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in dried and salted fish are encouraging. A trade with Australia has already com- menced. Amongst the zoological productions of North Borneo are to be noted elephants, rhinoc ros, deer of three kinds, buffalo (Bos Ghaur as well as Bos Banteng prolably), 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 aud doves, snipe and quail.
Sandakan has a magnificent harbour and 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 an exports for 1888 represented a trade of $1,787,873.51 as compared with $1,494,897, in 1887. The revenue in 1888 was $148,286, and the expenditure $195,511, but that of 1889 was expected to show a balance of $2,000 on the right side. Tobacco-planting promises to become a great and profitable industry. Several companies have been formed, and the tobacco already raised has secured a market in Amsterdam. The price of land has doubled in consequence.
The territory of British North Borneo was acquired from the Sultans of Brunei and Sulu by cession for a small annual payment in 1879-80, and the British North Borneo Company was incorporated by Royal Charter on the 1st November, 1881. The area of the territory is 31,106 square miles, and the population in 1889 was estimated at 150,000. In May, 1888, a Brilish Protectorate was established.
DIRECTORY.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COM-
PANY.
Incorporated 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
Sir Alfred Dent, K.C.M.G. 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. Manager-W. M. Crocker Secretary-Benjamin T. Kindersley Offices-London, E.C. 15, Leadenhall St. Governor and Commander-in-chief
Hon. Charles Vandeleur Creagh
Acting Goverment Secretary-L. P.
Beaufort
Departmental Assistant-E. F. Skertehly Clerk--R. L. Finck
Malay Writer and Interpreter-Md.
Yacob
EAST COAST DISTRICT, SANDAKAN.
Protectorate.
Protector of Coolies, &c.-W. B. Pryer
Treasury.
Treasurer and Auditor General-A. Cook Assistant Treasurer and Auditor-J. W.
Wilson
Do. -W. B. Penney Cashier-C. A. da Silva Clerk-Tan Swee Hymn
Malay Writer and Interpreter-Shik
Ahmet
District and Sessions Court.
Judicial Commissioner-Leicester
Beaufort, M.A., B.C.L.
do. W. B. Pryer
Registrar-P. F. J. Marcus
P.
Land and Survey Dept. Commissioner of Lands-H. Walker Assist. Surveyors-J. Robertson, C. Fen- wick, C. Pinson, H. K. Shirdee, J. J. Summerfield, A. C. V. Mudeliar, H. M. J. Marcus
Clerk and Accountant-E. N. M. Ashness Draughtsman-Pong Chu On
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