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PAKHOI

or no game is to be found nowadays in the immediate vicinity of the port, and those in search of sport with the gun have to go some considerable distance afield. Riding on horseback is possible, but cycling is a doubtful pleasure. The climate of the port during at least six months of the year is a trying one for Europeans, and as a result of the want of proper sanitary arrangements-pigs are the principal scavengers- epidemics in the Chinese town are frequent. Accurate figures for the population of the town, as elsewhere in China, are difficult to obtain, but the number of inhabitants may perhaps be put at some 20,000. Fishing is the main-in fact, practically the only- local industry, and a large number of vessels are employed in it. The people of Pakhoi and surrounding district are inclined to "enough for to-day's needs and never mind to- morrow" rather than to activity, commercial or otherwise, and are poor in consequence. The independent and rather turbulent spirit so prevalent throughout the "Four Lower Prefectures" (T), in one of which (Limehow) the port is situated, is a good deal in evidence at times and there has been, so far, only a feeble response to educational effort.

No railway construction has yet been commenced in the district, and there seems to be little likelihood of any of the projected undertakings assuming shape in the immediate future.

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

Yuen Woo, agent

和福永

DIRECTORY

BELL & SON, G. E., Merchants, Commission

and Shipping Agents

G. E. Bell, sr.

G. E. Bell, jr.

Agencies

W. G. Humphreys & Co.

Alex. Ross & Co.

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

Wing Tai & Co., distributors

所支核稽南海南平

CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT REVENUE ADMINISTRATION, ASSISTANT DISTRICT INSPECTORATE OF

Assistant District Inspector-Chung

Yin-tang

Foreign Assist. Dist. Inspr.-S. Hiyoshi Chief English Sec.-Kuo Chung Tsui Chief Accountant-Samuel Shaw Chinese Secretary-Chen Chi Yen Inspecting Officer-Wu Chih Hsuen Assistants Wai Pong Wing, Sun Hon, Ku Yung Teh, Pan I Huo, Liang

Hsu Jen, Ko Pao Jui and Wang Kwang Ching

CONSULATES

官事領國比大

MEX Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

ELGIUM

Consul-Residing in Hongkong

# Tai-fat-kwok Ling-sz-fu

FRANCE AND PORTUGAL, Consular Agency

Consul for Pakhoi and Tunghing

Consul-L. Reynaud

Medical Officer-Dr. P. Gouillon

Secretary and Interpreter-H. Q. Ott

官事領國英大

Tai-ying-kwok Ling-sz-kun

GREAT BRITAIN, also in charge of United

States interests

Consul-H. H. Bristow for Pakhoi and

Kiungchow (residing at Hoihow)

ITALY

官事領總利大意

Consul-General-Residing in H’Kong.

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-F. L. Bessell Assists.-K. B. Surh, Leung Shi Wai Clerks Lo Pik fai, Tu Pao-tsun,

Cheung Kai-ming, Leung Tso-yam Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-

C. H. Hardy

Assistant Examiner-C. B. Cooper

Tidewaiters-S. Hill, Lee So Hung,

Shek Wing Hoi

和昌廣

KWONG CHEONG WO

Agency

China Navigation Co., Ld.