The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 8 March 1890
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The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
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Title Section26 1890-03-08 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Price 20 Cents. I‘UKJIS 20 CUNTS. YOU. 11. PENANG-, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1890. Uo. 101.26 words
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Advertisement924 1890-03-08 1 INSURANCES. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. The Positive Government SecnThe Marine"lnsnrance Co., NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE STOOMVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. j rity Life Assurance Company Limited. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. (limited.) THE undersigned a re prepared to accept j Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamer» of thoughtful and iutelligeut Assurants to the924 words
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1266 1890-03-08 2 In our issue of the 26th ultimo we reproduced an article from the London Sf China Express on the Crown Agents for the Colonies.” Considering the state things have arrived at, it was indeed time that tlie question should be taken up for discussion, and1,266 words
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Article942 1890-03-08 2 Latest Mail News. There is nothing fresh in the situation. The anti-English feeling still continues throughout Portugal. The Lisbon correspondent of the Daily Neivs SMys that forty English clerks settled in the Portuguese capital have just been discharged, and are absolutely destitute. They have asked the consul942 words
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Advertisement260 1890-03-08 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED KVKU1 WEDNESDAY AND .SATURDAY. "K5h TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum 15. 00 Half-year 8. 00 Quartei 4. 50 [Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR S 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied ou payment of260 words
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Article711 1890-03-08 3 I—Pull 1 —Pull Mall Budget. Mr. Charles Bradlaugh, now more than ever member for India,” readied his home in St. John’s-wood on Satur--9 day, the 25th January, and in due course a representative of the Pall Mall called upon him. Ia reply to anxious inquiries, Mr.I—Pull1—Pull Mall Budget. - 711 words
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226 1890-03-08 3 The defence of the country is exciting a good deal of interest in Holland just now. A retired Dutch officer, Mynheer Tiudal, has created much sensation with a pamphlet in which he professes to show how, in the course of a few hours, the Netherlands226 words
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Article174 1890-03-08 3 The Brussels correspondent of the Estafette has interviewed M. Bara, a former Belgian Minister, on the subject of a preiended secret treaty with Germany signed by King Leopold. The ex-Minis-ter declared that no such treaty was possible, and that the King himself had indignantly denied that there was174 words
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Article239 1890-03-08 3 < There is more than a likelihood, says the Daily News that the scone of this year’s .Naval Manoeuvres will be the Mediterranean, and that the Mediterranean Fleet, which by the summer will be considerably stronger than it has been for many years, will be pitted239 words
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Article195 1890-03-08 3 —Daily Graphic.. Until English reformers have succeeded iu alienating hops and barley from the breweries and distilleries of this country they need not hope to take the poppies out of the Indiau fields. The Government of India depends to a large extent for its revenue upon—Daily Graphic.. - 195 words
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1228 1890-03-08 3 The English Tongue. Science and BuddhismNirvana and the Christian Heaven. -jThe Sublimity of the Tea Cup. Sir Edwin Arnold has been delivering an address on The Range of Modern Knowledge” under the auspices of the Educational Society of Japan, of which lie sends a1,228 words
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Article96 1890-03-08 4 (From the Piuang Gazette. 1 Loudon, 3rd March. —The Quetta has been lost in Torres Straits: 104 persons were drowned. Mr. AV. H. Smith and Lord Salisbury, who were accused of a conspiracy to defeat justice, insisted upon a division upon Mr. Labouchere’s motion, which was rejected by(From the “ Piuang Gazette.1') - 96 words
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Article1081 1890-03-08 4 The homeward bound P. and O. mail steamer Sutlej arrived here on Thursday morning and proceeded on her course iu the afternoon of the same day. Mr. F. A. Swettenham, who had arrived •here in the morning by the Perak Government steamer Mena, was one of her1,081 words
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Article333 1890-03-08 4 A Conjugal Drama in Three Acts. Act Ist. Yesterday, before Mr. it. C. Jacobson, a man named Santa Singh was charged, at the instance of one Hangan Singh, with enticing awny his wife Joally, on the 2/th ultimo, from his house at Lavoug Bala Bunuah Koad.333 words
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Article109 1890-03-08 4 Arrivals. 5t1i March.—Per s. s. Lady Weld, from Taiping:—Mr. Clieali Tok Soon. Oth March. —Pers. s. Lady Weld, from Taiping ;—Mr. J. Smith. 7th March. —Per s. s. Gympie, from Tiiiping :—Mi*. M. R. T. Oldheid, Mr. Lim Ho Heng, Ciielambram Clietty, and Bin Mahomed. Departures. 4th109 words
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Article288 1890-03-08 4 The following letter, which “An Oi.d Municipal” addressed to the Editor, appears in the last issue of the London China Express that came to hand yesterday Sir, —Your article on the Singapore Alunicipal Ordinance*is, I fear, too late. The freedom the Commissioners once possessed is a288 words
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Article408 1890-03-08 4 The following, which is a true copy [verbatim et literatim) of a ietter received bv a Commissioner in the Hengal C. S. from a native who had been discharged from his employ has been handed to us by the recipient: To the Lord To His H ighnessExcellency Capt.408 words
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Article296 1890-03-08 4 AVhatever may be the ultimate conclusion regarding M. Pasteur’s treatment for the bite of mad dogs, there can be no doubt that much good has been done by the unlimited investigation which lias been made into all matters connected with rabies. One fact which was probably known296 words
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254 1890-03-08 4 People nre much exercised in mind, writes the London correspondent of an Indian paper, because of the long and apparently inexplicable absence of Prince Henry of Battenberg. He has not figured in the Court Circular since the autumn, when, to every254 words
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Article169 1890-03-08 5 Lady Halle, who is goingshortly with her husband on a professional tour in Australia, has been confiding to a contributor to the Woman’s World her private opinions regarding musical culture in England. Public audiences, according to this ladv’s large experience, are more appreciative and more169 words
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Article441 1890-03-08 5 In the new number of the Contemporary Review there is a most interesting article, giving some Recollections of a Voyage with General Gordon.” The writer of the article has had access to the diary, of a skipper who, in 1882, conveyed Gordon in a small trading schooner441 words
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Article214 1890-03-08 5 A correspondent writes to a London contemporary.—There is an unreasonable lear of the immediate and sudden contagiousness of leprosy. A story readies us from America of a reputed leper who was detained in quarantine at St. Louis, and on his friends protesting against his detention the214 words
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Article297 1890-03-08 5 Mr. Stanley has (a Cairo telegram says) moved into a quiet private hotel, where without interruption he can write out in detail the full history of his mission. Surgeon Parke has been well entertained at three banquets by the English and foreigners and the Freemasons297 words
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461 1890-03-08 5 How is it (the Saturday Review risks) that the Bank of England is no longer able to exercise that control over the gold markets of the world which it formerly was able to do dhe chief reason unquestionably is that since Germany461 words
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Article2507 1890-03-08 5 (From the Straits Times’.) Thursday, 27th Febbuabt. At the meeting of the Legislative Council held to-day in the Council Chamber the following members were present ‘His Excellency the Governor (Sir Cecil C. Smith, k. c. m. c.) The Hon’ble the Colonial Secretary (Sir Frederick Dickson, k. C.(From the “ Straits Times’.) - 2,507 words
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Article135 1890-03-08 6 Penang, 6th March 1890. a Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/if dollar. Do. 4 mouths sight, Bank 3/If Do. 6 Credits 3/2f Do. 6 Documentary 3/2 f jr Calcutta, Demand, Bank Lis. 220 Do. 30 days sight, Private 225 f Bombay, Demand, Bank 220 Do. 30 days135 words
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