The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 26 December 1851

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. IVW. 1^ &i*VU*li M ORi<:, i itit>. i*+ *noiij%*i«r<m> 20m MWCEJfIBER, ISSI. JVo. 52
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  • 5874 1 TIJF r "LLOwmC IS RIPOBLISHBD FOR 01 M BE A L I it FORMATION tort Hii/iaM, Home Dtwtment, Legislative, the ?lsl November, 1851. The following Act is passed hy the llon'Me the PretiHent o' the Council of India in Council, on the 2li» November 1851, wiih the a»seoi
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  • 444 1 Fo'tn of Search Wurrunt under sec (ton XLllt. To the I'eaCeOtficer or Officers Prince of Walea' within this Settlement, or to (Ua Island Revenue Office i or Officers ap» pointed according to tile prori* sions of XLVI. Section of Act XIV. of 1651. M he teas it appeals
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  • 380 1 Form of Distress Warrant. Prince of Wulet? To the Peace Officers, or to Island. any Peace Officer of the Mid Settlement. Whereat A. B. of liag been on the lit day of June 1852, duly convicted beiote as, C. D. and E. F., two of Her Majesty* Justices
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1362 2 •I'MIOU E L). Foi mo/ t u.,t,,,itment met of M'alei' IVtl c Officert, or anj hland. Peace Offi-er and the K*»p*r ni Whereas A. B. of l i f d SettUmenl Kt'Sif! Hu'y convicted beroTe us" '/>' of ih- bAsmh nf and pro.ld^ II(J mm% lU fern o djud ed
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    • 896 2 'w 'tc3Ktio j. nHR following GflnfflTen, have eonsentpd to I 1 form th»? Municipal Committee at Malacca, IB conjunction with those whose names were pwHiafcad in the Official .Notice of the 29th ultimo. Sec Bjon Teong, St. Chee Yearn Chuan, Esquires. K. A BLUNDEIL, Offg. -Governor of Prince <tf Wales'
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    • 1029 2 NOTICE. lloTds WE request thai particulars of all cases o Shipwreck be comri unicaled to us by tin Master or .Survivors on their reaching this port, fo the information of the Underwriters in London. SYMESi CO., Lloyd's Agents Singapore, 1851. WANTED AN Office in or near Commercial-Square, Apply at the
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    • 1690 2 C J. DARS CO. SHIP CHANDLERS, f Auctioneers and Commission Agents WHOLESALE AND RETAIL WINE, SPIKir ai BfttK Mlfi HANTS Boat Quay, Singapore t BRO to announce to Ship-owners Mprcfnnii Commanders of Vesi>(>l.« »nd the Public ii General, that they have always on hand a argP an well selecten assortment
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  • CORRESPONDENCE.
    • 2005 3 TO Ml EDITOR OF THE SINGAPORE FREE PRBS3 Sir, Being an observant man you have doubtless remarked to yourself, and, if I am not mistaken, you have also publicly animadverted upon the system that tor years past has been adopted by the Bengal < Government, in the
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  • 228 3 T H E FREE PRESS Singapore, Friday, 26th December, 1851 Calcutta Since our last, we have Calcutta papers to the sth instant. M r Davis, the chief mate of an American ship, had a vi ry narrow escape from a tiger. 11? h; d landed in company with the commander
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  • 1006 3 At sundry limes we have pohifed out the very unsatisfactory manner in whi.-h the system of appointing Polite Magistrates at this btation works. A Correspondent has sup, lied us with some illustraitnus of the manner in which the present incumbent condacti the duties of his very important office. We have
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  • 271 3 The timers are gradually extending their peregrinations into the districts in the immediate neighbourhood of the town. About a week ago the footprints of one were seen very close to some of the bungalows in the Tanglin district, and one would appear to have been taking a midnight stroll in
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  • 99 3 Three Javanese, supposed to be part of the crew of the Fawn, are said to have been living for some time past ou the borders of the jungle at PyahLebar.in abut which they had constructed for themselves. Their wants were supplied by a woman, probably the wife of one of
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  • 239 3 About a fortnight ayjo, a noted pirate named Panglima Assan was taken into custody by one of the Rajahs residing at Rhio. This man had been concerned in some recent piratical proceedings and when before the Hajah in question threatened to kris him. I his would appear to have filled
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  • 166 3 A Commission has been sent down to this from Hie Supreme Court at Hongkong, to take evidence in the cast- of Dent v. Tronson, which, as our readers are no doubt aware, is brought to recover the value of sundry chests of Opium damaged when the Sieamer E in came
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  • 387 3 Captain Carrey and the crew of the late Ship Scotia, arrived here a few days ago in the Beethoven from L ibuan. It would appear that the Scott* grounded on a reef about three miles to the westward of ihe island Mangaloom, on the North West Coast of Borneo, on
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 893 3 fowdrr and birdin^ shot Gold Lace, 1 aod inch for Naval caps Han, Manila and atriw Marnrss, Saddles, Bridles and Girths I'irliaii Kubber Lamp*, bronied. tilt «rdhin«io| Pit I\ioMn<s. a fine irleriion >'Ut«d and Metal Carry Oiahea Perfuoof ry, fro. Rowlands and Soo's, Tabors'* othets Pencils for drawing k-tch Books
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    • 243 3 NOTICE. '■MIE Amicable UsumNct i'rnc« will grant Policies payable in un^apore, Lhina, London, tulcutta and bevtbutf JuSE d'ALMEIDA SONS, Singapore. |I < n September, 1 85 1 SH^RITps SALE! By Virtue of a Writ of Fiere Facias to me directed dated the '29/ A day of Xovitnbcr, 1851, In the
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  • 924 4 (Frtm the Lm Gatette, December 13.) The ttrm>h Ship /Vy, (owned hy Duncan Gihb Eiquire of Liverpool) hound Tor Bombay, uoexjietitdy arrived in this porl early on the morning of Tuesday las', having the Captain dead on board. The vejsel hxl been i o California and M.niU; and tail
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  • 937 4 (Fr€m the Enylishmtn, Xovrmber, \l We .re «LJ to lk«« »< »f the Engll.h p. P er a fhe Australian Pistssw Service The plan announced, is -yen w r*e than •he recommendation of the Cim-m-.tive Tb«t w«s for a raontlt y screw stetrntr via 'he Cape, the Ad<oir*ltj n%ve
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  • 463 4 (From the Spectator, Sept. 20). With the exception of Mr Hum<>, Mr Hisraeli is the only one ot our House of Common* *oUMes who has yet complied with the time-honoured practice of addressing the general public durin-' the Parliamentary recess, in an "aside" to a more or less numerous
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  • 2058 4 Fro <n the Examiner, October II We hate had colon y in Australia, the l»«t di citered New World, for such it truly U, for tixty (our yars, «aJ Dotwithitaoding thi» long fxpmcnca w« know very little of its miner.! wealth. Coal, indeed, his long been known
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  • 606 4 H ope on. Even yet the hopes for Franklin's party are not quite exhausted. They have now been out five years, and are entering upon their sixth winter and they bad provisions only for tbree or lour years. "That last is the darkest fact. Cold they are inured to many
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  • 417 4 (From the Examiner, September 27.) A. few centimes hence what will be the reply of ao editor of Nttes and Queiiea to tbe irquiiy Whenrr is derived the name of tbe California and Australian Diggings Will it be that tbe places where adventurers dag up the soil in
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 680 4 dfgd A Doctor's Joke.— A well known physician in a certain city, was very much annojed by an old lady, "ho ua* always sure lo accost him in the streot. (or the pupose o? tellim: over her ailments. Once she met him when he was in a very treat huiry
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