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CANTON

Tea and Silk are carried in large quantities to Hongkong by junk, for transhipment. The import of Opium in 1895 was 5,999 piculs as compared with 7,631 piculs in 1894. The total value of the trade of the port for 1895 was Tls. 50,274,994 as compared with Tls. 45,417,597 in 1894.

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

Ahmedbhai G. Busrai, manager

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Sui.kee

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants

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

J. Rommy, silk inspector

W. Helms

H. Hübbe

G. Fuchs

L. C. Ozorio

Agencies

Pacific Mail Steamship Company Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. Shell Line of steamers Rickmers Line of Steamers Lancashire Insurance Company South British Fire & Marine Insce. Co. New York Life Insurance Company

Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co.

拿山庇 Be-san-na

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

and Commission Agents, Shameer

C. M. Bhesania (Bombay)

B. B. Bhesania,

do.

C. F. Dalal,

do.

J. E. Mistry,

do.

F. C. Bhesania

BOMANJEE & Co., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents, Shameen

B. P. Karanjia

S. N. Karanjia

H. J. Karanjia

R. B. Garawalla

BRITISH EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH ESTABLISH-

MENT-CHRIST Church

Trustees-F. B. Smith, J. Naismith,

Jas. Wallace

Hon. Secty. and Treas.-Jas. Wallace

古太 Tai.kou

Butterfield & SWIRE, Merchants

W. de St. Croix

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

Hon. Secretary-E. T. Bond

CANTON CLUB

Committee-E. D. H. Fraser (chair- man), E. T. Bond, A. Pustau, J. Ruff, F. Salinger

J. M. Eça da Silva, secretary

CANTON CONDITION HOUSE COMPANY

Directors-F. B. Smith (chairman), J. Ruff, F. Schürch, W. Pestalozzi (hon. secretary)

F. X. de Britto, manager

CANTON SILK WEAVING CO., Hing Loong-kai C. M. Bhesania & Co., proprietors

CARLOWITZ & Co., Merchants

C. Erdmann (Hamburg) Chas. von Bose, do.

Paul Sachse (Hongkong)

Hans Schubart, signs per pro.

R. Lenzmann

G. Hoppeler, silk inspector W. Pape

Johannes Wacker

F. X. M. P. Tavares

Agencies

Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Shanghai Navigazione Generale Italiana

Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance