colonial office correspondence relating to brunei 'destroyed under

(Continued)DOCUMENTNUMBERDATERECEIVEDIN CODOCUMENT DETAILSANNOTATIONThis law was the occasion of a good deal of frictionbetween His Highness Sultan Muhammad Jamalul Alam IIand successive British Residents.26676 29.08.1910 Estimates 1910 (last HC 1169/1910). Actual revenue in 1910 was Str$77,051, actual expenditure$73,513, the first time a budget surplus had been achieved bythe Residency. Surplus balances were also achieved in 1912and 1913. National debt at the end of 1910 stood at$300,000, however, and worse was to come in this respect.The year 1910, the Resident claimed, "saw the smallstate of Brunei, as administered under Britishprotection, definitely emerge from its former comatosecondition into a sphere of active expansion" (BAR1910:1).39930 31.12.1910 Estimates 1911: sends; estimated deficit of[Straits] $6,685.28049 28.07.1911 Coronation celebration, visit of Sultan of Bruneito Labuan – sends translation from the sultanon the subject of.29281 21.04.1912 Tanah Brunei Company – is now in liquidation(last, HC 25392).8844 15.03.1913 Medical officer for Brunei: states action taken asregards appointment of a (last B26590/1912).Actual revenue in 1911 amounted to Str$109,430compared to expenditure of only $79,318 (CO 824/1Brunei Annual Reports).The destruction of this document was sheer vandalism.The coronation in question was that of HM KingGeorge V of the United Kingdom, 22 June 1911(Longford 1976: 51–2).The TBC was a fledgling rubber company, which failedto survive infancy. See The Planter, 69(809), August1993: 379.'B' here = 'Butterworth', the manager of the cutchfactory, better known as the author, 'Peter Blundell'(1875–1952).(Continued on next page)