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YOKOHAMA-HAKODATE

INSURANCE OFFICES, Continued.

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

Providentia in Frankfurt

Prussian National Insurance Company

Queen Insurance Company

Reliance Marine Insurance Company Rheinisch-Westphälischer Lloyd

Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation (Fire). Royal Exchange Assurance (Marine) Royal Insurance Company, Liverpool Scottish Imperial Life Insurance

Scottish Metropolitan Life and Accident Assurance Scottish Union and National Fire Insurance Co. Sea Insurance Company, Limited, Liverpool...... Second Colonial Sea and Fire Insce. Co. of Batavia... South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company Standard Life Assurance Company, Straits Fire Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company (Marine) La Suisse, Compagnie

Sun Insurance Office

Sun Life Assurance Company, Canada

Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company Tokyo Marine Insurance Company Transatlantic Marine Insurance, Berlin..

Transatlantische Feuer Vers, Actien Ges., Hamburg Underwriting Agency Association, Limited Union Assurance Society, 1714 ......... Union Insurance Society of Canton. Union Marine Insurance Company Union Marine Insurance Company

United Swiss Marine Insurance Companies Württembergische Transport Versicherungs Ges. Yangtsze Insurance Association

Grosser & Co.

Simon, Evers & Co.

W. M. Strachan & Co. China Traders' Insurance Co. C. Illies & Co. Butterfield & Swire Cornes & Co. Otto Reimers & Co. C. Illies & Co. H. MacArthur & Co. Fraser, Farley & Co. Butterfield & Swire J. Ph. von Hemert Smith, Baker & Co. Fraser, Farley & Co. C. W. Ure, manager C. W. Ure, manager · F. Schoene Robison & Co. W. J. S. Shand Mollison & Co. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha C. Weinberger C. Illies & Co. Cornes & Co. Flint Kilby & Co.

A. J. Eston, acting agent. Findlay, Richardson & Co. Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. Kingdon, Schwabe & Co. Carl Rohde & Co. J. Johnstone, agent

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. 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 then rarely rises above 90 degrees Fahr.; in the winter it sometimes sinks to 18 degrees. The mean temperature throughout the year is about 48 degrees. The population of Hakodate is about 54,000. The number of foreign residents in 1892 was 101, of whom 41 were Europeans and Americans, and 60 Chinese; there are 17 more Europeans in other parts of Yezo.

The foreign trade of the port is small. The value of the imports has declined from $670,534 in 1890 to $24,322 in 1893. The exports for 1893 amounted to $639,627, which was about the average for the past ten years. The agricultural resources of Yezo have been to some extent developed under the auspices of the Kaitakushi or Colonization Department. The rich pasture lands are well adapted for breeding

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