The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 12 September 1891

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  • 26 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Pbice 20 Cents. Price 20 Cents VOL- Hl* PENANG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1891. No- 228.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 815 1 TUe tUe°liissauce Company. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. North China Insurance Co.,ltd. IRoa KONINKLIJKE PACKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Xpm £2oooooo' NEGAPATAM LINE Of STEAMERS- marine insurance. Invested Funds, £2,838,118 tended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. The undersigned having been appointTHU undersigned liave been appointed ed Agents for the above Company
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  • 1046 2 The Singapore papers, as well as our local contemporary, have lately been discussing the domestic servants question, in a manner quite in accordance with our own views upon the subject. The servants nuisance —to call it by a very mild term indeed—is an annoyance and an evil
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  • 518 2 It is an axiom, we believe, that men filling responsible public positions must be held answerable to the public for the acts they commit and the statements they make. It often happens, in the meetings of Municipal and other public bodies, that statements are made in
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  • 1560 2 By a Griffin. When I first came here, the Israelite was in charge of the auction. It is only n short time ago, but already a sale of furniture brings different faces aud different prices. As a fragment in the history of old Penang, and for the
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 254 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT PUBLISHED IVEET WIDSKSDAY All SATURDAY. K>* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per A,mum «•«> Half-year Quarter 4oU 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 arrear.” Postage, 2 cents
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  • 1139 3 In an interesting and varied number of the Nineteenth Century the article of most immediate moment is that by Sir James Stephen upon Gambling and the Law,’ iu which he proposes that betting aud gambling should be made illegal. IS GAMBLING WRONG
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  • 238 3 In the section of Therapeutics at the recent meeting” of the British Medical Association, Mr. Ernest Hart read a paper and exhibited specimens of Chinese remedies, with notes on Chinese medicines. He had recently visited the hospitals of Hongkong and Canton, and gave a picturesque account of the
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  • 713 3 The oilier day, a telegram announced the success of rainmaking experiments in Texas by exploding dynamite bombs aloft in balloous. The following extract from a San Francisco newspaper describes the preliminaries to the experiment The Government is going to make extensive experiments in producing rain to Order,
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  • 132 4 Penang, llt.li September, 1891. Rates rule as follows London, Demand, Bank dollar ])0. 4 months sight, Ba«>k 3/31 >» Do. 6 Credits 3/31 Do. 6 Documentary o 4 Calcutta, Demand, Bank Its. 2241Do. 80 days sight, Private 2i/ Bombay, Demand, Bank 224 Do. 30 days sight,Private ‘22/ 3 Madras,
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  • 818 4 (From the IHnang Gazette. London, 7th September.— During the outbreak at lchang the British Consulate was destroyed. A French gunboat has been dispatched to the scene of the disturbances and has been ordered t<> act decisively. Coquimbo has yielded to the Chilian insurgents, and a provisional government has
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  • 1700 4 Post Office Notice. —The next homeward French Packet from tSingcipoie is timed to leave that port on Tuesday evening the 15th instant. Correspondence intended lor transmission by this route, should be superscribed By Freucli Packet via Singapore.” Birds of Passage.—Lady Clementi Smith and Miss Smith are proceeding
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  • 1190 4 By our own Manufacturer. A Chiel ’s amang ye, takin note a, An, faith, he’ll prent ’em. First, as regards myself, I mean bn ness. As a vendor and man ufactual Pickles,” I have had considerable e perience; I will execute country or with promptness and despatch, am may
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  • 570 5 Onr representative had the pleasure of interviewing Charlie Meadows, the Arizona Cowboy and Ranchero, together with his Indian, Juan Ca-ta-to, a young Mohuck chieftain of some distinction, yesterday. Charlie, whose tall form and athletic frame are a feature of Mr. Harmston’s circus,
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  • 442 5 THE MILITARY TAX. We liave great pleasure in publishing the following letter which one of our subscribers—an old Straits man now residing in Guernsey —has been kind enough to send us by last mail. Our frieud’s idea, if not entirely novel, has at least the merit of being to
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  • 992 5 From an old Block. I I am the father of seyeral children, both boys and girls, all of whom have grown up to be men aud women. A\ ell do I remember how, in their childhood, we used to romp together, aud how happy they made my home by
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  • 1524 6 Mr. Higgins, well-known as a parachutist, met with death under shocking circumstances at Kirkstall, near Leeds, on the Bth iust. He was to have made an ascent in his balloon with Miss De Yoy, but the balloon became unmanageable as they were about to start. Miss De Yoy left
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 357 6 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The Municipal Commissioners of George Town, Penang, invite tenders for 578 lengths of 6” and 184 lengths of 4” cast iron pipes and a quantity of special castings. Full particulars can be obtained at the Municipal Engineer’s Oflice. Tenders, which should be endorsed Tender for 6” and 4”
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    • 373 6 TO-NIGHT-E VERY ESPLANADE, II For this relief much thanks-,57 I ’Tis well: the tifi al U I Success Crowns onr Wirt! 11 1 Efforts. gitj I iiarmstonTnd SOYS I GREAT LONDON OLYIipV I and I AMERICAN WILD WEST The Giants that Tower over a I The Public endorsed us by
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1193 7 McLARTY COMPANY, "McLarty, Penang” consulting engineers, naval architects, pFF, CE: THUE 'S a. CODE (.887.) SURVEYORS No. 30, BEACH STREET, T AND PENANG. A. B. C.”, 4th Edition. AND CONTRACTORS, general Manager: PRIVATE codes. BRANCHES AT THAIPING, BATU GAJAH AND SINGAPORE. F M McEARTY, M.l.u.E. WE SUPPLY THE UNDERMENTIONED: Asl)es
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 626 8 RAUKKUUNGE FIRE CLAY HOTEL. POTTERY WORKS. Having been appointed" Agents for tlie (LATE EASTERN HOTEL.) Raneegunqe Fire Clay and Pottery Works, we are prepared to enter contracts for the undermentioned:- mrjja HOTEL WHICH HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY SALT GLAZED, STONEWARE PIPES liU All sizes from 2” to 24” diam. REPAIRED, DECORATED
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    • 258 8 Canton InsuranceOfW^v ceLi *it* THE undersigned bavin» u. Agents for this Office, aren 0w accept Marine InsuranceH,.].. favorable terms, and all ri i°/- the N fire) on TOBACCO in andfrT and Fermenting Sheds onE.stnf matra, till arrival in 1 fcs Sj. For full appi„ to BOUSTEAD A c 0 Agent,
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