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KOBE (HIOGO).
Kobe is the foreign port of the adjacent city of Hiogo, and was opened to foreign trade in 1868. It is finely situated at the gate of the far-famed Inland Sea. The harbour is good and affords safe anchorage for vessels of almost any size. The town, which is in the province of Settsu, is distant only sixteen miles from Osaka, with which city it is connected by rail. This line, which has been extended to Kioto (the ancient capital of Japan), a distance of 27 miles from Osaka, was formally opened to traffic along its whole length by the Mikado on the 5th February, 1877, and has since been worked with freedom and regularity. A further extension from Kioto to Otsu is now in course of construction. The connection of Osaka with Hiogo by rail has naturally tended to centralise trade at the port of shipment. Among the exports, tea, tobacco, camphor, copper, vegetable wax, and fans take the lead. The value of the foreign import trade for 1878 was $5,386,097; that of the exports $6,355,988. These figures compare favourably with those of 1877, when the value of the imports was $4,313,641, and that of the exports $4,518,570. The quantity of tea shipped from Hiogo in the season 1878-79 was 9,723,186 lbs., compared with 8,789,627 lbs. in 1877-78, and 6,989,223 lbs. in 1876-77. The whole of this went to the United States of America. The population of Hiogo, as given by the last census, was 204,000. The foreign residents in the port in 1878 numbered 809, of whom 424 were Chinese, 225 British, 58 American, and 49 German. A foreign weekly newspaper, styled the Hiogo News, is published at this port.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Consul-Marcus Flowers
1st Assistant-J. J. Quin
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2nd Assistunt & Interpreter-J. W. McCarthy Constable-H. A. Miles
BELGIUM.-30.
Acting Consul-J. K. Cunningham
SWITZERLAND.
Act. Consular Agent-C. Favre- Brandt
HOLLAND.
Acting Consul—C. Braess
AUSTRO-HUNGARY,
Acting Consul-Marcus Flowers
GERMAN EMPIRE.
Consul-Dr. J. H. Focke
Vice-consul-A. von Knobloch Clerk-H. Gutbrod
Constable-R. Bernhardt
UNITED STATES.-2, Concession
Consul J. Stahel
Marshal-F. J. H. Nienstead Interpreter-T. Uyeno
PORTUGAL.
Acting Consul-J. Mackrill Smith
SPAIN.
Acting Consul-Marcus Flowers
FRANCE.
Municipal Council.
Vice-consul-Jules Jouslain
Secretaire & Interprete E. Roquemartine
DENMARK.
Consul-R G. Walsh
HAWAII.
Vice-consul-S. Endicott
ITALY.
Consular Agent-Dr. J. H. Focke
The Governor of Hiogo
The Consular Body
C. Rasch
E. J. Reid
T. Goodison
H. Trotzig, superintendent
POLICE.
J. Peterson, (serg.) A. Hazlitt, A. Huon,
F. C. Rasmussein, 5 Chinese
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