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CHINKIANG-WUHU.

Public Companies.

Carnie, F., agent

China Insurance Company, Limited

China Navigation Company, Limited

Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., agents-

Union Insurance Society of Canton

Merchants and Agents.

Bean, Wm., merchant

同泰洋行

Tung-tae-yang-hong.

Carnie, F., commission agent

裕康行

U-kong-hong.

David, D. M., merchant and general com.

mission agent

T. Wong

新德和

Hsui teh-ho.

Gearing & Co., merchants

J. G. W. Gearing (absent)

E. Starkey

兆豐

Sew-foong.

Jerdein, M. S., merchant & commission agent

老沙遜

Lo-sa-soon.

Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants

S. J. Solomon

M. S. Kelly

像章

Yü-chang.

Smith, C. A., commission agent

泰昌

Tai chang.

Wadliegh and Emery, merchants and

commission agents

E. C. Wadliegh (New York)

D. A. Emery

Chang Tong-shan

Missionaries.

Dr. R. G. White, medical dispensary, and

hospital

B. Bagnall

Mrs. W. H. Williams

CHINA INLAND MISSION.

耶蘇堂

Rev. E. Pearse, Nganking

Rev. H. Randle, do.

Rev. F. W. Baller, Chinkiang

Mrs. Pearse

Miss Knight

新沙遜

Sin-sa-soon.

Sassoon & Co., E.D., merchants

J. S. Perry

Receiving Ship.

Hulk Cadiz.-F. Carnie

Hulk-keeper, E. J. Davies

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WUHU.

This port was opened to foreign trade, by the Chefoo Convention, on the 1st April, 1877. It is situated on the river Yangtsze, in the province of Aa-hwei, and is a half-way port between Chinkiang and Kiukiang, though nearer to the former. It bas the appearance of a thriving and busy town, and is admirably located for trade. This is mainly owing to the excellence of its water communication with the interior. A large canal, with a depth of five to six feet of water in the winter and ten to twelve feet in the summer connects the port with the important city of Ning-kuoh-fu, in southern An-hwei, fifty miles distant. Another canal runs inland for over eighty miles in a south-westerly direction to Taiping-hsien, an extensive tea district. This canal, which is only navigable in the summer, passes through Nan-ling and King- hsien, where the cultivation of silk is carried on and may some day be of importance.