Straits Times Weekly Issue, 27 August 1884
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Straits Times Weekly Issue
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Title Section28 1884-08-27 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE New Sekies. PUBL.SHED KOK TkAN SMISSION BY EVERY HOMEWARD MAIL StEAMKK. [Price 40 Centi VOL XL. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1884. so. 3,27728 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement605 1884-08-27 1 NOTICE. Subscribers are requested to intimate at early as possible whether they wish to pay thfir subs "ripHons in advance for the ensuing year, and their attention|is requested to the terms of subscription, 'which are as follows .Local Delivery. In Advance. Daily Edition Wkfkly Edition Per Annum 824 P,-r Annum605 words
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Advertisement530 1884-08-27 1 Job Pointing L>ei aktment. This Department is nov under the conHla an ex P erien^d European Supreintendent, and is capable of executing alters tor Bill, of Ladin kShip Or g derB Business Cards. Bill Heads. Fumral Cards uai. FrogrammoH, Manifests, Permits, tAnd every descr ption of Job Printing. 42 Raffles530 words
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Advertisement608 1884-08-27 1 £>ttam &l)w Companies MACASSAK Vi;i rfAMARANG, SOERVBAta, Bali Bo^lelino and Ampanan and back, on the Ist and 15th of every month. Palembang, fortnightly or monthly (according to inducement) and from Palembano on the 10th of every month for Djambie via Muntok and Moeara-Kompeh, and the same way back. J n608 words
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Advertisement521 1884-08-27 1 strain £>fctp Compwitr* B. From Palembang via Mantok and flioeara Kompeh for Djambie and the same way back on the 10th of ev«»ry month V. Borneo's West Coast. From Batuvia via Billiton and Pontianah or Singkawang and back on the 15th of very month. VI. Borneo's South A Babi Ooast521 words
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Advertisement690 1884-08-27 2 iitttfcrllaneoutf. mMkn rows. SMILLSTMMBR AND ST<3\tf LAUNCHES, BUILT OF WOOD, IRON OR STEEL, Screw Steamers with spe^d ranging up to 26 miles an hour. Puddle Steamers with draughts ranging down to 6 inches of water. MACHINERY CONSTRUCTED FOR BOATS BUILT ABROAD. YARROW CO., (L4te Yarrow k Hedley;. ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS690 words
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Advertisement770 1884-08-27 2 ifUSctllantous. MANUFACTURED ONLY AT THE PUOSPHOurNB LABORATORY, Dr. R. D. LALOR, Bay House, 32, Gaisford Street, London, (The Sol.' Pr*>prietor and Originator of Phospbodyne. DR. LALOR'B PHOSPHODTNF.— from its immediate effects in cases of Exhaustion, Lassitude, Nervous Debility. ;tnd Malarial Oiaetas. has Attained an Enormous, Sale in Africa, China East770 words
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Advertisement695 1884-08-27 2 ifltsceUatieou** I during uiuny years. In Choeraic Diarrhoea, and even in the "icre terrible forms <)f Cholera itself, we h ive wit nessed its surprisingly controlling i>.»werWe have never used any other form of ibid medicine that) Coltis Browne's, tnm a firm conviction tint it is decidedly the beat, and695 words
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Advertisement459 1884-08-27 2 ifltereilaneous.. Pimples. I perfect N itriti >n, h Dr. imiGUT i'Hool'HOfiYW; Best Kn< 'Wu lie in Liver oinpl I ind *M ran (ft* in en t* >f eii ier The henetici H are frequent Iv sh«»w v its udmi crease <>f norv »us pow< trivour ari'l <'«>m ori ent that459 words
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Advertisement282 1884-08-27 4 r TREASURY of the THROflf] I GICQUEL'S LOZENGES composed of CHLORATE of POTASH I (Bertholet's salt) I ARE THK BEST MEDICAMENT AOAINST 80BE ivs^To^r^ r/ie/ are IndUpensable to ill persons who are obliged to speak frequently. I r MODE O2f USE to lei them melt infottLith U h %rf an^282 words
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Advertisement492 1884-08-27 4 ffannfactore .f Combs, Brashes, Looking-Glasset LAffOCritS^^F Shelves. Horn. Shell, horv Bone and w«l/ Jt J 5 an "i Hl** highly \U efficacious remedy." (The Lancet.) Wu are 1 vina j Ihis Vinous-Elixir is the roost powerfa ..r/l 1 and valuabk- ol th prep [uinine. th MaKrengthening and anufebrile restorative. «J.-»a492 words
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THE STRAITS TIMES. WEEKLY ISSUE.
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Title Section11 1884-08-27 1 THE STRAITS TIMES. WEEKLY ISSUE. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, 2 7th AUGUST, 1884.11 words
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190 1884-08-27 1 WENESDAY, 27th AUG., 1884. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. Singapore, 27th August, I 884. Q*»bier... 5.n Black Pepper ltf White Pepper, fair quality... 26. Sago Flour, Sar ].97A. Pe.riSa*o 2.50. Ouffee, Bonthym' 13. Tapbca, Bm all Flake 3.05. Tin tt 25 55. 40i. Mule twibt 92.50.' lbe. Shirting 1.55. do 1.424. J190 words
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Article40 1884-08-27 1 I i N S»nd»y. A* Wit August, at Tan*:Jpr, Dindirgs, 8. 8. the wife of U*ban Bruce, of b Son. At the fotftoiea] Gardens, on the 23rd fust, the wife of N. Cantlky, Superin tendent, of daughter.40 words
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Article56 1884-08-27 1 Per steamer Japan, on tb,- 2 lit inst. t ny, ,0,T.-Pr()ni Hongkong: Mrs A. Seth and family, (Jap* Stone, Messrs. A. P. Seth ard 0 J. B is* For Calcutta.— From Hongkong- MrF J^nas Dr. Sefna, Messrs H. N. Cooper. C-B-MehU, H M. Paruok, E. G. Kuster, aud u56 words
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Article587 1884-08-27 1 Thekk has been no mail from Europe during the week, the outward French mail steamer having been detained in Egypt on account of cholera in Marseilles. The last homeward mail steamer Khedive was despatched at 2 p. m. on Thursday, the 21st August. The M. M.587 words
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Article1328 1884-08-27 1 Before N. B. Dennys, Wtq. Monday, 16th, August. Tan Ah Joo, for having in hU possession 18 cents' worth of illicit chandoo at 7.30 a. m. on The 16tb, in Bugii street, was fined .Ss, or in default 18 diys' rigorous imprisonment. Teo Leong Kee was found in1,328 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement276 1884-08-27 1 STEAM ''nr-TxjnATT'V.; TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA. The West An.«trHliau Com. pany> steamer NATAL." J. W.,»d commander, under engagrement witb tV.e Straits and Weat-rn 3 usrralian Gorernm.-n^, s exnected t.. I. nvo. Singapore for Fremnntte, jailing at tiatavia, Roebuck Bay, rv>esack! Sharks Bay a-id Geraldton, as notified below: PROPOSED TIMETABLE. Northward Servicb.276 words
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Article7391 1884-08-27 2 THE^totaJ Jreturn .of visitors to the Kaffles Library and Museum during the week ending Friday, 22nd August, was 696. We have been informed from a private source that the French Flag was hauled down at Pekin last Thursday. It is reported from Baghdad that the plague7,391 words
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Article2455 1884-08-27 4 Tonquin and Ha inan News. THE following important news is published in the Hongkong iJaily PretS, of the 11th August Fresh Invasion of Ton quilt by the Chinese Intelligence was received from Haiphong yesterday that Chinese troops are pouring into Tonquin from Kwansi and Yunnan, and that they have attacked2,455 words
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Article178 1884-08-27 5 fFor Straits Times.) France and China. London, 20M August. The Times publishes a telegram that 5,000 Chinese troops are proceeding to Kelung. Cholera. Asiatic Cholera has broken out at Birmingham. France and China. London, "Z'Znd August. China has refused to assent to the French ultimatum, and Li-Fong-Pao has178 words
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Article539 1884-08-27 5 (From the Rangoon Times.) London, lOtf Awfutt Mr. Cross in replying to a question in the House of Commons last evening said that be honed the Indian army would be at its full strength SSttmSrini* 0 further Btoted that *.±UU,OOO will be expended on the Quetta railway during539 words
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Article503 1884-08-27 5 France and China. The telegraphic news received yesterday and to-day place it beyond a doubt that war is inevitable, although so tar as yet known no formal declaration of warh as been made by either party. The French began the ball some days ago at Keelung,503 words
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Article470 1884-08-27 5 Chinese Information as to the War. This morning' Heater's telegram concerning the destruction of the Foochow arsenal and the sinking of the seven Chinese gunboats thoroughly surprised the Chinese in Singapore. The mob instantly pronounced it a canard, while some 01 the big merchants disbelieved it, and said there must470 words
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Article2000 1884-08-27 5 The Chinese population and many other Orientals, are given up to the discussion of the warlike events now transpiring in China, aud many rumours arc afloat as to the up-shot of the present crisis, which is being watched with the most intense interest bv all classes2,000 words
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Article816 1884-08-27 6 In the Government Gazette of last Friday, there is published a Bill intituled "A a Ordinance to amend the law relating to inquests of death." The chief alterations proposed to be made in the existing law are two, namely (1) that the Coroner may hold an inquest by816 words
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Article391 1884-08-27 6 On the l&th of last month, the Municipal Commissioners took into consideration a letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary, forwarding certain extracts from the report of a Committee on Fires and how to cope with them. Nothing further has heen heard since on a subject of some391 words
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Article514 1884-08-27 6 One would think that the Japan and Benmore, those two venerable pioneers of Sraits Traffic, must be almost worn out, and that a better style of vessel, more suited to the requirements of civilization, might be provided. Of the many craft more or less small, plying between514 words
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Article545 1884-08-27 7 In a recent issue we stated that a project was on foot to establish swimming baths in Armenian Street and said a few words as to the benefit such would be to many in the community. The idea was not that these baths should be public but should545 words
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Article547 1884-08-27 7 In previous articles, attention has j i>een drawn to the scarcity of fish, good succulent beef and mutton, and the better class of vegetables. Beef, however, of fair quality, as good as that formerly served at short weight to subSCribew at 15 to 20 cents per pound, may547 words
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Article1315 1884-08-27 7 Minutes of Proceedings of the Municipal Commissioners on Friday the Ist and Wednesday the 6th August, 1884. Commissioners Present Hon. Major McCallum, R. E., President. K. W. Maxwell, Esq. J. P. Joaquim, Esq. Dr. J. H. Robertson. C. E. Crane, Esq. The Minutes of the last meeting were1,315 words
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Article592 1884-08-27 7 The following telegrams and items ot news are taken from the HongkongJJailjf Press of the 15th and 16th August Shanghai. 15th August, 6.15 p.m.-The fight. Orders have already been ieaued to the provincial authorities from Peking We hear that the PerakTin Mining and Smelting Company' 8 shares are592 words
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Article602 1884-08-27 8 The following telegrams appear in the North China Daily Newt Peking, &t% August.-' The French Government has declined the off ?r of mediation made by the American Minister. 9lh August. The Tsung li Yanien is greatly elated at the weakness of the French. Utth August. By orders of the602 words
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Article2352 1884-08-27 8 The following has been contributed to the Amoy Gazef/eUy Capt. F. Ashton, of the steamer Fokien For some weeks past the inhabitants of the quiet little port of Keelung have been kept in a state of excitement by the preseuce of either one or other of2,352 words
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Article1349 1884-08-27 8 The following letter by a correspondent of the China Mail give* a gmphic account of the state ot matter* at Foochow up to the 14th instant:— Foochow, dth August. There has been nothing sufficiently important occurring here to necessitate my wiring lrecjiieutly, although rumour* ol au alarming character hare1,349 words
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Article1012 1884-08-27 9 I xdkh this head, a writer in the China Mail discourses on the Chinese people in an interesting manner, though some of his remarks arc a reflex of what Gilford Palgrave recently wrote in an say on the same subject It seems a strange1,012 words
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Article553 1884-08-27 9 (from the Madras Mai].) A correspondent of a contempararv latelv concluded a aeries of very interesting letters, descriptive of a trip to Java and the Dutch Indies, with the expression of his surprise at the defenceless condition of British ports. We have alluded to the subject on a553 words
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Article2597 1884-08-27 9 The following discussions regarding this matter took place in the House of Commons on 18th and ;Mst July. It is gratifying to observe that something is being done for those dependent on the captive crew, and that Government has subscribed £300 to the Mansion House fund for2,597 words
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Article482 1884-08-27 10 {From the Bombay Oaxette.) A little book, entitled Hand Hook of India," by the Rev. \V. E. Bobbins, Poona has been published in Xcw York. Chapter V. is on Anglo-Indian life. We have sympathy with our author when he alleges that Anglo-Indians are exceedingly touchy and painfully482 words
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Article1091 1884-08-27 10 The activity which France haa recently developed in the direction of colonization, serves to draw attention to the various colonial enterprises ol that country. One of the striking facts which arrest attention is that there is not a single French colony in existence which is to-day self-support-ing. In1,091 words
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Correspondence.
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Article121 1884-08-27 11 To the Editor of the Straits Time*. Sib, A.s one of owners of property m Magazine Road, Ivini,' lj.4w.vn the Police Station, opposite the ABC Bridge, aow closed, and the one leading over the river into Havelock Road, 1 have to complain that no drain has been, or121 words
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Article180 1884-08-27 11 To the Editor of the Straits Tim* Sib, Current literature, especially of the medical kind, is filled with suggestions for the treatment of cholera, and I venture to think that the remedy I now quote from a medical work, will be useful to your readers inter, sted180 words
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Article245 1884-08-27 11 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sib, Your correspondent "X has quoted a remedy for cholera which may or may not be effective. But as in most affairs in life, one tale is good until another is told, therefore allow me to quote in brief, two245 words
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Article446 1884-08-27 11 To the Editor of the Straits Tinn Siß, Amongst other remedies tor, or r ather preventives against, cholera, is a Ver y simple one which 1 remember was *aid some years ago to have met with great success, it is to take every day a mini. jpum quantity446 words
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Article113 1884-08-27 11 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sin, I read with pleasure the announcement in your columns that it was proposed to make a salt-water Rwimmingbath in Armenian Street but the locality struck me as a little odd Would not a salt-water reservoir on the top of113 words
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444 1884-08-27 11 The River Valley Road and its Water supply. To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sib, Some months ago a petition was -••lit in to the Municipal Commissioners by the inhabitants of the River Valley el and surrounding district, requesting that water lie laid on for their use. This district444 words
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Article160 1884-08-27 11 Do you wish a beautiful complexion Then uae Ayer's Sarsaparilla It cleanses and purifies the blood, and thereby removes blotches and pimples from the|skin unking it smooth and clear, and giving it a bright and healthy appearance. Holloway y 8 Ointment. Go where you may, in every country and in160 words
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Advertisement543 1884-08-27 11 MALAY VOCABULARIES BY F. A. SWETTENHAM. Vol. I. English -Malay, with Note and Dialogues.— Price f 2. Vol. 11. Malay-English. Prioe 92. Agents, Singapore, J. Little A Co. Penang, H. K. Maynard, Penang Dispensary. London, W. B. Whittinoham A Co 91 Gracechurch Street. Singapore 13th April, 1882. (u, c. FOti543 words
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Miscellaneous283 1884-08-27 11 STEAMERS EXPECTED. 1884. July 1! Te-Mington London. 12 Cotherston.' C jdiff. |4 <le Santander Santutuler. 15 A met ta Car<litT. 19 Moray Cur-iitf. 19 Omi Mini M'lesbrougb. M 22 Kiiiwan Glasgow. 8i Mt^rionethshire London. >, 25 Bellerophon Liverpool. SAILING VESSELS EXPECTED. 1884. Apl. 9 Pudre Francisco Liverpool. 23 Angela Schiaffino283 words
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Miscellaneous1160 1884-08-27 12 AKKIVALS. ~«~T~ """Flag"! ri ;VeBBll's Nams. and ss Captain. From. Sailed. Ccinsionhs Q Bio* S Auf.' 20 i ßanee Sar. str. 384 Joyce Sarawak Aug. 18 Lina Lan Co. 20 iWingsang Brit. str. 1517 de St Croix Hongkong Aug. 14 W. R. Scott Co. 21 Plantain Brit. str. 136C Pearson1,160 words
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Miscellaneous342 1884-08-27 12 CLEARANCES. I 1 "~i Datk. Vessel's Name. 1 kao Rio. Captain. Destination. Augt. 20 Essex Brit. str. Huddy New fork 20 Brorao Dut. str. van Dorssen Penang Acheea 20 Amboina Dut. str. Klerk Batavia 20 Isla de Mindanao rfpa. str. Larrinaga Manila 20 E< Brit. str. Pet-rsen rabaya, Bally Ac342 words
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