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WENCHOW-NINGPO.

where immense quantities of bamboo and poles are kept on hand. Wenchow is also celebrated for its oranges. The net value of the foreign imports for the year 1878 was Tis. 185,718 as against 1ls. 223,506 in 1877. The expert of Congou Tea has been as follows:-1877, 278 piculs; 1878, 680 piculs; and 1879, 775 piculs. Only 14 piculs of Opium were imported during 1878. The net revenue for 1878 was Tis. 2,939, compared with Tis. 3,158 in 1877.

Consulates.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Acting Consul-C. W. Everard

Constable John Compton

GERMANY.

In charge C. W. Everard

DIRECTORY.

Imperial Maritime Customs.

甌海關

Ou Hai kuan.

Tide-surveyor and Harbour Master— Examiner J. H. Burnett

Tidewaiters-J. M. Elshout, F. Haughton

Missionaries.

CHINA INLAND MISSION.

Rev. G. Stott

Rev. S. A. Sambrooke

UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH

Assistant in charge-James Mackey

MISSION.

Assistant S. Campbell

Rev. R. J. Exley

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.

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Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of the settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising aud 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. large force of Chinese troops soun 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 cut between 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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