The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 31 July 1889
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The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
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Title Section27 1889-07-31 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Price 2) Cents. Price 20 cents VOL I. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1889. Ho. 4027 words
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Advertisement905 1889-07-31 1 insurances. T? OBINSON CO r The Marine Insurance Co., I«iUAJJ.riIJUAI W Wi (Limited.) Limited. VO IF UNPA CKIXG e Company request the earnest attention THE undersigned are prepared to accept thoughtful and intelligent Assurants to the Risk* a,ul issue Policies on bel.alf of the I IVll—»*# /sAAnP unexampled success which905 words
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1389 1889-07-31 2 In resuming our review of Mr. Maxwell’s Report, we continue our remarks on Hospitals, the importance of the subject demanding a more extended notice than we would otherwise have thought necessary. The return of the number of cases treated in the1,389 words
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Article2476 1889-07-31 2 A good digest of the latest ne received from Europe will make it e dent to everyone that the political r!' look is anything but cheering and tl position of affairs more unsettled tl ever. Beginning at home or rather m Egypt-, where strong reinforcements 0 f2,476 words
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Advertisement260 1889-07-31 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT rtnmiED every veihsdai and SAIL EDAV MOENIMiS. K>) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum I**- bO Half-j'car 8. 00 Quarter Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN AHKEAR 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only l>e supplied on payment of the260 words
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Article277 1889-07-31 3 It is very difficult to learn what is actually happening in Armenia, but if the state of affairs in that ill-fated country is half so bad as it is described as being, something ought to be done to remedy it. In the House of Lords, Lord Carnarvon and the277 words
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Article292 1889-07-31 3 We again hear something of the progress of the Stanley Expedition; and very terrible is the news. The information has been brought by the mail steamer Kinsembo, which arrived at Liverpool from the West Coast of Africa. All that has been stated of the shocking privations292 words
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662 1889-07-31 3 Many women lose the love of their husbands because they are too ignoraut or too indifferent to keep it, observes a female writer in the Louisville Courier Journal. Ask any of your friends how they captured their other half, and they will tell662 words
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Article145 1889-07-31 4 (From the Pinang Gazette.) London, 2bthJuly 1889.—King Milan lias returned to Belgrade ostensibly on private affairs. The Scotch Local Government Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons. London, 2 6th July, 1889—The Parnell Commission has been adjourned until the 24th October. Mr. Gladstone(From the Pinang Gazette.) - 145 words
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1425 1889-07-31 4 Telegrams by Mail. (From our exchanges.) Cairo, 15 th July. —The Latest advices from the front state that the Dervishes are still in the neighbourhood of Abu Simbul, and that they lost in skirmishes yesterday ninety men. Fifteen hundred more of the enemy have appeared1,425 words
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Article1558 1889-07-31 4 His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, accompanied by his Secretary -uwn.utruo-vw.. K ,wH.a down from Government Hill on Monday evemu ft ,ve learn the temperature is very cool and pleasant there just a present, and that His Excellency very much enjoyed the change. The Governor will leave1,558 words
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461 1889-07-31 5 Yesterday morning a deputation of the Committee that has been formed to promote a Port and Harbour Trust for Penang had the honor of being received hy His Excellency the Governor at the fort. The deputation consisted of the Hon*hie J. M.461 words
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Article209 1889-07-31 5 Sir Herbt. Maxwell, one of the junior Lords of the Treasury, evidently does not know how we receive ous letters by the French mail steamers or he would not have declared in the House of Commons that there is at present a weekly mail Service209 words
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Article259 1889-07-31 5 The recently published yearly report of the Colonial Surgeon at Hongkong contains a good deal of interesting information on opium smoking among the Chinese. The facts are based on personal investigation, and the conclusions the Colonial Surgeon comes to will prove highly unpalatable to the anti-opium agitators. The259 words
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Article578 1889-07-31 5 (From the Straits Times.) July 24.—1 t is not often that we have to record the death of an octogenarian in the east. This morning a Eurasian from Malacca, named John Ignatias Minjoot, died at the age of 85 years. The Malay sailor who was stabbed in the(From the Straits Times.) - 578 words
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2634 1889-07-31 5 A supplement to the Straits Government Gazette dated 25th July, contains the following very interesting Report on the Forests of Penang, for the yeai 1888: I.—Forest Reserves. 1. No addition has been made to the reserved forests during the2,634 words
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Article125 1889-07-31 6 Penang, 29th July, 1889. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/01 dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3/lj Do. 6 Credits 3/1 Do. 6 Documentary 3/1 Calcutta, Demand, Bank Rs. 225£ Do. 30 days sight, Private 230 Bombay, Demand, Bank 225| Do. 30 days sight, Private,, 230 Madras,125 words
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Advertisement38 1889-07-31 6 FOR SALE. Cheap! Cheap!! Cheap THE ROYAL HOTEL. TAIPING. 1,500 CASH. S. REICH, 56 Proprietor. TO LET. A large, convenient and well lighted GODOWN in Union Street, Logan’s Building. Apply to 78 The Manager of the Grand Hotel.38 words
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Advertisement662 1889-07-31 6 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that in f QtQr every Municipal Collector will ea a numbered badge when collecting or Taxes and special attention is Ca H J to the fact that no person is authorised to collect any rate or tax who hasenot such a badge; every badge662 words
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Advertisement576 1889-07-31 8 THE POSITIVE I GRAND HOTEL. GOVERNMENT SECURITY .Life Assurance Co. <# Limited HEAD OFFICE IN INDIA: Logan’s Buildings, Beach Street. 104, dice Street, Calcutta. This Hotel, the largest in Penang, is situated in the heart of the busiCopital and other Funds 415,090 ness Quarter of the Town and is highly576 words
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