Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 2 May 1890

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  • 25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. XLVIII. FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890. No. 34
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1528 1 pipping (Hotter. pipping (notices, j British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. Peninsular Oriental Steam Ocean Steam Ship Company. Indisehe Stoomvaart Maatschappij. Navigation Company. holts weekly unb 1 Negapatan LmejfSteamers. T HE Mowing «re the appoint. jAA Intended Sailing and Expected Arrival of Steamers. 1 ed dates of arrival of the
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    • 1437 2 jnautance (Hotter* ISLE OF SKYE” whisky. jjn&utance (Hohcu. i The Marine Insurance Company, 1 J. DUKKERS ZOON S SPECIALITIES, Stiliuliird Life ASSUiaiICP Limited. m!E undersigned^ prepared to accept MBDOC > AFTER DINNER CLAREI PORl COinpMy. L Risks and issue Policies on behalf of th 3 above Company by any first-class
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  • 1796 3 The following items of news from home papers for the week ending 4th April, appear in the Rangoon Gazette to hand The Parisian clergy are scandalised at the levity of the fashionable world in France during Holy week. Milking cows by machinery has been tried with the greatest
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  • 290 3 Worth its weight in gold"—this expression is familiar to us, but we have never met with any person nor hitherto heard of any person who actually paid such a price for any article so advertised. But from America—the land of novelties—comes a story of a
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  • 1186 3 (Madras Times.) Oxk of the many bad results of the overcentralization now practised by the bureaucracy at whose mercy this country lies, is tlgit hard-working and intelligent officers acquire a facility with the pen which entirely disappears when they are called upon to give spoken utterance to their
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  • 994 3 (From the Statesman.) It may be interesting to note in this connection that with a large class of the Chinese people Russia is as great a bugbear as she is to the Jingoes of England. Although there is really no foundation for the belief
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  • 125 4 Penang, Ist May, 1890. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 33} dollar. De. 4 months’ sight Bank H/4 Do. 6 Credits 34; Do. 6 Documentary 3/5 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 223 Do. 30 days’sight Private 227 Bombay, Demand Bank 223 Do. 30 days' sight Private 227 Madras, Demand
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  • 92 4 The following is a list of Vessels expected to arrive during the fortnight Name. Fiu>m Date. Destination. 1”-’ A a it ch any (Glasgow 2 s.B. Teutonia Klang: •< i t v* i.. v» c :::A\T cA ss .Sumhtnra Ychevn < Inn,. A J.ip. 1,. Calcutta. p V(
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  • 134 4 London, 29th April, 1890. It is understood that Colonel Sir Francis W. de Winton, k.c.m.g., has finally accepted the post of Governor of the East African Company, and resigns his position in the War Office. There is a Railway strike in Ireland; traffic in the south is entirely
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  • 611 4 The visit of the King of Siam to the western dependencies of his throne will have the effect of calling public attention to the position that these states are taking in the march of civilization and progress. Interposed as they are
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  • 1210 4 (From our Telegraphic Exchanges.) The Prince of Wales has arrived in London. The Egyptian Government have abolished gambling saloons in Egypt. The Brazilian Government have abolished religious teaching in all state schools. Major Serpa Pinto has arrived at Lisbon, and was received with much enthusiasm. General Gates
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    • 248 4 THE AGRA BANK LIMITED. Capital £1,000,000. (One Million Sterling.) Head Office Nicholas Lane, Lombard Str., London, E.C. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES IN INDIA AND CHINA. Calcutta Kurrachee Hongkong Bombay Agra Bishire Madras Lahore Bussoraii Rangoon Shanghai Singapore 967 BOUSTEAD Co., Agent», Penang. ROBINSON Co. are now showing the following NEW GOODS:--Single
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  • 35 4 DOMESTIC OCCUIIII ENCE. DEATH. Mitchell. —On Ist May, 1890, at No. 7, Farquhar Street, Penang. Florence Mary, the youngest daughter of Mr. R. H. Mitchell, aged 1 year and 9 months. Singapore papers please copy.
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  • 1229 5 The steamer Japan, which arrived from Calcutta on Wednesday, had a large number of cattle on board, consisting of 24 horses, 400 goats and 450 sheep. The outward bound P. 0. mail steamer Rosetta, with the mails from Europe, having left Colombo at 2 p.m. on Tuesday,
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  • 143 5 We have received some particulars of a severe engagement that took place at Edie on Tuesday* morning between the Dutch and the Achinese. It appears that the Dutch, having been previously warned by the enemy that they would be attacked during the Mahomedan fasting month, were
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  • 779 5 Mr. H. Stanley’s Operatic Company* arrived here from Rangoon on Tuesday afternoon and performed the same night the well known comic opera in three acts entitled La Mascotte.” Notwithstanding the brief notice given, the Town Hall was packed, and it was found impossible to provide
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  • 483 5 A RECENT report of the Acting Municipal Health Officer in Singapore contains horrifying revelations concerning the state of the bakeries and the system of bread-mak-ing in that settlement. In a long article which our contemporary the Singapore Free. Press writes on the subject, it
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  • 286 5 The following is a programme of His Majesty the King of Siam's movements April 16th Left Bangkok 18th Arrived at Chumpon 19th At Tatapow-Chumpvu 20th Left Tatapow 21st Arrived at Kra Buru 22nd On the way to Renong 23rd Arrived at Renong 25th Left for
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  • 214 5 Arrivals. 28th April. —Per s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld, Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield, Lt. Stewart and Mr. E. Wallich. 29th April.—Per s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld, Mr. H. B. Cox. Per s. s. Purnea from Rangon, Mrs. W. H. Bondville and Mr. J. D.
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  • 174 6 (Government Gazette, 25 th Ult.) Charles Quentin Gregan Craufurd, Robert Huddle, and Swinford Leslie Thornton, have been appointed magistrates for the Settlement of Singapore. Mr. C. W. Sneyd Kynnersley, First Magistrate and Commissioner of the Court of Requests, Penang, has been granted leave of absence, with half-salary, for
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  • 495 6 (Perak Government Gazette, 25 th Ult.) The Assistant Postmaster-General, Penang. has notified that in future his office will not intercept or re-direct letters, Ac., addressed to persons in Perak, other than the British Resident and the Secretary to Government. Mr. C. Leech, the State ommissiouer of Lands, in
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  • 348 6 A Native Observer writes in the Madras Times:— With equal education the Englishman is tar more practical than the native. This tiuth is evident tome from observation It is viwy desirable to find out the cause of’this difference and it possible to remove
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  • 537 6 The Daily Telegraph writes —Seldom has a more formidable indictment been drawn up against a reigning Sovereign than that set forth in the powerful letter addressed by MariaTshebrikova. an eminent Russian essayist. to Czar Alexander Alexandreivich. For twenty years past this gifted and earnest lady
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  • 688 6 Loud Randolph Churchill writes to the Daily Telegraph -.—A gentleman of the highest professional authority has communicated to me the following facts, which I think will be of inteiest to you and to that large portion of the pulflic which, owing greatly to your efforts, is solicitous about
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  • 244 6 The original Eiffel Tower is said to have been outdone by a model of it in ice. On the banks of the Neva at St. Petersburg such a model was lately to be seen built of 10,000 blocks of ice and rising to a height of 165 feet. A
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    • 121 6 TOWN II ALL. PENANG, FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY. LAST NIGHTS.' LAST NIGHTS HABBY STANLEY’S Operatic, Dram vne, Burlesque, and Pantomine Company. TO-NIGHT Will be presented the beautiful 3 act Burlesque of lalla rookh. SATURDAY The successful Comic Opera in thiee acts of TUA.XTTJ CTOZUTZES. MONDAY— Bv Request, SZHZZE-ZE. Beautiful Burlesque
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    • 579 6 Ross Pritchard TAILORS AND GENTLEMEN’S OUTFITTERS, No. 1, Beach Street No. 1, Union Street, 4 RE now showing a LARGE ASSORTaL MENT of the latest designs for Spring 1890 in the following goods Fancy Tennis Cashmeres, Fancy Tennis Flannels, White Tennis Flannels, White Twill Flannels, White Saxony Flannels, Fancy Ceylon
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  • 59 7 4th Sunday after Easter, 4th May, 1890. (Feast of Saint Monica.) Morning.—Litany Tallis. Anthem 198 Holy Communion—Kyrie 3 Gloria and Thanks 3 Offertory Hymn 323 Evening.—Psalms xxii, rv I—2l 167 rr 22—end 166 xxiii 16-4 Magnificat 236 Nunc i’imntis 39 Anthem 292, Ist tune. Hymn 261
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 456 7 NOTICE. I Khoo Guat Cheng, have this day 1 purchased and taken over from Yee Hung Co.. No 14, Beach Street, all and singular their stock in trade, goods, chattels and effects, and have established myself in the same premises as Geneml Storekeepers and Commission Agents under the style or
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    • 1278 7 Miss MeRRY, ELLWCCD’S INDIAN HELMETS Positive Government Security MiLLINEIt <„„! DRESSMAKER, w*. Lfd No. Ta.JARQUHAR street. THE GOLD MEDAL SEREN DAH MINE ie international Health Exhibition, BOHUS Year 1891. SW IL A IVGrOI 1884, (The only Gold Medal in Class XV.) TIT T TTTAATVO A FTITI"ITFf! i POLICIES TAKEN OUT
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    • 80 8 PILSENER BEER. KEY BRAND. IMPORTED SINCE 1879. NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THESE THREE LABELS. Labels and Trade Mark Registered in England and Germany. /w Jt. M Wb fW 1 B E WA F E OF IMITATIONS. 'feHi ffiMy ij|MHil /aWW' SA <wl 1-■ BssA I Si F~ Sole Importers and Sole
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    • 1011 8 awarded Cold Medal Lpool Intemtl Exniiithm, 1888. ENOUSH SANT AL Ml DY 111 JK fl I I a I I Midy’a pure Essence of Santal Is distilled I U B_l Bl IB Bl by a special process from the yellow Santal wood of mysore. and this liquid is quite diffenmuu/\air\
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