Straits Times Weekly Issue, 15 October 1889
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Title Section25 1889-10-15 1 The Straits Times WEEKLY ISSUE. NfiV? SBRLEi "ÜBLISffISD FOR Trav«4UT«ot t* BMASBION BY Homeward Mail Steamer. [Pi:ici: 10 Cents wererwrwerwer SlNaA^gir^jgßAT. OCTOBER 15. 1»«n -T725 words
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Article15 1889-10-15 1 r| On tho 23rd September *f n ON th« 6Mi October. »t Fsirholme. Johore15 words
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Article35 1889-10-15 1 E On the 11th October, Vivienne, infant daughter of Geral> and Mart DavidsonONtho 6«iOet > W f afc Frankfort 0Q th M»m.P. MAStus Esa.. partnor of the firm of Mes rs. A. Markwald Co., Bangkok.35 words
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Article100 1889-10-15 1 Mark <t (Quotations. Weekly summary. Beater's Telegrams. Local and General News. The Library and Museum. Fir© lu({Ud*Ts. The Governor's Speech. The French Elections. Police Reform. The MtUecA Water Supply. Th* Police. Svrtor versus Vateui. Report ou the Raffle Library and Museum. Suipping News. Passenger List. Firo in Market Street.100 words
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Article76 1889-10-15 1 Singapore, 15tk October, 1889. Produce. m^r 8.50. do. Cnhe No. 1 1290. do. do. No. 2 11.50. Cu^ati, Bali 3.88. do. I'ontianak ,3.55. Pepper, Black 19 00. »P> Flour, 2.55. Pwrl Svfo ,360 Coffee, B&Ji 27.00. Straits Liberian (last sale)... „27 00. Tamoca.sfnal- Flak,-> 460. «O. rio.76 words
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Article61 1889-10-15 1 On London.—^,..,K 4 m/d 3/2i. Demand 3/lj. Private H m/s 3/2f <8!3/2f do. 3 m/8 3/2|(g3/2i. On France.— Bank d/d 3.92. Private 3ro/s 4.02. On Jn'\*a.— Bank T. T 227*. Private 30 d/8 332. 0» Hongkong.—Bsak T. T t°/p dis. Private 30 d/5... JS% dis. 0» /ara— Bank T.61 words
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Article143 1889-10-15 1 ■•■to*! "Strait* Tin" Ce.. (£1 paid) 95* mlm. JoWieM. of Siam Limited, (£1 pud) $B& »aU». J«** Mining Trading Co. Ltd- pud) $5.10 telUr*. P»*uu»g Corpoiation piiid) 912 nominal. J*.f P*«ula P'pectins Co Ltd ($1047 pd) «B8 b«»»«--***y Cor'tion Ltd, (£1 paid) *23>r Nov/Dec. bttjfw. Mining Co. ($lO fullj143 words
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Article229 1889-10-15 1 The Legislative Council was opened by the Governor on Wednesday, with a speech announcing heavy surpluses both this year and in the next, owin* to the steady prospenty of the Colony. The legislation for the Session aireauy amounts to eleven Bills. The Police Recruiting Commission has229 words
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Article359 1889-10-15 1 (For Straits Times,) The French Elections. Paris, 7th Oct,— The results of 153 second ballots are known, 108 being Re- publican, and 45 Opposition. Fourteen more Boulangists have been elected for Paris. M. Rochefort has been defeated. Germany. London, 7th Oct.— The report that a special credit for359 words
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Article721 1889-10-15 1 The Chinese community at Hongkong are agitatiug for an amendment of the bankruptcy law, in order to prevent the frauds so extensively practised under the existing state of things. A Switchback Railway is under construction at Hongkong, and is expected to be opened next week. The Hon'ble721 words
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Article199 1889-10-15 1 Municipal Ordinance A mendment. The Attorney General th !is aot s forth the scope and reach of the newly introduced Municipal Ordiuauc Amt&dm nt Bill The principal amendments e#Wted this Bill are The partial rclirf of Dm owners of dorks, wharves and similar structures in ivspeet of ratos by allowing199 words
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Article175 1889-10-15 1 Muar, Sunday, 13th October.— T\w Sultan of Johore^ s. s. Pantie came ia from Johore on Fri-luy tnorning, the 11th inst., with two large iron buoys for ma-king out the course of the river from the bar. Th*se will be of great help to masters of vessels entering175 words
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Article262 1889-10-15 2 MONDAY, 7th OCTOBER. The St. Andrew's Society at Hongkong have decided upon giving a ball on St. Andrew's I>ay. About a quarter past 12 o'clock y ester- j day a Chinese coachbuilder, while mending a carriage at his workshop, No. 50, Selegie j Road, dropped down dead.262 words
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Article199 1889-10-15 2 As the time approaches the coining Race Meeting, the attendance at the paper chases becomes larger. On Saturday some I twenty-seven, including two ladies, gathered j at the meeting place outside Orchard Road Police Station, and at five minutes to 5 o'clock they were wnt off along199 words
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Article158 1889-10-15 2 The team which represented the Siugapore Recreation Club in the match against the World on Saturday afternoon came off very easy victors with a majority of 39 runs. The following are the scores S.R.C. J. Chopard b McKenzie 40 A. Smith b McKen/.ie 1 D. C. Verroau b Mowe158 words
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Article122 1889-10-15 2 (Chronicle, sth October.) At the Municipal meeting on the 20th, ult. the opmiou of the legal adviser with respect to the powers of the Conmii»i«iew to pasTand enforce by-laws for the regulation of Contagious Diseases was e*n.«dere«l. the W.I havenopower te ci.io.c, „icii by-iawi und«the Municipal Ordiuauce, Mr.122 words
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514 1889-10-15 2 Bigkong Telegraph, Monday, Sept. 30th) fter a few days' illness, the Hon. Frederick •art, LL.D., Colonial Secretary of Hongf, died at his residence, Arbuthuot Road, at minutes past one o'clock yesterday afternoon, death result iug from an attack of pneumonia. Although he had514 words
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Article149 1889-10-15 2 learn mat the American barque -\tllieM. Slmde, 53S tons register, stmnded at Alliquay Maud, Dear Tagolo Point, Mindanao, on the ewning of 29cb August. After cutting away her foremast ancT jettisoning j.art of her togar, sh»' floated off, aod was towed to Cebo, making very little water. A149 words
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Article662 1889-10-15 2 IHK inquiry into the circumstances attending the origin of the fire which occurred at Keng Cheow'n shipchandlery nf^ N o, 9 v* ket Street th of the 27th September, resumed beforo Colonel Dunlop, President of the Fire Commissioners, in the Board Room of the lown662 words
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Article372 1889-10-15 2 E^rinang Gazette, 4th Oct. i iul complaint* roach us from places in >rth of Province Wellesley of losses sufl by the Alalay paddy planters at tbe of certain pangs of buffalo lifters Buftoalintf is an old institution in the Prot.utof ;Mt.\owi ~z ptiiVuMj to hard timee, lit-Hy to372 words
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Article571 1889-10-15 2 Advicis received by mail to-day report that the Lahat Datu tobacco crop (North Borneo) baa been sold in Amsterdam at 2/6 per half kilo., which, seeing that it includes 56 tea-damaged bales, must be considered highly satiafoctory. u 2T 1 Manned that the Hongkong hotter* (Mr. Caldwell571 words
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Article92 1889-10-15 2 The following resolution has been circulated by the Committee of the Singapore Recreation Club The Committee hnve agreed to help the S. C. C. by allowing them from to-day to make use of the Recreation Club ground during ihe time their own is under repair,92 words
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Article130 1889-10-15 2 The Single Wicket match between Armj versus Telegraph wan resumed yesterday .afternoon. Lieut. Johnstone, the remaining hat sraaii for the former team, was dispatched with a M duck," but one bye" brought the score up to 30, the same score as their opponents. The play was therefore again commenced,130 words
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Article126 1889-10-15 2 This morning a Chinese conrict named Chan Hin was brought up before the Court on a charge of attempting to stab Warder SytnoncU with a sharp tool in the Criminal Prison. It appear* that the prisoner was I tokw, up before the Visiting J^tioe for a breach of126 words
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Article83 1889-10-15 3 tM*. Charles Dunlop, of Messrs. Powell A Co., Singapore, has, we learn, been sue- oewful in obtaining from the King the concession for mining tin and coal in the Siamese Malay State of Purlis. We are told that Mr. Dualop has already laid out $16,000 on83 words
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Article121 1889-10-15 3 Lady Colin Campbell's novel, of which a first edition of 80,<>00 will be published in a few days, is called 4t Darell Blake." For a hero she has chosen a young jourBalist on a provincial paper, who makes the acquaintance of the local member. This121 words
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Article182 1889-10-15 3 Ellen Terry, Mary Anderson, and Mrs. Lam. try are all three equally extravagant in I the priop they psy f>r their frowns. The ■atonal may cost one. five, or ten pounds a jard if it is prettier than any other. Mdine. j August* made Mrs. Lanjftry the two182 words
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259 1889-10-15 3 With reference to the proposed direct cable from Hongkong to Singapore, the Electrical Mevieic says As the cost of these cables would be considerably over £400,000, it is not difficult to imagine the amount of the subsidy demanded to jay intereot, working259 words
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Article219 1889-10-15 3 Nothing has occurred to throw auy light Itpon the circumstances attending the finding the trunk of a woman under one of the aulway arches in Pinchin-street, Whitechapel, e» Tuesday morning. Without the head, all Wpee of the body being identified will .have to to abandoned, as on219 words
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Article754 1889-10-15 3 *una uonau&Lo. v. Poonammy Naiku&Co. A Bangkok Cask. thi^L^* *****1 0 behalf of Dlaintiff, ia an JrdeT' W^ 00 the 6th AugWl last for thLtSt f Ymg tbe P^^'^VBt) serve the wnt of summons upon the defendants out onf Vi. #11 a dav i e U P^ U754 words
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352 1889-10-15 3 Mr. Henniker Heaton has given notice that next session he will call attention to some fifty facts concerning the department of the Post-master-General, and move a resolution. The following are among the fifty paragraphs of his resolution That the cost of posting a352 words
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Article1195 1889-10-15 3 At Long Branch, they bathe in diamonds, .fray hold your breath yet a moment. Tho votaries of folly have not as yet followed their i^gyphan prototype to the length of melting down their gems, on the contrary, they cuu* to them so tenaciously tbat they have adopted1,195 words
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Article436 1889-10-15 3 buppfetnentanj to Strait* Times Tele /rams. (Ceylon Independent.) Berlin, 26th Sept.— The C 'ob >yne Gazette states that the Czar, at the instance of his Mmister of War, aud notwithstanding the opposition of his Minister of FilkON has ordered double liues to be laid on all Russian railways436 words
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Article260 1889-10-15 3 Th« Calypso, a new steamer for Mettra. W. Mansfield Co., arrired to-daj from She called at Jeddah, and jaded there with 424 pilgrims for Singa- pore. Among them there were four deaths during the voyage from natural causes. I She is sister-ship to the Sappho, and is of260 words
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Article174 1889-10-15 4 The women hare a new use for vaseline," observed a Fifteenth-street drag clerk, as he jerked hie thnmk over his right shoulder in the direction of a well-dressed lady who was leaving the store after having made a purchase of the petroleum com found. "What's174 words
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Article1265 1889-10-15 4 (By Tuesdays Mail.) The successor to Dean Stanley, as it strikes me, has never quite received a due meed of approbation for the good work he has done in Westminster Abbey. Stanley, no doubt, initiated the much desired reform, but Dean Bradley has carried it on, until, in1,265 words
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Article385 1889-10-15 4 Yesterday afternoon Mr. Jose d'Almeida, Consul for Brazil, called on board the AVmirante $arro§o, and Mr. J. Lyall, the U. 8. Vice Consul, called on board the Stoatara. and were both saluted on leaving the respective ships. Mr. d 'Almeida, as a special compliment, received 9 instead385 words
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Article123 1889-10-15 4 In the New Zealand letter of the Melbourne Argus, dated August 22nd, we find the following paragraph The annual report on onr mining industries ha* been laid on the table, aud is by no means unsatisfactory. The total value of the minerals produced in ibSS amounted123 words
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Article164 1889-10-15 4 The Siugle Wicket match between the Army and Telegraph was resumed on the S. R. C. ground yesterday afternoon. J. C. D. Jones, the remaining batsman for the Telegraph, was bowled by Lieut. E. O. Smith with his second delivery, without adding a run to the score. The Army164 words
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Article177 1889-10-15 4 (Stray •&<*.) Training, so far as this week is concerned, has been considerablj interfered with on account of the bad state of the weather. The rain of this morning made the ground very soft and heavy, but notwithstanding this drawback, a fair field turned out, and hard gallops177 words
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Article275 1889-10-15 4 A special general meeting of the me* bers of the Singapore Sporting Club w* held in the Exchange Room lasteveou£ for the purpose of more clearly definiw the meaning of 4i A Maiden" a »3 to in Rule 32. men* There were present Messrs. Heim (chair man),275 words
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Article5572 1889-10-15 4 The Legislative Council session opened at half past 2 o'clock on Wednesday. Hm Excellency the Governor, who, as usual, was punctual to the minute, was received by several members on entering the Chamber, and Sir Charles Warren accompanied His Excellency to his seat. The Chamber presented quite5,572 words
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Article1960 1889-10-15 6 Hydrophobia in Singapore. Majority in favour of Destruction or Quarantine. A meeting of the Singapore Debating Society was held in the Masonic Hall yes terday evening, at 9 o'clock. The first business was the election of a Vice-Pn>si dent iQ place of Mr. J. D. Ross,1,960 words
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Article193 1889-10-15 7 Thb steamer Kostroma, of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, may shortly be expected fcere from Europe. She was due at Co fernbo on the 2nd instant The Kostroma, hke the St Petersburg, which lately passed through the port, is bound for VladWo ftock with the families of the prisoners193 words
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Article697 1889-10-15 7 fBEFOKB Mb. Justick Wood. John Fraser vertus Edmund Em cat EvereH. This was an action in which the plaintiff, John Fearer, claims from the defendant, Edmund Ernest Everett, the sum of $000 and web other relief as the case may require, as damages for breach of contract in697 words
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Article213 1889-10-15 7 dam nF tZTF t0 the Bales ia A^eronly 5b bales were so damaged. The Union Insurance Society of Canton for th* 5 Per Share has bleQ declared ZrT* PaSt Jear aad 36 000 <**«* forward to reserve fund. Dijrino the heavy oi wind and ram this morning,213 words
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Article322 1889-10-15 7 A paper laid before Council yesterday gives the opinion of the local Judges oil certain amendments to the Courts Ordinauce of 1878 suggested by Government. To two of them, that a vacancy in the office of Judge shall not affect the jurisdiction of the Court, and322 words
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Article162 1889-10-15 7 (Concluded from yesterday. Important decision as to time contracts fob delivery of shares. Mr. Justice Wood delivored judgment to the following effect: As the defendant in this case had contracted for transfer and scrip, he was entitled to what he had bargained for, and could not be162 words
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Article132 1889-10-15 7 out of L I UOWV i* Cr f Wi haV6 been electe e^neB b 7 the Committee to compete in the Annual Races of the Sm^pore R owlQ^ Clubt which toke in the middle of November Light Fours distance about one mile fuSS?*** IT' S' 3 <Uvan132 words
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Article103 1889-10-15 7 Abstract of the probable R-venue for 1890, shewing also the revenue received under similar heads iu the year 1888 Estimate Revenue for 1890. of 1888. Land Revenue 276,450 283,100 Rents Exclusive of Land 2,500 1 812 Licenses, 2,9G6,250 2,4U,500 t>J? PS 'att'\ 376,950 355,057 fort and Harbour Dues,103 words
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Article138 1889-10-15 7 The Estimates for the coining year iui elude, under the head of expenditure, a vote of $1,000 as contribution towards bringing out a work on the Flora of the Straits Settlements and Malay Peninsula. Noteworthy Public Works items aggregate the following amounts New quarters for forty138 words
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Article179 1889-10-15 7 The single wicket match between Array and Telegraph terminated yesterday with a disastrous defeat for the latter team by a mijo-ity of an inniugs and 23 runs. It will be remembered that this is the secau 1 match, the first ending in a tie with 30 runs each. The179 words
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Article1498 1889-10-15 7 {Bangkok Times sth October.) Bsst white pepper has been sold in our local market during the current week at 52 ticaU per picul. Inferior and superior black pepper has been disposed of at prices ranging from IS to 30 tieaU per picul. A serious disturbance broke out on1,498 words
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Article108 1889-10-15 8 The Russian Volunteer Fleet steamer Kostroma, arrived from Odessa via Colombo yesterday evening with 376 emigrants on board for Vladivostock. She left for her destination this morning. The steamer Knight Companion arrived yesterday from Barry (Cardiff) with 5,450 tons of coal. She now lies off the Borneo Wharf.108 words
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548 1889-10-15 8 The Pinang Gazette, discussing a recent article in a London newspaper called the Whitehall Review, eays much of the article is taken up with the desire f aid to have been expressed by the people of Patani to come under British protection. Patani is548 words
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Article995 1889-10-15 8 In the single wicket match between A nny and Telegraph the former won by an innings and 28 runs, not 46 runs as reported. Eight Chinamen, for gambling in a tongkang in the Singapore River last night, were this morning ordered to pay a fine of $10995 words
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Article135 1889-10-15 8 The following sums, in excess of the estimated amounts, are required for tbe public serrice of the present year. It should be noted that on other items there are unspent sums to a greater amount than the excess sums here provided Establishments Salaries, $10,523.76 Allow*iices, 799 93135 words
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Article169 1889-10-15 8 Last night,, an Eurasian named F. V Monteiro died at his house in Bencoolen Street from the effects of injuries received during an assault made upon him by some Malays on the night of the 24th ultimo. It appears that on the nijrht in question deceased was taken169 words
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Article326 1889-10-15 8 Stiu.t Shots. The rainy weather yesterday mor*i«. prevented toe horse, tur.ing out fo^JJ usual gal ops but m the afternoon, Bb after 4 o'c ock, some good busies, wi done, and fast going prevailed through This morning the outside course Wl. principally used, and, notwithßUndinsTk! weather was in326 words
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Article1102 1889-10-15 8 Thursday, 10th Octobkk, 1889. The ordinary fortnightly meeting of tfc* Municipal Commissioners was held in the Board Room of the Town Hall yesterday aftercoon under the presidency of Colonel Dunlop there were also present the Hoa. Major McCallum, Messrs. Crane, Cuthbertson, F. G. Davidson, Tan Beng Wan, and1,102 words
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1216 1889-10-15 9 The Fire or Board the P. O. steamer Venetia." Further Dktails. i. Venelia left Singapore for km at daylight .on the 25th Aurith her bunkers full of Japan coal I in Hongkong. After clearing Straits, the port after-bunker was *^d to be on fire. Fire hoses were got dy» and1,216 words
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Article673 1889-10-15 9 The British Consul at Amsterdam reports to his Government that last yeai only one hundred tons of sugar were* imported there from Java, owiu^ to restrictive legislation. At Samara ng, so says the Locomotief, coolie-broking has become a profitable business, from the demand for labour iu Deli.673 words
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251 1889-10-15 9 Peking, 30th September.— The great topic I of conversation here is the burning of the Temple of Heaven. All express the doepeit regret, terrific peal of thnnder brcke over I the city about 4 o'clock and it i* supposed that the Temple251 words
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Article125 1889-10-15 9 The Samtor, which arrived here vesterday afternoon from Muar, reports that her engines broke down that morning at 1 o'clock, aud she in eousequence stopped abreast of Pulo Pisaug until she was enabled to proceed to this port with one enThe Gorman barque SlandarJ arrived here y/este day125 words
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Article340 1889-10-15 9 Thb number of visitors to the Raffles Library and Museum during the week was 1,253. It appears that the body of the Euruaian I Monteiro, who died from the effects of inI juries received during an assault made I upon him by some Malays, was not buried340 words
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Article172 1889-10-15 10 The Revd. L. C. Biggs, Colonial Chaplain, Penang, has been granted leave of absence, with half-salary, for twelve months, to be taken after three months' vacation leave commencing from the 28th Sepiember, 1889. The Revd. G.Watling will act temporarily as Colonial Cl)P plain. f Penang. Song172 words
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Article313 1889-10-15 10 Stray Shots. Saturday morning. There was a large attendance at the course this morning, and some good strong work doue. Owing to the fact of the roadsters being on the course, the work for the few professional and gentlemen jocks was considerably increased, and taking into consideration the313 words
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Article397 1889-10-15 10 Entries. ra I he nt n« the first three days' flat Kb' I Thursday, Batumi t!^ Urda J' October f <> r the C^Hf J??^^ oUb^»««Pore Sporting Club, closed at noon tbi^r The^ntrii *w as follows 2 The Lawyer's Cup.— Distance R. C. Belladonna, Lady Lucy, Cleopatra,397 words
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4530 1889-10-15 10 An extraordiuary general meeting of the shareholders in the Malay Peninsula Prospecting Company, Limited, was held at No. 44, Raffles Place, at noon this day, for the purpose of considering, and. if thought fit, passing a resolution. The objects of the meeting were I— To4,530 words
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Article257 1889-10-15 11 jlesterday a bank* aanager and a mercautile arm in town received telegrams from the Secretary of the Raub svndieale stating that 9 per cent would be deducted from each lot of shares, and they replied that buyers expected delivery of the full number contracted for. The257 words
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Article198 1889-10-15 11 Last ni^ht a Coucert at the Sailors' Home came off successfully before a lar^e audience, which thronged the upper room' of the buildiug. The various eveuts of the follpfriu^ programme called forth loud applaWse, wiiiehat times resulted in encores: Pbooramme. 1. Overture, Dou Giovanni;" Ist Pi»no, Miss198 words
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Article363 1889-10-15 11 Thi Deli Gourant calls attention to grievous shortcomings in the postal arrangements there. Very often the steamers to carry mails leave a daj or more after the date set dowa in the postal expresses thevtbj giving Minojing delay] Frwmently \£n start earlier, wit* th' of kavi^g Mails behiad363 words
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Article301 1889-10-15 11 The Library and Museum (Straits Times October 7.) The Library and Museum report for the quarter endiug 30th September last shows progress and improvement in various directions. The fact of the muster roll of subscribers receiving thirty-two additional names during that period may be tabu as betokening a growing301 words
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Article317 1889-10-15 11 B(Btraiti Times October 8.) fiE inquest into the late fire in Market 5t ended yesterday in an open ferdict indeed the evidence brought forward threw no light on the cause of the fire. The President of the Fire Commissioners could come to no other opinion than that neither317 words
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Miscellaneous15 1889-10-15 11 Passenger List. Per Bawean, from Surabaya, Mr. and Mrs. Ducloux, Miss Ducloux and Mr. Schutte.15 words
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Article935 1889-10-15 12 (Straits Times October 9.) Finance is largely the test of government and so we gather from His Excellency's address to the Council that the Straits Settlements are doing well, and that the Protected Native States are doing still better. Thus in the Settlements our estimated revenue for935 words
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Article301 1889-10-15 12 (Strait* 'Tmtts October 9.) At first sight the iv&ult of the general elections in Frame betokens a great triumph for the Republican party over its coalesced enemies. The Monarchists aud Boulaugists had combined with the object of demanding the revision of the Consti- tutioo after barely a301 words
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Article557 1889-10-15 12 {Shaits Times October 10,) The question why recruiting for the native Police Force falls so short of requirements has been inquired into by a Government Commission consisting of the Attorney General, and the Hon'ble C. W. S. Kynnersley and T. Shelford. The Commission, after sitting eleven days and557 words
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Article208 1889-10-15 12 (StraiU Times October 10.) It is gratifying to find that the Government has revived to do its duty to Malacca in the matter of water supply, and that it has placed on the 1890 estimates a sum of $50,000, being about one-third of the sickness was so208 words
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Article290 1889-10-15 12 (Straits Times October 11.) Two of the recommendations of the Police RecruitingCommission, whose report we outlined yesterday, have found favour with the Government. Provision to carry out their suggestions for the more rapid promotion of intelligent recruits, uA for supplying accommodation to married policemen, has been made in290 words
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Article2019 1889-10-15 12 {Straits Time* October 12.) A case recently heard in a London County Court strikiugly illustrates the fact, as uotorious is it is unfortunate, that the relations between literary persons and those whose business it is to minister to man's baser needs in the way of food, shelter,2,019 words
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Article308 1889-10-15 13 The last Government QmMetU contains the text of a Bill to ameud the Riot Damages Ordinance of 1889 Itv repealing sub- section two of section four. Section lour reads as follows, the sub- seer ion to bo repealed being in italics I When the total amount of compensation308 words
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Article644 1889-10-15 13 Stbat Shots. t The entries (published in our issue of Saturday) for the forthcoming race meeting are, with the exception of the Roadsters and Pony Races, eminently satisfactory, and the Committee of the Singapore Sporting Olub are to be congratulated on the prospects of good sport. Xto seoond644 words
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530 1889-10-15 13 The Dispensary" Aerated Water Works. The enterprising proprietor of the "Dispensary" Aerated Water Works may saf elr boast of having laid down a plant of oiacliiue y and appliances for the manufactun; of soda water not to be surpassed in th.? East. This foreuoou, a rep esentative of this jourual530 words
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Article756 1889-10-15 14 Kuala Lumpor, KHh Oct.— The iron infant, thai is to be. is making growth, and the course of the new railway is outliued, in cuttings and earth-heaps, by coolie-gangs and trolly-lines for four miles or ao over the face of the country on the way to ,Rawang. The756 words
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Article138 1889-10-15 14 The single wicket competition was continued, on the Tiinglin Qround, on Saturday afternoon. The heavy rain had made the wicket very heavy, so that bi^ scores were out of the question. Commerce wou the toss and elected to bat fi-st, and were all despatched for 16. At the call138 words
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Article275 1889-10-15 14 (From our own Correspondent.) Malacca, Sunday, 13th October. Ail action for au alleged libel was or was to l>o commeuced here yesterday by the Opium and Spirit Fanner agaiust the Malacca Weekly Chronicle. A letter signed Rasper." in the is*u«» of Saturday, the 15th instant, apologising to the275 words
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Article806 1889-10-15 14 (From the Rangoon Times.) London, 30th Sept.— The wildest excitement took place yesterday in the Liverpool cotton market, when September futures fell thirty points the owners of two-thirds of the spindle* who use American cotton have declined to join the movement for closing mills for a fortnight. At806 words
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Article746 1889-10-15 14 A party of gentlemen assembled the other' day on h quiet corner of Wimble, ion-common near Rochatnpton, for tlu> purpose of witnessing a trial of Serjeant's new safety rein. The invention, like many other useful and biMK'dceut discoveries, is of the simplest character, and the natural746 words
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317 1889-10-15 14 The Secretary of the London Chamber of Commerce has received the follow, inij comiuuuication from the Sydney Chamber: "D«-ar Sir,— The Sydney Underwriters' Association have latel brought under notice of my committee the fact that aurwal caaes have come to ii^ht of roods daimged317 words
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Article169 1889-10-15 14 Nbws has tven received at Kobe, says the Hyogo News, of the total logs of the Americau ship W. E. Grace. This vessel was chartered to load kerosine at Philadelphia for Kobe, but, as she only left Havre on the 3rd ult. for the former port, it is169 words
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Article1632 1889-10-15 15 THE increasing demand for petroleum th* consumption of which W amount! to 2,000,000 000 gallons 6f crude otl year, has led to vigorous .investigations in ererv part of the globe with the>ratif y i n that oi is being found in almost eVw important British1,632 words
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Article237 1889-10-15 15 An Affair ix the Acheen War. Sir, On the 27tu ultimo I was at Malabock (Acheen) stayiug iu the Fort. The commandant, Bosghart, getting anuoved at being daily disturbed by the euerav, who had a fort at about 20 minutes distance from the Fort, took with237 words
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Article29 1889-10-15 15 I*o R SALE.— A few Taiijong Paffar Do k shares. WANTED, Some Tanjontf Paj?ar Debenture Bonos. TO LEND ON MORTGAGE.— Several §***** of money. .^iniraDore. 7th Antrn o^* 1889*29 words
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Advertisement91 1889-10-15 16 1 _____^9^E. ™w_rlC*_^J__Hm' ____B _^_£_A?i£ V^^ ~-«^^__H ___RF fi I inl^^ F^_ iWv-— B— Hlir-— Wiffi— s Cy^a^^^T<^W— fr— ri^F f I W YARROW'S. SMALL STEAMERS AND STEAM LATTNCHEB. SCRKW STEAMBRB WITH BPEEDB BANGING UP TO 30 MILKB AN HOUI PavdiiK Steamers with draft ranging down to 6 inches of91 words
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Miscellaneous1207 1889-10-15 16 ARRIVALS ■m.. -i hi i Si Vmol'sNam.. A A Tons. Captain. j F»oJf. Sxu^n.: CoNBi«w»»t. 5= B^o- i °^9wnbawa Brit.str. 4»3 Seepers Sourabaja Sept £%>wforijkCo. IBS 1 TS a«a ss^ fe: fcrftaaa*. S AmlSrst »tr. 108 Macey Klang JOct. BW. e Bin ACo 5 »antle »tr. W l.ing K i1,207 words
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Miscellaneous684 1889-10-15 16 j r SHIPPING. I IN PORT. I Annie M Lait, 1.178, Bourtead ACo TorLJ-^ Mkn-of-War. pool.-Roada. °-*<*Um> Miner So. W Colonial torpedo-boat, 17 tons. iJaron Colonjay 1,687, GUfillan Wood ACo Captain Branch. -Roads. for London^-Roads. 1 £fmArYm9, H.N.M/8 -unlK>at. 173 t<^ns, C*\*- al Beh 1 A Co. Unoertaiii. tain Lede>»wr.684 words
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Advertisement357 1889-10-15 18 r SCHWEIT Z.E E S Anti- Dyspeptic Cocoa or Chocolate Powder, GUARANTEED PURE SOLUBLE COCOA, WITHOUT ADMIXTURE Society says THE QUEEN inrariably ha« a cup of SCHWEITZEE'S COCOATINA brought to her bedaide i*fc 7-30 and two hours later she quaffs the same beverage at the breakfast-table." O O O O357 words
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Advertisement653 1889-10-15 18 $otice to Consumers k ITb.e PBODXJOTB of I ORKA-PERFOMES L LB6RARD I 807, rue Saint- Honor 6, J>ARjs I Stt s ORIZA-OIL, ESS.ORIZA, ORIZA-LACTI:, CR^E-ORIII I ORIZA-VELOUTt, ORIZA-TONICA, ORIZALINE, ORiZA-SOAP HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING THE PATRONAGE OF THE PUBLIC BECAUSE I 1* Their manufacture is supervised with the greatest653 words
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Article14 1889-10-15 1 consequence of the mxiC arrangements tk9*W <>ft>ll>J (T 'tally) iigi o > tl a Supplement.14 words
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Article100 1889-10-15 1 RKUTEB'S TBLBORAMB, (For Straits Times.) Tub Czar in Berlin. London, 14th. Oct. The coldness of the Czar't response to the Emperor's toast produced a marked effect ou the assembly. His M-jesty whilst speaking was almost inaudible. The Russian Press expresses content trith the Czar's reception, and is100 words
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254 1889-10-15 1 Last evening a trial of the Pahang twin screw lauuch Ethel took place from Johnston's Pier with His Excellency and Capt. Crauford on board. This launch measures 54 ft. by ll'u" beam by 3'3 deep, and draws, when fully equipped, onlv 18 of254 words
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Article344 1889-10-15 1 Stray Shots. The wet weather prevailing throughout tke night mid* the course in a fearfully keavy condition this morning, and, as a result, very few horses turned out for their gallops. The weather also had a iery tmrked eff;ct on th> attendance of ■pectit >rs, for only just344 words
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Article290 1889-10-15 1 Oourrier <T Haiphong of the 29th jj^nioer brings word of piracy raising nead higher than ever throughout the rj^Q around Laagaon, in the neighbour?w of the Chinese frontier. For this, **euch authorities have themselves to IB nave rallied at once around him in th* gsr.if-.jas S ss?290 words
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Article239 1889-10-15 1 (From our own Correspondent.) JMaoflfc JfoAiftjr, ////i Off.— -Up to the present ui>m-ut the Government has been unable to mike anything out of the Pawnbrokers' Farm hire. O,vm; r.j this circumstance, m my of the poorer mh ibitauts h xve to resort to unlicensed pawnshops, which are now239 words
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Article1331 1889-10-15 1 The Absence or Altbuism. Spack can be fcfiven bat t'or two instances out. of muiv of &e conspicuous abs?mco of altruism oii tno part of the officials of China townrdi the people, whose 'fathers and mothers they are supposed to he. Ou3 of these relates* to the collision1,331 words
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Article988 1889-10-15 1 (B. N. B. Herald, Ist October.) Ameer ul Kiram, one of the rival claimants of the Sultanate of Sulu, arrival here SThe beginning of the month. He has resigned his n^l E f J VOU u°f o SulUn Haro Q th nee of the Spanish Government, and988 words
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