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WUCHOW

passenger accommodation. The round trip from Canton takes four days: the boat leaving Canton on Friday mornings remains over Sunday in Wuchow. The direct trade with Hongkong is now carried on by twelve cargo steamers. During the last three years a large native passenger trade has sprung up between Wuchow and up-river towns: launches leave daily during the summer months for Konghau, Kuaiping and Kueihsien, and weekly eighteen motor boats make regular, and five launches make irregular, trips to Nanning, averaging three trips a week. The floods in 1902 were the highest on record, the water in the river rising to 68' 3." The lowest winter reading was 1.10 deg. below zero in December, 1906. In winter the only local industry worthy of mention is boat building; when the river falls the foreshore is lined with matsheds, where native craft of all descriptions, from a huge salt junk to a diminutive 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 stream 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 Chinese Post has established postal communication with the principal towns in Kwangsi.

亞細亞 A-si-a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co., LTD.

C. Brown, local manager

和天 Teen-Woo

DIRECTORY

BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission

Agts.; Shipping Office: Banker's Pontoon

Geo. Banker

Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro. R. Wilson, engineer

Agency

Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO C'o,

F. A. Perry

H. J. Kestin

W. L. Thompson

CONSULATES

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

BELGIUM

Consul-Residing in Hongkong

GERMANY

Consul-Dr. W. Rössler (residing at

Canton)

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Consul-H. A. Ottewill (abt.)

Acting Consul-W. J. B. Fletcher

Constable-J. Wisher

官事隔總利大講大

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

ITALY

Consul General - Commendatore Z.

Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong) Chinese Writer-Ch'ing Yao

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

―

Acting Commissioner J. H. W.

Houston (on leave)

Acting Commissioner-J. W. Loureiro Assistants-R. T. Nelson, Lau Honchi,

Hü Kam shui

Medical Officer -R. B. Vickers Tide-Surveyor and Harbourmaster-

F. Benson

Examiner A. A. Du Bord

Asst. Examiners-A. A. Anderson, C. E. G. Roderick, H. P.Singer, J. Rimsche Tidewaiters-G. R. H. Dittmann, S.

B. de Brito, P. Pezzine, V. da G.

Lopes, A. F. Reynolds, T. Ivanoff

姵渣 Cha-tin

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

Agencies

Hongkong, C'ton. & Macao S. B. Co., Ld. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. China Navigation Co., Ld.

Canton Insurance Office, Ld. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ll. China Sugar Refinery Co., Ld.

West River British Steamship Co. Sam Shing Hong Motor Boat Co.

Wah Hing Hong Motor Boat Co.

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Dist. Postm'r.-C. H. Shields (Canton)

Act. sub.-District Postmaster-H. O.

Jones (Kweilin)

Accountant-in-charge--Yao Tat Son

李美 Mei.foo

**

STANDARD OIL Co. of New YORK-Tel. Ad:

Socony

D. H. Cameron, manager (Canton) P. J. Gallagher, asst.-in-charge

R. J. Jones