Official Gazette for March opens with another instalment of the account of mineral exploration in British North Borneo, tells of a party sent up in August, 1887, to explore the sources of the Segama river, and carries them through constant rains and over almost equally constant rapids to near the point reached by Captain Beeston in the previous year. From this the river wa: a track hitherto un travelled and unknown to Europeans, and one which was also a terra incognita' to natives." The which follows, is of special interest to those interested in tobacco planting. The only things in the General Notes that are of more than local interest are the statement. that the average rainfall on the estates on the Kinabatangan river from 1st January to 12th February was 31.98 inches; that the average price obtained for British North Borneo tobacco at home was higher than that for Sumatra leaf; and that the manager of the Coal Prospecting works near Sandakan had found a seam 12 inches in breadth, Mr. J. J. Francis' recent encouraging lecture on the colony, delivered in Hongkong, is reprinted, A great part of the issue is taken up with the Official Gazette, which distinctly shews the activity of the colonial offi 'TIENTSIN,
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