Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 March 1896

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.} ESTABLISHED 1833. [/WCF 20 CENTB. VOL. LIV. TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1896. No. 56.
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      588 1 (Hotter Oriental Steam t X legation Company. S' I 'HE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. pehawur Mar. 13 i Mirzapore Mar. 19 Pekin, 27 I Rosett Apr. 2 Ravenna Apr. 11 Kaisar-i-hind 16 Mirzapore 24 Peshawur 30
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      1479 1 SRtemntr BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,—(LTD.). BANKS. a 7 KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai BankOcean Steam Ship Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Corporation. HOLT’S WEEKLY LINE Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. I Paid-up Capital ..$10,000,000. Tk Reserve Fund $5,750,000. jqkam a t, Reserve Liability op Proprietors $10,000,000. For
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      634 1 I «miILARDSt/iS HAUIIEI. fiUTSCIiAITIL (Netherland Trading Society.» Established 1824. Paid-up Capital J 35,78.!.(m-i■ Reserve Funds J 2,216,***** Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India. The Factorij of the Nedorlandsclie Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches.—Singapore Medan (Deli), Samaraiig, Sourabaia, Padang, Chcribon, Tegal, Pecalongan. Pasaroean, and Tjiiatjap. London Bankers.—The
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    118 2 Penang, 10th March, 1896. Tin $31.50 sellers. {Trang small supply. West Coast... 9.70 seller's. Acheen 6tb 10.60 do. White Pepper 13.60 do. Cioxes (picked) 30. do. Mace No. 1 84. sellers. Mace Pickings 74. do. Nutmegs 80. do. No. 1 7. do. Sugar 2 4.10 do. Basket
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    EXCHANGE.
    128 2 Penang. 10th March. 1896. Rates close as follows: Loudon. Demand Bank 2 2; Do. 4 months' sight Bank 22/ Do. 3 Credit 2/3-1/16 Do. -3 Documentary 231 Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. 181 Do. 3 days' sight Private 183 J Bombay, Demand Bank 181 Do. 3 days' sight Private 183
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    106 2 Mails close To-morrow. For Per »tr. Time. Klang Deli 1 p.m. Pangkor Teluk Anson Betsy 2 p.m. Rangoon Sirdhana 3 P.M. Teluk Anson Ladg Weld 3 P.M. Deferred Departure. Singapore China J apan Energia 2 P.M. Thursday, 12th. Deli Avagyee 3 P.M. Madras. Ac., taking mails for Europe.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    72 2 MAILS TO A RRIVE. From Rangoon:—By the B. I. s. s. Baghdad to-day and the B. I. s. s. Purnea tomorrow. From Singapore —By the s. s. Calypso to-morrow the B. I. s. s. Secundra on Thursday and the 8. s. Maha Vajirunhis on Saturday. From Edie:—By the s. s.
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    SHIPPING.
    336 2 Arrivals. To-day. s. s. A’/u/ii from Hamburg. Y ESTERDAY. 8. s. Energia from Liverpool. 8. s. Wingsang from Singapore. Departure». To-day. h. h. Marg Austin for Klang. s. h. Petrel for Tongkah. h. h. Lungkat for Deli. h. h. Taw Tong for Pangkor and T. Anson. s. s. Peru
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    PASSENGER LIST.
    56 2 PassmreH Bookc I For Loudon. The following have booked their passages for London 11 th Per a.». Myrmidon for Liverpool: Mi-s. Anderson and three children. Mrs. Bowen and three children. Mi's. Sumerfield and child. 14th Per P. A O s s. Borneo for London:— Miss Ward. Mrs. (iilison.
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    WEATHER REPORT.
    67 2 Tnkvii nt Prison Hospital Observatory. 9th March, 1896. 9 a.m. 3 p.m. 9 P.M. Bar. red. 32 Fah. 29.930 .786 .910 Temperature 83.5 84.5 79. Wet Bulb Thermometer 77. 80.2 78 Max. Temp, in shade 95. Min. do. do. 76. Max. in Sun 155. Terr, rad Ther 72'8
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    140 2 1 Tuesday. I<>th Parsec Theatre. King Street. 9 p. m. High water at New Jetty, 8-23 a.m and <B-50 P.M. Wednesday, 11th Parsee Theatre, King Street, 9 p. m. Town Band, Esplanade, 5 p. m. Diphthong Minstrel and Dramatic Troupe of H. M S. ASolus,"
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAM.
    93 2 LUN DON. 9th March, ImM5. Italy anti Abyssinia. Riiftsian Fund for wounded Shoa». New Italian Ministry. Confereuie between Kus-ia and Germany on the Situation. General Baldissera has cabled that the situation is not desperate: he has thirty thousand men. The Russian newspaper, the A’o/'o J reiHi/a, has opened
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    LOCAL.
    669 2 We hear that Mr. Justice Leech will return to Singapore by the mail on Friday. Mr. F. A. Swettenham. c.m.g., and Mr. W. H. Treacher, c.m.g., are expected to leave England for the Straits next inuuth. H. M. S. -Eolux will probably leave on Mmidav next for Singapore. On
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    POSTPONEMENT OF THE ASSIZES.
    962 2 No Registrar in the Settlement. The Assizes were opened this morning before Mr. Justice Law. There was a large attendance of Europeans and Natives, and the Bar was strongly represented. The Acting Deputy Registrar, Mr, Garrard, called the first case. The defendant, a Kling named Saininadan,
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS
    109 2 [From our Correspondents SINGAPORE. 10th March. The Teresa is safe. The jo j-i LU «Ji?M er ana iaponduus are total wrecks KUALA LUMPUR. 10th March. Three hundred coffee trees j n blossom on Mr. Hislop Hill’s estate in Klang were maliciously cut down on Sunday night: no clue
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    TO-MORROW'S PERFORMANCE.
    206 2 (To the Editor of the Pinanr Gazette") Dear Sir,—The paragraph in yourvrg. terday’s issue, reminding your readers of the |>erforman<e to lie given by the Diphthong Troupe of H. M. S. “JEolus,” in the Town Hall to-morrow night, will, I trust fortheir sakes, have the desired effect and
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    THE OLD COMPLAINT.
    252 2 (To the Editor of the "Pinang Gazette") Dear Sir, —In sheer despair I write to you with a view that the pre per officials may take steps to have some of (he dogs in Burmah Road, near its junction with Lanit Road, destroyed. Night after night the
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    "GAZETTE” NOTIFICATIONS.
    230 2 (March 6th.) The Netherlands India Government has declared Hongkong to be an infected pmrt. The Hon’ble Major H. E. McCallum, r.e., c.m.g., Colonial Engineer and SurveyorGeneral, Straits Settlements, has been granted leave of absence, with half salary. f ,ir eight months to lie taken after two nionihs aud
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      163 2 pritchard Co. I Are now shewing A LARGE RANGE OF THE LATEST DESIGNS OF Fashionable Heavy Tweeds Specially selected by Mr. PRITCHARD for wear in Europe. Also A LARGE STOCK OF TROPICAL TWEEDS, TROPICAL CASHMERE SUITINGS, TENNIS FLANNELS, &C. White Mat Oxford Tennis Shirts. Brown Oxford Walking Shoes, 56.50, in
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      361 2 New advertisements. WANTED AT ONCE. 4 European Assistant fur Provision Department. Apply to PRITCHARD A Co.. 147 Penang. NOTICE. t MEETING of the J VSTICEH OF THE Peace will be held at the Ist Magistrate’s Chamber, at 3.30 p in on Wednesday, the 18th instant, for the purpose of nominating
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    THE ASSIZES.
    237 3 Two more cases have been added to the calendar for this Assizes, making in all 24 cases. The following is the list: 1. Letchumanan. Murder, —from last Assises. 2. Saminathan. Murder, —from last Assizes. 3. Brahim, —Receiving stolen property (re-trial.) 4. Lim Tak, —Voluntarily causing hurt (re-trial.) 5.
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    SINGAPORE NEWS.
    362 3 (From our Contemporaries.) H. E. the Governor has telegraphed from Penang to the Italian Consul at Singapore expressing his great sympathy with Italv in the grief in which that country has been involved by her losses in Africa. Mr. W. Nanson goes home by the Borneo. It seems
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    ROUGH ON JAPAN IF TRUE.
    210 3 A rumour is current among the Chinese, says the Peking and Tientsin Timet, that the Chinese Government will repudiate the Shimoneseki Treaty, —practically, that no more instalments of the Indemnity will be paid. It is stated that the Russian Government is getting alarmed at the
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    PERAK IN NUBIBUS!
    141 3 -Perak Pioneer. The Singapore and Strait» Directory gives the following as the number of ladies at the end of 1895 in the places named: Singapore 342 Perak 112 Selangor 75 Penang 60 British North Borneo 26 Negri Senibilan 25 Sarawak 17 Malacca 15 Johor Bharu 10 Pahang
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    SELANGOR NEWS.
    249 3 (Selangor Journal, 6th March.) No case of cholera has occurred in Klang or in any other part of Selangor. The Right Reverend Bishop Hose will visit Selangor on 20th March, and will stay in Kuala Lumpur over the Sunday, 22nd March (Passion Sunday). The total railway revenue collected
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    GENERAL.
    467 3 Dr. Julius von Madarasz, Director of the Museum at Buda Pest, Hungary, is reported to have had a very successful tour in Ceylon, where he collected several botanical and other specimens which are not mentioned in any works on Natural History. The consulting engineer to the Colombo Tramway Co.
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    A CAUTION TO THE JURY.
    545 3 Upon the subject of hypnotism the American people, under the influence of Mr. Du Manner’s heroine, have recently gone very mad but it might have been hoped that this temporary state of mental aberration would have had no effect on the administration of the law.
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    AN OFFICIAL BARD.
    482 3 To the inventive genius of M. Lockroy, the French Minister of Marine, is due the brilliant idea of appointing what may be called an official minstrel to the Navy. M. Lockroy has, it seems, observed with concern that the sailor of the present day has “no heart
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    THE TRANSVAAL.
    1422 3 Latest Defails. W e give below the latest information' contained in the home telegrams sent to Australian papers:— Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Chamberlain. London, Feb. B.— The Times publishes this morning a long statement concerning the interview between the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain and the Right Hon. Cecil
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      381 3 PENANG SALES ROOM. AUCTION SALE. The undersigned is instructed to sell by Public Auction On Friday 13th, and Saturday 14th instant, All the Valuable Household Furniture, comprising Almirahs, Tables, Sideboards, Ac., Ac., Cutlery, Electro-plate, Crockery, Piano, Traps, Horses, Harness, Ac., At Inverparit." Northam Road. The Property of Dr. T. S.
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      573 3 TOWN HALL, PENANG, Wednesday, lltli March, 1896. DIPHTHONG MINSTREL AND DRAMATIC TROUPE OF H. M. S. “tEOLUS.” PROGRAMME. Part First. THE PIERROTS. Overture by the Band. Comic En- A life on the Messrs. Fost rance of Ocean Wave ter A McClowns. Gonigal. Song The Torpedo’and the Whale Mr. Johns. Song
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      2239 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST. To be had at M. B M .™EAN I cH I EE r r“'. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 SOLE IMPORTERS— KATZ BROTHERS HIN LEE Co. HARNESS!!! HARNESS!!! rabe martin, THE
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      139 4 D. GRAHAM CO? Wholesale Druggists Many, factoring Chemists, are prepared to supply Government Hospitals. Disp®. saries, and Estates, WITH Chemicals, Disinfectants Surgical Instruments, PatenMedicines, AND ALL KINDS OF Toilet and Nursery Requisites. Indent'* sent off by return steamer. We can recommend our Specialities Inv a luable fur ESTATES Fever Mixture,
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