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The principal articles of Export consist of prepared tobacco, joss-sticks, strawmats, palm-leaf fans, and fresh vegetables; and Imports are largely represented by dried fruits, foreign piece goods and foreign sundries, including a variety of Japanese com- modities of a cheap nature. Large quantities of softwood poles are floated down in the form of rafts which are dismantled here. These mostly come from beyond Wuchow and also from the North River. The yearly value of this branch of the trade is estimated at about $750,000. There are two silk filatures in the town which afford employment to about 300 women each: the total out-turn of silk amounts to about 100 catties per day.
The unique opportunities presented for transport by the unrivalled waterways of the famous Delta have been well availed of by native enterprise and there is a large and lucrative passenger trade with Canton, Fatshan, Sancheong, Hongkong and Macao, &c. Large roomy native passenger boats towed by powerful launches are engaged in this trade. About five such boats arrive from, and as many depart for, Canton daily, and although no statistics are available it is estimated that about 500,000 passengers are carried annually to and from the provincial Capital alone.
The surrounding country is picturesque, fertile and highly cultivated, and the inhabit- ants are prosperous and industrious. Rice is, of course, the principal crop, but mulberry shoots are very extensively cultivated for sale in the silk producing centres and large quantities of fresh vegetables are exported to supply the Hongkong market.
DIRECTORY
BAZIN & CO., D., Merchants
Sin Tsze Ming, agent
CONSULATE, H. B. M.
Acting Consul-R. T. Tebbitt Writer-Li Ting Chên
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Indoor-
Acting Commissioner—F. W. Maze Assistant do. -A. J. Basto Clerks-Tai Tin Chak, Wong Hin Wo
and Ni Hsi Hsi
Outdoor
Acting Tidesurvyr. &Harbour Master-
H. Člive
Examiner W. Duncan
Assistant Examiner-W. F. Langford Tidewtrs.-S. G. Pedersen & T. White Weigher-Ho Ying-fan Watcher-Ch'en Fu Chien Tidewaiter in charge, Kumchuk
Station-O. Rateau Watcher-Hu Yan
EDWARDS & Co., T., Merchants
T. Edwards (Canton) Cheung Yat Cho, agent
GROTE & Co., Merchants
J. B. A. Grote o. Tex, general manager
LEWINGDON & Co., J. S., Merchants
J. S. Lewingdon
Chan Yuk Tong, agent
Agencies
Wo Shun S.S. Co.
Kwong Shun S.S. Co.
Wing On S.S. Co.
LOI ON Co., Cargo Brokers and Commis-
sion Agents
Lui Cho Hing
Agencies
Hongkong Steamboat Co.
New York Life Insurance Co. Hamburg Fire Insurance Co.
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Postal clerk-Cheung Yum
RAFEEK & Co., M. F., Merchants
Lui Cho Hing, agent
WEST RIVER BRITISH S.S. Co.
Tai Mow, agent
The REMINGTON TYPEWRITER is a Masterpiece of Mechanical Art
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