WEIHAIWEI
649
Weihaiwei is now a fairly regular port of call for many China coasting steamers sailing northwards from Shanghai, and there is a regular weekly service subsidised by Government to run all the year, carrying mails and passengers between Shanghai and Weihaiwei. This enables the public to reach Weihaiwei via Shanghai at any time of the year. The harbour is well lighted by two lighthouses at the eastern and western entrances. The climate of Weihaiwei is exceptionally good, and the winter, though cold, is dry and bracing. A European school has been established for many years to which boys from other treaty ports, Hongkong, etc., are sent. A land and building society, formed in Shanghai, has erected several commodious European bungalows. There is a large hotel on the mainland capable of accom- modating over 100 people, and also a hotel on the Island with accommodation for 50 to 60 people. Both on the mainland and on the island good roads have been made round the coast by the local Government for the convenience of foreigners, and there are recreation and parade grounds in both places. In addition to the leased territory there is a zone of influence over which Great Britain holds certain rights. It comprises that portion of the province of Shantung lying East of the meridian 12.40 extending over an area of 1,500 square miles.
The native city of Weihaiwei (which lies on the mainland opposite the island of Liu Kung) is a walled town of about 2,000 inhabitants. By the provisions of the Wei- haiwei Convention of 1898 this town remained under the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. The town is a poor one, and the greater portion of the enclosed area is not built on, but cultivated for vegetables. A Chinese sub-district deputy magistrate resides in the city of Weihaiwei.
No Customs duties of any kind have been collected at Weihaiwei during the British régime.
PORT EDWARD
DIRECTORY
會商務商海威
GOVERNMENT
Commr.-W. Russell Brown (acting) Dist. Officers and Magistrates-A. A.
L. Tuson, L. Calthrop (acting) Senior Med. Officer-Dr. Francis Clark Junior do. -Dr. L. McGolrick Financial Secretary-W. R. Haller Inspectors of Police-A. Whittaker,
F. Forcey and G. H. Jennings
H.B.M. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT
Medical Officer-in-charge, Naval Depot --Surg. Comdr. N. S. Meiklejohn, R.N.
AQUARIUS CO. OF SHANGHAI, Manufac-
turers of Table Waters
Lavers & Clark, agents
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co.
Teh Ho, agents
BEER, H. L.
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., LTD., Wholesale and Retail Wine and Spirit Merchants
Lavers & Clark, agents
Wei Hai Shang Pu Shang Hui
CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-Port
Edward
Chairman-Ku Ming-hsun
Vice-chairman-Sun Hsin Tien Secretary-Wang Ho Nung
Do. -Chih Ye Tang
CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN MANY LANDS
Weihaiwei-
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Hill Miss A. Gresham Miss A. Rout Wenteng Hsien
J. E. E. Bridge (on furlough) Miss E. Daniell
Miss E. Goulstone
Tashuipoh
Miss L. Butcher (T'sang)
Kuanhsiachia
Mrs. S. Smith
Shangputon
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clarke (on furlough} Shihtao
Mr. and Mrs. Robertson Miss A. G. Humphris
Miss Akers
Miss Wilson
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