The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 9 April 1892

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  • 28 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. p ;!CB 20 Cents. PaiCß 20 Cents. rot. iv. PENANG, SATURDAY, ipRIL, 9, 1892. No. 286.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 767 1 "T^nTtli-British and Mercan- THE STRAITS INSURANCE l r tue insurance Company. BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. COMPANY, LIMITED. I jQstablishpd 1809. I KONIMKLIJKE PACKET V A ART i.IAATSCHAPPU. Head Office.—Singapore. NEOAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. MM. I‘'“£FS'£V«H*Z" InteMea Sam*, M cxpocU* ArHM of Suamor,. Q,nre i of the above Company,
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  • 1342 2 It is now nearly four months ago, since Mr. A. R. Adams introduce a proposal to the Municipal Commissioners of George Town, concerning the erection of a Public ►SeaSwimming Bath for Penang, and, as nothing further has been heard of his scheme, we may
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  • 1093 2 Thk truth as to what actually occurred in Berlin and other German cities on the occasion of the recent riots, is gradually oozing out, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made by the German government and the press of that country It the gravity of the movent),
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    • 262 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. POLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. K>* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Per Annum Half-year IT? Quarter Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 5 for three monthb, after which term the paper will only be supplied on payment of the arrear." Postage, 1 cent
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  • 480 3 Nothing, says a writer in the Cornlitll Magazine, can bring homo more forcibly to the mint] the unequal distribution of the pains and pleasures of life than the spectacle of coolies struggling up the hill to the Peak at Hongkong* with the materials which
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  • 694 3 The South African Mining Journal, in its issue of the 10th January, supplies its readers with admirable retrospective and prospective reviews of mining enterprise at itvvatersrand. As the immediate tuture of South Africa is iuextricaiy bound up with that enterprise some of the facts recorded and
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  • 1376 3 (From our Exchange* Berlin, 24 tJc March. —The German overnment have issued orders for the closing of the eastern frontier of Germany against the exodus of Jews from Russia. London, 25 ih March.— ln consequence or constant attacks by the Durham strikers on the men working at
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  • 151 4 (From the Finang Gazette.) London, 4th April. —A plot has been discovered at Buenos Ayres to murder the President. A state of siege has been proclaimed. Ravacbol, the author of the late dynamite explosions in Paris, has been arrested. London, bth April. —A French and a ortuguese anarchist
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  • 190 4 Reported Murder of two Englishmen. Rumoured attack on Pekan. Despatch of Sikhs to the Front. By the courtesy of the Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor, the following information has been placed at our disposal: His Excellency the Governor received information yesterday afternoon that twoEnglishmen,belonging to
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  • 22 4 BIRTH.—Ou the 7th inst., at No. 7, Clove Hall Road, the wife of Capt. A. S. Buss, of a Daughter.
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  • 2982 4 —Bangkok Times. His Excellency. —H. E. the Governor came down the hill yesterday morning, and went up again in the afternoon, after transacting some business in town. The Easter Holidays. —Friday, the 15th, and Saturday the 16th, inst., are gazetted as Public Holidays in the Straits Settlements
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 200 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The next meeting of the Municipal Commissioners will be held in the Town II all, at 2.30, p. m., On Thursday, the 14th April. (By Order,) J. W HALLIFAX, Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. Malay Railways and Works Construction Company, Lta. WANTED, Two Competent Surveyors for the Kedah
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  • 255 5 (Free Press.) The Government are contemplating bringing dowu to Singapore a European master from the lead school in each of the other Settlements to go through a special course of study in chemistry under Dr. Bott. In the list of proposed moves of troops in 1892-3 it is
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  • 726 5 By one of them. Oq Tuesday the sth inst., the day being the anniversary of the installation of H. H. the Sultan, and a public holiday, there was a great cricket match played over in Perak, on the grounds belonging to the Police barracks. It was
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  • 367 5 $3,000 (Gold) Damages. At the U. S. Consular Court at Bang kok on the 29th March the action for libel brought by the Rev. Lewis Anson Eaton against Dr. T. Heyward Hayes, claiming $50,000 damages, was heard before Col. Boyd, Minister Resident and Consul General,
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  • 287 5 FfiOM iioME. Tlie following passages have been, engaged for the Straits Per Peninsular and Oriental. Per s. s. Britannia, from London, Mar. 18.—To Singapore —Mr. A. J. Bryant, Mrs. Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warren, and Mr. J. Li. Home —To Penang :—Mr. F. J. (J. Hoss, Miss
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  • 626 5 The Sydney Morn iny Herald of the 12th March gives tne following particulars of the capture of Williams, the alleged murderer, whose association with Jack the Ripper was telegraphed by Reuter: Melbourne 1 Ith March. —The following telegram was received by the Commissioner of Police
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  • 1115 6 llctly Green, who is credited with a fortune of §40,000.000, lives in furnished rooms in West Forty-seventh street, New Yoi k, cooks her hi eakfast on a gas stove, and lough-laundries her own pocket handler-chiefs, because she doesn’t want to he bothered with housemaids and washerwomen. A telling calculation
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 876 6 i» APOLOGY. KHYE n. The Prosecution of the Hongkong n Opium Farmer. I beg to express through your columns POlTNrift Y PfUTh mv deep regret that I should iu a hasty iWUi) ill moment, iu consequence of my not being JVclcl On able to read, or understand Chinese accounts, have
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    • 877 7 McLARTY COMPANY, w Mead Office '?l£GR apHIC A ddress CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, “McLarty, Penang surveyors no. 30, beach street, a 1. CODE (1 887.) AND PENANG. s v «A Edition. CONTRACTORS, general codes. BRANCHES AT THAIPING, BATH GAJAH AND SINGAPORE. p McLARTY, M.I.U.E. IT WE SUPPLY THE UNDERMENTIONED: a
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    • 772 8 RANEEGUNGE FIRE CLAY. rxttT 0 gosling CO. n hi AAA Beach Street, Having been appointed Agents for the Tob “T^ nc f ENANG Works we are prepared to enter con- r SOX# OF THE ~sfS!i% F,PEa POSADA WINE COMPANY, sSSSSSS SINGAPORE AND PENANG. *L’ Drainage and Irrigation systems. These pipes
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    • 278 8 Cantonlusurauce Offi Ce THE undersigned havin» beon m Agents for this Office, are b ow B accept Marine Insurance Rkv* B favorable terms. Q B For full particulars apnU f I Result of the working 0 f tl, ft n I for the year 1890 0la pa*7 The balance at
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