CHOLON-CAMBODIA
BAN SOON AN & Co., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents
Ong Ka Tiong Tan Ho Seng Teo Un Kong Tan Yu Wee
Lim Keng
Agencies
Shan Line of Steamers
Bun Hin Line of Steamers
Man On Insurance Company Po On Insurance Company Khean Guan Insurance Company
HOSPITAL
Supérieure-Soeur Laurence Septs Sœurs
KLOSS & Co., Merchants
Walter Kloss (Saigon)
Tan Tian San
MAN CHEONG YUEN RICE MILL
Nam Long & Co., general agents
MONT DE PIÉTÉ
N. Reynand V. Léon
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Councillors-Linger, O. du Crouzet, Berthet, Tran Tuong Thoai, Lam Quan Kien, Ong Phong Hoa, Khun Tiet, Lam Thien Tong, Cham Leng Secretariat
Secretary-G. Guyot
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Accountant-Passerat de la Chapelel
Roads
Architect of Roads-S. Prunier Draftsman-L. Ippolito
Chief Surveyor of Roads-Berthety Overseer of Roads-F. Gonnord Municipal Treasury
Receiver--Costa
Writ Server-Marydassou
Police
Commissioner-Micheli
Brigadiers-Rivière, Gérolami, Pietri Sub-Brigrs.-Boulanger, Denis, Muller Municipal Boys' School
Director-Giroux
Professor-Mme. Giroux
Municipal Girls' School
Directress-Sister Louise de Jesus
Teachers 1 French, 2 native Sisters Municipal Hospital
Directress-Sister Laurence
Assistants-3 French, 4 native Sisters Doctor-Sartre, M.F.P.
RIZERIE À VAPEUR DE CHOLON, Quai de
Mytho
A. Linger, ingénr. dirtr. (Saigon) A. Endel, comptable, do. Marchetti, chef mécanicien Georgi, Otts, mécaniciens
RIZERIE "ORIENT
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C. Speidel & Co., general agents
RIZERIE DE L'UNION
W. & Th. Speidel & Co., general agents
CAMBODIA
Cambodia, or the kingdom of the Khmer, as it is called by the natives, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min. longitude E. of Paris, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angkor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the French Laos, and on the north-west and west by Angkor and Battambang. The noble river Mekong flows through the kingdom, and after passing
passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Mekong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export.
Cambodia was once an extensive and powerful state, and proofs that it possessed a much higher civilisation than now prevails are to be found in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the ancient city of Angkor are monuments of a
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