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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