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main street of some ten to twelve feet in width winds through from end to end and into this open numerous narrow and crooked alleys.” Near each end of the town is an open space where a market, chic fly for agricultural produce, is held about six times a month. The houses are mean and dirty, and the town presents a poverty. stricken appearance. The harbour is a good one, being spacious, easy of access, well sheltered, with excellent holding ground, and convenient depth of water. January is the coldest month, and one corner of the harbour--that before the native town-is some- times frozen over, but the part used by shipping is never covered with ice of such a thickness as to interfere with uavigation. The Japanese have a nice clean looking Set- tement, consisting of about a hundred houses built in semi-European style and a really fine, Consulate, of foreign design, containing at least forty rooms and offices. The Chinese Settlement is a healthy tract of land, situated northwest of the Custom House. A noble building for the Imperial Consulate stands in the middle of the Settlement, and commands a view of the whole harbour The country around Yuensan is under cultivation, and the soil is very rich. Within a short distance of the port are mines producing copper and other minerals, and gold is found amongst the neighbouring mountains. The cattle at this port, as nearly all over the country, are very fine and plentiful, and can be bought at very low rates; they are used as beasts of burden and for agricultural purposes.
The trade is carrie on by a tri-weekly Nippon Yusen steamer from Nagasaki and Vladivostock, occasional steamers froin Shanghai, and schooners and junks from Japan. The net value of the trade in 1887 was $1,109,900 as compared with 8965,406 11886. The exports consist chiefly of hides, beans, gold-dust, dried fish, and skins. The imports consist chiefly of cotton and woollen manufactured goods and dyes.
DIRECTORY.
JAPANESE CONSULATE.
S. Watanabe, vice consul
A. Ito, chanceller
G. Asayama, do.
J. Iwainatsu, do,
HIS COREAN MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. E. F. Creagh, acting commissioner H. W. Brazier, assistant
A. Harada, interpreter
Kuan Choug-in, clerk
Ko Yung-hun, do.
S. Nakamura, do, and Corean interpreter J. Osaki, medical officer
K. Yoshizoye, do, and postmaster
Japanese Post Office.
K. Yoshizoye, postmaster
B. Yoshimura, clerk
Japanese Consular Police.
K. Kurotaki, inspector
Six constables
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CHINESE CONSULATE.
Woo Chung Yen, consul
Pak Hung Yung, Corean interpreter
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J. Knott, examiner
P. E. Mannheimer, J. Hintze, tidewaiters
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
M. Takagi, president
M. Kato, vice president
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C. Ashihama, secretary
JAPANESE HOSPITAL.
K. Watanabe, clerk
J. Osaki, physician
Y. Hasumoto, accountant and interpreter
K. Okamura, apothecary
TRADERS' REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE.
C. Ashihama, representative
C. Kumda. K. Wa'anabe, clerks