"The following alterations in Clauses 4, Sand 14 of the Land Regulations of North Borneo of the 5th July, 1882, will take effect from this date and until further notice (1) Under Clause 4 the price per acre will be at the rate of 2.
(2) Under Clause 5 the premium will be sian acre with an annual quit rent of 20 cents an acre, the quit rent being redeemable by 10 years' purchas "The above alterations (1 and 2) relate only to land in Sandakan District, the rate for that on the West Coast and at Silam and elsewhere remaining as before."
Between 80,000 and 90,000 acres of land have been applied for within the last week; a Club and a Municipal Council are going to be started immediately; the streets are going to be lighted by the most approved methods. Mr. Wickham is going to ride about on a pony, and when we ha telephones, tramcars, asthotical adver an under-ground railway, and the latest improvements in the electric light scattered about the place, why, then, there is a Chinaman just come down who is going to buy us all up if he likes us.
All the above is quite enough for one issue, so no more this time.—Burong Tiong.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.