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KIUKIANG.

visited it in 1858 speaks of the desolation of the city in the following terms:-"We found it to the last degree deplorable. A single dilapidated street, composed only of a few mean shops, was all that existed of this once thriving and populous city; the remainder of the vast area comprised within its walls, five or six miles in circunference, contained nothing but ruins, weeds, and kitchen gardens." When the foreign settle- ment was established there, however, the population soon returned, and it has con- tinued to increase rapidly: it is now estimated at 53,000.

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 portion of the space enclosed is still not occupied. The city contains no feature of interest. There are several large lakes to the north and west of it, and it is backed by a noble range of hills a few miles distant. The foreign settlement lies to the west of the city and is neatly laid out. It possesses a small bund lined with trees, a tiny club, and small Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. 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 regards communication by water with the districts where the Green Tea is produced. Eut the hopes entertained respecting Kiukiang have never been wholly realised. The total quantity of Tea exported in 1885 was 285,618 piculs, of which 50,516 piculs were Green, the export for 1884 being 279,001 piculs. Opium was imported to the extent of 1,870 piculs in 1885, and 1,548 piculs in 1884. Kiukiang is the port from whence the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. In 1885, 16,462 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 about one-hird of the town. The total value of the trade of the port for 1885 was Tls. 10,122,064, and for 1884, TIs. 9,204,625.

Consulates.

DIRECTORY.

* Ta Ying ling-shih-kwan.

BRITISH.

Consul-C. W. Everard

Constable-Charles Rowe

官事領法大 Ta-fah ling-shih-kwan.

FRENCH.

*IB* Ta-tan ling-shih-kwan

DANISH.

Consul-C. W. Everard

Imperial Maritime Customs.

關新江九 Kiu-kiang hsin-kwan.

Commissioner-C. Lenox Simpson

Assistants-P. H. King, A. Scherzer, E.

G. Lowder

Medical Officer-Geo. R. Underwood, M.B.

Consul for Hankow and Kiukiang-Hyp-| Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor—J. H.

polyte Frandin

官事領國美大

Ta-mai-kwok ling-shih-kwan.

UNITED STATES.

Consul-B. J. Franklin, residing at Han-

kow

官事領國蘭荷大

Ta-ho-lan-kwoh ling-shih-kwan.

Vice-Consul

NETHERLANDS.

ɶÙ✯ Ta-ao ling-shih-kwan.

官事頜澳大

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN.

Consul-C. W. Everard

C. Günther

Boat Officer-J. Sjögren

Examiner-J. G. Hamlyn

Assistant Examiners-S. Rosenbaum, T.

H. Kingsley

Tidewaiters-II. T. Wavell, H. Nelson, J.

E. Harris, S. Smith, R. H. Strangman,

H. Stonehold, O. Jürgens

Municipal Council.

I** Ta Ying Kung-pao.

C. Lenox Simpson, chairman

Rev. J. R. Hykes, hon. secretary

A. E. Allen, hon. treasurer

H. Millar, inspector of police Twelve native policemen