They embrace bricks, brickworks, works for making tiles and earthenware pipes, plant for distributing water, wharves of various sorts, including private harbours and staithes.
It is not known how many of the 90 or so wharves within the city boundary were overtopped; but overtopping was extensive.
One morning the port was attacked, the wharves were wrecked, a schooner and a dredger were sunk and 120 yards of warehouses were destroyed.
Practically no clearing had been done in constructing the wharf; in fact, both bow and stern of the vessel were stuck fast in the mangrove thicket.
Acquisition would also allow for reclamation of land and wharf buildings on the waterfronts.
Only sufficient mangroves have been cut down to clear a space on which to build the wharf and leave a small open part on each side for canoes.
Commerce was thus carried out under a convenient fiction which brought an ever-busier traffic to the wharves of the city.
Liu is the most famous of this type of comprador, gaining recognition for successfully reorganizing the coal distribution networks and wharf operations.
