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SELANGOR

The principal industry of the State, and from which it derives the largest portion of its revenue, is alluvial tin mining, on which a duty is charged of $11 per bhara (three piculs).

In addition to its mineral resources the State, however, possesses large tracts of land well adapted for agricultural purposes, and the recent removal of restrictions on 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 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 à system of cart and brille 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) was formally opened by Sir F. Weld on the 15th Sept., 1886, and an extension to Kwala Kubu was opened on the 6th October, 1894, and a branch line from Kwala Lumpor to Sungei Besi on the 28th February, 1895.

In connection with the railway a line of telegraph has been erected and extended to Malacca via Sungie Ujong, where it is connected with the cables of the E. E., A. & C. Telegraph Co. There is also inland telegraphic communication between the principal towns.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness ABDUL SAMAT BIN ALMERHOM, RAJAH ABDULLAH, K.C.M.G. British Resident J. P. RODGER

COUNCIL OF STATE

H. H. The Sultan, president

The British Resident

The Secretary to Govt., Kwala Lumpur Rajah Suleiman (Raja Muda)

Raja Kahar, Jugra

KWALA LUMPUR

RESIDENCY

British Resident―J. P. Rodger Resident's Clerk-F. L. de Rozario Typewriter-G. S. Fernando

SECRETARIAT

Government Secretary-Gerald Browne Assistant do. -W. D. Scott Office Assistant-G. H. Leembruggen Chief Clerk-F. H. Lott Record Clerk-G. A. St. Maria Assistant do.-S. E. Bux First Clerk-Max de Silva

Second do. -V. Sanmogam

Fourth do. -J. W. Hendricks Fifth do. D. E. Fernandez

Yeap Kuan Seng (Capt. China), K. Lumpur Raja Hassan, Klang

Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpur

Kaja Haji Bột, Kwala Lumpur

Towkay Loke Yew

COURTS

Senior Magistrate's Court

Acting Chief Magistrate-C. Wray Magistrate F. Belfield Registrar-J. A. Chichester

Chief Clerk, Bailiff and Auctioneer- Clerks A. R. de Souza, C. R. de Mello, C. Thamba Pillai, J. M. B. Medina, E. Kandiah Chinese Interpreter-Lim Moh Seng Tamil do. -M. Coomarasami Pillai Hindustani do.--Gurbakshah Singh

Native Magistrates

Yap Kwan Seng (Captain China) Raja Laut, Raja Bôt, Loke Yow

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