The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 1 September 1891

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1 5 The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942)
  • 16 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. THIRD SERIES. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, is. SEPTEMBER, 1891. DAILY rss
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 879 1 PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION I COMP.ViY. O^nc^CUyer Q sa y. Gh WW N— Hsrbour. MAIL fea*^ LINES. If Th. mail steaaers maybe expected to arrive outwards and leave Singapore homewards as totiom OUTWARD. HOMEWARD. 1891. ,89,. tar* Sept. Bth. Mirzapore Sept. 9th I RomKa i__d. Malwa ,„,i Ravenna Cc-
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    • 1452 1 DE KONINKLIjKE PAKETVAART S,: R vtcE No. 6.-F.ve-y four weeks. From MAATSCHAPPIJ. Batavia lo Billiton, Pontianak and back. (Under contract with the Netherlands India SeRV X: No 7 and 7 a.-Twic_ a week. From Batavia to Samarang and Sourabaya and back. 1 Cheribon, Tagal, and Pacalongan will be called HEAD
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    • 1472 1 DEUTSCHE DAMPFSCHIFFS I JJOYAL INSURANCE COMPANY .HEDEREI ZU HAMBURG. OF LIV£RPQQL he Imperial German Mail Steamers Capital £2,000,000. of the Funds m Reserve, Exclusi ve of Capital SUNDA LINE, 4S-493.Q73-TAK.E THE FOLLOWING Koute LIFE DEPARTMENT :~The Company has Outward.— Hamburg, Amsterdam Son»h.im"p- recenll y revited its Rates of L</e Premiaandis
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    • 688 1 LTONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. 'AID-UP CAPITAL |ioj» LESERVE FUND 1 RESERVE LIABILITY OF PRO-) PRIETORS j I: Oue COURT OF DiKECTORS: Chairman- J. S. MOSES, Eso Deit v Chairman— S. C. MICHAELSEN, Esq Damhs, Ei M A. McCoMACHia, i.»<j. J. Holuday. Esq. L Pu Esq. HOWIUS. E>q 1 R
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    • 233 1 QCCIDENTAL AN w STEAMSHIP COM PAN or > g date_ Yoke. -icifK M. I F..i fun Mar. ,8. POWELL CO. Auctioneer.. Ofnc»- anc Br.-.. r rt-ve a.c CM-IKAHS s EO-EOOM Suites. /Or Lam •<»K-57.-. lAIEX r E i BOA» »*_f, Oe cr.,j.u, S' IMMETS t .,l^hs-,-tA»M. Tf j ft. IKKußt-r.-.v.
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  • 15 3 Domestic Occurrence. DEATH. The Funeral will take plac; at the Cemetery, to-morrow morning at 7.30.
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  • 24 3 "<■•.■ > rigla ma.nti.in, due: a n. *,l W ji.n a rudl i.fr lonou- pretrpT. dfAW, nlircd .Irlitrion. I ovaltv. and Law.
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  • 639 3 YESTERDAY there was quoted an article from the Pinang Gazette which is chiefly to be noted m that it shows how an undue external interference with the financial equilibrium of the Colony may suggest m some quarters a recourse to methods of restoring that equilibrium which,
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  • 603 3 The decision of the Chief Justice, given in yesterday's issue, on the responsibilities of the owners of rickshas for the acts of pullers, needs careful attention at the banJs of the now focussing the question, and will have to be considered by the Legislative Council jefore passing the Bill which
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  • 279 3 The Philharmonic Orchestral practice to-morrow evening is at 8 P. U. and not at the usual later nour. The mails from Europe w' i no' lie sorted until the homeward mails have been despatched '.his evening. The Secretary of the Punjom Company announces at Hongkong the receipt of a parcel
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  • 128 3 Says the Hongk mg Daily Press There arrived by the Empress of Chin* on Saturday a man named Lv Thien, who has been banished from Singapore. On arriving here he was taken charge ef by the Police but released on his electing to go the Amoy, his
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  • 289 3 We regret to have to anr? ce the death of Mr. Jasper Young, of the r 'g kon g nd Shanghai Bank, which tootf ace at IO A. M. to-day at the General Hi ual Mr Young had been ailing witnV ver sinc e_ I
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  • 256 3 For the Free Press. London, August 3. Success of the Chilian Imsurgeni. Valparaiso was captured by th" gents on Thursday President B_:-r._rr power is utterly broken and inmsf fugitive. Santiago hah been EormaUi handed over to the Victors there fightiog. The proclamation of genera". peace is merely a
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  • 823 3 The N. L. steamer Preussen left Hongkong on August 29th and may beexpecied here on Sept. 3rd. The 11. M S. S. .Melbourne with the China mai!> having arrived from Saigot*iV' f 9.30 A. M to-day. it is intended to oespp j her to Lurope at 6 p. M. We
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    • 1223 3 i ASH T. E. White, f CLEARANCE (FoRUrRLY OF tOTH QtEEN S LANCERS). g^L£ CIVIL AND MILITARY TAILOR. Gentlemen's own material made up with tl Prsvio.s ro Rkmovvl gre.tte-t cam ROBINSON CO. Orders executed at shortest notice. rfer -.h-j tor -a'e the whole of their Prices Moderate. m ck ol
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    • 818 3 Poate and Noble, Dental Surgeons. DR. Noble may be consulted Daily at 4, Battery Ro-id. Aug. 27. 1 NOTICE. I i\/r^* cc Teng Chtow proceeding to Sarawak A'A on business, his partner Mr. Chan Kee i Soon is hereby authorised to siijn the name of the firm m all business
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    • 869 3 TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. •""THE Straits Steamship Company, Limited, have A removed i heir Office from No. I, Robinson Quay, to No. 5, Prince Street. D. J. MA i HEWS. Generd Manager. S.-pt 1 notice" of removal" "THI oitices f Arthur Br'ni have this day ■f- '.re- ovi-d fr^m
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 110 3 I The Wee.:. 1 Tuerd.y, ist Sept. Higr, WVer i 9.46 a. tt., 9. ?6 9. m. Wednesday, anu High Water: 10.18 a. 9.-8 P. w I Municipal Commission, 2.j0 r.u. Rugby Football, 5r.11. Phil. Soc. Orchestra, 8 r. tt. sharp. Thursday, 3rd Hijh Water 10.46 A. tt., 10.34 T.
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  • 1508 4 (Contrikuled; THE revised rule- for grants m aid to gaghsh and Vernacular Schools as sanctiongd by His Excellency the Governor m Council appeared m a recent Government Gaasste. When Sir Cecil Smith (jisirtbuted the prizes to the pupils of -.he Ratf-es Schools at the end of IS9O,
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  • 314 4 The following portion of the report of the proceedings at the last Municipal Meeting at Penang shows exactly what arrangement is proposed m connection with Mr. J. Y. Kennedy's appointment to the post of Paid President The Pre ids the following memo informing el oners of
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  • 276 4 The Straits Independent announces that it has added to its staff as Assistant Editor, I a journalist named Mr. W. Mu.kett who j has had considerable experience m various I parts oi the world. Mem. for the Pahang Government and j Pahang Mining Companies and Syndicate. j In the (Queensland
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  • 113 4 It has been definite!" -"-ranped to play the Rugby football ma*.ch' aa l,e .&Wf the World on the Esplanade to-morrow aftern<vsn. The Scottish team will be composed of Lmdsay, full back Smart, Paterson and Ormiston, three-quarter backs Bruce Norton and Davies, half backs Shiels, Martin, Murray Robertson, Meikle, Bruce
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  • 1422 4 The ordinary half yearly meeting of the shareholders i a this corporation was held on the 22nd Aug at the Civ Hall, Hongkong. There were present Messrs. J. S. Moses (Chairman), S. C. Micha^Isen I Deputy Chairman), T. E. Davies, C. J. Holiday, H. Hoppius,
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  • 174 4 A considerable stir prevailed at seven o'clock last night on the Esplanade upon the arrival of a whole fleet of tongkangs from St. John's island with Mohammedan pilgrims who have returned per S. S. Sultan fro-s Jeddah and were only yesterday evening released from quarantine. A large crowd of Malays
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  • 582 4 A STEAMER ASHORE— GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY—THE CONCESSION INUNDATED. On the 1 6th instant, Kobe was visited with a storm the violence of which is without parallel since 1871. All the morning the barometer fell steadily, while a strong wind blew from the north-east. At about sis
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  • 521 4 The Siam Mercantile!*?**** make f following -suggestions for t .improvement of district administration m f^ jb Each petty chief or judge is a!on V ttle 7 chei c f Bangkok, each filled with his own -b OU r and is pillage, each is jealous of his neigh us d h
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  • 246 4 SI AM NEWS. ■'r-... «*>«-»>tenn>er 4tn. .__„<..„ !f^L 2nd r We are glad to hear Tat Mr. C. Preston Gibbons, the Special Agent of the Gold-fields o Siam Company, L'td., who recently arrived froir Chantaboon in a very prostrate condition, the effects of an acute attack of fever, is progressing
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  • 257 4 Says an exchange interested m mining Shares We are not the sort of people to take pleasure m the discomfiture of others as a general rule, but we most confess to a feeling of huge satisfaction when we see the veil lifted sufficiently to show sanctimonious and surreptitious speculators m
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  • 56 4 (Corrected up to September i. On London. Bank 4 m s 3 3} demand 32$ Private credits 6 m n 3 3J dor nments 6m s 34 3 s 3 3t On India. Bank demand 225 On HoNGRGNG. Bank demand dis. Un Java. Bank demand 197$ Private m d
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  • 118 4 •SEPTEMBER I.) Tin 3*| Gambier 590 do. tube N0.!... .91 do. do. No. 2 74 P*-pp- lia.K (ordinary S'oore 10 37^ do. Wh»«e, fFa-r LjW—_% is y N oi nn 1 Ins c 86 Mace (Bandaj 90 1 lovi Ai ..in.i 17. Bally C .:e. 1 io/t rJiacK 2575
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  • 328 4 yuoiATioN. Cai. i J u. up Shar -s Value Pd Div H'kong SMiai Bank. 171% Prem. ex. div. 7,500.0007,500,000 6o,o.*> 125 12=; N w Oriental B->.nk. ?4^ Seller, 2,00 >.<,oo £567,100 67,100 50 50 h p.c. 1 .njong Pagar Dock. $185 Ex. div. Sales. 1.5
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    • 199 4 -UC f. -~aß^^OM— TO LET. A 'arge office and a godown. Entrance N..' 2 Collyer Quay. Apply to MEYER BROTHERS. Au-J. 2„. ux. TO LET. QODOWN No. 28 m Kling Street. Lately VJ occupied as a General Store by Messrs. E. Svmsoodim Co. Apyly to KATZ BROTHERS. Aug. 7- v.c.
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    • 741 4 QCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY. The Company's steamers arc despatched from Li «-rpool outwards for Straits and China and from Shanghai homewards for London every week and have arcommodation for first and third class passengers, carrying a Surgeon and Stewardess. Through BiSjs of Lading are issued for a.'! China, Japan, Manila.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 323 4 MAILS CLOSE. To-morrow. For Per At Balßvia, kc, Godavery, 8 a. M. Manila Francisco Reis, 9 A. M. Batu Pahat, Sultana, io a. m. Hongkong, _re, Clifton, 1 p. n. Penang and Calcutta, C.'elydra, JMt Malacca, Bee, Ooryia, 3 r. M. Malacca, &re., Malacci. P. It. 1-abuan, fee, Banj'ermlsssin, 3
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    • 878 4 Passengers Arrived. -»1| Sept. 1 Per B W. Hin from Pomt&r "^ITr" Mr. J. hi Per Melbourne 'torn Shanghai— VJr C Arriv burn. From Hongi-on*;. Mr. \V < Froifi S \\gem. -Mr Karin, Comte \je Mr. Cologan. Passengers Departing. t. s Sept. Per Mrlbourn? for Marseilies. Mr Schel'enberg. Mr. and
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 327 5 IcALISTER Co. r p c ot sail Luft -ft «l v X .ad. H ks t: m the work teamed oul is rt-ual to the g&M -vwing which is more ffl the supervision oi an ex: cr,in satsirsaA r AWNINGS. Mad i with v.LS FOR SAILING 'vESGEL., YACHTS AND BOATS,
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    • 1099 5 PAHANG GOVERNMENT .NOTIFICATION. •npi NDERS w|R be rccrved at the Resil.nt's A i.>rt IVk ut. .'p to n.on the 31st o. O tobcr i,-h>i, |p harms for a perioil of 3 l»: j unary iagj. to 31st Decen.ber 1 I. ta" lof (be right to collect a duty of $5
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    • 1059 5 GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. A PPLICATIONS are invited from candidates. desirous of entering the Government School for Surveyors at Singapore, of which particulars are given below. Applications should be addressed to the Officer m charge of the Survey Department at each Settlement, not later than the 30th September, 1891. By His Excellency's
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    • 573 5 Howarth Erskine, Limited, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, Bridge and Ship Bltldfrs, GENERAL CONTRACTORS, and i o H. B. M. GOVERNMENT. AGENTS FOR Robey, Engineers, England, Engines. Mumford Engineers, England, Pumps. Reddaway Manufacture! s Belting, Camel Hair. Hepburn's Patent Indestructible Valves. Hocking's Fresh Water Condensers. Eagle
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    • 1354 5 THE NEW HARBOUR DOCK COrIPANY, LIMITED. This Comjianv execu'es Ships* repair.- ol a!! des triptions m 1!.': mo: e*'i. i-nt manner, under the superiotea^ence of Euro -..n Shipwrights ano Engine, rs. Rep'th of Water from 14 feet to 151 feet PFWidt- at Entrance \2 feet. No. I Graving Dock (Granite.)
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    • 501 5 G. R. LAMBERT 6c Co. I PJ£O T O G R. APHER S. t ird Road Nt m Pho'i Ii lutlL TO IBt. BEST HoMLV S IME L-KNO» v CHMp-P- S. gj? New! Beautiful Pla -inotypes. Vh ros :r Bk._ \_A 1 he l\li- AM; '„tW> OJ IHE Ak. HIPELAGO.
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 525 5 VESSELS EXPECTED C,i\ "ng port aiid.lao ofdepv date due her. and name A_... M» Aberuakk, Cardiff, July iH; A' H Li'-t p 1 AmHisEs. Liverpool, Aug. 20: Ma Banner, Sydney, due Sept. 4, f r i, I Bayern, S'ampton. Aug. 23; Behn Me> f Beli.eropiion. I. pool, Aug. 15 Sept.
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