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Tea and Silk are carried in large quantities to Hongkong by junk, for transhipment. The import of Opium in 1895 was 5,999 piculs as compared with 7,631 piculs in 1894. The total value of the trade of the port for 1895 was Tls. 50,274,994 as compared with Tls. 45,417,597 in 1894.
Ample means of communication exist between Canton and Hongkong, a distance of about ninety-five miles, by foreign steamers plying daily, and a large number of native craft. There is daily steam communication with Macao. Steamers also run regularly between Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. There is a safe and commodious anchorage within 150 yards of the river wall at Shameen. Canton was connected by telegraph (an overland line) with Kowloon in 1883, and another overland line was completed from Canton to Lungchau-fu, on the Kwangsi and Tonkin frontier, in June, 1884. A pro- jected railway between Canton and Kowloon has received the Imperial sanction and a preliminary survey has been made, but it still remains a project.
DIRECTORY
ABDOOLALLY, EBRAHIM & Co., Merchants
and Commission Agents, Honam
Ahmedbhai G. Busrai, manager
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Sui.kee
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants
W. Pestalozzi, silk inspr., signs per pro.
J. Rommy, silk inspector
W. Helms
H. Hübbe
G. Fuchs
L. C. Ozorio
Agencies
Pacific Mail Steamship Company Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. Shell Line of steamers Rickmers Line of Steamers Lancashire Insurance Company South British Fire & Marine Insce. Co. New York Life Insurance Company
Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co.
拿山庇 Be-san-na
BHESANIA & Co., C. M., Silk Merchants
and Commission Agents, Shameer
C. M. Bhesania (Bombay)
B. B. Bhesania,
do.
C. F. Dalal,
do.
J. E. Mistry,
do.
F. C. Bhesania
BOMANJEE & Co., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents, Shameen
B. P. Karanjia
S. N. Karanjia
H. J. Karanjia
R. B. Garawalla
BRITISH EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH ESTABLISH-
MENT-CHRIST Church
Trustees-F. B. Smith, J. Naismith,
Jas. Wallace
Hon. Secty. and Treas.-Jas. Wallace
古太 Tai.kou
Butterfield & SWIRE, Merchants
W. de St. Croix
Agencies
China Navigation Company, Limited Ocean Steamship Company
Scottish Oriental Steamship Co., Ld. Union Insurance Society of Canton Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn., Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance
CANTON AMATEUR THEATRICAL SOCIETY
Hon. Secretary-E. T. Bond
CANTON CLUB
Committee-E. D. H. Fraser (chair- man), E. T. Bond, A. Pustau, J. Ruff, F. Salinger
J. M. Eça da Silva, secretary
CANTON CONDITION HOUSE COMPANY
Directors-F. B. Smith (chairman), J. Ruff, F. Schürch, W. Pestalozzi (hon. secretary)
F. X. de Britto, manager
CANTON SILK WEAVING CO., Hing Loong-kai C. M. Bhesania & Co., proprietors
CARLOWITZ & Co., Merchants
C. Erdmann (Hamburg) Chas. von Bose, do.
Paul Sachse (Hongkong)
Hans Schubart, signs per pro.
R. Lenzmann
G. Hoppeler, silk inspector W. Pape
Johannes Wacker
F. X. M. P. Tavares
Agencies
Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Shanghai Navigazione Generale Italiana
Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance