Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 2 November 1893

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LI. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1893. 7 No. 250
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 615 1 Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. ma ’l steamers may J- be expected to arrive *ZLMa outwards, and leave Penang *j homewards, on the following l dates Outwards. Homewards. flMetfa 12th Nov., CZy/Je 3rd Nov. /?4i7/a 2oth JfaZw'i 1/th Stages 10th Dec. Sutlej Ist Dec. y/, a n e« 24th Ravenna
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    • 1651 1 pipping dtoficee. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY-(LTD.). banks. -J o KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. The Bank Limited Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. —7, HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. (One Million Sterling.) 'V- —*t\ 11 1 Head Office: For Will sail Steamer From Expected
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    • 709 1 NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPFIJ. (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000. Reserve Funds f 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 Maatscbappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan. Pasaroean,
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  • 28 2 Mails close To-morrow. For Per str. Time Klang Malacca Teutonia ...10 a.m. Deli Avagyee 2 p.M. Pangkor, Tehik Anson and Port Dickson Mary Austin... 2 p.m.
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  • 41 2 Thursday. 2nd Town Band, Datu Kramat Gardens. Khii.ay, .3rd;— Meeting Licensing Justices. Saturday. 4tii Town Band, Golf Club. Sunday. sth 23rd Sunday after Trinity. Monday. 6th Town Band, Esphinmb Tn khday, 7th Wkhn KSl>* y, Bth Town Band, Esplanade.
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  • 119 2 Pknanh, 2nd November, 1893 Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank “3’ ■!■>'. Do. 4 months’sight Bank 2t| Do. 3 Credits 2 Z 4’-J Do. 3 Dorinn'-ntiiy Calcutta, Demand Bink R« 181 Do. 30 days’sight Priviie Bombay, Demand Bmk 181 Do. 30 days’sight Privi <■ Madras, Demand Bank 183}
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  • 73 2 < Penanu, 2nd November, 1893. Tin So-50 I Trang supply Black Pepper < West Coast.. 50 sellers. I Aulieen > <’<> White Pepper 13« JO do Cloves (picked) no supply Mace No. I ««Ilers. Mace No. 2 Nutmegs No. 1 7 <« > Sugar 2 4.5) do
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  • 131 2 Africa. London, 2nd November.— The Matabeles have been defeated in several engagements and are quite broken up. They have lost half of the Imbizo regiment. Lobengula has retreated, and is being pursued. Majors Adams and Forbes columns now occupy Bulawayo. The losses among the whites are slight. The
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  • 151 2 Dr. W. C. Brown having been asked to stand for the vacant seat in the Legislative Council, has consented to contest the seat. Dr. Brown came to Penang about ten years ago. He first entered upon public affairs in 1888, by accepting a seat
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  • 973 2 His Honor Mr. justice Gatty arrived from Singapore this morning by the P. AO. mail steamer Clyde. The Singapore Club Ims raised its entrance fee from §.50 to §i"O, and the monthly subset iptiou from §4 to §5. The newly-appoin it d Governor-General of Netherlands India, His
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  • 80 2 Sports open to the Police, with events Open to all natives, will be held at Butterworth on Saturday, the 18th instant. There will be the usual running and jumping competitions, as well as swimming races, Sikh wrestling, tugs-of-war between the different districts, and sipah raga. There will also be
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  • 238 2 The native mind has sometimes confused ideas on the accuracy of statements an affidavit demands. A day or two back, a Malay appeared before Mr. Justice Collyer on a judgment summons. He said his calling was that of a professional bailer in the Police Court, but the
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  • 123 2 The Stnu’/s Times says:—The Pinang Gazette is hurt that in a cricket article we failed to note the merits of Mr. Anthony, who was a representative of Penang in the Malayan Cricket team that went to Ceylon. The offending cricket article did not mime any one yet
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  • 133 2 A cricket match, Ato I n eommem-ed at Taipi,,.’, n V* Res k “The Rest” were at|| ie v" Ha y «W afternoon, and w ieri tinip nil th made 271 runs for 9 wicket, 7 led seen that young McKenzie retil Will le splendid seme of 89, which
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  • 156 2 Sir, -Dull reference to a lend;, in the Pinang Gazette of the 30th 0 !e y..u tint to me for the names of those on the Exchange Commission in T(ti >uch a Commission vias recently le |,l t Smuapore, hut Mr I, kes was' pei f'j correct
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  • 76 2 We are informed that the King of Italy has conferred upon Mr. August iluttenlme'h the Order of Cavalieie del la Comno ilTtalia.” for good services rendered ilm-injr five yea is as Consular Agent for Italy in Penang. We have to congratulate JF, Hntteiibach upon
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  • 249 2 A general meeting of the Selangor Planters’ Association will be held at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, the Ibtli November. We notice the following proposals to he submitted at the meeting, and it is needless to say more than that the Association is doing good service to
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  • 103 2 When the mail passed lluoii-i' Canal, there were rumours, says lie t lishman, that the Mahdi was prep-i. anol her attack on hgy| tian ten itoiy of his Emirs was to advance 11 Tmen and invade Abyssinia, white am was to deliver an assault on Al outpost
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  • 134 2 v .bi w A Bill to amend ilieGeai)- f introduced in the American j||,. presentatives. B/xtends I e k in which the provisions ot IL mid complied with to Septem ni provides that no proceeding "t .1 eX jstii>K of the provisions of section 0 law
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 699 2 V Pin New Advertisements. /TIuCmIPQ PENANG CRICKET CLUB. STRAITS vs. CEYLON. 15i BEACH STREET. s “S~v. Fixed foe Tuesday, 7th instant, AT 5 P.M AT THE PAVILION. 454 •Mr. G. H. PRITCHARD auction sale OF has just returned from Europe Valuable Household Furniture, Plants. J &c., at the Apothecaries Quarters,
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    • 225 2 TO LET. No. 4, WESTLANDS BUNGALOWS. Apply to JU’- WREFOIU), 4J.7 27, Beach Street. TO LET. 13ROM Ist proximo, eligible residence, Newington, situated in Bui niah Road. Apply to 285 BOUSTEAD A Co. TO LET. SIXTEEN vacant GoDOWNS and one Office, owned by Mr. Ciieah lek Soon, extending from Beach
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  • 132 3 The S'langor Government Gazette pub- lC s tbe following circular despatch from J'"" 1 Street, ISth August, 1893 y| y attention has been cal led to the ’f issuing surcharged postage I”. tl|( to the temptations which it Post Masters and Treasurers, other public
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  • 196 3 w’i- have again had a communication I, (111 t the conduct, of the priest in Bat u ih ()ur informant states t hat on the o>. d ult. the Chinaman who built the eluircli and gave it to the mission was turned out by the priest.
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  • 196 3 The following is reproduced from “Punch” of 16th September with slight variations Scene. Government Office in Singapore. A Government official discovered. To him enter Petitioner. reallv think, Sir, that the time has arrived for a grant. («—lmpossible, my dear Sir, impossible. I can assure you the
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  • 350 3 The following are the results of the second and third days’ races Second Day, 26th October. 1. The Coffee Cup.—Distance, 1} miles. 1 Mr. May’s Mayflower Mr. Payne M H J. Martijn’s Hazeldran Burke 3 H Stronach’s Dwarf O' Blood Dalian. Time 2.33. 2. The Roadsters’ Handicap.—Distance, 1}
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  • 366 3 It cannot be said that the bitter cry of outcast silver grows less in the land. Alore attention is paid to the matter day by day, and as the financial and business outlook, which for three years has been most gloomy, does not improve, people are being
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  • 581 3 (L. J C. Express, Sept. 29th.) Recording the reception by the Emperor of China of the new German Minister at Peking, the Temps says he has been received I in the same hall as was the new British Minister, a building whither the French and Russian Ministers
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  • 605 3 A queer but circumstantial story is fold in the Paris Figaro about the French scientific expedition which not very long ago visited Penang, among other places in the Malay Peninsula. This expedition, as it turns out, was not due to a. mere passing caprice on the part
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  • 138 3 The “Great Eastern” Eclipsed. The s. s. Gigantic., the new White Starliner, now being built at Belfast by Messrs. Hat land A Wolff, is to be 700 ft. in length, surpassing the Great Eastern, by 20 ft. In breadth, however, the latter still holds the
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  • 548 3 Money’ in Calcutta is getting gradually but steadily scarcer, says a contemporary. The increase in the trade demand is about Rs. 36} lakhs, of which the 33 lakhs are due to a reduction in “other deposits.” This shows a fair demand for trading purposes, and
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  • 134 3 {Hongkong Telegraph.) Portuguese in Japan. A Japanese contemporary circulates a rurnonr current there to the effect that Setihor Borja, Portuguese Minister to Japan, has now demanded as an equivalent for the lost extra-territoriality rights the privilege of residence in the interior for Portuguese subjects. Bis application is supposed
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  • 783 3 Only to think that any man—in the daytime, with his eyes open, not beingcrazy and not wanting to commit suicide —should walk straight into a canal or a river 1 Only to think of that, I say I Yet a good many did
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  • 86 3 Expected. Date Nov. Names. From. Destination. Consignees. 2 G. G. van Lansberge Edie Singapore Huttenbach. Liebert i Co. 2 Vita Tongkah Tongkah Kopah Do. 2 Flintshire London S’pore, China Japan.. Boustead Co. 2 P. 0. Clijde Singapore Colombo London Gilfillan, Wood Co. 8 Wingsang Calcutta S’pore <t Hongkong S’pore,
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    • 798 3 NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Board of Licensing Justices will be held in the Ist Magistrate’s Chamber at 12 noon on Friday, the 3rd day of November, 1893, for the purpose of granting, renewing, or cancelling licenses. J. K. BIRCH, Penang, 30th October, 1893. Chairman,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 1141 4 Jnaurance' (hofices, M®LARTY COMPANY. NETHEHSOIj E Co., THE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION. CO N SULT I NG E^ R S, NAVAL- ARCH |TE C T S, fahquhar street, PENANG., SURVEYORS CON I RAC lORS. rpHE undersigned having been appointed SU pp|_Y ALL MACHINERY MATERIALS, FITTINGS, TOOLS, APPLIANCES AND STORES L Agents
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    • 416 4 Stationery, FOR OFFICE, ESTATE, STORE or PRIVATE USE, fOR SAI.K AT the PiriangGazetteOffice. I CCOUNT BOOKS_v, ri SRiw rATHOMH” c 4Bns Ball I’Ho<;ka.mmbs_i latest designs. fe Baskerville cabinft< 120 sheets Note P.p„ lopes. Best |ia|Jer h g demand. .<1.60 each 81 Blotting paper, white& red BIRTH CARDS, 6 its enH
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