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KIUKIANG-HANKOW

關新江九 Kiu-kiang hsin-kwan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner A. M. de Bernières

Assistant-W. G. Lay

Do.

-R. de Luca

Do. -O. G. Ready

Do. -E. Gilchrist

Medl. Officer-Geo. R. Underwood, M.D. Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor—

C. Deighton-Braysher Boat Officer-F. G. Becke Examiner-S. Rosenbaum

Assistant Examiners-H. T. Wavell, J. J. Wilgaard, A. G. Elder, H. C. Hewett

Tidewaiters-E. A. Roberts, O. Jürgens, G. Williams, W. A. Mace, A. Millar,

W. J. Gardelin, H. J. Renton, W. Howard

和怡 E-wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

F. du Jardin

Agencies

Indo-China S. N. Co., Limited

Hulk "Queen of India "

Glen Line of Steamers

Canton Insurance Office, Limited

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited

MISSIONARIES

CHINA INLAND MISSION

J. S. and Mrs. Rough

食美以美

METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION

Rev. J. R. and Mrs. Hykes

Rev. Jas. and Mrs. Jackson

Rev. E. S. and Mrs. Little Rev. J. J. and Mrs. Banbury

Miss Gertrude Howe (absent)

Miss Frances Wheeler

Miss Kate L. Ogbourn

堂主天

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Kiangsi Méridional (South Kiangsi) Bishop-Coqset, apostolic vicar

151

Pères-Boscat, Perès, Festa, Candu-

glia, Shottey, Gattringer

Kiangsi Oriental (East Kiangsi) Bishop-Vic, apostolic vicar Pères-Anot, Dauverchain, Ciceri, Tamet, Bresson, Donjoux, Ra- meaux, Clabault, Briant, Dellieux Kiangsi Septentrional (North Kiangsi)

Bishop Bray, apostolic vicar Pères-Portes, Lefebvre, Guérand, Fatiquet, Potel, Coutarel, Francès Sisters of Charity, Kiukiang

Sœurs Foubert, superior, Marzi, Hac-

ard, orphanage

Laux, superior, Duprat, Ryan, Dup-

arc, hospital

UNCONNECTED

J. L. and Mrs. Duff

Miss Annie Lucas

E. J. and Mrs. Blandford, Wuch'en

Harry Price,

R. Ernest Jones,

昌阜 Fow-cheong

do.

do.

MOLCHANOFF, PECHATNOFF & Co., Mer-

chants

P. P. Martzinkewich, agent

A. Andrieff

Agency

China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited

部工英大 Ta Ying Kung-pao

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL

Chairman-N. Sinclair

Hon. Secretary-A. G. Brown

Hon. Treasurer-P. Marzinkevich

J. Charters, inspector of police

豐順

Shoon-foong

TOKMAKOFF, MOLOTKOFF & Co., Merchants

M. J. Ostanin

M. K. Kandensky

順義 E-shun

UNDERWOOD, GEO. R., M.B. EDINR. Medical

Practitioner

HANKOW

Hankow is situated on the river Han at the point where it enters the Yangtsze, and is in lat. 30 deg. 32 min. 51 sec. N., and long. 114 deg. 19 min. 55 sec. E. It was formerly regarded as only a suburb of Hanyang, which it immediately adjoins, and which is a district city of the province of Hupeh, but Hankow has outstripped the older city in wealth and importance. These two towns lie immediately facing the city of Wuchang-fu, the capital of the province, which is built upon the south bank of the Yangtsze. Hankow is distant from Shanghai about 600 miles.

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Attention was first drawn to Hankow as a place of trade by Huc, a French missionary. Captain Blakiston, in his work "The Yangtsze, gives the following correct description of the place and its surrounding:-" Hankow is situated just where an