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SAMSHUI-KONGMOON
The telegraph and postal services have agencies at the port, but there are no Consulates established; the consuls within whose districts Samshui lies reside either in Canton or Hongkong.
CONSULATES
DIRECTORY
*** Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul-General-Residing in H'kong.
Assistant-E. Shelton
Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-
M. Hellstrand
Chief Examiner-J. H. Thatcher
官事領國英大
局政郵國中
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-General-
(residing in Canton)
**I*Tail-tai-liLing-sz-kun
ITALY
Consul-General-Residing in H'kong.
亞細亞
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO. (SOUTH CHINA),LTD.
D. Willis
司公船輪和天
BANKER STEAM SHIP CO.
Yat Kee, agent
司公船輪和濟
CHAI WO S. S. Co.
Wang Yik, agent
關水三
Act. Comm'ner.-W. MacDonald
CUSTOMS, MARITIME
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
李美
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
J. E. Hartle, jr., assist. in charge
TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE
局報電國中
司公榮廣
KWONG WING Co. Ltd.
Kwan Yik, agent
司公業航江西
WEST RIVER CHINESE NAVIGATION CO
Kwong Fuk Cheong, agent
司公與西
SAI HING S. S. Co.
Man Fuk Loong, agent
KONGMOON
Kong-moon
Kongmoon was added to the list of treaty ports on 7th March, 1904, in accordance with the stipulations of Article X. of the Mackay Treaty. A British Consulate was established, but withdrawn in 1905. Kongmoon is located some three miles up a creek on the West River, in the Kwangchow Prefecture of the Kwangtung Province in Lat. 22° 34′ 49′′ N. and Long. 113' 8′ 53′′ E. and is about 45 miles distant from Macao, 70 from Canton and 87 from Hongkong. The creek on which it is built connects the West River with the sea at Gaemoon, and is a narrow and tortuous stream, the lower reaches of which, near the main river, are lined with rafts, while further up in the vicinity of the town it is crowded with native craft of every description, thus rendering navigation for steamers difficult at all times, but especially so when the current runs