The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 29 June 1889

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1 8 The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
  • 27 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Price 20 Cents. Price 20 cents VOL I. PENANO, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1889. No. 31
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    • 932 1 —INSURANCES. T> ORINSON fe CO The Marine Insurance Co., llUUlil Ovil W vUi (Limited.) liimited. v ARE NOW UNPACKING Tl.e Company request the earnest attention TflK undersigned are prepared to accept of thoughtful and intelligent Assurants to the Pi.ks and issue Policies on behalf of the unexampled success which has
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  • 1176 2 His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi Smith deserves the warmest thanks and gratitude of all the British subjects who have settled in the several Siamese States for the purpose of trade, &c., for having secured to them the services of a
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  • 2017 2 llero and Martyr. As already announced in our last issue, a powerful committee has been formed in England, with the Prince of Wales at its head, for the purpose of raising a memorial to the lnfe Father Damien. The movement will include complete inquiry into the leprosy question
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    • 265 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED EVEKV WEDNESDAY AND SATUDAY MOKNINIiS. KX TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Fer Annum 3 15. 00 Half-year 8. 00 Quarter L 50 SiD"le copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 3 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied on
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  • 733 3 A Question of great interest to shipnors ia misutfL I\y th 1 Monjhant ShU>“ ping (Tonnage) Bill now beloi o tao House of Commons, having been prepared and brought in by Sir Michael HicksBeacli and Baron Henry De Worms. The present law of tonnage is contained in
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  • 611 3 intelligent men of business. —British Trade Journal. From the reviews of new books on commercial education it is evident that popular notions as to what commercial education should be are still rather nebulous. The question of geograannears sorely to exercise the mill cl OI tho couipilurß null
    intelligent men of business.—British Trade Journal.  -  611 words
  • 498 3 A projios of the Decimal Association recently formed in London, for the promotion of a decimal system of currency, weights, and measures, a report presented at the last meeting of the Paris Academy of Sciences is of interest. The report contains information as to
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  • 177 4 (From the Pinang Gazette.) London, 24 th June, 1889.—The Emperor of Austria, when receiving delegations of Vienna, stated that the Allied Powers are striving to ensure a peaceful development of the situation which continues uncertain, and hoped that the prudence of the Servians would preserve them from serious
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  • 401 4 We are sincerely obliged to our local contemporary for having taken notice of the remarks contained in the last issue of the Singapore Weekly Herald to vindicate our publication from the foul slur cast upon it by the Singapore paper, and also for the words of
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  • 1632 4 The outward bound P. O. mail steamer Pekin having left Colombo last Tuesday at 4 p. ra., may be expected to arrive here early to-morrow morning. The s. s. Afenrade, the first pilgrim steamer of the season, bound to Jeddah from Singapore, with about 500 pilgrims on
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  • 189 4 “With regard to the great wig question which is exercising the minds of the legal fraternity”, says the Pinang Gazette, we agree with a gentleman, who recently remarked in our presence, that it would be much more reasonable and suitable to the climate if all
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  • 223 4 It must be admitted that the lute changes in the constitution of our Police Force have resulted to the advantage of the public. We have noticed, especially in the more busy thoroughfares of the town, much more vigilance on the part of the police of late, and
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  • 312 4 Another case of crimping came on 1' hearing before Mr. J. W. Norton Kysu > the Police Magistrate, on Thursday last. From the evidence adduce would appear that on Tuesday, the 0 instant, three Chinese were broug to the Central Police Station for cre
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  • 386 5 Like tlie Capulets and Montagues of Verona, the two rival factions of Singapore continue to exchange amenities in in the columns of one of our contemporaries with regard to the proposed building of a theatre and assembly room in the Singapore Town Hail. “I
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  • 381 5 Thursday 27th June 1889. (Before Messrs. Bland and Brockman sitting as a Court of Quarter Sessions.) Attempting to Smuggle Arms and Ammunition to Acheen. —The seven Acheenese who were arrested by the Police on die 19th instant for attempting to expert arms and ammunition to Pasangang, Sumatra, were
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  • 239 5 Mr. Goschen admits the beneficial EFFECTS OF ADVERTISING. The diminution in the revenue from coffee is one of the most unexpected things in Mr.Goschen’s last Budget. Few people will have suspected that coffee breakfast tables it is served as a matter of course tens of thousand
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  • 718 5 It is not generally known, says the Eastern Guardian that most of the Compositors and all the Readers in the Bombay Gazette printing office are Ang-lo-Indian and Eurasian young females under a lady manager. Mr. Gratton Geary,the editor ofjthat paper, has given the young people a long and careful
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  • 696 5 {From the Straits Times Monday 24 th June. —H. M. S. Orion will leave on Wednesday for a cruise to Pahang, Sarawak, &c., which will probably extend for a fortnight. The Colonial steamer Sea Belle leaves to-night for Malacca with Mr. Justice Goldney who goes to open the
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  • 702 5 From th© Weekly Chronicle y 22nd June. The spread of cattle disease in Malacca. At no time, perhaps, was disease amongst cattle in the Settlement so bad as at present. Nearly every district is infected, as the orders by the Resident Councillor shew, and we have just learnt
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  • 642 6 After the complimentary dinner given here to Mr. Kruijt, the Netherlands Consul-General at Penang, on the occasion of his having the Order of the Netherlands Lion conferred upon him by His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, the Dutch residents of Singapore entertained in
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  • 1142 6 A controversy which interests a large section of our community has lately been going on under the above heading in some Indian papers, and been partly reproduced in the Straits Advocate the accredited organ of the Eurasian community iu the Straits Settlements. The picture drawn
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  • 128 6 Penang, 27th June, 1869 Rates close as follows: London, Demand Bank 3 Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3 n Do. 6 Credits it 3 Do. 6 Documentary '3 V Calcutta, Demand, Bank ft 8> Do. 30 days sight, Private 2301 Bombay, Demand, Bank 2'>7* Do. 30 days sight, Private”,
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    • 274 6 CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA AUSTRALIA AND CHINA. Under instructions from the Court of Direr. I tors a sub-agency of this Bank has been to-da, I opened at Medan, Deli, under the chart» I Mr. Herbert C. Gulland. JOHN C. BVDD, Manager, hnm. I Penang, 17th Jane 18S9. MUNICIF^AJ__NOTICE. I Notice
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    • 791 7 ROSS AND PRITCHARD HjSPLANADJ] HOTEL INDIARUBBER STAMPS. Of every description manufactured TAILORS GENTLEMEN’S {LATE EASTERN HOTEL.) «"lll'the‘SslTeceXnS THIS HOTEL, WHICH HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY cliinery. OU lr lIILKS. REPAIRED, DECORATED AND NEWLY 1, Beach Street. FURNISHED, IS NOW OPEN. HAEGI:s XCIJSDINGLI Modeeate H£h K>H HAVE JUST UNPACKED Three minutes walk from
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    • 580 8 THE POSITIVE GRAND HOTEL. GOVERNMENT SECURITY Life Assurance Co. “Limited." HEAD OFFICE IN INDIA: LOf/dll’S BuildiWJS, BCUCh StTCCt. 101, Clive Street, Calcutta. Tlns Hotel, the largest in Penang, is situated in the heart of the busiCopital and other Funds 115,090 e ss quarter of the Town and is highly recommended
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    • 211 8 THEAN CHER®, No. 21 Beach Street HAVE JUST RECEIVED, PER S. S. Altonoiver,» PERFUMERY. STATIONERY. CROCKERYWARE. GLASSWARE. LAMPS. LAUWN TENNIS SHOES. VELVET TABLE COVERS. WOOLEN RUGS. COIR RUGS. SEWING MACHINES. BISCUITS. TOWELS. UNDERSHIRTS. PROVISIONS LIQUEURS. Ac. SiC. &c. ALL OF THE BEST MAKERS, BOON TEK CO. 27, Reach Street. ESTABLISHED
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