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SAMSHUI
The business focus of the district is Sainam, a large well-built town of no great antiquity, three miles distant, on the creek leading to Fatshan. The inhabitants are not lacking in enterprise and there are several steam silk filatures and a steam flour mill. Here interesting occupation is the tinning of rice-birds, soles and game. The rice birds are caught in reed patches at night in a bag net, into which they are swept by a rope drawn over the reeds. The season is short, lasting only for six weeks in the Autumn.
Two sets of steamship lines converge here, from Canton and Hongkong, respec- tively, and tourists in China can do many worse things than visit the West River, and should not fail to explore this port and its environs. The number of steamers entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1913 totalled 4,294, aggregat- ing 1,311,322, tons. Since 1st May, 1905, Samshui has been made a port of entry for foreign steamers going up the West River. Numerous steam launches carrying passengers or towing passenger boats ply between Samshui and neighbouring cities on the West and North Rivers and on the creek leading to Fatshin and Canton. A railway line from Canton to Samshui via Fatshan was inaugurated on the 26th September, 1904, and five trains run daily each way between Canton and Samshui. In the Summer malignant diseases-fever, dengue, cholera, plague, etc.-may occasionally appear, as in every other place in China; but in the Winter the air is keen, bracing, and clear. The waterways and surrounding country are picturesque and the adjacent heights (from 200 to 400 ft.) worthy of ascent. Game, especially snipe, duck and geese, is to be found in fair quantities. The temperature varies from 33° F. to 100° F.-dry in winter, damp in summer-but generally very supportable.
The Chinese Post Office with a branch office at Samshui is connected by rail with Canton and with all important cities in the neighbourhood by steam launches or couriers. Mails for and from Hongkong are sent via Canton. A telegraph office is shortly to be established at Samshui.
There are no Consulates at Sumshui. The Consuls within whose jurisdiction Sam- shui is situated reside either in Hongkong or in Canton.
DIRECTORY
CONSULATES
比大
MELA Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul-Residing in Hongkong
官事頜國英大
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-General-J.W. Jamieson, C.M.G.
(residing in Canton)
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ITALY
Consul-General Commendatore Z.
Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong)
關水三
CUSTOMS, MARITIME
Comm'ner.-C. E. S. Wakefield
Assistant-T. Suzuki
Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour
Master Y. M. Mudes
Examiner-J. McMahon
Tidewaiters-E. P. Pretzsch, A. Borges,
H. H. P. Kaye, O. M. Thiele
‘司公和怡
E Wo & Co., Merchants and Com'n. Agts.
隆安福
FOOK ON LOONG, Broker and Com'n. Agts.
渣
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Man Fuk Lung, agent
Agencies
H'kong., Canton & Macao S.B. Co., Ld.
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.
China Navigation Company
Canton Insurance Office
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
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公
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KUNG-WO, Broker and Commission Agent
签约
KWAN YIK, Broker and Commission Agent
局政郵
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Dist.-postmaster-C.H. Shields (C'ton.)
局報電國中
TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE-Stinum
Clerk in Charge-Woo Chung Yü
昌興永
WING HING CHEONG, Broker and Com-
mission Agent
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