Directory_and_Chronicle_1913 — Page 1108

Misses Chouguet, teachers

成捷

Ching Tye & Co., agents

PAKHOI -HOIHOW

JEBSEN & Co.

MARTY, A. R., Merchant and General

Commission Agent

Girls' Class

W. S. Chiong, agent

MISSIONS

堂主天

FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (MISSIONS

ETRANGERES DE PARIS)

Rev. Père Kammerer, Pakhoi

Rev. Pere Marqué, Weichao Island

Rev. Père Lemaire,

do.

Rev. Père Richard, Tung-hing

Rev. Père Hermann,

do.

Rev. Père Veyres, Tsap How

FRENCH ORPHANS' ASYLUM

Sisters-Candide, Agnès, Adrien

FRENCH HOSPITAL

Director- Dr. Sibiril

Attendants-Soang, Giao, Mok Nur e-Sœur Adrien

FRENCH SCHOOLS-Pakhoi and Kaotak

G. Gèraud, director

Kine, K. Wang, Ts'ane Ho, teachers

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

1059

Act. Sub-Dist. Postmaster-T. Poletti

Post Office, French

Clerk-in-charge-M. Tranguê

蟹森 Sum.bo

實森

SCHOMBURG& Co., A.,Mhts. and Comn. Agts.

Aug. Schomburg

L. Jüdell (absent)

W. Krone

Agencies

North China Insce. Co., Limited

Canton Insurance Co., Limited

Deutsche Transport Vers. Ges., in Berlin Badische Schiffahrts Assecuranz Ges. Badische Rück und Mitvers. Ges. Prussian National Vers. Ges.

South British Insce. Co., New Zealand

Deutscher Lloyd Transp. Vers. Act. Co.

London and Lancashire Fire Insce Ges.

China Navigation Co., Limited

士機刺

SEQUEIRA & Co., Merchants and General

Commission Agents

Chun Cho Fun, agent

HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)

Kiung-chau

口海 Hoi-hau

Hoihow is the seaport of the city of Kiung-chow (the seat of government in the island of Hainan, and distant from its port about three and a-half miles) which was opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1876, but 18 years passed before there were any signs of foreign commerce. The position of the port, though geographically favourable, is topographically unsuitable for the development of any extensive com. mercial transactions, vessels being compelled to anchor some two miles from the entrance of the creek or branch of the main river upon which Hoihow is situated. The tides are extremely irregular, and the anchorage is liable to the visitation of very severe typhoons, being, moreover, entirely unprotected from the north. The width of the Hainan Straits, between Hoihow and the mainland the Lien-chau peninsula—is about twelve miles. As regards health Hoihow compares favourably with other parts of Hainan. The port is badly supplied with water.

The approaches to the shore are extremely shallow, so that loading and unloading can only be carried on at certain states of the tide. Despite this disadvantage, however, the advent of foreign steamers has given a considerable impulse to trade. The town itself contains about 30,000 souls, and is governed by a Tsan-fu, or Lieutenant-Colonel the population of Kiungehow is 50,000. The native mercan- tile population, though respectable, is by no means rich. No foreign settlement has as yet been formed, and with the exception of the Roman Catholic Orphanage, erected in 1895, the ́American Presbyterian Mission Hospital and doctor's résidence, and the Customs Indoor Staff, the French Post Office and the French School for Chinese, the houses occupied by the foreign residents are Chinese converted into European habitations by alterations and improvements. H.B.M. Consulate obtained a site after fourteen years' negotations, and a consulate building was in 1899 erected

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