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Consulates.

WENCHOW-NING PO.

門衙事領國英大

DIRECTORY.

Ta Ying-kwok ling-sz-nga-mun.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Consul-W. Gavin Stronach

Constable-John Compton

GERMANY.

In charge of Interests-W. G. Stronach

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

Consul-W. Gavin Stronach

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.

In charge W. Gavin Stronach

Imperial Maritime Customs. 關海甌 Ou Hai-kuan.

Assistant in charge-Jas. R. Brazier

Assistant-D. J. Macgowan

Clerk-D. Percebois

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Medical Officer-D. J. Macgowan, M.D.

Linguist Huang Ping

Assistant Examiner-G. W. Luce

Tidewaiters-R. D. J. Simpson, W E.

Robinson

CHINA MERCHANTS S. N. Co

Yeh Chang, shipping agent

Missionaries.

CHINA INLAND MISSION

Rev. G. and Mrs. Stott (absent)

R. Grierson (Ping Yang)

W. Sayers

Miss J. C. Oliver

Miss Britton

Miss Judd

do.

ENGLISH UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCH MISSION.

Rev. W. E. and Mrs. Soothill

NINGPO.

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Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg 55 min. 12 sec. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842. Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and successful colony soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese soon attracted the attention of the Government, and in 1542 the Governor of Chekiang ordered the settlement to be destroyed and the population to be exterminated. large force of Chinese troops soon besieged the place, destroying it entirely, and out of a population of 1,200 Portuguese, 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade mart there, however, proved unsatis- factory, and the factory was abandoned after a very few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time. In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to retake the city, but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.

Ningpo is built on a plain, which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir- cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They