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KEWKIANG
KEWKIANG
In Ki-Kiang
Kewkiang (now more generally written Kiukiang) is situated on the river Yangtsze near the outlet of the Poyang Lake, and is a prefectural city of the province of Kiang-si. It is distant about 187 geographical miles from Hankow and 445 miles from Shanghai, Kewkiang was, before the Rebellion, a busy and populous city; but it was occupied by the Taiping rebels in 1853, and before it was given up to the Imperial troops was almost entirely destroyed. When the foreign settlement was established there, how- ever, the population soon returned, and has continued to increase rapidly: it is now
estimated at 55,000.
The city is built close to the river, the walls running along the banks of it for some 500 yards. Their circumference is about five miles, but a portion of the space enclosed is still unoccupied. The city contains no feature of interest. There are several large lakes to the north and west of it, and it is backed by a noble range of hills a few miles distant. The foreign settlement lies to the west of the city and is neatly laid out. It possesses a small bund lined with trees, a club, a small Protestant church, and a Roman Catholic cathedral-opened two years ago.
The idea which led to the opening of Kewkiang was, no doubt, its situation as regards communication by water with the districts where the Green Tea is produced. But the hopes entertained respecting the port have never been wholly realised. The total quantity of Tea exported in 1900 was 216,158 piculs, against 219,919 piculs in 1899 and 200,686 piculs in 1898. Kewkiang is the port from whence the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. The specimens sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 secured a silver medal, in competition with European porcelain. Chinaware shows a decrease in 1900 of 25,531 piculs on that in 1899, when 53,567 piculs were exported against 48,646 piculs in 1898. The net value of the trade of the port for 1900 was Tls. 16,356,547, against Tls. 18,562,941 in 1899 and Tls. 17,500,552 in 1898 The diminution in 1900 was due to the disturbed state of the country. Of the total trade the ratio of the British was 67.61 per cent.
和協 Hip-wo
Anderson & Co., ROвT., Merchants-
R. Anderson (absent)
C. Schlee
H. Schlee
E. White
Agencies
DIRECTORY
China Mutual Steam Navgn. Co.
China Fire Insurance Company, Ld.
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.
Marine Insurance Company, Limited
古太 Ta.koo
Butterfield & SWIRE, Merchants
T. W. Lammert, signs per pro.
Agencies
Hulk "Sultan"
J. Kofod Lind, in charge
China Navigation Company, Limited
London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Equitable Life Assnce. Soc. of U.S.A. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Cheng Yuet Ngam, manager
Agency
China Merchants' Marine Insurance Co.
CONSULATES
FRANCE, Consular Agency
Consul-Comte de Bezaure (Sh'ghai)
官事英大
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GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-Alexander Hosie
Acting-Consul--W. J. Clennell
Constable-T. J. Handley
Ocean Steamship Company
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld.
JAPAN
British and Foreign Marine Insurance
Consul-K. Yamasaki (Hankow)
The American Government uses over 3,000 REMINGTON Typewriters.