London vid Bombay, Dec. 22.
At the annual meeting of the British North Borneo Company, Sir J. West Ridgeway, who presided, stated that a vacancy on the Board of Directors had been offered to a distinguished statesman, whose reply was expected at the end of the year.
Owing to the insufficiency of natives it had been decided to send Mr. Riddell to China to establish a Labour Recruiting Agency. Riddell bad held a similar position in the Transvaal. Every inducement would be offered to Chinese and others to take their families to North Borneo and become permanent residents.—Reuter.
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