Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 9 March 1894

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAIZ.7. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. \PMCt 20 CLNTB. VOL. LIL FRIDAY, MARCH 9. 1894. No. 55
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 622 1 pipping (Uottcea. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. T HE mail steamers may V'' a be ex P ec^e 4 arrive i outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Thames 18th Mar. Rosetta 9th Mar. Malto t Ist Apl. Ravenna 23rd Rosetta 15th Assam 6th Apl. Ganges
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    • 1489 1 Sfitpptna (Ibficee. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. -v t- > Ocean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. T e HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE. Intended SaiUnff and expected Arrival of Steamers. (One Million Sterling.) I Head Office: For Will sail Steamer From Expected on Nicholas Lane, Lombard
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    • 776 1 NEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ. (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 Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Peealongan. Pasaroean,
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  • 51 2 Mails close To-morrow. For Per str. Time Tongkah... Ngapoota 1 p.m. S’pore A Hongkong Kut Sang 2 p.m. Deli Ho Kwei 3 p.m. Pangkor A T. Anson Kwang Tung 3 p.m. Edie, Segli, T. Semawe, Oleldeh Padang Coen 3 p.m Edie, Segli, T. Semawe Oleldeh Hok Canton 5
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  • 247 2 Arrivals. To-day. s. s. Coen from Edie. B. I. s. s. Pundua from Singapore. Indo-Cliina s. s. Kut Sang from Calcutta. Y ESTERDAY. s. s. Azamor from Colombo. P. A O. s. s. Rosetta from Singapore. s. s. Wuotan do. s. s. 11. Halewyn from Asahan. s. s. Hole
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  • 70 2 Arrivals. To-day. Per s. s. Kwang Tung from T. Anson, Mrs. Woodgate and Mr. Caulfield. Per B. I. S. S. Pundua from Singapore, Mr. J. Ellerman. Yesterday. Per P. A O. steamer Rosetta from Singapore His Hon. Justice Gatty and Mr. J. N. Vanderbeck. Departures. Yesterday. Per P.
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  • 68 2 S4T^m>*v, 10th Town Rand. Golf Club. 11. E. the Governor leaves for Port Weld Siiniuv, 1 1 Til sth Sunday in Lent. Moniht. 12rit T< -n Band. Esplanade. A< rival of Chinese Squadron. To kmi.av, 13th Wkhnrhoa v, 1 Ini Town Band. Esplanade. Tiu ksiiay, 15th First Quarter
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  • 128 2 Pen a no, 9tji M arch, I8:H. Rates CLOSE AS FOLLOWS: London, Demand Bin k 2-| dol. Do. 4 months' sight, Bank 2 I Do. 3 Credits 24} Do. 3 Dociinvn' iry Calcutta, Demand Bink H» 171 Do. 30 days’sight Private Bombay, Demand Bink 171 Do. 30 days’ sight
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  • 70 2 4 Penang, 9m March, 1894. Tin $3795 l Trang 8.60 Black Pepper < West Coast.. 8.10 Acheen 7.30 White Pepper... 1290 Cloves (picked) 31.50 Mace No. I 90. Mace No. 2 72. Nutmegs 84. I No. 1 680 Sugar < 2... 4.50 firm Basket 4.05 sellers. Tapioca
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  • 52 2 London, Bth March. Baron Tweedmouth (D. C. Marjoribanks) has been appointed Lord Privy Seal with a seat in the Cabinet. .The Paine!lites have issued a manifesto stating that Mr. Gladstone’s resignation is the outcome of a scheme to shelve the Home Rule party who have no confidence in
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  • 178 2 The Straits Times of sth quotes a portion of our article, “A Banker’s Dollar,” published 28th February, so as to give the impression that we had departed from our view that, until we can get a bimetallic standard, we should adopt the gold one of the United Kingdom.
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  • 1250 2 H. M. S. Egeria, Commander Field, left the harbour, homeward bound, yesterday at midnight. Mr. W E. Gamble, Assistant Engineer Surveyor, left per P. it O. steamer Rosetta yesterday, for London. Mr. Henri Hinnekindt, one of the oldest residents of Singapore, died at Paris on the 4th inst. The
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  • 64 2 At a recent meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board among the Orders of the Day is the following:—Mr. Humphreys will move: —That the Board respectfully recommends to His Excellency the Governor its reconstruction upon a popular basis; I hat the Unofficial members be elected by the
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  • 116 2 An amateur detective is., said to have received a reward of $3,000 from Baron de Horn for recovering a large diamond ornament of his which he lost some time ago, valued at over $30,000. The persons implicated in the theft are said to be Europeans, and one
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  • 77 2 H. E. the Governor left this mm ning, at 9 a.m., for Nebong Tebal, in the Government steam launch Sea Bird. He was accompanied by the Hon. the Resident Councillor and the Senior District Officer Province Wellesley H. E. will visit Caledonia Estate at 12 15, and go
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  • 755 2 At the last annual general meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association it was proposed by a huge majority to adopt the system of handicapping by sixths, instead of the existing quarter system. A Mr. Butler, editor of a religious paper in Melbourne, woke up one morning to find himself
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  • 138 2 The Free Press says that Mr. J. B. Lee appears to be under a misapprehension as regaids the Military Contribution part of our Crown charges He thinks that this should be done through the medium of Crown Drafts, resembling Indian Council Bills and that
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 437 2 New Advertisements. WANTED AT ONCE. CAPABLE Chinese Storekeeper. Immediate engagement. Must be of good family and must furnish security 8 10,000. Apply “X,” 133 Pinang Gazette. NOTICE OF REMOVAL, TECH CHEOW CHEANG, Architectural Draughtsman, has removed from 143, Carnarvon Street, to No. 147, Acheen Street. 134 INDIAN ENGINEERING, An Illustrated
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    • 430 2 pritcljai'd Co., 75, BEACH STREET. TAILORING DEPARTMENT. DRESS COATINGS— Mohair Coatings, Brown Drabs and Greys. Tropical Cashmere Suitings. Tennis Flannels and Cashmeres. Cricketing Flannels and Serges, specially shrunk. Bedford Cords and Tweeds. Tennis Shirtings in Silk. Cashmere, and Ceylon Flannels. OUTFITTINGS Undervests in Merino Gauze Balbriggan. Knickerbockers Hose and 4
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    • 28 2 FOR SALE. VIEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft., on bromide paper. W. JONES, No. LC. King Street, Photographer.
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  • 168 3 While a marine police constable was doing duty at the New Jetty on Wednesday night, he was startled by a men sud denly plunging into the sea at the pier head. A Kling sampanman happening to be a few feet off was ordered by the constable to pick
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  • 500 3 On Sunday, the 25th, at Bukit Besar, Kulim, a C irist ian Chinese named Lye Kuan Hin, a gardener, supposing the husband was away entered the house of another Christian Chinese, a married man with one child, for the purpose, as he says himself, of borrow ing
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  • 132 3 The remarkable decision of the Third Magistrate, in discharging the master of the Flying Scud with a caution after its being proved that he had carried 68 passengers in excess of the number allowed by his certificate, is one that should have the attention of the Hon.
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  • 220 3 > W. Gibson retains the Championship. Yesterday evening saw the conclusion of the final ‘tie’ for the Championship between G. E. Cole and W. Gibson. There was a good attendance, which included H. E. the Governor and the Hon. Resident Councillor and Mrs. Skinner. At the
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  • 132 3 A Singapore contemporary recently not iced the case of a police corpor.il, w ho, after having taken the usual oath in the Magistrate’s Court, iefused to confirm it by swearing in the mosque. On learning this, the Magistrate evidently disbelieving him, dismissed the ease, and ordered a report to
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  • 179 3 dry weather has now lasted nearly a*hionth and the grass and trees aie parched up like straw and the heat at I he same time is unbearable. There is in contemplation a request to the of the various churches that prayers miiy be offered for
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  • 170 3 On Sunday the Chinese Consul-General paid a visit to the Chinese Admiral on board the Ting Yuen, and on leaving her received the usual salute. Admiral Ting, accompanied by his Secretary, returned the visit of the Chinese Consul-General the following day. His Excellency afterwards paid
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  • 217 3 The Postmaster-General in his annual report for 1893 says: —Without increasing the speed or the number of voyages of the existing steamers, but simply by making arrangements for suitable connections at the ports, it is practicable to establish a service with Europe via India,
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  • 236 3 The total receipts for 1893 under the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Fund stand at $25,899, the disbursements at $4,952, so that a total of $20,947 remained to be added to the balance from 1892, and the total to credit amounts to $117,349. The
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  • 60 3 (Selangor Government Gazette, 2nd March.) Leave. The leave granted to Mr. H. F. Bellamy, Deputy State Engineer, has been extended, with half salary, for tliieo months, with effect from 14th March. The leave granted to Mr. V. W. Van Rooyen, Clerk of Works, P.W.D., has been extended, with
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  • 422 3 Mr. C. 11. A. Turney, Senior District Officer, Kuala Lmgit, reports In reply to your Circular No. 6 of Lhe 29th ultimo, I have the honour to report for your information that the only foreign Malays in the District (Kuala Lang.it) engaged in planting arc about 82
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  • 574 3 SUMM ARY OF CHIN A NEWS. (China Mail, March Ist The foreign residents of Nanking have forwarded a petition to ti e Ministers at I Peking wit h reference to tie Sungpu case, in the course of which they state they wish to record their high appreciation of the pains
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 1418 3 No 440 n, Chulia Street, FA ANFFA FA jPy r\ Silver and Gold Plating Guaranteed. -Lz XA. 11 1-z V 7 Ov U. REPAIRING SEWING MACHINES, BICYCLES, MUSICAL TAILORS Town Surveyor Wanted, S. 8,, K. Lumpur. A IMPLICATIONS, with testimonials, will -A-USY-I ijL be received by the Chairman, Sanitary s
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 1528 4 3"»”“” NETHERSOLE Co., ■«■»»>* FABQ no.™, j j I *l*l G 8 The Federal Marine Insurance Company. Ttjtp 1 ji i •x j Ani ,ee t at each ar bear 9 Baroa Liebig’» Signature I®VaH HE undersigned having been appointed in Bl no ink *nrn*« the T.nhal 4 Agents for
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    • 490 4 HEIDSIECK CO.’S CHAMPAGNE Monopole, “red seal,” (Medium Dry). Monopole Sec, “red foil,” (Dry). Sole Agents SCHMIDT KUSTERMANN Co., 443 Penang. TIVOLI BEER! I TIVOLI BEER!! TIVOLI BEER!!! Non Plus Ultra “EAGLE IN WHITE GLASS BOTTLES, Light, Sparkling and Wholesome. PRONOUNCED TO BE THE BEST BEER YET IMPORTED IN THE COUNTRY.
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