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summer it is hot during the day by reason of the position of the town, being in a hollow surrounded by hills.

After the opening of the port the trade for several years steadily developed, but it subsequently declined, owing to various causes, but chiefly perhaps on account of its gradual attraction to Yokohama. Latterly there has been a slight improvement in the export trade. The chief articles of import are cotton and woollen manufactures. The principal exports are coal, tea, camphor, rice, vegetable, wax, tobacco, and dried fish, There are several very productive coal mines on the islands near Nagasaki, of which the Takasima mine, which is under European management is the most important. It is believed that one vast real-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 overlying islands, an enormous extent of coal will be available. The Mike coal wines come "next to the Takasima in importance. The net output of the Talaslima mines in 1883 was 294,849 tons, that of the Miike mine 142,430 tons.

The value of the foreign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1883 was $896,310 as compared with $1,166,714 in 1882, and that of the foreign export trade, $3,107,344 as against $3,313,390 in 1882. Coal is the staple article of export, accounting for $1,270,574 of the total export trade. There is a small direct trade between Nagasaki and Korea, the value of the exports thither in 1883 amounting to $47,369, and that of the imports from Korea to $189,281.

The population of Nagasaki in 1876 was 47,412. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1883, was 892 (including 210 children), of whom 544 were Chinese, 95 British, 44 American, and the rest of various nationali- ties. A small foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is published in the port,

Consulates.

GREAT BEitain.

Consul J.. Enslie Assistant --L W. W. Playfair Constabl—8. F. Lawrence

DIRECTORY,

SWEDEN AND NORWAY,

Consul A. Reddclien

NETHERLANDS.

Consul A. Reddelien

GERMANY.

ITALT.

X

Consul

FRANCE.

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY,

Acting Consul―J. J. Enslie

SPAIN.

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

terests—J. J. Enslie

UNITED STATES.

Consul-Gen. A. C. Jones

Hon. Vice-Consul-W. G. Furber Marshal-Rodney H. Powers

RUSSIA.

Consul-V. Kostileff

PORTUGAL.

Consul—T. B. Gluver

DENMARK.

Consul―J. C. Smith

Consul-H. Iwerseu

Acting Consul-V. Kostileff

BELGIUM.

Acting Consul-F. Ringer

CHINA. Consul--U Tsing (absent)

Acting Consul—Koh Wan Tsin English Translator—T. C. Chung Chinear Writer-Lao Sing Foon Japanese Interpreter -Choy Wen Tab

NAGASAKI DOCKYARD AND ENGINE

WORKS.

J. F. Calder, manager W. H. Device

Walter Curtis

J. Hill D. Crowe J. Wilson

J. Mansbridge