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CANTON

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, 1893, was 24,407 piculs compared with 65,105 piculs in 1892, and the quantity of Raw Silk (exclusive of Refuse and Wild Silk) exported in 1893 was 20,341 piculs as compared with 20,890 piculs in 1892. The import of Opium in 1893 was 9,215 piculs as compared with 10,820 piculs in 1892. The total value of the trade of the port for 1893 was Tls. 42,496,309 as compared with Tls. 46,348,707 in 1892. 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 pro- jected 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 (absent)

Ahmedbhai G. Busrai

記瑞 Sui-kee

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants

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

T. E. Griffith, silk inspector

W. Helms

D. M. da Luz

Agencies

Lancashire Insurance Company

South British Fire & Marine Insce. Co.

New York Life Insurance Company

拿山庇 Be-san-na

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

and Commission Agents, Shameen

C. M. Bhesania (Hongkong)

B. B. Bhesania (Bombay)

J. E. Mistry,

F. C. Bhesania

do.

BOMANJEE & Co., Merchants, Shameen

B. P. Karanjia

S. N. Karanjia

H. J. Karanjia

J. S. Damazio

Tai-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

A. Gordon Brown

Agencies

China Navigation Company, Limited Ocean Steamship Company Scottish Oriental Steamship Co., Ld. Union Insurance Society of Canton Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn., Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance

CANTON AMATEUR THEATRICAL SOCIETY

Committee--G. Acheson, C. Lafrentz,

E. T. Bond (hon. secty.)

CANTON CHURCH SOCIETY-CHRIST CHURCH

Chaplain-

Trustees-G. D. Fearon, H. F. Dent,

Alex. Rennie

Hon. Secretary and Treasurer-G. D.

Fearon

CANTON CLUB

Committee-F. S. A. Bourne (chair- man), H. Bent, O. Strückmeyer, T. E. Griffith, J. F. Wales

J. M. Eça da Silva, secretary

CANTON CONDITION HOUSE COMPANY

Directors-H. Dent, F. Schürch, T. E. Griffith, W. Pestalozzi (secretary) F. X. de Britto, manager

J. M. P. Noronha

CANTON SILK WEAVING CO., Kong Yat-moon C. M. Bhesania & Co., proprietors

CARLOWITZ & Co., Merchants

Chas. von Bose (absent)

H. Schubart

R. Lenzmann

G. Hoppeler, silk inspector

H. von Bohuscewicz

F. X. M. P. Tavares

Agencies

Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Shanghai Navigazione Generale Italiana Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance Deutscher Lloyd Trans. Vers. Act. Ges. Allgemeine Vers. Ges., in Dresden Chungking Transport Company, Ld.