WUCHOW
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principal articles of export are timber, oils (aniseed, cassia, wood and tea), indigo, hides, and live stock. The coal, which should form one of Wuchow's largest exports, still lies buried in the surrounding hills. There is daily steam communication with Canton, the two steamers of the British West River Steamship Co. affording excellent passenger accommodation.
The round trip from Canton takes four days: the boat leaving Canton on Friday mornings remains over Sunday in Wuchow. The direct trade with Hongkong is now carried on by eight cargo steamers. During the last three years a large native passenger trade has sprung up between Wuchow and up-river towns: launches leave daily during the summer months for Konghau, Kuaiping and Kueihsien, and weekly four motor boats make regular, and five launches make irregular, trips to Nanning, averaging three trips a week. The floods in 1902 were the highest on record, the water in the river rising to 68. 3." The lowest winter reading was 1.10 feet below zero in December 1906. In winter the only local industry worthy of mention is boat building; when the river falls the foreshore is lined with matsheds where native craft of all descriptions, from a huge salt junk to a diminutive sampan, are constructed.
Wuchow itself offers few attractions to the tourist, but the river scenery on the way up, especially between the Shuihing and Takhing Gorges, where the stream winds in and out among the green hills to form a succession of apparent lakes, is extremely picturesque, and has not altogether unjustly been compared to the Rhine. Wuchow is connected by telegraph with Hongkong, Shanghai, etc.; and the Imperial Chinese Post has established postal communication withi the principal towns in Kwangsi.
和天 Teen-Woo
DIRECTORY
BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission
Agents-Kiu Fong Street; Shipping
Office: Banker's Pontoon
Geo. Banker
Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro.
Agency
Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.
CONSULATES
I✰ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun BELGIUM
Consul-Residing in Hongkong
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Acting-Consul-C. D. Smith
Constable-J. H. Inwood
官事領總利大義大
Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kun
ITALY
Consul, Comm. Z. Volpicelli (resid-
ing in Hongkong)
Chinese Writer-Ch'ing Yao
CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-J. A. van Aalst
Assistants-A. E. Kindblad, W. O.
Law, S. V. dos Remedios Medical Othicer-P. Rees
Act. T.-S. and Harbourmaster-H.Clive Examiner-E. V. H. Viez
Asst.
Examiners-E. Watson, E. O'Hare, F. Heilman
Tidewaiters-C. B. Berglof, G. J. C.
Kindt, A. Schmidt, G. Gosling, A
Mitchell, J, D. F. Barbé
顛渣 Cha-tin
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Agencies
Butterfield & Swire
Deacon & Co., Canton
Hongkong, Canton and Macao S.B. Co. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. China Navigation Company Canton Insurance Office
Hongkong Fire Insurance Company
China Sugar Refinery Co., Limited West River British Steamship Co.
MISSIONS
For Protestant Missions see end of
China Directory
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE
Acting Postal Commissioner-H. E.
Wolf (Canton)
Postal Clerk-Kwok Shiu-chun
建威 Wat-kin
WATKINS, LIMITED, Druggists
Kwong Cheung-hing, agent
FE Wat-sun-she Tai-yuek-fong
WATSON&Co.Ld., A.S., Chemists and Drugs.
Ma Keng Tong, agent
Sit Siu Chün, agent