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Entimation.

Powell's

ALEXANDRA

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 1908.

Public Companies.

THE DAIRY FARM' COMPANY,

LIMITED.,

ChinKSE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO.

to the shareholder,

The serenik annual mesting of the Chiness Engineering and Mining Company, Limited, was held at Winchester House, EC, on 18th NOTIC

OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. Mr. W. F. Turner presided. The secre: if the above-named Company will be held at tary (Mr. A. W. Berry) having read the notice te Company's Offic; No. 2 Lower Albert convening the meeting and the auditors' report Road, Vicions, Hongkong, TUESDAY, the 1st day of December, 1908, at 12.30 o'clock in the afternoon, when the subjoined resolutions, *The Chaiman said :-Gentlemen,-You will which were passed at the Extraordinary have learnt from the report and secounts that General Meeting of the Company held on the during the year with which we are dealing our 17th day of November, 1908, will be submitted profits experienced a check as compared with -for-confirmation as-Special-Resolutions...

1. "That the Capital of the Company be those of the preceding year, but for reasons which I will give you a little later we regard 15,000 shares of $7.50 bach and that the this check as dus in causes of a temporary Directors be authorised to allot such shares character." The gross profit for the year, in- pro rata among the existing shareholders accluding profit on exchange, amounted to cording to the number of shares in respect of which they may, on the 27th day of October, 1908, be registered, in the proportion of thize new shares for each complete lot of five shures held by them on that date and that any of such new shares remaining, bver after such allot- mont shall be dealt with by the Directors in their discrétion,"

BUILDINGS. increased by the sum of $112,500 divided into

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POWELL'S

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BUILDINGS.

Hongkong, atst November,

1

account in

221,285, a falling off ip round figures of £18,000. The interest, £3,516, shows u'falling off of £1,200, owing to the diminishing sums at our disposal. The total to the credit of the profit and loss accoubt in £117,249 The

.the actual profit show on 2. That the Articles of Association of the 189,848. Out of this, £10,000 has been pre Company be altered by deleting paragraph xvided for the, redemption of debentures, of of Article IX and by substituting therefor the which have just spokes, £15,000 has been following paragraph -

carried to reserve for depreciation, and the "z. The Register, or Registers, of share balance, 754 848, is carried to the balance

bolders and the Register of Transfers may be closed for such period or periods heat. Adding to this the 'balance brought and at such time or times as the Direc. forward from last year, less income tax, to lors may think it but the period upril 5 last, we bave an available total of periods of such closure shall not exceed 159.414, subject to provision for the directors In the whole 30 days in any ous year,"

percentage. We paid an interim dividend By Order of the Board of Directors.

S. A. SETH,

of 18. 6d. per share on May last, amount ing to £75,000, and we propose that ་་ Secretary,

further dividend of is. 6d. per share, free of in- Hodgkong, 17th November, 1908·· (1013 come tex, be declared to-day, making 15 per cent. for the year, which will absorb a füriber sum of £75,000. The directors parcentage amounts to 5.484, and there will remain a balance of £3,979 81. 8d. to be carried forward hus, although our profits bave been somewhat reduced we are maintaining the same rate of dividend as in the preceding year. You will have noticed that the amount set aside for re serve for depreciation this year is £35,000, 91 compared with 4,000 in the preceding year That, however, was a very liberal amount which had only been equalled in oss previous year, and under all the circumstances we suw Do necessity to disturb the rate of dividend merely in order to set aside, the same amount to rei

THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY,

LIMITED...

NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA.

5. A. SETH,

-Secretary, Hongkong, 17th November, 1908. [1014

A, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

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therefore, shows the altered financial position of the Company as affected by this heavy capital expenditure at a date when wa could hardly be said to have enjoyed any substantial bassfit from that expenditure. The total capital expenditure during the year wAS 141770. Of this 66,537 was expenditure at Ching wang tao, as compared with £21,000 in head during the year now current will, we anti- the previous year. The expenditure on this cipate, be of only a uifibg smoont. The only other item in the report to which I bave not alluded is the paragraph which states that for some time past a divergence of views has existed_between_the_Chinese_Government and the board of directors on the subject of the rights of the company in the Kaiping Basin, and that negotiations, are proceeding with a view to arriving at an amicable settlement Under these circumstances it is not expedient or practicable that we should enter into any details on this sub'ect to-day, but I cannot leave it without saying that the Board, on be- half of the shareholders, have to recognize their indebtedness to His-Majany's Foreign Office for the support which has been accorded to them in the maintenance of the Company's rights. As regards the development of the Port of Ching,wang-tao, this has naturally been affected by the unfavourable conditions of trade, in Norb China, and although the earnings for the past year show a falling off, there is no doubt that the advantages of the port are be. coming increasingly recognised. Perhaps 1 ought to mention, in case any rumour of it should have reached our shareholders, the there has been an catbreak of a form of plag us in the, naighbourhood of Tangshan, which caused a momentary disturbance in the labour supply.

As regards the prospects for the currant year, the report states that, notwithstanding the ad- verse condulous of trade which till continu di the sales for the first saved mouths show a slight increase in toonage, compared with the same period of 1907-8. This increase in the sales ja accompanied by a slight diminution in vajuc, but so small as to be quite noappreciable-

the other hand, as 1 ̧have already stated, the cast of production for the first sever mouths of the current year was appreciably lower than that of the same period of the past year, with which we are dealing. So far as our informa tion' goes, tha profils carded during the current

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SCOTSMEN (Naval, Military, or Member the Civil Community) desiring to Sub- scribe to the above are requested to forward their names to the undersigned.

ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. of the above-named Company will be held at the Company's Office, No. 2 Lower Albert Road, Victoria Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 1st day of December, 1958, at 12.40 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of consider og and, if thought "h, passing the following Extraordinary Resolution :—

That the Directors be authorised to declare a bonus or dividend out of the Reserva and Cattle Reserve Funds or out of the Rccumuinted profits of the Company sufficient to pay a call of $co per

serve as last year. Coming now 16.- the year are at least equal to, and probably some- share upon the New Capital already authorised. to be raised by Special Re causes of the diminution of profit; the main what in excess of those of the corresponding -solution and that such bonus or dividend cause is undoubtedly the fact that China; period of the year preceding. The position in be appropriated for the purpose of pay-in common with other parts of the world, which we stand can-be-stated-very-shortly ing such call,"

is suffering from a period of declining trade. Thanks to the expenditure on capital accounL By Order,

This decline is the case of China has been ex- our output capacity has been very largely perienced considerably earlier than in Europe. increased and is in fact now.considerably. In the case of Chinit may be attributed di- in excess of the demand. The develop rectly to the after effects of the protracted warment of our coal sales has not kept pace between Russia and Japan, and to the severe with the great facilities for axuaction-owing fiosacial disturbances which occurred in the

to the depressed state of trade,, but when United States in the spring and autumn of last this depression passes away we year. A period of severe commercial depres-position to supply any demand that is likely to hion set in China towards she end of 1907, and be made upon us, and to produce the coal at a was accompanied by a financial crisis of a very lower-cost thao at any previous time-in-the- serious character, all kinds of business and of company's history. We are in a position to industry being affected:-Dur general manager negotiate for large contracts-with-tho.certainty (!? states that the effect of these conditions "reacted of being able to fulfil them, and to develop our on all Chinese industries, and has been parti-sales further afield than we have ever done be cularly noticeable in the stopping of the larger tore. As maiters stand to-day we can produce proportion of the brick kilas owing to want of at least one-and-a-quarter million tons of comi money among the Chinese for building paper annum, and when certain works now lo pre. pores. This reason alone is responsible for a gress at Linsi are completed in a few months' considerable reduction in the demand, for our coal. Other industries have been affected in the same way, and; generally speaking, it may be said that when business is bad the coal trade must be correspondingly affected," This [597′′ state of things has continued more or less acutely practically down to the present time Under these circumstances it is very satis factory to find that the toonage sold during the year 1907-8 was 959,000 tons, as compared with 915,000 tons in the previous year, an incicase

f 44,000 tons,

N INTERIM DIVIDEND) on Account

Allure, will be payable-at-tae-loogkong.and. Shanghai Bank, Hongkong, on and after FRIDAY, 27th November, 1908, on Warrants to be obtained at the Company's Offices.

A of the year 1938, of Thitty Cents per

The Dividend will also be payable at the Hoogkong and Shanghai Bank, Shanghai, on and, after the same' date.,

The REGISTER OF SHARES will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the 24th instant, Botil MUNDAY, the spin: instant, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares will be effected.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

*General Managers. nagkawa,17th-November, Toni-

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time, that output will be capable of still further increase. As regards the prospects of increased activity of trade, it is of course impossible for us to form any definite opinion on the matter. I may mention, however, that according to a cablegram received from our general manager in the middle of September, the sales were likely to increase towards the end of that month, and this anticipation has proved to be correct, the weekly sales for the last four weeks advised to be showing a considerable augmeqle, tion' as compared with the corresponding You will not have failed to police that our weeks of last year. We are, therefore, not balance sheer at Feb, 29 last shows a marked without ground for hoping that the period of Change in the financial posities compared with depression is coming to nú end, and that an what it was the year before. This altered pasi-improvement is about to take place which, tion is, of course; due to the very heavy capital whenever it accur, will certainly be refieçled

expenditure during that period. At the time in the busjeess of this company. The Chair-

adopted.

of the formation of this Company it was'te man concluded by moving that the report cognised that, great as were the potentialities and accounts be adopted, and that a furiber of the Company's minès, the equipment was of dividend be declared of is. 6d. per share, mak very imperfect character; they were being ing 15 per cent for the year, free of income tax, worked in a hand-to-mouth fashion, and heavy. | payablo on Nov. 2. Mr. G. T, Symbas second. capital expenditure "would be required to pro-ed the resolution, which was unanimously vide them with an adequate equipment of modern type, so that they could be worked on- scientific principles." The total expenditure under this bead amounts to about a quarter; of-a-million sterling,, whilst the total expen- dituie since the formation of the Company amounts to £585,894. If any justificatione were #quired for this expenditure," apart from the profits which we se estaing and the dividends which we are distributing, it would be found in the enormous extent of the mineral, resources of the mises which we ara working apart from any consideration of nur other, sighis in the Kaiping Baserrireni- mated that the coal bow exposed in the workings of the Tongshan, North West Shaft GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, and Linsi Mines amounts to between pipe.and ten millions tons. It is farther estimated that

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The Chairman then moved that Colonel Albert Thys, Messin, Charles Balser, Edmynd Davies, and Emile Francqul be re-elected to the hoard of directors. Mr. Symons again seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously. The additors, Messrs. Appan, Dexter and Co., were also: re-elected, on the motion of Mr. Michael, seconded by Mr. Buissoret, A vote of thanks to the directors terminated the proceedings.-L. 56. Express

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·reserves of about seven million tons. Taking these. figures together, we arrive at the buge total of thirty-nine million tons. You are- aware from last year's report that the in- stallation at Tongshan came into operation on April 16, 1907, and that at Linni on Jana 25, 1907. It was, of course, unfortunate that, withlu, a few months afterwards, the com dition of trade in China should have:sv:altered that, instead of receiving the benefit of our in- creased capacity for output, the fattar had to be Etweb"), regulated by the salonu The balance sheet

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