Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 1 March 1901

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  • Title Section
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    20 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE PUBLISHED DAILY. HEW SERIFS ESTABLISHED PRICE 20 CENTS. VOL. LIX. FRIDAY, istAIARCH, 1901. No. 47
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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      752 1 pipping Motias. Peninsular Oriental Steam Navigation Company. P& rjIHE mail steamers may b< expected to arrive outwards, and leave Penan, homewards, on the following dates: Outwards. Homewards. rhusi M arch 7 Mar. 9 ..21 Bengal 2» Coromandel April 4 April 6 mart.. i* f**£* 20 Hen al Ma >’ 2
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      1782 1 NORDDFIITQrMFR i 1 nvn British moi* steam havisition compant, Limited. «ww»— nvnuutu 1 &UHE.K LLUYD. iminkujxe phettmrt haatschappij MflflW A K NEOAPATAM LINE Of STEAMERS. W.® Intended Sailing and exacted Arrival oj Steamers. wwPJ B X Fob Will Sail Steamer. from Expected on MANUFACTURED BY H A IVI RII /V.
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      677 1 Hanks. Nederlandsche Handvl Maatschappij. NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY. Established 1824. Paid-up Capital f. 35 783,000 (abt. £5, 000,000 Reserve FuNu...f. 2.958.000 (al t. 246.500 Head Office in Amsterdam Head Agency in Batavia,’ Branches: Singapore, Rangoon. Medan (Deli). Samarang, Sourabaya, Padang, Cherebon.Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoeroean, 1 jtlatjap, Go on alo, Pal< mbang. Correspondents
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    REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
    807 2 28th February. The Late Queen-Empress Victoria. THE NAIIONAL MEMORIAL. The Committee which has been appointed to consider the form the memorial to the late QueenEmpress Victoria shall take, have recommended that the memorial should be of a personal character, namely, a monument, to be elected in London. The
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    1069 2 The s.s. Glaucus, whi- h anived here from Singapore this morning, brought 463 pi giims en route to Jt-d<lnh. There was quite a b’aze the night before last, about 8 o’< lot k, on I'atu F-rin-ghee, but we understan i that it was nothing more serious th
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    INOCULATION AGAINST RINDERPEST IN INDIA.
    95 2 Dr. Lingakd, Imperial Bacteriologist, has lurnishe.t a report showing the result of serum -inoculation for rind-rpest. Emin ently successful results have been obtained at Barei ly, A.igath, B iLindshahr, and Dchra Dun, rinderpest being checked at once, and heavy loss among the cattle averted. Out
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    A WALK ROUND THE WOULD.
    311 2 America’s Champion One-Armed Athlete in Penang. Among the passengers from Rangoon by the Scang Leong was Geo. M. Schilling, who is walking tound the world. Geo M. Sclii ling is a native of America, where, when nine-yeats old, he lost his left atm, at the
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    SIR ANDREW CLARKE ON THE MALAY STATES.
    687 2 M A.P. In the ear y seventies I was made Governor and Commander in-Chief ol the S tails Settlements. When I went to Singapore in 1873, there was no safety in the native Malay States immediate y beyond our frontiers for life and
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    German Outward-Bound Mail.
    109 2 The German outward-bound imperial mail steamer Stuttgart (Captain Gro>cb) at rived here from Colombo at half-past three o’clock yesterday afternoon. She carried 72 saloon passengers (including 9 children), and of these the following were for Penang:Messrs. Hulshoff, R. BcuL H. R. Tervooren, Rensburg, and H. lervooren from
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    SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
    37 2 [From ovr own Corre SPONDe IP'UK 4/VSO.V (28th The shipments to-day are—. To Penang, 557 pikuls o f D 112 >■ of ore (Ist March) The shipments to-day are— To Penang, 735 piM st (lin ore.
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    HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
    1024 2 The seventy-first half-y ear v n meeting of shareholders of tl le and Shanghai Banking Corcor-.c"*S held in the City Halt H °X 16th of February. Mr. N s g n 'a man, presided. Ds > c tatThe Chairman raid Gentl em have -he pleasute
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    Queen Alexandra's Pity
    119 2 London owes a debt to Queen u^aware of which most people are qur e wJ s Four or five years ag l the vt> alsa F made by a Copenhagen wC light and electric light have seO fiei perties for certain diseases, an j.jai succeed when all
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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      1093 2 Pritchard Co. golden a Rare <-> J4xr I A PPLY at No. 187 Muntri Street, between PUIIDN Opportunity I A 9 a "d” a m and2 -3 oaud oP’ ,,,cxce P t VllUlllV Sundays. DORaSA mY PILLAY. 15, BEACH STREET, that _Tenang. 26th February, niITTCD t licit NOTICE. I I
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    BISMARCK IN LOVE.
    1445 3 «not ALL IRON.” (p, H. OAKLEY WILLIAMS.) It was in the eighties when the writer thepe lines saw for the first time the 0 n whose genius had welded a congetie (futile Siates into a world-power. All princelings and potentates of the emnirehehad created were foregathering at
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    M. Bourget's Metamorphosis.
    144 3 M. Bourget 's Metamorphosis. J°?y PH > fhe ex-valet de chambre cf Fehx Faure, has written a book. Joseph did not beam and end his career with the late I resident, but has for years attended to the wants of M. Casimir Eerier, Mme. Juliette Adam, the Prince Ferdinand of
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    The Somaliland Expedition.
    175 3 1 he transport Fultala, which conveyed the 16th Bombay Infantry to Somaliland, has returned to Bombay. The expectation that (be object of the expedition would soon be attained lias not been fu'hl'ed, though it is rumoured that some of the Chiefs who were led out in revolt
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    Texas Strikes Oil
    332 3 Extraordinary Rush of Fortune Hunters. The most remarkable rush witnessed in America for many years past is at pie sent in full blast, consequent upon the discovery of petroleum in the State of Texas. The find was made at Beaumont almost accidentally, and it is claimed that
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    New Century Ship
    460 3 A Wonderful Craft. To steer without a rudder, to stop dead, and remain stationary in any sea without an anchor, to obtain greater speed than the fastest liner,” to slow down to a snail's pace, and still have steerage way. or, in oilier words, to be independent
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    The Indigo Industry.
    51 3 The Englishman says, with reference to the applications made to Government for financial assistance to improve the o-ition of the indigo industry, it is understood the matter has received fivourable considera lion, and an important announcement on the subject may be expected in the course of next
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    Reserved Forests in Burma
    86 3 The aggregate atea ot reserved forests in Burma increased in the past year fidm 15,669 to 17.153 square miles. Fire pro tecion was sue. essful over little more than one-fifth of this area. Nearly 40 million cubic feet of timber and fuel were extracted, and thete
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    Making Rubber from Paper.
    170 3 The enormous demand that the world’s industries now make on the supp'y of rubber steadily and continually increases. In addition to increasing the available -tippy, the advantages that would atah io a less costly substance rener it very desirable to find a suitable substance embodying the
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    Ocean Telephony.
    182 3 The newspapers are making a great fuss about the reported invention of 1 rof. Pupin, of Co'umbia University, t\hich, it is asset ted, w ill make telephonic communication between New York and London easily practicable. Prof Pupin, in an in lerview, said that he had teceived neatly ha
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    A Tsar’s Mad Challenge
    275 3 Fight among Monarchs to End a War. A hundred years agoon January 16, 1801was published to the world the mo t amazing peace proposal ever made by a European monarcha challenge from the Tsar of Russia to fight his feßowmonarchs hand to hand, by way of
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    EXCHANGE.
    123 3 Penang, ist March, kj -i Rates close as hoi. r ow < London, Demand Bank 2/*!« Do. 4 months’ s ght B ink r/-, 1 Do. 3 Ore lit* 2/-, J Do, 3 Documentary 2/5 Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs 149} Do. 3 days’sight Private 151$ Bombay, Demand Bank 149}
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    PENANG VOLUNTEERS
    89 3 Orders by Captain A. R. Adams, Commandant. 1. A new recruit squad is now being formed, and intending applicants should ai once apply to the Sergeant Major at the Fort any evening between 5 and 6 2. Recruit drill, Tuesday and Thuisday, at 5.15p.m. 3. Di ill for
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    STEAMER REPORTS
    74 3 The s s. Goalpara (Captain J .cob arrived with a general cargo fiom Moulmein, yes'erday. The s. s. Pontianak (Captain Witt), brought 500 cases and 4330 tins of petroleum fiom Bian.lan, yesterday. The s. s. Catherine Apcar (Captain Olifeut), which atnved from Calcutta yesterday, brought Mr. and Mrs.
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    THE MAILS.
    52 3 Miles Ci.ose To-mokkow. For Per str I Klang ...Mary Austin 1 p.m. Deli ...Avagyee 1 pm Batu Pahra and Asahm ...Resident lluleuryn... 1 p.m. Pangkor and Teluk Anson 1 p m Langkat ...Ji //u 2 p. m Singapore and Calcutta ...C. Afrcar 2 p.m Singapore ...Mali 1 Pnjirunhis
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    MAILS TO ARRIVE
    21 3 From Stumer 1.. Im. Singapore Shanghai to-dax PuloWeh I'an Outhoorn 1-3-01 Negapatam Zaida 3*3-oo Singapore Pin Seng 4-3-01
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    SHIPPING.
    97 3 4 rris nle To-day. s. s. Glanrus from Singapore Yesterday. S. s. Stuttgart from Bremen s. s. C. Apcar from Calcutta s. s. Gca'para from Mouhnein s. s. Chan Tai from Kedah s. s Flying Fish from Port Weld s. s. Pentiwiak from Brandan tleparturee To da r s.
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    SHIPPING EXPECTED
    137 3 March 3 German Steamer s. s. Serbia from Hamburg, for Singapore, China and Japan, Behn, Meyer Co. 4 Sado Maru from Singipore. far Marseilles, London and Antwerp, Boustead Co. 7s. s. Trieste from Colombo, for Singapore, China and Japan. S. Kuster inann A- Co. 7 Outward P. O.
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    COMING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
    90 3 Friday, ist Municipal Commissioners’ ordinary Meeting, at 3 p.m. S. David. Town Band, Esplanade, at 5-30 p.m. Penang Presbyterian Church, annual meeting of congregation, Masonic Hall, at 9 p m. High water at New Jetty, 8-20 p.m. and 8 45 a in. Saturday. 2nd Sunday.
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      220 3 NOTICE. 11 HE undersigned beg to notify that from Wednesday, 6th March, they will hold Auction Sales at their Rooms, No. 38 Beach S'reet, on every Wednesday, till further notice. DENNYS Co., 152 Licensed Auctioneers. NOTICE. DENNYS Co., Agents for Messrs. Joh-j Little Co.. Ltd. Il’i/ir ami Spirit Merchants. Pommery
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      204 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 LIFE AND VIGOUR FOR THE HAIR The only article which really possesses nutritious virtues for stimulating, and
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      915 3 McAlister Co. B WHV I Q JL J. Apply to BAN JOO HIN, Ihe undersigned have been favoured with 129 39 Beach Street, i instructions to dispose uf JUST ARRIVED A Large and Varied Assortment A SHIPMENT OP CHOICE GRAHAM GO B Unclaimed Confiscated Property I ALSO MANIS A fiifiAPQ
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