LAPPA
Lappa, also called by the Chinese Kung Pak, is an island, directly opposite the Inner Harbour of Macao, the distance across being from 14 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 1895 was Tls. 9,375,928 as compared with Tls. 9,295,373 in 1894.
湖北拱 Kung Pak Kwun 關扥拱
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS
Commissioner-T. Piry
Assistant-R. A. Currie
Do. -J. W. Loureiro
Do. -J. Nolasco da Silva
DIRECTORY
Medical Officer-J. G. da Silva Tidesurveyor-T. N. Manners Boat Officers—D. Reid, L. Liedcke Examiner-S. J. Grainger
Assistant Examiners-E. V. H. Viez,
T. Moreland
Tidewaiters-W. C. Blake, R. J. White, J. Moorhouse, C. H. A. Käcker, P. C. Petersen, G. Mac- Kenzie, A. Brammer, M. J. H. C. Breitenfeldt, M. Finlayson, H. E. McCann, M. Feller, H. K. F. E. Ziche Watchers-Twenty
PAKHOI
Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention in 1876. It is situated on the Gulf of Tonkin in long. 109 deg. 6 min. E. and lat. 21 deg. 30 min. N. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, and the foreigners were well received by the natives. Pakhoi is the port for the important city of Lien chau, from whence considerable quantities of foreign piece goods are distributed over the country lying between the West River and the seaboard. It was hoped that it would also become one great outlet for the trade of the province of Kwangsi. The trade was formerly almost exclusively in the hands of Chinese, who transhipped goods from Hongkong and Macao (chiefly the latter) in native bottoms, and in 1877 the value of the trade passing through the Foreign Customs amounted to no more than Tls. 11,714, but after 1878 it gradually attained respectable proportions. In 1895 the value of the trade was Tls. 3,813,063 as compared with Tls. 4,118,647 in 1894. The exports are sugar, oil, rice, tea, &c. The progress of the trade has been checked in some degree by the opening of frontier stations to French trade, goods now finding their way into Kwangsi through
Tonkin.
The town is situated on a small peninsula and faces nearly due north. It stands at the foot of a bluff nearly forty feet high, which deprives it of the south-west breeze in summer, while in winter it is exposed to the full force of the north-east monsoon. From the bluff an extensive partly cultivated plain stretches, over which there is some sport, snipe, plover, quail, and pigeons being found in large numbers, while duck and other water fowl are not numerous. The climate is considered to be very salubrious. The estimated population of the port is 25,000.
No port in China is more easily approached and entered than that of Pakhoi. The landmarks are conspicuous and unmistakeable. The channel is wide and deep and has no hidden danger to be avoided. The anchorage is a mile and a half from the town. There is good landing at high water, but at ebb tide only for small boats.