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沙遜

Sa-soon.

Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants

S. A. Hardoon

K. S. Kelly

HANKOW-ICHANG.

華記

Wa-Ke.

Turner & Co., merchants A. R. Greaves

Receiving Ships.

Sharp, W. F., bill, bullion, and general Princess of Wales-C. M. S. N. Co.

broker and agent

順豐

Tokmakoff, Sheveleff & Co., merchants

Shun-fêng.

J. F. Tokmakoff (Kiachta)

O. J. Molotkoff

W. T. Kolegin (Foochow)

A. D. Startzeff (Tientsin)

N. G. Sacharoff N. A. Nölting

A. P. Malegin S. March

T. N. Lavrentieff (Kiukiang)

K. N. Shoolengin (Foochow)

J. E. Shoostoff

Formosa, and Lancefield-Drysdale, Ringer

& Co., (T. Weatherstone, in charge)

Missionaries.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Rev. Griffith John

Rev. E. Bryant

Rev. Thomas Bryson (Wuchang)

Rev. Wm. Owen

Rev. W. G. Mawbey, L.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Rev. David Hill

Rev. Wm. Scarborough

Rev. John W. Brewer

Rev. Joseph R. Race

Rev. Arthur W. Nightingale Rev. William S. Tomlinson

do.

N. N. Shovlengin A. N. Koosnetzoff do. M. S. Overin

do.

do.

Rev. Thomas Bramfitt Rev. J. S. Fordham

ICHANG.

This is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, according to the provisions of Clause I. of Section III. of the Chefoo Convention. Icbarg is a prefectural city, of considerable official importance, in the province of Hupeh. It is situated on the river Yangtsze, about 363 miles from Hankow. The navigation of the river up to this port is easy for vessels of light draught, but the minimum depth of water at Ichang is only seven or eight feet. There is good anchorage at and near the city. The port is the centre of a fairly rich coun- try. Besides the common productions of the great plain of Hupeh the cultivation of the tungtsze tree, from which the tung oil is expressed, begins on the hills near Ichang and exterds westward into Szechuen, Opium is grown in small quantities in the district and may interfere with the import of the foreign drug. Iclang is con- veniently situated as a mart for the tea districts of Hoh-fung-chow, the produce of which might, it is thought, be made suitable for foreign use. It was generally supposed that, as Icbang is situated at the head of steamer navigation on the Yangtsze and occupies a good position for trade, the port would become an important com- mercial centre. Up to the present, however, these anticipations have not been realised: Ichang is not a great distributing centre, nor does it appear likely to become so. The port cut a miserable figure the first year of its existence as a treaty port, but a small trade is springing up by degrees. The total value of the trade for 1878, carried in foreign bottoms, amounted to Tls. 71,014 as compared with Tls. 4,585 for the preceding nine months. The total annual revenue for 1878 was Tls. 3,498. The estimated population of the port is 13,000.

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