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ITALY

官事

SAMSHUI-WUCHOW-FU

利大義大

Tar I-tai-li Iing-82-kùn

Consul-General-Chev. Z. Volpicelli

(residing in Hongkong)

關水三

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-J. A. van Aalst

Assistant-A. J. da S. Basto

Clerk-G. F. Graham

Assistant Tidesurveyor-A. Morrison

Do. Exmnr on Probn.-J. A. Rule

Tidewaiters—M. B. Nilsen, S. P. Fabian

甸渣

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

Lük Hew Chuen, agent

Agencies

Hongkong, Canton and Macao S.B. Co. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.

China Navigation Company

Canton Insurance Office

Hongkong Fire Insurance Company

和公

KUNG-WO, Broker & Commission Agent

局政郵 清大

POST OFFICE—IMPERIAL CHINESE

Clerks-Cheung Man-ling, Hü Siu Kee

局報電國中

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE, Sainam

Clerk-Chow Hok-shü

得同

TUNG TAK, Merchant

司公和怡

E. Wo & Co., Merchs. and Commsn. Agents

Aalst, Mrs. J. A. van

Graham, Mrs. C. F.

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Irwen, Mrs. P.

Lockhart, Mrs. M. McG.

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WUCHOW-FU

- ta Wi-chau

Wuchow-fu, opened to foreign trade by the Special Article of the Burmese Frontier Convention, is situated on the Sikiang (West River) at a distance of about 220 miles, by the present authorised routes, from Canton or Hongkong. It is the principal city of the prefecture bearing the same name, and is also the seat of the district magistrate of Ts'ang Wu. The scenery of the West River is interesting and in many places fine. The first portion which demands attention in the voyage up stream is the Shui Hing Gorge. Here the river, which lower down is about a mile wide, flowing through level land, suddenly narrows to about a quarter of that width, and winds through a pass about five miles long where mountains rise on each side to a height of two thousand feet. On leaving the gorge the river again widens, but hills line the sides all the way to Wuchow, now and then closing in and forming tortuous defiles, in some of which the stream appears as a mountain lake, entrance and exit being alike undistinguishable when the middle is reached.

The city of Wuchow is situated on the left bank of the West River at its junction with the Fu or Kweilin River, a navigable stream which affords communication with the provincial capital. The population of the place is about 50,000. The city wall, which climbs the hills in rear, is about a mile and a half in circumference. The streets are for the most part mean and dirty. The business quarter comprises the best. This consists of two or three streets, which round the corner outside the city walls at the junction of the two rivers. The principal would compare favourably with a second rate street in Canton, the others are inferior. The annual inundations which take place here are a peculiar feature of the place. The West River is affected to a very great degree by the rainfall, so much so that the difference between the winter and summer levels of the water is as much as sixty feet. The summer freshets are a great