Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 23 February 1901

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES ESTABLISHED PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL LIX. SATURDAY, 23rd FEBRUARY, 1901. No. 42
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 748 1 liotires. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. PrjIHE mail steamers may be -L expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates: Outwards. Homewards. ri,uc,m March 7 Coromandel Feb. 23 siX 21 Parramatta Mar. Coromandel April 4 23 18 ass y April 6 May 2 Chusan 2O S
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    • 1722 1 NflDnnri ITCrut D I I BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, Limited. The List of Applications will close on 4th March, 1901. IMUnUULU I OVFIC.H LLUYD. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ ft ft. NE6APATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. ft T ZEI ZE bi tended Sailing and expected Arrival oj Steamers. w.u.5.7 zz CHUMOR TIN
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    • 677 1 Yanits. Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij. NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY. Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f. 35 783,000 (abt. £3,000,000 Reserve FuND...f. 2,958.000 (aLt. 246,500 Head Office in Amsterdam Head Agency in Batavia. Branches: Singapore, Rangoon, Medan (Deli), Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang, Cherebon, legal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean, Tjilatjap, Go ontalo, Pah mbang. Correspondents at Bombay, Colombo,
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  • 195 2 22nd February. The Strife in South Africa. DE WET'S POSITION. Commandant de Wet is close to the Orange River; his objective being Griqualand West. PLUMER STILL PURSUING. Colonel Plumer is reported to be still pursuing him. BOERS ON THE RETREAT. Ihe invaders, everywhere in Cape Colony, are i
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  • 747 2 A boatman, for taking his sampan alongside the s. s. Sportsman before she was moored, has been fined $l. Tiik mail despatcih d from Penang to London via Biindision the 26th of January was delivered on the 18th instant. A t iRK occurred in Dalliousie Street, Rangoon,
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  • 23 2 Lord Roberts takes the title of Viscount St Pi-tre, an I Earl R b.rts of Kandahar, Pretoria, and Waterford
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  • 30 2 The London Gazette has announced the appointment of Str Dighton Probyn to the Privy Purse and Sir Francis Kno'dys, as Private Secretary to His Majesty the King.
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  • 41 2 A Times telegram from Peking states that Sir E. Satow has refused to accept an obscure official as Chinese envoy to E»g land to off.-r conJolence to the King on the death of Queen-Empress Victoria.
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  • 116 2 No Action to be laken Lord George Hamilton in receiving a Cooper's Hill deputation sail the state rnents appearing in the press ha I been ex [arte. Ihe Institution was in an trnatisf.r tory state, both as regards teaching and discipline, and he refused to sacrifi
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  • 108 2 In rep'y to a telegram sent to the Rt. Hon. the Secretary of S'ate for the Colonies by the H>n J. Bromhead-Mat-thews and Mr. J W Hallifax, requesting him to ask T R II the D ike and the Duchess of Cornwall and York to
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  • 281 2 GOVERNMENT GAZETI E EXTRAORDINARY. (18lh February) Telegram from Secretary of State to Acting Governor. London, i6tb February, 1901. In reply to your telegram of yesterday’s date Their Royal Highnesses will arrive Singapore April 21st leave April 23rd. '1 heir Royal Highnesses regret being unable
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  • 69 2 A telegram to the N. C, Daily News, dated Tientsin, 30th January, says: News of a terrible tragedy is telegraphed from Peking The husband and wifeare dead and a British officer mortally wounded, all by the fot mer, tl rcugh jealousy. A later telegram states that a
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  • 97 2 All of us here know how thoroughly Admiral Seymour was justified in his request for a brigade ot British troops at Shanghai last summer, says the N. C. Daily News. Well-informed Chinese believe that it is only the continue 1 presence of the foreign force
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  • 141 2 Silence Broken at Last. The silence hitherto observed by the Russian Pre-s with regard to the massacres of Chinese at Blagovestchensk by the Russian troops is at last broken by the St. Petersburg Viedomosti. In making the announcement that the official investigation will be instituted so
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  • 208 2 The Tientsin provisional government the other day had to deal with a very curious charge :A Chinaman had cut off his queue and had rigged Irimse f out as an American sailor, even to the detail of his under inen he then put himself at the head
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  • 211 2 On 12th of January, the P. and T. Tinies records, a band of mounted Manchurian robbers surrounded a foraging party of the Jodhpur lane.rs and some Japanese infantry five miles from Shanharkwan. One trooper escaped with the news, and Jodhpur offi ers hastened out
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  • 407 2 The following particulars received from the Principal Civil Medical Officer regard ing a fatal case of bubonic plague at Singapore, which was reported on Saturday, the 16th instant, is published for general information in the Government Gazette. Memorandum. A Tamil, living at 51 Kerbau Road, Singapore, was
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  • 27 2 Surgeon-Lieut. Nickerson Butt of the Derbyshires, and CaT* 1 Mullins and Johnstone of the r P ns have been awarded the Victoria Cross' 815
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  • 48 2 Many Deaths. The fever season in Africa is e X em; ally severe this year and many death taking place at Lourer 9 o Marques J?' batches of sick are continually arr hete from the Komatipoort district m‘ D? Boer refugees have a'so died.
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  • 68 2 Messrs. Longmans, Green, and r have made arrangements for th- rub l tion of a life of the late Bishop of It will be written by Mrs. Creighton will be much oblige if those who nL any letters from the bishop will kindly I.m them to her.
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  • 106 2 A London correspondent, who gives his name and address, writes It may I interesting to you to know that men over here recruiting for the Boers 1 bey offer /”20 to any one joinir g f,. directly they get on board ship and a ful rig-out, and
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  • 129 2 Avery clever piece of work has been executed this week by Mr. Be lingbam i 3 the bringing of the great bell from H a i kuan su to the public Gardens, where w» believe it will be suspended in due course’ says the P. O. Times of
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  • 161 2 The Queen met Cat y e an J Browning at Dean Stanley’s. She does not appear to have cared much for the latter’s poetry, though she had a gr at liking for bis wife’s Aurora Leigh.” Tennyson sbe met some half-dozen times. On the first
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  • 630 2 Some Reminiscences of a Famous French Artist. A charming little pen-picture of Queen Alexandra, or, as she then was, Princess of Wa es, is given by M. Benj unm Constant, the well-known Fun h pot trait painter, in the Parb Figaro. M Con-tant painted both Queen
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1179 2 i 1 A nm nril toijet liflu ADbeitiscnunts. Ppitcliarfl IjO GOLDEN FORSAI-E. wanted at once 1 lllJvllUllVl rpKAT COMMODIOUS HOUSE and -|-p OR A SUGAR ESTATE in Perak, a 4%* Ml _L plantation n Road and Srn’t. U capable man as Chief Clerk. Toatrustt a^> JU j Ct,O ?fh°enfrv on
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  • 904 3 Somk Recollections of the Past. One of the important questions raised hy the new reign is thisWhat will be the annual amount paid by the nation to the n eW occupant of the throne? The old arrangement ended with the death of Her Majesty. A new
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  • 204 3 P r thern coirespondent writes;lt K te d from fairly te'iab e sources that F n, s have been found in Peking r htat the assailants of the lega- UI||I R die recent siege had instrucr lo kill the inmates but to take as po>sib e alive,
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  • 400 3 e SINGAPORE v. SELANGOR, e The following are the rep rted scores of d the respective teams in U le recent inalrh ir at Singapore: SELANGOR. n IST innings. A. B. Voules b Mactaggart 1 C. Glassford b Billings 0 e A ll Hubback c Derbyshire
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  • 172 3 A number of the football matches arranged for Saturday, 26th ult were aban doned. Of the games that were decided the majority was hastily arranged. The attendances were not up to the average. No onji expected them to be. The home clubs did their best
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  • 372 3 The question of the best and cheapest public illuminant is discussed in Indian Engineering. The public in India have now the choice between electric light, acetylene, kerosene, and oil-gas. Electric light has the disadvantage of necessitating the employment of skilled men, and the cost of wot
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  • 163 3 Lord Kitchener’s plans for the subjugation of the belligerent Boers have necessitated, says the Daily Express, a further subdivision of the districts of the three colonies. The cordons of horsemen will be such that the enemy, in eluding one mesh, will retire into another. This win afford
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  • 196 3 There has been considerable curio-ity expressed in yachting circles, both in En gland and in America, as to the nature ol the discoveries said to have been made by Mr. George L. V\at son in the course of the elal orate test-tai k experiments which he carried out
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  • 123 3 Penang, 23RD February, >9- 1. Rates close as follow-* London. Demand Bank e Do- 4 months’ s'ght Bank 2/0/, II Do. 3 Ore lits a/o}J > Do. 3 Documentary 2/o| S Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs 150 J Do. 3 days'sight Private 152. J 1 Bombay, Demand Bank 150} Do.
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  • 96 3 The s. s. Hebe (Captain Inkster) brought 93 deck-passengers from Singa pore, this morning. The s. s. Ho Kwei (Captain U.dah) arrived with 3 Europeans, 7 Chinese, and 5 Malays from Deli, yesterday. The s. s. Thaiping (Captain Macki-) anived from Fott Weld yestsrday, bringing Messrs. Tausley and
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  • 32 3 Mails Close on Monday. For Per str 1 H Klang Malacca ...Hok Canton 1 p m. Patigkor and Teluk Anson ...Canton 1 p.m. Tuesday, 26m. Klang A Malacca ...Teutonia noon.
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  • 35 3 From Ste sillier I•• hr it- I Edie G.'G. v. Lansbeage to-day. Negapatam ll'aroonga 25-2-01 Singapore Maha I’ajirunhis 25-2-01 Singapore Bormuia 25-2-01 Batavia DeCarpentier ***** Edie Both 26-2-01 Singapore A. Apcar 2;-2-3i
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  • 271 3 To-day. s. s. 11 ebe from Singapore s. s. See Leak from Perlis s. s. Canton from Teluk Anson Yestekd iy. s. s. Sumatra from Deli s. s. 7 haiping from Port Weld s. s. Chan Tai from Kedah s. s. Langkat from Teluk Anson s. s. Ho Kwei
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  • 74 3 Saturday. 23RD I rof. Deval's Circus, at 9 p.m. Mail bags for Europe close at 5 p.m. and the P. O. vessel sails at 6 p.m. High-water at New Jetty, 3-20 p in. and 3-45 a.m. Sunday, 2 ith First Sunday in Lent. High-water at
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  • 111 3 First Sunday in Lent. St George’s Church. 7- a.m. Matins. 8- am. Holy Communion. 9- a.m. Chinese Service. 10- a.m. Tamil Service. 4-45 p.m. Sun lay School. 6-00 p.m. Evensong, with Sermon. Church of the Assumption. First Mass, at 6- 15a.m.; High Mass, at 8 a.m and Vespers
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 792 3 SIDEROSTHEN PAINT. An absolutely anti-corrosive paint of IRON STEEI. Guaranteed to be the best RUST-PREVENTIVE extant. Invaluable for Ships. Machinery, Bridges, <£c. One Gallon will cover 540 square feet. Price $25 per drum of 1 cwt. (about 10 galls.) A splendid report received from Trinity House after having severely tested
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    • 87 3 An old friend by a new nameLiebig Company’s Extract will soon be known as Lemco, the new name placed upon it and composed of the Liebig’s Extract of Meat Company’s initials. No 5 Municipal Notice. "VTOTICE-is hereby given that the supply of water from the Waterfall will be cut off
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    • 1307 3 PIANOS* Saklotl) Mistry DIABinQIV 22 53, BEACH STREET, I lAnlUd a e Wholesale. Retail and Manufacturing premises n o 63 Wortham Road, lately Penang. occupied by Mr J. F. Wreford. MlKlfifll Chemists. A P pi y to mahomed a riff, IllUdlual I Hull Ulllulllu 130 156 Hutt n Lane, Penang
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  • 148 4 Penang, sjrd February. 1901. Tin T 1674 Bkck Pepper no sale. Soves fpicked) Mace Pickings d N,n T N o. I"’ 775 doSns ini’. i» *>• d Gutta /«*!>wh 330. do do. Soon e »“>•- do. do. Susn ao do. R'im‘oiiß ,2> 00 Indian Rubir *7 3,
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  • 189 4 Penang, 23RD February, 1901, Description. Beef— c^s Soup per catty 12 Roast >. 24 Steaks 24 Stew or Curry Meat 16 Rump Steak 24 Ox Tail each 30 Tongue 45 Feet 8 Heart 35 Liver per catty 20 Pork Pork 28 Pig's Head 18 Feet 2j Tongue >
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  • 10 4 SHARE LIST, FEBRUARY 23RD, 190:.
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 222 4 H. BAKER Confectioner and Vienna Baker, 22a Leith Street, NEXT TO EUROPE HOTEL, ICE CREAM, SODA CREAM, daily from 10 a.m to 12 p.m. Picnic parties. Ac., supplied with Ice Cream and all kinds of fancy cakes. Birthday, Christening, and Wedding Cakes PENANG BAND. NOTICE is hereby given that from
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    • 5 4 SHARE LIST, FEBRUARY 23RD, 190:.
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    • 5 4 SHARE LIST, FEBRUARY 23RD, 190:.
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    • 475 4 p s2 Per Month THE Pinang fyzelif ENLARGED EDITION Per Month (For Loc a^ bscriberi BROWN Monumental SculpL 42BEN1INCK Hl PEET, (Established A. I) t r. Done in Ital.av Marble Granite, a d Ch, nar'c, ee Orders taken for NAME SI AHS? E Gates, CHURCH TABLEts SOLE AGENT for the
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