Straits Times Overland Journal, 12 May 1881

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  • 23 1 Despatch pkr M.M. Stkaxb* "Oxus." The Straits Times OVERLAND JOURNAL. V <>L. vxii. no. .*)(H). SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 12. 1881. Puick 10 Cf.nts
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  • 102 1 STRAITS TIMES THURSDAY, 12th MAY, 1881. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. White i'epper, fair quality 17. •">«•. *_ar 10. uayne 13. 11 1 r 10. Tin ..Mh.. 21.tV2k. IoT. 1..5-J t do doT 1 .05 do ..I j:, Beiuire* Oil II i Fn do. 3 < )n India Bunk d/d JJ7 Fri
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  • 1185 1 r'lV erland issue of the STEi WHS K W<tB ale<^ Thursday, the stent, on which date the P. O. steamer Lombardy was despatched witb t! ud mail at 4 p. m. The P. O. steamer Khiva arrived here with the London mail of the Mb April,
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  • 658 1 liy our special err, spoildrnf. J Johore Bahru. IQth Mag, LBBl. The old and loyal saying The King's face gives grace" turned out, as old saws generally do, to be very correct and true to-day as far as
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  • 295 1 Thk followimr new notifications appear in yesterday'i Oaxette: With reference to the Civil Service Classification Scheme, issued under the instructions of the Right Hon'ble the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and dated the 30th Hecemlier. ISSO, His Excellency the Governor has. with the approval
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  • 13251 2 e Daily Times, Mh May. Mala. No.mehclati he. Thk poverty of the Mains n enI i-n frequently written upon, especially as regards timber, and the tlora and fauna of the Archipelago, but probably it lias never been inure prominently noticeable than in the names given to
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  • 688 6 Wk take the following -tares from the Penan, Gazette of the s th April and Ist Mav I 8 X. lai contract:— > We are gb-1 to glean from th<' following correspondence, that the Govern lei th Straits has called in on th- Chamber of Commerce lure t
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  • 587 6 e lake f lie follow ill" from tln Penang < I M ix The Pi noitij Public >'■ rrice'k~ Public Depaituu nt.-. is th_<jm.ire called, have re iched a p We will in mi i.'. wti li Mr. Jus been invalided: Air, Regiatrai resign* d, a. _u< bt
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  • Correspondence.
    • 44 7 the Doily Times. Mr. Klpbinstone Roe apv happy ignorance of all lone to- in Engof lightho own means „f the uiie like th'-. I •rom the ■tb M»r< h lasl giving an OVeIM. nl light raph xupersi .tin,/ mmeut. S sth M lssl.
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    • 369 7 rt ■attous intermittent signals are likely .seful as an opt raph for collision- ut enabling -es to Hash their i id other #W. by m. '!l___H6? d hy Til" ,J--■raods recently devised by M. ■Lfor producing them in a cheap Wm7 tt«'s^Mieforc of importance wh-n a light .rnals,
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    • 391 7 To the Editor of tie D*»7y Tin—. Sib, it may intend jrour readers to team from results the benefit of haying European Constables in Singapore. Saturday night, about 11 p. m., ire U 1V P"* I» n g in a gharry from Town towards Tanjong Pagar, when two
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    • 110 7 To of the Dailg Time*. Sib,—With reference to the charge of furious driving against the gharrymen, I should think it would have been quite sufficient had the European constables < taken the numbers of the syces instead of locking them up for the night and
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    • 173 7 To the Ft//'tor of ihe Daily t\ Sir. With reference to tin- B. I. Mail contract, allow me to way a feu words. The B. I. was merely subsidised >.u a<--count of the Madras troops, and as we l have severed our
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    • 114 7 the oxygen auddenly in the centre f the ft ime. and suddenly suppresning it again powerful tlashes m.y Ke obtained. j To tht Editor oj' the Daily Times. 8 18, -1 beg through the medium ot your paper to cal) the attention of the Police to the wells
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  • 396 7 THURSDAY, sth MW luk Russian cruiser Africa, the clip, pen Djigit and Xaueodnik, left on a cruise for Malacca aod Penan- this morning, ami will return t<> Singapore in 8 or P) days. H. K. Admiral Stackelb. j Bag was transferred yesterday to the iron- ;?lad
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  • 632 7 FRIDAY, 6th MAY Mil. W. K B l'vi 1.. Superintendent of lower Perak, has, we learn, been appointed Resident ofSungei Ujong pending the approval of the Secretary of State. Tut. Russian cruiser Aeia, with 11. K. Kear Admii-al Aslambegoff on board, accompanied by the Zabiaoa, returned from her cruise to
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  • 856 7 luk Spanish mail steamer Barer. which arrived this morning from Manila, has on board for Spa;:: 11.000 quintals* of leaf tobacco. The Committee of the Singapore C having placed the Club at the disposal King Kalakaua. His Ma sty paid his tirst visit to the Club this
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  • 270 8 MONDAY 9th MAY. I'hk son of I .s tbe Hongkong Daily cs* of the lind May, has been elected to succeed hi- father. Thk saii.c paper announce- the death on the 29th April of Mr T. Q Linstea.l, District Grand Master of the Masonic body iii Hongkong and South China.
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  • 1718 8 The wreck and cargo of tbPtSiainese schooner > Quan Id. a- she lies on a rock near the Horsburgb lighthouse, eras sold at auction at noon to-dav. for $65. The vessel was loaded with 150,000 Malacca tile- A,. port ii current that there .thing left of her,
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  • 174 8 Hi- M -i y tbe King Islands wilW^T^-a-JLu: the J___ 'iiorrowVS^H barking at Johnston'- I II i rernor will 1 His Majesty off Thi llritiah barque i bought tor the Marqu tion scheme, will, we sr« n i few days pa-- under th under the name of
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