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foreign quarter adjoins the town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses are situated on the bund facing the harbour, behind which 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, three clubs (Nagasaki. Bowling and International) and a Masonic Lodge. The principal hotel is the Nagasaki Hotel, opened in 1898, a three-storeyed brick building situated on the Bund. There are several other hotels, of which the largest are the Hotel de France, the Cliff House, the Hotel du Japan, and the Belle Vue Hotel. The Mitsu Bishi Company own three docks in Nagasaki, the largest of which has a length of 714 feet on the keel blocks and a depth of water at ordinary spring tides of 34 ft. 6 in. As a ship-building centre the place is rapidly developing, and since 1889 several large ocean-going vessels have been launched there. The vessels built at the yard and completed for sea last year include two turbine steamers of 13,500 tons each for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha; two twin-screw passenger and cargo steamers of 8,800 tons each for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha; a 23-knot turbine despatch vessel for the Imperial Navy; and a twin-screw turbine passenger steamer, of 3,300 tons, for the Japanese Imperial Volunteer Fleet. The waterworks, owing to the growth of the town, were found to be insufficient for its wants and a large extension of the works was completed in March, 1904. The reservoirs hold 405,240,000 gallons, and there are three filter beds and a service reservoir. The Sanyo Railway is now completed between Shimonoseki and Yatsushiro, in Hyogo province. Connection is made at Moji (across the narrow strait) with the Kiushiu 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 in Nagasaki is mild and salubrious, and there are several very popular health resorts in the neighbourhood, the most famous being Mount Unzen.

In 1907 the imports were valued at Yen 16,230,501 an increase of Yen 2,597,675 as compared with the figures for 1906, while exports decreased by Yen 858,800, the value being Yen 5,513,744.

Though the foreign trade has fallen off considerably, the population of the port has increased greatly. In December, 1907, it was returned as 173,118, nearly double what it was fifteen years ago. The foreign population, exclusive of Chinese, was 354. An English newspaper, entitled the Nagasaki Press, is published daily.

DIRECTORY

AHRENS & Co., H., Nachf., Merchants

A. Gese, signs per pro.

A. Nestmann

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd

London Assurance Corporation Chargeurs Réunis

AMERICAN-RUSSIAN TROPICAL CULTURE

Co., LTD., Kataoka 3; Hongkong-Shang-

hai Bank (Manila)

BALMÈS, VVE, Navy Contractor

J. Sirot, successor

H. Balmès

L. Salvéry

Boeddinghaus, C. E., Merchant

H. Peters

Agencies

Hamburg-America Line of Steamers

Bureau Veritas, Paris

German Lloyds, Berlin

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 Mitv. Gesel., Berlin 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 Russian Co. Sea, Land, and RiverInsur. Allianz Versicherungs Actien Gesel,

Berlin

General Insurance Co., for Sea, Land,

and River Transport, Dresden Kölner Lloyd, Allgemeine Vers. Act.

Gesellschaft, Köln

Sjöförsäkrings Aktiebolaget "Ocean,'

Goteborg

Deutscher Lloyd, Transport Vers

Act. Gesellschaft, Berlin

Transatlantic Marine Insce. Co., Berlin BOWIE, ROBERT I., M.D., Medical Practitione