Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register, 29 January 1829

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    26 1 SINGAPORE CHRONICLE No. 127. THURSDAY, January 29th, 1829. Public Notifications appearing in this Paper and signed by the proper Authorities are to be considered as official
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    NOTICE.
    27 1 THE Interest and responsibility of Mr. Mr. George Armstrong in our concern will cease from the present day. GEO. ARMSTRONG CO. Singapore Dec. 31 st 1823.
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    NOTICE.
    72 1 LETTERS of Administration to the Estate and effects of the late Captain William Flint R. N. having been this day granted to Mary Anne Flint, widow of the deceased, all persons indebted to the said estate are requested to pay their debts, and all persons having claims thereon to
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    NOTICE.
    77 1 PROBATE of the last Will and Testament of MR SARKIES ARRATHOON SARKIES, late of Singapore, Deceased, having been granted by the Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales Island Singapore and Malacca to MCKERTICK MOSES, Executor in the said Will named, all persons having demands against the said Estate
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    SINGAPORE.
    1311 1 Thursday, January 29th 1829. The Brig Phoenix, Captain Arthur, arrived yesterday, from Bengal the 26th ultimo, but without bringing news or papers. The Cecilia left Bengal about the same time and may be expected here daily. The Hon’ble the Recorder arrived last night in the Fifeshire and landed this
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      120 1 FOR SALE. A LOT of ground measuring 13 acres, less or more, situated near Bookit Seligee [Bukit Selegie] has been once in cultivation and has still on it some spice plants. A large proportion of it was formerly laid out in Gambler plantations, now waste, but most of the Shrubs
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      27 1 Temperton, of the burden of about 200 tons. Can be launched at a few days notice For all particulars apply to, W. TEMPERTON. Singapore 2nd Jany 1829.
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    ON THE MEAN TEMPERATURE OF THE EQUATOR, AS DEDUCED FROM OBSERVATION MADE AT PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, SINGAPORE AND MALACCA.
    359 2 ON THE MEAN TEMPERATURE OF THE EQUATOR, AS DEDUCED FROM OBSERVATIONS MADE AT PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, SINGAPORE AND MALACCA. I have already had occasion to treat of the subject of the temperature of the equator in consequence of Mr. Atkinson’s attempt to controvert the deductions of Baron Humboldt, which
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    1. SINGAPORE.
    565 2 North latitude 1°24’. East long. 104°. The observations at Singopore [Singapore] were made with instruments kept under a thatched bungaloo [bungalow] by Lieutenant Colonel William Farquhar. They were made at six in the morning, at noon, and at six in the evening. 1822. Mean annual temperature at 6h
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    2. MALACCA.
    133 2 North latitude 2°16’. East longitude 102° 12’. The observations at Malacca were made in 1809 by Lieutenant-Colonel William Farquhar, and the instrument was kept within the Old Government House. Mean annual temperature at 8h 77° 67 4 82 33 The corrections deduced from the Leith observations are 1°24
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    3. PRINCE OF WALES'S ISLAND.
    737 2 North latitude 5° 25’. East longitude 1oo° 19’. The observations at Prince of Wales’s Island were made for 1815, 1816, 1820, 1821, and for 1823. They were taken in George Town, and those for the two latter years were made in the Library. We have
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    MALACCA.
    771 2 (From the Observer.), Education in Eastern Asia By Eastern Asia we mean Countries situated beyond India, where the Malayan and Chinese Languages are spoken. The Roman Catholic Christians, so tar as we know, never commenced any system of general Education for the Natives. Their Colleges in Macao and Pinang
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    SYDNEY
    335 3 On the 15th of March, Captain Harper on las voyage from Sydney to Canton, discovered a large high island, in lat. 6 deg 45 north, long 157 deg. 59 east, and near it a low group of small islands, from 12 to 16 in number, in lat 6 deg42
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    MISCELLANEOUS.
    207 3 All men, I believe, enjoy an ill-natured joke. The difference is, that an ill-natured person can drink out to the very dregs the amusement which it affords, while the better-moulded mind loses the sense of the ridiculous in sympathy for the pain of the sufferer. Chronicles of the Canongate.
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    SHIPPING.
    277 3 ARRIVALS. JANUARY. 18th British Brig, Kader Bux, Go Tieng, from Penang 6th January. 20th Dutch Brig, Gollick, Ang-Peng-Ke, from Malacca 14th Jany. 21st Portuguese Brig Eliza, B. J. Botelho, from Macao 6th Jany. 22nd H. M. Ship, Rainbow, Honorable H. J. Rous, from Van Diemans Land Manilla. British Ship,
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    POSTSCRIPT.
    48 3 The printer we find has throughout a great part of the article upon the temperature of these settlements used a very defective substitute for the cross called in arithmetic the sign of addition. His excuse is the want of a sufficient number of the proper types. Ed.
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