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brick building situated on the Bund. There are several smaller hotels, of which the two largest are the Belle Vue Hotel and Cliff House. The Nagasaki dock was lengthened during 1894 to admit vessels of 500 feet in length on a draught of 26 feet. Attached to the dock are extensive Engine Works, most completely equipped and fitted. These works were originally built by the Japanese Government, but they now belong, as does the dock, to the Mitsu Bishi Company. As a ship- building centre the place is rapidly developing, and in 1899 a ship of 6,000 tons was launched, having been built there for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Waterworks have recently been completed but owing to the growth of the town these are insufficient for its wants, and a large extension of the works is contemplated. The reservoir holds 90,000,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir. The Kiushiu Railway is now completed between Moji and Yatsushiro, in Hyogo province, with a branch line to Nagasaki, so that it is possible, with a brief sea passage at Moji to travel by rail to Kobe, and thence to Tokyo. The climate of Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, and there are several very popular health resorts in neighbourhood, the most famous being Mount Unzen.
After the opening of the port the trade for several years steadily developed, but it subsequently declined, owing to various causes, but chiefly perhaps on account of its gradual attraction to Yokohama. During the last ten years, however, there has been a steady improvement in the foreign trade, which has more than doubled itself in that period. The imports, indeed, have increased tenfold in as many years; and with the opening up of railway communication with the interior of Kinshiu, com- pleted in 1898, a large increase in the prosperity of the port is anticipated. The chief articles of import are cotton and woollen manufactures. The principal exports are coal, tea, camphor, rice, vegetable wax, tobacco, and dried fish. There are severl very productive coal mines near Nagasaki, of which the Takashima mine is the most important.
The value of the import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1899 was yen 11,106,917, against yen 19,698,646, in 1898 and that of the export trade yen 5,680,561 against yen 6,587,276 in 1898. Coal is the staple article of export.
The population of Nagasaki in 1898 was 808,439. The number of foreign residents as given in the Consular report for 1898, was 606, exclusive of Chinese, of whom 40 were British, and 466 other Europeans and Americans. A small foreign daily paper is published entitled the Nagasaki Press.
DIRECTORY
AHRENS & Co., H., Nachfolger, Merchants
H. Worbs, signs per pro.
Agencies
Norddeutscher Lloyd
London Assurance Corporation
AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY, 24, Oura
W. E. Dunn, acting agent
BALMĖS, VVE, Navy Contractor
J. Sirot
H. Balmès
A. Emery
BELLE VUE HOTEL
G. B. Bay, proprietor
BERNARDI HOTEL; 13, Oura
P. Bernardi, proprietor
BOEDDINGHAUS, C.. E, Merchant
Agencies
Hamburg-America Line of Steamers Bureau Veritas
German Lloyd's
Transatlantic Marine Insurance Co. Transatlantic Fire Insurance Co. Northern Assurance Company Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Netherlands Fire Insurance Company
BOWIE, ROBERT I., M.D., Medical Practitioner
BOWLING CLUB-NAGASAKI
Hon. Sec. and Treas.-James Schon
BROWNE & Co., Merchants
E. H. Gill (Kobe)
W. K. Wilson (Yokohama)
C. M. Birnie, signs per pro. Horace Nutter (Moji) Leonard Birnie
J. W. Donald
Agencies
Bergisch Markische Bank Jacob E. Dybwad Bank
Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navign. Co. Apcar Line of Steamers