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旗昌

Kee-cheong.

Russell & Co., merchants

R. G. Ogle

沙遜

Sa-soon.

Sassoon, Sons & Co., D., merchants

E. J. Aaron, agent

S. S. A. Benjamin

普

Poo-ho.

HANKOWICHANG.

Sharp, W. F., bill, bullion, and general

broker and agent

順豐

Shun-fing.

Tokmakoff, Sheveleff & Co., merchants

J. F. Tokmakoff (Kiachta)

O. J. Molotkoff

A. D. Startzeff (Tientsin)

N. A. Nölting

S. Marsh

T. N. Lavrentieff (Kinkiang) A. P. Malegin (Foochow)

J. E. Shoostoff

do.

M. S. Overin

do.

華記

Wu-Ke.

Furner & Co., merchants A. R. Greaves

Receiving Ships.

Princess of Wales-C. M. S. N. Co.

383

Formosa, and Lancefield-Drysdale, Ringer

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

Missionaries.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. Griffith Jolin

Rev. E. Bryant (absent)

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 (absent)

Rev. Wm. Scarborough

Rev. John W. Brewer

Rev. Arthur W. Nightingale (absent) Rev. William S. Tomlinson, Wuchang Rev. Thomas Bramfitt, Wu Suel Rev. J. S. Fordham,

ICHANG.

do.

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. Ichang 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 in only seven or eight feet. There is good anchorage at and near the city. Few cities in China are more strikingly situated; none can surpass it for uncleanliness. The port is the centre of a fairly rich country. Be- sides the common productions of the great plain of Hupeb, the cultivation of the tungtsze tree, from which the tung oil is expressed, begins on the bills near Ichang and extends westward into Szechuen. Opium is grown in considerable quantities in the district and greatly interferes with the import of the foreign drug. Ichang is conveni- ently situated as a mart for the tea districts of Hol-fung-chow, the produce of which might, it is thought, be made suitable for foreign use. It was generally supposed that, as Ichang is situated at the head of steamer navigation on the Yangtsze and occupies a good position for trade, the port would speedily become an important commercial centre. For the first three years these anticipations appeared little like- ly to be realised: the port cut a miserable figure the first year of its existence as a treaty port. The returns for 1880 show, however, that "Ichang is becoming a con- siderable distributing centre, and its inward transit trade is now only second to that of Haukow. The total value of the trade for 1880 amounted to Tls. 2,093,780, as compared with Tls. 612,508 in 1879, and Tls. 71,014 in 1878. Scarcely any for n Opium is imported at this port, the native drug being generally used. The estimated population of the port is 33,569.