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ILOILO.

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The annual

The country round Iloilo is very fertile and is extensively cultivated. 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. Rice 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 article of export is sugar, of which 93,750 tons were shipped in 1883, chiefly to the United States. The export has doubled itself during the last few years. 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.

The imports in 1883 reached a value of $1,377,978, as compared with $1,198,594 in 1882, and the exports $5,323,570, as compared with $3,416,769 in 1882.

Colonial Government.

DIRECTORY.

COMANDANCIA DE MARINA.

Capitan del Puerto-T. Olleros

Ayudante-R. G. Berduga

GOBIERNO POLITICO Y MILITAR.

Gobernador-P. G. Montero

Auxiliares-V. Gay, P. Miranda, A. de

Barceló

Comandante-G. Gonzalez

JUNTA SUBALTA DE ÁLMONEDAS. Presidente--El Gobernador de la Provincia Vocales-El Juez de la. Instancia, El Ad- ministrador de Hacienda Publica, El In- terventor de Hacienda Publica

JUNTA DE INSTRUCCION PUBLICA, Presidente-El Gobernador Vocales-El Juez de la. Instancia, El R. Cura Parraco, El Administrador de Ha- cienda Publica

JUNTA DE SANIDAD, Presidente-El Gobernador

Vocales-El Capitan del Puerto, El Ad- ministrador de la Aduana, El Medico Militar, El Medico Titular, El Juez, El Comandante Jefe del 1o. Distrito de Guardia Civil, El R. Cura Parroco, El Capitan Jefe de la fuerza de Carabine ros, El Ingeniero Jefe de Obras Publicas, El Subdelegado de Veterinario, El Sub- delegado de Farmacia, El Secretario Auxiliar de Fomento

ADMINISTRACION DE ADUANA Y HACIENDA PUBLICA.

Administrador-J. Palanco Interventor E. Causino Oficial 50.-R. Atienro Almacenero---E. Cedrun Vista-S. Martinez

Auxiliar de Vista-S. de la Sierra (au-

sente)

SEMINARIO CONCILIAR de Jaro.

Vice Rector-J. San Andreu Rector J. Miralda

Procurador-Ylleras

GEFATURA DE OBRAS PUBLICAS. Ingenicro-R. de Ros Pagador—A. Melendez (ausente) Ayudante Mayor-M. de Camara

ADMINISTRACION DE CORREOS, Administrador Interino-N. Roselló Interventor

id. —P. Alvarez

DISTRITO FORESTAL. Ingeniero-S. Ugalde' Ayudante Mayor-F. Cabañas

id. 40.-Y. Centenera