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SINGAPORE

INSURANCE OFFICES, Continued

Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Oberrheinische Versicherungs Ges., Mannheim Palatine Fire and Accident Insurance Company Penang Khean Guan Insurance Company.. Phoenix Fire Office

Positive Government Security Life Assurance Co.... Providentia Insurance Company of Frankfort. Prussian National Insurance Company of Stettin Queen Insurance Company..

Record of American and Foreign Shipping Red Cross Mutual S. S. Insurance Association. Registro Italiano of Genoa..........

Reliance Marine Insurance Company

Rheinisch Westphaelischer Lloyd at M. Gladbash Rhenania Versicherungs Actien Ges., Cologne..... Rotterdamsche Lloyd

Royal Exchange Assurance, London

Royal Insurance Co. of Liverpool (Fire and Life) Samarang Sea and Fire Insurance Company Schweiz Marine Insurance Company

Scottish Amicable Life Insurance Company

Scottish Equitable Assurance Company......... Scottish Imperial Insurance Company Scottish Provident Institution

Scottish Union and National Insurance Company

Sjo Assurans Foreningen (Finland)..

Societe Riunite d'Assicurazione Genova.

Borneo Company

Rautenberg, Schmidt & Co Huttenbach Bros. & Co. Lim Lam & Co. Stiven & Co. James Lyall

Rautenberg, Schmidt & Co. Katz Brothers Hooglandt & Co. Behn, Meyer & Co. Guthrie & Co. Borneo Company W. Mansfield & Co. Behn, Meyer & Co. Behn, Meyer & Co. J. Daendels & Co. Behn, Meyer & Co. Boustead & Co. Hooglandt & Co. Puttfarcken & Co. Paterson, Simons & Co. H. G. James Syme & Co.

Wm. McKerrow & Co. Syme & Co.

Rautenberg, Schmidt & Co. G. Gaggino & Co.

South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company Wm. McKerrow & Co.

Standard Life Assurance Company

Standard Marine Insurance Company

Straits Insurance Company, Limited

Sun Insurance Office, London

Tokyo Marine Insurance Company

Transatlantic Fire Insurance Company

Sun Life Assurance Company

Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company

Transatlantic Marine Insurance Company

Transatlantic Marine Insurance Company Triton Insurance Company

Union Assurance Society (Fire and Life) Union Insurance Society of Canton Union Marine Insurance Company Union Marine Insurance Company Union Marine Insurance Company Yangtsze Insurance Association

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JOHORE

Borneo Company Sarkies & Moses

A. S. Murray, secretary Brinkmann & Co. Boustead & Co.

Boustead & Co.

Mitsui Bussan Kaishia

Puttfarcken & Co.

Kümpers & Co.

Katz Bros.

Guthrie & Co.

Sarkies & Moses

Paterson, Simons & Co.

Sarkies & Moses

Barlow & Co

Straits Insurance Co. Gilfillan, Wood & Co.

This state occupies the southern portion of the Malayan Peninsula, and has an area of about 9,000 square miles. The state is ruled by a Sultan, who is independent, but under the protection of the British Government so far as external policy is concerned. The present Sultan succeeded his father, the late Sultan Abubakar, in 1894. The country has made great progress in material prosperity, and its orderly condition has attracted a good deal of European capital, invested in planting enterprises.

The capital is the town of Johore Bhâru, or new Johore, as distinguished from Johore Lâma, or old Johore, the former seat of the sultans of Johore, which was situated a few miles up the wide estuary of the Johore river. The new town is a flourishing little place on the nearest point of the mainland to Singapore, separated from the island by the old Straits, and lying about 14 miles to the north-east of Singapore city, in 1° 26' N. It contains some 20,000 inhabitants, mostly Chinese,