THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12081, 9 August 1917, Page 3

THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK.

The <&vit.h of tlio Ttiiinli of Sarawak wns recently announced in a. cable S! i(T ( >. A writer lins described the Kinah, who avos Sir 'Charles Johnson Brook.". G.O.M.fi., known until IPB2, officially ill E'lifshuid. a.s.pst. Mr Charles Brooke, as '' the most absolute autocrat or. the la - "*' of the earth. Tlo I'Mico. told Queen \ ietorin thai ho found it easier to govern 30,000 .Malays and Dyaks t.han to manajzr a dozen 'if hor subjects. Jo listen, to his philosophy of government. was to const' to marvel at his success. " There isn t a, lawyer in tint whole r »f my dominions," ho once said; '' there is no rod tape, and not a sinel" official lettor is ever written. I have; reduced government to a. miracle el simplicity, simply beca.nse 1 trust- my people, and they trust me. . . . It is very easy to govern a people with 12-inch guns beside yon but whop one is a "tone, it. is very different." Sir Charles Brooke leases a son to succeed him, Mr Charles Vyncr Brooke, who has the British knack of getting on with natives to thin same degree, jipparontlv, as his father and grandfather, the first Ttajali. The people of Sarawak, and the way to manage them, have been his constant study since tlio day when hri left MagdaloiH College, and returned to help his father in the imperial task of governing linlf ji million people in •10,000 square miles of territory. JTei married, in 1911. tlio Hon Sylvia Brett, the daughter of Viscount Eslier.