The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 13 April 1889

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    27 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SAIURDAY MORNINGS. PitK'B 20 Cents. Trice 20 cents. VOL I. PENANG, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1889. No. 10
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    THE NEW MUNICIPAL ORDINANCE AND ATTAP COVERED HOUSES.
    1043 2 It is admitted on all sides that certain provisions of the new Municipal Ordinance press very heavily on the poorer classes in various ways. This is the more to be regretted, because, owing to their poverty and helpdessness, these people have no
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    SPURIOUS SEGARS.
    530 2 In some of his late effusions our roving correspondent Mariposa, cites Mortimer Collins’s lines on tobacco, in which we are assured that the Romans would have been better men had the Fates allowed them a cigar.” We presume the poet meant a bona fide segar, one of those
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    DOMESTIC OCCURENCE.
    16 2 IttRTH.—On the 10th inst. the wife of J. P. 13. I3eal of a daughter.
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    PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE SUPREME COURT.
    441 2 '['lie other day a Chinaman named Ng Ah Kwang was tried at the Supreme Court on a charge of giving false information to the Police. He was found guilty, awl his Honor Mr. Justice Wood sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for 2 years. As
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      268 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. fI'BLISHED EVERY IVEDNESIIAV A\D [SATIRRAV MOP.MM K>H TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. LOCAL DELIVERY: Per Annum 15. 00 Half-year Quarter Single copy twenty rents. advertising rates. For one or more Advertisements During the Month: One insertion not exceeding o lines 3 1- 0® Every additional line >» J For
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    THE PENANG RECREATION CLUB.
    442 3 The Cricketers of the Penang Recreation Club will not be allowed to rest on the laurels they conquered last Saturday over a team of H. M/s 58th Regiment, as they have just received a challenge from the latter to play them a return match on their
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    SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN THE SINGAPORE CRIMINAL PRISON.
    625 3 In the Third Police Court this (Bth) morning a Chinaman named Cheang A. Ko was charged with attempting to murder Major Grey, Inspector of Prisons, by stabbing him in the abdomen with a knife in the Criminal Prison on the morning of the
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    FUNERAL FEASTS.
    481 3 To the Editor of the Straits Independent.” Hear Sir, Your Tougkali correspondent’s very interesting description of the funeral feasts at that place, reminds me of what I have just read in an English paper of the custom of our forefathers on such occasions, and I beg leave to
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    THE SERVIAN CRISIS.
    1202 3 Our readers must have observed that ever since our paper came into existence we have always laid great importance on the news that reached us from the Balkan peninsula. This was not done without a motive, the reason for our acting thus being that we apprehend that
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    THE ROYAL PREROGATIVES.
    211 3 A great many of our readers will be surprised if they are told how many things the Queen —a constitutional Sovereign who is supposed “to reign, but not to govern —could do without consulting Parliament, and it certainly has so proved, for, when the Queen abolished purchase
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    REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.
    162 4 London, 10th April, 1889. General Boulanger has not been expelled from Belgium but has been ■warned that no agitation will be suffered. The Marquis of Londonderry resigns his post as Viceroy of Ireland in the autumn. Mr. Clark, M.P. for Caithness, moved a resolution for the introduction of
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    LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
    1587 4 Home. —The Queen arrived at Biarritz at half-past ten on the 27th ultimo, and was received at the railway station by the civil and military authorities of the department. The route to the V ilia Ea Rochefoucauld was lined by the people, who gave her
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    LOCAL AND GENERAL.
    1055 4 The next meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held on Wednesday, the 17th inst., instead of on Friday, the 19th inst., as previously announced. We are informed that instructions have been received from Singapore to put the Weights and Measures Ordinance into operation on the Ist
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    POLICE COURT.
    1297 5 Wednesday, 10th April, before Messrs. Merewether and Bland (sitting as a Court of two Magistrates.) Serious Robbery on boardthe “Roma.” Lee Boon, a Chinaman,was charged at the instance of Pitchay Gunny, a Mahomedan, with committing theft of twenty dollars, two hundred and fifty eight rupees, and various articles
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    SHIPPING NEWS.
    311 5 The B. I. S. N. Company, Limited, steamship Nuddea captain J. H. Stafford, having arrived from Calcutta yesterday, will leave this for Singapore and thence via Cape Leeuwin for Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Ac. &c. this afternoon at 2 p. m. The N. I. S. N. Company’s steamship
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    PASSENGER LIST.
    156 5 Arrivals. April 9th.—Per s. s. Lady Weld, from Taiping Mr. W. M. Young, Mr. F. W. Rowley, Mr. F. F. Faithful, and Tunku Mahomet. April 10th.—Per s. s. Roma, from Singapore: Revd. Bros Bernard and Eugene, Mr. Nuber, Mr. Mullinghaus, Mr. G. E. Cole, Mr. A. M. MacGregor,
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    GLEANINGS.
    582 5 The Illustrated London News publishes that the Mayor and the Members of the South Shields Marine Board assembled on March 6 to make the presentations awarded by the King of the Belgians to Captain Cave, William Rountree (second mate), and four of the crew of the steamer Warrior of
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    ENGLISH-GROWN TOBACCO.
    1685 5 smoked the whole two ounces. St. James’s Gazette. Applying the Test. When Carmichael invided me to go down to his place last Thursday and test the tobacco he had grown in his own garden, lagreed to do so for several reasons. I had so far had no opportunity
    smoked the whole two ounces.—St. James’s Gazette.  -  1,685 words
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    EXCHANGES.
    134 6 Penang, 12th April, 1889. CHARTERED BANK (IF INDIA, AUSTRALIA A CHINA. Hates close as follows London, Demand Bank 2/1 If dollar. Do. djnonths sight, Bank 3/01 Do. 6 Credits 3/11 Do. 6 Documentary 3/1T Calcutta, Demand, Bank Rs. 221 Do. 30 days sight, Private 220 Bombay, Demand, Bank 221
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      140 6 NOTICE. Sale by order of the Mortgagee. The undersigned is instructed to put up for sale by Public auction, on Wednesday the 24tli April 1889, at 3 p. in., on the spot. All that piece of Land and hereditaments situate in the district of Rulloli Jelutong, in Penang, being part
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