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WURIU SHOKWAI (Holme, Ringer & Co.), Import, Export and Commission Mer- chants-Telephs. 138 and 451; Tel. Ad:
Wuriu
R. McKenzie, manager S. Naito,
R. Jenkin
Agencies
do.
Hongkong & S'hai, Bankg, Corpn. Chartered Bank of I., A. & China Admiral Line
Asiatic Steam Nav. Co., Ld. American & Oriental Line Bank Line, Ld.
Barber & Co.'s Line of Steamers Ben Line of Steamers
Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ld. China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. China Navigation Co., Ld. Cie. des Messageries Maritimes Holland Oost Azie Lijn
Java-China-Japan Lijn Northern S.S. Co., Ld. (Petrograd) Northern Pacific Railway Co. Norwegian, Africa & Australia Line
(Christiania)
Ocean Steamship Co., Ed. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.
Andrew Weir & Co.'s Line of Steamers Watts, Watts & Co.'s Steamers Board of Underwriters of N.Y. Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ld. Lloyd's, London (Moji and Shimono-
seki Districts)
New Zealand Insurance Co., Ld. Norwich Union Fire Insce. Socy., Ld. North British & Mercantile Ins. Co. Royal Exchange Assur. Corporation South British Insurance Co., Ld. Tokyo Marine and Fire Insce. Co., Ld. Union Insurance Socy. of Canton, Ld.
NAGASAKI
Nagasaki is a city of great antiquity, and in the early days of European in- tercourse with the Far East was the most important seat of the foreign trade with Japan. It is admirably situated on the south-western coast of the Island of Kiushiu. A melancholy interest attaches to the neighbourhood as the scene of the extinction of Christianity in the empire and the extermination of the professors of that religion in 1637. At the entrance to the harbour lies the celebrated island of Pappenberg, where thousands of Christians are said to have been thrown over the high cliff rather than go through the form of trampling on the Cross. Not far from Nagasaki is also the village of Mogi, where 37,000 Christians suffered death in defending themselves against the forces sent to subdue them. When the Christian religion was crushed and the foreigners were expelled, to the Dutch alone was extended the privilege of trading with Japan, and they were confined to a small plot of ground at Nagasaki called Deshima. By the Treaty of 1858 Nagasaki was one of the ports opened to British trade on the 1st July in the following year.
On entering the harbour of Nagasaki no stranger can fail to be struck with the admirable situation of the town and the beautiful panorama of hilly scenery opened to his view. The harbour is a land-locked inlet deeply indented with small bays, about three miles long with a width varying from half-a-mile to a mile. A reclamation scheme was commenced in October, 1897,and completed in January, 1905; 147 acres were reclaimed, and retaining walls measuring nearly five miles in length have been built in front of what were formerly the foreign concessions at Deshima and Megasaki. Simultaneously, the harbour was deepened. The cost of the work was 4,000,000 yen. Quay walls are now being built to accommodate two vessels of 8,000 tons. The town is on the eastern side of the harbour, and is about two miles long by about three- quarters of a mile in extreme width. The foreign quarter adjoins the town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses are situated on the bund facing the harbour, behind which are a few streets running parallel with it, and there are a number of private residences on the hill-side. There is a Roman Catholic church; Anglican services are held every Sunday at the Seamen's Mission. There are two clubs (Nagasaki and International) and two foreign hotels-the Nagasaki Hotel and the Hotel du Japan