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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 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 a fleet of motor boats and launches make regular trips to Nanning. The floods in 1914 were the highest on record, the water in the river rising to 73′ 3′′, but they were eclipsed by the 1915 floods, which rose to 79' 6", causing widespread ruin. The lowest winter reading was 2.5 deg. below zero in December, 1902. 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.
W. A. Nowers, local manager
D. G. Bruce
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.
J. H. Crocker
W. L. Thompson
和天 Teen-Woo
DIRECTORY
BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission Shipping Office: Banker's
Agents
Pontoon
—
Geo. Banker
Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro. Agency
Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.
CONSULATES
✰✰✰ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul-Residing in Hongkong, Offices:
Alexandra Building
GERMANY
Consul-Dr. W. Rössler (residing at
Canton)
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul C. C. A. Kirke
Constable-J. Grooes
官事領總利大義大
Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kun ITALY
Consul General - Commendatore Z. Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong)
CUSTOMS, MARITIME
Acting Commissioner-J. W. Loureiro Assistants-E. M. Pannenborg, H. W..
Bradley
Medical Officer--G. W. Leavell
Acting Tide-Surveyor and Harbour-
master J. S. Enright
Examiners-H. J. Christopherson, H.
A. Anderson, C. E. G. Rhoderick Asst. Examiners-H. Surplice, C.
Klatt, F. Luber
Senior Tidewaiter-G. R. H. Dittmann. Tidewaiters--A. F. Reynolds, K.. Nakashima, T. Ivanoff, T. J.. Macauley, S. Iwanaga
顛渣 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., Ld. China Sugar Refinery Co., Ld.
West River British Stearnship Co.
Wah Hing Motor Boat Co., Wuchow-
Nanning Line
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Postal Commissioner-L. C. Arlington.
(Kweilin, Kwangsi District)
1st Class Postmaster-Koh Buck Young
李美 Mei.foo
STANDARD OIL Co.OF N. Y.-Tel. Ad:Socony D. H. Cameron, manager (Canton)
F. H. Tyson
J. E. Sharpe