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PEKING-NEWCHWANG.

NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND

AND SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

Rev. W. H. Murray, agent

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR

FOREIGN MISSIONS U.S.A. Rev. Henry Blodgett, D. D. & wife Rev. W. S. Ament, and wife Rev. E. E. Aiken

Miss J. E. Chapin

Miss A. Haven

see also under Tientsin.

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION.

Rev. J. Wherry

Rev. D. C. McCoy

Rev. J. L. Whiting

B. C. Atterbury, M.D.

G. Y. Taylor, M.D. Mrs. R. Lowrie Rev. J. W. Lowrie Miss M. J. Lowrie Miss G. Newton

Professions, Trades, &c. Hewat, H.. agent Hongkong and Shang-

hai Banking Corporation

Jeanrenand, Chs.

Ad. Jeanrenaud

"Hotel de Peking," storekeepers

L. Tallieu, proprietor (absent)

J. Chamot

弗羅祁

Kien alff, P., commission agent, storekeeper and dealer in curios, manufacturer of

Peking Enamels; agent Hamburg Fire

Insurance Co. of 1877, Hamburg-

Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co., Maun- heim Insurance Co.

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. Manchuria has since, however, been largely colonised by the Chinese, who now 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 of Newchwang itself is distant from Ying-tz about thirty miles, and is a sparsely populated, uninteresting, and unimportant place.

The country about the port of Newchwang is hare and desolate, and in sailing up the river the voyager encounters a cheerless prospect. Ying-tz is surrounded by dreary marshes, and the land under cultivation produces principally Beans, The river is closed by ice for more than three months every year, during which period the residents are entirely ent off from the outer world. The climate, however, is healthy and bracing. The population of the place is estimated at 60,000.

The chief articles of trade at the port are Beans and Bean-cake, 2,595,963 picula of the former and 3,031,348 piculs of the latter being exported in 1887, as against 1,898,873 piculs and 1,480,048 piculs respectively in 1886. The net quantity of Opium imported in 1887 was 216 piculs, compared with 2,453 piculs in 1879. The import of Opium has of late years shown a continuous decline, the poppy being largely and successfully cultivated in Manchuria. The value of the total trade of the rt for 1887 amounted to Tls. 10.356,673 as against Tls. 8,601,216 in 1886.