The Straits Budget, 8 May 1894

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  • 135 1 The Straits Budget BEING THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE “STRAITS TIMES.” The Straits Times has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Asia, British India excepted. It circulates in Singapore and Penang, throughout all the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula, in Siam, Borneo, the Netherlands Indies, the Philippines, and
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  • STRAITS TIMES. TUESDAY, 8TH MAY.
    • 315 1 Editorials. China aul the Pamirs. Ti,. Labour Trouble in the United States, j Chin Immigration iu the United States. Perak Ira le and Finance. Blunt iliisiii. Coming Legislation. Th? Pri-ou Department in 1893. L.h m Market Quotations, shipping News. Pi-vnger List Police News. T’-eCliiM; tin* Judge; tie
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  • 524 1 Singapore. 8th May, 1894. PRODUCE. Gambior, 7.75. do Cube No. 1, 12.50. do do No. 2, 9.25. Copra Bali, 5.9u. do Pontianak, 5.50. Popper Black, 9.95. Sago Flour, Sarawak 2.30. do Brunei 1.96. Pearl Sago, 3.4o. Coffee Bali, 40. Coffee Liberian, 44.50. Tapioca small Flake, 4.15. do
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  • 746 1 This week’s mail for Europe leaves per M. M. steamer Sal'izie. The German steamer Preussen with tile mail from Eurojie, arrived on Thursday. The steamer I Sachsen with the German mail for Europe left on Sunday. The M. M. s. s. Oce< i-1 nien with the
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  • REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
    • 68 1 Londoiit Ist May. Toe Right Hou. H. H. Fowler, Secretary of State for India, has stated that ueitlier the Government of ludia, nor the Secretary of State, contemplates reopedipg the Indian miuts to Silver. flic Time* had stated, a few days previously. that some
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    • 44 1 In the modus vtvendi receutly concluded between Russia aud China regarding the Pamirs, Russia has made large concessions to China; and engages not to push forward her troops in the disputed territory until a tiual treaty has been concluded.
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    • 11 1 The prospects for the British crops are extremely favourable.
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    • 16 1 2nd May. The May Day celebrations on the Con-| tinent passed off quietly.
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    • 121 1 The TintP* Paris correspondent states that the Emperor of Austria has agreed with the Sultan of Turkey to undertake to mediate with the Czar with a view of securiug the recognition of Prince Fer-1 dinaud of Bulgaria. T Prince Ferdinand has been sovereign of Bulgaria since
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    • 37 1 I The Bill for the Disestablishment of the English Church in Wales has been read a I first time in the House of Commons, after I a vehement protest made by Mr. Balfour. 3rd May.
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    • 17 1 The result of the Chester Cup was I Quaeeitum I Daredevil 2 I Spindleleg
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    • 68 1 An International B metallic Conference |ps been opened at the Mansion House. There were German, French, and Dutch unofficial delegates present. The Conference is purely consultative and it is intended not to submit any resolutions. The Government ignores the Conference. Mr. Balfour aud Mr. Courtney, in
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    • 70 1 4th May. Iu the course of the debate on the Foreign Budget in the Italian Chamber, Baron Blanc stated that the Ti iple Alliance was solely an organization for the defensive; and that the pacific wishes of the European sovereigns excluded any impressions as to
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    • 31 1 The International Bimetallic Conference at the Mansion House has closed. The Conference decided to do its utmost to obta'n bimetallist pledges from candidates at the next general electiou.
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    • 42 1 Lord Rosebery, speaking at a political meeting at Manchester, said that the Government were not hopeful of passing the various measures that had been submitted to Parliament duriug the present session, which was mainly owiDg to the excessive speeches.
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    • 19 1 5th May. The .Registration Bill has been read a second time in the Hou3e of Commons.
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    • 22 1 The Anarchists Fefrara and Polti, who were arrested iu London, have oscn sentenced to twenty and ten years’ penal servitude respectively.
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    • 22 1 Roberts, playing in a spot-barred bl J| match at Manchester, has made a break of thirteen hundred and ninety-two.
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    • 64 1 Lord Salisbury, speakiug at Trowbridge, said that the Lords must submit to the national will; but the Lords were bound first to ascertain that will clearly. No Government, he said, had ever before introduced a Bill having for its object the dividing of
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    • 35 1 7th May. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Baron Blanc, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, stated that Italy is firmly resolved to retain her African colony, and to maintain a protectorate over Abyssinia.
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    • 30 1 A Royal Commission in Holland favours a scheme for reclaiming half a million of acres in the Zuyderzee, at a cost of thirty millions sterling.
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    • 43 1 In a debate on European disarmament. Signor Crispi, the Prime Minister of Italy, while affirming friendship towards France and Russia, said that, if Italy disarmed, she would have, *s formerly, to pay the cost to the conqueror in a future war.
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    • 26 1 Fresh shocks of earthquake ha?o given rite to a panic at Athens, where the people in camping ont and sleeping in boats*
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  • EDITORIALS.
    • 227 2 (Straits Times, Ist May.) Judging from to-day's telegrams, China has apparently gained considerably in the Pamir negotiations with Russia. A previous telegram mentioned that a provisional arrangement had l>een come to between the two powers, based on mutual concessions. The concessions on Russia's part seem to
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    • 527 2 {Straits Tithe*, 2nd May.) The mass-march of the unemployed in the United States upon Washington had lieirwn at the date of last mail advices, but the movement at that time had given no siirn of the importanee it has sinceassunn d. and ridicule
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    • 234 2 (Straits Times, -ird May.) The text of the new treaty lietween the United States and China has lieen published, and the contemplated changes in the existing treaty arrangements have aroused considerable opposition among the Anti-Chinese party in the States, especiallv in California. Nothing short
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    • 573 2 {£tntit* Tint »>\ Iril JJin/,) Tin: official report !»y the officer in charge of Lower IVrak is *•»m^i*l.*r«i 1 »K* importance to the commercial reputation ot I on mg. It iu 1 lu**trude with i* i tl, increase; and t hit provisy ons Si r/r S
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    • 312 2 (Straits Times 4th May.) At the date of last mail advices, high liojK?s were entertained among bimetallists as regards the Bimetallic Conference, which has just closed as announced in to-day’s telegrams. The Conference was held at the prompting of the Bimetallic League which had arranged to call i; together
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    • 308 2 (Straits limes, oth X«!l) The Bills te be laid before the Legislative Council, w hich is to meet a few weeks lienee, include two fresh measures. One of them Vvks to amend the Post Office Ordinance of 1879, and has Ik*cii framed to meet the requirements of Article
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    • 328 2 (Straits Times 7th May.) The Prison Report for 1893 notes that, in the Singapore Criminal Prison, the dailv average of prisoners reached 884 against 948 in 1892. The daily average of Euroi»eans and Eurasians was 18 l7 in 1892. The conduct of the n latter
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  • 408 2 Several geutlemeu interested in tobacco growing and tobacco manufacturing assembled at the Sydney (N.S.W.) Mines Office last mouth to inspect some tobacco recently grown aud cured at Tumut, under the care of the tobacco expert of the Department of Agriculture. The samples shown were
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  • 241 2 COFFEE PROSPECTS. AN INSTANCE OF CHINESE 8UPERst ITu (From a Correspondent.) We have only one boat at present ningupthis river, viz., the Aing both of our other steamers are off tb/’ The Sultana has gone into f usual half-yearly survev, and V has been chartered to go
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  • 345 2 THE KUALA LUMPUR WATER WORKS. ARM8 LICENSING. {Selangor Journal 4th Maj.) Regarding the Kuala Lumpur Water, works and the Governor’s recent tion of them, we are unable to gay wha: was H. E.’s opinion of the Impouudic* Reservoir, but we hear that he kimsdf as well pleased with
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  • 221 2 There was laid upon the tal l** oI New South Wales Legislative ul early last month, a report by tin* iVu. Health upon this subject. IJn* r* stated that on the Ist January. 1 rt remained under detention at the lazaret 30 persons. During the
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  • 1167 3 H. A. O'Brien. Acting Audi*H. ra arrived from Penang by the '*~l r Gang* t*>' 8 moram Sreturn passage rates of the Messa*B yptritiuies Company, have been u* nes L about twenty-five per cent. iD-jreasea u iJvert istd that Mr. F. H. Pearce t( to sign the
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  • 420 3 COURTS AND POLICE. The report ou the Selangor Courts I Dc-paitmeut for 1893 notes that the Court I work to be disposed of has again considerably increased. The chief event of the year, from the Courts point of view, was the passing of the Courts Regulation,I which put on
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  • 137 3 The Acting Resident Councillor of Malacca has no high opinion of the. education given to the Malays there, under the existing system of public instruction. He dwells upon the fact that the greater number of the most intelligent boys after finishing their school course
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  • 141 3 At a meeting of tin* Leeds Chamber of Commerce, on April 4-tb, Mr. Zost'-nheiin moved that a memorial be presented to the Government that the Navy be us J f >r commercial purposes, carrying of mails aud passengers, or any remunerative work, so as to
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  • 176 3 The Norddeutscher Lionel at Bremen ias published its auuual repoit for 1893, according to which the gross profits amounted to m. 9,825,443. After paying all traffic expenses and after writings off to the amount of m. 1,042,700 from the value of the subsidised imperial mail steamers aud
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  • 199 3 The first annual report from Feb. 4th 1893, to Dec. 31 last, to be presented at the meeting ou 17th April, states: Ibe net profits for that period, after providing for bad aud doubtful debts, amount to £21,712 11s. Od. From this, however, it has
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  • 186 3 This morning, the Chief Justice was engaged in the hearing of a petition to re-1 cover possession of a Kling female child. Mr Fort appeared for the petitioner (ihe father) and Mr. Rogers appeared for the respondent the grandmother Both counsel argued with considerable warmth and
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  • 288 3 Mb. J. Bebdoe Wilkinson, the managing diiector of the Straits Development Co., which has taken over the Pahang Exploration and Development Co., was to leave London for Singapore per P. O. steamer Rome on 13lh April, to assume charge of the company’s interests in Pahang. Insurance
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  • 604 3 Hongkong fired on the 24th April in the Iuterport Rifle Match and made a score of 823 on the ihrce ranges, being six more thin that made by Singapore. This is the sixth match, aud of the previous five four have been wou by Hongkong and
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  • 390 3 The United States Government last year sent to all the coosular officers of the United States a circular requesting them to prepare reports concerning the proper method of packing American goods for export to meet the requirements of their several districts. The replies have been received
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  • 519 3 with modern nflm wd irtilkry. "Xioitdoii Timet. The serious fighting iu the Philippines, of which news have just icached Madrid, will direct atteution to the positiou of Spain in that remote and still little known aichipelago. The inhabitants of the Philippines are composed of several distinct
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  • 478 4 (Supplementary to Straits Times Telegrams.) (Via Ceylon.) THE CITY AND 8UBURBAN RACE. THE AFGHAN ARMY. APATHETIC UNIONISTS. FRENCH MINISTER TO EGYPT. RELIEF OT IRISH EVICTED TENANTS. HEALTH OF THE INDIAN ARMY. INDIAN RAILWAYS. THE EARTHQUAKES IN GREECE. ANARCHI8M IN LONDON. London. tSth April. The following is the result
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  • 160 4 The Administration Report on Malacca for last year seeks to remove an alleged erroneous impression among people who are not acquainted with the Settlement that the Malays of Malacca are poor. The people of the coast district at all events are said to be extremely well off. With
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  • 168 4 The Foreign Office lias received an intimation from the Netherlands Government that it will not grant any compensation for the imprisonment, in November, 1891, of Captain Carpenter, of the Costa Rica Packet and the detention of the ship and crew at Ternate, Molucca Islands, at
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  • 858 4 —Pi navy Gazette. H. E. the Governor wired the Penang Resident Councillor on Thursday as follows Kwala Kubu, Selangor 90th April. Please convey my condolences to the families of those resident in Penang who have perished in the lamentable disaster off Dindings. Captain Wilt of tlie
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  • 211 4 Telegraphing on the sth April, the Paris correspondent of the Standard says: As long as a siugle paragraph in any clause of the Treaty of Bangkok is unfulfilled, the French will continue to hold Chantaboou. The acquittal of the Mandarin, who is accused of having murdered the
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  • 633 4 (Six Day* Later than by Mail.) STRIKE RIOTS IN PENNSYLVANIA. opposition to balfour’s extradition. AUSTRALIAN BANKING. FATAL FIRES IN AMERICA. KING HUMBERT ON EUROPEAN PE£CE. BULLET-PROOF CLOTHING. HOT DISCUSSION ON THE NAVY ESTIMATES. A DUCHESS ROBBED. London, 9th April. Serious rioting has occurred in Pennsylvania, U. S..
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  • 262 4 INEFFICIENT REGISTRATION. At the Police Court this morning, before Mr. Egerton, T. L. Gosliug, a trader, of Battery-road, was prosecuted by Mr. Newland (Acting Superintendent of Police) for having, oil the 16th of April, sold thirty Winchester repeating rifles, aud thiee thousand cartridges, without entering the
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  • 759 4 The Hon’ble W. E. Maxwell will leare Singapore probably to-morrow afternoon in order to proceed to Penang to preside over that branch of the enquiry which is being conducted there by the Retrenchment Committee appointed by H. E. the Governor. The Penang Resident Councillor and the Hon.
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  • 113 4 The question of introducing a lighting into Calcutta—in fact, of sunrs* electricity there generally—i 8 i n ah*** owing to the intention of subject before granting licences to syndicate or promoters. It is since more than one firm entered and offered to put Calcutta on a
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  • 138 4 The production of gold throughout tL world is placed at $250,000,000 f or calendar year 1893 by the Bureau of tb Mint at Washington. The 1892 was $238,861,000, showing dD crease of $11,000,000 mainly furnished b the United States, South Africa, and sia. The figures
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  • 139 4 The French Consular Court at hai has come to a decisiou in the suit brought by the Bauk of China. Jajac. and the fc traits agaiusl Mr. E. in respect of uupaid calls on some shares. Judgment was rendered for defendant, mainly
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  • 151 4 SEIZURE OF SPURIOUS COPPLR COIN. (From a correspondent.) By the s. s. Isabella which arrived line on the 27th April, there caine as paswugers two Chiuameu aud one Cbiuawoiuan. The headmau of this part y paid the passages of all three iu rolls of reputed copj-rr coins, which
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  • 233 4 Thb District Officer of Kuala Sei*u$wr. in liis report for March, mentions that has visited some portions of the -j 15 r and made enquiries as regards padi ,r pects. At Api-Api and Jeram the.t but little to complain of, and the < y} which are
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  • 312 5 Kt Egyptian Mokattam newspaper, (lirse of an article upon the re--3 *bieh have lately been in circulation f th»* resignation of Riaz Pasha 1 1 biiiet, makes the following lil .unpaired iu high official circles T.niriliatiou which has been V tween the Khedive and the
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  • 522 5 i ai. Lvons, the Acting Supeiinteu- IV >*ms in Selangor, iu his report r notes ail increasing number of i .11 1 jail aud gives figures of to show that the prison is net sufficiently deter- j ik-, however, that perhaps -.<!Ufactorv to have a larger
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  • 248 5 Corns Pro8pbct8. (Prom a Correspondent Heavy rains have set in here, and the weather at present is very damp and miserable. However, we ought not to grumble as, owing to the previous hot weather experienced, our coffee wanted it badly. Coffee is now ripening up, and picking
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  • 579 5 FURTHER DETAILS OF THE GOVERNOR’S TOUR. HEAVY RAIN DURING THE VISIT. THE PROGRAMME CARRIED OUT. H. E’S AFFABILITY. FIRE AT KUALA KUBU. (From our Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur, USth April. On Monday last, H. E. the Governor aud suite, accompanied by the Resident, Mr. YY'atkius, and Mr. Spooner, left
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  • 1700 5 STRAY SHOTS. Owing to tbe heavy going during this week the winding up gallops have necessarily been kept until later than usual. This morning, however, most of the horses were sent along although the going was extremely heavy and sticky. There was a very large attendance at the
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  • 177 5 t Via Manila.) j Spanish Commercial Treaties. The United States Tariff. I Madrid. I'Jth April. The Committee of the Senate is delaying its report on tin* commercial treaties concluded with other nations, notwithstanding that the Government has undertaken to obtain their approval before the 15th May. The President
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  • 1181 5 The final in the Championship, and also the final in the “B" Class Single Handi1 lap, were both concluded on the Esplanade ast evening, and, with the’ exception of the final tie in Profession Pairs lo be played bis afternoon, brings the Spring
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  • 1126 6 A Jelebu dividend of ten per ceut. was declared to-day. At the Company’s meeting to-day, there was no formal resolution ui favour of repayment of capital; but the feting was that capital should be repaid. It is now being urged by brokers and others that the Board
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  • 124 6 (By Special tn re from our Correspondent Penang Thursday p.m. The Steamer Setthi, from Rangoon, was wrecked on the 27th of April, off Kalegouk. The vessel was abandoned by the crew. The Setthi was uninsured. [Tiio Setthi was ail iron sr»r<»w steamer of a nett
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  • 148 6 Dr. King, Director of the Indian Geological Survey, gives a brief account in his annual leport of Mr. Bose’s investigation of the coal-field of the great Tenasserim river in Lower Burmah. Mr. Bose confirms an estimate made by Mr. Hughes some time ago, in which the quantity of
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  • 962 6 GENEROUS SHAREHOLDERS AND HAPPY DIRECTORS. The ninth ordinary general meeting of the Jelebu Mining and Trading Company, Limited, was held at noon to-day in the Exchange -rooms, the business beiDg to receive the directors* report and accounts for the half-year, ending Feb. 6tb, 1894.
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  • 145 6 PACIFICATION OF DAHOMEY. THE UNITED STATES LABOUR TROUBLES. the emperor of annam’s AFFECTION FOR FRANCE. FRANCE IN AFRICA. Paris, 22nd April. General Dodds has left Dahomey foi France. The country is reported to be entirely pacified. Serious laUnir troubles are causing uneasiness in the United States. Bands of
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  • 626 6 The Hongkong Daily Press makes the following remarks ou the Singapore Chamber of Commerce discussion upou the draft Partnerships* Registiation Bill The object of the Bill, if it can be effected, is an eiiuuently desirable one. European firms as a rule advertise
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  • 1118 6 A PECULIAR MURDER CASE PROGRESS IN KINTA. MALAY ESTIMATE OP EDUCATES GHARRY 8TABLE8 AT IP 0H INDOLENCE OF MALAYS IN LOWER PeSa Perak Government Gazette 27th A At Ipoh on the 8th February in j t 4 Aar, man was murdered under peculiar circumstances. Hr was sufc with
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  • 567 7 THU FIRE AT KUALA KUBU. §25,000 damage. the SELANGOR CLUB. (From our Correspondent.) Kuala Lumpur Tuesday. use side of the main street of Kuala rfubu from the gambling farm premises /the curlier of Hospital Street was com- ,,’v consumed by the fire which broke V D Thursday afternoon
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  • 1583 7 THE DUTCH STANDPOINT. A Samarang newspaper, called the Locomotief has been discussing the Costa Rici Packet question, and has been setting forth the facts from a Dutch point of view. It professes to base its statements on information, both authentic and received at first hand.
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  • 60 7 HONGKONG 823, SINGAPORE 817, SHANGHAI 7t>o. A wire lias boon received here by the louorarv secretary of the Singapore Rifle Association, statiug that Shanghai has fifed in the luter-Port match and has made an aggregate score of /bO. Thus Hongkong becomes the winner by a very
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  • 206 7 CLAIM FOR DESECRATING A GRAVE. At H. B. M.’s Consular Court in Biugkok on the 26th April, Mr. Beckett, I Actiug Consul, heard an action to recover Tcs. 4,000 damages, brought by Ma Pob, widow of Ong Kek Kee, I late compradore to the Borneo Co., 1 against
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  • 1146 7 H. H. the Sultan of Johore will be At Home at Tyers&U this afternoon at 5 o’clock. An international exhibition has been opened in Milan (Italy) from May, and will continue to October, 1894. The next meeting of the Legislative Council will be held in the last
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  • 53 7 THE KWANG-TUNG”- NGAPOOTA COLLISION. (Special wire from our Correspondent Penang Friday, 2.21 p.m. The Marine Court of Euquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the Kwang-Tung and Ngapoota has suspended the certificate of the Captain of the Ngapoota for six mouths, and the gunner of the Ngapoota has had
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  • 110 7 Poona, April 19th.—'The first shooting competition at Mahableshwar this season took place on 16th April at the new range. The competition was open to both ladies and gentlemen, and was seven shots at fifty and seven at a hundred yards. Mrs. Yathard won the first prize
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  • 122 7 A case of some importance was tried in Calcutta, the other day, in which Messrs. Ralli Brothers sought to hold the Captain of the ship Grecian responsible for damage to a cargo of oil on the ground that he had signed the bills of lading. The Magistrate
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  • 123 7 The remains of the Corcan political refugee whose murder by a servant at Shanghai, at the alleged prompting of the Government of Corea, noticed in the Straits Times recently, have undergone in Corea the most horrible treatment to which malice could expose a corpse. The
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  • 127 8 It is not often tb&t ire hear of a man breaking his leg in a steeplechase, finishing the race, and only getting beaten a head for second place; yet this happened in the case of Mr. C. Thompson, the wellknown English G. R., who when riding a
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  • 133 8 There are signs, a Calcutta paper, that bicycling will before long become a popular native pastime in Calcutta. Already a few Babus and an occasional Parsee may be seen gliding along with considerable skill on the less-frequeuted roads at eventide, and very recently the sport has advanced
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  • 147 8 —Mining Journal. The first practical test of the great hydraulic tunnel, which has been under construction at tbe Niagara Falls for the past three years, was made a few days ago. The paper mill, which is tbe first enterprise to benefit by the tuDnel,
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  • 162 8 At Bombay on the 19th April, the Chief Presidency Magistrate delivered his decision in a case of defamation instituted by Mr. Damjee Likhmicbund, Manager to the Government Opium Farmer of Bombay, against the Rev. A. W. Prautch, of the Methodist Mission. Mr. Prautch was convicted of
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  • 235 8 A Moscow journalist has been discussing Lord Elgin’s prospect in India with uncommon keen sigh ted ness and candour, says a Calcutta paper. He describes* the anomalous position of the educated native, that artificial product of Lord Macaulay’s misjudged benevolence, who is out of touch with
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  • 170 8 At Melbourne on the 10th April, Major I Wardill received a letter from Mr. A. E. J Stoddart giving further particulars of the I earn of English cricketers which he prox)ses to bring out to Australia next season under the auspices of the Melxrnrne
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  • 183 8 The Treasurer at Victoria, was, on the 9th April, about to draft a Bill to deal with the distribution of the charity grant anuually voted by Parliament. This year the vote amounted to £llO,OOO, and last year it was .£120,000. The distribution hitherto has been made
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  • 354 8 i Via Ceylon.) LEGAL MINISTERIAL CHANGES. ANARCHISTS AND THE ROYAL EXCHANGE. LORD REAY ON INDIA. THE LABOUR TROUBLHS IN THE UNITED 8TATES. THE EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE. MR. LABOUCHERE AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. A MINING EIGHT HOURS DAY. London 23rd April. Sir Charles Russell lias been appointed a
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  • 110 8 (Via Manila.) Madrid 19th April. The speech made by the Pope to the Spanish pilgrims who visited him on the occasion of his jubilee is much commented on. Tbe Holy Father said that it was incumbent on Catholics to subdne their passions and
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  • 174 8 THE MATCHES, The following match &rd has just been issued by the Cricket Sub-Committee of tbe Singapore Cricket Club:— Dats, Match*. Mat 5th Members 2 yem A over v. Lew than 2 years. 14th 1st XI. Garrison. 2nd XI. Mslsoon nt M&risoca. 1Mb 8. C. C
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  • 212 8 524 TO 62j PER CENT. DIVIDENDS. The report of the Ooregum Gold Miniug Company of India for the year ended Dec. 31st, states that the total quantity of gold produced was 75,092 oz., which realised £280,040. The result of the year’s working was a profit of
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  • 253 8 The Japan Mail states that a report that negotiations with the British Government for the revisiou of the Treaty with Japan have progressed so far that the rat i 6 cat ion o: the revised treaty will probably take place before the opeDiug of the Diet, seems
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  • 258 8 THE “KWANG TUNG”— NGAPOOTA COLLISION. A Teluk Anson correspondent of the the Pinang Gazette sends to that paper the following account of the accident:— The 8. s. Canton came in this morning biinging up 50 men who had been rescued from the Kwang Tung. It is alleged that the unfortunate
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  • 2848 8 THE 8TBIHE EIOT8 IN PENNSYLVANIA. OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE. MINING ROYALTIES. MINISTERIAL EMBARRASSMENTS. STRIKE OP REPORTERS. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WISCONSIN. BANKING MISMANAGEMENT. GENERAL BOOTH AND WRST AUSTRALIA. JAMES GORDON RENNET BUYS THE VIGILANT.” IRISH LAND TENURE REFORM London 6th April. The owners of the well known Gulf
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  • 40 9 Iu 11 1 Saigon state that the Volga was sold by public t*. Z v OU the 25th April, for$24,100. being an Englishman re.a firm in Shanghai. The 1 lr f 8a 8 00d deal of repair, but the price.
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  • 528 9 Oub Pekan correspondent, writing under date of 2 ad May, says that one of the Johore yachts is shortly expected at Pahang to take the Sultan of Pahang to Johore, and, after His Highness’s return from that State, it is his iutention to go to Singapore, along
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  • 183 9 A notification invites tenders for the! Opium and Spirit Farms in the Colony. Monday, the 14th instant (Whit Mon-1 day), will be observed as a Bank Holiday. I All Government Offices wRl be closed on that day. Thursday, the 24th instant, will be observed throughout
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  • 180 9 Messrs. Rowe and Kelly, the Victorian Commissioners, had an interview yesterday with His Excellency the Governor at Government House. They handed His Excellency a letter of introduction from the Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of 'Victoria, aud the objects of their mission were discussed. His
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  • 219 9 Mr. Holt Hallett iu his most readable account of a journey through the Slian States, tells us that among the medicines included iu the Siamese pharmacopoeia are to be found fish skins, eyes of birds, cattle aud cats, aud various internal parts of snakes aud other
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  • 227 9 Sir Charles Russell’s appoint uieut as Lord of Appeal, announced in the telegrams via German mail, is no doubt, savs a contemporary, iu succession to Lord Bowen. The Attorney-General of England has tlie right of demanding a vacaut seat iu the Court of Appeal and doubtless Sir
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  • 209 9 The Japanese labour which has been imported for the plantations in Northern Queensland seems likely to introduce new problems to Australia. A Japanese visitor, who is described as a representative of the Government of Japan, vigorously protests in the Queensland Press against the too common prejudice against
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  • 185 9 The Committee of Management of the Boustead Institute for Seamen, in submitting their Report for the year ending 31st December, 1893, state that the Institute continues to grow in public favour, and is becoming better kuown to the seafaring community. Since the last report was
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  • 206 9 According to the annual report of the United S ales Department of Agriculture, the acreage under tobacco in the year 1888, w;ts estimated at 747,326 acres, producing 565,795,000 lbs. of tobacco, of a total value of 43,666,665 dels. The crop of the following year, 1889,
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  • 518 9 REPAYMENT OF CAPITAL DEFERRED PROSPECTS OF LODE MINING. The Directors of the Jelebu Miuiug and Trading Co., (Lim) met to-day aud issued the followiug circular: To the Shareholders of the Jelehu Mining and Trading Company. Ltd. Gentlemen, —In the Directors’ Report I under date 20th April for
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  • 1029 9 (From a Correspondent.) It is not often that the Jelebuitea have the honour to welcome so distinguished a visitor as the Governor of the Colony, but when they have that honour, they generally contrive to make the most of it by displaying all their ingenuity
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  • 375 10 ANOTHER FIRE OUTBREAK AT KUBU, BIG FIRE AT PUDOH. THE SELANGOR CLUB SECRETARYSHIP. From our Correspondent. Kuala Lumpor Thursday A telegram received at the Secretariat yesterday from Kuala Kubu reported another outbreak of fire, causing the destruction of four bouses. In the afternoon, another was were received to
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  • 355 10 The Prohibition Party iu the United States will scarcely derive much satisfaction from the report ou liquor traffic legislation since 1889, which has just been issued iu the Foreign Office series. It is a significant fact that out of seventeen States which, at
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  • 1081 10 CHINESE IMMIGRATION. THE MANILA EXHIBITION. STRICT CONTROL OVER CHINESE AT SOURABAYA. GOLD MINING IN DUTCH BORNEO. COAL MINING AT OMBILIEN. (Translated from various Newspapers.) Both in Netherlands India and in the Netherlands, alarm has ever been roused by the prospect of increasing Chinese immigration into the Dutch East
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  • 656 10 THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. COLONIAL PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS. THE PENNY POSTAGE QUESTION. THE COSTA RICA PACKET CARE. MINISTERIAL DERPONDENCY. THE BEHRINO SEA AWARD. NEW GERMAN SILVER COINAGE. ANARCHIST PLOTTING IN BELGIUM. London, 7th April. Sir Thomas MTlwraith, Mr. M. H. Black, and Mr M’Eacham, paid a visit to
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  • 2118 10 Mr. ARCHIBALD FORBES’S OPINION. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the wel known War Correspondent, has contributed to the Sydney Mail an article on the war-outlook in Europe —a subject on which be may probably be qualified to give an opinion. The probability of war in the near
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  • 531 11 <wettenham, British Resident arrived to-day from Port Weld i in Treacher has arrived from Teluk 1 the Malacca and Mr. Justice \n$cn 10 p ut? j n the Catherine Apcar. from l« U<AU *L_ x \V H. B. Urcb, the Method7,.r leaves the Colony for a within
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  • 190 11 I i i*av it ri tie shooting match took! llith'tior Uauge between five I and live military competitors. I*-" v **atber was not favourable for f th** being bad and a I -i.»l 1 lowing. Those disadvaut- I xplain the poor scores which I iua*h*. Sergt. Sydenham, who
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  • 133 11 The Burma Government would appear, says Indian Engineering to have made a bad bargain in hawing leased certain fields in the vicinity of the Mergui Archipelago. The Chinese are, however, reaping the benefits. These leases were granted in October 1892, for a period of 3 years,
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  • 159 11 A correspondent writing to Indian Engineering above A Wanderer** says The whole of the Strand or Beach road has a shabby-genteel appearance, and look as if no care was taken of the place. A little judicial I expenditure would procun* for Singapore a splendid Marina.” The whole of
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  • 156 11 In British Now Guinea coal has I been found by Sir William Macgregor, who, in one of his exploring trips, has, for the first time in the geographical history of New Guinea, found a sandstone formation. A seam of coal was come upon, about 40
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  • 166 11 Another effort is about to Ik- made m order to float the Panama Canal umlert;ikin<- (savs tlie London Daily Telegraph Paris"e<irresjiondeiit). M. la-mar., ms. t orepresentative of the bondholders o the company, announces hv a cireular letter that the liquidators have eoncltided negotiations with M. Bartissol. a
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  • 93 11 Recent i.v, particulars were S iw iourual of the murder of an Austria named Babel in Siam while on a gold SSSSS SSST-JS by tbe Siam iaV e confessed hm th J fifth lofthe Wattana Gold Minin* Company.! convoy of b »ffalo carts to the i m at
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  • 802 11 THE FINDING OF THE COURT. THE COURT THINKS NATIVE GUNNERS NOT PROPER PERSONS TO- HAVE CHARGE OF A 8HIP. At Penang, on Thursday, the Marine Court of Enquiry, appointed to investigate tbe above collision, gave its finding as follows —The British steamer Ngapoota official No. 68,511
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  • 37 11 Rv last advices from German New Offinea it appears that despite the drawbacks of malaria combined with troubles oacKH ui ofoailv increase in cultivaSr?*- aa-a able to the P^ r u t hTre I for sale there.
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  • 1705 11 NOTES AND ANTICIPATIONS. STRAY 8HOT8. There was a very large attendance at the course on Saturday morning to witness the inal gallops, but the goiug was so soft that the clerk of the course very prudently allowed no galloping on the regular track. The final gallops
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  • 169 11 On Saturday afternoon a cricket match was played ou'the Esplanade. The teams were composed of old and young members of tbe S. C. C. respectively, and the match ended in favour of tbe juniors. Tbe following are tbe scores OVER TWO YEARS MEMBERSHIP. F. H. Grant b. Morren. J.
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  • 313 12 At Sudest, British New Guinea, a splendid gold-bearing reef has been discovered. For five years, parties have icarched for this lead, indications of its existence having been found in the neighbouring creeks iu the form of rich specimens. The line of reef runs east and
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  • 773 12 ARRIVALS. Per s. Chow Phya from Klang: —I Messrs. Koch, Paxon and Parry. Per 8. s. Giang Ann from SsmarangI Messrs. G. Fiukemeyt r and J. Frensburg. Per s. s. Hector from Liverpool:—Mr Baker. Per s. s. Malacca from Teluk Anson > ia I ports: —Capt. and Mrs.
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 144 12 Under this heading the following abbreviatious are used —str. —steamer sh. ship bq.—barque; Brit —British; U. S. —United States; Fr. —French; Gor. —German; Dut. Dutch; Job. —Johore; Ac., G.c..—General J cargo d. p.—deck passengers U/—Uucertain T. P. W.—Tanjong Pagar Wharf T. p_ D. Tanjong Pagar Dock B.
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    • 1194 12 Arrivals Since Noon of Yesterday. Ban Whatt Soon, Brit str. 199 tons Capt. Delmage, sth May. From Pontianak. 3rd May. G.c., and til d. p. Ban Seng A Co. hor Pontianak and Billiton, Bth May.—Rds. Srie Bandjar, Dut. str. 544 tons, Capt. Lovius sth May. From Sourabaya, Ist
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    • 97 12 Name, Pert, and Date of Hatltn-j From London Guadalquivir Mar. 11; Glamorganshire Mar. Kintuck, Mar. 22 Liverpool Enorgia Mar. 16; Tartar, Apl. Nestor. Apl. 4 Barry. Visurgis Oct. 3; Fonograaf Dec. 27; Craiglee, Dec. 7 Incharran, Dec. 13 Peter Rick mors, Feb. 20; Hilaria, Apl. 3; Penarih. R.
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    • 875 12 5 Vi.t.l it* |To»e.\ Carriin. Imi 8aili®., Cornea n I T, L J Ria I I n D_i* gtr 1683 McDowell Moji Apl. 16 8yme k Co. I 29 H. M. Pollock Bl itr tfg Follett Samarang Apl. 27 Tan Kim Tian A 3o a I 30 Giang Ann
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    • 567 12 jkT V kshki/s Xam«. FA.urN' Captai Dmik.tiw. I Apl. SO i Wong N*» Sin t Dnt sch. Nacodah IVntianak I Vfav 1 Tibro MM.atr. Baritge Saigon I I i P.O. *tr. Atkinson Hongkon* fclianehai and 1 I ?ri Trineganu Biit.str. Willock Triujrganu A Kelantan I 1 I Giang Ann
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