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PAKHOI-HOIHOW (IN HAINAN).

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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 casily 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,

DIRECTORY.

BRITISH CONSULATE. Consul-Clement F. R. Allen (absent) Acting Consul-L. C. Hopkins, also in charge of Austro-Hungarian and German interests

Constable-M. Johnson

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS. Commissioner-Walter Lay

Assistants-

Tidesurveyor-W. Brennan

Assistant Examiner-C. Wanderleach

Tidewaiters-E. Felton, C. A. Swanstrom,

W. Helfer

Chinese Clerk-Ch'an Shü-fan

Herton & Co., agents-

Douglas Steamship Company, Ld. Gibb Line of Steamers Ben Line of Steamers

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. North China Insurance Co., Ld. Prussian National Insurance Co. of

Stettin

Canton Insurance Office, Ld.

Sui-chang.

Herton & Co., merchants

Ed. Herton

Oscar Noodt (Hoihow) signs the

firm

W. Mathisen

C. A. Soo

#Sum.bo.

Schomburg & Co., A., merchants and com、

mission agents

Aug. Schomburg L. Jüdell (Hoihow)

Ad. C. Schomburg (Hoihow)

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Rev. W. Light

Dr. E. G. Horder

HOIHOW IN HAINAN).

Hoihow is the seaport of the city of Kiung-chow (the seat of the local govern ment, and distant from its port about three and a half miles) which was opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1876. A Consul, who also acts for Germany and the United States, represents British interests, and there is a branch of the