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PAKHOI -HOIHOW

1065-

堂主天

FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (MISSIONS

ETRANGÈRES DE PARIS)

Rev. Père Kammerer, Pakhoi

Rev. Père Marqué, Weichao Island

Rev. Père Lemaire,

do.

Rev. Père Richard, Tung-hing

Rev. Pere Hermann, do.

Rev. Père Ly, Tsap How

Rev. Père Tcheung Ling-shan

FRENCH ORPHANS' ASYLUM

Sisters-Candide, Agnès, Emilienne

FRENCH HOSPITAL

Director- Dr. Sibiril Nurce-Sœur Emilienne

FRENCH SCHOOLS-Pakhoi and Kaotak

G. Géraud, director

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

First Class Postmaster-H. O. Jones

POST OFFICE, FRENCH

Clerk-in-charge-M. Tranguê

Sum-bo

SCHOMBURG & Co., A., Merchants and Com-

mission Agents (in liquidation)

Aug. Schomburg

L. Jüdell (absent)

W. Krone

Agencies

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.

刺機士

SEQUEIRA & Co., Merchants and General

Commission Agents

A. A. Sequeira, manager

Agency

Service

Pakhoi

Subventionné Haiphong-

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 since the declaration of the Republic of China by a Civil Commissioner; the population of Kiungchow is 50,000. The native mercantile population, though respectable, is by no means rich. No foreign settle- ment 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 residence, 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 to the south-west of the Hospital; towards the end of 1897 a piece of land was granted, and a French Consulate has been built on the Northern side of the river and facing Hoihow town. Since the beginning of 1899 a free school has been opened by the