His Highness The Rajah left Kuhing in H.H.S. Zahora on the 8th to pay visits fo Matang Mountain and Lundu Station. At Matang His Highness was pleased to find that all connected to the Reservoir and with the channel which brings the water from the farther source seemed in excellent order, and after standing the severe test of the heavy rains and floods in the N.E. monsoon this work may be pronounced sage to stand for many years.
The coffee on the Estate looked well, some of the older gardens having been abandoned through age. Pulping and husking were being carried on in the lower shed as usual.
After leaving Matang The Rajah, accompanied by the Hon'ble the Resident of the 1st Division, visited Lundu. Here everything was orderly and well kept. The examination at the school had just been held and prizes were distributed by His Highness. Arrangements were made to plant the spare ground around the school with orange trees, which should do well.
There were no cases of importance brought before His Highness. Satisfactory information was received from Mr. Boult, the Resident, that the coconut plantations along the coast were in a very prosperous condition, the trees bearing freely and the nuts selling at a good price. Some of the plantations are changing hands and fetching a high figure. The Lundu Malays who are nearly all of Sambas origin are well to do and better off than most. They are generally a hard working people anbd clever at different trades as well as gardening but honesty is not always their policy, they make on the wholem however, a desirable population.
H.H.S. Zahora with the Rajah and the Divisional Resident on board returned to Kuching on the 13th May.
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