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WUHU.

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Boats carrying from 200 to 300 piculs of tea can come from Tai-ping-hsien to Wuhu in the summer and autumn, but in the winter the creek is partially dry, and navigation rendered impossible. The silk districts of Nau-ling and King-bsien are situated within fifty miles of Wuhu. Besides the canals leading to Ning-kuoh-fu and Tai-ping. hsien, there are two others communicating with Su-an and Tung-pó. The Su-an canal is navigable for smali boats in summer for nearly one hundred miles, and passes through some silk producing country; while that leading to Tung-pó can be traversed by native craft of considerable size, for about seventy miles. On the northern side of the Yangtsze a fine broad canal, navigable in summer for vessels drawing ten to twelve feet of water, connects Wuhu with Li-chow-fu, the chief mercantile depôt for central An-hwei.

It will be seer, from the above enumeration of the facilities for water carriage from Wuhu, that it is calculated to prove an emporium fer commerce. It has indeed long been the seat of an extensive junk traffic, and is the only one of the new treaty ports which has so far at all fulfilled the anticipations formed of it. A very fair import trade has sprung up, and both that and the export trade are steadily growing. The Customs revenue is already about half that of Kiukiang. The total net value of the foreign imports for the year 1878 was Tls. 1,925,075, compared with Tls. 893,408 in 1877. 2,380 piculs of Opium were imported in 1878, as compared with 1,161 piculs in 1877. The total revenue for 1878 was Tls. 31,421 as against Tls. 21,918 in 1877.

The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, and is tolerably paved. Its population is estimated at 40,000 inha bitants. The anc! orage is good and resembles that of Chiukiang.

DIRECTORY.

大英領事府

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

Tai-yi g-ling-ze-foo.

BRITISH CONSULATE.

Manager-Chow Lan-sen

Acting Consul-E. L. Oxenham

Constable-G. Perkins

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.

蕪湖秒關

Wu-hu-hsin-kwan.

Commissioner-J. Alex. Man

Assistants-C. C. Clarke, A. Duncan

Tide-surveyor and Harbour Master-R. J.

Goldspink

Examiner-W. J. Sayle

Tidewaiters-E. Molloy, A. Lewis, E. Fel-

ton

Linguist-Chung An

Hulkkeeper-Out U-won

Clerk-Chan Yuk-ting

Hulks "Szechuen" and "Geo. Washing-

tou

MERCHANTS.

少遜

Sa-soon.

Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants

S. J. Solomon

M. S. Kelly

Wong Brothers & Co., merchants and

commission agents

Wang-jü-hu

C. C. Goe

Y. B. Wung

MISSIONARY.

Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, S ciety of Jesus

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