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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.