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泰公商美

CHUNGKING_NINGPO

BURNETT & JENKINS, Merchants

J. H. Burnett

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

CHINA INLAND MISSION

M. and Mrs. Hardman T. G. Willett (absent)

Miss I. A. Ramsay

(For other Missionaries in Western Provinces, see Hankow)

司公劍保川利

CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, LD.

Archibald Little, resident manager

* Ta Ying ling-shih ya-men

CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-R. W. Mansfield (absent) Acting Consul―E. H. Fraser

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-H. E. Hobson Assistant-A. E. von Rosthorn

Tidesurveyor--W. Nelson Lovatt

T'waiters-J. P. Strong, H. C. W. Court

Principal Ch.Clerk-Chow Kwae Kway

會誼公

FRIENDS' FOREIGN MISSION

R. J. and Mrs. Davidson

Miss C. N. Southall

Frederick S. Deane

Miss Margaret Southall

Miss A. M. Beck Leonard Wigham, B.A. Isaac Mason

Miss M. L. Cumber

HERTZ, HENRY, Merchant

HOPKINS, DUNN & Co., Merchants

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

LITTLE, A. J., Merchant

Agency

China Traders Insurance Co., Ld.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Wilson

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C. J. Davenport, F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., & wife T. Walford Hart

METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION

Rev. H. Olin Cady, Chentu

Rev. Spencer and Mrs. E. B. Lewis Dr. J. H. and Mrs. McCartney Rev. S. A. Smith, B.A.

NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND

Jas. Murray, agent

*

Ji Châu-Yian Tong

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. L. Blettery, pro vicar Rev. H, Lorain, procurer Rev. M. Bonnet, Chiang-pei

NINGPO

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg. 55 min. 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 settlement 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. A 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 unsatisfactory, 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, 1812, 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.

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