MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1917.
THE
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THE CHINA MAIL.
A PATRIOTIC CALL.
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
PROSPECTUS
Inviting public subscription for 85,000 shares at par ($10 each), upon an increase of the Capital of the Company.
·T is desired and a resolution for that purpose has been passed, to increase the Capital of the Company to $1,000,000 by the issue of new shares, for the purpose of extending the business which is firmly believed will, if an extended, not only prove exceedingly profitable to all interested in the Company, but will" also supply a want to local concerts.
The Capital of the Company is now $1,000,000 of which only $78,080 has been paid up and, on this the Company last year made net profit of $19,817 and paid a dividend of 10 per cent. at the end of the present financial year. It is anticipated that doubling the Capital will at least treble the proft; and, should this anticipation be realised, the Company could pay at least a steady Twenty per cent.
Steel Castings are needed for numerous purposes by all Railway contractors, Engineering and Deck Companies, everywhere in China, and by many small manufacturers." At present a large portion of the Steel products which this Company is able to manufacture is obtained" from abroad-at probably great expense-in consequence of the vary limited capacity of this Company to carry out orders received. With an increased Capital, enabling more furnaces to be erected, and more tour employed, this Company would then be in a position to supply most of, if not all, the needs for steel castings in this part of the world; for with the experience now acquired by the General Managers, and by their present head workmen, there should be no difficulty whatso ever in most satisfactorily fulfilling such requirements.
It is much desired that sufficient additional capital be subscribed, beyond that which is required for the further development of the Steel Casting department, in order to enable u plant to be obtained, and set up, for the purpose of rolling Steri Ingots into material for Engineer ing, Dock, and Building requirements; for which material there is now a great demand.
It is therefore trusted that many person in the Colony will be found ready to subscribe towards the increased capital desired, both for their own-benefit, and lor that of the community generally.
The General Managers are ready and willing to enter into any ressolable agreement desired by the Company to continue their service for a lengthy period. Also, if desired by the Company, they are fully prepared to transfer the control to a Board of Director, comprised of such persons who are in a position to introduce business, as the Company thinks advisable.
The minimum subscription for the new shares now offered to the public, upon which the General Managers may proceed to allotment, is $200,000.
M. C. BERNARD BROWN of the firm of Masers. LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, is the Auditor of the Company,
A copy of this prospectus has been duly filed for registration with the Registrar of Companies.
Application for Shares should be made to the Company's Bankers,
or the office, of the General Managers, where forms will be supplied..
TELEGRAMS.
GORDON & CO.
General Managers.
Dated this 22nd day of August; 1917.
(Continnat from.....paze ;)
THE OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA.
BRITISH AND BELGIANS CLEAR
THE NORTHERN AREA."
LONDON, Aug. 31.
An official despatch from East
and Ulanga rivers. They drove the German to the south of the Ulanga.
The enemy bars broken out of Opepoe and is making for Mahenge We are pursuing him
We have occupied Tanduru.
ALLIES' ECONOMIC POLICY,
LORD ROBERT CECIL AND THE PARIB RESOLUTIONS.
REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1916-17.
Report presented to the Shareholders at the Seventh Ordinary General Meeting held at the Office of the General Managers, on Wednesday, the 6th August, 1917 at 11.30 o'clock s..
The General Managers have now the pleasure to submit their annual report and statement of the Company's
& up 31st May, 1917.
accounts made
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The net prods for the year ended 31st May, 1917, after allowing for interest, Auditor's Fees and writing off depreciation on Company's Plant, Machinery, Launches and Stock is $18,817.93. This amount together with the sum of $19,548.63 undistributed profit brought forward frem last year makes an available balance of $39,388.65 which it is resolved to
appropriate as follows-To place to Reserve Fund $10,000.00. To pay a dividend of #1.00 pershen 87,808.00. To carry forward to credit of text year's account $21,359:55.
"Dr.
BALANCE SHEET AT 31st MAY, 1917.
LIABILITIES,
SHARE CAPITAL
Authoriami 149,800 shares at 510 seah....1,000,0 Ised 130 shares at fiɑ each MORTGAGE ACCOUNT
78,000
4,000
AND WAS LATE
SUNDAY, CREDITORS including,General MatingsTe
€1,735
BLOVIT AND Loss AccoUNT
Balance per last account.
Freût for the your b
To Interest Acecast ....................
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788
12.417.23
32,300
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Machinery, Melting Furuses, Brandry Plant and Tools includian, "Annealing. and Prehanling Chambern and alum til *rights to recres processen. at per last
SCCOBAL
Lau sold, Je.....
Lane Depreciation
Aditions during the year
...$ 83, 149.11
48.30
17419,14
KERAM
Valta of Lannahes en por last account.. 94,30 Lana Depreciation.
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AGE. DO
4,050
*
Oslo Furniture and Fixtures including: raluable drawinga por last gecount. Las Depreciation
$15.00
Stock in tendo
$1,27,040.70
Low Depreciation............. 79630
$4,162
Werk in Progr
1,000
Accounts Receivable...
Cash at Bank and in habi
"BATE 7.271.64
[P;Canlı 167,30)
7,470
計
143,200
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. For the year ending 31st May, 1917.
Depreciation on Machy, Plant, Stock, &c......... Writing of old Machinery Profit on the year ...
By Bailace orting Account
117
15.817193
GORDON & Co..
General Managers.
I report that I have audited the above Balance Sheet with the, bocks and vouchers of the Company and have found it to be in accordance therewith.
I have received all the information and explanations I have required. No depreciation has been written off Steel Process Patent Rights which appear in the books their original cost zamelý 821,369.56. Subject. to the foregoing observation in my opinion such Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Company's affairs according to the best of my information and the explanations given me and as shown by the books of the Company,
C. BERNARD BROWN, AC.A.
Hongkong, 6th August, 1917.
Auditor.
To be cusurned to the applicant.
This form should be sent entire, with a
To be retained by the Bankers,
CHARTERED BANK OF INC Aukra to the bankers
AUKTHALIA AND CHINA,
[bs Company :
The Register for application of Shares will be closed on Thursday, 1st November, 1917, at 3 o'clock.
to bring home to Germany the folly 'A CANADIAN AGITATOR ARRESTED. and wickedness of her militarist leaders than to show her that war.
OTTAWA, Sep. 1. does not pay, even in the strictest Ele La Lumiere, an anti-conscription commercial sense. The Germans i forgot, that in the pursuit of their with making an attempt to dynamite agitator, has been arrested and charged militarist policy and their contempt, the residence of Lord Atbalstan. of all international law and the rights of non-combatants and neutrals, they have arrayed against themselves forces whose commercial und finan-1 tial resources are înmeasurably greater than their own, and hardly week passes without some indica-
STABILISING THE AMERICAN WHEAT MARKET.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.
THE GERMANS IN BELGIUM.
AN INTERESTING REVELATION.
Belgium. Will these people be convinced by what has been revealed before the Land-gericht" in Berlin, which,. 'by the condemnation of Dr. Ivers, proves the existence of a judiciary system hitherto inconceivable.”
"The condemnation by the Berlin First "Land-gericht" of the notorious Dr, Evers ¦ to Bine months' imprisonment for having extorted from the mother of a soldier NINE WOMEN OUT OF TEN, 120,000 marks under threat, coupled with the evidence offered by the defence that' he is a chronic alcoholist and morphino maniac, throws & lurid light on German
It is an unfortunate fact that nine bloodlessness in one form or another. [
out of every ten are victims of The girl in her teens, the wife and
the matron of middle-age-all | know its
are breathless after any slight
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD.
Form of application for Shares.
To the General Managers of
KONGKONG STEEL FOUNDET COMPANY, LIMITED. Gentlemen,
Baving paid to the Company's bankers the suni of $.. being a deposit of $10 per share for...shares of $10 each of the above named Company I (or we) request you to allet to me (or us)... .....shares on the terms of the Company's Memorandum and Articles of Association and I (us we) agree to accept the same of any less number that you may allot to me (or us) and I (or wa) authorise you to registar me (or us) as the bolder (s) of the said shares.
Name in full
Address...
Description.
Date
Signature
Receipt for Application Money.
Received this day of on accuant of the Hongkong Steel Foundry Co., Ltd., from..
...the sum of $.....
$10 per share upon.... above named Company.
being a deposit of .....shares of $10 each of the
For the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
Cashier,
VB-This recipe when returned to the applicant must be promervnd,
and if neeawpanied by receipt for the amount due on Allotment,, will be ezebungsst In stue comrse for a cérpficate.
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tion that even those nations still monsly decided to make the price of published in the German White Book.
The Wheat Committes has unani oficial investigations in Belgium as its miseries. To he anemic mesins ()FFICE ASSISTANT; Portuguese, remaining neutral are getting to the No. 1 Northern Spring wheat 0 cents
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Africn states that the British and the end of their patience. It is suureely per bushel, with a view to stabilising direct those inquiries: it was he who depressed all
Dr. Ivers was specially appointed tortion. You feci *Belgians the northern are, have
worn out and "cleared the country between the Rush. extravagant to say that if the war the markets and keeping down the claimed to have discovered documentary food and cannot digest what little you You turn against day. continues many months longer the prices of flour and bread.
evidence of the existence of betrian frane do ost. At Central Empires will find that, liter
you da sleep, you ally, the whole of the rest of the
tireurs; he presided over the unmission are not refreshed, and when it is time to
get ap world arrayed in arrns against them, LANCASHIRE AND THE RESTRIC-of inquiry into the horrors of Louvain. zp you feel exhausted and unfit for
the day's duties. If neglected,
anemia | and that state of things gives rise to
The man, whose findings were accepted may lead on to consumption TION ON EGYPTIAN COTTON. "two observations: First, it shows that
without question by the German Gavera- Act promptly.
good the fault in the modern world; military force, A STAGGERING BLOW. quent, who presided over janomerable
your hiced by taking Dr. Williams' DICKSHAW, second hand. Reply, pink
pills, the most reliable blood quoting price, to
R Gerons were really successful and is not everything, and even if the
court martial in Belgiim, on whose con÷ deronation hundreds of Belgians hate her ever discovered: These p LONDON, Aug. 31.
bad blood they strengthen weak are învincible, as the Kaiser and bis The Times Mouchester correspondent
beru shot
or imprisoned, was, thus will be better for your
blood and they make good blood. I Generale boust, Germany's future reports that the restriction on Egyptian described by the judge.
od
you will be brighter and more active. Your womanly would still be increasingly dark. cotton came as a staggering blow in
"He has trampled underfoot, in the charm will be increased, and as you The second, and more hopeful ob Lancashire. The proposal is too serious lust of lucre, the sacred functions with ontinue with Dr. Williams' pink pille servation, indicutes perhaps, the to regard with equanimity, and it may which he was invested. He acted you will regain proper strength and real solution, of the greatest world be taken for granted that Lancashire in a way which, thank God, this tribal enjoy life as fully as every woman
YOUNG MAN with experience sa problem to-day, namely: How can will fight most vigorously against the has rarely seen" exemplified...
should do. lie Start Dr. Williams' pink pills for palo LONDON, Sept. 1. we take precautions to prevent
abused in most outrageous fashion the people to-day and begin to get wall and required by Shipping Firm. State Neuter publishes à statement by future war? The great difficulty of
affection of a mother ted the holy seati
Most dealers sell them, also previous experience and salary required. Lord Bobert Cecil, Minister of all the schemes of leagues of
ments of the Catholic religion."
whtainable post free; one bottle for $1.50, Apply
Box. 480.... The defence stated that Dr. Ivers was Medicine Co., 96 Szechues Bond, 6 bottles, from the Dr. Williams
COCHINA MAIL" Office.. Blockade, regarding references in nations and such like has been to President -Wison's reply to the find the sanction against autions
one of those men who could never work Shanghai
Hongkong, Angunt 17. 17. 1997 «Pupe to economic leagues;
determined to break the peace. I
until they were, hall drunk." Medical | || do not wish now to discuss at length
testimony gave it that he was not 'a the difficulties of joint armed action..
Volmenseh-that he was a degen-
PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE AND ECONOMIC LEAGUES.
restrictions.
THE PRICE OF BUTTER,
PROFIT LIMITED.
LONDON, Sept. 1.
LESSONS IN CHINESE.
Estatura, has been a eller to Kampe Onda and Mexchants in the Colony for ten years.
• He has a good mathod of training pai, Chinew-wencsipation, amand?
a has also a good knowledge of Haviarts and takka, are Tarted to write die Chris M-1) mo
Tuom who intocal Jaarning the Chiness langDRY GETECT LE NO. 254, Wallington Biraut, fral Boor.
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NOTICE.
WTE have authorised M WILLIAM WEDWARD LEONARDSHENTON
10 to ng our firm name ass Partner from
the 1st day of september, 1917.
DEACON, LOOKER, DEACON
30 & HÅRSTON.
Lord Robert Cecil says that there does not appear to be anything in consistent between the Note and the but everyone who has studied the after September 4, no batter shall be and vices which rendered all moral resist MR LIL HON FAR, a UICROSO Fraenza cermedi za-
The Food Controller prescribes that ernte; in fact, that he possessed defects economic policy of the Allies as question knows that they are very sold by importer or makers above &ance very diffenit for him."" declared in the Paris Conference ret. It may be, however, that & 5xed maximum price, and any person The Dutch review, Von Onzen Tijt," wolutions. The latter are purely league of nations, it properly furnish other than an importer or maker commenting upon the case, says that no defensive and unaggressive, and they financial, commercial and economic ing 7/6 per hundredweight, and are
ed with the machinery for enforcing a shall not sell butter at a profit exceed one will read the declaration of the Court aimed at the necessity of restoring isolation of a nation determined, to tailer's profit is limited to d. per The ecopornic life of the Allies after the war and protecting themselves force ite will upon the world by mere pound. against an aggressive, military and violence, would be a real safeguard First-hand prices of Australian and commercial policy which might then for the peace of the world. In any New Zealand butter are 206/- and 2087.
case that subject may well be studied per hundredweight, respectively. be pursued by our enemies, Ger- many's scheme for driving her allies by, those sincerely anxious to end auto a Centmi European block shows the present system of International that such a policy is a roul danger." anarchy
Continuing, Lord Cecil said: “ We
sold that in this struggle, economie.
considerations are de vital an purely
Wo
STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE - CANNOT SUCCEED.
ditory and naval measures. have to maintain and foster.the.
LONDON, Sept. 1. In view of the failure of the London! economie strength of, those who are fighting the Central Powers, quite Inter Allied Socialist Conference, the
THE SILVER MARKET.
LONDON, Aug 31" The Silver Market is firm, with bajs
NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Silver has soared to 904 There is continned, heavy demand and light
o much as we have to organise our Parliamentary Committee of the Trades" runes and our navies. We believe, Unions Congress at Blackpool, bave also, that we are right in attacking agreed that a Conference at Stockholm supplies. The mines are working to
at present, would not be successful, and their fullest capacity to meet
hen passing sentence that, in inffiet. ing punishment, it had taken into account the services rendered by the cursed to his country," without a shudder as they think of the fate of the unhappy Belgisc who had to submit to the judgment of such a monster dilak
The condetuation of Dr. Ivers, con- tiaues tho Dutch review, damns the Get- man White Book for ever. Not word of the fadings can be accepted, for the doctor's colleagues must have known that they were working with a madman, who never appenced among them unless he was drunk.
Should not there be an inquiry into the character of those who sat with Dr. Ivers on the Commission 2, Is there ose
the in Germany who is hornfied fa fudge condemning
ith nobody there who thinks
the economic strength of our Enemies recommands, as a first step, the securing: shortage with every legitimate weapon and of general agreement among the It is reported that the Government in the blind fury of alcol that is why we rejoice at the vigor workers of the allied nations, and the has completed
licy the United States pure arranging of a Congress for that purpose. regarding exports and other "The Committee emphasises the hope currency for Am
Depend upon it, there is that the Clorecument will not refuse but it is understood that the
ment representa 600,000
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For particulars apply to foll
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UNREDEEMELL BANK NOTES."
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AT. DATE: hold as will
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