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WUHU-KEWKIANG

CHINA INLAND MISSION

John and Mrs. Brock, J. A. Wilcox,

Nganking

do.

W. and Mrs. Westwood,

do.

A. R. Gray,

do.

J. Falls,

J. J, and Mrs. Coulthard, Wuhu

會督基 Ki-tu Hwei

FOREIGN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Chas. E. and Mrs. Molland

Miss E. Kellar

會道宣

Shen-tan-hui

CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE,

Central China Mission

Rev. D. W. Le Lacheur, supt. (abt.) Rev. Z. Chas. Beals, local superdt. Mrs. Z. C. Beals

Misses E. Von Gunten, M. Parmen- ter, G. Oviatt, M. Oviatt, Mary Funk, Jessie P. Rhind, Sarahi Poole, Isabella Ross, Margaret Quinn, Ida Morgan, Annie Young, Louise Mc- Cully

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ROMAN CATHOLIC

Tien-chu-tang

Rev. Père P. Debrix, 8.J. 3.

C. Hely, S.J.

祥瑞 Sui-zeang

SMITH & MEYER, Merchants and Albumen

Manufacturers

K. E. E. Meyer

E. E. Smith

康利 Loe-kong

STUBBE & WENTZENSEN, Merchants

C. Stubbe

J. W. Wentzensen (Shanghai)

Agencies

Siemssen & Co.'s Steamers General Marine Insce. Co., Dresden

TATUNG

* Ta-ching-yu-cheng-chu

FilE II *

POST OFFICE —ÎMPERIAL CHINESE

Postal Clerk-J. C. Braga

局總釐鹽岸皖

J. and Mrs. Smith, Ts'ing-iang-hsienį SALT LIKIN COLLECTORATE FOR ANHUI M. B. and Mrs. Birrel

F. H. Hiscock, Ta-t'ong

Deputy Commissioner-H. E. Wolf

Assistant--R. T. Nelson

KEWKIANG

Kiú-kiang

Kewkiang (now more general written Kiukiang) is situated on the river Yangtsze, near the outlet of the Poyang Lake, and is a prefectural city of the province of Kiang-si. It is distant about 187 geographical miles from Hankow and 445 miles from Shanghai. Kewkiang was before the Rebellion a busy and populous city; but it was occupied by the Taiping rebels in 1853, and before it was given up to the Imperial troops it was almost entirely destroyed. When the foreign settlement was established there, how- ever, the population soon returned, and has continue:l to increase rapidly: it is now estimated at 55,000.

The city is built close to the river, the walls running along the banks of it for some 500 yards. Their circumference is about five miles, but a portion of the space enclosed is still unoccupied. The city contains no feature of interest. There are several large lakes to the north and west of it, and it is backed by a noble range of hills a few miles. distant. The foreign settlement lies to the west of the city and is neatly laid out. It possesses a small bund lined with trees, a club, a small Protestant church, and Roman Catholic cathedral opened last year.

The idea which led to the opening of Kewkiang was, no doubt, its situation as regards communication by water with the districts where the Green Tea is produced. But the hopes entertained respecting the port have never been wholly realised. The total quantity of Tea exported in 1898 was 200,686 piculs, of which 40,299 were Green, aga'nst 192,942 piculs, including 38,734 piculs Green, in 1897; the export for 1896 was 230,367 piculs. Kewkiang is the port from whence the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. In 1898, 48,646 piculs of this ware were exported. The net value of the trade of the port for 1898 was Tls. 17,500,552 against Tl. 14,865,563, in 1897.