The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 22 September 1899

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    17 1 m Singapore Free Pruv* MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. THIRD SERIES. SINGAPORE. FRIDAY, 2*nd SEPTEMBER, /1899. DAILY ISSUE No 3GS3
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      719 1 1-1 I ~P Office. Collyer Quay. Br Wharves. New Harbour j 0 STEAM NAVIGATION Co. Steamers for CHINA, JAPAN, PENANG, CEYLON, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, ADEN, FGYPT, MARSEILLES, GIBRALTAR MALTA, BRINDISI, VENICE, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. lhrough Bills ot lading issued for Persian Gulf, Continental and American Ports, also for China Coast, and
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      687 1 fHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVI- GATION COMPANY, LIMITED. THE following are the dates on which the Co.'s Steamers may be expected here, viz: OUTWARD. HOMEWARD. For Hongkong, Shano- For Marsbillbs hai Ar lapan Ports. anp London. b.s. Kaisow Sept. s6 B.S. Oanfa Nov. 15 Through Bills of Lading issued to Manchester,
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      571 1 DE KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Undbr Contract with thb Nkthbblands Ihdia < .<> m*..l*• t. Agents at Singapore, ships Agency, latb DAhINDELS Co.. 2-3 Collyer Quav Time Table for Septamber, 1899. From Eaoectea Will be despatched tor Brouwer Dal S«-pt. 20. Bengkalis, SiaW, Pnn»-h, Bil.t, Asahan, and Deli Sept. 2^ 1
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      571 1 THE TANJONG PAGAR DOCK COMPANY, LTD. Shipwrights, Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders, Wharfingers. &c. (.raving Docks up to 500 feet in length an 31 t on siil. Wharf frontage one mile and a quarter. Sheers Wharf 350 feet m length, Boiler ar.d Ma-ting Sheers worked by steam. Extensive range of
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      665 1 T-TONGKONG AND SHANGHAI >l xx BANKING CORPORATION. PAID-UP CAPITAL 5i0.000,000 I RESERVE FUND 1u.000.000 RESERVE LIABILITY OF PROPRIETORS I ...1i0.000.000 Coubt or Dtaacrn... R. M. Grav, Ksrj —Chairman. N. A Sibu, Esq.— Ukpliv Chairman. K ("jokt^, Esq. A. J. Raymond, Esq. E. Suu»,ll4 R H. Hill, Esq. A. Haupt, Esq.
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      628 1 PETER SYS WONDERFUL SPECIFIC. THK only remedy at pies.ni kiiom as an I NFALU HLK ind PEKMANKNI URh Sprue, Dysentery, Dia.rhoea, Hemorrhage and Ulceration of the Bow. Is. RECOMMENDED it SOME ai thk CHI BF SPBCIAI ISrS i> ra« MEDI n^ S.,M H-t.,, 1 'v.ll f hen istsa,,. l Wholesale
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      322 1 D ACIKIC MAIL STfcAMSHIH COMPANY OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. AND 'POYO KISEN KABUSHIKi KAISHA ORIENT all •>, s> co I Ihrou«h r^satfe tickets granted to h^-'.nd Franc* and Germany Lyall trans- AtUn,. c I, c t m tw?- a 6a *•"<"* by MM steamer of the above lines. •il?
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    The Singapore Free Press. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22,1899.
    1165 2 The Singapore Free Press. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22,1899. Her. .ra Tit Wf InlllKTT 1 I Mere patr.ot Truth b«r floriou* pre'.; P-H**** to lUiiation. LoriitT. mni \am. THI Afrikander BSCSabers of tlie Cape ParJi-iiii'.-rit hav< taken a step, in <on■l tioa with the Iransvaal i risU, that nay will be looked
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    THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
    290 2 Writing before the cond' mnatiun ot l)re>lus the C'lroniclt adverts to tVie unrest in France, and a^s-rts lhat tempons'tig by the authorities is than useless at such a crisis. Here is lien. M«Cier openly boas in K (hat tie f ouri marti.l wll re-convict I ..pt.
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    ASIATICS AND THE BAGPIPES.
    203 2 In India the Pathan and the (ioorkha Regiments, who ean claim kinship with the Scots as being hillmen, have taken io the bagpipes with enthusiasm. The national instrument of music of the Pathan is a kind of shrill cl ir onet, wlu..h sounds very like a
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    THE BALESTIER BELL.
    352 2 As was remarked the other day by an old resident and frequent contributor to ths journal Mrs Balestier. wife of Consul Jo-eph Balestier. presented a b*-ll to St. Andrews Church some time before her death. That bell we have seen to-day, at the Public Works Store at
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    S.C.C. LAWN TENNIS TOURNAMENT
    109 2 There will be no play in the Tournament on Saturday. PLAY ON rHURSDAY. Ca lunoßßOts. I'eane beat PrUehard. 7—5. 6—l. Pe.ir'.- beat LiwtSM, 2 6, h— 2, a b Smn&ss. Dent v Upton, u. t S O l. TIES K*K FRIDAY PaovsasMM Pais li-.t I nd
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    PINE CHAMPAGNE.
    217 2 There a touch ol real pathos about this parataken lrom the \Ceyiun Ov>trm>er, say* S. L. H. th<: writer o: S i*j Rosa in the M.rnmg /.ti ur. P SOpphs Vritm I'va Nteidr itn (rom a 1. 1 j.i, sold low ai 50 cents per 100. othing ev-r
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    PLENTY OF GOOD MATERIAL FOR THE MAKING OF UNITED STATES COLONIAL ADMINISTRATORS.
    426 2 PLENTY OF GOOD MATERIAL FOR T HE MAKING OF UNITED STATES COLONIAL ADMINISTRATORS. 1 lii* war of oar*, short and, in some respects humiliating though it was, saw the iudden making of some splendid tames. It prnved once again that there were among us noble, generous, and highminded men, young
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    WHENCE BUBONIC PLAGUE REALLY CAME TO INDIA.
    802 2 Add 10 all these troubles, writes a Mombasa crrrespot dent, the fact that the bubonic plague is at present racing in north-east Alnca and eastcentr .1 Afr ica and we may be able to conceive a part of what the poor creatures suffer.
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    REUTERS TELEGRAMS.
    40 2 THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS Appeal of Cape Afrikanders to Kruger. The Afrikander members of the Cape Parliament have telegraphed to President Kruger, urging him to do his utmost, ahort of sacrificing independence, to avert war London, 22nd September, 18$^
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      233 2 r tk **.T i 1 -f^S? 1 '*''s£* fc» \vi •jt y-y m \RRRRl m^y\ T^L. GOSLING Co., Agents John Little CO., LTD j TAILORING DEPT. We bavc iusi rrcci\e«i a ligai an«l colour. Anyt.. h'.annels. Cheviots Harris' Twee*, Trousenngs. Vesti Riding Tweeds. Material for Polo Breeches NEW I I
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      532 2 MUSIC. LESSONS Ijtbar, givn bj Mr. E. STAM 1 im Hotel. hus M'llltK M t 'Au*. 1 23.9 BOARD AND LODGING?" DUIAIS lot iher married ouples, or single GcatlaaMNi with private family. House mt ar al. 1.r..,- 1 ..;.-i Applv W.. c o it. Pre^i Office. Say -'i BOARD AND
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      930 2 WANTED AN Asm*- ;hi( Wook keeper. Eurasian or Chinese, l>r Htu i Apply b, letter slating salary rqjn> d to M.| c/o Singapore Free Press. A < Ik! 2>) NEGRI SEMBILAN. W'ANlKOlorthe Public Works. Department a K.j.id Ovtr»eer thoroughly conversant va. il 1 1 li construct on and upkeep of
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      290 2 TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS WANTED pNGINKER tor Pahanaj. mu-l understand lath, work, tjo.nl talarjf 10 cumta***** ,nan Appl> PA 1 KKsO.N, Si.MONS CO. Sep 22 uc. TOWN HALI. S A TURD AY, ij p m Merrie Moments Co IMMEDIATE sue CESS EVBMYONB DBUGMTBO NOVEL PROGRAMME. Some Still Laluhiso. TO-MORROW FRESH NOVSLTIES DON!
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      201 2 The Week. Friday, 22nd High Water 11.30 a. S. V. A. Lecture. 5-15 P- oncert, Tanglin Barracks, 8-, op. Saturday, 23rd High Water 0.12 a 0.-5 p. Garrison Rifle Club practice, Tanglm, 2 p. Furniture Sale, T>ne, Mt. Klizabeth, 2 p. P. Sc O Mail Outwards, afternoon. Golf. Monthly Medal,
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    "RATS!"
    37 3 The Pinang Gazette has a grandiose way ol putting its lacts. Thus Ratdom in Penang was, at the end of the quarantine, smaller by some 18,500 rodents than at the commencement of the two cent crusade."
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    THE WIDOWS MITE.
    110 3 According to the Kingston correspondent of the a St. Vincent widow, who suffered hy the hurricane in the West Indies, when she lost her husband, her house, and all her belongings, and uho has two young children on her hands, has received the following I. iter The
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    PENANG REGISTRY OF DEEDS.
    127 3 The Ke*istrar of Deeds, Penang, has issued rt for the month of August. There were -ruments awaiting dehveiy and 200 in f registration at thc beginning of August, and at the end of the month, 331 instruments were awaii.ng delivery and 283 in course of ,:ion.
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    MORE OF JOSEPH BALESTIER.
    133 3 The old resident who has added one or -tails to our knowledge uf the Balestier connection with Singapore also says Bale-tier before emigrating from Singapore to the swamps of Savannah, lived in the present Sailors' Home, from whose roof th* Stars and Stripes used to Hy.
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    "MOTHER'S ALL RIGHT."
    111 3 :o',;ovvmg verses from the Ade are -sj fresh and so expressive of the Colonial 'e j make no apology for quoting .re flapping thei r gs, And training their beaks lor the I cluck, and the brood to her bosom she brings ler, L, at moil ers
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    UNKNOWN
    65 3 I Governor has appointed Mr J. Harwood to act tempotarily as a Puisne I at Penang. Capt. J. A. Davidson-H appointissiataal supt. of police Penang Mr C F. J. Green is sppoil ted a ||S| Penang. A. K. Bultery is at»pc.intcd a mer. Peaaag PUol Boaro' rice A Den
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    "APEL AND DAWSON,"
    133 3 •-mg to the mention ol thc death oi >aw -on Use vteil-known adsocste in Burma an'l our mention, on Mr. iJawrtty about twenty years ago. of association with the Straits ar,'] ;j with Mr. Apd, an old r--i--"*mgapore mentions that the busirmections of Mr. Davs-on wr.awson Co
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    SUPERSTITION OF CRICKETERS
    378 3 the ibjed of rack ncketers ns,' a contributor to Cat. til's Saturday m tj I ollowers of every proverbially superstitious, and cricketers are 1.0 exception lo the rule. From acm keter's v ion good luck is often embodied in a .n some particular cap. If you could
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    EYE OPENERS FOR ENGLAND.
    1315 3 By Jambs Maker, F.R.G.S. Tall-Mall Gatette j Is not England sufficiently wideawake Does she require startling with eye-openers'.' The words of an English educationalist made me think that some in England, perchance many, might after a prodding exclaim, "This is a strange repose, to be asleep
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    THE BUKIT TIMAH MURDER.
    265 3 This morning before Mr. Howard, Magistrate, Lim Mung was charged witli lbs j murder of one Lim 11 uat, at a house about j the 4th mile Bukit Timah-road on Sept 12th. Lim Goon and Lim Choo were charged that they, knowing that a capital offence
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    THE MAKING OF FRENCHMEN IN SIAM.
    232 3 The Betttksk Times alludes to Consular activity sl J\orat in tin- >«!liii^' oi French nationality to Asiatic all-comers. It BSJS I VV<- had a short note the other day painting out that the French Consulate at Korat h I built in v .in. Mr.
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    SPEED IN NAVAL WARFARE.
    788 3 fAdm-i rrttt J If we co. a tier the v. »ar ship oi the p. c-t' it da j eed upon her predecessors wir ih>- most marked fc e e tak-11 pi Speed, tlte qui. nice a tactical ana a itrateg.cal value, a: in, in one
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    SOUTH AFRICANS OF THE MOMENT.
    1023 3 Some Pi-.n Portraits of Mbn now Prominent in the Public Eve. (Illustrated Mad.j There are half-a-scorc of prominent South Africans whose names have recently come more or less prominently bef tc the nsMc eye in connection with the crisis in the Transvaal. A few words
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    FAMOUS TENNIS CHAMPIONS.
    1203 3 The palmy days of the Kenshaw Br. thers ended with the eighties, and even in ihosc day-, ihe fame ot Ernest Rensh »w was erhi s< d hy that of his more brilliant bioti.er. From 1881 to 18 U VV. Kenshaw carried otf lhe Inalith Championship w
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    EXCHANGE.
    71 3 (Corrected up TO Septembei On Lon uon. Bank 4 m/s K x B J D demand Pr.vn. i ri .!iis 3 m/s documents 3 m/s m credits 6 m/s l] 2 '/o France, di inand Germany, deman,! inuia, r. r Hongkong, desMwd l5 Yokohama, demand 17* nm Java, demand
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    PRODUCE.
    90 3 (September 22. I"' e ..nb.er S< Jo. Cube No. i do. White, (Ka.r L/W-^ NntaMW y i, os :o the 1b. i-" do. lo the ib) ißanda) „«3!Z o, Clovbb (Amboina) a ber anCotfee T SnOOS, small p a. f(ia',r quality'; o7^ J. do flake (do H do y;
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      273 3 OCEAN STtAM SHIP COMPANY. AND NJEOBRIaANDnCHI nTOOMVAAKT MAATSCHAPPIJ OCEAAN. The Company's steamers are despatched frorr. Liverpool outwards for the Straits, China, and Japan, and from Japan homewards for London every ten days. The Company's steamers on the J, tvi Line ara despatched irom Amsterdam .ind I.r <•. tol i very
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      359 3 MAILS CLOSE. I n>MORKow. i*oi l'< 1 Ail K. Pahang, s 1 am I ambit fx'tan Ann 1 1 am m a;«alis, aie. BrmmtttP ti am Sourabnyß Wit. 1 cm Deli Sumatra 2 rM K. Paiiang, fefc Netra i, ih Maia. stc i inane 4 m B.nu Pahat Sultana 4
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      1205 3 SHARE LIST, SEPTEMBER 2 2n d Itf 9 9 yuoTATiou. Capital. Paid Ur. Shv.o^ Bank oil hina and japan, Ltd. 41 Nominal. a.000.000 450.968 199.575 L IJeferred. S „a v Bell's As*, stos Kastern Agency. 83 Sellers. lo.oooff 8, 5 8 B's'8 '5' Clear Water I )a,ry Ltd. 8.00 15,000
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      437 4 Under the Patronage eSStR /V/^mEcW* 1 Hi Highnes* HKSULTAN OF JOHORF ISMAIL RAHEEM Diamond Merchants. Manufacturing Jewellers. Dealers in Precious Stones \o. 82-1 and 62-2 Brass Bassa Road. HAVE ALWAYS IN STOCK able ready made Jewelleries ot .nous mounted with high class diamonds, rubies pearls, emeralds, sapphires, turquoises. ■exanntes. cats
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      1133 4 Kelly dc Walsh, Ltd. xt RAFF I D PLACE. THE. No. V YOST I*, the Utrst and moat marvellous Writing Machine the Woild has ever seen. It is lhe product of the finest inventive talent oi the age, combined with exqui-iti- mechanical skin THE (JH lEF POINTS wherein the No.
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      391 4 TO LET THE Grove, Ta.iiong Katonp. Apply 10 MEYER BROTHERS. Aug 24 uc ,m^ =r TO LET FROM ist October, Lauribston," Leonie Hill T.C. B. MILLAR, Riley Har|*reaves St Co., Ltd. Sep 13 uc TO BE LET. Atbaba Bcboalow off Tyersall Road, Botanical Gardens. Seven rooms. Five bathrooms. Large compound
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      474 4 KATZ BROS., Limited. Have Just Received a Large Stock of LADIES AND GENTLEMENS Boots Shoes. Gents Gents Blocked Front Dress Boets Walking Boot. Gents Dress Pumps. Ladies Lace Boots Patent Leather. Gents Walking Boots, do Tan Leather. Ladies Ladies Gents Glacie Kid bhoes. Tan Button Boots Tan and Black Leather
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      297 4 j Apollinaris. THE QUEEN I OF TABLE WATERS. The undersigned beg to give notice that the price of this water has been considerably reduced from this date Ist September, 1899. HUTTENBACH 8R05..& Co Sole Agents. Aug. 30 30.9 ANDERSON Co CYCLE STORE, 5, BATTEh Y ROAD. WE HAVE IM Slot
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      1165 4 VESSELS EXPECTED. Giving port of departure, and («»tiefe BnownJ date due here, and name ol Agents. M»n-oi'-VVab. Abbbona, Jap., Poplar, Carlo Albbbto, Ital., Speuia, I- 1 km. Danish, Hai-Pei.'. Chin., Portsmouth, Hansa, Kiel, Hatsusb, Japanese, Idxumo, Jap., Elswick, Iwatb, jap., Elswick, iAGL'AB, Kiel, iguria, Ital., Speuia, Mi'RABUMO, Jap., London, Rosbt,
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      616 4 The Singapore Free Press. I 888 Mercantile Advertiser Cablb Addrbss,— Adverttstr, Stng.port Tblbphomb Numbbb.— No. 61. rubliahed at 30-3, Raffle* Place, Sinraport THE leading English Newspaper in the Straits Settlements Jonore, t he Federated Native States of Perak, Se! an gor, Sungei Ujong, Pahang, the .V r Sembilan British North
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