The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 22 June 1892

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1 8 The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle
  • 27 1 The Straits Independent AND PENANG CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGS. PUC> C‘ CTa PniCß 20 Cents. VOL. IV PENANG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 22, 1892. No. 306.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 831 1 BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. I T company*LMiSi NC> KONINKLIJKE PACKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. llead Office. Singapore. negapatam line of steamers. fas F‘ ro u P on ie raosfc av Intended Sailing and expected Arrival of Steamers* Reserve Fund 115,000 1 he undersigned have been appointed Agents l BEHN, MEYEII Co.,
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  • 2013 2 1. The Administration Report, Penang, for t he year 1891, published in the last issue of the Government Gazette is, as compared with pre vious documents of a similar nature, very meagre as to detail and unsatisfactory as to results, the former objection being, perhaps, mainly one
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    • 261 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. PIBLISIIKD EVKtV WEMBHV AM» SATIISDAY EYI.MNGS. K* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: Per Annum S B_\ Half-year 99 Quarter Single copy twenty cents. IF PAID IN ARREAR 5 for three months, after which term the paper will only be supplied on payment of the arrear.” Postage,
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  • 632 3 T view of the fast approaching (late j st) on wl.icli the Sunday Lal r Ordii ,a,jCe 1892” will come into ioUt we republish the text of the ifi l voted by ti.e Legislative Council, e d by Lis Excellency tbe GovLTnor, and sanctioned by
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  • 321 3 A new specimen of what, may be called both the growler” and the gondola” of the Ear East, lias just been introduced, iu the model northern Settlement, under the above appellation. A Shanghai conespondent gives the following particulars of the new venture:— No one can deny that
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  • 698 3 We wonder whether the following, which we extract from the Siam Free Frees of June 7, is meant sarcastic or otherwise. —Says our liangkok content }>o rary The paragraph which has gone the round of the hiuropeau papers to tiie effect that the King of Siam is offering,
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  • 1156 3 which has dawned on Ohina. Shanghai Mercury. The Taipiug rebellion called out a considerable number of able men in the service of the government. Among them the most distinguished was Tseng Kuofon, the first holder of the title Marquis Tseng. It was his thought to originate a
    which has dawned on Ohina.—Shanghai Mercury.  -  1,156 words

  • 138 4 Penang, 22nd June, 1892. Rates rule as follows 1 jONi>on, Demand, Bank 2, dollar. Do. 4 months sight, Bank 2/1 If J)o. 3 Credits 2/14-2/1 If Do. 3 Documentary 2/llf-2/llf Cai.cuiia, Demand, Bank Its. 224 Do. 30 days sight, Private 226£ Bom bay, Demand, Bank 224£ Do. 3o days
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  • 180 4 (From the Pinang Gazette.) London, \Qth June. —A Parnellite election manifesto declares that the party have sought peace, but the MacCarthyites have refused their overtures, and therefore it is a case of war to the kuife. The efforts made to effect a reconciliation between the Emperor William aud
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  • 2738 4 Mail Notices. —The M. M. Mail Steamer Natal left Colombo for Singapore on Thursday, the 16th inst. LJp to the time of to press, we have received no news of her arrival there. The outward P. O. Packet Ganges, left Colombo at noon yesterday, and may, therefore,
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 39 4 MUNICIPAL NOTICE. The next ordinary meeting of the Municipal' Commissioners will be held in the Town Hall, at 2.30, p. m., On Friday, 24th Junk. (By Older,) J. W. HALLIFAX, Secretary to the Municipal Commissioners. Municipal Office, Town Hull.
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  • 190 5 This morning, at the Police Court, Mr. \iin Sonieren, acting for the Crown, accompanied by the Solicitor General, applied to Mr. Birch, the First Police .Magistrate, in Chambers, for a warrant of arrest on behalf of Mr. Wreford, the Assistant Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, {igainsf
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  • 172 5 &j}B the Straits 'Times, in its issue of 18tl :—lf the N. 0. B. C. pays ewn shillings j„ t], o HII( J If the "ities lo the public are 5| millions, ~,ea,,s a deficiency of nearly 14 I0 sterlinir. So, if Router, in ••phinjp
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  • 174 5 I he following prices were paid at the tobacco sale held iu Amsterdam on the 13th inst. 1892 Bales. Estates and owners. Brice. 4684 Sundry Estates, Deli Maatschappij ...106cts. per kilo. 633 Batang Kwiss, Senembah Maatsckij.los 450 St. Cyr, Deli Langkat Tabak Maatschij...l43 725 Helvetia Estate, Baron
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  • 431 5 The Legislative Council of Hongkong has been prorogued till late ill tlio autumn. In his closing speech, the Gov eruor wade some complimentary remarks about the assistance the Unofficial Members of Council bad afforded him, whereat Mr. Chater, the senior Unofficial Member, said
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  • 222 5 The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company’s steamer Seine arrived at Oiehluh, on the Bth of June, with the cable ou board which was to be laid between Aclieen and Deli. On the 9tli of June, the shore end was lauded and buoyed eleven miles out, where the
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  • 237 5 Government Gazette June 17. H. E. the Gove mor has been pleased to pass Letters Latent under the Public Seal of the Straits, constituting W. R. Collyer, Esq., Barrister at Law, to be a Judge of the Supreme Court. Under the Holidays Ordinance,Thursday June 30th, has been fixed
    Government Gazette, June 17.  -  237 words
  • 452 5 It may be remembered, says the Straits Times, that some few months ago, some considerable interest was evinced in Singapore over the alleged imprisonment of a Eurasian youth named Walter Robinson in Valparaiso. The statemeut was that Kohinsou was employed on some ship at Valparaiso
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  • 390 5 In bis Progress Report for May, addressed to the Acting Secretary to Government, Taipiug, Mr. C. R. ilausou, the Resident Engineer for Railways, supplies the following information Kinta Valley Link, Tapah .Section. Earthworlcs. —2,77B.2o cubic yards have been completed since last measurement. Bridges and Culverts. —Preparations are
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  • 341 5 A gentlemen in I’erak, formerly a Ceylon planter of considerable experience, writes about Liberian coffee to a Ceylon paper as follows: L have been in Selangor for some time visiting my friends and having a look round generally. I must say I was most agreeably surprised
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  • 481 6 Hongkony Doily Drew. Although the amount of opium imported into China in 1891 shows au increase ot 829 piculs over the import of the preceding year, it compares unfavourably with that of 1838, being 5,197 piculs less. The value of toe trade, owing to constantly declining
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  • 1122 6 A physician of St. Louis asserts that there are in that city twenty thousand victims to the habit of injecting morphia under the skin, and that the great majority of those victims are women of the well-to-do classes. Five American tourists, who were wrongfully arrested and imprisoned for five
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 217 6 NOTICE. Owing to Mu. (1. M. S. Nahapiets’ departure, the Power of Attorney held by him on our behalf is revoked from this date. SARKIES BROTHERS. Penang, 14th June, 1892. 466. This is to give NOTICE that Mr. Arshak Sauries has beeu appointed Manager of the EASTERN AND Oriental Hotel,”
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    • 407 6 KHTE HO FOUNDRY COMPANY Weld Quay. ENGINEERS, BOILER-ltAgj.jg IRON AND BRASS FOUNDER AND GENERAL CONTRACTORS Boiler Fittings and Engineers’ Stores, etc., always in Stock, J. G. ALLAN Jrdiuifjer MUNICIPAL NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that, the por. tion of 1 erak Road between Da to Kimmat, and Jelutong, will he
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 1096 7 McLARTY COMPANY, J <t graphic A ddre J s: CONSULTING ENGINEERS, NAVAL ARCHITECTS, nEAD FFICE "McLarty, Penang surveyors No. 30, BEACH STREET, tH UB'S A. I. CODE (‘887.) JiXl) PENANG. ..A.8.C.”,4th Edition. '{general CManacer ~K i vlxk COUK3. CONTRACTORS, r. m. mclaety, «.«e. WE SUPPLY THE UNDERMENTIONED: form Forginjfs of
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 647 8 BANEEGUNGE EIRE CLAY. NOW OPEjj POTTERY°WOE/KS. UNDER EXPERIENCED EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT. Having been appointed Agents for the TTTT A Kaneegungk Firb Clay and Pottery y JL Works, we are prepared to enter contracts for the undermentioned SALT GLAZED, STONEWARE PIPES MAIN ROAD, TAIPIJS G* All sizes from 2 to 24 diam.
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    • 276 8 CantonUxswanceOfflce^^ THE undersigned havino Agents for this Office, are L. ap P oill ted accept Marine Insurance Ri s u, prep ared to favorable terms. B’ou 8 ou most For fall particulars a rpl to BOUSTEAD Co, Agentt. Result of the working of ti, fl p for tlie year 1890
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