Sentence examples for straits settlements from inspiring English sources

They are missing out: Phuket Town, along with the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca and Singapore, is home to a peculiar hybrid of Chinese commercial culture and tropical laissez-faire that dates back centuries.

Prior to the outbreak of the Pacific War, it formed part of the British-administered Straits Settlements and had a population of 8,960.

The Straits Settlements made a free gift of 2845 acres of land for the site, and a sum of £250,000 for construction of the base was donated by Hong Kong in 1925.

Cheaper and easier is undoubtedly a trip to Poeloe Pinang, one of the islands belonging to the Straits-Settlements, under the coast of Malaka, celebrated for its beautiful scenery.

Straits SettlementsMap of the Straits Settlements from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Straits Settlements, former British crown colony on the Strait of Malacca, comprising four trade centres, Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Labuan, established or taken over by the British East India Company.

In 1900 Christmas Island was incorporated in the British crown colony of the Straits Settlements with its capital at Singapore.

The British government agreed to establish the Straits Settlements as a separate Crown Colony on 1 April 1867.

By 1826, the British directly controlled Penang, Malacca, Singapore, and the island of Labuan, which they established as the crown colony of the Straits Settlements.

It was one of three cities which later formed a wealthy British colony known as the Straits Settlements (the others were Melaka which is not far from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, an island just off Malaysia's north-west coast).

In 1826, Malacca, Penang and Singapore were amalgamated into the Straits Settlements, which were made a Crown colony with effect from 1 April 1867.