Average prices obtaining on Aug. 30, 1940, H.—Hongkew Market and shops in Hongkew District W.—Seymour_ Road Market and shops in Western District F.C.—Markets and shops in the French Concession.
London Metals: London Tin, Standard, cash, middle price £25734—%; 3 mths, middle price £258% London Gold: Bar Gold, Fine, per oz 168/- unchanged.
London Silver: There was a little speculative buying of forward. Market quiet. After the official fixing the market was very quiet.
Spot Rib roast Rump steak Sirloin roast Soup meat Suet Gold Mining in Formosa To Be Exploited Gigot Lamb chops 1b.
Porr Lard Ib, Les x Shoulder Cutlet
Cutlets ib, Tokyo, Aug. 21. arge-scale exploitation of the gold of Formosa will be ju full March, next year, the chi" declares in a despatch from Taihoku.
Approximately 1,000,000 is being spent on preliminary work, which is being carried on under the direction of Harukichi Takahashi, expert of the Mining Section of the Industrial Rump steak Soup meat Bacon (local) Ham (local, foreign style) Ham (Chinese) Salted pork Carp Carp (alive) Cod Eel (alive) Mandarin Prawns Salmon Soles (Ningpo) Whitebait Yellow Bureau.
Gold in small quantities, according to the "Nichi Nichi," has been found the Takkiri basin, along the i River and near Musha, 30 miles west of Karenko. Roads being built in all these distri facilitate operations.
Our prospecting, Mr. Takahashi declared, is being carried on at 3388 s88ss several places and under great bardship. We will have completely determined-the extent of the deposits by next March.
There are 33 rivers in Formosa, and we are at present prospecting all the reaches of all of them, he concluded.—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.