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WENCHOW-NINGPO.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Acting Consul-Pelham L. Warren
GERMANY.
In charge Pelham L. Warren
Imperial Maritime Customs.
Ou Hai kuan.
Assistant in charge-James Mackey Assistant-Julien van Stappen
Medical Officer-W. W. Myers, M.B., C.M. Tide-surveyor and Harbour Master- Examiner-J. H. Burnett
Tidewaiters—J. M. Elshout, J. P. Donovan
Agencies.
H. B. Meyer, agent-
Meyer, H. B.
Merchants, &c.
美益
May-ih.
H. B. Meyer (Ningpo)
Myers, W. Wykeham, M.B., C.M., me-
dical practitioner
Chas. Schmidt
Wm. McKay E. Sandstedt
Pilots.
Missionaries.
CHINA INLAND MISSION.
Rev. G. Stott (absent)
Yangtsze Insurance Association
Rev. J. A. Jackson
NINGPO.
Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg. 55 min. 12 sec. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842.
Foreigners bad, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of tuem settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising aud successtul colony soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese at this as well as at other ports in China soon attracted the attention of the Government, and in 1542 the Governor of Chekiang ordered the settlement to be destroyed and the population to be exterminated. A large force of Chinese troops soon besieged the place, destroying it entirely, and out of a population of 1,200 Portuguese, 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade mart there, however, proved unsatis- factory, and the factory was abandoned after a very few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Niagpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time. In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to retake the city, but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.