ios: BRITISH BORNEO. 
Services, Printing, Stationery, Prospecting, Experimental 
Gardens and Harbour and Postal Services. The designations 
of the principal officials employed by the Company in Borneo 
have been given on a previous page; the salaries allowed 
them, as a rule, can scarcely be called too liberal, and unfor- 
tunately the Court of Directors does not at present feel that it 
is justified in sanctioning any pension scheme. ‘Those of my 
readers who are conversant with the working of Public Offices 
will recognize that this decision of the Directors deprives the 
service of one great incentive to hard and continuous work 
and of a powerful factor in the maintenance of an effective 
discipline, and it speaks volumes for the quality of the officials, 
whose services the Company has been so fortunate as to 
secure without this attraction, that it is served as_ faithfully, 
energetically and zealously as any Government inthe world. 
If I may be allowed to say so here, I can never adequately 
express my sense of the valuable assistance and support | 
received from the officers, with scarcely any exception, dur- 
ing my six years’ tenure of the appointment of Governor. 
An excellent spirit pervades the service and, when the occa- 
sions have arisen, there have never been wanting officers ready 
to risk their lives in performing their duties, without hope of 
rewards or distinctions, Victoria Crosses or medals. 
The figures below speak for the advance which the 
country is making, not very rapidly, perhaps the share- 
holders may think, but certainly, though slowly, surely and 
Revenue in 1883, $51,654, with the addition of Land Sales, 
$25,449, a total of $77,103. 
Revenue in 1887, $142,687, with the addition of Land Sales, 
$14,505, a total of $ 157,192. 
Expenditure in 1883, including expenditure on Capital Ac- 
count, $391,547. 
Expendiure in 1887, including expenditure on Capital Ac- 
count, $209,862. 
For reasons already mentioned, the revenue for 1888 is 
expected to considerably exceed that of any previous year, 
