27B 
To Secretary to Government. 
From the annexed statement it appears that the total 
amount advanced during the past seven years for the introduc- 
tion of settlers into Lower Perak amounted to ... ... $13,654.94 
of this sum has been repaid... ... ... ... 4,104.59 
$ 9 , 550-35 
while there is still outstanding, secured and recoverable ... 2,361.10 
$7,189.25 
2. This embraces the total expenditure on schemes for immigrants and their 
introduction. 
No. /. — Pepper plantation at Kerut near Bandar, say 
Less refund 
No. 2 . — Kling Immigrant planters at Telok Anson, say 
Less refund 
No. 3 . — Padi planters and settlers at Sungei Setiawan and 
Telok Anson ... 
Less refund. . . 
No. 4.— Settlers Sungei Nibong and Batak Rabit 
Refund 
No. j, — Banjermasin and Javanese settlers at Telok 
Anson 
Refund 
Of this sum of $9,550.35, $2,361.10 is still recoverable and 
is being daily paid up. If this sum, which is secured on the 
land, be deducted 
there will remain a balance due to Government of ... 
being an expenditure over seven years of $1,027, or $85.58 per 
3. I will deal with each of these schemes consecutively in their order as 
enumerated above. 
No. /. — Pepper Plantation , Kerut near Bandar. 
With reference to the pepper plantation at Kerut, in justice to myself I may say 
that this pepper speculation had little, in fact nothing whatever, to do with the introduc- 
tion of immigrants. It was a pepper plantation pure and simple, and the outlay was 
not great on the estate itself. Sir Hugh Low approved of opening a pepper planta- 
tion in Lower Perak, and Mohammed ZlN of Kota Setia was sent in 1886 to Achin 
to bring in Achinese pepper planters under a Government agreement published 
3rd March, 1 886, and to purchase pepper plants. 
4. Mohammed Zin returned with a prahu full of plants and Achinese, but the 
plants were all dead when they arrived, and Sir Hugh from Kuala Kangsa re-ordered 
a further supply of plants from Selangor from Messrs. Hill & Rathborne. It 
turned out that the plants were cut in the wrong manner, and as the planters refused to 
receive them, they proved useless. 
5. I have no papers before me and I have to trust to memory, but this is 
certain, the estate at Kerut was abandoned by order of Government in 1887, the last 
payment on account of the Kerut Estate was in October, 1887. 
6. Kerut was visited four or five times by Sir Hugh, who took great interest in 
it. The pepper trees were very fine, and the estate might have done well, but 
the communication with it was bad in the extreme, and supplies could only with 
difficulty be brought up the small Kerut stream. The proposal to make a two or 
three mile road from Bediman on the Kinta River was over-ruled. Sir Hugh having 
lost so much money over pepper plants, cuttings and transport was not inclined to 
,172.28 
231.28 
1^3 1 -35 
1,494.40 
>3 OI *3 r 
2,009.41 
$652.70 
167.50 
-$2,941.00 
3 > 336.95 
1,291 .90 
485.20 
t, 697.30 
202.00 
M95*3° 
550*35 
2,361.10 
$7,189.25 
ensem. 
