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HANGCHOW
The site selected for the Foreign Settlement extends for half a mile along the east bank of the Grand Canal; it covers over half a square mile and is about four miles from the city wall. The Japanese concession adjoins it on the North and is about the same size.
The Custom House and Commissioner's and Assistants' residences are built on the Customs Lot, and an imposing Police Station has also been put up. A British Consulate has been built on the opposite side of the Japanese Concession, not in the settlement. On the west side, opposite the Settlement, a cotton mill, owned by Chinese and built and worked on western lines, is in operation. It was working in 1904 night and day, and turned out 2,880,000 lbs. of yarn; the company has built a large factory for pressing oil out of cotton seed. During the summer, they also started a cotton ginning plant. A native-owned steam silk filature has not been working for several years and is now used as the head office of the Chehkiang Lottery. Flour mills have been put up and are working intermittently. A camphor company has been formed under official patronage and a monopoly for the trade has been granted to it. The commodities chiefly dealt in are opium, tin, Japanese copper, kerosine oil, soap, sugar, prepared tobacco, varnish, paper fans, silk piece goods, raw silk and tea. The principal article of export is tea, about 116,611 piculs (including re-exports) in 1904. The tea comes from Anhui and Pingsuey near Shaohsing and from the neighbourhood of Hangchow, where the valuable Lungching tea is grown. Silk, paper fans, raw cotton, medicines and tinfoil are also exported. The imports of foreign goods from Chinese ports amounted to Tls. 5,154,187 in 1904 against Tls. 4,354,082 in 1903, and Tls. 3,669,297 in 1902, and the exports to Tls 9,158,519, in 1904, against Tls. 8,203,026 in 1903, and Tls. 7,125,445 in 1902, The net value of the trade of the port for 1904 was Tls, 17,747,662; for 1903 it was Tls. 15,621,781, Tls. 14,309,453, in 1902, Tls. 12,105,667 in 1901, and Tls. 9,433,771 in 1900. Trade is improving generally.
Halfway between Hangchow and Shanghai is Kashing, where the grand canal is entered. Kashing is a Customs Station under Hangehow and was first opened in 1898 for collecting duties on foreign opium owing to fiscal arrangements being against the collection at Hangchow. It now collects duties both on imports and exports and has become quite an important factor.
Two Chinese steamboat companies and one Japanese operate between Shanghai and Hangchow, and one Chinese and one Japanese between Soochow and Hangchow, each giving a daily service. Thirteen foreign missionaries were murdered at Chüchow on the Chientang river in 1903. Cholera in 1902 killed 10,000 people.
DIRECTORY
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul-J. L. Smith Consul
JAPAN
at Ningpo
門衙事領本日大
Ta-yat-pun.lin.sz Ya.men
Vice-Consul—T. N. Okohira
Chancellor K. Kishi
Inspector of Police-H. Ishihara
署事領國美大
Da-me-Kook-ling-shi-shu
UNITED STATES
Vice-Consul in charge-Frederick 1).
Cloud
關新州杭
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Commissioner P. von Tanner
Deputy do.-T. Macphail (Kashing)
Assts.--B. D. Tisdall, A. C. Biesterfeld,
F. Firnhaber, Y. Kurematsu
Medical Officers-D. D. Main, W. H.
Venable (Kashing) Tidesurveyor-1. Liedeke
Examiner--G. Civilini (Kashing) Assistant Examiners--W, A. Barlow
Wheeler (Kashing), J. Steinacher,
F. Bénard (Kashing),
Tidewaiters B. Friedrich, C. Landers, C. Huddy (Kashing), R. Raiteri (Kashing), J. Onken, O. Stromdähl, H. Halvorsen (Kashing)
LIKIN ADMINISTRATION, EASTERN CHEKIANG
Commisr.-in-charge-P. von Tanner
REMINGTON TYPEWRITER, 327 Broadway, New York, U. S. A.
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