WUCHOW-FU-KWANGCHAUWAN-PAKHOI
Hongkong, Canton and Macao S.B. Co·
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.
China Navigation Co.
Canton Insurance Office
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.
和泰 Tai-wo
REISS & Co., Merchants
Wu Yu Ting, agent
LA E-kee
THOMPSON, C. H., Merchant
Lo Chi Yat, agent
房藥大氏臣屈
Wat-sun-she T'ai yuek-fong
WATSON & Co., A. S., Chemists & Druggists
Ma Long Shan, agent
WARя Wan-kee Kung-sze
WAN-KEE & Co., Merchants
Sit Sin Chün, agent
林華雲
Wen-wa-lum
WENYON, W. F., Merchant
Sit Sin Chun, agent
會禮帥忠教蘇耶國英大
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Ta-ying-kwok yea-su-kau-war-the-tai-wui
WESLEYAN MISSION (English)
Rev. R. J. J. MacDonald, M.D., and wife
昌元 Yuen-cheong
WOODS, T. S., Merchant
Liang Chak Wan
YEE TAI HONG
Lo Ayat, agent
KWANGCHAUWAN
Kwáng-chau-wan
Kwangchauwan is a bay in the province of Kw angtung, leased, together with its shores for a distance inland as yet undefined, by France from China. The French flag was hoisted on the 22nd April, 1898. The bay lies in lat. 21 deg, 15 min. N. and long. 110 deg. 30 min. E. and is approximately about two hundred miles W.S.W. from Hongkong. A large island renders it a completely landlocked harbour, with two narrow entrances. The harbour is about twenty miles long, and for about half this length the width is from five to six miles, but it then narrows to one-and-a-half or two miles. The place appears to have been imperfectly surveyed before it was taken over by the French and disappointment with the new acquisition has been expressed on account of the difficulty of the channels and the small extent of deep water. A river of some size discharges into Kwangchau Bay, and on this river is situated the town of Chikhom, a trading centre of considerable importance, carrying on a large trade by junks with Macao and Kongmoon. The neighbouring district is richly cultivated, and and it is believed that minerals exist. The new French territory is separated by only a low range of hills from the valley of the West River. No permanent official establish- ment has as yet been organised pending the completion of the survey and demarcation.
PAKHOI
海北 Pak-hoi
Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention in 1876. It is situated on the Gulf of Tonkin in long. 109 deg. 6 min. E. and lat. 21 deg. 30 min. N. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, and the foreigners were well received by the natives. Pakhoi is the port for the important city of Lien- chau, from whence considerable quantities of foreign piece goods were formerly distri- buted over the country lying between the West River and the seaboard, but now that the West River has been opened to steam navigation it is expected that the bulk of the trade will be diverted to that route. The net value of the trade of Pakhoi in 1897, was Tls. 4,209,935, in 1896 Tls. 4,685,138, and in 1895 Tls. 3,813,063.
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