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are a few streets running parallel with it, and there are a number of private residences, 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 a 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 Kiushiu Railway is now partly constructed, the line between Moji and Kumamoto, a distance of one hundred miles being opened; and a branch line is also being pushed on to Nagasaki. 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 seven 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, the production in 1890 being 279,890 tons, and that of the Nakanoshima mine 123,905 tons. The produce of the various Chikuzen mines in 1890 was estimated at 780,000 tons.
The value of the import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1891 was $2,932, 133 and that of the export trade $3,842,222. Coal is the staple article of export, accounting for nearly half of the total export trade.
The population of Nagasaki in 1891 was 59,780. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1891, was 1,000, of whom 654 were Chinese, 109 English, and 247 other Europeans and Americans.
A small foreign weekly paper-
entitled the Rising Sun is published in the port, and also two native papers.
DIRECTORY
ADAMS & CO., M., Butchers and Compradores, BROWN, C., Contractor
M. Adams
G. Sutton
ARMY AND NAVY INN
Huon-Yves
ARNOLD, C. A., Medical Practitioner
BELLE VUE HOTEL
A. Harmand, lessee
BLACKBURN, HERBERT, L.R.C.P.E., L.R.C.S.E.,
L.F.P.S.G., etc., Medical Practitioner
BOEDDINGHAUS, C. E., Merchant
Agencies
Kingsin Line of Steamers Bureau Veritas
German Lloyd
Transatlantic Marine Insurance Co. Transatlantic Fire Insurance Co. Northern Assurance Company Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Netherlands Fire Insurance Company
BRITANNIA HOTEL AND COLUMBIA BOWLING
SALOON
F. G. Somerveria
BROWNE & Co., Merchants
H. St. J. Browne (Kobe)
M. T. B. Macpherson (Yokohama) E. H. Gill (Kobe)
W. K. Wilson
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C. M. Birnie
J. W. Donald
Agencies
Bank of China, Japan and The Straits, Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. Shanghai Steamship Company, Ld. Glen Line of Steamers
Apcar Line of Steamers
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited North-China Insurance Company, Ld. New York Life Insurance Company Royal Insurance Office
Imperial Insurance Company Ld. Marine Insurance Co., Ld., London Jardine, Matheson & Co.
CHINA AND JAPAN TRADING Company, Lo
Edward Rogers, manager
F. G. Stone
E. W. H. Smith H. R. Mountefield
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