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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