Straits Times Weekly Issue, 16 August 1883
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Straits Times Weekly Issue
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Title Section27 1883-08-16 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE. New Series. Published for Transmission by Every Homeward Mail Steamer. Price 40 Cents. VOL. XXXIX. SINGAPORE THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1883. NO. 3,22327 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement597 1883-08-16 1 Local Delivery. In Advance. Daily Edition. Weekly Edition. Per Annum #24 Per Annum $16 Six Monthß 14 Six Months 9 Three Months.... 8 Three Months.... 5 In Arrear. Per Annum $30 Per Annum $18 Six Months 18 Six Months 10 Three Months.... 10 Three Months.... 6 Foreign Delivery Including Postage,597 words
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Advertisement476 1883-08-16 1 THE LONDON SINGAPORE ANTFOULING PAINT COMPANY, LIMITED. (DENNYS' PATKNT3). Incorporated under the Companies' Arte 1*62 to IBMO, the liability of Shareholders being limited to the amount of their shares. Capital, £250,000 m 250,000 shares of £1 each. First issue of 150,000 Shares at par. Payable ss. on application, lus. on476 words
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Advertisement599 1883-08-16 1 iHisirellaneou*. DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. The Original and only Genuine. Advice to Invalids. If you wish to obtain quiet, refreshing sleep, free from headache, relief from pain and anguish, to calm and assuage the weary achings of protracted disease, invigorate the nervous media, and regulate the circulating systems of599 words
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Advertisement482 1883-08-16 1 iWiartUaneoua* NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are oonfidently recommended as a simple bu certaip REMEDY for INDIGESTION NORTON'S CAMOMILE PLILS are with I justice called the Natural Strength*ner of the Human Stomach.'* Acts; a powerful tonic and gentle aperients are mild m their operation and safe under any circumstances. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS482 words
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Advertisement614 1883-08-16 2 jfimtllnntou*. 4 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS T EA and 1 ERRINS' sJAUCE. The Origin*] and Genuine. TTTORCESTERSHIKE bears theiut o«*raph signature of Lea and Perrins on a red label. Sold whole sale l.v the Proprieton, Worcester; and Croese and BlackweU London X EA and PERRINS' Of Qroceti and <Mhnen throughout the614 words
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Advertisement758 1883-08-16 2 potters. THE NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. Incorporated with Limited Liability under the Companies Acts 1^62 to l^flO, wlerehy the liability of Shareholders is limited to the amount of their Shares. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. Subscribed Capital— £l,ooo,ooo SterU Una. Equivalent, at Exchange Five Shillings per Tael, of Taels. 4.000,000 Shanghai Currency In758 words
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Advertisement682 1883-08-16 2 notices. thereof, will be available for allotment by the Directors of the "NORTH-CHINA Insceance Company, Limited." Applications for shares from firms or individuals desirous of obtaining nn interest m the Company w hether shareholders m the NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE COMpany" or not. should be m the from subjoined, and addressed to682 words
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Advertisement737 1883-08-16 2 hotter*. the euro of I). I, flity. nC^TT^ Dise^es. Dy fl prpsi !t an-1 LivJß m all tbeir various forms TbepZ! and Certainty of it. r l<m j when the fin- of lif«. s.e mBt obel xn tl)(> s > '"1 th«- mind htm with the body, the man ig737 words
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THE STRAITS TIMES. WEEKLY ISSUE.
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Title Section10 1883-08-16 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. WEEKLY ISSUE. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, 16th AUGUST, 188310 words
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Domestic Occurrences.
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Article18 1883-08-16 1 At WoocUide, on the morning of the 9th August, the wife of John Wilson, of a •on.18 words
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Article20 1883-08-16 1 On the 11th August, at the Scotch Church, by the Rev. Mr. McPhep, Margaret Dowie Robertson, to William Douoal.20 words
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Obituary18 1883-08-16 1 At Hamburg on the 7th of July last, Air. Edwaed Lambert, late of Singapore, aged 42 years.18 words
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167 1883-08-16 1 THURSDAY, 16th AUG., 1883. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS, SINOAPOBK, 16TH A.UGUBT, 18S3. Gambier 7.10. Black Pepper 16.«0. White Pepper, fair quality. 26. Sago Flour, Sar 2.80. Pearl Sago 3.175. Coffee, Bally picked 13. Tapioca, small Flake 3 50. Tin 29.75. iOt. Mule twist 95. Sfclbi. Shirtings 1.57 J. 7 do do167 words
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Article287 1883-08-16 1 P«r P. and O. steamer Ancona, on the 9th inst. For Singapore.—From London Ser«^nt R. H. Reilly, Mrs. Foy and Mr. ob«ppard. From Brindisi: Mr. G. Gue"te. From Penang: His Honor Sir inomas Sidgreaves, Messrs. Jas. Wallace, Saver, C. W. Pock and E. A. Brown. *or Hongkong. —From Singapore287 words
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Article1419 1883-08-16 1 The result of the commission recently sitting* m Penang on the question of Indian Immigration to the Colony and the Protected Native States, is embodied m an elaborate Note m the Government Gazette of the 10th instant, signed by the Hon. E. C. Buck, Secretary to1,419 words
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Correspondence.
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248 1883-08-16 1 Sir, Fam a Hack owner and the following Ls a story of an every day occur. re nee. My hack was found by a white policeman moving slowly on the road and was immediately taken up, for obstruction; driver locked up m the248 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement96 1883-08-16 1 FOR SALE. A. Few Weeki with the Malats. la pamplet form. Price 50 cent* per oopj. "Straits Times" Office, Singapore, 26th April, 1883. NOW READY. NOTES <>F A JOURNEY Across the Isthmus of Kra. MADI WITH THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT Surtey Expedition. January April, 1«83. With explanatory Map and Sections, and96 words
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Article3875 1883-08-16 2 HE British ateamer Pontianak, which rived on Tuesday from Pontianak, was sent to the quarantine anchorage. The total return of visitors to the liaffles Library and Museum during the week ending Friday LOlh August, 1883, was 714. The steamer Fidra, 710 tons, Capt. Farmer, left Newcastle,3,875 words
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Article2053 1883-08-16 3 IHK Bombay Chamber of Commerce nas been revising its tonnage scale It appears that after the Suez Canal was opened th e P. and 0 Company, then enjoying almost a monopoly of steamer accommodation, imposed a scale of 40 cubic feet to the ton as equivalent to2,053 words
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1686 1883-08-16 3 jhe Ceylon Observer m its issue of the Ist August has the following appreciative critique upon Sir Frederick Weld's recent address to the Legislative Council. It is said to be good "to see ourselves as others see us, much on the principle1,686 words
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Article368 1883-08-16 4 Dr. Simon and Dr. Kerr, having been requested by Government to investigate into the real facts as to the presence of worms m fish, which recently caused quite a scare here, and still prevents many otherwise sensible people from indulging m any fish diet, except from tins,368 words
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Article230 1883-08-16 4 f*or Straits Times.) QUARAXTLNK IN ENGLAND London, Uh August.— A Bill for the protection of London from Cholera has been read a third time m the House of Commons. Spain. Tranquility has been restored m the town of Badajoz. Madagascar. London, 9U August.— Mr. Gladstone speaking at the230 words
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Article1965 1883-08-16 4 London, 2\st July. Her Majesty's gun-vessel Frolic, 4 guns, has been ordered to Mauritius. Xaplea, 29tk July. Casamieciola, a town on the island of Ischia, has been almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake; the neighbouring villages have been severely damaged, and upwards of a thousand persons have been1,965 words
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Article2087 1883-08-16 5 Copies of the Day The Financial Position of the Colony. (A retrospect of the last sixteen years.) It is now over sixteen years 9ince these Settlements were transferred from the somewhat lax and easy-going rule of the Indian Government to the sterner control of the Colonial Office, and from being2,087 words
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2170 1883-08-16 6 The Official Note published m yesterday's Gazette, embodying the principle! on which emigration from India to the Straits Settlements will m future be conducted, is a long and elaborate one. It is signed by the Hon. K. C. Buck and Major2,170 words
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Article1846 1883-08-16 6 A iißSTore of the Singapore Sporting Club was held m the Exchange building! on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock, the Hon. W. G. Gulland occupying the ohair, and there being also present, Messrs. John Fraser, W. B. 11. Carew, A. Dull', Cosmo (J. Paterqpn, Frank .1. Dickson,1,846 words
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Article630 1883-08-16 7 Thk Government Gazette of India contains the following notification regarding the sales of Opium during--1884:— By Notification No. 1418, dated 10th March ISS3, by the Government of India, Financial Department, the Governor General m Council was pleated to declare that the total number of chests of Bengal630 words
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Article3614 1883-08-16 7 The steamer Banykok, which arrived m harbour from Bangkok oti Suuday evening", brought the new Siamese Embassy to England and America which has been talked of for some little time back. The principal members of the Embassy are H.R.H. Krummun Var.it.> Baohawocadet. Minister to London amd3,614 words
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4232 1883-08-16 8 Dr. Atebs, the Colonial Sargeon of Hongkong, is a bold man, with the courage to give unflinching expression to his convictions, and, what is more, to back them up with irrefragable fact*, at the risk, no trifling one, of bringing down upon his devoted4,232 words
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Article5478 1883-08-16 9 We have the pleasure to acknowledge receipt yesterday of the third number of the North Borneo Herald and Official Gazette, published at Kudftt, the capital of Sabah or North Borneo, °n the Ist July. We extract the following items of news Mr. A[fred Dent.— The arrival an 45,478 words
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Article790 1883-08-16 11 Tuk production of H.M.S. Pinafore by Pollard's Liliputian Opera Company on Wednesday uight was a perfect ovation. As soon as the doors were opened, there was a rush tor seats, and before the rising of the curtain the hall was crowded by a densely P*&ed audience, additional chairs790 words
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744 1883-08-16 11 Singapore has enjoyed, during the past fortnight a series of operatic performances by this talented company that will long be reverted to with keen pleasure. The Town Hall has been crowded night after night as ii had never been crowded before, and the operas, put upon744 words
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Article577 1883-08-16 11 In order that our readers may the more readily follow the plot of Leeoeq's Opera of Le Petit Due, played here by Pollard's Opera Company, we have been at the pains to procure a brief outline of it. The opera is full of ludicrous situations, interspersed with577 words
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Article2190 1883-08-16 11 (Translated from Dutch newspapers.) Batavia 20th July. We congratulate Batavia on the arrival of tbe steamer Fiado with the first consignment of Australian frozen flesh meat. Yesterday afternoon bt hbout 3 o'clock the Fiado was moved alongside the quay at Tanjong Priok haviner aboard 50 oxen, 5502,190 words
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Article2306 1883-08-16 12 (Translated from Java newspapers.) Batavia, 23 n? July. We received too late for insertion m our issue of Saturday last, the intelligence that the frozen meat from Australia was landed that da}- here, on payment of the import duty of G o/o on the value. We have2,306 words
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Article1980 1883-08-16 13 (Translated from Spanish neivspapers.) The Mario de Manila of the 24-th July, furnishes the following intelligence from its special correspondent m Sooloo ''Sooloo, Uth July, 188?.— Yesterday at half past hix o clock m the morning the ortnser Vencedora and the gunboat Mindanao, having on board tLe Governor,1,980 words
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Article955 1883-08-16 13 The London <m>l China Express of 13th July has the following >Udy 11M— In answer to Sir S. Northcote, who asked whether the Government had received any confirmation of the rumours afloat as to events m Madagascar, Mr. Gladstone said the Government had received information from955 words
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Correspondence.
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225 1883-08-16 14 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, In your issue of 17th July there appeared a notice of the completion of the telegraph line from Saigon to Bangkok, m which it was stated that the line has been constructed by French Engineers, and225 words
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Page 14 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous548 1883-08-16 14 ARRIVALS. ri Flag j I Vbssil's Nams. and Captain. From. Sailxd Consicnkks. 5 Rxo. |g I Auc. Espana Spa. str. 1 736 San Pedro Manila Aug. 1 Borneo Coy. Ltd. 9 Benalder Hrit. str. 1330 Harvie Ainoy Aug. IP. Simons 4 Co. 9 Sherard Osborne Brit. str. 875 Worsley H'kong548 words
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Miscellaneous1028 1883-08-16 14 CLEARANCES. Datb. Vebsbl's Nam*. Flag A Km. Captain. D«BTnu mjr Aug. 9~~ Chi Yuen Chin. Btr Wallace HongkomT"" 9 Ruby Brit. str. Long Muntok J TPaW. 9 Propontis Brit. str. Heasley BataTia 9 Cberibon But. str. Steur Batavia 9 Siak Dut. str. de Blinde Deli 9 Arago Brit. s tr.1,028 words
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Advertisement811 1883-08-16 15 T*B TAN JONG PAGAR DOCK COM PANT LIMITED. 1 he works of the Company are situated Tanjong Pagar, within one mile of the town of Singapore, and comprise tbe following establishments, viz Wharf. Affording herthage for twenty rebels at one time with sufficient water i tloncfside for vessels of the811 words
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Advertisement627 1883-08-16 15 ftoflu Warehouses, Sheds, or on their premisefor Wharfage, Laborage, Storage, Godowns or Warehouse rent, fire insurance, and any ather expenses and charges, and for a general balance of account due to the Company. Further information, particulars and Bates of charges, can be obtained at the 1 -opHny's Otice, No. 4627 words
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Advertisement794 1883-08-16 15 iKtsrrliantous. Preparations with Liebig's Name. It may be remembered that some time since a controversy was rasriner m the medical journals as to tho nricrinal inventor of a certain Obstetric Bag, wherein two eminent gynaecologists disputed the right of priority to certain improvements others joined m the fray and this794 words
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Advertisement668 1883-08-16 15 iHisrcllaneous* the only Reliable Remedy for Nervousness. Nervous Debility, Lassitude, Loss of Power. Depression, Female Cosaplaints, Pimples. I-.iperfect Nutrition, Prsmaturs Decline, kc. Dr. BRIGHT^ PHOSPHODYNE is the Best Known Remedy foi- Indigestion. Liver Complants, and all Functional Derangement <>f eitber sex. Dr. BRIOHT'S PHOSPHODYNE.— The beneficial effects -if the Phosphodyns668 words
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Advertisement300 1883-08-16 16 TREASURY oftheTHROJT^ GICQUEL'S LOZENGES composed of CHLORATE of POTASH (Bertholet's salt) ARE THE BEST MEDICAMENT AGAINST SORE THROAT, EXTINCTION OF THE VOICE, QUINSY, APHT/E, ANGINA,! CROUP, GANGRENE OF THE MOUTH, SCORBUT, ETC. They are Indispensable to all persons who are obliged to speak frequently. IVEOIDE OF USE t^nfif^nl d ?hJ>300 words
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Advertisement1012 1883-08-16 16 QUINA-LAROCHE <^!?b^ Ferrugineux w. 1 SYRUP 9sm*^ In spite of the ever inore.isn^ >ucross of the *^TM Larocbe Bark iQUINA-LAROCHE), m y Of 7^?^ \7blch lias been honored with a prize *^f/ filivJr of 16,600 francs, a Gold Medal,< Ii W^&la are many ca si's m which the Sensibility and1,012 words
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