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WUCHOW

still lies buried in the surrounding hills. There is daily steam communication with Canton, the two steamers of the British West River Steamship Co. affording excellent 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 a fleet of motor boats and launches make regular trips to Nanning. The floods in 1914 were the highest on record, the water in the river rising to 73′ 3′′, but they were eclipsed by the 1915 floods, which rose to 79' 6", causing widespread ruin. The lowest winter reading was 2.5 deg. below zero in December, 1902. 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.

W. A. Nowers, local manager

D. G. Bruce

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

J. H. Crocker

W. L. Thompson

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DIRECTORY

BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission Shipping Office: Banker's

Agents

Pontoon

—

Geo. Banker

Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro. Agency

Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.

CONSULATES

✰✰✰ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul-Residing in Hongkong, Offices:

Alexandra Building

GERMANY

Consul-Dr. W. Rössler (residing at

Canton)

GREAT BRITAIN

Consul C. C. A. Kirke

Constable-J. Grooes

官事領總利大義大

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

Consul General - Commendatore Z. Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong)

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-J. W. Loureiro Assistants-E. M. Pannenborg, H. W..

Bradley

Medical Officer--G. W. Leavell

Acting Tide-Surveyor and Harbour-

master J. S. Enright

Examiners-H. J. Christopherson, H.

A. Anderson, C. E. G. Rhoderick Asst. Examiners-H. Surplice, C.

Klatt, F. Luber

Senior Tidewaiter-G. R. H. Dittmann. Tidewaiters--A. F. Reynolds, K.. Nakashima, T. Ivanoff, T. J.. Macauley, S. Iwanaga

顛渣 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., Ld. China Sugar Refinery Co., Ld.

West River British Stearnship Co.

Wah Hing Motor Boat Co., Wuchow-

Nanning Line

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner-L. C. Arlington.

(Kweilin, Kwangsi District)

1st Class Postmaster-Koh Buck Young

李美 Mei.foo

STANDARD OIL Co.OF N. Y.-Tel. Ad:Socony D. H. Cameron, manager (Canton)

F. H. Tyson

J. E. Sharpe