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CHOLON

This town, distant four miles from Saigon, with which it is connected by a steam. tramway, is the seat of most of the Chinese trade of the Colony. Cholon may be said to be the granary of Cochin-China, and is the seat of much commercial activity. Most of the rice mills are located in this place, there being no less than six worked by steam, and there are several large brickyards. The town, like Saigon, possesses a Municipal Council, composed partly of French, partly of Annamites, and partly of Chinese. The population in 1889 was 37,441, of whom 78 were Europeans, 22,322 Annamites, 14,944 Chinese, 72 Indians, and 24 Malays.

DIRECTORY

Merlande*, administrator of native affairs,

Mayor

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Councillors-A. Cornu, O. du Crouzet, Dutriaux, Tran Tuong Thoai, Ha Minh Phai, Nguyen Ngoc Chăn, Truong Minh Hanh, Cham Leng, Ban Hap Secretariat

Secretary-G. Guyot

Accountant-Passerat de la Chapelle

Roads

Architect of Roads-S. Prunier Draftsman-L. Ippolito

Chief Surveyor of Roads-F. Batard Overseer of Roads-F. Gonnord

Municipal Treasury

Receiver-Tarrier

Writ Server-Marydassou

Police

Commissioner-Buquet

Brigadiers-Fardonnet Rivière, Pech,

Micheli

Sub-Brigadiers-Gérolami, Pietri, Bou-

langer

Municipal Boys' School

Director-G. Cotel

Professor-G. Méric

Municipal Girls' School

Directress-Sister Louise de Jesus Teacher-Sister Martha

HOSPITAL

Superior-Sister Laurence

Sisters Marie Ludovice, St. Paul, St. Francisco, Claire, Jeanne, Gertrude

KLOSS & Co., Merchants, Avenue de Jacareo

Walter Kloss (Saigon)

J. W. Lübenau (Frankfurt o/M.) Kiong Sun Kack

MONT DE PIÉTÉ

N. Reynand H. Péré

V. Léon

RIZERIE À VAPEUR DE CHOLON A. Cornu, administrateur

A. Linger, ingénieur directeur Marchetti, chef mecanicien Martineau, Georgi, mecaniciens

CAMBODIA

Cambodia, or the kingdom of the Khmer, as it is called by the natives, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min. longitude, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angcor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south- east by Cochin-China, on the north by the Laos, and on the north-west and west by Battambang and Angcor. The noble river Meikong flows through the kingdom, and after passing through Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Meikong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export.