PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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It is estimated that the 100,0001. at the disposal of the Company will be ample for providing the necessary machinery, plant, boats, engineers, and workmen required at the mines, and for enabling the Company's transactions to be efficiently carried out.
By securing Directors at Singapore, the Board feel confident that the interests of the Shareholders will be properly and efficiently watched, and advantage be taken of any local circumstance which may arise for the benefit of the Company. Mr. Barker will, according to agreement, proceed to Salangore and act as Managing Engineer; the Directors are therefore satisfied that all will be done to ensure a careful and successful working of the mines.
The great demand for the best descriptions of tin, in the English, American, and Chinese markets, is well known.
A copy of the Concession may be inspected at the Offices of the Company, together with the Memorandum and Articles of Association.
The only Agreement which has been entered into, is one between, the Count de Geloes, and James Guthrie Davidson, and Alfred Ellerton on behalf of the Company, for acquiring the Concession, dated the
1873.
Estimated cost of raising and smelting ore, and shipment to Singapore:-
Coolies' mine charges
Smelting charges, management, freight, &c. Royalty and land tax
Dol. c.
8 50
6 84
2 66
18 0
Estimate of the minimum revenue which will be derived from the mines, after a sufficient time has been spent in opening up the deposits of stream tin, and erecting machinery :-
First Year of Working. After opening up the Deposits.
Cost of Raising and Shipping.
24,800 piculs at 31 dollars Deduct expense of raising, &c.
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Dollars. 768,800 446,400
24,600 piculs at 18 dollars.
Dollars. 446,400
Revenue ..
322,400
At 4. 6d. per dollar
Second Year.
72,540
37,200 piculs at 31 dollars
1,153,200
37,200 piculs at 18 dollars.
669,600
Deduct expense of raising, &c.
669,600
Revenue..
483,600
108,810
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At 41. 6d. per dollar
Third Year.
40,000 piculs at 31 dollar.
1,240,000
40,000 picula at 18 dollars.
720,000
Deduct expense of raising, &c.
720,000
Revenue..
520,000
At 45. 6d. per dollar
117,000
Applications for Shares to be made upon the accompanying form.
In case no allotment is made, the application money will be returned without deduction.
Sir,
No. 64.
Colonial Office to Seymour Clarke, Esq.
Downing Street, January 17, 1874.
I AM directed by the Earl of Kimberley to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, respecting the projected tin mines in Salangore.
In reply, I am to state that since your interview with his Lordship on the 14th of November, no communication has been received from the Colonial Government respecting
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the sanction of the concession by the Sultan, and that his Lordship is unable to sanction the introduction into the prospectus of the words proposed by you, viz., "and with the approval and sanction of the Earl of Kimberley," as it would be inconvenient and contrary to practice that the Secretary of State should express an opinion in a prospectus as to any trading company, more particularly in the case of a company whose operations are to be carried on outside British territory.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
No. 65.
R. H. MEADE.
Governor Sir Andrew Clarke, K.C.M G., to the Earl of Kimberley.—(Received January 19, 1874.)
(No. 380.) My Lord,
Government House, Singapore, December 15, 1873. MY predecessor, Sir H. Ord, in his despatches Nos. 271 and 280 of 19th and 20th September, transmitted reports of the affairs in the Laroot River where Commander J. F. G. Grant, of Her Majesty's ship "Midge," had been engaged with the pirates who infest its waters, and I have now the honour to forward a copy of a despatch just received from Lieutenant-Governor Anson, calling attention to the services rendered by that officer while stationed off Penang.
2. Personally, I have as yet had no opportunity of bearing my testimony in support of Commander Grant's services, other than that in considering the present state of the Perak District, I have received most valuable information from him, and have formed a high opinion of him as an intelligent and energetic officer, and shall be glad to learn that your Lordship has been enabled to bring his name favourably before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
I have, &c. (Signed)
Sir,
Inclosure in No. 65.
A. CLARKE.
Lieutenant-Governor's Office, Penang, December 6, 1873. COMMANDER GRANT, R.N., of Her Majesty's ship "Midge," having been relieved from this station, I should be neglecting my duty were I not to bring under the notice of his Excellency the Governor, the services rendered by that officer to this Settlement.
Since Commander Grant arrived here on the 7th August, he has been constantly employed in aiding this Government in suppressing the piracies that have taken place in these and the neighbouring waters, and in assisting to bring about a settlement of the affairs at Laroot.
On one occasion he and his boat's crew were attacked by an overwhelming force of Chinese pirates, from whom they were under a heavy fire for about two hours, during which engagement two of his Sub-Lieutenants were dangerously wounded.
Commander Grant, with Her Majesty's ship "Midge," was also employed at the taking of the stockade in the Laroot River.
Personally I have to thank Captain Grant for his ever ready advice and assistance, his active and zealous co-operation, and his courteous bearing towards myself.
His firmness tempered with kindness and consideration has made him respected by the natives of all classes with whom, in the course of his duties, he has come in contact.
I would suggest that his Excellency the Governor might be pleased to convey to Commander Grant and also to the Admiralty, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, some acknowledgment of his services.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements.
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A. E. H. ANSON, Lieutenant-Governor.
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