Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 29 March 1897

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    21 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DjSIILT. NEW SERIES.} ESTABLISHED 1833. 20 CINTS. VOL. LV. MONDAY, 29th MARCH, 1897. No. 71.
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      534 1 SStppift? (Hofices. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. ..’•TP’k r pHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Hometvards. foroni'i' Apr. 9 Kaisar-i-hind Apr. 1 Rohilh r getta 15 Raisar-I Hind May 7 Thames M 29 21 Mirzapore May 13
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      745 1 !3DKRLAHDSIfIK HANDKL lIAATSCBAPFU (Nethcrland Trading Society.) Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000.00 Reservb Funds f 2,282,814.38, Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Dteli), Samarang, Sourabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjiiatjap. London Bankers.—The
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    EXCHANGE.
    124 2 Penang. 29th March, U 97. RaTKH CI.OSK AS FOLLOWS: Loudon, Demand Bank 2 0.) Do. I months' sight Bank,.. 2/oj| Do. 3 Credits Do. 3 Documentary 2/1 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 163 Do. 3 days'sight Private.. 16 Bombay, Demand Bank 163 Do. 3 days'sight Private 16 Madras, Demand Bank
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    136 2 LATEST MARKET QUOTA TIONS. Pknang, 29th Mauch, 1M97. Tin $33.50 Trang 17.50 Black Pepper J West (.'oast... ;3 27) (Acheen 60' 15. sellers. White Pepper.. 2050 do. Cloves (picked).. 36. do. Mace No. 1 85. do. Mace Pickings... 75 do. Nutmegs 83— do. i No 1 6.90 do. Sugar 2
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    54 2 Mails clohk To-m<ikr<»w. For Per sh. Tinw. Calcutta A. Apcar ...11 am. Tongkah Vidur 1 p.m. Deli Intngkat 1 pm. Langkat Jin Ho 1 PM. Singapore Pentakola 2 P.M. Teluk Anson L<uly Weld 4 p.m. The homeward P. X O. steamer Kaisar-L Hind is exjectedto leave Singapore at
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    31 2 From Negapatam —a. s. Seeundra io-mor-row. From Svkz —s. s Elisabeth llickmers tomorrow. From Calcutta —s s. Kut Sang to-mor-row. From Olehleh —s. s. Maha Vajirunhis on Thursday.
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAM.
    90 2 LONDON, 28th March, 1897. Fighting in Crete. Severe fighting has taken place in the vicinity of Canea. The insurgents, having captured a fort, pursued and severely punished the Turkish garrison, in spite of the shelling .by the warships of the Powers, whose guqp killed 200 insurgents. Proposal by
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    GOLF CLUBS.
    226 2 A leader has appeared iu the Strait* Tunes of the 26th March (the day before the meeting of the Club), which deals with the proposition by a member of the Singapore Gulf Club to raise the monthly subscription and to import from home a professional groundsman, and another
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    A PROPOSED MEASURE TO ENLARGE COURTS OF REQUEST JURISDICTION.
    1165 2 (Qoxtkibvted by Mi. J. A. SmotwooD.) The law which still regulates our Courts of Request, the tribunals in which small claims (namely those under $5O) are determined, dates from 1866, from one of the last of the Indian Acts which applied
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    868 2 Thousands of cattle are said to be dying every week from rinderpest in Siam. The Diamond Jubilee holidays at Penang are fixed for the 21st and 22nd June. The importation of cattle from the Straits Settlements into the Residency of the East Coast of Sumatra has been
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    PASSENGERS.
    41 2 Arrivals. To-day. Per B. I. s. s. Pundua from Singap o1 Mazery. Per s. s. Lady Weld from Teluk AnsonNutter. Per s. B. Thaipeng from Pert Weld; 1 R. Scott. Yesterday. Per s. s. Hebe from Singapore: r seraiu. j
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      762 2 1 i ion New advertisements. Pritchard Co. BICYCLE, Pneumatic Tire (Granlille), nearly new, $l2O. Have just receiveu. tne Apply to H smith, 145 Colour Sergeant, Sepoy Lines. following goods TOWN HALL, PENANG. Gent’s Under Shirts,Merino Gauze Thursday ist April Gent’s Half Hose, and Cashmere, Merino, and Silk. Saturday 3rd April.
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      49 2 POSADA WINE COMPANY. The LiFiiest Wine Shippers in the East. Champagnes. Ports. Sherries. Clarets. Madeira. Marsala. Malaga. Hocks. Chateau Wines. Liqueurs. Connossieurs pronounce our Wines immeasurably superior alike as regards quality and prices. COMPARISON INVITED. Cigars and Cigarettes. A SPECIALITY. Telegraphic Address GOSLING, PENANG. Gosling Co. Beach Union Streets.
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    38 3 (From OUR Cokrespqnden-i s.) TELUK ANSON. 27th March. Tlie shipments on Saturday were— To Penang, 414 pikuls of tin. To Singapore, 3,256 of ore. 29th March. The shipments to-day ar^ To Penang, 620 pikuls of tin.
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    GOLF.
    156 3 The March Monthly Medal was plaved off (>n Friday and Saturday and was won by Lieut. D. Power of the Rifle Brigade with the limit handicap —36. Mr. Power is quite a beginner and has worked so bard t master the game that his win cannot be grudged even
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    CRICKET.
    316 3 PC. C. First Eleven Next Eighteen. An afternoon’s very interesting cricket WIS witnessed on the Club ground at the Esplanade on Saturday, when the former team, comprising the “probables” likely to constitute the Club’s Eleven at Easter against Perak, met a scratch eighteen captained by Mr. C. A. Law.
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    THE ASSIZES.
    107 3 Mb. Justice Law, we regret to #ay, was again indisposed to-day, and was unable to attend Court. Mr. Justice Hyndman Jones took the Assizes. The first case called was against a Chinese postman, named Tan Kai Hok, charged with criminal breach of trust in respect of a registered
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    "GAZETTE” NOTIFICATIONS.
    146 3 (26rn March.) The following promotions in the Singapore Volunteer Artillery are notified: Lieutenant C. J. Davies to be Captain Second Lieutenant G. A. Derrick to be Lieutenant Sergeant F. J. Benjafield to be Second Lieutenant. Mr. Allinson has taken leave’of absence from the Legislative Council for six months
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    SINGAPORE GOLF CLUB.
    365 3 A discussion, in reference to the increase of the monthly subscription and the importation of a professional, and described by a contemporary as “lively,” took place at the annual meeting of the Singapore Golf Club on Friday last. Among other matters previously arranged were the election of
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    PERAK NEWS.
    140 3 {Perak Government Gazette, 26th March.) Leave. The leave of absence granted to Mr. R. D Hewett has been extended, with half salary, until the arrival at Penang of the s. s. Himalaya, which leaves London on the 11th March. Widows and Orphans Pension Fund. The following five public
    {Perak Government Gazette, 26th March.)  -  140 words
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    THE MALAY STATES COFFEE COMPANY, LIMITED.
    309 3 The Malav States Coffee Company, Ltd., has been established in Colombo with the object amongst others To purchase, lease, take in exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire any lands in the Malay Peninsula or elsewhere, and any works, machinery. stock, plant, and real or personal,
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    SECURING A MURDERER.
    140 3 The Acting District Magistrate of Lower Perak writes in his February report On the 23rd I went to Slut Pulau, Kampong Gajah, to hold an inquest on a Malay woman who had been murdered by her husband the previous evening. Ou the 24th Mr. Svmes returned with
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    MUNICIPAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR FEBRUARY, 1897.
    774 3 Meetings. Ordinary meetings were held on the 12th and 26th of the month, and a special meeting, to consider a supplementary budget, on the 26th. Revenue and Expenditure. The revenue collected from all sources during the month amounted to 820,119.32, and the expenditure to
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    SOAP.
    60 3 Soap has been in use for three thousand years. A few years ago a soap-boilers’ shop was discovered in Pompeii, having been buried beneath the terrible rain of ashes that fell upon that city 79 A. D. The soap found in the shop had not lost all its efficacy
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    DR. YERSIN ON THE IMPORTATION OF THE PLAGUE AT BOMBAY.
    88 3 Dr. Yersin, who is working very hard and doing much good in Bombay, is of opinion that the Plague in Bombay was imported by rats, which are the first to be attacked, and that, through them, it infects persons who
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    QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE FRENCH.
    121 3 Though the French Press is not in the habit of paying u- compliments it has lately been passing encomiums on what it calls Queen Victoria’s green old age,” and the loyalty of her subjects in every part of the globe. The occasion of these expressions
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    FURTHER MAIL ITEMS.
    417 3 The Indian Famine Fund has reached £388,000. Mr. Goschen, the First Lord of the Admiralty, has presented to Parliament a highly-interesting statement explanatory of the Navy Estimates for 1897-8. In the coming financial year it is proposed to commence four battleships, three third-class cruisers, two sloops, four
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    105 3 Monday. 29th Jubilee Celebration General Committee Meeting, Town Hall, at 4- p.m. Town Band. Esplanade. 5 p.m High-water at New Jetty. 6-27 P.M. and 6- a m. Tuesday. 3<»th High-water at New Jetty. 7-16 p.m. and 7- a m Wednesday. 31st Town Band. Esplanade. 5
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    SHIPPING.
    302 3 t rri i ;it>. To-DAV. I’. A O. s. s. Jara from Singapore. s. k. Hebe from Singapore s s. Maria FaZerfe from Singapore. s. s A. Apcar from Singapore. B. 1. s. s. Pundua from c-ingapore. T ESTERDAY. s. 8. Bullmouth from Singapore. s. s. Fitzpatrick from Rangoon
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    BANK SHARES.
    75 3 (L C Express. March sth.) Shares. Banks. Paid. Closing prices. 2'l Chartered of India. Australia. M China All 261 to 27J 2sL Hongkong A Shanghai 28J- 39» to 40J 25 Mercantile Bank of India (Ltd.) A" Shares 124 11 to 12 25 Do. ”B” do. 12| 5 to
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    202 3 (Straits l unes, 25th March.) Jetol.u* (s.’> pd.) *2 35 Rauhs (13 It» pd.) *13.25 sCI fully paid $l5. Punjoius ($4 pd.) »7.50 Pahang Corp. XI pd.) S4J. Pataling Coffee Co. ($45 pd.) $52 sales. Penyeraiij,'» ssOpd.) -18 sellers. Straits Insurance (s2c pd.) sl9| sales. Straits Fires
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      1346 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST. To be had at e Messrs. THEAN CHEE Co. Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GUAT CHENG BROS. 11 x THEAN SIEW Co. a GOON YEN FRIENDS. SOLE IMPORTERS— ZZjSITZ HIN LKE Co. GOLD hi ED
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