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旗昌

Kee-cheong.

Russell & Co., merchants

R. G. Ogle

HANKOW-ICHANG.

普和

Poo-ho.

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

broker and agent

順豐

Shun-fêng.

Tokmakoff, Sheveleff & Co., merchants

J. F. Tokmakoff (Kiachta)

O. J. Molotkoff

A. D. Startzeff (Tientsin)

N. A. Nölting

S. Marsh

T. N. Lavrentieff (Kiukiang) M. S. Overin

Missionaries,

敦會

Lun-tun-hway,

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. Griffith John

Rev. Thomas Bryson (Wuchang)

Rev. Wm. Owen

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

福音堂

Euh-yin-t'ang.

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. David Hill, Wuchang

Rev. Wm. Scarborough

Rev. John W. Brewer (absent)

Rev. Arthur W. Nightingale

Rev. William S. Tomlinson (al sent)

Rev. Thomas Bramfitt, Wu Sueh Rev. J. S. Fordham,

Rev. Joseph Bell, Teh-ngan Rer. T. E. North, do.

do.

Rer. W. H. Watson

Receiving Ships.

Princess of Wales—C. M. S. N. Co. Formosa, and Lancefield-Drysdale, Ringer

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

do.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Rev. Arnold Foster, B.A.

NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLand.

John Archibald Robert Burnett

ICHANG.

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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 above 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. 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 Hupeh, the cultivation of the tungtsze tree, from which the tung oil is expressed, begins on the hills 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 Hoh-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. Later returns show, however, that Ichang is becoming a con- siderable distributing centre, and its inward transit trade is now only second to that of Hankow. The total value of the trade for 1881 amounted to Tls. 1,523,005, as compared with Tls. 2,093,780 in 1880, Tls. 612,508 in 1879, and Tls. 71,014 in 1878. Scarcely any foreign Opium is imported at this port, the native drug being generally used. The estimated population of the port is 33,569.