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NEWCHWANG
primarily for the conveyance of material for the construction of the line connecting Talienwan and Port Arthur with the Trans-Siberian Railway.
The country about the port of Newchwang is bare and desolate, and in sailing up the river a most cheerless prospect greets the traveller's eye. Ying-tz is surrounded by dreary marshes, and the land under cultivation produces principally beans. The river is closed by ice for more than three months every year, during which period the residents are entirely cut off from the outer world. The climate, however, is healthy and bracing. The population of the place is estimated at 60,000.
The chief articles of trade at the port are Beans and Bean-cake; 4,220,963 piculs of the former and 3,695,821 piculs of the latter being exported in 1898. The net quantity of Opium imported in 1898 was 92 piculs, compared with 2,453 piculs in 1879. The import of Opium has of late years shown an almost continuous decline, the poppy being largely and successfully cultivated in Manchuria. The total value of the trade of the port for 1898 amounted to Tls. 32,441,315 as against Tls. 26,358,671 in 1897.
DIRECTORY
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Agencies
生茂 Mow-sing
AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY: Tel. Ad.
Napoleon
C. McCaslin, agent
H. R. Everall
Agencies
China Traders' Insurance Company Royal Insurance Company (Fire)
Chee-chang
BANDINEL & Co., Merchants
J. J. F. Bandinel
W. J. Lister
F. D. Farmer C. John
Agencies
National Bank of China, Limited Nippon Yusen Kaisha
China Shipowners' Association Norddeutscher Lloyd Hamburg-America Line
Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navign. Co. Northern Pacific Steamship Company Deutscher Lloyd
Osaka Shosen Kaisha Dodwell & Co.'s Steamers
Transtlantie Marine Insurance Co. Continental Insurance Company Imperial Marine Insurance Co. Hanseatischer Lloyd Internationaler Lloyd
Sun Fire Office
Standard Life Assurance Company
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
來遠 Yin.lae
BUSH BROTHERS, Merchants and Commis-
sion Agents
Henry A. Bush
H. F. Bush, signs per pro.
A. Van Ess
P. Farmer S. James
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn. Jardine, Matheson & Co.
M. Sheveleff & Co., Vladivostock A. R. Marty
Nisshin Boyeki Kaisha
I. M. Customs Bankers
Cheque Bank Company, Ld., London Hongkong & Shanghai Bdg. & Loan Co. Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. China Mutual Steam Navigation Co. Chinesische Küstenfahrt Gesellschaft Deutsche Dampfschiffs Rhederei Russian Steam Nav. Co. in the East Shanghai Steamship Company, Ld. Chinese Trading Steamship Co. Whachong Steam Navigation Co., L‹l. Lloyd's
North China Insurance Company Canton Insurance Office, Limited Yangtsze Insurance Association Germanischer Lloyd's, Berlin Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Lancashire Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company, Limited Scottish Imperial Insurance Co. (Life) South British Fire and Marine Insce. Underwriting and Agency Assocn. London Assurance Corporation (Fire) London & Provincial Marine Insce. Co. Manchester Fire Assurance Co. Nippon Sea and Land InsuranceCo.,Ld. Occan Accident and Guarantee Corpn. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Nouveau Lloyd Suisse
Deutscher Lloyd Transport Vers. A.G. Equitable Life Assurance of U. S. A. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Tai-koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants
D. Nesbitt, signs per pro. F. A. Tanberg