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use for purposes of defence. There are no features of interest in the town unless the fan-tan shops are so considered. The streets are narrow and dirty, and there are no publie buildings save the tower-like pawnshop and the dilapidated yamên inside the walls. A little distance from the city may be seen, however, one of those interesting little fortified villages, with embattled walls and a moat, which are not uncommon in the province of Kwangtung, and which serve to indicate the state of insecurity in which the rural population live. Beyond this is the road which leads over the mountains at the back and which is worth climbing for the fine view of Hongkong from the pass at the top. The population of Kowloon City is probably not more than 5,000. A steam ferry plies between Hongkong and Kowloon City at uncertain hours every day. The total value of tht trade passing through the Kowloon Customs Stations in 1890 was Tls. 38,592,132 as compared with Tls. 32,215,916 in 1889.
關大龍九
DIRECTORY
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS
Commissioner-J. McLeavy Brown
Deputy Commr.-R. Stokes (acting)
Assistant-S. J. Hanisch
Do. --R. Markwick, Jr.
Do.
-J. W. Loureiro
Do. -J. H. Perry
Medical Attendant-James Cantlie,
M.B., C.M., F.R.C.S.
Tidesurveyor-D. C. Byworth (absent)
Do. -T. H. Kingsley Assistant Tidesurveyor-R. Braun Examiner-W. F. Kahler Assistant Examiners-G. Keeble, G. Baldwin, S. J. Grainger, H. Haines, J. A. Tipp, A. Diercking Tidewaiters-H. Schnepel, P. Foster, H. J. Faunch, W. H. Blake, A. T Bredenberg, S. B. Thompson, O. M. Anderson, D. Breen, J. Schluter, A. T. Westerberg, G. M. Krohn, E. T. Meling, S. S. Wood, C. M. Cleland, A. T. Fisher, J. McLean, L. J. Xavier, J. A. Drewes, F. M. Buschman, C. ¦ Clarkson, W. J. Martick, T. Stephen- son, W. F. Canning, J. B. Wagner, B. Osborne, A. Ware, J. Jardon, J. J. Blake
Revenue Cruiser Chuen Tiao
Commander-W. S. Wyles First Officer-C. J. Williams Second do. C. A. V. Backe Third do. -E. O. Patey
First Engineer J. McBain Second do. -G. M. Gray Third do. T. Solterbeck Gunner-J. Phillips
Revenue Cruiser Kai Pan
Commander-J. Stewart First Officer-J. W. Lowson Second do. -J. Mikkelsen First Engineer-J. Kirkwood Second do. -L. Basse
Third do. -R. M. Slight Gunner-H. Thomas Revenue Cruiser Likin
Acting Commander-J. D. Ross Acting First Officer-W. F. Tyler Acting Second do. -F. Payne Gallway First Engineer-S. Hebden Second do. -P. McGregor
Third do. A. Richardson (detchd.) Gunner-J. Cooper
Cruising Launch Kwan Tin
Twaiters-W. H. Blake, T. Stephenson Cruising Launch Kwan Lui
Tidewaiters-P. Foster, J. A. Drewes Cruising Launch Kwan Fung
T'waiters-S. S. Wood, W. F. Canning Revenue Launch Kong Sing
Tidewaiters-C. Clarkson, A. Ware Revenue Launch Cap Sui Tsai
T'waiters-H. J. Faunch, C. M. Cleland
Revenue Launch Kwong Hon
Stations under the Kowloon Customs-- Cap Sui Moon, Chang Chow, Fo To Chow, Kowloon City
LAPPA
Lappa,
also called by the Chinese Kung Pak, is an island, directly opposite the Inner Harbour of Macao, the distance across being from 1 to 1 miles. "One of the stations of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs is located here, and another on an islet called Malowchow. Lappa is under the jurisdiction of the Heungshan Magistrate. It possesses no features of interest beyond the fact that it is the principal Customs station in the neighbourhood of Macao. The net value of the trade passing through the Lappa Custom Houses in 1890 was Tls. 10,358,659 as compared with Tls. 9,087,478 in 1889.