Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 September 1899

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY, NEW SERIES.] ESTABLISHED 1833. [PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. EVIL SATURDAY, 23rd SEPTEMBER 1899. No. 218.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 812 1 Wpping Jlotuxs. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. trpHE mail steamers may be expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates: Outwards. Homewards. Parramatta Sept 21 Bengal Sept 23 Chusan Oct 5 J Oct 7 Bengal 19 Coromandel 21 Clyde Nov. 2 Parramatta Nov. 4 Coromandel 16
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    • 1790 1 NfkRDDFTTT’sinin?R I T OVD BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, Limited. Shipping iNUiWDLUIdU ILLIt LLU I D KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. q NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha. 7 r JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP Co., Ltd. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. I F° r Will Sail Steamer. From Expected
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    • 575 1 PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO. A. KAULFUSB, 27 Farquhar Street. By special appointment to H. H. the i Sultan of Kedah. PHOTOS of any kind and style, and after toe latest inventions. Only artistic work. J ust received: Materials specially prepared for use. So durability and artistic work guaranteed. VIEWS of Penang, Native
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    • 427 1 Banks. Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. (NETHERLAND TRADING SOCIETY Established 1524. Paid-up Capital /35,783,000.00 Reserve Fune- .../2,536,444.12! Head Office 1!« Amsterdam. Head Agency in Netherlands India The Factorij of the Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij, Batavia Agencies and Branches.—Singapore, Meda (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang Cheribcn, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean Tjilatjap, Menado Gorontalo, and Rangooa London
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  • 191 2 London, 22nd September. The Dreyfus Case. Home Again. Captain Dreyfus is staying with his relatives at Carpentras. More Easily Ordered Than Obeyed. General Galliffet has issued an order to the army, declaring that the Dreyfus incident is closed, and ordering the matter to be forgotten. Attitude of the
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  • 80 2 We understand that the number of applications for telephone connection with the Penang Telephone Exchange is already about 50. The subscribers include all the principal firms in the town, and the undertaking may now be regarded as an assured success. Those who wish to subscribe, but have
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  • 269 2 With Captain Dreyfus, after all his trials and troubles, resting in the bosom of his family, one might look forward to a slight breathing space in the series of extraordinary events, which constitute what is called the Dreyfus case, but one would be disappointed.
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  • 403 2 The slow method of proceeding against the Transvaal, now followed by the British government, may probably be accounted for by the fact that the latter are waiting for the final adjustment of arrangements with Portugal, concerning Delagoa Bay and the surrounding district. With Lonrentjo Marques and
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  • 1382 2 A white coal mine has been discovered in Hokkaido. The French cruiser Jean Bart is going north to Chefoo and Nagasaki. The report that coal had been discovered near Wei-hai-Wei is untrue. It is still hoped that the hull of the U. S. cable ship Hooker will
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  • 105 2 The Government, says the Perak Pioneer, do not purpose to hand over the Taiping Central School to the American Mission, but will get out a new head master from England. As the salary of the appointment is only s2oo per mensem, the authorities seem determined not to
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  • 143 2 A telegram, says the L. <B> C. Express, has been received in London from the head office of the Straits Insurance Company in Singapore advising the Agent that the eastern portion of the company’s business has been transfer red, by private negotiation, to an Australian company. We
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  • 169 2 Stormy Weather in the Police Court. The further hearing of the case against Versheh and Mira Gani, who are charged with fraudulent possession of a blanket, and obstructing a detective in the execution of his duty, came on before Mr. Woodward yesterday. Mr. Adams appeared for
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  • 243 2 The Firm beg to take exception to your statement, Mr. Editor, that the hospital accommodation here is cheaper than elsewhere in the East. That is not so. In I’enang, Singapore, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and throughout the largest cities of India, and in Rangoon, hospital accommodation is quite
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  • 44 2 [From our own Correspondents! SINGAPORE. (23rd September) H. M S. Powerful H. M. S. Powerful, now yin off Singapore, will sail to-morrow for Mauritius. TELUK ANSON. (23rd September) Tin Shipments The shipments to-day are To Penang, 4«3 pikulsoftin lo Singapore, 3,942 ofore
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  • 109 2 An inquiry has been made by the dj r ectorsof the North-German Lloyd and thĕ Hamburg-America Line as to touebin Macassar on the voyage Hamburg.J av J Manila. The first steamer, Babelsber, bv which this line was opened a few month ago.may probably call at Macassar,altl.oupk this
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  • 138 2 According lo Chinese officials fresh from Peking it appears that Kang Yi, previous to the open rupture between Prince Ching and Jung Lu, had made him,elf obnoxious by his narrow conservatism to both these great Ministers of the Empress-Dowager and between them they succeeded' 3 in getting Kang
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  • 141 2 The N. C. Daily News regrets to record the death on Sunday night (3rd September) of the well known Chinese merchant and philanthropist, Mr. Yeh Cliing-chong, at Ins residence, Shanghai, at the age of sixty, five. The deceased gentleman was conscious to the end
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  • 178 2 Mr. Spencer Pratt, late Consul General of the United States in Singapore, has, it is stated, transmitted to the U. S. Department for Foreign Commerce a copy of a letter addressed by him to General Otis, at Manila, in which he states that upon relinquishing his
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  • 207 2 As is well known, a first class Chinese actor gets a good salary varying from five to fifteen thousand dollars a year, but as he is generally addicted to opium and gambling, his expenditure often exceeds his income, and he resorts to borrowing at heavy interest. Sea
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  • 267 2 An announcement of the highest interest has been made this month. It will be remembered that some time ago Major Ronald Rose made public the theory that malaria is disseminated by a particular kind of mosquito which frequents the malarial swamps, and laden with its poisonous germs,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1701 2 1 1 J n THE LATEST NOVELTY TUC WRECK tto AObrrtisrniriits. PplTOhflPfi I Ift IN M THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE, 1888. 1 I I 111 I I Illi I ll VSu' \JVI OF THE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STRAITS GRAPHBFHONiS. 8. s. STELLA. Summary Case. The Cheapest and Most
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  • 1448 3 Recent events in Penang lead to some u a tion as to the advantages or the erS e of public amateur entertainments. 'l, e advantages are, of course, obvious, ro vided the entertainment be so good fdJeavour can make it. s cVanitas in the Straits
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  • 504 3 Ports oe Call. Pulau Weh has now been found to be unsuitable as a rival to Singapore. The Deli Courant passes under review other likely ports on the mainland of Acheen, and comes to the conclusion that none of them has any chance of rivalling Singapore Penang). On
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  • 90 3 17TH Sunday after Trinity. St. George's Church. Evening Prayer, at 6 p.m. Church oe the Assumption. First Mass, at 6 am High Mass, at 8 am.; and Vespers and Benediction, at 5 p.m. Presbyterian Church. At Prye Dock. Divine Service, at 9 o’clock, in the morning. In Masonic
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  • 95 3 Saturday, 23RD Mail to Europe closes at 5 p.m. Town Band. Golf Club, at 5-30 p.m. Volunteer Corps, paiade at the fort, at 5—6 p.m. High-water at New Jetty, 2-10 a.m. and 2-35 p.m. Sunday, 24TH 17th Sunday after Trinity High-water at New Jetty, 3-0
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  • 787 3 (L, C. Express) Ist September. According to present arrangements, the Prince of Wales will return to England on or about the 10th inst., and will go to Doncaster for the races. The Duke of York concluded his visit to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Bolton Abbey
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  • 125 3 A writer in the Neuc Frei: Presse advo cate= the de-patch of the British mails to India, China, and Australia by a new route. Instead of the overland journey to Brindisi, and the shipping of the mails there, the writer suggests an overland route
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  • 116 3 Penang, 23RD September, 1899. Rates close as foi.i.ows London, Demand Bank Do, 4 months'sight Hank i/uj Do. 3 Credits InJ Do. 3 Documentary 1 11JJ Calcutta, Demand Bank Its. I*s Do. 3 days’sight Private 147 Bombay, Demand Bank 1.;5 Do. 3 days’sight Private 147 Madras, Demand Bank 144) Do.
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  • 84 3 All Members are required to attend at the Orderly Room, Fort Cornwallis (western entrance) between the hours of 5 and 6 in the evening, on Friday or Saturday, the 22nd or 23rd instant, for the purpose of being measured for clothing, equipment, &c., and for other business.
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  • 169 3 The s. s. Deli arrived herefrom Langk.it yesterday morning, with forty-eight deckpassengers, and a cargo of 480 bags ol black pepper and 40 bags of betelnut, lor this port. The s. s. Perse (Captain J. Duff) left Penang for Port Weld yesterday, with one European, as saloon passenger.
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  • 25 3 Mails Close on Monday. Fur Per str. Time. Pangkor and Teluk Anson ...Canton 2 p.m. Tuesday, 26tii. Klang and Malacca. ..Teutonia 1 p.m.
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  • 21 3 From Steamer To Arrive. Singapore Hun" Leong 24-9-99 Liverpool Polyphemus 26-9 99 Singapore Lightning 27-9.99 Suez Shanghai 27-9-99
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  • 126 3 Arrival*. Today. s. s. Coen from Olchleh s. s. Canton from Teluk Anson Yesterday. s. s. Chelydra from Calcutta s. s. Deli from Langkat s. s. Thaiping from Port Weld Departure*. Today. s. s. Ho Kwei for Deli s. s Mary Austin for Klang s. s. Deli for Langkat
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  • 301 3 Sept. 23 s. Glenshiel from London, for Singapore and China, Boustead Co. 26 s. s. Teutonia from Klang, for Klang and Malacca, Huttenbach Liebert Co. 26 s. s. Camorta from Rangoon for Singapore and Manila, Huttenbach Liebert, Co. 26 s. s. Polyphemus from Liverpool, for Singapore and Java,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 318 3 In the Kitchen.—ln the preparation of gravies soups sauces, meat pics, and all savoury dishes, Liebig Company’s Extract imparts the essential features of good cookery—appetising favour, nourishment and digestibili y. 2 TO LET. fc i QTRAWBERRY (Penang Hill). 10 Entry from Ist October, 1899. Apply to R. G. van SOMEREN.
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    • 1350 3 nw Hl* 7 r( Pahang GoYex*nmen€ JSTotiilczition. uOi SALE OF GOLD MINING LAND AT RAUB. JcLS. L. Woodford, rnHE undermentioned blocks of gold mining land at Raub will be sold by public auction on Reach Street. _l_ Monday, the 16th October, 1899, at 10 a.m., on the following terms:— jp
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  • 180 4 Penang, 23RD September 1899. (Trang out of season. Black Pepper West Coast... no sales. (Acheen 6lb no sales. While Tepper 45 Cloves (picked) l^_sellerB Mace No. i Mace Pickings 80.— do. Nutmegs 6 5-- do. (No. 1 7-75 do. Sugar 2 4- 8 5 do. B (basket
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  • 247 4 (Straits Times, 19TH September, 1899.) Raubs (»5/10 pd.) 861.50 buyers. *£t fully paid »62 *Jelebus 185 pd.) *‘4- Pahang Corp. (£1 pd.) .„»’4.25 •>/. "Temelongs selle,r s. ♦Kechau Gold (£lO paid) 812— «S. Kaub Ltd. (8100 pd *****— rum new issue s 5 •Redjang Lebong (fl. 100)
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 179 4 NOTICE. VIEWS of Penang, Singapore. Perak Selangor, and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3 ft. on bromide paper W JONES. King Street. Photograthr PASSENGER AGENTS IN ENGLAND. WILLIAM J. KEYMER Co. (Passage Department). Passengers will be met on arrival of Steamer in London, and their Baggage cleared and
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    • 2683 4 insurance Jrlotias. Agents for LEA PERRIN’ WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. TIVOLI BEER The Royal Insurance Co. 'Kw tfl aJra A CONSIDERABLE reduction in local Life a KAFft» in white glass bottles, i /1 Rates is announced, and prospectuses YEk V WSWI IS Em W l Kj tfd ffKfßs nSHffar Kf IB tr
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    • 651 4 reduced CRUSHED FOOD. I Ne w Stocko ck I Try it and You Will be Sat.. I TR. BELILIOS begs to inform ED I that since inferior Crush 1 Pubicß offered for sale in the Penang Food prices, he desires to draw a tt.‘ et at certificated Crushed Food for'
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