Directory_and_Chronicle_1911 — Page 850

ROYAL MARINE GUARD

WEIHAIWEI-KIAOCHAU

Lieutenant-R. E. G. Burton, R.M.L.I.

SAILORS' & SOLDIERS' INSTITUTE

E. C. Ockenden

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH-Port Edward

Rev. A. E. Burne

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. Fr. W. Hallam, o.F.M.

STANDARD OIL Co., OF NEW YORK

V. G. Lyman, manager (Chefoo) Fock Tai & Co., agents

UNION CHAPEL-Liu-kung-tao

E. C. Ockenden, hon. sec. and treas. Preachers-Resident Missionaries

WEIHAIWEI LAND AND BUILDING CO., LI.

Lavers & Clark, agents

WEIHAIWEI LIGHTER Co.

Lavers & Clark,

Cornabé, Eckford & Co., Joint

fmanagers

839

WEIHAIWEI MISSION PRESS-Liu-kung-tao

E. C. Ockenden

行來泰

WEIHAIWEI WINE IMPORT Co., Wholesale

Wine Merchants-Tel. Ad: Tai Lai

Y. C. Lee

T. W. Ching

A. C. Laing Agencies

Garner, Quelch & Co. James Buchanan & Co. M. B. Foster & Son Meux's Brewery Co. Asahi Beer

WEIHAIWEI SCHOOL

Head-master-H. L. Beer, L.C.P. Assists.-E. L. Harvey, A. Craddock

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Mrs. Beer Mrs. Bickle

Miss Gresham

Mrs. Hartley

Mrs. Hamlin

Mrs. Hickin Mrs. Hill Mrs. House

Mrs. Jennings

Mrs. Brown Mrs. Burne Mrs. Cameron Mrs. Ching Mrs. Clark

Miss Lockhart Mrs. Marsh Miss McElvie Miss Muat Mrs. Ockenden Miss Rout

Mrs. Russell

Stewart-

Lady

Lockhart Mrs. Steel Mrs. Walter Mrs. Whittaker Mrs. Wilson

KIAOCHAU (TSINGTAU )

Kiáu-chau

Tsingtau, situated at the entrance to the Kiaochau Bay in Shantung, was occupied by a German squadron on the 14th November, 1897, in consequence of the murder of two German missionaries. It is held on lease from China for the term of ninety-nine years. The special attention of the Administration has been devoted to agricultural, commercial and mining development in the Protectorate and Shantung. The local administration consists of a Council, which is composed of all the heads of the several administrative departments under the personal supervision of the Governor and four members chosen from the civil population and appointed for two years; the first is named by the Gov- ernor, with the consent of the Council, the second is chosen from among the members of the non-Chinese firms, the third from the list of taxpayers paying at least $50 ground tax, without distinction of nationality, and the fourth from the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The Protectorate has developed to an unlooked-for extent under this system of administration, which has enabled all the vital questions at issue, such as legal rights, landed properties, land tax assessment, school and Church matters, to be satisfactorily settled. The object of the Administration in dealing with the land question has been to secure for every settler the lasting possession of his plot, thereby

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