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NETHERLANDS-INDIA

SITUATION, AREA AND POPULATION

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AUSTRALIAN FOODSTUFFS.

WE ARE REGULAR EXPORTERS OF:-

BUTTER & CHEESE

We can also supply the following goods at competitive prices:- Bacon, Hams, Frozen Meat, Dry Fruits, (Currants, Sultanas & Lexias), Fresh Fruit, Wheat, Flour, Leather and other Australian produce.

We can quote firm prices by Cable C.I.F. British Sterling.

ENQUIRIES INVITED

F. B. BOLTON & CO.

Albert House, 289, Albert Street,

BANKERS:

BRISBANE.

Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd.

BRISBANE.

CABLE and RADIO:

"BOLTONCO" Brisbane, Codes: Bentleys & Bentleys Second.

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vаrу oncers, etc. The East Indian Company was nearly independent and disposed of large capital. The first proceedings were commercial, but soon the Company extended its power and conquered territory in Java and the Moluccos. The first "loge" was established at Bantam, then at Jakatia, where the Governor-General, J. P. Coen, made a fortress, which he called Batavia (1619). After a long period of great prosperity the Company fell into decay, the difficulties increased under a heavy burden of debts, and in 1800 the States General cancelled the charter and took the administration of the possessions into their own hands. At the same time the British, during the war with France and the Netherlands, conquered the greater part of the Dutch colonies. In 1802, by the treaty of peace concluded at Amiens, the colonies, with the exception of Ceylon, were restored to the Batavian Republic, as the Netherlands were then called, but during the war with England that was soon afterwards declared the Dutcli again lost all their possessions. After the fall of Napoleon, in 1815, the greater part of the colonies were restored to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and by the London treaty of 17th March, 1824, Malacca and the establishments on the continent of India were exchanged for Benkoelen.

Netherlands-India is now governed in the name of the Queen of the Netherlands by a Governor-General, who is obliged to ask in some cases the advice of the Council of India, consisting of a Vice-President and six members, assisted by a secretary

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