Demand
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  • 201 4 London, 31st December, 1888. The Persian note, is of milder terms than anticipated. A boy eight years of age has been found murdered at Bradford, the mulilation in his case even worse than that inflicted upon the Whitechapel victims. Telegrams from New York announce that an immense mob
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  • 588 4 Slowly but surely railway enterprise is making headway in the Malay Peninsula. Only ten days ago, we announced that the often talked of, and much debated line between Teluk Anson and Tapah had at last been sanctioned, and that operations would be commenced forthwith; and
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  • 268 4 The news telegraphed by Reuter that Sir Hugh Low has been promoted to the rank of Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, will, we feel sure, be received with pleasure by every one in these Settlements and the Native States.
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  • 399 4 Sir Lawrence Oliphant, formerly Chief Justice of Ceylon, is dead. Dr.fTanner, member of Mid-Cork, having called Mr. Balfour a liar and a coward, has been suspended. The elections for the Servian Grand Skuptchina resulted in an overwhelming majority for the Radical or Antiquarian party. A telegram from
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  • 1078 4 The Netherlandsche Handel-Maats-chappy (Netherlands Trading Society) have opened a branch here, with Mr. H. Kerbert, as agent. We have to acknowledge receipt of the first number of the Anglo-Chinese, School Journal, published in Singapore on the 15th December last. VV e hear that Mr. C. F. Berger,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 210 4 ROBINSON Co. HAVE JUST RECEIVED NEW CHRISTMAS GOODS. TOYS OF EVERYDESCRIPTION. CIGAR CASES. CIGARETTE CASES. ETUI CASES. WORK BASKETS. WORK BOXES. WRITINGDESKS. DRESSING CASES. DRESSING BAGS. NEW TWEEDS FOR SUITINGS. NEW MILLINERY. BONBONS. CHRISTMAS CAKES AND PUDDINGS. Apoilinaris WATER THE NATURAL SODA WATER ‘THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.’ British Medical
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    • 48 4 TOWN HALL. To-morrow, Saturday January sth. Webb’s Royal MARIONETTES TWO GRAND PERFORMANCES. AFTERNOON EVENING. PRCES OF ADMISSION FOR AFTERNOON PERFORMANCE. Children Servant 50 cents. Adult 1 Doors open at 3-30, performance commences at 4 o'clock P. M. Evening Performance commences at 9 o’clock sharp. 788 CEAS. DERMER, Manager.
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    • 55 4 Imitation is the sincerest flattery. At the principal hotels now, if you ask for ice in your Apoilinaris, the boys tell you that it is kept on ice. That is how the importers have long kept it, ami it is unquestionably the best wav to keep the Lest effervescing drink
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  • 2289 5 It is now settled, the Berlin coirespondent of the Standard says, that the Czar will pay his return visit to the Emperor W illiam atßerlin and Potsdam next spring, probably in the month of May. At a subsequent date the Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy are
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  • 379 5 Under this heading, the Esercito Italiano, the military organ, says —The Italians protest that they have no intention of attacking France; the French, on the other hand, affirm that they are animated by no warlike intentions towards us. I believe that both the parties who
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  • 1108 6 An extraordinary story of the sea came to light at Liverpool on Saturday, the 17th Nov., ultimo, as the result of an interview with a shipwrecked seaman. On the 4th December, 1887, the iron barque Glenmore, of Carrickfergus, left Maryport, Cumberland, for Buenos Ayres, with
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 209 6 ROSS 8c PRITCHARD. TAILORS AND GENTLEMEN’S OUTFITTERS No. 1, BEACH STREET. Have received per s. s. Ravenna the following goods comprising BLACK WORSTED COATINGS. I BLUE WORSTED COATINGS. COLOURED WORSTED SUITINGS. BLACK SUPERFINE CLOTH. BLUE SUPERFINE CLOTH. WORSTED COVER COATINGS. TROPICALSUITINGS. TROPICAL TROUSERINGS. WEST OF ENGLAND TWEEDS. SCOTCH HOMESPUNS. i
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    • 1036 6 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE PENANG KHEAN GUAN Bremen. INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.” Subsidized by the Imperial German Government. Notice is hereby given that a 3rd Annual Monthly Mail service between Bremer Ordinary General Meeting of the Share» Hafen and China with branch line to Japan, holders of the Company, will be held
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  • 568 7 January and February 1889. FIRST DAY. Thursday, 'January, 1889. FIRST RACE. The Maiden Plate.—Value 150. A selling Race for all Horses that have never won a race on any course. Roadster Races excepted. If entered at 500, to carry list. 7 lbs. with an allowance
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1357 7 ARCHIBALD KENNEDY, THE LONDON ASSURANCE. po»uiv.aov«mme n security Lite Assurance Company (Ltd.) LOGAN’S BUILDINGS incorporated by royal charter. n LUUHN v DUli-UllvUOj 1700 Ihe Company request the earnest attention of DC Anu OTnrrT nriilun < 11 ZU« thoughtful and intelligent Assurants to the unDIALh STREET. PENANG. 7U.. *7? 'lJ‘ P
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1221 8 The sittfktion of the Pinang Gazette Pi’ess rendering it difficult of access to I THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT. LADIES AND VISITORS The APOLLINARIS c O LmTED the proprietor has made arrangements with r j t r 6 London, beg to As announce that, Messrs. DICKSON Co., No. 2 BEACH STREET,
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    • 603 8 PENANG ICE WORKS Beach Street No. Open on week days from 7.30 to 10 a. m., and from noon to 5.30 pTni., on Sundays and Holidays from 8 a. m. to noon. ICE WILL ONLY BE DELIVERED AGAINST CASH OR TICKETS AND NOT AGAINST BOOKS OR CHITS THE PUBLIC ARE
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