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PAHANG--THE NEGRI SEMBILAN

T. E. Treloat, mine manager

G. Pfenningwerth, accountant M. Bullen, engineer

J. Bullen, asst. do.

O. Bullen, shop foreman T. H. Urm, tin dresser C. Phillips, asst. do.

J. J. Collins, surveyor & assayer Dr. W. O. Pow, medical officer B. de Mello, hospital dresser

K. Pfenningwerth, in charge, Kuala

Kuantan

Paterson, Simons & Co., agents, S'pore

PAHANG FLOTILLA COMPANY

PAHANG KABANG, LIMITED

H. E. Nicholls, A.R.S.M., A.I.M.M., super. G.A. Thompson, in charge at Semiliang W. Murray, miner

QUEENSLAND RAUB GOLD MINING CO., LD.,

Ranb

G. A. Derrick, representative

RAUB AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING COM-

PANY, LIMITED

Head Office, Queen Street, Brisbane

Chas. A. Clarke, secretary

Local Directors

Hon. J. Anderson and A. Gentle Local Secretary

G. A. Derrick, Battery Rd., S'pore

Staff at the mines

W. H. Martin, general manager

H. F. Lofts, assayer

J. O. MeArdell, battery manager A. E. Hughes, electrical engineer C. M. Henley, surveyor

C. J. Gould, mine agent

J. E. Morgan,

do.

A. G. McDonald, accountant Electricians at Power Station J. Götz

E. Mudispacher

E, von Varchmin L. Zotzmann G. Kruger

SEMPAM TIN MINES

Samangko Pass or Gap, Pahang

G. V. A. Sanderson, manager Head Office: Sempan Mining Co., Ld.,

Kuala Lumpur

A. K. E. Hampshire, secretary

TONG SOON KONG SI, Bentong, Pahang, F. M. S., Land Owners, Miners, Spirit and Opium Farmers; Branches at Raub, Tras, Kuala Lipis

Towkays Loke Yew, Chia Choon Seng,

and Chong Sow Sit

Join Boon Hugh, general manager Chia Tong Sheng, accountant

Ho Siu Tong, chief clerk (Chinese)

WATSON, J. R., manager, Tepar Syndicate

THE NEGRI SEMBILAN

This is a group of seven states--Johol, Tambin, Sri Menanti, Jempol, Rembau- Sungei, Ujong, and Jelebu, the two latter having been confederated with the original group of five in 1895. They occupy together some 3,000 square miles of the interior of the peninsula, bounded on the north and east by Pahang, on the west by Malacca, and on the south by Johore. The five states originally known as the Negri Sembilan were brought under British protection by Sir Frederick Weld in 1883, and by an agreement with the respective chiefs, signed on the 13th July, 1889, they were con- federated as one Residency. They are governed by the native chiefs or penghulus, assisted by the British Resident and Magistrates under him.

Under the later scheme of confederation, brought into force in 1895, by which Sungei Ujong and Jelebu were brought in, there are five districts, viz., Seremban, the Coast, Jelebu, Kuala Pilah, and Tampin. Seremban is the head office, where the Resident and heads of departments reside. Heads of departments are for the whole state and thus a double staff is saved, as had two States remained alone it would have been necessary, as the Negri Sembilan developed, to make further appointments of European officers. The political affinity of the States is undoubted, and the same tribal and customary laws exist in both, together with the system of the election of the chiefs.

Sungei, Ujong and Jelebu have together an area of about 1,200 square miles, and a range of hills in the north attain a height of about 3,800 feet, the slopes of which have

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