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WUHU.

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like all other trade, is in the hands of the Chinese. The total value of the trade of the port for 1885 was Tls. 5,255,360 as against Tls. 3,888,490 in 1884.

The town is fairly well built, with rather broader streets than most Chinese cities possess, and is tolerably paved. The tract of land selected for the British Settlement, though admirably suited for the purpose, with good deep water frontage, has not yet been availed of, and there are few foreign houses in the place. The population of Wuhu is estimated at 60,000 inhabitants.

DIRECTORY.

***** Ta Ying ling-sz-foo.

BRITISH CONSULATE.

Consul-B. C. G. Scott

Constable-G. Perkins

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS. B Wu-hu hsin-kwan, Commissioner T. F. Hughes Assistants E. A. Aldridge, T. D. Moor-

head

Medical Officer-E. A. Aldridge Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-W.

Rae

Boat Officer-J. F. Dubois Examiner-L. Liedeke

Assistant Examiner-W. I. Mason

Tidewaiters-T. Williamson, P. O. Sjölund,

C. E. Meyer, M. Hellstrand

Chinese Clerks-Leang Ateem, Ko Tsim Un MERCHANTS, &c.

和怡老 Laou E.wo.

Abraham, H. J., merchant aud commis-

sion agent

士路巴 Ba.lo.sze.

Burrows, H., merchant, shipping and com-

mission agent

Chih Chou Coal Mines

- Reid, superintendent

China Navigation Co., Hulk" Le-tai ”

T. Weatherston, agent

局商招

China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.

C. C. Lee, agent

Hulk "Bombay"

和德新 Sin Ta Ho.

Gearing & Co., merchants and commission

agents

H. Burrows, agent

* # Him tại.

Hember, S., commission agent

Hulk "Spirit of the Age," Geo. McBain,

proprietor

Jardine, Matheson & Co., merchants

A. W. Greyson

Kelly, M. S., commission agent

Weatherston, T., commission agent

MISSIONS.

Tien-chu-tang.

Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, Society of Jesus

and others

Fu-yin-tang.

AMERICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION.

Lev. J. and Mrs. Jackson

KIUKIANG.

Kiukiang is situated on the river Yangtsze, near the outlet of the Poyang Lake, and is a prefectural city of the province of Kiang-si. It is distant about 137 geographical miles from Hankow and 445 miles from Shanghai. Kiukiang was before the Rebellion a busy and populous city; but it was occupied by the Taiping rebels in 1853, and before it was given up to the Imperial troops it was utterly destroyed, presenting one of those melancholy spectacles which these hordes of usurpers so often left behind them. A gentleman (Mr. Laurence Oliphant) who