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NINGPO

Ningpo is built on a plain, which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir- cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They are fifteen feet wide at the summit, and twenty-two at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street runs from east to west. Several of the streets are spanned by arches erected in memory of distinguished natives. Ningpo has been celebrated as possessing the fourth library of Chinese works, in point of numbers, which existed in the empire. It was owned by a family who resided near the south gate. The site occupied by the foreign residences is on the north bank of the river. The population of Ningpo is estimated at 250,000.

The foreign trade at Ningpo has never been large. This is owing to a considerable extent, doubtless, to the proximity of Shanghai. The net quantity of Opium imported in 1891 was 6,027 piculs, as compared with 6,026 piculs in 1890. Of Tea, there were 161,644 piculs exported in 1891, and 153,587 in 1890; Cotton, 28,230 piculs in 1891, and 25,465 piculs in 1890. The total value of the trade of the port was Tls. 12,872,204 in 1891; and Tls. 13,069,415 in 1890.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

D. Nesbitt

Agencies

DIRECTORY

China Navigation Company, Ld. Union Insurance Society of Canton

Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of U.S.A.

Chan Shang-Sung-Kink

CHINA MERCHANTS' S. N. Ĉo.

Sheng Kang, manager

Ch'en Shiou Cheu, do.

Agency

China Merchants' Marine Insurance Co.

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ing-kok Ling-ze-ngo-meng

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consulate

DENMARK, Vice-Consulate

FRANCE, Consular Agency

Consul-H. A. Giles (absent)

Acting Consul-P.F. Hausser

Medical Officer-C. C. de Burgh Daly

Constable-C. S. Kilgour

門衙事領美大

* Da-me Ling-ze-ngo-meng

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul-John Fowler

關海浙 Chê Hai.kwan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-H. F. Merrill

Assistant-S. Leslie

Do. -H. J. von Brockdorff Do. A. J. E. Allen

Medical Officer-C. C. De Burgh Daly T'survyr and Harbour Mr.-W. Rae Chief Examiner-T. Tolliday

Assistant Examiner-E. F. Momsen Tidewaiters-W. C. Bond, W. Armour, J. H. McLachlan, N. Smith, J. W. N. Murthe, C. J. Watson, D. Goldman, F. V. Carey

Chinhai Station

Assistant Tidesurveyor-A. Iffland Lighthouses-Tiger Island, Square Isld.

生醫臺 Dae I-eang

DALY, C. C. DE BURGH, M.B., B.CH.

签类

Me-ih

KÜLTZAU, GUSTAV, Merchant

C. C. G. Kültzau

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd

Canadian Pacific S. S. and Railway Co.

Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld.

Sun Insurance Office

Standard Life Assurance Company

順線

Nying.shing

MCCASLIN & Co., Merchants, Commission

Agents, and Manufacturers of Rush Hats

and Matting

C. McCaslin

MISSIONARIES

會公老長國美大

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. W. J. and Mrs. McKee

Mrs. F. E. Butler

Rev. V. F. and Mrs. Partch

Miss A. Morton

Miss E. Cunningham

Rev. J. H. and Mrs. Judson, Hang-

chow

Rev. J. S. and Mrs. Garritt,

do.