Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 24 March 1900

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  • 22 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAIIjY. NEW SERIES ESTABLISHED 1833. PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LVin. SATURDAY. 24th MARCH, 1900. No. 69
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 823 1 Shipping jrlotirrs. Peninsular a Oriantal Stoam Navigation Company. ..utJJx tp HE m ail steamers may be xA ex P acte <i to arrive out--l' Mfll I 5j wardSl an leave Penang y 4 homewards, on the following dates: Outward’- Homewards. r/,„ 5 a« April 5 Coromandel March 24 1W 19
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    • 1955 1 NADnrxr. 1 rxvn BRITISH INDIA STEIN NAVIGATION COMPANY. Limited. Shipping |lati«s. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. koninklijke hieiwnt m*«sch*ppu.. NEBAPATIN LIRE OF STEINERS. Nippon YUSOH MISM. I Raw».-- iace, Singapore. ffi Intended Suil’itg mid expected Arrival of Steamers. japau mail steamship Co., Ltd. martin smrrr ampton. fngi and. 1 ft ft' 'T3 BRITISH
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    • 993 1 Hanks. Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY. Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f. 35,783,000 (abt. £3,000,000.) Reserve Fund...L 2,773,000 (abt. 225,000.) Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Batavia. Branches: Singapore, Rangoon, Med?n (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padanp, Cheribon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroear, Tjilatjap, Gorontalo, Palembang. Correspondents at Bombay, Colombo, Madras, Pondicherry, Calcutta,
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  • 322 2 The Rebellion in the West. PkIeSKA ReTAKUN. Lord Kitchener has occupied Prieska. Escape of Rebels. The Transvaalers are escaping across the Orange River. Captured Men and Property. 1 hirty-three prisoners, two hundred stands of arms, some supplies and explosives have been captured by the British. Steyn Waxing Wrathful.
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  • 116 2 Reuter reports that the plague is raging in Calcutta and Patna. We have mail advices from Calcutta, dated the 15th instant, from which we gather that, on the r 4 th instant, 127 cases in the capital were reported, being the highest on record. During the week
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  • 120 2 One has been treated to several more or less exciting artillery duels during the present war, so that a duel between two presidents comes as a pleasant variety in the programme. It is true the projectiles consist of neither shot nor shell, but proclamations and counterproclamations may
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  • 141 2 The news from the west is very conflicting. On the 7th, one heard that the force intended to carry out the relief of Mafeking was marching from Kimberley. Now, one hears that the date of its departure has not yet been fixed. On the loth,
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  • 1077 2 '1 he mail bags for Europe will close, to-day, al 5 p.m. The Service, 10-m-nroiv evening, at St. George’s Chinch is entitled Festal Evensong. I lIABVUCHU, where General Frencli has arrived, is about 40 miles almost due east of B'oeinfonlein. I'ou not paying a likisha puller his
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  • 20 2 TEICK ANSON. (23 rd March) Tin Shipments. I he shipments to-day are To Penang, 378 pikuls of tin.
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  • 68 2 According to advices, dated the rotli instant and received yesterday from Calcutta, General Sir William Lockhart had so far lecoveied from his tecent severe illne-s as to be able 10 go to sea for a ten days’ trip in the R. 1. M. S. Guide,
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  • 67 2 SpeLONken, which the Boers are reported to be stocking with provisions for a final stand, is a mountainous canton in the north of the '1 ransvaal, 23 20 S. and 30-20 E. The Spelonkrii mountains stretch south west and north-east for about nineteen mies;the valleys contain
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  • 73 2 The premises of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Peking, which have been completely gutted by fire, were, it appears, only built four years ago. The building was two stories in height. The European staff are two in number. It is unlikely that
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  • 106 2 In conclusion, Sir Wilfrid Laurier sail With these grand ideals, these aspirations, these principles before them, the colonies < f Great Britain to-day stand behind her, not to give her assistanceshe does not need thatbut to affirm to tha world that the unity of the
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  • 138 2 The Neptune Steam Navigation Company, Limited, Manchester, own two vesselsthe Ohio and the Remo which are 'Uitable as troopships. According to the chairman of lhe company they tried hard to get one of the boa's chartered by the War Offi e, and asked that a surveyor might
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  • 130 2 When the news of the relief of Kimberley and the pursuit of Cronje's force reached Europe, the Continental papers had a variety of comment thereon The Folksblatt of Vienna said news of a crushing Biitisli defeat might l>e expected in a few days. The Tageblatt
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  • 151 2 Statement by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce The following paragraph appears in the Market Report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce sent home by the mail on the loth of March The past fortnight has been a quiet one in the market for Cotton and Woollen
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  • 156 2 Unsatisfactory Results. A message of the Englishman from the Sandbeads speaks of the members of Lumsden's Horse who were inoculated for typhoid fever before starting as having -uffered very severely fiom the consequences. I wenty seven individuals underwent the operation, and they are all said to
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  • 191 2 The Cape Town correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company writes hat Lord Kitchener is doing may be best summed up in two stories that are going the round in regard to him. It is said that he was asked the other day whether lie did not propose
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  • 94 2 SUDDEN DEATH OF A MARINE OFFICER Mr. John Kirkwood, chief enpin the P. and O. steams B fl arrived at Colombo on th e 28 """b China, fell dead near the st,'" Grand Oriental Hote', dnri,./ th noon, death being <hie tn 1 The deceased, when on 1, '.,,7' the
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  • 137 2 Pulau Web promises to be a 1 able rival to Singapore in t le Orni coaling foreign men of-war, says t/V Press. Within a short ti me> t e cruiser Kaiserm Elizabeth, t| le 'r r:aa cruiser Deutschland and tl>e Russian Pamiat A eova, all homeward bomoJ'* Smgapore,
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  • 165 2 'Singapore Free Press In the course of an address under ti auspices of the Y. M. C. A in M ani a the 18th February, Chaplain Bateman pressed his fear that there will he a J crop of American mestizos in the ppines in due
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  • 749 2 Ceylon. The Governor of Ceylon has rreirei a telegraphic appeal from the Vicerovf-j help, similarly worded as that sent to Straits, fn reply Sir West RiJgewaysij he was convinced that Ceylon would g s assist, but that he had suspended a tii until the War Fund
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1834 2 1 /V lcbe man tbat batb no music in IMu JlftbertisenirntS. Prifphard f.n 1 bimsclt EoVAbn 1 1 lUvlldl U vv» mor is not movcbwitb concert» of Government of Perak. SWCCt sounbs, Mf A |1 R WANTED. As fit for treason, stratagems, ano teacher for the second standard, ««Oils 1
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  • 1423 3 Last Day of the Siege. Ladysmith, Feb. 25 (by runner to Colenso, Feb. 27). e have waited for relief until we al most despaiied, and we have watched until ou r eyes were sore. hen on February iilh we awakened to the fait that General Duller bad
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  • 41 3 The Lord Mayor has received the following legram from Lord Roberts, dated Jacobsdat, Friday, February 16:The City of London Imperial Volunteers came under fire for first time yesterday, under Colonel Cholmondeley at Jacobsdal, and behaved most gallantly."
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  • 109 3 The improved rifle for the Japanese in fantry the 30th year system 5 rifle’-which is now being mauufactuied in the Tokio arsenal, will be substituted for those now in use in the course of three years. Quick-firing mountain and field guns devised on a system which is
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  • 112 3 In Anecdotes” of the battle of Waterloo occurs the following A commanding officer of the Cuirassiers lowered his sword to General Halket. Several officers cried out They surrender Be firm and fire,” was the instantaneous reply of the general who immediately saw the trick. The volley
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  • 232 3 A circular is being distributed in Paris appealing for subscriptions on behalf of a corps of French volunteers intended for the Transvaal. The appeal, which begins with the words Right against might! refers to the war, equally unjust and cowardly, declared by England against a
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  • 302 3 The First Audience. On the 23rd February, the .Tientsin correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News wrote:The audience has been the chief news of the week in Peking and T ientsin. Kwang-su was seen at close quarters and was thought to be looking much more feeble than
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  • 150 3 After dragging along for more than a year the longest and most sensational murder trial in the annals of the New York Law Courts has come to a close. On Feb. nth the jury found the accused, a man named Molineaux, guilty of murder. The
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  • 174 3 My Lord the Elephant, inspired doubtless by Kipling, has been spreading terror thtough the Crystal Palace and making havoc of Penge, Beckenham, and the surrounding country. Resenting the treatment of his keeper, Charlie, an enormous specimen of his kind, broke loose, and took a companion, Archie, with him.
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  • 186 3 Dr. Sarat Mullick, a Bengali gentle man, now in ETigland, and a bouse physician at one of the London Hospitals, has been addressing the London Indian Society on the life led by Indians in England. His description of theaverage England-returned student is not flattering Endowed with a
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  • 108 3 4th Sunday in Lent. St. George’s Church. Matins and Litany, at 7-30 a.ni. Holy Communion i</iurj(), at tS-15a.n1. Sunday School, at 4 45 p.m. Evensong, with Sermon, at 6 p.m. Church of the Assumption. First Mass, at 6 a.tn. High Mass, at 8 a.m.; and Vespers and Benediction,
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  • 177 3 Sail ko«i, 24TH Arrival of Bishop of Singapore and Sarawak. Cricket, P. C. C. v. Volunteers, at 2 p .in. Mail leaves for Europe at b p.m. bags closing at 5 p.m. Confirmation (Asiatic), at St. George's Church, at b p 111. Tow n Band,
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  • 109 3 Orders l>y Captain A. R. \datns. Acting Conimanda it Parades for The Week. Musketry preliminary drills every evening (except Thursday and Saturday), at 5-15 P-nt. Thursday 29th i r.stant. Officers will attend for sword drill. Detail for the Week. Orderly Officer, Lieut. J. Coghill Jackson. Do. Sergt. A.Co.,
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  • 259 3 Thes. s Erzh Franz Ferdinand (Captain Mowisik) arrived yesterday, fiom Tiieste with a general cargo. The s. s. Langkat (Captain LingarJ) arrived from Deli yesterday, with 31 deikpassengers and a general caigo. The s. s. Swee Leok (Captain Dollah) arrived yesterday from Sungei L'pey with 36 deck-passengers and
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  • 33 3 Mails Ci ose on Monday. For Per sir. 1 ime. Klang ...Mary Austin i l .M. Edie, T. Semawe, Segli 8c Oleblh ...Pegu 3 tm. Tuesday. 27TH. Klang Malacca...Lu/omu 1 r.M
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  • 11 3 Er.ou >lea»ier To Airhe Singapore Stang Leong to-day.
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  • 151 3 Arris-alt Y SST'K»». s. s. Taw Tong from Teulk Anson s. s. Langkat from Deli s. s. /in Ho from Langkat s. s. i egu from Olehleti s. s, Pontianak from Brandan s s. Sri Bangka from Padang s s Cine from Singapore s. s. Ihaipmg from Port Weld
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  • 219 3 Mar. 24 Homeward P. Ac O. Royal Mail Steamer Coromandel from Singapore, < olombo and London, Glltillan \V ood 8c Co. 24 s s Polyphemus from Liverpool, for Singapore and Java, W. Mansfield 8c Co. 26 s. s. Neera from Dell, for Dell. Bc-hn. Meyer 8c Co. 2
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 86 3 hair PRESERVED BEAUTIFIED The onlv reliable preserver and restorer of the hair is Rowland’s Macassar 0.1, which closely resembles the oily matter nature provides for nourishing and stimulating its growth without which the hair becomes dry, d brittle It prevents baldness and sc’irf, strengthens the hair, and for children lays
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    • 311 3 NOTICE. "VTOTICE is hereby given that the partnership lately existing between Khoo Mali Cheong and Cheah Chee 800, carrying on business as crockery shops under the style of Ban Un 208 Beach Street, and Ban I n Chan 262 Beach Street, mutually ceased on the joth January, 1900. The business
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    • 163 3 NOTICE. VIEWS of Penang, Singapore, Perak, Selangor, and Sumatra. Photos enlarged, various sizes up to 3ft. on bromide paper W, JONES, King Street Photographer, When Kou Have a Bad Cold. YOU want the best medicine that can be obtained, and that is Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. You want a remedy that
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    • 1548 3 Co. L 1 p t o n s 19 Beach Street. 3B, BEACH STREET, notice:. Owing to advice in Prices PENANG ARE TME MST wing LU «U aVC r- LIPTON’S TEAS are unapproachable for QUALITY in Europe of all Hardware and Have the pleasure to announce to LIPTON’S TEAS once
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  • 178 4 Pf.nang, 24TH March, 19CO. Tin »80. [Trang 29$ Black Pepper West Coast... no sales I Acheen 6H’ no sales. White Pepper 43 Cloves (picked) 32 50 Mace No. 1 93.h"IIc>« Mace Pickings 80. do. Nutmegs 63. do [No. 1 7-75 do. Sugar I a 485 do IB
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  • 271 4 (s(,.>!/» i»ir 21ST March, i y oo.) Katd.s(>6 10 pd.) *5925 I lllllv |.M» t |b0.25 Kcchau Gold (£lO paid) #l7 50 S. Raul s (Dino pl *2OO Do (*5O pd.) ...♦lOO. sellers. Scpiau ($lO pd.) $l2 ifedjang Lebimg (11. too) 245 Punjouis if 1 pd.i #6.75
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 305 4 .dYING AGENTS IN LONDON. WILLIAM J. KEYMER Co. Offer their services to Firms Abroad. Having for many years bought for the EASTERN MARKETS, they have a thorough knowledge of the Goods suitable for same. On hearing what Goods you trade in. Catalogues or Samples will be mailed Free of Charge.
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    • 1927 4 The North Polar Expedition of the A|6lltS fOP LEA PERRINS’ SAUCE. n,r the abovenamed expedition, W WW J* tVhicll it is supposed, be tra- SR cA fj JU a- Should be In every house for use In time of sickness vellillji for about 3 years, has been and "’•raency. Thousands
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    • 334 4 r?-' y tfcs $2 Per Month the pinang ENLARGED EDITION Per Month (For Local Subscribe $2. THE PINANG GAZETTE” ENLARGED DAILY EDITION TERMS OF |IHE price of the P l t!l ng c, a t 1 free is as follows del -'tr«! Io Gaotrnment Offices and Merchants’ r in Penang.-.
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