The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 10 October 1891
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The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
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Title Section26 1891-10-10 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Price 20 Cents. Price 20 Cents. VOL. Ill* PENANG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1891. No- 236.26 words
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Advertisement830 1891-10-10 1 ne f?SSSS B RHISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. North China Insurance Co.,Ltd KONINKLIJKE PAGKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Capital Subscribed £1,000,000 p>tabu»hed isoo. NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS* (in 5,000 shares of mo each.) Capital £2,000,00(1 Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers. r 4rlrAL PAID DP 250,000. Armwtinted Sf Invested l 1830 words
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Article983 1891-10-10 2 Of all tlio infamous enactments it lias been our lotto witness in the course of a somewhat extended and varied career, the Municipal regulations concerning dogs in Penang and Singapore —inviewof the means applied to carry out those regulations, and the absolute indiscrimination which actuates those983 words
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Article432 1891-10-10 2 The British mails from China and Japan, which left Yokohama on August 19, by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s steamer, Empress of Japan, arrived in London at 10.12 a.m. on the 9th inst. It was confidently expected that the mails would arrive in London within the432 words
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2166 1891-10-10 2 The Seizure of Arms and the Connection of a Foreigner with the Kolao Hui. Chinkiang, 16th Sept. On Sunday night last a telegram was received here, saying that a Air. Alasou, of the Customs, who had beeu -1 avva y on leave, should >2,166 words
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Advertisement262 1891-10-10 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT Pll B'LISIIKIt EVUV WKDHSD.IV ASD SATURDAY. Kh TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Per Annum Half-year Quarter 4dU Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 5 for three months, after which term the paper willjonly be supplied on payment of the arroar.” Postage, 2 cents extra262 words
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Article1142 1891-10-10 3 A Remarkable Confession. The eloquent and strangely fascinating address in which Mrs. Besant, at the Hall of Science, bade farewell to the Secularist Society, has commanded the attention of a wider audience than the lar.r© gathering which she addiessed. A double interest attached to this parti,,,r1,142 words
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Article517 1891-10-10 3 In Japan thousands are horn and die on boats without ever living on shore. One of the rnoSt interesting features of Japanese life is the manner of living in boats and junks, thousands of which frequent every bay along the coast. The awkward junks always517 words
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Article124 1891-10-10 4 Penang, Obi. October, 1801. Rates rule as follows London, Demand, Bank 'Vh dol,nr Lo. 4'months sight, Bank 3/«g Do. 0 Credits 3/3 l)o. G Documentary «>,.5« Calcutta, Demand, Bank Its. 2231 I )o. 30 days sight, Private —o JiOMHAY, Demand, Bank Do. 30 days sight,,Private 220 Madra's, Demand Bank124 words
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Article256 1891-10-10 4 (From the Finang Gazette.) London, s th October. —The War Office lias asked for estimates from the Canadian Pacific Kailway Co. for the conveyance of troops from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gladstone has been presented with the freedom of the city of Newcastle, and, in(From the Finang Gazette.) - 256 words
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Article1713 1891-10-10 4 Postal Notices. —A Mail for Europe will be made up on Thursday next, 15fch inst., for despatch by the Purnea, which vessel is timed to catch the P. O. mail leaving Bombay on the 24th instant. All correspondence for Europe, intended for the Parnea, must be superscribed1,713 words
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Article121 1891-10-10 4 Orders of the Day. The following are the Orders of the Day for the forthcoming meeting of the Legislative Council, the date of which has again been altered to t lie 15th inst:— 1. —The Governor’s Address. 2. Supply Bill. 3. —Chinese Agricultural LaJowiws Protection Rill. 4. —Rill121 words
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Article904 1891-10-10 4 By our own Manufacturer. u A Chi el ’s amcing ye, talcin' notes, An,’ faith, he’ll prent’ern.” “When theenterprizing burglars u°t a-burgling,” he likes to be doing liotel proprietors in the eye. The geutleuiau who was sent up recently for six week» and then came back and borrowed fit*904 words
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Advertisement48 1891-10-10 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The next' ordinary meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held in the Town II all, at 2. 30. p. m., On Friday, the 15th October. (By Order) J. W. II ALL! FAX, Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. Municipal Otlice, Town Hall. Penang, 22nd September, 1891.48 words
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Article233 1891-10-10 5 From Home. Tl passages have been lor the Straits p KK 1 kninsular and Oriental. 1 d-—To S <sfrom London, Sept, and Mrs g GAlork MisS Busliby, Air. c Niel Aliss Goodwin, Air. W.LPP ll Cox.—To Penang Air. I» cr lreac, ‘or. 1 .-—'l'o o' 8 ar233 words
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Article1822 1891-10-10 5 From an old Block. IV. Alost of us have heard it asserted that drowning is a most pleasant death. I can testify to this beiug confirmed by a friend whom I had the pleasure, many years ago, of helping to save from a watery grave. It was during the1,822 words
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Article2075 1891-10-10 5 Contributed by “A Hibernian.” I. Asoi stood on the deck of a foine ship coming into Penang, Se’s oi to myself, its a foine i’land it is, and bedad oi I make a sodjourn here for a toinie, and see what loike the Haythen is.2,075 words
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Advertisement374 1891-10-10 6 FUN FUN FUN!!! HERE WE ARE AGAIN NOTE THIS! W.B. lIARMSTON SON’S MAMOTH CIRCUS HAS COME HERE AGAIN, And will open on the ESPLANADE TO NIGHT!!! TIIE 10TU OCTOBER 1891. PRICES. According totlie reduced scale during tlie latter part of our former stay here. COME ONE, COME ALL, WE WILL374 words
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Advertisement661 1891-10-10 6 municipalNotice''' Applications for a Municinai i invited to be sent in by 15th 1)’^« Municipality of George Town I’ Issue of $lOO,OOO six percent' In ture Stock redeemable atm,., .1 e en day of December 1931, heimr e^ st charge on the rates and taxes d Municipality of George Town661 words
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Advertisement1111 1891-10-10 7 McLARTY COMPANY, j elEG raphic /ddress: CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, f IEAD P ff,ce ‘‘McLarty, Penang surveyors no. 30, beach street, tH UE'S A. t. CODE (1887.) AND PENANG. A. 4th Edition. CONTRACTORS general -Manager: private codes. BRANCHES AT THAIPINC, BATH GAJAH AND SINGAPORE. F McLAETY m.i.m.e. WE SUPPLY THE1,111 words
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Advertisement593 1891-10-10 8 RANEEGUNGE EIRE CLAY ESPLANADE HOTEL. 1 POTTERY WORKS. ——7 V f (LATE EASTERN HOTEL.) Having been appointed Agents for the V Raneegunge Fire Clay and Pottery Works, we are prepared to enter contracts for the undermentioned THIS HOTEL, WHICH HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY salt glazed, stoneware pipes REPAIRED, DECORATED AND NEWLY593 words
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Advertisement305 1891-10-10 8 Canton Insurancel THE undersigned having boon I Agents for this Office, are now Ppo,nte( J I accept Marine Insurance RisK L, fi d v> I favorable terms, and all risks r, *****1 I fi") O" TOBACCO in and I au, Fermebting Sheds on Estates „T‘ I matra. till arrival in305 words
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