THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1896.
PROSPECTUS
OF
OLIVERS FREEHOLD MINES, LIMITED.
INCORPORATED UNDER THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG 1865 TO 1891, BY WHICH THE LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF THEIR SHARES.
GENERAL MANAGERS:
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON.
САРІТАП...
1099 mm ... §300,000
DIVIDED INTO 15,000 "A" OR VENDORS' SHARES AND 45,000 "B" OR ORDINARY SHARES OF $1 EACH, (OF WHICH 19,750 "A" SHARES AND 5,000; "B" SHARES HAVE BEEN ALLOTTED AND 1,250. "A" SHARES AND 15,000 "B" SHARES ARE NOW OFFERED FOR SUBSCRIPTION}
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION FOR "B" SHARES ($1.00 PER SHARE ON APPLICATION.
$1.50 PER SHARE ON ALLOTMENT,
The balance at call in instalments. Two months' notice to be given in respect of each instalment called up, Any person may apply for "A" share for every 20 "B" shares applied for by him. The "A" shures are payable, &r on application and the balance, 24, on slotment,
Application for Shares accompanied by a deposit of $1 per Share must be sent in to the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION RE LIMITED, at Ito Head Office or at any of its branches on or before the 16th day of January, 1896.
For forms of application apply in Hongkong to JOHN D. HUMPHREYS and SON, General Managers, or to A. S. WATSON & Co, Canton, Foochow, and Shanghal
The Company was formed to acquire and has purchased the Oilvers 100 Acre Freehold and other properties adjacent thereto belonging to the Vendors with the Machinery, Stamps, &c., thereon for the price of $50,000, which has been paid and satisfied by the allotment to the Vendors of 10,000 fully paid "A", or Vendors' Shares, and has also purchased the Eureka Mine and the plant and machinery connected therewith sitzate on the Eastern boundary of Olivers Freehold for the price of $35,000 which as to $10,000 has been paid and satisfied by the allotment to the Vendors of a,oco fully pald "A"er Vendors' shares and an to $25,000 the balance is payable.lu cash.
All shares participate eqasily, up to 25 per cent. per annum yearly dividend on the amount paid-up on each share, but all profits in excess are divided equally between the holders at "A" Shares and "B" Shares.
It is not contemplated at present to lasus any more shares, but should it become desirable to develop the property on a larger scale the General Managers will propose to the Shareholders that the balance of shurer, viz., 15,000 "E" Shares of such part thereof as may be thought advisable he
itsued.
The following in the Report on the property made by Mr. J. D. HUMPHREYS:-
I arrived in Sydney on Saturday, the 13th July last, where I met by appointment Mr. CHARLES WILLMOTT, a mining expert from Victoria. dr. WILLMOTT his been personally known to me aloce 1854; I have absolate confidence in his integrity, aklil, and judgment. We left Sydney together on Tuesday, the 16th July, and arrived at Mount McDonald on the day following, and commenced our inspection the same afternoon, The Freehold consists of 100 acres of auriferous land in the form of a direct square, each side of which measures 2,087 ft. 6 in., or 695 yards, a feet,
6 inches.
The passion is to the West of the Eureka Gold Mine, and extends at right angles from its own Eastern Boundary in a Westerly direction, across a Creek Or Waler course to the opposite range of hills, on the Northern slope of which the greater part of its area lles. The water course which runs through the Freehold divides two ranges of auriferous bills, and finally empties itself into the River Lachlan, about three miles to the South of the dam of the reservoir which supplies the battery belonging to the property, situated at Mount McDonald in the district of CarCORT | In the province of Bathurst, New South Wales,
The Battery itself is to the West of the reservoir, and consequently on the Western side of the creek near the Southern boundary of the property, and its site was selected with excellent judgment as quartz can be carted to it or trollled to it not only from all parts of the Freehold Itzell but from
Httle cost. all the workings la the neighbourhood si
The Machine house, moreover, being close to its water supply, involves no waste’of power in feeding the bollers.
Intimations.
HOW IT'S DONE.
should be 'censured and removed from office. It seems almost impossible that This position can be successfully main--- tained by the Opposition. So far as is known the Ministry had no reason to suppose that other Powers would Intervene to prevent Japan reaping the full fruits of her victory, and certainly no reason to belleve that Russia would receive the full co-operation and support of France and Germany in enforcing her views. The actual results were beyond the contempla- POPULAR PRICES. tlon of almost any statesman, however
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CONCERT will
WATKINS & CO., APOTHECARIES' HALL, 66, Queen's Road Central
HONGKONG SMOKING CONCERT CLUB,
given THIS A CONNING, the ith instant, at 9.15 Febde Commander TUNNARD in the Chair.
J. A. LOWSON. Hongkong, 11th January, 1896.
HONGKONG BRICK AND CEMENT- COMPANY, LIMITED,
Гот
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE is hereby efren that an EXTRA-
of the COMPANY will be held at its REGISTERED OFFICE, No. 9. Praya Central, on TUESDAY, the 28th day of January Instant, at 13 NOON, when the Subjoined Resolution which passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of
t
the Company held on the 11th of January fast, will be submitted for Confirmation as a Special Resolution, viz tom
"That the HONGKONG BRICK AND "CIMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, be wound "up voluntarily under the Pravisions of the *Cempanter Ordinances 1865 to 1890, and |
"that 'CREASY Ewing of Victoria in the "Colony of Hongkong be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purposes of "such winding up,"
Dated the rrth day of January, 1896. ."
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W. A. DUFF, Secretary.
The Water Supply consists of a reservals formed by a dam across the creek, and in fed by a watershed of considerable extent embraced by the HONGKONG VOLUNTEER
surrounding hills, and I was Informed by men who had been working on the ground for years that the supply never falled in the driest season, from which I laferred-that the rainfall is supplemented by subsoil drainage and springs." For, fuel there is abundance of good timber in the viclalty.
The Machinary we found to be el the best description and comprises a first-class engine and two good bollers, There are 4 batteries of 5 head of stamps capable of crashing about 30 tons a day in ali, as well as 3 pans, shaking tables, and all necessary machinery for extracting from the
greatest amount of gold it will pay to take out. ore the
The inspection of the rest of the Freehold was greatly facilitated by the whole of the scrab having been cut down balers we arrived, so the estate
was laid bare and could be viewed from a convenient spot on the hill from end to end. A party of Tributor, at work on the Freehold not far from the battery, was raising ore which yielded over a ozs. to the ton at each crushing, The men informed me that they discovered the reef on the surface in walking over the hill after rain, by observing gold la quarts at the bottoms éf a cart rut which had been washed clean by the water flowing through it.
The old workings are of the most primitiva description, having evidently been made by alluvial mlaere unaccustomed to quarts. The reefs were worked from the surface down without timbering, until it became dangerous to go deeper. None of these workinge were any depth, and the numerous heavy finds of gold were all found near the surface. That much of the quartz must have been very rich is certain, for it is said About 100 Cz. of gold a month were obtained by the owners of the battery at the time from recrushing and washing the tallings. One working Bot far for the battery yielded to orr. of gold to the tan, and £700 worth of gold was taken out of a hole a few feet deep fast below the dam. It is seen by examining the old workings which still exist that they were mined by men masccustomed to cope with quartz mining difficulties, The work is of the crudest description and it is evident that as soon as water was reached in scient quantity to require machinery, or because the earth began to fall in or became dangerous through being antimbered, the mines were abandoned. This part of the district was, moreover, at the time infested by bands of desperate bushrangers who rendered residence there very undesirable. It was a long time before the Government was able to hunt them down, owing to the nature of the country.
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CORPS.
CORPS ORDERS FOR WEEK 'ENDING 18TH JANUARY, 1896.
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GENERAL
No. 321.-CHURCH PARADE-There wili be a Church Parade Service at the UNION CHURCH on the 26th instant, Details as to dress, &c., will be published later.
FIELD BATTERY.
to Detachment No. 3.
No. 312-JOINED-Gunner E SHARP, dated 7.1.06 and assigned Corps No. 157, and posted Gasner H, GIDLRY, dated 8.r.96 and assigned Corps No. 158, and pasted to Detachment No. 4. Bay N. E. BENNETT, dated 6.1.96, and appointed Stenaller
No. 323-64-pr. DRILL-There will be 64-pr. Drill by Detachments as under No. 1 DetachmentĮ Monday, and Wednesday, No. z Detachment from 4.30 P.M. No. 3 Detachment Tuesday and Thursday,
from 5.30 P.M.
Each Detachment will be drilled by its own
No. 6 Detachment Saturday, from 6 7.1. No. I and Sub-Division, Officers should endea vour to attend when their respective Sub- Divisions are drillings
Undoubtedly farge deposits of gold, and probably excepiloually rich deposits, will be found when these reefs, which proved so good on the surface,
are worked to a depth by quartz mining experts teder honest and experienced management, backed by sufficient capital. The ground is already No. 4 Detachment below these ald workings and work up. Som got near the surface, and it is only necessary to sink properly timbered shaits and get No. Detachment ) Friday, from 5.30 PM, prospected; it is well known where the gold
of these shafts will require pamping gear. As far as I know, it has never been heard of that quartz-seels rich in gold near the surface fiailed to yield good results at a greater depth. Such reefs have been profitably worked on Bendigo and other places to a depth of close on 3,000 feet, and are still at work after 40 years. Given sufficient capital economically administered or expended, as it would be lo say other bailaess expected to pay, I am of opinion that better results will be obtained from the working of Olivers Freehold Mines than are obtained by 99 out of 100 of the Gold Companies floated in London and elsewhere. The North and the Great Eastern Mine on the South, I will be seen by reference to the map that to the South of the Great Eastern hinta Eureka Mine lles on the Eastern boundary of Olivers Freehold and consists of several Gold Mining Leaser lying between the Queen Mias on lets lying on efther side of the creek which runs through the Freehold and discharges self lato the Lachlan River have been secured, thus giving9 PM. on TUESDAY, 24th instant, and on to the Company a magallicent water supply.
o feel
The new shaft of the Eureka has been sank to a depth of 85 feat. The old workings before the miners were flooded ont yielded to a depik of 140
not less than 1 oz. of Gold per tons, with occasional better results, This Is recorded in the Government Reports, It is in this mine that the Company's operallons will commence by deepening the new shait by about 120 feet. This shaft has been properly timbered
21 far as it
and ROGN is surmounted of poppet heads in the vicinity of which is a machine house with necessary winding and pumping gear for freeing the mice from water. All were in good order and fit to commence work when fanpeced. The further sinking of the shalt is not through difficult ground and the cost of labour and properly timbering will be only about As per foot. When deepened, sufficient tunnels will be driven to the North and South and the reef will be worked upwards, which is the most economical plan. The amount of water to be dealt with of course increases the cost of mining and renders it impossible for ordinary working miners to develop such
properties on their own account, but it is not disadvantageous for those having means la à country subject to drought.
One of the drawbacks to the development of mining in the district has been that there was no proper accommodation for miners of the better class with their wives and familles, and it is proposed to build a few comfortable cottages to induce this class of men to settle on the property,
The operations of the Company will at first be limited to deepening the Eureka new shaft and driving tannels through the roof. It is confidently anticipated that thle mise being taken over in a working condition will pay expenses from an early date and within-a short time win good results. map of the mines is attached and also a map of New South Wales showing Railways and the direction of the Reafs running through the property with the position marked of some of the principal mines →
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No. 1-Ophir-where Geld, was Erst discovered in Australia,
No. 1.-Lucknow The Wentworth Proprietary Company, £500,000 Capital.
No. 3-Mount MacDonald-Olivers Freehold Mines Including Eureks.
No. 4-Adelang-Gibraltar Gold Mining Company floated in London, October 1895, Capital £300,000 fully subscribed,
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAI
"HE Steamship
THE
"CHIHLI,"
Captain Anderson. will be despatched on MONDAY, the 14th instant, et IO AM.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agente.
Hongkong, 11th January, 1805.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
THE Steamship
SUNGKIANG,"
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Captain C. B. N. Dodd, will be despatch d 05 TUESDAY, the 14th instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 11th January, 16, FOR SHANGHAI
THE Steamship
*LYEEMOON,*
Tras
Captain G. Heuermann, will be despatched for the above Fort on TUESDAY, the 14th instant, #47.M.
For Freight or Pasangu, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 11th January, 1998.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
GENERAL MANAGERS,
HONGKONG.
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THE MANAGER, Hongkong, 11th January, 1846 "GLEN" LINE OF STEAM PACKETS. FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL. HE Steamship
THE
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"GLENFARG," Captala Selby, will be despatched as above on or about WEDNESDAY, the 15th fasant, Instead of as previously notified,
loz. Farengas, and cartes & Doctor and Tble Stemmer has Superior Accommodation
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HONGKONG.
NOT
IN BANKRUPTCY.
No. at of 1895.
IN THE MATTER OF THE CHU SHING SHOP, LATELY CARRYING OM BUSINESS AT NO. 110, WING LOK STAKET, AS RICE DEALERS, TOTICE is hereby given that a Receiving Order dated the 3rd day of January, 1895, kas been made in respect of the Estate of the CHU SHING Shop, lately carrying on builñess at No. 170, Wing Lok Street, Viciosa, Hongkong, Rice
o'clock
RICE DEALERS,
And Notice is hereby further given that FRIDAY, the 17th day of January, 1896,
Noo precisely, has been fixed for the FIRST GENERAL MEETING of CREII- TORS to be held at the LAND OFFICE, Queer's Road Central, Victoria aforesaid,
No Credlior can hig galens he previomly proves his Debt.
orms of Proof and Prary can be obtained at the OFFICE
um of the OrrIIAL Recervan durbg
1. Office hours.
At the First General Meeting the Crediters will be asked to consider whether the Debor the Creditors, will entortels a proposal for a shall be adjudged Bankrupt or whether they, Composition or Schema of Arrangement, »
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MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION.---There will
be preliminary Marketry Instruction Parades at
FRIDAY, 17th instant. Uglform, Serge, Caps, Carbines and Side-arms. Transport will be provided to enable Dock Detachment to attend
FRIDAY
on
No. 324-RECRUITS COURSE OF MUSKETRY.—SATURDAY, 18th instant-- Recalls' Course of Musketry at Police Range, Kowloon (any Member wishing to fire may do so), Master HEADQUARTERS 3.15 P.M. sbarn.
Launch leave New Pedders' Wharf at 2.30 P.il. Free Ammunition-Uniorm, Khaki, Helmets,
|Carbloes, Side-arms and Pouches.
No. 335-SUB-DIVISION LISTS Gunner | F. FISHER is transferred fróm Na. I to No. 4 Detachment. Gunner T. NOLAN from No. 3 to No, 1 Detachment. Lists in possession of Officers and N,C,O,'s to be corrected accordingly.
No. 326,SIGNALLING - Headquarters, MONDAY and WEDNESDAY, 1975 PM). Flain Clothes.
MACHINE GUN COMPANY.
No. 337-DUTIES-For duty. Lieut. E.
HONGKONG.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG,
AERATED WATERS,
'IMPLE AERATED WATER.
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rison with the best English Manufactures.
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSES and other Large Consumers. Any complaints should be addressed
Manager.
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1805.
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able, and the practical abandonment of some of the articles of the Shimonoseki Treaty is a misfortune comman to the Ministry and the Japanese nation, for which no man in Japan, however elevated his position, and for wiilch no body of men can be held responsible. It is believed that all the Government measures will be successfully passed, and that many of those who are trying to consure the Ministry will patriotically support the Government In passing all measures essential to the public safety. Again we take leave to say that the Japanese as a whole displaying an amount of common sense, sound judgment, and power of self- restraint which would do credit to any nation, however long its training under constitutional Government.
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The firmer alliance between Japan and England is not possible except in an emergency and to attain some special and definite end. Great Britain will enter Into no general alliances committing RASPBERRYADE &c. herself to any definite form of conduct In the future. The future is too uncertain. Diplomacy consists, as a Japanese writer pointed out to us the other day, In the study of the ever-varying current of events and in the adaptation of means and conduct to meet the ever-varying contingencies that arise. But far better than any alliance will be the mutual respect for each other.and for each other's ideas and policy. It ought to the
to exist and it ought to be cultivated almost as a matter of course between Japan and England. There are many points of similarity between them in their political and economical situation and in the future that is before us. They are both, from their position, maritime Powers, taking naturally to the sea, both are colonizing powers and both are manufacturers. Their possible enemies are the same. Every Englishman should do his best to cultivate and strengthen this friendship and good will between the oldest and the youngest of the states of the world, and every English- bian who falls to do so and allows himself to harbour any feeling of prejudice, dislike, or commercial jealousy, and runs down the Japanese and makes light of their friendship may be doing his country a serious injury.
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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
WINES
SPIRIT S.
AND
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FORT after removal should be rested a month before use. When required for delokdog at once ft should be ordered to be decanted at the Dispensary before being sent out.
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We only guarantee our WINES and SPIRITO OSFORNE and Colour-Sergeant F. MAITLAND, to be genuins when bought direct from as la No. 128-GUR DRILL There will be Gun | the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Drill on TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at 5.30 P.M. | Coast Porta Plain Clothes.
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Applications from Gentlemen desirous of joining the Corps should be sent to VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS, when's copy of the Regulations, dtc., will be sent, and any Information afforded.
By Order,
La A, C, GORDON, -
Captain RA..
Adjutant, H.K.V.C. Hongkong, rith January, 1896,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
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FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. THE Company's Steamship........
"KAMOA,"
Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the 14th instant, Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th January, 1896.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE, HE Steamship
TH
"TAIYUAN,"
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 10th January, 1846,
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY IT, 1896.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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What has become of the Hongkong branch of the China Association? We intend to ask the question in this column dally until we get an answer. It is certalo that no meeting of the Association, as a body, has been called together since the last meeting of the Council, and that the members have not been asked their opinions on the Military Contribution question In Its present phase.. If the committee have considered the question and have taken action in support of the Unofficial Mem bers of the Council, or have declined to do so, then the Association and the public ought to be made acquainted with what has taken place at the Committee meeting. What action has resulted, and the reason? The supineness of the Hongkong branch of the China Association ever since its with the zeal, activity, and strength of the formation contrasts very unfavorably Straits Settlements Association, and even with the vigor and energy of the Shang- hal branch. Some evil influence seems to have affected them, and they have done nothing yet to justify their existence.
Talking of contrasts, what a contrast there is between the ability and energy with which the late Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir CICIL CLEMENTI Sur, and his officials threw themselves into the contest with the Colonial Office against the Military Contribution, and the apathy and indifference-to use the mildest terms-of
our Governor and DIT Officials on the same subject. Sir CacL CLEMENTI SMITH and his officers made it manifest from the beginning to the end of the trouble that all their sympathies were with the colonists, lending them every assistance and only assisting the Colonial Office when the call of duty was so stringent that there was nothing for t but to obey. Most of our Officials have posed as the enemies of the colonists, as entirely opposed to them in opinion, as unsympathetic, and have even gone so far as to aneer at the efforts of the people to obtain any modification of the Import levied on them. The attitude of the officials generally on the question has been most unhappy..
We have heard a curious report to the In Japan everything seems to be very effect that the Government of Hongkong and the "Fung Shal" of the great city quiet, the attention of officials people being concentrated on the of Kowloon on the opposite mainland proceedings of the Diet, in which have come into violent collision, and that are being brought forward by the the Hongkong Government has fallen back Ministry valuable bills for the reorganize defeated. At the wale by auction last atation of the Army and Navy and for their year of the Kowloon quarry farms for 1896 Improvement and increase, and to the a hill containing, large quantities of stone, general consolidation of the affairs of the hitherto unworked, was designated as a Empire in a manner suitable to its new site for a new quarry, being included in the [125 position and responsibilities The nation farm. For the new and old quarries seems to have resigned itself to the loss of combined more than double the price was the Liaotung peninsula and of its post-offered and accepted then could be obtained tion and Influence in, the Korea, sensibly for the old quarries alone. The grant was recognising its inability to do otherwise, but made out and the new Farmer commenced there is a large party who appear to be of his work of opening up the new ground. Topinion that the retrocession, of territory Tremendous excitement in Chinese and the practical exclusion of Japanese Kowloon !!! The Fung Shul" of the city Influence from Kores might have been was threatened. Strong representations on avoided by the exercise of greater skill, to the Hongkong Government! The diligence and diplomatic ability on the part Hongkong Government graciously con- of the Ministry, and that for their failure ceded the point to Kowloon, and gave to foresee and provide for the possible notion to the farmer to stop, his workinge (64 contingency of Western interieraden they ▼ Se non è vero à ben trovato i
Capiala Nelson, will be despatched THURSDAY, the 16th instaat,
For Freight of Fassage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agenta, Hanghong, rath January, 1890,