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It will be seen, from the above enumeration of the facilities for water carr iage from Wuhu, that it is calculated to prove an emporium for commerce. The net v alue of the foreign imports for the year 1887 was Tls. 2,994,036, compared with Tls. 3,764,837 in 1886. 4,449 piculs of Opium were imported in 1887, as compared with 5,751 pi culs in 1886. Coal is likely, at no distant date, to become a considerable article of exp ort from Wuhu, the mines at Chihchou, near Ta-tung, turning out some 20 tons a day. The Chih-chou mines are worked with Western appliances and machinery. The exp ort in 1887 was 8,349 tons as against 4,079 tons in 1886. There is a large trade in Tim ber in Wuhu, but that like all other trade, is in the hands of the Chinese. The total value of the trade of the port for 1887 was Tls. 5,831,240 as against Tls. 7,989,833 in 1886, and Tls. 5,255,360 in 1885.
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.
Consulates.
DIRECTORY.
**** Ta Ying ling-sz-foo.
府事頜英大
GREAT BRITAIN.
Acting Consul-R. W. Mansfield
Constable-G. Perkins
UNITED STATES.
Consul-Genl. A. C. Jones, residing at
Chinkiang
SWEDEN AND Norway.
Vice-Consul-S. Krips
IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS.
關新湖蕪
Wu-hu hsin-kwan.
Commissioner-W. T. Lay
Assistants.--J. F. Oiesen, E. T. Pym, R.
H. Cox
Medical Officer-R. H. Cox
China Navigation Co., Hulk" Le-tai ”
T. Weatherston, agent
局商招
China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co.
C. C. Lee, agent
Hulk "Bombay"
泰謙 Hin-tai.
Hember, S., shipping and commission
agent
Jardine, Matheson & Co., merchants
A. W. Grayson
Mow-lung.
Krips, S. merchant, shipping and commis.
sion agent
麥 Mu-pin.
邊麥
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master—W. McBain, Geo., merchant
Rae
Boat Ûfficer-J. F. Dubois Examiner-L. Ledcke
Assistant Examiners-F. Bartenstein, F. Haughton, J. T. Green, E. C. Tregillus,
C. E. Meyer
Tidewaiters-J. P. Strong, J. J. C.
S. Hember, agent
Receiving ship "Spirit of the Age,"
Weatherston, T., commission agent
MISSIONS.
Tien-chu-tang.
Lorentzen, F. Bijno, D. Lamacchia, J. Rev. Pére J. Seckinger, Society of Jesus
Holliday (probationary)
Chinese Clerks-Lo Tseung, Cheng Tai
Shing
Chih Chou Coal Mines
MERCHANTS, &c.
- Reid, superintendent
and others
AMERICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
Fu-yin-tang,
MISSION.
Rev. J. and Mrs. Walley Dr. G. A. and Mrs. Stuart
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