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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 twelve 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 eighteen 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 deg. 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 Chinese Post has established postal communication with the principal towns in Kwangsi.
亞細亞 A-si-a
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co., LTD.
C. Brown, local manager
和天 Teen-Woo
DIRECTORY
BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission
Agts.; Shipping Office: Banker's Pontoon
Geo. Banker
Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro. R. Wilson, engineer
Agency
Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO C'o,
F. A. Perry
H. J. Kestin
W. L. Thompson
CONSULATES
**** Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul-Residing in Hongkong
GERMANY
Consul-Dr. W. Rössler (residing at
Canton)
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Consul-H. A. Ottewill (abt.)
Acting Consul-W. J. B. Fletcher
Constable-J. Wisher
官事隔總利大講大
Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kun
ITALY
Consul General - Commendatore Z.
Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong) Chinese Writer-Ch'ing Yao
CUSTOMS, MARITIME
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Acting Commissioner J. H. W.
Houston (on leave)
Acting Commissioner-J. W. Loureiro Assistants-R. T. Nelson, Lau Honchi,
Hü Kam shui
Medical Officer -R. B. Vickers Tide-Surveyor and Harbourmaster-
F. Benson
Examiner A. A. Du Bord
Asst. Examiners-A. A. Anderson, C. E. G. Roderick, H. P.Singer, J. Rimsche Tidewaiters-G. R. H. Dittmann, S.
B. de Brito, P. Pezzine, V. da G.
Lopes, A. F. Reynolds, T. Ivanoff
姵渣 Cha-tin
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Agencies
Hongkong, C'ton. & Macao S. B. Co., Ld. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. China Navigation Co., Ld.
Canton Insurance Office, Ld. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ll. China Sugar Refinery Co., Ld.
West River British Steamship Co. Sam Shing Hong Motor Boat Co.
Wah Hing Hong Motor Boat Co.
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Dist. Postm'r.-C. H. Shields (Canton)
Act. sub.-District Postmaster-H. O.
Jones (Kweilin)
Accountant-in-charge--Yao Tat Son
李美 Mei.foo
**
STANDARD OIL Co. of New YORK-Tel. Ad:
Socony
D. H. Cameron, manager (Canton) P. J. Gallagher, asst.-in-charge
R. J. Jones