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WUCHOW-- NANNING

sampan, are constructed. Wuchow itself offers few attractions to the tourist, but the river scenery on the way up, especially between the Shuihing and Takhing Gorges, where the strewn winds in and out among the green hills to form a succession of apparent lakes, is extremely picturesque, and has not altogether unjustly been compared to the Rhine. Wuchow is connected by telegraph with Hongkong, Shanghai, etc.; and the Imperial Chinese Post has established "postal communication with the principal towns in Kwangsi

Teen-Woo

DIRECTORY

BANKER & Co., Merchants and Comission Agts.; Shipping Office: Banker's Pontoon

Geo, Banker

Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro.

Agency

Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.

CONSULATES

* Tai-pol-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul-Residing in Hongkong

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Consul---H. A. Ottewill (abt.)

Acting Consul~0. R. Coales

Constable-J. Wisher

官事領總利大義大

Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kun

ITALY

Consul, Comm. Z. Volpicelli (resid-

ing in Hongkong)

CUSTOMS. IMPERIAL MARITIME

Acting Commissioner A. W. Cross

Act.T.-S. and Harbourmaster--H.Clive Examiner P. H. Martin

Asst. Examiners-W. Howard, W. A.

Hempel, A. Schmidt

Tidewaiters-G. R. A. Dittmann, G. Gosling, A. Mitchell, J, D). F. Barbé,

W. A. Palmer, W. S. Hudson

顛渣 Cha-tin

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

Agencies

Butterfield & Swire

Deacon & Co., Canton

Hongkong, Canton and Macao S,B. Co.

Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. China Navigation Company Canton Insurance Office

Hongkong Fire Insurance Company China Sugar Refinery Co., Limited

West River British Steamship Co.

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE

Postal Commissioner--C. H. Shields

(Canton)

Postal Clerk-Kwok Shiu-chun

建威 Wut-kin

WATKINS, LIMITED, Druggists

Kwong Cheung-hing, agent

Assistants W. S. Dupree, Lau Hon-

chi, S. V. dos Remedios

Wat-sun-she Tai-yuek-fong

Medical Officer--R. Sudo

WATSON&Co.,Ld., A.S., Chmsts, and Drugs.

NANNING

甯南 Nan-ning

The port of Nanning, declared open to foreign trade on the 1st January, 1907, is situated on the left bank of the Tso-Kiang, one of the branches of the West River, 368 miles above Wuchow and about 250 miles below Lungchow, the frontier port on the Tonkinese border. It lies in the centre of a wide fertile plain in a sharp bend of the river, which there describes nearly two-thirds of the are of a circle. It is a fu city and is the seat of the Tso-Kiang Taotai and of the Provincial Commander-in-Chief. Below the walled city and adjacent to the lower suburbs is the site which has been set apart for a Settlement: it occupies the only spot near the city which is above high-water mark. The regulations do not allow the purchase of land on the Settlement site, but merely its lease for 30 years, which periòd may be extended on expiry for another 30 years. Foreigners desiring to lease land must apply through their Consul to the Customs Taotai.

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