Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 October 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. OCTOBER 24, 1890. No. 84
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1639 1 l rr tn s (Roftwe. pipping Qtocicea. British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. Peninsular Oriental Steam Ocean Steam Ship Company Neder Msche Sfoomm rt Maatsehappij, Navigation Company. holts wbekl'y I INE I Negapatain Lme of Stummers. 1 i-—A\ Intended Sailing and Expected Arrival of Steamers. IHh following are the appoint-
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    • 1317 2 Jnuurance (Rotices. ISLE OF SKYE WHISKY. Jnaurance (Tloftcca. The Marine Insurance Company, J. Dukkers Zoon’s Specialities, standard Life Assurance Limited. J 1 x MEDOC, AFTER DINNER CLARET, PORT. Company. HUIE undersigned are prepared to accept 1 ♦he above ’'^onipan^by^any 1 ASSOCIATION VINICOLE DE BORDEAUX’S WINES AND LIQUEURS, New and Reduced
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  • 162 3 The following is a list of Vessels expected to arrive during the fortnight:— Name. From Date. Destination. •ls. .V Tajirunhis Padau? 24 Oct Singapore. s.s Glenyyle LontL'ii 24 S’por»* < hina P. A O. Hokhaea... China 24 Colombo At London ss. Kutnony Do 25 < nlcutta s>. Teutonia
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  • 186 3 Arrivals. 20th October. Per s.s. from Port Weld. Mr. Friederichs. 21st October. Per s. s. Thaipinq from Port Weld. Mr. C. J. Smith. Per s. s. Camorta. from Negapatam, Mr. Legge. 22nd October. Per s. s. Thaipiny from Port Weld. Mr. McLarty, Mr. (long Ah Chin and Mrs.
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  • 610 3 The Tariff Bill was introduced into the Senate by Major McKinley as long ago as December 1889, and very soon after the Republican party came into power The bill was brought forward chiefly with the object of counteracting or revoking a legislative policy adopted by
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  • 326 3 London Jj- China Express. A bout twelve years ago it was reported that alligators had been seen in the Chinese rivers but biologists were rather sceptical, and with reason, on the ground that the fauna of America are so generally distinct from the rest. More recently one single
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  • 438 3 (lianrjlcok Times Ix view of the number of new works that are about being inaugurated in this country, and the magnitude and extent of t heir bearing upon the country’s labor supply, from the large and increased supply of unskilled labor wild» they will call into requisition,
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  • 693 3 In Tokio, Japan, in July last there were registered 526 marriages and 220 divorces. Civilization The Emperor William recently made hi» grandmother a colonel. He has now gone a step further, and appionted his cousin, the Duchess of Connaught, to a similar post. Here is another school story vouched
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 459 3 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Notices in this column will be charged full rates. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The next Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held in the Town Hall, at 2 i> m., On Friday, the 7th November. (By order) J. W. HALL]FAX, Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. Southern District, Province
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    • 171 3 THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE, 1888. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. Settlement of Penang. In Bankruptcy. No. 10 of 1889. He Bei:xai:i> Christopher Doral. jVOTTCE is hereby given that a final 11 Dividend is intended to be declaim'd in the above matter. Creditors who have not proved theiY debts
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  • 120 4 Penang, 23rd October, 1890. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/5 dollar. Do. 4 months’ sight Bank... 3/5* Do. ti Credits 3/6g Do. 6 Documentary 3/61 Calcutta, Demand Bank ...Rs. 221 Do. 30 days' sight Private 223 Bombay, Demand Bank 221 Do. 30 days’sight Private 223 Madras, Demand
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  • 165 4 The African Boundary Question. London, 20tk October.— Lord Dufferin will resume negotiations shortly upon the African boundary question. Bad Weather on the East Coast. A furious gale has set in off Scarborough. Admiral Seymour, forty-five officers and two hundred men of the Channel Squadron were on shore and
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  • 1553 4 Such of our readers who are interested in the immigration question will no doubt remember that in September last we published some correspondence from Negapatam relating to the regulations under which ccolies were allowed to pass as agricultural labourers for the Straits Settlements. It was admitted by
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  • 805 4 (Proni orr Telegraphic li.ivlatnyes.) James Edward 'J horold Rogeis. Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, is dead. Messrs. Dillon and O’Brien were at sea in a private yatch nearly a week. 1 hey landed at Cherbourg on the 18th inst., and from there proceeded to Paris. Reports,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 259 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 Kukrachee Hongkong Bombay Agra Busiiire Madras Lahore Bissorah Rangoon Shanghai Singapore Ist BOUSTEAD Co., Agent», Penang ROBINSON Co. Have just received a largo assortment of
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  • 2093 5 The Homeward Mail—The P. O. mail steamer Bokhara left Singapore on Wednesday afternoon and will be here this morning. Additional Officer for the Bitterworth District Office.—We hear that Air. Hall, a cadet, will shortly be attached to the District Office, Butterworth, Province Wellesley, to assist the Senior
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  • 86 5 The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank acknowledges with thanks the following subscriptions towards the above Fund J. C. Ross, Esq. §lO Messrs. Huttenbach Liebert Co. „25 J. A. Brown, Esq. 10 J. Gibson, Esq. „10 N. N 50 P. E. Cameron, Esq 50 C. Guinness, Esq. 10
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  • 393 5 A correspondent writes:—The people of Taiping are having a rare week of enjoyment, owing to the presence amongst them of M oodyear’s Circus Troupe. There are crowded houses nightly, but particularly so on the night of the 21st inst., when the Resident, and H. H. the
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  • 243 6 Wi hive the pleasure of making public a portion of a letter received a day or two since bearing on the immigration question, and emphasizing our own remarks and confirming the opinions of others who have addressed us from time to time There is no doubt that a
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  • 257 6 In a late issue we contrasted the treatment accorded at Negapatam to the recruiters of coolies for the Straits Settlements and that accorded the cooly agent for Natal at Madras. In the one case, coolies who had changed their minds, or had been persuaded to go
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  • 381 6 Tiesday, 21st October,' 1890. According to a special telegrain received by us, the following are the results of the different events in the first day's racing:— 1.-Tiie Maiden Plate. Value <250? A race for Horses that have never won a. race Omrse, Roadster and Subscription Gnflms Races
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  • 73 6 (Government Gazette, 17 th Oct.) Mr. E. C. Harte, Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court. Penang, is appointed to be Acting Registrar of Joint Stock Companies at this settlement. Mr. J. A. Chichester is appointed to act as Sheriff. Penang, during the absence of Mr. Murison Allan, until
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  • 980 6 PIRACY IN THE SOOLOO A RCHIPELAGO. From the Singapore papers to hand we have it that a Malay named Tunku Hassan lias forwarded to the Master Attendant a report of a piracy case which occurred several months ago. It seems that Tunku Hassan was trading with a tongkang, which at
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 229 6 Ross Pritchard TAILORS AND GENTLEMEN’S OUTFITTERS, No. 1, Beach Street No. 1, Union Street, ARE NOW SHOWING A Choice Assortment of GENTLEMEN’S SCARVES COMPRISING SILK AND SATIN FOUR IN HAND SILK WASHING SCARVES OXFORD WASHING SCARVES CASHMERE WASHING SCARVES FANCY AND BLACK BOWS WHITE DRESS BOWS THE NEW SOCIETY BOW,
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    • 613 6 INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION Co. For Singapore Hongkong. For Calcutta. "V—V FIIHE Indo-China Steam I X -L Navigation Co., Ltd., Steamship Kut Sang," Capt I Young, leaving Hongkong on the 15tli instant, may be expected here on or about I the 25th instant. For freight or passage apply to BROWN A
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    • 2157 7 notice. THE MAR NE insurance Co., Ltd. Positive Government Security "I\TY interest and responsibility in the IVL Chop of Sin Hock Huat Co. No. 20, OLD BROAD STREET, LONDON, E. C. Life ASSUrfIIICO I’o Ltd 347, Beach Street, ceased on the 11th day ESTABLISHED 1836. of October 1890 Capital £1,000,000.
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    • 78 8 PILSENER BEER. KEY BRAND. IMPORTED SINCE 1879. NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THESE TH It EE LABELS. Labels ani Trade Mark Registered in England and Germany ’BSSBf Brewed and 'l®/ vCPdhi n Jm II ,h If 1 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. 12 I j a Sole Importers and Sole Agents, SCHMIDT, KUSTERMANN Co.
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    • 1232 8 SANTAL RUDY I SyrupolHypo-Pliosphite oi Lime Midy’s pure Essence of Santa! is distilled j FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST by a special process from the yellow Santal J All snfferin K from Catarrh, Consumption Obstl- I wood Of niysore, and this liquid is quite diffe- i nate Coughs or Colds
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