MANILA--ILOILO
INSURANCE OFFICES, Continued
OFFICES
Royal Exchange Insurance Company (Fire). Roya Insurance Company, Fire and Life Schweiz Transport Versicherungs Ges., Zurch...... Scottish Union and National Insurance Company... Sindicato Marselles de Seguros Maritimos
South British Fire and Marine Ins. Co., New Zealand Straits Insurance Company, Limited
Sun Insurance Office
Thames & Mersey Marine Insurance Co. .....
Triton Insurance Company, Limited
Underwriting and Agency Association (Lloyd's). Union Insurance Society (Fire) London Union of Hamburg Underwriters
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited Vaterländische Transport Vers. Actien Ges., Elberfeld Yangtsze Insurance Association
AGENTS
Warner, Barnes & Co. Tillson, Herrman & Co. Ed. A. Keller & Co. W. F. Stevenson & Co. Froehlich & Kuttner Smith, Bell & Co. Ker & Co. Ker & Co.
Holliday, Wise & Co. Smith, Bell & Co. Macleod & Co. Macleod & Co. Tillson, Herrmann & Co. W. F. Stevenson & Co.
Ed. A. Keller & Co. Warner, Barnes & Co.
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ILOILO
This port, which is the chief town of the populous province of the same name in the island of Panay, is situated in lat. 10 deg. 48 min. W.. near the south-eastern extremity of the island, close to the sea, on the border of the narrow channel formed by the opposite island of Guimaras. The town is built principally on low marshy ground, partly fronting the sea and partly along the left bank of a creek, or inlet, which runs towards Jaro, and after describing a semicircle again meets the sea near Iloilo. Although the principal seaport and seat of the government of the province, Iloilo is much smaller than many towns in its vicinity. The harbour is well protected and the anchorage good, the island of Guimaras forming a sheltered passage. The denth of water on the bar at the entrance to the creek or river floilo is about five fathoms at low water, but at a short distance within it decreases to fifteen feet and then deerens again. At spring tides the whole town is covered with water, but notwithstanding this it is a very healthy place. The high ground of Guimaras forms a kind of funnel with the Panay shore, and the result is that a calm is of rare occurrence, there being almost always a breeze of some kind. The N. E. breeze blows very strongly. It is much cooler in Iloilo than in Manila. The better class of houses in Iloilo are built on strong wooden posts, two or three feet in diameter, that reach to the roof, stone walls to the first floor, with wooden windows above and an iron roof. The noorer class of dwellings are flimsy structures of nipa, built on four stout posts. The means of communication with the interior are still very inadequate, and retard the development of the port.
The principal manufacture in Iloilo for local consumption and export to Manila is that of pina, a cloth very finely made from the fibre of the pineapple leaf. Another cloth called jusi is woven from silk, and is made in white and colours. The country round Iloilo is very fertile and is extensively cultivated. The annual crop of sugar is estimated at about a million piculs. Tobacco is also largely cultivated. Rice is grown on a considerable scale, but locusts are very plentiful in the island and often do great damage to the cane and paddy. Typhoons frequently work great havoc. Earthquakes, however, seldom occur. Iloilo is about 250 miles distant from Manila. The principal traders are Chinese mestizos, who are very numerous in the port.
The island of Negros is extremely fertile and contributes three-fourths of the sugar shipped from Iloilo, the quality of which is excellent.
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