Directory_and_Chronicle_1887 — Page 492

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

PEKING-NEWCHWANG.

RUSSIAN GREEK ORTHODOX MISSION.

Rt. Rev. Amphilochius Rev. Platon

Rev. Alexis

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Rev. Geo. Owen

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR

FOREIGN MISSIONS U.S.A.

Rev. Henry Blodgett, D.D., Peking Rev. E. E. Aiken,

do.

479

W. C. Noble, treasurer and supdt. of press

Miss J. E. Chapin

Peking

Miss A. Haven

do.

Rev. J. Gilmour, M.A.

Rev. C. Goodrich (absent), T'ung-cbau

Rev. S. E. Meech

Rev. D. Z. Sheffield, secretary,

do.

Rev. H. P. Beach,

do.

E. T. Pritchard, B., C.M.

Miss M. E. Andrews (absent)

do.

Miss J. G. Evans,

do.

Miss M. A. Holbrook, M.D.,

do.

Rev. W. H. Rees

Rev. J. Stonehouse

Miss Philip

Miss Smith

Miss Moreton

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MISSION.

Rt. Rev. Chas. P. Scott, Bishop in North

China

Rev. W. Brereton, S.P.G.

Rev. Miles Greenwood, S.P.G.

Rev. F. H. Sprent

Miss E. A. Eyre

Miss E. Skelton

會美以美

METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION.

Rev. Hiram H. and Mis. Lowry (absent)

Rev. J. H. and Mrs. Pyke

Rev. W. T. and Mrs. Hobart

Rev. M. L. and Mrs. Taft

Rev. L. W. Pilcher

Dr. Kruse

J. Gamewell

Mrs. C. M. Jewell

Miss Clara M. Cushman (absent)

Miss Annie B. Sears

Miss M. Green

NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.

W. H. Murray, agent (absent)

Mr. and Mrs. C. Brown

Rev. I. and Mrs. Pierson, Pau Ting-foo Miss L. B. Pierson (absent) do. Rev. Mark and Mrs. Williams, Kalgan Rev. W. P. and Mrs. Sprague, do. Rev. J. H. and Mrs. Roberts,

Miss N. Diament,

Miss V. C. Murdock, M.D.,

do.

do.

do.

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION.

Rev. J. Wherry (absent)

Rev. D. C. McCoy

Rev. J. L. Whiting

B. C. Atterbury, M.D.

Rev. J. W. and Mrs. R. Lowrie

Miss M. J. Lowrie

Addis, C. S.

Trades, &c.

Jeanrenaud, Chs., dealer in curios and

Peking enamels

Ad. Jeanrenaud

"Hotel de Peking," storekeepers

L. Tallieu, proprietor

弗羅祁

Kierulff, P., commission agent, storekeeper

and dealer in curios; agent Hamburg

Fire In-urance Co. of 1877

P. Kierulff

C. Imbeck

NEWCHWANG.

Newchwang is the most northerly port in China open to foreign trade. It is situated in the province of Shing-king, in Manchuria. It is called by the natives Ying-tz, and lies about thirteen miles from the mouth of the river Liao, which falls into the Gulf of Liao-tung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili.

Before the port was opened, comparatively little was known of this part of the Central Kingdom. Situated in a wild region, the greater part of which was a few years since little else but a wilderness, it was never visited by outsiders. Manchuria is now, however, being rapidly colonised by the Chinese, who already outnumber the natives. The word Ying-tz means military station, and that was the only use formerly made of the place. Between the years 1858 and 1860, the British fleet assembled in Ta-lien-wan Bay, and early in 1861 the foreign settlement was established. The town

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