250
會誼公
CHUNGKING HANGCHOW
Miss M. Ketring, M.D.
FRIENDS' MISSION
R. J. and Mrs. Davidson
Leonard and Mrs. Wigham
Isaac and Mrs. Mason, Shê-hung-hsien
E. B. and Mrs. Vardon (absent)
A. Warburton Davidson
Miss Mira L. Cumber
Miss E. M. Hunt
Miss Lucy Harris, M.B.
Miss H. Simmonds
School for Foreign Children
Mrs. R. J. Davidson, superintendent
Miss E. M. Hunt, teacher
院醫仁寬
HOSPITAL-CHUNGKING GENERAL
Physn.-in-charge-J. W. McCartney, M.D.,
do.
-Osman F. Hall, M.D.,
和怡 E-wo
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Yi Yu-lok, agent
德立 Li-teh
LITTLE, ARCHIBALD, Merchant and Com-
mission Agent
J. W. Nicolson
Agency
Mannheimer Insurance Company
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. A. E. and Mrs. Claxton
Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Wilson
R. Wolfendale, L.R.C.P. and s. Ed.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION
Dr. J. H. and Mrs. McCartney (abt..)
Rev. Quincy A. and Mrs. Myers, do.
Rev. J. Beech
Rev. O. F. Hall, M.D.
Miss N. N. Decken
Miss E. Manning
Rev. W. E. and Mrs. Manly
Rev. Spencer and Mrs. Lewis
Rev. J. O. and Mrs. Curnow, Suling Miss H. Galloway
Rev. H. O. and Mrs. Cady, Chentu
Rev. J. F. and Mrs. Peat,
Miss Clara Collier,
do.
do.
Dr. H. L. and Mrs. Canright (absent)
MINING CONCESSION-FRENCH
P. Duclos
| NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND
Jas. Murray, agent
局相照新恒理
PHOTOGRAPHIC STORES
R. J. Davidson
W. G. Manly
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STANDARD OIL COMPANY
H. Hancock
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Postal Officer-E. F. S. Newman
I ft Châu Yian Tong
堂原眞
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Mgr. Félix Chouvellon, Bishop
Rev. J. Lorain, procureur
Rev. A. Daugy, missionnaire apostol.
Rev. L. Thibault, professor of French
language
局分慶重報電國中
TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Zear Duli Fa, manager
Zee Shu Chuen, clerk-in-charge
HANGCHOW
州杭 Háng-chau
Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 150 miles south- west of Shanghai, and 127 miles south of Soochow, on the Chien-tang River at the apex of a bay which is too shallow for the navigation of steamers. The mouth of the river is, moreover, periodically visited by a bore, or tidal wave, which further endangers the navigation. Haining is the best place for observing this famous bore, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the water of the Pacific on the China coast and causing enormous tides. Hangchow Bay is shaped like a funnel, and the mass of water rushing up, more and more concentrated as it advances, is sud- denly confronted by the current of the river. The momentary check causes the water to assume a wall-like formation; then, growing to a height of 15ft. and gathering mo- mentum with the immense pressure behind, forcing its volume into the comparatively narrow waterway, it tears past the sea-wall with a roar like thunder at a rate some-