Nagasaki, Sept. 8, 9.5 a.m.
Considerable anxiety is felt everywhere. with regard to the economic consequences of the earthquake, but the great reassure ing feature is the fact that Osaka is outside the zone of the disaster.
The principal Tokio banks, for instance, the Mitsubishi Bank, the Yokohama Specie Bank, the Bank of Taiwan, the Industrial Bank, the Sumitomo Bank,, the Thirty-Fourth Bank, and the Yamaguchi Bank, all commenced payments to-day between the hours of 11 and 2 of amounts not exceeding HONGKONG'S ASSISTANCE, Hongkong, Sept. 8.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has subscribed $50,000 for Japanese relief.
The French community is raising subscriptions fo remit: funds to from the losses of public buildings, numerous priceless art collections were obliterated. The fate of Dr. Morrison's' famous library, which Baron Iwasaki presented to the Imperial University, is not known. as_is believed, it was still being classified at Baron Iwasaki's Tokio house, then it has probably been destroyed by the fire which gutted that fine new residence.
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