Newspapers-Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register-1827 to 1831
This dataset is a list of digitised out-of-copyright newspaper articles from the National Library, Singapore.
These materials present a valuable resource on Singapore’s history, art and culture, digitised as part of an endeavour to preserve and provide better access to resources located within the library to enable users to explore and discover these resources.
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Newspaper title | Issue id | Issue date | Edition | Page id | Page number | Article id | Article title | Article text 1st50words | Contributor |
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| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.1 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.1 | Masthead | THURSDAY, January 4tb, 1827. Public Notifications appearing in this Register, and signed by the proper Authorities, are to he considered as official. NO. 73 SINGAPORE CHRONICLE. | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.1 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.2 | SINGAPORE | SINGAPORE 4 JANUARY 1826. The Lalla Rookh from England, Madras, Penang, arrived here yesterday. Yesterday our long expected Resident, Mr. Prince, landed from the Lalla Rookh, under the usual salute. Six hundred Madras troops had arrived at Penang to relieve the 65th Bengal Native Infantry. The Bengal troops, now here, | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.1 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.3.1 | Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 | Advertisements Mr. John Francis most respectfully begs leave to inform the Public that he has taken into Partnership Peter Francis Douwe, and the business from Ist. January will be carried on under the firm of John Francis Co. and every attention shall be paid to those Gentlemen who may visit | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.2 | 2 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.4 | ENGLAND. | ENGLAND. By the Lalla Rookh we have received English Papers to the 18th of July, and a briet precis of 'their contents may be acceptable to such of our vea tiers as have not access to fuller sources oi information. The late stagnation of trade is a subject of great | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.2 | 2 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.5 | SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES. | SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES. The Papers have recently announced the death of Sir Stamford Raffles. He was not of the order of men to he dismissed with a brief notice, l ew men, at his time oflife, have descended to the grav who have done their country so much service, and | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.3 | 3 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.6 | CORRDSPONDENCE. | CORRDSPONDENCE. Calcutta llth Sept. 1826 Mr. Editor, \ou have been in the practice of stating in your Price Current that the weight of the Gold Bunka is 712 grains troy, but having occasiojn to know from my commercial transactions with your Settlement that tue usage of your Trade is otherwise | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270104-1 | 4 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270104-1.1.3 | 3 | singchronicle18270104-1.2.7 | SHIPPING. | S HIPPING. Arrivals and SSepariures* ARRIVED. DECEMBER. 21st Portuguese Bug Espcranca, A. J. Barradas from Macao 52th December. 22:id British Ship Pascoa, H. Cathroe from China 14th December. Br.tish Ship Corsair, D. II. Petree from Manilla 15th December. 25th British Ship Mediterranean, J. Stephens from Calcutta 29th November. 20th British | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270118-1 | 18 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270118-1.1.1 | 1 | singchronicle18270118-1.2.1 | Masthead | SINGAPORE CHRONICLE. NO. 74 THURSDAY, January 18th, 1827. Public Notifications appearing in this Register, and signed by the proper Authorities, are to be considered as official. | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270118-1 | 18 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270118-1.1.1 | 1 | singchronicle18270118-1.2.2 | No. 12. GOVERNMENT. NOTIFICATION. | No. 12. GOVERNMENT. NOTIFICATION. The public are hereby informed that all Persons holding Lands on the Island of Singapore, under Grants issued by Sir T.S. Raffles, Lieut, Governor, or under authority of Location Tickets received from the late Resident Mr. Crawfurd, and who have complied with the conditions of the | NA |
| Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register | singchronicle18270118-1 | 18 January 1827 | 1 | singchronicle18270118-1.1.1 | 1 | singchronicle18270118-1.2.3 | NOTICE | NOTICE THE FRIENDS OF THE LATE SIR T. S. RAFFLES, anxious to commemorate the Services which he has rendered this Settlement, beg leave respectfully to inform the European and Native Inhabitants of Singapore that having received permission to erect a monument on Government Hill to his Memory a Subscription list | NA |
Column legend
| Title | Column name | Data type | Unit of measure | Description |
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| Newspaper title | newspaper_title | Text | - | Title of newspaper |
| Issue id | issue_id | Text | - | Issue ID |
| Issue date | issue_date | Text | - | Issue date |
| Edition | edition | Text | - | Edition |
| Page id | page_id | Text | - | Page ID |
| Page number | page_number | Text | - | Page number |
| Article id | article_id | Text | - | Article ID |
| Article title | article_title | Text | - | Title of article |
| Article text 1st50words | article_text_1st50words | Text | - | First 50 words of the article text |
| Contributor | contributor | Text | - | Contributor- an entity that made contributions to the article |
Sample OpenAPI query
This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the first 100 rows from this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the
.import requests base_url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search" url = base_url + "?resource_id=d_0d77d715e4db728f806bd01f7ba0371a" response = requests.get(url) print(response.json())
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