Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 12 October 1896

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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE CENTS. VOL. LIV. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1896. No. 224.
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      565 1 Oriental Steam Navigation Company. qiHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive out- KbQx wards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates "outwards. Homewards. Oct. 24 l Rohilla Oct. 15 (nn ;.Hind Nov. 6 Pekin 29 21 Mirzapore Nov. 12 ~Ua Dec. 4 Khedive 26 18 Ravenna Dec. 10
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      1622 1 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY-(LTD.). banks. s KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shansi Bank0 C e A a N stSn MEF NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. ing Corporation. SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. CiPlT4t jio.wo.ooo wt) 1 i Reserve Fund 6,00U,000. Reserve Liability of Proprietors $10,000,000. NEDERLANDSCHE
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      562 1 «BDKKLAHDSLat; HANOKL HAAISChiPHJ (Netherland Trading Society.), Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000. Reserve Funds f 2,282,814.38| Hbad 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, Pecalongan. Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London Bankers.—The
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    EXCHANGE.
    115 2 Penang. I.’th October. H'l Rates close .as follows: London. Demand Bank 2 'H Do. 4 months'sight Bank 2/18 Do. o Credit... Do. 3 Documentary... Calcutta, Demand Bank R«. 178 Do. 3 days'sight Private 180 Bombay, Demand Bank 178 Do. 3 dAya’sight Private Madras, Demand Bank 177 J Do. 3
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    142 2 Penang, 12th October H' Tin 831.20 seller*. (Trang out of season. West Coast... I' 60 xeJer-i A<‘heen 611* 12 50 do. White Pepne: 16. do. Cloves (picked).. .mt o’ season. Mace No. 1 «“Her-. Mace Pickings 65 do. Nutmegs 68 00 do. (No. I -5> d* Sugar
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    62 2 Mails close To-morrow I'or Per str. Time. Klang Perse ...11 am. Deli Avarjyee 1 P.M Klang Taw Tony 1 P.M. Pangkor A Teluk Anson Mary Austin 2 P.M. Trang Artsadony 2 p.m. Olehieh Ophir 4 pm. Singapore and China Tetartos 5 P.M. The homeward P. O s. s.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    33 2 From Negapatam—s s Secundra to-day. From Sngapore—s. s. Hony to-day, s. s. Calypso s. s. I'umlua on Wednesday, and s. s. Bisayno on Thursday. From Rangoon—s. s. Pew tajto/n to-morrow.
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    REUTERS TELEGRAM.
    577 2 LONDON, 11th October, 1896. The Czar. The Czar has gone to Darmstadt. Lord ttosbery on the Situation. Lord Rosebery, in a speech at Edinburgh, said that he felt unable to sacrifice the interests of the country to personal ambition. He therefore resigned the leadership Of the Liberal party,
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    DOMESTIC OCCURRENCE.
    22 2 BIRTH. Sumerfield.—On 101 li inst., at Laurel Bank, Stretford, near Manchester, the wife of Thos. H. Sumerfield of a daughter.
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    983 2 The Dutch gunboat Albatros arrived here yesterday from Pulo Way. The homeward P. O. steamer Rohilla is expected to leave Singapore at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. A Malay named Chee committed suicide on Saturday last, by cutting his throat in premises No. 505, Penang Road. The examination
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    34 2 (From, ouk Correspond» N k TELUK ANSON. 12th October. The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 10th October. The shipments on Thursday w er To Penang, 158 pik„l s of lo Singapore, 431
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    CRICKET.
    238 2 Lieut. Leach’s XI p ERAK This long looked forward to n a t h commenced on Friday punttuallv at 2 Fox and Voules starting the hat’ii. A P about a quarter of an h<>ur the rain’ to fall, and continuing dm in» |I IP stopped all play for the
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    OPIUM.
    58 2 Three hundred and twentv chests of Opium (260 Benan-8 and 60 Patna) were importe«l into Penang during September. The exports for the month were p follows Mala yan Peninsula West 129 4 8 Selangor 17 Siam West Coast :U’i »o Acuiuene ports 12 Sumatra ex< lusive of Acbeen 40
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    SINGAPORE NEWS.
    228 2 (From our Contemporaries.) Lady Mitchell leaves on Saturday in the Sea Belle for Tanjmig Kling. She will lie accompanied by the Hon’ble J A Swettenham, Colonial Secretary, aud the H>»n’ble E. E. Isemotiger will also be a passenger by the Sea Belle. Rumour at Hongkong has it that
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    PASSENGERS.
    57 2 Arrivals. Tod-ay. Per s. s. Flying Fish from Port Weld: me (’ricketers aud 18 Soldiers. Yesterday Per s. s. Avagyee fr m Deli: Messrs. TiipF Banchi, Alma and Albertie. p) Per s. s. Ajax from Jeddah Messrs l and Roscoe. Saturday, 10th. Per s s. Thaining from Port Weld:
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    97 2 Monday, 12th (Town Band, Esplanade. 5- p 111 Sale of Launches at 4a. Beach Sale of Jewellery, &c.. at 56, Beach L j High water at New Jetty, 4-51 a»5- p.m. Tuesday, 13th CfTrf t. .Sale of Jewellery, Ac., at 56. Beach < First Quarter
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      645 2 •jx »1 1 1 A NEW ADVERTISEMENT, r ritcnara to. sales r m AUCTION SALE. J^-tlJnsr-A.3ST Gr. Important to Engineers, Planters, Contractors, and others. The undersigned is instructed to sell by Public Auction On Tuesday, the 20th October, At No. 30, BEACH STREET, S if W Il Turbines, Boring Tools,
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      154 2 BROWN CO., Monumental Sculptors, 42, BENTINCK STREET. CALCUTTA, [Established A. D. 1852 All works under European Supervision. Done in Italian Marble, Aberdeen. Granite, and Chunar Stone. Name sinhs for fixing on gates or otherwise from 13.50 each and upwards according to «mount of lettering. SOLE AGENT for the Straits Settlements,
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    WAR-TAX FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
    60 3 Expensive Smokes, oim published in the Diario de i -i i A f (he 30th ultimo states that a issued in Madrid establishh ,ree |l)S .dues <>n all cigars imported into from the Philippines. The pro- ie fax will be devoted to meeting of quelling the
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    MEDICAL CHANGES IN PERAK.
    90 3 BEK LER 0,1 I” 8 re,urn f rom l eave T' K from Dr. Dox, and will remain i g nVei I ,VI ’t .in?as Senior District Surgeon. Dr. s°to Ip o l re l ,eves Dr. Edgar, ta te over charge of Batu Gajah til
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    INDIAN OPIUM.
    94 3 p rßlli(} the first four months of the curt Indian financial year, exports of opium Hued f> onl 3 crores and 6 lakhs to 2 atl( j 75 lakhs. The main cause stated 1 .1 s fall is the indigenous Chinese oiiiiin is gradually supplanting the Indian r
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    DROWNING OF CAPTAIN LANG.
    149 3 FiKTHER particulars are to hand as to sad death of Captain Lang, R. N., yjihree seamen. The Captain, an officer ,f marines, a midshipman, and six men were returning from a fishing expedition near grossevitcha, which is on the Fish River, Gulf of Tartary. A very
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    INDIAN COAL.
    91 3 According to the review of the mineral ptduction in India during 1895, the output of coal in 1894 was ten per cent greater than in 1893, while last year’s return shows an expansion of 55 per cent, above that of 1894 The total output was something like 4.371."34
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    A DOCK TRUST FOR LONDON.
    177 3 P vi Cl UVIU CLil’-A wme for the port of London. L. C. Eipreu. The London merchants who seemed at one time to be prepared to offer so determined an opposition to the new system of things in the docks, have after all given in.
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    AMSTERDAM TOBACCO SALES.
    277 3 The opening sale of the autumn season •"T'k place on 15th Sept., when 13,963 bales "fSumatra and 2,019 of Borneo leaf were IJ! up to tender, though some lots were imposed of before the sale. The market proved an erratic one, but prices ruled “«her than at
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    LONDON TO CHINA BY RAILWAY.
    1695 3 It does not seem to have occurred to any one, writes The Times, that, within a few years at most, the current of trade between Europe and Chinese ports is likely to be placed beyond the pale of personal influence or predilection by one of
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    THE JAVA BUDGET FOR 1897.
    459 3 The Java Budget has been introduced. The final figures are:—Expenditure, f 1.140,833,715, and revenue fl. 126,44 4,105, the deficit being thus f 1.14,389,610. The deficit of 1894 is estimated at fl 10,655,072, and that of 1895 at f 1.9,126,277. With regard to the service of
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    MARKET PRICES.
    169 3 Central Market Penang, 12th October, 1896, Description. Bief— «i«. Soup per catty Boast IS Steaks 18 Stew or Curry Meat 14 Rump Steak 18 Ox Tail each 15 Tongue 35 Feet 10 Heart per catiy 20 Tripe 08 Liver 16 Pokk Pork 22 Pig’s Head each 14 Feet
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    SHIPPING.
    288 3 Arrivals. To-day. s.s. Flying Fish from Port Weld. Y ESTERDAY. s. s. Canton from Teluk Anson. 8. s. Avagyee from Deli. s s. R. Halewyn from Asahan. s. 8. Flying Dragon from Port Weld. s. s. Tetartos from Singapore. 8 s. Ajar from Jeddah. Saturday. 10th. s. s. Deli
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    191 3 (Straits Times, 7th October.) JeJebiis ($5 pd.) $3.00 sellers. Raubs 13/10 pd.) $6.10 buyers. fully paid $9 Sellers. Punjoms ($4 pd.) |IIJ Pahang Corp. (XI pd.) $5 sales. Pataling Coffee Coy. Ltd. (§45 pd.) §45 buyers Pengerangs (§5O pd.) }67£ sales. Straits Insurance (§2G pd.) s26| sales.
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      94 3 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. Photorapher. Gosling Co. IRON SAFES NEW AND SECOND HAND. despatgFboxes. TRAVELLING BAGS. HARNESS. SADDLES. GOLF TIENNIS REQUISITES. CRICKETIEAR. GLASrWARE AT LOWEST PRICES. C I
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      376 3 Toilet r£lll*Jl Ik I lanolinf Delicate L(l J U JigSenaitivß Lanohne Toilet Soap from al!Chemists. FraiTMin.THRSINAMXIk n If Wholesale Depot :-67, HOLBORN VIADUCT, LONDON. SCOTCH WHISKV. Always drink the Best and* preserve your Health. This you can do by drinking Ferguson’s Special Cream BRif] Breadalbane. hllSjs I SCOTCH WHISKY. THE
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      1892 4 L.. BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST» To be had at Mmbm ..™L s n i chee f 1 k “o. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs. GUAT CHENG BROS. THEAN SIEW Co. SOLE IMPORTERS— EZATZ BBOTKS’ftfi GOON YEN FRIENDS. "A HIN
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      235 4 PENANG ICE WORKS fcEACH STREET. OPEN on week days from 7.30 to 10 and from noon to 5 p ni Sundays and Holidays from Bam ton ICE WILL ONLY BE DELIVER??' AGAINST CASH OR TICKETS m NOT AGAINST BOOKS OR CRT?? THE PUBLIC ARE REQUESTED TO ASK US TO DEVIATE
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