MACAO
門澳 Ou-mun
皎馬 Ma-kau
Macao is situated in 22 deg. 11. min. 30 sec. N. latitude, and 113 deg. 32 min. 30 sec. E. longitude, on a rocky peninsula, renowned, long before the Portuguese settled on it, for its safe harbour for junks and small vessels. The Portuguese, who had already
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' Ägents,
Import and Export.
Cables: "BOLTONCO," "BRISBANE.
Codes used: Bentley's & Bentley's Second.
Bankers: COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA, LTD.
F. B. BOLTON & Co.,
ALBERT HOUSE,
289, Albert Street,
BRISBANE.
$4,000,000 for the construction of the railway, but there are no indications at present of a commencement being made with the work, and it is generally doubted whether a railway through a district so well provided with waterways would prove remunerative. A new Commercial Treaty was arranged with China in November, 1904. In accordance with the Treaty of 1887 the Governments of China and Portugal in 1909 appointed Commissioners to delimitate the boundaries of Macao and its Depen- dencies, but China would not admit Portugal's title to half the territory claimed, and the Portuguese Commissioner interrupted the negotiations after they had been in progress nearly four months and proposed referring the dispute to The Hague Arbitration Tribunal. China definitively refused to agree to this, and so the position remains as it has always been. In 1910 the Portuguese authorities asserted their juris- diction over the island of Colowan by clearing the place of a piratical horde which had terrorised the whole delta.
The colony is separated from the large island of Heung-shan by an arch, built in the year 1870, at the end of the narrow, connecting sandy isthmus. Two principal ranges of hills, one running from south to north, the other from east to west, may be
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