TAINAN-FOO AND TAKOW
The city of Tainan-foo, [until 1889 known as Taiwan] situated in lat. 23 deg. 6 min N. and long. 129 deg. 5 min. E., is the commercial capital of Formosa, and has a population of 235,000 inhabitants. Compared with other Chinese cities it is moderately clean and well paved. The walls are some five miles in circumference. The shipping port of Tainan-foo is Anping, situated on the coast about three miles to the eastward of the city and connected with the suburbs by a creek. The port is an open roadstead, vessels having to anchor a mile or so from the beach. From the 1st November to the end of May the anchorage is a perfectly safe one, but during the S. W. monsoon a heavy swell sets in, rendering it difficult, and at times impossible, for vessels to load or discharge. Anping has of late risen greatly in importance, the foreign firins making it their head quarters instead of Takow, which port in former years was considered of mors significance. Tempered by sea breezes, Anping during the summer months can boast of a cool and healthy climate. From 1st October to the end of April there is little or no rain, and the temperature leaves nothing to be desired. Sugar is the principal export of South Formosa, shipments in 1880 heaving reached 997,690 piculs; but declined in 1886 to 362,826 piculs. In 1887, however, it rose to 522,942 piculs, and in 1889 to 544,225 piculs. The import of Opium during 1889 was 2,751 piculs. The value of the whole trade of the port in 1889 was Tls. 2,746,464 as compared with Tls. 2,862,020 in 1888.
Takow is a port twenty-four miles to the southward of Anping. It takes little or no share in the import trade, and is rarely visited by the foreign merchants, excepting for a few months in the winter.
DIRECTORY
ANPING LAUNCH COMPANY
Bain & Co., managers
記怡 Ee-kee
BAIN & Co., Merchants
A. W. Bain
H. W. Arthur
Agencies
Lloyd's
Hongkong and S'hai Bank'g Corpn. Douglas Steamship Company, Limited Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited China Navigation Company Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited China Traders' Insurance Company, Ld. New York Life Insurance Company
BROWN & CO., Merchants
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consulate
DENMARK, Consular Agency
FRANCE, Consular Agency
SPAIN, Vice-Consulate
UNITED STATES, Consular Agency
Consul-Pelham L. Warren
Assistant & Pro-Consul-P. E.
O'Brien-Butler
Constable-Antonio Alborado
GERMANY
Acting Vice-Consul-Dr. Merz Clerk-Philipp Wong
NETHERLANDS
Consul-A. W. Bain
關灣臺
Tai-wan-kwan
CUSTOMS IMPERIAL MARITIME
Acting Commissioner Jas. R. Brazier
Assistant S. Hanisch (Anping)
Do. -L. A. Lyall
Med. Officer-W. Wykeham Myers, M.B, Tidesurveyor-T. H. Kingsley
Acting Boat Officer-W. G. Tindall
(Anping)
Examiner G. Whitlock
Assistant Examiner—A. E. Pfankuchen Tidewaiters-J. Hinrichs, F. J. Wood-
cock, A. Myles, A. Walters, F. Mo, Lavy
ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION, Tainan
foo
Rev. W. Campbell, F.R.G.S.
Rev. Thos. Barclay, M.A. (absent)
Rev. Wm. Thow, M.A.
Rev. D. Ferguson, M.A.
Peter Anderson, L.R.C.P. & S.E.
Geo. Ede (absent)
Gavin Russell, M.B., C.M.
Miss Butler
Miss Stuart
Miss Barnett