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HANGCHOW~NINGPO

堂 主天

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rt. Rev. Monsgr. Faveau, Bishop

Rev. J. Chiapetto, Pro-Vicaire

Rev. J. Deymier

Rev. E. Moulis

Rev. P. Legrand (Huchow)

Rev. McArdle

do.

Rev. A. J. Asinelli (Kashing)

Rev. M. Bouillet (Chüchow) Rev. Aug. Henault do. Rev. E. Lobry (Yenchow) Rev. J. Lamers

do.

Rev. H. Claessen (Kashing)

MAISON ST. VINCENT, CATHOLIC HOSPITAL & ORPHAN ASYLUM, Sisters of Charity Sisters Calcagni (super.), Blanchin,

Leang, Piret, Ouang, Kou, Tang

Chin-nyien-wei

會年青

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

K. Y. Ma

J. C. Oliver

T. L. Chang D. K. Tong K. H. Wang M. T. Tsang E. A. Turner K. S. Wang

Z. V. Yao

Y. S. Chen S. J. Jen

N. T. Dzen K. Y. Chu K. T. Chen

H. Y. Chen

Y. C Chow

T. H. Cheo

局理 管 務 郵江浙

POST OFFICE, CHINESE-Chekiang Postal

District

Acting Postal Comr.-D. Mullen

Deputy Postal Commissioner-Wo›

Yik Ching

Distrios Acet M. Gutierrez

Assistant-Tsao Chien-ting

路鐵甬杭滬

SHANGHAI-HANGCHOW-NINGPO-RAILWAY

C. P. Yin, managing-director

II. F. Pan, chief Chinese secretary

C. W. Chien,

do

P. H. Lo, chief English secretary A. C. Clear, engineer-in-chief J. C. Molony, district engineer

(Shanghai-Hangchow section)

T. C. Pu, dist. engr. (Ningpo section) L. P. Ridgway, district construc-

tional engineer

H. Middleton, chief accountant W. O. Lancaster, assist. do.

T. W. K. Chun, do.

Y. Y. Ho

do.

C. L. G. Wayne, traffic manager W. A. Richardson, asst. trathic mgr. S. F. Edward Yang, do.

G. T. Finch, locomotive supt.

K. L. C. Sun, assist.

do.

F. Tappenden, chief storekeeper

C. H. Wang, assist.

李美 Mei Fu

do.

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Zahkou

R. A Schilling, manager

W. H. Lees

W. H. Morrow

NINGPO

波街 Ning-po

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Cheking, in lat. 29 deg. 55 min. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E.

It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842. Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and successful settlement soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese soon attracted the attention 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 factory at the island of Chusan, some 40 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 foreigner; for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 18:9, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an

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