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on the hill side. There are English Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, two clubs, and a Masonic Lodge. The Belle Vue Hotel affords fair accommodation for visitors, The Nagasaki dock is capable of docking the largest steamers. Its dimensions are:- Length (inside caisson at top), 438 feet; length on blocks, 375 feet; breadth of entrance at top 89, and at bottom, 77 feet; depth of water on blocks at spring tides, 27 feet 6 inches, and at neap tides 22 feet. Attached to the dock are extensive Engine Works most completely equipped and fitted. These works were originally built by the Japanese Government, but they now belong, as does the dock, to the Mitsu Bishi Company. Waterworks have recently been completed. The reservoir holds 90,000,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir. The climate of Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, but in 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. During the last six years, however, there has been a steady improvement in the foreign trade, which has doubled itself in that period. 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 near Nagasaki, of which the Takashima mine was the most important, but it is now nearly worked out. The produce of the various Chikuzen mines in 1889 was estimated at 720,000 tons.
The value of the foreign import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1889 was £449,540, as compared with £369,516 in 1888 and that of the foreign export trade, £943,865, as against £844,016 in 1888. Coal is the staple article of export, accounting for nearly half of the total export trade.
The population of Nagasaki in 1889 was 44,175. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1889, was 1,058, of whom 692 were Chinese and 366 Europeans and Americans. A small foreign weekly paper entitled the Rising Sun is published in the port.
DIRECTORY
ADAMS & Co., M., Butchers and Compradores
M. Adams
G. Sutton
ARMY AND NAVY INN
Charley
ARNOLD, C. A., Medical Practitioner
BELLE VUE HOTEL
A. Harmand, lessee
BOEDDINGHAUS, C. E., Merchant
Agencies
Navigazione Generale Italiana Kingsin Line of Steamers Bureau Veritas
Transatlantic Marine Insurance Co. Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Netherlands Fire Insurance Company
BRITANNIA HOTEL
I. Steinbach
BROWNE & Co., Merchants
H. St. J. Browne
W. Brent
H. W. F. Norris H. Gardner
Agencies
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank'g Corpn. Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. Glen Line of Steamers
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited North-China Insurance Company, Ld. New York Life Insurance Company
CHINA AND JAPAN TRADING COMPANY, LD.
Edward Rogers, manager
F. G. Stone (absent)
C. F. Oberlein
E. W. H. Smith
C. A. Welsh
H. R. Mountefield
D. H. Blake
Agencies
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. China Fire Insurance Company, Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Standard Life Assurance Company Phoenix Fire Insurance Company Commercial Union Fire Insurance Co, Manchester Fire Insurance
CITY OF HAMBURG TAVERN
H. Goldenberg
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