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SWATOW.
Foreign residences, however, commenced to spring up here and there, and many of them are consequently somewhat scattered, though the majority are in or near the town of Swatow. The yearly increasing traffic of the port has led to much over- crowding on the narrow strip of land on which it is built, and since February, 1877, no less than 21 acres have been reclaimed from the sea, the greater part of which is now covered with shops and houses.
The climate of Swatow is reputed to be very salubrious. The town occupies, how ever, an unenviable position as regards typhoons, on account of being opposite the lower mouth of the Formosa Channel, and it has on many occasions been subjected to all the viclence of these terrible storms, which almost every year sweep across the lower coast of China. The population of Swatow is estimated at 30,000.
The foreign trade of Swatow has never been large, but of late years it has shown a slight increase. The proximity of the port to Hongkong, which can be reached in from 15 to 20 hours, no doubt tells against it, as it enables the Chinese to conduct their own import business. The quantity of Opium imported in 1887 was 6,411 piculs as compared with 6,471 piculs in 1886. The quantity of Tea exported is very small, and reached only 9,800 piculs in 1887. A considerable trade is done in Sugar, there being 787,159 piculs brown and 750,916 piculs white exported in 1887. The China Sugar Refining Co. of Hongkong have a large Sugar Refinery here, but work has for some time been suspe nded. A large Leancake factory was also started in 1882. The value of the trade of the port for 1887 was Tls. 22,321,913, as compared with Tis. 21,112,425 in 1886.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
***** Ta Eng nian-sso-kwan.
官事頜英大
GREAT BRITAIN.
Consul-E. Colborne Baber (absent)
Officiating Consul—A. Frater
Interpreter-W. H. Wilkinson
Post-office Agent-W. H. Wilkinson
Constable-Henry Sage
官事頜國美大
Ta-me-kiroh wiru-sso-kwan.
UNITED STATES.
DENMARK.
Consul-W. E. Allum
SWEDEN AND NORWAY,
Vice-Consul-F. H. L. Haesloop
Imperial Maritime Customs.
Chao Hai-Kuan,
Commissioner-H. E. Woodruff
Assistants-S. Leslie, J.D. D. de la Touche,
J. H. M. Moorhead, L. A. Lyall Medical Officer-
Acting Consular Agent-Baron von Sec- Tidesurveyor & Harbour Master-C. H.
kendorff
AUSTRIA-HUNARY.
¿ting Consul—A. Frater
NETHERLANDS,
Consul --Thomas W. Richardson (absent)
Acting Consul--R. H. Hill
官事領副國徳大
Ta-ti-kurok in nine-sso-kwan.
GERMANY.
Vice-Consul-Baron von Seckendorff
Consular Clerk—M, G. Nahmens
Interpreter-Fang Topui
Writer-Ting Co-wei
Palmer
Assistant Tidesurreyor-C. P. Dawson Examiners-W. Pollock
Assistant Examiners-J. J. Math J.
McQuire, Jas. Featherstonhaugh Tidewaters-E. A. Roberts, J. O'Neill, A. Dupree, A. W. E Dyere, W. K. Rə- berts, C. A. Maasberg, A. Bryson, J. Martin, W. Scott, J. G. Bromley
IMPERIAL CHINESE TELEGRAPH3.
, manager
PILOTS.
A. L. Piersdorff, P. Williams
H. Frewin