WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917.
THE CHINA MAIL.
A PATRIOTIC CALL.
THE 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.
Tis 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 to extended, not caly prove exceedingly profitable to all interested in the Company, but will also supply a want to local concerns.
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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 a net profit of $19,817 and "paid a dividend of 10 per cent. at the end of the present fuaccial year. It is anticipated that doubling the Capital will at least treble the profit; and, should this anticipation be realized, 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. present a large portion of the Steel products which this Company is able to manufacture is obtained from abroad-at probably grent expense-in consequence of the very limited capacity of this Company to carry out orders received. With an increased Capital, enabling more furnaces to be erected, and meré labour 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 dificulty 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 a plant to be obtained, and set up. for the purpose of rolling Steel Ingots into material for Engineer- ig. Dock, and Building requirements for which material there is now a great demand.
It is therefore trusted that many persons in the Colony will be found ready to subscribe towards the increased cupital desired, both for their own benefit, and for that of the community generally.
The General Managers are ready and willing to enter into any reasonable agreement desired by the Company to continue their services for a lengthy period. Also, if desired by the Company, they are fully prepared to transfer the central to a Board of Directors, 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.
MR. C. BERNARD Brows of the firm of Messrs. LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Flongkong. is the Auditor of the Company.
IF
A copy of this prospectus has been duly filed for registration with the Registrar of Companies.
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Application for Shares should be made to the Company's Bankers,
or the office the General Managers, where forms will be supplied.
GORDON & CO.,
Graoral Munyys,
Tinted this 22nd day of August, 1917.
Hughes & Hough
AUCTIONEERS TO TER GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers
Suare, Coal and General Produce Brokers and Commission
Agents.
PROPRIETORS #To-Ewa-Wan * Goal Storage.
Codes and Bentley's
a. c. 4th & 5th Editions.
A Tulographic Code
Telegraphic Address MEIRION" HONGKONG:
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received in-
Trucos w sell by Public Auction.
(FOR ACOUNT OF THE CONEKANED),
on
THURSDAY;
the eth September, 1917, at 2.30 p.m., at No. 32 Granville Road. Kowloon,
THE
VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE.
&
therein contained,
Comprising
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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 5th August, 1917 at 11:00 o'clock an
The General Managers have now the pleasure to submit their annual report and statement of the Company's Accounts made up 31st May, 1017.
The net prout for the year ended 31st May, 1911, after allowing for interest, Auditor's Fees and writing of depreciation on Company's Flant, Machinery, Launches and Stock is $18.817.93. This amount together with the sum of $15,548.62 undistributed profit brought forward from last year makes an available balance of 839.36.50 which it is resolved to appropriate as follows:—To place to Reserve Fund 10,000.00. To pay a dividend of 81.00 Fer share $7.808.00. To varry forward to credit of next year's account #21,558.35.
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BALANCE SHEET AT 31st 'MAY, 1817..
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LIABILITIES,
SILARE CAPITAL.
Authorised 200,000 shares at du eneb........#!,000,Cru | 17.30 shares at 210 snack.
MORTGAGE ACCOUNT
191190 ** 3,800/190
SÜNDEY CREDITORS including fieneral 31anngers
Palanes ne per last account.
PROFIT AND Loss ACCOUNT.
Praft for the year .....
» Interest Areuunt
Auditor's Fee
1,817.00
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ASSETS.
Maellumry, Melting Pumnews. Judry Plane ud Tocis including Annualing and Prohealing thatabore" kini mīnus alī Tripitis to meras processes as per lust
arcunat
Los Depreciation
Aditions Haring the your
Valse of launches as per last nervant.. # 4,900,000 1 Le Depreciation ****
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4,030
Odles Furniture ond, Fixtures including
raluable.
idrawings as per last acount.$ 40,00 La Doweltien......
Stock in Trude.
Less Depreciatiou
Work in ProgTEAM.
Accuums Receivable,
15,974
Cush at and sulla dun k 7001509
XP: Cush 207 par
7.00.
146,500
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. For the year ending 31st May, 1817.
to
Ny. Balance Working Areanat
Depreelacion or Machy, Mant, stock, de. Welting'eff oli Mäeldery, Frost on the year
117
GORDON & U.,
2117
General Alamuperä.
I report that I bave audited the above Balance Sheet with the books and vouchers of the Company and
• have found it to be in accordance therewith-
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"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 at their original cost namely 821,260.56. Subject to the foregoing observation in my opinion such Balance Sheet is properly drew 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, AFA,
Hongkong, 6th August, 1917.
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Anditor.
shoubi be reut entire, with a elscipe for the derje
turned tɔ the applicant.
are to the bankers of the Casajaung nairely the
To be reisland by the Bankers
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND
GIBNA.
The Register for application of Shares will be closed on Thursday, 1st November, 1917, at 3 o'clock,
AUCTION.
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PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned love received fr
structions to sell by Public Auction,
·(FOR ACCOUNT,OF THE CONCERNED),,
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SATURDAY,
the 8th September, 1917, at 10.43jama, at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vaux Road, Corner of
Ice House Street, MISCELLANEOUS STOCK,
Comprising :-
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able bed sites. All hands professed to lies. The evening is now drawing to a be ready for ang emergency, as soon as close and two men are detailed to furnish the train 'arrived a universal kenguess the electric lighting which is furnished was ninediately noticed, a subtle change to eveh ward. The preries putly from
in the denunow of the men became tiredness and party-realising the work is apparent to any one who cared to ninerve well in handlare peretilly slowing Two hundred and fifty serious cases them. Those who usually have duties down, they are dripping with perspira- to perform apart from attendance and tion as the day has been exceptionally For fun at 1480) (5e, at half past two). transporting sick, such as nan employed hot and they fool shade worse than read a telegram handed in 'to the 0,0% distributing and storing rations, volun- the patients. All the admissions have stationary hospital, in the desert teered to do the heaviest jobs such as and a hét meal and fags are blazing semnew tarde, dn the "milway dine nest the currying the wounded on stretchers. A unilormly from roes of beds. All I border of Palestine: A stationary heapital wave of sympathy imperfectly concealed, passed off sthly and hatniously is defined, as a medical unit which is "pread through the mit like un electric with the execption of the inevitable A variety of Dress Materials including tomated "as selected Point in the line fellow new were coming seriously wound the fortitude of all.
entrent; their inuzitafion was stirred, growler who contracts so markelly with.
ta't I he dressed few pieces of Silk, Prints, Holland, of communication, bar the writers definir, Sore probably dying, trein the front and get something to eat he ranurss White Linen Drill, &c., &c,, Counter- Fanes, White Blankets, Handkerchiefs, tion is that a stationary hispital is a Towels Toilet Soap, Perfumery, de, sutientry Hospital when it is got moving, &.. $2,
inurl that its elasticity should have to
is.
And Sun Hats, a few dozens of Lady's Silk Roses, Gent's Boots and Shoes, Lave Curtains &c. &c..
Terms :-Cash.
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Auctioneers.. Hongkong. August 31, 1917.
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"CAPTURED GERMAN GUNS FOR ARRAS.
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SIR D., HAIG'S PRESENTATION.
The following letters from the Mayor of Arras and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Times for publication. They make Haig bare been forwarded to the extremely interesting footnote to the Battle of Arras
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD.
Form of application for Shares
Zu the literal Managers of
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED. Gentlemen,
Having paid to the Company's, bankers the sum of 3. being a deposit of $10 per share for............shures of $10 each of the above named Company I (or we) request you to allet to me (ar us)...
..sharea on the terms of the Company's
Memorandum and Articles of Asscelation and Dor wo) agree to. accept the same or any less' muruber that you may allot to me (ur us) and I (or wel authorise you to register me (or ps) as the holder (4) of the sail shares.”
Name in full.
Address
Description
Date
Signature
Receipt for Application Money.
Received this.........stay of Hongkong Steel Foundry Co., L., from.
the sum of 8
slt per share n
above camed Company.
being a deposit of shares of $10 each of the
For the Chartered Bank of India, Austràlia and China
on account of the
"Cashier.
N.A-This-receipt when rotumed to the appllerat must be preserved, All If serumpraful hy receipt. fae thenmamat dhe on silotment; will be ezeltungsi *ka ise enda for & eertificate.
Bern 18:0
Still going streng
COLONEL JOHN BULL: I believe in having plenty
of reserves antio „getting › them in
god condition.".
~JouxxTE WALEER? You are quitezig that's been our policy since 1920."
JOHNNIĘ WALK›R “WH e Lab:L" 6 years old. "JOHNNER" WALKER-Red Label in year old. JOHNNIE WALKER "Buck" fabel", iz guzrs old.
Guaranteed same quality throughout the world.,
Agents General, CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO.
JOHN WALKER & BONS. LTD. Scoren Wigner Dsarilizus, Kilmarnoch, SCOTLAND.
where for days before they could hear and the art, who shartly afterwards. the booming of the ganen wir had examines bin raises a univeral laugh been carried on shedges, limbers, cannels, by hommarsly directing he should be horses or hurriedly carried by their mutes attended to immediately as his is the over the suffisand before arriving at the least serions case in the ward,”. All The message above mentioned has the train, turn who had suffered from heat, patient are treated prophylactically like effect on the medical cheers and the torture of thirst in transit, men with against tetanus, all in palu are given broken. Insle hastily attended to," men sedatives. They are all very tired, and |persmart of a hospital as prepare to with ghastly bullet and shrapnel wounds, comfortable, whole batches benve a sigh * receive convalry ** has on infantry. For or abdominal bayonet wounds and so of atter contentment which does one goal two wreka this unit in question had been every man ingroz he was tired and over to hear and drop off to sleep suddenly. Mean. Before lights out there a't a màn erecting, after long journey, sufficient worked in his desire to serve. tentage on the suids of Egypt for accom washing, dressing and recording the urnire, but that is another story,
while preparation - for-unloading,- feedby. | uwake.........Next morning-u-further-in- modating 800 beds in anticipation of such patients proved hurriedly then the an order, and had only barely finished usual here, she comes. The train equipping their beds, carrying their stuns slowly in and come in a stand, stores "nadef", "cover anduranging still opposite the riddle of the hospital site" and immediately the workers jump the hundred
Oku necessities
up into the carriages. The walking cases that a hospital, which in civil life are assisted down steps as there is, as would be reckoned a large one, requires. yet no platform, and sit down quietly How much more difficult it is to prepare they are slightly wounded only. These a hospital in the desert, where everything handed up the ect eases tenderly being nor out of the way stretchers are how to be transported by ses carriage lifted on and passed out to men who railway, cainels and even men before it take the stretcher at the level of their is finally placed in position, can be heads and lower gently, when immediate. left to the imagination: then wod-ly two strong hearers convey the care, ta, denly a move further up in order to where one or more
medical officers quickly examine ed and destruction and nastruction patients while a staff of clerks" take parti the opce more take place. Few people realise culars of unme, age, number, religion On the 9th April, after 30 months of the wastage that takes place in medical and nature of injury, then the final step constant battle at its gates, the town of anite, the men work every day aliko, follows to bed. In less than an hour Arras has seen the British Army break apart from lenye there are no holidays more, the wulking canes
the train is empty and free un return for through the formidable enemy entrench withdrawal to rest camps, there is poked through the reception room
are now, dus menta wbieb enerouched upon it, ME ON FAN, A Dinamo ginanan versadi
As Mayor of this poor Martyr City, ileracere, le boen. A teacher to FaropAEW Deficials and Merginats in fils Colony for ten year.. always might work and tronotonyls more: Meanwhile urgent vanem are operated on 1 wish to express to you, and through Singer Sewing Machine (adaptable);
ras in the Chinese exami-sails, and is pousand prevalent with then than with most, the more serious cases attended to by you, to the splendid British nation and Hand or Treadle, Klettroliers, and of a brat ate certified A. Hence when a sudden demood coues a
every available M.Q, in the different to her heroio Army, the deep joy and pluck on the 9th April, 1917. Leap gaure you that all offert and Lights, Ceiling and Table Fans, Grama
bone, with about 20 Records and larverted to write cro Chips Mini Cimes 21 unit is considerably under its normal wards. All orderlies are now working at Kratitude of the inhabitants of Arras And in the future, after the final men of the British Armies her
This gratitude will endure for all time triumph when the noos of England shall proud that it has failed to their lot to Record Cabinet, a number of Jargo
[1261 strongh on ofcount of what is often of calmness and an absence of excitement which are being laid at this moment by feel themselves stranguia, in this town, from the gates of your noble city
but with all there is feeling as will that peace, the foundations of come to visit our ruine, how could, they be the instrument to drive the enemy Palma, eta in Pots, Gent's 2-Speed Gear
called the exigencies of the Service, which which spells eficiency and batokens the the success of our arma, Centaur" Bicycle, a collection of
which was defcnded and sayed by them, It gives me great plenaure to be able phrase by the way has more curses trained mau. The large marquee ward There would be no neel of any when they see before them the guns, to accede to your request to hand dver Picture Post Cards, Aviary, and Bruas Parrot Stand, Rubber Tyred Ricksha
Papidly bolding fifty patients divided by its food tangible objects to keep the memory of won by them at the prica of blood, to the town of Arras some of those guns, showered on it than any other. Rapidly, distributing tent from another offaimilar that success fresh in our minds, bot we which we shall wenerate as we de the with which a barherons invader ought Also
the news of wounded to arrive aprende size presents a pictora difficult to desenhe know that, amongst the many batteries blood of France from the MO to serjeants and orderlies in detail. Men bathing in the alto captured on the 9th, those of the With any undying gratitude, I have What mattered it that the men had put gether," others washing by sections or Olga group to the north of Athie, to the honour to be, but your aelient in two weeks hard work carrying heavy being washed men hdrip compóind the east of Tilley, and a heavy battery servant,
Drawing Room Suite, Carpets and Bugs, Oil Paintings, Chinese Vanes and Curios, Curtains, etc, etc.
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(Translation)
From the Mayor of Arras to Fiokl Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commanding 14th May, 1917. in Chief British Armies in France, the
frastore set under anaesthetic rent Monchy Prear bad, a sheir special parquees, tents and heavy equipment
smoking and talking battle, men being object, the bombardment of the tow aukle deep in gond, straining a ropes dressed for every conceivable ratiety of and its suburbs. Certain guns" which are still serviceable have been, removed Fin strong winds erecting large tents, letel would and finally the lightly-injured
to the rear. The remainder are still Monsieur le Maire,In the name of lying on the field of battle...
all ranks of the Forces under my com We should be deeply grateful, if, as a mand, i thank you for your kind and remembrance of cur sufferings and of generous letter. your victory, you would graciously I deeply appréciate the warmth and allow to remain in the town of Arras sincerity of ita terms, which will be some of these cannon which wrought regarded with gratitude by all my its matryden and have made its countrymen, and particularly the troops greatness Broken by the English under my orders in France, who in artillery, and captured by your infantry value it as a fill reçompence and ample on the evening of the most glorious day recognition of the sacrifices they have of the war, these guns would remain to been privileged to make on the battle- us, the symbols of the savage nowar held of Arran in the cause of liberty which was smasherl to pieces by British, and civilisation.
to work lir ruin but wrought her glon,
et amid the evidence of her martrydom, they will bear witness for all-time to tho patient coprez of her tonglolk ROHARD and the north of
and France)
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From Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to the Mayor of Arras