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the style of architecture may not be of the highest order. 

 They were completed about four years ago and reflect great 

 credit on the designer who carried out the work — Mahomed 

 Lebby TAMBI, formerly employed under me in the Police 

 Court, Penang. He is now building a fine new house for the 

 Raja Muda. 



The offices are admirably arranged — Treasury, Land and 

 Survey, Courts of Law, and lastly an office for the Auditor- Gen- 

 eral. The various officials, including the Judge, were introduced. 

 ^\ T e were shewn a survey map of the town with all the various 

 lots marked on it. The offices are open from 10.0 to 4.0, 

 Malays being exclusively employed, and in outward appearance 

 at all events our colonial system is followed. So far as we 

 could ascertain the office of Auditor-General is somewhat of a 

 sinecure. He is said to query and examine accounts but there 

 were no papers or books in his office. A census has lately been 

 taken and we were shewn the figures which, however, are still 

 incomplete for some of the up-country Mulims. I have on form- 

 er occasions inspected the gaol, but did not do so on this visit. 

 I noticed that the outside wall was beautifully white but the in- 

 terior arrangements are I fancy what they have always been 

 and are hardly up to date. Prisoners in chains are employed on 

 outside labour in the town. A Kling dobi prisoner sent me a 

 petition complaining that he was kept in gaol beyond the term 

 of his sentence, but his warrant of commitment, which was pro- 

 duced, proved that his statement was incorrect. The RAJA 

 Muda, his younger brother, a son of Tungku DlA Udin, the 

 Auditor- General and two others dined at Anah bukit. We were 

 the guests of the Raja Muda. 



Thursday 13th December. — The RAJA MUDA came at 7.30 

 A. M. and we went down the river to the Consulate in a house 

 boat, the RAJA Muda pointing out the place where Lieut. 

 Tl-IUEBUBM, R. N., of H. M. S. Hyacinth, was drowned when 

 crossing the river at night after snipe shooting' in October, 1891. 

 The current here is strong and the boat must have struck a snag 

 and capsized. The body was recovered opposite the Consulate 

 1^ miles down the river. The grave in the consular grounds, 

 which has a stone cross over it, is kept in good order. Enquired 

 into a number of cases including a complaint by a Penang China- 



