The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 12 April 1890

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1 8 The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
  • 26 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Price 20 Cents. Price 20 cents. VOL. 11. PENANG, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1890. :no. 107.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 922 1 IMSttBAMOTS. fOMPANy, LIMITED. S» ro„i,w. Scoo 0o neg!patamlineofsteame°s V maatsghappij. THE undersigned are prepared to accept Intended Sailing and expected Arrival Of Steamers. AsTuranfslo'the Risks and issue 1 olicies on behalf of the unexampled success which has attended the above Company by any first Class Steamer '““J principles upon which
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  • 1582 2 We regret we cannot agree with H. E. the Governor in his conviction that the i<-»a boon suppressed, nor can we join our local contemporary in singing hymns of praise because forsooth the Governor has announced that the Secret societies have been suppressed
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  • 1261 2 ANNEXATION OF LiMBANG BY RAJAH BrOOKE. Sir Charles Brooke,Rajah of Sarawak, has issued the following proclamation I hereby make known to all whom it may concern that on this seventeenth day of March the Principal Chiefs of the Limbang river, after having for years suffered oppression from
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    • 271 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED EVE!!I WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. K>* 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 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied on payment of the
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  • 888 3 L. fy C. Express. The Mansion House Committee of the China Famine Relief Fund has just issued its report. It is very full, and contains as an appendix large excerpts from the report of the iNorth China Committee, which met in Shanghai, ihe efforts, we know,
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  • 376 3 Madame .Tshebrikova’s letter to the Czai, which has been published, appears to be a true statement of Russia’s grievances. Maria Tshebrikova lias been known for many years in her own country as a writer upon women’s questions and upon education. She stands in no direct relation
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  • 290 3 The new Chinese Minister to Paris and. London, Hsieli Fu-Cheng, arrived at Marseilles by the last French Mail steamer Iraonaddy, and is now in Paris. The Minister is accompanied by his wife and daughter and by a suit of forty-one persons, of
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  • 750 3 A midnight steeplechase, in which the riders were to appear in nightshirts and top hats, took place near Melton Mowbray on the 10th ultimo, which caused intense excitement in the town. It is said that the idea originated from the fertile brain of Lady Augusta Faue, who
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  • 232 4 {From the Pinang Gazette”) London, Ith April. —'L’l>e Emperor of Russia lias had a relapse of influenza. He is feeling greatly incensed at the disorders among the students ot the TJuiversity of St. Petersburg, and threatens to close the colleges for one year. The English press attacks Emm
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  • 1330 4 Telegrams by Mail. F/om our Exchanges.) London, 28th March.— The Standard states that it has been decided to offer Sir Frederick Roberts a year’s extension as Coramander-iu-Chief of India. Berlin, 28th March. —Prince Bismarck’s farewell audience of the Emperor on Wednesday was of a most
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  • 900 4 Pinang Gazette. H. E. the Governor and Lady Clementi Smith left Singapore for Europe at 4 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon by the M. M. steamer Melbourne. Sir Frederick Dickson, the Senior Civil member of the Executive Council, was ou the same day sworn in as the Officer
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  • 360 4 This morning, soon after daylight, the dead body of Jasso, M. C. 70, was found lying in Pranging ditch, about 150 yards from the sea shore. The man had been stabbed in two places on the right sight of the breast, besides
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  • 309 5 A special meeting of the members of the Engineers’ Institute, called by circular, was held on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of presenting a gold watch to the Honorary Secretary, Mr. D. B. Paige, who is going home on leave. There was a very large
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  • 154 5 It is with much regret that we have to announce that death, on the Bth instant, at his residence in Beach Street, of Mr. Khoo Tkean Teck. The deceased had been ill and confined to his bed for some time, his protracted illness being
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  • 145 5 A Government Gazette Extraordinary issued shortly after noou 011 Tuesday, the Bth instant, says His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, Knight Commander of the most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, on his departure from the Colony, will embark at
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  • 338 5 A second Gazette Extraordinary was issued on Tuesday, April 8, after the departure of H. E. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith. The following are the Notifications therein contained His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and
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  • 437 5 Swearing in Sir Frederick Dickson. In accordance with the official notification issued in the morniug of the Bth inst., a meeting of the members of the Legislative Council took place in the Council Chamber at 5 p.m., when after a little delay, so as to
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  • 259 5 Arrivals. 9th April—Per s. s- Lady Weld, from Port Weld:—Mr. D. Trafford, Mr. Mr. Rowsey, Mr. Murray, Mr. A. D. Machado, Mr. J Mr. Grey, Mr. ttutyens, Mr. Tbye Lee, Mr. J. C. Ford, Mrs. Ward, Mrs. W. M. Young, and Mr. W. M. Young. 9th April—Per
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  • 334 5 Goh Chye Soon, the Celestial who was convicted and sentenced to death for the wilful murder of a fellow Chinaman on the 17th December last, and over whose soul there was such a keen fight amongst the Singapore missionaries, was hanged last Tuesday morning
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  • 280 5 Straits Times. The fact that the Chinese officers on board the Chinese squadron here look upon their European colleagues in the light of outsiders, and deem their services only temporarily necessary, bears signifip.vl.nno i r> +V. f of the Celestial Empire. There, the cry of China for the
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  • 787 5 Zola’s new novel, La Bete Humaine, just published, brings the number of volumes printed for that author up to nearly two millions. It now appears (writes a Paris correspondent) that there is not the slightest chttuce of tho elootion of Emile Zola to the vacant fauteuil at the Academy,
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  • 124 6 Penang, 10th April, 1890. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank 3/l§ dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 3/2j Do. 6 Credits 3/‘2f Do. 6 Documentary 3/2-| Calcutta, Demand, Bank Its. 219 Do. 30 days sight, Private 224 Bombay, Demand, Bank 219 Do. 30 days sight,Private 224 Madras, Demand
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