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AMERICAN SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION.

Rev. J. L. Stuart (Hangchow)

Rev. A. Sydeustricken

do.

do. do.

Mrs. A. E. Randolph

Miss Helen Kirkland

SOCIETY FOR FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE EAST.

Miss G. Smith (Ningpo)

奉化縣

Fung-hua Heien.

CHINA INLAND MISSION.

Rev. James Williamson

W. D. Rudlan-1 (Taichow)

G. Stott (Wenchow) J. A. Jackson

J. J. Meadows (Shaobying)

W. Douthwaite

A. W. Whiller (Ningpo)

ENGLISH UNITED METHODIST FREE

CHURCH MISSION,

Rev. F. and Mrs. Galpin

Rev. R. and Mrs. Swallow

Rer. W. E. Soothill (Wênchow)

甯波天主堂

Ning-Po-Tieng-Tchau T'ang,

CATHOLIC MISSION OF CHEKIANG PROVINCE.

Mgr. P. M. Reynaud, Bishop in charge

J. B. Bret

(Ningpo)

A. R. Guillot

do.

J. M. Rizzi

do

I. Urgé

do.

A. Heckmann

do.

D. V. Procacci

do.

J. L. Perras

do.

B. L. Ibarrutby do:

J. Lesoin

do.

大美浸禮公惜

Da Me Teing-li-kong-we.

AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION.

Rev. Horace Jenkins (Shooshing)

Mrs. H. M. Jenkius (absent)

Rev. J. R. Goddard (absent)

Mrs. F. D. Goddard (absent)

Rev. E. C. Lord, D.D.

S. P. Barchet, M.D,and Mrs. M. E. Barchet

Rer. G. L. Mason, and Mrs. E. K. Mason

Rev. J. S. and Mrs. Adains (Kinghwa)

Miss F. B. Lightfoot

Miss E. luvcen

舟山“海

Chu-san Ting-hay.

SISTERS OF CHARITY.

At Ningpo, "Maison de Jésus Enfont”— Marie Louise Sulomiac, supérieure, Louise Louy, Elisabeth Lethinom or, Françoise Giovanelli, Stéphanie Muh. ling.abs, Germaine Dauverchain, Joseph Cayre, Vincent Guillon, Marie Inbert, Augustine Perreaud,

At Tinghai (Chusan), “Maison de la Iré sentation "--Marie Archenault, supé rieure, Joseph Ecuyer, Philowène Gilbert, Josepu Houles, Cécile Roddier At Hangchow, “Maison de St. Vincent”.

Adele Faure, supérieure, Gabrielle Perlyre, Angelique Luscar, Marie Dupare, Madelaine Rouvière, Vincent Ricaud, Augustine Lazarocvicz

渡病院

Try-Ping Fuen.

At Ningpo, "Hospital St. Joseph”—Marie Meurie, supérieure, Vincent Lacote, Jeanne Ridez, Marie Perrin, Madelaine Rattat

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SHANGHAI.

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The most northerly of the five ports opened to ign trade by the British Treaty rner of the province of Kang-su, of Nanking, is situate at the extreme south-east ‹ in lat.tude 31.15 north, and logitude 121.29 cast of Greenwich, at the junction of the rivers Hwai g-po and Woosung (the latter called by foreigners the Soochow Creek), about twelve miles above the village of Woosung, where their united waters debouch into the e-tuary of the Yangisze. The soil is alluvial and the country perfectly flat, the nearest eminence that can be called a bill being distant about nineteen miles. The river opposite the city and foreign settlements, once a narrow canal, was, soine gifteen years ago, 1,800 feet broad at low water, but has been rapidly narrowing till it is now only 1,200 feet. The Soochow Creek, which is shown by old records to have Leen at one time at least three miles across, bas now a breadth of only a bundred yards. The average water on the bar at Woosung at high water springs is nineteen feet, the greatest depth of late years being twenty-three feet. The bar is the cause of heavy loss to shipowners and inercl ants through the detention of ocean steamers. After repeated efforts to induce the Chinese authorities to deepen it, a dredger was recently built for the purpose, but has not yet been brought into use.

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Shanghai-the name means upper sea or near the sea "--became a haien or third rate city in the fourteenth century, and the walls, which are three and a half miles in circuit, with seven gates, were erected at the time of the Japanese invasion, in the latter part of the sixteenth century. It had been an important seat of trade for many centuries before the incursion of foreigners. It was captured by the British forces on 19th June, 1842.

The ground selected by Captain Falfour, the first British Consul, for a Settle ment for bis nationals, lies about half a mile north of the city walls, between the Yang-king-pang and Soochow Crecks, and now extends backwards from the river to a ditch connecting the two, called the Defence Creek, thus forming what may be called an island, a mile square. The port was formally declared open to trade on the 17th November, 1843. The French subsequently settled on the ground between the city walls and the British Concession, and in exchange for help rendered in driving out the rebels who had seized the city in 1853, got a grant of the land extending for about a mile to the south between the city walls ard the river. They have since by purchase extended the bounds of the concession westward to the "Ningpo Joss House," a mile from the river. Later on the Americans rented land immediately north of Soochow Creek, in the district called Hongkew, so that the ground now occupied by foreigners extends for about four miles on the left bank of the river. The land in the British Settlement was assessed in November, 1882 at Tls. 10,340,650, that in Hongkew at Tls. 3,550,660, an advance since 1880 of seventy per cent. The assessed value of the land in the French Concession was Tls. 2,306,677 in 1880. The Chamber of Commerce in 1882 valued the lands in the three Settlements at Tls. 24,355,000 and the merchandise in stock at Tls. 32,645,000, together equal to fourteen and a quarter millions sterling. Most of the land along the outside roads an at Pootung, on the opposite bank of the river, is now also rented by foreigners, but natives have recently been considerable purchasers of landed property within the Settlements. All ground belongs nominally to the Emperor of China, but is rented in perpetuity, a tax of fifteen hundred copper cash, equal to about a dollar and a

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