Straits Times Weekly Issue, 6 December 1884

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  • 29 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE. New Series. ruBLiSHED roe Transmission by^ Every Homkward Mail Steamer i l'i;i< i 40 Cenk VOL XL. SINGAPORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1881. NO. 3,291
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  • 23 1 Domestic Occurrences. BIRTH. AtQuM-ii Strv.t on the morning of the 2nd 1/ecemb r, tbe w,f> of Jn M. L COENifiLIUS, of a Daughter
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  • 317 1 STRAITS TIMES SATURDAY, 6th DEC., 1889. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. SINGAPORE, KTH DECEMBER, \Hgi j£ m e J ±*"i JldCk Peppev 8()0 White Pepper, fair qnali' 28 Sago Flour, oar j o '5 Pearl S*zo ~q 5 Coffee, B *nthyu. jj Tapioca, small Fiake 2.95 Tin oo 40s Mule twist o
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  • 598 1 lnt; la»t bomeward mail was despatched l)v the P. O. steamer Malwa on Monday, the Ist December. The Yang-Tse arrived this morning with the mail of the 7th November. The homeward Messageries steamer Iraouaddy is expected here from Chiua on Tuesday, and will probably be despatched
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  • 180 1 In accordance with the provisions of The Holidays Ordinance, 1879," the following days will be observed as Public Holidays Thursday, 25th December, 1884, (Christmas Day.) Friday, 20th December, 1884. Thursday, Ist January, 1885. Hii Excellency the Acting Governor htt also been pleased to appoint the following
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  • 908 1 The Secretary of State for the Colonies has been pleased to appoint John Bo wen Elcura, Esqr., to be a Cadet m the Straits Settlements Civil Service. Mr. Eleum reported his arrival m the Colony on the 20th ultime. H. E. the Acting Governor has been
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
    • 256 1 Per P. and O. ateamer Suttej. od the 29th Nov. For Singapore. From London Mr and Mrs. Fawkes, Messrs Gr.-ig, Whitehe^d T. CuthbertBon and Elcum. From Port Said: Mr. Magins. From Penang: Mrs, Humphries, Messrs. Tean Eng, and Poon Sen. -For Hongkong. From London Mr. and Mrs. Allen and infant,
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  • 1656 2 The number of men who availed themsleves of the Sailors' Rest last month The total return of visitors to the Raffles Library and Museum during the week ending Friday, oth December, was 594. H.AI.iS. ttga* I wmander Uiekiord, returned this morning; (rum her cruise to Borneo.
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  • 391 2 IiiKUE was a wry spirited ballot on Ihursday lor the flection ofa Municipal Commissioner for three years, to take the place ofMr. .1. I. Joaquim, appointed byjH. E. the Governor tojfill thejplaceofa retirii Commissioner. Mr. Joaquim was a candidate for election, but though he had carefully and
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  • 151 2 A PUBI X itKEljya was held m ti. Exchange Kuouis ar p. m yesterday, to j make arrangements for holding the Sports on Xew Year's Day. Present: The flon. W. 11. J{ ea d m th, Chair. Downe, Dunlop, Haughton, Hullett Lyall, M< Kitchi.. M Miller, Sugden,
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  • 166 2 inn Lournwnent of the Udiea 1 Tmui* i I'il> is progressing, uotwithstan very rainy weather which the I have to contend against. Seven mat an evening have been the order of, ""ids have Ikvii fairly filled by ■P^^tow, ai very even and m acme case, good,
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  • 242 2 nils talented Company under the man•tgemeiitof Mr. Geor^ Norville, who is well known m Singapore both as an actor and entrepreneur,^** thefirstof a M-riesof perlorrnauees m the Town Hall on Wrdneadiy night to a very good house. Tlw piece-wai y .V Gilbert's celel.rat.-d classical comedy Pygmalion and
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  • 272 2 A i:m clever aud an arfbmanoe was given last night m the Town Hall by this Company. The entertainment c. tnenced with the ComediYrta Hoop lair 111 which Mr. Crofton and M tjmilj 131 am apjn-arecl as .Air. mid Mm. Hoiievton, the only two cna.a.-ters. i |>artot
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  • 203 3 TTKBBAY, 2ND DECEMBER, LBB4 PivKXhNX His Honour tue Acting Chief Justice (T. T. For.] The Hou. the Acting Col. >, M skimmr the Attorney.Gen«ral (J. \V. n,,, tae Acting Col. Treisi.rer (E. ntter.) th* om. of Lands Titles W. E. Maxwell M I. f». Bond. A. Currie. W.Q.
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  • 388 3 Me. A. U. Colquhoun, Correspondent of the Times, arrived m Hongkong on litth November, from Amoy and Shanghai, m the steamer Tholes. 'lilt On mi M'til .states Over against the rumour from Shanghai that Tamsui had been taken by the French, the Chinese papers have one from the same quarter,
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  • 530 3 IMB following telegram is published m the Hongkong tytily Press: Tientsin, 23rd Afar.—-Peace negotiations ieem tobeentirely broken off. The French demands, which Were believed to have been reduced fco wry moderate dimensions, are, it Would s M lull )\v 1 »—To accept the May Convention. France to
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  • 4518 3 An Km. i. i ml iium has begun the manufacture of casks ami barrels of steel. They are lighter than wood and more durable. The Indian party of the Afghan Delimitation Commission has reached Ibrahimabad and opened communication with < li'neral Lumsden. The promotions to the Cardinalate at the next
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  • 462 4 Pope leo XII. has deemed it requisite to the good administration of the attain of his Church abroad to add another to the six Apostolic Delegates m the Uoman Catholic world, and to send a kind of Vice- Pontiff to India. Portugal has protested against
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  • 361 5 It is officially announced that Her Majesty has been pleased to confer the dignity of Baronies of the United Kingdom upon the Earl of Arran, Viscount De Vesci, Lord Herries, Right Hon. J. G. Dodson, and Sir Walter James, Bart. The Earl of Arran, of the
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  • 75 5 fFor Straits Times.) France and China. Paris, tUh Ac*.— The Chamber of Deputies has by a large majority voted a credit of francs 43 millions for Ton•juin. Mr. Ferry announced that France will perniannently occupy Formosa unless the indemnity be paid. Franc k and China. Paris 29U Nov.—
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  • 288 5 I Hongkong, 29** Nov.— lt is officially Glared that the erasures m the Fourer memorandum of 17th March, were ade by Captain Fournier himself m c presence of the Chinese officials. The Soudan. Onro, Ut /A*..— The Mahdis troops c short of provision?, and great disntent and
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  • 2096 5 Telegraphic Su mmary. {From Ceylon and Indian papers.) London, 12th November Bank Shares Chartered Bank g2O Chartered Mercantile Bank Cl!) 10s. H'kong and Shanghai Bank £50 London. 14//& iVcra.— Lord Kimberley, speaking at Bristol, said that Government desired the friendship of the Afghan m view of the approach of Russia
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  • 435 6 The Extradition Case. A OO&BBSPONDENT sends us a oimmunisation which puts the Extradition case n referred to m our last night's issue m a somewhat new li^ht. He admits that, as we pointed out m the remarks we made, a grievous blunder had been committed, but
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  • 807 6 Tiii, debate on the second reading o!" Ibe Estimates m tbe Legislative Council on the iM h November, is of more than usual interest, inasmuch as the Unofficial members touched Upon a great many point! that should receive much more attention thau is usually bestowed upon the
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  • 489 6 h is evident, from the telegram of ti' is Djoembir, that General Gordon is still safe, and that the report which came from French sources some time ago of his death was unfounded, and probably set afoot for stock- jobbing purposes. It would seem as if there lias
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  • 794 6 Rightly or wrongly, the Protectorate of Chinese has become a department of no small importance m local afl When it was first established m Is?: the conductors of this journal were by do means sanguine of its proving a success, and depicted m no uncertain wa\ the
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  • 781 7 Australasian Fed eration. All the Australasian Colonies except New South Wales and New Zealand have agreed to accept the resolutions as to federal unity recommended by the delegates at the Sydney Convention m November and December last year. The consideration of the matter by the Governments of New South Wales
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  • 1244 7 (Straits Times, 3rd December.) Some very interesting information upon a subject of much interest to sermen and ship-owners is given m an article upon the World's oil supply," m the September issue of Blackwood's Magazine. So far as we are aware, the subject has not as
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  • 858 7 The progress of improvement m every department of electrical science has within the past few years been of so rapid a nature that announcements of fresh victories over hitherto insuperable obstacles create but comparatively little interest. The last mail however brought us so startling a piece of intelligence
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  • 484 8 The reply of the Acting Colonial Secretary to Mr. Read's question about the Report of the Fire Committee and its publication for general information, may be considered cleverly evasive by some, but it is eminently unsatisfactory to the public, who have an undoubted right to be made
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  • 445 8 One of the most sickening tragedies ever chronicled by eastern journals is reported m those recently to hand from Hongkong. The details are almost too horrible for republication. Suffice it to say that a man and a married woman, accused of aduttery, were seized by the clansmen
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  • 243 8 What has become of the Philharmonic Society, which, but a few years ago promised to develope'jnto avery useful and entertaining branch of our local amusements. Mo6t people will remembered that some five years ago a party of gentlemen, somewhat derisively termed Cope's Band used on the occasion
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  • 170 8 We have received several other letters on this subject from members of the Singapore Kecreation Club, objecting to the change suggested m our article of the 26th instant also one from the Secretary of the Ladies' Lawn Tennis Club, stating that, so far as he knows,
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  • 2133 8 Translated from Spanish newspapers for the Straits Times. Shipwreck.— The steamer Etmeralda, which arrived this morning from China, has brought hither eight shipwrecked persons from the British barque Letterfowrie, wrecked on Cape Bojeador, as had been made known on the day before yesterday Hy telegram. This vessel was
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  • 2562 9 Translated from Butch newspaper fbr the Sti'tiits Times. Baiavia, l%th November.— lt was reported, within the last few days, that, at the suggestion of the Resident of the East Coast of Sumatra, the Government refused to allow four Chinese headmen of secret societies m Deli tj reside
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  • 798 9 {Penang Times, 2Qth November.) In anticipation of the new Indian Immigration Ordinance coming into force at the end of the year, great j .reparations are being made m the office of the Protector of Immigrants m the way of building a depot to accommodate Immigrants that are m
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  • 2228 10 {JE'rom our own Cor respon dent.) Paris, Bth November. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are m peace." I was reminded of this salutary maxim, on re-reading the Prince de .Joinille's article, ostensibly on the invasion of England, which produced such a sensation some
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  • 2026 10 (North China Daily New*.) A half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Chinese Sabah Land Farming Co. was held m Shanghai at the Office of Agents, Messrs. Morris Co on Saturday, 15th Xov., the meeting having been postponed m consequence of the late reoeipt of Born -o
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  • 546 11 The Board of Trade has issued the following list of members of the Royal Commission ou Merchant' Shipping: The Right Hod. Earl of Aberdeen (Oha.rman.) H. K. H. the Duke of Edinburgh, K. G., AC, <fco. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.t\ Sir Charles
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  • 783 11 Judgment has been given by Mr. Justice Ohittj on a point connected with the above bank which involves several hundred thousand pounds. It was originally a summons taken out by the holders for value of two bills of exchange dated May 8 and LO last drawn by
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  • 1739 11 From the Xortk Borneo Herald of 1st I f° llo win r etli n "l foreign Imports and hxporta or tne territory for the half year ended the 30 ih June, 1884, have been tarniahed ua by tae courtesy of the Govern ment. It will be understood
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  • 807 12 Lo)itlon, 31** October. Last night the Health Exhibition, which h;is proved the i: successful tiling <»i the kind ever opeofed, was quietly I, without any find mony, and for this event, 1 am sure, two cl people will be most unfeignedly thankful. The dwellen m
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  • 5017 12 Selangor Tin Mining Company of Shanghai. A special general meeting of the sh.irvholders of this Compaaj waa held on the 20 li November, ;it the Company^ Offices, Shanghai. Mr. W. V. Drutnmond (Ohftir. man) presided, and there were also present Messrs. H. Francis, A. Lind, and E.O. ArbntllßOt (Directors), 0.
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  • 741 14 iliE following letter from Lord (irauville to Lord WoJseley is contained m the volume of Egj-ptiun papers lately issued by the Government: My Lord, Before you leave Cairo Her Majesty's Government think it desirable that you should receive general instructions as to the course which you are
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  • 539 14 {Communicated.) I iik Bisayasofthe Ltmbaog having been quieted, the revolutionary spirit appears now to have sprung up against the Headhunting tribes of Muruts inhabiting the Trusan, Bertwang, Pandaruan, Apoi Apoi and other rivers flowing into Brunei Bay. These savages had at first been called by the Uajahs to
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  • 913 14 (From the llongkoug papers.) Aii inquest has been held on the remains of the victims of the double murder at Tsat Tbz Mvi, and twenty-three persons have been arrested on the charge of complicity m the crime. A fire broke out at about G. 15 p.m. on the
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  • 521 14 Sh anghai News. Two foreigners who have been engaged to drill Chinese troops left Shanghai m the Celtic Monarch yesterday (Nov. 13th) for Atnoy. We believe more are going. There arrived from Germany, some short while ago, nine Germans who had been engaged by the Chinese Government for the new
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  • 436 14 China Mail of 22nd and 2Uk Xov. Tamsui is still m the hands of the ChiOur Amoy < 'urrespondent writing on the 20th instant, says "The French have not (as reported some few days ago) taken possession of Tamsui. They are apparently waiting for reinforcements to come
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  • 663 15 We extract the following itema from the London and China Express of thp 7th November: _No specific date ins yet been fixed for the holding ot a Court of Inquiry on the lose of the ISieero on the Ooasi of Samara. The S;.,ei*l Commissioner of the New Orleans
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  • 941 15 Sheet music snoring. The beet Church belles are those who make no noise during the service. When lovers quarrel, what presents made on either are not returned The kisses. Swans sing before they die. 'Twere no bad thing did oertain persons die before they sing. John, what is the
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  • Carrespondence.
    • 368 15 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Sir, As I was walking along South Bridge Road last evening, about hali' past six, I noticed a naval sailor apparently Swedish, who was under the maddening influence of spirits or rather fusil oil and other
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    • 587 15 lo the Editor of the Strait* Times. Dear Mr. Editor. Before the first sunrise of my honey moon, I was abruptly awakened lo at least one of the discomforts of married life by discovering that the man I had taken for better or worse" made
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    • 369 15 To the Editor of thr Straits Time*. Sir, Some time ago, if I am not H taken, there Appeared m your columns an extract from an Euglish paper. I i the t that, on i Cbennica] Analysis being made of the b tuff tinned and sold as Italian
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    • 2985 15 To the Editor of the Straits Times. Dear Siii, With reference to the Report of the Pilots Committee which appeared m your issue of November 21st, I wish to make a few remarks. In the first place, as to the members of the Committee. Its chief member,
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    • 205 16 To the Editor of the Straits Time*. Dear Mr, Editor,— lt has been remarked that our Colonies arc over stocked with professional men, but this cannot be true if applied to Malacca. The one proma of the least importance is the strongest represented. I mean the lagal
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    • 112 16 To the Editor of the Strait* Times. Dear Sib, Has Singapore grown rich all of a sudden, or have the Municipal Commissioners raised the rent of the Theatre Royal Town Hall to an extraordinary price Something must have happened, or why do we see First seats 3 d
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    • 817 16 To the Editor of the Straits Time*. S 1 lt has often occurred to me thit something might be done to mitigate the enormous expense attending the upkeep of our prisons by economizing the labour of the convicts, and making them to a great degree, self supporting as
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  • 38 17 Purge out the lurking distemper tbat undermines health, and the constitutional vigor will return. Those who suffer from an enfeeled and disordered state of the pys tern, should take Aynr's Sar6Mparilla to cleanse the blood, and restore vitality.
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  • Page 17 Advertisements
    • 190 17 Hollovay's Pills —The Great Need.— The blood is the life, aDd on its pnrity ur health as well as our existence depends*. Theee Pills thoroughly cleanse the vital flnid from all contaminations, and by that means strengthen and invigorate the whole system,healthily stimulate sluggish organs, press over-excittd action, ard establish
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    • 661 17 AVER'S PILLS. A larsrp proportion of the diseases which < mse human snflVnm' result from derangenipnt of the st 'tnach, bow<K and liver. n A TH\RTTC PtlT.B fltit directly upon th«.RP organs, and nre especially de~ i p'«npd to oTire the diseases cau^d by their <Wfmgo m pnt, in^ulins* ''onati
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    • 469 17 Dejoiij JwT^j^ Leon Lefrere 1 55, rue St-Martin rue Quincampoix, 80 lannfactnre if Combs, Brashes, Locking- Glasses, Shelves, Horn, Shell, Ivory, Bone and Wood. LATEST PRODUCTION IXORAI ED. PINAUD I IXORA Soap. IXORA Essence. IXORA Toilet Water. I IXORA Pomade. IXORA Oil. IXORA Rice-Powder. IXORA Toilet VinegarM 37, Boulevard de
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    • 726 17 #lOtlff3. THE STRAITS TTMES. Local Delivery Patabi i Quarterly. Tv Apv Dvil.Y "F TUITION V "fKI,YEIMTI P*f Ann&m 124 j Per Annum $16 Formon Delivfiypayahleikadvancv-. Per Annum 130 I'.r Annum |1< AUVFTVTTSKMKNTS. Terms for Advertisement* ninde known at the Offi ContractK en*er»'d irr.( f. «r long periods at reduced rates,
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 258 18 I GASTRAI -G.A FEVERS -CHLOROS.S- AN/EM, A I snrrtT BLOOD IMPOVERISHMENT SOClfiTfi CONCESSIONNAIRE 131, Boulevard Sibastopol PARIS c,,n,,u. n°r purt y (gealth for the §cad (Beauty for the @air k ED. PINAUD'S I tonicQUININE WATER! An infallible cure for Scurp and Loss op Hair. H ::7 Boulevard de Strasbourg, PARIS.
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    • 69 18 ill J JffJW^V 1 IP ,yL w^.j MADE DISHES ASD SAUCES mJl^T^i^S^^j^Zf^^ fiel KratefuL See Annual Sale ».000.000 Jars' niwiilV a Storekee r >p nd Dealers throaffhout In-ii». Invaluable for India as ..tiOTßia;!^^ an Effluent Tonic m aU Lieh^C™uanv r^ ebv tht ul lic rp h"^/ informed that the Xp
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 343 18 AKKIVALS. j Fla 5 Vessel's Namjc. and S p APTIrv 1 X," Captain. hltOM 3aii*d C0n5,....-. 2 Sutle i P. Ostrlu^ Johnston p'T* "ML' T Wlfch *Co 2» Glucksbiu^r Oer.str 093 Her p"" >i:iy ov lf P *O. Comply. *9 P. C. Chom Klao Brit. Z. lon J M^a gSffi,
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    • 440 18 CLKAKAM'J Date rMn'aHin Flag A Rig Captain. I>kstination. Nov. 26 Pohlwi Krit.strT Cnufc ~,.va Bally Ac. 2 p r;\; But. str. Kruismann Palembtig 20 \\intfSan* Bnt. str. St. Cmi* Hongkong 29 )Z7n 8tr Ba^ Ben N.'w Caledonia 2? oon,5 n > nt.str. Gardner agkoag Jacob put. etr. .oltog 5£ 29
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  • Page 19 Advertisements
    • 684 19 iHisrellaiieGUS. Ya II HOW'S LAUNCHES. tAIALL ST^AMKR AND STEwi BUlliT OF WOOD, IRovoRSTKEI Screw Steamer, with s P d r«gißgi pto 1IllI ttli hour. »«ddlo Stc with draughts rmn*\no down to 6 incbea of water MACHINERY CONSTRUCTED KOk' BOATS BUILT AJIKO\ Y ARROW CO., Harrow H*dlky; ENOIWEI fiIPHUILDERs PopW, ondon.
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    • 785 19 iHisrellaneous. MANUFACTURED OVLY AT THK PHOBPHOOYNE LABORATORY by Dr. R. D. LAL /R, House, 32, Gaisford Street, London, m N. W. (The S..\. Proprietor and Originator of "hosphodyne. DR. L4LOB'a P IIOS PRO DYNE,— trom it 8 immediate effect* m cases of Exition, L-iMsitud»\ Nervous Debility, .md Malarial Cisesqa hai
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    • 752 19 iHterellanrousthat have occurred under our personobservation during many years. In Oho leraic Diarrhrea, and even m the more ter rible forms of Cholera itself, we have witnessed its surprisingly controlling powerW r e have never used an j other form of this medicine than Oollis Browne's, from a firm conviction
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    • 446 19 4Hi*rellaiieouo.. Pimples, fviperfect Nutrition, Premature Decline, a D BRIGHT a PHOSPHODYNE it the Best Known R. medy f<* Indigestion. Lnver onaplantß, and all Functional Derangements of either sex Dr. BRIGHTS PHOSPHODYNE.— i be beneficial effects of the Phosphodyne are frequently shown from the first daj of its administration, by v
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 802 20 SCiIWKLTZIOi: S COCOATIXA. >//-; ■< jttic C>>coa or Ohocolate I'oi'der GTTAiiANTEED TUitW SOLU^K o H>A OF Tt\ FI r QlULIi "f, VVI. ilTlie '.Faculty -prmQun- m .st n^Kritioua, p, y K \i c ti;>,e b«- r-,.^ for Breakfttat, Luncheon, or Supper and invaluable for In. I da and Toung Chi
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    • 282 20 T TREASURY of the THROAT^ GICQUEL'S LOZENGES composed of CHLORATE of POTASH (Bertholet's salt) ARE THB BEST MEDICAMENT AOAINST SORE THROAT, EXTINCTION OF THE VOICE QUINSY APHT* ANaim CROUP, GANGRENE OF THE MOUTH, SCO RBUT. eJ£' They are Indispensable to all persons who are obliged to speak frequently. MOIDE3 OB
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE STRAITS TIMES.
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    • 12251 1 'I he 1 1 n mini w i l it. A and, have, 1» fa t, h at consul lon-i a id m I improi iivlJrif. Re] inforn dix i? to I ATI S F FRENCH MAIL SI The Bill for makin the ting oi.omalSu] d by tl.c'Aci
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  • SUPPLEMENT TO THE STRAITS TIMES.
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    • 8063 1 LEGI SLATIVE COUNCIL. TUUUSI)A I^H^OVMBER, isw! HIS I.XX'KLI.KNCY TMK OFFI< ppTnSi ADMINISTERING THE GOVKKXMKNT Hi« Honour the Acting Chid -..M' 1 '•»<•*■)• The Hon'ble the Offi«c? Commands T the Acting Colonial si „v I Llollt A. ![.„.*> Ao-Actins Colonial Treasurer r V. CUKRII W. 11. K EAD W". G. t
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