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KEWKIANG

773.

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 three 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 1903 was 240,717 piculs, against 206,943 piculs, in 1902 and 167,597 piculs in 1901. In 1904 (latest return) it was only 186,035 piculs, and that includes re-exports. Kewkiang is the port from whence the ware made at the far-famed por- celain factories at Kin-tê-chên is shipped. The specimens sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 secured a silver medal, in competition with European porcelain. The export of Chinaware last year was 51,513 piculs, which is less by 3,000 piculs than the export in 1902, but only twice during the last ten years has the quantity exceeded 50,000 piculs. The indigo trade also flourishes. The net value of the trade of the port for 1904 was Tls. 24,410,680, against Tls. 23,056,291, in 1903, and Tls. 10,942,426, in 1902.

和協 Hip-wo

ANDERSON & Co., ROBT., Merchants

R. Anderson (absent)

C. Schlee

H. Schlee

E. White

Agencies

DIRECTORY

China Mutual Steam Navgn. Co., Ld. China Fire Insurance Company, Ld.

China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.

Marine Insurance Company, Limited

古太 Ta-koo

Butterfield & SWIRE, Merchants

F. W. Fowler signs per pro. Hulk "Pasha

Agencies

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China Navigation Company, Limited Ocean Steamship Company, Limited China Mutual Steam Nvgtn. Co., Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Company, Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insce. Co. British and Foreign Marine Insce. Co. Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld Equitable Life Assnce. Soc. of U.S.A.

CHINA MERCHANTS' MARINE INSURANCE CO.

Cheng Yuet Ngam, agent

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Cheng Yuet Ngam, manager

Luk Lai-ting, Fong Yen-king, ship-

ping clerks

Agency

China Merchants' Marine Insurance Co.

CLINDENING, F. T. D., M.R.C.S. ENG., L.R.C.P

LOND.

CONSULATES

FRANCE, Consular Agency

Consul-L. Ratard (Shanghai)

* Ta Ying-ling-shih-kwan

官事英大

GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-E. T. C. Werner

Constable--W. Bunting

JAPAN

Consul-K. Midzuno (residing at

Hankow.)

Vice-Consul-Y. Yoshida (abent) Chancellors-K. Aibara, S. Yagi, S.

Nakahata

Constable-T. Matsudaira

RUSSIA

Consul-A. N. Ostroverkhow (Han-

kow)

官事國美大

Ta-mai-kwok ling-shih-kwan

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul General-William

(Hankow)

Martin

Vice Consul-Gen.-Willard B. Hull Marshall-A. L. Sarle Interpreter-Willard B. Hull

WL Kiu-kiang hain-kwan CUSTOMS IMPERIAL MARITIME Commissioner-A, Lay

Legible letters, written on the Remington Typewriter, bring business.