Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 4 March 1896

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DjML’Z’. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS- VOL. LIV. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1896. No. 51.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 558 1 Peninsular Oriental Steam Company. f I'HE mail steamers may be c 'tsrC HB expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Pehawur Mar. 13 j Barenna Mar. 6 Pekin 27 I Mirzapore 19 Ravenna Apr. 11 i Rosett Apr. 2 Mirzapore 24 The above
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    • 1735 1 afimmnu 01oft«g BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,—(LTD.). 1 banks. FF a 1 KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai BankOcean Steam Ship Company.' NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. in Corporation. HOLT'S WEEKLY LINE Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. Paid-up Capital $10,000,000. Reserve Fund $5,750,000. Reserve Liability op Proprietors $10,000,000. 1 For
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    • 349 1 NEDKRLANDSI/;E HAKHEL KIATHEAIii’. (Netherland Trading Society.’ Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783.0°t' Reserve Fum>s R.216,5141'1 Head Offh e in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India- The Factorij of the Nederlandache Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies «nd Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samaiang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalougan. Pasaroean, and Tjiiatjap. London Bankers.—The
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  • 123 2 Penang, 4th March, 1896. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 2/2i Do. 4 months’sight Bank 2!2; Do. 3 Credit 2/24 Do. 3 Documentary 2 3 Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. I'o Do. 3 days' sight Private IS3A Bombay. Demand Bank Iso Do. 3 days’ sight Private 183’. Madras, Demand
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  • 118 2 Penang, Ith March. 1896. Tin 531.80 sellers. (Trang small supply-. Black Pepper West Coast 9.70 sellei-s. (Acheen 6lt> lo tto do. White Peppe: 13.60 do. Cloves ipieked) 30.- do. Mace No. 1 •'I. sellers. Mace Pickings 7t do, Nutmegs so. do. No. 1 7. do. Sugar „2
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  • 58 2 Mails clone To-morrow for /’•*<• s/r. Time. Deli I.ttngka! 1 P.M. Sin_'api>ii‘ A China Ntimyong 2 n.M. The horn -ward P. A O. st -aiuer Rare.ma will leave Singapore at 7 p. m. today. The mail despatched from P<*nang to London. rt* Brindisi, on the 7th ultimo shotlid
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  • 82 2 From Rangoon: By the B. 1. s. s. Putiflua t i-day. From <»i.ehi,! H Bv the s. Maha Vujii uthi.. to-niorrow and the s. s. R- ael on Monday. From Colombo By the s. s. Elektrv tomorrow. From Singapore. By tl-.e P. A 0. s. s. lia
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  • 261 2 IrrhnU. To-day. s. s. tii’lj' i'i LiuitM from Singuj>ore. s. s. Naiiii/'aiii from Sin ~ap< re. s. s. Canton from Te’uk Anson YESIEItDAt s. s. Go > t Lin'k from Klang. s. s. Fhjhiij Ih.i from Port Weld. s. s. Flying Finh from Port Weld. Prpart nt <•-. To-day.
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  • 108 2 Wednesday. 4th P. C. C. Lawn Tennis Tournament. sfp.ni. Town Band. Esplanade. 5 p. tn High water at New Jetty, 3-05 A.M and 3-32 p.M. L Thursday. sth Town Band. Data Kramat Garden •’> p. in. High water at New Jetty. 3-58 a.m. and 1-25
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  • 86 2 LONDON. 3rd March, 1896. Italian Defeat in Abyssinia. King Menelik's army repulsed a combined attack imide by the Italians after a desperate battle. The Italians retreated and lost sixty guns. Three Generals are missing and one is wounded. It is reported that General Baratieri has committed suicide. 'There
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  • 718 2 Much is now beiug writtcu both in the Fr< n<-b nml English newspapers about the acquisition by France of further b-rritory be- twe.'ti the Mekong uid the Meiiam rivers, and a <■ >um- jU'-tif diversion on the part of England to acquire the remaining part of
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  • 407 2 W E plead guilty to the charge of having recently given some very necessary and seasonable advice, tak-n from that wise saw “The Moralist,” with reference to the rash and dangerous habit some of our Jehus have adopted in driving, we believed more from ignorance
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  • 532 2 A cricket match has been arranged to be played next Saturday on the Esplanade, beiween the Penang Cricket Club and the Penang Recreation Club. Lady Mitchell, accompanied by Capt. Herbert, returned from Perak yesterday evening per colonial steam yacht Sea Belle. On landing Lady Mitchell and party
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  • 51 2 I* ROM OUR CORRKJPONDEX ly KUALA LUMPUR. 4th March. Three thousand acres of land r’] d by auction in Klang ast Veaf have been abandoned, pending the Government carrying out pr Oper drainage provisions. TP LUK ANSON. +th March. The shipments to-day are .To Penang, 820 pikuls of
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  • 561 2 In the Supreme Court yesterday, it understood that the occasion was the last gq which the Registrar, Mr. J. A. Hanu,.,,] would attend before taking up his newoffi, e of Solicitor-General, the whole of the officers of the Registry assembled in his in the afternoon
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  • 293 2 Neu-e. The question of defence is one to which both the Mother Country and the Colonies are just now devoting special attention Australia, we are glad to see. has taken another step towards unity of aim as the result of a Military Conference in
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 600 2 V Cn NEW ADVERTmEMENTS. pflbCh&fll UO. PENANG SALES ROOM. AUCTION SALE. Are now shewing The imdcrsigued is iiistiucted to -<•]! by Public Auction A LARGE RANGE OF THE LATEST On Friday 13th, and Saturday 14th instant, DESIGNS OF All the Valuable Household Furniture, Fashionable Heavy Tweeds I Euglishimuiv Imirahs. Tables,
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  • 253 3 The manifesto of Prince Ferdinand to the Bulgarian nation, read on Feb. 4 in the Sobrauje, announces that, on Feb. 14, Prince jjoris, the Heir Apparent, would be formally admitted to the Orthodox Church by the administration of the rite of Holy Confirmation to Prince
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  • 332 3 The following details have been received at the Foreign Office A brilliant action has been fought by Lieut. Edward Alston against the powerful Chief Mwasigungu, living in the country west of Lake Nyassa, who, having formed a confederacy with other slave-dealing chiefs, had closed’
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  • 1156 3 By a Jungly Collector. (Adapted from the Pioneer.”) We leave our readers to fill up the spaces. -Ed. P. The theorv of predestination is a very interesting subject and one on which I have often proposed to myself to write. One of the most curious circumstances about us
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  • 2049 3 Corpl. Granville-Harcourt Relates His Experiences. (Times of Ceylon.) There arrived a day or two ago in Colombo from Delagoa Bay via Galle a gentleman in the uniform of the South African Chartered Company’s Force, aud whose name is C. Granville-Harcourt. He was one of
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 310 3 TO LET. HOUSE No. 4, Penang Road, formerly the Penang Recreation Club-house, also House No. 6, Penang Road. Entry Ist March. 25 Apply to MAHOMED ARIFF. WANTED. A CHINESE INTERPRETER. Must be able to read and write English and Chinese, and speak three out of the four following dialects, Hokkien,
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    • 1156 3 NOTICE. D GRAHAM CO., Mr. e. Tadevich undertakes to repair Wholesale Druggists ManuGuns, Revolvers, Bicycles, Sewing rkomicie Machines, Musical Instruments, Browning laciUrlng vncmiSUS, of Gun-barrels, &c. Good workmanship are prepared to supply guaianteid. road. Government Hospitals, Dispenfor sale. saries, and Estates, AAA STRAITS SETTLEMENTS r O.VvU Eight Cents Yellow Stamps,
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  • 600 4 REVISED PROGRAMME OF SPRING MEETING, 1896. TO BE HELD March sth and 7th, 1896. FIRST DAY. Ist Race. The Maiden Plate. —Value $2OO. For Maidens: —all Horses that have never won a race on any Course- Griffin, Jump and Roadsters’ Races excepted. Weight per scale. Distance R.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 142 4 L BUCHANAN WHISKY >q T’XJ'C’ Kt'C’Q’T (Houses of Parliament.) JmM JbkJt JL. To be had at M S ™».™L?cHEE F r“'. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GUAT CHENG BROS. 11 >7O. S'™ feSnds. SOLE IMPORTERS— KA.TZ BBOPHa. HIN LEE Co.
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    • 1554 4 Tngurance dloticee. Snuurance (Tloftcee. of Japan The Royal Insurance Co. TniT FT MarineJnsurance. it KbSHf 1 The Federal Marine Insurance Company. A F H redn<,t lon T 4MBSB Appreciated for its delicate perfume and the feeling of comfort 1 rpHl un(JftrHignt d having been appointed A Life Rates is announced,
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    • 127 4 H. J. t/jartgi], SOLE IMPORTERS. feG-H-MiiffiDid I■_ Cha?4pag.’;e 1 It ALWAYS AT THE TOP' /If. importation in the U.S., I Ip in 1894 jdozen Botiig K* jt.lr; s>r. E» lf Mununt' Lucas Bol’s OlalD gin. Van Straalen Monsiem and Erkelens’ CLARETS, HOCKS, H GUNDIES, Regular Shipments of HARTS’ HORSEFCII. 11..1.
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