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KOBE (HIOGO).

Kobe is the foreign port of the adjacent city of Hiogo and was opened to foreign trade in 1868. 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 has since been opened, 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 1881 was $7,335,159; that of the exports $5,319,824. In 1880, the value of the imports was $7,847,886, and that of the exports $5,323,697. The quantity of tea shipped from Hiogo last season was 10,734,173 lbs., compared with 9,788,428 lbs. in the preceding season. whole of this went to the United States of America and Canada. Shipbuilding is an important industry of the port, and a goodly number of iron and wooden screw steamers are annually laid down here. The population of Hiogo, as given by the last census, was 204,000. The foreign residents in Kobe in 1881 numbered 929, of whom 547 were Chinese, 235 British, 42 German, and 64 American. foreign daily newspaper, styled the Hiogo News, is published at this port.

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Consulates.

GREAT BRITAIN.-9.

Acting Consul-W. G. Aston

Assistant and Interpreter-W. A. Woolley

-W. J. Kenny

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Constable-H. A. Miles

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.-9.

Acting Consul W. G. Aston

GERMAN EMPIRE.-5. Consul-Dr. H. Stinnius, LL.D. Interpreter—A. von Knobloch Secretary-H. Gutbrod Amtsdiener-R. Bernhardt

CHINA.-Native Bund.

Consul-Li Yu Him

Secretary and Interpreter-Choy Chew

BELGIUM.-118.

Consul J. K. Cunningham

SWITZERLAND.-5.

Consul-Dr. H. Staunius, LL.D.

HOLLAND.-91.

Consul-Chas. Braess

SPAIN.-9.

Acting Consul-W. G. Aston

DENMARK.-91.

Consul-Chas. Braess

HAWAII.-7.

Fice-Consul-S. Endicott

ITALY.-5.

Acting Consul-Dr. H. Stannius, LL.D.

UNITED STATES.-15

Consul-J. Stahel

Marshal-F. J. H. Nienstead Interpreter-Terumichi Uyeno

PORTUGAL.

Consul-H. E. Reynell

Acting Chancellier-J. A. de Figuerado

RUSSIA.-5.

Acting Consul-Dr. H. Stannius, LL.D.

SWEDEN AND NORWAY.-91.

Acting Consul-Chas. Braess

Municipal Council.

The Governor of Hiogo-Morioka Masa-

zumi

The Consular Body

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