It is said to have been attacked and devastated by the Javanese in 1252, and at the time when it passed by treaty to the East India Company in 1819, Sir Stamford Raffles persuading the sultan and tumenggong of Johor to cede it to him, it was wholly uninhabited save by a few fisherfolk living along its shores.
During the occupation of Java by the British an embassy was despatched to Sir Stamford Raffles by the sultan of Banjermasin asking for assistance, and in 1811 Alexander Hare was despatched thither as commissioner and resident.
We also hope to promote more gigs and buy new equipment funded in part by our weekly raffles.
There were Raffles outside Church, we ran sweepstakes.
The Gold Cup - Raffles resolves to prove to everyone that he is not the notorious jewel thief.