August i, 1889.] 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
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his experiments. Mr. Thiselton Dyer pleads for a 
small annual vote, to be devoted in this settlement 
to the promotion of native agricultural industries, 
and argues that the effect would be beneficial. 
For our part, we should gladly see ten times as much 
spent were it likely that the sum would be spent 
with intelligence equal to that shown by the 
Administrator on the Gambia and Governor 
Moloney at Lagos. We should be certain that if the 
experiment were not entirely successful it would not 
be without good effect. Some wholesome plant 
would grow where only noisome weeds abounded, and 
there would be at least the example of strenuous 
industry, which would long continue to bear fruits 
even after the wells dug, the tanks built, the trees 
planted with public money, had ceased to exist. 
EXPORTS AND PLANTING OF NORTH 
BORNEO. 
(From the British North Borneo Herald, June 1st.) 
Tobacco, Coffee, Timbbb, &c. 
Today, we publish the Returu of the Import 
and Export trade of the territory for the year 
1888. These are comparative with the year 1887 and 
show the increase or decrease under each heading. 
The total Imports amount to $1,261,997, being an in- 
crease of $303,354 to over the year 1887. This 
satisfactory improvement in the Import trade is 
almost entirely due to the tobacco and other planting 
industries now established iu North Borneo. A list of 
the Estates now in full operation may interest our 
readers : — 
Marudu Bay andBanguey. Tobacco ... 5 
Do do Coffee... ... 2 
Sugut river. Tobacco ... ... ... 2 
Labuk river. do ... ... ... 1 
Sandakau Bay. do ... ... ... 2 
Do Coffee, Tobacco and Pepper... 1 
Kiuabatangan river. Tobacco and Pepper ... 1 
Do Tobacco ... ... I 
Darvel Bay. do ... ... 2 
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The Timber exports show a decrease of $4,928'30 
which is doubtless owing to the fact that those inte- 
rested fiud it more remunerative to erect sawmills and 
saw timber iu Borneo, rather than pay the extra freight 
and dunnage necessary iu shipping uusawn timber. 
This refers particularly to cedars and soft woods, but 
in billian and hard woods there is an increased expor- 
tation. In the future our cedars and soft woods will be 
cut up by the two large saw mills in Sandakan Bay, 
oue of which is in full operation aud the other in course 
of erection. 
In jungle produce, there is a decrease in damar and 
India-rubber, but under all other hea tings a satisfac- 
tory increase is well maintained aud proves that our 
jungles are not yet exhausted, but the contrary, by 
opening up rivers aud making roads as the Govern- 
ment is doing the exports of jungle produce will in- 
crease. Sea produce exports are also on the increase. 
This is particularly noticeable on seed pearls, where 
there is an increase of $15,373.08 from the Lincabo 
fisheries. That the seas and bays around North Bor- 
neo all contain Seed Pearl Oysters {Placuna Placenta), 
Pearl Oysters [Meleayrina Meragrinafera) (similar to 
the Ceylon Oyster shell but producing an inferior Pearl), 
Mother o' Pearl Oysters (Meleagrina Margaritijera) 
aud other varieties of Pearl producing shells, is beyond 
any doubt, and the finding, preserving and developing 
of them is receiving the attention of the Government. 
The exports of tobacco are still small, but our readers 
will understand that tobacco culture in North Borneo 
is only beginuiug anil that the crop for the year 1838 
is yet in the fermenting sheds. 
The Returu of Foreign Shipping at Sandakan and the 
list of vessels and steam launches published with the 
Trade Returns show the rapid development iu progress 
and we venture to asBert that a oountry whioh in 6 
years can show an increase in shipping from 1,205 to 
4,260 tons with 12 estate launches and whose volume of 
trade, imports and exports, has increased from 
$588,046 to $1,787,862 will compare most favourably 
with any British Colony. 
CHIEF EXPORTS FROM THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO 
PORTS DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS ENDING 
31st December 1888. 
Artioles Value. Articles Value. 
$ c. $ c. 
Birdsnests 42,274 77 | India Rubber 18,698 86 
Camphor 
Coconuts & 
Fruits 
Coconut oil 
Coffee 
Cotton 
Damar 
14,346 18 
4,964 
9 
429 
4 
6,528 
Gutta Percha 28,929 
Ivory 
Pepper 
Seed Pearls 
Timber 
Tobacco 
Tortise shells 
Trepang 
261 
3,840 ... 
16,464 58 
37,534 28 
20,842 30 
5,876 15 
8,766 23 
Planting Notes. 
We have before us the prospectus of the Segaliud 
(Borneo) Tobacco Company Limited which proposes 
on a capital of £100,000 to buy 15,878 acres of land 
on the Segaliud River from the present proprietors, 
the British Borneo Trading and Planting Coy., who 
accept payment in £14,304 in cash and £33,330 in 
fully paid deferred and fouuders shares the first of 
which will not rank for dividend in any year until 
10 per cent has been paid on the amount paid upon 
the ordinary shares. The founders share will receive 
no benefit until cumulative dividends of 100 per cent 
have been paid on the amount paid up ou the ordinary 
shares when will be entitled to oue fourth of the 
net profits after providing for a reserve fuud of 10 
o/o of the net profits in any one year. 
COMPARATIVE PRICES OF INDIAN AND 
CEYLON TEAS. 
We observe from the figures in Messrs. W. J. & 
H. Thompson's Annual Review that the following has 
been the course of prices for these rival growths 
during the last six years 
Average 
Average 
Differ- 
Year 
per lb. 
per lb. 
ence in 
India. 
Ceylon. 
value 
per lb. 
s. d. 
s. d. 
d. 
1883-84 
..12 
1 4 1-10 
. 2 1-10 
1884-85 
.. 1 14-7.. 
1 3 
. 1 3-7 
1885-86 
..12 
i n 
• i 
1886-87 
..10 
i a 
• 1.4 
1887-88 
.. 1 01-20.. 
1 oj 
9-20 
1888-89 
.. 0 10 3-7 .. 
o 104 
1-14 
Some people say that this season's Ceylon teas 
will fall in value below 
Mail, June 14th. 
those of India. — H. &■ C. 
PLANTING IN LOWER PERAK, 
Among the many energetic officials that our ad- 
ministration of the Native States of the Malay Penin- 
sula has produced, there is none who has done more 
work or shown more energy them Mr. Noel Denisow, 
the Superintendent of Lower Perak, He laid out 
Krian, and he may almost be said, with the assistance 
of Kinta, to have created Lower Perak. How he has 
pushed that district ahead, how it has grown 
and developed under Mb energetic management, 
is well known to those who remember what 
it was a few years ago, and see what it is now. To 
those who do not remember it as it was, only the 
annual returns of the last few years can cive 
any idea of its recent development- Some idea, 
however, of the energy that has led to this de- 
velopment can be gained from the Annual Report of 
the Superintendent, which was published in the Perak 
Government Gazette of 31st May, and from which 
we gave numerous extraots in our last issue. 
