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THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

Deekmber 4, 1914.

original £60,000 authorised debentures £40,000 are now out-
standing. In order to-enable the company to increase its
plant and its output of coal to carry out a further contract
entered into with the Union Miniere du Haut Katanga for
the supply of large quantities of coal and coke, additional
working capital was raised during the year, the authorised
debenture debt being increased to £100,000, the additional
£60,000 being issued on April 8 last at par. The outstand-
ing debentures are being redeemed at the rate of £7,000 per
annum, and £7,000 will accordingly be paid off on Dec. 31,
reducing the debenture debt to £93,000. The operations for
the period under review, after writing off depreciation, have
resulted in a profit of £56,236. The directors recommend
the declaration of a dividend for the year of 25 per cent.,
less income-tax. The final instalment of 15 per cent, will
be paid on December 1, and will absorb £50,654, leaving
121,260 to be carried forward to the current year, from
which has to be deducted the sum of £1,798,for the directors’
additional remuneration. The sales of coal and coke for
the year amounted to 239,969 tons and 17,272 tons respec-
tively. In addition to the existing contracts with the Union
Miniere du Haut Katanga, which expire on June 30, 1915,
a further contract has been entered into with that company,
under which it will take its requirements for lump coal,
washed coal, and coke for use at its smelting works at
Elizabethville, in Katanga, for a period of 10 years from
July 1, 1915, the minimum quantity to be taken annually
being 100,000 tons, of which not more than 60,000 tons
shall be coal, and at least 40,000 tons coke. The contract also
includes the supply of ground and unground fireclay,
ordinary and special firebricks. It is proposed to form a
new company, to be called “ The Wankie Colliery Company
Limited.” It is proposed that the capital of the new com-
pany shall be £410,000, divided into 820,000 shares of 10s.
each, shareholders in the present company receiving two
fully-paid shares of 10s. each of the new company for every
one share of 10s. each at present held. Of the 820,000
shares—'the proposed capital of the new company—810,466
shares will be thus issued to the shareholders in exchange
for their old shares, leaving 9,534 shares in reserve. The
new company will also create £93,000 debentures, to be
exchanged for a similar number of the existing, debentures,
the present company paying off the £7,000 redeemable on
December 31 next and interest on all the debentures to that
date.

NEW COMPANIES.

Adamson (Daniel) and Company Limited.-—Private com-
pany. Registered office, Dukinfield, Cheshire. Registered
November 21. To acquire business of boilermakers, engi-
neers, and ironfounders carried on by W. J. Parkyn at
above address, and to carry on, develop, and extend the
same. Nominal capital, £80,000 in 45,000 preference, 30,000
ordinary, and 5,000 employees’ shares of £1 each. Direc-
tors :—W. J. Parkyn, The Hawthorns, Buxton, engineer
and J.P.; D. A. Parkyn, The Gerrards, Gee Cross, Hyde,
engineer; P. A. W. Parkyn, Arunda, Stanley-a venue,
Beckenham, Kent, engineer. Qualification of directors,
£500.

Armley Coal Company Limited.—Private company. Regis-
tered office, Great Northern Railway Coal Depot, Armley,
Leeds. Registered November 23. To carry on business as
merchants of coal, coke, breeze, firewood, oil, petrol, and
paraffin, and manufacturers of and dealers in fire lighting
materials, etc. Nominal capital, £750 in 250 preference and
500 ordinary £1 shares. Directors and subscribers (five
shares each) :—J. Wharmby, 40, Middle Cross-street, Leeds,
traveller; J. E. Sharp, 15, Stanmore-street, Leeds, clerk.
Qualification of directors,- £5.

Bonecourt Waste Heat Boiler Company Limited.—Private
company. Registered November 23. To acquire a licence
from Bonecourt Surface Combustion Limited to manufacture
and sell waste heat boilers and water heaters. Nominal
capital, £1.000 in £1 shares. Subscribers (one share each) :
P. S. C. Kirke, Parliament-mansions, Victoria-street, S.W.,
engineer; F. B. Spencer, same address, engineer.

Crosby Valve and Engineering Company Limited.—
Private company. Registered office, 147, Queen Victoria-
street, E.C. Registered November 24. To accuire business
carried on at 147, Queen Victoria-street, as the Crosby Steam
Gauge and Valve Company, and to carry on business of
engineers, founders, smiths, machinists, etc. Nominal
capital, £10,000 in £1 shares. First governing director :
G. A. Mower.

Electrical Power Engineering Company (Birmingham)
Limited.—Private company. Registered office, First-avenue,
Stechford, Birmingham. Registered November 21. To
acquire and carry on business of a manufacturing electrical
engineer and maker and factor of electrical appliances carried
on by W. H. Heath at Stechford, Birmingham. Nominal
capital, £5,000 in £1 ordinarv shares. Directors : W. H.
Heath. The Coppice, Bickenhill-road, Marston Green. War-
wickshire, manufacturer; A. M. Heath, of same address,
wife of W. H. Heath; A. M. Willmore, Vermont, Victoria-
road, Stechford, Birmingham, engineer. Qualification of
directors, £250.

Irtvsh Corporation Limited.—Registered office, 7. Grace-
church-street, E.C. Registered November 27. To enter into
an agreement with Russo-Asiatic Corporation Limited in the
terms of the draft, and to acquire and deal in stocks, shares,
bonds, and securities, to search for and deal in minerals and
mineral substances of all kinds, to carry on business of
mine owners, colliery proprietors, quarry owners, brick
makers, to acquire or construct railwavs, tramways,
steamers, etc. Nominal capital, £2,000,000 in £1 shares.
Minimum subscription, seven shares. The first directors
shall be appointed by subscribers, and shall be entitled to
hold office until the ordinary general meeting of the company
in the year 1917.

N. I. Z. Limited.—Private company. Registered office.
1 and 2, Old Pye.street, Westminster, S.W. Registered
November 25. Engineers, electro-ch emists, metallurgists,
electm-nlaters, electrical engineers, etc. Nominal capital.
£6.000 in £1 shares. Qualification of directors, £100. Sub-
scribers (one share each) : Bernard Baines, 19, Green-street.
Teicester-square. W.C., solicitor; Claude W. Denny. 22.
Edwardes-sauare, Kensington. W., engineer.

San Antonio de Esquilache (Peru) Mines Limited.—Regis-
tered office, 13, St. H&lens-place, London, E.C. Registered
November 23. To acquire any silver, gold, copper, coal and
other mines, mining rights in Peru or elsewhere, and to
work, exercise, develop, and turn to account the same, and
particularly to acquire and work the mining property known
as San Antonio de Esquilache, Puno, Peru. Nominal
capital, £250.000 in £1 shares. Minimum subscription, £7.
Directors :—H. J. Hardy, 13, St. Helens-place, E.C.,

F.C.I.S.; Sir A. Pedler, 28, Stanhope-gardens, S.W.,
C.I.E., F.R.S.; Sir V. Chirol, 34, Carlyle-square, Chelsea,
S.W., knight; W. Bartlett, 24, Bedford-road, W.C.; soli-
citor; W. S. Payne, 209a, High-street, Kensington, civil
engineer; R. J. Stirling, The Chase, Church Crookham,
Hants, captain. Qualification of directors (other than first
directors), £500. Remuneration of directors, £250 each per
annum (chairman £300).

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.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.

*** Any of the following publications may be obtained
on application to this office at the price named post free.

Statutory Rules and Orders, 1914 : North Staffordshire
Railway (Trentham, Newcastle-under-Lyme, and SilverdaF
Light Railways Order), 3|d.: (No. 1613), Contraband of
War, l|d.; Merthyr Tydfil Light Railwav, IJd.

Bills, 1914: Finance (as amended), 2d.; Trusts, Id.;
Trading with the Enemy Act (Amendment), 2d.

Education : Science Syllabus, 1915, Subjects 1 to 12 and
14-to 17, ljd., 12 for 7d.; Regulations and Syllabuses for
Examinations in Science and Technology, 1915, 4|d.

Trade Reports : Trinidad and Tobago Report for 1913-14,
9d.; Falkland Islands Report for 1913, 2d.

Pauperism Statement for October, l|d.

State of Unemployment : Report for 1913-14, 6d.

Friendly Societies Annual Return, Form No. 7, 2Jd.

Boiler Explosion Report : (No. 2297) at the werks of
Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth, Manchester.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Official Year Book of the Scientific and Learned
Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914. London :
C. Griffin and Company Limited.

Permissible Electric Lamps for Miners (U.S. Bureau of
Mines Technical Paper175). By H. H. Clark. Washing-
ton : Government Printing Office.

Specific Gravity Separation Applied to the Analysis of
Mining Explosives (U.S. Bureau of Mines Technical
Paper 78). By C. G. Storm and A. L. Hyde. Washing-
ton : Government Printing Office.

“ Canada Department of Mines, Moose Mountain Iron Bear-
ing District, Ontario,” by E. Lindeman; ‘‘Ditto, Mag-
netite Occurrences near Calabogie, Renfrew County,
Ontario,” by E. Lindeman: “ Monthly Statement of C^al
Mine Fatalities in the United States in May and Jnr^,
1914,” by A. H. Fav (U.S. Bureau of .Mines); “ Methods
of Oil Recovery in California,” bv R. Arnold and V. R.
Garfias (Technical Paper 70. U.S. Bureau of Mines);
“ Gaseous Impurities in the Air of Railway Tunnels.” by
A. Seidell and P. W. Meserve (Bulletin 92 of U.S. Public
Health Service); ‘‘Blastfurnace Statistics in the United
States,” by H. W. Gillett (U.S. Bureau of Mines, Bulletin
73): “ Transactions of the Mining Institute of Scotland ”
(Vol. 37, Part 2); ‘‘Proceedings of the South Wales
Institute of Engineers ” (Vol. 30, No. 5), price 5s.

CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS RECEIVED.

A list of boiler fittings and articles useful to steam users
and engineers is contained in a booklet issued by th'1
National Boiler and General Insurance Company Limited
(National-buildings, St. Mary’s Parsonage, Manchester).
This covers a wide range of plugs, valves, taps, gauges, and
other fittings.

Leaflets have reached us from Messrs. Meldrums Limited
(Timperley, near Manchester) relating to their improved
steam jet elevators, agitators, air compressors, ejectors,
exhausters, etc. These appliances are useful for dealing
with liquids and gases in chemical processes, and can be
supplied in an acid-proof metal.

The Filmoscope Company (44, Great Queen-street, Kings-
wav, W.C.) send us particulars of the filmoscope. which is
a form of cinematograph equipped with a stopping device
allowing the mechanism to be worked from a distance and
the film to be stopped for any length of time when the
whole picture is on the screen. This should greatly facili-
tate the work of lecturers, salesmen, and others engaged in
demonstration.

The “ Underwood Digger ” is made by Mr. A. L. Under-
wood (3/5, Queen-street. Cheapside, E.C.). who sends some
details in an illustrated pamphlet. It is a single-chain
p-vab, with a small head, giving a low centre of gravity.
The “ digger ” can be opened and closed whilst suspended,
so that part of the load can be dropped and part retained,
or the whole sprinkled. In place of the second, or opening,
chain, there is a hook for suspension from the chandelier—
during the operation of discharging.

Messrs. Holdsworth and Sons Limited (Croft Boiler
Works, Leeds-road, Bradford) have issued a very practical
catalogue of their boilers, which embrace those of the Cor-
nish, Lancashire, Cornish multitubular, Yorkshire, and
vertical types. The catalogue gives photographs and sec-
tions and explicit details of dimensions and duties. The
firm, in addition, undertake the manufacture of oil separa-
tors, reheaters, air receivers, stills, pans, chimneys, tanks,
and a description is given of a new form of feed water
diffuser, in which the feed water is acted upon by live
steam, the precipitation of foreign matter being thereby
assisted. There are also some useful notes on matters affect-
ing combustion, etc.

Messrs. H. R. Marsden Limited (Soho Foundry, Leeds)
favour us with a copy of a handsome catalogue in colours
of their stone and ore crushers, screening and elevating
plants, etc. The Blake-Marsden stone breakers have now
been in operation for considerably half a century, and have
many excellent features: amongst these may be mentioned a
self-adjusting gudgeon bearing, which automatically takes
up wear, and'the provision of jaws in two equal pairs, so
as to be instantly reversible top to bottom respectively; the
main bearings are away from the dust, and are fitted with
continuous lubricators. The machines are of several types,
and two—of the jaw and claw type respectively—are adapted
for coal breaking. The whole equipment, judging from the
series of excellent photographs of actual installations, lends
itself obviouslv to a wide variety of applications in quarries,
mines, and other industrial establishments.

ABSTRACTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS
RECENTLY ACCEPTED.

488 (19T4). Improved Roller for Supporting Haulage 01
Winding Ropes and the like. F. M. Castleman, The Wood-
lands, Treeton, near Rotherham, Yorkshire.—Relates to an
improvement in construction of rollers or pulleys such as are
used for supporting and guiding haulage and like ropes in
collieries and other places. Fig. 1 is an elevation with half
in section of one of the improved rollers with a single central
boss; fig. 2 is a sectional elevation .of a three-part roller,
showing a renewable centre part. The most simple form of
construction is shown in fig. 1, in which the roller consists
of a single casting, having a central boss A to receive the
axle B, which may be provided with wearing sleeves C, so
that they can be renewed from time to time as they become
worn. The roller can be made with end plates if preferred.
The periphery, or outer surface, of the roller is made with a
right and left hand helical groove or equivalent paths, such
as D and E, both of which converge or lead to the centre of
the surface, where the annular rope groove F is situated

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This rope groove is not necessarily situated in the middle, as
for some purposes it may be placed nearer to one of the
sides of the roller; underneath it the thickness of metal is
increased at G to allow for the deepening of the groove by
frictional wear of the rope. If preferred, the rope groove
may be made in a detachable part J, fig. 2, which when
worn may be removed and be replaced by a new one. This
may be accomplished by making the roller in three parts,
namely, two end members H and I, with end plates, and a
central member J in the periphery, of which the rope groove
F is formed. When the said three parts are assembled upon
the axle B, they may be secured in position by various
devices’, such as fixing one of the renewable sleeves C upon
the axle, and using the opposite sleeve C2 as a nut (see fig. 2),
or both sleeves may be screwed upon the axle, or by other
equivalent means, and if desired a spring washer K may be
used between the sleeve and the end plate. (Three claims.)

4843 (1914). An Improved Safety Catch for Pit Cages,
Hoists, Lifts, and the Like. I. Harris, 30, South-street,
Ynyshir, Glamorganshire.—Relates to safety catches for pit
cages, hoists, lifts, and the like, and to that type of catch
which comprises pairs of jaw members adapted to be closed
upon the guide ropes or rails by the forward sliding move-
ment of a sleeve encircling said jaws upon the breakage of
the hoisting rope or the like, such forward movement of the
sleeve being effected either by the direct pull of suitable
springs or by the weight of the cage acting upon a suitable
system of levers connected to said sliding sleeve. Accord-
ing to the invention, the sliding movement of the sleeve is
effected, on the breakage of the hoisting rope or the like, by
the fall of a spring-controlled vertical and centrally disposed
rod connected to the hoisting rope, said rod being connected
by pivotal links to the sliding members in such manner that
said links become horizontally co-planar and at right angles
to the vertical rod, means being provided to ensure the lock-

ing of said links, rods, and sleeves in such position. Further,
instead of forming the clutches or catches of two parts
arranged either in parallel with one another and kept apart
by springs, or arranged in scissor fashion, the clutches or
catches of the present invention are formed from a single
and springy piece of metal in the shape of a V, having
hooked or other suitably shaped outer ends. Fig. 1 is a
view of the upper part of the cage, showing the mechanism in
its normal position, viz., free of the guide ropes or rails;
fig. 2 is a sectional plan view, drawn to an enlarged scale,
showing one of the clutches and its actuating sleeve in the
normal position. To reset the apparatus after use, it is
only necessary to release the catch i by removing the bolts
which hold it, and allow the vertically disposed rod to be
drawn up to its normal position, compressing the spring, by
means of the re-attachment of the winding rope. (Four
claims.)

5262 (1914). Improvements in Rope and Cable Grips for
Underground Haulage and the like purposes. G. Beecroft,
of 287, Devonshire-street, New Houghton, Pleasley, near
Mansfield, Derbyshire. The improved clip is formed in two