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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

R. Cuthbert, agent

CONSULATES

HOIHOW-LUNGCHOW

THEŁK Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

Consul-Residing at Hongkong

BELGIUM

FRANCE

Consul-Jules Leurquin

Medical Officer-Major Esserteau Postmaster Hiền.

Director, French School-J. Subira

GREAT BRITAIN (Kiungchow), also in

charge of United States interests

Consul-H. H. Bristow

CUSTOMS; CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner R. T. Nelson Assistant-Hau King Son Medical Officer--Major Esserteau Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master

-R. S. Pike

Examiners F. İsegawa, I. Kirisawa,

B. J. Green

Boat Officer-R. J. Redd

Tidewaiters A. Lane, W. B. Bedford,

H. J. Ferris, J. L. Stewart

Lights

Hoihow Harbour Light-M. O

Gudmundsen

Lamko Light-N. E. Nelson Cape Cami Light-A Kovalsky

MARTY & Co.

C. Berthelot

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postmaster -W. Martins de Oliveira

Tien-tsu-tong

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

J. Léaute, in charge

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

J. H. Bulmer

LUNGCHOW

Lung-chow

may

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 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 20,000, 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 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. An extension of the Tonkin Railway line from Dong-dang to Nasham, a Tonkin mart on the Sung-chi river not very far from the Kwangsi border, will shortly be opened to traffic, and it is hoped that it will ease communications. The line from Hanoi ends abruptly in the hills a few hundred yards from the "Porte de Chine (Namkuan) on the Tonkin-Kwangsi frontier, from which spot Lungchow is distant some 60 kilometres by road, part of which runs over rough and mountainous country of wonderful beauty and is practically impassable in bad weather. The journey from the frontier over this road takes two days by chair, or a day and a half on horseback, but it can easily be do e in 12 or 14 hours. Native pony-carts may at times be had, but this method of locomotion is not one to be recommended except under the best of weather conditions, and furthermore is only available for some two-thirds of the journey. Telegraphic communication exists with Canton and other places on the West River, with Mengtsz in Yunnan, vid Po-sê, and with places in

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