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HOIHOW-LUNGCHOW

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),

LTD.

A. Ledeboer, manager

CONSULATES

£*ME★★ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul-Residing at Hongkong

FRANCE

Vice-Consulate-Dr. Esserteau, in

charge

Medical Officer-Dr. J. Esserteau Postmaster-Pham Ba Trung Director, French School-J. Subira

GREAT BRITAIN (Kiungchow), also in

charge of United States Interests

Acting Consul-C. D. Smith Postal Agent --C. D. Smith

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-C. Talbot Bow-

ring

Assistant J. Koga

Medical Officer-Dr. J. Esserteau Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master

-Y. M. Mudes

Boat Officer-E. A. Koosache

Chief Examiner-G. Houlston

Asst. Examiner-A. F. Gabb

Tidewaiters-H. Hori, H. C. Hyatt,

S. H. Goodwin

Lights

Hoihow Harb. Light--Chang Lin-k'wi

Lamko Light-F. V. Serall

Cape Cami Light-T. Slade

Relieving Lightk'pr.-H. Alliso

地孖 Ma-ti

MARTY, A. R., Merchant, Commission and

Shipping Agent

C. Berthelot

Agencies

Chino-Siam Steam Navigation Co., Ld.

Compagnie de Navigation Tonkinoise Indo-China Steam Navigation Coy. Nippon Yusen Kaisha

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postmaster-J. M. E. S. de Senna

POST OFFICE, FRENCH

Tien-tsu-tong

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. Léauté

Rev. J. Grégoire

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

J. H. Bulmer, manager

LUNGCHOW

州龍 Lung-chow

This city is situated at the junction of the Sung-chi and Kao-ping rivers in lat. 22 deg. 21 min. N., and long. 106 deg. 45 min. E., near the South-western border of the province of Kwangsi, and was selected as the seat of the frontier trade of that province with Tonkin. The continuation of the above-named two rivers is known as Tso-chiang, or left branch of the West River, and it enters the main stream some 30 miles above Nanning. The town is prettily situated in an amphitheatre amongst the mountains, having exits only by the rivers, and lies at an elevation of some 300 feet above sea level. It has a new wall which was completed in 1887. The population is estimated at some 13,000 and from a military point of view Lungchow is considered to be a place of importance. Troops are stationed there and near the Frontier. The port was opened to Franco-Annamese trade on the 1st June, 1889, but so far the little trade may be said to have been but insignificant. It is likely to continue so until the Haiphong- Hanoi-Langson railway, which after twelve years' assiduous labour was completed early in 1902, is extended to Lungchow, or until another contemplated extension of the line enables merchandise to be rail-borne to within easier access of water communication with Kwangsi. For the present both extensions are abandoned, and the line from