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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 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) 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. Eighty-three miles of line were open for traffic at the end of 1898.

In connection with the railway a line of telegraph has been erected and extended to Malacca vi 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.

The revenue in 1898 amounted to $3.862,439 and the expenditure to 84,470,843; in 1897 the revenue was $3,688,390 and the expenditure $3,567,845. Public Works account for $1,267,000 of the expenditure. The total value of the imports and exports amounted to $26,825,000.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness ALLH EL DIN SULEIMAN SHAH

British Resident J. P. RODGER, C.M.G.

Acting do.

---Lieut.-Colonel R. S. F. WALKER

COUNCIL OF STATE

H. H. The Sultan, president

The British Resident

The Secretary to Govt., Kwala Lumpur

Yeap Kuan Seng (Capt. China), K. Lumpur Raja Abunusah, Kwala Langkat

KWALA LUMPUR RESIDENCY

British Resident--J. P. Rodger Resident's Clerk-F. L. de Rozario Typewriter-P. Xavier

SECRETARIAT

Secretary to Government-R. G. Watson Acting do. -D. G. Campbell

-W. D. Scott

Assistant do.

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.

Lai Tate Luke

Third do. M. Suppiah Fourth do. Seow Eng Leong Fifth do. W. T. Fernandez Typewriting Clerk-M. Skelchy

Raja Hassan, Klang

Raja Laut, Kwala Lumpur Kaja Haji Bôt, Kwala Lumpur

| Towkay Loke Yew

G. Cumming, Kwala Lumpur

COURTS

Senior Magistrate's Court

Chief Magistrate-C. Wray

Acting Magistrate-W. D. Scott Second do. -C. N. Maxwell Registrar--A. B. Voules

Chief Clerk--F. C. Perera

Clerks-A. W. Gooneratre, C. R. de Mello, J. W. Hendricks, Koh Tiong Kim, C. Schelky, Wee Chuen Bee

Bailiff and Auctioneer-G. Neubronner Chinese Interpreters-Lim Teow Chong,

Lim Moh Seng Tamil do.

C. Tambapillai Hindustani do.-S. N. Chetterjee

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

--M. Coomarasami Pillai,