The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 16 November 1848

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  • 19 2 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. .iv>. 46. rw. m. rasjHsn^T W«.v#.™, i«to jtovember, isas. JTo. DCXI.CX I
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 670 2 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. m**MfSum SHE llon'hle the Governor havi- g requested ihe Municipal Committee to nominate a fit person I th* office of i ollecior of Assessment and TaxfS under the said Committee all candidates for the utfife in question are desired to send in written applications accompanied r^y the necessary
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    • 668 2 FOR SALE. On Friday, the 7th December next, BY PUBLIC AUCTION, IF NOT PREVIOUSLY DISPOSED OF BY PRIVATE SALE. T^ I ri LL CaUed the Briars > °PPOsite A the Plantation of William Scott, £sqre., m the Claymore district, under Government Grant No. 24 containing about 24 acres. 5 Apply
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    • 569 2 RATES OF ADTKRTISimo IK THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. FROM THB Ist JANUARY, 1848. p 1? Dr, Cts. tor livery Shipping Advertise- ment 2. 50 tor every additional insertion after 1 month q 25 Houses to Let or for Sale, ihe same rale. Other Advertisements not exceeding 2 imn S 3.
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    • 594 2 GENTLEMEN'S APPAREL, &c. Boots, shoes and slippers Braces— elastic, silk and cotton C °Pi?o7 r &c d 7 na de dre Urtout1 Codrington's Corderoy for trowsering Caps— military, naval, plain and cloth Dressing Gowns Duck and Drill Flannel and flannel Shirts Grass cloth for Jackets, &c. Unbleached an* white Guernsey
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  • 197 3 THE FREE PRESS. Singapore, Thursday, 16th Novr. 1848. 1 1 I H M. C. M. rStearoer Reina de Costilla, arrived here on Saturday last the Ilth inst. having ll etf t Manila on the 18th ult By her we have Manila papers to the 18th Oct. Very severe weather hadjbeen
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  • 75 3 On Sunday last about 3 o'clock P.M., a fire was observed in Campong Bugis, which, broke out in conseqence, it is supposed, of the flames from a candle before the joss having been carried to the attap roof. The Police, under the directions of Constable Simonides, were soon on the
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  • 55 3 On Monday /Tuesday Wedndsday last the tide was unusually high, overflowing a gre.t part of the Commercial side of the town, the water being more than a foot deep in sone of the Streets This rise of the tide was probably caused by the strong Northerly winds which have been
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  • 381 3 We recommend to the attention of our readers, a vigorous article on the Dutch and their management of their Eastern Colonies, which we have extracted from the Examiner. The writer gives some very sound advice to the Netherlander regarding the way in which they ought to govern their Colonies, but
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  • 92 3 Fro~i the Atlas fjr India we have extracted some remarks about the recent onslaught which has been made upon the unfortunate colony of Labuan. We are glad to see that the A flag has found something to say in its defence. It appears somewhat unjust to run tha place down
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  • 27 3 The U. S. brig of war Dolphin, arrived here yesterday morning last from Pinang. After anchoring she exchanged salutes with the fort and the men-of war. _i_n
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  • 19 3 H. M ft, Cambrian, Capt. Morris, carrying the pendant of Commodore Plumridge, left this on Sunday last, for Madras.
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  • 67 3 H. M S Hastings, 72, Capt. Morgan, fla£ ship of R E. Rear- Admiral Sir P. A Coflier, Commander in Chief on the India and China Station, arrive I here on the evening of Friday last the 10th inst having been towed from the Straits of Sunda by H. M.
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  • 286 3 The P. O. Company's Steamer Pekin Captain Baker, arrived here on Friday last' bringing the Overland Europe Mails foj September. In England matters seem quj et enough, and the Queen was in the Highland* amusing herself with climbing hills, the gather, ing of clans, and knighting geologists*on the field. The
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 797 3 ..Messrs WHAMPOA COS ADVERTISEMENTS. MESSRS WHAMPOA fc CO have always on Sale an extensive and choice assortment of the following Goods, selected especially for their Stores WHOLESALE, RETAIL FOR EXPORTATION. Millinery Hosiery. Articles lor the Wotk Table Balzarine Dresses Bonnets of lhe latest modes, from Pans Berlin Wool, of assorted
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    • 1164 3 OVERLAND ROUTE VIA TRIESTE. TRAVELLERS TO EUROPE, AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, are informed that the AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, having nearly computed two of their new commodious Steam Vessels, of 260 Horse power, Engines by Hontton and Watt) will resume the direct line between Alexandria and Trieste in
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    • 731 3 NOTICE, TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUOTION, On Monday, the 20/ h Instant, at 1 1 o'clock a.m.. At the Auction Rooms of the Undersigned. A Phaeton with patent axles in good condition for one or two Ponies also a single harness, the properly of Dr Ration, Malacca. ALSO? One
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS.
    • 12 1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. SINGAPORE. THURSDAY MORNING, 16th NOVEMBER, 1848
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    • 1349 1 (From the Atlas Few parts appear to be more difficult of performance than that of an economist. He knows that waste and extravagance are evils, and yet tint in the management of great and complicated affiirs i» is often difficult to avoid them,
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    • 332 3 The last Mail brought accounts of the death, on the 7th Sept. last, at his residence Lilly Bank, near Glasgow, of Mr Robert Hunter, late of Siam. The lomj; residence Mr Hunter in this part of the world, and the peculiar position he occupied in Siam, made him well known
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    • 1724 3 r sV__Pinano, The Pinantf Gazette of »he 4th instant, contains an account of a pu'-ltc meet'•np there of the rate-payers, to take into consideration the provisions of the new Assessment Act. The proceedings are far too long for extract emending over nearly three columns of the Gazette, but we may
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    • 751 3 Mooltan.— General VVhisli has moved his army back to within about 3 miles from the town He was in daily expectation of being attacked by the enemy. The Seikhs were receiving large reinforcements The following were the latest news in Bombay irom Moolian mmlt _J__f___" Up P er Scinde bitten
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    • 532 3 Bomdiy —By ihe Pektn we have Bombay papers to the ***** O tober The tiombay Times, ment'o is that, either the Hou Captain Grey It. N. or Captain Drinkwater Bethune is likely 10 be unpointed CommanderU*»Chraf of the Indian Navy The report of the annual general meeting of the shareholders
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    • 502 3 Leylow.— By the Pekin we have Ceylon Journals to the 24th. The special Session of the Supreme Court held by Sir A. Oliphant the Chief Justice, had brought its labours to a dose —seventeen persons in all had been found guilty at the Session and condemned to death.— Most of
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    • 208 3 Madras —By the P. O. Company's Steamer Pekin, Captain B^ker, {we have Madras papers to the 1 3th Oct. The Governor was about to set out on a tour, his health having gteatly failed since his arrival at Madras from intense application to business. Sir Herbert Maddock arrived on the
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    • 667 3 /POLYNESIA.— We have received two /lumbers of the Polynesian of the 22th iFuly and sth August,from which we gather jtbat at Tahiti oa the receipt of the news fof the revolution in France, the Republic was recognised and a salute of 100 guns fired. The funds appropriated by the French
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    • 1138 4 IFrom the Pinaug Gazttte, Oct. 28 We have lesrned the following p«rtiouUra respecting tbe wreck and pluoder of a vessel ihe property of a British subject in the Straits-— on tbe coast of Perak Io the month of August last a Bu^h schooner, Nacodah Rairgah, left. Singapore on a
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    • 900 4 ~m-m)~**— the Investiture of Sir John Islfttler and Sir Dudley Hill. From (lie Friend ef ludii, October 5.) The investiture of >ir #<«_n Luller wuh the trend Cioss, and i Dudley llill wilt Hie Older of Knight Commander of the Beik, p i formed »i Gownsm nt liouse last
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    • 494 4 (Fro% the Bombay Times, September 27 We mentioned in a former issue that the Hou'b'e Captain Grey had been spoken of as the party likely to be appointed Comraanderin-Chiet of the Indian Navy. Captain Diinkwater Bethune has also been named to us in connection with the appointment, and we
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    • 95 4 Amongst the sin;iilar specimens a« present being collected amongst our Kngineeis, of encrustations from the interiors of boilers and steainpipes, Die most singular we have ever seen is a piece ol electrotype copper from lhe Pekin lhe metal must have been m a stale of solution how it should have
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    • 921 4 The Dutch Possessions ia the East. Our attention is pann-maiiy cilled to this subject by the recenl defeat, bein^ virtually tha sec of a large Dutch force which, for the European coveraments cf tbe Etst, may be c>»lied an si my, by the people of the lute
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    • 916 1 Ad extension of Dutch commerce Is the pretext of the illiberal system pursued, and tried by this test it is pitiable failure. In 1847 tbe whole imports into the Dutch possessions, with their fifteen millions of inhabitants, amountet only to 30,000,009 of florins 0 at tbe rste of half a
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    • 1386 1 The Emigrant Ship Ocean Monarch," Burnt at Sea. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. From the Daily News, August 26 We reported yesterday the sad fact that in emigrant ship, crowded with passengers, had been burnt at sea. The following particulars have since reached London. The splendid American ship Ocean Monarch, of
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    • 1479 1 Tfce British Government, it is raid, has offered to sell to the Government of the United Mates its pro pricury rights south of 49 degiees, and the free navigation of the Colombia, for a million cf dollars. President Polk has authority trora the Congress to treat for the
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    • 296 1 The following letter has been issued by Messis. Trueman and i ook (in liquidation), regarding the third instalment of ss. on their estate, whicb, according to the arrangement i-roposed on the 22nd of December last, became due on the I9th in -I. The remaining instalments, consisting
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    • 150 2 T"* Cwnnvttee ot the t'nvy council for Trsde and Feiei.'ii Plantations hare, we understand, ad- j ii-.- er .Mii| r*. 10 cnifi.in Ihe fmenoe I front o *ice vt M l i ;< si w the .a c District Judge ot i olombn. on ihe gronnd that on
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    • 213 2 The Water ford Hero. Rome few weeks ago, when Inonrreetfonary symn- totns first manifested themselves, the Maquis <if tl aterioid convened in tenantry an 1 lahonrtn for j the ptsepnsn nf asking them what pari they we c dis- j posed to i.ik'-; iv the. threatened mstbrealu A crowd nf
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    • 1248 2 The Journal dts rVeTnf* does England the honour to devote two columns of its space 'to a recapitul i- i tion ot the detail ot 'he recent triumph in Moubao. j It thus sums up its article The English n« wspa- J pers
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