Directory_and_Chronicle_1928 — Page 761

和怡 E-wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants

-Firm: "Highwayman"; Tel. Ad. for Shipping: Inchicoy

Osram China Co.

WUHU-KIUKIANG

757

廠器機昌永吳

Woo Yung Chong, representative

Chung-wah-yu-chêng-chuk

POST OFFICE-Anking

Deputy

do.

-An Yun nung

Hulks "Madras I" & "Madras II "

Agencies

Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Glen Line of Steamers, Ld. Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Canton Insurance Office

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

China Sugar Refining Co., Ld.

Green Island Cement Co., Ld.

Alliance Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co., Ld.

司公烟旗花理經司公烟美大

LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO Co. (CHINA), LTD., Selling Agents for the Tobacco

Products Corporation (China)-Tel. Ad: Ligmytoco; Code: Bentley's

R. J. White

社會船汽清日

Lih-ching-lun-chuan-kung-sze

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA-Cable: Nissikisen

K. Hara, manager

R. Takayanagi, hulk master

Postal Commissioner-Liu Shu-fan

District Accountant-Lin Ju-yao

Post Office-Wuhu

First Cl. Postmaster-Lau Kaik-jong

Post Office-Pengpu

First Class Master-Dzao Dzeng-lih

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK - Tel.

Ad: Socony

A. L. Shaw

P. S. Lewis

G. H. Cook, installation supt._

WUHU ROADS IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY

Committee-T. A. M. Castle (hon. secretary and treasurer), Dr. R. E. Brown, Rev. J. Wharton and A. L. Shaw

KIUKIANG

江九 Kiú-kiang

Kiukiang is situated on the river Yangtsze near the outlet of the Poyang Lake, and is a prefectural city of the province of Kiang-si. It is distant about 142 geographical miles from Hankow and 454 miles from Shanghai. Kiukiang, before the Rebellion, was a busy and populous city; but it was occupied by the Taiping rebels in 1853, and before it was given up to the Imperial troops was almost entirely destroyed. When the Foreign Settlement was established there, however, the population soon returned, and has continued to increase rapidly: it is now estimated at 60,000.

The city is built close to the river, along the banks of which the walls run for some 500 yards. Their circumference is about five miles, but a portion of the

space enclosed is still unoccupied. The city contains no feature of interest. There are several large lakes to the north and west of it, and it is backed by a noble range of hills a few miles distant, amongst which is Kuling, some 3,600 feet high, the well-known summer resort, and the existence of which, within 24 hours' of the port, gives Kiukiang a high position among the Treaty Ports. The foreign Settlement lies to the west of the city and is neatly laid out. It possesses a small bund lined with trees, a club, and a Roman Catholic cathedral. Roads and innumerable houses are being rapidly constructed, and thus a new residential and business district, close to but outside the city, is rapidly coming into being. During 1921 a system of drainage of approved foreign style was initiated. Pinhingchow now comprises either in or adjacent to it the following pro-