PEKING-NEWCHWANG.
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FRENCH CATHOLIC MISSION. Monseigneur L. G. Delaplace, vicarapostolic Revs. Alph. Favier, Sarthou, P. d'Addosio, A. Humblot, J. B. Delemasure, J. Gar. rigues, J. B. Fioritti, F. Wijnhoven, A. Provost, S. Delebarre, J. Salette, Allofs Mother Jaurias and 30 Sisters of Charity
RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION. Archimandrite Flavian
Trades, &c.
Kierulff, P.,commission agent, storekeeper,
and dealer in curios.
P. Kierulff
Vrard & Co., L., storekeepers L. Tallien, manager
"French Hotel'
L. Vrard & Co., proprietors
C. Tallieu, manager
NEWCHWANG.
Newchwang is the most northerly port in China open to foreign trade. It is situated in the province of Shing-king, in Manchuria. It is called by the natives Ying-tz, and lies about thirteen miles from the mouth of the river Liao, which falls into the Gulf of Liao-tung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili.
Before the port was opened, comparatively little was known of this part of the Central Kingdom. Situated in a wild region, the greater part of which was a few years since little else but a wilderness, it was never visited by outsiders. Manchuria in now, however, being rapidly colonised by the Chinese, who already outnumber the natives. The word Ying-tz means military station, and that was the only use formerly made of the place. Between the years 1858 and 1860, the British fleet assembled in Ta-lienwan Bay, and early in 1861 the foreign settlement was established. The town of Newchwang itself is distant from Ying-tz about thirty miles, and is a sparsely populated and unimportant place.
The country about the port of Newchwang is bare and desolate, and in sailing up the river the voyager encounters a cheerless prospect. Ying-tz is surrounded by dreary marshes, and the land under cultivation produces principally Beans. The river is closed by ice for more than three months every year, during which period the residents are entirely cut off from the outer world. The climate, however, is healthy and bracing. The population of the place is estimated at 60,000.
The chief articles of trade of the port are Beans and Bean-cake, 2,261,067 piculs of the former and 1,443,318 piculs of the latter being exported in 1881 as against 2,120,819 piculs and 1,350,918 piculs respectively in 1880. The trade in Beans and Bean-cake has shown a pretty steady increase during the last fourteen years. The net quantity of Opium imported in 1881 was 446 piculs compared with 1,186 piculs in 1880 and 2,453 piculs in 1879. The import of Opium has fluctuated a good deal during the last few years, but generally speaking the decline has been marked and constant, the poppy being largely and successfully cultivated in Manchuria.
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total value of the trade of the port for 1881 amounted to Tls. 6,030,432 as against Tls. 6,725,036 in 1880.
Consulates.
DIRECTORY.
大國領事衙門
Ta Ying-kuo-ling-shik-ya-men.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Consul-Herbert J. Allen
Constable-Chas. Farmer
FRANCE.
Vice-Consul-Herbert J. Allen
大帶威國領事衙門
T'a Jui-wei-kuo-ling-shik-ya-mên.
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
Vice-Consul-Herbert J. Allen
大和領車門
Ta Oo-kun-ling-skik-yr mên. NETHERLANDS.
Consul-J. J. F. Bandinel
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