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the free importation of Indian coolies into the Protected Native States renders it possible for European planters to obtain cheap labour and to open estates on a large scale. Small plantations of Coffee, Cocoa, and Pepper have already been successfully commenced, and Rice, Sugar, and other products of the Peninsula under native cultivation are doing well in various parts 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 1883 :---

1883. 1884.

$

1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892.

$

$

$

$

$

$

$ Revenue 450,664 494,483 566,411 689,401 1,153,896 1,072,890 1,828,427 1,888,928 1,868,831 1,946,755

Ex'ture 448,703 514,918 826,526 683,876 885,931 1,053,000 1,394,181 1,996,000 2,297,778 1,613,424 In 1892 the estimated expenditure on railways is set down at $445,298, as separate from the ordinary expenditure given in the above table.

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. At the commencement of the year 1885, all duties were abolished, with the exception of those on Tin, Opium, and Spirits.

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), has been constructed, and was formally opened by Sir F. Weld on the 15th Sept., 1886. An extension of this line to Serendah, 24 miles north of Kwala Lumpor, is now nearly completed, and will ultimately be carried on to Kwala Kubu, the principal inland town. The first sod of the extension was cut on the 26th August, 1889. Another extension is projected to Cheras, in the Ulu Langat district. In connection with the Railway a line of Telegraph has been erected between the same terminal stations and extended to Malacca vid Sungie Ujong, where it is connected with the cables of the E. E., A. & C. Telegraph Co. There is also inland telegraphic communication between Kwala Lumpor, Rawang, and Kwala Kubu, whence it is carried on to Raub in Pahang, extending up to the Perak frontier at Tompong Malim and through Perak to Penang. A telegraph line from Rawang to Kwala Selangor has lately been completed, and Kwala Langat has been connected with Klang.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness ABDUL Samat bin Almerhom, Rajah Abdullah, K.C.M.G. H.B.M. Resident-W. E. MAXWELL, C.M.G.

COUNCIL OF STATE

H. H. The Sultan, president

The Resident of Selangor

The Chief Magistrate Kwala Lumpor

Rajah Suleiman (Raja Muda)

Raja Kahar, Kajang

KWALA LUMPOR

RESIDENCY

British Resident-W. E. Maxwell, c.M.G. Resident's Clerk-F. L. D'Rozario

SECRETARIAT

Government Secretary-G. W. Welman Chief Clerk-Gerald H. Leembruggen First Clerk-W. T. Cooke Second Clerk-A. R. de Souza Third Clerk-J. D'Rozario

Yeap Kuan Seng (Captain China) Kwala

Lumpor

Cheow Ah Yeok (Magistrate), K. Lumpor Raja Hassan, Klang

Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpor

Kaja Haji Bột, Kwala Lumpor

Fourth Clerk-C. Maartensz

Interpreter-Len Ten Goon (acting)

Government Printing Office Government Printer-John Russell Chief Compositor-M. B. Reddy

COURTS

Judge-The British Resident

Chief Magistrate-A. T. D. Barrington Assistant Magistrate-C. Kemp

Chief Clerk and Auctioneer-A. W. Harper