The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 1 February 1844

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  • 16 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. I 5™9 mmmm+T juoujrvrG, i BT febhi^ry 1844. ji».
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 928 1 ccccxxxiTi. The following Statement exhibiting the Receipts and Disbursements of the Assessment and Taxes at M at *nn* i«aq a/- c/ 41 12 o/ 1839, ,o,W iht Honorad Me Pre^enf 0/t« C^ siXl;ffl;,ff J^ 8 wW RECEIPTS Balance in hand ai per last suiement 226 3^ t j DISBURSEMENTS. Amount
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    • 567 1 account of a third party, to take a considerable interestin the undertaking. The Vewel and her Engines can be inspected at any time during her stay in Singapore. For further particular, apply to c SYME CO. Singapore, 10M Jany. 1844. With reference to the above advertisement, the Steam-ship Royal Sovereign,
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    • 621 1 TO BE LET OR SOLD. MnpHfi House No. 2 on the Esplanade at X present occupied by Mr John Duncan. Will be vacant on the Ist February 1844. The house from its large size and favorable situation is well adapted for the residence of a large family. Any person wishing
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    • 471 1 D. H. STEVENSON, Esqoirb Sheriff of P. W. Island, Singapore and Malacca. The undersigned beg to request that you will convene a public meeting of the inhabitants to take rnio consideration cerlain matters connected wiih the erection of a Pauper Hospital in this Settlement. TAN TOCKSING, E.J OILMAN, J. GUTHRIE,
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  • 276 2 been placed in confinement by Goolab Singh, who is residing at Kussoor, about 12 miles from Lahore— and that Lena Singh and other Sirdars are opposing the Rajah in all his views, and hence another grand outbreak may be expected. Major General Dick has been ordered off dak to Ferozepore
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  • 757 2 rrom acmde tbe accounts received during tbe past week are gradually improving as regards the health of the troops, we ar* happy to state but there is much sickness yet remaining, and those who have suffered during tbe last few months, though they may now have shaken off tbe
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  • 3369 2 At the meeting held yesterday at the Town Hall, on which occasion Mr Adam Freer Smith, Sheriff of Calcutta, presided, there were between four and five hundred persons present. The business was opened by the Sheriff and Mr W. P. Grant proceeded to address
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  • 4067 2 Thk Aerial Ship. It is rather dangerous for a journal to wake itself the vehicle of one of those pieres of news whose character necessarily is calculated to awaken the scepticism of most readers. We therefore deem it ri^ht, in giving the following acccunt, to state that we do
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  • 1525 3 •Mr Bonh am in one of uis'latest despatches to the Bengal Government has some observations on this point and he earnestly presses upon them the impossibility of making any reductions in the salaries of the Resident Councillors of Pinang and Singapore and the Professional Judge as long as it is
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS.
    • 11 1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, Ist FEBRUARY; 1844.
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    • 337 1 ihai ihe reservation has reference only to existing arrangements which cannot I c altered before the Act is intended to come intooperati* n. When the l>ranrj of infamy has been so publicly tixt-d on all lotteries, we have the bironnest guarantee that ihey will not t-J revived under the auspi«et
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    • 4603 1 (From the Friend of India, January 4.) At Gwalior, matters appear to have been settled to the entire satisfaction of the Governor General, without tiring a shot, though the disappointment which tl.e troops have experienced does not perhaps afford quite the same satisfaction to their minds. It appears that
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    • 969 1 (From the Friaud of India Deer 28 Affairs seem to have taken a new and unexpected turn in the Punjab. Uolab Sing who came down from i is mountain principality to the aid of his nephew, has been unable to reconcile him with his brother Suchet Sing, and
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    • 197 2 (From the Friend of India, Jany. 4.) Government ha» closed the past year nobly, by publishing the draft of an Act to abolish all llie private lotteries which sprouted up, like suckers, when > the great tree or the Slate Lotteries was cut down, and which have been
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    • CORRESPONDENCE.
      • 227 2 Dear $w, I am not generally given to nruke complaints or 10 wish prevent any nuocent ammemeni; m J am sure that there are few in Sitt&i|>ore pedestrians, equestrians, or Jehus who have no i bem annoyed lately with the numerous processions
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    • 21 2 aincapore, on 1-nday the 26th Jany. the Lady of Assistant Surgeon James Kob«on, 4th Regi. M. w. I* of Son.
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    • 62 2 uq bunday last, Joun T.go, Constable, aged 32 years. Ihe deceased who had been for some lime past engaged in taking the census caught fever in the Gamb.er Plantations which carried him off in a few •ffiriim. A**' 8 e n l l as a sieady and efficient Officer,
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    • 231 2 THE FREE PRESS Singapore, Thursday, 1st Feby., 1844. Calcutta— On Tuesday we received bv the Bed Rover Calcutta papers to the llih, ult., which bring us the unexpected intelligence that a great battle has been fought in Upper India, iu which the British Troops weie victorious. We have given as
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    • 214 2 (From the Englishman, Deer.%.) We had not time to examine the Supplementary Treaty very carefully yesterday before going to press, and therefore on reading the remarks of the Singapore Editor, we thought that we must have misunderstood it. He says that by the 12th article of the treaty the
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    • Page 2 Advertisements
      • 701 2 FOB. SAXaC. 7 A WHITE Java Horse -goes in Saddle and Harness Enquire at Mr Wn. Rodkr's Singapore, \7tk January 1844 JUST RECtIVED Ex Franzisca and for Sale at PIRRT 'S MAJinf E GENERAL STORES. 17 OMMLHCItL bQUARE. LADIES Fancy Net and plain ditto, Blond and Filet quillings, Laces of
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      • 850 2 NOTICE. c MLSSUS RAP PA «t CO. of Singapore, having by Indenture bearing date the 25th of October 1843, assigned all their Property and Effect* to the andeisigned in Trust to be realized and ip* p!i«U to wa ids satisfaction ot the claims of such creditors as shall within six
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      • 611 2 FOR SALE. BALGUERIE CO'S LA KOSE CLARET. A Small lot of this well-known Wine has just been imported. Apply 10 W.S.DUNCAN Singapore, \st August 1843. FOR SALS. 2 Patent Pianos, one Europe Cab, one Piiaelon, Hambro' Poik, Tongues in Pickle, Smoked Beef and Sausages, Westphalian Hams, liamhro' ano Dutch Gin,
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