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SWATOW-CANTON

房藥安惠

Swatow Dispensary, The

Dr. Chua Than Jien, manager

司公限有水來自頭汕辦商

SWATOW WATER WORKS Co., LTD.

Head Office: Fui Tung St.; Pumping

Station: Kia Kum (near Ampow); Tel. Ad: Waterworks

Tam Tze King, manager

941

WOOD, C. H., Marine Surveyor to H.B.M.

Government and to Lloyd's Agents, Claims Surveyor

WOOD & STOCKER, Licensed Pilots, Marine

Surveyors

Capt. C. H. Wood

Capt. G. St. M. Stocker

Almeida, Mrs. J. M. d.' Archangelsky, Mrs. Arnott, Mrs. C. H. Bacon, Miss E. A. Baker, Mrs. B. L.

Balmer, Miss J.

Barraclough, Mrs. C.

Beath, Miss N. H.

Bloomfield, Mrs. J. A.

Brander, Miss

Brangwin, Mrs. Capen, Mrs. R. T.

Carman, M.D., Mrs. N. H.

Carr-Ramsey, Mrs. T. Chisholm, Miss Cowles, Mrs. Culley, Miss M. R. Davies, Mrs. C. S. C. Dryburgh, Miss Edmunds, Mrs. A. W.

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Everham, M.D., Miss M. Fleming, Miss M. Focken, Mrs. F. W. Gibson, Miss

Gosling, Mrs. Graham, Miss

Heyworth, Mrs. W. Hillier, Mrs.

Johnson, Miss E.

King, Mrs.

King, Miss

Lopes, Mrs. L. L. Loureiro, Mrs. T.

Mangold, Mrs. A, H. Mikulin, Mrs. Miller, Miss E. E. Nielsen, Mrs. Northcott, Miss F.

Olsen, Mrs. R. A.

Ozorio, Mrs. H. A.

Ozorio, Mrs. J. A. Page, Mrs. A. H. Pepperell, Mrs. E. Phipps, Miss C. E. Pollock, Mrs. A. R. Radionoff, Mrs. Sanderson, Miss A. G. Shaw, Miss N. R. M. Sollman, Miss M. Sullivan, Mrs. F. A.

Syrneff, Miss Thompson, Mrs. A. Traver, Miss E. G. Waller, Mrs. S. R. Waters, Mrs. G. H. Whyte, Miss Winn, Miss M. Worley, Mrs. R. E.

Wrench, Mrs, N, F.

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CANTON

州廣 E Kwang-chau

Canton is situated on the Chu-kiang or Pearl River, in latitude 23 deg. 7 min. 10 sec. N., and longitude 113 deg. 14 min. 30 sec. E., and is the capital of the province of Kwangtung. It is sometimes called the City of Rams and the City of Genii, both of which names are derived from ancient legends. Canton is a foreign perversion of Kwangtung, its real name. One of the first cities in China, it is also the seat of government for the province, and is the residence of the Governor-General, the Military Governor and Civil Administrator, besides a number of other government officials of more or less distinction

Owing to its favoured situation, Canton became at an early date the Chinese port to which the traffic of European countries was first attracted. The Portuguese found their way thither in 1516, and Arab navigators had been making regular voyages between Can- ton and the ports of Western Asia as early as the tenth century. The Dutch appeared on the scene about a hundred years later than the Portuguese, and these in their turn