SELANGOR-NEGRI SEMBILAN
F.M.S.; Teleph. 2, Batu Caves; Cable Ad: Wilproco, Batu Caves
Registered Office: Harrisons, Barker
& Co., Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S. Directors-H. B.
B. Egmont Hake, (chairman), W. E. Wallis, J. B. Leask and B. Wilkinson (mana- ging director)
G. B. Walker, manager J. B. Sidebottom
WONG KEE & Co., Wholesale and Retail,
Wine, Spirit and Provision Merchants- 199-203, High Street, Kuala Lumpur; Teleph. 2493; Cable Ad: Wongkee
Tay Koong Ooi, manager
WORLD'S
END ESTATE-Postal Add: Lumut, Dindings, Perak. Distance from Railway Station: (Taiping) 43 Miles
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Proprietor-E. L. Watson, J.P. Acreage Total 100, Cultivated
(Rubber) 50
YONG SHOOK LIN, M.A., LL.B. (Cant.) Advocate, Solicitor, F.M.S. & S.S., Notary Public-47, Cross Street, Kuala Lumpur; Teleph. 2574; Cable Shooklin, Kuala Lumpur
Ad:
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION—
(See Associations and Societies)
YUKON PACIFIC MINING
MINING Co. (Incor- porated in U.S.A.)-Head Office: 120, Broadway, New York; F.M.S. Office: 4th Mile, Ampang Road, Kuala Lumpur; Teleph. 54; P.O. Box 292; Cable Ad: Yukon
G. W. Coffey, manager
NEGRI SEMBILAN
(The value of the dollar is 2s. 4d.)
(A pikul is 133 pounds av.) GEOGRAPHY, INCLUDING CLIMATE AND HISTORY
The State of Negri Sembilan, the smallest of the Federated Malay States, lies on the West Coast of the Malay Peninsula to the south of the States of Selangor and Pahang. It is in fact a federation of "Nine States", consisting of the four major States of Sungei Ujong, Jelebu, Johol and Rembau, and the five minor States of Ulu Muar, Jempul, Terachi, Gunong Pasir and Inas. Sungei Ujong is mentioned in a Javanese poem in
A.D., as being subject to the Javanese Empire of Majapahit. In the 15th century it was ruled by Chiefs of the old kingdom of Malacca. Most of the Malay inhabitants of the States are descended from immigrants from Menangkabau in Sumatra, and have an interesting exogamous, tribal and matriarchal social organisation.
This immigration appears to have begun in the 16th century. The original Malay federation seems to have consisted of Sungei Ujong, Klang (now in Selangor), Jelebu, Rembau, Naning (now in Malacca), Segamat (now in Johore), Pasir Besar (now in Johore, its place having been taken by Johol), Johol, (now Inas) and Ulu Pahang (now partly in the Temerloh District of Pahang). After the capture of Malacca from the Portuguese by the Dutch and Johore Malays in 64 A.D., Johore took a leading part in Negri Sembilan politics until 1773 A.D., when the Undang or Chiefs of the present four major States invited a Sumatra prince Raja Melewar, ancestor of the present Yang Di-Pertuan Besar to preside over the federation.
In 1874 the Dato' Klana, Undang of Sungei Ujong, the most important of the nine States invited the assistance of the British Government to maintain his rule, and a British Resident was appointed.
In 1883, Jelebu applied for a British Officer, and Rembau agreed to refer all its disputes to the British Government, and in 1887 accepted a British Adviser.
In 1889, the Yang Di-Pertuan of Sri Menanti who no longer effectively presided over the whole of Negri Sembilan, the Rulers of Tampin (a small principality which had come into existence to the east of Rembau) and Rembau asked for a Resident and agreed to a confederation known as "The Old Negri Sembilan". In 1895, the Resident of this con- federation took charge of Sungei Ujong and of Jelebu, and the modern Negri Sembi- lan was constituted. Finally in 1898, the Yang Di-pertuan of Sri Menanti was elected titular Ruler of the whole State.
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