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PAKHOI-HOIHOW (IN HAINAN).
completed in June, 1884. Canton was connected with Kowloon by an overland telegraph line in the middle of 1888. A railway from Taku to Tung-chow has been advocated by some high officials, and will probably be carried out before long.
PAKHOI.
Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention of 1876. It is situated on the Gulf of Tonquin in long. 190 deg. 13 min. E. and lat. 21 deg. 30 min. N. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, and the foreigners were well received by the natives. Pakhoi is the port for the important city of Lien-chau, from whence considerable quantities of foreign piece goods are distributed over the country lying between the West River and the sea-board. It is believed that it will also become one great outlet for the trade of the province of Kwangsi. The trade was formerly almost exclusively in the hands of Chinese, who transhipped goods from Hongkong and Macao (chiefly the latter) in native bottoms, and in 1877 the value of the trade passing through the Foreign Customs amounted to no more than Tls. 11,714, while in 1878 it was nil. Trade afterwards, however, greatly improved. In 1884 the value of the trade was Tls. 1,703,289 as compared with Tls. 1,345,740 in 1883, Tls. 1,462,638 in 1882, Tls. 1,800,856 in 1881, Tls. 1,748,160 in 1880, and Tls. 328,532 in 1879. The exports are sugar, oil, rice, tea, &c. It is anticipated that the trade of Pakhoi will be very considerable whenever the transit pass system is availed of.
The town is situated on a small peninsula and faces nearly due North. It stands at the foot of a bluff nearly forty feet high, which deprives it of the South-west breeze in summer, while in winter it is exposed to the full force of the North-east monsoon. From the bluff an extensive uncultivated plain stretches, over which there is good sport, geese, duck, snipe, plover, quail, and pigeons being found in abundance. The climate is considered to be very salubrious. The estimated population of the port is 25,000. No port in China is more easily approached and entered than that of Pakhoi. The landmarks are conspicuous and unmistakeable. The channel is wide and deep and has no hidden danger to be avoided. The anchorage is a mile and a half from the town. There is good landing at high water, but at ebb tide only for small boats.
BRITISH COnsulate.
DIRECTORY.
Acting Consul-Clement F. R. Allen Constable-M. Johnson
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
Commissioner-Walter Lay
Assistants-G. J. Philips, J. H. Lowry
Medical Officer—J. H. Lowry, L. R. C. P.
Ed., L. R. C. S. Ed.
Tidesurveyor-W. Brennan
Assistant Examiner-C. Wanderleach Tidewaiters-E. Falton, C. A. Swanstrom,
J. A. Tip
Chinese Clerk-Chun Kü
Herton & Co., agents-
Douglas Steamship Company, Ld. Gibb Line of Steamers
Ben Line of Steamers
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K. K. Priv. Oesterreich Versicher-
ungs Gesellschaft "Donau Scottish Imperial Insurance Co.
Second Colonial Sea and Fire Insur-
ance Company of Batavia Correspondents Yangtsze Insurance
Association
Schomburg & Co., agents-
Scottish Oriental S. S. Co., Ld.
Sui-chang.
Herton & Co., merchants
Ed. Herton
Oscar Noodt (Hoihow) signs the
firm
W. Mathisen
C. A. Soo
實森
Sum-bo.
Schomburg & Co, A., merchants and com-
mission agents
Aug. Schomburg
L. Jüdell (IIcibow)
Ad. C. Schomburg (Hoihow)