Directory_and_Chronicle_1918_Part_022

Tai-mee-kowk-ling-sz-chu

ConsulGeneral-P. S. Heintzleman

Vice-Consul-Carl. D. Meinhardt

Vice Consul--Lester L. Schinare

Sec. and Stenographer Paul F.

Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

Consul General for South China

(See Hongkong)

Acting Consul-

Tai Fat-kwok Ling-sz-chi

 

Consul-J. Beauvais

Vice-Consul-G. P. Goubauldt

Tai Ying-kwok Tsung Ling-sz-chü

GREAT BRITAIN Tel. Ad: Britain

Cons.-Genl. J. W. Jamicson, C.M.G

Vice-Consul-R. S. Pratt

Pro-Con. and Reg.-E. S. Bennett

Assistant-W. A. Alexander

Constable-W. Read

Tai I-tai-li Ling-sz-kun

Consul-General-Commendatore Z.

Volpicelli

Consul-General-K. Ohta

Vice-Consul-K. Okada

Chancellor-I. Shibata

Do. --T. Yonaiyama

Police Inspector-J. Öbara

Vice-Consul-J. F. Eça da Silva

(residing in Hongkong)

Tai-wo-kwok Ling-sz'-kun

NETHERLANDS

Consul-P. Stuijfbergen

Tai No-wai-kwok-ling-sz-kun

NORWAY-Tel. Ad: Norge

Vice-Consul-H. S. Smith

Ta Sai-yeung-kwok Chung Ling-sz

PORTUGAL

Consul-General-M. de Nascimento

Vice-Consul-Interpreter

RUSSIA-Tel. Ad: Russolat

Consul-Genl.

官事領國喴哪晪喘大

Tai-sui-tin-no-wai-kwok-ling-sz-kun

Vice-Consul

關海粤 Yueh Hai-Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Revenue Department

Commissioner-F. A. Carl

Dep.Commr., In-door-C.E. Holworthy Assistants--Hü Ping-fai, R. T. Nelson

Siu Tseung-pan, Tai T'in P'ui, A. H. H.Abel, P. L. O. Hill, Tang Tsung Mün, Tai Tin-tsoi, G. Yoshida,

Chen Fong Kun-chiu,

and Chan Mong Huang

Piece Goods Expert-H. Speakman Medical Officers W. G. Reynolds and

J. Briand

Acting Chief Tidesurveyor - E.

C. Tregillus

Tidesurveyor-F. G. Becke (at W'poa.) Acting Assistant Tidesurveyor-

T. H. Smith

Acting Boat Officers-H. M. Andersson

and R. Bland

Chief Appraiser-R. J. White

Chief Examiner (A)-F. J. Rowsell Chief Examiners (B) F. R. G. da Cruz-

and A. Martin

Examiner (A) - A. A. Du Bord Examiners (B)—D. Urquhart, M. F.

Asst. Examiner (A)-H. J. O. Hicks Asst. Examiners (B)-C. L. Fischer,

D. B. Izatt, C. H. J. Ross and D. Bartolini

Actg. Asst. Examiner (B)—O. Matsuo Tidewaiters-W. G. States, K. Leopold,

H. W. Hewett, K. Hastrup, A. C. Ellis, D. D. Brookes, J. Ross, P. L. Moreland, T. Thomas, E. E. Clark, R. E. Gillmore, A. Jönsson, O. Jörgensen, H. J. Carey, J. Millar, E. M. Chase, G. Di Paolo, A, E. V. Nielsen, G. A. Hart, A. A. Antune,

W. S. Ellaby, A. J. Payne, R. J.. Redd and R. H. Dunn

Harbour Department

Harbour Master-A. Hotson

Berthing Officers-C. R. Jönsson, N.

Thiis and S. Hitosugi

Native Customs

Deputy Commissioner in charge of

Office-C. A. McAllum

Tidewaiters-B. Poletti, H. Ellis and

O. G. Schmied

見的 Tik-kin

DEACON & CO., LTD., Merchants, Shipping

and Insurance Agents-Tel. Ad: Deacon

E. A. Stanton

H. Staples Smith E. H. Smyth

Agencies

R. K. Batchelor

I. P. Pereira

Hongkong, C. & M. Steamboat Co., Ld. Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Co. Ben Line of Steamers

Eastern & Australian SteamshipCo.,Ld. Apcar Line of Steainers

Alliance Assurance Co., Ld.

China Fire Insurance Co., Limited

China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited

Union Assurance Society, Ld.

The Marine Insurance Co., Ld.

The Standard Life Assce. Co.

The Atlas Assce. Co., Ld.

The Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd.

✯✯✯ Ha-pat-tin-dee 地顛拔霞

DENT & CO., HERBERT, Public Silk and Tea Inspectors and Commission Agents--

Canton, Macao, London and Lyons

Herbert F. Dent

H. H. Xavier | C. Gomes

Agencies

Shiu On Steamship Company General Accident Assurance Corptn. North British and Mercantile Insc. Co. Ocean Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Indian African Line Oriental African Line

DHANAMALL, CHELARAM, Silk Merchant and Commission Agent-French Con.

T. Naraindas, manager

DIALDAS & SONS, M., Silk Merchants and Commission Agents-45, Kussra Ter- race, French Concession

S. Bheroomal, manager

Teen-cheang

DODWELL & Co., LTD., Merchants-Head Office: 24, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C., and at Hongkong, Shanghai, Hankow, Foochow, Yokohaina, Kobe, New York, Tacoma, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Victoria, Vancouver,

Colombo, and Antwerp

C. A. Peel, local manager

Agencies

Dodwell Line of Strs. (for New York) Phoenix Assurance Co., Ltd.

Underwood Typewriter Co., New York

DOSSABHOY & Co., S.

Sorabjee Dossabhoy (Bombay) M. B. Futtakia, signs per pro.

✰✰✰ Yuk Ts'i Shu Shé ELLIS KADOORIE COLLEGE-Honam

Managers The Ellis Kadoorie Chinese

Schools Society (Hongkong) D. Campbell, headmaster

11 Anglo-Chinese masters, 4 vernacu- lar masters, drawing master, music master, drill waster

MTE #Wei-lum-fa-ma

FARMER & Co., WILLIAM, Merchants and

Commission Agents-Shameen, British

Concession

William Farmer (Shameen)

Alexander Rodger (Scotland)

G. E. Eyles

舘字印滔利美 Mei-lee-toh

FERNANDES, NORONHA & Co., Printers and

Publishers-Shameen

利志 Chee-lee

GERIN, DREVARD & Co., Silk Merchants

and Public Silk Inspectors, General

Import and Export Merchants

H. G. Gerin (China)

M. Drevard, do.

J. Baud, signs per pro. and silk inspector J. V. Dodd, booking and insurance L. Renaud, agent (Lyon)

Agencies

Le Foncier de France et des Colonies

Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., Paris International Savings Soc., Shanghai Lion Mutual Provident Life Assurance

Society, Tientsin

Motor Union Insce. Co., Ltd., London

Canton Navigation Co., Hongkong

China Mail S.S. Co., Hongkong

L'Urbaine Fire Insurance Paris

Sze-cheong

GRIFFITH, LTD., T. E., Silk Merchants and

Agents and Public Silk Inspectors

T. E. Griffith

H. Sutton

P. A. Dixon

M. A. Annett C. Geiger

D. Noronha

J. F. Sequeira

Agencies

Yuen On Steamship Co., Ld

Norwich Union Fire Insce. Society, Ld. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada Toyo Kisen Kaisha

Queensland Insurance Co., Ltd.

* * * Hing-sing

HANNIBAL & Co., W. A., Merchants and

Commission Agents

W. A. Hannibal

John Robertson, signs per pro.

Agencies

Scottish Union and National Ins. Co. John Hopkins & Co., Ltd., Glasgow,

Glengarry Whisky

"HILLCREST" SANITARIUM AND HOSPITAL—

Tung Shan, Canton; Teleph. 3105

J. M. Swan, M.D.

Chas. A. Swan, M.D.

* Wing-lee

HOGG & KARANJIA, LTD., Silk Merchants,

Public Silk Inspectors, General Ex-

porters and Importers-Shameen; Tel. Ad: Hogg, Canton

A. V. Hogg

N. B. Karanjia (New York)

M. R. Pustakia

Bomanjee & Co.

G. Dias Azedo

Heung-kong-sheong-hoi-ngan-hong

HONGKONG

AND SHANGHAI

CORPORATION

D. Forbes, acting agent

J. E. B. de Courcy

J. V. dos Remedios

L. E. da Luz

A, Noronha

時好 Ho-see

HANDELSCOMPAGNIE

(Holland China Trading Co.), Merchants

-Tel. Ad: Holchihand

F. H. Collignon (Rotterdam)

S. J. R. de Monchy (Rotterdam)

P. Stuijfbergen, signs per pro. A. C. J. Vomeulen

Agencies

Java-China Japan Line Java-Pacific Line

Java Pacific Mail Service

Java Sea & Fire Ins. Co. of Batavia Yorkshire Insurance Co.

Netherlands Fire and Life Insurance

Co. of the Hague

Netherlands Harbourworks, Co., Ld.,

of Amsterdam

Pulu Laoet Coal Mines of Stagen, S.

E. Borneo

Dutch Engineering

Amsterdam

Works of

HUYGEN, G. E., Merchant, Importer, Ex-

porter, and Commission Agent

Netherlands Lloyd, Batavia

HONGKONG DAIRY FARM, LTD.

Man-kwok-bo-tung-ngan-hong

INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION--

Tel. Ad: Statesbank

S. R. Brown, acting manager

G. Holman, sub-accountant

INTERNATIONAL SAVINGS SOCIETY-Head

Office: 5, Boulevard Edward VII. (Yang-

kingpang), S'hai.; Tel. Ad: Intersavin

Messrs. Gerin, Drevard & Co., Shaineen,

E-teng-shang-hang

Iro, G., Merchant and Cominission Agent for Tobacco Leaf, Paper, Wool, etc.- 24, Yuen cheung-chung-kai, Canton; Tel.

Ad: Itoshoko. Head Office: Shanghai

S. Ushigome, signs per pro.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants

G. H. Bowker, agent

F. Gandossi, silk inspector

A. Gandossi, do,

F. X. Botelho

J. de Senna

Agencies

Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., Owners

"Shire" Line of Steamers

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Glen Line of Steamers

British India S. N. Co, Ld.

Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Alliance Assurance Co.

Eastern Insurance Co., Ld.

KAVARANA, S. F., Merchant and Com-

mission Agent

H. S. Kavarana

KAVARANA & SONS, M. H., Merchants and

Commission Agents-Shameen

S. M. Kavarana, partner

KWANG TUNG ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER SUPPLY CO., LTD., THE-Ng Sin Mun; Teleph. 212; Tel. Ad: Lighthouse, Canton

C. Reid, mains superintendent

KWONG TUNG CEMENT WORKS (Under the administration of the Ministry of Fin- ance, Peking), Cement, Quicklime and Cement Tile Manufacturers Honam, Canton; Teleph. 2001. Branch Office: 2, Des Voeux Road West, Hongkong

利與 Hing-le

LA GÉNÉRALE SOIES, Silk Merchants-

French P.O. Box 34; Teleph. 1441; Tel. Ad: Genesoi, Shameen

Charles Poisat, manager, signs per pro.

LAWN TENNIS CLUB-SHAMEEN

Committee-H. Staples-Smith (chair- man), vacant (hon. secretary), S. R. Brown (hon. treasurer), H.M. Webb

LITTLE, ADAMS & WOOD, Architects and

Civil Engineers

Colbourne Little F.R.I.B.A. (Hongkong)

F. R. J. Adams, A.M.I.M.E. (Hongkong)

Marshall Wood, A.R.I.B.A. (Canton)

利士洛 Luk-se-li

LOXLEY & Co., W. R.---Merchant and Com-

mission Agents --Shameen; Teleph. 1085

W. Drude

Agencies

Royal Insurance Co, Ld, Liverpool Netherlands Fire and Life Insurance

Co., Estd. 1845

South British Insurance Co., Ltd. Newton, Chambers & Co., Ltd. ("Izal"

Disinfectants, &c. )

Crossley Bros., Ltd. (Gas and Oil

Engines, &c.)

哪免 Men-na

MANNERS & BACKHOUSE, LTD., Importers,

Exporters and Insurance Agents-62,

British Concession, Shameen; Tel. Ad:

Manners; A.B.C. 5th edition

John Manners (Hongkong) James H. Backhouse (Hongkong)

Wallace J. Hansen, signs per pro

Sun Insurance Office

MASONIC CLUB, CANTON

President-C. H. Reid

Secretary-A. Martin

Treasurer-W. H. T. Boanas

MASONIC LODGE "STAR OF SOUTHERN

CHINA," No. 2013, E.C.

W. M.-Chas. E. Watson

I. P. M.-C. H. Reid

S. W.--C. A. Peel J. W.-A. Linbird

Chaplain J. Speicher Treasurer-Staples Smith Secretary H. P. Harris S. D.-Norton Bell

J. D.-V. S. Ferguson

D. of CF. G. Becke

.Stewards-Geo. E. Eyles and D.

Bartolini

I. G.-B. Christiansen

Chong-lee

MEHTA, M. N., Merchant and Commission

Agent-Shameen; Tel. Ad: Mehta

M. N. Mehta (Calcutta)

D. N. Mehta

B. P. Mehta, manager

MELVANI & Co. P. D., Silk Merchants and Commission Agents-41, French Con- cession, Shameen: Tel. Ad: Melvani

P. D. Melvani, proprietor H. Jeramdas, manager

MEURER FRERES, Importers and Ex- -

porters-Tel. Ad: Meurer, Shameen

Charles Meurer

G. Volmant, signs per pro.

MISSIONS

(For Protestant Missions see end of volume)

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY

J. Johnson

BRITISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH ESTABLISH-

MENT CHRIST CHURCH

Trustees The Bishop of Victoria, H. B. M. Consul-General, H. B. M. Vice-Consul

Committee-H. Staples Smith (hon. sec. and treas.), Dr. W. G. Reynolds, A. Hotson

FRENCH MISSION

Bishop Mgr. de Guebriant

Missionnaires

Canton Fourquet, Sorin, Le Tal- landier, Merle, Frayssinet, Ruel, Aubazac, Robert, Clauzet, Baldit, Nicouleau, Grisel, Fouque, Pradel, Thomas, Fabre, Léauté, Jarreau, Lévêque, Deswazierès, Favreau, Pé- ric, Mollat, Pierrat, Veyrès, Lesaint, Grandpierre, Zimmermann, Cellard,· Penicaud, Marque, Rossillion, Sapin, Lemaire, Genty, Richard, Gregoire, Poulhazan, Hermann, Laurent

院醫愛惠 Wai Oi Yi Yun

JOHN G. KERR HOSPITAL FOR INSANE

Fong Tsün

Chas. C. Selden, M.D., supt.

Robert M. Ross, M.D., asst. supt.

Joseph L. Harvey, 2nd asst.

SACRED HEART COLLEGE (Collège du Sacré Coeur)--Teleph. 225, Tai San Street, New City

Rev. F. A. Clauzet, M.A., head master and general supt. (on leave)

Rev. Bro. Paschal, actg. headmaster

Rev. Bro. Angelin

Bro. John

司公奶牛公企 Kei-kung-ngau-nai-kung-sze

Bro. Marcel

Bro. Leonide

Bro. Victor Jules

Sam-limg-kung-sze

MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA, Coal, Glass,

Copper and Paper Merchants-Tel. Ad:

Iwasaki; A. B. Č. 5th Ed. and Bentley's Code

#Sam-ching

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD., General

Importers and Exporters - Tel Ad: Mitsui; Head Office: Tokyo

S. Okazaki, manager

M. Hotta, asst. manager

K. Komatsugawa

K. Sawaura

I. Sakamoto

S. Ijichi

M. Miyashita

S. Hasaka

Agencies

A. Shinozawa

K. Matsumoto S. Mitani

K. Mizuno K. Murata S. Okeda A.Ashizaki

Meiji Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

The Kyodo Fire, Marine Insurance Co. Tokyo Fire, Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Yokohama Fire, Marine Insurance Co. Tokyo Marine Insurance Co., Ld.

The Dai Nippon Brewery Co., Ld.

記協 Hip-kee

MOGRA & Co., E. R.--Shameen

E. R. Mogra

B. C. Tavadia

P. E. Patell (Bombay)

I Sha-min Kung-po

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL-Shameen Chairman-H. Sutton

Councillors-W. Farmer, H. M. Webb Medical Officer-Dr. Reynolds Secretary R. T Matheson Police Superintendent-W. Read

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, FRENCH CONCESSION Pres.-J. Beauvais (Consul for France) Secretary and Treasurer-G. P. Gou-

bault (vice-Consul)

Members H.S.Kavarana andP.Leyral

AL Cheung-kee

NAOROJEE, BURJORJEE, Merchant and

Commission Agent-Shameen

NAVAL COLLEGE

ANGLO-SWISS

CONDENSED

MILK Co. (London)-Missions Building,

The Bund; Telepli. 3041

H. C. Shrubsole, manager

DAFTB Nor-chin-na-kung-sze

NORTH CHINA Insurance Co., Ltd.

W. Goulbourn

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

N. Hayashi

Agencies

Great Northern Railway Co.

Nisshin Kisen Kaisha

NORDISK FJERFABRIK LTD. (Northern Fea- ther Work & Produce Co.), Exporters and Importers-64, Central Ave. Shameen. Head Office: Copenhagen. Branches: Shanghai, Tientsin, New York, Charkow (Russia)

J. Jeppesen, manager

V. R. E. Harth-Olsen (Shanghai) P. Jespersen

S. Jorgensen (Tientsin) J. D. O. da Silva

OLIVECRONA, S. W. D., Engineer-in-chief

to Board of Conservancy Works of

Kwangtung-Shamecn

Ta-pan-sheung-shun-kung-sze

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA-Shameen; Teleph.

1046; Tel. Ad: Shosen; Head Office: Osaka

S. Sakamoto, agent

Agencies

Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul

Railway Co.

The Kobe Marine Transport & Fire

Insurance Co., Ltd.

Hung-hing

PARSEE TRADING CO., THE, Wine and Spirit Merchants, Provision Dealers, Auctioneers and General Commission Agents-Tel. Ad: Parsee

N. E. Allaye

T. G. Leong

C. J. Bliumgara

利爹畢 Pau-te-li

PATELL & Co., General Merchants and

Commission Agents-Tel. Ad: Patell

M. J. Patell

H. S. Baria, manager

J. D. Karanjia

PAVRI, K. S., Merchant and Commission

Agent-Shameen

P. K. Pavri, manager

PINNA & Co., Merchants-Tel. Ad: Annip

S. de Pinna

PоHOOмULL BROS., Drapers, Silk Mer- chants and Commission Agents-15, French Concession; Tel. Ad: Pohocmull

V. Shewaram, managing partner G. Gulabrai, assistant

Gidumal Lilaram, accountant

T. Tolaram, salesman

POST OFFICE, British

Postal Agent-E. S. Bennett

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Kwangtung District—Head Office: Canton

Postal Commissioner-C. H. Shields

Deputy Postal

Commissioner - V.

District Accountant-E.A.L.Chaudoin Assistant-G. M. Rosse

First Class Postmaster-K. J. Halm

(Swatow)

First Class Postmaster-Tong Hon-

sing (Pakhoi)

First Class Postmaster-J. M. E. S. de

Senna (Kiungchow)

POST OFFICE, FRENCH

Pierre Landry, director

Joseph Picot, assistant.

POST OFFICE, JAPANESE

Postmaster-Y. Sugaya

捷伯 Pak-chit

PURNELL & PAGET, Architects, Engineers and Surveyors-Head Office: Missions

Building, The Bund, Canton; also Shameen, and Paak Hok Tung, Canton; Teleph. 3249; Tel. Ad: Panel

C. S. Paget, AS.M.A.S.C.E.

PURSUMAL T., Silk Merchant and Com- mission Agent - Head Office: Manjhand, India; Canton Office: 7, Kassra Terrace, Shameen

H. Khemchand, manager

和泰 Tai-wo

REISS & Co., Merchants

F. C. Herb, silk inspector

A. P. Mei,

J. Landolt

F. Danenberg

A. M. P. Victal

Agencies

New Zealand Insurance Co. British American Assurance Co. Union Ins. Society of Canton, Ltd. "Ellerman" Line

Pacific Mail S.S. Co.

Texas Company of New York

REYNOLDS, W. GRAHAM, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Medical Practitioner- Shameen

ROZARIO, V. A. & Co., Importers, Exporters,. and General Commission Agents- 55, Shakee Road Central, opposite

opposite the Victoria Hotel, Shameen

V. A. Rozario, manager and proprietor

Jose da Costa Conceicao, book-keeper

Antonio da Silva Fereira, chief clerk

Miss Lillia Maria do Rozario, typist.

德裕 Yü Tak

SALES & Co., Merchants, General Com-

inission Agents and Coal Merchants-

Shameen, French Concession

J. F. Sales

SANDEMAN, H. H., Official Measurer

Teleph. 1011; Tel. Ad: Measurer

SETNA & Co.-Shameen

S. D. Setna

SHANGHAI LIFE INSURANCE CO., LTD.-

French Concession, Shameen

J. F. Eça da Silva, general agent for

Canton and West River

Kee-cheong

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., Merchants

R. Shewan (Hongkong)

G. Mavor

H.S. dos Remedios |

Agencies

A. Urquhart

China Provident Loan and Mrtg. Co.,Ld, American and Oriental Line

Messageries Maritimes Co.

Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Co. Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld. Batavia Sea and Fire Insurance Co. Manchester Assurance Company Green Island Cement Company, Ld. Hongkong RopeManufacturingCo., Ld. American Asiatic S. S. Co.

"Glen" Line of Steamers American & Manchurian Line

SHIRLEY, DR. R. E., D.D.S., Dental Surgeon

-Shameen; Teleph. 1171

SILVA, PAULO DA, Import and Export Mer- cliant and Manufacturers' Agent- French Concession, Shameen; Tel. Ad: Pesilva; Codes: A.B.C. 5th and Private

P. S. da Silva

SILVA & Co., PLACÉ DA, Commission

Agents-Shameen

A. da Silva

+ Si-lun

SLOANE, W. & J., Exporters Bomanjee

Building, Shameen; Teleph. 1064; Tel.

Ad: Sloane: Head Office: New York

W. A. Shera, local agent

SHAMEEN STORE, THE, Merchants and Commission Agents-42, French Con- cession, Shameen

A. H. Hamet, manager

T. Talip

Agencies

Hongkong Daily Press, Ltd.

Directory and Chronicle for

China, Japan, etc.

SOCIÉTÉ FONCIÈRE DE CANTON Co., LTD., Land and Estate Agents-Tel. Ad: Foncière, Shameen

C. Fumagalli, manager

SPALINGER, U., Silk and Commission Agent

A. Hoffmeister, signs per pro.

昌仁 Yan Cheong

SPALINGER, DOWLER & Co., Merchants-

Ulrich Spalinger (Canton

Arthur E. Dowler (New York)

富美 Mei Foo

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Tel. Ad:

P. J. Gallagher, attorney M. H. Varn, accountant A. B. Goknian, assistant

E. S. Winters, assistant

D. A. Alonço

E. M. Remedios

C. M. V. Ribeiro

A. D. Sequeira

S. S. Sequeira

R. A. Tayler

H. E. Hendy, supt. of installation

SWAN, JOHN M., M.D., Medical Practitioner

-101, The Bund

Chas. A. Swan, M.D.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA

T. E. Griffith, Ltd., agents

TUNG SHAN GOLF CLUB

H. T. Foord, president J. T. Smith, captain

Committee:-J. T. Smith, C. A. Peel,

A. V. Hogg, R. T. Matheson, C. E.

Watson, F. C. Herb

Hon. Secretary and Treasurer-R. T.

Matheson

Vac-cum-yau-kung-see

Vacuum Oil Co.-Shameen

George H. Swift, manager

VARENNE & Co., TH., Raw Silk Merchants

VASUNIA, J. P., Merchant and Commission Agent-Shameen, 54, French Concession; Head Office: Bombay; Branch Offices: Hongkong, Kobe and Yokohama

P. J. Vasunia F. P. Vasunia R. P. Vasunia D. Kalidass E. F. Kavarana L. E. Kavarana

(Bombay) do.

Wic-tor-li-Tsau-tim

VICTORIA HOTEL, THE-Shameen, British

Concession

W. Farmer, proprietor

Geo, E. Eyles, inanager

利德 Tak-lee

VILLA & BROS., of Canton, Inc., A. P., Silk

Merchants-Head Office; New York;

and at Lyons, Shanghai, Yokohama

G. G. Hoppeler, signs per pro., manager

M. Brennwald

Wat-sun-sz-tai-yeuk-fong

WATSON & CO., LIMITED, A. S., "The Can- ton Dispensary," Chemists and Drug- gists, Aerated Water Manufacturers, Wine, Spirit, and Cigar Merchants

G. C. Kitching

G. A. Lawrance

E. Peters

Albert, Mrs. L., Shameen

Alf, Mrs. A.

Alonço, Mrs. D). A.

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Anderson, Mrs. J. N., Tung Shek Kok Anderson, Mrs. W. J. W., Fatshan

Andersson, Mrs. E. C., Medical College

Andersson, Miss E. C.,

Assis, Mrs. M. F.

Azedo, Mrs. G. Dias, Shameen

Azevedo, Mrs. Braga, Shameen

Basto, Mrs. A.

Beattie, Mrs., Fatei

Bigler, Mrs. R., M.D., Honam Boggs, Mrs. J. J., Fatei Briand, Mrs.

Britton, Miss F., Tsang Sha

Brockstedt, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. S. R. Burkwall, Mrs., Fatei Butler, Miss Cannon, Miss

Carl, Mrs. F: A., Shameen

Carion, Mrs.

Castro, Mrs., Tungshan Chambers, Mrs. Chellaram, Mrs. D. Christiansen, Mrs. B. Clayson, Mrs., Shameen Courcy, Mrs. de Cruz, Mrs. F. R. G.

Danenberg, Mrs. F., Shameen

Dewstoe, Mrs.

Dolty, Miss E. L.

Dunham, Miss L.

Eager, Mrs.

Ericsson, Miss, Honam

Eversleigh, Mrs., Shameen Eyles, Mrs..

Farmer, Mrs. W., Shameen Fischer, Mrs.

Fliche, Mrs.

Fumagalli, Mrs., Shameen

Forbes, Mrs.

Fujinurs, Mrs., Shameen

Fulton, Mrs. A. A., Fatei, Saikwan

Fulton, Miss M. D.

Gaff, Mrs. A., Fatshan

Garget, Madame

Gaudiot, Madame

Graves, Mrs.

Hansen, Mrs., Shameen

Harris, Mrs. H. P., Tungshan Herb, Mrs. F. E., Shameen Hogg, Mrs. A. V., Shameen Hotson, Mrs.

Huygen, Mrs. G., Shameen Johnson, Mrs. Jones, Miss, Fatei Kerr, Mrs., Fatei Kitching, Mrs. G. C.

Klehe, Mrs., Shameen Kollecker, Mrs., Fatei Lammert, Mrs. L., Shameen Lammert, Mrs. C. H. Langhammer, Mrs. Latimer, Miss Lewis, Miss H.

Lund, Mrs. E., Shameen Marshall, Miss

Mehta, Mrs. B. P., Shameen

Meurer, Mrs. Ch., Shameen

Mattos, Mrs. J. ď’O.

Myers, Miss K.

Neilson, Mrs.

Nelson, Mrs. C. A., Saikwan

Niles, Miss M. W.

Noronha, Mrs. S. A.

Noronha, Mrs. H. D., Shameen

Noronha, Mrs. A., Shameen

Noyes, Mrs., Fatei

Noyes, Mrs. H. V. Noyes, Mrs. R. V. Noyes, Miss, Kuk-fau Ohta, Mrs., Shameen Olivecrona, Mrs.

Ozorio, Mrs. L. A., Shameen Oldenberg, Mrs. Paget, Mrs. C. S.

Pereira, Mrs. I. P.

Poisat, Mrs. C., Shameen

Pratt, Mrs., Shameen

Rateau, Mrs. O., Kumchuk

Remedios, Mrs. E.

Remedios, Mrs. J. V. dos, Shameen*

Reynolds, Mrs. W. Graham

Ribeiro, Mrs. C. M. V.

Riggenbach, Mrs.

Rössler, Mrs. S.

Sage, Mrs., Shameen

Shera, Mrs. W.

Shumaker, Mrs., Honam (absent)

Silva, Mrs. A. da

Smith, Mrs. E. R.

Smith, Mrs. H. Staples

Smith, Mrs. J. C. H. L.

Smith, Mrs., Tungshan

Spalinger, Mrs. Martha, Shameen

Speakman, Mrs. H.

Spore, Mrs. E. C., Honam

Stratton, Mrs., Tungshan Sutton, Mrs.

Swan, Mrs., Canton Hospital

Swift, Mrs. G. H., Shameen

Thompson, Mrs., Canton Hospital Thompson, Mrs. J. J

Tobbler, Mrs.

Todd, Mrs. P. J. Tope, Mrs. S. G. Turner, Mrs. W.

Vasunia, Mrs. F. P. Voigt, Mrs.

Ward, Miss E. B.

Watson, Mrs. C. E., Tungshan

Webb, Mrs.

Weippert, Mrs. W. H. C.

Wells, Miss

Whilden, Mrs. Lula F.

CANTON—KOWLOON

White, Mrs. R. J., Shameen White, Miss

Wilcox, Miss Vela M.

Wilson, Mrs.

Wood, Mrs. A.

Xavier, Mrs. H. H.

Zùnmerlairg, Mrs., Fatei

KOWLOON FRONTIER DISTRICT OF THE CHINESE MARITIME

This is the inclusive name given to the Chinese Maritime Customs stations adjacent to Hongkong and established in 1887 in accordance with the Additional Article to the Chefoo Agreement of 189 for the purpose of recording the movement of opium and of collecting duty on the trade carried on by Chinese junks between Hongkong and Chinese ports. In 1899, when the New Territory was taken over by Hongkong, the Customs stations had to be removed from their former locations, which had been brought within the British boundary, and the present stations are situated at Taishan, Lintin, Shamchün, Shatowkok, Shaüchung, and Samun (Tooniang), besides which there are a number of frontier patrol posts on the north shores of Deep and Mirs Bays and between the two bays. The net value of the trade in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 47,043,483 as compared with Hk. Tls. 46,638,372 in 1915 and Hk. Tls. 45,301,202 in 1914. The largest on record was in 1899, viz., Hk. Tls. 56,532,226.

Kow-loon Sin-kuan

DIRECTORY

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS-Hongkong

Address: York Buildings, Chater Road

Commissioner--A. H. Harris Deputy Commissioner-C. Thorne Chinese Assistants - Chiu Ho-ping,

Wong Iu-on, Leung Shi-nam Medical Officers--O. Marriott, G. M. Harston, G. D. R. Black, H. Balean Tidesurveyor--A. Morrison Examiner-C. H. Hardy Assistant Examiners-E. T. Craig, L.

L. Lopes

Tidewaiters - W. J. Martin, W. J. Fulker, C. F. A. Wilbraham, G. P. J. Breen, J. D. Cush, C. B. Cooper, A. F. Reynolds, H. Owen, W. J. Bethell, H. S. Markham A. H. Fenn, G. Albert, E. Alcock, C. E. White, K. G. Backlund, M. A. Hancox, E.

J. Statter, W. C. A. Wolnizer, P Packwood, L. P. Larsen, E. Hansen E. W. Crawford, E. Lawrie, G. Dixon C. J. Seater

Reven e Cruiser Kaipan

Commander-A. D. S. Powell First Officer-W. T. B. Terry Second Officer--O. S. Sternvall First En ine r-A. B Belbin Second Engineers-W. Sinclair, J. A.

Ferguson

Revenue Launches

Officer-in-charge--J. W. Cush

Officer-in-charge-W. J. Martin

Kwanfung

Officer-in-charge-M. A. Hancox

Hsin Kapsuitsai

Officer-in-charge--A. H. Fenn Launch Inspector-G. J. Harman

Lappa, also called by the Chinese "Kung Pak," is an island directly opposite the Inner Harbour of Macao, the distance across being from 1 to 14 miles. Four of the stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs are located here, and another on an islet called Malowchow. Beyond the Barrier Gate of Macao there are several more Customs stations. Under the Lappa Customs' control there are also Tungho and Naiwanmoon stations. Lappa is under the jurisdiction of the Heungshan Magistrates. possesses no features of interest beyond the fact that it is the principal Customs station in the neighbourhood of Macao. The net value of the trade passing through the Lappa Customs stations in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 14,302,235, as compared with Hk. Tls. 17,596,598 in 1915. The diversion of the course of trade to and from the Luichow Prefecture operates against Lappa. Much of the cargo which formerly came thence in junks to Macao and reported at Malowchow now avails itself of the more convenient and doubtless safer direct steamer carriage between the French port of Kwang-chow-wan and Macao. There is also a tendency for a portion of the west coast produce to go via Kongmoon, whether destined for Hongkong or Canton, and the old junk trade of this region with the foreign colonies is gradually disappearing.

DIRECTORY

# # Kung-pak-san-kwan OFFICES OF THE CHINESE MARITIME Cus- TOMS, LAPPA-No. 2, Rua dos Prazeres, Macao

Commissioner T. D. Moorhead Assistants-C. A. R. Cabral, A. G.

Wallas, A. M. de Souza

Chinese Assistant-Cheung Yuk-tong Tidesurveyor-J. Power (acting) Boat Officer-S. G. Pedersen Examiners-J. H. Thatcher, C. W.

Landers, E. A. Young

Asst. Examiners-F. Kittel, S. B. de

Brito Tidewaiters-F. Byrnes, O. Hall,

G. Borras, W. Battley,

W. Battley, S. H. Goodwin, J. D. Spencer, M. O. Grönroos, H. Gaylard, F. R. Mac- Kendrick, W. O'Reilly, G. E. Cam-

miade, G. H. Reece, H. L. Jett, J. P. Thompson, E. A. dos Santos, R. E. Sheetz, A. A. Simões, A. M. Fer- nandes, P. J. Ryan, A. de Espirito Santo. R. Ferreira, A. S. M.d'Oliveira, C. A. Carqueja, H. M. T. Machado Revenue Launches

Cheongkeng

Officer-in-charge-G. Borras Launch Officer-P. J. Ryan

Officer-in-charge—M. O. Grönroos Launch Officer-J. P. Thompson

Lungtsing Officer-in-charge-J. D. Spencer Launch Officer-H. L. Jett

Officer-in-charge--O. Hall

* Sam-shui 水三

The Treaty port of Samshui, opened in 1897 under the Burmah Convention-nearly forty years after Consul Harry Parkes' East River Expedition-is situated near the junction of the West and North Rivers, in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. 30 sec. N., and long. 112 deg. 53 min. and 48 sec. E. The anchorage known as Hokow, at which foreigners reside, was formerly an ordinary Chinese fishing village, with boat-building as its leading industry, and a flooded state in summer as its characteristic peculiarity, but it is fast becoming a busy mart. According to the Convention, the town of Samshui and Kongkên (a dirty little village situated among the hills opposite Hokow) together constitute the port area. The formal opening took place on 4th June, 1897, since which date the trade of the port has increased steadily if allowance be made for the practical cessation of the import of opium and for special causes, e.g., the effect of the European war and the high floods of 1914 and 1915. The net value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Customs during 1916 was Hk. Tls. 7,736,236. The junk traffic is large, and the lekin station is said to be one of the most important in the province. The district city of Samshui itself is surrounded by an imposing wall built in the 6th year of Chia Ching of the Mings (about A.D. 1560), the year after the place attained to the dignity of a magistrate's cure, but whatever prosperity it may once have attained has departed, and, within, the walls, where dwell the magistrate and the commander of the few local troops, the space is but half occupied by poor dwelling houses and one small street containing provision shops. Outside the North Gate stands an inposing temple, temp Chia Ching (circa 1800). Between the town and the river is a fine nine- storied pagoda-rebuilt during the Cliia Ching reign, some 100 years ago.

The business focus of the district is Sainam, a large well-built town of no great. antiquity, three miles distant, on the creek leading to Fatshan, where is established an electric plant which supplies Sainam and Samshui with light.

Two sets of steamship lines converge here, from Canton and Hongkong, respec- tively, and tourists in China can do many worse things than visit the West River, which presents more beautiful scenery than is to be found on any steamer route in China the Yangtze gorges, perhaps, excepted. The number of steamers entered and cleared at the Custom House during 1916 totalled 5,475, aggregating 1,774,080 tons, as compared with 4,967, aggregating 1,558,289 tons, in 1915. Since 1st May, 1905, Samshui has been made a port of entry for foreign steamers going up the West River. Numerous

steam launches carrying passengers or towing passenger boats ply between Samshui and neighbouring cities on the West and North Rivers and on the creek leading to Fatshan and Canton. A railway line from Canton to Samshui via Fatshan was inaugurated on the 26th September, 1904, and five trains run daily each way between Canton and Samshui. The passengers carried during 1916 numbered 4,355,137 The climate of the port is as healthy as any in the delta. In the suminer, frequent squalls. cool the air, and it is seldom that there is not a breeze of some kind; in winter, the air is keen, bracing and clear. The waterways and surrounding country are pictur- esque, and the adjacent heights offer pleasant walks. Excursions of one or two days enable one to climb Mt. Mc. Cleverty, (2,000 ft.) at the mouth of the West River; or Ting Hu Shan (4,000 ft.), behind the celebrated temple known to foreigners as Howlik," near which is to be found the popular bathing pool and fall; or the hills forming the first gorge, from which used to be quarried the famous ink-stone known throughout China as Tuan Yen. Perhaps the most interesting of the sights in the neighbourhood are the Seven Star Hills, which are situated close to the pleasant town of Shiu Hing, some 30 miles from the port. These hills, formed of pure white mable rising to a height of about 400 feet from the plain, hold inany temples-some apparently clinging to the sides of the cliffs and caves and grottoes. The fine bronze figures of more than life-size in one of these temples are well worthy of attention.

Fair snipe shooting is to be obtained in the winter, and an occasional pheasant, partridge, quail or duck may be added to the bag. The attractions of good sport and pleasing surround- ings have made Samshui a week-end resort for some of the Canton community confined to the small and uninteresting island of Shameen.

SAMSHUI-KONGMOON

The telegraph and postal services have agencies at the port, but there are no Consulates established; the consuls within whose districts Samshui lies reside either in Canton or Hongkong.

CONSULATES

DIRECTORY

MX Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

BANKER STEAM SHIP Co.

Yat Kee, agent

Consul-General--Residing in H'kong.

GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-General-

(residing in Canton)

T¶ION★#Tail-tai-liLing-sz-kùn

Consul-General--

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),LTD.

P. Drummond

CHAI WO S. S. Co.

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Comm'ner.-J. H. M. Moorhead

Assistant-L. L. R. Baranoffsky

Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master M. Hellstrand

Asst. Examiner A. Borges

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

BANKER & Co.

Yat Kee, agent

TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE

KONGMOON

門江 Kong-moon

Kongmoon was added to the list of treaty ports on 7th March, 1904, in accordance with the stipulations of Article X. of the Mackay Treaty. A British Consulate was established, but withdrawn in 1905. Kongmoon is located some three miles up a creek on the West River, in the Kwangchow Prefecture of the Kwangtung Province in Lat. 22° 34′ 49′′ N. and Long. 113' 8′ 53′′ E. and is about 45 miles distant from Macao, 70 from Canton and 87 from Hongkong. The creek on which it is built connects the West River with the sea at Gaenioon, and is a narrow and tortuous stream, the lower reaches of which, near the main river, are lined with rafts, while further up in the vicinity of the town it is crowded with native craft of every description, thus rendering navigation for steamers difficult at all times, but especially so when the current runs fast during the summer months. The steamer anchorage is in the West River at the mouth of the Creek, opposite the Chinese Maritime Customs, but the town is included in the port limits. The population of Kongmoon is about 55,000, and it has the appearance of being a more populous centre, as it extends for a considerable distance on both banks of the stream: Formerly it was a business centre of considerable importance, but various causes have arisen which appear to have lessened its commercial standing, and which have interfered adversely with the general prosperity of the port; however, of late years, with the exception of 1915, when there was a considerable falling off, the volume of trade has exhibited an upward tendency.

KONGMOON

It was generally considered that the proximity of Kongmoon to Hongkong and Macao and its favourable situation as an outlet and distributing centre for the southern prefectures of the province augured well for its future prosperity and development. This was, to some extent, true, but it should be remembered that facts have arisen which have tended to diminish rather than increase its commercial importance. Formerly it enjoyed direct communication with Shanghai and Foochow and was the real outlet and distributing centre for the south-western district of the Delta and the Southern prefectures of the province. The development of Hongkong and the opening of Kiungchow and Pakhoi as treaty ports, however, have seriously interfered with the junk trade and general welfare of the port, and have, besides, -opened up other trade routes to districts hitherto dependent upon Kongmoon for their supplies. At present there are no indications that the sanguine expectations based upon imperfect knowledge, entertained concerning the overestimated commercial possibilities of the place will be speedily, if ever, realized. The large increase of trade in 1905 failed to alter this opinion, but the improvement in the trade of the port continues to be steady, and it is hoped that the Railway, with through communi- cation by steamers with Hongkong, will help to increase the volume of trade passing through Kongmoon. There is daily steam communication with Hongkong, and with Macao, and considerable numbers of vessels trading under the Inland Waters Regulations arrive and depart daily. There are also several large junks trading regularly to Hongkong, Macao, and the island of Hainan. A railway from Kongmoon to Samgaphoi on the coast, a distance of about eighty miles, has been con- structed under the supervision of native engineers, trained in America, but it, however, stops short three miles from the sea, as to take the line right down would involve laying out a new town on the water front and dredging operations which they cannot at present afford. The railways tap rich districts, and will undoubtedly prove beneficial to the trade of Kongmoon. A Telegraph Office was opened on the 8th December, 1907, in the town, and in November, 1911, in the Settlement, and telegraphic communication is now possible with the Fatshan office.

The principal articles of export consist of prepared tobacco, joss-sticks, strawmats, paper, palm-leaf fans, fresh oranges and fresh vegetables; and imports are largely represented by foreign piece goods, kerosene oil, sugar, wheat flour, and foreign sundries, including a variety of Japanese commodities of a cheap nature. Large quantities of softwood poles are floated down in the form of rafts, which are dismantled here. These mostly come from beyond Wuchow and also from the North River. The yearly value of this branch of the trade is estimated at about $750,000. Owing to the frequent piracies in the delta the cocoon market hitherto established at Junki has been trans- ferred to Kongmoon, and the numerous steam launches and boats employed in this line of business give the port in front of the settlement a lively and animated appearance. There are two silk filatures in the town which afford employment to about 300 women each: the total out-turn of silk amounts to about 100 catties per day. An interesting local industry is the dredging of large shells from which a good quality of lime is made. The annual production of these shells is estimated at 200,000 piculs, worth about $40,000. Quite an important industry has sprung up in Kongmoon, namely, the preserving and canning of Chinese fruit for export abroad, where it is consumed by the numerous Chinese in America, Australia and the Straits Settlements.

The unique opportunities presented for transport by the unrivalled waterways of the Delta have been well availed of by native enterprise, and there is a large and lucrative passenger trade with Canton, Fatshan, Sancheong, Hongkong and Macao, etc. Large roomy native passenger boats towed by powerful launches are engaged in this trade.

The surrounding country is picturesque, fertile and highly cultivated, and the inhabit- ants are prosperous and industrious. Rice is, of course, the principal crop, but mulberry shoots are very extensively cultivated for sale in the silk-producing centres, and large quantities of fresh vegetables are exported to supply the Hongkong market.

The net value of the port's trade in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 8,252,732 as against Hk. Tls. 4,675,170 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 6,886,972, in 1914, Hk. Tls. 8,656,789 in 1913, Hk. Tls. 6,610,077 in 1912, Hk. Tls. 5,501,892 in 1911 and Hk. Tls. 6,138,386 in 1910.

KONGMOON---WUCHOW

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO.

D. G. Bruce, assistant

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. A. W. Gregory, assistant

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

Consul General-J.W. Jamieson, C.M.G.,

residing at Canton

官事頜總利大意大

Tai I-tai-li Ling-sz-kun

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-P. B. von Rautenfeld

Assistant-A. C. Biesterfeld

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master-T. T. Wiull

Asst. Examiners--E. C. Charrington, A. H. Craig, E. A. C. Friedrichsen, M. J. Barreira

Tidewaiters-J. Rasmussen, H. Scrim- shaw, A. Komaroff, D. A. Carlos, E.

B. da Rosa, J. Chipperfield, W. G. Motterham

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner C. H. Shields

(Canton)

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK—Tel. Ad:

C. E. Meyer, manager Hamilton Powell

J[ *E Wi-chau

Wuchow, opened to foreign trade on June 4th, 1897, by the Special Article of the Burmah Convention, is situated on the Sikiang or West River at its junction with the Fu or Kuei (Cassia) River. By the steamer routes at present authorised it is distant about 220 miles from Hongkong and Canton. Wuchow is the limit of navigation for ocean-going steamers; but, during eight months in the year, vessels drawing not more than 3 feet can reach Kueihsien (150 miles beyond Wuchow), and Nanning (360 miles from here) can be reached by boats drawing 2 ft., almost all the year round. The population of the city and suburbs is estimated at 50,000; it is slowly increas- ing, more especially in the riverine suburbs, which comprise the business quarter. The annual inundations caused by the rise in the river-there is an average difference of 60 feet between the winter and summer levels are a source of great inconvenience to the inhabitants and at times bring about a total cessation of business. To obviate this, the principal steamship offices, the foreign Customs House and the native Customs and Lekin stations, together with numerous shops and hotels, are located on pontoons (locally known as Pais) moored alongside the river bank. The situation of Wuchow makes it the natural distributing centre for the trade between Kweichow, Eastern Yunnan, Kwangsi, and Hongkong and Canton. The future is full of promise, and Wuchow in the course of a few years is sure to make a bold bid for second place as the largest trade mart in the south of China. Local merchants are making strenuous efforts to divert to Wuchow, via the Liuchow and West Rivers, the trade of south- eastern Kweichow, which is principally supplied via the Yangtsze. Attempts are being made to work the antimony, copper, and tin mines which abound in the Kwangsi Province. The gross value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Maritime Customs has steadily grown from four to over seventeen and a half million Taels, and the revenue is over five hundred and fifty thousand Taels, while the Native Customs control a junk trade worth over ten million taels and collect over 100,000 taels duty. The principal articles of export are antimony, timber, oils (aniseed, cassia, wood and tea), indigo, hides, and live stock. The coal, which should form one of Wuchows

largest exports, still lies buried in the surrounding hills. There is daily steam communication with Canton, maintained by four Chinese owned steamers. There are now 14 steamers on the Hongkong-Wuchow run, chiefly cargo vessels, but excellent passenger accommodation can be obtained on the steamers, which, up to the end of 1917, were owned by the British West River Steamship Co. During the last few years a large native passenger trade has sprung up between Wuchow and up-river towns: launches leave daily during the summer months for Konghau, Kuaiping and Kueihsien, and a fleet of motor boats make regular trips to Nanning. Attempts were made during the year 1916 to obtain a regular motor-boat service between Wuchow and Kweilin, the old provincial capital, and have now met with success. Under normal conditions there

is every reason to suppose that in the future a trip to Kweilin by motor-boat to visit the Ming Tombs may form a part of the West River tourist's itinerary. The floods in ́ ́1914 were the highest on record, the water in the river rising to 73′ 3′′, but they were eclipsed by the 1915 floods, which rose to 79′ 6′′, causing widespread ruin. The lowest winter reading was 2.5 deg. below zero in December, 1902. In winter the only local industry worthy of mention is boat building; when the river falls the foreshore is lined with matsheds, where native craft of all descriptions, from a huge salt junk to a diminutive sampan, are constructed. Wuchow itself offers few attractions to the tourist, but the, river scenery on the way up, especially between the Shuihing and Takhing Gorges, where the stream winds in and out among the green hills to form a succession of apparent lakes, is extremely picturesque, and has not altogether unjustly been compared to the Rhine. Wuchow is connected by telegraph with Hongkong, Shanghai, etc.; and the Chinese Post has established postal communication with the principal towns in Kwangsi.

亞細亞 A-si-a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.

W. A. Nowers, local manager

S. T. Enevoldsen

和天 Teen-Woo

DIRECTORY

BANKER & Co., Merchants and Commission

Agents Shipping Office: Banker's Pontoon

Geo. Banker

Pang Shui-ming, signs per pro.

Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld.

CONSULATES

É Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

Consul-Residing in Hongkong, Offices:

Alexandra Building

GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-H. H. Bristow

Constable-J. Groves

官事領總利大義大

Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kun

Consul General-*

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Commissioner-J. W. Loureiro Assistants H. W. Bradley, A. Feragen Medical Officer-G. W. Leavell Acting Tide-Surveyor and Harbour-

master J. S. Enright

Examiners H. J. Christopherson, A.

S. Harrald

Asst. Examiner C. F. Croawell

Tide waiters-K. Nakashima, N. Wise-

mann, T. J. Macauley, S. Iwanaga,

O. W. Johansen,

Liêu * Cha-tin

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants

Agencies

Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. China Navigation Co., Ld.

Canton Insurance Office, Ld.

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

China Sugar Refinery Co., Ld.

West River British Steamship Co.

Wah Hing Motor Boat Co., Wuchow-

Nanning Line

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner-T. N. Manners

(Nanning, Kwangsi District)

1st Class Postmaster-Koh Buck Young

李美 Mei.foo

STANDARD OIL CO. OF N. Y.-Tel. Ad: Socony

F. H. Tyson

T. B. Williams

甯南 Nan-ing

The port of Nanning, declared open to foreign trade on the 1st January, 1907, is situated on the left bank of the Tso-Kiang, one of the branches of the West River, 368 miles above Wuchow and about 195 miles below Lungchow, the frontier port on the Tonkinese border. It lies in the centre of a wide fertile plain in a sharp bend of the river, which there describes nearly two-thirds of the arc of a circle. It is a hsien city and is the seat of the Chiang Chün and Hsün An Shih and Military and Civil Governors of Kwangsi Province. Below the walled city and adjacent to the lower suburbs is the site which has been set apart for a Settlement; it occupies the only spot near the city which is above high-water mark. The regulations do not allow the purchase of land on the Settlement site, but merely its lease for 30 years, which period may be extended on expiry for another 30 years. Foreigners desiring to lease land must apply through their Consul.

The net value of the trade of the port advanced from Hk. Tls. 1,544,000 in 1907 to Hk. Tls. 5,385,478 in 1910, but dropped to Hk. Tls. 4,700,517 in 1911. value of trade during 1916, when disturbed domestic politics restricted trade not only in the Nanning district but throughout the whole province, was Hk. Tls. 7,151,523 as compar- ed with Hk. Tls. 7,798,661 in 1915 which is the record year. The dislocation of trade in antimony was a disturbing event which impeded the extension of a particular branch of business on which great expectations had been based. The turn came unexpectedly in April, when pre-war conditions suddenly reasserted themselves, and well before the end of the year dealers had been forced to realise that the business was a hopeless one in which much money had been lost. Shipping returns show an increased tonnage and shipping interests suffered less than is usually the case during the low water season.

The bulk of the carrying trade is now done by motor boats, of which there is a fleet of 24 plying regularly throughout the year between Wuchow and Nanning, but rates of freight are low, and increasing competition caused by the building of new boats and the resultant cutting of prices has tended to operate to the disadvantage of the various shipping companies. The round trip can be made by motor boat from Wuchow in five to six days as against the journey by junk which takes about twenty days on the upward trip only. The only Europeans residing there at present are missionaries and the Customs staff, and one foreign firm.

Nanning is, next to Wuchow, the most important port on the West River. The site selected for the foreign settlement covers a very extensive area and is situated where the old city formerly stood, about a inile distant from the present walled city. Whether the area set apart for international residence and trade is ever likely to be fully occupied it is perhaps early yet to say.

It is only to be expected that enhanced prosperity together with an influx of officials and well-to-do merchants consequent on the transfer of the capital from Kueilin, and a general spread of civilisation, should engender a desire to adopt a state of life similar to that enjoyed in other parts of the republic in closer touch with western ideas. The establishment of a number of new shops and the enlargement of others may be held to indicate that the city population is more eager than ever to supply itself with various imported articles which it has learned to recognise as rendering existence more comfortable.

NANNING-KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

W. P. Crismond

CONSULATES

DIRECTORY

Vice-Con.-M. P.J. Crepin (Lungchow)

官事領總利大義大

Tai-I-tai-li Cheung-ling-sz-kún

Consul General-

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Actg. Comer.-R. F. C. Hedgeland

Asst. Examiner-F. Campbell

3rd Class Tidewaiter-A.E. T. Hansen

MISSIONS

(For Protestant Missionaries see end of volume)

MISSIONS ETRANGERES

Monseigneur Ducœur, evèque Rev. Père Labully, Kouihien Rev. Père Barrière, Lungchow Rev. Père Albouy, Ouminfon

Rev. Père Bibollet, Pingma Rev. F. Poulat, Kouihien

Rev. C. Pélamourgues, Sieoujen Rev. J. M. Epalle, Kiuchow Rev. A. Dalle, Nanning

Rev. H. Costenoble, Nanning

Rev. L. Crocq, Taiping

Rev. Auguin, Wuchow

Rev. Barrés, Sanly

Rev. Tessier, Lung-niu Rev. Humbert, Poseh Rev. Séosse, Pinnan Rev. Courant, Sylin Rev. Séguret, Sintcheou Rev. Maurand, Kohao Rev. Rigal, Yungfoo Rev. Cuenot, Kweilin

2 Sisters at Nanning, 3 at Lungchow

SOEURS DE ST. PAUL DE CHARTRES

POST OFFICE KWANGSI DISTRICT-Head

Postal Commissioner-T. N. Manners District Accountant-J. N. Greenfield

STANDARD OIL Co., oF New YORK-Tel.

Ad: Socony

E. D. Mckay asst.-in-charge Leon Ellis, do.

KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

Kwáng-chau-wan

The bay of Kwangchau (or according to the French official spelling, Kouang-tcheou- wan), situated in the province of Kwangtung, was ceded on lease with the surrounding territories by a Convention between France and China, and occupied by the French on the 22nd of April, 1898. It is comprised between the 20 deg. 45 min. and the 21 deg. 17 min. north latitude, and the 107 deg. 55 min. and 108 deg. 16 min. east longitude to a distance more or less of 230 miles of Hongkong, W.S.W. The two islands of Nao-tcheou and Tang-hai placed at the entrance of the bay make an excellent closed port into which entrance is by two narrow passages. The port measures about 15 miles long, and for about half of its length it is three or four miles in breadth. The depth of anchorage of 20 metres extends over a length of more than 10 miles and borders on the extremity of the junk port of Tchekam, an important commercial centre in constant communication with Macao, Hongkong, Hainan and Pakhoi. The neighbouring districts are well cultivated and it is believed mineral beds will be found. The new French territory is only separated from the valley of the West River by chains of hills. Following the Convention of delimitation signed on the 16th of November, 1899, between Marshal Sou and Admiral Courrejolles, the territory of Kouang-tcheou-wan was placed under the authority of the Governor-General of Indo-China. The chief place of the territory is the town of Fort Bayard, which is at

KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

the entrance of the interior port on the right bank of the river Ma Tché. It is the commercial port, with the establishments of the civil administration, Military Service and the special offices.

Kouang-tcheou-wan is a free port in which all commercial operations can be carried on without paying any duty. A regular bi-monthly line of steamers joins Kouang-tcheou- wan to Haiphong and Hongkong. Three steamers of French-Chinese ownership connect Kouang-tcheou-wan with Hongkong. Commerce has already largely extended since the steamiers entered this port in communication with the exterior ports, and it s expected to develop considerably. The Chinese population of the territory is about 189,000, and the superficial area is 84,244 hectares, containing 1,233 villages.

DIRECTORY

ADMINISTRATION SUPÉRIEURE Administrateur en Chef du Territoire de Kuang-Tcheou-Wan--M. Albert Garnier, administrateur de le classe des Services Civils de l'Indo-Chine

CABINET DE L'ADMINISTRATEUR EN CHEF Chef du Secrétariat p.i.-M. Pommez, com- mis de 3e classe des Services Civils de l'Indo-Chine

Chef du Service de la Sûreté-M. Leonardou, inspecteur de 3e classe de la garde indigène de l'Indo-Chine

BUREAUX DU TERRITOIRE Administrateur Adjoint-M. Mathieu, ad- ministrateur de 5e classe des Services Civils de l'Indo-Chine

Receveur de l'Enregistrement et Archives

-M. Campi, commis du Territoire Chef de la Comptabilité M. Mainardon,

agent journalier

Statistique et Matèriel-M. Pominez, com- mis de 3e classe de Services Civils de l'Indo-Chine

TRAVAUX PUBLICS AND SERVICE MARITIME

M. Landon, chef de service

M. Gavelle, surveillant

M. Coat, maitre de phare

SURVEILLANCE MARITIME

Chaloupe "Corsaire"

TRIBUNAL MIXTE

Président-M. Bonneau, commis principal de 3e classe des Services Civil de l'Indo- Chine

Assesseurs-Lam-Tsong-San et Ng-Kouan-

Hoi, Kong Kocs

JUSTICE DE PAIX

Juge de Paix à Compétence Etendue-

· M. Dupuich, lieutenent de juge

Greffier-M. Nas de Tour ris, commisgreffier

principal

Commis de le cl. de la Trésorerie Générale de l'Indo-Chine, Payeur-M. Quenin

ENSEIGNEMENT

M. Imbert, Directeur de l'Ecole Franco-

Chinoise de Kouang-Tcheou

SERVICE SANITAIRE

M. Cheynel, médecin Major de 2e classe des Troupes Coloniales, médecin Chef de l'Ambulance à Fort-Bayard, chargé des Services Extérieurs et de l'arraison- nement

SERVICES MILITAIRES Commandant d'Armes - M. Couesland,

lieutenant

Adjudant Chef M. Suilhart

POSTE DE TELEGRAPHIE SANS FIL DE LA SURPRISE

Chargé du Poste-M. Franot

POSTES ET TÉLÉGRAPHES Receveur M. Quès, 4 bureaux de Postes et Telegraphes à Fort Bayard, Tchekam, Potsi, Taiping

GENDARMERIE

Brigadier Commandant la Brigade, faisant fonctions de Commissaire de police et d'Huissier-M. Billard

Gendarme Greffier Comptable de la Prison:

Centrale-Dirand

GARDE INDIGENE

Inspecteur de 2e classe Commandant la

Brigade M. Malberti

Garde Principal de le classe Secrétaire Comptable de la Brigade-M. le Bour- donnec

KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN-PAKHOI

DOUANES ET REGIES

Chef de Service- Chef de bureau-M. Garde

VILLE DE TCHEKAM

L'Inspecteur de 2e classe de la garde indigène ffous de Délégué de l'Admini- strateur en Chef, Président du Conseil des Notables de la Commune M. Léonardon Comptablé

DELEGATIONS

Potsi-M. Giovannelli, garde principal de 3e classe de la garde indigène délégué

Taiping M. Gafforj, garde principal de 2e

classe de la garde indigène délégué Tchimoun-M. Juzan, inspecteur de 3e

classe de la garde indigène délégué Po-Tao M. Hospital, garde principal de le classe de la garde indigène délégué Tam-Soui--M. Ouelli, garde principal de 3e classe de la garde indigène délégué Tong-San-M. Louron, garde principal de le classe de la garde indigène délégué King-Tong-M. Ollagnier, garde principal de 3e classe de la garde indigène délégué

# Pak-hoi

Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention in 1877. It is situated on the Gulf of Tongking in long. E Greenwich 109 deg. 7 min. (106° 47′ of Paris), and lat. N. 21 deg. 29 min. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, and a French Consulate was established in December, 1887. Foreigners were well received by the natives and continue to be respected. Pakhoi is the port for the important cities of Limchow and Chinchow, whence considerable quantities of foreign piece-goods, etc., were formerly distributed over the country lying between the West River and the seaboard, but now that the West River has been opened to steam navigation a part of the trade has been diverted to that route. The trade of Pakhoi in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 2,996,090, as compared with Hk. Tls. 3,053,361 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 2,200,417 in 1914, and Hk. Tĺs. 2,770,288 in 1913. The prosperity of the port has been steadily decreasing since 1888 and the downward tendency is almost inevitable; the opening of the West River Ports and the French free port of Kwang- chowwan dealt a staggering blow to local trade from which the port has never recovered. The Chinese town is situated on a small peninsula, and faces nearly due north. It stands at the foot of a bluff nearly forty feet high, which deprives it of the south-west breeze in summer, while in winter it is exposed to the full force of the north-east monsoon, which very often blows so hard for several days that it materially interferes with the loading and discharging of steamers in the harbour. The bluff, or the plain above the town, is level for miles, which makes riding both on bicycle and on horseback a decided pleasure. The foreigners almost exclusively live on the bluff, which in former years was only dotted by a few European buildings, but is now ornamented with many. From the bluff an extensive partly-cultivated plain develops, over which some sport is obtainable snipe, plover, quail, and pigeons being found in large numbers, but duck and other water-fowl are not numerous. The climate is considered to be very salubrious. The estimated population of the port is 20,000. No port in China is more easily approached and entered than that of Pakhoi. The landmarks are conspicuous and unmistakeable. The channel, marked by a couple of buoys, is wide and deep and has no hidden danger to be avoided. The anchorage is a mile and a half from the Customs House. There is good landing at high-water, but at ebb tide only for small boats. The construction of a railway by a French Company from Pakhoi to Nanning was authorised a few years ago, but the work on the project has not yet been commenced. More recently the leading Chinese residents of Limchowfu, the chief city in the Pakhoi district, have formulated an ambitious scheme of railway construction spreading out to Western Kwangtung and Kwangsi, with lines to Kweichow and unnan, but the realisation of this project is probably as distant as the other,

A free school for the teaching of the French language to Chinese, a free hospital for the treatment of Chinese patients and a Post Office have been established by the French Government. In 1906 a police force was established by order of the provincial government of Canton. In 1907 the local merchants established a branch office of the Canton Chamber of Commerce.

DIRECTORY

BELL, G. E., General Merchant and Com-

mission Agent; Tel. Ad: Bell, Pakhoi; A. B. C. Code 5th Edition

Lifti fitin

C. BERTHELOT, Shipping and Commission

Indo-China S. N. Co., Ltd.

CONSULATES

MEX Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

Consul-Residing in Hongkong

★ Tai-fat-kwok Ling-sz-fu

PORTUGAL, Consular Agency

Vice-Consul at Pakhoi and Tungling

-G. Hauchecorne

Medical Officer Dr. Hibert

Secretaire-H. A. Ott

Tai-ying-ku ok-Ling-sz-kun

GREAT BRITAIN and

UNITED STATES

Acting Consul W. J. B. Fletcher

(Hoihow)

Consul-..

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-D. Percebois

Assistant---H. C. Morgan

Medical Officer-C.G.S. Baronsfeather

Assistant Examiner-S. Fujimoto Tidewaiters-W. E. Toy

KWONG CHEONG WO

China Navigation Co., Ltd.

LEE SANG & Co., Shipping and Commis-

sión Agents

MISSIONS

(For Protestant Missions see end

of volume)

FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION (MISSIONS

ETRANGÈRES DE PARIS) Rev. A.

Grandpierre

FRENCH HOSPITAL

Dr. Hibert, in charge

Sister-Emilienne

FRENCH ORPILANS' ASYLUM

Sœur Candide, in charge

Sœur Emiliene

Sœur Agnes

FRENCH SCHOOLS-Pakhoi and Kaotak

Director-H. A. Ott

POST OFFICE, CHINESE, Head Office: Canton

Postal Commissioner-C. H. Shields

First Class Postmaster-Tong Hon-sing:

POST OFFICE, FRENCH

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master W. B. Andrews

SIU CHEONG

King On S. S. Co.

HOIHOW (IN HAINAN)

Kiung-chau

口海 Hoi-hau

Hoihow is the seaport of the city of Kiung-chow (the seat of government in the island of Hainan, and distant from its portabout three and a-half miles) which was opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1876, but 18 years passed before there were any signs of foreign commerce. The position of the port, though geographically favourable, is topographically unsuitable for the development of any extensive com- mercial transactions, vessels being compelled to anchor some two miles from the entrance of the creek or branch of the main river upon which Hoihow is situated. The tides are extremely irregular, and the anchorage is liable to the visitation of very severe typhoons, being, moreover, entirely unprotected from the north. The width of the Hainan Straits, between Hoihow and the mainland-the Lei-chau peninsula—is about twelve miles. As regards health Hoihow compares favourably with other parts of Hainan. The port is badly supplied with water.

The approaches to the shore are extremely shallow, so that loading and unloading can only be carried on at certain states of the tide. Despite this disadvantage, however, the advent of foreign steamers has given a considerable impulse to trade. The town itself contains about 30,000 people; the population of Kiungchow is 50,000. The native mercantile population, though respectable, is by no means rich. No foreign settle- ment has as yet been formed, and, with the exception of the Roman Catholic Orphanage, erected in 1895, the American Presbyterian Mission Hospital and doctor's residence, and the Customs Indoor Staff, the French Post Office, the French School for Chinese, the French doctor's residence, the French Hospital, the houses occupied by the foreign residents are Chinese converted into European habitations by alterations and improvements. H.B.M. Consulate obtained a site after fourteen years' negotiations, and a Consulate building was in 1899 erected to the south-west of the Hospital; towards the end of 1897 a piece of land was granted, and a French Consulate has been built on the Northern side of the river and facing Hoihow town. The buildings of the German Consulate, at the extreme west of the suburb inhabited by foreigners, were completed in 1914. Since the beginning of 1899 a free school has been opened by the French Government for teaching the French language to the Chinese, and an officer from the Tonkin Medical Staff was detailed to this port for the purpose of giving the natives and others free attendance and medicine. The foreign residents at present number about 90. The net value of the trade of the port in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 6,117,887 as compared with Hk. Tls. 6,243,512 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 5,828,647 in 1914, Hk. Tls. 6,619,135 in 1913, and Hk. Tls. 5,333,651 in 1912. large export trade in pigs, poultry, eggs, bullocks and provisions is carried on with Hongkong. There has been some talk among the natives of opening mines, constructing railways, and bringing out timber from the virgin forests of the interior. While all this may not be realised on any scale for soine years to come, it has been noticed that foreigners are beginning to explore the island, and the Commissioner of Customs opines that the searchlight of modern civilisation will reveal much that is of value to science as well as to commerce. "Perhaps," he adds, "when this is accomplished it will be seen that this 'Island of Palms' is not the least rich nor the least fertile of China's possessions." The island of Hainan is described as a terra incognita to the world.

The postal service was at first conducted at the British Consulate only; when the Chinese Imperial Post was created a branch of that service was also established at this port. In the beginning of 1900 a French Post Office was added; the public is therefore well provided for in that respect. Telegraphic communication with the other parts of the world is established through the line under Chinese administration, but the service is most wretchedly conducted, the line being more often interrupted than not. Wireless telegraphy was inaugurated in April, 1908, to operate across the Hainan Strait at Hoihow and Suwen, immediately opposite on the mainland, but has since been dismantled. A harbour light, as well as one at Lamko (western entrance of the Hainan Straits), were opened in 1894; also one at Cape Cami in 1895. An Aga Lantern apparatus was installed on the West Fort close to the city at the commencement of 1916. The approach to the harbour badly needs dredging.

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO.

A. Ledeboer, manager

CONSULATES

HOIHOW-LUNGCHOW

DIRECTORY ·

IŁ Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun

Consul-Residing at Hongkong

Vice-Consulate-Dr. Esserteau, in

Medical Officer Dr. J. Esserteau Postmaster-Pham Ba Trung Director, French School-J. Subira

GREAT BRITAIN (Kiungchow), also in

charge of United States Interests

Acting Consul-W. J. B. Fletcher

Constable and Postal

Postal Agent Vacant

官事領總利大義大

Tai I-tai-li Chung-ling-sz-kùn

Consul General-

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Boat Officer-E. A. Koosache

Chief Examiner--G. Houlston Tide waiters-- J. J. C. Somme, H. J. Eriksen, A. Pedersen, H. C. Hyatt

Hoihow Harb. Light-Ku Chin fu

Lamko Light-F. V. Serall

Cape Cami Light T. Slade

Relieving Lightkpr.-H. Alliso

地孖 Ma.ti

MARTY, A. R., Merchant, Commission and

Shipping Agent

C. Berthelot

Agencies

Chino-Siam Steam Navigation Co., Ld.

Compagnie de Navigation Tonkinoise

Indo-China Steam Navigation Coy.

Nippon Yusen Kaisha

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD-Filiale Hoihow

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postmaster-J. M. E. S. de Senna

Tien-tsu-tong

POST OFFICE, FRENCHI

Acting Commissioner-C. Talbot Bow-

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master

-Y. M. Mudes

Assistant-S. Tsuda

Medical Officer-Dr. J. Esserteau

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. Léauté Rev. J. Giégoire

STANDARD OIL CO.

J. H. Bulmer, manager

LUNGCHOW

州龍 Lung-chow

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 in an amphitheatre 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 13,000 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 may

LUNGCHOW

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. For the present both extensions are abandoned, and 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 and which 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. Native pony-carts may at times be had, but this method of locomotion is not one to be recom- mended 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, via Po-sê, and with places in Tonkin. The Chinese Post Office sends daily couriers to Langson in Tonkin. and couriers every second day to Nanning overland, with connections to Canton and Pakhoi. An establishment of the Chinese Maritime Customs is maintained at the port, where foreign interests are in charge of Consuls resident on the West River and in Hongkong. France alone maintains a Vice-Consul in Lungchow, who is also Consul for Nanning. The net value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Maritime Customs for 1916 was Tls. 78,824 as compared with Tls. 110,991 for the year previous. During 1916 nearly 200 motor-boats from Nanning visited the port. The trip up from Nanning usually takes from two to three days, and that down to Nanning about 30 hours according to the water in the river, the level of which is liable to very sudden fluctuations during the prevalence of rainy weather. The climate of the port is damp and very hot for some eight months or more in the year, the hottest period being usually from April to July. Motor. boats carry most of the incoming cargo from and við the West River ports, whilst imports from over the frontier come by junk or raft. The river scenery between Nanning and Lungchow with its succession of gorges is well worth seeing, but at present accommodation for Europeans on board the distinctly Chinese-style motor boats is non-existent.

DIRECTORY

ASILE DE LA ST. ENFANCE

Lungchow-Sisters Marthe, Suzanne,

Tidewaiter P. Perino Clerk-Mak Siu-yik

COMMISSIONER

OF THE FRONTIER OF

MISSIONS

KWANG-SI

Tupan-Tsên Kuang Yi

(For Protestant Missionaries see end of volume)

CONSULATES

MISSION DU

KOUANG-SI (Lungchow

Vice-Consul-P. Crépin

官事領總利大意大

Tai-i-tai-li-chung-ling-sz-kun

Consul General-

* Mй Lung-chow-hsin-kuan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Asst. in Charge-H. Logan Russell

district)

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner (at Nanning)

Second Class Postmaster- Seu-Fou

Postal Agencies-Shuikowsi, Siatung, Pingsiangsi, Ningmingchow, Hai- yüan, Shangszè,

Shangszè, Kuan-tsien-yai, Ming Kiang-ting, Pao-shu, Sia-lui, Hwa-tung Kweishun, Chin Pin

Mung-isz

This is a district city in south-east Yunnan, and together with Man-hao, a village on the left bank of the Red River, was opened to trade by the Additional Convention to the French Treaty of Tientsin of the 25th April, 1886, signed at Peking on the 26th June, 1887. The town is two days' journey from Man-hao and about six days' from the frontier of Tonkin at Laokay, and beautifully situated, being built on a cultivated plateau twenty miles long by about twelve miles in breadth, encircled by picturesque mountains, and is 4,280 feet above the level of the sea. It has a population of about 11,000 persons, but was a place of much more importance before the Mahommedan rebellion, as the numerous well-built temples, many of them now in ruins, still testify. It is, however, a considerable commercial emporium even now, and is becoming an important centre for the distribution of foreign goods imported via Tonkin. The French Consul hoisted his flag at Mêngtsz on the 30th April, 1889, and the Customs station was opened in the following August. The net value of the trade of the port for 1916 was Hk. Tls 14,973,275 as compared with Hk. Tls. 15,191,358 for 1915, and Hk. Tls. 16,153,775 for 1914. The Chinese merchants avail themselves largely of the advantages offered by the transit pass system. The value of goods sent into the interior under transit passes during the year 1916 was Hk. Tls. 4,378,191. The value of the trade of the Yunnan-fu, Pishihchai, Hokow, Mapai and Manhao branch office is included in the Mengtsz Custom returns. The climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious. Plague has been absent from Mêngtsz since 1899. During the winter good sport is obtained, snipe and wild fowl being abund- ant in the plains, and some pheasants and partridges in the hilly districts. A new French Consulate was finished in 1893, new dwelling-houses for members of the Customs service in 1894, and a new Custom-house in the spring of 1895. All these buildings are outside the East gate of the city. On the 22nd June, 1899, a riot occurred, in the course of which the Custom-house and French Consulate were looted. The Compagnie Lyonnaise Indo-Chinoise in 1899 opened a branch in Mêngtsz. Others have followed in their footsteps and four large commercial houses in Indo-China are now represented. The last rail on the Laokay-Yunnan-fu section of the Annam-Yunnan Railway was laid on the 1st of February, 1910, and two months later the whole line -470 kilometres-was opened to passenger and goods traffic. A branch office of the Mengtsz Customs was opened at Yunnanfu on 20th April, 1910. Mêngtsz is now only 8 hours by rail from the Tonkin border and 22 hours from the coast. The British Consul has pointed out that not least of the benefits which the line should confer would be the provision of sanatoria for Indo-China, even, maybe, for Singapore, Bangkok and Hong- kong. If for twenty years, he says, the Chinese peasaut could be checked in his ravages -there has been ruthless destruction of timber-the lake region of Yunnan would be- come a terrestrial paradise. Several houses for the accommodation of the Railway Mission have been built at Mêngtsz since 1900, and as a sequel to the immigration, rents, wages, and the cost of living for natives and foreigners alike have risen greatly. During the last four years the Chinese Post Office has pushed its way into the interior till now the south-east of Yunnan is covered with a network of lines and nearly every town has its establishment. Both Mengtsz and Yunnanfu possess electric light

installations.

DIRECTORY

ANGLO-CHINESE ENGINEERS' ASSOCIATION, LIMITED, THE, Manufacturing,Consulting and Civil Engincers 32, South Gate Street, Yuunanfu; Tel. Ad: Tiebean, Yunnanfu

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE

E. Pihet, directeur de l'agencé

A G. Huc, caissier

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.

W. C. Johnstone, representative

MENGTSZ-HOKOW

CERCLE DE Mengtsz

COMPAGNIE FRANÇAISE DES CHEMINS DE FER DE L'INDO-CHINE ET DU YUNNAN Direction Générale (Paris)

Directeur Général-M. Getten

Direction Exploitation (Hanoi)

Directeur Expl.-G. Clemin-Duponts Agence Principale au Yunnan (Mengtsz)

Agent Principal J. Jonery Commis.-E. Parisse

Chef 2e Arrondissement Traffic et Movement-M. Romieux (Yunnanfu) Service Médical-Docteur H. Dumont

(Amichow)

Caisse Centrale du Yunnan

chow) Pergaud

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN (Yunnanfu)

Herbert Goffe, C.M.G., H.B.M. Consul- Geul. (for Yunnan and Kweichow)

Consul-L. Flayelle

Médecin du Consulat-Jarland

Receveur des Postes-Garde

Directeurde l'Ecole Franco-Chinoise

--Laborie

Meng-tsz-kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Actg. Commissioner-R. C. L. d'Anjou Assistants-A. A. d'Eça, W. E. Annett,

Yang Ming Hsin Examiner J. V. Murphy

Pishihchai Branch Office

Examiner N. J. B. Galletti

Tidewaiter-F. Benoist

Yunnanfu Branch Office

Assistant H. W. Hosking Examiner D. Duchamp Tidewaiter-E. F. A. Barbé Hokow Branch Office

Assistant-C. H. B. Joly

Examiner-U. Torresani

Tidewaiters-T. G. Balthazar, A. F.

Schoch, L. V. Coates

HOSPITAL

HOTEL MENGTSZ

Fortin, manager

HOTEL KALOS.

POINSARD ET VEYRET, Merchants E. Racine, signs per pro. R. Cayrou (Yunnanfu)

SALT GABELLE

Dist. Inspr.-R. L. P. Baude(Yunnanfu) Assistant Dist. Inspr.-W. Kelly

Assistant Dist. Inspr.-G. Caffarena

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.

G. B. Carpenter (Yunnanfu)

SPEIDEL & Co., Importers and Exporters

-Mengtsz and Yunnanfu

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

Howard C. Page (Yunnanfu)

YUNNAN POSTAL DISTRICT-Head Office:

Yunnanfu

Postal Commissioner -A. Ortolani District Accountant-A. L. John Assistant-Kan Ju-hsiu

Mengtsz First Class Office

First Class Postmaster-Teen Yuan

Hokow was opened to foreign trade by the Supplementary Convention between China and France of 20th Junc, 1895. By the terms of the agreement France was to establish a Vice-Consulate and China a Custom House at Hokow, these stipulations being carried out in August, 1896, and July, 1897, respectively. The Vice-Consulate is subordinate to the Mengtsz Consulate and the Hokow Customs are under the control oi the Mengtsz Commissioner, and the value of the trade is not separately stated in the Mengtsz Customs returns.

HOKOW-TENGYUEH

Hokow is picturesquely situated on the left bank of the Red River at its confluence with the Nanhsi River commonly called the Namti-and lies immediately opposite Laokay, an important garrison town in Tonkin. An iron railway bridge across the Nanhsi River, was completed in 1902, and connects Hokow and Laokay. Hokow is about 420 li by land from Mengtsz, which can be reached after a train journey of about 8 hours through magnificent country.

The climate is very unhealthy and new residents soon feel its undermining effects. In summer, when it does not rain, it is hot and trying, whereas rain is accompanied by damp, mildewy, uncomfortable atmosphere which becomes even more disagreeable as soon as the sun re-appears. The main climatic feature, by no means a pleasant one, is what is generally known by the French as "Le Crachin." This is a thin, fever-carrying drizzle, which falls continuously for weeks in winter and spring. The thick, tropical vegetation is kept moist and light and extremely dangerous mist overhangs every- thing. The dreaded Hokow Fever is rampant and claims numerous victims amongst the natives. Foreigners manage to recover by swallowing large quantities of quinine, which has a detrimental and sometimes lasting effect on the system.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

President Tung-Chi

CONSULATES

DIRECTORY

VICE-CONSULAT DE FRANCE

Gérant du Vice Consulat

VICE-CONSULAT D'ITALIE

Agent Consulaire-Ch. Dupont

WM Hokow-fên-kwan 關分口河

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME (Branch

Office of Mengtsz Customs)

Assistant in Charge--C. H. B. Joly

Examiner U. Torresani

Tidewaiters-T. G. Balthazar, A. F.

Schoch, L. V. Coates

Surgeon-Viala

HOKOW FIRST CLASS POST

(Yunnan Postal District)

First Class Postmaster-P. C. Leblanc

MILITARY HOSPITAL

Surgeon Dr. Wang Mei-pan

TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)

Teng-yueh

The trade mart Tengyueh-situated near the south-western frontier of Yunnan, in lat. 24 deg. 45 min. N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E.--was opened to foreign trade under the Burmah Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burmah and Thibet, and the Chinese Customs-house was opened on the 8th May, 1902. It is a walled town built in a rice valley and watered by the Tieh Shui river, a small tributary of the Tai Ping which flows into the Irrawaddy a few miles above Bhamo, which has been the principal emporium of Chinese trade in Upper Burmah for many years past. The distance from Tengyueh to Bhamo by road is some 140 miles, and little more than half that distance as the crow flies. There are two recognised trade routes known as the "old" and "new" roads-the former via Nampoung and Man- wyne (where Margary was murdered), and the latter via Kulikha and Man-hsien. The "new" road ends some three miles above Man-hsien, and thence the journey to Tengyueh is made over the "old" tracks. Pack animals and porters constitute the only form of

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transport, and the time occupied on the trip is usually about eight days. Pack animals seldom travel during the rains (June to September) when through traffic is practically at a standstill, which means that, contrary to expectations, the construction of the new" road, which is passable all the year round, has not resulted in any increase of summer trade, the cessation of business during this period being due more to un- favourable climatic conditions than to the inferior communications. From Tengyueh to Yunnanfu the road is divided into 24 stages for caravans and nine for postal couriers. It crosses a succession of mountain ranges varying from 4,000 to 10,000 feet in height, besides being intersected by numerous rivers, including the Sweili, the Salween and the Mekong, which would appear to render any railway project too speculative and too costly to be commercially practicable. Referring to the question of railway construc- tion, the Commissioner of Customs in the course of an interesting report for 1906 remarks:-"Should the visionary project of connecting Yunnan and Burma with a trunk railway be ever seriously considered, an initial difficulty will be the selection of a suitable route. Two have been suggested the so-called Bhamo route via Tengyueh ; and the valley of the Salween route via Kunlun Ferry. Opinions are divided as to which is the better, but the latter perhaps allows of easier gradients and is, for various reasons, the inore preferable. Both, however, are difficult, and it must be admitted that neither is really suitable for railway construction. Considering the almost insur- mountable physical difficulties presented and the colossal expenditure which would be involved, the practicability, viewed commercially, of such a scheme may well be questioned."

Owing to its elevation (5,400 feet) the climate of Tengyueh is temperate and health- ier than any of the valleys in the vicinity, which are rendered excessively unhealthy by malignant forms of malarial fever. Malaria is, however, very prevalent in the town itself during the rains when mosquitoes are plentiful, and when the general health of the place is poor. The average yearly rainfall is about 65 inches, most of which falls from June to September, when the incessant dampness is somewhat trying. net value of the trade during 1916, as taken cognizance of by the Maritime Customs, was Hk. Tls. 2,340,046, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,939,434 in 1915, Hk. Tls. 2,572,500 in 1914, Hk. Tls. 3,132,075 in 1913, and Hk. Tls. 2,506,905 in 1912. The principal local industry is the manufacture of jadestone ornaments,

DIRECTORY

CHINESE FIRST CLASS POST OFFICE

First 'Class Postmaster Chan

CHINESE CUSTOMS

Asst.-in-charge-H. G. Fletcher Asst.-R. C. Grierson

Asst. Examiner (B)—M. O. Albertsen 1st Class Tide waiter-W. A. Palmer Medical Officer-Nihal Chand

CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN-Tel. Ad:

Acting Consul-A. E. Eastes

茅思 Sz-máu

Szema, opened to the Tonkin frontier trade by the Gérard Convention of 1895 and to British trade by the Burmah Convention of 1896, is situated in the south- western part of the Province of Yunnan in latitude 22 deg. 47 min. 29 sec. N. and longi- tude 100 deg. 46 min. E. It is a sub-prefectural walled town built on gently rising

ground overlooking a well-cultivated plain. The elevation is 4,700 feet above the sea level, and the population is estimated to be about 15,000. The climate is delightful, the temperature rarely exceeding 80 degrees (Fahr.) during the summer and seldom falling below 50 degrees in the winter months. The plague, such a common visitor throughout Yunnan, is almost unknown in Szemao. The place is distant from both Yunnan-fu (the capital of the province) and Mengtsz 18 days, and from the French Laos frontier 6 days, and from British territory about 12 days. It was opened in the early part of 1897, and so far has not fulfilled the expectation of its potential importance as a trading centre. The value of the trade of Szemao in 1916 was Hk. Tls. 184,175 as compared with Hk. Tls. 207,351 in 1915, Hk Tls. 261,635 in 1914, and Hk. Tls. 224,250 in 1913. The smallness of the trade statistics has been attributed partly to the fact that, owing to the various routes in the neighbourhood of the port, effective supervision is difficult of attain- ment, and also to the declining of the cotton trade-the staple import article at this port- experienced during the last two or three years. No foreign traders reside at Szemao, the trade being entirely in the hands of local merchants, who have no agencies ineither Tonkin or Burmah. The principal article imported is raw cotton, which comes from the British Shan States, particularly from Keng Tung and also from the Haut-Laos. A telegraph line from Túng Hai, via Yuan Chiang and Pu Erh-fu, connects Szemao with the existing Chinese overland telegraphs. Considerable ethnological interest centres in the neigh- bourhood of Szemao. Writing on this subject in the course of his Trade Report for 1905 the Commissioner of Customs remarked: "It is of much interest to notice the various aboriginal races in this part of Yunnan, living side by side with and yet differentiated from, the Chinese, and possessing distinct customs, characteris- tics, and traditions of their own. In the surrounding mountains we find the Lolo and Lohe, and in the low-lying plains the Shans, known to the Chinese as Pa-i; interspersed with these is the vassal tribe of the Akas. In the vicinity of the Chinese towns little settlements of the Mahe and Putu, who are offshoots of the Woni, are to be met with. From Talang north to Yüan-chiang and eastwards south of the Red River as far as Man- hao, is the home of the Woni race, who are a swarthy people sub-divided into several tribes. Near Talang live a few Min-chia people who have migrated from Ta-li and Yuan-chiang, the headquarters of this large branch of the Shan race. At Shih-ping and Yuan-chiang there are several tribes of Pa-i, or Shans proper, and some Yao also are to be found in the mountains to the east of Szemao-a remarkable race which is to be met with in scattered hamlets in mountainous districts as far eastwards as Kwangsi. The Kawas inhabit the prefecture of Chên-pien-t'ing, to the westward of Szemao, and concerning their mode of life but little yet is known. The relentless march of civilisa- tion, however beneficial to the world at large, is bearing hardly on the aboriginal races of mankind; and the south-western portion of this ancient province of Yunnan provides one of the few remaining territories where they are still permitted a local habitation and a name.'

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

BRITISH MISSIONARIES

J. D. Fullerton

Mrs. Fullerton

DIRECTORY

CHINESE FIRST CLASS POST OFFICE

First Class Postmaster-Wu Tză Nẽng:

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Asst. in charge-L. P. G. de Cartier Examiner E. Pezzini

HONGKONG

Heung-kong

The Island of Hongkong (which gives its name to the British Colony in South China) is situate off the coast of the Kwangtung province, near the mouth of the Canton river. It is distant about 40 miles from Macao and 90 from Canton, and lies- between 22 deg. 9 min. and 22 deg. 17 min. N. lat. and 114 deg. 5 min. and 114 deg. 18 min. E. long. The Chinese characters representing the name of the island (Heung Kong) may be read as signifying either Good Harbour or Fragrant Streams. By Conventions dated, respectively, 1860 and 1898, further territory was ceded by China, con- sisting of upwards of 280 square miles on the opposite mainland together with the islands of Lantao, Lamma, Chungchow and others. The last concession is by way of a jease for ninety-nine years.

HISTORY AND Government

Before the British ensign was hoisted on Possession Point in the City of Victoria in the year 1840 the island can hardly be said to have had any history, and what little attaches to it is very obscure. Scantily peopled by fishermen and agriculturists, it was never the scene of stirring events, and was little affected by dynastic or political changes. It is alleged, however, that after the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1628, some of the Emperor's followers found shelter in the forests of Hongkong from the fury of the Manchus. The peninsula of British Kowloon has more claim to association with Chinese history. In the year A.D. 1287 it is recorded that the last Emperor of the Sung dynasty, when flying from Kublai Khan, the Mongol conqueror, took refuge in a cave in Kowloon, and an inscription on the rock above is said to record the fact. The inscription consists of the characters Sung Wong Toi, meaning the Sung Emperor's Pavilion. On the cession of the territory to Great Britain the natives petitioned the Hongkong Government that the rock might not be blasted or otherwise injured, on account of the tradition connecting it with the Imperial personage above mentioned. In 1898, during the administration of Major-General Wilsone Black, a resolution was passed by the Legislative Council preserving the land on which the rock stands for the benefit of the public in perpetuity.

Hongkong is a Crown Colony and was ceded to Great Britain by the Chinese Government in 1841. In the troubles which preceded the first war with China the necessity of having some place on the coast whence British trade might be protected and controlled, and where officials and merchants might be free from the insulting and humiliating requirements of the Chinese Authorities, became painfully evident. As early as 1834 Lord Napier, smarting under his insolent treatment by the Viceroy at Canton, urged the Home Government to send a force from India to support the dignity of his commission. "A little armament," he wrote, "should enter the China seas with the first of the south-west monsoon, and on arriving should take possession of the island of Hongkong, in the eastern entrance of the Canton river, which is admirably adapted for every purpose." Two years later Sir George Robinson, endorsing the opinion of Lord Napier that nothing but force could better the British position in China, advised "the occupation of one of the islands in this neighbourhood, so singularly adapted by nature in every respect for commercial purposes." In the early part of 1839 affairs approached a crisis, and on the 22nd March, Captain Elliot, the Chief Superintendent of Trade, required that all the ships of Her Majesty's subjects at the outer anchorages of Canton should pro- ceed forthwith to Hongkong, and, hoisting their national colours, be prepared to resist every act of aggression on the part of the Chinese Government. When the British coni- munity left Canton, Macao afforded them a temporary asylum, but their presence there was made the occasion by the Chinese Government of threatening demonstrations against that settlement. In a despatch dated 6th May, 1839, Captain Elliot wrote to Lord Palmers- ton:-"The safety of Macao is, in point of fact, an object of secondary moment to the Portuguese Government, but to that of Her Majesty it may be said to be of indispensable necessity, and most particularly at this moment"; and he urged upon his Lordship "the

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strong necessity of concluding some immediate arrangement with the Government of His Most Faithful Majesty, either for the cession of the Portuguese rights at Macao, or for the effectual defence of the place, and its appropriation to British uses by means of a subsidiary Convention." Happily for the permanent interests of British trade in China this suggestion came to nothing, and Great Britain found a much superior lodgment at Hongkong.

The unfortunate homicide of a Chinaman during a riot at Hongkong between British and American seamen and natives precipitated events, and in view of the measures taken by the Chinese in reference to Macao, Captain Elliot felt that he ought no longer to compromise the safety of that settlement by remaining there, He accordingly left for Hongkong on the 24th August, 1839, Mrs. Eelliot and her child having previously embarked. It was hoped that his own departure, with the -officers of his establisliment, might satisfy the Chinese, but it soon became evident that they intended to expel all the English from Macao. It was accordingly determined that they should leave, and on the 25th August the exodus took place. The whole of the British community (with the exception of a few sick left behind in hospital) embarked, and under the convoy of H.M.S. Volage arrived safely at Hongkong. At that time there was, of course, no town, and the community had to reside on board ship. The next measure of the Chinese was to stop supplies of food: the water also was reported to be poisoned, a placard being put up on shore warning Chinese against drinking it. This led to a miniature naval battle in Kowloon Bay. On the 4th September Captain Elliot, in the cutter Louise, accompanied by the Pearl, a small armed vessel, and the pinnace of the Volage, went to Kowloon, where there were three large men-of-war junks whose presence prevented the regular supplies of food. A written remonstrance was sent off to the junk of the commanding mandarin. After six hours of delay and irritating evasion a boat was sent on shore to a distant part of the bay with money to purchase supplies, which the party succeeded in doing, and they were on the point of bringing their purchases away when some mandarin runners approached and obliged the natives to take back their provisions. The English returned with this intelligence, and Captain Elliot, greatly provoked, opened fire on the three junks. It was answered with spirit by the junks and a battery on shore. After a fire of almost half-an-hour the English force hauled off, from the failure of ammunition, for anticipating no serious results they had not come prepared for them. It was evident, however, Captain Elliot says in his .account of the engagement, that the junks had suffered considerably, and after a delay of about three-quarters of an hour, they weighed and made sail from under the protection of the battery, with the obvious purpose of making their escape. By this time the English had made cartridges, and they drove the junks back to their former position. Evening was now closing in, and in the morning it was decided, for reasons of policy, not to renew the attack. A complete relaxation of the interdict against the supply of provisions followed. Some little time after this event an arrangement for the resumption of the trade was arrived at, and there was a partial return to residence at Macao. The arrangement was of but a few weeks' duration, however, and on the 3rd November a naval engagement took place off Chuenpee, when the Chinese retired in great distress. The British ships returned to Macao, arriving on the evening of the same day, and arrangements were immediately made for the embarkation of those of Her Majesty's subjects there who thought it safest to retire, and on the evening of the 4th November they arrived at Hongkong.

Captain Elliot considered the anchorage of Hongkong unsafe, as being "exposed to attack from several quarters," and already, on the 26th October, His Excellency had required the removal of the British merchant shipping to Tong Koo, which he deemed safer. The shipping community did not share this opinion, and on the same day that the notice appeared an address signed by the masters of thirty-six vessels was presented to Captain Elliot requesting that they might be allowed to remain at Hongkong. On the 8th November H. M. Plenipotentiary replied, adhering to his former decisior. Thereupon another remonstrance was addressed to him, signed by "twenty firms, the agents for Lloyd's, and for eleven insurance offices." Captain Elliot, however, still adhered to his decision, and a few days afterwards the removal to Tong-Koo took place. In 1840 the expedition arrived, and Hongkong became the headquarters of Her Majesty's forces.

On the 20th January, 1841, H. M.'s Plenipotentiary issued a circular to British subjects announcing the conclusion of preliminary arrangements between the Imperial Com- missioner, Ke-shen, and himself. One of the terms was stated in the circular as follows:

1.The cession of the island and harbour of Hongkong to the British Crown. All just charges and duties to the Empire upon the commerce carried on there to be paid as

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if the trade were conducted at Whampoa." On the 26th January, the island was- accordingly taken formal possession of in the name of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. The treaty was subsequently repudiated by both parties, and it was not until the conclusion of the Nanking Treaty in 1842, that the Chinese Government formally recognised the cession of the island. In the meantime it was held by the British-who had come to stay and on the 1st May, 1841, the Public Notice and Declaration regarding the occupation of Hongkong was promulgated. On the 7th May of the same year, 1841, the first number of the Hongkong Gazette was published, printed at the American Mission Press, Macao. This first number contained the notification of the appointment (dated 30th April) of Captain William Caine, of the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment Infantry, as Chief Magistrate, the warrant being under the hand of Charles Elliot, Esquire, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, etc., etc., "charged with the Government of the Island of Hongkong." Captain Elliot's idea was that the island should be held on similar terms to those on which Macao was at that time held by the Portuguese, and the Chief Magistrate, instead of being charged to administer British law, was authorised and required "to exercise authority, according to the laws, customs, and usages of China, as near as may be (every description of torture excepted), for the preservation of the peace and the protection of life and property, over all the native- inhabitants in the said island and the harbours thereof"; and over other persons according to British police law. The first land sale took place on the 14th June, and building thereafter proceeded rapidly, the population of the new town at the end of the year being estimated at 15,000. On the 6th February, 1842, Hongkong was formally declared a free port by Sir Henry Pottinger, who had succeeded Captain Elliot as Plenipotentiary. Until the signing of the treaty, however, the ultimate fate of the new settlement remained in doubt. Sir Robert Peel, when asked in the House of Commons whether it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to properly colonise the place or give it up, declined to answer what he deemed an unparliamentary question during a period of open war with the country by whom the cession of the island was both made and repudiated. The Treaty of Nanking, however, settled all doubts. On the 23rd June, 1843, Ke-ying, the Chinese Imperial Commissioner, arrived in Hongkong, for the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty, and the ceremony took place in the Council Room on the 26th of that month, and immediately afterwards the Royal Charter, dated 5th April, 1843, erecting the island into a separate Colony, was read, and Sir Henry Pottinger took the oaths of office as Governor. At first progress was rapid. The Queen's Road was laid out for a length of between three and four miles, and buildings rose rapidly. But a check was received owing to the unhealthy conditions which were developed by the breaking of the malarious soil, and in 1844, soon after the arrival of Sir John Davis, who assumed the Government in June, the advisability of abandoning the island altogether as a colony was seriously discussed. Mr. Montgomery Martin, H.M.'s Treasurer, drew up a long report, in which he earnestly recommended the abandonment of a place which, he believed, would never be habitable for Europeans, instancing the case of the 98th Regiment, which lost 257 men by death in twenty-one montlis, and of the Royal Artillery, which in two years lost 51 out of a strength of 135, and gave it as his opinion that it was a delusion to hope- that Hongkong could ever become a commercial emporium like Singapore. Sir John Davis, in a despatch dated April, 1845, strongly combatted Mr. Martin's pessimistic conclusions and expressed a firm belief that time alone was required for the develop- ment of the colony and for the correction of some of the evils which hindered its- early progress. Sir John (who died in November, 1890, in his ninety-sixth year) lived to see his predictions most amply verified, and in after years must have reflected with satisfaction on the fact that his views had prevailed in Downing Street. On the 26th May, 1846, the Hongkong Club house, situated in Queen's Road Central, at its junction with Wyndhani Street, was opened with a ball, and was occupied by the Club for over fifty years, being vacated in July, 1897, when the Club moved into new and more commodious premises on the New Praya. Sir John Davis resigned in January, 1848, and left the colony on the 30th March of that year, Major-General Stavely Administering the Government until the arrival, a few weeks later, of Sir George (then Mr.) Bonham. During Sir George Bonham's administration, which lasted, with two intervals, until April, 1854, the Colony continued to progress, but the garrison and residents still suffered severely from malaria. On the 13th April, 1854, Sir John Bowring took the oaths as Governor, and held the reins until May, 1859. Sir John Bowring was the last Governor who united that office with that of Minister Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of British Trade in China. During his administration various public works were carried out, and the Bowrington ·

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Canal constructed. In September, 1859, Sir Hercules Robinson arrived and assumed the administration. In 1860 the peninsula of Kowloon was placed under British control, and soon afterwards became a great camp, the English and French troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force being for some time quartered there. The principal work effected during the government of Sir Hercules Robinson was the construction of the original Praya wall, in connection with which an extensive reclamation of land from the sea was made. Prior to that time the marine lot-holders had the entire control of the sea frontage of their lots, and no public road properly speaking, existed along the water frontage. In 1862 a Clock Tower (demolished as a hindrance to traffic in 1913) was completed, and the Hongkong Mint was erected, but owing to the loss attending the working of this institution it was closed early in 1864, the plant being sold to Japan and re-erected at Osaka. In March, 1865, Sir Hercules Robinson left the Colony, and Mr. Mercer, Colonial Secretary, became Acting Governor until the arrival, in March, 1866, of Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell. In November, 1867, a great fire occurred, which swept the whole district between the Queen's Road and the Praya, from the Cross Roads to the Harbour Master's Office. During Sir Richard MacDonnell's vigorous administration the revenue of the Colony, which had fallen much below the expenditure, was augmented by the imposition of the stamp duties and other measures. One of His Excellency's last official acts was to preside at the opening, in February, 1872, of the Tung Wa (Chinese) Hospital. In April, 1872, Sir Arthur Kennedy arrived and assumed the reins of Government, which he held with such tact and dexterity that he acquired the title of "Good Sir Arthur," and a bronze statue of him was erected in the Public Gardens. Under his administration the Colony prospered, but the year 1874 was made memorable in Colonial annals by one of the most destructive typhoons which had down to that time visited it, causing enormous damage and great loss of life. The peaceful reign of Sir Arthur Kennedy was followed by the stormy administration of Sir John Pope Hennessy, who arrived in April, 1877, and left in March, 1882. In this interval the trade of the Colony increased greatly and Governor Hennessy accumu- lated a large surplus, but public works made little progress, the Breakwater at Cause- way Bay being the principal work completed during his administration, while the Observatory was projected. On Christmas Day, 1878, a fire broke out in the Central District of Victoria which destroyed 368 houses and entailed enormous loss on the community. On Sir John's departure Sir William (then Mr.) Marsh, the Colonial Secretary, assumed the Government, and affairs proceeded placidly until the arrival, in March, 1883, of Sir George Bowen. His advent was the signal for great activity in the prosecution of public works, amongst others being the Tytam Waterworks, the Victoria College, the Lunatic Asylum, the Observatory, and the enlargement of the Government Civil Hospital. He was also the means of securing to the residents the privilege of nominating two of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council. Sir George

•Bowen left Hongkong on the 19th December, 1885, and another interregnum followed. Mr. Marsh administered the Government until April, 1887, when he retired from the service, and Major-General Cameron assumed the reins until the arrival of Governor Sir William G. Des Voeux in October of the same year. The Colony steadily progressed, though naturally with some fluctuations in its prosperity, until in 1889, when, writing to the Secretary of State on its condition and prospects, Sir William Des Vœux was able to remark, with obvious satisfaction:-"It may be doubted whether the -evidences of material and moral achievement, presented as it were in a focus, make anywhere a more forcible appeal to eye and imagination, and whether any other spot on the earth is thus more likely to excite, or much more fully justifies, pride in the name of Englishman." After that date a period of deep depression, arising partly from the fluctuations of exchange, partly from over-speculation, and partly from other causes, was experienced, and continued for five years. Sir William Des Voeux resigned the Government on the 7th May, 1891, and in the absence of the Colonial Secretary Major-General Digby Barker was sworn in as Acting Governor. Sir William Robinson was appointed Governor and arrived in the Colony on the 10th December, 1891. The year 1894 will be memorable in the annals of the Colony as the most disastrous year of the plague. This disease, which is endemic in Yunnan, and some years previously had appeared at Pakhoi, made its appearance that year at Canton, and from there was introduced to Hongkong. The Colony was declared infected on the 10th May, and the mortality rapidly increased until at one time it reached more than a hundred a day. Energetic measures were taken to cope with the discase, a system of house to house visitation being established by means of which all cases were promptly discovered and at once removed to hospital,

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or, where death had already taken place, buried, and every house in the Chinese quarters was whitewashed and fumigated. Special hospitals were erected and the medical staff was augmented by additions from the Army and Navy and the Coast Ports. The Colony was especially indebted to the Shropshire Light Infantry for the services of about three hundred volunteers from the Reginient, who were engaged in the house to house visitation and cleansing. Captain Vesey, S.L.I., while engaged in this work contracted the disease and died from it, and one sergeant and four privates also suffered from it. The other corps of the Garrison as well as the Navy likewise lent valu- able assistance. Amongst other measures taken to combat the disease, a portion of the Taipingshan district, where the cases were most numerous, was cleared of its inhabit- ants, for whom accommodation was provided elsewhere, and the property in the con- demned area was subsequently resumed by the Crown, the intention being that it should be reconstructed in accordance with sanitary requirements. The disease reached its climax on the 7th June, when 107 deatlis and 69 new cases were reported. After that date its virulence decreased, and on the 3rd September the proclamation declaring the Colony infected was withdrawn. The total number of deaths recorded was 2,547. In the meantime the trade of the Colony had suffered severely. Large numbers of the natives fled, it being estimated that the population was reduced at one time by no less than 80,000, and the usually busy Queen's Road appeared almost deserted. As the disease waned the population returned, business was gradually resumed, and with the withdrawal of the quarantine imposed at the other ports vessels resumed their regular calls at Hongkong. In 1896 the disease again made its appear- ance, but was much less virulent than in 1894, and in 1898 there was another visita- tion, in connection with which two of the sisters of the Government Civil Hospital lost their lives, having contracted the disease while in the discharge of their duties. In every succeeding year there has been a recurrence of the epidemic notwithstanding the expenditure of millions of dollars and the prosecution of a vigorous policy of sanitation carried out on the advice of special commissioners (Mr. Osbert Chadwick and Dr. Simpson) sent out from England to advise on the best means of improving the health of the city of Victoria. The annual returns since the year 1889 have been as follows:-1899, 1,486 cases; 1900, 1,087; 1901, 1,651; 1902, 572; 1903, 1,415; 1904, 472; 1905, 304; 1906, 892; 1907, 240; 1908 1,037; 1909, 124; 1910, 23; 1911, 261; 1912, 1,847; 1913, 406; 1914, 2,141; 1915, 144 and 1916, 39. The percentage of deaths has never been lower than 88.4, though it is considered probable that the true mortality is not so high, because it is likely that many mild cases at the beginning and end of the epidemic recover without treatment, and are never notified. A feature of these epidemics is that they die out completely in the autumn. Seldom lias a case been reported in the last three months of the year, except in 1912 and 1913, when several sporadic cases were reported. No doubt the large member of cases in these two years has been due to the great overcrowding which has taken place owing to the political troubles in China.

Sir William Robinson left Hongkong on the 1st February, 1898, and until the arrival of Sir Henry Blake on 25th November, 1898, the Government was administered by Major-General Wilsone Black. In 1900, on the despatch of the China Expeditionary Force from India, Hongkong became the base from which troops and supplies were sent forward. Prior to the arrival of these troops, a force drawn from the Garrison was despatched to the front, and the Hongkong Regiment were retained for service in North China during the whole of the campaign, only returning to the Colony in December, 1901. In October, 1902, the Hongkong Regiment were paraded for the last time in the Colony, handed over their colours to be placed in St. John's Cathedral, and embarked a few days later for India, where they were disbanded. Sir Henry Blake departed on leave for England at the close of 1901, and during his absence (until September, 1902) Major-General Sir William Gascoigne administered the Govern ment. Owing to a very short rainfall in 1901, and a prolonged drought lasting until May, 1902, a serious water famine occurred, reducing the inhabitants to great straits, and forcibly bringing home to the Administration the urgent need for increased water storage, which has since been met. The total estimated cost of these works slightly exceeded two million dollars, but the actual cost largely exceeded that sum. In November, 1903, Sir Henry Blake left the Colony on appointment to the governorship of Ceylon, and the Hon. Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G. (now Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G.), was appointed Administrator pending the arrival of Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G., who reached the Colony on the 29th July, 1904. His regime was distinguished by the commencement of the long-projected railway from Kowloon to Canton. British section, from Kowloon to the frontier, a distance of 22 miles, was cpened on October 1st, 1910, by Sir Henry May, who was then Administering the

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Government in the absence on leave of 11.E. Sir Frederick Lugard. The Chinese section, 89 miles in length, was completed at the end of September, 1911, when through railway communication was established. The year 1906 will be remembered in the history of the Colony by two calamitous events. On September 18th, a typhoon struck the Colony with terrific force and with such disastrous results as to give it rank as the worst typhoon that the Colony has ever experienced. The Observatory was able to give but very short notice of its approach. The typhoon lasted only two hours, and it was roughly estimated that in that

short space of time 10,000 persons lost their lives in the vicinity of the Colony, while the damage done to shipping and property ashore ran into many millions of dollars. A list, admittedly incomplete, compiled by the Harbour Authorities, showed sunk or damaged 67 large vessels, 652 junks, 54 lighters, and 70 launches. No account is taken in this list of the hundreds of sanipans which were sunk or battered to pieces against the sea walls. The Rt. Rev. J. C. Hoare, D.D.. the Bishop of Victoria, was among those who lost their lives by this calamity. The second of the disasters referred to above occurred early on Sunday morning, October 14th, when the river steamer Hankow, while lying at her wharf, was completely gutted by a fire which developed with such extraordinary rapidity that over 100 Chinese passengers lost their lives in trying to escape. The majority of them were drowned; but many, who were probably first suffocated or trampled to death in the rush for the gangway, were victims of the flames. The Colony was visited by another typhoon of greater force on the night of July 27-28, 1908, but the Observatory gave timely warning of the approach, and shipping consequently did not suffer so badly as in the 1906 typhoon, but much more extensive damage was done to property ashore. The most serious shipping casualty was the foundering of the Yingking with a loss of some 424 lives. Arising out of these catastrophes there was an agitation for the provision of more adequate protection for small shipping than was afforded by the typhoon shelter at Causeway Bay, and, as a consequence, a new refuge was constructed at Mongkoktsui. This was completed in 1915.

Sir Matthew Nathan left the Colony in April, 1907, on promotion to the Governor- ship of Natal. His successor, Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., arrived on July 28th, 1907, the Hon. Mr. (now Sir) F. H. May having again administered the Government in the interval. Falling revenue, while costly public works were in progress, obliged the Government in 1909 to break away from the free-trade traditions of the port to the extent of imposing import duties on intoxicating liquors. Sir Frederick Lugard's chief monument in the Colony may be said to be the University. Mr. H. N. Mody generously offered to provide buildings at an estimated cost of $280,000, and Sir Frederick Lugard worked indefatigably to secure an endowment fund of a million and a quarter dollars. When this fund was in sight, in 1909, building operations were com- menced on a site in Bonham Road. Sir Frederick Lugard had the felicity of seeing the building opened in March, 1912, just before he left on promotion to become Governor of Nigeria. Mr. Mody received a knighthood in recognition of his benefactions to the Colony. Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G., was appointed to the Governorship of the Colony, and upon his arrival, on July 4th, a Chinese attempted his assassination almost as soon as he had landed, but happily the attempt was frustrated.

The following is a list of those who have administered the Government from the date on which the Island was erected into a Colony:-

1843 Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.c.B. 1844 Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., K.C.B. 1848 Samuel George Bonham, C.B. 1851 Major-General W. Jervois (Lt.-Governor) 1851 Sir S. George Bonham, Bart., K.C.B. 1852 John Bowring, LL.D. (Acting) 1853 Sir S. George Bonham, Bart., K.C.B. 1854 Sir John Bowring, Knt., LL.D. 1854 Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Caine (Lt.-Governor) 1855 Sir John Bowring, Knight, LL.D. 1859 Colonel Caine (Lieut.-Governor) 1859 Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson, Knight 1862 William Thomas Mercer (Acting) 1864 Sir Hercules G. R. Robinson, Knight 1865 William Thomas Mercer (Acting) 1866 Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Knt., C.B. 1870 Mj.-Gl. H. W. Whitfield (Lt.-Governor)

1871 Sir Richard G. MacDonnell, K.C.M.G., C.B. 1872 Sir Arthur E. Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B. 1875 John Gardiner Austin (Administrator) 1876 Sir Arthur E. Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B. 1877 Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G. 1882 Wm. Hy. Marsh, c.M.G. (Administrator) 1883 Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G. 1885 Wm. Hy. Marsh, c.M.G. (Administrator) 1887 Mjr.-Gen. W. G. Cameron, c.B. (Adminis. 1887 Sir George William Des Voeux, K.C.M.G. 1890 Francis Fleming, c.M.G. (Administrator) 1890 Sir George William Des Voeux, K.C.M.G. 1891 Mjr.-Gen. G. Digby Barker, c.B. (Adm.) 1891 Sir William Robinson, G.c M.G. 1898 Mj.-G. Wilsone Black, c.B. (Adminr.) 1898 Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G. 1902 Mj.-Gen. Sir W. Gascoigne, K.C.M.G. (Adr.)

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1902 Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G. 1903 Francis H. May, C.M.G. (Administrator) ef 1904 Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G.

et 1906-7 Hon. F.H.May,c.M.G.,Ad'tor. (forl month) ef 1907 Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G.. ef 1907 Hon. Mr. F. H. May C.M.G. (Adminis.)

1907 Brigadier-Gen. Sir F. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G.

1909-10 Sir H. May, K.C.M G. (Administrator) 1910-12 Brig.-Gen. Sir F. D. Lugard, K.C.M G. 1912 Hon. Mr. Claud Severn (Administrator) 1912 Sir Henry May, K.C M.G.

1913 Hon. Mr. Claud Severn (Administrator) 1914 Sir Henry May, K.C.M.G.

The Government is administered by a Governor, aided by an Executive Council of six officials and two unofficials. The Legislative Council is presided over by the Governor, and is composed of the Officer Commanding the Troops, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Treasurer, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Director of Public Works, the Captain Superintendent of Police, and six unofficial members, one of whom is elected by the Chamber of Commerce and another by the Justices of the Peace. The other four, two of whom are Chinese, but British subjects are appointed by the Government.

FINANCES

The estimated revenue for 1918 is $14,763,590, being $1,521,590 in excess of the approved estimates for 1916 and $506,260 in excess of the revised figures for 1917. The estimated revenue for 1918 includes a sum of $1,007,000 from the special war rate and as a sum of $502,500 from the same source was included in the estimated revenue of 1917, the estimated ordinary revenue for 1918 is almost exactly the sanie as in 1917. The estimated expenditure for 1918 is $12,140,475, which is $284,543 less than the estimated expenditure of 1917. In October 1917, it was estimated that at the end of the year the balance of assets over liabilities would be $2,867,945, but out of this sum payment had to be made to the Common- wealth Governinent in respect of the maintenance of prisoners of war and interned enemy subjects who were sent to Australia. The sum of $2,867.945 added to the estimated balance of revenue over expenditure in 1918-viz., $2,623,115 — gives a total of $5,491,060 as the balance of assets over liabilities at the end of 1918. The Colony has a small public debt. A loan of £200,000 was contracted. in 1886. Another loan of £200,000 was contracted in 1893, and in 1894 the unredeemed balance of the first loan was converted from 4 per cent. debentures into 3% inscribed stock, thus bringing it into uniformity with the loan raised in 31893. In 1906 the Government raised a loan of £1,100,000 in London at an average price of £99 1s. per cent., bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent. This money was originally lent to the Chinese Government for the purpose of redeeming the Canton- Hankow railway concession from the various persons who had acquired interests in it from the original American concessionaires. The total cost of the loan, including expenses of issue, was £1,143,933. It has now been fully repaid and expended on railway construction within the Colony. A free gift of $3,000,000 raised by loan in 1917- was made to the Imperial Government for war purposes. A sum of $2,000,000 was given for the same object out of the surplus revenue of 1916. The Colony's military contribu- tion in 1917 was estimated at $2,701,760, and the special tax contribution which is to be continued for the duration of the war was estimated to reach in the same year the sum of $1,007,000.

The rateable value of the whole Colony in 1917 was $14,410,153, showing an increase of 0.89 per cent. over the previous year. The rateable value of the Colony shows an increase of 33 22 per cent. in the decade 1908-17.

DESCRIPTION

The island of Hongkong is about 11 miles long and from 2 to 5 miles broad; its circum- ference is about 27 miles. It consists of a broken ridge of lofty hills, with few valleys of any extent and scarcely any ground available for cultivation. The only valleys worthy of the nanie are those of Wong-nai Chung and Little Hongkong, both of which are remark- ably beautiful and well wooded, being in fact the only parts where any considerable arborescent vegetation was formerly to be found. The island is well watered by numerous streams, many of which are perennial. The city of Victoria and suburbs are supplied with water from the Pokfolum, Tytam, and Wong-nai Chung reservoirs. The first-nained, constructed in 1866-69, has a storage capacity of sixty-eight million gallons, while the Tytam reservoir, constructed in 1883-88, and extended in 1896, s an area of about 29 acres and a storage capacity of about three hundred and

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ninety million gallons. From the Tytam reservoir the water is conveyed into town by means of a tunnel a mile and one-third in length and a conduit along the hillside some 400 feet above the sea level and nearly four miles in length, on which a fine road-called the Bowen Road--has been formed, which commands the most charming views of the city and the eastern district, and is a favourite resort of pedestrians. In many parts the conduit is carried over the ravines and rocks by ornamental stone bridges, one of which, above Wanchai, has twenty-three arches. The Wong-nei Chung reservoir, completed in 1899, has a capacity of twenty-seven million gallons. A bye- wash reservoir of about thirty million gallons capacity, situated immediately below the overflow of the Tytam reservoir, was completed in 1903, and a dam at Tytam Tuk to impound 194 million gallons was completed in 1909. A further extension of these waterworks has just recently been completed making provision for impounding 1,500 million gallons of water. The total cost of the works was about $2,455,000.

The natural productions of the Colony are few and unimportant. There is little land suitable for tillage, and nothing is grown but a little rice and some vegetables near the outlying villages. There are large granite quarries, both on the island and in Kowloon, and there is a small export of this stone. A bed of fire clay exists at Deep Water Bay, and bricks and earthenware pipes are manufactured from it. The forests now growing up and in course of being planted may one day become a source of revenue, when sufficiently extensive, from the periodical thinnings

The approaches to the port are fairly well lighted. A lighthouse on Green Island lights the western entrance of the harbour. The eastern approach is indicated by a group flashing dioptric light of the first order, visible at a distance of twenty-two miles, erected on Waglan Island, while a smaller light on Cape Collinson assists navigators to make the Ly-ee-mùn Pass. A lighthouse on Gap Rock, about thirty miles to the south, was completed and first displayed its beacon on the 1st April, 1892; it is connected with the port by cable, and the approach of vessels is signalled from it to the Post Office. A radio-telegraphic station of medium range has been established for commercial purposes on Cape d'Aguilar in connection with the Post Office, and a long-range Marconi station has been erected on Stonecutters Island.

The harbour of Hongkong is one of the finest and most beautiful in the world, having an area of ten square miles, and, with its diversified scenery and varied shipping, presents an animated and imposing spectacle. It consists of the sheet of water between the island and the mainland, and is enclosed on all sides by lofty hills, formerly destitute of foliage, but the island slopes are gradually becoming clothed with young forests, the result of the afforestation scheme of the Government. The city of Victoria is magnificently situated, the houses, many of them large and handsome, rising, tier upon tier, from the water's edge to a height of over five hundred feet on the face of the Peak, while many buildings are visible on the very summit of the hills. Seen from the water at night, when lights twinkle among the trees and houses, the city, spreading along the shore for upwards of four miles, affords a sight not readily to be forgotten.

Nor on landing are the favourable impressions of the stranger dissipated or lessened. The city is fairly well built, the roads and streets are for the most part admirably made and kept, and many of the thoroughfares delightfully shaded with well grown trees. The European business quarter occupies the middle of the city, from Pottinger Street to the Naval Yard, but with the exception of this limited area almost all the. lower levels, especially the Western District, are covered by a dense mass of Chinese shops and tenements. The Botanic Gardens are situated just above Government House, and are tastefully laid out in terraces, slopes, and walks, with parterres of flowers. A handsome fountain adorns the second terrace, around which many European, children and their amahs resort daily. There is a bandstand, presented by the Parsee conmmunity (but never now occupied by a band), some aviaries, orchid houses, and ferneries, and seats are provided in every spot where a view is obtainable or shade afforded by the varied foliage. A fine bronze statue of Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor of the Colony, 1872-6, erected by public subscription, stands above the second terrace looking down on the fountain. It was unveiled in November, 1887, by Governor Sir William Des Voeux. The chief public building is the City Hall, erected in 1866-9 by subscription; it contains a commodious theatre, numerous large rooms used for balls and public meetings (in one of which, known as St. George's Hall, is a fine portrait of the late Queen Victoria, presented by Sir Thomas Jackson, Bart., in 1900), an excellent and valuable Library, and a Museum gradually increasing in importance. In front of the main entrance is a large fountain presented in August, 1864, by Mr. John Dent, a former merchant of the Colony. Eastward of the City Hall is a fine open space or lung, in the shape of the Parade Ground south of the road, and the Cricket Ground on the

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north. The latter is furnished with a neat Pavilion, and the turf is kept in perfect order. The Post Office, a palatial building in which several other Government departments are accommodated, occupies a site with frontages on the Praya, Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road. The Courts of Justice, probably the most substantial edifice in all Asia, were designed by Sir Aston Webb and Mr. E. Ingress Bell, consulting architects to the Government of Great Britain. The foundation stone was laid in 1903 and the building was completed at a cost of $856,310 and opened in January, 1912. Occupying a site on the west of the Courts of Justice stands the Jubilee statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, the erection of which was postponed until this site became available; it was unveiled on the 28th May, 1896. The statue represents Queen Victoria seated on her throne, and is of bronze under a stone canopy. Close by, formerly stood a fine bronze statue of the Duke of Connaught, presented by Sir C. P. Chater to the Colony. It was unveiled by Sir William Gascoigne on the 5th July, 1902. This statue was removed in February, 1907, to a site on the waterfront near Blake Pier, and H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, who paid a second visit to the Colony, this time as Inspector-General of the Forces, on February 6th, 1907, unveiled, in what is now designated the Royal Square, a fine bronze statue of H. M. the King, presented by Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., and one of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, presented by Mr. James Jardine Bell-Irving. A statue of H. M. Queen Alexandra, subscribed for by the Community as a memorial of the Coronation of their Majesties in 1902, and one of H. R. H. the Princess of Wales presented by the late Sir H. N. Mody, were placed in the same Square in 1909. Governnient House occupies a commanding situation, in picturesque grounds pleasingly laid out, in the centre of the city. Victoria Gaol is a large and massive structure, with its main entrance from Arbuthnot Road. The Police Barracks and Central Station adjoin the Gaol, as does the Magistracy, the reconstruction of which was practically completed at the close of 1914. The strength of the Police Force is 1,215, of whom 159 are Europeans, 420 Indians, and 31 Chinese. Of the 159 Europeans 59 have gone on active service, and 9 have been killed. In addition there is a Special Police Reserve numbering 620 men and embracing British, Portu- guese, Chinese and Indian Platoons. Armed, uniformed and drilled, this force was called into existence during the war, and has now machine-gun, ambulance and mounted troop detachments, as well as a band and orchestra. A Reformatory was built and opened in 1900 at Causeway Bay, the cost of erection being borne by the late Mr. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G.; but the building has not been used for the purpose, the idea having proved impracticable. The Eyre Diocesan Refuge, an institution founded for rescue work among the Chinese is now housed in this building. The Lunatic Asylum consists of two small buildings, one for Europeans and the other for Chinese, below the Bonham Road. The Government Civil Hospital is a large and well designed building affording extensive accommodation, and situated in the western part of the town. The Alice Memorial Hospital, situated at the corner of Hollywood Road and Aberdeen Street, is a useful and philanthropic institution; affiliated with it is the Nethersole Hospital on Bonham Road. A little to the west is a hospital designated the Ho Miu Ling Hospital, the gift of Madame Wu Ting Fang to the Medical Mission of the London Missionary Society. The Royal Naval Hospital occupies a small eminence near Bowrington, and the Military Hospital, a fine range of buildings, completed in 1907, occupies a commanding site above Bowen Road. The Hongkong University, a large and handsome building erected in a commanding position at the west end of the city, was opened in 1912. Queen's College, a commodious structure, which stands on a site having its chief frontage on Staunton Street, is the home of the chief Government educational institution in the Colony. It was opened in 1889. The Belilios Public School for Girls, in Gough Street, is the chief centre of female education. The Tung Wa Hospital, a Chinese institution, which has been of great utility in the Colony, was considerably enlarged in 1903, and new plague wards were added in 1909. A well-designed Plague Hospital for Chinese, situated at Kennedy Town, was also built at the expense of the Chinese community. The Barracks for the garrison are extensive, and constructed with great regard to the health and comfort of the troops, and the buildings belonging to the Naval Establishment are spacious if not substantial. The chief cantonments lie on both sides of the Queen's Road, between the Cricket Ground and Arsenal Street, Wanchai. There are also extensive Barracks at Kowloon, in which the Indian regiments are quar- tered; and a magnificent sanatorium (formerly the Mount Austin Hotel) at the Peak for the European troops. A smaller one is situated near Magazine Gap. Headquarter House, the residence of the General in Conmand of the Troops, occupies a pleasant elevation overlooking the cantonments in Victoria. A commodious Central Market

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situated between Queen's Road Central and

Road Central and Des Voeux Road, was opened in 1895, and in 1906 another fine market was opened further west, and is known as the Western Market. The building of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is large, hand- some and massive, and would do credit to any large city. It occupies a fine site next to the City Hall, and has frontages on Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road. exterior walls and elegant fluted pillars are of dressed granite, and the offices on the Queen's Road frontage are crowned with a large dome. Opposite the Des Vœux Road entrance to the Bank stands a bronze statue of Sir Thomas Jackson, Bart. who from 1876 to 1902 was chief manager of the Bank. The statue was unveiled by Governor Sir Matthew Nathan on February 24th, 1906. An extensive reclamation along the city water frontage from West Point to Murray Road initiated by Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G., was completed in 1903, the total area reclaimed from the sea being ap- proximately 65 acres. Of this area 33·73 acres constitute building land, the remainder being occupied by roads and open spaces. The total cost, including reconstruction of Government piers, was $3,362,325. The various sections as they were ready were rapidly built upon and some of the finest buildings in the Colony have been erected on the reclaimed land. On the eastern section a handsome building for the Hongkong Club was finished in 1897, and was occupied in July of that year. A Clock Tower erected by public subscription in 1862, with illuminated clock presented to the Colony by the firm of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., stood at the junction of Pedder Street with Queen's Road until 1913, when, as the tower had come to be regarded as an obstruction to traffic, it was demolished and the clock sold at public auction. The Pier at the foot of Pedder Street was opened on the 29th December, 1900, and named Blake Pier in honour of Governor Sir Henry Blake. Further west is the Harbour Master's Office, a commodious and attractively-designed building completed in 1906.

The chief religious buildings are: St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), which was erected in the year 1842, occupies a commanding site above the Parade Ground, and is a Gothic church of considerable size but with few pretensions to architecture. It has a square tower, with pinnacles, over the western porch, and possesses a peal of bells. A new chancel was built in 1869-70, the foundation stone of which was laid by the late Duke of Edinburgh on the 16th November, 1869. A handsome stained glass window in the east end, over the altar, to the memory of the late Mr. Douglas Lapraik, another in the north transept erected in 1892 to the memory of the late Dr. F. Stewart, formerly Colonial Secretary, one in the south transept to the memory of those who perished in the wreck of the P. & O. str. Bokhara, another to the memory of the Hospital Sisters who died in 1898 while in execution of their duty during an outbreak of plague, and the stained clerestory windows of the chancel, presented by Lady Jackson in 1900, and one to the memory of Bishop Hoare, who lost his life in the typhoon of 1906, are the chief adornments of the interior. The choir stalls, pulpit, and Bishop's throne are fine samples of Chinese carving in teakwood. It also possesses a fine three-manual organ containing 47 stops erected in 1887. St. Peter's (Seamen's) Church, at West Point, close to the Sailors' Home, is a small brick Gothic erection with a spire. It also has a stained glass window, presented in 1878. St. Stephen's Church, for Chinese, was built in 1892. It is a neat building in red brick with white facings, with a tower and spire about 80 feet high, standing on the Pokfo- lum Road side of the Church Mission compound. Union Church, a rather pleasing edifice in the Italian style of architecture, with a spire, and containing accommodation for about 500 persons, formerly stood in Staunton Street, but was rebuilt, in 1890, on the plan of the old building, on a new site above the Kennedy Road, together with a parsonage adjoining. This church possesses an organ, and the three rose windows are filled with stained glass. A Wesleyan chapel stands at the junction of Queen's Road and Kennedy Road; this was enlarged in 1904. The Roman Catholic Cathedral situated in Glenealy Ravine, near the Botanic Gardens, is a large structure in the Gothic style and is a rather imposing building. It was opened for worship in 1888. A campanile tower with a small spire surmounting it was completed in 1904 to receive a new peal of five bells. St. Joseph's Church, in Garden Road, is a neat edifice erected in 1876 on the site of one destroyed by the great typhoon of 1874; St. Anthony's Church on the Bonham Road, near West Point, is an ugly structure, erected in 1892 by the munificence of a late Portuguese resident; St. Francis' Church, at Wanchai, and the Church of the Sacred Heart, at West Point, are small and unattractive structures. The Jewish Synagogue was erected in 1901, and is situated on the northern side of Robinson Road. It is a plain but roomy edifice with two squat towers surmounted by spirets. The entire cost of the Church was borne by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Jacob Sassoon. There are two Mahomedan Mosques, one in Shelley Street and the other at Kowloon,

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the latter being for the accommodation of the men of the Indian Mahomedan regiments quartered on the peninsula. A Sikh temple was, in 1902, erected near the Wanchai Road approach to the Happy Valley. There are also several Protestant mission chapels. A Christian Science Church was built on Macdonnell Road in 1911. St. Joseph's College, a school for boys managed by the Christian Brothers (Roman Catholic), occu- pies a large and handsome building on a prominent site below Robinson Road. The Italian Convent, in Caine Road, educates a large number of girls, and brings up many orphans gratuitously. The Asile de la Sainte Enfance, in Queen's Road East, is in the hands of French Sisters, who receive and train up numbers of Chinese foundlings. Other denominations likewise support charitable establishments, conspicuous among which are the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, the Berlin Foundling Hospital on Bonham Road, which has a plain little chapel attached the Baxter Vernacular School, the Victoria Feinale Home and Orphanage, &c. St. Paul's College, situated between Pedder's Hill and Glenealy Ravine, was erected in 1850, and was originally founded for the purpose of giving a theological training to young Chinese and others intended for the ministry of the Anglican Church, but is now an ordinary school. A small chapel is attached. The college is the town residence of the Bishop of Victoria, who is its warden.

The Protestant, Roman Catholic, Parsee, Jewish, and Mahomedan Cemeteries Occupy sites in Wong-nai Chung Valley, and are kept in good order. The Protestant Cemetery is almost a rival to the Public Gardens, being charmingly situated and admirably laid out with fountain, flower beds, and ornamental shrubs. The principal Chinese cemetery is on the slopes of Mount Davis, near the Pokfolum Road, and is injudiciously crowded, and dismally bare, but it is a Confucian maxim that "places of burial should not be made to resemble pleasure-gardens."

An electric tramway runs through the City of Victoria from Belcher's Bay to East Point and Happy Valley, and thence on to the village of Shaukiwan, a total length of 94 miles. A cable tramway has since 1888 given access to the Peak and is worked with great success, both financially and otherwise. The City terminus of this interesting little line is at St. John's Place. Powers were obtained in 1908 for the making of another tramway to the Peak, starting from Battery Path and proceeding up the Glenealy Ravine to a point close to the terminus of the existing line, but owing to public opposition to two of the suggested routes the scheme was abandoned, the alternative routes, on which some tunnelling was necessary, proving too expensive.

INSTITUTIONS

There are several Clubs in the Colony. The principal are the Hongkong Club on the New Praya, the Club Germania in Kennedy Road (closed shortly after the outbreak of the great war), the Club Lusitano in Shelley Street, the Phoenix Club on tlie Praya, and the Nippon Club in Des Voeux Road. The Hongkong Club is a handsome building replete with every modern comfort; a large annexe was completed in 1902. The Peak Club is domiciled in a pretty building at Plunkett Gap, and possesses tennis and croquet lawns on land adjoining. There are also the United Services Recreation Club, Cricket Clubs, Football Clubs, a Polo Club, a Golf Club, a Hockey Club, a Chess Club, and two Yacht Clubs. The Ladies' Recreation Club have several prettily laid out tennis courts and a pavilion in their grounds on the Peak Road.

The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce have rooms in the Chartered Bank Building and meet annually. The Committee form its executive, and the Chamber is frequently asked by the Government for its opinion on questions affecting commerce. There is a branch here of the China Association, with its separate Cominittee. The Freemasons' Hall, erected in 1865, is situated in Zetland Street, and belongs to the parent lodge, the Zetland. The Sailors' Home occupies a site at West Point, and there is a Mission to Seamen. The Institution of Marine Engineers watches over the interests of that profession. The Hongkong Benevolent Society does good work among the indigent waifs occasionally cast destitute on the Colony. The Helena May Institute for Women, named after Lady May, situated in Garden Road, was opened on September 12th, 1916. Among other institutions is the St. Andrew's Society, primarily established to ensure the fitting celebration of the anniversary of Scotland's patron saint.

The annual races are held in the month of February, under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club, on the Race Course in Wong-nai Chung Valley at the east end of the town, a beautiful spot enclosed by fir-clad hills. Gymkhanas also take place monthly during the summer. Regattas are held in December in the harbour, but they do not evoke the same enthusiasm as the races. Athletic

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Sports are also held every year by the residents and the garrison, and occasionally swimming matches and boat races take place. There is a Philharmonic Society and also an Amateur Dramatic Club, the members of which give several performances in the Theatre Royal during the season. There are three large Chinese Theatres, where the Chinese drama is almost constantly on view.

There are four daily papers published in English: the Hongkong Daily Press and the South China Morning Post, which appear in the morning, the China Mail and the Hongkong Telegraph, issued in the evening. There are three weekly papers, the Hongkong Weekly Press and China Overland Trade Report, the Overland China Mail, and the Weekly Telegraph. The Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan, Straits Settlements, &c., has been issued annually since 1863 from the Daily Press Office. The native Press is represented by six daily papers the Chung Ngoi San Po, which is the oldest and most influential, published at the Daily Press Office; the Wa Tsz Yat Po, or Chinese Mail; the Tsun Wan Yat Po, the Sai Kai Kung Yik Po, the Kung Wo Po and the Tai Kwong Po. There is also a small Japanese paper called the Hongkong Nippo. The Government Gazette is published once a week.

There are several good hotels in Victoria, the leading ones in the city being the Hongkong Hotel, extending from Queen's Road to Des Voeux Road, and the King Edward Hotel, situated in Des Voeux Road. The Peak Hotel is situated at Victoria Gap, about 1,400 feet above the sea, and provides considerable accommodation. A palatial building on Kennedy Road, erected as a residence for the late Mr. E. R. Belilios, C.M.G., but never occupied by him, has been converted into a private hotel, and named Kingsclere. On the other side of the harbour are the Station Hotel and the Palace Hotel.

INDUSTRIES

Manufactures are yearly increasing in importance. There are three large suga+ refineries: the China Sugar Refining Co.'s establishments at East Point and at Bowring- ton, and the Taikoo Sugar Refinery at Quarry Bay. In connection with the first-named Company there is also a large Distillery, where a considerable quantity of rum is manu- factured. There is an Ice Factory at Bowrington, a large Rope Factory in Belcher's Bay, Steam Saw Mills at Bowrington, a Glass Manufactory, at Causeway Bay, and a Match Manufactory at Kowloon, a Feather Cleaning and Packing Establishment at Kennedy-town, a Soap Factory at Shaukiwan, and two or three Engineering Works. The Green Island Cement Company has works at Deep Water Bay, on the south side of the island, and at Hunghom, in Kowloon. A Paper Mill on a considerable scale, fitted with the best English machinery, was erected at Aberdeen in 1891 and is successfully run under Chinese management. In 1899 a Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing mill was established at Soo-Kun-po, but after working with indifferent success for fifteen years, the mill was transferred to Shanghai. Flour Mills at Junk Bay, capable of turning out 8,000 sacks of flour per day, commenced operations on January 1st, 1907, but disaster overtook the concern in 1908, and the mills were closed about a year later. A Brewery, designated the Oriental Brewery, was opened at Laichikok in 1909. It was equipped with the most modern plant having a capacity of about 100,000 barrels of beer per annum, and an ice- plant was worked in connection with the Brewery, but this concern also has had to close down.

The works of the Hongkong and China Gas Company are situated at West Point and at Yaumati, and those of the Hongkong Electric Company at Wanchai. A new power- station for the Electric Company is in course of erection at North Point, on a site reclaimed from the sea for this purpose. The city is illuminated partly by gas and partly by electric light, the latter having been introduced at the end of 1890. Among the industries pursued by the Chinese are glass blowing, opium boiling, soap making, vermilion and soy manufacture, tanning, dyeing, boat building, etc.

There is excellent Dock accommodation in the Colony. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, have three extensive establishments, one at Hunghom, Kowloon, one at Tai Kok Tsui, and the third at Aberdeen on the south side of Hongkong Island. The establishments of this Company are fitted with all the best and latest appliances for engineering and carpenter's work, and the largest vessel in H.M.'s Navy on the China Station has been received into the No. 1 Dock at Hunghom. The docks and slips are of the following dimensions :-Hunghom :-No. 1 (Admiralty) Dock-700 feet in length, 86 feet in breadth at entrance at top and 70 feet at bettom, and 30 feet depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides. No. 2 dock

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-Length on keel blocks, 371 feet; breadth at entrance, 74 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 18 feet 6 inches. No. 3 dock-Length on keel blocks, 264 feet; breadth at entrance, 49 feet 3 ins.; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 14 feet. Patent Slips: No. 1-Length on keel blocks, 240 feet; breadth at entrance,60 feet; depth on the blocks, 14 feet. No. 2-Length on keel blocks, 230 feet; breadth at entrance, 60 feet; depth of water on the blocks at ordinary spring tides, 12 feet. Tai Kok Tsui: Cosmopolitan dock-Length on keel blocks, 466 feet; breadth at entrance, 85 feet 6 inches; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 20 feet. Aberdeen: Hope dock-Length on keel blocks, 430 feet; breadth at entrance, 84 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 23 feet. Lamont dock-Length on keel blocks, 333 feet; breadth at entrance, 64 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 16 feet, The Hunghom and Cosmopolitan Docks are in close proximity to the shipping in port and are well sheltered on all sides. The approaches to the Docks are perfectly safe and the immediate vicinity affords capital anchorage. The docks are substantially built throughout with granite. Powerful lifting shears with steam purchase at Hunghom and Cosmopolitan Docks stand on a solid granite sea wall alongside which vessels can lie and take in or out boilers, guns and other heavy weights. The shears at Hunghom are capable of lifting 70 tons and the depth of water alongside is 24 feet at low tides. There are other establishments at which shipbuilding and foundry work is carried on, and some good-sized steamers have been launched in the Colony. In 1908 the new docks constructed by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire at Quarry Bay, just inside the Lyeemoon Pass, were completed. The dock has been built to British Admiralty requirements, is the largest out of England,

England, and, while it is capable of accommodating the biggest vessels afloat, it has been designed to permit of further increasing its length if it should become necessary at some future time to do so. The dimensions of the dock are:-787 feet extreme length; 750 feet on the blocks; 120 feet wide at coping; 77 feet 6 inches wide at bottom; 88 feet width of entrance at top; 82 feet width of entrance at bottom; 34 feet 6 inches depth over centre of sill at high water Spring tides; 31 feet depth over side of sill at low water Spring tides. It can be filled in 45 minutes and pumped out in 2 hours 40 minutes. Founded on a solid rock bottom, it has been built of cement concrete and lined with granite throughout. A feature of the dock is the caisson, of the new box-sliding type, weighing 400 tons and electrically controlled. There are three slipways. No 1 slipway is 1,030 feet long and 60 feet wide, capable of taking up two steamers each 300 feet long, drawing 18 feet, and having a displacement of 2,700 tons. The other slipways are each 993 feet long by 60 feet wide, capable of taking two steamers 200 feet long, drawing 17 feet, of 2,000 tons displacement. The building yard is 550 feet long, and 300 feet wide, and has been equipped with a view to the construction of passenger and cargo vessels, turbine steamers, steam yachts, torpedo-destroyers, steam launches, tugs and lighters. The establishment throughout has been fitted with the latest time-saving appliances procurable. The chief motive power is electricity, generated by gas engines, the gas producing plant being the largest installed in the Far East. The electric shears situated on the sea wall lift 100 tons at a radius of 70 feet, and wagon and crane roads run the full length from end to end. This sea wall which forms the boundary of the yard is 3,200 feet long and built of concrete blocks of an average weight of 15 tons. There is a depth of 39 feet at high water Spring tides for the greater length of the wall, which will enable ships of any size to berth alongside for the removal or fitting of heavy boilers, machinery, etc. The establishment is known as that of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co., Ltd., of Hongkong. His Majesty's Naval Yard likewise contains machine sheds and fitting shops on a large scale, and repairs can be effected to the machinery of the British men-of-war with great expedition. A large extension of the Naval Yard, including an important reclamation on the foreshore, the construction of a dock (capable of accom- modating the largest ship afloat), and erection of various workshops was completed in 1908.

THE PEAK DISTRICT

A well-made but rather badly-graded mountain road leads up to the summit of Victoria Peak, with numerous other paths branching off from it at Victoria Gap along the adjoining hills. A tramway, on the wire rope system, runs to the Victoria Gap, where the stationary engine is fixed, the lower terminus being close to St. John's Cathedral. It was opened to traffic on the 30th May, 1888. Passengers can alight at the Kennedy, Bowen, May, and Plantation Roads, where stations are provided for their accommo- dation, The Military erected a sanatorium on the heights near Magazine Gap in 1883, and in

acquired the handsome and commodious Mount

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Austin Hotel for the same purpose. The Peak Club is domiciled in a building just below Craigieburn. It was erected in 1902 and enlarged in 1912 by the addition of a second storey. The Peak Church, an unpretending structure after the similitude of a jelly mould, was opened for worship in June, 1883. Com- fortable accommodation for visitors is afforded at the Peak Hotel. A finely-situated private Hospital, known as the Peak Hospital, is situated at Victoria Gap, just above the Peak Hotel. The Victoria (Jubilee) Hospital for Women and Children, occupying a breezy site on Barker Road, was opened by Sir Henry Blake on November 7th, 1903. Yet another hospital, named "The Matilda Hospital," is situated at the southern corner of Mount Kellett. It was built at a cost of about $350,000 and opened in 1906. expense of erection and maintenance arc borne by the estate of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who devoted the bulk of his fortune to provide such an institution for the benefit of persons needing it who are of European or American birth. A small public garden, or children's playground, situated at the junction of Chamberlain and Mount Kellett Roads, was opened in 1906.

The road from Victoria Gap westward leads to Victoria Peak, which is 1,823 feet above the sea and rises almost abruptly behind the centre of the city of Victoria. On the summit is placed the flagstaff, from which the approach of the mails and other vessels is signalled. Not far from the summit of the Peak, on a most command- ing site, stands Mountain Lodge, the summer residence of H.E. the Governor, which was erected in 1901. An excellent and well-graded road, commencing on the Bowen Road, leads to Magazine Gap, near which a second hill village of foreign residences has been formed on the southern side of the hills at an elevation of about 900 feet above the sea. Another road leads from Victoria Gap to Pokfolum and Aber- deen, and at the side of this, about half a mile from the Gap, a small granite cross has been erected. This bears the inscription :-"W. W. H. 1869" and marks the scene of a brutal murder there by a Chinese footpad, the victim being Mr. Holworthy, an officer of the Ordnance Department, whom he felled with a bamboo and robbed, inflicting fatal injuries. The Peak roads are now lighted by gas.

THE RURAL DISTRICTS

There are several villages on the island, the largest of which is Shau-ki Wan, situate in a bay in the Ly-ee-mùn Pass, a great resort of Chinese fishing craft. Aberdeen, known to the Chinese as Shek-pai-wan, on the south of the island, possesses a well sheltered little harbour, also much frequented by fishing craft. Two large docks of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company are situated there. Pokfolum, on tlie road to Aberdeen, about four miles from Victoria, was formerly a place of resort for European residents in the hot weather, and some elegant bunga- lows were erected in pleasant and picturesque situations, commanding fine sea views and cool breezes, but since the development of the Peak district Pokfolum has been comparatively neglected. The sanitorium of the French Missions is located at Pokfolum, and is a fine building with an elegant chapel attached. The Dairy Farm is also situated there. Some distance beyond Aberdeen are two excellent bathing beaches known as Deep Water Bay and Repulse Bay. A scheme is maturing for the development of this attractive district as a residential suburb. It is a private enterprise, and an agreement with regard to the project has been approved by the Government. A feature of the scheme is the construction of a tramway from Wong-nai-chung over the hills to the above-named bays on the other side. Wong-nai-cliung is snugly located at the head of the valley of that naine and is the most accessible of all the villages from Victoria. Stanley, situated in a small bay on the south-east of the island, was once the site of a military station, but the barrack buildings have been pulled down, and the village is now stationary. A cemetery on the point contains numerous graves of British officers and soldiers. One of the places most in favour with pedestrians who are not afraid of a good long tramp is the little village of Tytam Tuk, nestling among trees at the mouth of the stream of the same name, which here enters Tytam Bay, the most extensive inlet on the southern coast. There are good carriage roads from Victoria both to Aberdeen and Shau-ki Wan and bridle roads to Stanley and Tytam, and as a memorial of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria a new road round the body of the island was constructed. This is being widened to make it suitable for motor traffic. Saiwan is a small village picturesquely situated in Saiwan Bay, just outside the Ly-ee-mùn Pass, and is also much frequented by picnic parties. In the belief that it was a healthy locality, small barracks were erected there early in the 'forties, but the experiment proved most disastrous, for in five weeks out of a detachment of 20 English soldiers five died and three more were

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removed in a dangerous condition. The buildings were therefore soon abandoned. Shek O is a small but prettily-located village occupying a small valley shut in from the water on the eastern coast, not far from Cape D'Aguilar. Near here a wireless station has been erected.

KOWLOON AND OTHER DEPENDENCIES

Across the harbour is the dependency of British Kowloon. Some four square miles of the peninsula was first granted in perpetual lease by the Kwangtung Government to Sir Harry (then Mr.) Parkes, but was definitely ceded to Great Britain in 1860 by Article VI. of the Peking Convention. Yau-ma-ti, the principal village, has increased in population, and bids fair soon to become an important town. There is a considerable Chinese junk trade at this place, and amongst other industries is a preserved ginger factory. Gas Works were erected there in 1892, and the settled portion of the peninsula is lighted with gas; electricity is also now largely used, the generating station being at Hunghom. Waterworks were established in 1895, but, with the rapid growth in the population, further provision was necessary, and the new waterworks now provide for the supply of a million gallons daily. Three regiments of Indian infantry are usually stationed at Tsim-tsa Tsui, where barracks and officers' quarters are located and a Mahommedan mosque has been erected. At Tsim-tsa Tsui, too, a number of European houses have beer, erected and numerous gardens laid out, and this portion of the peninsula, which faces Victoria, has gradually developed into a populous European residential settlement. It is approached by Nathan Road, a fine wide thoroughfare running at right angles to the water-front. Ä fine bund, with a massive granite wall, has been constructed here, and an extensive range of godowns built and several fine wharves made for discharging cargo and coaling. Here, also,

Here, also, is situated the handsome terminal station of the Canton- Kowloon Railway. During 1905 and 1906 extensive reclamation works were carried out extending eastward from the godown company's property to Hunghom. Messrs. Butterfield & Swire have erected extensive godown accommodation on the reclamation. The same period will also be remembered by the building of two churches at Kowloon -St. Andrew's, in Robinson Road, being the gift of the Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G., and the Roman Catholic Church in Chatham Road, the gift of Dr. S. A. Gomes. There are two hotels, one possessing large accommodation. The Kowloon British School was erected in 1901 on Robinson Road at the expense of Mr. (now Sir) Robert Ho Tung.

The Navy maintains a small naval yard, subsidiary to the principal establishment on the Hongkong side. The Royal Observatory is situated on Mount Elgin; and a large and handsome Police Station for the Water Police occupies an eminence just above the Praya. A steam ferry plies regularly between Tsim-tsa Tsui and Victoria; ferry boats also run between Victoria and Yau-na-Ti and Hunghom, where the principal docks of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. are situated. The Cosmopolitan Dock and works, also belonging to the same Company, are situated at Fuk Tsun Heung, formerly known as Sain Shui Po. At Hok-ün are also situated the extensive works of the Green Island Cement Co., Ld., and the patent slip and shipbuilding yard of Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Co., Ld. The Orient Cigar Factory is situated at Yaumati.

In 1898 an agreement was entered into whereby China ceded to Great Britain for ninety-nine years the territory behind Kowloon Peninsula up to a line drawn from Mirs Bay to Deep Bay and the adjacent islands, including Lantao, the extent of the New Territory being about 376 square miles, namely, 286 square miles on the mainland and 90 square miles on the islands. The ceremony of formally taking over the terri- tory was fixed for the 17th April, 1899, when the British flag was to have been hoisted at Taipohu, and the day was declared a general holiday. Attacks, however, having been made on the parties engaged on the preliminary arrangements, the mat-sheds erected for the accommodation of the police having been burnt, and other evidences of an organised opposition having been given, it was deemed advisable to assume full jurisdiction on the 16th April, on which date the flag was hoisted by the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary. Military operations were found nccessary to overcome the opposition, and on the 18th April the rebels were completely routed in an action fought at Sheung Tsun, their force numbering some 2,600 men. On the British side there were no fatalities and only one or two slight casualties; on the Chinese side a number were killed and wounded, but the exact figures were not ascertained, those who fell being carried away by their friends. In the Convention it was provided that Kowloon City was to remain Chinese, but it having been established beyond a doubt that the hands of the Chinese officials were by no means clean in respect

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of the disturbances which occurred on the taking over of the leased area, the Home Government determined to mark their sense of the duplicity of the Chinese in a suitable manner and orders were accordingly issued to the inilitary authorities to seize Kowloon walled city and Shamchun. This was done on the 16th May, 1899, no opposition being encountered at either place. The Hongkong Volunteer Corps took part in the expedition to Kowloon City. Shamchun, the other place seized, is an important town on the river of the same name just beyond the boundary originally agreed upon. It was, however, restored to the Chinese authorities in November, 1899. The New Territory under British jurisdiction is being developed by the construction of roads; police stations have been established, and a system of administration by means of village communities organised. The headquarters of the adininistration are at Taipolu. The railway from Kowloon to Canton, which passes through the New Territory to Shamchun, has already done much to develop it. The Hongkong Golf Club acquired an area of 55.62 acres in the valley stretching West from Fanling and have converted it into a Golf Course of 1 holes, with a relief Course of 9 holes, which promises to be the best in the East. The principal islands and their populations are as follows:-Lantao, 7,940; Cheung Chan, 2,734; Lamma, 1,134. The islands to the west of Hongkong contain 1,925; those to the east, 1,169. The Chinese population of the New Territories is estimated at 80,000.

Of the islands and islets in the waters of the Colony (exclusive of the above acquisitions) the most important is Stonecutter's Island, formerly known as Wong Chune-chow, opposite to and about three-quarters of a mile from the north-western extremity of the Kowloon peninsula. The island is an irregular ridge about a mile in length, and a little over a quarter of a mile broad; the principal eminences are occupied by batteries and no one is allowed to land without a permit. The Quarantine Station is also located here. After the great typhoon of September, 1874, two or three thousand bodies of the victims found afloat were interred on Stonecutter's Island. Kellet's Island is a small rock near East Point, on which a fort formerly stood, but which has been replaced by a small magazine. Green Island, at the western entrance of the harbour, has been planted with trees and now justifies its name all the year round. A lighthouse has been placed on its south-western extremity. One Tree Island is a tiny rock near the entrance to Aberdeen. Aplichau, a considerable island opposite Aberdeen, of which harbour it forms part, has a populous fishing village on its northern shore facing Aberdeen. Lantao and Lamma Islands were brought under British jurisdiction by the Kowloon Convention of 1898. The former has a considerably larger area than Hongkong, but both this island and Lamma are sparsely populated by agriculturists and fishermen.

POPULATION AND DEFENCES

A census taken in May, 1911, showed the total population of the Colony to be 456,739, consisting of 12,075 non-Chinese and 444,664 Chinese. Of this number of Chinese 383,716 constituted the land population. The boat population numbered 60,948 (of whom 31,893 were in Victoria harbour). In the City of Victoria there were 7,825 non- Chinese and 216,022 Chinese. The Peak population was returned as 723 non-Chinese and 1,749 Chinese. Exclusive of the Army and Navy the white population of the Colony was 6,035. The total civil population estimated to the middle of 1916 was 529,010, consisting of 13,390 non-Chinese and 515,620 Chinese. The Garrison consists of British and Indian troops. There is also a Defence Corps and a Police Reserve Corps.

The approaches to the harbour are strongly fortified, the batteries consisting of well-constructed earthworks. The western entrance is protected by thrce batteries on Stonecutters' Island and two forts on Belcher and Fly Points, from which a tremendous converging fire could be maintained, completely commanding the Sulphur Channel. Pine Wood battery, on the hill above and west of Richmond Terrace, has a wide range of fire. The Ly-ee-mùn Pass is defended by two forts on the Hongkong side and another on Devil's Peak on the mainland, and if vessels survived that fire they would then have to face the batteries at North Point and Hunghom which completely command the eastern entrance. Another battery on the bluff at Tsim-tsa Tsui, Kowloon, commands the whole of the centre of the harbour. The batteries are armed with the latest breech-loading ordnance. The Colony of Hongkong pays a military contribution fixed at 20 per cent. of the revenue,

In addition to the fortifications the Colony possesses a small squadron for harbour defence. The Naval Yard consists of a large dock, an extensive range of workshops

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and offices east of the Artillery Barracks, and the Naval Authorities have another large establishment on the Kowloon side near to Yaumati.

As intimated in earlier paragraphs, Hongkong formerly enjoyed a most unenviable notoriety for unhealthiness, and in years past the troops garrisoned here suffered grievously from malarial fevers. A great deal of the sickness in the early days of the Colony was believed to have been caused by excavating and otherwise disturbing the disintegrated granite of which the soil of the island mainly consists, and which appears to throw off malarious exhalations when upturned. At the present time, liowever, the Colony is one of the healthiest spots in the world in the same latitude. The influence of the young pine forests created by the Afforestation Department and the training of nullahs on the slopes have no doubt been beneficial in checking malaria, and the attention latterly bestowed on sanitation has not been without its due effect. The general death rate per 1,000 in 1916 was 15.08 for the non-Chinese community only as compared with 13.84 in 1915. Among the Chinese community the death rate was 24.6 per 1,000 compared with 19.00 in 1915 and 23.88 in 1914. The birth-rate was 7.9 per 1,000 among the Chinese community and 20.05 among the non-Chinese community.

The following table shows fifteen years' means of the annual and monthly values of the principal meteorological elements:-

Bar. Mean pressure

'Do. Maximum

Do. Minimum.

Mean temperature

Do. maximum

Do. minimum

29.628 29.719 29.874 29.989 30.055 29.844 29.873 30.009 30.192 30.311 30.444 30.509 29.083 28.876 29.089 29.575 29.752 28.762

80.4 76.2 69.2 62.7 71.7 86.4 85.3 80.8 74.3

67.7 76.4 77.6

76.6 72.5

Jan. Feb. March April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Year ..30.040 30.024 29.939 29.841 29.750 29.654 29.619 .30.509 30.400 30.355 30.273 30.045 29.880 29 889 .29.605 29.421 29.527 29.488 29.330 29.284 28-762

60.0 58.4 62.8 70.2 76.8 80.9 81.9 64.5 62.9 67.0 74.5 81.4 85.3 86.7 56.3 54.9 59.5 66.9 73.6 77.6 78.3 79.3 79.1 82.1 88.6 91.5 93.6 94.0 32.0 38.4

51.8 62.0 68.9 7.21 8.2 8.0 7.5 76 83

65.1 58.5

94.0 93.8 85.6

65.6 57.4 46.7

Mean daily range

Mean humidity

Mean rain fall..

7.6 7.8 7.7

85 83 5.511 11.713 15.681

1.221 83,148

Maximum in 24 hours

Mean max. in 24 hours

Maximum in 1 hour

0.650 1.037 0.970 1.570 2.420 3.400 2.855 3.480

6.225 20.495 12.630 2.224 3.877 4.422

13.480 11.135 3.431 3.842 2.350

5.855 10.190

1.670 20.495

2.210 0.870 0.548 7.914

1.650 1,690 0.500 3.480

Mean max. in 1 hour

Hours of rain

Wind direction

52 E by N EbyN

0.553 03.02 0.165 2.087

Do. velocity mean(M. P. H.)13.6

Eby N E by N

12.2 11.1

Do. Maximum

30 ENE 13.1

12.1 13.

Hours of sunshine

14.5 46 53 49 47 139.0 95.5 84.1 112.5

43 48 155.1 164.5 210.2 200.5 195.2 213.5 187.0

178.5 19.291

Four successive years of comparative drought, 1898-1901, led to the assumption that the rainfall of Hongkong is decreasing. But such is not the case; the mean annual rainfall for the period 1902-11 was 84.21 inches against 68.29 inches for the period 1895- 1901. The rainfall has never been so heavy as in the period 1888-1894, however, when the mean annual fall was 101.08 inches. In 1914 it rose to 100.21 inches, in 1915 it was 76.025 inches, in 1916, 79.85 inches and in 1917, 81,48 inches.

Hongkong is a free port, and there is no complete official return of the imports and exports compiled, but the value of its trade is estimated in normal times at about £50,000,000 per annum. During the year 1916 the following tonnage entered and .cleared :-

NATIONALITY

American

Vessels. Tons.

5,229 5,272,550 5,117 113,031 34

Vessels.

Tons. 5,141,211

Austrian

!Belgian

· Chinese Junks.. 7,1 7

Japanese

$3.89 13,440 123 345,162

764,636 1,526,181

13,440 331,926

1,947,374 675 1,624,586

NATIONALITY

Norwegian Portuguese Russian Siamese Swedish

Steamships un- der 60 tons trading to ports outside the Colony../

Vessels. Tons.

164 219 15

168, 156

Vessels. Tons.

A total of 16,426 vessels of 9,860,681 tons entered, and 18,931 vessels of 10,001,545 tons cleared with cargoes. There also entered in ballast 7,775 vessels of 1,201,607 tons, ani

HONGKONG

5,220 vessels of 1,244,628 tons cleared in ballast. The total of the shipping including trading junks, river steamers and steam launches, entering and clearing at Ports in the Colony during the year 1916 amounted to 642,794 vessels of 36,381,457 tons, which compared with the figures for 1915, shows an increase of 111,192 vessels with an increase of 2,496,538 tons. A Parliamentary paper issued in August, 1905, showed Hongkong to be, in respect of tonnage, the largest shipping port in the world. The trade chiefly consists of opium, cotton, sugar, salt, flour, oil, cotton and woollen goods, cotton yarn, matches, metals, earthenware, amber, ivory, sandalwood, betel, vegetables, granite, etc., etc. There is an extensive Chinese passenger trade, chiefly restricted, however, to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, Siam, and Indo-China.

Hongkong possesses unrivalled steam communication. The P. & O. S. N. Co. and the M. M. Co. conveyed European mails weekly, and before the outbreak of the war, which eliminated German and Austrian shipping, the Norddeutscher Lloyd maintained a regular fortnightly mail service between Bremen and Hongkong. The China Mail S.S. Co., the Pacific Mail S. S. Co., the Toyo Kisen Kaisha and the Java Pacific Line maintain a service with San Francisco, and the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Ltd., maintained a regular mail service with Vancouver, B.C., until war broke out, when all their steamers were taken up by the Imperial Government. vessels were released in December, 1915, and this Company is now operating four steamers on this route. The Bank Line, Ltd., and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, run regular steamers to Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and to Tacoma, and the Bank line maintains regular services to New York; the Australian Oriental Line keep up a regular monthly service with the Australian Colonies, and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha maintain services to Europe, Australia, and the United States (Seattle). In addition to all these, several great lines of merchant steamers run between ports in Great Britain and Hongkong, of which the China Mutual S. S. Co., Ocean S. S. Co., and the Glen, Bank, Mogul, Ben, Royal Mail, Shire, Barber, and Shell lines are the most conspicuous. Regular steam communication between Java

Java and Hongkong is maintained by the Java-China-Japan Line and the Nederland Royal Mail Line. Between the ports on the east coast of China, Formosa and Hongkong the steamers of the Douglas S.S. Co. and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha ply regularly, and there is constant steam communication with Hoihow, Manila, Saigon, Haiphong, Tourane, Bangkok, Borneo, etc. With Shanghai, Tientsin, and the ports of Japan there is frequent communication by steamers of the Indo- China S.Ñ. Co., China Navigation, and other lines, in addition to the English and French mail steamers, which leave weekly. Between Hongkong, Macao, and Canton there is a daily steam service, and steamers run as far as Wuchow on the West River.

DIRECTORY

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT

Governor, Commander-in-Chief, and Vice-Admiral-SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G. Aide-de-Camp-D.S.P., P.P.J. Wodehouse

Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. G. G. Wood, H.K.D.C.

Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Capt. J. H. W. Armstrong, H.K.D.C.

Hon. Extra Aide-de-Camp-Subadar Major Roshan Khan, H.K.S.B., R.G.A.

-Subadar Mehr Khan 74th Punjabis

—D. S. P. (R) F. C. Jenkin

—A. S. P. (R) T. F. Hough

His Excellency The Governor

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

局政議 I Ching Kuk

His Excellency Genl. Officer Coinmanding

Hon. Colonial Secretary

Hon. Attorney-General

Hon. Colonial Treasurer

Hon. Director of Public Works

Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs

Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, Kt., C.M.G Hon. E. H. Sharp, K.C.

HONGKONG

President:

His Excellency The Governor

Official Members:

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

His Excellency Genl. Officer Commanding

Hon. Colonial Secretary

Hon. Attorney-General Hon. Colonial Treasurer

Hon. Director of Public Works

Ting Lai Kuk

Hon. Secretary for Chinese Affairs Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police

Unofficial Members:

Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. Hon. Mr. E. Shellim

Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak

Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak

Hon. Mr. C. E. Anton

Hon. Mr. Ho Fook

Clerk of Councils: Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher

(For Government Departments see under G)

Yick Cheong Hong

A. KWAI & Co., Ship chandlers, Sailmakers, Provision Merchants, Soap and Soda Manufacturers-15 and 16, Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong; Teleph. 1988; Tel. Ád: Akwai

Cheung Kwai, managing partner Cheung So,

W. C. Cheung, assistant

Cheung Ting Shau, clerk

General Managers: The Hongkong

Soap and Soda Manufacturing Co.

Factory at Mongkok. Teleph. K249.

芳華 Wa-fong

A FONG'S PHOTO STUDIO-31, Queen's Road

A Fong, photographer

Lai Yuet Chan, manager

King-kee

A KING, Slipway, Yacht, Motor-boat, and Boat Builder, Rigger, Painter, Sail and Flag Maker--Praya East, Wanchai; Teleph. 307

A King, proprietor

Chan Shun Fat, signs per pro.

A LING & Co., Furniture and Mirror

Makers, Photo Goods Dealers 19,

Queen's Road Central; Teleph. 1219

A Tack & Co. (Established 1878), Furni- ture and Photo Goods Store-26, Des Voeux Road Central

Au Ki, managing partner

Au Yun, parcher

E-pa-la-him

ABDOOLALLY EBRAHIM & Co., Merchants and Comn. Agents-79, Wyndham Street

E. A. Saolemanjee, manager

K. A. Basrai

師則謙道何 Ho-do-him-chik-see

ABDOOLRAHIM, A., Civil Engineer, Archi-

tect and Surveyor-34, Queen's Road Central

John Maraes

Wm. Hall

S. T. Barma

M. Abdoola

Hing-cheong-kung-see

AH MEN & HING CHEONG & Co., Tailors, Drapers and Outfitters-8, Queen's Road Central

利英 Ying-lee

Ah Ying & Co., C., Commission Agents, Import-Export Coal and Provision

Merchants, Ship-chandlers, Stevedores, Naval and Military Contractors, Tenants of H. M. Ships' Canteen, Suppliers of Labour and Junks for Coaling, and of Chinese Crews for Merchant ships- 23, Connaught Road Central; Teleph. 748

C. Ah Ying, directing partner

C. F. King, signs per pro.

C. Lane-poole, signs per pro.

Wei-hai-wei Branch-24, Seymour Street

Chu Chu Yee, signs per pro.

Singapore Branch-11, Robinson Rd.

A-ga-sik-si-lup-sze

AGASSIZ, E. L., Solicitor-24. Queen's Rd.

Ala-xan-da-coffé-koon

Alexandra Cafe Co., THE, Bakers,

Confectioners and Restaurant-16, Des Vœux Road; Teleph. 909

Mrs. Babbage

ALABASTER, CHALONER GRENVILLE, Bar- rister-at-Law-6, Des Voeux Rd. Central Teleph. 1012

HONGKONG

記萬 Man-kee

ALLY, M., Merchant and Commission

Agent-14, Des Voeux Road Central

昌順 Sun-cheong

ALVES & Co., A. L., Exporters and Im- porters, Commission Agents-Victoria

Buildings, 5, Queen's Road; Teleph.

646; Tel. Ad: Gallotti; P.O. Box 621

A. L Alves

The Indo-China Portland Cement Co.

ALVES & Co., J. M., Produce Merchants

and Manufacturers' Representatives-

Office 1A, Chater Road ; Tel. Ad:

Ageratum; P.O. Box 324

Chev. J. M. Alves

A. M. S. Rosario

N. G. Marques

Mei Kwok Wan Tung Ngun Hong

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, Bankers,

Tourist and Shipping Agents - - 13,

Queen's Road Central; Tel. Ad: Amexco

Robert Buchan, agent

S. P. White, cashier

R. P. Boyce

T. L. Knight

昌慎 Sun-chong

ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., LTD. (Incor- porated in U.S.A.); Branches at Shanghai,

Tientsin, Peking, and Hankow, Copen-

hagen, and New York-Hotel Mansions;

Teleph. 1990; Tel. Ad: Hammes

C. J. Hammes, actg. manager T. B. Culhane, engineer

S. Jex, assistant

A. J. Kew, stenographer

C. M. E. Pereira, book-keeper

C. J. Sequeira, assistant

(For agencies see page 731)

司公限有琴洋臣打

Yeung Kam Hong

Anderson Music Co., Ltd., The, Pianoforte, Organ and Music Dealers,

Tuners, Regulators and Repairers -16,

Des Voeux Road Central; Teleph. 1322; Tel. Ad: Music

Wm. Anderson, managing director

John E. Anderson

Miss Stanley

Miss Gittins

Distributors for

"Columbia" Graplophones, Grafonolas

and Records

記萬 Man-kee

APCAR & Co., ARRATOON V., Merchants

and Commission Agents-14, Des Vœux

Road Central

A. V. Apcar

Agencies

I S. K. Yen Thomas

Banco Nacional Ultramarino

International Petroleum Co., Ltd. Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Kwong-woo

"AQUARIUS" COMPANY, Manufacturers of

Aerated Waters-15, Queen's Road

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., agents

Hop-tuck

ARCULLI BROTHERS, Merchants and Com-

mission Agents-Queen's Road Central;

Teleph, 409; Tel. Ad: Curly

A. F. Arculli

O. el Arculli

V. Curreem

E. el Arculli

Abdul Curreem

Omar el Arculli

ARCULLI & SONS, A. F., Army Contractors;

Teleph. 409; Tel. Ad: Arculli

A. F. Arculli

O. el Arculli

E. el Arculli

ARNHOLD BROS. & Co., LTD., CHINA, Import

and Export Merchants

B.Monteith Webb&Co., representatives

記瑞 Sui-kee

ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,

Dodwell & Co., Ld., liquidators

義公 Kung-i

ARTHUR & Co. (EXPORT), LTD., Manu-

facturers and Merchants (Glasgow and London)-Prince's Building, 1, Des Vœux

Alex. Mackenzie, representative

ASGER, DR. M. E., Dental Surgeon-Post Office Building (3rd floor); P.O. Box 210; Teleph. 1392

M. E. Asger, D.D.S., graduate of the State University of Illinois, U.S.A.

Visiting Dental Surgeon Government

Civil Hospital

A-sai-a-fo-yau-kung-sże

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (South China), LTD., THE (Incorporated in England)

King's Buildings, Connaught Road Cen-

tral; P.O. Box 22в; Teleph. 1044 ; Tel. Ad: Petrosilex

N. L. Watson, general manager

W. H. Bell

H. F. Bunje

W. A. Butterfield | A. J. Bursley

L. A. Cossart M. M. Maas W. Manning E. J. Odufré

J. F. Castro

F. Hobbs R. Y. Frost

HONGKONG

H. W. Kylling

W. J. Pringle

G. Ringnalda

J. Tully

Miss Best

E.I.Grant-Smith H. G. Offord

Mrs. Birnie Miss Bishop Mrs. Christie Miss Lee

D. A. Barradas

Marine Department

A. W. Ramsey

J. Rasmussen I A. C. V. Ribeiro J. C. Rodrigues E. M. Rozario H. Watkins

A. M. Xavier

H. van Meines, superintendent

North Point Installation

H. J. Sleat, manager

C. H. Arnott

Tai-Kok-Tsui Installation, Kowloon

P. H. Murray, manager

Agencies

The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ld. The Bataafsche Petroleum Maats-

chappij, The Hague

The Asiatic Petroleum Co. (Philippine

Islands), Ld.

The Rising Sun Petroleum Co., Ld.

Sole Importers of

"Shell" Motor Spirit

"Moesiline" Lubricating Oils "Turpene" Mineral Turpentine

ASSOCIAÇÃO PORTUGUESA DE SOCCORROS

MUTUOS (Sedé, Club Lusitano)

Secretaria, Escritorio dos Srs. Maxim & Co., 2, Queen's Building (2nd floor) Presidente--Leo d'Almada e Castro Vice Presidente-A.F.B. Silva-Netto Secretario-V. F. Soares Thesoureiro-J. A. V. Ribeiro Vogaes-A. E. Alves, C. A. da Roza, F. E. de Carvalho, I. M. Xavier, J. D. Osmund, F. P. de V. Soares, D. P. J. Lopes, Dr. F. M. Graca- Ozorio

ASILE DE LA SAINTE ENFANCE-(See under

Educational)

ASSOCIATION OF EXPORTERS AND DEALERS

OF HONGKONG -- Secretary's Office: Chartered Bank Building

Committe-W.A.Hannibal (chairman),

A. van Andel (vice-chairman), E. A. Beaumont, J. H. Brister, W. M. Humphreys, U. Rumjahn, F. Syme- Thomson, J. Owen Hughes

E. A. M. Williams, secretary D. K. Blair, deputy do.

Astor h'ao Tim

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL-Queen's Rd. Central

F. A. Chopard, proprietor

M. Flint,

M. A. Vas

A. Germann

ATIENZA, VICENTE- 18, Nathan Road,

Kowloon; Teleph, K155

Agencies

The Germinal Cigar and Cigarette

Factory, Manila

V. Rigaud, Paris, Perfumery

Maison Grimault & Co., Paris

R. Vasconer.

Panama Hats

利庇 Bay-li

BAILEY & CO., LTD., W. S., Engineers and

Shipbuilders-Works and Office: Kow-

loon Bay; Teleph. K21; Tel. Ad:

Seybourne

W. S. Bailey, managing director

H. J. Gedge, director

Thos. Ramsay, asst. managing director

D. A. Goodwin, asst. draughtsman

H. Hyndman, jr., secretary

L. S. Hyndman

Mrs. E. Hing

| C. E. Rathsam

Miss C. Wahr

Ngun-hong-lun-sheun-kung-sze

BANK LINE, LIMITED, THE-Shipowners and Brokers-King's Building; Teleph.

780; Tel. Ad: Bankline; P.O. Box 110

T. A. Loughlin, manager

W. G. Goggin, sub-manager Jno. Stalker

J. J. Gutierrez, bookkeeeper A. Lopes, freight clerk Miss M. Remedios

Agencies

Andrew Weir & Co. Prince Line, Ld.

Houlder, Middleton & Co., Ltd. Furness, Withy & Co., Ld. Indian-African Line Oriental African Line American Manchurian Line American and Oriental Line Calcutta-River Plate Line

Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. Co., Ltd.

"Ellerman" Lines

Union Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.

行銀東廣 Kwang-tung-ngan-hong

BANK OF CANTON, LTD., THE 6, Des Voeux Road; P.O. Box 546; Teleph. 1146; Tel. Ad: Cantonese

Look Poong Slian, chief manager

J. D. F. Mulder, ingr. of foreign ex.

Quan Shu John, chief acct.

Chun Kew, secretary

Toi-wan-ngan-hong

HONGKONG

R. Pestonji

BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD.--Prince's Building,

3, Des Voeux Road; Tel. Ad: Taiwan

N. Yanagita, manager

M. Taketoh, per pro.

H. Yamamoto

F. Tadaki

T. Honda

M. Kishi

J. Furuya

K. Yoshikawa

K. Takeda

S. Konuma

T. Hirano

H. Sakuma

BANKER & Co., Shipowners, Merchants, Export and Import--Shipping Office: 30, Des Voeux Road West; Teleph. 694; Town

Office: Hotel Mansions; Teleph. €62; Tel. Ad: Banker

Geo. Banker (Wuchow)

S. E. Green

A. B. Bryson

The Eagle & British Dominions Fire

Ins. Co., Ld., London

Tsong-Fat Shat-yip ngan-hong

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE-- Queen's

Building, 5, Chater Road; Telephi 2439-

M. Rouet de Journel, manager

M. Wolfers, sings per pro.

F. J. Murray

Wei-Shiong Loo Tch'ao-yuen Loo T. K. Lork

Michel Tsin

行銀西蘭佛 Fat-lan sai ngan-hong

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE-Chater Road

L. Berindoague, manager

C. E. Goy, cashier, accountant

E. M. Xavier

L. G. Xavier

E. L. Rocha

E. R.Hyndham

J. M. d'Almeida

W. H. Hyder Miss V. Razavet | P. D. Long

BASA, R., Merchant and Commission

Agent-York Building

C. Cuenca

BELILIOS PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR GIRLS-(See

under Educational)

BENJAMIN & POTTS, Share and General Brokers-Prince's Building; Tel. Ad: Broker; Teleph. 1152

G. H. Potts, partner

P. C. Potts,

H.R.B. Hancock, do. E. M. Raymond, do.

J. Mackenzie

L. Kamming Laing | B.C.Randall,jr.

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, HONGKONG

· President- Mrs. Pollock

Vice-President -Lady Rees Davies Hon. Secretary-Mrs. McKenny Asst. Secretary-Miss Wilkinson Hon. Treasurer-Mrs. Wolfe

BERBLINGER & Co.

Lowe, Bingham & Matthews,

liquidators

BERLIN FOUNDLING HOSPITAL-(See under

Churches and Missions)

BIBLE, Book AND TRACT DEPOT—

2, Wyndham Street

Rev. H. E. Anderson and wife

Gu Sun-man-wo-hong 行和萬新

BISMARCK & Co. (a Chinese firm named' Sun Man Woo Co.), Shipchandlers, Navy Contractors, Provision and Coal Mer-

chants, Sailmakers and Commission Agents-18 and 19, Connaught Road Central; Teleph. 309

C. Yuetpo, manager

Au Ut Foo

BISNEY, S., Estate and General Broker- "Stillingflete," Peak Road; Teleph. 331; Tel. Ad: Bisney

Be-lik-hut

BLACKHEAD & Co., F., Lowe, Bingham &

Matthews, liquidators

Botelho Bros., General Merchants and Shipping Agents-Alexandra Buildings; and also at Shanghai (China) and San Francisco (California); Tel. Ad: Botelho

B. J. Botelho (Hongkong) P. V. Botelho (Hongkong) J. H. Botelho (Shanghai) C. H. Burns (San Francisco) D A. Rozario, assistant Miss M. E. Britto, typist Agencies

Compañia General de Tabacos de

Filipinas

Compania Transatlantica de Barcelona

(Spanish Royal Mail Co.)

L. C. Smith Typewriter Co.

National Benefit Life & Property

Assurance Co., Ltd.

記德 Tuk-kee

HONGKONG

BRADLEY & Co., LTD., Merchants-Prince's

Buildings, Hongkong; Teleph. 2020;

also Swatow and Shanghai

T. W. Richardson, governing director

R. H. Hill (London)

G. A. Richardson (Shanghai)

A. Macgowan (Swatow)

F. C. Butcher (Swatow)

J. A. Plummer (Hongkong)

F.Bevington, signs per pro., seeretary

K. S. Morrison, signs per pro. T. W. Hill, on active service

E. J. R. Mitchell, do,

J. M. S. Rozario

W. E. Roberts

Miss Tregillus

A. V. Barros

A. M. Tavares

J. F. Miller, supt. engineer

H. J. Hunter

S. Musso

A. Joanilho

E. A. Remedios

General Managers

The Eastern Asbestos Co.

Agencies

Akaike Coal Mines

Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ltd.

La Cie. de Commerce et de Navigation

D'Extreme Orient

Northern S. S. Co., Petrograd Manufacturers' Life Assce. Co., Toronto Northern Assur. Co. (Fire and Life),

Wm. Younger & Co., Ltd., Edinburgh

(Ale and Stout)

Adet Seward & Co.,

(Brandy and French Wines)

A. & B. Mackay, Ltd.

("Liqueur" Whisky)

Bordeaux

Paraffine Paint Co., San Francisco

(Malthoid Roofing)

Campbell Gas Engine Co.

BRAGA, J. P., Printer, Publisher, Book-

binder and Stationer-16, Des Voeux

Rd. Central; Teleph. 583; Tel. Ad: Agarb

J. P. Braga, proprietor

J. A. Lopez, foreman

樓 字 寫官 度量

Leong-to-kun-se-chi-lau

BRANCH, B. R., Official Measurer--45,

Connaught Road Central; Teleph. 860

H. H. Sandeman, Canton

Hung-fat

BREWER & Co., Booksellers, Stationers, Printers, Newsagents, Fancy Goods Dealers, &e. - Hongkong Hotel Build- ing, Queen's Road Central

BRITISH AMERICAN ASSURANCE Co.

Queen's Building; Teleph. 181

Reiss & Co., agents

J. W. Stackhouse, mgr. (Ins. Dept)

司公菓糖美英興廣

Kwong-hing-ying-me-tong-kae-ko-sue

BRITISH-AMERICAN CANDY STORES, THE---

15, Pottinger Street

JA*** Ying-mee-yin-kung-sze

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.-18,

Bank Buildings; P.O. Box 131; Teleph. 355; Tel. Ad: Powhattan

E. L. de S. Alves M, J. Gaan J. Botelho Y. Salter I. L. Roeha John Yew

V. L. A. Fairley, manager F. A. Perry, asst. manager

A. J. Carter H.T.Whitehouse S. M. Mayes R. H. Sharp R. Abrahamn A. G. Suffiad G. Wilson J. E. Rocha N. 1. Turenne

M. H. Abbas

Miss B. R. Ablong Miss L. G. Ablong Miss A. Silva

Mrs. Hammond

Sub-Depots-Canton, Yunnanfu, Amoy, Swatow, Foochow, Kongmoon, Nan- ningfu, Wuehow, Waiehow.-Motor Launeh "Rosette

Agents-Westminster Tobacco Co., Ltd.

BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY-Tel.

Ad: Testaments

Rev. H. E. Anderson and wife

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (HONGKONG

AND CHINA BRANCHI)

President-Prof. K. H. Digby, F.R.C.S. Viee-President-Dr. G. D. R. Black Hon. Sec. and

Marriott

Treasurer-Dr. O.

Council-Dr. Aubrey, Surgeon Coch-

rane, R.N., Dr. Koch, Capt. Cameron- Macauley, R.A.M.C., Dr. C.

C. W. McKenny

Tai-ying-pak-pun-niu Wong-ka

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO GOVERNMENT

Gibb, Livingston.& Co., agents

司公限有寕保險火及面洋外中

Chung-ngoi Yeung-mein-kup-fo-him Po-ning

Yau-han Kung-sze

BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LTD.----

3 and 4 Queen's Building

Directors-Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak

(chairman), S. H. Dodwell, W. L. Pattenden, A. Forbes, G. T. Edkins, A. O. Lang

C. Montague Ede, general manager

HONGKONG

BROSSARD & MOPIN, Civil Engineers, Reinforced Concrete Specialists and General Contractors-King's Building (Top Floor); Tel. Ad: Brossard Hongkong; Codes: A.B.C. 5th Edition and Private

R. Gaujoin, engr. gen. mgr., signs p. p. W. C. Jack, 14 Des Voeux Road, agent Head Office--Saigon

Agencies in Singapore, Peking, Tien-

tsin and Shanghai

Pong-long Chun-se

BROWN, JONES & Co., Undertakers, Monu- mental Masons, Marble and Granite Dealers, and Collectors of Government Cemetery Fees-Office, Show Rooms and Marble Yard: 41, Morrison Hill Road

BRUNNER, MOND & Co.. LTD., Alkali Manufacturers-7, Queen's Road Central; Teleph. 1630: Tel. Ad: Alkali

H. G. Allen, district manager for

South China (absent)

G. N. Manley, acting district manager

Po-lut-tun-chong-sze-hong BRUTTON & Co., GEO. K. HALL, Solicitors, Notaries Public, Proctor, Patent and Trade Marks Agents, &c.-York Buildg., Chater Rd.; Tph. 581; Tel. Ad: Brutton

G. K. Hall Brutton, solicitor

W. B. Hind,

H. K. Woo, L.L.B.,

F. M. Ellis

古太 Tai-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ld.), Merchants-Praya

John Swire

(London)

G. Warren Swire do.

Colin C. Scott do.

H. W. Robertson

G. T. Edkins (absent)

Ross Thomson, signs per pro.

G. K. Nuttall, signs per pro. (absent)

G. M. Young,

N. S. Brown,

W. Nicholson,

W. Armstrong L. A. Barton C. H. Blason N. I. Brewer

J. Johnstone

A. H. Lay

R. Macgregor

J. M. McHutchon

R. W. McIntyre H. J. Nairn

R. J. Rawlinson

A. W. L. Robertson

T. R. Chassels C. H. Davis J. D. Danby B. E. Fielder T. J. Fisher A. D. Galloway H. Griffin R. G. Herbert CC. Hickling J. Wilson

G. E. Stewart F. A. Wells

R. A. Wilkinson

R. Innes, marine supt.

E. M. French, asst. marine supt. F. W. James, supt. engineer D. J. Finlayson, asst. zupt. engr. R. V. Cameron, coal overseer A. R. Austin, architect (absent) C. R. M. Young, architect Miss Forsyth Mrs. Hidden Miss Lander

Miss MacLachlan Miss Moore

Miss Page Miss Parkes Miss Scott

Miss Yeardye

(See also under Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld., and Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co, of Hongkong, Ld., and Holt's Wharf)

Agencies

China Navigation Company, Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Company, Ld. Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co., Ld., Agents for John I. Thornycroft & Co., Ld.

Ocean Steamship Company, Ld. China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Holt's Wharf

Australian Oriental Line

L'don. & Lancashire Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Palatine Insurance Company, Ld. Orient Insurance Company British Traders Ins. Co., Ltd. Brit. and For. Marine Ins. Co., Ld. Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Sea Insurance Company, Limited

Guardian Assurance Co., Ld. (Marine) Secretaries-Luen Steamship Co., Ltd.* Secretaries-Australian and Oriental

Trading Co., Ltd.

和廣 Kwong Wa

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Wine,

Spirit and Beer Merchants-15, Queen's Road

J. F. Macgregor (London)

C. J. Lafrentz

F. W. S. Evans

E. F. Bateman (Shanghai)

N. C. Macgregor

E. Gumpert (Tientsin)

H. F. Henningsen (Peking)

E. A. Swan (Penang)

A. G. da Rocha

C. J. M. Pereira

J. Assumpção

CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD., Hairdres-

sers, Perfumers and Wigmakers, and

Manicurists-Hotel Mansions, Chater

Miss Bishop

L. Young

Miss B. Brown

Miss C. Brown

Miss M. Gomes

HONGKONG

Cheong-hing Fo-lun-shun Kung-sze

CANADIAN PACIFIC OCEAN SERVICES, LTD.

(Pacific Service) Corner Pedder's

Street and Praya, opposite Blake Pier; Teleph. 42; Tel. Ad: Nautilus

J. H. Wallace, general agent H. E. Hayward, chief asst.

G. L. Courtney K. M. Fetterly J. Gibbison F. J. Neves

F. J. Brown

P. D. Sutherland, general agent,

passenger dept.

T. G. Turnbull, passenger agent G. E. Costello

H. T. Wilgress, accountant

V. F. d'Azevedo

Robert Hall, supt. engineer J. C. Stoppa

J. A. Straube

DARH Can-ton Po-him Kung-sze CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ld., gen. agts. Consulting Committee-Hon. Mr. C. E. Anton (chairman), Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., F. Maitland, A. H. Compton, G. W. Barton, C. S. Gubbay and Sir Robert Ho Tung

CARLTON HOTEL - Teleph. 812; Tel. Ad:

O. E. Owen, proprietor and manager

麵器機船駄咕咪架

CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, Consulting Eng

gineers Naval Architects and Marine

Surveyors-3, Queen's Building; Teleph.

232; Tl. Ad: Carmichael

H. F. Carmichael, M.I.N.A., M.I.M.E.

T. H. G. Brayfield, M.I.N.A., M.I.MECH.E. J. B. Thomson, M.I.M.E.

H. J. Rowe

Ship and Engr. Surveyors to American

Bureau of Shipping

Managers

S. S." Brisbane

S. S." Hauroto "

CARROLL, BROS., Ship, Share and General Brokers. Steamship Owners and Agents -9, Lee House St.; Teleph. 652; Tel. Ad: Carroll

W. J. Carroll A. H. Carroll

F. J. Braga

Mrs. M. Smith

General Managers

The Rotorua Steamship Co., Ltd.

The China Coast st amship Co., Ltd.

CARVALHO, DR. ARTHUR DE, Dental Sur- geon-12 and 13, Alexandra Buildings

Carvalho & Co., Importers, Exporters and General Merehants Alexandra Building; Teleph, 1794; Tel. Ad: Carvalho; P.O. Box 389

Dr. Arthur de Carvalho, director

(Hongkong)

C. W. Faraday, dir. (San Francisco) H. A. Castro, sign per pro., manager E. F. Wright, representative (South

America)

CASSUM AHMED, Milliner and Draper-32 and 34, Wellington Street. Branch at 28, Nathan Road, Kowloon

H. A. L. Ahamed

M. C. Ahined

JC Ahmed

Pa-lun-chee

CAWASJEE PALLANJEE & Co., Merchants— 6, Queen's Road Central; Teleph. 819

Rustomjee Cooverjee (Bombay) Hormusjee Cooverjee Eduljee Cawasjee

Pestonjee Cooverjee

R. B. Cooper, manager

S. J. Kolapore

Greaves Cotton & Co. of Bombay

CENTENNIAL MILL CO. OF SEATTLE, U.S.A.

-Hotel Mansions

Connell Bros. & Co., agents

W. H. Burtt, general Oriental agent

CENTRAL AGENCY, LTD., THE, Importer of Sewing Cotton Thread-2, Connaught

Rd. Central; Telepli. 657: Tel. Ad: Spool

J. S. Nicolson

C. Wallace

C M. McInnes

J. Rodger

Ying-seung-wui-kün

HONGKONG

OF COMMERCE, GENERAL-Secretary's Office: Chartered Bank Building

Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, chairman S. H. Dodwell, vice-chairman Committee-Hon. Mr. C. E. Anton, Messrs. A. S. D. Cousland, C. Montague Ede, G. T. Edkins, A. O. Lang, E. V. D. Parr, Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, N J. Stabb

Secretariat

E. A. M. Williams, A.S.A.A., A.C.I.S., sec. D. K. Blair

Tung-king-mui-tan Kung-sze

HONGKONG

CHARBONNAGES DU TONKIN, SOCIÉTÉ FRAN- ÇAISE DES-Mines at Hongay, Tonkin;

Hongkong Agency: Alexandra Building

E. Lecable, agent

Pong Tsoi-ching, accountant

↑ Cha-ta Ngan-hong CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA-Queen's Road. Head Office:

38, Bishopsgate, London

T. C. Downing, manager

J Macdonald, acting sub-manager H. E. Smith, accountant J. Gibb,

sub-accountant

N. J. Austin,

W. J. Morrison,

J. R. Irvine,

C. H, Lovely,

C. F. Maltby

J. P. Xavier

C. B. da Roza

J. M. Pinna

E. A. da Silva

J. Ribeiro

E. Botelho

A. L. Silva H. M. Silva

A. H. Carvalho

F. A. Rozario

C. A. Ribeiro

E. M. Ozorio

G. F. Roza H. Campos E. Guimaras F. E. Antonio

A. R. Kader

R. M. Omar

E. G. Luz

A. V. Kong

Miss M. White

G. L. Read, sub-agent (Canton)

A. M. O. Forrest, sub-agent (F'chow.)

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CHATER, SIR C. P., KT., C.M.G.-5, Queen's

Road Central

CHATER & MODY-5, Queen's Rd. Central

Sir C. P. Chater, KT., C.M.G.

E. M. Sadick

CHAUN, DR. M. H., Dental Surgeon-33, Queen's Road Central, Lock Hing's Building (1st floor), Rooms 2 and 3; Teleph. 126

CHELLARAM, D., Silk Merchant-38 and 40,

Queen's Road Central

P. L. Moorjani, manager

CHINA ASSOCIATION, HONGKONG BRANCH

Committee-C. Montague Ede (chair- man), G. T. Edkins, Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak, N. J. Stabb, Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Stanley H. Dodwell, Hon. Mr. C. E. Anton, E. V. D. Parr, C. H. P. Hay (hon. sec.)

Chung-wa-bon-new-kung-sze

CHINA-BORNEO COMPANY,

LIMITED-4,

St. George's Building; Tel. Ad: Billian

W. G. Darby, general manager

W. D. Jupp, manager (Sandakan)

H. W. Kennett, acting manager

San-tau-yuen-cheong-kung-sze

CHINA DRAWN WORK Co. (Yuen Chong), Manufacturers of Swatow Drawn Work

and Canton Embroideries, Wholesale and Retail, Dealers of Swatow Drawn- work and Canton Embroidery, Grasslinen, White Coloured Silk, etc.-Old Post Office Building, Queen's Rd. Central; Factory: Yok Sien Street Swatow; Tel. Ad: Drawnwork

Mark C. Lim, proprietor

Y. C. Chan, manager

P. M. Wright, secretary

*** Cheung Tai Muk Hong

CHINA IMPORT & EXPORT LUMBER Co.,

LTD.-Chater Road; P.O.

Teleph. 1500

B. Monteith Webb & Co., representvs

Chung-wa Fo-chuk Po-him Hong

China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.-3,

and 4, Queen's Buildings; Teleph. 81; Tel. Ad: Chincough

Directors-Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak (chairman), S. H. Dodwell, W. L. Pattenden, A. O. Lang, A Forbes General manager-Chas.MontagueEde Agency

The Atlas Assur. Co., Ld., of London

JAA#Tak-lut-fung Kung Sze CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE & ELECTRIC Co., LIMITED-16, Ice House Street;