SHANGHAI
海上 Sháng-hải
Although situated nearly midway between Hongkong and Tientsin, Shanghai was
the most northerly of the “Vina Douto}}
CONSIDER AUSTRALIAN TRADE.
Australia is the logical Source of Supply for Eastern markets particularly in PRIMARY PRODUCTS-FOODSTUFFS AND RAW MATERIALS.
AN AUSTRALIAN BUYING SERVICE.
We offer our Services as a Commission Buying and Shipping House, and will Buy, Collect and arrange to Ship orders for any number of Suppliers under one B/L.
We are also in a position to make firm C.I.F. and E. offers of BULK MERCHANDISE such as Flour, Wheat, Butter, Meat, Hides, Tallow, etc.
AN AUSTRALIAN SELLING SERVICE.
As Merchandise Brokers we can sell a variety of Eastern Products and we are prepared to negotiate with regard to appointing SUITABLE SELLING AGENTS throughout the Commonwealth for Manufacturers and others desirous of taking advantage of the Australian Market.
Enquiries for either of the above are cordially invited.
Mercantile Brokers.
Exporters of Primary Produce. Manufacturers' Agents.
Import and Export.
Cables: "BOLTONCO," BRISBANE.
Codes used: Bentley's & Bentley's Second.
Bankers: Commercial Bank of Austraila, Ltd.
F. B. BOLTON & Co.,
ALBERT HOUSE,
289, Albert Street,
BRISBANE.
FLORA AND FAUNA
This Kiangsu plain has been called the Garden of China, and the population is perhaps denser than in any other portion of the Empire of equal extent. Estimates vary, owing to the absence of any statistical sense in the Chinese as a people, but by foreigners the population is usually accepted as from eight hundred to a thousand per square mile. The soil, consisting entirely of alluvia carried down by the Yangtze, is fairly fertile, and, the land being easily irrigated owing to the numerous waterways which traverse it in every direction, heavy crops of the various staples are grown. Owing to the latitude and the fact that the rainfall is pretty well distributed through the year, two crops per annum are regularly produced, and these are of markedly different types; the spring crop, gathered in May or June, being similar to that of the northern temperate regions elsewhere, while the autumn crop, gathered' in September and October, is distinctly tropical or sub-tropical. The spring crops. consist of wheat, two or three distinct varieties of barley, rape, and leguminous plants of various descriptions, beans and lucerne predominating. The latter are frequently ploughed into the land without gathering to make manure for the more valuable summer products. The summer crops consist mainly of cotton and rice; the cultiva- tion of the former having of late years, owing to the growing demand for use at home, and for export to western and northern provinces, as well as to Japan,-where the
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