THE NEGRI SEMBILAN—SELANGOR
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HOOPER, F. L., Surveyor
Jelebu Club
Hon. Secretary-John Gardner
JELEBU MINING COMPANY
J. W. Gunn, manager
R. C. Petherbridge, assistant manager The Straits Trading Co., Ld., agents
· JELEBU MINING AND TRADING CO., LD.: Tel.
Ad. Sumadahı
L. W. Money, manager, Maliwun
J. Gardner, do., Jelebu B. G. Roberts, prospector
J. Smith,
do.
Huttenbach Bros. & Co., agents, S'pore L. W. Stork, agent, Port Dickson and
Seramban
SELANGOR
This protected native state, containing an area of about 3,000 square miles, lies on the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, and is bounded by the protected native states of Perak on the north and Sungie Ujong on the south, extending inland to the mountains in the centre of the peninsula, which divide it from Pahang and Jelebu.
The Government consists of the Sultan, advised by the British Resident, and assisted by the State Council. The State is divided into the following six Districts:- 1. Kwala Lumpur, the central district where the Residency and principal Governinent Offices are situated, and which also contains the richest tin mines that have yet been developed. 2.-Klang, the principal port, situated about 14 miles from the mouth of the Klang River. 3.--Kwala Langat, an agricultural district, in which the Sultan resides. 4.-Kwala Selangor, containing the most important fisheries in the State. 5.-Ulu Langat, an inland mining district on the borders of Sungie Ujong. 6.-Ulu Selangor, a district adjoining Perak, containing much valuable mining land, as yet. comparatively undeveloped.
Each district is under the charge of a European District Officer, from whom the Native Penghulus (in charge of the mukims into which each District is subdivided) receive instructions. The Police Force consists of a superintendent, two European inspectors, and 650 native non-commissioned officers and men, including 227 Sikhs.
The population of Selangor in 1884, when the first census was taken, was 46,568 According to the census taken in April, 1891, the total population of the State amounted to 81,592 persons, of whom 50,844 were Chinese, 23,750 Malays, 3,592 Indians, 1,224 Sarkeis (aboriginal tribes), 357 Europeans and Eurasians, and the remainder Arabs, Singhalese, Bataks, &c. In 1894 the population was estimated at 150,000, and a considerable increase took place in 1895.
The principal industry of the State, and from which it derives the largest portion of its revenue, is alluvial tin mining, on which a duty is charged of $12 per bhara (three piculs). The export in 1895 amounted to 420,088, as against 375,337 piculs in 1894.
In addition to its mineral resources the State, however, possesses large tracts of land well adapted for agricultural purposes, and the recent removal of restrictions on the free importation of Indian coolies into the Protected Native States renders it possible for European planters to obtain cheap labour and to open estates on a large scale. Small plantations of coffee, cocoa, and pepper have already been successfully commenced, and rice, sugar, and other products of the Peninsula under native cultivation are doing well in various parts of the State, and to encourage pioneer planters, large grants of land have recently been made, on special terms, for the planting of sago, pepper, and gambier.
The revenue amounted in 1895 to $3,805,211 and the expenditure to $3,083,386. The value of the imports in 1895 amounted to $10,759,123, as against $12,925,602 in 1894, and of the exports in same year to $13,955,803 as against $12,139,686 in 1894.
The principal exports are tin, hides, garmwood, tapioca,, canes, rattans, and gutta percha. The principal imports are opium, salt, salt-fish, rice, oil, tobacco, and tea. At the commencement of the year 1885, all duties were abolished, with the exception of those on tin, opium, and spirits.
There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor, and from Kwala Lumpor a system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Sungie Ujong, and Pahang. A line of metre gauge railway, to connect Kwala Lumpor and Klang (a distance of 22 miles) was formally opened by Sir F. Weld on the 15th Sept., 1886, and at the close of 1895 there were seventy miles of line open and fourteen miles under