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are Church of England and Catholic missions with schools. The revenue is derived chiefly from Customs, the opium, gambling, arrack and pawn farms, exemption tax payable by Malays, and from Dyak and Kayan revenue. There are import duties on tobacco, salt, kerosene oil, wines, and spirits ; export- duties on sago, ganibier, pepper, all jungle produce, dried fish, kc. The revenue in 1917 was 198,950/. ; expenditure, 158,6371. ; 1918, revenue, 224,229?. ; expenditure, 169,830?. ; 1919, revenue, 295,311/. ; expenditure, 200,888. Public debt, nil. Coal exists in large quantities, as well as gold, silver, diamonds, antimony, and quicksilver. A considerable oil field is being developed at Miri. Foreign trade: 1918, imports, 1,156,019?. ; exports, 1,346,356?.; 1919 : imports, 2,364,208?.; exports, 2,795,095?. The chief exports (1919) included sago flour, 495,807?. ; pepper, 217,824?. ; gold, 94,278?. ; plantation rubber, 430,377?. ; gutta jelutong, 249,622?. ; guttapercha, 24,367?. ; cutch, 52,506?. ; birds' nests, 9,365?. ; liquid fuel, 115,836?. (in 1918). The trade is mostly with Singapore. Shipping entered and cleared in the foreign trade, 1918, 266,211 tons; 1919, 309,488 tons. There are military and police forces, consisting of about 700 men, principally Dyaks and Malays, under British army officers. Round Kuching are about 45 miles of roads, besides bridle paths. There are 23 post offices. The Government offices have a telephone system extending over Kuchiug and Upper Sarawak, and there is communication by wireless with Singapore, &e. There are also wireless stations at Sadong, Sibu, Miri, and Goebilt. Distance from London, 8,700 miles; transit, 25 to 30 days. Telegrams are sent by wireless from Singapore.

Straits Settlements currency, 1 dollar = 2s. id.

British Agent for Sarawak and British North Borneo, and High Commissioner for Brunei. — Sir L. N. Guillemard, K.C.B. (Governor of

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