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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 ex- tension from Kioto to Lake Biwa has since been opened, and this is now being carried on to the north-west coast. 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 1881 was $7,335,159; that of the exports $5,319,824. In 1880, the value of the imports was $7,847,886, and that of the exports $5,323,697. The quantity of tea shipped from Hiogo last season was 10,734,173 lbs., compared with 9,788,428 lbs. in the preceding season. whole of this went to the United States of America and Canada. Shipbuilding is an important industry of the port, and a goodly number of iron and wooden screw steamers are annually laid down here. The population of Hiogo, as given by the last census, was 204,000. The foreign residents in Kobe in 1881 numbered 929, of whom 547 were Chinese, 235 British, 42 German, and 64 American. foreign daily newspaper, styled the Hiogo News, is published at this port.
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Consulates.
GREAT BRITAIN.-9.
Acting Consul-W. G. Aston
Assistant and Interpreter-W. A. Woolley
-W. J. Kenny
do.
Constable-H. A. Miles
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-9.
Acting Consul W. G. Aston
GERMAN EMPIRE.-5. Consul-Dr. H. Stinnius, LL.D. Interpreter—A. von Knobloch Secretary-H. Gutbrod Amtsdiener-R. Bernhardt
CHINA.-Native Bund.
Consul-Li Yu Him
Secretary and Interpreter-Choy Chew
BELGIUM.-118.
Consul J. K. Cunningham
SWITZERLAND.-5.
Consul-Dr. H. Staunius, LL.D.
HOLLAND.-91.
Consul-Chas. Braess
SPAIN.-9.
Acting Consul-W. G. Aston
DENMARK.-91.
Consul-Chas. Braess
HAWAII.-7.
Fice-Consul-S. Endicott
ITALY.-5.
Acting Consul-Dr. H. Stannius, LL.D.
UNITED STATES.-15
Consul-J. Stahel
Marshal-F. J. H. Nienstead Interpreter-Terumichi Uyeno
PORTUGAL.
Consul-H. E. Reynell
Acting Chancellier-J. A. de Figuerado
RUSSIA.-5.
Acting Consul-Dr. H. Stannius, LL.D.
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.-91.
Acting Consul-Chas. Braess
Municipal Council.
The Governor of Hiogo-Morioka Masa-
zumi
The Consular Body
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