*800
KIUKIANG
Roads and innumerable houses are being rapidly constructed, and thus a new residen- tial and business district, close to but outside the city, is rapidly coming into being. During 1921 a system of drainage of approved foreign style was initiated. Pinhingchow now comprises either in or adjacent to it the following prominent buildings: the railway station and godowns, the electric-light power-house, the Yü Sung Match Factory, the Kiuhsing Spinning and Weaving Company's factory, a large four-storied hotel, and the Kiukiang Customs Lights Repair Yard.
The idea which led to the opening of Kiukiang was, no doubt, its situation as regards communication by water with the districts where tea is produced.
But the hopes entertained respecting the port have never been wholly realised, Hankow having become the market for black teas. The general trade of the port, however, has in- creased considerably in recent years, a large development of inland steam navigation in the Poyang Lake contributing to this result. Its now completed connection by rail with the provincial capital, Nanchang, may further improve matters. The net value of the trade of the port for the year 1925 was Hk. Tls. 56,693,279, as compared with Hk. Tls. 64,616,143 in 1924, and Hk. Tls. 61,114,130 in 1923. Kiukiang is the port whence the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. The specimens sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 secured a silver medal in competition with European porcelain. Rice, beans and peas, hemp, indigo, paper, melon and sesamum seeds, and tobacco leaf are also important exports.
亞細亞
DIRECTORY
Ying Shang A Si A Huo Yu Kung Sz
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
D. F. A. Wallace, manager (absent)
P. H. Munro Faure
R. P. van den Berg
I. E. McGilchrist
J. J. Lester
Miss Berkin
E. J. Westbrook, installation mgr.
BAKER, HENRY E., Civil Engineer-Ku-
ling, Kiangsi
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld. London and Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Orient Insurance Co., Ld. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.
Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
British & Marine Foreign Insce.Co.,Ld.
Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld.
Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
會地內 Nee-ti-hui
CHINA INLAND MISSION
F. Tull and wife
局潯商招 Chou Shan Shin Chuk
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA); CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
LTD.
古太 Ta-koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons,
Ltd.), Merchants-Tel. Ad: Swire
W. S. P. Deas, signs per pro.
C. M. Vise
Hulk-"Pasha"
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld.
Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld.
Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld.
Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Co.
of Hongkong, Ld.
Cheng Yuet Ngam, manager
Lee Chung-ling, chief clerk
Cheng Hangpo, second clerk
Agency
China Merchants' Marine Insce. Co.
* Ta Ying-ling-shih-Kuan
官事頜英大
CONSULATE, BRITISH-Tel. Ad: Britain
Consul A. G. N. Ogden
Clerk-K. B. Lee
館事領本日大
CONSULATE, JAPANESE