The Straits Independent and Penang Chronicle, 9 June 1894

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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 EVENING. Frick 20 Cents. Price 20 Cents. VOL. VI. PENANG, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1894. No. 488
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 760 1 Nortli-British and Mercantile BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. TUe Netherlands Fire Insnr auceJ3e mpany. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Insurance Company. ™’''Tp*mo7no‘ NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS- EstaVilished 18-4.-5. "V lta 0 000 1Q Intended Sailing and expected- Arrival Of Steamers, The undersigned has been appointed Agent Accumulate!* Invested r undh...*Jv.,0.50,1 LB.
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  • 876 2 SiXCR Idieir installation into power in 7502, out* present Ilotno Government have, in addition to bringing forward, a long programme of advanced legislation, found time to carry out many much-needed administrative, reforms, some of which our Straits Settlements legislators would do well to study. Among all .these reforms, the
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  • 2175 2 (London Sp China Express, May 1 1. Thus Court. —The Queen arrived in London on 9s,h inst. from Windsor (Jastle, to hold a Drawing yesterday, at which about 190 presentations were made. I lore Maj-sty ret urns to Windsor to-day. Sir Augustus Harris has been commanded
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 225 2 THE STRAITS INDEPENDENT. miusiiiin KrKRY ivimnsmi' am S\TI!K!)\Y r:VKM\<i. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, PA YAIH.IS IN ADVANOK: Per Annum 3 12.00 fin If-year 7.00 Quarter 4.00 Single copy twenty cents. Postage, 2 cents extra per copy. All subscriptions are considered to be running until formally cancelled. IP PAID IN APPEAR: 5
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  • 2164 3 (From Home papers up to May 18.) France.—At the eud of November, sava a Paris correspondent, M. Carnot will have completed bis seven years’term of service as President of the French Republic. He will probably be re-elect-ed, and the solutioji of what is called la Question Vresidentielle will
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  • 1016 4 Writing from Amsterdam, the correspondent of tliB London Sf China Express reports The Ministerial crisis lias been solved by tbe composition of the Cabinet Mr. J. Refill, 'Foreign Affair»; Mr. W. van tier Kany, Justice; Mr. S. van lionten, Uoir.e Affair»; Mr. LI. M. van tier
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  • 163 4 (From our Exchanges.) R HUT Eli’s A(? R NOV. London, 26th May. —The Government have determiml to withdraw the bill to established local control over the traffic in liquor. Allahabad ,29 th May. —Lord Wolseley can retain the command in Ireland though promoted to be Field Marshal.
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  • 117 4 Penang, 9t.li June, 1394. Rales rule as follows London, Demand, Rank 2/1 dol. Do. 4 months sight, Rank 2/11 Do. 3 Credits ...2/1$ Franck, Demand, Rank F. 26 4 Calcutta, Demand, Rank Its. 194 Roto bay, Demand, Rank 194 Madras, Demand, Rank *194 Rangoon, Demand, Rank 193 Moulmkin, Demand,
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  • 193 4 Rkoter’s Agency. (From the Pinang Gazette. London, <sth June.—Tl\o following is tlie result of the Derby 1, Ladas. 2, Matchbox. 3, Reminder. 4, Hornbeam. Ladas won in a canter by a length and a half. There Was great enthusiasm over Lord Bosebery’s victory. The other starters were Bullingdon,
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  • 1349 4 the (iuenb hull iu Kuala Lumpu3. langor Journal, Owing to the a»ri*val of the mails and the consequent extra pressure on our space, we must withhold the reproduction of the last Council proceedings until our next issue. The bubonic plague is reported to have broken out at
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 264 4 TOWN HALL, JENSEN’S FAMOUS ALL STAR LONDON COMBINATION WILL GIVE X SERIES OP THREE PERFORMANCES On Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 12th, 14th and 16th June, j The Company consists of the following wellknown Loudon Artists Mr. HARRY LE FRE Miss DOROTHY DKAN, The two unrivalled Comical Musicians and Dancers. Miss
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  • 127 5 Says the 8p C. Express, in its issue of the 18lh ulLo.The Government does not yet seem to have been able to make up its mind on the euhject ©f Hie Straits Settlements Military Exaction. It is now just a year since the deputation from the Straits
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  • 181 5 Says the Financial News in its last issue to hand British merchants trading with the Far East are becoming so alarmed at the destructive effects of the fall in silver on onr commercial interests that they meditate a deputation to the Prime Minister to explain to
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  • 291 5 The press in Holland insist that this was a case of flagrant piracy, audaciously perpetrated within a limit of 3 miles from (he shore. They emphatically deny it to be one of salvage, and assert that the master was deservedly punished on the first mentioned
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  • 252 5 The Saigon Courrier gives advices from the Upper Mekong, showing the deadly nature of the climate of the country recently wrested from the Siamese. In the garrison of Khone, for instance, which is 164 strong, no less than about 100 men have had to he invalided to Saigon
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  • 184 5 Professor C. D. Walcott expresses the opinion (contrary to that entertained by some scientists) that geologic time is not to be measured by hundreds of millions of years, but simply by tens of millions. This is widely different from the conclusion arrived at by
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  • 1400 5 The following are the official Minutes of «Hi Special Meeting of the Municipal Commissioners held on the 25th May, 1894 Present :—Gaft. Anderson, r. k., (Acting President the Hon. W. C. Brown, m. d.; Koh Seang Tat, Esq.; J. Gibson, Esq.; and R. A. P. lloqan, Esq. Absent:
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  • 246 6 Penang, 9th Jane, 1894. CENTRAL MARKET. Description. 'Berj.— •Soup r er cai, y B Roast Steaks >»• Stew or Curry Meat 14 Ox Tail each 20 Tongue 35 Feet 19 Heart per catty 25 Tripe •> 8 Liver Buffalo meat n 19 Heart If Liver 14 Pork.— Pigs’
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  • 421 6 PROGRAMME. OF AUGUST MEETING, 1894. FIRST DAY. Thursday 2nd August 1891. FIRST RACE. Value $l5O. —For Maidens. All Horses that have never won a race on any course, Griffin, Jump and Roadster Races excepted. Weight per scale. Distuuce one mile. Entrance §7. SECOND RACE. Value $125. —For
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 80 6 TO PENANGJISITORS. Ladies and Gentlemen visiting Penang and wishing for a Comfortable Home at a Moderate Charge are requested to try the WATER LET,” a Private Hoarding Mouse at tlie Junction of Farquhar Street and Penang l’oad ft- Ml PATENT SLIP AT PRYE DOCK. The above lias been thoroughly Loverhauled
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    • 100 6 MR. H. ABRAMS Informs the public of Penang that he has opened a Branch Establishment in this Town, at No. 15, Leith Street where every branch oftho Veterinary and Livery Stable business will bo worked on the same lines as in Mr. Abram’s well known Singapore Horse-Repository. Horses carefully Shod,
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    • 274 6 PRITCHARD CO. HAVE JUST OPENED OUT THE FOLLOWING NEW GOODS. Lamps. The Lamps Beige English Manufacture in Hanging, Standard and Table Lamps, £0 and 100 Candle power. The Thermidor Lamp, 30 Candle power, with Fancy Colored Shades, 4.50 nett. Iron Bedsteads. Bedsteads of the following sizes G’6” by 6’; 6’6”
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    • 52 6 NOTICE. We beg to inform our customers that from the Ist 31 arch we shall self for cash only. We also cancel herewith all our present and previous price lists, which, for the future, will he based on the rate of exchange of the day. GOSLING Co Penang, 21th February,
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 962 7 GOSLING GO. DANDO COi PENANG—SINGAPORE. i A I LO RS AND We import the following:- GENERAL OUTFITTERS. wines and spirits. No. Beach Street Union Street, All Wines and Spirits imported l>y PEN^ITCr. ns are kept, on lap, at our Posada Depots in Penang and Singapore. JUST HEOEIVED:Ports, from s7lo *3O
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    • 66 7 EASTERN ORIENTAL HOTEL. Branches s. 1 FAJtQtinJtEfmREET- e Vraorhos:- RAFFLES’ HOTEL, Singapore. -—RAFFLES’ HOTEL, Singapore. RAFFLES’ TIFFIN ROOMS, THE LEADING ESTABLIEIcMENT IN THE ISLAND. R AFFLES’ TIFFIN ROOMS, SARKIES’ HOTEL Rangoon, V «ARMIES’ HOTEL, Rangoon. ORIENTAL TIFFIN ROOMS, UX lON STREET, A Good table, the Best Wines Spirits, and Suterior
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 850 8 Company, Limited. CRITERION TIFFIN Capital Subscribed *2,000,000. I AND S: BILLIARD ROOMS. Hbad Okfick, IfONGKOWa. rn*JYT n Secretary, W. U. Kay, Esq. TjUtC SaWe S Tlfflll MOOmS.) Tlie undersigned, Agents for the v above Company, are prepared to accept 3JEACH STREET, No. 7. Mai ine Risks at current rates. All
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    • 420 8 Canton Insurance Office, Ltd. s Capital Subscribed $2,500,000. Amount Paid-up 500,000. Reserve Fund 730,000. II kau Office, Hongkong. General Agents, Messrs. Jakdink, Matheson Co. Tli K undersigned having been itj>pointed Agents for the above Company are prepared to accept Marine Bisks at current rates. A Bonns is annually paid to
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