NINGPO
1013.
a plain which stretches away to a considerable distance on Ningpo is built on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir- cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They are fifteen feet wide at the summit, and twenty-two at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street runs from east to west. Several of the streets are spanned by arches erected in memory of distinguished natives. Ningpo has been celebrated as possessing the fourth library of Chinese works, in point of numbers, which existed in the empire. It was owned by a family who resided near the south gate. The site occupied by the foreign residences is on the north bank of the river. The population of Ningpo is estimated at 255,000. The French opened a post office in
1905.
Two cotton mills are established in Ningpo, one of which started in 1896 and the other in 1907. Cotton yarn spun by these mills now ranks third in value among the articles of export of the port. The tea trade has fallen off owing to a deviation of the Fychow teas which formerly passed through Ningpo but are now forwarded to Shanghai via Hangchow. The net value of the trade of the port was Tls. 25,814,001 in 1913, as compared with Tls. 22,302,210 in 1912, Tls. 22,220,552 in 1911, Tls. 23,591,065 in 1910, Tls. 22,294,198 in 1909, Tls-26,995,000 in 1908, and Tls. 24,860,000 in 1907.
DIRECTORY
CONSULATES
亞細亞 A-si-ca
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD. --Tel. Ad:
Dorie
門衙事領國英大
D. F. A. Wallace, local manager
R. Bowring Paul
Agency
Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Lɗ.
* Ta-koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
J. Robertson, signs per pro. Agencies
China Navigation Company, Ld. Ocean Steamship Company, Ld. China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Australian Oriental Line
Taikoo Sugar Refining Company, Ld. Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co.
of Hongkong
Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn.
London and Lancashire Fire Insce. Co.
Palatine Insurance Company, Ld.
Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.
Union Insce. Society of Canton, L.d. Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
局甬商招 Chau Shang Yung-chuk
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO,
Koo Yuen Seng, manager
Li Ching-ling
Agency
China Merchants' Marine Insurance Co.
CHRIST CHURCH, Ningpo
Rt. Rev. H. J. Molony, D.D., Chaplain
Da Ing-kok Ling-ze-ya-men
GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul-Archibald Rose, C.I.G.
Constable-Wm. Dobinson
RUSSIA
E. Sauvage, in charge
關海浙 BiH Che Hai-kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
J. C. Johnston, commissioner B. Arata,
assistant
C. A. S. Williams, do.
K. Nordstrom,
do.
Woo Sih-yung,
do.
Leung Pui Hang,
do.
do.
Chan Tso-chu,
J. S. Grant, medical officer
H. R. Schweiger, tidesurveyor B. W. Bulbrook, acting boat officer G. G. Sinclair, chief examiner
F. R. Borioni, examiner
V. Gaeta, assistant examiner F. F. Henke,
do.
F. W. Thompson, do.
J. R. Tomlinson, tidewaiter
J. J. Egan,
do.
N. J. G. Murray,
do.
W. H. Tappenden,
do.
S. R. Ambrose,
do.
A. Pedersen,
do.
G. Lamport,
do.
do.
E. Knight,