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Though a mere village, it has long carried on a considerable native trade with Amoy, Chin-chew, and Foochow. Its staple product used to be coal, but the quantity at present produced is all absorbed by local requirements. Sulphur also abounds in a valley in the neighbourhood, but the Authorities would not allow it to be worked. Kelung was opened to foreign trade at the same time as the other Formosan ports. The limits of the port are defined to be within a straight line drawn from Image Point to Bush Island. On the 5th August, 1884, the port was bombarded by the French under Admiral Léspes, when the forts above the town were reduced to ruins, and the place captured. It was then garrisoned by the French, who held it until after the Treaty of peace had been signed at Tientsin in June, 1885. The place was occupied by the Japanese on the 3rd June, 1895. Harbour improvements on a large scale are now in progress. A railway connects Kelung with Taipeh, the capital, and will be ex- tended thence to Tainan-fu. Late in 1895 Luikong (or Rokko), 117 miles south of Tamsui on the west coast, was opened as a special port of import and export; and in March, 1896, Kiukong (or Kinko), 36 miles south of Tamsui, was opened in a similar manner to trade for Japanese-owned vessels.
記和
Ho-kee
BOYD & Co.. Merchants
TAMSUI DIRECTORY
A. F. Gardiner, tea inspector
Agencies
"Mercantile Bank of India, Limited
Lloyd's
China Navigation Company, Limited
China Traders' Insurance Company, Ld.
Brown & Co., Merchants
A. C'. Bryer, agent and tea inspector
Agency
Imperial Insurance Company, Ld.
泰公 Kung-tai
BUTLER & Co., A., Merchants
Count A. Butler (Shanghai)
Paul Schabert
Agencies
Nippon Sea and Land Insce. Co.
North German Marine Insurance Co.
Verein Hamburger Assecuradeure Magdeburg Fire Insurance Co.
CANADA PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Rev. Geo. L. Mackay, D.D. Rev. Wm. Gauld
CHINRITSU GINKO
R. Tamura
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Consul-R. de B. Layard
Pro-Conl., Twatutia--A. F. Gardiner
Constable-J. C. Cheetham Writer-B. Mutto
GERMANY
Acting Consul -H, von Varchmin Interpreter--Dr. W. Mueller Clerk H. Moeller
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FRANCE
Consul-Viscount de Bondy (abt.)
NETHERLANDS
Consular Agent-Paul Schabert
SPAIN
Consul for Formosa-Enrique Ortiz Interpreter--M. Isoda
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul-Jas. W. Davidson Vice-Consul-
Clerk-Y. Yazawa
CUSTOMS, Tamsui and Kelung
Superintendent S. J. Nomura Chief Appraiser-M. Suzukida Chief Surveyor--M. Yamamoto Chief Collector—T. Yamakuchi
Chief of Warehousing-K. Arishima
Chief of General Office-M. Uyeno
Chief Inspector-S. Togo
店支藤後
GoTo & Sons, K., Merchants
Y. Kawai, manager, Taipeh-fu
Agency
Imperial Marine Insurance Co., Tokyo
和怡E.co
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Frank Leyburn, agent
C. H. Best, tea inspector
Agencies
Bank of China and Japan, Limited Yokohama Specie Bank
Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. Ben Line of Steamers
Glen Line of Steamers
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Canton Insurance Office, Limited