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brick building situated on the Bund. There are severai smaller hotels, of which the two largest are the Belle Vue Hotel and Cliff House. The Nagasaki dock was lengthened during 1894 to admit vessels of 500 feet in length on a draught of 26 feet. A new dock, is now being built, which on completion will be the largest in the Far East. 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. As a ship- building centre the place is rapidly developing, and since 1889 six large ocean-going vessels, each of 6,000 tons, have been launched, having been built there for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The present waterworks, owing to the growth of the town, are insufficient for its wants, and a large extension of the works is now in progress. The reservoir holds 90,000,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir The Sanyo Railway is now completed between Shimonoseki and Yatsushiro, in Hyogo province. Connexion is made at Moji (across then arrow strait) with the Kyushiu line to Nagasaki, so that it is possible, with a brief sea passage of ten minutes between Moji and Shimonoseki, to travel by rail to Kobe and thence to Tokyo. The climate of Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, and there are several very popular health resorts in neighbourhood, the most famous being Mount Unzen.

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 ten years, however, there has been a steady improvement in the foreign trade, which has more than doubled itself in that period. The imports, indeed, have increased tenfold in as many years; and with the opening up of railway communication with the interior of Kyushiu, com- pleted in 1898, a large increase in the prosperity of the port is anticipate. 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 is the most important.

The value of the import trade of Nagasaki during the year 1900 was yen 15,427,337, against yen 11,147,510 in 1899, and that of the export trade yen 6,929,120 against yen 11,106,917 in 1899. Coal is the staple article of export.

The population of Nagasaki in 1898 was 808,439. The number of foreign residents, as given in the Consular report for 1898, was 606, exclusive of Chinese. A small foreign daily paper is published entitled the Nagasaki Press.

DIRECTORY

AHRENS & Co., H., Nachfolger, Merchants

C. Klepsch, signs per pro,

A. Gese

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd

London Assurance Corporation

AMERICAN TRADING COMPANY, 24, Oura

B. Clayton, agent

J. W. Donald

Agencies

Imperial Insurance Co., Ld.

Aachen & Munich Fire Insce. Co. Sun Insurance office.

Palatine Insurance Co., Ld., for Moji

BALMÈS, VVE, Navy Contractor

J. Sirot

H. Balmes

A. Emery

BELLE VUE HOTEL

B. Bay, proprietor

BOEDDINGHAUS, C. E., Merchant

Fohs. Wolf

Agencies

Hamburg-America Line of Steamers Sloman Line of Steamer Bureau Veritas, Paris German Lloyds, Bērlin

Transatlantic Marine Insce. Co., Bērlin Transatlantic Fire Insce. Co., Hamburg Hamburg and Bremen Underwriters Agrippina M., R. & L. Insur. Co., Col. Oberrheinische Insce. Co., Mannheim Rheinisch Westfälischer Lloyd Deutsche Transport-Vers. Gesel. Berlin Deutsche Rück and Mity, Gesel, Bērlin Netherlands Fire Insce. Co., Hague Northern Assurance Co., London Eidgenössische Trans. Insur.Co.,Zürich Neuer Schweizerischer Lloyd

Providentia General-Ins. Co., Vienna Salamandra Ins. Co., St. Petersburg

BOWIE, ROBERT I., M.D., Medical Practitioner

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