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WEIHAIWEI SCHOOL
WEIHAIWEI-- KLAOCHAU
Head-master-H. L. Beer, L.C.P.
Asst. Masters. J. Steptoe, B... L.
E. Francis
Governess--Miss E. Whitewright Domestic Dept.--Mrs. H. L. Beer, Mrs,
E Hamblin (matron)
行來 泰
WEIHAIWEI WINE IMPORT Co., Wholesaler
Wine Merchants--Tel. Ad: Tai Lai
Y. C. Lee
F. C. Lee
A. C. Laing
Agencies
Garner, Quelch & Co.
James Buchanan & Co., La.
Mrs. Beer Mrs. Bickle Mrs. Bourchier Mrs. Brown Mrs. Ching Mrs. Clark
Mrs. Crawley
Mrs. Crudge
LADIES' DIRECTORY
Mrs. Forcey Miss Gresham Mrs. Hamblin Mrs. Harris Mrs. Hartley Mrs. Hickin Mrs. Hill
Mrs. House
Mrs. Jennings Mrs. Liardet Lady Stewart
Lockhart | Miss Lockhart
Miss Mammatt Mrs. Manistre Mrs. Muntz
Mrs. Ockenden
Mrs. Patty
Miss Rout
Mrs. Steel
Mrs. Stewart Mrs. Whittaker Miss Whitewright
KIAOCHAU (TSINGTAU)
HF Kiáu-chau
Tsingtan, situated at the entrance to the Kiaochau Bay in Shantung, was occupied by a German squadron on the 14th November, 1897, in consequence of the murder of two German missionaries. It is held on lease from China for the term of ninety-nine years. The special attention of the Administration has been devoted to agricultural, commercial and mining development in the Protectorate and Shantung. The local administration consists of a Council, which is composed of all the heads of the several administrative departments under the personal supervision of the Governor and four members chosen from the civil population and appointed for two years; the first is named by the Gov- ernor, with the consent of the Council, the second is chosen from among the members of the non-Chinese firms, the third from the list of taxpayers paying at least $50 ground tax, without distinction of nationality, and the fourth from the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The Protectorate has developed to an unlooked-for extent under this system of administration, which has enabled all the vital questions at issue, such as legal rights, landed properties, land tax assessment, school and Church matters, to be satisfactorily settled. The object of the Administration in dealing with the land question has been to secure for every settler the lasting possession of his plot, thereby opposing unhealthy land speculation. Tsingtau, on the 2nd September, 1898, was de- clared a free port. The harbour has all the advantages of a Treaty port, and as a free port especially recommends itself as an emporium, since the merchant could there store, free of duty, his wares from abroad or his raw materials brought from the interior of China. The Chinese import duties were at first levied only on goods brought to Tsingtau by sea, when they were transported beyond the borders of the Protectorate into Chinese territory. The Chinese export duties were at first levied only on goods brought from the interior of China, when they were shipped from the German Protectorate to any other place. But in 1906 a new Convention came into force whereby Tsingtau ceased to be a free port, and the Imperial Maritime Customs now collects duties here as at all the other Treaty ports of China. But the Conven- tion stipulates that 20% of the money so collected at Tsingtau shall be paid to the
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