The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 5 April 1890

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1 8 The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
  • 26 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. Price 20 Cents. VOL. 11. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. PENANG, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1890. Price 20 cents. 2fo. 105.
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  • 2105 2 THE HIGH” SCHOOL OF PENANG. Sucft is the title our local contemporary would be pleased to bestow on our time honored Free School and our readers will be highly interested (o know the several grounds on which the Editor of the Pinang Gazette and other aplogists advocate its claims to
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    • 252 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT 1 I’l HUSIItII tv tin IVBDJitSDAV ASH SATllllllAK. I K>i c TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 'PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum 7;;;; Quartei 1 Single copy twenty cents. IE PAID IN AllßEAll 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied on payment of the
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  • 2495 3 It will be remembered that a special meeting of the Municipal Commissioners was held on the 19th ultimo in connection with the recent visit of T. R. H. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and that Messrs. Comrie, McLarty and Barnett have felt sore ever since at the
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  • 227 3 ed temples can still bo counted.— Siam Mercantile Gazette. Information lias reached Bangkok that Phya Phraph Song Kram, the leader of the rebellion of September last, has occupied Muang Fang with a force of which the lowest estimate is put down at
    ed temples can still bo counted.—Siam Mercantile Gazette.  -  227 words

  • 272 4 REUTER’ S TELEGRAMS. (From the Pinang Gazette.”) London, Till March. Oxford lias won the University boat race by one length. General Caprivi with the chancellorsi, ip of the Empire also takes count Herbert Bismarck’ post —not count A vensleben. n Prince Bismarck had a long farewell audience with the Emperor,
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  • 653 4 The following is the rinang Gazettes f'fi&'rh ,vh h*fU its to the now celebrated minutes of the meeting of the 19th ultimo, which we publish elsewhere The minutes of the ordinary meeting held on the 7th ultimo having been read and confirmed, the
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  • 773 4 In our leader of the 29th ultimo, the words on the Committee were accidentally omitted in the phrase “The Mo- hammedans and other natives a\cil not represented (on the Committee (at at all, the Chinese by only one mem- ber This omission—a most involuntary oue —has been
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  • 427 4 There must certainly be something radically wrong with tho manner in which orders issued for removing attap roofs are being carried ont by tho subordinate employes of the Municipality. We cannot avoid referring to a glaring instance that has
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  • 484 4 The Editor, Straits Independent. Sir, With regard to the pertinent or rat.ier impertinent remarks concerning Mr. Skinner which appeared in your last issue, perhaps your natural love of lair play will permit a word on the otherside in your next. I believe Griffith was a ‘safe’ man, and the
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  • 276 4 In Hongkong, the proposed illuminations in honour of the Duke of Connaught have given rise to misgiving on the score of fcfceir probable disturbing effect on the price of provisions. On this point, the Daily Press says: It is said
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  • 249 5 Perak Government Gazette. Friday, March 28th. Mr. A. F. Harper, Assistant Surve} 7 or, Land Department, Kinta, has been granted vacation leave for two months and nineteen days, to be followed by leave on half salary for three months and eleven days, with effect from the Ist April
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  • 598 5 Late on the night of the 24th Feb. the Due d’Orleans was removed from the Conciergerie to be transferred to the Central Prison at Clairvaux. The Governor of the prison entered the cell of the Prince at ten o’clock, and informed him of the step which was
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  • 206 5 The Shen-poa says, referring to the opium habit in China: —The drain on the wealtli of China by the purchase of foreign opium amounts to Tls. 20,000,000 annually. Opium was originally imported only for medicine. From about the year 1070 the taste for the drug as a
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  • 1506 5 Closing of the Session. (From the Straits Times”.) Thursday, 27th March. At the meeting of the Legislative Council held this afternoon, the following members were present His Excellency the Governor (Sir Cecil C. Smith, k.c.m.c.) The Hon’bles the Colonial Secretary (Sir Frederick Dickson, k.c.m.g the Colonial Treasurer
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  • 751 5 The police authorities made a remarkable blunder in Paris the ocher day. Ail officer unfortunately imagined he recognised in Madame Celine Montaland a disreputable character, to whose doings his attention had been called. The celebrated actress of the Comedie Francais was, notwithstanding her protests, hurried along to the police-station.
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  • 125 6 Penang, 3rd April, 1890. Bates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/l| dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3/2 Do. 6 Credits Do. 6 Documentary 3/2| Calcutta, Demand, Bank Rs. 218 Do. 30 days sight, Private 224 Bombay, Demand, Bank 218 Do. 30 days sight,Private 224 Madras, Demand Bank
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