SELANGOR.
677
(Aboriginal Tribes), total 28,823. Klang-10 Europeans, 2,702 Malays, 643 Chinese, 25 Indians, 76 Sakeis, total 3,456. K. Langat--1 European, 2,819 Malays, 264 Chinese, 14 Indians, 100 Sakeis, total 3,198. U. Langat--1 European, 1,808 Malays, 1,675 Chinese, 211 Sakeis, total 3,695. K. Selangor-2 Europeans, 3,343 Malays, 227 Chinese, total 3,572. U. Selangor-4 Europeans, 1,971 Malays, 1,600 Chinese, 249 Sakeis, total 3,82-t.
RESOURCES, REVENUE, AND TRADE.
The principal industry of the State, and that from which it derives the largest portion of its revenue, is alluvial tin mining, the export of tin for the year 1884 amounting to 76,629 piculs, on which a duy is charged of $3 per picul.
In addition to its mineral resources, the State, however, possesses large tracts of land well adapted for agricultural purposes, and the recent removal of restrictions on the free importation of Indian cooles into the Protected Native States renders it possible for European planters to obtain cheap labour and to open estates on a large scale. Sinall plantations o! Coffee, Cacio, and Pepper have already been successfully commenced, and Rice, Sugar, and other products of the Peninsula under native cultivation, are doing well in various pers of the State, and to encourage pioneer planters, large grants of land have recently been made, on special terms, for the planting of Sago, Pepper, and Gambier.
The following table shows the total annual revenue and expenditure of the State since the year 1876:-
1876. 1877. 1878. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884.
$
Revenue.......
$
$
$ $
$
$
$
$ 193,476 226,853 189,897| 184,387| 215,614 235.227 300,423| 450,664 494,483]
Expenditure
191,174 232,900 187,621 185,723 202,806 234,383 259,081 448,703 514,948
The principal exports are Tin, Hides, Garmwood, Tapioca, Canes, Rattans, and Gutta Percha. The principal imports are Opium, Salt, Salt-fish, Rice, Oil, Tobacco, and Tea, and from the commencement of the year 1885, all duties have been abolished, with the exception of those on Tin and Opium.
There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor, and from Kwala Lumpor a system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Sungie Ujong, and Pahang. A line of metre gauge railway, to connect Kwala Lumpor and Klang (a distance of 22 miles), is now in course of construction, and will probably be open for traffic early in 1886. In connection with the Railway a line of Telegraph is also being erected between the same terminal stations.
DIRECTORY.
GOVERNMENT.
Sultan-His Highness Abdul Samat bin
Abmerhum, Rajah Abdulla
Member-Tunker Panglima Raja, Kan-
chong
do.
-Yap Ah Shak, (Capitain China)
H.B.M. Resident - F.
F. A.
Swettenham
Kwala Lumpor
(absent)
do.
Raja Hassan, Klang
Acting
do.
Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpor
do.
Syed Zris, Klang
do. -J. P. Rodger
MEMBERS OF STATE COUNCIL. President-H. H. The Sultan, Jagra Langat Member-The Resident of Selangor
do.
-The Chief Magistrate Kwala
Lumpor
do. Raja Kabar, Kajang
KWALA LUMPOR.
RESIDENCY.
Resident-F. A. Swettenham (absent) Acting Resident-J. P. Rodger Chief Clerk-A. W. Fenner Second Clerk-
Chinese Clerk and Inter.-Chan Ah Thong
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