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WENCHOW-SANTUAO

There is no foreign settlement at Wènchow, and the foreign residents are a mere handful, consisting almost entirely of officials and missionaries. A large quantity of native opium is produced in the vicinity of Wenchow. There is a considerable native export trade in tea, tobacco, wood, charcoal, and bamboos, brought down the river on rafts from Ch'u-chow. Manufactures do not flourish. The annual value of the trade is estimated to be about Tls. 3,000,000. The shops and yards engaged in it are situated in the west suburb, where immense quantities of bamboo and poles are kept on hand. Wenchow is also celebrated for its oranges, which rank second in importance in the export trade. The total export of Tea in 1908 was 28,062 piculs against 15,027 piculs in 1907, 18,071 in 1906, 16,498 piculs in 1905, 25,590 piculs in 1904, 38,935 piculs in 1903, and 26,411 piculs in 1902. The value of the net trade of the port coming under the cognizance of the foreign Customs for 1908 was Hk. Tls. 2,525,575 against Åk. Tls. 2,071,485 in 1907, and Tls. 2,346,728 in 1906.

DIRECTORY

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION Co.

Hsieh Chung-son, agent

Loo Hsin Yuen, clerk

CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co.

Cheng Sung-hwa, manager

Yaw Ven Kan, clerk in charge

Kia Hong-ziang, Chen Tseh-ling,

clerks

Yang Yuoh-nien, accountant

CONSULATES

門衙事頜國英火

Da Ying-hai-ling-sz-ngo-niêng

GREAT BRITAIN

also

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consulate

Acting Consul-L. H. R. Barr (re-

siding at Ningpo)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul in Shanghai

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HEL Ou.Hoi-Kwan CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-C. T. Bowring Assistant--F. G. E. Rudolphy Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-

A. Walker

Examiner-W. Johnsford

Asst. Examiner-H. J. Christophersen

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missions see end of China

Directory

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Boisard

局政郵清大州温

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE

Postmaster--C. Talbot Bowring

Clerk in Charge-Yea Hong Yue

SANTUAO

Santuao was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Chinese Government on the 8th May, 1899. The port includes the whole of the magnificent Samsah Inlet, which is situated some 70 miles North of Foochow. The foreign settlement is on the island of Santu in the centre of the Inlet. The harbour is certainly one of the finest on the China cost: the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H. M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the Inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published. A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the Settlement in July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports.

The port of Santuao serves important Tea districts. Much of the Tea exported from Foochow to Europe is first demand in North China for certain

shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperus and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital. The net value of the trade of the port for 1908 was Tls. 2,659,287, as compared

with Tls. 2,275,874 for 1907.