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THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

February 25, 1916.

annum on the preference and Is. per share dividend and a
bonus of 6d. per share on the ordinary shares, making 10 per
cent, on the preference and 10 per cent, dividend and 2J per
cent, bonus on the ordinary shares for the year.

Scottish Iron and Steel Company Limited.—The directors
report that the profits during the past year will be sufficient
to meet all dividends and arrears on the preference shares
down to December 81, 1915.

South Wales Colliery Company Limited.—The report for
1915 shows a profit of T9,230 12s. Id. After providing for
the interim dividends, the directors recommend balance of
preferential dividends on the “ B ” and new “ B ” shares
at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, final distribution of
surplus profit at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum for the
half-year ended December 31, 1915, divided ratably between
the “ A,” deferred “A,” “ B,” and new “ B ” shares,
£3,368, making a total distribution for the year 1915 of 14
per cent, on the “ B ” and new “ B ” shares, and of 4 per
cent, on the “A” and deferred “ A ” shares, and leaving
a balance to be carried forward of £430. Under an agree-
ment, Lancaster’s Steam Coal Collieries Limited agreed to
buy all the assets of the company for £163,436, and the
company is to be wound up for the purpose of distribu-
tion.

Swan and Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited.—A
circular has been issued to the shareholders, stating that the
several departments of the company have been declared “ con-
trolled ” under the Munitions of War Act, 1915, and in
consequence the annual report cannot be issued until a date
later than customary. The directors are nevertheless satis-
fied that the company’s profits for the year ending
December 31 last are such as will justify them in paying a
further dividend of 21 per cent, on the preference shares, less
income-tax, and a further dividend of 10 per cent, on the
ordinary shares, less income-tax.

Walker, Maynard and Company Limited.—The share-
holders, at a meeting at Middlesbrough, passed a resolution to
voluntarily wind up the company, and Mr. Francis MacBain
was appointed liquidator. The chairman said that the pre-
ference shareholders would receive 10s. in the £, and he hoped
that they would be paid Is. above that amount. .

Western Wagon and Property Company Limited. — The
report for 1915 shows an available balance of £21,859, which,
with the £378 brought forward, gives a total net revenue of
£22,237. The directors recommend a final dividend at the
rate of 10 per cent, per annum (less income-tax), making 10
per cent, for the year, to add to reserve fund (bringing that
fund up to £88,500) £1,000, and to carry forward £447.

Witbank Colliery Company Limited.—A dividend (No. 22)
of 12J per cent. (2s. 6d. per share) has been declared for six
months to February 29.

NEW COMPANIES.

Clive Limited.—Private company. Registered February 14.
To acquire the business of colliery proprietors carried on by
W. B. Clive and others, as Clive and Ketley, at Clan way,
Tunstall, Staffordshire; and to purchase coal, iron, mines, and
other mining rights, and carry on business of .coal and
iron masters, smelters, engineers, etc. Nominal capital, £200
m 200 £1 ordinary shares. Subscribers (one share each) :—
W. B. Clive and V. H. Ketley.

Coates and Company (Sheffield) Limited. — Private com-
pany. Registered February 14. To acquire, take over, and
carry on business of electrical engineer a'nd ’ contractor now
carried on by J. Coates at 345, Glossop-road, Sheffield, as
Coates and Company, and carry on business of tool makers,
dealers in electrical and other fittings,. mechanical engineers,
etc. Nominal capital, £3,000 in 2,506 £1 ordinary shares,
and 500 £1 preference shares. First permanent director,
J. Coates.	.	, '

Fellows Brothers Limited.—Private company. Registered
office, Clyde Works, Cradley Heath, Staffordshire. Regis-
tered February 16. To carry on business of manufacturers
of chains, cables, anchors, engineer and iron founder, general
merchant and factor, now carried on by John Fellows at
above address as Fellows Brothers; and carry on business of
engineer, odd work and general smith, iron, copper, and brass
founders, smiths, smelters, etc. Nominal capital, £30,000 in
30,000 £1 shares. First directors :—J., S. M., J. L., T. V.,
and C. Fellows.

King, Lloyd and Mott Limited.—Private company. Regis-
tered office, 5, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C.
Registered February 12. To carry on business as engineer-
ing and metal merchants and agents. Nominal capital,
£5,000 in 5,000 £1 shares. Directors : H. P. King, W.
Lloyd, and F. O. Mott.

King (William) and Son Limited. — Private company.
Registered office, 3, Vauxhall Bridge-road, S.W. Registered
February 14. To acquire and take over business carried on
at above address as William King and Son, and to carry on
business of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic engineers, etc.
Nominal capital, £10,000 in 10,000 £1 shares. First directors
and subscribers (one share each) : W. F. King and C. B.
King.

Luby-Lowe Engineering Company Limited.—Private com-
pany. Registered office, 81, Queens-road, Bristol. Regis-
tered February 15. Nature of business indicated by title.
Nominal capital, £6,000 in 3,000 7 per cent, participating
preference shares and 3,000 £1 ordinary shares. First per-
manent and managing directors : J. H. Luby and C. J. M.
Lowe. Qualification of directors, 200 shares.

Makin and Company Limited.—Private company. Regis-
tered office, 39, Townhead-street, Sheffield. Registered
; February 14. To carry on business of electrical and
mechanical engineers, manufacturers, workers, and dealers in
electricity in all branches. Nominal capital, £1,000 in 1,000
£1 ordinary shares. First directors and subscribers (10
shares each) : R. C. Smith and R. C. Smith, junr.

Theakston Limited.—Private company. Registered office,
57, Moorgate-street, E.C. Registered February 18. To
carry on business of railway, mechanical, mining, and elec-
trical engineers, dealers in locomotive and general machinery,
rolling stock, and hardware of all kinds. Nominal capital,
£1,505 in 1,500 £1 “A” shares, and 100 Is. “B” shares.
First directors : F. Theakston (permanent director and first
chairman), and S. Gosman.

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

THE FREIGHT MARKET.

The very unsettled weather conditions which have prevailed
during the past week have caused business to be carried on
very irregularly. The tone of all sections of the market is
very strong, and tonnage supplies are far below requirements.
The -gales which occurred last week completely disorganised
steamer arrivals, and found a good many collieries at the Tyne
and in the Bristol Channel in need of boats. As tonnage was
offering in very small quantity, charterers were obliged to
concede substantial advances in rates, and these increases
have been fully maintained. Indeed, the prospect of any
lasting reduction in rates of freight has been rudely dispelled
during the past week or two, for prices for cargo space have
again bounded upward. At the Tyne, refusals of licences to
export coal and other Governmental restrictions on such expor-
tation have tended to lessen the enquiry, but, on the other
hand, the more open state of loading turns brought with it
more orders for tonnage.

Coastwise, rates for London are about steady, at 14s. 6d.
For North France, Rouen has paid 32s. 6d., an advance of
2s. on the top rate for last week, and Dunkirk is similarly
advanced. Quotations for Bay destinations have moved for-
ward rapidly, and are now firmly based on 47s. 6d. for
Bordeaux, an increase of 6s. 6d. on the week. St. Nazaire
is fully 3s. 6d. higher. Mediterranean-wise, there is every
likelihood of rates reaching the records which prevailed about
the end of last month, for during the week 75s., 77s. 6d.r
and 80s. have been paid in quick succession, and at the time
of writing it is reported that a further 5s. has had to be
conceded. Rates prevailing at Cardiff are no less strong,
and very decided increases have to be recorded on the week’s
work. Tonnage for all directions is extremely scarce. North
France is firmer, at from 6d. to Is. increase to Rouen, and
from 2s. 6d. to 4s. advance for Dunkirk. The Bay has
Bordeaux at 6 fr. advance, and upwards of 51 fr. is now
quoted for that port. For the Mediterranean, Marseilles has
paid 90 fr., and, whilst no recent business is reported for
Genoa, quotations are rising quickly. Port Said is steady,
on the basis of 80s., and Algiers is worth 75 fr.

Homewards, chartering is kept strictly in check by the
scant supply of tonnage offering. The River Plate is strong,
and has paid 155s. for a British boat to United Kingdom,
whilst 157s. 6d. is quoted for neutral tonnage. The Govern-
ment rate still fluctuates round 130s. to 132s. 6d. for United
Kingdom. A boat has been fixed for May on Government
account at 127s. 6d., with the proviso that the rate will be
reduced 5s. if the steamer does not load before June. The
States market is steady, and rates are based on 16s. 6d. to
the Bristol Channel, 22s. for French ports, and 24s. for West
Italy-French Mediterranean. The Wheat Committee’s views
are represented by 15s. to 15s. 6d. to the Bristol Channel.
Coal tonnage could probably be secured at 110s. to West
Italy. For timber, tonnage is urgently required, at about
500s. per standard for United Kingdom. The Eastern
markets are decidedly easier, and rates have fallen to about
185s. for rice from Saigon to France. India is fairly steady,
at about 190s. for kernels from the Madras Coast to Mar-
seilles, 125s. on scale terms from Kurrachee, and 135s. on
d.w. from Bombay.

Tyne to Algiers, 2,400, 47s. 6d.; Boulogne, 650, 31s. ;
Bordeaux, 1,800, 42s. 6d.; 2,000, 43s. 6d.; 1.700, 46s.; 1,800,
47s. 6d.; 2,800, 47s. 6d.; Boucan, 1.500, 47s.; Cette, 1,300,
70s.; Dunkirk, 3,000, 30s.; 1,700, 30s.; 900, 43s. 6d., coke;
850, 30s.; 600, 43s., coke; 950, 31s. 6d.; 2,500, 33s.; 800,
33s.; 700, 31s.; Dakar, 2,000, 42s. 6d.; East Norway, 1,950,
24 kr.; Genoa, 4,400, 75s., reported; 3,300, 76s.; 1,700,
77s. 6d. ; 3,400, 80s.; Havre, 2,100, 28s. 6d. ; 1,700, 29s. ;
Islands, 27s. 6d.; La Pallice, 2,400, 43s.; 2,400, 43s. 6d. ;
London. 1,700, 14s. 6d.; Lisbon, 1,200, 40s. ; 3.300, 38s. 6d.;
Monte Video, 50s.; Oran, 2,800, 47s. 6d.; Rouen, 3.000,
30s.; 2,100, 30s.; 1,600, 31s.; 2,100, 31s. 6d.: 1,600, 29s.;

1.500,	32s. 6d.; 1,600, 32s. 6d.: Rochefort, 1,800, 42s. 6d. ;

2.500,	42s. 6d.; River Plate, 2,800, 45s.; St, Servan. 1,300,
32s.; Savona, 3,400, 80s.; St. Vincent, 2,000, 44s.; St.
Nazaire, 2,500, 43s.: 3.000, 43s. 6d., special terms.

Cardiff to Azores, 2,000, 40s., 300; Alicante, 1,000, 52s. 6d.;
Algiers, 4,000, 75 fr.: Buenos Avres, sail, 2,800, 33s. 9d.;
Bordeaux, 2,450, 51 fr.; Caen, 720, 24s.; 1,700, 23s. 6d.;
Cane Verdes. 4,500, 43s. 9d. ; Cork, 480, 14s. 6d. ; Calais,

1.500,	32s.; Dunkirk, 1.200, 32s. 6d.; 1.000, 31s., 500; 1,500,
32s.; Genoa, 1,700, 64s.; 2,000, p.t.: 3.000, p.t. : 1.700, p.t. ;
Gibraltar, 2,400, 38s. 6d., 500: 4,500, 39s., 500; 5.500. 39s.,
500; Gandia, 1,350, 52s. 6d.: Havre, 2,200, 23s. 6d.: 1.700,
24s.; 1,250, 24s.; Huelva, 3,000, 40s.; Islands, 1,400, 40s.:
Lisbon, 2,500. 36s., 500; Monte Video, 4,500, 43s., early
March; Marseilles, 4,000, 90 fr.; Nantes, 1,650, 43 fr., Feb.;
1.000, 46 fr.. 350; 1.000, 46 fr.; Oran, 2,100. 75 fr.; 2.000,
70 fr.. 450: 2.100, 70 fr., 500; Port Said, 6,500, 80s.: 7.000,
80s.; Rio de Janeiro. 6,500, 45s., 500; Rouen, 1,200, 25s.;
1,700, 24s. 6d.; 2,000, 25s.; St. Malo, 1,000, Ils. 6d.;
Savona, 2,000, p.t.; 3,000, p.t.; 1,700, p.t.: Spezzia. 2,000,
p.t.; 3,000, p.t.; 1,700,’p.t.; St. Servan. 1,000, Ils. 6d.; St.
Nazaire, 2,100, 43 fr. : 1,900, 44-1 fr.: 1.700, 421 fr.;
Teneriffe, 1,400. 40s.; Valencia, l,350\ 52s. fid.

Swansea to Genoa, 1,700, fi4s. : Huelva, 1.250, 41s.; St.
Nazaire, 2,200, 42|-fr., 500; Rouen, 1,350, 24s. fid.; 1,200,
24s. fid.: 1.700. 25s.; Troon, 190, 15s., zinc, free in and out;
Havre, 1,400, 24s.; Tonnav Charente. 700, 38 fr. coal, 39 fr.
fuel; Nantes, 700, 43 fr.; Valencia, 1,800, 52s. 6d.

Port Talbot to Rouen, 2,100, 24s. 6d.; 1,600. 24s. 9d.;
2,300, 24s. fid.; Almeria, 1,500, 50s.: Nantes, 1.850, 43 fr. ;
Bordeaux, 4.000, 50 fr.; 3.000. 51 fr.; Dieppe or Brest, 1,000,
22s., option Rouen 22s. 6d., 20 voyages.

Newport to Rouen, 1.750. 24s. fid.: Gibraltar, 1,500, 39s.,
500: 5,500, 39s., 500: Bordeaux, 2,900, 46 fr. : St. NazaiFe,
2,100, 43 fr.; Oran, 2,000, 70 fr.. 450: 2,100, 70 fr., 500.

Manchester to Buenos Ayres. 50s.,-pipes.

Seaham Harbour to Caen, 600, 31s. 6d.

Blyth to Havre. 1,000, 31s.: Rouen, 1,600. 32s. 6d.

Glasgow to Leghorn, 2.400. 75s. ; Genoa, Savona, or Leg-
horn. 75s.; Carthao-ena-. 3.100, 23s. 6d.

Hull to Alexandria, 4,000. p.t.; Rouen, 1,700, 28s. 6d.

Birkenhead to Gibraltar. 2.800, 36s., Feb.

Barrow to Rustington, 5,000, 105s., ore, March.

Partington to Buenos Ayres, 3.800, d.w., 50s., pipes, etc.

Wales to Buenos Ayres, sail. 33s. fid.

Wear to Bordeaux, 2.000, 43s. 6d. : Havre, 1,200, 31s.

West Hartlepool to Gothenburg, 1,000, 24 kr., end Feb.

Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, F.R.S., of Bramham-gardens,
South Kensington, London, president of the Society of
Chemical Industry in 1881, of the Chemical Society in 1882,
and of the British Association in 1887, has left estate valued
at £44,871 (net personalty £44,787).

ABSTRACTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS
RECENTLY ACCEPTED.

8609 (1915). Improvements in the Removal and Loading
of a Mass of Coke Located on a Quenching'Bench. C. Still,
of Recklinghausen, Westphalia, Germany.—Relates to
improvements in connection with the removal and loading
of a mass of coke located on a quenching bench, in which
these objects are effected by a mechanically-operated scraper
which pushes the coke, in a coherent mass over the floor
of the bench and towards a loading ramp, the coke being
caused to pass over a grating, which separates the .small coke
from the valuable large coke. Fig. 1 is a vertical section
through part of a coke bench; and fig. 2 is a plan. The



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quenching bench I is arranged in front of the coke oven k
and is provided with a loading ramp V. A truck W for
removing the large coke runs on a rail track m underneath
the ramp V. A water gulley I1 covered by a grid x, for
• the surplus quenching water, extends the full length of the
bench. To facilitate draining the water into the gulley I1, the
floor of the bench is sloped gently down to it on both sides.
Between the gulley I1 and the ramp v, is the grating r,
arranged so that the grating bars s lie at right angles to
the longitudinal axis of the bench. The bars s are tapered
■in plan, so that, their wider ends come next the coke oven
k, and the narrower ends face the ramp V. By this means
the spaces or gaps formed in the grating widen progressively
on the plane of the grating, from the side nearest the oven
k to the side nearest the ramp V. The bars s .are preferably
of tee section, the vertical web forming the body of the bar,
whilst the two lateral flanges form the surface of the grating.
These lateral flanges are cut away -at the sides so as to form
a bar which tapers in plan. To push towards the ramp V
a heap h of quenched coke lying on the bench I, a scraper a is
put into position behind the heap. This scraper is long-
enough to engage the full width of the heap, and moves the
same over the grating r towards the loading ramp -V in a
direction parallel with the grating bars s. The scraper a
can be drawn forward by two ropes b attached to its ends
and wound simultaneously on -a winding drum c mounted
on a shaft d, which extends the whole length of the bench I,
and carries a further number of winding drums c, situated
at regular intervals, to enable the scraper a to be set in
operation at any desired spot on the bench. (Two claims.)

9013 (1914). Improvements in Centrifugal Pumps.
Internationale Rotations-Maschinen-Gesellschaft m.b.H., •
J. Lehne and W. Lucke, all of Saalburgstrasse, Berlin-
Tempelhof, Germany.—Relates to self-starting centrifugal
pumps, the special novelty and advantage being that the
auxiliary device which produces the automatic suction can
be set out of gear, so that the centrifugal pump then operates
under normal working conditions. In case the suction
current breaks off, the auxiliary device may be .again set
in action either by hand or automatically. Fig. 1 is a
longitudinal section, showing an auxiliary device remaining
in the suction pipe and adjustable by a hand lever; fig. 2

is a transverse section corresponding to fig. 1, except that
the controlling valve has been turned 90 degs. a indicates
the wheel of the centrifugal pump mounted in the casing b
in a known manner. When the outlet or delivery pipe c
is closed and water is in the pump, while the suction pipe
d is empty, a water ring revolving eccentrically with the
wheel, will be formed in the casing b under the influence
of the centrifugal force, which ring together with the wheel
will work in the manner of a certain kind of rotary pump,
inasmuch as the water at different parts of the circumference
penetrates more or less deeply into the cells formed by the