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YOKOHAMA

The Bluff. There is a fairly good Race Course situated about two miles from the Settlement. A good Boating Club also exists, which has provided facilities for deep sea bathing. The Public Hall, containing a theatre and assembly rooms, built of brick, is situated at the top of Camp Hill, and was opened in 1885. The chief public buildings in the native town are the Kencho, opposite the British Consulate, the Town Hall, which has a clock tower, and the Custom House. The Railway Station is also a creditable structure, being a well designed and commodious terminus. The town is now in the enjoyment of an excellent water supply, large waterworks having been completed in 1887. The harbour is much exposed, but two breakwaters, of an aggregate length of 12,000 feet, have been built and are so projected as to practically enclose the whole of the anchorage, leaving an entrance 650 feet wide between these extremities. There is a pier 1,800 feet long at which vessels may load or discharge. An extensive scheme for improving the harbour and providing better facilities for trade is being carried out. It was commenced in 1899, and is expected to be completed this year. A graving dock was opened on the 26th April, 1897; it is built of large blocks of granite and is 351 feet on the blocks, its length from the outside of the entrance to the head is 419 feet 10 inches, and from the outside caisson to the head 400 feet 3 inches. The width of the entrance is 60 feet 8 inches at the top and 45 feet 11 inches at the bottom. The depth is 35 feet 1 inch on the inside, and 31 feet 2 inches on the sill. The depth of water on the blocks is 27 feet 2 inches at spring tides, 26 feet 2 inches at ordinary springs, and 19 feet 8 inches at low water of spring tides. This is the smaller or No. 2 Dock of the Company. The No. 1 Dock, completed at the end of 1898, is 478 ft. 10 in. on the blocks and has a depth inside of 36 ft. 3 in. and on the sill of 34 ft. 1 in., the depth of water on the blocks being 28 ft. 10 in. at springs, 27 ft. 11 in. at ordinary springs, and 21 ft. 4 in. at low water of springs. Yokohama is well supplied with hotels, and also with English daily papers, of which three are published in the port, namely, the Japan Daily Mail, Japan Gazette, and Japan Herald, and several weeklies.

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The Japanese population of Yokohama has grown considerably in the last ten years and is now about 350,000. At the last census the number of foreign residents, exclusive of Chinese, was 2,447, of whom 1,089 were British; 527 Americans; 270 Germans, and 155 French. The Chinese population was returned at 3,800. importance of the foreign element in the port may be gauged by the fact that they pay nearly 40% of the entire amount of business and income taxes collected in Yokohama, though they have no voice in the control of local affairs,

In 1911 the values of the different classes of Imports were:-

Cotton, Yarns

Yen 36,085,739

Copper. Lead, Zinc, &c.......... Yen 3,223,93

Iron and Steel

Grains and Seeds

19,715,748

13,766,095

Beverages and Comestibles...

3,297,997

Sugar and Sweetmeats.......

3,151,393

Drugs and Medicines

10,673,012

Wool, Cotton, Linen Manu-

Machinery

9,517,433

factures (Mixed)

3,136,164

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Oils, Fats and Waxes

8,453,691

Skins, Hair, Horns, etc.

2,504,737

Metal Manufactures

6,598,394

India Rubber...

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2,228,648

Woollen Tissues

5,976.206

Cotton Manufactures

Ores and Minerals

Dyes and Paints

5,595,008

Earthenware Manufactures Alcoholic Liquors

1,521,542

1,168,125

4,504,612 Clothing and Accessories

1.143,204

4,434,707 Sundries

17,645,577

Paper & Paper Manufactures

Scientific Instruments.........................

Vehicles, Clocks, Watches &c.

4,023,570

3,686,907

Total Imports, Yen 175,581,795

3,619,393

The values of the principal articles of Export in the same year were as follows:-

Silk (Raw and Waste)......Yen 141.104,401

Drugs, Medicines, &c.......... Yen 2,441,825

Silk Manufactures

32,683,967

Cotton Manufactures

10,523,739

Metals & Metal Manuftrs. ..

Marine Products

9,139,259 Sugar and Confectioneries...

2,199,872

Paper & Paper Manufactures

1,896,139

1,647,306

Clothing and Accessories

3,466,719

Machinery

1,168,943

Tea

13,683,852

Vegetables and Fruits

The above figures represent native goorls.

3,271,993 Sundries

3,023,462

Total Exports, Yen 226,251,482

the total imports and exports of both foreign and

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