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TAMSUI AND KELUNG-TAINAN-FU AND TAKOW
麟魯 Loo.ling
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co., Merchants
R. H. Ohly, signs per pro.
A. Fonseca
Agency
National Bank of China, Limited
TAIT & Co., Merchants
E. H. Low, tea inspector
Agencies
Java Sea and Fire Insurance Company North China Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company
TAINAN-FU AND TAKOW
The city of Tainan-fu [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 250,000 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-fu 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 firms making it their head quarters instead of Takow, which port in former years was considered of more 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 having reached 997,690 piculs; but it declined in 1886 to 362,826 piculs. In 1890, however, it rose to 676,773 piculs, but in 1893 was 480,529 piculs only. The import of Opium during 1893 was 2,372 piculs against 3,036 piculs in 1892. The value of the whole trade of the port in 1893 was Tls. 3,295,869 as compared with Tls. 2,932,311 in 1892.
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.
ANPING LAUNCH COMPANY
Bain & Co., managers
記怡 Ee.kee
BAIN & Co., Merchants
A. W. Bain
H. W. Arthur
E. E. Andrus
Agencies
DIRECTORY
New Takow Tug Company
Hongkong and S'hai Banking Corpn. Bank of China, Japan and The Straits Norddeutscher Lloyd
Douglas Steamship Company, Limited Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited China Navigation Company Canadian Pacific Railway Company Lloyd's
Canton Insurance Office, Limited China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited South British Fire and Marine Ins. Co. New York Life Insurance Company
Nouveau Lloyd Suisse
Anping Launch 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-R. W. Hurst
Assistant and pro-Consul-B. M. N.
Perkins
Constable-Antonio Alborado
GERMANY
Vice-Consul, a. i.-Dr. Merz Clerk-Philipp Wong