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CHANGSHA-ICHANG

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provincial exclusiveness renders it difficult for foreign firms to open branches in the city, where a powerful and wealthy clique of gentry are in a position to outbid them in the purchase of premises and in other ways to use their powers to keep them out.

A considerable amount of building has been carried out in the foreign quarter, including two massive stone bunds about 30ft in height constructed along the frontage of adjoining lots belonging respectively to the Imperial Maritime Customs and Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, giving a total length of over 600 feet. An extensive scheme for bunding the whole foreshore outside was sanctioned last year, and a long stretch of bund has already been completed outside the north gate.

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

M. Jungbluth

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

DIRECTORY

Acting Consul-W. M. Hewlett

JAPAN

Vice Consul-M. Murayama Chancellor-Y. Hayashi

Inspector of Police-M. Hiyoshi

CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL CHINESE

Acting Commsr.-C. E. S. Wakefield Assistant-R. F. Wrench

Do. -W. G. Fitz Gibbon

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Do. -Y. Akatani

Tidesurveyor-J. H. Nightingale Examiners-W. Duncan, R. A. Thomp-

son

Tidewaiters--H. Wyatt, W. Olsen, S. O. A. Torp, P. Pezzini, B. Shainin

會人本日南湖

KONAN NIHONJIN KAI (Japanese Club)

M. Munayama (chairman)

Committee-M. Higoshi, K. Matsu-

yama, K. Horü, S. H. Hinako, K. Hoiaoka

井三

Sam-chin

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA

K. Matsuyama, agent

司公船輪清日

NISSIN KISEN KAISHA

K. Hiraoka, agent

H. Mukae

Agency

Tokyo Marine Insurance Co.

Osaka Shosen Kaisha

POST OFFICE, Imperial Chinese

District Postmaster-C.E.S. Wakefield Postal Officer-M. E. Summers

ICHANG

昌宜 I-Chang

Ichang is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, in accordance with Clause 1, Section 3, of the Chefoo Convention. It is situated in lat. 30° 44′ 25′′ N., long. 111° 18' 34" E., on the north bank of the river Yangtze, about 393 miles above Hankow, and some ten miles below the entrance to the great Ichang Gorge, or just about a thousand miles from the coast. The navigation of the river to this port is for all vesseis when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shiftings and comparatively easy for vessels of light draught, but great care is necessary banks. Ichang is practically the present limit of steam navigation on the Yangtze. The anchorage is off the left bank, opposite the foreign residences, and is good, except in freshets, when the anchors should be sighted every two or three days. The port is the centre of a hilly country, the productions of which are rice in the valleys, cotton on the higher grounds, winter wheat, barley, and also the tungtzu trees, from which the ordi- bally wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomeloes, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of persimmons are grown, and find a ready