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HANKOW-ICHANG.
沙遜
Sa-soon.
Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants
S. A. Hardoon
K. S. Kelly
Sharp, W. F., bill, bullion, and general
broker and gent
!!! Shun-fêng.
Tokmakoff, Sheveleff & Co., merchants
J. F. Tokmakoff (Kiachta)
M. G. Sheveleff
O. J. Molotkoff
do.
W. T. Kolegin (Foochow) T. Watson
A. D. Startzeff (Tientsin)
N. G. Sacharoff
T. N. Lavrentieff (Kiukiang) N. A. Nölting
A. P. Malegin (Foochow)
R. N. Shoolengin (Tientsin) N. N. Shovlengin A. N. Posdejeff
S. March
華記
Wa-Ke.
Turner & Co., merchants A. R. Greaves
Receiving Ships.
Princess of Wales-C. M. S. N. Co., (J.
Brown, in charge)
Formosa, St. Louis, and Lancefield-Drys- dale, Ringer & Co., (T. Weatherstone, in charge)
Missionaries.
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. Griffith John
Rev. E. Bryant
Rev. Thomas Bryson (Wuchang)
J. K. Mackenzie, L.R.C.P. Edin.; M.R.C.S.
Eng.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Rev. David Hill
Rev. Wm. Scarborough Rev. John W. Brewer Rev. Joseph R. Race
do.
Rev. Arthur W. Nightingale Rev. William S. Tomlinson
do.
Rev. Thomas Bramfitt
Rev. J. S. Fordham
ICHANG.
This is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877 according to the provisions of Clause I. of Section III. of the Chefoo Convention Icharg is a prefectural city, of considerable official importance, in the province o Hupeh. It is situated on the river Yangtsze, about 363 miles from Hankow. The navigation of the river up to this port is easy for vessels of light draught, but the minimum depth o! water at Ichang is only seven or eight feet. There is good anchorage at and near the city. The port is the centre of a fairly rich coun try. Besides the common productions of the great plain of Hupeb the cultivation of the tungtsze tree from which the tung oil is expressed begins on the hills near Ichang and extends westward into Szechuen. Opium is grown in small quantities in the district and may interfere with the import of the foreign drug. Ichang is con- veniently situated as a mart for the tea districts of Hob-fung-chow, the produce of which might, it is thought, be made suitable for foreign use. It was generally supposed that, us Ichang is situated at the head of steamer navigation ou the Yangtsze and occupies a good position for trade, the port would become au important com- mercial centre. Up to the present, however, these anticipations bave not been realised: Ichang is not a great distributing centre, nor does it appear likely to become so. The port cuts a miserable figure in the "Customs Gazette," where quarter after quarter the exports and imports have been returned as nil. The total value of the trade for 1877, carried in foreign bottoms, which consisted exclusively of exports, amounted to only Tls. 4,585. The estimated population of the port is 13,000.