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*BRITISH NORTH BORNEO-LLBUAN
Magistrate-R. H. Chapman
Do. -D. Caton
Cashier and Assistant-E. C. Trotter Malay Writer-Abang Daraham Medical Officer-
Treasury and Customs Department In charge of Treasury-E. C. Trotter Customs Clerk, Kudat-Mohomed
Judicial Department
Judge of District Sessions Court-G. L.
Davies, Kudat
Imaum-Hadji Durhime, Kudat
PROVINCE KEPPEL
Magistrate in charge of Province and Gaya
J. E. G. Wheatley
Treasury and Customs Department In charge of Treasury-H. S. Haynes, J.P.
PROVINCE DENT AND LABUAN Resident--F. G. Callaghan (absent) Acting Resident-E. P. Gueritz Acting Magistrate, Labuan-P. F. Wise Clerk, Batu Batu-E. Clark Magistrate-J. G. G. Wheatley
Treasury and Customs Department In charge C. A. Francis, Mempakol
COMMERCIAL AGENTS B. N. BORNEO Co.
Amoy-Russell & Co.
Brunei-Capt. Tummonggong Kim-
Swee
Hongkong-Birley, Dalrymple & Co. Ningpo-Wadman & Co. Penang-Brown & Co.
Shanghai-Alfred Dent & Co. Singapore-A. L. Johnston & Co. Swatow-Jardine, Matheson & Co.
LABUAN.
This, the smallest British Colony in Asia, was ceded to Great Britain by the Sultan of Brunei in 1846, and taken possession of in 1858. It is situated on the north-west coast of Borneo in latitude 5 deg. 16 min. N., and longitude 115 deg. 15 min. E. It has an area of 30 square miles, and is about six miles from the Borneo coast. Although Labuan possesses a fine port, has extensive coal deposits, and by situation seemed likely to become a depôt for the trade of the north coast of Borneo, it has only partially fulfilled the expectations formed of it. The produce of Brunei finds a market in Labuan, but the volume of the trade is small. The value of the trade in 1887 was- imports, $370,751; exports, $417,551. There are three sago manufactories on the island, where the raw material is converted into flour, for export chiefly to Singapore. Government is now administered by the British North Borneo Company, having been turned over to it by the Imperial Government in 1889. The population is slightly under 6,000, of whom the bulk are Malays. The Chinese, who number over a thousand, are the chief traders, and most of the industries of the island are in their hands. The European population, under twenty in number, consist mainly of Government officials. The revenue is chiefly derived from the farming out of licenses to sell tobacco, spirits, opium, and fish. Mr. C. V. Creagh, Governor of British North Borneo, has been appointed also Governor of Labuan.
No.
Owner.
ESTATES OF BRITISH NORTH BORNEO
Acres.
District.
Product.
The
Names of Managers and Assistants and Agents.
1
Darvel Bay Tobacco
Plantation
...
do.
2 Darvel Bay Co....
3
do.
4 J. Spanjaard
5 W. A. Vos
6 P. H. Tromp
...
***
MAYNE PROVINCE.
3,000 Darvel Bay
Tobacco
•
22,000 Segama River...
do.
2,000 Darvel Bay
do.
...
2,000
do.
...
2,000
6,000 Segama
...
5,000 do.
...
Total...
42,000
do. do.
J. F. Voorwyk, A. P. A. Kissing, Schot, T. A. Fenckinck, H. C. J Strenguaerts, J. A. Bill- ing, E. van Delft, M. H. Knocker
G. F. Stephens, A. Wal-
ker