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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 1880 was Tls. 249,487 as against Tls. 200,344 in 1879. The export of Congou Tea has been as follows:-1877, 278 piculs; 1878, 680 piculs; 1879, 728 piculs; and 1880, 1,284 piculs. In 1880, 54 piculs of Opium were imported, as compared with 61 piculs in 1879. The value of the trade of the port for 1830 was Tis. 429,970 compared with Tls. 315,390 in 1879.

Consulates.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Consul-W. G. Stronach Constable-John Compton

GERMANY.

In charge W. G. Stronach

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

In charge W. G. Stronach

DIRECTORY.

Assistant—D. J. Macgowan Clerk-Sam. J. Hanisch Medical Officer-D. J. Macgowan Assistant Examiner-J. W. Burke Tidewaiter-F. Haughton

Missionaries.

CHINA INLAND MISSION.

Imperial Maritime Customs. 海

Ou Hai kuan.

Rev. G. and Mrs. Stott

Rev. A. W. Douthwaite, medical nig

sionary Mrs. Douthwaite

Acting Commissioner-Alfred E. Hippisley Rev. J. S. and Mrs. Adams

NINGPO.

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, în 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.

Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and 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 le destroyed and the population to be exterminated. A large force of Chinese troops soon 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 inade till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Causan, 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 out 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.