Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 19 August 1897

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. \PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. THURSDAY, 19th AUGUST, 1897. No. 186.
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      532 1 pipping (Uoftcee. Oriental Steam Navigation Company. rpHE mail steamers may be ex P ecte d to arrive outj pvUjj? wards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates Outwards. Homewards. Aug. 27 Thames Aug. 19 jjirf'iH g |Q Kaisar-i-hind Sept. 2 23 R ose tta 16 Oct. 7 j Rohilla
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      1571 1 SfiWna (Hotter. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,-(LTD.). BANKS. (I WWW. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Hongkong Shanghai BanknCEAN STEAM SHIP Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Hongkong Bank U EAST INDIAN OCEAN STEAM Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers, STTTP COMPANY Ltd Paid-up Capital $10,000,000. btilP LUMrANI, LTD. Reserve Fcnd 7,000,000. AND
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      493 1 ’EDKRLANDSbfIE HANDEL HI (Netherland Trading Society.) Fstablished 1824. Paid-up Capital f 35,783,000 00 Reserve Fonds f 2,404,166.45 Bead Office in Amsterdam. Head Agencv in Netherlands India. The Factori j of the Nederlandsch* Handel Maatscbappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches. —Singapore Medan (Deli), Sama rang, Sourabaia. Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan. Pasaroean, and
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    EXCHANGE.
    129 2 Penang, 19th August, 1897. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 1/9) Do. L months’ sight Bank... Do. 3 Credits 110 Do. 3 Documentary 1/10 Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 138 Do. 3 days’ sight Private none. Bombay. Demand Bank 138 Do. 3 days’ sight Private none. Madias. Demand Bank
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    46 2 Mails close To morrow. For Per sir Time. Klang Malacca ...Teutonia Noon. Trang Arfeadang do. Pangkoi A T Anson J/etxy 2 p.m. Edi>-, T. Semawe, St gli, and Olehleh G. G. v. Lantberge 3 P.M. Tvlnk Anson A Port Dickson ...Lady Weld... 4 p.m.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    30 2 From Singapore —s. s. Hele, s. s. Lood,i(luii and s. s. Chemg Chew to-morrow. From Hamburg s. s. Heitha on Saturday. From Calcutta —s.m. C.Apcar on Saturday.
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    LIST OF VISITORS.
    90 2 Eastern A Oriental Hotel. Mr. 4 Mrs. Buckle. Egerton East wick. Shearwood. Mrs. E irlc Capt. A Mrs. van de Lee. Mr. Bicknell, W. Bniider, F J. Durler. E. Lusink. J. Mac H ussy. Roderminn. Scott. H. Stark. Jame«. William Smit a. Mrs. E E. Wilting Mr
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    98 2 LONDON, 18fh August. The Frontier War. ADVANCE OF TRIBESMEN. The Afridis are marching upon Jamrud through the Khaibar Pass, and the Orakzais are advancing along the Kurram Valley. STATE OF THE FRONTIER. The whole frontier is practically aflame. President Faure. DEPARTURE FOR RUSSIA. President Faure has started for
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    THE 'RIKISHA.
    223 2 If the Industrial Magazine (Japanese) is to be believed, the jinrikisha is a very modern institution, having been invented by a Jap, Kosuke Takayama by name, so recently as 1870. Something like an ordinary chair was fixed to a light cart, the axle-trees and wheels of which wore
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    THE VEGETABLE GARDEN NUISANCE.
    463 2 As our readers may have seen in the columns of the Pina ng Gazette, the Magistrates in Penang are determined to do their best to put a stop to what throughout the year becomes less an insufferable and unwholesome nuisance. We refer to the practice of
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    THE FRONTIER WAR.
    493 2 The affair on our north-west Indian frontier would seem to be developing into something rather more serious than the little wars to which we have grown accustomed. According to to-day’s telegram, the Afridis are marching through the Khaibar Pass, which means that the tribesmen are about to
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    697 2 The s. 8. Alboin arrived here from Tuticorin this morning with a full cargo of salt. Two Mussulmans were yesterday fined §5 each by Mr. Innes, for holding a funeral without a license. Khaki is about to be introduced as material for the uniform of the Netherlands
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    EXCHANGE.
    37 2 Exchange on London to-day is do’’ l/9| another sharp drop appears m change on Calcutta and B >mbay, which sunk to 138; and yet another fall 1101 1 in exchange Ou Madras, which is no’ 137|.
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    PROVINCE WELLESLEY.
    195 2 (From our own C o'respondent) The Manager of Permataiig Pauh E' killed a large hainadriad behind bis’■l/* last Saturday. The reptile ten feet. This is the second be has hi f the last two months. The first nearly 7 feet. Some time back, a T horse belonging to
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      812 2 y-x j 1 1 n A New Advertisements. Pritchard Co. KIRKMAN’S Vertical Iron Frame i Piano. Full size, in good order. Apply to R. A. LAW, 430 p 0 Office. 1897 NO CE WILL the person who took a Rain Coat of Buff coloured cloth, maker Ross, Exeter, from the
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      350 2 FOR SALE. ONE Lulv's Siddle (quite new); one Genii min's Saddle (qtiile new); ami one Child’s Ponv. F 25 \pply t.> T. GA AV THORNE NOTICE. A I Y wife. Blanche, having left my pro--41 tri t ion Mi ce the 17th July, 1897, I will not be iespotisilde for
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
    22 3 r_. M oUB COKKh.BPONDii.XT.) 11/I 1 IK aN>ON. 19th August. t e JjpEnentfi to-day are—f- Penang, -526 pikuls of tin.
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    A CONFIDENCE TRICK.
    168 3 77 2-3. 1 p m yesterday, whilst a P.W. returning h«>nie along Beach -r abg f sixteen dollars’ worth n i s shoulder, he observed three f il-'wmg behind him, one of 2 d i im about three yards ahead, 2; ’Se him, and the 3rd a
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    NEDERLANDSCHE HANDELMAATSCHAPPIJ.
    123 3 ve received the foil* wing ex'reel pit- rs' Report which was pre- tie Shareholders at the Ordinary Me- ing held in Amsterdam, on V 2? j June, 1897 1 General Balance Sheet and Profit L-- A >unt to 31st December, 1896, e r. ai'er deducting current expenses, L
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    BERI-BERI IN SELANGOR.
    423 3 6v su jr-t of beri-beri the State Sur-j n. Dr. Travers, says in Lis report f r. i e this v-rv sei ’is increase in i- -r b-_ e of Beri-beri partly to the I -.lerirv in the mines and conse- v- v f the miners, and
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    COMINF EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    74 3 aT ]9y H Brud, Datu Kramat Gardens, 5 F M. w :-r at New Jetty, 4-48 a.m and 5-15 P Theatrical Co’s performance, 9 wAT. -TH 7 Quirter, 3-24 p m H:/a-water at New Jetty, 5-37 A.M. ar i 6-14 p m. Theatrical Co’s performance,
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    NEWS FROM INDIA.
    861 3 Typhoid Feveb. Typhoid fever has prevailed in Rangoon to an abnormal extent this rear. Anxiety im Bombay. The increased mortality in Bombay (2nd August) is causing great anxiety There were 311 deaths during lhe last 48 hours. A Lvcmy Pvmtbe. A dividend of Rs. 702 was paid
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    PASSENGERS.
    25 3 Arrival». Yesterday. Per s. 8 Tentonia from Malacca Messrs. Kershaw, and A. R. Venning. Per s s. Thaiprivg from Port Weld: >lr. E. P*vjdeQiL
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    MAIL NOTES.
    938 3 The Queen’s Gift to the Laureate. The Queen has presented to the Poet Laureate a copy of the two volumes of her Journal in the Highlands,” with an autograph inscription on the fly leaf. Hurricane in France. The Soleil publishes a telegram from Bourges, stating that the department
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    THE PRICE OF OUR EASTERN POSSESSIONS.
    97 3 A Judge of the. Supreme Court of Ceylon, writing in the “Scottish Geographical Magazine,” remarks: “When all is said, in a tropdcal climate, even of the best, we live, as it were, on sufferance, and the climate tells on the next generation. F-r everyone
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    PERAK TURF CLUB.
    1665 3 ANNUAL MEETING, 1897. {Special Lt port for the“Pinang G alette.'f First Day, 17th August. Patrons. —H. H. the Sultan of Perak and the R-esident of Perak Stewards. Judge*. H. H. the Sultan of Perak. K.C.M.G- Sir Frank >wettenham. K c.M G., and Capt. H. L Talbot; Starter».
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    SHIPPING.
    55 3 Arrivals. To-day. V Vtjiru.ihG th it> I’.idang. s. s 4lboi from Tuti <<iin. H" ft->m Deh. Lady Weld from T ink Ans- n. Bet», fr-<m T- k Ai s-m. > Jin Hu from L i gkat Yesterday s. lo* <<-/ t roin Si ng; S. S. Teuton I from
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    Departures.
    139 3 To-dat. s. s. Qworr-i for Ln gka s. s. 1' ’L'hji, f-.-r S Hongkong, Str tow a» 1 Am- v. S. S Vil.tr fur I». b s. s. t' f. -r P i;_■ k -i -i T»-lnk Ans->n s. s I.< f..r '1 gkah, K pah. Maliwun, Mi rgui
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      314 3 Ncttick. PRITCHARD Co., in cor sequence of the continued depression in exchange, ben to notify that in order to enable them to maintain a fair standard of charges, on and after the Ist Augu4 their prices will be fixed on a basis of 2s. per dollar, and that upon each
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      354 3 TO LET. B -u-v re- b f 11 Iren. T it. 3*5 Apply < Pittaug Gazette. TO LET. 'I’HEf i’i-rei g r--id-n- ret L’ 1 21 P i it.gß ‘i N !•;mi KaJ Orang- G v- a 121 N rtLam R ad Kensiugt.'U Lodge 418 Apply to MAHOMED ARIFF. INTERNATiCNAL
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      523 4 BUCHANAN WHISKY tq nrwir RFfiT To be had at w Z“ BS K ?HEAN A cHEI O 4’c« p,i sM Same as supplied to the Houses of Lords Commons and all the respectable London Clubs GUAT CHENG BROS. 11 GOON YEN FRIENDS. SOLE IMPORTERS-SA.TZ BROTHERS, LIMITED NOTICE. Mr. Bykamjee B.
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      1696 4 Chamberlain’s Pain Balm ]f>! Is famous for its cures of rheumatism; one application relieves the pain and its continued use for a short time, PROVERBS XXXI Vd'SCS 6 7 insures a cure. Pain Balm is a general liniment and without an equal for lame back, pains in the side or
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      572 4 KHYE FOUNDRY COMPANY WELD QUAY. ENGINEERS. BOILER-MAKERS, IRON AND WASS FOUNDERS, AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS. Bailer Fittings and Engineer s Stores, etc., always in stock. •f- ALLAN, PENANG ICE WORKS? Depots:— Beach Street—Open on week days from 7.30 to 10 a m and fiom noon to 5 p m., <> u
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