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PENANG.
The settlement of Penang is nominally governed by a Lieut-Governor (future occupants of the post are to be termed Resident Councillors), but is in effect an appanage of Singapore, a resident merchant representing it in the Singapore Council. An important department of its trade lies in the business transacted with the Dutch settlements in Sumatra, and much excitement was caused during the Acheen war, by what its merchants deemed the undue restrictions placed on their trade by the Dutch authorities. Penang will always remain of certain importance, although it is not likely to again assume the position in the commercial world it formerly held. It is much looked to as an emigration centre for the labour required by the Dutch planters at Acheen and elsewhere. It is a convenient coaling and man-of-war station, and is of yet greater necessity as the virtual seat of government as regards Province Wellesley, which when the Peninsula is placed under British protection, as it must, sooner or later, be, will be an important centre of British influence. 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 shops, chiefly kept by Babas, or native-born Chinese, are fairly well supplied with necessaries. The census of 1881 gave 190,597 as the population, in which return, however, were included the population of Province Wellesley and the Dindings.
DIRECTORY.
Colonial Government.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
Ineut.-Governor-Major General A. E. H.
Anson, C.M.G. (absent)
Acting Governor-Major J. F. A. McNair,
C.M.G.
Chief Clerk-W. Dragon Second do. -S. F. Aeria
Third do. -J. A. Thomas
Fourth do.
Kader Imail
Fifth do. W. McK. Young
Malay Writer-Mohamed Hashim
SUPREME COURT.
Judge- T. L. Wood
Clerk-R. D. W. Hall
Registrar-Walter Clution
Deputy Registrar-J. W. N. Kyshe Senior Clerk-Conolly Stewart 2nd
do. Jno. Joseph Jambu
3rd do. Palmer
Tamil Interpreter-John Henry Lincoln 1st Malay Intptr.-William Balbetchet
2nd
do. -Charles Nelligan
Chinese do. -Lee Ayoon
COURT OF REQUESTS.
Senior Commissioner-F. II. Gottlich
Second
do.
-H. A. O'Brien Acting Third do. E. C. Hill
Chief Clerk-J. Gawthorne Second do.-P. A. Gregory Third do. R. R. Robless Tamil Interpreter-Mahd. Hashim Chinese do. -Oh Chin Seng Bailiff-R. P. Jeremiah
Under Bailiffs-Meah Khan, Mahomed
Ally
Process Servers--Kader Puckir, Abdul
Kader
POLICE COURT.
Senior Magistrate-C. W. Sneyd Kyn-
nersley
Second do. -H. A. O'Brien
Magistrate Province Wellesley-E. S. Ise-
monger
Chief Clerk-S. Leicester
Second do.-A. A. Surin
Third do.-
Fourth do.-A. Divinada Pillay
Fifth
do.-A. C. Thomas
Sixth do.-Jerome Reutens
Seventh do.-A. Jambu
Malay Interpreter-Che Mat
Tamil Interpreters-Shaik Meydin, Ka-
ther Meydin
Chinese Interpreters-Oh Koon Choon,
Chan Lye Seng