890
PAKHOI
nowadays in the immediate vicinity of the port, and those in search of sport with the gun have to go some considerable distance afield. Riding on horseback is possible, but cycling is a doubtful pleasure. _The climate of the port during at least six months of the year is a trying one for Europeans, and as a result of the want of proper sanitary arrangements-pigs are the principal scavengers-epidemics in the Chinese: town are frequent. Accurate figures for the population of the town, as elsewhere in China, are difficult to obtain, but the number of inhabitants may perhaps be put at some 20,000. Fishing is the main-in fact, practically the only-local industry, and a large number of vessels are employed in it. The people of Pakhoi and surrounding district are inclined to "enough for to-day's needs and never mind to-morrow" rather than to activity, commercial or otherwise, and are poor in consequence. The independent and rather turbulent spirit so prevalent throughout the "Four Lower Prefectures" (F), in one of which (Limchow) the port is situated, is a good deal in evidence at times and there has been, so far, only a feeble response to educational effort.
No railway construction has yet been commenced in the district, and there seems to be little likelihood of any of the projected undertakings assuming shape in the immediate future.
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.
Yuen Woo & Co.
和福永
DIRECTORY
BELL & SON, G. E., Merchants, Commission
and Shipping Agents
G. E. Bell, sr.
G. E. Bell, jr.
Agency
Alex. Ross & Co.
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.
所支核稽南海南平
CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT REVENUE ADMINISTRATION, ASSISTANT DISTRICT
INSPECTORATE OF PINGNAN AND HAINAN
CONSULATES
✰✰ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul-Residing in Hongkong
** Tai-fat-kwok Ling-sz-fu
FRANCE and PORTUGAL, Consular Agency
Consul for Pakhoi and Tunghing
官事領國英大
Tai-ying-kwok Ling-sz-kun
GREAT BRITAIN, also in cliarge of United
States interests
ITALY
官事領總利大意
Consul-General-Residing in H'kong.
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Actg. Commissioner-E. T. Schjöth Assists.-V. Pechatkin, Leung Shi Wai Medical Officer-Dr. P. Gouillon Clerks Sung Fu-shan, Cheung Kai-
ming and Leung Tso-yam Tidesurveyor and Harbour-master-
H. A. Adamsen
Examiner-C. Wada
Tidewaiters-Shek Wing Hoi, Tsu Sic Ping, Tang Sze Chan and Shi Man Chung
和昌廣
KWONG CHEONG WO
Agency
China Navigation Co., Ld.
MISSIONS
會教聖節旬五
AMERICAN PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS Mrs--
SION
Miss J. Payne
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Miss G. E. Dunk
Miss S. Beattie