Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 20 May 1890

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  • 26 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. f PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. XLVIIL TUESDAY. MAY 20, 1890. No. 39
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1450 1 pipping (Hofices, pipping (Roficea. British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. Peninsular 4 Oriental Steam Ocean Steam Slrip Compand In Maatsehappij. Navigation Company. wC Aegapatam Line Steamers "V-_3t\ Intended Sailing and Expected Arrival of Steamers. XjHjs. THE following arc the appoint- A ed dates of arrival of the te Mail Packets
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    • 1416 2 Jneurance (ftoftces. ISLE OF SKYE WHISKY. jnsutancc (Itoficea. The Murine Insurance Company. J. DUKKERS A ZOON’S SPECIALITIES, Stllllllai'll Life ISSUTtIIICe Limited. 1 1 1 7 T. IV J MEDOC,’AFTER DINNER CLARET, PORT. Company. life undersigned are prepared to accept E>* 1 J p 1* Ij 11 If f the above
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  • 1856 3 (London and China Express, 18th April.) Court. —The Queen is still at Aix-les-Bains. Her Majesty was present at a review of the French troops at Chambery. The Prince of, Wales is expected in 1 ondon to-day. Prince and Princess Christian have returned to England from Germany.
    (London and China Express, 18th April.)  -  1,856 words
  • 1409 3 (From the "Statesman.” Those who were under the impression that the British East Africa Company were allowing themselves to be outstripped by the Germans in Eastern and Equatorial Africa will be agreeably, surprised at the intelligence that treaties have been concluded with the King of
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  • 241 3 A horrible: crime, similar in its revolting details to those committed in London by Jack the Ripper," is reported from the town of Helena, in the new State of Montana. The victim was a white woman of the most degraded class, and the murderer was
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  • 281 3 THE SINS OF THE GOVERNMENT VISITED UPON THE PEOPLE S. The Origin of Influenza. The following curious story as to the origin of the influenza is going the round among the Hindu and Mahomedan inhabitants of Madras. The individual who concocted it must have had an inventive faculty and the
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  • 453 3 Higgins, the aeronaut, ascended with his balloon at Croydon on the 12th ult.. intending to descend with a parachute. When at a great height the parachute became detached, and fell to the earth. The balloon then shot up to an altitude estimated by Higgins to be
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  • 127 4 Penang. 19th May. 1890. Rates close as follows: London. Demand Bank dollar. De. 4 months'sight Bank 3/54 Do. 6 Credits 3 ‘sj Do. 6 Documentary t>/o l Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. 225 Do. 30 days’ sight Private 228 Bombay. Demand Bank 225 Do. 30 days’ sight Private 228 Madras,
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  • 98 4 The following j s a ]j st ~r Vessels expected to arrive during the fortnight:— Namb. From Datk. Destination. I ss. Kon iire s n ,x>ro May Atl I'» iun/!!,?' R’koo.. a- Calcutta. byng,,,.,, ...2» s s l/enH" A?"'-o*l r ’-'I ol.,iiil><> London. 1111 N’ptam Madras, Ae. eC
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  • 180 4 Loudon, 15th May, 1890. Mr. Stanley has been presented with the freedom of the City of London at Guildhall, where he expressed a censure upon English journalism, which prevented England from taking the Congo State in East Africa. Signor Crispi in the Chamber stated that Italy was in
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  • 27 4 BIRTH. I'lsin in- At the Oriental Hotel, on the I 7th instant. the wife of William H.Tisblry. of Enterprise Estate, Klang. Selangor, of a son.
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  • 926 4 From the newspapers which arrived by last mail we learn that the question of criminal sentences has been discussed by the House of Lords. The matter was brought forward by Lord Herschel], who called attention to the difference of opinion among judges as to the principles by which
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  • 1214 4 The Regimental sports will probably be held on Tuesday next, the 27th instant, at the Lines. An interesting account, with sketches, of a Malay cricket match is published in the Daily Graphic of 12th April. Four Bengalee stowaways were found on board the steamer Kut Sang on
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 260 4 THE AGRA BANK LIMITED. Capitai £1,000,000. (One Million Sterling.) Head Office: Nicholas Lane, Lombard Str., London, E.C. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES IN INDIA AND CHINA. Calcutta Kuhrachee Hongkong Bombay Agra Bish ike Madras Lahore Bvssorah Rangoon Shanghai Singapore 967 BOUSTEAD Co., Penang. ROBINSON Co. are now showing the following NEW GOODS:—
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  • 71 5 Like the Straits Settlements, Ceylon has come under the avaricious eye of the Secretary of State, who has demanded from it an increased military contribution. The people of Ceylon object to this, and an address to the Queen on the subject has been adopted by the Legislative
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  • 101 5 In a recent issue we stated that the Chartered Bank of India, Australia China had been swindled by their cashier in Calcutta, and had put aside £50,000 to meet the loss. Now we learn from the Indian newspapers that the Bank of Bengal and the Hongkong Shanghai
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  • 137 5 At a recent meeting of the Ceylon Legislative Council a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies and a letter addressed to him by Sir Frederick Dickson, our Acting Governor, defending himself from certain imputations made regarding him in connection with the Grain
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  • 373 5 His Majesty the King of Siam, with the Queen and Crown Prince and H. R. H. Prince Devawongse, who had gone to meet His Majesty at Kedah, arrived from that place at half past eight o’clock on Saturday evening in the yacht Üban Buratet, accompanied
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  • 385 5 Thirteen Chinese were arraigned before Mr. Jacobson on Saturday on j a charge of gambling in a common gaming-house in Malay Street, and all but three pleaded guilty. Lieut. H. C. Metcalfe, Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police, gave evidence to the effect that at five o’clock on
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  • 436 5 Shortly before seven o’clock on Friday evening a fire broke out in China Street in the house of Mr. Ong Tek, which adjoins other houses in China Street as well as in Beach Street. Within a few minutes of the alarm the Central Station fire-engine and
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  • 325 5 —Adil. Ix an article on Legislation in the Straits Settlements the London and China Express says —lt may be that the Colonial Office will pay some heed to legislation of such a character; but this is clear, that the nonofficials will forfeit the respect of the
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  • 221 5 Arrivals. 15th May.—Per s. s. Menelaus from Liverpool, Mr. and Mrs. Pinkney. 16th Alay.—Per s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld, Mr. D. B. Pereira. 17th May. —Per s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld, Mr. Howman, Mr. Leech and Mr. Toft. Per s. s. Teutonia from Klang,
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  • 1412 5 (From the London and China Express.) AA t hile American bi-metallists have practically taken the Silver Bill out of Air. Windom’s hands and earned it several stages nearer the “free coinage” goal, monometallism has asserted itself in the English Parliament by a majority of 96, on Air. Samuel
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  • 361 6 (Free Press.) Through the courtesy of the Acting Colonial Secretary we are informed that the Stanhope Trust Gold .Medal.” which was recently awarded by the Royal Humane Society to Mr. W. E. Meyer of the Settlement, has been received, together with the certificate accompanying it. 'I hev will,
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  • 747 6 A syndicate of several rich Hamburg citizens has presented Prince Bismarck, as a birthday -present, two estates which he wished to possess in order to round off his property’ at Friedrichsruh. Die Resident of Ternate reports to the Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences that on the 30th July
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 327 6 Ross Pritchard TAILORS AND GENTLEMEN’S OUTFITTERS, No. 1, Beach Street No. 1, Union Street, 4 RE now showing a LARGE ASSORTA MEN I’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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    • 543 6 SERENDAH MINE, SELANGOR. 11ENDERS for the purchase of the above mine must be sent to the undersigned before Saturday, the 31st instant. ALLEN A KENNEDY. Penang, 14th May, 1890. 140 BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. Experienced Planter Wanted. rilO take the Head Management of Estates I belonging to an English Tobacco Company
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    • 2032 7 notice. penang auction mart, i oriemyal TIFFIN Positive Government Security THE interest and responsibility of Khoo 18il0 P Street. AND Gnob Cheak in our firm, ceased on the Established 1865. BILLIARD ROOMS Life ASSUfailCe (O, Ltd. 15th day of the first Chinese Moon this E. S. COHEN SON Co. UL,n
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    • 89 8 PILSENER BEEB. KEY BRAND. IMPORTED SINCE 1879. NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THESE THREE LABELS. Labels and Trade Mark Blistered in England and Germany. /p’ .d! i’’. l i’|jf|l|i Hi llllffil 1 1 1 11 IF IT lIP ‘Oil Will ’’’K trade—mark i > Ji_Wji w Brewed and BEWARE of imitations. 411
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    • 1148 8 awarded Cold Medal L'pool Interni Exhibition, 1888. GRIMAULT’S ENGLISH MANUFACTURED HIT i 1 THDAPOfIQ Matico Capsules I vDHUuuU and injection Plf*M!W3r>lUr> Renowned Physicians prescribe Grimault’s m w n iw« v I w is Matico as the most active and at the same lime PAVEMriiQIJ the most inoffensive remedy in the
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