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of the Government, and in 1542 the Governor of Chekiang ordered the settlement to be destroyed and the population to be exterminated. A large force of Chinese troops soon besieged the place, destroying it entirely, and out of a population of 1,200 Portuguese, 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade mart there, however, proved unsatisfactory, and the factory was abandoned after a few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time. In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to re-take the city, but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.
Ningpo is built on a plain which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir- cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They are fifteen feet wide at the summit, and twenty-two at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street runs from east to west. Several of the streets are spanned by arches erected in memory of distinguished natives. Ningpo has been- celebrated as possessing the fourth library of Chinese works, in point of numbers, which existed in the empire. It was owned by a family who resided near the south gate. The site occupied by the foreign residences is on the north bank of the river. The population of Ningpo is estimated at 255,000. The French opened a post office in
1905.
Two cotton mills are established in Ningpo, one of which started in 1896 and the other in 1907. The tea trade has fallen off owing to a deviation of the Fychow teas which formerly passed through Ningpo but are now forwarded to Shanghai via Hangchow. The net value of the trade of the port was Hk. Tls. 29,962,770 in 1918, as compared with Hk. Tls. 25,107,523 in 1917, Hk. Tls. 29,653,554 in 1916, Hk. Tls. 26,609,769 in 1915, and Hk. Tls. 27,167,542 in 1914.
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DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (North China),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
D. F. A. Wallace, local manager
C. Butland
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.
R. D. Pitt, local manager
M. J. Butler
* Ta-koo
古太
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.)
R. A. Lawson, local manager
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld.
Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.
China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Australian Oriental Line
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld. Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co.,
of Hongkong
Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn.
London and Lancashire Fire Insce. Co.- Orient Insurance Co.
Guardian Assurance Co., Ld. British Traders Insurance Co., Ld. Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.
Sea Insurance Co., Ld.
British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co.,Ld..
Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld.
CAMPO CLUB
會北江
Chau Shang Yung-chuk
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO..
Y. J. Shao Hung, manager
Le Ching Lin, chief clerk
Agency
China Merchants' Marine Insurance Co.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, Ningpo
Rt. Rev. H. J. Molony, D.D., Hon Chap- lain
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