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any other country." One of the sights of Hangchow is the famous western lake, dotted with islets crowned with shrines and memorial temples, and spanned by causeways joining island to island. The general picturesque effect is heightened by temples, pagodas, and similar monuments judiciously placed in effective spots, while the slopes of the hills bordering the lake on the west are bright with azaleas, honey-suckle, and peach-bloom, and clusters of bamboos, several kinds of conifers, the stillignia, camphor tree, and maple in rich profusion, all help to make the scene very pretty.

The site selected for the Foreign Settlements 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 1905 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. They are now also making Cigarettes and Ice by foreign machinery. A cotton ginning plant and a native-owned steam silk fila- ture which had not been working for several years are now again in use. Small flour mills have been put up and are working intermittently. The commodities chiefly dealt in are opium, tin, Japanese copper, kerosene oil, soap, sugar, prepared tobacco, varnish, paper fans, silk piece goods, raw silk and tea. The principal article of export is tea, about 112,158 piculs (including re-export) in 1905. The tea comes from Anhwei 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 import of foreign goods from Chinese ports amounted to Tls. 4,334,125 in 1905, against Tls. 5,154,187 in 1904, and Tls. 4,354,082 in 1903; and the exports to Tls. 10,200,623 in 1905, against Tls. 9,158,519, in 1904, and Tls. 8,203,026 in 1903. The net value of the trade of the port was Tls. 17,496,980 in 1905, and Tls, 17,747,662 in 1904. In 1900 at was Tls. 9,43,771. Trade is improving generally.

Halfway between Hangchow and Shanghai is Kashing, where the Grand Canal joins the Whangpoo River on which Shanghai is situated. Kashing is a Customis Sta- tion 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 on the Chientang river in 1905. Cholera in 1902 killed 19,000 people. A railway is to be built from Hangehow to the Settlement.

DIRECTORY

BURIN YOKO, Commission Merchants and

Storekeepers

J. Mayejima

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-J. L. Smith

JAPAN

門衙事簿本日大

Ta-ji-pen-lin-sz Ya.men

Vice-Consul-T. Takasu

Inspector of Police-H. Ishihara

關新州杭

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-P. von Tanner

Deputy do.-T. Macphail (Kashing) Assisants--C. Pape, A. C. Biesterfeld, Y. Kurematsu (Kashing), C. J. Gutt Medical Officers-D. D. Main, W. H.

Venable (Kashing) Tidesurveyor--L. Liedeke

Assistant Examiners-J. Steinacher,

(Kashing), F. Bénard, C. H. Hardy Tidewaiters B. Friedrich, C. Landers, R. Raiteri (Kashing), J. Onken, (). Stromdahl (Kashing) H. Halvorsen, C. M. G. Müller, G. R. W. Trip- macher (Kashing)

LIKIN ADMINISTRATION, EASTERN CHEKIANG

Commisr.-in-charge—P. von Tanner

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