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SHANGHAI

海上

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Although situated nearly midway between Hongkong and Tientsin, Shanghai was the most northerly of the "Five Ports" opened to foreign trade under the provisions of the British Treaty of Nanking, and for many years constituted the northern limit of the external trade of China. It lies in the alluvial peninsula formed between the main mouth of the Yangtsze River and Hangchow Bay, in the extreme south-east of

of Vion 201 in latituda 21° 14′ 00′′ N and lanaituda 191° 00′ past of Green.

CONSIDER AUSTRALIAN TRADE.

Australia is the logical Source of Supply for Eastern markets particularly in PRIMARY PRODUCTS-FOODSTUFFS AND RAW MATERIALS.

AN AUSTRALIAN BUYING SERVICE.

We offer our Services as a Commission Buying and Shipping House, and will Buy, Collect and arrange to Ship orders for any number of Suppliers under one B/L.

We are also in a position to make firm C.I.F. and E. offers of BULK MERCHANDISE such as Flour, Wheat, Butter, Meat, Hides, Tallow, etc.

AN AUSTRALIAN SELLING SERVICE.

As Merchandise Brokers we can sell a variety of Eastern Products and we are prepared to negotiate with regard to appointing SUITABLE SELLING AGENTS throughout the Commonwealth for Manufacturers and others desirous of taking advantage of the Australian Market.

Enquiries for either of the above are cordially invited.

Mercantile Brokers.

Exporters of Primary Produce Manufacturers' Agents.

Import and Export.

Cables: "BOLTONCO,” BRISBANE.

Codes used: Bentley's & Bentley's Second.

Bankers: COMMERCIAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA, LTD.

F. B. BOLTON & Co.,

ALBERT HOUSE,

289, Albert Street,

BRISBANE.

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waterways which traverse it in every direction, heavy crops of the various staples are grown. Owing to the latitude and the fact that the rainfall is pretty well distributed through the year, two crops per annum are regularly produced, and these are of markedly different types; the spring crop, gathered in May or June, being similar to that of the northern temperate regions elsewhere, while the autumn crop, gathered in September and October, is distinctly tropical or sub-tropical. The spring crops consist of wheat, two or three distinct varieties of barley, rape, and leguminous plants of various descriptions, beans and lucerne predominating. The latter are frequently ploughed into the land without gathering to make manure for the more valuable summer products. The summer crops consist mainly of cotton and rice; the cultiva tion of the former having of late years, owing to the growing demand for use at home, and for export to western and northern provinces, as well as to Japan,-where the cotton spinning and weaving industries have for some years past taken a firm hold- considerably increased, accompanied by a similar decrease in the acreage under rice cultivation. This decrease is, however, to a certain extent counterbalanced by an increase in the production of winter wheat, partly owing to an enlarged acreage,

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