MISSIONS
PAKHOI-HOIHOW
AMERICAN MISSION (CHINA NEW TESTA-
MENT)
General Supt.-Joseph Smale
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. N. Mackenzie
堂主天
FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (MISSIONS
ETRANGÈRES DE PARIS)
FRENCH HOSPITAL
Dr. Duperron, in charge
FRENCH ORPHANS' ASYLUM
FRENCH SCHOOLS-Pakhoi
Teacher-H. Q. Ott
會老長海北
KIELER CHINA MISSION
Hans Clausen
Mesa Wenot
局郵等一海北
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Postmaster-Chung Chik-chi
POST OFFICE, FRENCH
Truong Van Chinh, in charge
生晉
SINGER SEWING MACHINE Co.
Tsun Sang, agent
SIU CHEONG
Agents
祥兆
971
Roses S.S. Co. of Haiphong (s.s. "Pierre
Michel")
Standard Oil Co. of New York
YAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA
Yuen Fat, agent
HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)
州瓊 Kiung-chau 口海 Hoi-hau
Hoihow is the seaport of the prefectural city of Kiungchow, the capital of the Island of Hainan. The two towns are separated by a distance of some three miles of low. hills dotted with graves; and across these lies a semi-macadamised road. This highway was originally constructed by the Kiungchow Horse Carriage Co. in 1915, and was considerably improved by General Lung Chi-kwang during his rule over Hainan in the middle of 1918. At the present time it serves the purpose, also, of two or three decrepid Ford cars, which the Carriage Co. utilise as well as their plucky little ponies that are habitually underfed and overworked.
The
The port of Hoihow was opened by the establishment of a branch of the Chinese Maritime Customs in April, 1876. During the latter nine months of that year foreign tonnage to the extent of 36,672 tons entered and cleared at the Custom House, this representing 54 British, 10 German, 2 French and 4 Danish steamers that entered from, and cleared for, Singapore, Bangkok, Saigon, Annam, Hongkong, etc. situation of the port of Hoihow before and at its opening in 1876 was considered favourable more from the political than the geographical or topographical point of view. The Foreign Consuls at Hoihow were in close touch with the Taotai at Kiung- chow, and thus, as may be seen at so many of the Treaty Ports on the mainland of China, trade interests were sacrificed to save the amour propre of one or two individuals. There is no doubt that had a port, such as Chinglan, been chosen on the east coast, many a total wreck upon the dangerous sandbanks in the Straits of Hainan would not have occurred. Moreover, such a port- would be in the centre of the produce-bearing districts, which Hoihow most emphatically is not.