Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 5 July 1899

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  • 24 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LVII. WEDNESDAY. sth 5 th JULY, 1899. No. 151.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 613 1 Wppfttg Ihrtitts. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. frp HE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates:— Outw*rd«. Homawafda. Parramatta July 13 Bengal July 15 Chusan 27 Ballaarat 29 Bengal Aug to Coromandel Aug 12 Valetta 24 Parramatta 26 Coromandel Sept 7
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    • 3179 1 Shipping ffrtim,. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD B ITI Ocean Steam Ship Company ‘NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Nippon Yusen Kaisha. ■j j I J L Qi JAPAN M AIL STEAMSHIP Co., Ltd. Neoerianoscne btoomvaart 111 \X. Intended, Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. _-i Maatschappij Ocean. K I For Will Sail Steamer. From
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    • 788 1 Hanks.- Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. (NETHERLAND TRADING SOCIETY Established 1824. Paid-up Capital /*****3.00 0 00 Reserve Funec f 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, P.isoeroean Tjilatjap, Menado, and Gorontalu.
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  • 235 2 London, 4 m July. British West Africa. A Charter Revoked. The house of commons have adopted the revocation of the charter of the Royal Niger Company. Three Divisions. British West Africa will henceforth be divided into three sections, all being under the colonial office. General Free Trade, Except
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  • 222 2 At the first glance, there does not seem to be much connection between tirewood and opium, yet an instance of their association is now to hand. As our readers may be aware, the Perak government have put a prohibitive tax on firewood and other timber obtainable in
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  • 314 2 We hear that some friction has arisen between the government and the trustees of St. George’s Church, in reference to the up-keep of the clock which looks out. generally with rather a premature assurance, upon the public of all persuasions from the steeple of that ecclesiastical building.
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  • 726 2 For causing hurt to a friend, Lim Yam was yesterday sent to prison for two months. The radical party at home are persuaded that an appeal to the country will be made in 1900. Lt Siang was yesterday fined §2, for taking his sampan alongside the s.
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  • 46 2 Period. Cases. Deaths. Total to Ist July 42 33 Ist July to 2nd July 2nd July to 3rd July 3rd |nly to 4th )uly 2 I 4th July to sth July The returns are timed from and to noon on each date named.
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  • 82 2 To day is the Malay annual festival of Mundi Safar, when all the Malays go to the different streams in Kampong Bahru, Ayer Etam, &c and bathe, in the hope that they may thereby wash away their sins. Rongengs and all kinds of amusements will be going on
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  • 108 2 F. M.S. R Engines. The s s. Menelaus has brought out two more locomotives for the Federated Malay States Railway. One is to be sent to Prai, and the other to Tehik zXnson. The cases are now- being sorted near the Jetty Sheds and will be
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  • 99 2 It is reported that the Hindu burial ground in Macalister Road, which has been in existence for more than half a century, is now quite filled with the dead, and that there is no space left where another corpse can be placed. Several persons lately, it
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  • 28 2 Lawn Tennis Tournament. The ties fixed for yesterday, but unavoidably postponed on account of the rain, are now set down for Friday, the 7th instant.
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  • 35 2 The Club Handicap. Owners are reminded that the entries for the Club Handicap, on the first day of the next Penang autumn races, will close 011 Monday, the 10th instant, at noon.
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  • 55 2 The Bangkok Times regrets to learn that Prince Chow Fa Sommotiwongse is dead. His Royal Highness had been suffering for some time from dysentery, and all hope of his recovery had been abandoned. His Royal Highness was own brother to the late Crown Prince, and
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  • 70 2 The steamship Hecuba, when it arrived at Sandakan, says the B. N. B. Herald, brought two elephants for the telegraph department. Their arrival caused immense excitement on the part of the natives who crowded round them on landing, and for some hours a stream of visitors came
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  • 68 2 According to the Official Gazette there were 3-,369 ’foreigners in Yokohama at the end of 1898. occupying 1,432 dwellings. Of this number 3,284 were Chinese, 989 British, 376 Americans, 127 French, 33 Austro Hungarians, 211 Germans, 22 lialiaiis, 43 Dutch, 34 Russians, 94 Swiss, 46 I’orlugue-e, 31
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  • 124 2 The Manila Tinies learns from San Fernando de la Union ihat, with the exception of the Spanish military prisoners, all the others have been lemoved to Ben quel in order to be away from the seat of operations. Theie are, however, many "pamsh civilians engage,l in
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  • 115 2 Growing Demand in the Straits. Mr. C. M Ford, the British consul at Swatow, in his latest repott, speaks of an evident growing demand in the Straits Settlemetils, Cor Inn-China, Siam, and the Netherlands-Indies for the products of that part of China. Sumatra and Java, which, two years
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  • 173 2 A Missing Pair of Slippers. The house of Mr. Tan Hock Beng, cash ier at the police courts, who lives in King Street, was broken into some two months ago, and clothing, slippers, money, &c., to the value of $129 50, were stolen. .A report was
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  • 172 2 One hears an amusing story every now an 1 then of the officious Japanese being “done” by a foreigner, writes a A’okohama con i-spondent to the Hongkong Daily Tele graph zA foreign cyclist here, the other day, in passing through Japanese town, knocked down a native
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  • 284 2 According to a A’okohama correspondent to the Hongkong Daily Telegraph, the minister of justice the other day made some remarks about the prison system in Japan, at a meeting of the Kangoku Kyokai (Prison Association). After speaking of the services the association had rendered to the
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  • 43 2 TELUK ANSON. (3rd July) Tin Shipments. The shipments to-day are To Penang, 501 pikuls of tin. (sth July) The shipments yesterday were— To Penang, 624 pikuls of tin Do- Mi ofore’ lhe shipments to-day are— To Penan", 431 pikuls of tin.
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  • 59 2 Great indignation, says the Press, has been caused at Hongkong k, the report that Shamchun is to be handed back to the Chinese authorities, a moti« tary indemnity being accepted in |j ea thereof in satisfaction of the bad faith of China in connection with the taking oveof
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  • 85 2 N remarkable instance of piracy hash-»- J reported to the Kowloon police. Thirty armed men attacked a couple of junks 1 Mirs Bay and carried off about $2 j and t■■ Occupants across the line, sui a n sending one of the men to Taip
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  • 171 2 A Noteworthy Jubilee. I The Rev. Samuel J Smith arrived ir 1 Bangkok to enter on missionary work M on the 17th of June. 1840, so that 0- 1 Saturday he completed fifty years of work H in this country, says the Bangk k
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  • 265 2 —Manila Tinies Many conflicting rumours regardingt<3 leath or assassination of General Lt:- are afloat. The actual facts are thesis J Luna being Lieut -General of Agiiinaid: 3 forces, and as such subject to Aguinaldsi j orders, has long harboured a feeling ambitious jealousy towards his superior
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  • 531 2 Escape of the Missionaries. DETAILS OF THE OUTBREAK. According to a Foochow telegram the Hongkong Daily Press, dated the of June, early on Wednesday, the 14th I June, a mob of several hundred arm?. countrymen arrived at Kienning city briq I ing with them five men
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1641 2 Pritchard Co. lS’The only Establishment n; onnnflOOTT TX^ U lVy°to 3 and 5 Clove Hall Dispensary. e -o mathieu Furniture in the Colony 3 JZ sAn lt <, O n 1 1 THE LAUNDRY. t-x Solely devoted to the Sale of wholesale retail druggists notice llxlt** AI J tit i
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  • 36 2 DE A Til. Swanson. Accidentally drowned in Penang harbour on the Ist instant, Donald Swanson, Chief Engineer of s s. Clive l>e-p'y mourned by his many friends and acquaintances Rangoon, Indian, and English papers please copy.
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  • 1159 3 the sultan dangerously ill. According to a Vienna telegram the Itan is lying dangerously ill. Great condon in consequence prevails at Yildiz. ESTERHAZY DIVORCED. The first chamber of the civil tribunal the Seine has granted the application ide by Countess Esterhazy for a divorce m her husband, M.
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  • 209 3 Thirty-three deck-passengers arrived here from Port Weld yesterday, by the s. s. Flying Fish. The s. s. Alesia left Port Tewfick for Penang on the 28th of June, and maybe expected here on the 17th of July. Eight males and four females, as deckpassengers, left Penang for Singapore
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  • 382 3 At the mixed court at Shanghai on the i6thofjune, before the magistrate, Mr. Weng and the British assessor, Mr Mayers, three Ningpo men were charged with being concerned with others not in custody in forging a number of $5 bank notes, the facsimile of the Imperial
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  • 64 3 Mails close to-Morrow. Fur Per str. Time. Klang ...Ho' Kwei 7 a.m. Teluk Anson ...Canton z f.m. Madras, via Negapatam, taking mails for Europe Landaura 4 pm. Registration up to 3 p.m. Friday, 7TIL Klang and Malacca.. .Teutonia I r M. MAILS TO AR., r. From Steamers To
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  • 82 3 A rri tala. To-day. s. s. Canton from Teluk Anson. s. s. Sri Bangkah from Padang. Yesterday. s. s. Flying Fish from Port Weld. s. s. Ho Kuei from Klang. s. 5. Since Leak from Kedah. Departure*. Today. s. s. R. Halewyn for Asahan and Batn Bahra s. s.
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  • 214 3 July 6 P. O. Bombay from London, for Singapore, China anjl Japan, Gilfillan Wood Sc Co. 6s. s Moravia from Trieste, for Singapore, China and Japan, S. Kustennann Co. 9«. s. H.ikata Maru from Singapore, for Marseilles. London and Antwerp, Boustead Co. 10 s. s. Varziu from Singapore,
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  • 83 3 Wednesday, sth P. C. C. Lawn Tennis Tournament. High-water at New Jetty, 10-05 a.m. and 10-30 p.m. Thursday, 6th Mail to Europe closes at 4 p.m. P. C. C. Lawn Tennis Tournament. High-water at New Jetty, 10-55 a.m. and 11-20 p.m. Friday, 7TH P. C.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 85 3 It is a virtue of womankind that they like a bargain. The good housekeeper will not spend two shillings where one will do as well. While some would buy a 2 oz. bottle of fluid beef that will make only 5 breakfast cups of beef tea, the experienced purchase a
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    • 550 3 A Relic of the War. Many old soldiers now feel the effects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson of Rossville, York county, Penn., who saw the hardest kind of service at the front, is now frequently troubled with rheumatism. I had a severe
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    • 2154 3 uO.. XTIEWS of Penang, Singapore. Perak V d Uft 0S S A NY Person having claims against the ITIUXTIipUUI LA UUIJ y Selangor, and Sumatra. W■■ W ■■M* W I W A Estate of tbe late Herbert Alexander 1 A Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 5 ft. Edwards, who
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  • 124 4 Penang, sth Ji ly, i? 9Rates close as follows Loudon, Demand Bank f I,l'l. Do. 4 months’sight Bank 20,',, Do. 3 Credits 2,0} Do. 3 Documentary z,'©i Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. >49 Do. 3 days’sight Private 151 Bombay, Demand Bank ‘49 Do. 3 days’sight Private 151 Madras, Demand Bank
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  • 154 4 Penang, sth July, 1899. Tin S;l s (Trang 25.50 Black Pepper < West Coast... no sales. (Acheen Clb no sales. White Pepper 40.12! Cloves (picked) 37Mace No. 1 too.-sellers. Mace Pickings do Nutmegs b do (No. 1 7-75 GO. Sugar 2 4- s 5 (Basket 4-4° d°Tapioca
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  • 137 4 Straits Times, rST Jin.. 1899.) Raub (15/10 pd.) 85S.50'ri.'rs £1 fully paid Soo.— Pnnjoms (s4pd.) —!>:_• >.. Jelebus 185 pd.) Pahang Corp. (£1 pd.) Jl2. South Kaub Ltd. (»100 pd.) $425.—<• Redjang Lebong !2 5- sowr.. Pataling Coffee Co. (jioopd.)... »40. Pengerangs ($5O pd.) Fraser Neave, Ltd.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 378 4 PASSENGER AGENTS IN EHCLAHD WILLIAM J. KEYMER Co (Passage Depart** Pauengert will tie met on arr yu Stea London, and their Baggage cle- .-d ’or.-, Send tis a LETTER before or from Port Said if coming to L• by Ste. <’ and our Representative w II attendance on arrival. Hotel
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    • 2048 4 wo «uteftriuiraiar Worcestershire sauce. solmteDepMs-CT. HOLBORN VIADUCT. LONDON. vious to applying lor the services of the Band. W Vi 11 v ii. Yciiarlwooi), V BY SPECIAL WARRANT THE QUEEN W BEST AND SAFEST APERIENT. 2n(l January lb99 PIIRVPYfIRq Tfl WPRFCQ HP INDIA RECOMMENDED AND PRESCRIBED BY MEDICAL MEN EVERYWHERE. rUKlfilUnO
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    • 664 4 PHOTOGRAPHIC A. KAULFUSB, 27 Farquhar Street. By special appointment to H w Sultan oe Kedah Tl PHOTOS of any kind and style, and after 9 latest inventions. Only ai tistic work B J ust received: Materials specially prepared for use 1 So durability and artistic work guarant I VIEWS of
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