GOVERNMENT, British New Guinea (estimated area. 90,510 square miles; population, 3.18.0%)0) is to Crown eolliny with an administrator and a legislative emincil. The expenses of adminis tration, about :l475.000 a year. are guaranteed by the Commonwealth of Australia, which prac tically monopolizes the trade. The revenues nre from ;450.000 to 4.1'41.1100 to year. chiefly from elistonis duties. .\ company ealled the British New Guinea vindicate bias :1 eoncession of '_'50, 000 acres of land. toes) suited for cultivation, and has begun to develop systematic planting. Land is offered to settlers at fill, all acre. Native labor is in ample supply, and the natives are improving under the British poliey of gradually making them ini?re useful to themselves and foreigners without depriving than of their in herited rights and social usages.
The German New Guinea Company maintains a court of law in each section of the colony of Kaiser Wilhelmsland (estimated area, 70,843 square miles: population, 110.0011 nues are still very small, the expenditures toeing about three times as great ; the deficit is covered by a Government subvention. Dutch New Guinea
(estimated area, 151,800 square miles; popula tion. ..:38,00(1) belongs to the ltesideney of Ter mite, Molucea Islands, and is one of the outposts. A Dutch official (coat rob. or) has charge of the Government interests, but very little is done for the country excepting to protect the few white stations and prevent intertribal wars along the coast.
PoriLATION. The total population. estimated at 706,000. is very thinly spread over the island. The dense forests have had the effect to keep the small tribes apart and to make them sus picious of one another. Near the British settle ments many of them are beginning to speak English, and it is found that they are best con trolled by native policemen in the pay of the Government. While they often make war upon one another. they have offered no important op position to the of the whites. :Many of them are eannihals, and a few white men have been killed by members of tribes addicted to eat ing human flesh.