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river to the height of 100 feet. It was erected about the year 1598, and is very much out of repair. A good-size:l tree grows from the brickwork at the summit. The other pagora, called the First Bar Pagoda, is nearer to Canton, and occupies a hill which is considered the guardian hill of the province. It was built between the years 1621 and 1628 as a palladium to the waterway of the provincial capital.
The importance of Whampoa is now a thing of the past. The place will always, however, possess some interest for foreigners, since the earliest recollections of foreign commercial intercourse with China are associated with it, all foreign ships being in old times compelled to anchor at Whampoa.
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
DIRECTORY
Assistant Tidesurveyor in charge--T.
J. Lant
Tidewaiter-H. F. Pearson
Do.
-M. B. Nilsen
DOCK YARD-IMPERIAL
Manager-Ling Ho Tung
NAVAL AND MILITARY SCHOOL-IMPERIAL
Director-Ling Ho Tung
Foreign Teacher-F. T. Richards Professor in charge-Woo Bow Who Teacher of English-Wong Ko Whar Teacher of Chinese-Liang Chee Kien Secretary-Ling Ching Kwong Paymaster-Wei Wha-Sieh
SUBMARINE TORPEDO DEPT-IMPERIAL
Manager-Ling Ho Tung Secretary Pih Cheong Yien
Deputy Officers-Kong Pao Yong and
Lew Chung Sheong Paymaster-Ling Show Yong Instructors-Chow Yuen Chang and
Wong Pao Kee
TORPEDO DEPT. AND SCHOOL--IMPERIAL
Manager-Ling Ho Tung
Foreign Teacher-G. L. Hummel In charge of Torpedoes and Capt. of torpedo-boat "Loi-foo"- Lew Yee Kwang Teacher of English-- Wong Kow Ming Do. German---Wong Ying Shong Drill master-Ling Hing Chow
CHINESE KOWLOON CUSTOMS
This is the inclusive name given to the Chinese Customs stations placed around Hongkong for the purpose of collecting duty on the trade carried on by Chinese junks between Hongkong and Chinese ports. In 1899, when the New Territory was taken over by Hougkong, the Customs stations had to be removed from their former locations which had been brought within the British boundary, and the present stations are situated at Taishan, Lintin, Shamchün, Shayuchung, and Samun (Tooniang), besides which there are a number of frontier patrol posts on the north shores of Deep and Mirs Bays and between the two bays. The net value of the trade of 1900 amounted to Tls. 47.077.593, a decrease on 1899, which amounted to Tls. 56,532,226, the largest on record, exceeding by 6 million taels that of its highest predecessor 1895. The improve- ment was exclusively in the exchange of goods between Hongkong and China. The net value of the trade for 1898 was Tls. 45,700,012.
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