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YUENSAN (GENSAN).

main street of some ten to twelve feet in width winds through from end to end and into this open numerous narrow and crooked alleys." Near each end of the town is an open space where a market, chiefly for agricultural produce, is held about six times a month. The houses are mean and dirty, and the town presents a poverty- stricken appearance. The harbour is a good one, being spacious, easy of access, well sheltered, with excellent holding ground, and convenient depth of water. January is the coldest month, and one corner of the harbour-that before the native town-is some- times frozen over, but the part used by shipping is never covered with ice of such a thickness as to interfere with naviation The Japanese have a nice clean looking Set- tlement, consisting of about a hundred houses built in semi-European style and a really fine Consulate, of foreign design, containing at least forty rooms and offices. The Chinese Settlement is a healthy tract of laud, situated northwest of the Custom House. A noble building for the Imperial Consulate stands in the middle of the Settlement, and commands a view of the whole harbour. All the houses are built in Anglo-Chinese style, both of brick and wood. The Chinese merchants are carrying on an extensive business, especially in the export of gold. The country around Yuensan is under cultivation, and the soil is very rich. Within a short distance of the port are mines producing copper and other minerals, and gold is found amongst the neighbouring mountains. The cattle at this port, as nearly all over the country, are very fine and plentiful, and can be bought at very low rates; they are used as beasts of burden and for agricultural purposes.

The trade is carrie 1 on by two tri-weekly Nippon Yusen steamers, one from Japan and the other from Shanghai, both running to Vladivostock, occasional steamers from Shanghai, and schooners and junks from Japan. The net value of the trade in 1888 was $1,334,120 as compared with $1.109,900 in 1887. The exports consist chiefly of hides, beans, gold-dust, dried fish, and skins. The imports consist chiefly of cotton and woollen manufactured goods and dyes.

JAPANESE CONSULATE.

DIRECTORY.

S. Hisamidzu, acting consul and asssistant

judge

S. Iwamatsu, chancelier

S. Nakamura, co. and C'orean interpreter K. Yoshizoye, do. and postmaster

Japanese Post Office.

K. Yoshizoye, postmaster

B. Yoshimura, clerk

Japanese Consular Police.

K. Kurotaki, inspector

Six constables

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CHINESE CONSULATE.

Woo Chung Yen, consul

Chah Yi Sung, secretary

Woo Chun Yuen, accountant

Pak Hung Yung, Corean interpreter

HIS COREAN MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. J. F. Oies n, acting commissioner H. W. Brazier, assistant Han Shih Chang, interpreter Kuan Chong-in, clerk Ko Yung-hun, do.

J. Osaki, medical officer

J. Knott, examiner

P. E. Mannheimer, J. Hintze, tidewaiters

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

M. Takagi, president

M. Naito, vice president

C. Ashihama, s cretary

K. Watanabe, clerk

JAPANESE HOSPITAL.

J. Osaki, physician

Y. Hasumoto, accountant and interpreter

K. Okumura, apothecary

TRADERS' REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE.

C. Ashihama, representative

C. Kumada, K. Watanabe, clerks