. 24TH SEPTEMBER 
P1NANG GAZETTE AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. 
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‘SUMMARY OF HOME NEWS. 
(Loudon and China Express, Aug. 23rd.) 
Tub Cou kt.- — The Queen is expected in Wales 
to-day. Elaborate arrangements have been ► ... . ...... ^ ...... 
made to give Her Majesty a very hearty recep- , j eon presented, and, as is usual, discussed be- 
tion. Lord Knutst’ord will be the first. ! fore a thin House. Tt presents no remarkable 
Minister in attendance on the Queen in Scot- features. There is*in improvement in the re¬ 
land. It is stated that the Queen has j venue in 1888-9 over that of 1887-8. Oon^idor- 
presented a life-size portrait of herself f© j able sayings have been made in the expeudi- 
Prince Bismarck. ; tlire of the Civil Department The usual 
•No business of importance ' resolution was agreed to The Irish votes 
House of Lords have been successfully carried. Mr. Balfour 
cially prorogued to-morrow. Large numbers : which they are desirous of erecting opposite 
of the members of both Houses have already the Temple. 
left town. In the House of Lords a number Resolved “That it he first ascertained more 
of measures have been advanced a stage. In exactly where it is proposed to erect the 
the House of Commons the Indian Budget has , lamps ” 
I. The President lays before, the Council a 
SINGAPORE NEWS. 
(Straits Times.) 
The banks have closed their purses 
both to the Chinese firms and to the 
Chi tries. The latter are understood to 
Parliament. 
has been transacted in the 
during the week. In the House of Commons 
the Tithe Bent Bill has been withdrawn. 
Considerable discussion has taken place over 
the Irish Estimates. A proposal was made to 
reduce the salary of the Chief Secretary, and 
lost by 82 to 112. The Irish Light Endways 
Bill has passed its third reading. The contract 
with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company 
for the conveyance of Her Majesty’s mails 
between Canada and Hong Kong has been 
approved. Baron H. do Worms informed Mr. 
Hunter that, owing to the insufficiency of the 
revenue of Labium to maintain an efficient 
Colonial Administration Her Majesty's Gov¬ 
ernment had proposed that the Chartered 
British North Borneo Company should take 
over the administration of the island, which 
would remain a British Colony, and would not 
be ceded to the company. 
General —London has been agitated during 
t he week by a serious strike among the London 
dock labourers, which is becoming more serious 
and more extensive every day. The movement 
is considered to lie the most formidable one 
that has taken place in their body since 1872. 
Processions numbering some 10,000 men have 
paraded the principal thoroughfares of the 
City. The men demand sixpence an hour 
instead of fivepencc, and a redress of their 
grievances in several particulars. The posi¬ 
tion of affairs at the various docks is serious. 
On one day, it was alleged, there was only 
one vessel loading. The dock companies 
express their confidence that the strike will 
collapse. The Home Secretary’s decision in 
the May brick case is at last known. The 
sentence of death is to be commuted to penal 
servitude for life. In I lie official announce¬ 
ment on the subject it is stated that, although 
the evidence tends clearly to the conclusion 
t hat the prisoner administered and attempted 
to administer arsenic to her husband, yet it 
does not wholly exclude a reasonable doubt 
whether his death was in fact caused by the 
administration of arsenic. A strong opinion 
is being expressed in influential quarters that 
a Court of Criminal Appeal should be esta¬ 
blished, and Lord Esher suggests the lines on 
which such a court should he constituted. On 
the other hand, however, Lord Brainwell takes 
an opposite view to the Master of the Bolls. 
The Naval Manoeuvres have again opened 
badly for Admiral Baird, who has lost three of 
his best ships to Admiral Try on in an engage¬ 
ment off Cape IVIiant. In other respects 
there is little of interest to record, so far 
as home news is concerned. Events in 
Ireland are nob so startling, although 
a determined attempt lias been made to 
shoot Mr. \\ illiani Blood, a magistrate and 
a landed proprietor, but fortunately without 
any evil result. Wo are pleased to record 
while on the subject of Ireland the continued 
growth of the Irish woollen trade, which is 
undergoing a considerable revival. Lady 
Macartney was summoned and fined for as¬ 
saulting two of her servants. 
It io V-.v/o yet; definitely decided that 
Mi". Chaplin is to he the First Minister of 
Agriculture. The name of Sir Matthew White 
Bidley is also mentioned in tin's connection. 
In foreign affairs we are pleased to he able 
to announce that the crisis in Crete, which 
has caused so much alarm in Europe, is now 
almost over, and affairs in the island are in a 
satisfactory way toward settlement. The 
position of England and Germany in East 
Africa lias been prominently to The front 
again during the week. The tone of the meet¬ 
ing of the German East African Company was 
decidedly hostile to England, and a good deal 
has been written in the Continental Press on 
the subject. Queen Nathalie has postponed 
her visit to Belgrade, ostensibly on the ground 
of ill-health. ^auction has boon given to a 
measure of the Canadian Parliament which is 
intended to put a stop to rings and trusts 
calculated to frustrate the legitimate move¬ 
ments of trade. Generally speaking, the 
European situation is unchanged. The 
Imperial visits which have recently taken 
place are regarded as having strengthened the 
probabilities of peace. 
Germany. —The Emperor William has visited 
Strasburg, and his reception lias been marked 
by extraordinary enthusiasm. This hearty 
welcome is regarded ns a proof that little hv 
little the idea that Alsace-Lorraine is an in¬ 
separable part of the German Empire is gaining 
ground amongst the population there. ~ 
France. — 1 lie sentence of the High Court 
of Justice is the topic of discussion. General 
Boulanger lias issued another manifesto, in 
which he expresses his confidence in the firm 
attitude of the electoral body. A grand ban¬ 
quet has been given by the municipality of 
Paris to the Mayors of France. The number 
of mayors who attended the banquet was 
13,000. 
Holland. The condition of t he King is still 
favourable. The Second Chamber of the 
►States-General lias assembled. An arrange¬ 
ment has been come to between the Royal 
Packet Navigation Company and the Nether¬ 
lands-] ndian Steamship Navigation Company 
with regard to the service of steamers to Java. 
1 NJTED States. — A warrant lias been issued 
for the arrest of Justice Field, in connection 
with the shooting of Mr. Terry. The prize¬ 
fighter Sullivan has been sentenced to a year's 
imprisonment. 
has created some sensation by pledging j resolved that trees be planted along the quay 
himself to what is practically the principle .10b feet apart, care being taken not to plant 
of concurrent endowment, which | for I them opposite the jetties, 
generations has been the bete noire of the 0. The President lays on the table a map 
letter from Government on the subject of the i — - - - v_ 
proposed regulations for the granting of pen- 1 have remonstrated in a body some fifty 
sions to Municipal Officers. 1 J - ' 7 7 ' 7 
Resolved “That the letter he circulated and 
brought up again at next meeting.” 
o. After some discussion, as to the advisa¬ 
bility of planting trees along 'Weld Quay, it is 
Liberal party. Sir H. Maxwell, in reply to 
Sir G. Baden-Powell, gave some interesting 
statistics regarding the quantity of mail matter 
despatched to the Far East by the present three 
routes. ^ 
General. — During the past week the strike 
amongst the dock labourers has assumed the i 
most alarming proportions. It has spread in 
other directions, until considerably over a 
hundred thousand men have been affeyted. 
Fortunately, the crisis which threatened in 
the coal trade has been averted, the employers 
conceding the demands of the men. Prolonged 
of the Municipality and after some discussion, 
it is resolved that no tittups be allowed in that 
portion of the Town marked yellow on the 
plan, and that along those roads marked red, 
no attaps he allowed within 50 feet of the road 
without special permission from the Com¬ 
missioners.' 
7. The plan of the proposed pavilion to 
be erected on the esplanade by the Penang 
Recreation Club is approved, the site for the 
same to he as nearly as possible opposite the 
Penang Cricket Club pavilion. 
8. The President lays before the Council a 
conferences have taken place with represgnta- paper in which it is suggested that the corner 
fives of the men and of the Dock Companies in Lamb Road opposite the Hutton Lane 
and wharfingers, with the result that ; the Police station he rounded off. 
London and India Docks’ Joint Committee, The Commissioners sanction the expenditure 
state that all demands of the strikers might of #50 for the rebuilding of the wall, provided 
be arranged to the satisfaction of both parties ! Mr. Capel will give the small piece of land 
except that for an additional penny per hour, required. 
The men, however, remain firm in their initen- j • 9. The Commissioners sanction the expen- 
tion not to modify their original, demands. In , diture of 8 105.35 being- the costs in a case 
the meantime the trade of the port of London against Mutusamy. 
is almost paralysed. The P. and (). steamers 10. In accordance with notice given, Mr. 
for the time being have returned to Souths mp-; Comrie moves that it is expedient in the 
ton, where several of them have been unloaded, j interest of public health that regulations be 
An interview on the subject with Mr. T. I framed by the Commissioners with a view to 
Sutherland, M.P., the Chairman of the com¬ 
pany will he found elsewhere. The strike is 
causing great excitement throughout the 
metropolis. In the midst of all these difficul¬ 
ties, public attention has been somewhat 
diverted from the mimic warfare which lias 
been going on round our coasts. The enemy 
has not been idle. Aberdeen, Peterhead, find 
Leith have been captured by Rear-Admiral 
Darcy-Irvine under more or less exciting 
conditions, and in the absence of tangible foes 
some of the defending flotilla from Pembroke 
the effectual control of prostitution 
Mr. McLarty seconds the motion and 
addresses the Council. 
The motion is then put to the vote with the 
result that two vote for and three against it, 
and the motion, is thereupon declared to 
be lost. 
After some discussion, it is, however, re¬ 
solved to obtain statistics from the Health 
Officer as to the spread of disease since the 
repeal of the Contagious Diseases Ordinance. 
- —— n —-. ~'ll- The President lays before the Council 
Haven have been involved in active hostilities a paper on the subject of the drainage of 
against their own friends. War, however. Green Hall, and it is resolved that the matter 
has now ceased; but it is too early yet to be referred to the “Works Committee” for 
speak of the general results, which on the report. 
whole, however, have not been unsatisfactory. I 12. It is resolved to defer the further con- 
The excitement about the May brick case has | sidcration of the papers regarding the drain- 
now subsided. What has become of the age of Argyll Road until next meeting. 
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[August 30 in.] 
The Court— The Queen has at length paid 
her Jong promised visit to Wales, where Her 
Majesty has met with a most enthusiastic re¬ 
ception. The Royal visit seems to have given 
the greatest gratification to the people of 
Nwrfch Wales. Her Majesty conferred the 
honour of Knighthood upon the Mayor of 
W rexfi.am. The Duke of Connaught, who re¬ 
turns to England next March, will travel home 
via China, Japan, and Canada. 
Parliament. — I he business of the Session 
closed yesterday, and Parliament will be offi- 
cn thusiastic agitators who, on receipt of the 
news that the death sentence was commuted 
to one of penal servitude for life, were not 
going to rest content until a free pardon was 
obtained nobody knows. A t any rate, they 
are silent for the present. Mrs. May brick Las 
been removed from Liverpool to the female 
convict prison at Woking. The old truism, Be 
sure your sin will find you out,” seems to [be 
especially exemplified in the case of the steam¬ 
ship Mogul, for both the first and second er,uk 
have just been convicted of smuggling. The 
two stewards of the vessel have already been 
convicted of a similar offence, and heav lv 
fined. The death is announced of t!m !. .. 
Samuel Beal. n. lessor of Chinese in toe 
XjoiKlon University. Mr. John Sanger, the 
famous circus proprietor, is also dead. A 
scheme has been set on foot for building a 
tower, similar to the Eiffel Tower at Paris, in 
London, sir Edward Watkins is identified 
with the project. In foreign affairs there is 
little now to note. Mr, Gladstone has sent to 
the Press reliable information which he has 
obtained ol some terrible outrages in Armenia, 
Affairs in Crete are quieter. The European 
situation is unaltered. England’s attitude 
towards the I riple Alliance is the chief topic 
of discussion. 
Germany. —The Emperor and Fmpress con¬ 
tinuing their journey were received at Metz 
with an enthusiastic and popular greeting. 
I’heir Majesties have now returned to Pots¬ 
dam. The visit of the Czar, it seems, is still 
a matter of speculation. Mr. Teindcl, former¬ 
ly a Deputy-Consul at Tientsin, has been pro¬ 
moted to the rank of a German Consul at 
Amoy. The German Ambassador for China 
is expected shortly to return to the East. 
France. — The elections are fixed for Sept. 
22. General Boulanger is to stand for Mont¬ 
martre. There lias been some Bonlangist 
rioting at Paris, and a number of arrests were 
made. 
Holland. — The subject of the revision of 
the Education Code is occupying the attention 
oi the States-General. A commission has 
been appointed to inquire into the necessary 
measures lor the improvement of the navy 
in Netherlands India. The subject of the 
national defences is also to the front. Mr. 8. i 
B. Zeveryri, Director of the Netherlands 
Bank, has been appointed President of the 
-Java Bank 
United States.- • -.Further seizures of 
schooners, both British and American, in the 
Behring Sea, by the revenue cutter Rush, are 
reported. A bitter feeling prevails at Ottawa 
on the subject. The United States and British 
Governments are said to be in negotiation, 
with a view to an early settlement of the 
difficulty. 
Tlie Engineer submits design and 
estimate for the relaying of portions of the 
drains in Muntri Street and Cintra Street. 
Resolved that tenders be called for this 
work. 
Ft. . The present lays on the table a plan of 
the district between Bridge Street and the 
sea, and Mr. McLarty having retired, the 
Commissioners decide upon the sites for the 
four new ghauts, the President 
each site on the plan, 
plans arc submitted of which 9 are 
approved, and 3 returned for amendment. 
The Commissioners adjourned till Friday 
•ijitv ‘.ViyPo instant. 
Read and confirmed the 20th day of Sept., 
p,ro_ 
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Special Meeting held on the 30th Aug. 1889. 
Present : -I’lie Hon. G, W. S. Kynnersley, 
(President), Cnpt. Cameron , n il, R. A. P. 
Hogan, Esq, and C. W. Barnett, Esq. 
Absent : — F. M. McLarty, Esq., and I). Comrie, 
Esq. 
L The Commissioners pass, subject to the 
approval of the Governor required under 
section CXYI.I of Act, 14 of 1856, the following 
revised by-law: — 1 “ Every person 
corpse to he buried in any Burial 
“ shall give to the owner trustee or person in 
" charge of such Burial Ground the particulars 
“ required according to section CXI of Act 1-1 
“ of 1856.” 
-■ Certain by-laws prepared under section 
86 of Ordinance IX of 1887 relating to “Traffic 
in the Streets and “ tho regulation of mar- 
arc considered and passed. 
Read and confirmed the 20th day of Sept., 
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Ground. 
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MINUTES OF MEETINGS OF THE 
M UN I Cl FA L COMM ISSIO N Eli S. 
Special Meeting held on the 18tii Sep. 1889. 
President .—-The Hon. 0. W. S. Kynnersley, 
(President). Capt. Cameron, in e., F. M. 
McLarty, Esq., C. W .-Barnett, Esq., and 
D. Comrie, Esq 
Absent: —R. A. P. Hogan. Esq, 
Some by-laws prepared under section 86 of 
the Municipal Ordinance 1887 are considered 
and passed, and the consideration of the 
remaining by-laws is adjourned till Friday 
the 13th September, on which day a special 
meeting will he held for the purpose. 
’The Commissioners adjourned till Friday 
the 13th September. 
Read and confirmed the 20th day of Sept., 
August 1889 , 
S. Kynnersley 
R. 
A. 
D. 
Meeting held on the 23rd 
Present : — The Hon. C. W. 
( President), Captain Cameron, r. e., 
P. Hogan. Esq.. F. M. McLarty, 
Comrie Esq. 
Absent-. —0. \V, Barnett. Esq. 
U The minutes-of the last ordinary meet¬ 
ing and of the special meeting are read and 
confirmed. 
Stories about the Shah are still filtering 
through. Until he went to Antwerp, his 
Majesty had never heard a barrel-organ. 
It so happened that an organ-grinder stop¬ 
ped under the royal windows, and began 
to drone out dismally an air from the 
“ Traviota ” The Shall came to the window 
and listened with delight. The entire 
repertoire of the musical mill was 
through, and, as a 
tabulih. 
Messrs. Drew and Napier, solicitors 
for the official liquidator of the Kawang 
Mining Co., give notice of liis appoint¬ 
ment. All debts due to the company 
are payable to Mr. Hornby. 
(Free Press.) 
The heavy rain of this morning, (Sept. 
18) almost continuous for live hours, 
swept clear all the debris from the drains 
and will leave them as clean as may be. 
The storm water was more than the 
drains could carry off in the lower parts 
of the town—Middle Road and behind 
the Central Police Station. At Tanjong 
Road the roads were covered 
enough to stop the trams, while 
Pagai 
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the Esplanade was a perfect swamp, and 
in the exposed roads the granite was 
well nigh denuded of its “packin 
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MALACCA NEWS. 
(Weekly Chronicle. 14tii inst.) 
Sir Charles Warren, Mr. Justice Gold- 
ney, and the Hoiu Mr. Adamson are 
expected to arrive here shortly to hold 
an enquiry into the condition of the 
Police Force in our Settlement. 
Ban Seng-, the Chinese Interpreter 
lately employed in the office of the 
Superintendent of Police, has been pro¬ 
secuted on a charge of embezzlement. 
The case will he heard some time next 
week, we believe. 
The Resident of Selangor and two 
Chinese towkays went to Singapore this 
week to make offers for carrying on the 
Rawang mines. It appears that the 
Bank of Kwala Lumpur has advanced 
money, under guarantee, to prevent the 
loss of the concession. 
There is a rumour current that another 
change will shortly take place in the 
chief-clerkship of the Post Office. We 
are sorry to hear that Mr. d’Oliveiro, 
who seems to be a smart man at liis 
work, is likely soon to leave ns. These 
frequent changes can only do harm to 
the department, and we hope the rumour 
is an idle one, as so many rumours in 
Malacca usually are. 
FAMOUS CONVICTION O V Cl IF 
C I MS TA N TIAL E VII)ENCE. 
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a series of celebrated convictions, based upoi 
circumstantial evidence, in each of which tin 
guilt of the prisoner seemed clear as day, am 
yet all of the convicted persons suffered 
wrongfully. In the year 1721 there reside* 
m Edinburgh a certain William Shaw, whom 
daughter, Catherine, had conceived a passim 
for a person to whom tho father strong!) 
objected, and. more, he wished her to wed tin 
proverbial “another.” Frequent quarrel;- 
were the result, and, as a sequence, the fatlie 
locked his daughter in her room. The neigh, 
hours frequently heard violent language oi 
the part of both father and daughter'; am 
when, at last, one day the words “ cruelty 
and death were shouted and groans after 
wards heard, they determined to break opei 
the door. This was done, and Catherine Shaw 
was found weltering in blood. As the person: 
entered she was heard faintly to exclaim 
f riu l lather, thou art tho cause of jua 
death 1" saying which he expired. WilliaiV 
Shaw entered at this moment. Horror-strick 
en at his daughter’s fate, he stood speechless 
and his emotion was taken for guilt. More 
over, the sleeve of his shirt was stained witl 
blood. He was tried, sentenced, and executed 
at Leith Walk in November 1721. In August 
1722 a man who had taken possession ofth-c 
rooms occupied by Shaw found the following 
letter :—“ Barbarous father, your cruelty in 
having put it out of my power ever to join nr\ 
fate to that of the only man I could love, and 
tyrannically insisting upon my marrying one 
whom [ always hated, has made me form a 
resolution to put an end to an existence which 
has become a burden to me. I doubt not I 
shall find mercy in another world, for sure no 
benevolent being could require that I should 
any longer live in torment like this. My 
death I lay to your charge. When you read 
this consider yourself as the inhuman wretch 
that plunged the murderous knife into the 
bosom of the unhappy Catherine Sliaw.” The 
handwriting of this letter Avas recognised, 
and, as some sort of poor compensation, the 
body of Shaw was taken from the gibbet and 
decently interred, whilst a pair of colours 
were Avavcd over his grave in token of his 
innocence. 
sign 
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from Government sanctioning tho acquisition 
of the strip of land required to widen the en¬ 
trance to Argyll Road, and proposes that steps 
he uoav taken to acquire tho land, which is 
agreed to 
The President lays before the Council a 
of satisfaction, a gold piece of lOOfr. 
dropped at the feet of the organ-grinder. 
He immediately ran off to relate his good 
fortune to liis companions in the trade— 
goodness knows there arc enough of them 
at Antwerp ! The next day they all 
A revolting case of [murder for “■witch¬ 
craft ' comes from the New Hebrides 
v ( While the Government agent and the 
supreme . and Asiatic ; recruiter of the labour barque Vdlitilus were 
gone 
The President lays on the table a letter assembled before the palace, and a discord- 
U-overnmerit sanctionum t in jirnniGtirm ± ± _,.j. e n 
3. The President lays before the Council a with “ En reveuaufc de la E 
i letter from the trustees of the Chinese temple this time no more gold ! Tin 
J in Pitt Street, Asking if the Commissioners Avill j the palace had to make a ri 
i undertake to light two fhe-branch lamps ! against tlie disappointed musieiamT 
ant tempest of sound began. The “ Cloches 
de Corneville ” and the “ Masscotts ” 
struggled for the _ supremacy, and the 
“ Brabaueonne tried in vain to accord 
with “ En revenant de la Revue.” But 
The servants at 
regular sortie 
pulling along the beach off the island 
Santo on May 26, they saw the body of ; 
native tied hand and foot to a tree. ' The\ 
found upon examination that lie had beer 
shot, and afterwards apparently hacked and 
mutilated by the whole tribe to which he 
belonged. Upon making inquiry into the 
matter they were informed that a disease 
causing great mortality Had lately visited 
the island, and this particular native, 
having been unfortunately for himself a 
professor of witchcraft, the epidemic was- 
popularly attributed to his machinations, 
and it was therefore thought advisable tc 
effect his removal. 
