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INTIMATIONS
THE UHINEAR ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, 6% FIRST MORTGAGE DERENTURËS, (KAILAN BONDS).
DAYMENT of the HALF-YEARLY will be made on presentation of Coupon No. 21 at any of the undermentioned Banks, viz. ---
HONOTONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. CHARTERED RANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA ANU GHINA.
or
only:
At
Tientain,
Shanghai
RUSSO-ASIATIC BANK.
Hongkong. Tientsin and,
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
Hongkong
Binqua
Betar "POUR
L'ETRANGER
At Tientsin and Shanghai only,
The Interest, leas Income Tar st / in the 2,
will be
ON 20 DeszNTERRI :
d.
Per Conpan (Gross) Less Tax at 6 in the £
12. 0. 3. 0.
Net amount payable 9.0.
Os £100 DENTURES:
Per Coupon (Gross). Lese Tai at 3 in the
Not amouat payable
£3. 0. 0.
15. 0.
¿ 0.
Ox £500 DENTURES :
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The drawn Debentures, with Coupon Nos, Secretary of the Company, and JOR WILLIAM 22 to 40 attached, must be left four clear in
Per Coupon (Gross) £15. 0.. 0. 3. 15. 0. Less Tai at B. in the £
Net amount payable £11, 5, 0On Payment will be made in Taels at the Demand Baying Rate of orchange of the day the Coupon is presented.
'By Order,
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THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,
P. C. YOUNG, "Acting General Manager.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. :91X PER CENT. FIRST MORTGAGE
DEBENTURES (KAILAN BONDS). "
TEXTH DEAWING.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, in
conformity with the conditions endorsed the Debentures, the undermentioned upon numbers of Debentures of the total value of £24,000 were drawn on the Thirty Srut day af October, 1922, at the Offices of the Company. No. 22, Austin
stin Friary, in the City of
Londer, in the presence of WALTON FITZJAMES TURSZE, the Directors, ALFRED WILLIAM BERRY,
ГО ОБО
PETER JACKALDE, of 7/5, Great Winchester for examination. Street, London, E.O., Notary Public.
The said Debentures will be paid off at par
on the 30th December, 1922, at either of the following places
I LONDON: At the Transfer Office of the
No. 3. Londen Wall Buildinga,
IN BRUSAELS: At the Offices of the Loa Board, 13, rue Brederode, Brussels; IN CHINA: At the General Offices of the
Company, Tientsin.
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By Order,
ALFRED W. BERRY,
Secretary,
Countersigned
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J. W. P. JAURALDE,
Notary Public. 22, AUSTES FRIARS, LONDON, EL. 2.
31st October, 1999. Norica -The following Debenture Boude drawn at pravipas drawings have not yet been redeemed and should be presented for payment without delay: -
£100 BONDS NUMBERED :----
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man to put is £2,300 and became joint director." Correspondence has also reach. ed me from Hongkong in reference to his COMMENTS BY "TRUTH.”
pecuniary circumstaners and his dia poured cheques when he came home In concluding my article last week on from that colony just over a year ago, the affairs of Humphrey and Denman, but it is not necessary to go into that Lid, and the Anglo-Chinese Trust and mattor. It seems that after a year or Mercantile Corporation I mentioned that two in the Federated Malay States- I had also received some further infor- where he also left, some creditors behind mation regarding the Sino-British Trade him this young man got a business job Association. The latter concern was until in Hongkong, and then became "for a few months ago closely linked with the short period a teacher in an Anglo- other two. Not only were all three Chiness boys' school. That on his return stable companions in the establishment to London he should blossom out as thei of E A. Enever, China House, founder and organiser of a Sino-British Knightsbridge, but that shady company Trade Association and actually be boosted monger and undischarged bankrupt
"Chinese Ambassador of Trades" has graced the Executive Council of the As created no little astonishment and amuse- sociation, and it paraded his soi-disant ment, too, in Hongkong. Recently the bank, Alexander Allan & Co., as one of Hongkong Dusty Press announced that its bankers. In August, in reply to a Sir Robert Ho Tung, who has been des paragraph in Truth. Mr. Leslie Ecribed as hon president of the associa Haynes, director and secretary of the tion, denied that he had accepted that association, informed me that Enever had office. In the same paper it was likewise resigned from the council in May and announced that Major T. C. Fitzhugh and that the office had been more recently Count de Lugisuan, Resident Commis removed to another address.
sioners of the association in Peking and Hongkong respectively, had severed their connection with it.
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The prospectus states that the associa tion is the outcome of a desire on the part of the leading Chinese merchants in The "offcial organ of the association the Far East to buy direct from British has stated that the proposed new council manufacturers and merchants," thus is to comprise 3.Ps interested" in Anglo- avoiding unnecessary intermediaries"; Chinese affairs, certain eminent business also that it is constituted on the same men and representatives of the Federa principles as a chamber of commerce." ting of British Industries, the British As to the first statement, I doubt whe Commonwealth Union, the Imperial Com. ther the leading Chinte merchants knewmercial Association, and the London anything about the parentage and the Chamber of Commerce, I venture to birthplace of the association. As to the suggest that the M.P.s and the business; Becond, its constitution is not at all men rill do well to make very careful in-" clearly described. The prospectus before quiries before they identify themselves me says that the association is governed with Mr. Leslie Haynes's organisation. by an executive council, but it does not As to the firms and compahics who have explain how or by whom this body was lately been urged to join as bile membera elected. Whatever its origin the exren- tire council a few weeks back, committed the happy dispatch According to the official organ" of the association, it has been decided to create a new council, and meanwhile the general management has been placed in the hands of Mr. Haynes a director and Mr. Fan Tsi Pai aa deputy director. It does not appear that members have any votes or voice in these matters-and anyhow membership is re tricted to Chinese merchants in China and elsewhere in the Far East. British traders are eligible only as associate members" at a subscription originally F. MoTaggart. fixed at ons guinea, and since raised to five guineas per annum. A diligent canvass has been conducted, and there are some hundreds of these subscribers. including such firms and companies to name a few as the following:-
at a commuted fee of fifty guineas." they must judge for themselves whether: it will be worth their while to do en. They are told that a sum of £5,000 is required, and that it is proposed to send out a delegation to the Far East, headed by Mr. Haynes. I doubt whether Mr. Haynes will venture to show bis face. there at any rate in Hongkong..
A DISCLAIMER... With reference to the article in last weck'e Truth I have just received the following letter from Lieut-Colonel M. As I explained, he was named-as it now appears entirely with- out his authority or knowledge-in the draft propepectus of a proposed Anglo- Chinese Mercantile Company, to be form.
from that eity:-- ed in Hongkong, which was sent to mo
Dear Sir,-I was extremely surprised to see my name appearing in your issue of November 15th as a director of the Anglo Chinese Mercantile Co., Ltd
Belsize Motors; Sir William Arrol & Co.; British Cotton and Wool Dyers; Samuel Fox & Co., Sheffield British Mannesian Tube Company: Hadfields, Ltd.: RW. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. This is a project which I declined to Levils Forge Company Ransome, Sims, have anything to do with as far back as and Jeffries, Ipswich; Rowntree & Coast March, and I had never even seen the York: C. A Vandervell & Co.; Webley prospectus you refer to until a few days and Scott, Birmingham; Teolani & Co., ago. Needless to say, my name appeare Ltd. Bell's Piano and Organ Company; a director without any authority or Associated Brass and Copper Manufac sanction from mo whatever. turers; John Barrau and Sons, Leeds; and Raleigh Cycle Company. ----
It is now come time since I had any
It is an imposing list, but experience thing to do with China House. I have proves that" business men are sometimes no interest in any projects or schemes I ahall easily roped into organisations of which emanating from that source, and I am they really knew little or nothing, and catirely dissociated therefrom. the same observation applies to BP.8.be glad if you will give prominence to
This association this fact and other public men. has contrived to secure considerable You apparently attribute to me a re- port on a reconstruction scheme of the publicity. About a month ago it held a luncheon at which the then Lord Mayor city of Changsha, which when reaching of London was to have presided. He did Hankow was received with derision; not turn up, but the Consul-General for China, Sir Walter de Frece, Sir William Bull, and Sir Godfrey Lagden were there and the speeches were made the text of a leading article in the Times
I wish to state definitely that I have issued no report of many sort whatever on the matter.
In fairness to others it should be stated To what extent, I wonder, are the that neither China House nor any of its an unsuccessful at- supporters of this much-advertised con-companies have any connection with this cern acquainted with its, methods of scheme, except in management, especially on the financial tempt, some time ago, by Alexander Allan uide, or with the qualifications for such & Co. to obtain an interest.
With regard to the so-called mining a post of its presiding genius, Mr. Hay-
FINE COTTON-SPINNERS" DIVIDEND.
The increase in the interim dividend on the Ordinary shares of the Fine Cotton-
nes? My first paragraph on the subject concessione" to which you allude, I am was based upon an inquiry from an ex-quite prepared to justify my report on officer respecting an employment with the mices, the titles and agreemente investment proposition, which had been under which they were worked. But as put before him by Mr. "Hayacs. As a Humphrey and Denman have lost any qualification for a salaried job the ex-right they may have had thereto, it is of officer was asked to invest £600 in more interest to the shareholders to in- shares of the Sino-British Syndicate, vestigate the reasons for failure than to Limited, which, it appeared, was a pri- engage in criticism of the properties of vate company formed with the primary others. object of leading-money to the Sino- British Trade Association at 8 per cent, such loans to be a first charge upon the revenues of the association! That pro position speaks for itself, and I commend it to the notion of the business "frms which "are associate members, Mr. Haynes assured me that there was 12:0 question of seaking capital," but that it Spinners and Doublers Association from was considered desirable that everyone 24 per cent, actual to 4 per cent. actual connected with the organisation should be put fresh life last month into the textile Gnancially interested." It was a vern market, which recently had been distarbed unconvincing, excuse for a most object by unfavourable reports. For some time able arrangement, and the statement that expectations have run high of the recovery. there was no question of seeking capital of the textile industry from the lamp was transparent nonsense. During the and occasionally it seemed as if prospects present month Mr. Haynes has again were being fully discounted. The diretor- been advertising (anonymously) for ate of this combine is rightly or wrongly departmental manager invest £1,000 (regarded as one of the most conservative per cent.).
commencing salary in the industry, benso it is assumed that £500. Nor is this the only proposition if they can see their way to increase the for which he has been seeking capital on more or less similar lines. Another is interim payment so substantially, there a syndicate to float a trading company are hopes that the fall distribution for the year will be on a corresponding in Hongkong.
In anticipation of this article Mr.scale. For the year ended March 31st, 1922, Hayres called at Truth Offer Inst week, the profits were shown at £612,000, against and among other things told a member £122,000 for the preceding twelve months, of the staff that he had put £2,000 of his and while the dividend was only 8 per cent. own money into the syndicate, I am against 10 per cent, the payment was made Borry to say that it is difficult to credit out of earnings against a raid on reserves this statement in view of other informs for 1921. It looks as if resumption of tion in my possession, including letters 10 cent. dividends would be made this year, in which Haynes himself discloses his ex- but at 416. 9d., the closing price of the tremely precariona position financially shares, expectations bare made full One such letter, written only a fortnight allowance for possibilities. It is encourag STT so ago on the notepaper of the Bino
British Trade Association, was an ading homeres, that one of the staple misericordiam appeal for delay to a judgindustries largely dependent on foreign ment creditor, and in it Haynes men trade should now abow definite signs of tioned that he was negotiating with & reviving-Daly Telegraph.
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