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broad at entrance; also a slip for vessels 100 feet long. George Town is built on a plain, at the back of which rises the hill which, as Penangites declare, renders life on the island endurable. The town possesses few attractions, and the public buildings are mediocre, with the exception of the Government Offices, a fine new block erected in 1889 near the wharf. St. George's Church is an unpretending edifice centrally situated. There is also a Roman Catholic Church and several mission chapels. The census of 1891 gave the total population of Penang and Province Wellesley as 227,368 as compared with 190,597 in 1881. The population of Penang island was 120,150, that of George Town 85,000, and of Province Wellesley 107,218. The value of the imports in 1891 was $10,341,677 as against $43,788,400 in 1890, and that of exports $41,436,222 as against $41,349,247 in 1890.
DIRECTORY
For Government Departments see under G.) | BARTLETT, RIDLEY, Undertaker, Uphol- sterer, Gun, Lock and Blacksmith, 31B, ALEXANDRA HOTEL, Waterfall Road
Leith Street
ALLEN & KENNEDY, Brokers, Commission Agents and Accountants, Logan's Build- ings, Beach Street
Whitworth Allen J. Y. Kennedy
R. Laird, signs per pro.
Agencies
Insulinde Fire Insurance Co., Batavia Reuter's Telegram Company, Limited Selama Tin Mining Company, Ld. Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Ld. Temoh Gold Hills, Limited
ALMA ESTATE, Province Wellesley
Padday, Tennant & Co., agents R. H. J. Waller, manager
ANTHONY & Co., A. A., Merchants, 56,
Beach Street
Joseph M. Anthony
Seth Anthony
G. B. Nonis
Mahomed Sultan
Agencies
Apcar & Co.'s Steamers
Douglas Steamship Co., Limited Reliance Marine Insurance Office China Fire Insurance Company, Ld. Commercial Union Assurance Co.
ANTHONY, G., Advocate and Solicitor, 3,
Beach Street
Chan Heang Thoy
BAKER, Mrs. L., Confectioner and Baker,
33, Leith Street
BARKER, DR., 18, Beach Street
BARNETT & Co., Timber Merchants, 305,
Bridge Street
BARNETT, C. W., A.M.I.C.E., Civil and Con-
sulting Engineer, Logan's Buildings
BATUKAWAN SUGAR ESTATE, PROVINCE
WELLESLEY
Col. A. M. Brown, R. A. H. Aylesbury, Hon. J. M. Vermont, J. A. Brown, Executors of Estate L. Nairne, pro- prietors
Hon. J. M. Vermont, manager
A. F. Vermont, assistant manager H. Cowdell, engineer
M. V. de Souza, apprentice
S. Bondville, P. Jeremiah, overseers Hallifax & Co., agents, Penang
do.
BEHN, MEYER & Co., Merchants
Arnold Otto Meyer (Hamburg) Ed. Lorenz Mayer, Otto Mühry (Dresden) W. Edelmann (Singapore)
Eng. Engler, signs per pro. O. Eckert
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
Navigazione Generale Italiana Deutsch Austr. Dampschifffahrt Ges. Allan Line Royal Mail Steamers North China Insurance Company North Britishand Mercantile Insce. Co.
BLAZE & Co., Chemists Druggists, and
Commission Agents, 18, Beach Street
D. S. Blaze
J. Farrell
Joseph, storekeeper
BOUSTEAD & Co., Merchants, Weld Quay
Jasper Young (London)
T. Cuthbertson, do.
I. Henderson,
do.
J. R. Cuthbertson (Singapore)
J. Finlayson,
do.
Robt, Yeats, sig.3 per pro. Geo. Macbain
A. Kerr
F. A. Callaway