JOHORE-MALACCA.
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Bandar Maharanee.
Teacher-Inchi Omar B. Imbob
Padang.
Teacher-Inchi Daud B. Mahmood.
RESIDENCIES. Muar (West Cost). Naeb (Resident) -Ungkoo Suliman Hakim (Judge)-Hadji Othman Supdt, of Police-Ungkoo Othman Assist. do. -Ungkoo Makmood Chief Inspector-Inchi Hassan Inspector-Inchi Awang
Chief Clerk and Registrar-Inchi Abdul-
lah B. Saleh
Second Clerk-Inchi M. Yassain Third do. Inchi Awang B. Bachok Chinese do. and Interpreter-Keng Huat Apothecary in charge of Govt. Chinese Hospital-Abdul Rahman B. Abdullah
Paret Jawa.
Asst. Naëb (Resident)-Inchi Mahmood Indau (East Const).
Naëb (Resident)-Inchi Mohamed Allie
Bin Khamis
Assistant-Hadje Abdul Latip Clerk-Inchi Abubakar B. Mat
West Coast and Islands.
Penggawa Kanan (Commissioner)—Inchi
Abdul Samat B. Ibrahim
Sadili and East Coast Islands. Penggawa Kiri (Commissioner)—Inchi
Jaffar B. Nong Yahya
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Chief-The Datu Bintara Dalam Acting Superintendent-Inchi M. Hassan Clerk-Inchi Ahmad B. Hashim Foreman-Inchi Abdul Rahman
OPIUM AND SPIRIT FARM. Farmers-Chew Seng Jong, Lee Chin
Thuan
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
JOHORE CLUB,
President Jaffar bin Hadjee Mahomed
(The Datu Muntri)
Committee-Howard E. Bentley, E. E. Everett, W. F. Garland, Metcalfe Lar- ken, The Datu Muntri, T. Rowson Ker Hon. Secretary-T. Rowson Ker
JOHORE PLANTING ASSOCIATION, Chairman-R. W. Fowke Committee-Abdul Rahman Bin Andak W. W. Bailey, Datu Bintara Dalam, T.. Parry, J. R. Watson
Hon. Secretary-C. L. Gibson
JOHORE STEAM SAW MILLS COMPANY. Johore Bahru, near Singapore. Partner-H. H. Ungkoo Abdul Majid
do. -James Meldrum Manager James Meldrum Asst.-James Cumming (signs per pro.)
JOHORE TIN STREAMING CO., LIMITED. Managing Director, Johore-Č. Vercoe Assistant-T. S. Chapel
do. -J. Harper
JOHORE BRICK AND TILE COMPANY. On the Scudie and Danga Rivers, about four miles from Johore Baru. John Fraser, proprietor R. W. Fowke, manager John Bain, engineer
Gibson, C. L., landsurveyor
Maynard & Co., Limited, chemists, store- keepers and aerated waters manufac- tures; "Straits Dispensary," Johore Bahru
H. R. Maynard, general manager
MALACCA.
The settlement of Malacca excites more interest from a historical point of view than either of its sister towns, but bas so completely fallen to the rear since the establishment of Penang and Singapore as io merit but brief notice in this compila- tion. Seldom visited by foreigners except for relaxation, its white population, including the troops stationed there, seldom reaches fifty individuals, the actual residents numbering only six or seven. Originally settled by the Portuguese in 1511, it retained its importance as the one foreign entrepôt in the East until the founding of Penang, when its fortunes rapidly declined. At the present moment it is the least European of all our Settlements in the East, though the facts that it has given its name to the