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factory for pressing oil out of cotton seed. A native-owned steam silk filature has not been working for several years and is now used as the head office of the Chehkiang Lottery. Flour mills have been put up and are working intermittently. A comphor company has been formed under official patronage and a monopoly for the trade has been granted to it. The commodities chiefly dealt in are opium, tin, Japanese copper, kerosine oil, soap, sugar, prepared tobacco, varnish, paper fans, silk piece goods, raw silk, and tea. The principal article of export is tea, about 70,000 piculs per year. The tea comes from Anhui and Pingsuey near Shaohsing and from the neighbourhood of Hangchow, where the valuable Lungching tea is grown. Silk, paper fans, raw cotton, medicines and tinfoil are also exported. The imports of foreign goods from Chinese ports amounted to Tls. 4,354,082 in 1903, against Tls. 3,669,297 in 1902, and the exports to Tls. 8,203,026 against Tls. 7,125,445 in 1902, The net value of the trade of the port for 1903 was Tls. 15,621,761 against Tis. 14,309,483, in 1902, Tls. 12,105,667 in 1901, and Tls. 9,433,771 in 1900. Trade is improving generally.
Halfway between Hangchow and Shanghai is Kashing, where the grand canal is entered. Kashing is a Customs Station under Hangchow and was first opened in 1898 for collecting duties on foreign opium owing to fiscal arrangements being against the collection at Hangchow. It now collects duties both on imports and exports and has become quite an important factor.
Two Chinese steamboat companies and one Japanese operate between_Shanghai and Hangchow, and one Chinese and one Japanese between Soochow and Hangchow, each giving a daily service. Thirteen foreign missionaries were murdered at Chüchow on the Chientang river in 1900. Cholera in 1902 killed 10,000 people.
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GREAT BRITAIN
DIRECTORY
Officiating Consul-R. H.Mortimore,
JAPAN
Consul at Ningpo
門衙事本日大
Ta-yat-pun-lin.sz Ya-men
Vice-Consul-T. N. Okohira
Chancellor K. Kishi
Inspector of Police-H. Ishihara
新州杭
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner-P. von Tanner
Deputy do.-T. Macphail (Kashing)
Assistants-L. A. Lyall, C. W. de
Berigny, R. F. Wrench
Medical Officers-D. D. Main, W. H.
Venable (Kashing) Tidesurveyor-L. Liedcke
Assistant Examiners-W. A. Barlow Wheeler (Kashing), J. Steinacher Tidewaiters-F. Bénard (Kashing), W. O. Pinkerton, B. A. Friedrich (Kashing), C. Huddy (Kashing), C. E. Goodridge (Kashing), R. Raiteri, O. M. Stromdahl, J. H. A. Onken
LEKINADMINISTRATION, EASTERN CHEKIANG
Commisr.-in-charge-P. von Tanner Assistant-R. F. Wrench
MISSIONS
For Protestant Missions see end of
China Directory
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. C. P. Louat
Rev. M. Bouillet
Rev. A. J. Asinelli (Kashing)
Rev. P. Rassat
Rev. A. Boucher (Kashing)
SISTERS OF CHARITY
Sisters Archenault (superioress), M.
Parada, A. Wagensperg, G. Borie,
M. L. Hacard
房捕巡塲關温州杭
POLICE (CHINESE)-Hangchow Settlement
Chief T. Murphy
1 interpreter, 1 instructor, 3 sergts.
21 constables
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL (Hangchow City)
Postal Officer--P. Filipini
Assistant Postal Officer-Th. Brown
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE Postmaster-Y. Watanabe
Postal Officer-Y. Hosaka Chinese Clerk-F. Chang
TOITO STEAMBOAT COMPANY
T. Yendo
REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS are the Standard Everywhere.
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