THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
PATRIOTIC CALL.
THE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY
FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED.
PROSPECTUS
Inviting public subscription for 85,000 shares at par ($10 each), upon an increase of the Capital of the Company.
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 so extended, not only prove exceedingly profitable to all interested in the Company, but will also supply a want to local concerns.
The Capital of the Company is now $1,000,000 of which coly $78,080 has been paid up and, on this the Cempery last year made s Det 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 profit; and, should this anticipation be realised, the Company could pay at least a steady Twenty per cent.
Steel Castinga 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 very limited capacity of bis Company to carry cut orders received. With an increased Capital, enabling more furnaces to be erected, and more labour employed, this Company would then be in a jreition to supply mcat of, if not all, the nerds for steel castings in this part of the world;" for, with the experience now acquired by the General Managers, and by their present bead workmen, there should be no difficulty whatso ever in most satisfactorily fulfilling such requirements.
It is much desired that sufficient additional capital be subscribed, Leyond 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 purrcre of selling Steel Ingota into material for Engineer: ing. Deck, and Building requirements; for which material there is now a great demand.
It is therefore trusted that many perseas in the Colony will be found ready to subscribe towards the increased capital desired, both for their own bear fit, and for that of the ccrimunity generally,
The General Managers are ready and willing to enter inte any reasonable agreement desired by the Company to continue their services for a lengthy period, Aho, if desired by the Company, thes. are fally prepared to transfer the control to a Beard 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 ahares Low offered to then public, upon which the General Managers may proceed to allotment,' is $200,000
MR. C. BERNARD BROWN of the fim of Messrs. LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, is the Auditor of the Company.
A copy of this prospectus has been duly fled fer registration with the Registrar of Companies.
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Application for Shares should be made to the Company's Bankers,
or the office of the General Managers, where forms will be supplied.
GORDON & CO..
Geverni ManagerE
Poted this 2nd day of August, 1913.
Hughes & Hough
AVUTIONKERS TO THE GOVERNMENT.
General Auctioneers
REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1916-17. Raport 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 11.30 o'clock am. The General Managers have now the pleasure to submit their annu accounts made up at May, 1917.
report and statement of the Company's The pet pront for the year ended 31st Blay, 1917, after allowing for interest, Auditor's Fees and writing off depreciation or Company's Plant, Machinery, Launches and Stock is $19,537.03 This amours together with the sum of $19,549.62 undistributed profit brought forward from last year makes un available tannce of 839.361.35 which it inresolved to appropriate as follows-To place to Reserve Fund $10,000.00. To pay a dividend of 21.00 per share Te08.00. To carry forward to credit of next year'a account 821,358.55.
Dr.
NILAKE CAPITAL
BALANCE SHEET AT 31st MAY, 1917.
LIABILITIES
Authorised 100,000:shares at Fill exch.........$1,000,rro Luer,904 sharos at $tó each fl MORTGAGE ACCOEST
1,000 00
SUNDBY CEIDITORS telome Heneral Biansge IROJIT AND Irma Acrobat.
Balance per last account
Prall for the year i
Tu Interort Acconat
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19,875
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Machinery. Meitime Furanews, Foundry Plant & Tools Ingbeilng Annealing
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Lawn Depreciation
Allin during the pas
311:25
1554657
#27.15
Yale of Launches per hunt arret,, § 42:10 Lax Depreciation
Offer Furaltar oud Fixtures including
4344 TX
Takiable drawings a perlaat aceonut-is Loan Depreciation
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Work In ProgrEAN.
Accaanta Receivable....
Cash Bank and In and Į Hauck 7,271.54)
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. For the year ending 31st May, 1917.
131,200
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By Balbare Working Accuent
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111
1,917
Writing of old Machinery
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report that I have audited the above Balance Sheet with the books 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 at their origizal cost nansely 921,360.56. 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 explorations given me and as shown by the books of the Company.
C. BERNARD BROWN, A.C.AI,
Hongkong, 6th August, 1917.
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Anditor.
Ta bo returned 19 the applicant.
Tɔ be retained by the Bankara.
mut slinuïd des sent extire, with a cheque fit the shape it est à 20 in enci stiare to the bankara of aba Corgpany natorly the
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND GIRJA,
The Register for application of Shares will be closed on Thursday, 1st November, 1917, at 3 o'clock.
AUCTION.
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
THE Undersigned bave received in- structions to sell by Public Auction. (FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCISED). TUESDAY,
the 18th September, 1917, commencing
WHY THE GERMAN PEOPLE DEMAND PEACE
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[FROM THE LITERART BRENT
Fran- the bleeding hearts of Germany
penetrated even to the Reichstag, mad the has gone up ery" for pekee that has
Shars, Coal and General Produce at 2.20 p.m., at their Sales Room, No. 8ier has answered it with Michaelis
Brokers and Commission
Agents.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received in structions to sell by Public Auction, ́(FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERTED),..
on
SATURDAY,
the 29th September, 1917, at 10.31a.m.,
-at their Sales Rooms, No. 8,
Des Voix Boad, Comer of
Ice House Street,
KA LARGE ONBIGHEENT OF
DRUGS, CHEMICALS,
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DISINFECTANTS, ANTISEPTICS,
AND HOSPITAL SUNDRIES,
Consisting of:
QUININE in bulk and tabloid form, Kalam Pern, Oleum Ricini, Oleum Olivaa, Styrax lig. Ung Avid Boric Ung Hydrarg. Ciner, Ungt Zinei, lodo form, Formaldehyde, Lanolin, Auid Carbal Par Liq. Alumui Acet, Tizet Myrrh, Tinct Opium, Gelatin Capsules, Chloroform, Aether, 8pt Camptor, and few gross of Medicine bottles, kei, Ser
A number of Tubes of Hypodermic Injections of Morphia, Conine, &c., de, And about 900 Tubes of Salvarsan,
Ales Several cases of medicated Cotton Wool, Bandages, Todoform Gatze, &c
Sereral lines of the above practically unobtainable
Des Voeux Road, Corner of iça HOUR STEKET, VALUABLE TEAKWOOD AND BLACKWOOD FURNITURE, BRASS BEDSTEADS, CURTAINS, CARPETS, PICTURES.
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD.
·Form of application for Shares.
To the General Maxegies of
HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY COMPANY, LIMITED. Gentlemen,
Having pail to the Company's bankers the sum of ........ being a deposit of $10 per sbare for..
shares of 810 each of the above named Company I (or we) request you to allet to me for us)....
...shares on the terme of the Company's Memorandum and Articles of Associatiou and I (or we) agree to accept the same or any less number that you may allot to me or us) and I (or we) anthorise you to register me (or us) as the holder (a) of the said shares.
Yume in full.
Address...
Description
Data
Signature
Receipt for Application Money.
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Recesvol this... Hongkong Steel Foundry Co., Ltd., from..
the aim of 8.
$10 per share upon.... above named Conipany.
on account of the
..heing a deposit of shares of $10 each of the
For the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
Catcher.
X-This receipt whics returned to the appliinat must be proantine, if serumpaled hy meeipt for the news due on allotment, we exchanged De ne confora cortic
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Some men and many women feel firal
ALWAYS TIRED.
all the time. This is not natural. Fatigue following work or great exertion is normal, but to be constantly tired thin blood Rackache usually accom indientes a diseased condition. usually such suberers are usually pale but not necessarily thin. In fair people the
this state of the system
transparency of the skin is increased complexion becomes maddy. The
dark people it is decreased and
the eyelids become & greyish bluc doctors
condition of
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if allowed to progress; but 'with.
treatment it MBY
Tully corrected.
Mr. Roth' has lived in elowe touch with, errands wilently. There was on laughing, | their all wiped out by war, saw themselves industrial Saxmy, where he has spent whiatting, fond talking, of jovial greet.pauper in 1915. I believe, that it wil even years, and he is looked upon by the Kings. The business streets were dotted take many years of peace in repair the people, as a friend. He thepatan spike everywhere by, stores closed up by war. frightful losses and bring back the old with accurate knowledge of the sitration Grass grow between the cables in the prosperity. when he declared that, the standard of roadway. Now and again exen dragging The rich textile industries of Saxony living among the working prople was on primitive parts of farm produce luntiered have safered staggering disaster. The a par with the malia stundand "of Asia," through the streets. Restaurants and woollen and cotton goods mills, our And conditions in Suxony, it is fais un cafes were deserted. It est money to shippers to every part of the world, an
mpy aisun, reflected those throughout Ger frequent them, and, snorenver, they had just barely eruployed, going backward in
Of the changed spirit of the nothing to sell;
organization, enterprise, capital, and, Michaelis, who speaks with the tongue of people he said :-)
It is hard to describe life ander these hence, in ability for the old stiff con his master, and demand's war, more war,
thin blood, hich The working people, at least in Herby, conditions. The best I can do is to say petition Warconditions.ste threatening
all anamin, is a dangerous one oring the spirit of demoergy that is
ure becoming restive. They have hum that it was suffocating When not going the destruction of the grest feather glove Dr. Williams'
Proper stirring in the war-wenty hears of red and grieved and overtred for to and fro about their work, the less industries. The famis ninchine-ride contain just the elements needed to for pale people suffering people whose fathers, sous, many months, with conditions seadily well-to-do bid their unhappiness in their lace and submilery industry of Finnen, colour, and vitality
build up the blood and restore the last shands, and brothers have been sri growing worse and with each promise of rooms. "As it was, one was forever meet. whose products before the war graced the circulates through the system, with the One: Upholstered Suite. Arm-chairs feed to un sabitium for world-power, and praes fading into an indefinite prospecting on the street hollowed-cheeked, dresses of milad in every land, likewise" and sofas, Card Tables, Bedroom Furni.blind to the approaching crisis born off of endurance. All fonds but the very minted, dry-eyed sufferers. Felt as is decaying under the war-stagnation. returns to pale cheeks
the heart stops its alarming palpitating, and the colar ture, comprising Double and Single Brass-enture and privation. The New York coursest are beyond their menus. The thought I had escaped froirs a dunk prison And the highly trained operatives in these light, proper food
and lips. mounted Becistends and Teskwood TwinTs of the unrest in Charmany; 'ration of these course foods is insufficient when I got back to this country and saw and other, industries are being killed off you do not know Bedsteads, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons,
good air, actend to to Extension Dining Tables and Chairs, į
The Kaiser has spoken. The German The pour have been subsisting throughout happy, healthily, well-fed prople again, Tear and Occasional Tables, &c., Dinner people" yearned for, pellee, And, in some the last year upon, bread, potatoes,
**"last as canum, Imachine gun, rifle, follow in these matters write a post Services, Crockery, Glass Ware, Cooking casure, perhaps, for democracy. They turnips, and sait.
The strain beginning to tell. I have gas, and beanb esa secotuplish flair work Co., 56. Szechuca Road. Shanghai, for
card today to the Dr. Williams Medicine Stoves, Cutlery, Toilet Sots, &c, Bath will get neither democracy nor pesce,
heard the Emperor soundly bersted by pen the battle-front Pushed much further by the galling his famished subjects in the shops that revolution; an recomie revolution, Wiliams Pink Hills from any dealer
lord and its Work
copy of the useful guide, Room Utensils, Roll-top Desks and They learn it now from his own lip, for stress of starvation, overwork, and loss the poor frequent. I have often during he already been worked in Sexorry, also post free. I bottle for $150, & for The Yea can outais Dr. Writing Tables, Sundry Electro-Plated Michaelis's, lips, are his. When Bath of dear ones, a second peasants" war may the last months of my stay listened to revolution of destruction wheffects Ware, etc.
Birom the above address, and Teak Wood Screens, Buntiry Black
Electric Reading Lamps, Blackwood the Raber, hut when Michaelis speaks it Europe.
mian spoke, he spoke as the servant of well be added to the series of Central sarahgely seditious talk among the will outlive this generation. The Saxou wood Furniture, including Large 4-Fold in the Kaiser himself who speaks, After
workers, men and wonen, which grew poor realize this better than their more Blackwood Screen with 5-Coloured all, Bethan
The stundard of living among the in vinlerce after the cheek at Verdunfortunate enuntrymen, and they a
&c.
As follows:-
individual:
Jens.
Panela, Overmantel Engravings, Michaelis is an individual; he has no working people has been lowered fear-The working women have threatened a bittery, very bitterly, war-weary: Pictures, etc., ota., Tunis Foles and identity. When the Kaiser dismissed fully. It is cow ou a par with the contember of times to get out of hand and A dispatch from Amsterdam, to the Netting.
A fow lots of Turkish Bath Sheets some German statesman, who had &
Heilmann, he did not applant him with standard of overcrowded in Their rough things. In Saxony, at least, war, New York Triline of Starch 24df
work has increased; their share in clothesis successfully throttling, one by one,rution and its effect upon the people:-
alins described the diminishing bread Towels, Single and Double Bed Sheets, Bed Quiita, etc
and foods and other creature comforts all the people's impulses for living, a personality he picked out an obscurity has diminished, and their annen
Wheat has becoine so scarce in. Ger Also PIANO by Collard & Collard.
with a known views, a blank sheet of hase entirely fallen away. The ban beary The Plauen regiment has been diminished one-fourth beginning April The Saxon easualty-list has been very many that the bread-ration is to be Sbiedmayer & Boehne, per on which to write. The Kaiser
Stuttgart. himself beesine Chancellor,
poor have become desperately pok, and wiped out six times. All the young The announcement is said to hare spread Let, according to dispatches from Berlin. Pianola with about 100 Records and
they are beginning to realize that each dashing, professional officers who led the surprize and consternation throngheut Saad
The soul of Germany was aching for And
added montirof the war means that their first onslaught have been wiped out. The Germany. The potato-ration will be five with heavy Blackwood Stand,
One Fair Old Pekinese Brass Lions their situation is now may be gathered
resee three months ago. How desperate plight must become more and more hope troops are now offered by men of all pounds weekly, and the meat-ration will frous conditions at that time of which
classes who have made good in the field, be increased by 250 grams weekly. Large wild and in some cases that I know of, the
stocks of eattle in Germany are being A. Curtis Roth; then American Vice-Can! In the beginning all
slaughtered owing to the shortage in The peuple derivation of the officer testifies to the fodder, it is and aul, at Plauen, in Saxony, wrote in Telthuelam for the war,
crowded around the railway stations to startling democratizing effects of war. The reduction is a very painful sur Times of March 15the maid :---
ses the troop icina, hurling every! The call for more per is always instant
says the Rheinisch-Westfalinche twenty five raiqules. Then came the The high-school boys go out once a week itung." The Cologne Volkszeitung been worn raw by the increasing weig fords of wounded, the diffult, readjust. for drill Boy Scouts, drill from twelve poduces a semi-official statement which of suffering that the war has brought it. ments distle necessary by the absence of to sixteen. The land has been dedes, It should ret he contested that this This clans of Germans has become sullen, the wageerner, and then the nuribing of its physically fit men. dissatisfod with the Government, almost Fricious. While the middle class remains" intensbly; patriotiť,“ parading before the casual observer a unified and [¡detarmined Cermany, fatigus of war, isht
anaking alarining stride amor
Fall Partsculars from Catalogus.) TERM-Cab
HUGHES & ROUGH,
・Asctioneers Hongkong, Sept. 12, 1917.
DAIRY PARM NEWS.
CORNED BEEF
CORNED PORKA
Wogo-earning Germany's nerves have
pinch of ranger Worst of all was the atmosphere thar wattled down upon the
atmosphere of
zen throug
Suzony has borne an overlarge share of the war-fering. It la primarily
nufacturing country
red most keenly from
Then Sax
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new restriction means great nurifier, can only be borne by a people who for the sake of the highest aima will bear ever heavy burden and who hase. firmi | conidenes that their patient endurance will be rewarded before)
peace.
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