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since its collection in money instead of in kind, as rmerly. Latterly there has been some slight improvement in the export trade of the port.

The chief articles of import are cotton and woollen manufactures. The principat articles of exports are coal, tea, camphor, river, vegetable wax, tobacco, and dried fish. There are several productive coal mines on the islands near Nagasaki, of which the Takasima mine, which is under European management, is the most important. Mr. Consul Flowers says the probabilities are that one vast coal-field exists under the sea running from the peninsula of Nomo towards Matsushima and Hirado, and when this field is enter d by safe means, through the overlaying islands, an enormous extent of coal will be available. The Miike coal mines come next to the Taka-ima in importance; the output from these in 1880 was 159,822 tous.

The value of the for ign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1830 was $1,278,066 as compared with $1,674,652 in 1879, and that of the foreign export trade, $2,297,591 as against $1,982,027 in 1879. 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 Consular report for 1880, was 777, of whom 522 were Chinese, 103 British, 34 American, and the rest of various nationalities. foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is publis‹ ed in the port.

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DIRECTORY.

Consul-James Troup

Consulates.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Assistant-H. A. C. Bonar

GERMANY.

Consul-H. Iwersen

ITALY,

Acting Consul-P. Ruu.ine

Constable-S. F. Lawrence

BELGIUM.

FRANCE.

Acting Consul-H. Iwersen

H.B.M.'s Consul in charge of French in-

terests-James Troup

Acting Consul-James Troup

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

SPAIN.

H.B.M.'s Consul in charge of Spanish in-

terests-James Troup

UNITED STATES.

Consul-Gen. A. C. Jones

Hon. Vice-consul—W. G. Furber Marshal-Rodney H. Powers

Consul-P. Rumine

RUSSIA.

PORTUGAL.

Consul-T. B. Glover

DENMARK.

Consul-H. M. Fleischer

SWEDEN and Norway.

Consul-A. Reddelien

NETHERLANDS.

Consul-A. Reddelien

Consul—U Tsing

CHINA.

Interpreter-Leong Dean Hiun Japanese Interpreter-Choy Zun Tal

Government Departments. IMPERIAL JAPANESE DOCKYARD.

W. Lang, superintendent

IMPERIAL JAPANESE ENGINE WORKS F. R. Storie, superintendent

J. Dickson, assistant superintendent

IMPERIAL JAPANESE POST OFFICE. M. Katori, postmaster

Y Yamada, assistant

IMPERIAL JAPANESE TELEGRAPHS.

W. B. Mason, clerk in charge

Insurance Companies.

Boeddinghaus, C. E., agent-

Transatlantic Marine Insurance Company Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Hanseatic Fire Insurance Co., Hamburg-

Fleischer, H. M.,

agent-

China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited