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Meanwhile Selangor is slowly, but steadily, recovering itself ; 

 miners and traders are returning, and as they find a hitherto 

 unknown safety to life and property, and an absence of those 

 intestine struggles from which the country has till recently been 

 hardly ever free, they will gain confidence, and besides bringing in 

 their own capital and labour, may induce others to do so ; look- 

 ing at the richness of the soil, both for cultivation and in minerals, 

 there is reason to hope that Selangor will eventually become one 

 of the wealthiest States in the Peninsula. 



Already the revenues of Klang are averaging over 811,000 a 

 month, whilst a new impulse has been given to the hitherto neglected 

 districts of Bernam, Selangor, and Langat. 



In Lukut too there is a prospect of better days, and though 

 it may not for years, perhaps never, reach its former prosperity, the 

 work of improvement has begun, and it only wants time, and the 

 absence of internal dissension to regain much of its old wealth and 

 importance, and this seems the more likely as it is proposed to 

 make a road* from Sungei Ujong to Lukut, along which the whole 

 traffic of the former place would be carried, and thus Lukut, in 

 addition to her own resources, would become the port of Sungei 

 Ujong. 



At Sungei Eaya between Cape Kachado and the Linggi river 

 there are large pepper and gambier plantations owned by Malacca 

 Chinese, and these will doubtless be greatly increased when other 

 Chinese in Malacca see that the present peace appears likely to be 

 a lasting one.t 



In answer to Tunku Dia Loin's request, a Resident British 

 Officer was sent to him by the Straits Government in January of 

 this year, and it is hoped such a country as Selangor, drained by 



*Tliis proposal -was abandoned in 1875, and a road commenced, which 

 is now open, to connect Sungei Ujong with Pcrmatang Pasir on the Linggi river. 

 The Sungei Ujong Groverninent preferred this route, as passing wholly through 

 Sungei Ujong territory. (1880.) 



fA Singapore Chinaman has since opened considerable pepper and gambier 

 plantations at Sungei Bay a, and they appeal likely to prove a success, 



