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when all their steamers were taken up by the Imperial Government. vessels were released in December, 1915, and this Company is now operating four steamers on this route. The Bank Line, Ltd., and the Osaka Shosen | Kai ha, run regular steamers to Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and to Tacoma, and the Bank line maintains regular services to New York and Africa; the Eastern and Australian S.S. Co., and the Australian Oriental Line keep up a regular monthly service with the Australian Colonies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintain services to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle) In addition to all these, several great lines of merchant steamers run between ports in Great Britain and Hongkong, of which the China Mutual S. S. Co., Ocean S. S. Co., and the Glen, Bank, Mogul, Ben, Royal Mail, Shire, Barber, and Shell lines are the most conspicuous. Regular steam communication between Java and Hongkong is maintained by the Java-China-Japan Line. Between the ports on the east coast of China, Formosa and Hongkong the steamers of the Douglas S.S. Co. ply regularly twice a week, and those of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha weekly, and there is constant steam communication with Hoihow, Manila, Saigon, Haiphong, Tourane, Bangkok, Borneo, etc. Shanghai, Tientsin, and the ports of Japan there is frequent communication by steamers of the Indo-China S.N. Co., China Navigation, and other lines, in addition to the English and French mail steamers, which leave weekly. Between Hongkong, Macao, and Cantou there is a daily steam service, and steamers run as far as Wuchow on the West River.
With
DIRECTORY
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice-Admiral-SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G Aide-de-Camp-Capt. F. J. Kinchin Smith, K.O.S.L I.
Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. G. G. Wood, H.K.V.C.
Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. J. H. W. Armstrong, H.K.V.C.
Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Subadar Major Roshan Khan, H.K.S.B., R.G.A.
His Excellency The Governor
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
局政議 IChing Kule
His Excellency Geul. Officer Commanding
Hon. Colonial Secretary
Hon. Attorney-General
Hon. Colonial Treasurer
Hon. Director of Public Works
Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs
Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, Kt., C.M.G
Hon. E. H. Sharp, K.C.
President:
His Excellency The Governor
Official Members:
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
局例定
His Excellency Genl. Officer Commanding
Hon. Colonial Secretary
Hon. Attorney-General
Hon. Colonial Treasurer
Hon. Director of Public Works
Ting Lai Kuk
Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police
Unofficial Members:
Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G.
Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim
Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak
Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak
Hon. Mr. C. E. Anton
Clerk of Councils: Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher
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