Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 28 August 1897

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. published daily. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. \PR!CE 20 CENTS. VOL. LV. SATURDAY, 28th AUGUST, 1897. No. 194.
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      520 1 Buying ltoftceis. <ihir Oriental Steam ivi<r iii-m Company. pHE mail steamers may he i- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang y homewards, on the following ~J? dates Outwards. Homewards. Aug 27 Kaisar-i-hind Sept. 2 S->: 10 Rosetta 16 23 Rohilla 30 L Oct. 8 Nirzapore Oct 14 22 Ravenna
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      650 1 NEl)lf!:!,msUlt HANDEL IUATSCiIki’I'U (Net her land Trading Society.) Established 1X24. Paid-up Capital /35,783,000.00 Reserve Funds 2,404,166.45 Hbad Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India.— The Factorij of the Nedeilandsch* Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches.—Singapore Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sonrabaia, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasaroean, and Tjilatjap. London Bankers.—The Union
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    EXCHANGE.
    124 2 Penang, 28th August, 1897. Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 1/9} Do. 4 months’ sight Bank... 1/10 Do. 3 Credits ...T 10) Do. 3 Documentary Calcutta Demand Bank Rs. 139 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 142 Bombay, Demand Bank 13 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 142 Madras, Demand
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    174 2 Pknang. 28th August. i"97. Tin $39.30 sellers. Trang $22. —sellers. Black Pepper J West Coast... 17 sellers. Aoheen HU. i 8 60 do. White Pepper... 2710 do Cloves (picked).. out of season Mace No. 1 95. sellers. Mace Pickings... 82— do. Nutmegs 81 50 do. (No Ivi.SK»
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    58 2 From Singapore—B. I. s. s Liudula and s. s. Cahfpeo on Monday m-xt. From LivkrpooL—s. s. Jar n on Monday next. From Negapatam -B. I. s. s. Latrada on Tuesday next. From Liverpool—s. s. Aiiamemnon on Tuesday next From Calcutta—s. s. Sui Sung on Tuesday next. From
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    LIST OF VISITORS.
    104 2 Eastern A Oriental Hotel. Mr. i Mrs. Buckle. Egerton East wick. Shearwood. Mrs Earle. Capt. A Mrs van de Lee. Mr. Bicknell. W. Bruider, F J. Duller, E. Lusink, J. Mac Heussy. Rodermann. Scott. U. Stark. James. William Smith. Mrs. E. E. Wilding. Mr. P. Fademrecht. Weissglas.
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAM.
    103 2 LONDON, 27th August. S. S. “Glengyle” in Collision. The s. s. Glengyle has been beached near Gibraltar, after being badly damaged by collision. The crew and passengers have been saved. Later. The s. s. Glengyle has since been floated and towed to Gibraltar. The French President. President Faure
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    ABOUT OFFICIAL ASSIGNEES AND SHERIFFS.
    526 2 On turning to the Official Assignee’s report for 1896, our readers will notice a table on page 10, which gives the number of receiving orders and administration orders made under the Bankruptcy Ordinance, since its iny-oduction, in each Settlement. According to tliis the Bankruptcy work
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    540 2 The Hon. Resident Councillor visited H. M. S. Plover this morning. Three Chinese were yesterday fined $2 each by Mr. Saunders, for gambling. Mrs. Hargreaves left Penang for Europe last niglit, on board tbe s. h. Glengarry. The total fohce to hold tbe Indian frontier is 37,000,
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    POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN OPERA CO.
    65 2 We are very pleased to be able to announce the arrival in Penang of Mr. Arthur H. Pollard, the advance representative of Pollards’ Lilliputian Opera Company. The Lilliputians aie now playing to crowded houses in Singapore, but they will leave next week and should reach Penang
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    THE CINELECTROGRAPH.
    79 2 We would call the attention of our readers to the Cinelectrograpb Exhibition to-night at the Parsi Theatre. The performances will be given from 6 to 7 p.m., and 7 to 8 p.m., i.e., before the hour for the commencement of the usual play by the Parsi Theatrical Co.
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    TO-MORROW'S SERVICES.
    87 2 St. Geohge's Church. Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. Morning Service, with Holy Communion, at 8 o’clock. —Hymns 242 and 316. Evening Service at 6 o’clock—Psalms CXLU and C'XLIII (274); Hymns 304; 223, and 19. Church of the Assumption. Ist Mass at 6 am High Mass at 8 A.M., and
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    MUNICIPAL MEETING.
    469 2 AM EE Tr»a„f t m w». I.«l. the »ri">>oou Mr. J. Y. Kenned, Mr. J. Gibson, q p Mr A H.C»p P er„erep, P Ihe minutes of tlin kS and confirmed. ,ln The President sn.l that. ie i, two petitions from the Munici,, regarding the hid. p,i,e of
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    THE UNITED PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION.
    249 2 Indian Immigration. At the recent meeting of the ab ve A—ciation, as to which we published a ttlu':. on Tuesday, the Secretary read the cellpondence with the Resident-General. respect to Indian Immigration as aff < Province Wellesley and the Native S as follows Sir, —I have
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    SHORT-REELED COTTON YARN AT SINGAPORE.
    130 2 Two firms, members of the lllt Chamber of Commerce, had the notice of the Chiun her the tact 1 1. reeled dyed cotton yarns wen* in the Singapore market. Ibe tional Committee asked for samp < of the yarn in question, and bat two' tested
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      962 2 «i i inn New advertisements. Pritchard Co. town h all Pollards Lilliputian Opera Co. 1897 WILL OPEN IN THE ABOVE HALL CNIDE Monday, tfept. 6t/i, In Gilbert and .Sullivan’s Greatest Success SHOOTING the MIZAD® Tuesday, Sept, "th, Andran’s ...LaMascotte. wJ Wednesday, Bth, Alfred Collier’s Dorothy. Thursday, 9th, R.Von Suppe’s. Boccaccio.
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      87 2 TO LET. ROOMS with Board, within easy reach of i Town. Terms moderate. 385 Apply to C Pinang Gazette. Mrs. F. Bernstien, DIPLOMAED PRACTICAL MIDWIFE. 68 Bishop Street, Penang. NOTICE. f pHE Office of the Consulate for the Nether1 lands has been reinovedWo 11 Union Street. 388 U BERNSTEIN, Manufacturing
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    "WHAT'S IN A NAME?"
    60 3 Y vi ky great deal apparently, think the men in Penang, s.ivs the Times of At any rate amongst the horses in f. r the race-meeting there we find v :es of Galtee More and Persimmon. -uuh names as Victoria and Jubilee strike one as feeble.
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    THE CEYLON GRIFFINS.
    202 3 'l'hkeat of the Horsepond FoE the Agent. r H C'-vlon griffin importation of 1897 -1. pear to have been a success, to ,iu the f llowiug remaiks in a Cev- u n etnporary tii. as of the horse trade have sup- p with cartoons, year in and
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    RAMIE CULTIVATION.
    223 3 Turing the recent meeting of the United er- Association, Mr. Macdonald, on u of th- Chairman, addressed the n rhe subject of ramie cultivation. -dd, grew in the M day Peninsula, -w luxuriantly, and a very large v uld be grown per acre. Tnere ■J u a shadow
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    LATEST FROM INDIA.
    442 3 The Frostier War. The Ind; in G vernment. it appears, does tend d di.g more with the frouiier than punish the guilty tribesmen. Attack on Jalala. T’.r First M.dakand Brigade, under -tie il Sir Bindon Blood, attacked the Jalala on 17th inst. Colonel A klej. ’in er
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    INDIAN FINANCE AND CURRENCY.
    327 3 The London Times again applauds the financial policy now being pursued in India, and talks about patience and courage alone being needed to bring about the end the Indian Government have in view—the raising of the rupee to Is. 4d. Very probably, says the Times of
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    THE SILVER PROBLEM.
    431 3 ture by virtue of natural reaction.— P. and T. Times. Commercial men iu China are daily becoming more and more painfully aware that the gieat silver problem which has adumbrated the commercial outlook during the past ten years, is no nearer solution now than it was three
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    EXPECTED TARIFF RESULTS.
    274 3 From the Nev: York Correspondent to the Pall Mall Gazette." The estimated revenue to be derived from the new tariff, under the compromise schedules, is 275,500,000 dols., that under the Wilson bill, whose place it takes, being but 156,104,598 dols. Of this revenue sugar is expected to
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    REPORT ON IRE SELANGOR MEDICAL DEPARTMENT FOR 1896.
    910 3 In his last report Dr. E. A. O. Travers thus writes —lt will be seen that although some 3.U00 more patients have been treated than in 1895, the death rate shows a satisfactory fall of a little over 1 per cent. Mining
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    SOUVENIR OF THE JUBILEE CELEBRATION.
    86 3 A pictorial souvenir of the recent Jubilee festivities in Ceylon has just been issued by Messrs. H. W. Cave A Co. The book has no letter-press, and is entirely composed of photographs of scenes at Colombo and elsewhere at Jubilee time while there is one
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    THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE.
    259 3 We give below the gist of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Encyclical, on his closing the Lambeth Conference. It appears to be a very practical letter, couched in a broad-minded spirit The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an encyclical letter upon the results of the Pan-Anglican Conference, which
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    RETORTED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH OFFICER.
    40 3 Captain Rouneau, who was in Bangkok some mouths ago, ami who was accused of embezzlement from the funds of his regiment, is said to have committed suicide bv hanging iu his cell at Saigon.
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    A HORRIBLE REVENGE.
    278 3 When Messrs. Fraser, Lunn, and Lowe, who are now amusing themselves bv cvcling round the world, reached Abadeli, in Persia, they found that opium smoking is the favourite vice < f the Abadehites. It is carried, they write, to such an extent that when you offer a
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    PASSENGERS.
    11 3 Arrivals. To-day. Pers. s. Chinj Ho from Singapore; Mr. Bodeu.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    111 3 Saturday. 28th Golf, August Medal.® Sale of Household Furniture at No. 3 College Lane. Town Band, Golf Club, 5 P M. New Moon. 10.24 a m. Whole day's Cricket, Butterworth R. C. v. Knau, at Butterworth High-wat»*r at New Jetty, 12-09 P.M. and 12-27 a
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    OFFICIAL MINUTES.
    354 3 Meetinc of the Municipal Commissioners meld on Friday, the 13th Augcst, 1897. Present.— J. Y. Kennedy. Esq., (President). A. H. Capper. Esq., and G. F. Adamson, Esq. Absenf.— J. Gibson, Esq., Cheah Chen Eok, Esq., and R. A. P. Hogan. Esq. 1. The minutes of the last Meeting
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    MARKET PRICES.
    163 3 < entral Market* Penang, 28th August, 1597. Description. Beef— et». Soup per catty 1U Roast 2U Steaks 20 Stew or Curry Meat jrt Rump Steak 20 Ox Tail each 35 Tongue 50 Feet 10 Heart per catty 25 Tripe 8 Liver 16 Pork Pork 22 Pig’s Head each
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    193 3 (Nu <»/» I'iMes. 25th Augcst Kaul— (13 lo pi].)... 19 t’les X b’yert. XI fully panl ,20. Puiijniiis (f 4 p I.) '7 00, soles. Jelaloi- t f.*> p<l.) '2.15. Pabang <'.o p XI p l >A7S sellers Pataling Col Tee Co. ($7O pd.) (377 sellers. Penueraiigs
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    SHIPPING.
    275 3 A rrivals. j To-day. P. O s. s. Ravenna, from Loudon. s. s. Fitzpatrick from liangoou. s. s. Chiny Wo from Singapore. Yesterday. s. s. Vidar from Deli. s. s. Qu-irra from Langkat. s, s. Artsodong from Pudang. s. s. Pontiauak from Langkat. Departures. To-day. s. s. Perxe for
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      25 3 BAGNALL HILLES, Electrical Engineers and Contractors, IMPORTERS of Electrical and Steam Apparatus. Offices 22 Yokohama, Japan. 13 Cortlandt St., New York. 3Oa Raffles Place, Singapore.
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      171 3 FOR SALE. KIRKMAN’S Vertical Iron Frame Jk. Piano. Full size, in g »od order. Apply to R. A. LAW, 410 Poet Office. DENTAL NOTICE. I R. J. F TEUFEBT. D ntal Surgeon, 31 has left f»&gt;r Kuala Lumpur and will re-visit Penang about four w»-»-ks hence. CARD. Mr. James R.
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      301 4 GEORGE TOWN DISPENSARY SOLE AGENTS FOR N. Lazarus’ Spectacles. SIGHT THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GLASSES SUPPLIED. THE .DISPENSARY 2 Bishop Street, IS OPEN DAILY from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday to 3 nn. Sunday hours 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Prescriptions accurately dispensed. SPECTACLES to suit every variety of defective
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