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like all other trade, is in the hands of the Chinese. The total value of the trade of the port for 1885 was Tls. 5,255,360 as against Tls. 3,888,490 in 1884.
The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, and is tolerably paved. The tract of land selected for the British Settlement, though admirably suited for the purpose, with good deep water frontage, has not yet been availed of, and there are few foreign houses in the place. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 60,000 inhabitants.
DIRECTORY.
***** Ta Ying ling-sz-foo.
BRITISH CONSULATE.
Consul-B. C. G. Scott
Constable-G. Perkins
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS. B Wu-hu hsin-kwan, Commissioner T. F. Hughes Assistants E. A. Aldridge, T. D. Moor-
head
Medical Officer-E. A. Aldridge Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-W.
Rae
Boat Officer-J. F. Dubois Examiner-L. Liedeke
Assistant Examiner-W. I. Mason
Tidewaiters-T. Williamson, P. O. Sjölund,
C. E. Meyer, M. Hellstrand
Chinese Clerks-Leang Ateem, Ko Tsim Un MERCHANTS, &c.
和怡老 Laou E.wo.
Abraham, H. J., merchant aud commis-
sion agent
士路巴 Ba.lo.sze.
Burrows, H., merchant, shipping and com-
mission agent
Chih Chou Coal Mines
- Reid, superintendent
China Navigation Co., Hulk" Le-tai ”
T. Weatherston, agent
局商招
China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.
C. C. Lee, agent
Hulk "Bombay"
和德新 Sin Ta Ho.
Gearing & Co., merchants and commission
agents
H. Burrows, agent
* # Him tại.
Hember, S., commission agent
Hulk "Spirit of the Age," Geo. McBain,
proprietor
Jardine, Matheson & Co., merchants
A. W. Greyson
Kelly, M. S., commission agent
Weatherston, T., commission agent
MISSIONS.
Tien-chu-tang.
Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, Society of Jesus
and others
Fu-yin-tang.
AMERICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION.
Lev. J. and Mrs. Jackson
KIUKIANG.
Kiukiang is situated on the river Yangtsze, near the outlet of the Poyang Lake, and is a prefectural city of the province of Kiang-si. It is distant about 137 geographical miles from Hankow and 445 miles from Shanghai. Kiukiang was before the Rebellion a busy and populous city; but it was occupied by the Taiping rebels in 1853, and before it was given up to the Imperial troops it was utterly destroyed, presenting one of those melancholy spectacles which these hordes of usurpers so often left behind them. A gentleman (Mr. Laurence Oliphant) who