KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN-PAKHOI
POSTES ET TÉLÉGRAPHES
Receveur-R. Vanlande
AGRICULTURE Commerce
Chef du Service-Charles Laure, O.N.O.,
B.M.A., adjoint commercial à l'adminis trateur en chef du territoire
TRAVAUX PUBLICS
Chef du Service – Lepaguey
MARINE CHaloupe GoURLAONEN
Flotille-Balisoni
COMMISSARIAT DE POLICE
Commissaire de Police-Riviere
MISSION CATHOLIQUE
Aumonier des Troupes M.F. Laurent, Fort
GENDARMERIE
1049
Brigadier, de Commissarie de Police-
Riviere, Fort-Bayard
Gendarme---Labat Fort Bayard
Missionnaires
Le Talliandier, Ko-chow
do.
Zimmermann, Loui-chow
Baldit,
Cellard,
A. Genty, Shek-shing
do.
COMMERÇANTS
Chaix
Marty
Charles et Cie
COLONS
Champéstève
Piry
Rougeau
Bayard
Baudet
ΡΑΚΗΟΙ
Pak-hoi
Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention in 1877. It is situated on the Gulf of Tonkin in long. E. Greenwich 109 deg. 7 min. (106° 47′ of Paris), and lat. N. 21 deg. 29 min. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, a French Consulate was established in December, 1887, and the foreigners were well received by the natives and continue to be respected even to the present day. Pakhoi is the port for the important cities of Limchow and Chinchow, from whence considerable quantities of foreign piece goods, etc., were formerly distributed over the country lying between the West River and the seaboard, but now that the West River has been opened to steam navigation a part of the trade has been diverted to that route. The trade of Pakhoi is a declining one. Its net value in 1910 was Tls. 2,655,519 and Tls. 3,002,579 in 1909. Since 1888 the prosperity of the port has been steadily declin- ing owing to the diversion of trade to Haiphong which has been rendered possible by the pacification of the surrounding territory, while the trade of Kwangsi has been diverted to the recently opened ports on the West River and the French free port of Kwangchowwan has taken away a good deal of trade from Pakhoi. The Chinese 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 which very often blows so hard for several days that it materially interferes with the loading and discharging of steamers in the harbour, The bluff, or the plain above the town, is level for miles, which makes riding both on bicycle and on horse-back a decided pleasure. The foreigners almost exclusively live on the bluff, which in former years was only dotted by a few European buildings, but is now ornamented with many. From the bluff an extensive partly-cultivated plain develops, over which some sport is obtainable-snipe, plover, quail, and pigeons being found in large numbers, but duck and other water-fowl are not numerous. The climate is considered to be very salubrious. The estimated population of the port is 20,000. 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 Custom House. There is good landing at high water, but at ebb tide only for small boats. The construction of a railway by a French Company from Pakhoi to Nanning