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in dried and salted fish are encouraging. A trade with Australia has already commenced. Amongst the zoological productions of Sabah are to be noted elephants, rhinoceros, deer of three kinds, buffalo (Bos Ghaur as well as Bos Banleng probably), pigs, bears, &c. There are pythons of 20 feet and upwards in length, but other snakes, particularly poisonous varieties, are very rare.

Of game birds there are a few, Argus, Fire back, and Bulwer pheasants, three sorts of partridges, many pigeons and doves, snipe and quail.

Elopura, in the magnificent harbour of Sandakan, is the chief place of trade. The imports include cloth, rice, hardware, manufactured goods of all kinds, opium, Chinese tobacco, Chinese coarse crockery, matches, biscuits (a great many biscuits are consumed by the numerous produce collecting parties up country), oil, sugar, &c. The chief exports from Sabah are rattans, gutta-percha, india-rubber, birdsnests, seed pearls, trepang, sharksfins, camphor, tortoiseshell, dried cuttle fish, beeswax, and other natural products. These are brought in from the numerous rivers, the neighbouring Sulu Archipelago, &c. The imports and exports for 1885 represen ted a trade of over $1,000,000 as compared with $743,000 in 1884. The revenue in 1885 was $110,256 as compared with $82,267 in 1884.

The territory of Sabah was acquired from the Sultans of Brunei and Sulu by cession for a small annual payment in 1879-80, and the British North Borneo Com- pany was incorporated by Royal Charter on the 1st November, 1881.

DIRECTORY.

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Incorpor by Royal Charter, 7th November, 1881.

COURT OF DIRECTORS, LONDON. Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., chairman Admiral A. C. Mayne, C.B., vice-chairman John Cunliffe

Alfred Dent

Edward Dent

John D. Dewhurst

Rt. Hon. Lord Elphinstone,

Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, G.C.B. Richard B. Martin, M.P.

. Philip A. Myburgh, Q.C.

Assistant Manager-W. M. Crocker Secretary-Benjamin T. Kindersley Offices 4 & 6, Throgmorton Avenue,

London, E.C.

Governor and Commander-in-chief

Hon. William Hood Treacher

Private Secretary

Clerk-A. R. J. Dunlop

EAST COAST DISTRICT.

Colonial Secretary-Malcolm J. Brown

do. -L. B. von Donop

Acting

Chief Clerk-A. R. J. Dunlop Clerk-P. F. J. Marcus Malay Writer-Inchi Yusoff

SANDAKAN. Resident's Office.

Resident of East Coast-W. B. Pryer Chief Clerk-P. F. J. Marcus Malay Writer and Interpreter-Inchi

Buyong

Treasury.

Treasurer and Auditor General-A. Cook Asst. Treasurer and

Wilson

Cashier-H. B. Dunlop

Accountant-J.

Clerk-Tan Swee Hymn

District Court.

Judge-W. B. Pryer

Do. L. B. von Donop

Registrar-P. F. J. Marcus

Magistracy.

Magistrate-Dr. J. H. Walker Clerk-P. F. J. Marcus

Chinese Interpreter-G. Tek Seng

Land and Survey Dept.

Commissioner of Lands-H. Walker Assist. Surveyor-J. Robertson

Clerk and Acconntant-E. N. M. Ashness Draughtsman-Pong Chu On

Public Works Department.

Superintendent―J. Robertson

Harbour and Postal Dept.

Harbour and Postmaster-W. R. Flint Clerk-Inchi Yusoff