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where immense quantities of bamboo and poles are kept on hand. also celebrated for its oranges. The net value of the foreign imports for the year 1879 was Tls. 200,344 as against 11s. 185,718 ir. 1878. The expert of Congou Tea has been as follows:- 1877, 278 piculs; 1878, 680 piculs; and 1879, 728 piculs. In 1879, 60 piculs of Opium were imported as compared with 14 piculs in 1878. The value of the trade of the port for 1879 was Tls. 315,390, compared with Tis. 225,367 in 1878.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Acting Consul-W. G. Stronach Constable John Compton
GERMANY.
In charge W. G. Stronach
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
In charge W. G. Stronach
Imperial Maritime Customs.
甌海關
Ou Hai kuan.
Assistant in charge-James Mackey
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Assistant-G. C. Stent
Tide-surveyor and Harbour Master- Examiner-P. W. Sinnott
Tidewaiters-J. W. Burke, F. Haughton
Missionaries.
CHINA INLAND MISSION.
Rev. G. and Mrs. Stott
Rev. A. W. and Mrs. Douthwaite
UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH MISSION.
Rev. R. J. Exley
NINGPO.
Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg. 35 min. 12 sec. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842.
Portuguese traded Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and successful 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 Barge 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 When hostilities broke out between deserted by foreigners for many years after that. Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, 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.
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