KEWKIANG
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KEWKIANG
江九 Kii-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 continued 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 a Roman Catholic cathedral opened two years ago.
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 1899 was 219,919 piculs, of which 40,901 were Green, against 200,686 piculs in 1898, of which 40,299 were Green. The export for 1897 was 192,912 piculs. Kewkiang is the port from whence the ware made at the far- famed porcelain factories at Kin-tê-chiên is shipped. In 1899, 53,567 piculs of this ware were exported against 48,646 piculs in 1898. The net value of the trade of the port for 1899 was Tis. 18,562,941, against Tls. 17,500,552 in 1898 and against TIs. 14,865,563 in 1897.
和協
Hip-wo
ANDERSON & Co., ROBт., Merchants
R. Anderson (absent)
C. Schlee
H. Schlee
E. White
Agencies
DIRECTORY
China Mutual Steam Navgn. Co.
China Fire Insurance Company, Id.
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.
Marine Insurance Company, Limited
Ta-koo
Butterfield & SWIRE, Merchants T. W. Lammert, signs per pro.
Agencies
China Navigation Company, Limited
Hulk "Sultan"-J. Kofod Lind, in
charge
Ocean Steamship Company
Union Insurance Society of Canton
British and Foreign Marine Insurance
London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Equitable Life Assnce. Soc. of U.S.A. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Cheng Yuet Ngam manager
CONSULATES
FRANCE, Consular Agency
Consul-Comte de Bezaure (Sh'ghai)
官事領英大
* Ta Ying ling-shih-kwan
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-Alexander Hosie
Acting-Consul-W. J. Clennell Constable--
JAPAN
Consul A. Segawa (Hankow)
NETHERLANDS
Vice-Consul-
REMINGTON TYPEWRITER, 327 Broadway, New York, U. S. A.
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