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天主堂

Tien-choo-tang.

HANKOW-ICHANG.

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育嬰堂

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION.

Right Rev. Fr. V. Epiph. Calassare,

Bishop tit, of Madaura and Vicar Apost.

of Eastern Iupeh

Rev. Fr. Angelo Vandagna Rev. Fr. Luigi Sonsini Rev. Fr. Martin Poell

Rev. Fr. Diego Lera

Rev. Fr. Hofman

Rev. Br. Umile Verta

Fu-in-tang.

ROMAN CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE.

Mother Paula Vismara, superior Sister Carolina Tarchini

Rosa Piccinelli

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Rachele Paleari

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Teresa Arcbinti

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Giuseppina Galli

Santa Mesini

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Florinda Gandini

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Giuditta Bernasconi

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f主堂醫院

Tin-choo-tang-i-yuen.

CATHOLIC HOSPITAL FOR CHINESE. (In charge of the Sisters of Roman Catl.o.ic Orphanage.)

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Natalina Pietra

Erminia Nardon

Maria Bonza

,, Regina Galbiati

ICHANG.

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, lebang is a prefectural city, of considerable official importance, in the province of Hupeh. It is situated on the river Yangtze, 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; noue can 'urpass it for ur cleanliness. 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 is so generally used as to preclude the import of the foreign drug. lebang is conveniently situated as a wart for the tea districts of Heb-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 siderable distributing centre, and its inward transit trade is now only second to that of Hankow. The total value of the trade for 1888 amounted to Tla. 2,550,648 as compared with TIs. 1,674,341 in 1882, Tls. 1,523,005, in 1861, Tls. 2,098,780 in 1880, Îls. 612,508 in 1879, and Tls. 71,014 in 1878. No foreign Opium has been imported at this port for the last two or three years, the native drug being generally used, and in 1883, 754 piculs Szechuen Opium was exported. The estimated population of the port is 34,000. 11.