Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 14 July 1899

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    22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [ERICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LVII. FRIDAY. 14th JULY, 1899. No. 159.
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      683 1 Shipping £otta. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. frpHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates: Outwards. Homewards. Parramatta July 13 Bengal July 15 Chusan 27 Ballaarat 29 Bengal Aug 10 Coromandel Aug 12 I'aletta 24 Parramatta 26 Coromandel Sept 7 Chusan
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      494 1 %anks. 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, Cheribcn, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean Tjilatjap, Menado, and Gorontalo. London Bankers.—The
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAM.
    68 2 London, 13TH July. Further New* from South Africa Preamble of New Franchise Law The Transvaal volksraad, after debating the new franchise law, has passed the preamble. Afrikander Resolutions. The Cape Town branch of the Afrikander bond has approved of lhe new proposals and also of submitting to arbitration
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    SOUTH AFRICA
    366 2 The news received from the Transvaal during the last few days may seem to some of our readers to be as good as might reasonably be expected, but we do not feel at all re-assured by the present calm. The attitude assumed by each party necessitates a climbingdown
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    PENANG TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
    506 2 Our readers will see elsew here a report of the proceedings at Tuesday's Council, and will note with some amusement the Hon. J. K. Burkinshaw's forlorn hope effort in favour of the Penang Telephone Company as against the Government's endeavour to supplv Penang with an exchange as
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    1116 2 The golf links in the Kua'a Lumpur public gardens were opened oil Tuesday. Mr. Treacher's leave has been extended by three mouths from the 7th of October next. Mr. R. T. Reid, who btoke his leg while playing football at Singapore the other day, is progressing favourably.
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    PLAGUE IN PENANG.
    59 2 Period Cases. Deaths. Total to Bth July 46 34 Bth July Io 9th July 1 9th July to 10th July loth July to nth July 1 ith July to 12th July I ***** July to 13th July 13th July to 14th July 1 The returns ate timed
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    SAD DEATH OF A SINGAPORE DOCTOR
    47 2 Dr. R*it who recently came out to Singap■ <> assist Dr. Kit k, cut his throat, it is a eged, with a razor and was found by his boy" lying slone dead in his room at the Hotel del'Europe, on Tuesday afternoon
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    PASSENGER'S EXAMINATION AT KOH PAI.
    67 2 The following notification appears as a Government Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 1 ith of July With tekrence to Government Notifications Nos 414 and 459 of the Ist June and the ***** June, 1899, telegraphic information has been received from Her Britannic Majesty’s Minister at Bangkok
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    MURDERED BY HIS CHINESE SERVANT.
    74 2 News has been leceived at Nagasaki ol the murder at Vladivostok ot Mr. C. Wahling, of the Va< mini Oil Co. Brief paiticuhirs only are given, from which it appears that the unfortunate man was murdered in lhe night by his Chinese servant, who with
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    AN INGENIOUS METHOD OF HOUSE-BREAKING.
    124 2 Scaffolding Shouid be Watchi-d. Cheng Ah San, who I ad five previous convictions, was yesterday charged with house breakiug-b)-night, before Messrs O Sullivan and Spioule. It was alleged by lhe piose< mion that the prisoner climbed some scaffolding besi ie a house in construction, and
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    “BRUT ROYAL" AND "FIRE"
    123 2 (To the Editor </the Pinang Gazette") Sir, In your issue of the 27th ult you mention that Brut Riyal and Fire ariived from Deli in a wietchtd condition You would oblige me if you could see your way to add to this information, in view of
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    PULAU PAPAN LIGHT-HOUSE.
    151 2 Mr. J D. Ross, m an article in the Singapore Free Press, thus writes of the Pillau I’a pan lighthouse:—After a solitary and metallic meal, I found myself at leisure to enjoy the pleasures of rulau Papan. lhe contemplation of the mddest and most tranquil lighthouse in
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    ELECTRIC MOTORS.
    123 2 Motors have been having a field-day in Paris. One detno istration was a so called obstacle race. I’he course had been strewn with painted wooden dummies, and the competitors had to thread their way at full speed in and out and around them This event had bee 1
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    THE ASSIZES
    155 2 The case against the towchang less hinese baba, named Chiah Lian, and the Malay, named Hussain, who were charged with healing and ciiminal breach of trust in respect of 8 chairs, was concluded yesterday afternoon. Several witnesses were called for the defence and the two prisoners marie long
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    A HOUSE-BREAKER’S DODGE.
    190 2 Detectives’ Successful Manceuvre. Before Messrs. O’Sullivan and Hall, sitting as a court of two magistrates, Li All Yong was yesterday charged with attempting to commit house-breaking by night in Chulia Street. It appears that two Malay detectives, while going their rounds at 2 a.m. on the 12th
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
    18 2 TELUK ANSON. (Itfh July) Tin Shipment*. The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 466 pikuls of tin
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    MAJOR MARCHAND’S LAST.
    79 2 Major Marchand is reported to lav slated to the lepterentative of a French newspaper that if he had been left f rca (Q do as he liked at Fashoda the English would have been thrown out of n, country.” That, lie continued, wouU have been an easy
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    PLAGUE IN PENANG
    102 2 The Deli Courant, which has al! along spoken most kindly of Penang in her p res ent difficulty, continues to discuss the present situation in the same friendly way The sickness continues to prevail with obstinacy that irritates, because u-j all live in the hope that it
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    QUICK WORK.
    103 2 Tur. rapid refit of the cruiser En.iynn' n is noteworthy. Six weeks ago the y tsse was a complete wreck, so to speak, and by the 7th of jtine she was passed out of the dorkyard hands ready for sea—another instance of what can be accomplished at an
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    ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS FOR COLOMBO.
    113 2 Zoological Gardens in Colombo are to be stalled by a limited liability c Om pany on a site to be obtained from government. Mr. John Hagenbeik is the moving spiiit in the matter, and the capital of the company will be rs 75.000 in rs.too shares.
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    THE PLAGUE.
    152 2 The German commission sent out to India in 1897 10 study the bubonic plague has now published its full teport. Hie investigations led to the conclusion that it has long been endemic in certain districts of Northern India With regard to its profiagation, the report attributes thenemplion of
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    A CURIOUS CASE.
    547 2 Alleged Theft from a Thief. 1 he case against the Chinese woman, Charg Lint Kwai, was called at the opening of the assizes on Tuesday, before Mr. Ju-tice Law. Mr. Murison Allan addressed the Judge and said he appeared for the prisoner, and as be bad only
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    LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
    1982 3 TUESDAY, iith JULY. (Straits Tinies.) Pre tent. H. E Major-General J. B. B. Dickson (officer commanding the troops), presiding. Hon. Sir Alexander Swettenhatn, k.g m.g., (colonial secretary). Hon. \V. R. Collyer (attorney general). Hon. F. G. Penney (colonial treasurer). Hon. A. Murray (colonial engineer). Hon. G. S. Murray.
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    MAIL ITEMS.
    323 3 (L. C. Express) 23rd June. Court and Personal. The sixty-second anniversary of the Queen’s Accession was celebrated on the 20th instant. Her Majesty has returned from Balmoral and reaches Windsor to day. Parliament. Business in parliament during the week has been more or less of a routine nature.
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    STEAMER REPORTS.
    460 3 Thirty-two males, seven females, and one child, as deck-passengers, left Penang for Kedah yesterday, by the s. s. Chan Tai. The s. s. Deli, which arrived here from Klang yesterday, brought seven deckpassengers and general cargo, for this port. The B. I. s. s. Henzadah, which arrived here
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    THE MAILS.
    65 3 Mails close to-Morrow. For Pe&gt; str. Time. Calcutta ...C. Apear ...11 a.m. Klang ...Deli &gt; r.M Teluk Anson and Pangkor ...Taw Tong 2 r.M. Deli ...Perse 5 p.m. Ceylon, Australasia, India via Brindisi, taking mails for Europe etc. Bengal 4 r.M. Registration up to 3 r.M. Parcels 2
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE
    31 3 From Steamers To Arrive. Liverpool Laertes to-day Singapore Ixion 15-7-99 •Singapore (mails for Europe} Bengal 15-7-99 Calcutta Lightning &gt;5-7-99 Singapore Telemachus 15-7-99 Singapore Glenfalloch &gt;5-7-99 Suez Formosa &gt;7-7-99
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    SHIPPING.
    87 3 Arch tit. Today. s. s. Nowshera from Rangoon, s s. Henzada from Rangoon. s. s. Sportsman from Kedah. s. s. Swee Leok from Kedah. s. s. C. Apear from Singapore. s. s. Parramatta from Colombo. s. s. Taw ’Jong from Teluk Anson. Yesterday. s. s. Flying Fish from Port
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    178 3 July 15 s. s. Telemachus from Singapore, for Singapore. Hongkong. Amoy and Swatow, W. Mansfield Co. &gt;4 Outward P. O. mail steamer Parramatta from Colombo, for Singapore and China, Gilfillan, Wood Co. &gt;5 Homeward P. O. mail steamer Bengal from Singapore, for Colombo, and London, Gilfillan, Wood Co.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    97 3 Friday, 14TH P. C. C., Lawn Tennis Tournament, at 5-10 p.m. Mail from Europe expected to arrive at 6 a m. High-water at New Jetty, 5 p.m. and 5- a m Saturday &gt;sth S. Swithin. High-water at New Jetty, 5-50 p.m. and 6Auction Sale of
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      1876 3 IHlijfto Co. -ZST G. IZOLPHE, HAIR DRESSING SALOON. WTOSES, U 33. CHOPS. STEAKS, HAM and EGGS, niiinniuiini rnu SANDWICHES, at any hour. SHIPCHANDLERY 33 criterion nFFiN J UST OPENED No Smoke! No Smell! No Recoil! new goods: new goods" f zz Canvas and Twines. ()f $4O 3 a d mo^th^with’XrhoYse‘aHowanVZ
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    EXCHANGE.
    124 4 Penang, 14TH JULY, 1899. Rates close &gt; 01.1 vs •ndon, Deman I Hauk Do. 4 mouths' sight Bank 2 Oi’* Do. 3 Credits 3/oj Do. 3 Documentary z/o-J alcutta, Demand Bank Its. 149.; Do. 3 days'sight i’n.al" '5 l onibay, Demand Bank '491 Do. 3 days’siglit Pri .ale 151
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS
    174 4 Pena sc, 14TH Ji i-v, 1899. Tin 878.— sellers. (Trang 25.50 Black Peppe. West Coast... no sa cs I Acheeii 611'... no sales. White Pepper 4 O 2 5 Cloves (picked 37Mace No. 1 .00.—Ileis. Mace Pickings 80. -to. Nutmegs f J 0 I No. 7-75 do.
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST
    152 4 Straits Times, 12TH July, 1599.) Raub (15/10 pd.) 863.50 s/s. brs. £1 fully paid 165. do Punjoms (»4pd.) »15.— w.'u'rs. Jelebus (»5 pd.) »&gt;3-75 do Pahang Corp. £1 pd.) 915. su/rs. South Kaub Ltd.(Bioo pd.) «425.— fcuyrrs. Redjang Lebong J 160.— do Pataling Coffee Co. (fioopd.i... »20.
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