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PAKHOI

Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention in 1876. It is situated on the Gulf of Tonkin in long. 190 deg. 13 min. E. and lat. 21 deg. 30 min. N. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, and the foreigners were well received by the natives. Pakhoi is the port for the important city of Lien- chau, from whence considerable quantities of foreign piece goods are distributed over the country lying between the West River and the seaboard. It was hoped that it would also become one great outlet for the trade of the province of Kwangsi. The trade was formerly almost exclusively in the hands of Chinese, who transhipped goods from Hongkong and Macao (chiefly the latter) in native bottoms, and in 1877 the value of the trade passing through the Foreign Customs amounted to no more than Tls. 11,714, but after 1878 it gradually attained respectable proportions. In 1891 the value of the trade was Tls. 4,101,730 as compared with Tls. 4,546,462 in 1890. The exports are sugar, oil, rice, tea, &c. The progress of the trade has been checked in some degree by the opening of Lungehow to French trade, goods now finding their way into Kwangsi through Tonkin. 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.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Rev. E. B. Beauchamp

Dr. E. G. Horder

CONSULATES

FRANCE

府事領國法大

Vice-Consul-Camille Gauthier

DIRECTORY

Chinese Secretary-Tchéou Dje Tsing

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consular Agency

GERMANY, Consular Agency

Consul-B. C. G. Scott

Constable-M. Johnson

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-Francis W. White

Assist. and Med. Officer

Clerk-W. H. Brennan

A. S. Deane

Tidesurvr.and Harbour Mr.-A. Kleine Examiner-C. Wanderleach

Tidewaiters-F. Benson, W. Helfer,

A. A. du Bord

昌瑞

Sui-chang

HERTON & Co., Merchants

Ed. Herton (Hoihow)

堂主天

MISSIONS Etrangères de PARIS

Rev. Père A. Grimaud

Rev. Père Homery, Wai-chan Rev. Père Ferrand, do.

Rev. Père Roudière,

do.

Rev. Père Merel, Ling-Shan

Rev. Père Marechal, Shek-hing

Rev. Père Grandpierre, Chuk-shan

Rev. Père Bricard,

do.

Rev. Père Fleureau, Kô-chau Rev. Père Le Taillandier, do. Rev. Père Chagot, Lui-chau Rev. Père Zimmemann, do.

Sum-bo

SCHOMBURG & Co., A., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents

Oscar Noodt

Aug. Schomburg (Hoihow) L. Jüdell,

Agencies

do.

Scottish Oriental Steamship Co., Ld. China Navigation Company

Ocean Steamship Company

Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Phoenix"

North China Insurance Co., Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited Deutsche Transport Vers. Ges., in Berlin Badische Schiffahrts Assecuranz Ges. Badische Rück und Mitvers, Ges. Prussian National Insurance Co.

Java Agency Company, Limited

Association of Planters in Deli, Lang

kat and Serdang