Tt comes with a pleasant surprise, therefore, to the visitor who is trying to pass without weariness a few hours at Nagasaki, during his enforced detention there for other parts of Japan, to learn that there is an establishment in' the port which is very well worth visiting, and that the detailed working of it is interesting in. the extreme. This is the Steam Roller Flour Mill which has been running now for two years, being the only mill of the kind east of Penang. The inception of this industry is duc to a few of the energetic old residents of Nagasaki, who fancied they saw a good chance of making it pay. Plans were prepared, the necessary capital was raised, the ce-operation of eminent Japanese business men was secured, and after some short delay the buildings were erected, and fitted up with machinery which embraced the ver; st lish, American and Australian tents and improvements, being constructed on the Hungarian roller principle, which the most exact and perfect divisions can be obtained in the facture of flour, and it may with reason be claimed that owing to the happy combination of the various methods and improvements, Nagasaki possesses a Steam Roller Flour Mill which approaches perfection more closely than is perhaps the case in most places where such mills are erected.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.