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24.TH S EPT EMBER . 
ROBINSON & Co. 
have much pleasure in calling attention 
to their stock of 
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comprising Novelties in all Departments : 
Gent’s Merino Vests and Pants 
Gent’s Sliootin a H ose. 
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A new range of Striped and Plain 
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We also hold a choice stock of Gent’s 
Ties and are well assorted in 
Our Glendoweb Shirt. 
Hosiery in all the Best Makes. 
Our stock of Tweeds is unusually 
well assorted. 
A large shipment of Steel Trunks 
including the NEW CABIN TRUNK. 
Sheeting’ in all widths, Linen Table 
Cloths and Napkins, Tapestry, 
Velveteen, Tapestry bordered, and tlio 
New Cheniclle embroidered Table Cover 
Cretonnes, reversible and single. 
The new embroidered Nuns Cloth Robes, 
Black Cashmere Nun’s Cloth, and 
Grenadines for evening wear. 
Ladies and Children’s 
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Ribbons in all widths and colors. 
Ladles’ travelling caps. 
Infants’ Embroidered Muslin Frocks, 
Infants’ Millinery, Baby’s Bibbs. 
S e w i n g hi a cli i lies, 
Tennis Racquets and Balls, 
Bridal Tulle, 
Dinner and Dessert Services. 
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British Medical Journal. 
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THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL FOR 
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at in l: Health Exuiumox in London, 1884. 
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Wine Merchants, 
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London, 19th September, 1889. 
Anglo-Italian anti-slave 
convention has been signed in 
London. Slavers are to be treated as 
pi rates. The Mediterranean alone is 
excepted from the operation of the 
convention. 
London, 22nd September, 1889. 
The disputes between the dock com¬ 
panies and the strikers is now settled. 
Private negotiations are proceeding 
relative to an offensive and defensive 
alliance between Servia and Montenegro. 
London, 22ncl September, 188^. 
H. M. Gunboat “Lily” lias foundered 
off Newfoundland. Seven of the crew 
were drowned. 
Lady Sandhurst and the Right Hon. 
James Stansfield, members of the Home 
Rule party in Ireland, have received the 
freedom of the city of Dublin. 
H VEROEJIOBIA. 
Since we last wrote about hy¬ 
drophobia two fresh cases have 
occurred in Singapore, and the alarm 
The newspapers have contained 
both articles and letters on the 
subject, and Major McCallum lias 
given notice of a resolution at the 
Municipal board. What the nature 
or terms of it will be we do not 
know, but from the manner in 
which Major McCallum usually 
deals with a subject, we imagine 
the mothm mil 'eontubi proposals of 
a drastic nature. It seems to us that 
only the most comprehensive and 
drastic measures will be of any use. 
The time when half-and-half mea¬ 
sures would have been sufficient has 
been allowed to pass ; the disease 
has got a thorough hold on the 
place, and a strong remedy is re¬ 
quired . 
The Straits Timor proposes a 
course which is but a modifica¬ 
tion of what we have already 
advocated in these columns. We 
advocated the extermination of all 
the dogs in the island. The Straits 
Timer, while adopting the principle 
that Singapore must be cleared of 
dogs, suggests that all those who 
wish to keep their clogs should 
send them out of the island 
to some plqce where they 
would be kept under Government 
supervision, but at the expense of 
their owners, for six months, and 
be allowed to live; and this notwith¬ 
standing the fact, that some, at least, 
of the deaths from hydrophobia, 
have occurred from the bites of pet 
dogs. Any law that is passed must 
lie one that will not of necessity 
reach only the poor and exempt the 
rich. Besides, anything short of 
the total clearance of the island for 
a time will be at best uncertain in 
its result. To kill all the pariahs 
aild the dogs of those who could not 
pay a very high tax, and allow the 
others to live in Singapore, would 
moan that the remaining clogs could 
not be watched,or would not be under 
direct professional supervision; 
whereas, if all the dogs for which a 
certain fee had been paid, were sent 
to some place—one . of the small 
islands near Singapore, for instance, 
—where they were all together, and 
could all be under professional 
eyes for a long period, there 
would be every chance of rabies 
being stamped out. The matter 
has reached proportions so alarm¬ 
ing, and is of so serious a nature, 
that all the merely sentimental con¬ 
siderations, that come into the re¬ 
lations between a man and his dog. 
should be ignored. The one sen¬ 
timent, and the only sentiment, that 
ought to be considered, is the safety 
of the public, and that can only be 
attained by a scheme on lines such 
a* that proposed by the Straits 
Tuesday, 24th September. 1889. The . more A astio , scheme 
which we advocated would lie un¬ 
necessary it such a scheme as that 
put forth by our Singapore contem¬ 
porary were thoroughly and effici¬ 
ently carried out. 
So far as Penang is concerned 
in that island is becoming general. hope our authorities will take 
every precaution to prevent the 
introduction of hydrophobia here. 
Every dog from Europe should be 
kept at least a fortnight under 
supervision and in quarantine before 
Lying allowed to land ; and no dog 
from Singapore or the East should 
bo allowed to land on any pretence 
whatever, without undergoing a 
o varan tine of six months. The 
disease often GdAcv? a longer 
time to appear after it has been 
contracted by the bite of another 
dog; and six months is therefore not 
too long a. period to quarantine dogs 
coming from a place so thoroughly 
impregnated with rabies and 
hydrophobia as Singapore. We have 
not suffered from this terrible 
disease vet; and it behoves us to 
take every precaution to prevent 
its introduction among us. 
that during that period no dog 
should be allowed to land in Singa- Negapatam on the 25tliult. was deliver 
D O U ES TIC O CC l T. li EXCES. 
DEATH. 
At Kualla Kangsa, of fever, on the 
19th September, Charles T. Wight, of 
Kalimning Estate, Perak, late of Cevlon. 
Ceylon papers please copy. 
BIRTH. 
At Dunbar Hall, on the 22nd instant, 
Mrs. E. M. MoLarty, a son. 
LOCAL A XT) GENERAL. 
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The mail which was despatched via 
is a res oi.osR as follows ;— 
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Do, J months' sight Bank... 
Do. G „ „ Credits 
Dj. G .. Documentary 
Cakulta, Demand Bank 
D< . 30 days’sight Private 
B m.b iy, Demand Bank 
Do. 30 days’sight Private 
Madras, Demand Bank 
Do. 30 days’ sight Private 
Rangoon. 'Demand Bank 
Do. 30days' sight Private 
Moulmein. Demand Bank .. 
Ihmgkong, ,, 
Do. In days’sight Private 
Shanghai, Demand Bank 
Do. ID days’ sight Private 
Buta\ ia, 30 days' sight Private 
Amsterdam. G month’ sight ... 
Singapore. Demand Bank 
Do. 30 days’sight Private 
Lnglish Sovereigns. 
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pore—in fact that for six months no 
dog should be allowed to live in 
Singapore. This seems to us both a 
reasonable and practicable proposal. 
It gets over the objection that many 
people have to the indiscriminate 
destruction of dogs, and gives own¬ 
ers who are really attached to, or 
value their dogs, the opportunity of 
saving them, and ultimately getting 
them back, without risking the 
safety of the public. There are 
certain owners of pet dogs, prin¬ 
cipally Europeans, who say that 
such steps are unnecessary; that the 
proper plan is to raise the tax on 
dogs, and destroy all dogs whose 
owners did not pay that tax. Such a 
proposal should not be entertained. 
It would simply mean this, that the 
poor man’s dog, which is kept for 
use, not for pleasure, would be des¬ 
troyed, while the rich man’s, which is 
only a pet, or at best a ratter, would 
eel in London on Friday, the 20th hist. 
The outward hound P. & O. mail 
steamer Peshawar, with the mails from 
Europe, arrived here on Sunday morn¬ 
ing, and left again in the evening. 
Sii Charles Warren, one of the mem¬ 
bers of the Police Commission, returned 
to Singapore by the P. & O’, mail 
7 J. 
by 
amer Pcshamn 
on Sunday. 
We would call attention to a letter 
published in another column from Mr. 
C. E. deMornny, the Manager of Mala- 
koff Estate, on the subject of coconut 
beetles. It will well repay perusal. 
Mr. A. W. O’Sullivan, formerly Dis¬ 
trict Officer at Balik Pulau, is now 
acting in Singapore for Mr. H. A. 
O’Brien, Postmaster-General, who went 
home on sick leave by the last mail 
steamer. 
The Singapore Free Press says that 
Mr, William Macbean, assistant, secre- ! 
tary of the Straits Insurance Go., is 
going to Loudou to take charge of the 
company’s London office. Mr. Mac- 
beau was formerly Acting Assistant Post¬ 
master-General here. 
W o regret to hear that M. J. K. Birch, 
i Magistrate and Senior District Officer at 
j Butterworth, Province Wellesley, is in 
bad health. He has been granted three 
months’ vacation leave, and will shortly 
] proceed to England. Mr. A. H. Capper, 
j District Officer, Bukit Mertajam, is new 
| doing Mr. Birch’s work in addition to 
his own. 
According to the Singapore Free 
Press , the provisional three years’ 
leases tor four concessions in 
Land ale, Western Borneo, were received 
in Singapore on the I9tli instant. They 
are the property of the Landak Pros¬ 
pecting Syndicate, registered in Singa¬ 
pore as a limited liability company. 
On the arrival of the homeward bound 
P. & 0. steamer Rohllla on Thursday night, 
four Chinese were handed over to tlie 
harbour authorities here. The captain 
reports having seen the men on his way 
from Singapore clinging to the wreck 
of a fongkong, and picked thorn up. 
They stated that they belong to Malacca, 
and have since beep despatched to that 
place. 
The Straits Times reports another 
death from hydrophobia. A Ivling 
barber, who was bitten by a dog in the 
Se rangoon district about a month and a 
half ago, died on the 14-tli instant from 
the effects of the bite. Another man 
who was bitten by the same dog’, and at 
the same time as the barber, is now un¬ 
der treatment. The dog was killed some 
time after the occurrence. 
We learn that on the 28tli of last 
month, a human skeleton was found in 
the jungle about three miles from Pry© 
Estate, Province Wellesley. Notwith¬ 
standing the enquiries since made by 
the police, all that can be ascertained 
about it is that it is the remains of a 
male Mongolian. What caused his 
death the medical authorities cannot 
say ,* neither has any clue to liis identity 
been discovered. 
At the Assizes on Friday, before His 
Honor Mr. Justice Goldney, Kh.oo 
Cheang Chong, late cashier of Messrs. 
Bon stead & Co., was charged with, 1st, 
using as genuine a forged document ; 
2nd, forgery; 3rd, dishonest misappro¬ 
priation ; and 4th, criminal breach of 
* ' ""i. On his arraignment the prisoner 
pleaded guilty to afZ uV. niul was 
sentenced to fifteen months’ rigorous 
imprisonment. 
The Ceylon Observer says regarding 
the Coconut Beetle Bill : — “ The object 
sought is very desirable, but we doubt 
if it can be attained by the heroic legis- 
lation proposed, and the sanction of 
which by the home authorities we doubt. 
The law is open to the objections that 
it might be used as a means of oppres¬ 
sion, and that, if strictly enforced, the 
keeping of manure heaps for the fertiliz¬ 
ation of lands will become impossible.” 
AV itli reference to the case of the 
Chinese who obstructed certain police 
officers and chin ten gs when they were 
going to execute an excise warrant at 
Bukit Cliroh Tohkoon, in Province Wel- 
lesey, on the 9th instant, we are inform¬ 
ed that eight men were arrested and* 
brought before Mr. Capper on Thursday 
last, when one was sentenced to three 
months’ rigorous imprisonment with a 
fine of f>50, and two others to one 
month’s imprisonment each. The rest 
were discharged. Those who were con¬ 
victed have since engaged counsel to 
review the evidence in the case, to see 
if he would not advise an appeal. 
The s. s. Thai Peng which arrived 
from Port Weld on Friday after¬ 
noon, very nearly ran against the 
bank between the Fort and the old 
jetty. She was entering the road¬ 
stead at full speed, and owing, it is be¬ 
lieved, to her having taken too sharp a 
turn, made straight towards the bank. 
Confusion among the sampans and 
other small craft ensued, all making 
way for her in great haste. Nearer and 
nearer shecnme,and a catastrophe seemed 
inevitable. Just, however, about a few 
yards from the shore, she swung round, 
and passed within a few feet of the jetty, 
to the inexpressible relief of all the 
passengers on board, as well as the 
people on shore. 
We note that among the numerous 
applications for the post of assistant 
overseer in the Scavengers’ department 
is one from Mr. Bartlett, our local 
undertaker. It is evident from this that. 
