The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 30 September 1891

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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. Piuce 20 Cents VOL. 111. PENANG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1891. No- 233.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 870 1 Tl1 tite Insurance Company. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. j NortUhin a insurance com IrtOQ KONINKLIJKE PACKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. 1 TZ TT2OOOOOO' NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS- marine insurance. Sf Invested Funis, £2,838,118. Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. T|ie unders|>ned ]lavin( been THE undersigned have been appointed ed Agents
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  • 1900 2 There is no fault worse tlian that of extravagance which, like charity, only in a different sense, covers quite a multitude of sins. It is a fault to which the rising generation is especially prone, and it cannot be sufficiently deplored that such is the case.
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  • 918 2 From an old Block. v HI Some time ago a travelling company that visted Penang had amongst tuei repertoire a beautiful little song, it was Come bach to my Irish home 1 was well rendered by a good ten<n O,O and was much appreciated ;so muc i > that
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 266 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT Fl liLlSim) EVERY W EI)X ESDAI AM) SATI IIIUV. Kh TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum Half* year »> “•“U Quart 4.50 Si igle copy twenty cents. XT PHD IN v RPEAR S 6 for three months, after which term the paper will only be
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  • 1187 3 Writing on the occasion of tlie anniversary of the King of Siam’s birthday— His Majesty is now thirty-eight years old, and has occupied the throne since 1878, —the Siam Mercantile Gazette, in its issue of the 19th instant, after laying stress upon the various improvements inaugurated during the regency’of
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  • 513 3 A broadsheet, roughly printed on thin paper, of which the following is a close translation is being freely circulated among the thousands of students at Nanking. On the top is a picture of a Christian Catholic Church, with the motto, No distinction between male and
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  • 511 3 The Hongkong Daily Press in commenting on the recent riots in the YangTse yalley draws the following picture of the situation there Nor is it likely that the Ichang riot will prove the last of these outrages. It is openly declared among the natives that
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  • 125 4 Pbnang, 28tli September, 1891. Rales rule as follows 1 London, Demand, Hank 3/28 do,lar Do. 4 months sight, Hank 3,2 8 Do. 6 ('redits 3/31 Do. 6 Documentary Calcutta, Demand, Hank Us. 224 0 30 days sight, Private 22/ Bombay, Demand, Hank Do. 30 days sight,Private 227 Madras, Demand
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  • 94 4 (From this Finang Gazette.) London, 25th September.— The foreign employes in Foochow have been discovered in a plot to seize the Arsenal. The Times says that Europe cannot longer accept the excuses of Pekin. Lowlon, 27th September—The Chinese Ambassador to France has handed Monsieur Ribot a despatch in
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  • 3674 4 artistic taste* and skill —'Siam Alevcautile Gazette, 19 th September. Postal Notices. —'Hie Mails f or'Penang the French Packet Gctledonicn left Singapore by the s. s. Pundua” at 6 p.m. yesterday. The Mail despatched from Penang to London, via Brindisi, on the 28th ultimo was delivered on
    artistic taste* and skill—'Siam Alevcautile Gazette, 19th September.  -  3,674 words

  • 155 5 Friday, September 25. Mahomed Tamin has been appointed to be Mahomedan Alarriage Registrar for the District of Suugei Stak Besar, iu province Wellesley. The third Penang Municipal supplemental Budget for this year, amounting to $53,560, is published. The text of the Imperial Act 54 and do Vic. cap.
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  • 865 5 (Straits Times.) The Malacca assize just ended discloses a record of administration that is not very creditable to fh'K «s There was only one criminal assize case; and there was also an appeal against a magistrate’s decision touching a Malay j charged with abduction. The Malay
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  • 355 5 Correspondents are requested to authenticate their letters and to Javour us, confidentially, v'ith their names if they do not wish to have thempubli shed. The Editor, Straits Independent. Sir, —In reference lo the paragraph in your issue of tlie 26th inst., headed Another Sign of the Times,” and in
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  • 254 5 Penang C. C. Fs. H.MJ3. Hyacinthe.” There was nothing phenomenal in'Saturday's Cricket, which was played on a wet, sodden wicket, rendering 1 tall scoring almost ont of the question. The feature of the match, was Mr. Carter’s bowling, with which he took six wickets for fifteen runs. Hunter, for
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  • 1803 5 The full history of tho perfidies of Bazaine, the man who surrendered Metz to the Germans, has still to be written. Fresh light has just been thrown on tho French "marshal’s career in Mexico. Diaz, President of the Mexican Republic, affirms that Marshal Bazaine offered to give up the
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 334 6 WANTED. A Secretary for the Penang Cricket Club.” Salary $4O per month. —Applications received up to the Bth October by letter only to G. E. COLE, lion. Secretary, 336 pro tern. NOTICE. The Head Office of Mr. Jacob Van Nte will be removed from Laboenn Deli, to Medan, Deli, on
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    • 500 6 KEEP 1 PROP. LANGDon {American.) 1 in.no 1 uner and Bcpßippj, pi nomist, Palmist, and Vam D j n 10 1 tor, iu *truc. Piano Tuning 5.50, Repairs V Physiognomical Chart, inclad'jj?ft mistry 1. n r “l* Vamping on Piano taught in 0 e son, S 0.00. t3 Address Europe
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1166 7 McLARTY COMPANY, jelegraphic /ddress: CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, fi EAD P FFICE: “McLarty, Penang surveyors no. 30, beach street, tH UESA. I.CODB(i88 7 and PENANG. A .8.c.”,4th EUition. CONTRACTORS, general Manager: pkivlxe cooes. BRANCHES AT THAIPING, BATH GAJAH AND SINGAPORE. F M Mc:LA:RTY m.i.u.e. WE SUPPLY THE UNDERMENTIONED: 1 ctos
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 635 8 BANEEGUNGE FIRE OLAY JJSPLAMDE HOTEL. POTTERY WORKS. Having been appointed Agents for tbe (LATE EASTERN HOTEL) Raneegunqe Fire Clay and Pottery Works, we are prepared to enter confacts for the undermentioned BEEN THOROUGHLY SALT GLAZED, STONEWARE PIPES All sizes from 2” to 24” diam. REPAIRED, DECORATED AND NEWLY Largely used
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    • 272 8 THE undersigned bavin» l Agents for this Office, are ml .‘W'foi accept Marine Insurance to favorable terms, and all risiA Ule fire) on TOBACCO in and km and Fermerting Sheds on t f* D[,l 'i matra, till arrival in Kuropo 3 m s For full particulars ap p to BOUSTEAD
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