The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 5 January 1859

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    24 1 THE OVERLAND SINGAPORE FREE PRESS. A Monthly Summary of General and Commercial Intelligence from the Strait*, Java, Manila SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, TUB STH JANUARY, 1850.
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    THE OVERLAND SINGAPORE FREE PRESS.
    243 1 Singapore, Wednesday, sth January f 1869. A Dutch paper received by the last Mail states that in consequence of representations made by the Netherlands Cabinet, the English Government has declined to entertain the proposal for taking over Sarawak from Sir James Brooke. It was formerly
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    PINANG.
    1965 1 By tlie steamer Lightning, we have the Gahette to the 25th ultimo. Pinang seems to be becoming noted for the number of scrapes into which Government Officers, Military and Civil, contrive to get and which come before the Court of Judicature for trial in the shape of actions to
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    MANILA.
    131 1 A Manila paper of 'the 6th current, thus announces the arrival of Sir John Bowring at that place:—"At a quarter to twelve on the forenoon of Saturday, the guns announced to us the arrival of the British war-steamer Magirimne having on hoard Sir John Bowring, Governor and Superintendent of
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    AUSTRALIA.
    842 1 We are in tho receipt of colonial joarnalB up to loth November. The Sydney and Melbourne papers teem with paragraphs describing new gold fields, the most promising of which are Indigo, on the Murray River, about midway between Sydney and Melbourne Burren long, on tho Macquarrie River 150 miles
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    THE ANDAMANS.
    2225 1 Now that the Andaman* are undergoing the process of colon i rat ion a* a penitentiary for the refractory sepoy, the following "etch of the present condition of those islands and their inhabitants, addressed by the writer to a friend in Pinang, may be acceptable to our readers:
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    PIRACY.
    101 2 The trading prahus from the Eastward have now nearly ceased to arrive. The last of whi h we have heard was one from Ha-as, oul fi'ty days, which brings a cargo consisting of tri|)ang, tortoisrshell, and above 2 Uoyans of cowries. The prahu reports having seen a squadron of
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    SHIPPING NEWS.
    373 2 The P. O. Co's steamer Noma, Capt. Rogers, arrived here on the morning of the 21 st ultimo, from Hongkong <he 15th She sailed for Bombay on the following day at 2 PM. The British steamer Fiery Cross, Copt. White, arrived here on the evening of the 21st
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    Shipping Intelligence.
    412 2 ARRIVALS. Dec. 21 Fiery Cross (str.) from Hongkong »21 Concordia (Bremen) Amoy 21 Numa Vidal (French) Pinang 21 Betty (Bremen) Hdcao 22 Duncan Amoy 22 Glencoe sinn^ n 22 Martha Howes Amoy n22 Siadte (Hanoverian) do n22 St. Lonis (American) B. Ayres n 22 Persia Amoy n 23
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    SHIPPING IN THE HARBOUR.
    1016 2 Vessel» Names. 1 Toi is Commanders. Consignees. Ba TT \f £/»lwM~kYw»r Stfirnfp n 235 W. Stauton, Esq. Surveying Anier. barq Klebe r 446 Crowell Williams, Anthon and ct New York Boston Amer. ship Atalant a 699 Colby Ditto Boston Amer. barq Amer. ship Rockt •t 394
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