SETTLEMENTS, Tue Secretary of State for the Colonies has sent to the Government of Singapore a copy of the reports made I competent experts of the articles exhi-hited by the Sti Settlements in. the Tndian and Colonial Exhibition, These linterent healings, suchos urns and reports classify the products under
ins, minerals, tea, coffee and tannin ils, and the chief object in the publication seems to be to encourage the producers to extend their tions. The result is to give avery interesting account of the productions of the Straits Settlements, and of other aces whose exports find their way to rope through Singapore and Penang.
us, at the outset, we find that Gutta Percha and India Rubber are obtained from Borneo, the Eastern Malay: Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and other islands under Dutch rule—the last named and Sumatra supplying between them 45,000 out of the 50,000 piculs of Gutta Percha which were exported from the Settle-i Sarawak is the chief producer of In rubber. The modes ich th ese exports are prepared and commented on by the of Arts, who drew up the Report for the Colonial Ofie Veietable tallow, which is now only exported from this to a very small extent, was exhibited as samples in bamboo cases, as collected by the natives, who are too lazy to treat the nuts of the Tetrauthea laurifolia, from which they gather them. The authors of the Report express regret that the Hongkong Court did not exhibit either Chinese wax or tallow, and say: " Considerable hopes had been entertained that this would prove an opportunity of negotiating a commercial quantity of this beautiful material, the annual production of which is valued at £600,000, Hardly " hundredweight finds its way to England now: perhaps because, in the golden days of spermaceti, Bela was coldly received. Its highly crystaline structure and intense hardness (50, Fahr. mp.) present some obstacles, but of a noble kind, and doubtless surmount table. Spermaceti appears to have had its day: every ye it price (now 2s, per Ili), An efficient
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