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TAIWAN-FOO AND TAKOW.

The city of Taiwan-foo, situated in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. N. and long. 129 deg. 5 min. E., is the capital of the island of Formosa, and is credited with 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 Taiwan-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 firms making it their headquarters 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 rai and the temperature leaves nothing to be desired. Sugar is the principal expor South Formosa, shipments in 1880 having reached 997,690 piculs; in 1881 the export amounted to 897,110 piculs. In 1886 the export was only 362,826 piculs. The import of Opium during 1886 was 2,913 piculs; the value of the whole trasle Tls. 2,583,625 as compared with Tls. 2,478,681 in 1885.

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.

Consulates.

DIRECTORY.

BRITISH, also Danish, French, German (vice-consulate), AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN (vice-consulate), SPANISH (vice-con- sulate), AND United States (consular agency).

Consul-Pelham L. Warren

Assistant-P. O'Brien-Butler Constable-Antonio Alborado

NETHERLANDS.

Consul-A. W. Bain

Imperial Maritime Customs.

Tai-wan-kwan.

Acting Commissioner-F. E. Woodruff Assistant-A. Lay (Anping)

Do.

Do.

-S. von Fries

-S. J. Hanisch

Medical Officer-W. Wykeham Myers, M.B. Acting Tide-surveyor-E. Molloy

Boat Officer-G Swainston (Anping) Examiner G. Whitlock

do.

Assistant Examiner-W. G. Tindall (An-

ping)

Tidewaiters-C. H. Erskine (Anping), G.

Kopp, A. Rogister

Chinese Clerks-Mak Sze-che; Yip Ah Hon,

and Mo Sih Chiu (Anping)

Pilots.

H. Vosteen, E. A. Kröncke

Agencies.

Bain & Co., agents—

Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. China Traders Insurance Co., Ld. New York Life Insurance Co. Douglas Steamship Co., Ld. Indo-China S. N. Co., Ld.

Boyd & Co., agents-

Lloyd's

China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited Chinese Insurance Co., Limited