JOHORE-MALACCA.
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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
JOHOR STEAM SAW MILLS COMPANY.
Johor Baru, near Singapore. Partner-H. H. Ungkoo Abdul Majid
do. Dato James Meldrum, P.M.J. Manager-James Meldrum
Asst.-James Cumming (signs per pro.)
Foreman-Robt. Cameron
Engineer J. M. Hood
Blacksmith--W. Cameron
JOHORE BRICK AND TILE COMPANY. On the Scudie and Danga Rivers, about four miles from Johore Baru.
John Fraser, proprietor
R. W. Fowke, manager
Gibson, C. L., landsurveyor
MISSIONS.
Presbyterian Church of England. Rev. J. A. B. Cook, missionary
MALACCA.
The settlement of Malacca excites more interest from a historical point of view than either of its sister towns, but has so completely fallen to the rear since the establishment of Penang and Singapore as to 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 British Settlements in the East, though the facts that it has given its name to the Peninsula and that it was the cradle of Anglo-Chinese study attest its former importance. Its area is embraced by boundaries some 42 miles in length, with a breadth of from 8 to 25 miles. It is governed by a Resident Councillor in subordina- tion to Singapore.
Its one point of interest is its location as a natural history centre, the majority of its casual visitors being attracted thither for sport or science. Beyond this it possesses no attractions except to those who like to visit scenes famous in the annals of discovery for the bloody fights they bave witnessed between the natives and the European nations who contended for their possession. Its population in 1881 amounted to 93,579 individuals, of whom 52,059 were males and 41,250 females, an increase since 1871 of 15,823. Of these 40 were Europeans, 2,213 Eurasians, 19,741 Chinese, 67,488 Malays, and the remainder various Eastern races. The population was estimated in 1883 at 95,500.
The value of the imports into Malacca in 1884 was $2,964,397 as compared with $4,045,122 in 1883; the exports amounted to $3,060,803 in 1884, and $3,988,412 in 1883. The revenue in 1885 was $290,950, as compared with $288,186 in 1884.
Colonial Government.
DIRECTORY.
RESIDENT COUNCILLOR'S OFFICE. Resident Councillor-Hon. D. F. A. Hervey
(absent)
Acting Resident Councillor-E. E. Ise-
monger
Chief clerk-F. de Souza
Second clerk-L. J. Sheperdson
Third Clerk-F. C. Lazaroo Office keeper A. B. da Silva
Guardian of Stadt House-J. de Rozario Malay writer-Mobamet Jafar
Native States.
Collector and Magistrate-R. N. Bland Clerk-V. Pinto
Malay Writer-Mohd. Husin Clerk of Works-L. J. Cazalas Overseer do. A. Danker