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CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-

JAPAN

HANGCHOW-NINGPO

門衙事頜本日大

Ta-yat-pun-lin-sz Ya.men

Consul-K. Yamazaki

Vice-Consul—T. N. Okohira

Chancellor K. Kishi

Interpreter-M. Murayama

Inspt. of Pol.-H. Ishihara

關新州杭

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-P, von Tanner

DIRECTORY

Assistants-C. Pape, J. Commijs, B.

D. Tisdal

Medical Officer D. D. Main

Tidesurveyor-T. Macphail (Kiahsing) Asst. Examiners–G. A. F. Schneider,

G. P. Civilini (Kiahsing)

Tidewaiters--S. Foyn (Kashing), E. A. Freitag, C. Newton, W. Smith

LIKIN ADMINISTRATION EASTERN CHEKIANG

Commis.-in-charge-P. von Tanner Assistant A. J. Commijs

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missionaries see end of

China Directory

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Wittib

Rev. J. Wilfinger

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Sisters Archenault (superioress), M.

Parada, A. Wagensperg, G. Borie, M. L. Hacard

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL (Hangchow City)

Asst. Postal Officer-J. C. Nicholas

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE

Postmaster-R. Suzuki

Postal Clerk-K. Tamana

Assistant Clerk-K. Hiraishi

房捕巡場關滆州杭

POLICE (CHINESE) Hangchow Settlement

Chief-R. D. Craig

1 interpreter, 1 instructor, 3 sergts.

21 constables

問佘 Shih-wen.

SHERVEN, O., Engineer; and Assistant

Engineer to Ping-Li Railway, Ping Hsiang, Kiangse

TAITO STEAMBOAT COMPANY

T. Yendo

NINGPO

波響 Ning-po

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg. 55 min. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842. Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and successful settlement soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese soon attracted the attention of the Government, and in 1542 the Governor of Chekiang ordered the settlement to be destroyed and the population to be exterminated. A large force of Chinese troops soon besieged the place, destroying it entirely, and out of a population of 1,200 Portuguese, 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade mart there, however, proved unsatisfactory, and the factory was abandoned after a very few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time. In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to retake the city, but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.

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