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presenting the four or five foreign houses (three British) doing business here. Fine new Consular and Customs buildings and shipping offices have recently been erected and have improved the appearance of the settlement very much. A German Post Office was opened in 1903.
The net value of the trade of the port in 1907 was Tls. 6,557,173 against Tls. 4,741,747, in 1906, Tls. 3,263,670 in 1905, and 2,961,227 in 1904. The gross value of the trade of the port in 1907 was Tls. 15,005,907, the total foreign imports representing a value of Tls. 3,328,672 of which, however, Tls. 2,824,789 were re-exported.
DIRECTORY
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
Yew Cheong Wong, agent
Agencies
China Navigation Company, Limited North Borneo Trading Co., Ld.
Union Insurance Society of Canton,Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
Chau-song-nee-ch'euk
CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION Co.
Chy Moy-son, manager
Wu Yuet-chiao
Wong Kwo Hsin
CONSULATES
# Ta fa-ling-shih-fu FRANCE
Acting Consul-A. Doire (Hankow) Acting Vice-Consul-Minard
GERMANY
Acting Consul-Dr. A. Nord (resid-
ing at Hankow)
Secretary-W. Frederking
✯✯✯ Ta Ying ling-shih-fu
府事領英大
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Consul Officiating- H. A. Little
JAPAN
門衙事本日大
Acting Consul--I. Katayama, for Shasi
and Ichang (residing at Shasi)
門衙國美
* Ta-me-kwoh ya-men
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul General-Wm. Martin (Han-
kow)
關昌宜
I-chang-kwan
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-W. T. Lay
Assts-F. L. Bessell, P. Huber,
F. W. H. C. Biester, E. A. Mac- Donald Medical
M.D. MICH.
Officer F. C. Krumling,
Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor—
E. Molloy
Pada
Examiners-J. McMahon, J. V. Jensen Asst. do. R. Olsen, R. Tismar Tidewaiters-W. H. Barley, J. Larkin, D. Verner, R. Bulldeath, P. H. M. McCarthy, J.Rasmussen
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Ltd. Merchants,
A. Andrew
Agencies
Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co.
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Glen Line
隆茂
MACKENZIE & Co., LD.
R. Gericke, resident agent
Agencies
Kiang Pei Ting, Coal & Tin Mining Co.
North China Insurance Co. Ld.
West China Transport Co.
China Mutual Life Assurance Co.
時最美
MELCHERS & Co., Merchants
E. D. Chang
Agencies
Nordd. Lloyd Imp. German Mail Line
do.
Yangtse Line
Hamburg-Amerika Linie