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Tidewaiters-C. A. Meyer, A. Johnsen,
R. Braun, H. Nelson, J. E. Harris, S.
Smith, W. J. Hewett
Municipal Council.
大英工部
Ta-ying-kung-poo.
J. R. Hughes, chairman
A. C. Allen, hon. secretary and treasurer
Sergeant Eddowes
Eight native policemen
Insurances.
Anderson & Co., R., agents-
Canton Insurance Office, Limit d Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld Hongkong Fire Insurance Co,, Ld. Cuiuese Insurance Co., Limited China Fire Insurance Co., Limited Marine Insurance Company, Limited Yangisze Insurance Association
Campbell, Alexr., agent-
North China Insurance Comply Sun Fire Office
Drysdale, Ringer & Co., agents-
China Traders' Insurance Company British and Foreign Marine Insu
rance Company
North British and Mercantile Insu-
rance Company
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LD. Robt. Anderson & Co., agents
Hulk Orissa-A. K. Alsing, in charge
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LIMITED,
Drysdale, Ringer & Co., agents
Hulk Sultan-J. Kofod, in charge
CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON AND CHINA.
Anderson & Co., R., agents-
HONGKONG AND SHANGhai BankinG CORPORATION.
Alexr. Campbell, agent—
Merchants, Professions, Trades, &c.
怡和
E-wo.
Anderson & Co., B., merchants
Robert Anderson (absent)
J. H. Anderson (absent)
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E. W. Tritton (absent)
P. McGregor Grant (Shanghai)
A. E. Allen
大裕
Terneu
Campbell, Alexander, merchant, and agent
steamers Cores de Fries and Sual
Alexr. Campbell
Alexr. Melunes
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Tuck-hing.
Drysdale, Ringer & Co., inerchants
H. Pullen, tea inspector
阜,
For Cheong,
Piatkoff, Molcha:.off & Co., merchants
B. M. Koosnetzoff
順理
Shoon-foong.
Tokmakoff, Sheveleff & Co., merchanta
M. G. Kisseleff
義行
E-shun
Underwood, Geo. R., M. B. Edinr. &c,
medical practitioner
Missionaries.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH MISSION Rev. J. R. Hvkes
Rev. C. F. Kupfer
Rev. Jas H. Worley
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學孝子坊
Nü-i-hsiao Hsiao-tzu-fang.
WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSION, M.E. CHURCH
Miss Gertrude Howe
Nuy-ti-hway.
CHINA INLAND MISSION.
J. E. Cardwell, Ta-ku-tang
ROYA CATHOLIC MISSION. Kiangsi Septentrional (North Kiangsi.) Bishop-Bray
Pères-Anot, Sassi, Portes, Lefebvre, Vic,
Ciceri, Dauverchain, Chasles
Kiangai Méridional (South Kiangsi.)
Apostolic Provicar-Rouger Pires-Bosca, Lagarde, Perès, Fusco
HANKOW.
Hankow is situated on the river Han at the point where it enters the Yangtsze, and is in lat. 30 deg. 32 min. 51 sec. N., and long. 114 deg. 19 min. 55 sec. E. The natives look upon Hankow as only a suburb of Hanyang, which it immediately adjoins, and which is a district city of the province of Hupeh. These two towns lie immediately facing the city of Wuchang-fu, the capital of the province, which is built upon the south bank of the Yangtsze. Hankow is distant from Shanghai about 600 miles.
Lord Elgin visited Hankow in 1858, and must have been one of the first foreigners who ever entered this important inland city. Attention was first drawn to it as a place of trade by Huc, a French missionary, whose writings on China are less popular now than they used to be, but it is generally believed that this reverend father had never been within many miles of the place, and had drawn largely on his fertile imagination for his details. The port was opened to foreign trade in 1861.
Captain Blakiston, in his work "The Yangtsze," gives the following description of the place and its surroundings:-" Hankow is situated just where an irregular range of semi-detached low hills crosses a particularly level country on both sides of the main river in an east and west direction. Stationed on Pagoda Hill, a spectator looks down on almost as much water as land even when the rivers are low. At his feet sweeps the magnificent Yangisze, nearly a mile in width; from the west and skirting the northern edge of the range of hills already mentioned, comes the river Han, narrow and canal like, to add its quota, and serving as one of the highways of the country; and to the north-west and north is an extensive treeless flat, so little elevated above the river that the scattered hamlets which dot its surface are without exception raised on mounds, probably artificial works of a now distant age. A stream or two traverse its farther part and flow into the main river. Carrying his eye to the right bank of the Yangisze one sees enormous lakes and lagoons both to the north-west and south-cast sides of the hills beyond the provincial city.”
When the port was opened, the natives, as at several other new ports, put many difficulties in the way of fixing a site for the British Settlement. They demanded excessive prices for the lots marked off for occupation, and it was not till the port had been open for some time, and many residents had temporarily taken up an abode on the Hanyang shore, that an arrangement was arrived at. The site chosen is very bad, both from a sanitary and commercial point of view. A French Settlement was also fixed upon, but it has never been occupied. estimated at 600,000.
The population of Hankow is
Great expectations as regards trade were entertained respecting the opening of Hankow. Foreign commerce would, it was thought, be brought into immediate contact with the large internal populations of China, and a port be established in the locality of the great tea producing districts. These expectations, however, have been but partially realised. Tea is, of course, the staple export, and it is at Hankow that the first steamers for home take in their cargoes. The total export of Tea from Hankow (including re-exports of Kiukiang tea) amounted in 1882 to 797,416 piculs, as compared with 601,941 piculs shipped in 1881. In 1882 Opium was imported to the extent of 3,222 piculs as against 3,922 piculs in 1881. The total value of the trade of the port in 1882 amounted to Tls. 34,342,894, and in 1881 to Tis. 41,599,591.
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