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summer it is hot during the day by reason of the position of the town, beingfin 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, The net output of the Takashima mines in 1886 was 295,494 tons; that of the various other mines, 435,461 tons.
The value of the foreign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1886 was £196,914 as compared with £233,481 in 1885, and that of the foreign export trade, £798,241 as against £611,845 in 1885. Coal is the staple article of export, accounting for about half of the total export trade.
The population of Nagasaki in 1885 was 33,518. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1886, was 977 (including 284 children), of whom 716 were Chinese, 95 British, 54 American, 13 German, and the rest of various nationalities. A small foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is pub- lished in the port.
DIRECTORY
Consulates.
Sweden AND NORWAY.
Consul-A. Reddelien
GREAT BRITAIN.
Consul-J. J. Enslie
NETHERLANDS.
Assistant-E. A. Griffiths
Consul-A. Reddelien
Constable-S. F. Lawrence
GERMANY.
FRANCE.
Consul-H. Iwersen
ITALY.
Consul-Frandon, (Kobe)
Consul J. J. Enslie
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
SPAIN.
H.B.M.'s Consul in charge of Spanish in-
terests-J. J. Enslie
UNITED STATES.
Consul-John M. Birch
Clerk-S. R. de Souza
ConsulV. Kostileff
RUSSIA.
PORTUGAL.
Acting Vice-Consul-John M. Birch Chancelier-S. R. de Souza
DENMARK.
Consul J. C. Smith
Acting Consul-V. Kostileff
BELGIUM
Acting Consul-F. Ringer
CHINA.
Consul-Tsai Hsien
English Translator-Fau Tsung'
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Japanese Interpreter-Liu Cheing Fun Chinese Secretary-Liang Wei Nien
IMPERIAL JAPANESE POSt and Tele- GBAPH OFFICE.
S. Nagayama, di ector
M. Sugiura, chief clerk in charge of postal
service
Y. Hugiwara, chief clerk in charge of tele-
graph service
Jas. Stewart