June 5, 1914.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

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Wellington (Salop), June 20.—About 5,000 tons of gas
coal for the directors of the Wellington Gas Company.
Particulars at the company’s offices, Market-street.

West Ham, June 11.—Coal and coke for the Corporation.
Forms from the borough engineer, Town Hall, West Ham,
E.

West Ham, June 15.—Coal and coke for the Corporation.
Forms at the town clerk’s office, 85, The Grove, Stratford, E.

Wigton, June 13.—About 1,000 to 1,200 tons of washed
nuts or gas coal, also suitable round coal, for the directors
of the Wigton Gaslight and Coke Company. Tenders to
Mr. S. Pigg, secretary, 15, King-street, Wigton.

Willesden, June 17.—Coal and coke for the Guardians.
Forms from Mr. J. Hutton Haylor, clerk to the Guardians,
Guardians’ Offices, 357, High-road, Brondesbury, N.W.

Winchester, June 8.—Small steam coal for the Corpora-
tion. Forms from Mr. R. Ayton, A.M.I.E.E., city electric
engineer, Gordon-road, Winchester.

Winwick, Warrington, June 10.—House coal to the
Lancashire County Asylum, Winwick, Warrington, for the
committee of visitors. Forms from Mr. P. Irving Dutton,
clerk and steward, asylum, Win wick.

Witham, June 29.—Coal for the Urban District Council.
Tenders to Mr. William Bindon Blood, clerk to the Council.

The date given is the latest upon which tenders can be
received.

CONTRACTS OPEN FOR ENGINEERING, IRON
AND STEEL WORK, &c.

Auckland (New Zealand), Aug. 6.—Turbo-Generators.—
The Auckland City Council invite tenders for the supply and
erection in the City Power Station of (1) three 750 kilowatt
direct current mixed pressure turbo-generators; and (2) one
1,500 kilowatt 3-phase turbo-generator, including plant and
sub-station equipment.*

London, S.W., June 10.—Steel Rails.—About 2,370 tons,
and fishplates for above rails, and about 86 tons, for the
directors of the South Indian Bailway Company Limited.
Specifications at the company’s offices, 91, York-street,
Westminster, S.W.

London, N.W., June 13.—Boilers, etc.—For the Metro-
politan Asylums Board, the installation of new steam boilers
and incidental work, providing and fixing temporary steam
boilers and pipes. Specifications at the office of the Board,
Embankment, E.C.

London, S.W., June 16.—Cast Iron Sleepers, etc.—About
2,250 tons cast iron sleepers and fittings, for the directors of
the Madras and Southern Mahratta Bailway Company
Limited. Specifications from Mr. H. Bonham-Carter,
secretary, 91, York-street, Westminster, S.W.

London, S.W., June 24.—Coal Telpherage Plant.—For
coal telpherage plant for the Battersea Borough Council.
Specifications from the electrical engineer, Electricity Works,
Lombard-road, Battersea, S.W., on payment of £2 2s.
(returnable).

JIerthyr, June 8.—Boiler, etc.—Steam boiler, electric
motor, and alterations at the Mardy Isolation Hospital,
Merthyr, for the Corporation. Full particulars from the
borough engineer, Town Hall, Merthyr.

* Specifications, particulars, etc., may be seen at the
Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade,
73, Basinghall-street, E.C.

COAL, IRON AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES.
REPORTS AND DIVIDENDS.

Arauco Company Limited.—The directors have decided to
set aside out of the profits for the year 1913 a sum sufficient
to make, with the fund provided out of the trust deed
securing the second mortgage debenture stock, a total suffi-
cient to allow of a redemption of 10 per cent, at par of the
outstanding debenture stock, and this sum will be distri-
buted concurrently with the payment of interest on July 1
next.

Canada Iron Corporation Limited.—An informal meeting
of the holders of the first mortgage bonds will be held at
Winchester House, E.C., on 9th inst., at which the report
of the committee appointed at the meeting of the bondholders
held on March 6 last will be presented, embodying the
scheme of re-organisation of the company, which they have
decided to recommend the bondholders to adopt. The
formal meeting of bondholders to consider, and, if thought
fit, approve the adoption of the scheme by extraordinary
resolution, will be held in Montreal on July 2.

Cortonwood Collieries Company Limited.—The directors
have declared a further interim dividend of 2J per cent.
(6d. per share) less tax.

Fox (Samuel) and Company Limited,—An extraordinary
general meeting of the shareholders was held on the 28th,
ult. at Sheffield, for the purpose of passing special resolu-
tions to sub-divide the existing £20 shares into £1 shares,
and to increase the capital by the creation of 150,000 new
shares of £1 each. The proposals were carried unanimously.

Horden Collieries Limited. — The directors recommend
that the capital of the company be increased about November
next by the creation of 20,000 additional ordinary shares of
£10 each, to be issued pro rata at par in the proportion of
one new share to each four shares held by each shareholder.
The shares will probably be issued with £1 payable on
acceptance, and the balance over four or five years. This
further increase of capital is required in consequence of the
large expenditure which will have to be met in developing
other portions of the company’s royalty and in building
further houses for miners.

Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company Limited. — The
directors have decided to pay interim dividends of Is. per
share on the fully paid ordinary and preference, and 4‘8d. on
the part paid preference, less tax.

Young’s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company Limited.
—The report for the year to April 30 last shows that after
providing for maintenance of works and mines, and paying
all current charges, the amount at credit of profit and loss
account, including the balance of £4,527 12s. 4d. brought
forw’ard from the previous year, is .£84,680 14s. 8d. The
directors recommend that this amount be apportioned as
follows :—To general depreciation, £20,000; to retort reserve
fund, £15,000; to exceptional outlay at works, £4,079
6s. lOd.: to interest on debenture bonds, £16,732; to divi-
dend of 4 per cent, on the ordinary shares, £18,112 6s. 5d.;

to contingent dividend of 2 per cent, on the “ B ” deben-
ture bonds, £3,000; leaving a balance to be carried forward
of £7,757 Is. 5d.

NEW COMPANIES.

Aberdulais Tinplate Company Limited.—Private company.
Registered office, Aberdulais Tin works, Aberdulais, near
Neath, Glamorgan. Registered May 26. To purchase
Aberdulais New Tin works at Aberdulais, Glamorgan, includ-
ing dwelling houses, etc., all the interests of Joshua
Williams and Company Limited; also stock-in-trade, plant,
etc., and carry on business of coal masters, brick and tile
makers, engineers, etc. Nominal capital, £20,000 in 2,000
£10 shares. Directors and subscribers (one share each) :—
David Edwards, Llwyncelyn, Tonner, near Neath, colliery
proprietor; Llewellyn David Howell, Sunny Bank, Aber-
dulais, colliery proprietor; Evan Lewis, Graig-y-pal, Glais,
Clydach, mining engineer; William John Stephens, Bryn
Coed, Sketty-road, Swansea, colliery proprietor; Cecil Fredk.
Gilbertson, of the firm of W. Gilbertson and Company
Limited, Portardawe. Qualification of directors, £500.

Anderson (David) and Company Limited. — Registered
May 25. Mechanical, electrical, gas, heating, lighting,
chemical, and metallurgical engineers. Nominal capital,
£20,000 in 12,500 preference and 7,500 ordinary £1 shares.
Minimum subscription, £4,000. Directors have not yet been
appointed. Qualification of directors, 100 shares. Remu-
neration of directors, £1 Is. for each meeting and sum equal
to 10 per cent, of balance of profits after providing for divi-
dend of 10 per cent, upon issued capital, both preference and
ordinary. Subscribers (one preference share each) :—D.
Anderson, 18/20, Farringdon-road, E.C., engineer; J. A.
White, 40/44, Holborn Viaduct, E.G., solicitor; C. H.
Critchley, 15, Halliwick-road, N., solicitor’s clerk; C. W.
By waters, Bushey, Whetstone, N., solicitor; R. Manhire,
57, Stratford-road, Thornton Heath, solicitor’s clerk; A. E.
Gower, 34, Devonshire-road, N.E., solicitor’s clerk; T. C.
Chamberlain, 21, Beaconsfield-road, New Southgate, N.,
solicitor’s clerk.

Barnsley Smokeless Fuel Company Limited.—Registered
May 25. Producers, manufacturers, suppliers, and dealers
in fuels of every description, natural and artificial, etc.
Nominal capital, £95,000 in 50,000 participating preference
and 45,000 ordinary £1, shares. Minimum subscription,
seven preference shares. Directors :—J. Conchie, 62,
London Wall, E.C., director of a public company; S.
Wellington, 39, Mincing-lane, E.C., consulting engineer;
Old Silkstone Collieries Limited, so long as it holds at least
5,000 shares, shall have the right of nominating one
director; British Coalite Company Limited shall have the
right of nominating two directors while holding 5,000 shares.
Every director shall be a member of the company. Remu-
neration of directors, £100 per annum each (chairman £150)
and additional remuneration at the rate of 5 per cent, of
annual net profits.

Caerleon Works Limited.—Private company. Registered
office, the Caerleon Tinplate and Engineering Works, Caer-
leon, Monmouthshire. Registered May 25. To acquire
hereditaments and premises at Llangattock-juxta-Caerleon,
Monmouthshire, known as the Caerleon Tinplate and Engi-
neering Works, including machinery and plant; and to carry
on business as iron masters, steel makers, colliery pro-
prietors, miners’ engineers, iron founders, etc. Nominal
capital, £25,000 in £1 shares. Directors and subscribers
(one share each) :—John Paton, Waun Wern, Pontypool,
Monmouthshire, iron, steel, and tinplate manufacturer;
William Charles Addams Williams, Penarth, Llangibby,
Monmouthshire, solicitor. Qualification of directors, £1,000.

French (Henry) and Company Limited.—Private com-
pany. Registered office, County Bank Chambers, Middles-
brough. Registered May 26. To acquire the business of
coal, coke, iron, steel, and brick merchants carried on by
W. Waistell Hird and Company Limited at. the above
address as Henry French and Company. Nominal capital,
£5,000 in £1 shares. Directors W. B. Blake, 67, War-
wick-street, Middlesbrough, coal merchant; A. Galsworthy,
6, Marine-parade, Penarth, married woman; S. Robertson,
“ Abercairnie,” Linthorpe, coal merchant. Qualification of
directors, £5.

Lacy (Howard) Limited.—Private company. Registered
May 25. Brass founders, iron founders, manufacturers of
plant, implements, machinery, tools, etc. Nominal capital,
£2,025 in 2,000 £1 “A” shares, and 500 Is. “ B ’’ shares.
Subscribers (one “A” share each) :—H. Lacy, Kelvin, Car-
shalton, engineer; F. Minton, 33, Bedford-street, Covent
Garden, W.C., solicitor.

Rowditch Foundry Company Limited.—Private company.

Registered office, Theatre Chambers, Babington-lane,
Derby. Registered May 23. Iron founders, consulting engi-
neers, general and mechanical engineers, and manufacturers
of implements and machinery. Nominal capital, £500 in
£1 ordinary shares. Permanent directors and subscribers
(76 shares each) A. Toon, 71, Howe-street, Derby, engi-
neer; J. Winfield, 86, Beeches-street, Derby, engineer.
Qualification of directors, 50 shares.

Simpson and Company (Leicester) Limited. — Private
company. Registered May 26. Constructional, mechanical,
electrical, civil, and general engineers. Nominal capital,
£5,000 in 4,500 preference and 500 ordinary £1 shares.
Directors :—G. W. Massey, S. P. Thornton, H. A. Thorn-
ton, F. B. Thornton, C. J. Campion, H. L. R. Bell. Quali-
fication of directors, £25.

Stanton (J. G.) and Company Limited.—Private company.
Registered May 25. To enter into agreement with K. G-.
Stanton, and to carry on business as coal and coke mer-
chants. Nominal capital, £2,000 in £1 shares. Directors
and subscribers J. G. Stanton, Brackley, Northants, coal
merchant (500 shares); G. T. Knibbs, Syresham, near
Brackley, coal merchant’s assistant (100 shares). Qualifica-
tion of directors, £1.

This list of new companies is taken from the Daily
Register specially compiled by Messrs. Jordan and Sons
Limited, company registration agents, Chancery-lane, E.C.

Mr. John Hayes, late inspecting engineer of mines to the
New Zealand Government, formerly managing of Flimby and
Broughton Moor collieries, Maryport, Cumberland, and one
of the founders of the National Association of Colliery
Managers, is practising as a consulting, mining, and civil
engineer at Greymouth, New Zealand. Mr. Hayes includes
metalliferous mining in his practice.

ABSTRACTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS
RECENTLY ACCEPTED.

4757 (1914). Improvements in and connected with Fuel
Briquettes. T. H. Peters, senr., 82, Strand-on-the-Green,
Chiswick, Middlesex, T. H. Peters, junr., 406, High-street,
Brentford, Middlesex, G. L. Tuxford, 33, Battenburgh-road,
Richmond, Surrey, and C. P. Tuxford, 33, Batten-
burgh-road, Richmond, Surrey.—The briquette is made
either with small coal, small coke, or peat;
the briquette is bound together with Portland
cement 1 cwt. with the addition of permanganate of potash
5 oz. and ochre 5 lb. to 1 ton of small coal, coke or peat. The
combination of these materials has the effect of rendering
the fuel briquette when burning free from sulphurous fumes
and practically smokeless. The materials are mixed together
damped and pressed in moulds either by hand or power
machines. (One claim.)

5568 (1913). Improvements in Gas Detecting Apparatus
for Portable Electric Hand Lamps. G. J. Ralph, of St.
Pirians, Lichfield-road, Four Oaks, Warwickshire.—Has for
its object to provide a device for indicating the presence of
firedamp (methane) or other inflammable gas or vapour, the
device being so adapted that if desirable it may be attached
to an electric hand lamp. The invention consists in the
employment of a conductor having catalytic properties
exposed to the gas to be detected in series with another con-
ductor which may have similar properties but which, if it
has such properties, is not exposed to the gas, these two
conductors forming two of the arms of a Wheatstone or
metre bridge, the other two arms consisting of two resis-
tances between which a low resistance slide wire is connected,
current being passed through the two pairs of arms in
parallel from, a battery or other suitable source. By this
arrangement a measurement of the amount of gas may be
obtained by the adjustment of the slide wire resistance so as
to produce zero reading on an indicating instrument con-
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catalytic conductor with its connected or unexposed con-
ductor. Under normal conditions (that is, when the
surrounding atmosphere contains no inflammable gas) the
electrical resistance of the catalytic arm of the Wheatstone or
metre bridge and that of the arm in series with it will be
equal or bear some definite relation one to the other. Should
gas be present in sufficient quantity, however, the resistance
of the catalytic conductor will alter, due to its alteration in
temperature. This alteration in resistance is measured and
can be made to show on a scale the percentage of gas present.
The sensitiveness of the said conductor to catalytic action
may be increased by initially heating it to a temperature
corresponding to a dull red heat, and this may be done by
passing electric current through it. The exact temperature
is not of much importance, and may be varied within fairly
wide limits without impairing the efficiency of the apparatus.
Fig. 1 shows the invention in diagrammatic form, and figs. 2
and 3 show front and side elevations in combination with
an electric hand lamp. (Two claims.)

10619 (1913). Anv Improved Haulage Clip. J. P. Sampson,
“Roseleigh,” Garwen-terrace, Nantyfyllon, near Bridgend,
Glamorganshire.—Consists of improvements in that kind of
haulage clip which comprises two bars one of which is longer
than the other and has one end bent into a hook coupling,
both bars being bent at the other end to form one half of an
eye, and being held together by means of a collar embracing
the bars, which collar is adapted to be slidden up the bars to
allow the eye to be opened so as to disengage the hauling
rope or the like; the short bar having the end remote from
the eye, bent or curved outwards to allow the two halves of

the split eye to open readily. According to the invention the
collar is retained in the position to hold the split eye closed,
when in use, by means of a cotter passing through both bars
above the collar, and retained by means of a cross pin pass-
ing transversely through the end of the cotter. A stop is
provided upon the longer bar to limit the sliding movement
of the collar when the cotter is removed. Fig. 1 is a front
view, and fig. 2 is a side elevation; fig. 3 is a cross section
on X Y of fig. 2. (Two claims.)

10987 (1913). Improvements in Devices for Securing
Contact with the Earth at Specified Depths for Electric Test-
ing Purposes. E. Ryan, of 2, Church-lane, Leytonstone,
Essex, and H. W. Brown, of 169, Cathall-road, Leytonstone,
aforesaid.—Relates to an apparatus to be used in connection
with suitable electrical instruments for measuring electro-
static effects or comparative resistances. In order to do this