1008
MISSIONS
堂主天
ICHANG--CHUNGKING
Tien-choo-tang
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Right Rev. Modestus Everaerts
Bishop tit. of Tadama and Vicar
Apostolic of Southern Hupeh
Rev. Angelus Timmers, pro vicar
Do. Gratianus Laurent
Do. Marcellus Sterkendries Do. Polydorus Vercruysse Do. Hubertus Adons Do. Seraphinus Melissen Do. Damianus de Walleff Do. Thaddeus Jacobs Do. Mathias Vlaminck Do. Natalis Gubbels Do. Deodatus Janssen
Do. Robertus van Voorden Do. Julianus Adons Do. Thomas Kempenaers Do. Franc. Xav. Corbisier Do. Clementianus De Vuyst Do. Trudo Jans
Do. Achilloeus Van Den Bosch Do. Theodoricus Hesseling Do. Carolus Goethals Do. Columbanus Clement Do. Marinus Adons Do. Arnulphus Merchier
Do. Peregrinus Theunissen Da. Solano de Cock Do. Libertus Callebaut
Do. Victor Stolle
Do. Julianus Verhaeghe
Do. Donatus Sammels
Chen-mou-tang
REV. SŒURS FRANCISCAINES MISSION-
AIRES DE MARIE
司公船輪清日
Tai-pan tseung-lun kung-tze
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA, THE-Tel. Ad:
Nisshinkisen
局政郵清大昌宜
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL
District Postmaster-J. C. Johnston
Acting Deputy Postmaster -- T.
Manners
SALT LEKIN COLLECTORATE
Commis'ner-in-charge -J.C.Johnstone
STANDARD OI Co.
W. H. Lovatt
Mei-foo
Li-teh
THE WEST CHINA TRANSPORT C'o.
Mackenzie & Co., Ld.
Agencies
North China Insurance Co., Lal. China Mutual Life Assce Co. Upper Yangtsze Syndicate, Ld.
CHUNGKING
慶重 Chung-king
The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province, All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, leatlier, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, opium, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines-are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, via the Tung Ting lake.
The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side-