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tlnis imported to Pcrak and settlcd at 

 Sitiawau, wliere tlie colony, after its in- 

 itial difficuhies ( is succeeding beyoud the 

 largest hopes of those coucerned. Tlie 

 colonists are engaged in growing rice and 

 rubber, raising pigs, etc, and the State is 

 rece£ving from them the begimiings of that 

 most needed of all commodities, — settled 

 families of thriity habits and frugal ways. 

 It may safely 1x; expectcd that wiihin ten 

 years a steady stream of immigration of 

 whole families of agriculturalists will find 

 its way to the rich lands of the Malay 

 Peninsnla. The missionaries stand rcady 

 to help these strangers and to firinly plant 

 the Christian Church amongst them as they 

 comc. It will easily be seen that Method- 

 ism has here a great prospective work, 

 towards which the goveriunental authorities 

 are gracious, and by which large social 

 benerit, as well as religious help, is ren- 

 dered to these future makers of a new, rich 

 land. 



Still more intcresting is a similar experi- 

 ment in Borneo, under the regime of Rajah 

 Brooke, of Sarawak. Bishop Warne one 

 day heard of a ship-load of Chincse immi- 



