Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 March 1897

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED JD.a.ILT. NEW SENSES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [rsicr 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. FRIDAY, 19th MARCH, 1897. No. 62.
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      538 1 (ttoftces. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. mail steamers may be «7’ iH expected to arrive outHAiilwSjSa wards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Jfirzapore Mar. 27 Kaisar-i-hind Apr. 1 Coromandel Apr. 9 Rosetta „15 Rohilla 23 Thames 29 Kaisar-I Hind May 7 Mirzapore May 13 Rosetta
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      1546 1 SBtomna ftlofteta. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,—(LTD.). banks. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART maatschappi! fiCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Hongkong Shanghai BankU EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamer». g corporation. SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. 1 Paid-up Capital $10,000,000. JVT) tn. m RESERVE FUND 6,500,000. ANI) FoK
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      491 1 IeOKKLA'i'ISUiE HANDEL BAATSCiiAiTIJ (N. :rland Trading Society.) established 1824. !‘ah<-iii'Capital f 35,783,0’ ’0 00 I;'.; k:c.’:i Funds f 2,282,814.38, Head Oeiuce in Amsterdam. Hfad Agency in Netherlands India. r he Factorij of the Nederlandsche Handel Mantschappij, Batavia. Agencies mni Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Clicribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean,
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    EXCHANGE.
    122 2 Pknang. 19th March, I*-!’”. Rater close as follows: Loudon. Demand Bank 2 0} Do. -I months' sight Bank Do. •“> (Jreilits h'l Do. 3 Documentary 2/1 jj: Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. <t>2 Do. 3 days' sight Private... 178 Bombay, Demand Bank 162 Do. 3 days'sight Private 178 Madras, Demand
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    LATEST MARKET QUOATIONS.
    145 2 Penang, 19th Mauch. 1897. Tin §33 60 i Trang l“.. r iO Black Pepper, West Coast... 13 75 sellers. Aelieen 6IE 15.60 do. White Pepper... 20 75 Cloves (picked).. 36. do. Mace No. 1 85— do. Mace Pickings... ...75 do. Nutmegs 85. do. I No. I 6.90
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    68 2 Ma ii.s clonk To-morrow F... I‘erd, T..„.. Klang and Singapore Ih/i Leomj II am. Imnukat Quorra Noo». Deli Luiu/kat 1 P.M. Klang Vid.ir 1 pm Pangkor and T. Anson W A'n’in 2 p.m Mails close on Monday. Moulllieiu .Vo/rm 1 The BI s.N ■< s Pund'tn with the
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    49 2 From Liverpool > in»-7oii to-day From Rangoon s i.nduu <>n Sunday. From Singapore >. s /'«rweu on M nday. From Olehleh s. > M<tet*itycker on Monday. From < olombo s. s I'oc/o/mihu on Sunday. From Si ez s ion Monday. From Cal 'i tta —s s. I.
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    62 2 LONDON, 18th March, 1897. Activity iu the War Department. The greatest activity prevails at all the arsenals. A number of steamers have been chartered to convey stores to Malta. War stores are being constantly despatched to the Cape. Six hundred of the Seaforth Highlanders have been ordered to
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    EXAMINATIONS.
    1124 2 Few men and women at the present day escape “ordeal by examination.” We do not here refer, let it be understood, to the competitive system or the “competition wallah.” Now, they who evade the school examination and receive instruction “private and at home” usually become entangled within the meshes
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    633 2 We hear, on good authority, that the Detachment of Constabulary, which will proceed to England, under the command of Colonel R. S. F. Walker, c m.g., to attend the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, will consist of one Inspector and 24 men of the Straits Police,
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    THE ASSIZES.
    87 2 Ponun Kann, a Tamil, charged with administering a stupefying drug at Kirnlieriev Stieet, was yesterday acquitted bv the jury and a Malay, named Che Lus, charged with theft at Chulia Street, was also acquitted. Kam ChaiTiam.a Chinaman, loheibar". ed with wilfully making a false statement for the purpose
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    P.C.C. LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
    198 2 Championship. Final Tie. This match was continued last evening and lestihed in a very easy victory for Anthony. The score overnight stood thus: —Anthony 2 sets and 4 games, Marshall 0 s- Is mid 2 games. C’iiliuuing this unfinished third set, Marshall <-..iiiui' need with service
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    A MAGISTRATES' COURT IN THE STATES.
    393 2 Now that the Federated States have admitted counsel to ihe courts, writes Mr. H. Hale in his report on Tampin, it seems a good time to draw the at tint ion of people curious in such inaitrrs to the unique usages of the magi'trmes’
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      771 2 Tl *1 1 10f1 New Advertisements. Pritchard Co. presb ™%t rch rpHE Monthly Service for Children I will be held on Sunday next, at 9 a.m. Have just opened out a choice and Subject: Lessons from the Tabernacle in varied assortment of the Wilde.ne.8 (illu 8 tr»t«l bj raodel) Children
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      47 2 POSADA WINE COMPANY. The Lirjiest Wine S’lippors in the Ea>t. Champagnes. Ports. Sherries. Clarets. Madeira. Marsala. Malaga. Hocks. Chateau Wines. Liqueurs. Connossietirs pronounce our Wines immeasurably superior alike as regards quality and prices. COMPARISON INVITED. Cigars and Cigarettes. A SPECIALITY. Telegraphic Address GOSLING, PENANG. Beach Union Streets,
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
    18 3 (b'noM our Correspondent.) TELUK ANSON. 19th March. L shipments to-day are—h’o Penang, 261 piknls of tin.
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    CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES.
    215 3 ccoifl ,ING 1 F- w. Talbot, in his tit as head of the Police of the Negri Ebihin, there were not many cases of Iverv particular importance during the r The most important was a murIt takes this position from its being lloubledly a brutal case of
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    THE COLONIAL MILITARY FORCES AT THE CELEBRATION.
    149 3 p OR the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, cavalry are to be sent over from the [iloiving colonies: —Canada, New South ■ales. Victoria. Queensland, South Australia few Zealand, Cape, Natal, Trinidad, and Ivpius. the latter being mounted zaptiehs. |'i ie se will not all bring
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    FURTHER MAIL ITEMS.
    559 3 The Education Bill has been read a Loud time, amid loud cheers, after a diviBion of the House had been taken. The ■umbers were 355 ayes and 150 noes. Professor Basil H. Chamberlain, after a Bourse under a specialist in Germany, is Bnw, we believe, in the
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    DR. HO KAI.
    72 3 Dr. Ho Kai, who was mentioned first of all as Secretary and Adviser to H. E. Wu Ting Fang, is not going now to America, but is to proceed to Shanghai to assist Sheng King-hing, the Director-in-Chief of the Railway system, in carrying out the Chinese railway
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    THE PRINCESS' PET.
    93 3 The little Japanese spaniel, says the L. C. Express, which the Princess of Wales is represented as holding in her arms in the well-known portrait painted by Mr. Luke Fildes for the Graphic is dead. The manner of his death was very sudden, Facey being apparently in
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    NANSEN'S BOOK.
    101 3 The published record of Nansen’s great Norwegian expedition is in the hands of the public, says the L. J- C. Express. It is in two handsome, but very bulky, blue-green volumes, of about six hundred pages, each, on fine paper, excellently printed. There are an etched portrait of
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    WHAT'S IN A NAME?
    148 3 In connection with the Schubert celebrations, a writer in the National Observer recalls an amusing blunder made by a German critic. The latter was referring to Mr. Arthur Duke Coleridge, who translated Kreissle von Heliborn’B life of the composer, and elevated him to the peerage as
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    THE CHINESE MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES.
    231 3 A farewell banquet was given on the sth March by the Chinese community of Hongkong to H. E. Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister to the United States. H. E. Sir William Robinson and the principal Europeans were present. In the course of bis
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    THE QUEEN'S APARTMENTS AT CIMIEZ.
    262 3 The Queen’s wing of the new hotel at Cimiez, Nice, known as the Excelsior Hotel Regina,” comprises about sixty rooms, savs the L. 4' C. Express, exclusive of the lower story, the large kitchens and annexes, and the cellars, and it has been completely isolated
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    MISS FLORA SHAW.
    191 3 Miss Shaw, whose telegram (Times') to Johannesburg is said to have hurried on the revolution there, has for some three years been responsible for the weekly article on The Colonies in the Times, and she is a familiar figure in Victoria Street, Westminster, where she haunts the
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    THE NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER.
    224 3 Sir Alfred Milner, k.c.b., is the son of Charles Milner, Esq., m.d., and was born in 1854. He obtained a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, and had a brilliant career at the University, beitig generally regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most promising young
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    BREEZE IN A LAW COURT.
    295 3 BREEZE IN A LA W COURT. There was a scene in the Hon. Sir Henry Hawkins’s court the other day. The judge and a special jury were trying an action brought by a Mrs. Booth, of Honor Oak, against the S. E. R. for an accident in falling over a
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    PASSENGERS.
    70 3 Arrivals. To-day. Per P. O. s. s. Rohilla from Singapore Messrs. A. M. Little, R. J. Farrar, and C. Hicks. Extra Per A. O. 8. s. Canton from Singapore Mr. Butts. Per s. 8 Mary Austin from Teluk Anson: Mr. Lee. Per s. s. Hye Leong from Singapore Mr.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    88 3 Friday, 19th P. (5. Tennis Tournament, Double Handicap. High-water at New Jetty, 10-17 P.M. and 10- a.m. Saturday, 20th Town Band. Golf Club. 5 p.m. Sale of Household Furniture at 337 A neon Road. High-water at New Jetty, 11-06 p.m. and 11- A.M. Sunday, 21bt
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    CECIL RHODES ON THE MOVE.
    360 3 Thb return of Mr. Cecil Rhodes has been the subject of general public interest—friends and foes anxious to know how he would face the music.” There was a rush of interviewers to Plymouth, says a London correspondent to the Friend of India, but, after hours
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    CHESS.
    357 3 Victory has attended England, says the L. C- Express, in the great. International Chess Match, in which a cabled game was plaved between British champions and ten of the leading experts in the United States. There was again a large attendance of enthusiasts in the Hotel Cecil, and the
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    SHIPPING.
    335 3 Arrhiiis. I To-day. s. s. Hye Teng from Rangoon. s. s. Cecil C. Smith from Brandon. s. s Mary Austin from Teluk Anson. I’. O. s. s. Rohilla from Singapore. s. s. Megna from Moulmein. i’. N O. s. 8. Canton from Singapore. s. s. Hye Leong from Singapore.
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    212 3 (Straits Times, 13th March.) JiJubiiH ($5 pd.) $2.35 Rauhs (13 lo ;><! $l3. buyers ex dir. ■A‘l fully paid $l5. sales ex div. Punjouis ($A pd.) $9.75 PahaiiLf Corp. (XI pd.) S4.J. Pataling Coffee Co. ($45 pd.) $5l buyers. Penoeramrs ($5O pd.) fol) sellers. Straits Insurance (S2C
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      154 3 LUBRICATING OIL. Lubricating, shafting, and ENGINE OIL to be had at PENANG FOUND RY Co. KHYE HO FOUNDRY Co. FIRST QUALITY. PRICES MODERATE. FOR SALE. ONE Grey Galloway Mare, Lurline,” very fast. One Chestnut Thoroughbred Mare, “Juanita,” winner of ‘The Try Again Stakes, 1897,” quiet, in harness. In consequence of
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      248 3 fO Vi,.? (S) IS PREPARED TO SUPPLY TIFFIN’S or DIITIT—RS at short notice. TERMS MODERATE. PORT, SHERRY, MADEIRA, MARSALA, TOKAYAR, GRAVES, MALAGA. These are the finest wines in the market and defy competition as regards pricesSEND FOR A PRICE LIST. BODEGA BEER STOUT. Try these: you will be/pleased. WANTED. IJROM
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      91 3 NOTICE. rpHE undersigned begs to notify that he 1 is appointed AGENT for The Society of Amsterdam Underwriters, and that all insurance claims on merchandise or ships covered iu Holland have to be brought to his notice for survey. 120 H. J. MARTYN, Jr. FOR SALE? SUPERFINE Commercial Note Paper,
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      1708 4 1 1 1 mi— BUCHANAN WHISKY ye tui? TstTrcrr XlO A XxXXi X To be had at Messrs. THEAN CHEE Co. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs I GUAT CHENG BROS. GOON YEN FRIENDS. SOLE IMPORTERS HIN LEE Co. (notes. ELLWOCD'S
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      607 4 PENANG BAND? of the Band will be as follows Dances Dinners and Promenades Garden Parties, At Homes."’ J Transport, extra. To subscribers of not less than *l9 annum, half the above rates onk charged. Wll l Applications for engagements to L to ARTHUR. R. 2nd January. 1896. THE pm riveTdiki
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