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Miss Mary Vaughan Miss Louise Barnes Miss Elsie Goudge Miss Grant (absent) Miss D. C. Joynt Miss B. L. Frewer

Chuki

HANGCHOW-NINGPO

Rev. J. B. and Mrs. Ost (absent) Rev. H. and Mrs. Barton Miss L. C. Pope

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-W. J. Clennell

JAPAN

Consul---T. Wakamatsu

Chancellor

O. Sugimoto

Do. -S. Fukazawa

Student Interpreter-K. Matsunaga

Inspector of Police-H. Ishihara

Assistant Postmaster-Y. Suzuki

CUSTOMS

關新州杭

IMPERIAL MARITIME

Deputy Commissioner-in-charge--G.

F. Montgomery

Assistant--J. R. Putnam

Do. -A. E. Blanco

Medical Officer-A. T. Kember

Tidesurveyor-T. Macphail (Kiashing) Asst. Examiner-G. A. F. Schneider Tidewaiters R. Hansen, C. Ahlberg,

S. Foyn, E. H. A. Freitag, F. E. Irwin, L. C. E. von Sydow (Kiashing)

LEKIN ADMINISTRATION EASTERN CHEKIANG Deputy Commnr.-G. F. Montgomery Assistant-W. McDonald

Do. -J. H. D. Nouston

POST OFFICE--IMPERIAL (Hangchow City)

Asst. Postal Officer-J. C. Nicholas

房捕巡塲關温州杭

POLICE (CHINESE) Hangchow Settlement

Chief-R. D. Craig

1 interpreter, 1 instructor, 3 sergts.,

21 constables

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Wittib

問佘

Shih-wên.

SHERVEN, O., Settlement Engineer

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Sisters Archenault (superioress), M.

Parada, A. Wagenspery, G. Borie

NINGPO

波街 Ning-po

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, 1842, 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.

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

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