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instructions from the Government, are looking for the best way to meet the difficulty, The solution of the same problem, in so far as it concerned the Foreign Settlement, gives good grounds for expecting a favourable issue in the present instance also. The Electric Light Co. appears to be doing well, for electric lighting has superseded that of oil to a great extent. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 100,000.

DIRECTORY

亞細亞

A-si-a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric

A. Morton-Smith, local manager

H. W. Fuller

G. G. Samuel

A. Mervyn, installation manager

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

W. T. Smith, manager

W. S. Cutchins

BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Hon. Secretary-J. McH. Leckie

BRUNNER, MOND & Co. (CHINA), LTD.

Ta-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons, Ld.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire

J. McH. Leckie, signs per pro.

W. F. K. Telfer

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.

China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld. Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.

of Hongkong, Ld.

London & Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Orient Insurance Co., Ld. Guardian Assurance Co. (Fire), Ld. British Traders' Insce. Co., Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.

British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co., Ld.

Standard Marine Insce. Co., Ld.

Sea Insurance Co., Ld.

Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

局商招

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

-Hulk "Bombay"

C. C. Li, agent

A. Y. Wei, interpreter

局電湖蕪

Wu-hu-tien-chu

CHINESE TELEGRAPHS

Wong Hsin Yuen, manager

Kee Zui Ling

Hsu Chung Chee and 28 clerks

門衙事領國英大

Ta Ying Kuo Ling-sz Ya-mén

CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN- Tel. Ad: -

Britain

(See under Nanking)

關湖蕪 Wu-hu kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-W. H. C. Weippert

-Assistant (Foreign)-C. A. Pouncey

Assistants (Chinese) Ch'ê Tê-piao,

Chan Pak Hong, Shih Ching and Hu Yu Ching

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master

W. E. Clerk

Chief Examiners- N. Nakagawa and

L. G. J. W. Schmitto

Boat Officer-H. C. Scrimshaw Assistant Examiner-A. Jönsson Tidewaiters-W. H. Bird, K. V. I. Andersen, D. H. Davies and N. Knight

Actg. Dist. River Inspr.-R. G. Butcher

NATIVE CUSTOMS

Deputy Commissioner-M. Kitadai Assistant (Foreign)-A. S. Baines Assistants (Chinese)—Mêng Kuang-

lan and Yu Chen Jee

Acting Tidesurveyor-R. Raiteri Tidewaiters-H.

Gumley, G. F.

Dewson, T. N. Davis and G. W. Sherman

HOSPITAL, WUHU GENERAL

Dr. R. E. Brown

Dr. F. P. Gaunt, general supt. Miss S. A. Redmond, secretary