The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 28 August 1889
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The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
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Title Section27 1889-08-28 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS. Price 2) Cents. Prick 20 cunts VOL I. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1889. No. 4827 words
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Advertisement961 1889-08-28 1 insurances. T? 0"R T’NTQnU jfc. Pf\ The Uarine Insurance Co., AuV/A/Ail K/vll Ou v\J. rity Life Assurance Company United. (Limited.) THE unde™ d arc prepared to accept NEW GOODS EX. S. S. Glcil/lnlas. [l'° Company request tlie earnest attention Risks and issue ’olioies on behalf of the ?^,eaam^edLnĕ r d961 words
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796 1889-08-28 2 The draft of a Bill intended to amend the Municipal Ordinance of 1887 has been published in the Government Gazette of the 16th instant. Thedraft Bill contains no less than 58 Sections, every one of which refers to those Sections of the principal Ordinance,”796 words
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626 1889-08-28 2 The Editor of the Pinang Gazette was evidently in excellent good humour with himself when lie penned his comments on our article on Hydrophobia. He,no doubt, thought it a rare treat to have the chance of pointing out the error of oui ways.” It must626 words
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Article1826 1889-08-28 2 We have already drawn the attention of our readers to the many drawback resulting from the obnoxious practice of allowing prosecutions to be condnm by the Police,” and the fact, that in this Colony, JusticeMs, as far as oo Police Courts are concerned, sometimes dispensed by “young gentlemen1,826 words
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Advertisement262 1889-08-28 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT fI'BLISHED ETiEI WEDNESDAY AND SATi RI'AY IORMXIiS. Kh TEAMS OF ISUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum 5 15. 00 Half-year 8 Quart-ei 4. Single ropy twenty cents. IF PAkD IN AHKEAK S 6 for three moutlis, after which term the paper will only be supplied on payment262 words
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Article1662 1889-08-28 3 Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on the 12th July 1889. Present The Hon. C.W.S. Kynnersley, President. Captain Cameron, r.e. R. A. P. Hogan, Esq. F. M. McLarty, Esq. C. W. Barnett, Esq. D. Comrie, Esq. 1. The minutes of the last two ordinary meetiugs1,662 words
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Article168 1889-08-28 4 (From the Pi nan g Gazette). London, 22 nd August.—The Dock laborers’ strike in London continues, and has extended to the tea warehouses, preventing drawing samples and the discharge of steamers. An American cutter has seized two British sealers in Behring Straits, and boarded and searched others. 102(From the Pi nan g Gazette). - 168 words
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1942 1889-08-28 4 Telegrams by Mail. (From our exchanges.) New York, 10 th August. —The monthly report of the A\ ashington Agricultural Bureau states that the condition of the cotton crop in eleven cotton States is eighty-nine and three-tenths per cent., and that these figures have only been1,942 words
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Article1025 1889-08-28 4 .—Pinang Gazette The outward bound P. 0. mail mer Clyde, with the mails from Europe arrived hereon Sunday mo: niug and again in tlie afternoon. Telegraphic advice has been received that the mail despatched on 28th ultimo via Negapatam, was delivered in London on Friday, the 23rd.—Pinang Gazette. - 1,025 words
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Article981 1889-08-28 5 THE EX-SULTAN OF PERAK. To the Editor of the Straits Independent Sir, I gather from the correspondence, published in your issue of the 24th instant, between Mr. Henniker Heaton, a member of Parliament, and Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that it has been arranged that the981 words
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Article277 1889-08-28 5 The following circular has been forwarded by the Acting Colonial Secretary to the leading firms of the Colony :—I am directed to request you to bring under the consideration of the Directors of your company the subject of Sunday Labour on the part of European and American Seamen277 words
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234 1889-08-28 5 Failure of the Company. Referring to the affairs of this Company, the Straits Times of last Friday says:— The announcement of the output of Rawang tin has been received unfavourably by the market, chiefly because it is much under the amount which Mr. Muir234 words
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Article230 1889-08-28 5 On Tuesday morning, the 20th, writes our Kinta correspondent, the jail at Batu Gajah witnessed its first execution, when Ah Fok, alias Low Pow, the Chinaman who cruelly murdered and mutilated another Chinaman named Lee Peng on the 29th November last on the Gopeng-Batu Gajah Road230 words
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Article61 1889-08-28 5 Friday August 23rcf. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make following appointments Mr. Li Keng Liat to be a Justice of the Peace and a Visiting Justice for the Settlement of Malacca. Mr. L. M. Woodward to be a justice of the Peace for the Straits61 words
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Article473 1889-08-28 5 Tuesday, 27th August, 1889. (Before Mr. J. W. Norton Kyshk.) Furious driving. —A Hiudoo named Permal was to-day committed to take his trial at the Criminal Assizes ou a charge of doiug a rash act not amounting to culpable homicide by causing the death of a fellow countryman473 words
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Article1229 1889-08-28 5 As offer of the Governorship of Victoria was made to the Marquis of Lome before it was tendered to Lord Uopetoun Lord Lome declined the post because. Princess Louise was unable to reconcile her mind to the long separation from thd Queen end the Royal family, added to which1,229 words
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Article129 1889-08-28 6 Penang, 26th August, 1889. Pates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/0| dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3/11 Do. 6 Credits 3/11 Do. 6 Documentary 3/1 j Calcutta, Demand, Bank Ps. 2254 Do. 30 days sight, Private 230 Bombay, Demand, Bank 225 J Do. 30 days sight, Private],129 words
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Advertisement536 1889-08-28 6 R OSSTNBPRT TO HAU D I (hweniment Notification ijeMfl■> TAILORS GENTLEMEN’S An Assistant Draftsman is wanted in OUTFITTERS. fc],e Pub he Works Department, Penan? Salary 480 per annum. Application! 1, Beach Street. vh ch m st be l accom P *>y rece„( > testimonials, to be sent in to the536 words
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Advertisement1151 1889-08-28 7 Government of Selangor IHQPT AXT A Tlin SMOKING CONCERTS. Notification. JjOX i^xLW, v xIU X iilij. PROFESSOR HOOER'S STRING BAND (LATE EASTERN HOTEL) performs nvnat night at the under-mentioned Farms, (for a period THIS HOTEL, WHICH HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY THE UNION REFRESHMENT ROOMS iLccmqer, 1892. January 1890 to 3lst REPAIRED,1,151 words
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Advertisement596 1889-08-28 8 THE POSITIVE GRAND HOTEL. GOVERNMENT SECURITY Life Assurance Co. “Limited.” HEAD OFFICE IN INDIA: Logan's BuUditlffS, Beach Street. 104, Clive Street, Calcutta■ This Hotel, the largest in Penang, is situated in the heart of the busi- f j I3 000 ness quarter of the Town and is highly recommended to596 words
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Advertisement213 1889-08-28 8 THEAN CHEE&CO. No. 21 Beach Street HAVE JUST RECEIVED. PER S. S. Altonowcr.” PERFUMERY. STATIONERY. CROCKERY WARF. GLASSWARE. LAMPS. LAWN TENNIS SHOES. VELVET TABLE COVERS. WOOLLEN RUGS. COIR RUGS. SEWING MACHINES. BISCUITS. TOWELS. UNDERSHIRTS. PROVISIONS LIQUEURS. &c. &c. Ac, ALL OF THE BEST MAKERS. boon m&co7~ 27, Beach Street. ESTABLISHED213 words
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