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NAGASAKI.
the Takasima mine, which is under European management, is the most important. Mr. Consul Flowers says the probabilitis are t at one vast coal-field exists under the sea running from the peninsula of Nomo towards Matsushima and Hirado, and when this field is entered by safe means, through the overlaying islands, an enormous extent of coal will be available.
The value of the foreign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1879 was $1,674,652 as compared with $1,484,468 in 1878, and that of the foreign export trade, $1,982,027 as against $2,398,501 in 1878. Coal is the staple article of export.
The population of Nagasaki in 1876 was 47,412. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Co: sular report for 1878, was 842, of whom 624 were Chinese, 111 British, 38 American, and the rest of various nationalities. A small foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is published in the port.
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DIRECTORY.
GERMANY.
Consulates and Government Offices.
Consul-H. Iwersen
GREAT BRITAIN.
Consul-James Troup
Assistant-W. A. Woolley
ITALY.
Constable-S. F. Lawrence
FRANCE.
Acting Consul-A. E. Olarovsky
BELGIUM Acting Consul-H. Iwersen
H.B.M.'s Consul in charge of French in- Consul—Tsing U
terests-James Troup
CHINA.
Interpreter-Leong Dian Hiun
AUSTRO-HUNGARY.
Acting Consul-James Troup
SPAIN.
JAPANESE HOSPITAL.
Dr. C. Fock, superintendent
Insurance Companies.
H.B.M.'s Consul in charge of Spanish in- Boeddinghaus, C. E., agent-
terests James Troup
UNITED STATES.
Consul-A. C. Jones
Vice-consul-W. G. Furber
Marshal-Rodney H. Powers
RUSSIA.
Consul-Alex. E. Olarovsky
PORTUGAL.
Acting Consul-A. C. Jones
DENMARK,
Consul-H. M. Fleischer
SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Acting Consul-A. Reddelien
NETHERLANDS.
Consul-A. Reddelien
Transatlantic Marine Insurance Company,
Berlin
Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters
Hanseatic Fire Insurance Company
Fleischer, H. M., agent-
China Traders' Insurance Company, Li-
mited
Netherlands India Sea and Fire Insurance
Company, Batavia
Basler Transport Versicherungs Gesell.
schaft
Staffordshire Fire Insurance Company
Limited
Hellyer & Co., agents-
Commercial Union Assurance Company
Holme, Ringer & Co., agents-
Union Insurance Society of Canton Chinese Insurance Company, Limited
North British & Mercantile Insurance Co.