Nevertheless the charter to the British North Borneo Company was granted by the Government succeeding Lord Beaconsfield's (Mr. Gladstone's) in 1881.

The British North Borneo Company—a private corporation whose stock fetched 15s. 6d. on the open market —was still the sole ruler over a quarter of a million natives inhabiting a territory ...

ALTHOUGH Sir West Ridgeway, the chairman of the British North Borneo Company, contributes a preface to this volume, it is in no sense an official publication. This will be appreciated by those who ...

British Borneo comprised North Borneo, Sarawak, Brunei and Labuan Island, all on the north coast of the jungle island of Borneo, which is now part of Indonesia.

The civil servants under the Chartered Company of British North Borneo, who had run the country before the war and made a good job of it, had been in Jap prison camps; those who survived had had ...

KOTA KINABALU: The old British North Borneo Chartered Company office building which was destroyed in a fire years ago is set to be restored.

KOTA KINABALU: It was a sentimental journey back in time for Alec Brown, the youngest son of George Brown, a senior forestry officer who served in British North Borneo before and after World War II.

“Many from these clans laboured for the British North Borneo Company in tin mines and plantations for tobacco and timber. Many worked as domestic servants for British colonists, as did my own ...