Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 18 April 1896

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED PATT/V- N£W SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTB. VOL. LIV. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1896. No. 88.
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      580 1 ‘’FF 5 Qto t ics 6 tyiinsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. <7rs. r |'HE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Apr. 24 Peshawur 30 .’if,, May 10 I Pekin May 14 tr-i-kind 24 1 Ravenna 28 !ie ir
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      1488 1 S6wmna (Tlofices. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY—(LTD.). banks. 3 V 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 Steamera. Paid-up Capital $10,000,000. ~lr— Reserve Fund $5,750,000. > nr a ra_ ra RESERVE LIABILITY OP
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      543 1 HEDERLAKDSUIE HANDEL UAATSCHAPHJ. (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,0('C Reserve Funds /2,216,514.01 Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nedeiiandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap London Bankers.—The Union
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    EXCHANGE.
    123 2 Penang, 18th Apbil, 1896. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 2/2> Do. 4 months’sight Bank 2/2< Do. 3 Credit 2/2J Do. 3 Documentary... 2/2 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 186 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 190 Bombay, Demand Bank 186 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 190 Madras, Demand Bank
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    120 2 Penang, 18th April, 1896. Tin $3l. sellers. S Trang small supp’y. West Coast 9.70 sellers. Acheen 6tt> 10.75 do. White Pepper 13.75 do. Cloves (picked) oat of season. Mace No. 1 80. sellers. Mace Pickings 65 de. Nutmegs $77 Chinese Packed do. No. 1 7._ do. Sugar
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    94 2 Mails close on Monday. Par Per atr. Time. Langkat Fook Ching 11 a.m. Pangkor <k T, Anson Canton 2 P.M. Olehleh Vidar 2 P.M. The 8.l S.N. Co.'s s s Baghdad with the mails from Europe left Rangoon at 8 a. m. on Thursday, ami may be expected
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    57 2 From Singapore—(s. s. Cheang Chew) tomorrow s. s Calypso on Monday and s. s. Elektra on Tuesday. From Liverpool— (s. s. Charon) today From Rangoon—(s. s. Baghdad) tomorrow. From Deli—(h. s. Bandjermassin) on Monday. From Olehleh—(s s. Maetsuycker) on Monday. I rom Hamburg (s. s. Hertha) on
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    88 2 LONDON. 17th April, 1K96. The Transvaal. A Times telegram from Johannesburg says the Transvaal troops are being armed to the teeth. Cape Colony. The first Middlesex body of mounted infantry are going to the Cape. It has been decided to permanently increase the garrison at the Cape. The
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    462 2 Twenty-right pilgrims for Jeddah arrived this moruiug per s. s. Nestor from Singapore. Four hundred and twenty-four deck passengers arrived by the B. I. steamer Nerbudda from Singapore. The mail despatched from Penang to London, via Brindisi, on the 19th ultimo was delivered on the 13th instant.
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    SMALL-POX AT PALEMBANG.
    98 2 Fourteen days’ Quarantine Imposed. Information having been received that a contagious disease, namely small-pox, exists in Palembang, it is declared by the Governor that the port of Palembang is infected. Under the Regulations made by the Governor in Council, under The Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance,
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    GOLF.
    305 2 We have received a letter complaining of the hazards recently put up on the ladies’ links. Our answer will be found in the following extracts from Golf of 6th March, which the Captain must have been studying. The simple reason is to improve your play, my dears. The idiosyncrasy
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    ACHEEN WAR.
    391 2 {Deli Courant.) Batavia, 11th April. The Ist and 4th battalions in garrison in Middle Java are kept ready to start for Acheen. 13th April. According to a telegram from Kota Radja, the 3rd, 14th and the 9tb battalions, with two batteries of mountain artillery, and a corps of
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    THE MICROBE.
    188 2 —Canadian Magazine. Your microbe meets me everywhere No chink noi crevice, brain nor bone, But he has seized, and revels there, A king of undisputed throne. Around my porridge bowl he skips My ham is honey-combed all through He whets his fangs and smacks his lips When smelling
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    SPECIAL
    70 2 (From our Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. 18th A°ril. Lim Kim Lee has been to one year’s rigorous i m r j." ment. TELUK ANSON. 18th April. The shipments to-day are.—. To Penang, 1,057 piku|» of To Singapore, 3,728 Ui Off KLANG. 181 h April. No shipments to-day. 17th April. The
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    PASSENGER LIST.
    19 2 Arrivals. Per B. I. s. s. Nerbudda from Sin. s Mr. Durler, Captain Buller, and Mrs. Bq,:
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    92 2 Saturday, 18th Cricket Match Esplanade B R r P, R. C. n 1 High water at New Jetty, 4-51 A M 5- p.m. Sunday, 19th Second Sunday after Easter. High water at New Jetty, 5-44 v 6- p.m. 441 Monday, 20th Town Band. Esplanade, 5
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    SIXTY YEARS OF PROGRESS
    1563 2 A Glowing Review of the Queen's Reign. By next autumn, if all goes well, H-’ Majesty will have reigned longer than am previous British monarch. The vear whirs is to be thus honoured is therefore op ix in the Edinburgh Review with an arficK the reign
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      867 2 New Advertisements. ff TOLET. f-M T)REMISES No. 5, Perak Road, x > Jl Apply to ENG JOO Co., I J 211 47, Beach Street. H~ NOTICE. JO i H 8— t DO hereby give notice that I shall not 8 1 be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife
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      225 2 EXPRESS NOTICE. The Aerated Water Co.,l’enang. Works 50, Cantonemenl Road, Pnlo Tikns. Proprietor A RCHI BALD KEN N EDY. Telegraphic Address ARCHIBALD—PENANG Great increase of the A. P. K. Aerated Water Trade. All our Machinery being In excellent order. Patronize your own Local Manufactory. Ask for A. P. K. and
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    THE CURRENCY DEBATE.
    1085 3 (L. C. Express, March 20.) Recorded superficially, the successive debates in Parliament on the currency question do not appear to carry the matter much nearer a solution. The House acquiesced last year in an expression of apprehension at the fluctuations and divergence between the relative values of
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    THE CHANCE FOR CHINA.
    210 3 In the Monist, Dr. Carus begins an elaborate investigation into Chinese philosophy, illustrated with Chinese characters and pictures, in which he deplores the pitiable plight of the Empire and people, but observes Nevertheless, there is at the foundation of the Chinese civilisation and of the Chinese
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    RUSSIA IN THE FAR EAST.
    854 3 In a series of articles on The Nation’s Awakening the Morning Post, in considering the position of Russia, writes:— Russia is to find a warm harbour in the Pacific. For what purpose It cannot be an outlet for Russian trade, for the whole breadth of
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    DEGREES FOR WOMEN.
    545 3 (New Age.) The burning question whether women may be permitted to take degrees at Oxford and Cambridge or no, must shortly be decided, and meanwhile there is, of course, much excitement among the and much disturbance among the menkind. In the case of Oxford, the final discussion
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    MARKET PRICES.
    166 3 Penang, I#th April, 1896. Central Market. Description. Beef— cts. Soup per catty 8 Boast 18 Steaks 18 Stew or Curry Meat 14 Rump Steak 18 Ox Tail each 15 Tongue 35 Feet '0 Heart per catty 20 Tripe 8 Liver 16 Pork Pork Pig’s Head each 22 Feet
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    SHIPPING.
    144 3 Arrivals. To-day. B. I. s. s. Nerbudda from Singapore, s. s. Breconshire from London. Yesterday. s. a. Fitzpatrick from Rangoon. s. s. Nestor from Singapore. s. s. Langkat from Deli s. 8. R. Haleywn from Asahan. s. s. Betsy from Teluk Anson. 8. s. Sauitwongsee from Asahan. s. 8.
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    Expected.
    139 3 Apr. 19 B. I. s. s. Baghdad from Rangoon for Rangoon, Huttenbach, Liebert Co. 20 D. D. R. s. s. Hertha from Hamburg for Singapore China and Japan, S. Kustermann Co. 20 s. s. Mactsuycker from Olehleh for Olehleh and Panang, Huttenbach, Liebert Co. 20 s. s. Telena from
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      699 3 NOTICE. MR. ADOLF LOOSER is authorized to sign our Firm per procuration from this date. SCHMIDT, KUSTERMANN Co. Penang, 19th March, 1896. 165 NOTICE. VIEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft. on bromide paper. W. JONES, No. 10, King Street. Photographer.
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      344 3 PERAK GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, I'HE services of two Land Demarcation Officers are required by the Government of Perak. The appointments are provisional and temporary and do not carry with them anv pension rights. The salaries attached to them will be slooand $lOO per mensem respectively’, and in addition thereto there will
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      2165 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST. To be had at Messrs. THEAN CHEE t K Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 J I fiends. SOLE importers— KATZ brothers HIN LEE Co. THE DISPENSARY, 'Ift&UVMCt only Medicine of the
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      187 4 notice. WE beg to inform our customers that w e have been appointed Sole Agents in Penang for Messrs. Sheabin Cawnpore Leather Works, and have for sale their Cob Harness, brown leather brass mounted at $25 per set. We have ako regular supplies of English 1 Harness from the best
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