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PAKHOI

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" (F), in one of which (Limchow) 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 & Co.

和福永

DIRECTORY

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

and Shipping Agents

G. E. Bell, sr.

G. E. Bell, jr.

Agency

Alex. Ross & Co.

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

所支核稽南海南平

CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT REVENUE ADMINISTRATION, ASSISTANT DISTRICT

INSPECTORATE OF PINGNAN AND HAINAN

CONSULATES

✰✰ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BELGIUM

Consul-Residing in Hongkong

** Tai-fat-kwok Ling-sz-fu

FRANCE and PORTUGAL, Consular Agency

Consul for Pakhoi and Tunghing

官事領國英大

Tai-ying-kwok Ling-sz-kun

GREAT BRITAIN, also in cliarge of United

States interests

ITALY

官事領總利大意

Consul-General-Residing in H'kong.

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Actg. Commissioner-E. T. Schjöth Assists.-V. Pechatkin, Leung Shi Wai Medical Officer-Dr. P. Gouillon Clerks Sung Fu-shan, Cheung Kai-

ming and Leung Tso-yam Tidesurveyor and Harbour-master-

H. A. Adamsen

Examiner-C. Wada

Tidewaiters-Shek Wing Hoi, Tsu Sic Ping, Tang Sze Chan and Shi Man Chung

和昌廣

KWONG CHEONG WO

Agency

China Navigation Co., Ld.

MISSIONS

會教聖節旬五

AMERICAN PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS Mrs--

SION

Miss J. Payne

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Miss G. E. Dunk

Miss S. Beattie