The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 27 April 1889

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  • 27 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Vice 2) Cents;. Price 20 cents. VOL I. PENANG, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1889. No. 13
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 1135 1 INSURANCES. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. Government secuThe marine Insurance Co., NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE STOOMVAART MAATSCHAPPU. I rit y Life company. limited NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. T 1 r t The Company request the earnest attention THE undersigned are prepared to accept Untended Sailing and expected A.wiV(H Of Steamers of
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  • 878 2 THE GHEE HIN SOCIETY’ S MEMORIAL. We cannot really understand why the Ghee llin Society is so anxious to kill itself. 1 t is quite evident that the members of this Society are doing their best to hasten its extinction by pushing themselves into prominence in every way they can
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  • 494 2 At the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on the 17th instant, the President announced his intention of bringing before the Board the scheme of a proposed street from Church Street Ghaut to Prangin, running in a parallel line with Weld Quay and Beach Street. We
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  • 1202 2 Danger Ahead. The attempt on the part o J influential political party to\ j Antoinism” against “Bonh7 is just now one of the of conversation amongst E Urr politicians. M. Antoine, thet representative of Metz in t] le qJ man Reichstag, arrived in Pari! 1 the 2 3th of
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    • 269 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED EVER! WEDNESDAY AY# SATURDAY MORNINGS. K* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. LOCAL DELIVERY: Per Annum Half-year 8 >} Quarter oJ Single copy twenty cents. advertising rates. For one or more Advertisements During the Mont li One insertion not exceeding 5 lines L 00 Every additional liue 1 For
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  • 1309 3 THE TRUE STORY OF HIS DEATH. The April number of Temple Bar contains wliat purports to be the true story of the death of Crown Prince Rudolph. “All other versions as to the causes or circumstances of his death,” we are told, are fanciful.” THE
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  • 492 3 A travelled Chinese mandarin who has lately communicated his impressions of the West to his countrymen, deals with great particularity with the position and treatment of women in Europe. These surprise him beyond measure. Thus the notion of husband and wife walking arm-in-arm in
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  • 582 3 The Shen-Pao has the following on this too frequent custom in China In this district of LienKian Hien, within the Foochow Prefecture, there prevails a wicked custom which ought to be abolished. If a woman’s husband dies, his relations insist upon her committing suicide, by hanging, so
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  • 105 4 REUTER’ S TELEGRAMS. London, 25th April 1889. General Boulanger has arrived at Charing Cross, there was a great crowd, some cheering and some groaning. London, 2Gth April, 1889. The riots in Vienna have ceased, troops occupy the disturbed districts. The strike has been settled. The rioters were mostly socialists. A
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  • 1515 4 Ceylon Observer. Owing to Mr. W. E. Maxwell having deferred his departure from Penang for a fortnight, the complimentary dinner w'e announced as likely to take place last Saturday will only be given on the 3rd proximo, when Mr. Maxwell will be the guest of the Consular
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  • 211 4 End of tiie present Legislative Session. At the Legislative Council Meeting on the 24th instant, says the Straits Times, the Crown Lands Ordinance Amendment Bill” and the “Land Acquisition Amendment Bill were, on the motion of the Attorney-General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, read for the third
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  • 935 4 SEVEN DAYS JOURNALISM. To the Editor of the Straits Independent Sir, In your issue of tlio 13fch instant, you note dunder the above heading, the alarm caused by the intended publication of the “New York Herald” in London, on seven days of a week. I fail to see any
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  • 296 4 The Perak Mail steamer Lady Weld, captain F. Thurston, leaves for Port Weld, to-day at 11 p. m. The s. s. Pe rse, captain C. P. Seddon, having arrived to-day, will leave again for Port Weld, Fangkor, Telok Anson, Selangor, Klang, Arang Arang, Malacca and Singapore, on Tuesday
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  • 89 5 Arrivals. April 24tli.—Per s. s. Lady Weld, from Taiping: Mr. A. D. Straclian, and Mr. J. Dishman. April 25th.—Per s. s. Palitana from Singapore Mr. Klioo Kem Kent, and Mr. Neo Sian Guan. Departures. April 24th.—Per s. s. Meanatchy, for K/gapatam Mr. Abdul Gunny, Allaga[Wfh Oho tty, aud
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  • 1058 5 Tuesday, 23rd April. (Before Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshe.) Expensive Toddy. —A Hindoo named Govinden was charged at the instance of the Spirit Farmer with purchasing a jar of Toddy valued at 15 cents, from a person not having a right to sell the same, and was fined
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  • 925 5 (From the Straits Times) H. M. S. Orion left on the 22nd for a week’s cruise, calling at Pahang. H. M. S. Wanderer will follow on the 24th instant after the delivery of the next mail from Europe. Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Limited, are going to offer a
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  • 435 5 At the Royal United Service Institution, on Friday, March 15, General Erskine, C. 8., presiding, a lecture was given by Mr. E. E, Bennett, of the Veterinary Department of the Army, on the Employment of Dogs for Military Purposses.” Having referred to the use made of
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  • 1377 5 The first wild weeks at Weimar. A friend lias kindly forwarded us the following “gem” from George Henry Lewes’s Life of Goethe. After giving a description of the notabilities of Weimar,” Lewes says This was the circle into which Goethe entered in all the splendour of youth, beauty, and
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  • 136 6 Penang, 26th April, 1889. CHARTERED BAM OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA k CHINA. Fates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 2/1 If 3/. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3/Of Do. 6 Credits 3/lf Do. 6 Documentary 3/1 f Calcutta, Demand, Bank Z?s. 223 Do. 30 days sight, Private 227 Bombay, Demand,
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 730 6 Special Ippointmcttt TO H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, Coach Builders Harness Makers. MADRAS. SIMPSON CO., respectfully invite the attention of their Constituents in M Penang, Singapore and the Straits Settlements, to their large collections of their extensive Manufactory and Showrooms in Madras. EH Their Carriages, built by the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 789 8 THE POSITIVE ROBINSON CO. GOVERNMENT SECURITY r TUnited ARE NOW UNPACKING Fife Assurance Co ljinmea. HEAD OFFICE IN INDIA: NEW GOODS 104 Clive Street Calcutta. TP i bair o9o ex. S. Glengyle. Capital and other Funds 41o,UJU on the 31st December 1887. LADIES’ DEPARTMENTGuarantee Fund. A new shipment of Dress
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    • 279 8 THEAN CHEE CO. SHIP-CHANDLERS, COMMISSION AGENTS AND GENERAL STORE-KEEPERS. JW>. 21, Beach Street BEG TO STATE THAT PROMPT AND STRICT ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL ORDERS THEY MAY BE FAVORED WITH. K>H FRESH PROVISIONS, Ac., Ac., Ac. CAN BE SUPPLIED ON VERY MODERATE TERMS. •<>• REFRESHMENT ROOMS. l4 CADEKSAH
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