TAINAN-FU, TAKOW, AND ANPING
L. J. Malcampo, signs per pro. Wee Tong Bo
Lee Boon Thye
Ong Choo Kian
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J. Malcampo, Jr.
Cheo Sooh Peck Yeoh Haing
Agencies
Man On Insurance Company
Chai On Insurance Company
社會漕渾陸口海南
NANKAI KAIRIKU UNSO KAISHA (Formosa
Coasting Mail Steamer Co.); Head Office,
Kelung
S. Miwa, director
Y. Taziri, manager, Kelung
H. Miwa, manager, Tamsui H. Miyagawa,
Agencies
do.
Okagaki Steamship Company
Makino Steamship Company
Imperial Marine Insurance Co.
Fu Mi Ho-soon
和順
ONG MAH CHAO & Co., Merchants and
Commission Agents, Twatutia
Ong Mah Chao (Amoy)
Lee Seong Tai and others
Loong-heng
SMITH, BAKER & Co., Merchants
A. C. Bryer, tea inspr., signs per pro.
J. L. A. Maher
TAIPEI ICE AND SODA-Water Co.
Directors-P. Schabert, A. F. Gardi-
ner, E. H. Low H. Seya, manager
TAIT & Co., Merchants
E. H. Low, tea inspector
Agencies
Java Sea and Fire Insurance Company North China Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company
TWATUTIA CLUB
Committee-F. Ashton, P. Schabetr,
C. E. Best, A. F. Gardiner H. Moeller, secretary
TAINAN-FU, TAKOW, AND ANPING
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. It is for an Eastern city 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 they declined in 1883 to 362,826 piculs. In 1894 the export was 671,974 piculs. The import of Opium during 1894 was 2,130 piculs against 2,608 piculs in 1893. The value of the whole trade of the port in 1894 was Tls. 4,388,547 as compared with Tls. 3,295,869 in 1893.
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.
The last stand against the Japanese was made at Tainan-fu, Takow, and Anping, by Liu Yung-fu, the Black Flag General. Takow was bombarded on the 15th October and the resistance collapsed without any serious fighting, and Tainan-fu and Anping were occupied on the 21st October.
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