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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO-NEWCHWANG

Liau Tung accessible during the winter, which, on an average, extends from December 10th to March 10th. Good, sheltered anchorage also is to be found in the Roads. The Company's branch line runs from the pier to Tongho, four miles distant, on the main trunk line from Newchwang and Mukden to Peking. The Company own the land in the vicinity of the port, and that portion of the property known as the Bluff, com- prising the best residential and building sites, has now been laid out as a township, in which plots may be bought or leased on moderate terms.

As a seaside healt i resort Chinwangtao is almost without rival in China. It is easily accessible, has a dry and bracing climate, offers safe bathing from a sandy beach, and is situated amidst magnificent scenery while a hotel under experienced manage- ment affords the visitor every comfort. The great increase of trade year by year has induced the Imperial Maritime Customs to erect a fine Customs house at Chinwangtao, with a deputy commissioner in charge, and to open a Hai Kwan Bank for the con- venience of local consignees. Chinwangtao was selected on account of its natural geographical advantages as one of the ports of embarkation for coolies emigrating to South Africa, and during 1904 an extensive depot was established for the accommoda- tion of five or six thousand men.

DIRECTORY

Butterfield& SWIRE-Tel. Ad: Swire

(Agent in residence during the Winter

season only.)

Agency

The Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Hongkong, representing The Leeds Forge Co., Leeds

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL

WANGTAO

MARITIME CHIN-

Commissioner-J. F. Oiesen

Asst. in charge-J. D. D. de La Touche

FORBES & CO., WILLIAM-Tel. Ad: Rinchee

Chinwangtao

Agent W. Morton Smith

Agencies

Russo-Asiatic Bank

Standard Oil Co. of New York

British-American Tobacco Co., Ld.

Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld. Lever Bros., Ld. (sub-agency) China Fire Insurance Co., Ld. China Traders Insurance Co., Ld. The Yangtsze Insurance Asso., Ld. The Messageries Maritimes Co.

IMPERIAL CHINESE POST OFFICE

T. A. Collaço, assistant postal officer

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION Tel.

Ad: Maishan

R. A. McConaghy, agent and engineer J. Stewart, shipping clerk W. Roberts, harbour master

J. Phillips, traffic inspector

Dr. C. T. Andrews, medical officer

REST HOUSE HOTEL- Tel. Ad: Rest House,

Hop Kee, manager.

NEWCHWANG

莊牛 Niu-chwang 口營 Ying-kow

Newchwang, in latitude 40 deg. 40 min. 38 sec. N., longitude 122 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. E., was opened to foreign trade in May, 1864, and was for more than forty years the only Treaty port in Manchuria. Manchuria comprises the three Provinces of Fêngtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, and is commonly called by the Chinese the "Tung San Sheng "or the Three Eastern Provinces. Newchwang is situated in the most southern of these three pro- vinces-Fêngtien, also known as Shêng Ching-and lies about thirteen miles from the mouth of the Liao River, which empties into the Gulf of Liaotung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili. The proper name of the port is Yingkow, and not Newchwang, which is situated 90 li (30 miles) further up the river. The old town of Newchwang was designated by Treaty to be opened to trade, but the first foreigners finding Ying- kow more conveniently situated, and more adapted in every respect for the purposes of trade, quietly installed themselves there and got over the difficulty by the simple process of changing the name of Yingkow into that of Newchwang!