TAINAN-FOO AND TAKOW.
The city of Tainan-foo, [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 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 Tainan-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 s an open roadstead, vessels having to anchor a mile or so from the beach. From the 1st Nember 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 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 declined in 1886 to 362,826 piculs. In 1887, however, it rose to 522,942 piculs, and in 1888 to 615,830 piculs. The mport of Opium during 1888 was 2,672 piculs. The value of the whole trade of the port in 1888 was Tls. 2,862,020 as compared with Tls. 2,762,538 in 1887.
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.
BRITISH, Consulate
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN, Consulate
GERMAN, Vice-Consulate SPANISH, Vice-Consulate DANISH, Consular Agency FRENCH, Consular Agency
UNITED STATES, Consular Agency
Consul-Pelham L. Warren
Assistant and Pro-Consul-P.
Butler
Writer-Chien Yün
Constable-Antonio Alborado
NETHERLANDS.
Consul-A. W. Bain
DIRECTORY.
O'Brien-
Imperial Maritime Customs.
Tai-wan-kwan.
Acting Commissioner--Jas. R. Brazier
Do. -S. J. Hanisch (Anping) Assistant-C. E. S. Wakefield Medical Officer-W. Wykeham Myers, M.B. Acting Tidesurveyor-C. P. Dawson Acting Boat Officer-G. W. Luce (Anping) Assistant Examiners-G. Whitlock, W. G.
Tindall (Anping)
Tidewaiters—J. Langley, O. E. M. Bünese, J. Moorhouse, F. J. Woodcock (An- ping), A. Myles
Chinese Clerks--Mak Sze-che; Yip Ah Hon,
and Cheong Yin (Anping)
H. Vosteen
Pilot.
Agencies.
Bain & Co., agents-
Lloyd's
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. China Navigation Co.
Lauts & Haesloop, agents-
South British Fire and Marine Insur-
ance Co. of New Zealand German Lloyd Marine Insurance Co. Mannheim Insurance Co., Ld.
Transatlantic Marine Insurance Co. Austrian Insurance Co. "Donau"
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