Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 22 August 1891

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    26 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [Pfl/C£ 20 CENTS. VOL. XLIX. SATURDAY', AUGUST 22, 1891. No. 94
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      1526 1 pipping (notices* pipping Qtofices. British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. —r > a»~'x i i a alin.- r, Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatscliappii. Peninsular Oriental Steam Ocean Steamship Company. Negapatam Line of Steamers. Navigation Company. Y UHE lntended Sailing of steamers. @niHE mail steamers may I J- be expected to arrive For.
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      1109 2 Jneurance (Tlofceg. “isle of SKYE” WHISKY. TIYOLI BEER! The North-British and Mercantile J. Dukkers Zoon’s Specialities, TIYOLI BEER!! Insurance Company. 1M1M1869. MEDOC, AFTER DINNER CLAKET, PORT. TIYOLI BEER!!! Capital £2,000,000. I Accumulated Invested Funds ...£2,838,118. ASSOCIATION VINICOLE DE BORDEAUX’S WINES AND LIQUEURS, THE undersigned have been appointed Non Plus Ultra
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    SHIPPING.
    109 3 Expected. r~ I I Pate. Names. From. Destination. Consignees. A »g' j l__ I 22 Dardanus Liverpool Singapore 4 H’kong Mansfield, Bogaardt Co. 22 A'ut Sang Calcutta Do. Boustead Co. 22 Bisagno China Bombay 4 Italian ports Behn, Meyer S' Co. 23 P. &O. Cathay London S’pore, China Japan
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    PASSENGER LIST.
    185 3 Au rivals, 18th August.—Per s. s. Lady Weld from Port Weld, Mr. R. Greg, Mr. F. G. Somerville, Mr. Chichester, Mr. F. Wright, Mr. O. S. Wright and Mr. H. Pinckney. 18th August. —Per s s. Gympie from Port Weld, Mr. H. P. Gallwey, Mr. J. A. Brown,
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    MUNICIPAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR JULY 1891.
    1250 3 Meetings.— During the month an ordinary meeting was held on the 10th and a special meeting on the 24th. Supplemental Budget (No. 2 of 1891). At the special meeting on the 24th the Commis- sinners passed a Supplemental Budget (No. 2 of 1891) amounting
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    FRANCE AND SIAM.
    700 3 There is no doubt that, a year or two before the Tonquin war, the French had designs on Siam, and the Siamese Government was in so great a state of alarm that it was seriously proposed that the country should return to the suzerainty of China, who
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      455 3 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Notices in this column will be charged full rates. The Switchback Railway TTTILL BE SOLI) by Public Auction on the spot. Data Kramat Gardens, on Thursday. 10th September, at 10 a. m., unless disposed off by private treaty before that date. TO LET. THAT well known residence “Strawberry
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      478 3 WANTED. TTTANTED for the Court at Gopeng in V the district of Kinta, a Chinese Clerk and Interpreter. Salary 3480 per annum and free quarters. Applicants must be well acquainted with the Kheh and Cantonese dialects, and Chinese accounts, and must have a competent knowledge of the English language including
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    EXCHANGE.
    125 4 Penang, 2 Ist August, 1891. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 3/2 J dollar. Do. 4 months’sight Bank... 3/3g Do. 6 Credits 3/3 Do. 6 Documentary 3/4 Calcutta, Demand Bank ...Rs. 221/ Do. 30 days’ sight Private 227 Bombay, Demand Bank 221/ Do. 30 days’ sight Private 227
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    76 4 Penang, 21st August. Tin §32.40 f Trang no supply Black Pepper < West Coast, no supply (.Acheen 8.45 nominal. White Pepper... 14.20 do Cloves no supply Mace No. 1 90. nominal. Mace No. 2 76.50 do Nutmegs 85. do I No. 1. 4.80 Sugar I 2. 3,
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    270 4 (Straits Times, 17th August.) Ben tons? “Straits Tin*’ (£1 pd) 30 cents uousinal. Siam Goldfields (£1 pd) 75 cents twyerx. Jelebu Mining Co. (s 5 pd)... $3 65 &/'jf/>rx. Ketchau Pahang (£1 pd) St teller». Malay Prospectm< o. 51'» pel, 810 Pahang Corpora; ion (81 pd) Ml
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
    155 4 The Recent Chinese Riots. London, VMh August.— The Powers are concerting for more vigorous action against China in connection with the recent riots. A British Squadron at Villafranca. A British Squadron is visiting Villafranca. The town is decorated in honour of the event and the officers have dined
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    THE COPPER CURRENCY.
    922 4 Yet again has the Settlement to suffer by reason of its distance from the seat of Government. In another column we publish the reply received from the Government by the merchants who wrote calling attention to the surfeit of copper coins in this place, and requesting the
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    PESSIMISM IN PENANG.
    538 4 To a certain extent a disposition to look at things in their worst light is innate. It is, perhaps, to the benefit of the human race that the appreciation of prospective or present evils should be one of the primary functions of the intellect, but it is
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      505 4 THE AGRA BANK LIMITED. Capital £1,000,000. (One Million Sterling.) Hew Office: Nicholas Lane, Lombard Str., London, E.C. BRANCHES AND AGENCIES IN INDIA AND CHINA. Calcutta Kurrachee Hongkong Bombay Agra Busiiire Madras Lahore Bussorah Rangoon Shanghai Singapore 184 BOUSTEAD Co., Agents, Penang. PRITCHARD Co. BEACH STREET. Have now opened out the
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      283 4 Important Notice— ira/i a view to making this paper as efficient as possible an exponent oj public opinion, as well as of local news, ice inrite communications on all subjects of general interest from persons able to write with knowledge, which will be pawl for at the following rates provided
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    EDITORIAL AND LOCAL.
    1875 5 The M. M. mail steamer Sydney left Colombo for Singapore at 7 p. in., on the 13th instant. The outward I*. A O. steamer Cathay left Colombo at 4 p. in. on the 18th instant, and is expected to arrive here on Sunday. The next homeward mail,
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    PENANG AND KEDAH FARMS.
    184 5 Messrs. Chew Sin Yong, Ng Ah Thye, Khoo Thean Roh, Chun Lye Kuin and two others, who are not at present in Penang, comprise the syndicate whose temper for the Penang Spirit and Opium Farm for the years 1892-94 has, we understand, been recommended by the
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    THE COPPER CURRENCY.
    219 5 The following reply has been received by the firms who recently asked the Government, through the Resident Councillor, to take out of circulation part of the surplus copper coins in Penang Gentlemen, —I have the honor to forward a’t'opy of a letter which I have received from
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    TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE HILL AND MIKA HEAD.
    189 5 We understand that the Hill telephone connection is to be removed from tlte Fort to the Government Telegraph Office in Union Street. The main object of this is to allow of communication being had with the town at any hour of the
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    THE CONSECRATION OF THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERY.
    325 5 The ceremony of the consecration of the new Roman Catholic Cemetery in Western Road took place on last Monday evening in the presence of a goodly number of people. The ceremony, which after all was a. simple one, seemed, however, to excite
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    CRICKET.
    169 6 The match arranged to take place on Saturday last, between the Penang Recreation Club and Schoolmasters and Telegraphists, did not come off, owing to some men of the latter team not turning up. A scratch match between teams captained by Ryan and Fencott was played off, resulting in a
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    CORRESPONDENCE.
    511 6 It is distinctly to be borne in mind that ice do not by inserting letters convey any opinion favorable to their contents. No notice whatever will be taken of anonymous letters, nor can we return those that are rejected. Letters should be brief, and, written on one side of
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    A PROSECUTION FOR SEDITIOUS LIBEL.
    945 6 At the Calcutta Police Court, Mr. Pugh, instructed by the Government Solicitor, applied for warrants against the proprietor, editor, manager, and printer and publisher of the Bangabasi newspaper- under section 124 a of the Penal Cofle for sedition, by having published certai Javticles in the
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      1030 6 ROSS BEAN.i L _2l T 2' SIAMESE CATS. Finder will be handsomely rewarded on returning either TAILORS j or both of them to and j W. N. DOW, GENTLEMEN'SOUTFITTERS, PeMng !3lh 295 No. 1, Beach Street No. 1, Union Street, TO LET Are now showing New Tropical Tweeds in qp
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      2699 7 FOR SALE. Austro-Hungarian Lloyd’s Steam NOTICE. Navigation Company. t oMOND BUNGALOW. Penang Hill. N OT J®® is H>»‘Nj; SELANGOR GOVERNMENT I j Apply to m.m TAROM the beginning ±1 Khup ceased to sign for our firm from XI ati rtr> a 301 E. W. PRES6RAVE. F of this year the'
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      431 8 PILSENER BEER. KEY BRAND. IMPORTED SINCE 1879. NONE GENUINE WITHOUT THESE THREE LABELS Isis Labels and Trade Mark Registered in England and Germany ffM TRADE-MARK MUikilclllfi biS3 «Bn UlIlIlMlili» 1 !|n N I a (I CJy i) (PrizeMedai J jrillll"" 'Mr/ WSftASr iii' 1, rewed and “ißto. iiii"/ < ViMiiiViMr
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      860 8 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. MUNICIPAL NOTICE. THE Municipal Commissioners of George rpHE Municipal Commissioners of Georea. Town, Penang, invite tenders for the Town, Penang, invite tenders for 578 constructional and ornamental Iron-work, lengths of 6 in., and 184 lengths of 8 in Corrugated Iron-roofing, and small fittings, cas f iron pipeB> and
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