The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 9 April 1890
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The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
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Title Section26 1890-04-09 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Price 20 Cents. Price 20 cents. VOL. 11. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1890. No. 108.26 words
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Advertisement941 1890-04-09 1 INSURANCES. U"ITED. 0.^.,5^.. TOO Muummr»»o.., NEGAPATAM S LINE N OF S STEAM\Ra* VAART MAATSCHAPPIJ mSi THE undersigned are prepared to accept Intended Sailing and expected Arrival Of Steamers. ofthougffifandTntelHgent AsTurantft^the Risks and issue Policies on behalf of the unexampled success which has attended the above Company by any first Class941 words
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Article1445 1890-04-09 2 Here we are again. Our mails by the last French steamer, after lying in the Singapore Post Office since last Thursday, the 3rd instant, reached Penang only on Monday night the 7th, i.e., 48 hours after those received by the P. and O. steamer Thames which1,445 words
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Article1097 1890-04-09 2 From the papers just to hand, we learn that the excitement in the political world consequent upon the recent pollings in Germany is now abating, and Kaiser Wilhelm’s subjects are beginning to ask what is to come next. The Socialists, says a German correspondent, have not obtained1,097 words
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Advertisement255 1890-04-09 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum In. 00 Half-year 8. 00 Quartei 4. 50 Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only he supplied on payment of the arrear.’255 words
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Article1303 1890-04-09 3 London and China Express. The account Mr. Arthur Earle has written of a journey which he took in Java in the spring of last year, is interesting reading, and will, no doubt, prove, useful to future travellers in that country. As the writer says, there isLondon and China Express. - 1,303 words
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Article402 1890-04-09 3 Two brigands, once belonging to the famous band headed by Carravetta, arrived lately at the Prefecture at Naples from penal servitude in the prison of Favignana. They had been condemned in 1849 to hard labour for life for many robberies and assassinations. Their chief, taken at the same402 words
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Article882 1890-04-09 3 An amusing story is told in the New York Daily Tribune of a rivalry in steeples in a town disguised under the name of Mosquitoviile. It says —There are in the town of Mosquitoviile three church organisations,Episcopalians,Baptists, and Methodists. Each has a substantial, if not large, house882 words
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Article114 1890-04-09 4 (From our exchanges.) London 2nd April .-Mr. Samuel Smith will move on the 18th mat. that a Conference of the chief commercial nations be arranged to establish b^talHc system. Sir Lyon Playfair will oppose the motion. A meeting of the Czar and Emperorof Germany is settled for this114 words
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Article671 1890-04-09 4 Telegraphic information has been received that the mail despatched hence via Negapatam on 12fcli ultimo, was delivered in London on Monday, the 7th instant. Mr. W. C. Mitchell has been appointed a Magistrate and Coroner for the Settlement of Penang and to act as District Officer lor671 words
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596 1890-04-09 4 Preparations are being made to celebrate the Jubilee of the Rev. Mother St. Auselme, the Superioress of the Roman Catholic Convent here, with all the eclat that befits such a rare occurrence. On Monday, the 21st instant, fifty years will have elapsed since this596 words
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587 1890-04-09 4 The Singapore correspondent of the London 8f China Express is not very complimentary to the class from which the clerical branch of the Civil Service is recruited in the Straits, nor is he quite logical in his reasoning. Referring to the defalcations imputed to587 words
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Article160 1890-04-09 4 A correspondent writing from Amsterdam, March 12, says A well-deserved homage was paid to a valiant soldier, A. G. iSchiehorn, who returned from Acheen in this city yesterday per steamer liurgerneester den Tex. On the occasion of a sudden attack of a numerous troop of Acheenese160 words
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Article251 1890-04-09 4 Thursday, 3rd April. It is notified that Mr. W. C. Michell passed bis final examination in Malay, with effect from the Ist of September, 1890, and that liis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint him to be a Magistrate and Coroner for the Settlenent of Penang251 words
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Article314 1890-04-09 4 Arrivals. 3rd April.—Per s. s. Thaiping from Port Weld: —Mr. L. D. Draujo, Mr. J. E. Mathews, Mr. P. A. Reutens, Mrs. P. A. Reutens, and Mrs. W. Boyle. 4th April. —Per s. s. Gympie, from Port Weld —Mr. A. Hiittenbach. 4th April. —Per s. s. Sirsa,314 words
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Article285 1890-04-09 5 (From the Straits Times.) April, s th E. the Governor visited the Admirals of the Chinese fleet this forenoon. The first annual general meeting of the Jelebu Mining Company will be held on the 19th inst. At the morning service yesterday in the Cathedral of the good Shephered,(From the Straits Times.) - 285 words
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251 1890-04-09 5 —Straits Times. Norris Discharged ang Re-arrested. This (April 2) morning, before Mr. Justice Goldney, in tlie Supreme Court, William Norris, ex Sheriff of Singapore, who was in the custody of Warder Zimmer of the Civil Prison, appeared to make an application.—Straits Times. - 251 words
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Article899 1890-04-09 5 The Straits Times gives the following interesting particulars of the Chinese Squadron now anchored before Singapore i The six Chinese war vessels— Ting Yuen, Chen Yuen, Chih Yuen, Tsi Yuen, King Yuen, and Lai Yuen —now lying at the man-of-war anchorage in the roads, form the Northern,899 words
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Article250 1890-04-09 5 Dr. F. Mendel the British Medical Journal says) has recently enjoyed opportunities of studying the results of an unbridled abuse of coffee, and his results are now published. The great industrial centre round Essen includes a very large female population. While the women of the working250 words
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Article1864 1890-04-09 5 Sir Edwin Arnold in a long contribution on tl US fjnkjc-ofc wmtoo fco tliu Telegr*i ,fl as follows: O Jori San, plumpest and most cheerful of waiting maids, has just brought in and presented, upon her knees and nose, copies of a Japanese Art journal sent me by1,864 words
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Article125 1890-04-09 6 Penang, Bth April, 1890. Hates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/l§ dollar. Do. 4 mouths sight, Bank 3/2| Do. 6 Credits 3/2f Do. 6 Documentary 3/2| Calcutta, Demand, Bank Es. 219 Do. 30 days sight, Private 225 Bombay, Demand, Bank 219 Do. 30 days sight,Private 225 Madras, Demand125 words
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Advertisement1659 1890-04-09 6 U ArpTPU 1 less and keep indemnified the said Lok Jim RfiOO UJ. JA/XJ. Hen g and Lo Fook Kheng their executors KIIAA i f or administrators from and against all losses ImV The following is published tor the cogtg ch g damage s and expenses by information of those1,659 words
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