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PAKHOI-HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)

DIRECTORY

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CONSULATES

府事領國法大

FRANCE

Tai-fat-kwok Ling-82 Kin

Consul--Véran Dejoux

Chancelier-F. Culliéret, commis de i

Résidence, fons

Lettré-Tchéou Dje Tsing

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consular Agency GERMANY, Consular Agency

Acting Consul-W. H. Wilkinson Constable-M. Johnson

CHURCH [OF Exgd.] MissioNARY SOCIETY Rev. E. B. and Mrs. Beauchamp Dr. E. G. and Mrs. Horder (absent) Dr L. G. and Mrs. Hill Miss A. Bolton

Miss E. L. Havers

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-G. F. Müller Asst. and Med. Officer-A. Sharp Deane Assistant-C. W. de Berigny Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-

L. A. Byworth Examiner-C. Pape

HOIIOW (IN

Tidewaiters-S. B. Thompson, C. J.

Clifford, H. G. Wittoack

堂主天

MISSIONS ETRANGERES DE PARIS

Rev. Père Kammerer, Pakhoi Rev. Père Ferrand, Waichau Rev. Père Gerardin

Rev. Père Marechal, Shek-hing Rev. Père Gauthier, Kô-chau Rev. Père Le Taillandier, do. Rev. Père Celard, Lui-chau

Rev. Père C. Zimmermann, do.

Rev. Père Grandpierre, Chuk-shan

Rev. Pere Bricaud, Lo-fou

燦森

Sum-bo

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

mission Agents

Aug. Schomburg L. Jüdell

Agencies

Scottish Oriental Steamship_Co. Ld. 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. South British Insur. Co., New Zealand

HAINAN)

Hoihow is the seaport of the city of Kiung-chow (the seat of government in the island of Hainan, and distant from its port about three and a-half miles) which was opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1876. The position of the port, though geographically favourable, is topographically unsuitable for the development of any extensive com- mercial transactions, vessels being compelled to anchor some two miles from the entrance of the creek, or branch of the main river upon which Hoihow is situated. The tides are extremely irregular, and the anchorage is liable to the visitation of very severe typhoons, being moreover entirely unprotected from the north. The width of the Hainan Straits, between Hoihow and the mainland - the Lien-chau peninsula--is about twelve miles. As regards health, Hoihow compares favourably with other parts of Hainan, though fever and ague are said to prevail to some extent. The port is badly supplied with water.

The approaches to the shore are extremely shallow, so that loading and unloading can only be carried on at certain states of the tide. Despite this disadvantage, however, the advent of foreign steamers has given a considerable impulse to trade. The town itself contains about 12,000 souls, and is governed by a Tsan-fu, or Lieutenant-Colonel; the population of Kiungehow being 41,000. The native mercan- tile population, though respectable, is by no means rich. No foreign settlement has as yet been formed, and with the exception of the Roman Catholic Orphanage, erected in 1895, and the American Presbyterian Mission Hospital and doctor's erecdence, the houses occupied by the foreign residents are Chinese converted into resiropean habitations by alterations and improvements. H.B.M. Consulate obtained a Eue after 14 years' negotiations, but this having been found unsuitable another site sitntiguous to the Roman Catholic Orphanage was secured in the latter part of 1896. The foreign residents at present number about thirty. The net value of the rais

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