Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 August 1893

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. F’O’BZiISHKD BAIL'S*. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LI. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1893. No. 185
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      598 1 (Rottccs. tr .t Oriental Steam Vjvigation Company. > rpHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following <y e dates Oaf.vai’ds. Homewards. t Juh Aug. Surat 26th Aug. ‘3rd Sepd Ravenna 9tli Sept, jf.dira 1/t!1 I yj.p b re d ites are only
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      1389 1 z niofieec, BRITISH IMDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,--(LTD.). banks. i qv XONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATBCHAPPIJ. A gra Bank 1 Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. r inm HOLT S WEEKLI LINE. Intenflcd Sallintf and expected A rrival of Steamers. (O ne Million Sterling.) I Head Office: 0R M ill sail
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      668 1 I NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPJI. (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Caph al .../35,783,000. Reserve Funds 1,753,427.23| Special Reserve Fund... /1,000,000. Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches.—Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pccalongan, Pasaroean, and
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    55 2 Mail close To-morrow. For Per str. Time Deli Rosa 1 p.m. Pangkor T. Anson... Mary Austin 2 p.m. Bangkok Romeo 3 p.m. Rangoon Fitz-patrick 4 p.m. Deli Avagyee 5 p.m. Friday, 25t.ii Europe, via Brindisi... Surat The P. O. mail steamer Rosetta left Colombo for Penang at 5
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    THE WEEK.
    56 2 Saturday, 19tii Town Band, Butterworth. Outward mail due, P. O. Rosetta. Sunday, 20tii 12th Sunday after Trinity. Monday, 21st Town Band. Esplanade. Settlement Races’ Lottery a/cs at Chamber of Commerce, 3 p.m. Tuesday, 22nd Wbdnbsday, 23rd Town Band, Esplanade. Thursday, 24 th Town Band, Datu Kramat Gardens. Friday,
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    EXCHANGE.
    127 2 Pknanb, 18th Augu-t, 1893. Batts close as follows: London, Demand Bank 25 J dot. Do. 4 months’ sight Bank 2'6 Do. 3 Credits 2 6}-} Do. 3 Doeunrmtary Calcutta, Demand Bank It* 197} Do. 30 days’ sight Private Bombay, Demand B ink 197} Do. 30 days’sight Priv.iic Madras, Demand
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    79 2 Penang, 18th Avgust, 1893. Tin $36.50 Trang no supply Black Tepper < West Coast.. 8.60 sellers. I Aehcen 10.255ir. wificl) White Pepper 13.5») 60 Cloves (picked) no supply Mace No. 1 82. sellers. Mace No. 2 79, do Nutmegs 80. do No. 1 7.50 do Sugar 4
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    54 2 London, 16th Aujust. Cholera is spreading to an alarming extent in the province of Galicia in Austria. Intense heat is prevailing in Great Britain and on the Continent. An ukase has been issued closing the Russian mints to the coinage of silver and forbidding the importation of foreign
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    DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.
    18 2 birth. Riedel.—On the 16th instant, the wife of Du. Riedel, of Caledonia Estate, of a daughter.
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    806 2 Another day of light work for the Magistrates to-day, there being only ten fresh petty cases on the list. We regret to hear that a European ladylias arrived from Perak this morning, suffering from typhoid fever. There will he no Band performance at the Golf Club to-morrow
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    43 2 We notice that the Singapore papers transire Reuter’s telegram of 13th differently D oni our reading of it. The telegram was very difficult to turn into good sense, but we think that we have fixed the meaning better than our contemporaries.
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    P.C.C. LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
    48 2 The following is the result of ‘ties’ played off yesterday Single Handicap, Class A. G. E. Cole defeated F. S' B. Lamb by 6-1, 6-4. Double Handicap. F. 0. Hallifax and J. J. Howley defeated W. Evans and E. B. Prior by 6-4, 6-2.
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    A NEW NEWSPAPER
    84 2 Bangkok now possesses a daily newspaper which is run by Mr. J. W. Ward, at one time engaged on the staff of this paper. He calls it (lie Siam Observer and Daily Advertiser. The new venture is printed partly in English and partly in Siamese; is newsy
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    RUSSIA COVETS JUNK CEYLON.
    129 2 The following telegram, dated London, July 24th, appears in the Australian papers —The Daily News states that Russia is pressing Siam to cede to her as a naval station the Island of Junk Ceylon in the Indian Ocean off the north-west extremity of the Malay Peninsula.
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    PORTUGAL AND JAPAN.
    306 2 Failure of Governor Borja’s Mission. •We learn from Japan that the special tlk *****11 of Capf da Bor ja. Gove: nor of Macao, to the Japanese Government for the purpose of having restored to Portugal the extra territorial rights in open ports of the empire which were
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    SINGAPORE NEWS.
    1109 2 Serious Fire in Singapore. The firing of four guns in succession at half-past four o’clock yesterday evening, announced another fire. The tire had broken out 4n Kallaug Road, a distance of about three and a half to four miles from town The premises were four attap buildings used
    (Sfrnifs Times, August 11th.)  -  1,109 words
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    THE ST. JOSEPH'S INSTITUTION
    483 2 t There lias lately been an agitati" ll ia Singapore by some of the parents boys attending the St. Joseph s Institute > in favor of strengthening the tcacidihi of the School. With that object those oerned in the movement have the Right Rev. Dr. Gasnier,
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      777 2 Pritchard Co., TO For 4 or 6 Months, SCOTLAND House. Apply to COMRIE Co. IN ANTICIPATION OF THE 20th June, 1893. 240 DEMAND FOR TO LET. FROM Ist proximo, eligible residence, Newington, situated in Burmah Road. NEW GOODS 1 285 BOUSTEAD Co. FOR THE TO LET. THREE GODOWNS at Sungei
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      281 2 ENGLISH BREAD. rpHE Proprietors of (he Leith Street Bakei v now receive from Europe regular consignments of SuPEKIOR I*IX»L’K and guarantee the absolute purity of their bread, no alum, potatoes or other foreign subtances being used. Comparison with other bread challenged, and inspection of premises solicited. Special orders executed on
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    19 2 DEATH. Balavendrum. —On the 18th inst., Mary Ann, wife of the Rev. R. Balavendrum, Missionary, S. P. G., Penang.
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    THE QUEEN'S AND GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIPS.
    217 3 F f,? Frew publishes the result of m inat >n for the Queen’s and Government Scholarships, held in in May last. Ir will be seen "Raffles Institution secured 1 Queen’s Government Scholarships, the Pej free School 1 Queen’s Scholarship, th? Antjlo-Cbinese School. Singapore, if,eminent Scholarship.
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    THE UGANDA MISSION.
    578 3 1 FTKTuER instalment of correspondence El-mila reveals the fact that Sir Gerald Uls chief difficulty at the outset concerns CMati'.’i created by the missionaries. I •■iia Mr. Gladstone in his great Opium *th. "the greatest respect for the motives nv.duct of Christian missionaries; but. I ire that
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    SUMMARY OF HOME NEWS.
    1049 3 The Court.—The Queen, with Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg and the suite, left Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon for Osborne. Signor Mascagni conducted his opera Caralleria Rusticana before the Queen and the members of the Royal family at Windsor on 15th instant. A state concert took
    (L. <& C. Express, July 21 st.)  -  1,049 words
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    ANCESTRAL WORSHIP.
    2147 3 {By a Canton Mandarin.) The worship of ancestors by the Chinese is a custom which cannot be attributed to the requirements of any existing religion. Neither is there any prescribed law by’ which it is made compulsory. It is more of a matter of filial duty’ or traditionary
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      113 3 WANTED. /CORRESPONDENTS in Selangor and J in the following districts of Perak— Kritui, Malang, Taiping, Kvvala Kangsar, Kinta, Tapali, Lower Perak. “PINANG GAZETTE.” FOR SALE. 4 NUMBERING MACHINE, second hand, in good order also a Super Royal PRESS. “Pinang Gazette” Prses. FOR SALE. VIEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor and
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      1126 3 DANDO Co. 1 TAILORS GENERAL OUTFITTERS. No 1, Beach Street Union Street, DERATED WATERS. The Netljeiiands Fire Insurance Company. Established 1845. BARUGH Co. jHIE undersigned is prepared to receive mon niitAinAnn innimnn Tr.rmnn ninrnnntr fii’C Disks at CUlTent latCS. He is alsO THE CRATED WATER FACTOR/ authorised to insure Ships
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      1839 4 QMfeg. M&LARTY COM PAN Y. club. MARINE INSURANCE. CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, programme SUPPLY ALL AND STORES AUGUST MEETING, 1893. i*of-pQ T'TT? &lt; r T* A "V SCHMIDT, KUSTERMANN Co., t f WORKS SUPERVISED DURING CONSTRUCTION, zj Contracts Negotiated with Indian and European Manufacturers. iiksi iaace. 6 Agents. 399 Value
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      777 4 DR J, COLLIS BIIOWB cummsj C° UG q6lds, I s 1^3 U A STH S A nONCH ITIS D D YS D C Soa »l E NERAL B( 1 I OR. J. COLLIS BROWHE’S CHLORODYNE i Is a liquid medicine which assuages PAIN of EVERY KIND, affords a calm, 1
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