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SHAMSUI

The business focus of the district is Sainam, a large well-built town of no great antiquity, three miles distant, on the creek leading to Fatshan. The inhabitants are not lacking in enterprise and there is a steam silk filature and a steam flour mill. Here an interesting occupation is the tinning of rice-birds, soles and game. The rice birds are caught in reed patches at night in a bag net, into which they are swept by a rope drawn over the reeds. The season is short, lasting only for six weeks in the Autumn.

Three sets of steamer lines converge here, from Canton, Hongkong and Macao respectively, and tourists in China can do many worse things than visit the West River, and should not fail to explore this port and its environs. The number of steamers entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1905 amounts to over 1500. Since 1st May, 1995, Samshui has been made a port of entry for steamers from abroad going up the West River. Numerous steam launches carrying passengers or towing passenger boats ply between Samshui and neighbouring cities on the West and North Rivers and on the creek leading to Fatshan and Canton." A railway line from Canton to Samshui via Fatshan was inaugurated on the 26th September, 1901, and five trams now run daily each way between Canton and Samshui. In the Summer malignant diseases-fever, dengue, cholera, plague, etc.-may occasionally appear, as in every other place in China; but in the Winter, the air is keen, bracing and clear. The waterways and surrounding country are picturesque and the adjacent heights (from 200 to 400 ft.) worthy of ascent. Game, especially snipe, duck and geese, is to be found in fair quantities. The temperature varies from 38° F. to 100° F.-dry in winter, damp in summer-but generally very supportable.

The Chinese Imperial Post Office with a head office at Samshui is connected by steamers with Hongkong and by rail with Canton and with all important cities in the neighbourhood by steam launches or couriers.

There is no telegraph station at Samshui, but telegrams are forwarded via Sainam by messengers.

DIRECTORY

CONSULATE

官事領國英大

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRO-HUNGARY

Consul-general---James Scott (resid-

ing in Canton)

MERA Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul for Hongkong, Macao and South China-Th. Hamman (resid-

ing in Hongkong)

Glimfull Tại I-tu-li Ling-8z-ka

ITALY

Consul-General-Com. Z. Volpicelli

(residing in Hongkong)

Commercial attaché--Chev.R. Pescio

Clerk-E. Gallo

溺水三

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-C. E. Tanant

Assistant-A. J. da S. Basto

Acting Tidesurveyor-H. T. Wavell Assistant Examiner--E. T. Young Tidewaiters-H. Walpole, C. A. Asker

甸渣

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

Man Fuk Lung, agent

Agencies

H'kong, Canton & Macao S.B. Co., Ld. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.

China Navigation Company

Canton Insurance Office

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

和公

KUNG-WO, Broker & Commission Agent

局政郵 清大

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE Clerk--Cheung Man-ling

局報電國中

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE, Sainam

Clerk-Yü Tsze Hing

得同

TUNG TAK, Merchant

司公和怡

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

The Russian Government uses over 1,000 REMINGTON Typewriters.