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MISSIONS

堂主天

ICHANG--CHUNGKING

Tien-choo-tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Right Rev. Modestus Everaerts

Bishop tit. of Tadama and Vicar

Apostolic of Southern Hupeh

Rev. Angelus Timmers, pro vicar

Do. Gratianus Laurent

Do. Marcellus Sterkendries Do. Polydorus Vercruysse Do. Hubertus Adons Do. Seraphinus Melissen Do. Damianus de Walleff Do. Thaddeus Jacobs Do. Mathias Vlaminck Do. Natalis Gubbels Do. Deodatus Janssen

Do. Robertus van Voorden Do. Julianus Adons Do. Thomas Kempenaers Do. Franc. Xav. Corbisier Do. Clementianus De Vuyst Do. Trudo Jans

Do. Achilloeus Van Den Bosch Do. Theodoricus Hesseling Do. Carolus Goethals Do. Columbanus Clement Do. Marinus Adons Do. Arnulphus Merchier

Do. Peregrinus Theunissen Da. Solano de Cock Do. Libertus Callebaut

Do. Victor Stolle

Do. Julianus Verhaeghe

Do. Donatus Sammels

Chen-mou-tang

REV. SŒURS FRANCISCAINES MISSION-

AIRES DE MARIE

司公船輪清日

Tai-pan tseung-lun kung-tze

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA, THE-Tel. Ad:

Nisshinkisen

局政郵清大昌宜

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL

District Postmaster-J. C. Johnston

Acting Deputy Postmaster -- T.

Manners

SALT LEKIN COLLECTORATE

Commis'ner-in-charge -J.C.Johnstone

STANDARD OI Co.

W. H. Lovatt

Mei-foo

Li-teh

THE WEST CHINA TRANSPORT C'o.

Mackenzie & Co., Ld.

Agencies

North China Insurance Co., Lal. China Mutual Life Assce Co. Upper Yangtsze Syndicate, Ld.

CHUNGKING

慶重 Chung-king

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province, All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, leatlier, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, opium, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines-are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, via the Tung Ting lake.

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side-