Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 26 July 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, JULY 26, 1889. No. 60
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1499 1 IK B B e kaiser bock beer. From the Hauer Beer biewery Company Limited, Niedermendig on the Rhine. Huttcnhach Brothers Company, Sole Agents for the Straits Settlementsand Sumatra. 926 I Ooe H«?« t rwe? k h y p^ n pany BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY—(LTD.) riUIE following are the appointed
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  • 55 2 Sixth Si xdav \i ilk Tiiixii'. •b i > -'IIBB9. Vi'iiite Te Dmirn 9 Benedict us Anthem Holy CoM.Mi xiox Kyrie Gloria ami I Offertory Hymn Evi.xi.xo.— Psihiis 'X XX 1 (XX XV II (XXX VIU -I Magnificat X'linc Dimittis Anthem llvmn H v ,n X'oTici:.
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    • 981 2 INSURANCES. three xmportant eacts| Limited. STANDARD LIFE OFFICE THE undersigned are prepared to accept i j _HALF A MILLION STERLING per Risks and issue Policies on behalf of the is b I)ilid in l) eat Claims year above Company by any first Class Steamer J, vefu or Sailing vessel at
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    • 683 2 ISLE OF SKYE WHISKY. J. DUKKERS ZOON'S SPECIALTIES, MEDOC, AFTER DINNER CLARET, PORT. ASNOCUT/OiV I INK OLE DE BORDEAUX H INES AND LIQUEUIta* SOLE AGENT FOR THE STRAITS A SUMATRA, Q SLOT, PENANG PIERRE CHABANNEAU CIE’S., COGNAC. SOLE AGENT FOR PENANG AND SUM ATRA, Q, g SLOT. PENANG MEURING VAN
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  • 309 3 (From the Straits Times.) [t has now been arranged to hold a Gymkhana meeting on the Race Course oil the 31st of next month. Mr. W. Boyd has resigned the Secretaryship of the Government Savings Bank, and the vacancy has been filled up by the appointment of Mr.
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  • 60 3 Weekly Chruuhle, 20th In'T. Three Chinamen were brought up before Mes>rs. Birch and Elcum on Saturday last charged with inducing persons to join a dangerous society, thus committing a breach of Ordinance XIX of 1809. Two of the prisoners were discharged, the third being find $-100, and bound
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  • 78 3 Mecca iti th- Gazette, 13th iX'l. The Siamese troops were last week armed with a new repeating rifle; we hear that the officers and men are very much pleased with the new arm. We have not heard whether any sentence has been passed on the late rioters. Many
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  • 124 3 When the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Paramatta, homeward bound, was passing through Hobsons Bay, the look-out saw a woman in the water. The vessel was stopped, a boat lowered, and the woman in a state of unconsciousness was taken on board. Means of restoration
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  • 301 3 •tiled political condition of Sera > itself in a painful manner i tte&nSK 011 the Sunday before the last 1 ij’MßfcMalrief telegraphic notices of the 4 were wired. But some of t-iflHHHLpers contain detailed accounts, "tlnit the scenes enacted were and alarming nature. It appe<re meeting
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  • 127 3 A correspondent writes from Peshawar to the Lahore paper that the Amir has agents at Lahore, Amritsar, Umballa, Delhi, and Ferozepore. and that he purposes retaining agents also at Jullundur, Sialkot and Multan, to keep him informed of all that occurs in India,
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  • 472 3 The National Magazine is publishing some interesting papers on Scenes and Sights in Eastern Bengal."' The writer says of a village in one of the Sunderbnn rivers The bathing-ghat was palisaded with bamboos against tiie approach of crocodiles swarming in these rivers. The saurian is
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  • 831 3 The spasmodic recrudescence of this highly objectionable practice is proof that if it leads but a fitful existence, in the Service nt all events it is not yet quire extinct. It crops up here and there, but is no longer endemic m particular corp'. It usually shows itself "here
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  • 672 3 The ‘Nucoye Vremya has the following article on the speech of the late A iceroy of India at the Mansion House on the occasion of his receiving the Freedom of the City of London Without doubting the very good intentions with which Lord Dufferin made his
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  • 526 3 Mr. C. M’. Oldricve lately succeeded in walking up the water of the Hudson River, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, in shoes made of cedar, lined with brass. These arc five feet long, a foot wide, airtight, and with a space in the
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  • 122 4 Penang, 25th .Inly, 1889. I<A I ES CLOSE AS FOLLOWS London Demand Bank 3 nj; dollar. bo. 1 months' sig-lit Bank... 3I Do. 6 Credits 3/2 Do. 6 Documentary 3/2J Ualcuiti. Demand Bank It». 226 Do. 30 days’sight Private 230 B nr.bry, Demand Bank 226 Do. 30 days’sight Private
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  • 181 4 :o: London, 22ml Julv, 1889. General Boulanger, in a manifesto he has issued, scoffs at the charges in the indictment against him, and accuses the ministers of a shameless suborning of witnesses. Mr. Parnell speaking in Edinburgh, stated that he refuted the idea of an autonomous Ireland ever
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  • 956 4 Lx Marcli last the preliminaryprospectus of a company called the Straits Settlements Financial Agency was issued. The proposed capital was large, and the intended operations extensive and inanifoki. Facilities were to be given to almost every kind of legitimate enterprise in the Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula.
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  • 236 4 Menotti Garibaldi and the Radical Italian leaders are preparing an agitation throughout Italy against the threatening attitude taken by Signor Crispi towards Switzerland. Further Roods have badly breached the Hurnai railway, the seven-girder bridge over the river having been washed away. Quetta and its garrison are thus
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  • 950 4 :o: The Municipal Commissioners will hold a. meeting this afternoon in the Town Hall. We understand that His Excellency lhe Governor does not quite approve ol the site for the erection of the proposed Penang Recreation Club pavilion. Monday, the sth of August, will be observed in
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    • 251 4 ROBINSON Co. JkZRZE JSTOW NEW GOODS Ex. S.‘ S. GLENSHIEL. Glendower Shirts, Collars in various shapes, Wraps, Rugs ami Mauds, Black ami Fancy Coatings, Blue and White Serges, Cricketing Flannels, Fancy Tennis Flannels, Seamless Half Hose Knickerbocker Stockings, Waterproof Coats in all sizes, Fancy Ties and Scarfs, White Kid gloves.
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    • 38 4 The Agra Bank Limited. Capital £1,000,000 (One Million Sterling.) Head Office -Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, London,E.C. Franchen and in India anti China. Calcutta Kurkachee Hong-kong Bombay Agra Bishire Madras Lahore Bussoraii Rangoon Shanghai Singapore 967 BOUSTEAD Co., l'enai,j
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  • 67 5 *afternoon Hie Governor, by Captain Cameron, went WdlM new Government Offices, and that is being built for 1 lie ResiThe Government Offiready to be occupied. On s Excellency visited the ijjHßml General Hospitals, and then Lines to see the ladies and s cricket match. On AV ecllajML
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  • 217 5 AV e have the unpbasant duty of recording 1 another murder committed on M ednesday morning in Campbell Street,' in brothel No -12, the victim being! •Q Macow woman named Fong Ah Auk. It appears that she was kept by a Chinaman, who was in
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  • 195 5 AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. A gentleman who lias just returned from Java informs us of an extraordinary occurrence that took place there a few days ago- For some time a Kling with a small boy, a bear, and a monkey had been travelling through the different
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  • 227 5 DEPUTATION To THE GOVERNOR. Yesterday morning a deputation consisting of Messrs. J. C. Budd, D. Comrie. J. Gibson, R. Morstadt. L. C. Brown, K. L. Christiansen, T. S. Gardner, and Lim Leng Cheak, waited on the Governor at the Fort, on behalf of the syndicate formed
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  • 333 5 (Fbom the Guvermneid Gazette.) His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Air. C. I. McKie to be Paymaster of the Singapore A’oluntecr Artillery Corps, with the honorary rank of Captain ror Honorary Captain and Pavmaster J. 1 ra-er absent fioni the Colony. His’ Excellency the Governor
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  • 304 5 A military company composed entirely ot girls regularly uniformed, and drilled bv a senior officer of the National Guard, is just now Poughkeepsie’s chief claim to distinction. The Poughkeepsie Amazonian Corps”—that is not the real name of it. but that’s what facetious people called if —has
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  • 645 5 Hl MAX Sa< lUFK'Es OX THE DEATH A KIXO. The British and Africa Steam Navigation Company's Royal Alail steamer Congo lias arrived in the Aleisey, with mails and passengers from the West Coast of Africa and the Canary Islands. From New Calabar news was
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  • 460 5 According to a Reuter's telegram from Belgrade, a semi-official denial is given to the report that Al. Persiani, the Russian Minister, had proposed to the Se rvian Hegents the conclusion of a military convention between Servia and Russia. The statement is declared to
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  • 770 5 The Noutell llevue publishes in its latest number a mordant criticism of the Femme Allemande," from the pen of Aladame Anne Saint-Cere. Although the xvriter has not been abl? to get rid of the natural prejudices of j her own nationality she, nevertheless, proves 1 that she
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  • 189 6 Algeria is suffering from a piaguv of locusts, and from cyclones. Some interesting details are supplied by the Paris correspondent of the Daily Netes. A hundred Zouaves have been sent with dry straw to Aumale to destroy the invading insect'. They make war on them by spreading
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  • 1861 6 —AtiD A Hongkong paper says that a machine to foretell earthquakes has been invented by Mr. Wade, a local engineer. A young Bengalee lady named Miss Mitter has carried off the Bose Scholarship in Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College, ami also stood first in the M. B. examination.
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    • 108 6 IMOTJCE. Notice is hereby given that a quantity of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, percussion caps and other weapons confiscated by the Police Court will be sold by Public Auction at Fort Cornwallis on the Ist of August. 1889. H. RICCARD, -li/. Superintendent of Police. Penang. 25th July, 1889. 1015 NOTICE. I'o
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    • 346 6 I ROSS PRITCHARD, TAILORS GENTLEMEN’B OUTFITTERS, 1. Beach Street, HAVE JUST UNPACKED GENT’S BLACK FELT HATS GENT’S BLACK ZEPHYR HATS GENT’S BROWN FELT HATS GENT’S DRAB FLEXIBLE HATS GENT’S DRAB TERAI HATS GENT’S PEARL TERAI HATS GENT’S YANKEE FELT HATS GENT’S ROUGH STRAW BOATING HATS GENT’S ROYAL NAVY CAPS. Razors,
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    • 2261 7 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. OJiDDEUTSCHEII LIA)YD.\ HDAMn HCiTPI The Posit iveGovernment Security r Z -r> L3IiAAI\ILz lI xJ IL. La Idfe Assurance Company (Ltd The Municipal Commissioners of the qi r Bremen. BEACH STREET. Town and Fort of Malacca invite applica- übsidized by the Imperial German L. KELLERMANN, Proprietor. The Company request
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    • 796 8 PILSENER BEEB. I THEBESTmAL lENT The A POLL!A'JR /.S CV., Limited, KF V R P AN D London, beg to Z\ announce that, t Ei I DlinH V. Aperient IMPORTED SINCE 1879. "Xj"' NONE GENVINE IV LT HOI T'TH ESE THREE LABELS' lie// the worn "HUIWADi'< forms t>;irt. t.’u": x
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    • 514 8 PENANG ICE WORKS Beach Street No. Open on week days from 7.30 to 10 a. ni and from noon to 5.30 p. m., on Sundays and Holidays from 8 a. ni. to noon. TOE WILL ONLY BE DELIVERED AGAINST CASH OR TICKETS AND NOT AGAINST BOOKS OR CHITS THE PUBLIC
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