UPPER SARAWAK November —The sales of 44 pepper gardens were Court during the manth and a number fo open up few gardens have been asked The Conrt work has been light the chief ts, Chong Kune and Wok Hin. Chong need to six wonths imprisonment for ntiff the gambling farmer ab Sinawan, ‘nie he made off assault on plaintitt ong Kime escaped fron the gang who were working on the Sibuko bridge Bau Rest House; nothing has since been Bong Seng was sentenced nt for theft of a hunmnier 48th some Sexin Dyaks fram Tebnt arsived ined of unjust treatment by the Orang Orang Kaya was sent forand arrived here with several of the Seri chiefs ls complained that the Orang Kayn had ‘nests from the Selayo eaves, it being thei ther thom this yeur as they bad thein last they go two years in tua to Telut and to one month ear nnd not two ax stated by the Debuts, Bhat people also bean unjustly fined, fines had been at s@ of these complaints appears to be that village has no chief (the Into Push Kam hs ago}, and fines line fon Tebut people at moctinys of the Sorin ge bing no one at these meetings to repre- alking the matter over, I told but the chiefs said nat on them were acearde d ‘Vebut people I would visit Sorin | p ‘atte the ceted for vie Tebat Jag 0 toad been burt down in thoitwillago ain E property los, they. aid tot now how ti patel) aa they were all away at their farms | Same day there wap dishurhaiee is Bast | Between some Catholic Chinose and bazaar fro men Wore arrested, The ease caine of nd was remanded ponding the arsival of ole the Officer Adimintstrating Government Beicorks—A new bridge wax put nctoss the stream below the Bat Kost Hove nd the were omiployed upon it for some. days the Haat se i hy end repaiting re Ronse and Police Quarters | e nothing farther to. report on this avension A. W. COX at in Charge aud arrange nbout LUNDU. swember stho 5th Lim Wa Seag, employed on Tiong Ree ebarcoal frennces at [arbsnigan, reported the | spuing tides, T cannot e' aber | with road lett by ¢ Tandie ‘Phy all clung to but two. were drowned, Hinwelf'and another after B for soi hours were finally veashed ase BTstansny wns ent o-bnguice iat, the chat the bodies yenen ashe ashore iy Yan On the 104 to Simatan hag contracte! to bad for SIN. "here soe 0 cases of perio, tended appernting a new "tual" bat Juno aid not get my te all the people, “Tem atid if wilt be find a suitable person Tetween 8. Pagal au Sina half’ foson Soc Those clearings extend for 1} witha depth of 900 ot 400 ‘yards Planted up snd the coconsnts mre a ‘On the teah went to Stungkin tov yaks thote who number some 2 tu a Tne ng this Lad cleared by Cheon ta previcey ears ak UNG west Wan Goo wot to fal Od Jungle: ate hiat wes inkocined tial the aan ‘aek peat. any more foniien from Upper Sarawak to jom him wevhony feet seni ving prot exion aoe Gprerntpes A few famniltes are of e nt Stanpkin, as tay ees tition workers ia cnsrying thelr timber, but if pre pull fy atts Kio ks preavers there traela hom bao Unipe to Eu ‘On tne 24th Sven to Siar and stayed there wal cf month, Wisle Boece Tetead ovpnbot planting for sever wl aise ntreayed the se Teter i Raliya a for coconnnt. pleating. Some xtoasoedpleakig Phere Palio has fac exer cons De. Baik re. Aboot 170 have been vaccnttad et the Erk and Mr, Legeatt, who Iindly consented to help, tran done over 200 at Stunggnng ad i sil cr ‘The carpenters T had in- IL Trade Returns: — Ta Exports 3419 the chief exports boing galin valid at $1 per $617 Simatan, Tapert $1,990 Exports ‘The ebiof export bein pepp Resident SADONG. November Daving the month I snsceeded i remainder of the gang of alleged 1 Quve, ete. and they are nove in awaiting tial, ine fcom Kapiti al goo being the a besulet ke pare, whowe hones rote Siabog charted tthe foothills in the vieinity of Klingka Tam now basy trying to collect farther evidence for te prosecttion On 12th instant, s,s, Lorna Doone aiv the Acting Treasurer, whom Taccorupanied to the Colliery, the steamer left eatly the following inorning with Mf, Johnsan for Sib At new moon we experienced with sally strong nressed the place under water to. such dept as on Lis oceauioh. For days all the goons were sovee sof two of his companions by downing. He others w an to e coming from Ramban The Soswat: Cored 7 Jenue On 15th instant Luni Yow, a miner, sum himself to endered, he Conrt stating he had cut another 5,89 Vv deee | { i (Os cosnmngnd with | TH The Raja ‘Nowent ition lonre| | | teinoners ‘Changes 16D. | | Present at Qe | Ge Doty ns Haram: Do “tineete Do I] De | 2 =n prt ouosar wl Quactert Menitas 7 ‘lo nnd eeswhere, Balage 45 | ‘ha Yoo Dyakw “834 | i 8 Sepoye 1s Grad Total. a0 } | H.W. V. SCOTT, natructor, S.'It UPPER SARAWAK, December | mia. =a ut oar pont Is |] sip tuod oe pebpet pursue hose aa tna pee bere Pra peoeet hs thor paket siti Raa been ageee Deon very light both at Baa anit z me || Bea Ane Sear 1 | Seecraraet iy owt and Aa ik ar eared 4 ae weeks imprisonment in_defanlt of fine of $15 for i pepe ine te Bons apy Na | On the morning of the 16th a sad accident occurred | Ssboss Sagal get sade ta nse eh f 41899,accident Haji Sut and te er going #0 Touching. ‘The fo thes and they ol out two the other three were recovered in be busbands of bwo of the drow deas Teported iat tie tio boatisen to save the. people tll Hay Sut they tight, ave done soi they them ‘arrested for euusiig. deste cowardice bt released tern wftes- from Haji Sut, who said. le id have been posnible to save the at. $300 cash wh sa by Ba shop jafter the iaow. The prisoners have been employed Bay bridge which was duimagod Krian dam, ond in clearing, the Paks shops in the Shak Lung Mung Put up, they appear to be very Heft for Kuoing to spend the New tovisit tho ‘ebut E. A. W. COX, Resident tm Charge SADONG. December the now schooner Rawjar Wangie ged SS billinn. planks for the sew reargo of bricks, she then went ‘and ook in a cargo of the clesnest thed coal for Kuehinig and T took Bef forssarding to Tiead quacters. it to bad characters, viz. doter- Bible absconder and Beveral sick coolies whose cases Bagnose is ove local ho: Chan Ki who bad been missing found dead on deh instant, having the jungle. £5. Breid arrived flying signals $0 be explosives on board, the lof 21 cases of cordite cartridges, ete, for Kuching and 1 liad the fered to our magazine and for | fon pet sailing vessel to their Ss. Breil cleared for Singapore fefcoal ai:d quantity of scrap iron rth Beskine & Co. | st $i jan $0 try | evidence in the Prupoh inurder Sbreak the following iorning the | ZT sailed on up to the lead of and visited the house of Inte these peopie however could giv ver tot has aay ininate of this vsafod any intellegeiice coseeri- Thave rermoved sitee T was last | HS05 acd now veside on a steep ba, tte following day T ascended ama is mitch over grown With i ctew pines and oly the very Boake uke of dhe stexin with ay | SOn reaching Dunggow's penkalla, his house about 1} miles inland, abifted since Twas last here bat | stance, every oe. was very int no more evidence however eating arly start was made fiow the a womi-erazy || boats for Ungun's house, the house of necusea, who ‘ith bi rae soa semended for wr ching gaol: stopping at Doungo’s house en dated thie Twas Co Ascompany Ue and point ute which he did, Ungga sot of foto Gren Kaya Pank also following, the trail was. very aistinet ant at times sesmad entitely obliterated causing some delays in picking it up siresh; after walk chiefly through old jmgle over low hills we reached Unggutrs house at about 10,30 a.m, when rain began Uy fll heavily, Unggun’s house at Staboo has also 1 bear heen rebuilt sce {heat lett the di trict tis sina house of about & doors nd very squalitl and dirty, the iuhebitants seemed “disposed {0 be surly and ito more evidence could be obtained, dT hatdly expected to obtain any. informe as four of eho mnutdesers Delong t0 this, and they are all more or less related end ave Ud whilst Dunggo's anak biak and most of the 0 Jnkaitants ound here ary Ballows T util B pn, ang got back at sun= down Atter a Aamp. and unplensuat walk leeches boing execedingly abundant. We retuned that eveninn to the lake and atichored; the following ‘worn gn uid otter Dyaks and informed thetn, that shoald they hear of aay frexh evide bei Prupok yotrder ease of 1604 they were at once to inform Government. 1 Tleft that day for Simanjan an loots inde vapid prog 1g the. bore. at Kinichow. The coffe gardens on the hills ‘which jiaze of the lake Tooked well, the. soi y Thhave yet sean i Badon ity pepper planting in addition to cofee Lot these too Tvisited the gaeden of the murdered Chinamon ‘Ah Quo, its now entitely abandoned and the ecru With the coffee t#e8s now, all more ot less |/m desing stato, Jormnely it waa the finest. garden in hp ‘the best garden at clerk's mother at Bu ehnorved aplended so Doving iny absence np river a Chinamait broke his aria by fall of stone in the mine and wes of once sont to Kuching per express boat for wnodical teat in 39% vo prison) by nnn route T owing to the s owned by the chief Punda, here too again I sunewty eoolies, (two lately from g Jing, Ta Rong Hap, and Yow in from te coast, they had ab- © mines and come down to bazaar ey stole a bont belonging to Choo You # crab catcher, they thon mede olf with roughly fashioued paildles ext out of planks and actually got ai fav as Stanpun and neatly” in han when they were accosted by some Suire Malay fishermen nd recognized hy them as abseonders; the Malays hen brought them up here where they reward of $15, the Ligitives were sente terns of imprisonment and the boat I restored to its ‘The now gaol is wow completed an has left for Kuching, a cook house for the prisoners ha also been erected during the snanth by local labor. On Bist instant, s.. Breed again arrived bringing 13 eck passengers (Goolies for the mine). Captain Jobsnessen: reported faving had a vexy rough passage oss and been set far ont of his course by Adverse ergss currents ‘The weather bere has been very wet indeed, which rime diterferes with die loading Of coat as He coolies won't carry iu the rain and work is then partly a pended, however so far T have always managed fot 8s. Breid @ foll cargo befose the tides get too swoug, it tals about S$ days to load her an expenises of cotling amount to » little aver $300 por trip, for bunkers she barus the san the contractor