Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 10 January 1901

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    22 1 PINANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES ESTABLISHED ,833. PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LIX. THURSDAY, 10!h JANUARY, 1901. No. 8
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    975 1 Programmi of January Meeting 1331. January 29th 31st February 2nd. FIRST DAY Tuesday, 29th January, 1901. t. Ihe Maiden Plate. Value S4OO. —A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight as per scale (lost.) An allowance of I4lbs. to all ex-Griffins. Entrance $lO. Distance, o: e mile. 2. The
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      771 1 ihrtires* Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. PrjlHE mail steamers may be J- expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates: Outwards. Homewards. Coromandel Jan. 10 Bengal Jan. 13 Af ««•/>« u 24 „26 Bun/al F eb 7 Peninsular Feb. 9 plassy 2t Coromandel 23 March 7
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      1421 1 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. State. al jk. NEGAPATAM L?HE Or STEAMERS. Nippon VUSCO Kaisha. W U [1; tended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. japan mail steamship Co., Ltd. r c -1 For Will Sai 8 Steamer. From Expected on 1 HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE. I Pondicherry, 'and Madras.) j I ■„I A regular
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      700 1 Hanks. Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY. Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f. 35 783,000 (al't. /3,000,000 Reserve Fund...L 2,958,000 (abt. 246-50 1 Head Office in Amsterdam Head Agency in Batavia. Branches: Singapore, Rangoon, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang, Cherebon,'l egal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean, Tjilatjap, Go on a o, Pabmbang. Correspondents at
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    630 2 The United States government have proposed the holding of an international congress, cither in Washington or in some ether capital. The business of the congress would be to consider the amount of indemnity and also the commercial treaties with China. Fifty colonial cyclists made a dash to seize
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    1073 2 A wreath has been sent by the Em peror XX iI he in to be placed on the tomb of the Sultan Saladin at Damascus The P. O. homeward bound royal mail steamer Bengal is expected to leue Singapore, to moirow morning, at 8 o'clock. The ist
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    Legislative Council.
    111 2 Additional business before the Legisla live Council on 1 uesday afternoon inc uded a motion bv the Acting Colonial Secretary that the Council approve- of th propose.! contract for Mail and Coolie Immigration S' rvice between Madras Forts and I’enang; and a question by the Hon. J ButkinshaAV
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    The High Priest of Adam's Peak.
    101 2 The Buddhists of Ceylon have been much concerned over the illness of a very high functionary, indeed, the high priest of Adam’s Peak Chief High Priest Sri Su mangala continues in such a state as to cause much anxiety to his numerous friends and
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    Germany and the Boer Question.
    195 2 Germany and the Boer Question Referring to the assertion made by Herr Bebel on sth Dec., that his altitude towards Mr. Kruger’s journey and the war in South Africa was to be traced to the Emperor’s family connections, Graf von Buelow said ‘‘l can state in the most emphatic manner
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAM.
    45 2 [From our own Correspondents) L ThI.UK ANSON. Tin Shipment*. (9th January) There wete no shipments yesterday. The shipments to-day are To Penang, 1,225 pikuls of tin. Do 49 pikuls of ore. (10th January) The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 279 pikuls of tin.
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    PENANG ASSIZES.
    56 2 Five Klings, named Ibram, Sheik Midin, Kupeb, Sheik Mohamed and Nur weie < barged, yesterday morning, with voluntarily causing grievous hurt to another Kling by throwing him out of a window of a house in Datu Kramat Road. Mr. Ross appeared for the defence. The case was not
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    OUR NEW GOVERNOR.
    114 2 due out here in February Singapore Free Press It is being said ki a probably well informed quarter, that the new Governor is Io arrive in February. But while in the quarter lh.it is responsible for this statement the belief exists that the man is Sir Arthur
    due out here in February—Singapore Free Press  -  114 words
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    PENANG LIBRARY.
    252 2 IM PORTAN 1 COMMITTEE BUSINESS. The Committee of the Penang L'brary met, yesterday afternoon, and transacted s me important business. I here were pre sent the Hon. C. XV. Sneyd Kynnersley (in the chair), the Rev. XV H. C. Dunkerley, and Messrs. Lemon (honorary librarian), Kindersley, Bicknell (honorary
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    PENANG TURF CLUB.
    94 2 THE CLUB HANDICAP. The following are the entries for the Club Handicap 1 Mr Chung Ah Yong's Residue. 2 Mr. Chung Ah X’ong's Olaf. 3 Mr. Cheang Thye Phin's Deemster. 4 Mr. H. I unnicliffe’s Chevalier. 5 Mr. XV. R Chappel’s Rosnaree. 6 Messrs. Jones’s Adams’s Vagrant.
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    PENANG CRICKET CLUB.
    425 2 Lawn Tennis lournament. The following are the results of ties played yesterday Mixed Doubles Miss Hogan Dr. Jamieson beat Miss Q. Brown Mr. J. F. van Rees 6—l, 6—l Miss D. Bradbety Mr C. E. Craig beat Miss Jones Mr. XX'. J. Hodge 6—3, 6—4 Mr-. Oecbsle
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    FURTHER REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
    741 2 28th December to ist J anu Colonial Head Quarters. Major-General Brabant has estal,; i his headquarters at Crado- k. It is be that he administers martial law. Boers Near Johannesburg The Boers yesterday damaged the N kleinfontem Chimes mine machinerv side Johannesburg. N o details hZ- have
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    61 2 (To Singapore Paf er si The Trouble on the Barfly The numbers implicated in the f incident are less than was at first The ill-will felt towards several cnLtstrong. Manchuria Not Annexed, But Protected The Tartar general of Mukden an agreement with the Russian amounting to the formal
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    Serious Attack on Mr. T. Scott.
    178 2 Serious Attack on Mr. T. Sco tt. attack and states that arrested and since charged 0 Press. Last evening (Monday) three Ku>- who had evidently been celebrat in s Christmas too well, were q :iar T in f.; tu some Chinese near the Boustead nwhen Mr. T. Scott, who happen®
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      1364 2 n Af)l REN wanted I PPlfPllflPn I Ift bULUtII o^’ to TO LET. I I LtjllOjl tl VVI take charge of three children (aged four XVT AVV**ww* two and a half years, and ten months, <- ft ***** 11 Respectively) on voyage to England. Passage 17 NTRY 3 ist Marcht
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    A Government Gune Mad.
    908 3 SIR CL\UDE MACDONALD EXPLAINS THE PEKING OUTBREAK. The Foreign Office has issued the official despatches of Sir Claude MacDonald, |,e late British Minister at Peking, O n recent events in the Chinese capital. They contain much new light, of course, on the Boxer outbreak and its
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    Money Panic in Berlin
    246 3 /”250,000,000 Worth of Bonds Involved. Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 12 The slumpin mortgage bonds threatens to wreck Germany’s economic stabil ity. Unless public confidence is restored some banks and bankers here may find themselves in serious difficulties, and a financial crisis of unparalleled gravity may be precipitated
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    GENERAL DE LA REY.
    556 3 AN ENEMY TO BE RESPECTED. No sooner had his eldest son been killed than General De la Rey was joined at the front by his second son, a boy barely yet fourteen, writes Douglas Story. If a leemetford bullet has not found him also, that little
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    ROMANCE OF LLOYD S.
    274 3 Sunken Treasure and Bogus Wrecks The fringe of the romance of Lloyd’s was unravelled at the King’s Weigh House by the secretary, Colonel Hozier, to the keen joy of a crowded audience Lloyd's was the name of Edward Lloyd’s coffee house in Tower-street, where the seven
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    Royal Fleet Reserve.
    434 3 Details of the Admiralty's New Scheme. The Admiralty's new scheme for adding afresh branch to the Naval Reserve is a most important one, as it establishes a le serve for the Royal Marines as i\c as for the seamen who do not stay in the Navy their
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    Growth of London.
    154 3 I he annual report which has just been publi bed by the London county council shews that during the twelve months undei review the council undertook impiove meats—tramways, dwellings, and other schemes—it an estimated gross cost of over eleven millionsand a quarter. Twenty three m les of
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    A Ghastly Holocaust.
    224 3 Football Spectators Plunged into Molten Glass. hili', some twenty thousand people weie watching a footbill ma'ch between the S'a fori an 1 B.ikeley University teams (America), several hundred men and boys c'imbed on the iron louf of the San Francisco Gla-s Wotks to get a fiee view
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    The Birth Place of Mankind.
    294 3 Mr. Samuel Waddington discusses in the Nineteenth Century the precise locality which formed the ciadle of the human race.” He reckons that man first appeare I in the eocene period, which began four millions of years ago. The era He of the human race, he
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    Shortage of Rupees.
    193 3 The Ex :hange Banks in Calcutta have addressed the Government of Indiaregarding the shortage of rupees. They point out that, with a big lice crop in Burma and an exceptional y large cotton crop in India to be shortly financed, the reserve of rupees has fallen so
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    Chinese Laundry Wreck.
    354 3 I’rom iters Disappear. As a 1 ule the Chiram in is ab'e to lake < aie of hiinse'f i 1 any lan I, but there ate forty Cbinam n wandering hungry an I d s Hute in London. Cooks and cabinboys, eck hands and icul ions, from
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    THE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL MATCH.
    1153 3 Sensational Victory for iiiit Oxonians. OXFORD, IO POINTS CAMBRIDGE, 8 POINTS. Cambridge deserve no moie sympathy than they will gel Oxford ail tlieapplause ih <t wi Ibe given tin m. e are ab e to s Il l the fli-h-'ight of memoiy back over twenty yewis
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    Rediang Lebong Mining Company.
    188 3 According to telegraphic advices received from Lebong Donok the extraction for the month of November amounts to about 1209 ounces of gold and about 6795 ounces of silver of the va'tre of about f. 70,600. According to advices by letter from Lebong Donok during ihe month
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    EXCHANGE.
    114 3 Pekano, ioth January, 19 1 Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank z/H Do. 4 maiiths's'ght Bink ?/ti Do. 3 Cre fits z/tj Do, 3 Documentary Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs 156 Do. 3 days’s'ght Private 1571 Bombay, Demand Bank 156 Do. 3 days'sight I’rivate 157. Madras, Demand Bank 115'.
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    PENANG VOLUNTEERS.
    40 3 Orders by Captain A. R. Adam Comm m 'ant. Parade. /(remits Drill.— O.i Friday, the nth, nstant, at 5 15 p m. Orderly Sergeant for tin wetk:—Sergt. H. Niubioinier. By Order, (Sgd.) G. M. Dundas-M iuvr. Lt Ad,.
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    STEAMER REPORTS.
    98 3 I he s s. Betsy (Captain Brown) brought 24 deck-passengeis from Klang, yesterday. The s. s. Thaiping (Captain Mackie) ariivel with 116 deck passengers fiom Port Weld, yestet Jay. I he s. s. Hebe (Captain Inkslet) brought Mr Holloway and 422 deck passengers from bingapoie, this morning. Ihe
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    THE MAILS.
    49 3 Moes Close To morrow. For Per str I llll< Klang and Malacca... Vidar 1 p.m. I eluk Anson and Port Dickson Lady Weld 4 p.m Satukd.i I2T r. Klang ...Mary Austin 1 p.m. I cli Ho Kuei r p.m. Langkat (jiiorra 1 p.m. Tongkah ...Petrel 5 p.m
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE
    45 3 MAILS TO ARR I VE From Steamer I■> lirsre. Hamburg Holsatia to-day Cob in 1 o unai! from Europe) Coromandel Rangoon S'.vasa ir-r-oi Singapore Van Outhoern rz-r-oi Singapore (mail to Europe} Bengal 12-1-01 Singapore Hong Bee 1; I-OI Singapore Chlydra 12-1-01 Negapatain .V. Meanatehy 14-1-ot
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    SHIPPING.
    111 3 4 rrtrats To-day. s. s. Swee Leak from Sungei U pey. s. s Natuna from Belawan s. s Hebe from Singapore Y bstekDAY. s. s. Vidar from Klang s. s. Betsy from Klan; s s. Chan lai from Kedah s. s. 7 h.iiping from Port Weld Departures 10-dav s.
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED.
    187 3 lan. 10 Outward P. O. R. M. S.Corom indel from Colombo, for Singapore and China, Gilfillan Wood Co 12 Homeward P. and O. R. M. S. Bengel from Singapore, for Colombo, Bombay and L' udon, Gilfillan Wood Kt Co. 15 German St, imcr-. s. Sibiria from li mbin
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    144 3 Thursday, ioth P. O. mail from Europe expected to arrive at noon and to sail for Singapore, at 6 p.m, P. C. C. Lawn Tennis Tournament, at 5-10 p.m. High-water at New Jetty, 3-50 am. and 4- p.m. Friday, 1 n 11 P. C. C.
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      37 3 Beef is the most nutritious of all animal food. It takes 40 lbs. of the best beef to make lib of Liebig Compny’s Extract, i.e. the kind signed J. v. Liebig ou blue and now called Lemco.
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      961 3 Newnamefor Liebig Company's Extract. We notice that Liebig’s Extract of Meat Com- -tj 1 J ri pany have dec'ucd to put another distin- guishing mark upo 1 their Extract, in addition to the well-known blue signature I- v. Liebig. 7On and after the Ist of January, 1900, all their jars
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    LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.
    186 4 Penang, ioth January. 1901 Ti n $65.10 nominal (Trang Black Pepper West Coast... no sales. (Acheen6lb.. no sales. White Pepper 4°-5 o Cloves (picked) 26.00 sellers Mace No. 1 86. do. Mace Pickings 88. do. Nutmegs 52- do. I No. 1 7-75 doSugar I 2 4.85 do
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    SINGAPORE SHARE LIST.
    287 4 (Straits Times, Bth January, 1901 Raubs (17/10 pd 845.— 8«jw» *£l billy paid S;5 50 •Kechau Gold (£lO paid) $l9. buyers. The N. Kechau Mining Co. ...$4BO S. Raul s (8:00 pd.) 8165. sellers. Do ,850 pd.) 860. buyers. Bepiau (sio pd.) 814 5° buyers. •Redjang Leboug
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      235 4 WILLIAM J. KEYMER Cm East India <£ Colonial Merchants. Plantation Agents Produce Importers. Passenger, Shipping <£ Insurance Agents. India, China <£ Colonial Newspaper Representatives. 66. FENCHURCH STREET. LONDON. EQ Engineers and General Contractors. Works :—4O Weld Quay. Town Store :—3l Beach Street. British India Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. Sea Trips
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      2551 4 shlre list, JANUARY..™, w st an safe ST aperient. ELLWOOD’S PATENT AIR-CHAMBER HELMETS. s™„. OTOI HOUSEHOLD WORD IN MDI* w m o^r b,a Mining co., Ld. buyers. 80,000 80,000 800 100 V* The Civil Service and the Cognoscent. I. H. E., London, 1884. «5- «5,000 50.1«, ELLWOOD’S PATENT AIR-CHAMBER HELMETS,
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      284 4 82 Per Month the ‘■pinang Qazeft. ENLARGED EDITION. Per Month (For Local Subscribe, 82. Penang Foundry (Established 1876) EER§ MIL L W R Ight’s BRASS and IRON F num SHIPWRIGHTS s Blacksmiths, Coppersmiths p] U mt. BOILER Al AK Ers BRIDGE BUILDERS and CONT RACTORk for the supply and re|..iir
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