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YOKOHAMA

INSURANCE OFFICES, Continued

New York Life Insurance Company New Zealand Insurance Company (Fire and Marine) North British and Mercantile Insurance Company... North China Insurance Company

North German Fire Insurance Company North Queensland Insurance Company (Marine) Northern Assurance Company (Fire and Life).. Norddeutsche Versicherungs Gesellschaft Norwich Union Insurance Society

Oberrheinische Versicherungs Ges., in Mannheim Ocean Marine Insurance Company Phoenix Assurance Company, London.

Bernard & Wood Fraser, Farley & Co. Findlay, Richardson & Co. W. G. Bayne H. Grauert W. J. S. Shand

W. M. Strachan & Co. Carl Rohde & Co. Cornes & Co.

Carl Rohde & Co. W. J. S. Shand Kingdon, Schwabe & Co.

Provident Clerks' Mutual Life Assurance Association W. J. S. Shand

Providentia in Frankfurt

Prussian National Insurance Company

Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation (Fire)...................

Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool

Royal Exchange Assurance (Marine)

Schewiz Marine Insurance Company

Scottish Imperial Life Insurance

Scottish Metropolitan Life Assurance.

Scottish Union and National Fire Insurance Co. Sea Insurance Company

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Second Colonial Sea and Fire Insce. Co. of Batavia... Singapore Insurance Company (Fire and Marine) South Australian Marine Insurance Company.. Standard Life Assurance Company. Straits Fire Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company (Marine) Sun Fire Office

Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company

Transatlantic Feuer Vers. Actien Ges., in Hamburg Transatlantische Gueter Versicherungs Ges. Underwriting Agency Association, Limited Union Marine Insurance Company.

Union Assurance Society, 1714

Union Insurance Society of Canton...

United Swiss Marine Insurance Companies

Universal Marine Insurance Company

Universal Marine Insurance Company

Württembergische Transport Versicherungs Ges.

Yangtsze Insurance Association

Grosser & Co. Simon, Evers & Co. Butterfield & Swire Cornes & Co.

Otto Reimers & Co. Schone & Mottu C. Illies & Co. Bernard & Wood Fraser, Farley & Co. Bernard & Wood J. Ph. von Hemert Adamson, Bell & Co. Adamson, Bell & Co. Fraser, Farley & Co. W. J. S. Shand W. J. S. Shand Robison & Co.

Mollison & Co. C. Illies & Co. Fr. Retz & Co. Cornes & Co.

Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. Flint Kilby & Co. C. W. Baird

Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. A. Barnard

A. W. Glennie

Carl Rohde & Co.

Walsh, Hall & Co.

HAKODATE.

This, the most northerly of the treaty ports of Japan, is situated in the south of Yezo on the Straits of Tsugaru, which divide that island from Honshiu. The port lies in latitude 41 deg. 47 min. 8 sec. N., and longitude 140 deg. 45 min. 34 sec. E., and the harbour is nearly land-locked. The town clusters at the foot and on the slope of a bold rock known to foreigners as Hakodate Head, 1,106 feet in height. The surrounding country is hilly, volcanic, and striking, but the town itself possesses few attractions. A destructive fire in December, 1879, led to great improvements and the widening of the streets. The foreign concession has never been built upon, the few foreign residents in the port having taken up their quarters in Japanese buildings. A row of fine temples, with lofty picturesque roofs, occupying higher ground than the rest of the town, are the most conspicuous buildings. There are some Public Gardens at the eastern end of the town, which contain a small but interesting Museum. Waterworks for supplying the town with pure water were completed in 1889. The climate of Hakodate is healthy and bracing. The hottest month is August, but the thermometer