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CONSULATES

CHANGSHA-ICHANG

GREAT BRITAIN-Tel, Ad: Britain

Consul-V. L. Savage

(Also officiating Norwegian Interests)

JAPAN

T. N. Okoshira, consul

S. Miyata, chancellor

· CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Assistant-in-Charge (temporarily) |

N. H. Schregardus

Assistants-A. N. Chesshire, Cheu

Tze Heng

Tidesurveyor A. Brammer

Examiners-R. J. Chard, H. K. Köhler Tidewaiters-A. Mitchell, H. F. O. Dettmar, P. R. Kabbert, C. C. Canavarro, E. Leopold

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MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD.--Tel. Ad:

Mitsui; Teleph. 76

K. Ariyasu, agent Agencies

Nippon Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Meiji Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Tokio Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Kyodo Fire Insurance Co., L. Dai Nippon Brewery Co., Ld.

NEW CHINESE ANTIMONY Co., LTD.-Tel.

Ad: Chintimony

H. E. M. Bourke, managing director

Frank C. Crush, agent

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA

S. Satow, agent

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Acting Postal Commissioner-E. F. S.

Newinan

District Accountant-W. Berends Assistant-Liu Yao Ting

POST OFFICE, JAPANESE

Postmaster- M. Miyasita Clerk-M. Komo

SCHWARZ, GAUMER & Co.

R. Schnabel

E. Kiesslich B. Sieber

STANDARD OIL CO.

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J. H. Morgan, manager

A. C. Cornish A. B. Meyer

J. W. Anderson

J. W. Laidlaw, installation supt.

COLLEGE OF YALE IN CHINA, THE

Brownell Gage, B.D., M.A., dean of

college

W. J. Hail, M.A., B.D., dean of prepar-

tory dept.

E. D. Harvey, M.A., B.D. D. H. Leavens, M.A. J. D. Robbs, B.A.

HUNAN YALE HOSPITAL THE

E. H. Hume, M.D., physician in charge F. C. Yen, M.D.

J. R. B. Branch, M.D.

D. H. Davidson, M.D.

Nina D. Gage, Elizabeth M. Morton,

supervising nurses

ICHANG

昌宜 I-Chang

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Ichang is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, accordance with Clause 1, Section 3, of the Chefoo Convention. It is situated in lat. 30° 44′ 25′′ N., long. 111° 18′ 34" E., on the north bank of the river Yangtsze, about 333 miles above Hankow, and some ten miles below the entrance to the great Ichang Gorge, or just about a thousand miles from the coast. The navigation of the river to this port is comparatively easy for vessels of light draught, but great care is necessary for all vessels when in the neighbourhood of Sunday Island, owing to the shiftings and banks. The anchorage is off the left bank, opposite the foreign residences, and is good, except in freshets, when the anchors should be sighted every two or three days. The port is the centre of a hilly country, the productions of which are rice in the valleys, cotton on the higher grounds, winter wheat, barley, and also the tungtzu trees, from which the ordi- nary wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomeloes, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of persimmons are grown, and find a ready market in the city and at Shasi. The importance of Ichang is chiefly that of an