Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 May 1890

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  • 25 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY. HEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. XLVIII. FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1890. No. 40
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1485 1 (Rotices. pipping (Roftcea. British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. Peninsular Oriental Steam Ocean Steam Ship Company. Nwlerlandsch Indische Stoomvaart Maatschappij. Navigation Companv holts weekly line. Negapatam Line ot Steamers. ■yms, t he following are the Intended Sailing and Expected Arrival of Steamers. A cd dates of arrival of the v
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    • 1413 2 Jn&urance ISLE OF SKYE WHISKY. Jn&uraftC£ Qloticeff* The Marine Insurance Company, J, DUKKERS XOOX'S SPECIALITIES, 8tclll(l<ir(l Lift 1 iSSUrfilllT Limited. v T, IL A A MEDOC, AFTER DINNER CLARET, PORT. Company. HE undersigned are prepared to accept x the iTbove a ctmpany P °by eB any n first-class ASSOCIATION VINICOLE
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  • 824 3 Chartered Bank of India. Australia and China. The Ordinary General Meeting of this bank was held at the City Terminus Hotel on the 16th April. MY. W. Paterson (chairman) said that the directors had thought it right to set aside 10 per cent, in the way of bonus
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  • 1049 3 After prolonged negotiations and discussions, writes the Times, the Congress of the United States seems likely to arrive at an understanding for the temporary settlement of the silver coinage question. Tbe whole civilised world is deeply interested in the result. The vigorous efforts of the silver party”
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  • 661 3 The Explorer freely Expresses his Opinions. In a conversation with a representative of the New York Herald, Stanley said that of the work accomplished by Emin nothing was now left, and but for the Relief Expedition Emin would now have been a common slave at Khartoum He
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  • 181 3 A correspondent to the Statesman writes I am curious to know if you and the European section of your readers, nay even the majority of native readers, have ever heard of a social evil like the one of which I give an account below. A Brahman of
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  • 876 3 An American journal, with all that detail of I circumstance which gives a stamp of veracity to its narrative, tells the history of a stone alleged to have been procured in Bombay that possessed the quality of restoring people bitten by mad dogs or poisonous
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  • 728 3 In the course of a recent article tbe Chinese Times, of Tientsin, remarks that the practical power of poverty is perhaps greater in China than anywhere else the beggar there is a king. It is a distinct force in politics, and of this there have been
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  • 125 4 Penang, 22nd May, 1890. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/4) dollar. Do. 4 mouths’sight Bank 3/4) Do. 6 Credits 3/5-J Do. 6 Documentary 3/5) Calcutta, Demand Bank ...Rs. 225' Do. 30 days’ sight Private 228 Bombay. Demand Bank 225 Do. 30 days’ sight Private 228 Madras, Demand
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  • 157 4 Ihe following is a list of Vessels expected to arrive during the fortnight:— Name. From j Dai Dmtixatiox. Goalpflra Singapore... 21 May Moul. R>n. A Cal. es.PMHdwa Rangoon ...21 Singapore B.R. r/MmrA Singapore 21 Colombo London n.s Teuton,a Klang 21 h. R’da, K’g A-S’gor. .s. /Vis? I tort
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  • 130 4 London, 20th May, 1890. The s. s. Dacca grounded on the Dodalus reef on the 16th instant and sank. Crew and passengers have arrived at Suez. A Russian note to the Porto insists upon payment of arrears of war indemnity from new loan, otherwise reserves the right of
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  • 855 4 We had little idea, when we referred in last issue to the vagaries of magistrates, that our remarks were almost immediately to derive additional point and emphasis from the vagaries of the Acting Second .Magistrate. Yet so it is. Our article was hardly in print
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  • 1467 4 AVe understand that there will probably be a paper-chase on Saturday week. The Annual Report on .Education lor 1889 is published in last Government Gazette. On Wednesday the Resident Councillor gave an official dinner in honour of the Queen’s birthday. Mr. J. F. AA aid has resigned
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 249 4 THE AGRA BANK LIMITED. I Capital £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 Bishike Madras Lahore Bussorah Rangoon Shanghai Singapore 967 BOUSTEAD Co., Penang ROBINSON Co are now showing the following NEW GOODS:Single
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  • 212 5 At 6.30 a. M. on Wednesday the detachment of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment, under command of Major Chaytor, paraded to render the customary salute to the Queen. The national flag was hoisted opposite the Mess Bungalow, and the two companies were formed
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  • 261 5 As announced, the King of Siam, the Queen and ladies proceeded to Government Bungalow on the Hill on Wednesday morning, both that bungalow and the Convalscent Bungalow having been placed at His Majesty’s disposal by the Resident Councillor. Half way up the hill the royal
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  • 50 5 There has been another severe fight in Edie, in which the Dutch, who barely succeeded in holding their own, had three men killed and twenty-five wounded, among the latter being Captain Beylenveldt and three junior officers It is said that the Resident has asked for reinforcements.
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  • 372 5 The DeliCourant says that the Achinese are back again in Edie,and have taken up strong positions on the surrounding hills from which it would only be at a veryheavy sacrifice that the Dutch could dislodge them. Reinforcements have, however, been sent from Kota
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  • 175 5 Arrivals. 19th May.—Per s. s. Tkalpiny from Port Weld. Mr. P. 1). Aranjo, Mr. Gazeau and Mr. Ah Kye. 20th May.—Per s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld, Dr. 11. 11. Sheppard and Mr. Friederichs. 21st May.— Per s. s. Konysee from Singapore, Mr. R. C. Nickelson, Mr.
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  • 225 5 At Boubongan a good many gardens have been destroyed by elephants, which abound in the place. In the Battak country things are in as bad a state as ever, owing to the presence of Achinese marauders who are having it all their own way. According
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  • 120 5 (Government Gazette, 16th Inst.) Mr. W. Reii>, clerk of works, Ist grade, in the Public Works Department, Penang, has been granted an extension of leave, with half salary, for four months and eleven days from the 6th of July next. During the absence from the settlement of Singapore
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  • 673 5 (Straits Times.) As H. E. the Acting Governor returns to-day from a sojourn where he could onlybear faintly the echoes of Singapore life, it is proper to say plainly that the people of Singapore are utterly disgusted with the police force, and that they look
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  • 2099 5 Lord Harris, having left England to assume the office of Governor of Bombay, has had to tender his resignation as an aiderman of the Kent County Council. In doing so he was called upon to pay a fine of a sovereign, the prescribed penalty for resigning an office which
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 143 6 NOTICE. In the matter of the Singapore Tramway Company Limited. IVOTICE is hereby given that the Credi--11 tors of the abovenamed Company are required on or before the 4th day of July 1890 to send their names and addresses and the particulars of their debts or claims and the names
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    • 974 6 Ross Pritchard K TO ET VW No. 2, WESTLANDS BUNGALOW. TAILORS A PP l y tO THEAN CHEE Co. and 11st May, 1890. 153 GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS, I 777" No. 1, Beach Street No. 1, Union Street, 1 Chop DA A GENERAL WAREHOUSE 4 RE now showing a LARGE ASSORT- and
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 2127 7 BRITISH NORTH Borneo. penang auction mart. O RIENTAL TIFFIN 'Positive Government Security Experienced Planter Wanted. N 3 Blshop street. and 4 J E. Co. BILLIARD ROOMS, I ISSUHUICC Cd, Ltd. 1 belonging to an English Tobacco Com- Auctioneers, Appraisers Commission No. 2, Union Street, Penang. pany in British North Borneo.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 76 8 PILSENER BEER. KEY BRAND. IMPORTED SINCE 1879. NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THESE TH BEE LABELS. KUSTERfffiW®»! Labels and Trade Mark Registered in England and Germany. trade mark hjg y ga '|m b 1 Brewed and BEWARE of imitations. pC V jr jjgg|/ Sole Importers and Sole Agents, SCHMIDT, KUSTERMANN Co. BASS
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    • 1043 8 «warded Cold Medal L’pool Ihtertl Exhibition. 1886. GRIM AU LT’S ENGLISH MANUFACTURED HIT 1 TH DA OP HO Matico Capsules I UDriUUUU AND INJECTION PinUMAiun Renowned Physicians prescribe Grimault’s vn iwl kJI w U Matico as the most active and at the same lime the most inoffensive remedy in the
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