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amounted to about four million dollars a year, the duty on the gross value of the tin being, roughly, 14 per cent. There were 73,734 acres alienated for mining at the end of 1912, mostly for tin. Tin and tin ore exported amounted to 255,381 piculs against 231,175 in 1911. The duty collected was $3,513,142 as compared with $2,822,868 in 1911. Of wolfram 1,504 piculs were exported. The Rawang Coalfield promises well. Prospecting operations having proved successful, the Company that has been formed is preparing to work on a large scale. An extension of the railway system to the coal- fields is to be made. Boring has been made to a depth of 306 ft. The clay on the field can be used for making tiles and pipes.

There is frequent and regular communication, by means of coasting steamers, between the Straits Settlements and Selangor, and from Kuala Lumpur a system of cart and bridle roads extends to the boundaries of Perak, Negri Sembilan and Pahang. A line of metre gauge railway, connecting Kuala 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, Kuala 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

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 Governinent, the Selangor line has been extended also to Raub and Kuala Lipis.

The State revenue in 1912 amounted to 814,848,357 against $12,330,045 in 1911, and the expenditure to $12,440,814 against 88,715,718 in 1911. The balance of assets over liabilities was $31,162,520. Trade statistics were as follow :—

Imports.... Exports....

1911 $30,196,834 47,433,952

1912

$ 36,144,051

61,902,362

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

Sultan-His Highness Sir ALA'IDIN SULEIMAN BIN ALMERHUM, Raja Musa, K C.M.G.

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

Penghulu Dalam-Ismal bin Takya

ORANG-ORANG BESAR

Dato' Stia de Raja-Inche Abdul Razak

bin Haji Abdul Gani

Penggawa Muda-Haji Ibrahim bin Haji

A sahad

Shah-Bandar-Haji Ali bin Shahandar

Mohamed Saleh

PEGAWAI-Pegawai SharAK Kathi-Syed Abdul Rahman bin Syed

Idrus Aljufri

Naib Kathi-Haji Oseman(Kuala Lumpur), Haji Mohamed Ghouse (Klang), Raja Itam bin Raja Jafar (Kuala Langat), Haji Abdul Hamid (Ulu Langat), Haji Mohamed Khatib (Kuala Selangor), Haji Mohamed Yasib (Ulu Selangor)