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NEWCHWANG

primarily for the conveyance of material for the construction of the line connecting Talienwan and Port Arthur with the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The country about the port of Newchwang is bare and desolate, and in sailing up the river a most cheerless prospect greets the traveller's eye. 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 cut 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; 4,220,963 piculs of the former and 3,695,821 piculs of the latter being exported in 1898. The net quantity of Opium imported in 1898 was 92 piculs, compared with 2,453 piculs in 1879. The import of Opium has of late years shown an almost continuous decline, the poppy being largely and successfully cultivated in Manchuria. The total value of the trade of the port for 1898 amounted to Tls. 32,441,315 as against Tls. 26,358,671 in 1897.

DIRECTORY

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Agencies

生茂 Mow-sing

AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY: Tel. Ad.

Napoleon

C. McCaslin, agent

H. R. Everall

Agencies

China Traders' Insurance Company Royal Insurance Company (Fire)

Chee-chang

BANDINEL & Co., Merchants

J. J. F. Bandinel

W. J. Lister

F. D. Farmer C. John

Agencies

National Bank of China, Limited Nippon Yusen Kaisha

China Shipowners' Association Norddeutscher Lloyd Hamburg-America Line

Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navign. Co. Northern Pacific Steamship Company Deutscher Lloyd

Osaka Shosen Kaisha Dodwell & Co.'s Steamers

Transtlantie Marine Insurance Co. Continental Insurance Company Imperial Marine Insurance Co. Hanseatischer Lloyd Internationaler Lloyd

Sun Fire Office

Standard Life Assurance Company

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha

來遠 Yin.lae

BUSH BROTHERS, Merchants and Commis-

sion Agents

Henry A. Bush

H. F. Bush, signs per pro.

A. Van Ess

P. Farmer S. James

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpn. Jardine, Matheson & Co.

M. Sheveleff & Co., Vladivostock A. R. Marty

Nisshin Boyeki Kaisha

I. M. Customs Bankers

Cheque Bank Company, Ld., London Hongkong & Shanghai Bdg. & Loan Co. Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. China Mutual Steam Navigation Co. Chinesische Küstenfahrt Gesellschaft Deutsche Dampfschiffs Rhederei Russian Steam Nav. Co. in the East Shanghai Steamship Company, Ld. Chinese Trading Steamship Co. Whachong Steam Navigation Co., L‹l. Lloyd's

North China Insurance Company Canton Insurance Office, Limited Yangtsze Insurance Association Germanischer Lloyd's, Berlin Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Lancashire Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company, Limited Scottish Imperial Insurance Co. (Life) South British Fire and Marine Insce. Underwriting and Agency Assocn. London Assurance Corporation (Fire) London & Provincial Marine Insce. Co. Manchester Fire Assurance Co. Nippon Sea and Land InsuranceCo.,Ld. Occan Accident and Guarantee Corpn. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Nouveau Lloyd Suisse

Deutscher Lloyd Transport Vers. A.G. Equitable Life Assurance of U. S. A. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada

Tai-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

D. Nesbitt, signs per pro. F. A. Tanberg