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foster the feeling of security that now prevails, and thus tend to develop the resources of the Peninsula.
I have, &c. (Signed)
A. CLARKE.
Inclosure in No. 96.
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No. 97.
Governor Sir Andrew Clarke, K.C.M.G., to the Earl of Carnarvon.-~(Received August 3.) (No. 202.) My Lord,
Government House, Penang, June 27, 1874.
WITH reference to the seventh paragraph of your Lordship's despatch No. 64 of the 29th ultimo,* I have the honour to inform your Lordship that I have every reason to believe that the action taken by the Commissioners appointed under Clause 13 of the Engagement entered into by the Chiefs of Perak, as reported in my despatch No. 63 of the 4th March, 1874, has been so far final and satisfactory; and that the settlement then made has not since been called in question by either party.
2. In my despatch No. 195 of the 16th instant, your Lordship will have seen the impression made on Mr. Birch on witnessing the relations that now exist between these two lately rival factions; and I transmit herewith an extract from the Diary of Mr. Swettenham, Collector of Inland Revenue, who was a Member of the Commission above alluded to, and who recently passed through Laroot on a Mission to Upper Perak.
3. I also forward two further copies of the Report† of the Commissioners, with the journal of their proceedings.
Inclosure in No. 97.
I have, &c.
(Signed) A. CLARKE.
Extract from Mr. Swettenham's Diary.
June 11, 1874.—I BREAKFASTED with
mines with
and then went up to the
deal of ground, and everything appeared very quiet and prosperous. There are about having hired an elephant for the purpose. We went over a good 5,000 men at work at Kamunting, on the Si Kwan side, and more than that number of Go Kwans on their side.
They all looked forward to the going out of the tin, when they said they would make plenty of money. There is a laudable rivalry between both clans as to which will send out tin first; the Si Kwans said they hoped to be first.
No. 98.
Governor Sir Andrew Clarke, K.C.M.G., to the Earl of Carnarvon.—(Received August 3.) (No. 203.) My Lord,
WITH reference to the concluding paragraph of your Lordship's despatch No. 64 of -
Government House, Penang, June 27, 1874. the 29th ultimo, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that, after an interval of more than four months, I can now state with every confidence that the proceedings taken by this Government in its intervention in the affairs of Salangore have had a most salutary, and I trust will continue to have a permanent, effect.
• No. 90.
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