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SELANGOR.

F. A. Toynbee, manager Saw Mills Selangor Volunteer Fire Brigade

Klang

A. Grant Mackie, manager, C. T. Wright, assistant W H. Tate, civil engineer

Perak

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J. Pereira, assistant

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F. G West,

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Lower Perak

T. McCarthy, do. C. D. Holmes, do.

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.R. Ayre,

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Sungei Ujong Malacca

Mackie & Stewart, contractors

W. D. Mackie

L. A. Stewart

J. Foster

B. D. Preena

Rawang Tin Mining Co.

Jardine, Math son & Co., owners John Muir, manager

C. M. Allen, consulting engineer W. R. Scott & Co., agents, Singapore

Selangor Club, Kwala Lumpor

Committee-J. P. Rodger, president; H. C. B-field, vice-president; H. F. Bel- lamy, V. R. Wi kwar, F. Chauntler, A. C. Norman, A. R. Venning, hon. secretary

H. F. Be lamy, captain

F. W. Hill, A. C. Norman, lieutenants J. W. Rogers, secretary

Selangor Padi and Sago Planting Co.,

Limited, Klang

Yap Ah Shac (Captain China), Lim

Teek Yong, directors

Syed Zin bin Syed Puteh, manager

and general agent

Selangor Tin Mining Co., of Shanghai W. V. Drummond, chairman C. J. Dudgeon, secretary, Shanghai E. S. G. Aitkinson, ve eral manager Q. H. Stephens, assistant

Straits Dispensary Branch, Market Square, Kwala Lumpor; Maynard & Co., Id. H. R. Maynard, general manager

II. O. Maynard, manager in charge Agents Ocean Steamship Co.

Stephenson, Walter, pepper planter, Klang

PERAK.

Perak is on the west coast of the Malayan peninsula, and lies between Kedah on the north and Selangor on the south. It extends along the coast for about 90 miles, and includes, inland, the greater part of the watershed of the Perak river and its tributaries, and of the Krian and Bernam rivers. The seat of government, and the residence of H.M.'s Resident, is Kwala Kangsa, on the Perak river. The chief town and centre of the mining industry is Thaipeng, in the province of Larut, which is connected with Kwala Kangsa by a carriage road and line of telegraph (distance about 23 miles).

The state is under British protection and the government is carried on under the Raja Muda as Regent, aided and advised by the Resident, and a Council consisting of the Resident and Assistant Resident, and several native chiefs. A Military Police Force of 500 men, mainly Sikhs and Pathans, is maintained. The most important province of Perak is Larut, which has tin deposits of great richness within a few miles of the sea-coast. It is thus most advantageously situated in respect of commercial intercourse with the British port of Penang, which is about 50 miles off. Larut is under the charge of the Assistant Resident, and its chief town, Thaipeng, is the head-quarters of the Military Police, and of the chief departments of the State. British Officers (Magistrates and Collectors) and detachments of Police are also stationed in other important districts. The Dindings, including the island of Pangkor and the district of Dinding on the mainland, which is British territory, come under the administration of the Resident of Perak. In the interior of Perak, except in mining districts, the population is almost entirely Malay, the exceptions being a few Chinese shopkeepers, and the Government establishments, police, &c. At Larut, and at the chief mining settlements in the interior, Kinta, Batang, Padang, &c., the Chinese form a large part of the population, and may be roughly estimated at 40,000,