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TAMSUI AND KELUNG
The port of Kelung lies to the north-east of Tamsui, in latitude 25 deg. 6 min. N. and longitude 121 deg. 47 min. E. It is situated on the shores of a bay between the capes of Foki and Peton, some twenty miles apart, amidst bold and striking scenery, backed by a range of mountains. It was once a Spanish Settlement, but was subsequently captured and held by the Dutch until they in turn gave place to the Chinese under Koxinga, a pirate chief who caused himself to be proclaimed King of Formosa. 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. 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 Tientsiu 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 extended 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.
TAMSUI-TWATUTIA DIRECTORY
行銀灣台抹式會社
BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED (Kabushiki-
Kwaisha Taiwan Ginko); Head Office,
Taipeh: Tel. Ad, Taigin
Directors-J. Soyeda (president), K.
Yagin (vice-president), T. Doki, H.
Kawasaki, M. Tatsuno, T. Shimosaka
T. Doki, manager
記和
Ho-kee
BOYD & CO., Merchants
A. F. Gardiner, tea inspector
Agencies
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited Lloyd's
China Traders' Insurance Company, Ld. China Navigation Company, Limited Foochow Saw Mills Company
BROWN & Co., Merchants
A. C. Bryer, agent and tea inspector Agency
Imperial Insurance Company, Ld.
CANADA PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Rev. Geo. L. Mackay, D.D. Rev. Wm. Gauld (absent)
CHIURITSU GINKO
R. Tamura
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
SPAIN
Consul-R. de B. Layard
Assistant and Pro-Consul, Twatutia
-T. J. Harrington
Shipping Clerk-Henry Croskey
GERMANY
Acting Consul-E. Heinze
Interpreter--Dr. W. Mueller
Clerk---H. Moeller
NETHERLANDS
Consul-Paul Schabert
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul-Jas, W. Davidson Vice-Consul-A. N. Wilkinson Clerk-M. Isoda
CUSTOMS, Tamsui and Kelung
Superintendent-D. Nakamura Chief Inspector-S. Togo Chief Appraiser--K. Honda Chief Surveyor-M. Yamamoto
Chief Collector-K. Arishima
Chief of General Office-M. Uyeno
Executive Officer, Kelung-Y. Kakiida
店支藤後
GOTO & SONS, K., Merchants
Y. Kawai, manager, Taipeh-fu
Agency
Imperial Marine Insurance Co., Tokyo
和怡
E-wo
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants
Frank Leyburn, agent
C. H. Best, tea inspector