FORMOSA, According to. the "Japan Mail' the total output of brown sugar in Formosa reached, some years ago, 1,800,000 piculs; but owing to want of capital on the part of the manufacturers and the limited dimensions of the works, the production has dwindled to 400,000 piculs, while the demand has been on the increase. A project has been entertained for some time past to amalgamate the eight factories now scattered over the island and work them under a central
the newest description. It has trol, introducing amuchinery of now culminated in the formation of a Taiwan Brown Sugar Company with a capital of Y. 3,000,000, with Mr. Kinoshita Shizaburo as chair-an of the promoters. The first neral meeting was held on the sth instant.
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