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AMOY

a granite dock at Amoy, being 300 feet by 60 feet, and is owned and managed by foreigners. Kerosine oil tanks, capable of turning out 4,000 tons a day, the property of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, have been erected. The foreign residents number about 280. A large fire occurred in October, 1902, which destroyed over 1,000 houses and caused a loss of between three and four millions of dollars. The new houses and shops which have been erected are of brick, two, and in some cases three stories high.

There has always been a comparatively good trade done at Amoy. There is frequent and fairly 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 1903 was 7.115 piculs. There are large exports of sugar. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1903 was Tls. 16,985,898 against Tls. 17,161,868 in 1902, Tls. 14,719,058 in 1901 and Tls. 13,943,228 for 1900. The island of Kulangsu was handed over by China as an International settlement on the 1st May 1903. In the opinion of the Commissioner of Customs, Kulangsu bids fair to become one of the most charming little republics on the coast of China, while the tea imported amounted to 122,647 piculs, most of it coming from Formosa.

LE Heng-hoat

發恒

DIRECTORY

Aн Kow, General Storekeeper and Com-

mission Agent, No. 59, Longtow Street, Kulangsu

Ke-keh-kung-se

AMOY ENGINEERING CO., LD. Engineers, Launch Builders and Repair work to steamers, &c.

G. H. Burton, secretary J. D. Edwards, manager

Ng Lim Quee, accountant

L. Fyseng, foreman engineer

Tai-wan-gin-ko

BANK OF TAIWAN, LD.

T. Kobayashi, manager

K. Sugai

G. Tanabe

S. Hirose

記和 Ho-kee

BOYD & Co., Merchants and Com. Agents

W. Snell Orr

E. Thomas

A. F. Gardiner

F. G. Kell

J. S. Fenwick

Agencies

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited Guaranty Trust Co. of New York Eastern and Australian Steamship Co. Northern Pacific Steamship Co. Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. Lloyd's

China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited Royal Fire and Life Insurance Co. Bremen Marine Insurance Companies Underwriters' Union at Amsterdam

Netherlands India Sea and Fire Insce. Underwriting and Agency Assocn.

Le Cercle Transports d'Assurances

Maritimes de Marseille

Liverpool Underwriters' Association China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ld. Norwich Union Fire Office

Manufacturers Life Insurance Co.

Mat-long

BROWN & CO., F. C., Drapers, Silk Mercers,

Milliners, and Dressmakers, Kulangsu

Mrs. T. C. Nicholls

B. Nicholls

Miss V. Gaskell

古太 Tai Koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

H. Burton, signs per pro.

L. B. L. Wheeler

Agencies

Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris Russo-Chinese Bank

China Navigation Company, Limited Ocean Steamship Company, Ld. China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Java-China-Japan Line

Norddeutscher Lloyd Orient Linie Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld. Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Guardian Assurance Co.

British & Foreign Marine Insurance Co. Equitable Life Assurance Society Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corpn. Taikoo Sugar Refining Company, Ld. South African Labour Association

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-AMOY GENERAL

G W. Barton, secretary

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER, 327 Broadway, New York. U. S. A.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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