Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 14 June 1897

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    22 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. \PMCE 20 CENTS.f-' VOL. LV. MONDAY, 14th JUNE. 1897. No. 133.
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      523 1 •Sapping (Tloficeu. ViUiisular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. frpHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards, ir-«nore June 19 I Kaisar-i-hind June 24 JUly J 17 Ravenna 22 31 Mirzapore Aug. 5 A,. Aug. 13 Thames 19 27 Rohilla
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      1399 1 aß'Wtti» Qloftcts. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). banks. UAwece. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. z\cean steam ship company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. in g corporation. U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. SHIP COMPANY, Ltd. —r— Paio-cf Coital »10,000.000. AND For Will sail Steamer From Expected ok
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      466 1 «EDKRLAHDSCfIK HANDEL BAATSCBAPFU (Netherland Trading Society.) Established 1524. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000 .00 Resbrvk Funds f Riad Offick in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nederlandseh» 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.
    132 2 Puna ng, 14th June, 1897. RaTKH CLOSE AS FOLLOWS:— London, Demand Bank 1 Hi Do. 4mouths’sight Rank... IZIIJ Do. 3 Credits 2 Do. 3 Documentary 2 Calcutta. Demand Bank Rs. t>2p Do. 3 days’sight Privat»-.. 1 6 Bombay, Demand Bank H2-i J Do. 3 days’sight Pi ivate.. 166 r
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    141 2 PbNANo. 14th June. '•97. Tin $35 75 (Chinese) Trang out of season. Black Pepper I West Coast... 13 < 3 sellers. Acheen 6U« 15 25 do. White Pepper 20 75 do. Cloves (picked).. 36. do. Mace No. 1 86— do. Mace Pickings... 77 do. Nutmegs 78— do.
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    56 2 Mails clonk To-.mckio-" For /Vr I'iwtr, Poti Weld A T. Anson lady Weld. 10 am. Klang Deli 1 P.M. Asahan /f. Halewyn 1 P.M. Deli I't./o- 2 P. Pangkor and T Anson i etsy 2 P.M. Madras. Ac, taking mads for Europe, Ac. rm Negapatam Sirsn 4 P.M.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    32 2 From Su»z —s. s Malacca to day. From Mngapore—b s. Slrsa on Wednesday. and s s. G'. Apcar on Thursday. From Edik —s. s. <«. G. v. Lansberge on Wednesday.
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    111 2 LONDON, 12th Junk. Earthquake in Calcutta. There was an earthquake on Saturday in Calcutta, and the shocks continued during five minutes. Destruction of* Buildings. Nearly every house has been damaged, and many are in ruins. The spires of cathedrals and churches fell. Casualties among the Inhabitants. Severals Natives
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    EDITORIAL NOTES.
    880 2 THE EARTHQUAKE IN CALCUTTA. Thk news from Calcutta is very sad. Although no Europ an apparently has lost his life, several <l<aths among the Native population ami many cases of injury «reHiinounced. There has also been some destruction of houses and public buildings. And all this has been
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    200 2 LOCAL AND GENER AL. The s. 8. Fook Ching brought 7.150 tins of petroleum from Bi andon yesterday. A Chinaman was this morning fined $25 by Mr. Bryant, for selling spirits without a license iu Campbell Street. We hear that a Diamond Jubilee Cup, to lie competed for at the
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    A REQUIEM MASS FOR THE DEAD.
    95 2 A Requiem Mass will be said iu the Church of the Assumption on Wednesday morning next, at seven o’clock, forthose who perished in the recent appalling disaster in Paris. Others, besides Catholics, may wish to attend, and by so doing to unite iu showing
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    THE NETHERLANDS FIRE INSURANCE CO.
    93 2 At the Annual General Meeting of this Company, held on the 27th day of March, 1897, a dividend of £5,000 (or at the rate of 24 0 per annum) was declared for the year ending 31st December, 1896, and the remainder of the year’s surplus
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    116 2 (From our Correspondents 1A NJOI\ a Lift, 14th June. All the Chinese and Malay ,i keepers at Tanjong Malim I closed their shops, as great di s faction prevails among them 0 < to the decisions of the Magistrate in some cases, and particularly because of his dec?*
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    THE NETHERLAND TRADING SOCIETY.
    39 2 We have been informed that, at’tlieW Annual General Meeting of the shareholder of tbe Nederlandshe Handel Maatscbepnn (Netberlaud Trading Society), a dividend at tbe rate of 62 per mille was declared for tbe year 1896.
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    A CHILD KIDNAPPTD BY A 'RIKISHA COOLIE.
    138 2 About six o’clock on Saturday evening the two-year-old child of the Corporal at Jelutong Police Station was missed. Search was made throughout the immediate neigh, bourhood, but no trace uf the child could be found. About thirty minutes later a police constable teached
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    MISAPPROPRIATION OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE AT THE SUPREME COURT REGISTRY.
    127 2 The case against Pana Kader Meydin, Vanjoor Mustan, and Shaik Hussain (peon at the Supreme Court), which has occupied, the attention of the Assize Court for sum three days, whs concluded on Saturday afternoon. when the jury unanimously found tbe first
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    MYSTERIOUS CASE IN PROVINCE WELLESLEY.
    130 2 (From our Correspondent.) The body of tbe dead man found near Trluk Wong, Province Wellesley, referred tn in tbe Pinang Gazette of tbe 10th inst, has been identified as that of a Kedah Malay nanud Min, who married a woman at Ararendaug, with whom he
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    PASSENGERS.
    34 2 Arrivals. To-day. Pers. s. Flying Dragon from Port Wei■ Messrs. D. Graham, McMillan, and G. WPer s. s. Tambora from Olehleh: Mess Sihoo, and Henidorff. v Per 8. s. Calypso from Singapore: Starch.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    85 2 Monday. 14th Diamond Jubilee General Commi Meeting, 4 p.m. Town Band, Esplanade. 5 p.m. High-water at New Jetty, 10-35 A M. 11-02 p.m. Tuesday. 15th Full Moon 3.56 a.m. i High-water at New Jetty, 11-24 a m 11- P.M. Wednesday, 16th Town Band. Esplanade. 5
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      660 2 Pritchard Co. THE Ordinary Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held at the Town Hall, at 3 p. m., PC KI A KI On Friday, the 18th June, 1897. L IN M n U. F. H. DALLAg> Ag. Sec. to the Municipal Commissioner». PENANGTURF CLUB. NOTICE. ENTRIES for the
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      71 2 Gosling Co., l/each cl Union Streets. JUST ARRIVED. ENGLISH SALTED Beef Pork. Ox Tongues. Hams. Bacon. Cheese. Egyptian Cigarettes. Cigars. Tobaccos Ceylon Teas. •I Ainericin Bicycles EOR LADIES and GENTLEMEN. Saddles. Harness. Sporting Goods. IRON SAFES it DEED BOXES. HAND BAGS. Large Assortment of Glassware. St. RAPHAEL and NOSS’ VIN
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  • Obituary
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    47 2 DOM ES TIC OCCVIiR ENCK. Death. Crowk.—At Buttei worth, Province Wellesley, Peuaug, ou Monday, tbe 14th July, 1897, Gkorge Theophilus Stubbs, tbe beloved seeoud sou of Heuty J. A. and Margaret J Crowe, aged 17 year» 11 months and 18 day*.—English and Indian papers please copy. 274
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    PROGRAMME OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE QUEEN’S DIAMOND JUBILEE IN PENANG.
    1788 3 General Committee. I The Hou. J. K. Birch; Messrs. G I’. Adamson, Ahiuad Othman Merican, G. a Chetty, J. G. Allan, R. Anderson, i \1 Anthony, Aw Cheng Chang, Bab gah Turn. Dr. A. J. G. Barker, C. W.
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    MAIL NOTES.
    419 3 The Temperance Cause has lost oue off its best-known advocates by the death o Mr. J. H. Raper, who for many years wa b the Parliamentary Agent of the United Kingdom Alliance. Mb. Gladstone has forwarded a cheque for <£so “in aid of the Armenian Distress Fund”, aud
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    A LOTTERY PATRONIZED BY THE QUEEN.
    162 3 With relation to the impending closing of the Russell Institution in Bloomsbury, the Daily Mail quotes a newspaper of 1836 as follows Hayden’s picture of Xenophon was raffled for by the subscribers on Moudav at the Thatched House Tavern, the Duke of Sutherland in
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    AMERICAN HOSPITALITY.
    99 3 According to the New York correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, great indignation was expressed in New York on the 27th of April at the arrest of a sailor belonging to the British cruiser Talbot, which was attending the Grant celebration. The sailor w r as drunk, and when
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    THE NEW RUSSO-CHINESE RAILWAY.
    85 3 M. Zugovitch, the chief constructive engineer of the new Russo-Chinese Railway, is about to have St. Petersburg for Peking, where he will have an audience of the Emperor of China before going to Manchuria. His journey will be tn'a England aud America. The construction of the
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    DOROTHY DREW AND THE QUEEN.
    160 3 Miss Dorothy Drew is evidently imbued with truly Liberal ideas, and refuses to be impressed by even Royal splendour, savs the Westminster Gazette. The other dav she was bidden to Windsor Casile to a private Drawing Room, at which she was the only debutante— the
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    CRICKET.
    81 3 It is understood that a two days’ cricket match is being arranged between P. C. C. and the rest of Penang for the forthcoming Diamond Jubilee Holidays. The match will be played on the P. C. C. ground, and play will commence on Monday 21st at 6.45 a. m.
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    DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION.
    148 3 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette.") Dear Sir, —Our Jubilee Committee has been sitting for three mouths but so far has, apparently, hatched nothing. Here we are within a week of the Jubilee, and yet the public (whom the Committee is supposed to represent) are left
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    THE EURASIANS AND THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION.
    151 3 (To ths Editor of the “Pinang Gazette.") Sir, —In Friday’s issue of your valuable paper Onlooker,” I am afraid, was not quite collect in all his statements. The President of the Penang Recreation Club should have been included in the Jubilee General Committee, was
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    P. G. C. LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
    201 3 Results of Saturday’s play Mixed Doubles. Miss A. Anthony and G. E Mosley beat Mrs. Kerr and L. C. Browm by 6-3, 6-4. Mens Doubles. A. M. Gibbon and W. H. Bell beat P. R. Scott aud D. A. M. Brown by 4-6, 6-5,
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    SHIPPING.
    201 3 Arrivals. To-day. s. a. Bisagno from Singapore. 8 s. Tambora from Olehleh. 8. s Namyong from Singapore. s. s. Calypso from Singapore. 8. s. Flying Dragon from Fort Weld. I ESTERDAY. P. O. s. s. Peshawur from Singapore. s. s. Sentafrom Hamburg. 8. s Lady Weld from Anson. s.
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    385 3 Diamond Jubilee Meeting. Saturday, the 26th June, 1897. PROGRAMME. I.—The Hack Plate, 3-1 S p. m. Valu e $l5O.—A Selling Race for all Horses that have been regularly ridden or driven up to 31st May, 1897, in Penang or Province Wellesley. Horses entered at $350 to carry
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      57 3 FOOLSCAP PAPER FOR SALE AT THE “.Pinang Gazette” Press. Per Ream of 480 sheets. Cheap quality, plain, 7 lbs. $1.25. Medium do. 10 lbs. 2.25. Fine ruled 14 lbs. 3.70. Superfine do. 14 lbs. 4.25. Best, ruled (for legal documents) 8.50. THE A. P. K. Aerated Waters ARE OF THE
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      507 3 1 u/// s IS PREPARED TO SUPPLY TIFFIN’S or at short notice. TERMS MODERATE. PORT, SHERRY, M ADEIRA, MARSALA, TOKAYAR, GRAVES, MALAGA. These are the finest wines in Um* market and defy competition as regards prices. SEND FOR A PRICE LIST. BODEGA BEER STOUT. Try these: you will be pleased.
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      24 3 DENTAL NOTICE. 1 I R. J. F. TEUFERT, Dental Surgeon, 31 has left for Kuala Lumpur and will re-visit Penang about four weeks hence.
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      1444 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY IS THE BEST» To be had at Mxssas. THEAN CHEE Co p en .n ß m g ame as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GUAT CHENG BROS. 1 1 ooox YPN E r™END S sole BROTHERS. I IMITrn HIN LEE
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      298 4 GEORGE TOWN_DISPENSARY. SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED. 556 THE 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3 n«. Sunday hours 11 a.m. to l p. m f Prescriptions accurately dispensed SPECTACLES to suit every variety of
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