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jungle produce and guttapercha. The export duty on tin has, in recent years, amounted to about four million dollars a year, the duty on the gross value of the tin being, roughly, 14 per cent.

There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor, and from Kwala Lumpur à system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Negri Sembilan and Pahang. A line of metre gauge railway, connecting Kwala Lumpur with Klang (a distance of 21 miles 14 chains) was formally opened by Sir F. Weld, then Governor of the Straits Settlements, on the 15th Sept., 1886, and an extension, Kwala Lumpur to Kuala Kubu, was opened on the 6th October, 1894. A further extension, Kuala Kubu to Tanjong Malim, on the Perak frontier (14 miles 45 chains), was completed and opened on November 1st, 1900. A line from Kuala Lumpur to Kajang (17 miles 24 chains), was opened to traffic in August, 1897, and the continuation of this line (28 miles 75 chains), to Seremban, the capital of the Negri Sembilan, was completed in February, 1903. The total length of railway open for traffic is about 150 miles. On 1st January, 1899, the extension from Klang to Port Swettenham (5 miles 40 chains) was opened for passenger traffic. Port Swettenham is the terminus of the railway, on Klang Straits, and wharves have been constructed there, capable of accommodating ocean-going

steamers.

Telegraph lines connect the State with the Perak and the Negri Sembilan and Malacca systems, and Postal Telegraph Offices are established at Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Kuala Kubu, Serendah, Kuala Selangor, Sabak Bernam, Rawang, Jugra, Kajang, Sepang and Sungei Besi and at all Railway Telegraph Offices. At the request of the Pahang Government, the Selangor line has been extended also to Raub and Kuala Lipis. The State revenue has more than doubled in the last decade.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness ALA'IDIN SULEIMAN BIN ALMERTRUM, RAJA MUSA, C.M.G.

British Resident-R. G. WATSON, C.M.G. Acting British Resident-E. G. BROADRICK

HOUSEHOLD OF HIS HIGHNESS THE

SULTAN

Secretary-Inche Abdul Razak bin Haji

Abdul Gani .

Clerk-Ismail bin Soloh

Bentara Kanan-Soloh bin Wan Mohamed

Syed

Bentara Kiri-Mohamed Amin bin Wan

Mohomed Syed

Megat Mahmud bin Adam

Orang-Orang Besar

Penggawa Tua-Haji Admad bin Babu Shah-Bandar-Haji Ali bin Shahandar

Mohamed Saleh

PEGAWAI-PEGAWAI SHARAK Kathi-Syed Abdul Rahman bin Syed

Idrus Aljafri

Naib Kathi-Haji Oseman (Kuala Lumpur), Haji Mohamod Ali bin Bulat (Klang), Raja Itam bin Raja Jafar(Kwala Langat), Haji Abdul Hamid (Ulu Kangat), Haji Mohamed Khatib (Kwala Selangor), Haji Mohomed Yasin (Ulu Selangor)

KWALA LUMPUR

RESIDENCY AND SECRETARIAT British Resident - R. G. Watson, c.M.G. Act. British Resident---E G. Broadrick Secretary to Resident--E. G. Broadrick Acting do. --J. F. Owen

Asst. Sec. to Resident-J. W. Goldthorp Act. Asst. Sec. to Resident--A. S. Syeall Clerk, special class-F. L. de Rozario Clerk, class I.-G. A. St. Maria

Do. II.--A. Eliatamby Do. -S. Renganathen Do. -V. Suppiah

Clerks, III-Mohamed Syed, S. Raja, S. A. Latib, C. B. Francis, W. T. Rozario, S. Muttiah,

Malay Writer-Abdul Raman Bin Haji

Usman

AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE Acting Auditor General -W. P. Hume

- Chief Clerk-W. E. Ferdinands

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