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FEDERATED MALAY STATES-PAHANG
Treasurer, F. M. S.-H. Vane Auditor General-W. P. Hume
Comr. Trade & Customs-J.R. O. Aldworth Secr. for Chinese Affairs-W. D. Barnes Comr. of Lands & Surveys R. G. Watson Senior Warden of Mines-F. J. B. Dykes Consr. of Forests-A.M.Burn-Murdoch Commissioner of Police-H. L. Talbot Surveyor General--Colonel H. M. Jackson Chief Surveyor, T. S. D.-A. E. Young Director of Education-J. B. Elcum
Do. Posts & Telph. C. H. Allin Do. A. & G. B.-J. B. Carruthers Geologist-J. B. Scrivenor
Director of Museums-H. C. Robinson(act.) General Manager for Rys-C. E. Spooner
MALAY STATES GUIDES Headquarters, Taiping, Perak Comdr.-Lt-Cl. R. S. F. Walker, c.M.G. Field Officer Capt. C. F. Woodward- Adjutant-Captain B. W. E. Dunsford Company Comdr.-Capt. C. F. Woodward
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Company Comdr.-Capt. S. A. MacMillan- do. C.H.M. McCallum. Quarter Master Lieutenant-F. Golding Battery Sergeant Major--F. G. Kennedy Subadar Major-Gurdit Singh
Munshi and Native Adjutant-Jemadar
Fateh Singh Subadar-Kala Singh
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Jewand Singh
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Jemadar--Vadhawa Singh
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Mahomed Zaman
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Prem Singh
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Radha
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-Jhagar Singh
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Jeswant Singh
Do. Elin Din
Medical Officer-Captain F. E. Wood, M.B. Armourer-W. Field
Office Assistant-W. E. Siddons Chief Clerk-W. P. Gomes
Financial Clerk--Cheah Cheang Chuah Second Clerk-S. Suppiah
PAHANG
The State of Pahang lies between Tringganu and Johore, and extends along the eastern side of the peninsula from 2 deg. 40 min. to 4 deg. 35 min. N., its coast line being about 130 miles in length. The area of the State is estimated at 10,000 square miles, and its principal river, which drains a large extent of country, is known by the same name. The river Pahang is, however, owing to its shallowness, navigable for small craft only, The country is sparsely populated, there being, according to the census of 1904, 84,113 inhabitants, of whom about 73,462 were Malays and 8,695 Chinese.
The capital of the State is Pekan, a town situated a few miles from the mouth of the The State is under British river Pahang, where is also the seat of Government. protection, and in August, 1888, the Sultan, acting under the advice of the Sultan of Johore, applied for a British Resident to assist in the administration of the country, which request was acceded to in October of that year.
The predominant rock is slate, but granite, sandstone, limestone, quartz, and schist abound, while traces of volcanic action at some remote age are shown by the presence of basalt, trachyte, etc. As regards its minerology, the State has always possessed a high reputation for its product of gold and tin. Though during recent periods these have been but little sought, the wonderful old gold workings discovered by Messrs. Knaggs and Gower show that, wild, desolate and abandoned as the greater portion of the State now appears to be, it must, at some very remote time, have been well known and populated. "At the present day," says Mr. Skinner, "the principal gold mines are in the valley of the Pahang, at Lipis, Jelei, Semantan, and Luet; gold is also found as far south as the Bera. There is also a mine of galena on the Kwantam at Sungei Lembing; and tin is found throughout the country, both in the neighbourhood of the gold inines above mentioned, and in places like the river Triang and the river Bentang, where gold is not worked." The Pahang Corporation has opened tin mines at Sungei Lembing and Jeram Batang, another mine at Kabang.
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