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MALACCA-PENANG

Engine drivers-How Ah Fook, Tan

Chin Ban, J. Pereira

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHINESE Congregation Rev. P. Perrichon, missionary apostolic

ST. FRANCIS CHURCH

Vicar-Rev. P. Perrichon, mission apo-

stolic

ST. PETER'S CHURCH

Acting Vicar-Rev. A. M. dos Santos Asst. Vicar-Rev. J. F. da Silva Secretary-A. A. Rodrigues Treasurer-Rev. J. F. da Silva

Girls' School, Tranquerah

Superioress--H. Conceiçaõ

Directress--C. McBean

Sisters Felicia, Victor,

Marçal, Cordeiro

Rosario,

Straits Industrial Syndicate, Cien- eral Merchants, Steam Saw Mill & Ice Factory, Kallang: Tel. Ad. Industry Town Office:-9 Cecil Street

A. W. Westerhout, manager

Chee Swee Cheng, superintendant Wm. Webster M.I. MECH. E. super- intendent engineer, Ice Factory F. H. D'Souza, superintendent eng-

ineer, Saw Mill

Cheng Tiong, office assistant Tan Poh Eng

do.

W. Guan Eng, bookkeeper

1239

G. Chwee Tuan, shipping clerk Agencies in Menado (Java), Labuan,

Jesselton, &c.

TAN JIAK HOE, Commission Agent, 132

First Cross Street

Lim Eng Siew, clerk and cashier Agencies

Straits Steamship Company Commercial Union Assurance Co. South British Insurance Co. Kadana Gold Mining Co., Ld. Bersawah Gold Mining Co., Ld. Malacca Tin Dredging Co., tLl.

TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED - EASTERN

EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA

W. C. Langdon, superintendent

P. E. Aveit, operator

Tan Chin Swee, do.

E. P. M. Cotter do. Wi Keat Ghi

ZOBEL, E., Watchmaker & Jeweller, Beach

Street

PENANG

Penang, or Prince of Wales Island, as it was formerly called, is situated on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula in 5 deg. north latitude. With the Dindings and a strip of land on the opposite coast known as Province Wellesley, from which it is separated by a Strait varying from 2 to 10 miles in width, it constitutes the second in importance of the three governments known as the "Straits Settlements." The island contains an area of about 107 square miles, being 15 miles long and 9 broad at its widest portions, while Province Wellesley extends for a distance of 45 miles along the coast, and has an average width of 8 miles, containing 270 square miles, and about 200 more for the Dindings. The chief town of Penang is George Town, but the name of the island (which signifies "Betel nut island") has become so identified with the town that the specific designation has almost dropped out of use.

Penang was ceded to the famous Captain Light for the East India Company in the year 1786 for an annual payment of $10,000 to the Rajah of Kedah, a step which was followed 13 years later by the cession of Province Wellesley. In the year 1805 Penang was elevated to the rank of a presidency, its rising fortunes even then bidding fair to eclipse those of Malacca, while Singapore was as yet unknown as a settlement. In 1826 Singapore and Malacca were incorporated with Penang, and the three were designated by the title they still retain. But as the fortunes of Singapore brightened, those of Penang declined, until the former quite overshadowed her older sister, and in 1837 the principal seat of government was transferred to Singapore.

The settlement of Penang is governed by a Resident Councillor, and has two unofficial representatives in the Legislative Council, which sits at Singapore.

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