Straits Times Weekly Issue, 22 September 1886
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Straits Times Weekly Issue
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Title Section26 1886-09-22 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE. New Series. Published for Transmission by Every Homeward Mail Steamer. [Price 40 Cents VOLXLIT. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1880. NO. 8,«»526 words
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Article16 1886-09-22 1 DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. DEATH. A I ion the 1 pteinber LBB I, Mr. ■>. Souza, and five months.16 words
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Article, Illustration220 1886-09-22 1 WEDNESDAY, 22nd SEPT, 1886. LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS. BlNOAPOBl -J-ND SEP! EMB1 Gambier <:.»;•>. Cubo do. No. 1 9.15. do. do. No. 2 8.00. Copra Saigon 4.15. <!<>. Pontianak 3.55. Black Pepper 24.12£. Sago Flour. Sar 2.20. Pearl BagO 2.72J. Coffoo, Bonthino 1:> -~>. Tnoioca, small Flake "»<>i>. do. do. 1st220 words
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Article478 1886-09-22 1 Thb last homeward mail was 1 spatch-<-d on the l'Jth instant per I*. and O. steamer Bokhara and the present mail taken on per M. If. Cos. si amer A'.i/.i/. The L>!idoi) mail of the "-27 th August delivered this morsing per M. M. Cos. steamir478 words
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163 1886-09-22 1 [t is hereby notified, tha.l information has I).'<mi received from the Consul-General for the Netherlands a1 Singapore Mint, m fatnre, th<> Gk>Ternmenl oi Acheeu will contraband <>i war all iron cannon-balls, bullets <>r grape-snowballs carried ai ba?lasl on boa at the ports of A.cbeen. With reference163 words
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Article551 1886-09-22 1 nnng G 7th c r.) implaints are made thai the 1 i sx 1 1 1 at Teluk Anson and other points have n<»i been burning; for some time, yet notwithstanding 1 this fact. Light Dn charged, bui rv rightly. think. ol> Tlht mihi lx> something radically wronjf551 words
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Article317 1886-09-22 1 Turn following ii the result of th»* s.m-oikl .liiv's racing on Saturday, 11th September The Permk Cup Xi ire. Handicap for horses of rei I denti m Perak. The Empresi Cup Spangle, The Larai Stakes I iujorm. Consolation Distance Hand] i E '</. The P< mtHj < The317 words
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Article209 1886-09-22 1 A CBK itch «as j.i, lav afternoon on the Police gi k Road, 1 sni of If. and .m aof ih European Poli ;m<l resulted m i The fielding of the Police \\.i> particula owing no doubt to several pra< the) have had of late. We hear <>f a209 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement233 1886-09-22 1 AMTSGERICHT HAMBURG. OBERLEHRER FRIEDRICH NICOLAUS LIEBERM ANX, als <-uratorder.ih\ves«>nden,TOHANN 1 Xi )RGBA T UBERLK'K and HEINBICH CHKISTI YN THEMDOII SAIUBERLICH. rertreder durch die Rechteanwaelte DRES. STAMMANX NOLTE und SCHROEDER, hut yorgetragen -1-.J<>!lA.\\V GBORG BAIUBEBLICB geboren 1\ August, 1828, sei im Berbsi [855 .i's Obersteuermanii ku ■mgenundhabeini August, L873,a1s Fuehrer des233 words
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Page 1 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous102 1886-09-22 1 PASSENGERS IVr P. and O. steamer /•'"<-. i >n the l»;th inst. For Singapore, From London: Mi-> U»>mkin and Mr. Abrahams. Prom Brlndisi Mr. Hederer. From Penang: Miss Griffin. Fm- Hongkong. Prom lion<l'»!i- M •>- Wilkinson and Watson. From Penang: llr. B. Derohsen and Mrs. Gran jar. From Singapore: Colonel102 words
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Article3118 1886-09-22 2 The total return of visitors to the Raffles Library and Museum during the week ending Friday, 17th Sept., 1886, was 534. Mr. Gilbert Wilson, late Sujxrintendent of Tan Tok Seng's Hospital, and who has l>een connected with the medical service of the colony for more than 303,118 words
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361 1886-09-22 3 This company which was registered m London on 6th August, proposes to const met aud manage public works of all kinds m the Malay Peninsula or elsewhere within 1,500 miles of Singapore, and also to acquire, settle, improve and cultivate lands, and to promote immigration. The361 words
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Article171 1886-09-22 3 ELB.l£.'s gun-boat Cockchafer arrived at gataki from Elongkong on Wednesday t lie 2~>th ultimo au<l proceeded to Port Hamilton <m the 27th. The American gunboat Momocaey, Commander Higginson, arrived at Hongkong on the 6th instant from Canton. A telegram, dated New York, August Kth, states that the U.S.171 words
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Article265 1886-09-22 3 On Saturday morning, July 31st, at the invitation of Messrs. Yarrow and Co., a number of our Indian and colonial visitors assembled on the Westminster-bridge steamboat pier for the purpose of paying a visit to Messrs. Yarrow's torpedo-boat works at Poplar. The guests were265 words
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Article323 1886-09-22 3 Th* audience which last Wednesday night thronged the Town Hall until almost even scatjwas filled, testified, by repeated plaudits, to the pleasure and amusement with which they beheld the sleight-of-hand and magi-<-al performances of Professor Anderson, who, by his ready wit and never failing ■ell possession, kept the323 words
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Article125 1886-09-22 3 Psorßssos Anderson's performances ir the sleight of hand and magical lin.> last Thursday night so far us they were repetitions of those gone through the previous night were characterised by the same dexterity and adroitness without any appreciable hitch m the arrangements/ The novel events such as the ring and125 words
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559 1886-09-22 3 The following description of a new steamer, which is now being built by Messrs. Blackwood, Gordon Co., Port Glasgow, to the order of Messrs. Trinder, Anderson Co. of London, to replace the s. s. Natal (Messrs. McAlister Co. agents here) m the trade between559 words
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Article722 1886-09-22 3 Tin; Penang Gazette has received the following from a Chinese correspondent and publishes it verbatim: I was passenger on board the BJ.S.N. Co.'s boat Seeundru, on her way up from Singapore to Penang. We left Tanjong Pager Wharf at a little past 4 m722 words
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Article309 1886-09-22 3 For thp Straps' Times. Bulgaria. Landcm, t*kBepL—Tb* (Jrvat Power. are exchanging views with r.-anl to Bulgaria. Parliament. L""f'". llth B V t.-J MtA Kaudolj.h Churchill has promise Mr. I>.uu.-ll that he shall have au o M >ortmmv forth* ,l,s. >— of a Bill for t wa1,,,,,.,,,,- ml m309 words
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Article1211 1886-09-22 3 (From th. yloi < r# j •V'"' r-/-/.-. /.</ > .lt earthquake baa occurred which c l along the •eabeard from AI-ilkumi i New York: the shocks w.mv ■trongegf hi the south especially at Charleston, thrre>foartlM of which were dettrored; 60 people killed by Calling houses; much dktreti1,211 words
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Article518 1886-09-22 4 The NeUuigor Railway. 3 (8. T. Bepi 15.) Thk opening of the Selangor Gk>vernment Railway, which takes place to-day, is an erent which should not be allowed to pau without remark. It will indeed be the greatest eveni which lias yet occurmark the advance of British pres- m the518 words
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1033 1886-09-22 4 (S. T. September 16.) By last advices from Australia, the feeling against the Chinese there, steadily rising as it is, has not yel gone to the greal lengths i* has attained m America. In the Northern T< rritory, the wisnes of the mining community hare so1,033 words
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Article794 1886-09-22 4 I'Ni'iK the title of Fifty //< tin- Ini]MTial Federation League hai brought out a special number of its Journal, Betting forth (succinctly the nmnrelkMM strides m advan.-.-in.nt made l.v the British Empire since the Queen's :->n. To the question what does the Leaf want, the answer 11 bi794 words
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Article1315 1886-09-22 5 {8. T. September 18.) Colonial enterprise has so far made headway m Germany, that advertisements have appeared m the public prints there invitiug applications from energetic young men disposed to take to mercantile employment m the German South Sea Colonies, on condition of their depositing each 6,000 marks1,315 words
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Article652 1886-09-22 5 {8. T. BepU mber 20.) Thi tedious sameness >'i tin- general run of police court procedure here, with its unvarying round of small offences punished by Lighi fines and shori terms of imprisonment, might with advantage be varied by readier tecourse to the whipping authorised bj law, especially652 words
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2052 1886-09-22 5 /> 7 a '■/•/•< tpondetU. Having been attracted to Lalmau from this ancient kingdom bj the reDort that tale of tome of the valuable plant and Machinery belonging to the late Oriental •n was to take place <>n Monday, the 6th2,052 words
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663 1886-09-22 6 A Trip from Carbonopolis to the City of Brunei. (From it < ■orretpondent.J On Sunday morning, the 29th tnst., a friend and mjself left m the good steam launch the C. M. 0. from Carbonopolis bound for the ancieni city of Brunei, and after a delightful voyage of about three663 words
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Article1832 1886-09-22 6 Translated forth' Btraits Times. The J'ir,i Bode of the 2sth August gii th following particular!, <>f the recent New Quintal piracy case furnished by a correspondent m the Moluccas: On the 25th July, at 9a.m. 11. K. M's, Rteamer Tromp anchored m the roadstead of Teroate to1,832 words
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Article929 1886-09-22 7 (Translated for tli- Straits Times.) Early last month, a steamer arrived at Manila with h handsome snake on board intended as a present for the Captain General of the Philipphu s. The reptile is said to be of large It w i> taken to Government House v Ban929 words
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Article629 1886-09-22 7 Mi.MTKs of Proc.».,]i n -s of the Muni. cipal Commissioners on Wednesday the Bth September 1886. Cqpnmissionert Pre§mU. Colonel S. Dunlop, <\m.<;.. President. Dr. T.I. Rowell, p.c.m.o. C. E. Crane, Esq. Tan Ceong Saik, Esq. In the absence, through illness, <.f the Secretary, the meeting was attended by629 words
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Article1438 1886-09-22 7 (from n Correspondent.) Malacca, V-lih September, tBB6. The majority of '.m- bullock carl driren here overload their carts greatly with firewood and large pieoei of timber. Last Saturday a bullock after going up Kirn Sen bridge fell down oo the public road from sheer exhaustion and it was1,438 words
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Article1497 1886-09-22 8 Upper Bur mah. The bursting of the embankment at Mandalay seems to have been a much more serious affair than was at ilrst reported. The Bamjoon Gazette publishes letters from three different correspondents dated 21st August one of them says that id bodies had actually been recovered, and all of1,497 words
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Article12010 1886-09-22 8 Supreme Court -Fifth Assizes. First Day, TUESDAY, II Mi SEPTEMBER His Sonoub Chief Justice Fobji took Ins m>M on the Bench punctually at 11 a. n. to hold the fifth A-»i/es for the year !>sti. There was i full attendance of Jurors. There aro twenty nine cases m -til on12,010 words
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4312 1886-09-22 11 His Honour the Chief Justice took his sc.it upon the bench at 11 a. m. On proceeding to sentence the woman I. Ah Tek who pleaded Guilty to kidnapping a child on Thursday afternoon before the Court rose, she stated that she wished to withdraw4,312 words
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Article729 1886-09-22 12 Translated for the Straits Times. Those Swiss who take to tolacco growing m Deli must, it now appears, do so at their own risk, and have no claim upon their Government to back them up m demanding compensation for damage befalling them m wartime. Such is tin; only729 words
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Article863 1886-09-22 12 (British N. B. Herald, Ist September,! Council Meeting. meeting of the Council was held on the 12th August. Present. H. E. The Governor, W. H. Treacher. The Acting Colonial fifeO L R D cretary. j l Treasurer Audi-\ A] c tor-General. y Officer Commanding Capt<R D Boeston863 words
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Article1471 1886-09-22 12 (From a Correspond* at.) Rangoon, 10th Sept. Vigorous measures have at length been decided ou with regard to the pacification of Burmah during the next month or two upwards of 10,000 more troops of all arms will be despatched j from the three Presidencies, and lauded m Rangoon m1,471 words
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Article381 1886-09-22 12 The following amusing account of the hierarchy established among the pr ni the Municipal ."Us at Shanghai translated by the Daily S,us from a leading article m the Bkenpa While we wen engaged m conrersatiosi with a friend the ether day, the subject of tho lfnnieipal Police Stations happened to381 words
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Article508 1886-09-22 13 She I shall not be able to marry you, dear for another year do you think you could wait that long, loveP" He (gushingly) "Yes! I could wait a hundred years." [N.B. They never speak to each other now.] When a woman wants to take a mean revenge on508 words
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Article398 1886-09-22 13 Chinese Burial < I bounds. Sir, In defence of the right <>f the 1 ese on this subject, I may btate m reply to your criticism m your issue <»t" the 10th instant thai ii is an etttin misrepresentation tlmt the Chinese will not srll nor398 words
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Article288 1886-09-22 13 J R, Your Gorrerpondtnt Another V'ry Old Rpsklent m asserting that Chinese, on a reasonable price being offered, will readily part with their land tl^ugh it is partially laid out m graves, the ground containing the latter being reserved, by no means agrees with A Very Old Resident288 words
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Article475 1886-09-22 13 Dear Sir, While perusing th« columns of your valuable paper yesterday afternoon, I was thocked to learn that another nan:.' had been added to the already long list of victims to hydrophobia. Taking a retrospective -lance at the casualties which have been recorded m Singapore during the475 words
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141 1886-09-22 13 Dsab Sir, The ship masters sailing out of this port find it feiy hard m obtaining employment m the small class of strainers owned by Chinese residents at Penang. These steamers arc represented by those who measure them to be smaller m their tonnage than141 words
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Article560 1886-09-22 13 Lyon Co. v. Wells. Sir,- Iv the Singapore Free Pnm of 18th lust,, we notice a letter from Mr. Fritschi, Ageut for Mr. E. J. Wells, regarding the action instituted by us agaiust Mr. Wells which was recently heard by the Chief Justice, Mr. Ford, and, after a long and560 words
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Article420 1886-09-22 13 Sib, In reply to the following remarks ol your correspondent, "A Resident," which appeared m your publication of the 17th instant, "were (he Chine* natives m,<l //■>( immigrants, their burial prejudices .i/<n/ I" humoured, but being foreigner* for the most demur on their side to th< action <>/420 words
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Article273 1886-09-22 13 Sir,— The cause <>f the loss of the Straits owned steamer Femiower may im be -atist';n-t.»nlv explained, yet it behoves <!o\enment to urge upon its Burrejon the absolute necessity of insisting apon all the provisions of the act for ensuring isswm thin, ss being complied with273 words
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Article181 1886-09-22 13 Sir, The question of private Chinese Cemeteries is now brought into a small •oinpass indeed. Y our correspondent Another Old Resident has given up the chum of foreign born Chinese to have family burial grounds of their own, bui stands out for the right of the Malacca born181 words
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Advertisement78 1886-09-22 13 rpi) BE LEASED.— Om Rioe Mil nt JL I f Hong Lim Markei Kirn Road, at the side of the River, eonrenieni tot landing and sliip])ing. with N-w Eiiyiu«', Boiler. 120 Mortars and BtaMpen, and a!! Rice Mill Plant, m tr<K)d order and ready for working. Capable of turninir out78 words
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Advertisement427 1886-09-22 15 NOTICES. AUCTIONEERS, SINGAPORE. I FURNITURE, &c, Fob Sale. Almeirahs Ice Chests itesds (iron) Jewel Safes B.'d-rooTn Suites Japanese Screens Book < i Lamps Stands Linoleum Billiard Tables Matting Card Tables Marble Slabs Chain Meat Safes Chamber Cupboards Office Desks Cabinets OJHee Chairs Chests of Drawers Punkahs Clothes Stands Piano Stools427 words
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Advertisement993 1886-09-22 15 D^ T J ALO *'S T>HOSPHODYNB J>"..V?;7 u> Vi v m *«"<t>«f>»* of Uie kind ©r um aw&r««4 CVrtJlle.. I, ru %t the Calcutta lotorasrfionaJ Exhibition, 'v l I.1 1y Tr d Mark -"PHOBPHODYNB"?°v' r "■■t tUe Trade Marks Act. S8 and I* ic. H. Certitied by tae Re^iktrar ot993 words
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Advertisement667 1886-09-22 15 Cheap lee todutrlal Company lor me Manufacture of RAOOLPIGTEfs INVENTIONS CAPITAL FRAHCS 3,000,000 10- Hue de Grammont -19 PARIS Prospectus sent post free Machines makinarfirom 10 tol5OOk« OF ICE PER HOUR This result is obtainable even m the hottest countries. DR. J, COLLIS BBOWNES lILORODYNE The Original and OVLT 'Ikntine667 words
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Advertisement647 1886-09-22 15 rnHE SRAITTS TIMES. Rates of subscription ani» Advkkti.^INO FOR 1885. Local Delivery Payabm: Quarterly In Advanci.. Daily Edition. Wekkly Edition. Single copy 10 cts. Single copy. .loot*. Per Annum $24. Per Annum $16 Foreign and Outstation Dki.ivbiy payable m advance. Daily Edition. Weekly Edition. Per Annum $30. f Per Annum647 words
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Advertisement721 1886-09-22 16 rOHX HENRY GWYNNE. Engineers, 89 Cannon Street, E.C., Hammetiitk Iron .*J Work*, W. London and 8 Avenue Pereier, Paris, Invineiblo" Patent Coinhin-med Cenrit" fujr.il Pampiog Eagins and Portable steam iSngim for general piirpo| Th<^ only Centrifugal Pump t)i*t swivels itfib^dplate. The handiest,^troiigert. Kglitwt and miat efficient ort^e Pnmping Esgiffit m721 words
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Advertisement517 1886-09-22 16 SCHWEITZER'S COCOATINA. Anti Dyspeptic Cocoa or Choeolati Powd r GUARANTEED PURE SOLUBLE OOOOA OPTHK FINEST OUAT TTv OUT SUGAR OR ADMIX Tl U1 U IT H The Faculty nronounce it the most nutritious, perfectly digestible Wmire for Luncheon, or Supper;" and m valnal.l,- for invalid and Yawn ft children Being517 words
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