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KOBE

(HIOGO).

Kobe is the foreiga port of the adjacent city of Hiogo and was opened to foreign trade in 1968. It is finely situated at the gate of the far-famed Inland Sea. The harbour is good and affords safe anchorage for vessels of almost any size. The town, which is in the province of Settsu, is distant only sixteen miles from Osaka, with which city it is connected by rail. This line, which has been extended to Kioto (the ancient capital of Japan), a distance of 27 miles from Osaka, was formally opened to traffic along its whole length by the Mikado on the 5th February, 1877, and has since been worked with freedom and regularity. A further ex- tension from Kioto to Lake Biwa is now open, and this is now being carried on to the north-west coast. The connection of Osaka with Hiogo by rail has naturally tended to centralise trade at the port of shipment. Among the exports, tea, tobacco, camphor, copper, vegetable wax, and fans take the lead. The value of the foreign import trade for 1880 was $7.847,536; that of the exports $5,323,697. In 1879, the value of the imports was $7,051,154, and that of the exports $5,466,990. The quantity of tea shipped from Hiogo in the season 1880-81 was 15,426,662 lbs., compared with 13,710,439 !bs. in 1879-80, and 9,723,186 lbs. in 1878-79. The whole of this went to the United States of America and Canada. The population of Hiogo, as given by the last census, was 204,000. The foreign residents in Kobe in 1830 numbered 889, of whom 516 were Chinese, 216 British, 50 German, and 49 American. A foreign daily newspaper, styled the Hingo News, is published at this port.

DIRECTORY.

Consulates.

GREAT BRITAIN.-9.

Acting Consul—W. G. Aston

ITALY.-5.

Acting Consul-Dr. H. Stannius, Junr.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-9.

Assistant and Interpreter-J. H. Longford Acting Consul-W. G. Aston

Constable-H. A. Miles

GERMAN EMPIRE.-5.

CHINA.-Native Bund.

Consul-Liao Sik Ngan

Secretary and Interpreter-Cheung C. Leung Secretary-H. Gutbrod

BELGIUM.-118.

Acting Consul-J. K. Cunninghamı

SWITZERLAND.-5.

Consul-Dr. H. Stannius, Junr.

HOLLAND.-91.

Acting Consul-C. Braess

SPAIN.-9.

Acting Consul-W. G. Aston

FRANCE.-9.

Acting Vice Consul-J. H. Longford

DENMARK.-91.

Consul-Chas Braess

HAWAII.-7.

Vice-consul-S. Endicott

Consul-Dr. H. St nuius, Junr. Interpreter-A. von Knobloch

Amtsdiener-R. Bernhardt

UNITED STAtes.—15

Consul-J. Stahel

Marshal-F. J. H. Nienstead

Interpreter-Terumic i Uyeno

PORTUGAL.50.

Acting Consul-J. A. Ailion

RUSSIA-5.

Acting Consul-Dr. H. S'annius, Junr.

SWEDEN ANd Norway.-91.

Consul-Chas. Braess

Municipal Council.

The Governor of Hiogo-Morioka Masa-

zumi

The Consular Body