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tatives of the landholders. The Council employs two foreign and four Chinese police constables. The approaches to the river (Salée) are now well surveyed, and the latest British Admiralty charts are quite reliable. The river itself has been carefully surveyed by the (foreign) Harbour Department of the Royal Corean Customs Service, and the result of the surveys will be published. The outer anchorage is accessible to ships of all sizes, and the inner one to coasting vessels and steamers ordinarily employed in the local trade. The river is navigable for vessels not drawing over 10 feet up to Mapu; but seeing that at certain seasons there are a few places where the fall in the river is very considerable, owing to the existence of sand banks, it is desirable that river steamers, intended to run regularly, should not draw over six feet.

The climate is healthy and may be compared to that of Chefoo. 29.87 was the mean reading of the barometer in the summer months of last year, and 30.14 in the winter. The thermometer ranged from 3 deg. to 60 deg. Fahr. during the winter, the average minimum being 18 deg. and maximum 48 deg., and during the summer from 50 deg. to 89 deg., the averages being 48 deg. minimum and 77 deg. maximum.

The port was opened to Japanese trade on the 1st January, 1883, and to foreign trade on the 16th June of the same year. The first Customs duties were collected in July, 1883, but the Japanese did not pay dues and duties until the 3rd November, 1883. The value of the trade of the port for the year ended 31st December, 1883, was $1,500,000.

DIRECTORY.

Consulates.

BRITISH.

W. R. Carles, vice-consul

W. L. Hopkins, constable

GERMAN.

H. Budler, vice-consul C. Schmidt, constable

JAPANESE.

Tanichi Kobayashi, consul

Hisumilzu Saburo, secretary and assistant

judge

T. Nobuchika, secretary

T. Kunitaro, Corean secretary Sagama Kizokata, pay naster J. Nobarn, assistant do.

S. Ichitaro, student interpreter C. Tanaka, physician N. Shiro, assist. do.

G. Mom ji, paymaster, medical dept.

CHINESE.

Li Nai Yung, consul

Woo Chong Yen, foreign secretary Yui Paw Lui, Japanese interpreter Chuan Shing Hong, Corean interpreter

JAPANESE POLICE.

Sato Masayashi, inspector in charge, and assist. piogurator to Cousular Court Atsumi Saisaburo, clerk

大朝鮮國海關

ROYAL CUSTOMS.

Alfred B. Stripling, commissioner

E. Laporte, assistant

C. Duncan (act. statistical sec.), assistant]

Woo Li Tang,

C. L. Chow,

S. K. Nakabayashi,

Hong-u-kuan, Corean

do.

do.

do.

do.

Capt. F. W. Schulze, harbour master

F. H. Mörsel, boat officer

F. R. Borioni, examiner

A. Ladage, acting do.

A. Seredin-Sabatin, H. G. Glanville, C.

A. Welch, tidewaiters

Merchants, &c.

Meyer & Co., E., merchants

Eduard Meyer (Hamburg) Gustav Fischer (Tientsin) Carl Wölter

Robt. Leitz

Cooper, C. H., storekeeper

Fung Chuan (representative of Chinese

merchants)

G. Chung Woo, Chinese merchant Sun Tai Shind,

E. Tai,

do.

do.

Yee Sung & Co., storekeepers Yee Sam & Co.,

do.

Tick-Hing & Co.,

do.