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SINGAPORE PENANG
OFFICES
AGENTS
Phoenix Assurance Co., Ld....
Queen's Insurance Company, Limited.
Queensland Insurance Company, Limited...
Reliance Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Liverpool
Royal Exchange Insurance Corpn. ... Royal Exchange Assurance......
Royal Insurance Co.......
Salvage Association, Liverpool
Salvage Association, London
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Scottish Amicable Life Insurance Company
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Scottish Union and National Insurance Company Semarang Sea and Fire Insurance Company Shanghai Life Insurance Co., Ld.
South British Insurance Co., Ld. Standard Life Assurance Co. State Fire Insurance Company
Sun Insurance Office, London
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Switzerland General Insurance Co., Zurich
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Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Co.,Ld., L'don. Tokyo Marine Insurance Company, Limited... Triton Insurance Company, Limited Union Assurance Society, Ld., London Union Assurance Society, Ld.
Union Insurance Society of Canton.
Union Marine Insurance Company, Limited... Union Marine Assurance Company, Limited Union of Paris (Fire Insurance Company).. Western Assurance Co.
Western Assurance Co. (Sub-agency) World Marine Insurance Co., Ld.
World Marine and General Insurance Co., Ltd.,
Yangtsze Insurance Association, Limited Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Guthrie & Co., Ld.
Hooglandt & Co.
McAlister & Co., Ld.
Travers, Joseph & Sons, Ltd. Barlow & Co.
Weare & Co., Ld.
Boustead & Co. Syme & Co.
Syme & Co.
Paterson, Simons & Co., Ld. Syme & Co.
Hooglandt & Co.
P. J. Fitzgerald, res. manager J. Henry, local manager Adamson, Gilfillan & Co., Ld. Behr & Co.
Brinkmann & Co. S. J. Howe, manager Hooglandt & Co. Brinkmann & Co.
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Ld. Guthrie & Co., Ld. H. Wolskel & Co. W. A. Sims, manager W. E. Schmidt, agent Barlow & Co. Boustead & Co. Moine-Comte & Co.
Guthrie & Co., Ld.
Rigold, Bergmann & Co., sub-agts. Vade & Co.
R. Sassoon & Co.
Adamson, Gilfillan & Co., Ld. Travers, Joseph & Sons, Ltd.
PENANG
Penang, or Prince of Wales Island, as it was formerly called, is situated on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula in 5 deg. north latitude. With the Dindings and a strip of land on the opposite coast known as Province Wellesley, from which it is separated by a Strait varying from 2 to 10 miles in width, it constitutes the second in importance of the three governments known as the "Straits Settlements." The island contains an area of about 107 square miles, being 15 miles long and 9 broad at its widest portions, while Province Wellesley extends for a distance of 45 miles along th , and has an average
width of 8 miles, containing 270 square miles, and about 200 more for the Dindings. The chief town of Penang is George Town, but the naine of the island (which signifies "Betel-nut Island") has become so identified with the town that the specific designation has almost dropped out of use.
Penang was ceded to the famous Captain Light for the East India Company in the year 1786 for an annual payment of $10,000 to the Rajah of Kedah, a step which was followed 13 years later by the cession of Province Wellesley. In the year 1805 Penang was elevated to the rank of a presidency, its rising fortunes even then bidding fair to eclipse those of Malacca, while Singapore was as yet unknown as a settlement. In 1826 Singapore and Malacca were incorporated with Penang, and the three were designated by the title they still retain. But as the fortunes of Singapore brightened, those of Penang declined, until the former quite overshadowed her older sister, and in 1837 the principal seat of government was transferred to Singapore.