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SISTERS OF CHARITY

CHEFOO

Mères M. de Ste. Magdalen, de Berch- mann, de l'Ascension, de St. Jn. Baptiste, de Ste. Germaine, de St. Colette, du St. Suaire, de la Salette of the congregation of Franciscaine of St. Brieuc (France)

UNCONNECTED

Miss Downing

PRICE, J. B., Marine Surveyor

來福 Fu-li

PRICE & Co., B. J., Navy Contractors and

Storekeepers

B. J. Price

PROTESTANT COLLEGIATE SCHOOL

Boys' School

Alex. Armstrong, C.M., F.E.I.S., principal

Mrs. Armstrong, lady principal

Ebe Murray, master

H. J. Alty, do.

T. Macoun,

do.

Miss Malin, music teacher

Rev. A. W. Douthwaite, D.M., science

lecturer

U Kuai Uh, Chinese teacher

Girls' School

Miss Sanderson Miss Hibberd Miss Legerton Miss Reid Miss Fairy

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King-yip shu-yuen

READING ROOM FOR CHINESE

Hon. Sec. and Treas.-W. A. Henderson

Hon. Chinese Sec.-Lin Shin Ping

理復 Fuh-le

SEAVIEW HOUSE

Miss H. E. Fuller

局務確度平

SHANTUNG PINGTU MINING COMMISSION

H. E. Li, director general

利哈

Ha-lee

SIETAS & Co., H., Naval Contractors and

Storekeepers

J. C. Kirschstein

H. A. Hansen

J. Block

H. C. Augustesen

橋高 Ta-kian

TAKAHASHI, T., Merchant

SHANGHAI

The most northerly of the five ports opened to foreign trade by the British Treaty of Nanking, is situate at the extreme south-east corner of the province of Kiang-su, in latitude 31.15 north, and longitude 121.29 east of Greenwich, at the junction of the rivers Hwang-po and Woosung (the latter called by foreigners the Soochow Creek), about twelve miles above the village of Woosung, where their united waters debouch into the estuary of the Yangtsze. The soil is alluvial and the country perfectly flat, the nearest eminence that can be called a hill being distant about nineteen miles. The river opposite the city and foreign settlements, once a narrow canal, was, some eighteen years ago, 1,800 feet broad at low water, but has been rapidly narrowing till it is now only 1,200 feet. The Soochow Creek, which was, judging by old records, at one time at least three miles across, has now a breadth of only a hundred yards. The average water on the bar at Woosung at high water springs is nineteen feet, the greatest depth of late years being twenty-three feet. The bar is the cause of heavy loss to shipowners and merchants through the detention of ocean steamers. After repeated efforts to induce the Chinese authorities to deepen it, a dredger was built for the purpose several years ago, but was only brought into use at Woosung last year. There is now, however, some hope that the "heaven sent barrier," as the Chinese Authorities called it, will at last be removed.

Shanghai-the name means "upper sea

sea" or

or "near the sea"-became a hsien or third rate city in the fourteenth century, and the walls, which are three and a half miles in circuit, with seven gates, were erected at the time of the Japanese invasion, in the latter part of the sixteenth century. It had been an important seat of trade for many centuries before the incursion of foreigners. It was captured by the British forces on 19th June, 1842.

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