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LAPPA ---SAMSHUI-WUCHOW-FU
DIRECTORY
關托拱 Kung Pak Kwan
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS
Commissioner T. Piry
Assistant- E. G. Lowder
Do. -J. W. Loureiro
Do. --J. Nolasco da Silva
Medical Officer—J, G. da Silva Tidesurveyor--T. N. Manners Examiner S. J. Grainger Assistant Examiner--R. J. White Tidewaiters —J. Ferguson, G. Macken- zie, L. Antoneich P. C. Petersen, A. Brammer, M. J. H. C. Breitenfeldt, G. G. Sinclair, C. A. Peters, M. Finlayson, H. K. F. E. Ziche, F. Ford
Watcher-R. H. Witthauer
Station Watchers-Twenty-six
Cruising Launch Lungtsing
Officer-in-charge-P. C. Petersen Launch Officers-A. Moncur, A. E.
Lidbetter
Revenue Launch C'umsing
Officer-in-charge--A. Brammer Launch Officer-H. Bowry Revenue Launch Luipin
Officer-in-charge-M.J.C. Breitenfeldt Revenue Launch Luikuk
Officer-in-charge-H. K. F. E. Liehe Stations under the Lappa Customs-Ma- lowchow, Chienshan, Shekkok, Kwanchiap, Mongchow, Wangmoon.
SAMSHUI
Samshui, one of the ports opened in 1897 under the Burmah Convention, is ituated near the junction of the North and West Rivers, two miles from the river ank, its port being Ho Haw. The town is surrounded by an imposing wall, but the houses are poorly built and the place is wanting in life. Between the town and the river is a fine nine-storied Pagola. The business centre of the district is Sinam, a large and well built town about three miles distant, situated on a creek leading to
Fatshan.
DIRECTORY
CONSULATE
Great BriTAIN
Consul-H. F. Brady'
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Assistant in charge-W. Hancock Tidewaiters-A. Morrison, C.S. Davies
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Lük Kew Chuan, agent
Agencies
Hongkong, Canton and Macao S.B. Co. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. China Navigation Co.
Canton Insurance Office Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.
WUCHOW-FU
Wuchow-fu, opened to foreign trade by the Special Article of the Burmese Frontier Convention, is situated on the Sikiang (West River) at a distance of about 220 miles by the present authorised routes from Canton or Hongkong. It is the principal city of the prefecture bearing the same name, and is also the seat of the district magistrate of Tsang Wu. The scenery of the West River is interesting and in many places fine. The first portion which demands attention in the voyage up stream is the Shui Hing Gorge. Here the river, which lower down is about a mile wide, flowing through level land, suddenly narrows to about a quarter of that width, and winds through a pass about five miles long where mountains rise on each side to a height of two thousand feet. On leaving the gorge the river again widens, but hills line the sides all the way to Wuchow, now and then closing in and forming tortuous defiles, in some of which the
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