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of Raw Silk (exclusive of Refuse and Wild Silk) exported in 1900 was 35,202 piculs, in 1899 43,068, and in 1898 33,853 piculs. These figures, however, which are taken from the Foreign Customs returns, do not give the total export, but only those in foreign vessels. Both Tea and Silk are carried in large quantities to Hongkong by junk, for transhipment. The export of sugar in 1899 was 175,286 piculs against 162,605 piculs in 1898. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1901 was Tls. 60,845,410 for 1900 Tls. 52,405,172, for 1899 Tls. 58,641,864, and for 1898 Tls. 49,554,973.

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 and regular connection with Wuchow and West River ports and with Shanghai, Newchwang, and Kwangchauwan. The total tonnage for 1901 having entered was 1,882,413 tons, of which 1,555,508 were British. The steam-launch traffic under the Inland Steam Navigation Regulation has proved a great success, there being no less than 300 launches, representing a total tonnage of 2,184,698 tons, engaged. 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. The electric light has been introduced into a portion of the city. A projected railway between Canton and Kowloon has received the Imperial sanction and a preliminary survey has been made, but it still remains a project. The survey by an American syndicate of a railway route to connect Canton with Hankow was also made in 1899, and work upon the first section of the line (from Canton to Fatshan, about 30 miles) commenced in September 1902. A line from Macao to Canton has also received Imperial sanction, and preparations for the building of the line are now being made at Canton.

DIRECTORY

ABDOOLALLY, EBRAHIM & Co., Merchants

and Commission Agents, Honam

AMERICAN CHINA DEVELOPMENT Co. (Can-

ton-Hankow Railway), Victoria Hotel

P. H. Ashinead, chief engineer

記瑞 Sui.kee

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Merchants

J. Zundel, silk inspector

A. Metzler

H. Spillmann

Ch. Allers

R. Schween

C. Fumagalli M. Hernfeld A. R. Moosdeen

L. A. Franco

Agencies

Pacific Mail Steamship Company Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. Toyo Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha

Shell Transport and Trading Co., Ld. Lancashire Insurance Company

South British Fire & Marine Insce. Co. Magdeburg Fire Insurance Company

BANQUE DE L'INDO CHINE

M. Dourdin, manager Ch. Niox, cashier

Be-san-na

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

Shameen

BHESANIA & Co., J. B., Merchants and

Commission Agents, 149, Shameen

J. E. Bhesania (Bombay)

C. F. Bhesania,

B. B. Phesania

do.

D. D. Bhesania (Yokohama)

BOMANJEE & Co., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents, Shameen

S. N. Karanjia (Shanghai)

H. N. Karanjia

P. N. Karanjia

Agency

Steamship "Hoi-Ho"

BRITISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH ESTABLISH-

MENT-CHRIst Church

Trustees-G. D. Fearon, H. R. B.

Hancock, H. S. Smith (hon secretary

and treasurer)

古太 Tai-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

W. F. Harley, signs per pro.

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