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engine works covering about six and a-half acres. The climate of Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, but in summer it is hot during the day by reason of the position of the town, being in a hollow surrounded by hills.
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. Latterly there has been a slight improvement in the export trade. 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 several very productive coal mines on the islands near Nagasaki, of which the Takashima mine, which is under European management, is the most important. It is believed that 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 overlying islands, an enormous extent of coal will be available. The Miike coal mines come next to the Takashima in importance. The net output of the Takashima mines in 1884 was 267,952 tons, that of the Miike mine 209,685 tons.
The value of the foreign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1884 was $855,742 as compared with $896,310 in 1883, and that of the foreign export trade, $3,772,513 as against $3,107,344 in 1883. Coal is the staple article of export, accounting for $1,601,648 of the total export trade.
The population of Nagasaki in 1876 was 47,412. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1884, was 851 (including 214 children), of whom 603 were Chinese, 95 British, 47 American, and the rest of various nationali- ties. A small foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is published in the port.
DIRECTORY.
Consulates.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Consul-J. J. Enslie Assistant-A. M. Chalmers Constable-S. F. Lawrence
NETHERLANDS.
Consul―A. Reddelien
GERMANY.
Consul-H. Iwersen
ITALY.
FRANCE.
Consul-
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Acting Consul-V. Kostileff
BELGIUM. Acting Consul-F. Ringer
Acting Consul—J. J. Enslie
SPAIN.
CHINA.
Consul-U Tsing (absent)
H.B.M.'s Consul in charge of Spanish in- Acting Consul-Koh Wan Tsin
terests-J. J. Enslie
UNITED STATES.
Consul-John M. Birch
Clerk-S. R. de Souza
RUSSIA.
Consul-V. Kostileff
PORTUGAL.
Consul―T. B. Glover
DENMARK.
Consul-J. C. Smith
SWEDEN AND Norway.
Consul-A. Reddelien
English Translator-T. C. Chung Chinese Writer-Lao Sing Foon
Japanese Interpreter-Choy Wen Tah
NAGASAKI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE WORKS.
J. F. Calder, manager
W. H. Devine
Walter Curtis
J. Hill
D. Crowe J. Wilson
A. Dainty
J. Hutchinson
F. Wengel
J. Mansbridge