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ILOILO.

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built on strong wooden posts, two or three feet in diameter, that reach to the mof, stone walls to the first floor, with wooden windows above and an iron roof. The poorer class of dwellings are flimsy structures of nipa, built on four stout posts. The roads and bridges are in a deplorable condition, and quite impassable in the rainy

season.

The principal manufacture in Iloilo for local consumption and export to Manila. is that of piña, a cloth very finely made from the fibre of the pineapple leaf. Another cloth called jusi is woven from silk, and is made in white and colours. The Govera ment have recently very heavily taxed all kinds of industry, which tax is severely felt, as hitherto there had been comparative freedom from such imports. Each native above the age of 14 pays tribute the men $4.03 and the women $1.03 per annum,

The country round Iloilo is very fertile and is extensively cultivated. The annual crop of sugar is estimated at about a million piculs. Tobacco is also largely culti vated, but having until 1882 been a Government monopoly which had to be sold at a fixed price, it has been greatly neglected and is of poor quality. Improvement in the cultivation may now be expected, as the monopoly has at length been abolished. Rica is grown on a considerable scale, but locusts are very plentiful in the island and often do great damage to the cane and paddy.

Typhoons visit the port about once a year and frequently work great havoc. Earthquakes, however, seldom occur. Iloilo is about 250 miles distant from Manila Iloilo has greatly increased in importance of late years. The chief articles of export are sugar, tobacco, sapanwood, and hides. The principal traders are Chinese mestizos, who are very numerous in the port. There is a tradition that the town of Iloilo was once peopled by Chinese, and many of the inhabitants bear Chinese names.

The island of Negros is extremely fertile and contributes three-fourths of the sugar shipped from Iloilo, the quality of which is improving very much every year,

Colonial Government.

DIRECTORY.

GOBIERNO POLITICO Y MILITAR. Gobernador-Miguel Rodriguez Aguilar Auxiliares de Fomente-V. Gay, F. Gomez,

E. Moriñigo

ALCALDIAS MAYORES. Juez-J. M. Llaser

Promotor Fiscal-M. Torres > Iloilo Notario-M. G. Medina Juez-V. Para

Promotor Fiscal-F. Lamas > Pototan Escribano-M. F. Mata

ADUANA Y ADMINISTRACION DE HACIENDA PUBLICA. Administrador-José Pastors Interventor J. R. de Romero Oficial 50-R. Telles Almacenero--A. Saliro

Vista de la Aduana-J. M. Jalon Auxiliar do Vista-P. E. Lopez

GEFATURA DE OBRAS PUBLICAS, Ingeniero Jefe-E. Trompeta Ayudantes-M. de Camara, V. Rodrigo

JUNTA DE SANIDAD,

El Gobernador del Distrito El Capitan del Puerto

El Administrador de la Aduana El Medico Titular

CAPITANIA DEL PUERTO.

Capitan del Puerto-A. M. de Ory Ayudante-

SEMINARIO CONCILIAR DE Jaro, Rector-S. Servallonga Vice Rector-J. Miralda Procurador-J. Jaime

Catedraticos-F. Saez, J. San Andreu

ÀBOGADOS,

C. Pineda, V. Massa, E. Valenciano, D.

Romero

JUNTA DE INSTRUCCION PUBLICA. El Gobervador de la Provincia El Juez de la. Instancia El R. Cura Parroco

El Administrador de Hacienda

JUNTA DE ALMONEDAS,

El Gobernador de la Provincia El Juez de la. Instancia

El Administrador de Hacienda Publica Secretario-El Interventor de Hacienda

PARROQUIA DE ILOILO. Cura Parroco-Fr. M. Blanco Coadjutor C. Ledesma

MEDICOS.

ILOILO.

Titular y Subdelegado de Medicina-J.

Gomez Particulares-S. Ordaz, J. Donelan, M La-

berdure, E. Brias

INFERMERIA MILITAR. Medico Mayor Gradua-C. L. Brea

SUBDELEGACION DE FARMACIA DE LAS ISLAS DE PANAS Y NEGROS. Subdelegado F. Cacho

OFICINAS DE FARMACIA, Iloilo F. Cacho, F. Ben: vent Juro-E. Fabrice

SUBDELEGACION DE VETERINARIA. Subilelegado-Z. Robles

ADMINISTRACION DE CORREOS. Administrador-S. Sierra Interventor-G. Arevalo

GOBIERNO ECLesiastico de STA. YSABEL DE JARO.

Obispo M. Cuartero Provisor-S. Magdalena Secretario-J. M. Climent Notario N. Molina

COMANDANCIA DE CARABINEROS DEL DISTRITO DE VISAYAS. Capitan P. Garcia Gutierrez- Tenientes-L. Garcia Iberico, E. Chabran

Lopez

Alfereces-A. Camino, E. Morales

GUARDIA CIVIL.

Com andante M. Castellon Capitan-M. Garcia

VAPORES.

“Cabanbanan,” Capitan E. Inchausticta "Lola," Capitan, A. Sesma

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Aquila," Capitan, F. Echavarria

Consulatos.

GREAT BRITAIN. Vice-Consul-H. A. MacPherson

GERMANY. Fice-Consul-F. Tachsinger (absent) Acting Vice-Consul―J. R. Steger

UNITED STATES,

Acting Vice-Consul-J. C. Tyler, Jr.

ITALY.

Consular Agent-II. A. MacPherson

PORTUGAL. Consul-Claudio Lopez

Insuranco8.

Austen & Co., agents-

Londou Assurance Corporation

Ker & Co., agents—

Union Marine Insurance Co., Limited Loney, Robert, agent--

Lloyds'

Luchsinger & Co., agents-

Java Sea & Fire Insurance Company Queen Insurance Company Hamburg Magdeburg Fire Insce. Co. Macgibbon, Thos., agent—

Berlin-Cologno Fire Insurance Co. Royal Fire and Life Insurance Co. Guardian Fire & Life Assurance Co. Phoenix Assurance Co. German Lloyd

Fortuna Marine Insurance Co. Martin, Dyce & Co., agents—

China Traders' [usurance Co., Limited Batavia Sea and Fire Insurance Co. Colonial Sea and Fire Insurance Co. London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. London Assurance Corporation Merapi Fire Insurance Company of

Samarang

Smith, Bell & Co., agents—

Netherlands India Sea & Fire Insco. Co. Chinese Insurance Co., Limited Imperial Fire Office

Commercial Union Assurance Co.