The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 13 September 1890

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  • 26 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. PitiCE 20 Cents. Price 20 cents. VOL. 11. PENANG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1890. No. 151.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 905 1 INSURANCES. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. shipping The Marine Insurance Co., j NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE STOQMVAART MAATSCHAPPI'j SHIPPING. Limited. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS- I Ittdo-China Steam Navigation THE undersigned are prepared to accept Intended Sailing and expeotod Arrival of Steamers. onipany. Risks and issue Policies on behalf of the ZZ
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  • 1706 2 A more disgraceful state of tilings than that which has just been brought to light with reference to the goods sheds—the entrepot of the whole trade of this settlement—can scarcely be imagined. Time after to ai? rects the landing, warehousing and j transhipment of
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  • 1169 2 After the oracular statements l which Sir Andrew Clarke made at the last dinner of the Straits Settlements Association, an article which appears in one of the recent issues of the London and China Ex. press and which professes to unfold the cover in which
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    • 196 2 STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHMI EVfillY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. -K>h TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum *s* 22 Half-year Quarter Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied cm payment of the arrear.” Postage, 2 cents extra
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  • 289 3 More intelligent than some of our own lawgivers, Mr. W. E. Maxwell, the British Resident of Selangor, instead of rushing to legislation to counteract the ravages caused by the coco-nut beetle, has just issued the following instructions to the District officers under his jurisdiction District
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  • 736 3 Referring to the labour question, with which the destiny and the fortunes of the Colony and the Native States are so inseperably bound up, the Singapore Free Press remarks “Some little time ago, it was suggested that in order pfoperly to deal with the problems presented by
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  • 263 3 The Admiralty have ordered that the rate of speed of ship» of war at which passages are to be made on general service is to be governed by the use of the following phro-uoa in Ordinary speed.” —This means that the engines are nob
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  • 307 3 A correspondent of the Indian Planter’s Gazette, writes I consider the practice of starting a field of hordes from behind, as advocated by a writer in your columns, a most faulty one. In a very large field it is impossible for a starter, standing behind
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  • 274 3 The recent Indian papers describe the difficulty attending the disposal of the bnjJy of a elephant at Nowsaree, in Baloda, winch iflustrates the Indian saying that an elephant must be buried where it dies. It appears that a tame elephant which had been
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  • 231 3 The following remarks, which appear in Captain Hayes paper, will be read with interest by those who keep horses “1 saw a short time ago in some medical journal that bicarbonate (washing) soda, when given internally, has theeffect, like antipyrine, phenacetin, quinine,
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  • 128 4 Pkna.no, 13tli September,, 1890. London, Demand, Dank 3/91 dollar. Do. 4 mouths sight, Bank 3/10 Do. 6 Credits 3/10| Do. 6 Documentary 3/10f Calcutta, Demand, Bank Rs. 220 Do. 30 days sight, Private 222 Bombay, Demand, Bank 220 Do. 30 days sight,Private 222 Madras, Demand Bank 220 Do. 30
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  • 143 4 (From the Pinang Gazette.) I /ondon, Hth September. An immense conflagration has taken place at Balonica, the whole European quarter haa been destroyed; two hundred and fifty acres of ground laid waste, and Consulates, Mosques, Churches, Hospitals, and valuable archives destroyed. The floods in the neighbourhood of Prague
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  • 1754 4 Owing to the alteration in the P. service from Bombay, the day of the eparture of the mail from Penang to Europe via Negapatam w,£ the re mainder of this year, be every Thursday, the next departuie taki g place on the 18th inst. Major Grey, the
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  • 444 4 Friday, sth September, 1890. The following Orders, issued by Government, are published:— Mr- F. Bede Cox, Assistant Collector and Magistrate, Kuala Kangsa, has been granted an extension of leave, with half salary, for three mouths from the 28th August. Proclamation No. 405 of the 12th July, 1890,
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    • 403 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. THE following are the dues or fees which the lessee of the Jetty sheds an crane is entitled to charge under his agreement with the Municipal Commissioners for wharf and shed accommodation on all goods landed or shipped from the Sheds or Wharf. For each and every package
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  • 165 5 Arrivals. 10th September.—Per 8. s. Pundua, from Rangoon: —Mr. and Master A. Karaen. 11th September. —Per s. s. Putiala, from Singapore:—Mr. and Mrs. A. Huttenbach, Mr. arid Mrs. A. Gondrion, Mr. H. Jebsen, Mr. Me Bain, Mr. H. W. Bamber, Mr. C. Bean, Mr. F. Poopos, and
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  • 999 5 (Perak Government Gazette, Sept. stli.) The export of tin ore from Ulu Kinta is increasing steadily, and Mr. Miihlingliaus, mauager of the Straits Iradiug Company, informs Mr. E. W. lranchell, the Assistant Magistrate, that he has exported lately, in one month, about five thousand piculs of ore from
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  • 1605 5 Paris, 1 6th August. —The AngloFrench treaty does not provoke marked attention. Tirabuctoo is enough to induce a school-boy to make a sign of the cross, and as for the poly-named Niger and Lake Tchad, these are left to geographists. In exchange for nominal rights on Zanzibar, the
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  • 378 6 AUTUMN MEETING, 1890. PROGRAMME. FIRST SAT. Saturday, 27th September, 1890. I. —Maiden Battak Ponies. Prize 100. 1,000 metres. Weight per scale. Gentlemen riders. 11. —Roadsters. Prize 150. 2,400 metres. Weight 75 kg. Gentlemen riders. 111. —Ponies up to 137 cm. (13.2). prize 125. R. C. Weight per
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    • 635 6 Government Notification. Applications are invited from candidates desirons of entering the Government School for Surveyors at Singapore of which particulars are given below. Application should be addressed to the Officer in charge of the Survey Department at each Settlement not later than the 30th instant. Scheme for the Education of
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    • 344 6 ROBINSON CO., SINGAPORE. DRESSMAKERS. Our Dross-making department is now in charge of Mrs. BEAL. > Postal orders from Penang will receive prompt attention. ROBINSON Co., 1 Singapore. 185 > HOTEL FOR SALE. I The “Taiping Hotel,” Larut, Perak, is for sale, its presont proprietor being compelled to return to Europe
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    • 127 6 FRENCH CONFECTIONERY. At No. 1 b, King Street. Mr. M. Feunberg, French Confectioner, begs to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Penang that he has opened a Confectionery shop, where confectionery of all description, equal to Europe make, can be had daily, also Ice-Creams anc Pastry of all kinds. Orders
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    • 321 6 ROSS AND PRITCHARD, TAILORS GENTLEMEN’S OUTFITTERS. NO. 1, BEACH STREET k NO 1. INION STREET ARE now showing the following choice selection of new goods 50 Gentlemens White Shirts with and e> without collars. The Tropical Shirt for Office use with e and without collars. The Regatta Shirt in the
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    • 1072 7 ”3wTJ IAY ESPLANADE HOTEL. ROBINSON CO. Having been appointed Agents for the LATE EASTERN HOTEL «•<? UOW showing the following Raneegunge Fire Clay and Pottery Works, j 1 -ter to ntracts te THIS HOTEL, WHICH HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY NEW GOODS J—SALT GLAZED, STONEWARE PIPES REPAIRED, DECORATED AND NEWLY all sizes
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    • 955 8 THE POSITIVE eastern and oriental hotel, government security tnu I him 7 Life Assurance Co. Litnitcd. RENANGr. THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, which has iusi been entirely renoCamtal and other Funds 1415,090 vated, is situated on the Sea Beach and has two entrances from Farquhar n* December 1887, Street.lt contains: 0,1
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    • 221 8 INDIAN RUBBER STAMPS. Of every description niannfactnedr on the latest improved principles and with the most recently invented machinery. Charges Exceedingly Moderate. K>« Orders can be executed within 24 hourB after receipt. A. KAXJLFTJSS A Co. No. 9, Beach Street. M. THOMAS Ca Auctioneers Commission Agents and Appraisers. No. 28
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