September 9, 1897.]
1st July, 1896.
By balance carried forward
30th June, 1897.
By transfer from working account
BALANCE SHEET.
CAPITAL ACCOUNT.
30th Juno, 1897.
ASSETS.
Tls. 13,038.03
180,318.02
Tla. 193,356.95
To "Tunkadoo' and "Lower" Dock proper- ties with buildings, pumping gear, etc., land and buildings in Hongkew To machinery at three docks, electric light
plant, etc., eto To launches, piledrivers, pontoons shears, steamdredger, wrecking gear, office and drawing office materials, furniture, etc., etc. To stock of moulders, fitters, copper-smiths, boilermakers, carpenters, and dock tools
at 3 docks
S15.
309,000.00
179,955.78
61,460.00
28,034.22
150,000.00 32,000.00
To old dock property (16m, 5f. 21. 5h.) with
boiler, pumps, buny, etc.
To property with Chinese houses in broad-
way (4m. 7f. 11. 6à.)
To new land near Lower Dock (107m. 5f.
11 6h.)
29,598.04
To shares in public companies and cost of
four-masted bark Dramel an
56,836.03
297,061.08
To stock of material on hand, unänished work and outstanding bills less liabilities.
To sundry debtors
To cash in hand
To Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. To
do.
amount since received
30th June, 1897.
LIABILITIES.
19,203.29 703.82 18,915.17 43,142.43
Tls. 1,224,059.66
Tis.
By shareholders for paid-up capital, 7,500
shares at Tls. 100
By reserve fund
By depreciation and maintenance fund By sundry creditors
By balance from profit and loss account
KAUB.
750,000.00 200,000.00 50,000.00 30,702.71 193,356.95
Tis. 1,224,059.66
The Acting Mining Manager's Report for the four weeks ending 19th August, 1897 —
Raub Hole No. 2 Shaft 220 ft. level.-At the
date of my last report we were cross-cutting
east and west from the south end of the main drive with the object of cutting the ore shoot. The cross-cut was driven a total distance of 15
ft. in clean country with no signs of quartz,
and the east crosscut a total distance of 25 ft. In this we cut several small leaders but no gold could be seen in any of them. I have stopped both cross-ents for the present.
Stopes. In the leading stope over the back of the main south drive the lode is about 8 in. thick of very low grade ore. In stopes above this the lode increases in size and will average 15 in. of very fair ore. In the stopes north from the No. 2 winze the lode will average 12 in. thick of very fair stone. As we rise on this block of ground north from the No. 2 winze the lode improves in size and quality.
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Here we passed Main West Cross-cut. through what appears to be a bunch of quartz or a lode formation. It is very much split up and mixed with slate, no gold could be seen in it. I have commenced to open out on this to ascertain its value.
North Drive.--On lode formation the quartz in this drive has slightly increased in size, being now about 6 in. thick, but does not as yet carry any gold. This drive has been extended 17 feet making a total distance of 211 fest.
Bukit Koman No. 1 Level north. The lode in the face is a little smaller, being about 6 feet thick. Is not quite so 'solid as it was, but still carries fair gold. This drive has been extended 14th feet, making a total distance worth from the main crosscut of 482 feet. The leaders on
the west side of the lode are not quite so large as they were, but still carry fair gold.
South Drive. There is a small bunch of quartz making from the bottom of the face It is too early yet to say what it is; I am in hopes of it being a new make of quartz, as all previous makes or charges have come in on the bottom of the drive as this is doing. This drive has been extended 13 feet. making a total distance south from the main crossent of 655 feet. A crosscut has been put in east from the end of this drive a distance of 7 feet in clean country all the way with no signs of
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quartz in it. I shall continue this a lew feet further and if we do not cut any quartz will come back and open out west from the main level.
Stopes. In the Leading Stope coming in over the back of this drive the leaders still carry fair gold, but have gone almost out on the top of the stope leaving the face of the stope almost all mullock. 1 have stopped this for the pro- sent as it can be worked to better advantage from the No. 2 stope when it is extended this distance.
In the No. 2 Stope the lode pinched very small, but is now making larger again, being about 7 feet wide of good solid ore which carries very good gold. The best gold in the mine is being got from here.
No. 3 Stope.-There is a large body of ore it has here, the lode being fully 11 feet wide. been rather poor lately, but appears to be im- proving as it goes south towards the No. 2 stupe.
This is now down
Winze. (No. 1 south). a total depth of 73 feet. There is very little quartz in the bottom as this is sunk on the footwall of the lode which is rather broken up at this particular part; the main lode being further to the east on the banging wall.
No. 3 Sonth Air Shaft-Is now sunk and timbered a total depth of 131 feet. ` In sinking this air shaft we have cut some very nie gold; at present, however, the bottom is all mallock. as the shaft has cut through the lode and is going down on the footwall, where it is easier sinking
No. 4 South Air Shaft.-This is being sunk about 200 feet south from the No. 3 air shaft and with the same object, viz., to ventilate and get timber and mullock into the stopes. It is now sunk and timbered to a depth of over 81 ft. We have cut some leaders in this shaft, but are not yet deep enough to cut the main lode.
No. 2 Level South Drive-The good gold already reported still continues on the east side of the lode, which is about 12 ft. wide. This good gold does not extend all across the lode but appears to be confined to about 2 ft. 6 in. on the east side. Gold can occasionally be seen in the rest of the lode as it is being broken This drive is now in a total distance of 200 ft. from the main crosscut.
North Drive. The lode in the face of the drive has pinched to about 6 ft of low gra e
ore.
There appears to be a new make of stone coming in on the west side of the lode, which may be of better quality.
Bukit Jellis (Besar).--Tis engine shaft is now sunk and timbered to a depth of over 55 feet;good progress is being made with this work as the countryis very favourable for sinking, the shaft up to now being dry. The adit to carry off the water from the pump has been driven a distance of 101 feet, where we boled
through to the shaft at a depth of 47 fext. This adit is 7 ft. by 4 ft. by 3 ft. in the clear, tim- bered and lined with sawn timber.
A cart road is being made from the railway to the shaft to get up machinery, boilers, and firewood; this roud is almost completed. A site for boilers, &c., has been excavated, and a start made to get the machinery erected in anticipa tion of us cutting water in the shaft. I am in yopes of baring a good mine here, as we got good gold in our prospecting shaft. In the tunnel driven on the conise of the lode, and on surface when cutting the cart road, we got some nice colours of gold.
Battery. On Monday the 8th inst., we hal a rough clean up when 1,263 tons stoue yielded 2,066 oz amalgam. We took advantage of the stoppage to clean up to remore No. 4 battery box (which had caused a stoppage during the month), overhaul it and the foundation logs. Had the whole thing completed and battery started by 10 p.m. the same evening,
Electrio Installation.-A start has been made The to clear flume, pipe line, and cable track weather has been very unfavourable, there being heavy rains almost daily, which greatly hinders all jungle work.
General. The health of the camp has im proved a little, but there are still ca-es of sick- ness amongst the Europeans sul conțies.
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THE LOSS OF THE "CHEANG HYE TING."
TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA.
Shanghai, 25th August. Amongst the passengers who arrived this morning from Ningpo by the steamer Pekin were the third engineer, nine of the crew, and one passenger of the steamer Cheung Hye Ting, which was lost in a typhoon ou the 10th inst., when about 350 miles south of Moji, Japan, These eleven men, the ouly survivors of the thirty-two all told on board the steamer when she foundered, arrived in Nugpo ou Sunday last in a junk, by which they had been sighted and picked up on the 15th inst., after four-and- a-half days spent in au open boat with absolutely nothing to eat or drink. Of their treatment on board the junk the men have nothing to complain, but they state that when they arived at Ningpo they were detained for a whole day on board, probably with the object of obtaining reinuueration. Next day, how- ever, they succeeded in effecting a landing, and embarkeder the Peking yesterday. They were at the Shipping Office of H.B.M.'s Consulate General this worn.ng, where a statement was made before Vice-consul Pitzipios. The men look well enough, as though they had not passed
rough a terrible ordeal, with the exception of the engineer, who bears sigus of hardship, and one of his feet is injured, whilst he wears only a pair of Japanese sandals. His name is Frank Collins, and he is only Lighteen years of age; the remainder of those saved consist of tour Japanese, four Malays, and two ChineSA.
According to the story given by bir. Collins, the theany Hye Ting, Capt. Scott, left Moji on the 6th inst., bound for Hongkong with coals, and soon after leaving port ran into a typhoon, which gradually increased in fury as they pro- ceeded, until on Inesday, the 10th inst., her fires were put out by the waves and she became unmanageable, with six feet of water in the engine room; nothing could be done, and to- wards the close of the afternoon the Captain, for reasous unknown, but probably traceable to the cisaster, shot himself. The end being øvid- ently close at hand, the crew stocked the life- boat with provisions, but in attempting to lower it, it was smashed and everything washed away,
Not loug alterwards the ship foundered, and at, the last moment the long boat was cleared away and floated as the steamer sank from benenth-it, the chief mate, a foreigner, the chief and second engineers, and the 'remain- der of the crew going down with the ship. The eleven men in the open but, with not a morsel of food nor a drop to drink, and with not an oar, sail or spar of any description, were left alone. They succeeded after a time in securing two oars, but these could avail nothing in the typhoon, and for four-and-a-half days, as men- tioued, they drifted ronul in a wide circle until, happy to relate, they were picked up. by the jank.
The lost steamer was the property of the Chinese firm of Khoo Sah Pek. of Penang, She was an where she was registered in 1895. iron crow ship, 244 ft. in length, 32 ft. in breadth, and depth 24 ft., having a gross ton- nage of 1.436, and 170 b.p.. and was built at Kelvinhangh in 1870.—Mercury,
An inquiry was opened at H.B.M.'s Con- salate on the 27th August. before Lieut.-Com- mander Chadwick, of H.M.S. Erk, President, Mr. G. D. Pitzipios, Vice-Consul, aud Captain F. N. Tillard, of the Rosetta. Assessors, with Dr. Stevens, H.M.S. Esk, Clerk of the Court, into the circumstances attending the loss of the steamer Cheong Hye Ting,
Frank Collins, third engineer of the Cheang Hye Ting, was called and sworn. He said-The Cheang Hye Ting left Moji at noon on the th August,aud on the evening of the all it began to blow bard, from what direction I do not know. On the th the cargo shifted and the ship took a list to starboard, and on the following day all hauds were employed in trying to trim her. The weather became worse and worse. I was in the engine room from eight to twelve on the morning of the 10th, working the engines. The covers of the baukers were washed away, and the bunker batches were covered with canvas, but water still punred down into them. The
out and there put
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