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WUHU-KEWKIANG

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邊麥 Ma-pin

Wu-hu-tien-ehu

NISSEN KISEN KAISHA; Hulks "Thistle and TELEGRAPHS, IMPERIAL CHINESE

"Tanais"

局政郵清大 Taching-yu-cheng-chii

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE

Dist. Postmaster-F. J. Mayers

Clerk-in-charge-Pau Yu Sung

Branch Offices at Lüchowfu, Ningkuofu

Showchow, Liuanchow, Yingchowfu and Cheng Yung-kwan

Tatung Sub-District

Sub-Dist. P'mast.-C. Thorne

Asst. Postal Officer-in-charge-F.

Guaita

Assistant Postal Clerk--Sun Lau-

foh

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK--Tel. Ad:

Socony

J. F. Newman, manager

S. P. Gracey, agent

Zee Chien Kien, manager

Hsin Chen Ching, clerk in charge

T. Y. Sze, C. L. Li, assistants and 13

clerks

TATUNG

5#**## Wan-an-yen-li-tsung-chu

ANHUI SALT LIKIN COLLECTORATE, TATUNG

Acting Deputy Commr. in charge-C.

Thorne

AK Ta-ching-yu-cheng-chu

局政郵清大

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE, Tating

Postal Officer--

Inspecting Clerk-Sun Lan-foh Anking Branch Office

Clerk-in-charge-Han Kwan-tsang

KEWKIANG

江九 Kii-hsiang

Kewkiang (now more generally 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 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, among them being Kuling some 3,600 feet high, which has become a well-known summer resort, especially of Missionaries. 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.

The idea which led to the opening of Kewkiang was, no doubt, its situation as regards communication by water with the districts where Tea is produced. But the hopes entertained respecting the port have never been wholly realised, Hankow having become the market for Black Teas. The general trade of the port, however, has in- creased considerably in recent years, a large developmenf of Inland Steam Navigation in the Poyang Lake contributing to this result. Its connection by rail with the provincial capital, Nanchang (begun in 1906), may further improve matters. The Tea export in 1908 was 229,444 piculs as compared with 252,396 piculs in 1907 and 200,016 in 1903. Kewkiang is the port from whence the ware made at the far-famed porcelain factories at Kin-te-chen is shipped. The specimens sent to the Paris Exhibition in 1900 secured a silver medal, in competition with European porcelain. The export of chinaware reached the record in 1906 of 59,874 piculs; in 1908 it was 52,571 piculs. Large quantities are also sent away in Junks. Beans, and peas, hemp, indigo, paper, melon and sesamum seeds, and tobacco leaf are also important exports. The net value of the trade of the port for 1908 was Tls. 30,093,412, as compared with 30,237,377 in 1907 and Tls. 22,731,011 in 1906.