SHORT NOTES. 287 



Though made by the natives of Simalur it is 

 possible that they are of Achinese origin, of which nation there 

 are a number of settlers on the Island, while the Sima- 

 lurese have only passed out of a wooden and shell stage 

 within the last two or three generations. 



C. BODEN KLOSS, F.S.A., F.A.I. 



Chinese Names of Streets. 



The following notes, by an old resident, on Mr. Firmstone's 

 valuable list in Journal No. 42 may prove of some interest. 



Armenian Street. — Tan Seng Po was, I believe, a brother- 

 in-law of Mr. Seah Liang Leah. His house was the one in 

 Hill-street occupied till recently by St. Mary's College. 



Beach Road (VII.) — "Twenty buildings," possibly this 

 refers to the large houses in compounds which formerly 

 fronted the w r hole of this road between Bras Basah Road 

 and Clyde Terrace, and were in old times occupied by leading 

 European residents. 



Selegie Road " Tek-kha, foot of the bamboos." I 



remember when the road from near what is now the entrance 

 to Sophia Road to Mackenzie Road was bordered by luxuriant 

 lofty bamboos — the most beautiful, I think, that I have 

 seen. I mourned when they were removed to make room 

 for houses. 



Stamford Road The shop ceased to be a "shoe shop " 



a couple of years ago. 



Tanglin.— " No < little Tanglin.' "—The part of Orchard- 

 road between Tank-road and Grange-road, where there have 

 been shop-houses for very many years, was formerly known 

 as " Tanglin Kechil," and may be so still. 



Keppel Harbour "Jardine's Wharf." — Jardine's and 



the Borneo Company's Wharves were separate but adjoining 

 the former the nearer to town. 



E.'A. Soc, No. 45, 1905. 



