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TAMSUI AND KELUNG-TAINAN-FU AND TAKOW

Surgeon-F. C. Angear

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master-L. Le Breton

Examiners-O. E. Bailey, J. Hinrichs

Tidewaiters- G. A. F. Schneider, G.

Nepean, W. Cloney

和怡 E-wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

Frank Leyburn, agent

A. A. Donaldson, tea inspector

Agencies

Bank of China, Japan and The Straits Canadian Pacific Steamship Co. Ben Line of Steamers Glen Line of Steamers

Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. London and Lancashire Fire Insurance New York Life Assurance Company

LAPRAIK, CASS & Co., Merchants

H. P. White, signs the firm

F. Ashton, agent

Agencies

Hongkong and Shanghai Bkg. Corpn. Douglas Steamship Company Pacific Mail Steamship Company Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. Union Insurance Society of Canton Yangtsze Insurance Association

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China Fire Insurance Company Commercial Union Assurance Co. South British Fire & Marine Insce. Co. Equitable Life Assurance Soc. of U.S.A.

Sui-kee

MALCAMPO & Co., Merchants and Commis-

sion Agents

J. Malcampo Quioga (Amoy)

Joseph Malcampo Cheo Sooh Peck

Yeo Tock Haing

Agencies

Strs. "Peking" and "Kwang Mo" Man On Insurance Company

RAILWAY-FORMOSAN GOVERNMENT

H. C. Matheson, A.M.I.C.E., consulting

manager

J. Fenwick, locomotive foreman

麟魯 Loo.ling

REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co., Merchants

R. H. Ohly

TAIT & Co., Merchants

F. B. Marshall, agent

Agencies

Java Sea and Fire Insurance Company North China Insurance Company Straits Insurance Company

TAINAN-FU AND TAKOW

The city of Tainan-fu [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-fu 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 head quarters 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 997,69) piculs; but it declined in 1886 to 362,826 piculs. In 1890, however, it rose to 676,773 piculs, and in 1892 to 558,626 piculs. The import of Opium during 1892 was 3,036 piculs against 3,401 piculs in 1891. The value of the whole trade of the port in 1892 was Tls. 2,932,311 as compared with Tls. 3,131,260 in 1891.

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.