Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 16 March 1899

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY, NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LVII. THURSDAY. 16th MARCH, 1899. No. 60.
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      527 1 pipping ftotitts. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. rjIHE mail steamers may b expected to arrive cut z wards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following -F7 dates Outwards. Homewards. Baliaarat Mar. 23 Parramatta Mar. 25 Coromandel April 6 Chusan April 8 Parramatta 20 Bengal 22 Chusan May 4 Baliaarat May
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      1488 1 Shipping Entires. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, Limited. Shipping (notices. n c ck P XONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. w Ocean Steam Snip Company. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Nippon Yusen Kaisha. East Indian Ocaan Steam Ship Co. Ltd. japan mail steamship co m Ltd. AND Intended Sailing and expect'd Arrival of Steamers.
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      549 1 anks. i Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. (NETHERLAND TRADING SOCIETY Established 1824. Paid-up Capital /35,783,000.00 Reserve Fune: 2,536,444.12$ Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India The Factorij of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia. Agencies and Branches.Singapore, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean Tjilatjap, Menado, and Gorontalo. London
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    EXCHANGE.
    123 2 Penang, i6th March, 1899. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 1/11A Do. 4 months’ sight Bank 1/11H Do. 3 Credits 2/0 Do. 3 Documentary 2/o| Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. 1471 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 149$ Bombay, Demand Bank 1471 Do. 3 days’ sight Private 149! Madras, Demand
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    172 2 Penang, i6th March, 1899. Tin $63.10 Trang 27sellers. Black Pepper West Coast... no-sales. (Acheen 61b no-sales. White Pepper 40.50 sellers. Cloves (picked) Mace No. 1 100.—sellers. Mace Pickings 80 do. Nutmegs 70. do. I No. 1 7.75 do. Sugar 2 4-85 do. (Basket 4.60 do. Tapioca Flour
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    MAIL NOTICE.
    55 2 Mails close To morrow. Fur Per str. TimeCalcutta ...Lightning ...11 am. Klang <Sc Malacca ...Teutonia noon. Klang ...Mary Austin Deli ...Avagyee Edie, T. Semawc, Segli and Olehleh...P*gu 2 p.m. T. Anson 6c Port Dickson Lady Weld... 4 p.m Madras, dec. ...Lalpoura 4 p-M. Registration up 3 p.m. Saturday.
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE.
    21 2 From Steamers To arrive. Singapore Glenfalloch to-day. Liverpool Sarpedon Rangoon [mails from Europe) Java 18-3-99. Mouhnein Penang 18-3-99.
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    SHIPPING.
    284 2 Arrival*. To-day. s. s. Lightning from Singapore. s. s. Ncrbudda from Singapore. s. s. Prins Alexander from Acheen. s. s. Lady Weld from Teluk Anson. Yesterday. s. s. Thaipeng from Pout Weld. s. s. Pegu from AcheenDeparture*. To-day. s.s.G.G. v. Lansberge for Edie, T. Sernawe. Segli and Olehleh. s.
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAM.
    144 2 London, 15TH March. Sir C. Macdonald’s Health. Enforced Departure from Peking. The Times learns that Sir Claude MacDonald’s state of health renders short leave of absence imperative. Statement by the Italian Foreign Secretary. I Recall of Signor Martinc. Admiral Count Canevaro has in the Italian chamber of deputies
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    MARRIAGE.
    34 2 LarkinsHaddon. -On the 16th inst., before the Registrar. Edu \kd Mills Larkins to Marjory H addon (lately wife of Major H. E. Haddon, Executive Engineer, Bombay), third daughter of Sir John Lambert, k.c.b.
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    EDITORIAL NOTES.
    1076 2 Responsibility of Government. A question has come before the Australian courts that, so far as we know, lias never exercised the minds of the judges in the Straits. A prisoner, undergoing sentence in a Queensland gaol, received severe injuries fiom the explosion of a gauge glass on the
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    1127 2 P. C Sahat was this morning fined $2 by Mr. Howard, for committing nuisance 011 the public mad, while on duty. Tow K*Y l’u Tong Sew is opening a new mine in Trntoh «Imingthe present month, and lias <>id« :c<! a large batch cf coolies to lie
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    COFFEE AT LEMBAH KLUANG.
    133 2 H. H. Raja Chilian (Selama district) reports for January :On ti e 26th Messrs. Lamb and Hodson, both of Prye Estate, arrived on a shooting expedition, having come overland through Kedah. The next day I took them to Lembah Kluang and thence to Tebing Tinggi, returning
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    THE ROBINSON PIANO CO.
    45 2 The attention of the readers o f n, Ptnang Gazette is invited to an adment inserted by the well-known Robinson Piano Company, o f Sinm Hongkong, Shanghai, high class pianos are for sale for cash’ on the monthly payment system. F
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    GRAND SMOKING CONCERT.
    72 2 As will be seen from an advertisement there is to be a smoking concert at tb Town Hall on Saturday next, v]) Mr. Ohl and his companions will deavour to amuse the audience with sin"' ing and dancing. Mr. Ohl has just arrived from a tour to
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    THE RAJA MUDA OF PERAK.
    101 2 Mr J. Brewster thus pleasantly repo rts f the recent installation of Raia Mu«ahtnC 1 tan Jaffar His Highness Raja M Usa bin Sultan Jaffar left early in the month to I installed Raja Muda of Perak he return* ed here on the 17th, and
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    ACCIDENT AT THE SACRED ALTAR.
    98 2 It is said that during the festivities of the Sacred-Altar, a great accident hap. pened at noon, says the SrTrm Free Prt'i. Ihe toof of the saloon fell down; two Siamese piiests were seriously wounded one was hurt by a pointed piece of wood which
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    MUNICIPAL MEETINGS.
    100 2 Special. The following are the agenda for the special and ordinary meetings to be held to-morrow 1. Minutes of last meeting to be read and con filmed 2. Revised by-law no. 3 of the execu ive administration and duties of officers of the municipality. 3. To consider by-law
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    MINING AT SUNGEI SALAK.
    212 2 Road to the Mine Wanted. Mr. T. W. Row ley thus writes in his last report to hand on the Tanjong Malm district :On the Ist I was out at Sungei Salak, returning next day. The Messrs Tait are making good progress in the development of
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    PLUCKY MALAY POLICEMEN.
    248 2 Perak It appears that towkay Lok tew ism habit of sending treasure from u3J Lumpur to Bentong. On the 30th December last such a remittance va s by coolie under the care of ll ir s e a T policemen of Selangor. That night l put up
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      643 2 jtßiu giiibertiseitttttts. PENANG TOWN HALL SATURDAY, 18th MARCH. Grand Smoking Concert By the following artistes Miss SAVART, de I’ Eldorado de Paris. Miss FLORRIE WEST, Australian premiere danseuse. (English Songs). Mr. OHL, Pianiste Soliste du Conservatoire de Paris. PROGRAMME. PART I. Si J’ etais Roi (Overture) by Mr. Ohl. Gratez
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    PERAK INDIAN IMMIGRATION REPORT.
    319 3 Tamils Ousting Chinese. I Mr. A. W. Just thus reports for the wear 1898 0 Since 1897 the number of employers Importing statute immigrants under Order in Council No. 9 of 1895 has increased rom two to five. Of these five employers, Bhree are private companies
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    SPORTING NEWS.
    284 3 The Australian Team for 1890. W. Howell and F. A. Iredale, of New South Wales, and A. E Johns, of ictoria, will occupy three of the remaining places in the Australian team. This trio, with H. Trumble, J. Worrall, and MLeod, of Victoria; S. E. Gregory and M.
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    MAIL NOTES.
    294 3 Death of a Multi-Millionaire. A Central news message from New York reports that Patricio Milmo, an Englishman who has long resided in Mexico, and was a multi millionaire,” died no the 15th of February. He was the father-in-law of Prince Radzavici, a Russian nobleftian Narrow’ Escape of the
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      19 3 Ihe thrifty housekeeper is never without Liebig Company's Extract. The cheapest stockpoq it goes such a long way. 1
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      1496 3 McAlister Co. Jas. C. Woodford. -LJ return to Penang on his Fourth Professional Visit. \A/a ix -.1 Letters to be addressed in the meantime gB we have now a complete stock of the following goods NEW BOOKS. NEW BOOKS. c/o Pinang Gazette on hand. Camping and Tramping in Malaya, cane
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    GULA ESTATE.
    106 4 Mr. A. W. Just reports:The complaints on this estate are remarkably few. Of this estate the district surgeon reports of the fifty-two deaths forty-two occurred in hospital, and of these twenty-two are under five years old, twenty being under one year old. The hospital is a good building
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    AN OPIUM "PERKARA" IN BATAVIA.
    934 4 Singapore rree Press. Alleged Lady Smuggler. OF A GOOD DUTCH FAMILY. It will be remembered that some time ago a European lady, caught selling smuggled opium in Batavia, got away by the French mail, as she was on board the boat before the documents could
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      1278 4 PENANG BAND. I F 3, I T’C Ft 7% y?& CO. I Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy TCTOTICE is hereby given that from the date A < V Is the best medicine in the WOrld for COUghs, Colds Sole Agents for Penang, Native States, umatra croup and whoo p inff coug h.
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    THE BLINDING OF A COOLIE.
    200 5 {To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette") Sir, In your article on the case of blinding a coolie, in which sentence was passed on the offenders on Tuesday last, you are in error in alleging that the fact of an attempted outrage to the female
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    DR. AVETOOM AND THE SMALL-BOX OUTBREAK.
    367 5 {To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette") Dear Sir, Much Amused" is easily amused. His letter of the 1 ith is a striking example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing 1 Had he at any time applied to me for information, I
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    PENANG CRICKET CLUB.
    50 5 Spring Tennis Tournament. Final Results. Championship. Champion A. S. Anthony. Runner-up: D. A. M. Brown. Single Handicap. Class A. C. A. Law. Class B. D Graham. Class C. A. E. G. Covenay. Double Handicap. II Cobb G. B F. Southam. Mixed Doubles. Mrs. Adams F. Coghill Jackson.
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    PASSENGERS.
    23 5 Arrivals To-day. Per s. s. Nerbudda from Singapore, Messrs. Stiffin, Koeller, E. Nassim, W. Hare, Long Wong and Schwartz, and Mrs. Elleson.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    129 5 Thursday, i6th: High-water at New Jetty, 3-20 p.m. and 3- a m. I riday, 17TH St. Patrick’s Day. High-water at New Jetty, 4-10 p m. and 4- a.in Mail to Europe closes at 4 p.m. Auction Sale of Furniture. 314 Dato Krainat Road, at 11
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    THE ASSIZES.
    804 5 Padang Lalang Charge of Murder. This case, which had occupied the court for nearly three days, was concluded yesterday afternoon at a quarter to three o’clock. It appears from the story of the prosecution that the accused, Arunashellam, was an engine-driver on Junjong Mati Estate. I*. W., and
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      117 5 PENANG SALES ROOM. IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE. The undersigned is instructed to sell by Public Auction On Saturday, the 18th March, 1899, Arnville,” No. 337 Anson Road, commencing at 11-30 a.m. Ail the Valuable European Countrymade Household Furniture, &c., comprising Dining Table, Chairs, Sideboards. Dinner Waggons, Single Double Iron Bedsteads, Wardrobe,
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      1944 5 Mrs. ELLIOTT, FOR SALE. TK 1 1 1 A Rfl PritChUTd CO. MUSIC. NOTICE 135 BukitTambun, P. IV. Applications win be received at the to let. lyj I JRjfV Resident Councillor's Office, Penang, up T>REMISES No 1?A Nort ham Road. Entry WBWViWt to the 21 st March, 1599, for the
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