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from Amoy, and the residences of nearly all the foreigners are to be found there, although most of the foreign business is transacted on the Amoy side. There is a good Club in the settlement, adjoining which is the cricket ground. A neat little Anglican Church has also been erected. There are three granite docks at Amoy, the largest being 310 feet by 60 feet; they are owned and managed by foreigners. A small shipping sheet called the Amoy Gazette is published daily, and a newspaper entitled the Amoy Times and Mercantile Gazette appears weekly. The foreign residents number about 280.
There has always been a comparatively good trade done at Amoy. There is frequent and pretty regular steamer communication with Hongkong, Swatow, and Foochow. Direct communication with Manila and the Straits Settlements is also maintained. The total export of Tea for 1889 was 160,021 piculs as against 182,662 piculs in 1888. The export of Sugar for 1889 was 239,593 piculs, compared with 235,785 piculs in 1888. The net importation of Opium for 1889 was 5,885 piculs as compared with 6,872 piculs in 1888. The total value of the foreign trade of the port for 1889 was Tls. 11,942,008, against Tls. 12,249,584 in 1888.
DIRECTORY
✰✰ Foo-keen yung-tse-koon AMOY GAZETTE AND SHIPPING REPORT,
Daily Newspaper
A. A. Marçal, proprietor & publisher
J. F. Marçal, manager S. A. Marçal, assistant J. F. Senna, compositor Anto. A. Marçal do.
Amoy TIMES AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE W. J. Allan, proprietor and editor
AMOY TUG AND LIGHTER COMPANY
N. Moalle, manager
"BON MARCHE" Store, Koolangsoo
W. J. Allen, manager
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Wo-kee
BOYD & Co., Merchants and Com. Agents
Thos. Covil (absent)
W. Snell Orr
T. M. Boyd
G. C. Greenhill
E. Thomas
E. Latter
G. McM. T. Thomson
A. F. Gardiner
Agencies
Chartered Mercantile Bank
New Oriental Bank Corporation
Eastern and Australian Steamship Co. Ocean Steamship Company
China Navigation Company, Limited Canadian Pacific Steamship Company Lloyd's
China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited Royal Fire and Life Insurance Co. Sun Fire Insurance Company Bremen Marine Insurance Companies Underwriters' Union at Amsterdam Jersey Mutual Insurance Society
Netherlands India Sea and Fire Insce, Underwriting and Agency Assocn. Le Cercle Transports d'Assurances
Maritimes de Marseille
National Marine Insurance Assn., Ld.
London and Lancashire Fire Insurance
Singapore Insurance Company
陸水
Sui Liock
BROWN & Co., Merchants
F. Chomley
C. S. Powell
J. A. Maher
J. M. Boyol
Agencies
Lancashire Insurance Company South British Fire and Marine Insce. Standard Life Assurance Company
Imperial Fire Insurance Company
Indian Imperial Marine Insurance Co.
Mat-long
BROWN & CO., F. C., Drapers, Silk Mercers,
Milliners, and Dressmakers, Kulangsoo
Mrs. T. C. Nicholls
CASS, FRANCIS, Merchant
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-AMOY GENERAL
E. P. W. Skrimshire, secretary
CHINA MERCHANTS' S. N. COMPANY
Yeh Ta-yung, agent
振 Chin Kee
CHOA TEK HEE & Co., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents
Choa Tek Hee
C. T. Wong (Shanghai)
Chew Fee Hoo
Wee Chye Thiam
Choa Cheng Kuay and others
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