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WEIHAIWEI-KIAOCHAU

SAILORS' & SOLDIERS' Institute

B. R. Mudditt

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, Port Edward

Rev. F. Perry

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. Fr. W. Hallam, o.F.M.

UNION CHAPEL, Liu-kung-tao

Minister-Benjamin R. Mudditt

WEIHAIWEI LIGHTER Co.

Cornabé, Eckford & Co., Joint Lavers & Clark,

managers

喊范

WEIHAIWEI GOLD MINING Co.

W. D. Verschoyle, consulting min. eng. M. A. Wolff, assayer

WEIHAIWEI LAND AND BUILDING CO., LD.

Lavers & Clark, agents

WEIHAIWEI MISSION PRESS, Liu-kung-tao-

WEIHAIWEI SCHOOL

Head-master-H L. Beer, L.C.P. Asst. do. J. W. Fell, B.A. Asst.-Miss Calder

Mrs. Barnes

Mrs. Beer Mrs. Blower Miss Blumgield Mrs. Brummage Mrs. Case Mrs. Clark

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Mrs. Mudditt

Mrs. Ockenden

Mrs. Hickin Mrs. Hill Mrs. Jones Mrs. Larkins Mrs. Lewis

Miss Parkhill Mrs. Perry Mrs. Phillpott

Mrs. Ramsey

Mrs. Loureiro

Mrs. Matheson

Mrs. Sands

Mrs. Shand Mrs. Simmers

Mrs. Stewart-Lock-

hart

Mrs. Swan

Mrs. Whittaker Mrs. Wilkins Mrs. Yorke

KIAOCHAU

州膠 Kiáu-chau

Tsingtan, situated at the entrance to the Kiaochau Bay in Shantung, was occupied by a German squadron on the 14th November, 1897, in consequence of the murder of two German missionaries, and on the 2nd September, 1898, it was declared a free port. It is held on lease from China for the term of ninety-nine years. The special attention of the Administration has been devoted to agricultural and mining development in the Protectorate. The local administration consists of a Council, which is composed of all- the heads of the several administrative departments under the personal supervision of the Governor and three members chosen from the civil population and appointed for one year; the first is named by the Governor, with the consent of the Council, the second is chosen from among the members of the non-Chinese firms, and the third from the list of taxpayers paying at least $50 ground tax, without distinction of nationality. In addition to the above-described Council, the Governor is assisted by a School Committee, a Committee to settle the question of licenses to public-houses, another to settle the land tax, and others for pauper and Church questions. The Protectorate has developed to an unlooked-for extent under this system of administration, which has enabled all the vital questions at issue, such as legal rights, landed properties, land tax assessment, school and Church matters, to be satisfactorily settled. The object of the Administration in dealing with the land question has been to secure for every settler the lasting possession of his plot, thereby opposing unhealthy land speculation. Tsingtau is, and will remain, a free port. The harbour has all the advantages of a Treaty port and a free port, and as such especially recommends itself as

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