Directory_and_Chronicle_1912 — Page 1235

!

1004

CHINESE TELEGRAPH Co,

Zee Kwei, manager

WENCHOW-SANTUAO

Yaw Ven Kan, clerk in charge

Kia Hong-ziang, Chen Tseh-ling,

clerks

Yang Yuoh-nien, accountant

司公險保壽人年永

Yung-nien-jen-show-pro-hsien kung-sze

CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

Manager for Chekiang Province-W.

G. Fitz-Gibbon (at Hangchow)

Agent for Wenchow Prefecture-Li

Hsin-fu

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英人

Da Yang-kwai-ling-sz-ngo-ming

GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-H.L.Higgs (residing

at Ningpo), also in charge of Aus-

tro-Hangarian interests

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Consul in Shanghai

Ou Hoi-Kwan

CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME

Actg. Comsner.-C. Talbot Bowring

Assistant--A. Schneider

Act. Tidesurveyor--W. Johnsford

Tidewaiter-H. W. Butte

局政郵清大州温

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE

Act. Sub. Dist. Postmaster-Yea Hong

Yue

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Boisard

Rev. J. Salon

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 coast: 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 shipped from Santuao; and there is a growing demand in North China for certain varieties grown in the neighbourhood. The chief towns of the district are Funing, Fu-an, Ningte, and Shouning. There is a prosperous and increasing junk-trade, and regular steamship communication with the provincial capital. The net value of the trade of the port for 1910 was Hk. Tls. 2,916,984 as compared with Tls. 2,615,032 for 1909, and Tls. 2,659,287 for 1908, The value of the junk trade for 1910 was Tls. 1,944,587.

DIRECTORY

官事領總利大義大

Tai I-tai-li Chun-ling-82-kún

CONSULATE

ITALY

Consul-General--Comm. Z. Volpicelli

(residing in Hongkong)

Chinese Writer--Ching Yao

Fu-hai-Kwan

CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME

Actg. Commissioner-G. F. H. Acheson Assistant-R. T. Nelson

Examiner-A, D. Copeland Tidewaiters

Harris

W. J.Turner, A. B. B.