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PAKHOI

stands at the foot of a bluff nearly forty feet high, which deprives it of the south- west breeze, in summer, while in winter it is exposed to the full force of the north-east monsoon, which very often blows so hard for several days that it materially interferes with the loading and discharging of steamers in the harbour. The bluff,

or the plain above the town, is level for miles, which makes riding both on bicycle and on horse-back a decided pleasure. The foreigners almost exclusively live on the bluff, which in former years was only dotted by a few European buildings, but is now ornamented with many. From the bluff an extensive partly-cultivated plain develops, over which some sport is obtainable-snipe, plover, quail, and pigeons being found in large numbers, but duck and other water-fowl are not numerous, The climate is considered to be very salubrious. The estimated population of the port is 20,000. No port in China is more easily approached and entered than that of Pakhoi. The landmarks are conspicuous and unmistakeable. The channel is wide and deep and has no hidden danger to be avoided. The anchorage is a mile and a half from the Custom House. There is good landing at high water, but at ebb tide only for small boats. The construction of a railway by a French Company from Pakhoi to Nanning was authorised a few years ago, but the work on the project has not yet been commenced. More recently the leading Chinese residents of Limehowfu, the chief city in the Pakhoi district, have formulated an ambitious scheme of railway construction spreading out to Western Kwangtung and Kwangsi, with lines to Kweichow and Yunnan, but the realisation of this project is probably as distant as the other. A free school for the teaching of the French language to Chinese, a free hospital for the treatment of Chinese patients and a Post Office have been established by the French Government. In 1906 a police force was established by order of the provincial government of Canton. When the Revolution started, however, the force disappeared, but there is a prospect of its being soon re-established. In 1907 the local merchants established a branch office of the Canton Chamber of Commerce.

DIRECTORY

CONSULATES

BELGIUM

官事國比大

*** Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

官事領國英大 Tai-ying-kwok-Lingsz-kuau

GREAT BRITAIN

and

also

Consul-Residing in Hongkong

**** Tai-fat-kwok Ling-82 Fu

FRANCE

also

PORTUGAL, Consular Agency

Vice-Consul for Pakhoi and Tunghing

-A. Guibert

Medical Officer-D. Sibiril

Annamite Interpreter--Dong

Chinese do. -Yau Mei-chen;

¶★ Tai-tat-kwok-Ling-82-kuan

GERMANY

Consul-Dr. Merklinghaus

Acting Consul– Th. Metzelthin

do. Pro do. -H. Bragard (residing

at Hoihow)

Secretary-A. B. Jarzembowski

Chinese Sec.— Chütao

i

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

UNITED STATES, Consular Agency

Act. Consul-A. G. Major (Hoihow)

Asst. in charge- G. S. Moss

ITALY

官事總利大意

Consul--Commendatore Z. Volpicelli

(residing in Hongkong),

Chinese Writer--Ching Yao

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Commissioner-J. Acheson

Assistant-G. Bocher

Medl.Offir.-H. Gordin Thompson

Chief Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master E. Stevens

Examiners-E. A. Roberts, F.R. Borioni

Dig Tidewaiters-D. Willis, P. R. Neumann