OFFICES
MANILA-ILOILO
Royal Insurance Company (Fire and Life) Russian Company for Sea, River and Land Insurances Schweizerische National Vers. Ges.... Schweiz Transport Versicherungs Ges.
Scottish Union and National Insurance Company... Semarangrthe Zee-en Brand Assurantie Mij. Sindicato Marselles de Seguros Maritimos South British Fire and Marine Ins. Co. South British Insurance Company, Limited. Standard Marine Insurance Company Standard Life Assurance Company..... State Fire Insurance Company, Limited State Fire Insurance Company, Limited St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company Sun Insurance Office
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Swiss Marine Insurance Companies, Combined Thames & Mersey Marine Insurance Co. Tokio Marine Insurance Company, Limited................ Triton Insurance Company, Limited
Underwriting and Agency Association (Lloyd's). Union Marine Insurance Co., Ld ... Union Assurance Society (Fire), London Union of Hamburg Underwriters
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited Vaterländische Transport Vers. Actien Ges.... Western Assurance Company
Western Assurance Company (Marine) World Marine Insurance Company
Württembergische Transport Versicherungs Ges. Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld. Yorkshire Fire Insurance Company
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AGENTS
Munoz & Co. Munoz & Co. Germann & Co. Ed. A. Keller & Co. W. F. Stevenson & Co. Behn, Meyer & Co. Froehlich & Kuttner Smith, Bell & Co.
H. J. Andrews & Co. W. F. Stevenson & Co. W. F. Stevenson & Co. Warner, Barnes & Co., Ld.
Lutz & Co.
Union Ins. Society of Canton Ker & Co.
Smith, Bell & Co. Ed. A. Keller & Co. Holliday, Wise & Co. Warner, Barnes & Co., Ld. Smith, Bell & Co. Macleod & Co.
Ker & Co. Macleod & Co. Munoz & Co. E. E. Hill, agent Ed. A. Keller & Co. H. J. Andrews & Co. Warner, Barnes & Co., Ld. Macondray & Co.
Munoz & Co.
Warner, Barnes & Co., Ld. H. J. Andrews & Co.
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ILOILO
This port, which is the chief town of the populous province of the same name in the island of Panay, is situated in lat. 10 deg. 48 min. W., near the south-eastern extremity of the island, close to the sea, on the border of the narrow channel formed by the opposite island of Guimaras. The town is built principally on low marshy ground, partly fronting the sea and partly along the left bank of a creek, or inlet, which runs towards Jaro, and after describing a semicircle again meets the sea near Iloilo. Iloilo is the largest town on the Island of Panay. The harbour is well protected and the anchorage good, the island of Guimaras forming a sheltered passage. The depth of water on the bar at the entrance to the creek or river Iloilo is about five fathoms at low water, but at a short distance within it decreases to fifteen feet and then deepens again. The river badly needs dredging; at present no steamer drawing more than 143 ft. can enter with safety. At spring tides the town is partially covered with water, but notwithstanding this, it is a very healthy place. The high ground of Guimaras forms a kind of funnel with the Panay shore, and the result is that a calm is of rare occurrence, there being almost always a breeze of some kind. The N.E. breeze blows very strongly. It is much cooler in Iloilo than in Manila. The better class of houses in Iloilo are built on strong wooden posts, two or three feet in diameter, that reach to the roof, stone walls to the first floor, with wooden windows above and an iron roof. The poorer class of dwellings are flimsy structures of nipa, built on four stout posts. The means of communication with the interior are still very inadequate and retard the development of the port.
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