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called Christ Church, stands at the western end. During an anti-foreign riot on the 10th September, 1883, sixteen houses and the Concordia Theatre on the settlement were burned by the mob. An Hotel was erected on the Settlement in 1889, and now affords accommodation to visitors,

In consequence of the decline in the importance of Canton as a place of trade, caused principally by the opening of some of the northern ports, many of the merchants by whom lots were purchased there in 1861, at enormous prices, withdrew from Canton altogether. The trade now transacted there by foreigners is limited. Tea and Silk are the staple exports. The total export of Tea for the year ending 31st December, 1891, was 3,420,866 lbs. compared with 8,477,466 lbs. in 1890, and the quantity of Raw Silk (exclusive of Refuse and Wild Silk) exported in 1891 was 19,919 piculs as compared with 17,615 piculs in 1890. The import of Opium in 1891 was 12,788 piculs as compared with 11,811 piculs in 1890. The total value of the trade of the port for 1891 was Tls. 45,957,092 as compard with Tls. 38,482,502 in 1890. The purely native trade of Canton still enjoys a high degree of prosperity.

Ample means of communication exist between Canton and Hongkong, a distance of about ninety-five miles, by foreign steamers plying daily, and a large number of native craft. There is daily steam communication with Macao. Steamers also run regularly between Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. There is a safe and commodious anchorage within 150 yards of the river wall at Shameen. Canton was connected by telegraph (an overland line) with Kowloon in 1883, and another overland line was completed from Canton to Lungchau-fu, on the Kwangsi and Tonkin frontier, in June, 1884. A project- ed railway between Canton and Kowloon has received the Imperial sanction and a preliminary survey has been made, but it still remains a project.

DIRECTORY

ABDOOLALLY, EBRAHIM & Co., Merchants

and Commission Agents, Honam

Abdoolcader A. Ebrahim

Essoofally Abdoolally

記瑞 Sui-kee

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants

W. Pestalozzi, silk inspr., signs per pro.

A. E. Dowler (absent)

T. E. Griffith, silk inspector

W. Helms

D. M. da Luz

Agencies

Lancashire Insurance Company

Java Sea and Fire Insurance Company

Hamburg-Magdeburg Fire Insurance

拿山庄 Be-san-na

BRESANIA & Co., C. M., Silk Merchants

and Commission Agents, Honam

C. M. Blesania (Bombay)

B. B. Bhesania,

do.

J. E. Mistry (Hongkong)

C. F. Dalál

BOMANJEE & Co., Merchants and Store-

keepers, Shameen

B. P. Karanjia S. N. Karanjia

M. R. Pastakia J. S. Damazio

古太

Tai-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

H. Burton

Agencies

China Navigation Company, Limited Ocean Steamship Company

Scottish Oriental Steamship Co., Ld. Union Insur. Society of Canton, Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn., Ld. London & Lancashire Fire Insurance

CANTON CHURCH SOCIETY-CHRIST CHURCH

Chaplain-

Trustees-T. B. Cunningham (absent),

G. D. Fearon Hon. Sec. and Treas.-

CANTON CLUB

Committee-F. B. Smith (hon. sec.), E. T. Bond, C. J. Lafrentz, W.

Pestalazzi, J. F. Wales, M.D.

J. M. Eça da Silva, assist. secretary

CANTON CONDITION HOUSE COMPANY

Directors H. Dent, Ch. von Bose,

Geo. Gray, W. Pestalozzi F. X. de Britto, manager

J. M. P. Noronha

CANTON SILK WEAVING CO., Kong Yat-moon

C. M. Bhesania, proprietors