Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 13 February 1904

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    23 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAII/Y. NEW SERIES. ESTABLISHED 1833. VOL. LXII. 20 Cents. SATURDAY, 13th FEBRUARY, 1904. 20 Cents. No. 35.
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      2018 2 Aylesbury” Garland J Messrs ThMn chee c OBra CrahsiiTl A Co ltd Has Returned to Penang. I ESTABLISHED 1858. TRATE'B COURT, IPOH. |fl I I ffjr LI I I IPOH. Temporary Consulting Rooms: Civil Sult No, 132 03 VT *M*j > “RUNNYMEDE” NORTHAM ROAD, Ship Chandlers, HE instructed to uct
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  • Our Weekly Magazine.
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      The Angel of the Quarter.
      2086 3 .•FROM GRAVE TO GAY; FROM LIVELY TO SEVERE.” A T)EEP SEA ™AGEDY. By Northam Rhode Author of The Coming of the Prince I'lda of the Fen," etc. The girl had a pale, sensitive face, the somewhat irregular lines rendered beautiful by the frame of auburn
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      CHITS.
      648 3 It is curious to note how cats are going in \alue. To-day a good short-haired cat fetches £10; a long-haired one up to £50. S une cats earn their owners as much as £250 a year in prizes.—Louis Wain, in Great Thoughts. Two women were arrested in New York
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      Lines for the Ladies.
      1225 3 THE MODERN WOMAN. BY BIT A.” In pillorying women of the present day as vain and egotistical, one is apt to lose sight of the new industries set afoot by reason of that very vanity and egoism. Certainly a study of women’s fashion journals (and of
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      OMARIAN QUATRAINS ON THE F.M.S.
      367 3 By F. Fmeric. Of dollars and the race I sing, who peace Gave to a faction-fretted Chersonese. From near and far. now ride in motor-car The men who built stockade and wore the kris» We’ve native chiefs galore and Sultans four:— Perak, Pahang, N. S.
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    Shipping Notices and Share List.
    578 3 Shipping. Arrivals. Sea Mew. Brit., str., 395, Murphy, 13-2-04, from Singapore general. Brit. Gov. Janet Nicoll, Brit., str. 474. Nichol, 12-2 04, from Tavoy, general, Koe Guan. Omapere, Brit., str., 340, Boyle, 12-2-04, from Singapore, general, Koe Guan. Java, Brit., str., 2631, Barcham, 12-2-04, from
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      39 3 Pneumonia is Dangerous —The time to cure it is when it is merley a “bad cold." Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is highly recommended by the leading physicians, for this malady. It always cures and cures quickly. AH dealers sell it.
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    The Week.
    85 4 Saturday. 13th Penang Hunt Club Meet. Highwater 9-40 a m. and 10-05 p.m. Sunday. 14th Quinquagesima. Divine Service Volunteer Camp. Shrove Sunday. High water 10-30 a.m. and 10-55 p.m. Monday. 15th.— Highwater 11-20 a.m. and 11-45 p.m. Tuesday, 16th:— New Moon. Chinese New Year commences. Public Holiday. Highwater
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    Saturday, 13th February, 1904.
    652 4 Seven days ago the world’s peace was still unbroken since then we have lived in an atmosphere of excitement, at first startled by the news of the one great conflict between Russia and Japan, and since then eager for the details which have not come. In
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    Straits Intelligence.
    790 4 Tin is quoted to-day at $76-20 —Business done. A Chinaman committed suicide yesterday afternoon in the Harbour by jumping overboard from one of the Railway launches. Our Weekly Magazine (page 3) contains the story of an East Coast fishing port by Northam Rhode, an article by Rita, and
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    Under Canvas.
    962 4 With the Volunteers and Guides at Camp. (From Our Special Volunteer Correspondent.) Aier Etam, Saturday, 9 a.m. Retreat, Officers’ Quarter dress, Officers’ dinner and Men’s dinner were sounded on the Bugle, commencing at 6 p.m., yesterday. We were actually under military discipline, and living like soldiers. We heard
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    The Municipal Commission.
    958 4 PENANG’S P G pr I SOLVED. Bg The Presi^7^T The A meeting of the Municipal p I ers was held yesterday I being present Mr. J. W. Hallif ax p I Messrs. Cheah Tek Thye, Q, lah I A. R. Adams, R. P. Phillips |L Municipal Health
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    THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.
    111 5 Russian Warships at Singapore. GENERAL naval activity. [Our Exclusive Service.'} Singapore, 13th Feb. Ihe Russian volunteer steamer has been allowed to load a cargo at Singapore owing to a special telegram from the Secretary of State granting the necessary permission. She leaves Singapore on Monday. On Monday
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    Alexieff's Gloomy Reports.
    124 5 battleships indefinitely IIORS-DE-COMBAT. [Reuter's Service.] London, 12th Feb. Admiral Alexieff has telegraphed to St. Petersburg to the effect that the battleships previously reported as damaged are so much injured that it is difficult for him to say when they will again be ready for sea. The other
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    Japanese Occupy Seoul.
    95 5 [Reuter's Service.} London, 12th Feb. The Japanese have occupied Seoul (the capital of Corea). ’The occupation of Seoul, the capital of Korea, is a somewhat mysterious move on the part of the Japanese. It may be that this is merely a protective measure for the benefit of
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    Panic in St. Petersburg.
    51 5 RUSSIAN BANKS NEAR RUIN. [Reuter's Service.} London, 13th Feb. The Japanese successes have caused such intense panic on the St. Petersburg Bourse that the financial situation there has become very critical. Holders of Government stocks are losing enormously. Several of the banks are tottering to a
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    The Russian Reinforcements.
    160 5 BIG SQUADRON HURRYING FROM SUEZ. [Reuter's Service.} London, 13th Feb. The Russian warships Dmitri Donski, the Aurora, and six destroyers have proceeded from Suez to Jibutil, where they coaled. The squadron remained there till February 18th awaiting the Osliabya and the transport SaratojJ with three more destroyers.
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    Canton Still Unsettled.
    45 5 Trouble may likely enough recur on e Canton-Hankow railway, though the < licials deny knowledge of anything bey on' the customary unrest connected wi J Chinese New Year. The American cruiser Monterey has sailed from Hongkong 01 Canton to protect American citizens there.
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    The Warships in the Straits,
    104 5 “NYSSHIN AND “KASUGA” MYSTERY. [Our Exclusive Service.} Singapore, 13th Feb. The German mail arriving here to-day ieports that she passed two large warships off Carimone at sunset yesterday (Briday). It is thought that these may have been Dutch vessels. It is also stated that the
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    Wounded and Wrecked Russians.
    96 5 IN THE HANDS OF THE BRITISH. [Our Exclusive Service.} Hongkong, 12th Feb. The crews of the Russian cruiser Koreitz and the gunboat Varyag were picked up by the British cruiser Talbot, the German Elba (not Italian as elsewhere reported) and the French Pascal. There are a
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    Rumoured Russian Success.
    45 5 There is a rumour in the town to the effect that the Russians have defeated the Japanese in a naval skirmish, one of the latter’s vessels being sunk. We can gain no confirmation of this at present either from Singapore or Hongkong.
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    A Traveller in Trouble.
    95 5 ALLEGED BIG FRAUDS IN RANGOON. [Dur Exclusive Service.} Rangoon, 13th Feb. A Lidbetter, a well-known commercial traveller and insurance agent in the Far East, has been arrested by the Police at Mandalay at the instance of a Parsee named Sackloth, an hotel keeper of Maymyo, on
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    10,000 Chinese for Africa.
    64 5 BRITAIN’S EXPERIMENT. [South China Morning Post.} London, 3rd Feb. The Marquis of Lansdowne, speaking in the House of Lords, yesterday afternoon, stated that the idea that the Government had made a suggestion to the effect that one hundred thousand Asiatics should be imported into the Transvaal
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    House of Commons.
    47 5 Untried leaders in the persons of the Home Secretary, Mr. Akers Douglas, and the Chancellor of the exchequer, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, conducted the business of the Government in the absence of Mr. Balfour on February 3rd. The Government was violently attacked by the Opposition.
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    The "Infernet" At Home.
    301 5 Officers of the French Cruiser Entertain Penang. The Commodore and Officers of the French cruiser Infernet were “At Home to their friends yesterday afternoon. It is very seldom that Penang is visited by a warship of any nationality, but we cannot remember when we were last
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    The States Day by Day.
    204 5 [From Our Own Correspondent.») SELANGOR. Kuala Lumpur, Uth Feb. The Government now make their cheques payable only within sixty days of the date of issue. The state of the tin market, at present, is causing a feeling of unrest amongst the miners who expected to
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    PERAK.
    139 5 Taiping, 11th Feb. Inspection Party for Krian—The Resi-dent-General, Mr. W. H. Treacher, c.m.g., accompanied by the Resident, Mr. H. C. Belfield, and the District Officer Mr. E. S. Hose, left this morning for Krian to inspect the irrigation works commencing from Bukit Merah in tbe South to Parit Buntar
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    KEDAH NOTES.
    195 5 sth Feb. Mr. A.C. Cape], Solicitor, Penang, arrived here to-day and visited His Highness the Raja Muda, leaving again on Sunday. Mr. Von Katte assistant, to Mr. Kaulfuss, Penang, came over at the request of H. H. the Sultan to protograph the water-shoot which has been erected near
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    The Straits and the War.
    1360 5 BRITISH PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY AT SINGAPORE. How It Affects Shipping. A Government Gazette Extraordinary proclaiming British neutrality with reference to the present war was published at Singapore on Thursday, and parts of it make interesting reading. The following is the introducion In the name of
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    CHURCH SERVICES.
    91 5 14th February, 1904. Quinquagesima Sunday. Sr. George’s Church. 8 a.m. Matins. (No Organ.) 8 30 a.m. Holy Communion. (Plain) 5 p.m. Sunday School. 6 p.m. Evensong and Sermon. Church of the Assumption. t First Mass, at 6-15 a.m.; High Mass, at 8 a.m. Vespers and Benediction, at 5
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      192 5 OUR MAIL BAG. Japa:Fas an Object Lesson. Sir, There is an old Sanskrit saying which means that the disciple is not greater than the preceptor. Japan has by her recent achievements proved this to be a fallacy. She who emerge 1 from a state of semi-barbarism about a quarter of
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      137 5 W. CORNFIELD, PENANG For the Chinese New Year. JUST RECEIVED House and Club Decorations Paper Flags, Flowers, Leaves AND Guirlandes IN ALL COLORS. Only small Shipment Received Outstations are requested to send orders before Saturday. TO W. Cornfield's 22 BEACH STREET, Penang* If Your Childern are subject to croup, watch
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    Home and Foreign News.
    897 6 Japanese Consul-General. Mr. M. Arakawa, Japanese Consul General in London, has arrived at Mai seilles per N.Y.K. steamer Kanagawa Marr, whence he will proceed to London tv resume the duties of his post on return from leave of absence. Mrs. Arakawa accompanies the Consul-General. Bachelors* Residences.
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    Latest Market Quotations.
    162 6 Penang, 18th February 1904. nt i d I West Coast Black Pepper J 8 Jb|| por —sellers White Pepper $5O. Trang Pepper $32. —sales. Cloves (picked) ...45. —buyers Maoe No. 1 140. Mace Pickings 115.—sellers Nutmegs 110« 67. —sellers (No. 1 7|.flugar < 2 5.30. Basket s4.buyers
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    Penang Volunteers.
    206 6 ORDERS BY CAPTAIN A. R. ADAMS, Commandant. Orders for February 1904. Drills. Recruits Drill at the Fort Ist, 2nd, 4th, Bth and 9th, at 5. 30 p.m. Company Drill and Guard mounting at the Fort on the 3rd, sth and 10th, at s*Bo p.m. (Dress, Drill Order.) Friday
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      533 6 “Give me an Ounce of Civet. Good Apothecary, to sweeten my imagination. There’s money for thee” King Lear. THE Mi MN IHSI'KJB.'m. 37a Beach Street, Penang. We beg to announce that we have just received from Europe a large and varied consignment of perfumes specially indented for the Chinese New
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