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KIUKJANG.
The city is built close to the river, the walls running along the banks of it for some 500 yards. Their circumference is about five miles, but a considerable portion of the space enclosed is not occupied. The city contains no feature of interests. There are several large lakes to the north and west of it, and beyond the principal suburb lies the foreign settlement. On the opening of the port considerable trouble was experienced in securing the land on which to build the foreign residences, the Chinese demanding extortionate prices for it. Indeed, so bitter was the opposition Inanifested that before the ground could be cleared some of the native houses had to he forcibly demolished. The limits of the anchorage for ordinary vessels are from the west end of the city wall to Lung-kai creek.
The idea which led to the opening of Kiukiang was, no doubt, its situation as -garde communication by water with the districts where the Green Tea is produced. But the hopes entertained respecting Kiukiang have never been realised. The total quantity of Tea exported in 1883 was 278,147 piculs, of which 35,708 picula were Green, the export for 1882 being 326,021 piculs. Opium was imported to the extent of 1,618 piculs in 1888, and 1,662 picule in 1882. Kiukiang is the port from whene the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-te-chen is shipped. I 1988 only 19,478 piculs of this ware was exported. In July, 1884, a disastrous inundation occurred at Kin-tê-chên, by which three-fourths of the furnaces engaged in porcelain manufacture were destroyed, together with at out one- bird of the town. The total value of the trade of the port for 1883 was Tls. 9,590,469, and for 1882, Tls. 12,375,008.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
大丹國領事官
大領事官
Ta-ying Ling Shih Kuan. BRITISH.
Consul George Jamieson Constable-Charles Rowe
*法領事官
Ta-fa Ling Shih Kuan. FRENCH.
Consul-C. Imbault-Huart (absent)
大美國領事官
Ta-mai-kurok-ling-shih-kwan.
UNITED STATES.
Consul-I. F. Shepard, residing at Han-
kow
大荷蘭國領事官
Ta-ho-lan-kwoh-ling-shih kwan.
NETHERLANDS.
Acting Vice-consul—A, E. Allen
大澳領事官
Ta do Ling-shih-kwan.
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN,
Consul George Jamieson
Ta-tan Ling-shih-kwan. DANISH.
Consul-George Jamieson
Imperial Maritime Customa.
九江新闋
Kiu-kiang-hsin-kwan,
Commissioner C. Lenox Simpson
Assistants H. J. Fisher, G. J. A. Philips,
A. H. H. Maclean
Medical Officer-Geo. B. Underwood, M.B.
Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-J. H.
C. Günther
Assistant Tidesurveyor-J. M. Land Examiner-J. G. Hamlyn
Assistant Examiners-C. V. Bono, D. Mul
Goo
Tidewoîters—C. A. Meyer, A. Johnsen H. Nelson, J. E. Harris, S. Smith, W.
J. Hewett, R. H. Strangman
Municipal Council.
大英工部
Tu-ying-kung-poo.
J. R. Hughes, chairman
A. E. Allen, hon. secretary
H. Pullen, bon, treasurer
Sergeant Eddowes
Eight native policemen
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