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largest exports, still lies buried in the surrounding hills. There is daily steam communication with Canton, maintained by four Chinese owned steamers. There are now 14 steamers on the Hongkong-Wuchow run, chiefly cargo vessels, but excellent passenger accommodation can be obtained on the steamers, which, up to the end of 1917, were owned by the British West River Steamship Co. During the last few 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 make regular trips to Nanning. Attempts were made during the year 1916 to obtain a regular motor-boat service between Wuchow and Kweilin, the old provincial capital, and have now met with success. Under normal conditions there

is every reason to suppose that in the future a trip to Kweilin by motor-boat to visit the Ming Tombs may form a part of the West River tourist's itinerary. 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

S. T. Enevoldsen

和天 Teen-Woo

DIRECTORY

BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission

Agents Shipping Office: Banker's Pontoon

Geo. Banker

Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro.

Agency

Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.

CONSULATES

É Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul-Residing in Hongkong, Offices:

Alexandra Building

GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-H. H. Bristow

Constable-J. Groves

官事領總利大義大

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

ITALY

Consul General-*

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Commissioner-J. W. Loureiro Assistants H. W. Bradley, A. Feragen Medical Officer-G. W. Leavell Acting Tide-Surveyor and Harbour-

master J. S. Enright

Examiners H. J. Christopherson, A.

S. Harrald

Asst. Examiner C. F. Croawell

Tide waiters-K. Nakashima, N. Wise-

mann, T. J. Macauley, S. Iwanaga,

O. W. Johansen,

Liêu * Cha-tin

顛渣

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants

Agencies

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 Steamship Co.

Wah Hing Motor Boat Co., Wuchow-

Nanning Line

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner-T. N. Manners

(Nanning, Kwangsi District)

1st Class Postmaster-Koh Buck Young

李美 Mei.foo

STANDARD OIL CO. OF N. Y.-Tel. Ad: Socony

F. H. Tyson

T. B. Williams