0 0 0 0 0 0 00 A A A A A A TELEPRONE 1830. ACKERLEY, AND AUCTIONEERS AND VALURES. Speciality for the last 50 years- HOUSES FURNITURE HALES AT PRIVATE CONDUCTED WITH Accomplished Auctioneering and Moderate 11, Paradise street, nod at 24. Walcor-road, Waterloo, Founded 1836. twit myl3 By Order of Newnham W.
Fynn. Esq. SEA FORTH. Preliminary Announcement of the highly important Sale of very excellent HOURCHOLD FURNITURE, recently supplied and selected from the Stocks of the special best design by Warine. Cotter and Dutton: Bed and Table local houses, and factuding appointments made to Linen, Books, Glass, Chimn, and the entire of the realdence Eyambo," VI AND ESSRS.
CO. give notice WALKER, that they Sell by ACKERLEY, Auction, as above, on Monday and Therday, the 6th and 7th June next. Particulars in future Paradise Any, 1098. mtwtf10my17x Houschota Furniture and Effecta, removed from private residences, parties relinquishing housekeeping, for rent, and other sources. This Day (Wednesday), at Two o'clock, at the Salerooms, 55, Whitcchapel, very large, of well made Furniture for drawing, dining, and bed rooms, all the belt condition.
GRICE will Sell by Auction, as above, the FURNITURE and Effects, On view prior to sale. Further particulars from Mr. Grice, ROYAL HORSE REPOSITORY, PEMBROKE- PLACE, LIVERPOOL (MAGUIRE'S). TO MORROW (THURSDAY), 12TH AT O'CLOCK. TO MORROW (THURSDAY), 12TH AT ONE O'CLOCK, 100 CANADIAN AND AMERICAN HORSES, INCLUDING HEAVY CART HORSES, HEAVY AND LIGHT VANNERS, BESSERS, TRAMMERS, PARCEL CARTERS, HARNESS HORSES AND COBS.
100 HIGH -CLASS HORSES, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), MAY 12TH. by Auction. The sbove are partieularly good shipment, and specially Eclected for the English Market, T. I. MAUGHAN A COTIONEERS.
6my 12 By Order of Mr. James Morgan, who is declining the retail branch of the business. 24 and 26. GREAT HOMER STREET, Liverpool topposite the Haymarket) This Day (Wednesday), the 11th at Twelve o'clock AND HAWLEY favoured instructions to prepare and catalogue, in of the a bore instructions, and Sell by Auction, the STOCK -IN -TRADE, vIZ, trade: SADDLERY, HARNESS, in connection with the over together with the Shop Mixtures and Tenant's laterest of 35 years' standing. On view morning of sale.
Catalogues now ready, and may be bad from the auctioneers, 5, Harrington street, Liverpool: 215, Lordatreet, Southport And Formby. Telephoue No. 6862, Liverpool: No. 131. Southport.
Country Sales by Auction. BELFAST. IRELAND. Important Two Days Sale of Contractors' Plant and Machinery, T. AND E.
A. CROW, Contractors A. Anctioneers, have bean honoured with instructions train Messra, James Henry and Sons, owing to completion contracts, to Sell by Auction, on Scrabo Wednesday Quarries, and New146 and 2nd June next, at the Yard, Crumlin road, townurds, Berfant, the Down, whole of VALUABLE CONcounty and Contractors TRACTORS PLANT and MACHINERY, Catalogues now preparing, and obtainable from the Manor House, Sunderland. Telegrams, Sunderland. Nat.
Tel. No. 751. Education. CADEMY FOR CIVIL SERVICE, COMMERCE, AND THE PROFESSIONS.
Nd he most suesessful training in the provinces for all Public Examinations, Banks, Chartered Accountants, Preliminary Legal, Medical, All the branches of a thorough business ednoation taught. Classes or Private Prospectus, cootaining the names and testimonials from recent successful J. Keel F.R.G.S., 120. Bold street. Telephone 6801.
23a jy15 A Boarders LTRINCHAM received, Entire HIGH care, if desired, SCHOOLS.4 of home, colonial, and foreign children. Fees moderate. He trance any date. Prospectus at request. 14apmyll L.
JEAFFRESON, M.A. (Scholar of C. Lincoln first classman in classical moderations, formerly head master of Guildford Grammar School, asslatant master in Cheltenham College, oue of the examiners to the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board, Prepares all Examinations in CLASSICS and MODERN LANGUAGES. -106, Kingsleyrond. 3my 16 CARL W.
L. HEINECKE RESUMED MUSICAL TUITION on MONDAY, May 9. Address Hanover Longe, Manor-road, Liscard. 280 piny l1 COMMERCIAL approved EDUCATION and UP methods TO ct teaching WRITING, BOOKKEEPING, SHORTHAND. ARITHMETIO, Spelling, Grammar, Commercial Letter Writing.
Typewriting, No Class Tuition. Each Student is Taught Separately, Separate and Distinct Rooms for Ladies, Gentlomen, sud Juniors. Accommodation and Tnition Unsurpassed. Electric Light, Acadeny open from TEN to NINE daily. Pupils join any time E.
SMART 12, Church street, Liverpool. Telephone 5812 ELOCUTION IN ALL BRANCHES.Mr. O. E. OLEGG visits Colleges and Schools.
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION to Ladies and Gentlemen. For all particular address 56, Mount 278pmy 24 ELOCUTION (sister AND to DRAMATIC receive ART. few more Pupils for the above. Voice Culture a special feature. 21, Jolliffe street.
14 ROSVENOR LADIES' COLLEGE, EGREMONT, invited to applyfor prospectus and visit institution. Examinations, 146 successes. Elicient staff. Professors, Term began on May 2. 140pmyll TIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 171.
BEDFORD- STREET SOUTH. PRINCIPAL. MISS CHARLESSON. Term began on MAY 3. Pupils prepared for London and Victoria Matriculation, Music, and other Examinations.
Boarders received. Couversational French and German. Certificated Kindergarten Mistress, 21apmy 12 TAMES J. MONK gives Post Lessons in Theory, Harmony, Counterpoint, Form and Analysis. Sc.
in preparation for Musical Examinations: also Piano, Organ, Singing Lessons, ko-101, Grove-street, Liverpool. 10myje6 of the Frankfurt ME. Conserratoire of Musie, gives Lessons In PIANOFORTE and THEORY. Terms to be had at the Paroleum Studio, 28. Bold-street.
101y 16 TR. FREDERIO W. AUSTIN, B. Mus. Dunelun, has RESUMED LESSONS.
35, Beresford-cond, Birkenhead. 5myll ALBERT E. ISAAO RESUMED MR. his PIANOFORTE and Theory LESSONS on FRIDAY, May 6. 17, Ivanhoe-road, Sefton Park, and 61.
Bedford street. 30apey13 ALFRED ROSS, Solo Violinist, Pupil of Joachim, and late Concert Master of the boyw High School for Music, Berlin, receives PUPILS at 48. Bedtord-street. 160pmy13 Teachers and of Miss the Violin, ROSS Piano, and and Mr. Singing A.
ROSS, (Behake method), have RESUMED TEACHING. Orchestral Classes Mondaysand Wednesdays. 48, Bedford.st. 168pmy 13 TISS S. E.
ACKERLEY, L.R.A.M.. RESUMED LESSONS in SINGING, PIANOFORTE, and THEORY on THURSDAY, May 5. Schools attended. Southport visited. Meers.
Jude and Letter's Music Studios, 16. Colquitt-street, Liverpool, and 16, Cleveland street, Hamilton square, Birkenhead. 300pmy 13 RESIDENT an PUPIL experienced can be Private received Tutor (late in principal). Healthy seaside locality. -Address Mr.
A. Leedom, Oaklands, Hoylake, Cheshire. 9myje4 CLINGING VOICE PRODUCTION. Malle, ZULIANI has RECOMMENCED be LESSONS in the above at 141, Bedford street South. wil1 my 23 CLINGING.
VOICE DEVELOPMENT. Mr. JAMES VEA0O. Eatablished 1871. Mr.
James Veaco gusrantees True Production of Tone, Distinet Enunciation, and Pore Style to every pupil, whom he undertakes to teach. Terms on application. 12, CHURCH LIVERPOOL (next Messes, Cooper) 22apmy 19 CITAMMERING, Speech Mr. SELTMAN, B.A., 66. Victoria street, London, reDelves PUPILS.
Specially recommended by DirectorBeneral Army Medical Department, War Office. THE INSTITUTE SCHOOL, WEST KIRBY Day Girls and Boarders For prospectus apply to Miss WILSON, Heed Mistress, w19 27 Contracts. mo BUILDERS and Contractors.Parties willing to TENDER for the ERECTION of several HOUSES at Heswall, Cheshire, are requested to send their names, by letter, to 0. B. Taylor.
solicitor. 20, Sir Thomas buildings, Liverpool. Quantities will be supplied. 11my 17 TO BUILDERS. TENDERS are invited for the EREOTION of a PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH, Back's road, Douglas.
Drawings and specifications can be seen, between Nine and Five p.m., from May 6, on application to Mr. J. Shimmin, 10, Onetle-street, Douglas, to whom tenders are to be delivered before noon, on Monday. May 23, No pledge is given to accent the lowest or any tender. JOHN WILLS, Architect, Victoria chambers, Derby.
Douglas, And May, 1898, 1000y 11 Publications. WAR oF MAPS CUBAN QUESTION. From One Shilling each, post free. WELLTAM POTTER, 30. Exchange street East.
TAGGARD'S central. Foreign stamps bought or exchanged. Out of print books supplied. Now books 4d. in la.
Books bought auy quantity. -39, Renshaw-street. Telephone 6848. 22a ply 21 Gloucy. DELL SONS.
the old-established Mortgage Agents, 36, South John stroet, have sums of £100 to 810.000 arniting, investment: no valuation fees for Liverpool low charges, fixed beforehand. 24fems 25 GREATER LIVERPOOR TREATER FINANCES NO BILLS OF SALE OR PUBLICITY. NO FEES. STRICTEST SECRECY GUARANTEED. CASE Advanced from 210 to £1000 on your own Note Hand alone, also on deeds, scrip, bonds, plate, diamonds, pianos, and other merchandise, at nearly bank rate of interest.
C. DAYUS, FINANCIER BILL DISCOUNTER RIGBY-BUILDINGS (facing North Johu-stroet), 21. DALE STREET, LIVERPOOL. Telephone 2336. THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY WEDNESDAY MAY 11 1898.
Money £650 rental £128, chief rent of £21. Eight Address Houses STORE 156, Mereury-office. 11 my17 Householders and others in town or country, requiring a strictly Private Loan, 01 own signature, from $10 upwards, without the ness of giving bill of sale or Andine suzetten, and who are willing to par either weekly, monthly, or quarterly, at an agreed rate of interest, can be accommodated withCArt delay or feen by writing and the amount quited. to C. Purke.
51, School-Tane, Liverpool, BORROW PRIVATE DIRECT FROM LANDER THE will ACTUAL Advance £10 LENDER. upwards to responsible corrowers, honseholders, and others, entirely ca note of hand, without askine for sureties. Repayments, including capital and agreed interest, can country be Inade weekly, inonthly, or quarterly as desired applicants waited on at home, and loan granted there and then. No fees, no delay. Town or country Call or write, Webber, Regent Villa, 66, Merton-road, Bootie, Liverpool.
100716 BUILDERS 4. Bond, £1300 to Imperial-chambers, Lend on 62 Mortgage. Dale-street, Apply Reparable a Lady 81 or month, Gentlemen with Lend a Gentleman Address 8 10my 16 Or more Wanted from private party: pay back £50 weekly, by man in business with good cattle, piant; ample security; state lowest interest. dress W. 23.
Mercury office, Mortgage, gill edge real annually, ex -Addresa W. 24, personal Merenry-office, security; 9my 11 £450 Wanted repayable from 34 per cent. to be of Advanced Deeds, £150.000 on Mortgage or Deposit sums to suit Borrowers, in any port of the country. W. READER 5.
Conk-street. Telephone 5182. MONEY. AbRolntely Without Bill of Sale. Publicity, NOTE -NO PRELIMINARY FEES.
or Fees, from One Month to Fire Years. THE NATIONAL MERCANTILE BANK, COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, CROSS-STREET, The 1872 directors of this well known, old established Bank EST. CAPITAL $200,000. are prepared to offer exceptional advantages to all 16 sponsible persons in need of temporary assistance. Private and prompt ADVANCES made daily, on borTower' A simple note.
The amount borrowed may be repaid by instalmenta, or at the end of a stated period. SPECIAL NOTICE. This Bank does not charge preliminary or inquiry fees, and the usual objectionable lounoffice rontine is entirely dispensed with. Apply in strictest confidence to MI. ROBERT JAMES.
Resident Manager. NOTE. Specially advantageous terms for LOANS on LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES. REVERSIONS, and SCOOND MORTGAGES. NOTE NO PRELIMINARY FEES.
Amyau6 IVERPOOL PROTECTIVE ASSURANCE SOCIETY 8500 to £10,000 to LEND at 8 low rate of interest on freehold an1 other properties and Recu rities. Apply D. J. secretary, 1, Islington-Aq. gmy je4 HAY INTEREST ON SPECIAL ALLOWED IF PAID IN THREE MONTHS.
D. G. SCOTT, 50. Statond-street, will ADVANCE £10 and upwards to Householders and Others, ou approved parsonal security, without publicity or delay, at a very low rate of interest and easy repayments. Distance no 00- ject.
No teas charged, and only legitimate business done. Hours 9 to Saturdays 9 to 2. 9myl WANTED Freehold to BORROW Property for £200 one on year Second at reasonable Mortgage rata of interest: collection of rents given Address 193. 9my14 £96.000 To Ad at Legacies, once on Mortgages, interest from Res 34. per cent; builders J.
Brown. 50a. Lord-st. 9my14 and Fittings of well-established make Loan Oice for Sale, north end, best position; good branch. Address 8 110.
Mereury-office. 9my11 WEST DERBY BUILDING SOCIETY to LEND on good Mortgage Security, at low Apply to J. Hosking, 16. Fenwick-street. 9myje4 LANCASHIRE LOAN, DISCOUNT.
AND INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED. HEAD OFFICE- 168. ISLINGTON, LIVERPOOL. BRANCH -105, BALLIOL-ROAD, BOOTLE. LOANS from 65 to 81000 on Personal or other Security.
£15 Repayable 6s. Weekly. Entire S1 28. 3d. 250 206.
£3 6s. 0d. £100 405. 26 168. 0d.
Telephone 6800. ALEX. GORDON, Manager. 7m yau5: per cent. on approved Freehold £500 Address 48.
Mercuryoffice. 51 12 Advanced on Mortgage of good Freehold or Security: interest at 4 and 44 per cont. building society mortgages, Apply Hindle and Son, solicitors, Liverpool. 5myll At from 3k be Advanced on £100.000, on Freehold or Leasehold Properties in sums to suit borrowers B. B.
Moss and estate agents and accountants, 20, North John-street, Livernool. Telephone 2066. 3my30 A firm Private having Capitalist. a member considerable of sum of well-known Uninvested wealthy Money, is prepared to Advance the same, in sums of pot less than 310 to £3000, to Persona of undoubted respectability, on their own promissory note, withent aaking for sureties or security, or preliminary charges or fees what ever, at a low and reasonable rate of interest. for short or long periods, Strictly private and confidential.
As this advertisem*nt la not connected with any loon society it is requested that habitual borrowers will not apply. For full particulars apply, by letter only, to Henry Cook5013, 548, Eage lane, Liverpool. 25a apjy23 THE TOINT STOCK DISCOUNT TD. 30. BIRKENHEAD, AND 97.
LIVERPOOL OANS ADVANCED from 93 to 81000 at exceptionally low rates of interest on the security of one or more respectable persons, Deeds of Property (without mortgagel, Dock Bonds, Shares in public companies, Lite Policies, ko. Apply NATHANIEL ANDREWS, Manager. Telephone Birkenhead, 253; Liverpool, 5565. 23a ply 22 CITY 10, CORPORATION COUNT STREET, BANE. MANCHESTER.
ADVANCES made to ail responsible persona on their own Promissory Note. Payable by easy instalmenta, one sum at a fixed period as reasonable rates of interest from One Month to Five Years. Also on Mortgage of Deeds, Reversions, and Life Policies. No. Preliminary Fees Charged.
Apply to ME. RICHARD WOOD, Manager. 18 mhje16 Advanced at once on tarmiture. jewellery, dia monda. works of art, pianos.
stocks-in-trade, machinery carriages, bonds, deeds, or any other description of security rates charged, and absolute strict contidence gils anted R. Hartles, 202. London road. Liverpool. MONEY LENT WITHOUT PRIVATELY, FEES, PROMPTLY, AND AT A FEW HOURS NOTICE, FROM 85 TO £5000, To Ladies, Gentlemen, Merchants, and Traders generally, upon, note of hand alone, and upon the security of private incomes, reversiona, life interests, lenses, deeds, stocks, shares, and lite policies; also upon furniture, jewels, and plate, without removal.
No public inquiries made whatever. Having at my command a large capital, all advances are made cheaper than at any other establishment in Liverpool. Apply pe sonally or write to the actual lender, R. JONES, Sand 4, Venice-chambers, 81. Lord street, Liverpool N.B.If urgent, Mr.
Jones will (by appointment) attend personally at applicant's residence, thus a voiding delay £10 TO £1,000 (NO FEES. NO PRELIMINARY CHARGES) Advanced at a few hours' notice, to respectable House holders, Tradesman, Farmers, Lodging-house Keepers, and others, male or femnie, on our easy repayment astoni. No Bills of Sale. Town or Country. Per Week.
Per Week. 210... Repayable at 930. Repayable at 15- £15... 850.
020. 8100... 50 £25... or by monthly, quarterly, or yearly repayments. Larger anionnte, specially arrauged to suit borrower's convenience.
Strictly private, and on your own security. Letters receive prompt Attention -Apply to Fielding's, Limited, 59, Pombroke- Liverpool. elephone 1657. 6apjy5 1338. CREDIT Registered BANE Capital £100,000.
LIMITED. HEAD OFFICE: 38. RENSHAW-STREET, LIVERPOOT.Advances made from 85 to £5000, upon Personal Security, Promissory Notes; also upon Deeds, Shares, Life Policies, Reversione, Annuities, Dock and other Bonds, £10 repayable 56, weekly. Entire interest, 20 145. 9d.
£20 HA. 21 78. 6d. 208. 23 88.
00. £100 408. £6 155. 0d. 91000 £20 £64 0s.
0d. Any oth'or sum and reduced repayments at proportionate rates. Monthly and quarterly arranged: also Loans for lixed periods. Bills discounted prom poly. Further particulars on application, personally or by letter.
Telephone 5458. RICHARD DAVIES, Manager. 15mljel3 1 Strict Secrecy and Honourablo Transactions apply to the old-established EXPRESS LOAN AND DISCOUNT OFFICE, which continues to ADVANCE CASE in coms from £3 to $500 to householders, shepkeepera, farmers, dairymen, and others, on their own note of hand alone. Easy repayments to suit borrowers. Cash also advanced to any amount on Deeds, Scrip, and Plate at an exceptionally low rate of Only address.
18, Lowbill. off Kensington E. STANLEY. Manager. Tramcars pass the door.
MONEY. £10 TO £20.000, JAMES HOLDEN begs to intimate that he is preto Advance Sums of Money to any respectable and responsible Person (Ladies or Gentlemen), in any part of England or Wales, promptly and privately, without any preliminary charges, usual interest publicity, or securities, and at about the charged elsewbere. cordially invite any person who can do with temporary cash accommodation, before applying elsewhere, to write to me. Please note my only address, James Holden, 39. Stanleystreet, Fairfield, Liverpool 15mbj 13 LIVERPOOL GENTLEMAN a large atmount of uninrested capital at his command, will Lend same in the strictest privacy in sums of 810 to 21000 to any respectable person (male or female), in any part of the United Kingdom, on the security of their own promissory notes or I without sureties, delay, or law charges.
Also on. Deede, Mortgages, and Dock Bonds, at a very Low rate of interest, The amount borrowed can be repaid by easy instalments, extending over a period from one to five years, or capital can as long as the interent in paid. Ar this office la a bone tide private concern, and not connected with any loan office, it is requested that babitnal borrowers will not apply. For further particulars call or rite, WILLIAM CAMERON, Melvill-chambers, LORD LIVERPOOD. Telephone No.
1197. Telegrams, Finance." Liverpool. FEE SI CHARGES 4 THE COUNTY PRIVATE LOAN COMPANY Advance Money to respectable applicants (male or female) on their own note of hand, No other security asked for. SECRECY PROMPTITUDE. EASY REPAYMENTS.
MODERATE INTEREST. Business hours, ten to five; evenings, seven to nine; Saturdays, ten to two, Apply personally or by letter, 23. MOUNT PLEASANT. (Near Adelphi Hotel). Telephone 6941.
1 apje30 JOS. DAVIS, Manager. MONEY TENT ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT SURETIES, PUBLICITY, OR BEFOREHAND CHARGES, At about ON K. TENTH of the INTEREST charged by others, BY MR. HERBERT CROSFIELd (Private Gentleman), PRINCE ARTHUR CHAMBERS.
19, SIR THOMAS- STREET, WHITECHAPEL, LIVERPOOL. FROM TO £20,000 TO ANY RESPONSIBLE PERSON (Ladies or Gentlemen), DISTANCE NO. OBJECT. ON THEIR OWN PROMISSORY NOTE IN THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE. By calling or writing, Applicants will be convinced of the genuinecess of this advertisem*nt.
All information will be mven absolutely Free, either by a personal interview or by letter. MR. CROSFIELD Wishes to caution intending Borrowers to pay no fees, railway expenses, or beforehand charge of any kind, which are often demanded by so-called Lenders, many of whom are in a worse position than intending Borrowers; and those who have applied to so-called Banks or Loan Offices, paid Fees, and were unable to obtain an Advance, by applying to me their application will receive immediate attention, and if no business be done no charge whatever will be made. Tapjy DVICE TO MOTHERS.A MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP should always be used when children are cutting teeth.
It relieves the little sufferer at once. It produces natural quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub wakens bright an a button. It is very plesaant to taste. It soothes the child. it softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves win gulates the bowels, and is the beat known remedy fo antery and diarrhea, whether arising rom teething cause, Price 1s.
12d. per bottle, of 1l chemists. AS GREAT THAN ADVANCE IN ELECTRIC LIGHTING AS INCANDESCENT MANTLE IN GAS LIGHTING, By this invention a great increase in the illuminating power of an incandescent electric lamp is obtained, and 65 15 more thin doubles the effective light emitted, an eight candle power lamp does the work of a 16-candle power lamp, and ensures a corresponding economy in the consumption of electrie current. The LIST OPENED TUESDAY, the 10th day of May, 1898, and will CLOSE on or before TO- MORROW (THURSDAY). the 12th day of May, 1898.
THE SPIRAL GLOBE, LIMITED. (Parent Company. Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1893 Capital, £150.000, in 150,000 Shares of £1 each, vendor takes 25,000 shares in part payment (the largest PRESENT ISSUE. 75,000 shares, of which the amount allowed by the Rules of the Stock Exchange) Are invited for 50.000 shares at par Payable 50. on application, 10s.
on allotinent, 55. one month aiter allotment. DIRECTORS G. I. Brongham Glasier (depaty-chairman of the Charingcross and Strand Electric Supply Corporation, Limited), and chairman of the Smithfield Market Electric Sopply Company.
Limited, Chairman, W. L. Strachan (director of the Galaha Ceylon Tea Estate J. and H. Agency Smith Company, Limited), (late chairman of the South Australian Railway Commissioners) Washington Smiky, 26.
Coventry-street, S. W. B. A Consulting Electrical Engineer, 5, F.C.. Managing Directer.
join the Board after allotment. CONSULTING ENGINEER FOR THE COMPANYA. F. Woodley (late technical manager of the Ineandescent Lamp Factories of the Edison and Swan United Electrio Light Company, Limited). BANKERS.
London and South western Bank, Limited, 168. 160. and 170. Fencaurch-street. E.C..
Read and Brigstock, 5, Austinfriars, E.0., and Stock Exchange. SOLICITORS. Fladgate and 2, Craig's-court, Charing-cross, 8.W. (for the company); Parker and Parker, 13. Clement lane, 1.C.
(for the vendor). AUDITORS. Deloitte, Devor, Grifithe, and chartered accountants, 4, Lothbury, E.C SECRETARY AND OFFICES Bertram Parker, 5, Fenchurch-street, E.0. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. OBJECTS.
This company has been formed as a parent company to virchase the British, foreign and colonial patents and patent rights of Measts, Dunlap and their spiral glass cover for electric incandereent lataps, together with all improvemente therein, to develop the business. to re sell the patents and patent righte, and to promote subsidiary companies for coquiring and- working DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION. The invention is of an exceptionally simple character, notwithstanding the important advantages if secures, and consists essentially in the employment of a spital glass rod having qualities, and of about one- eighth of 211 inch in diameter, colled round the bulb of an eleo. trio incandescent lazap. ADVANTAGES.
The invention not only successtally accomplishes, what has long been vainly sought for in electric lighting, i.e., to conceal the dazzling flament, which 15 painful to the eye, diminishing the light, but the light soft and plotsant, and by, reducing the cost of greatly, incresses the effective illumination, and renders electric lighting tends to increase the sale of all kinds of electric incandescent lamps. EXPECTS' OPINIONS. Lamps covered with the glass spiral have been tested by the Electrical Standardising Testing and Training Institation, Faraday House. A copy of their report is enclosed with the prospectus. The following estimate has been made by Mr.
A. F. Woodley, consulting engineer to the company: In compliance with your request concerning the saving to consumers by using incandescent electrio lamps covered with the Spiral Globe, I hare arrived at the following concinsion: Taking as a basis the statements, drawn from the reports put before me, showing the increased elective illu mination by covering the lamps with the Spiral Globe, and taking the average price of the Board of Trade unit, the comparative saving to the consumer will be equal to 50 per cent." PROFITS. It la proposed in the first instance that the company shall develop the business by purchasing lamps of manufacturers, and contract for covering them with the Spiral Globe, and, after testing, then sell to the public, A special price can be obtained from the manufacturers when lamps are purchased in large quantities. They can be covered with the Spiral, and sold at about the same price as the uncovered lamps, leaving a good margin of profit to the company.
VALIDITY OF PATENT. Mr. J. Fletcher Mouton. 0.0.
has advised that the invention is good subject-matter for letters patent. In order to test the novelty of the invention, a search has been made by the well patent agents. Messes. A. M.
and Clark, and a copy of their report, and of the opinion of Mr. Flatcher Moniton. Q.C., are given with the prospectus. The above opinions bave since been confirmed by the graating, amonz others. of the patents for Germany and the United States of America, in which countries most rigid investigations are made by the examiners before patents are granted, For entire list of patents see full prospectus.
It is intended to apply for a Stock Exchange quotation in due course. Applications for shares should be made on the 30001- panying form, and forwarded to the company's bankers, together with a remittance for the amount payable on application. The contract of sale to the company, together with the memorandum and articles of associstion of the company, an-1 the original opinions and reports above referred to, with others, can be inspected at the offices of the solicitora to company. Lamps with the spiral glass cover can be seen and tested at the offices of the company, No. 5.
Fenchurch-street, any week-duy between the hours of eleven a.m. and five p.m., and also at the showrooms of Laine, Wharton, and Down, Limited, 82a, New Bond-streut, and 17, Grace hurch-street, E.C May 2nd, 1898. ESTIMATE OF PROFITS. March 17th, 1898. Report from Fred.
J. Down. F.C.S, M.LE.C., Adriatory Electrical Engineer and Valuer, New Bond-street, W. To the Directors of the Spiral Globe, Limited. Dear Sirs- As requested, I.
hare pleasure in giving you any opinion 4s to the probable commercial results to be derived from the exploitittion and sale of the pira Globe. When your company has, by advertisem*nt and otherwise, brought the to the notice of the electric light trade in this country, I consider it not reasonable to estimate the sales of the spiral corered laps at the rate of 2,000.000 per annum. Profits. I consider that you may estimate the profit on the sale of this number of lamps at £26.000 per annum, and with a natural increase of sales during the second and subsequent years this proft should be increased to 230,000. and even to £35.000 per Foreign Patents.
-When the advantage of your Spiral Globe has become known, I have Little doubt that you will be able to negotiate the sale of your foreign colonial patents and the granting of royalties, and in this waz alone the whole capital of your parent company, which I censider moderate, should easily be returned to the shareholders as profit within the next few years. General -I consider that your Spiral Globe may be made applicable, with equal it not greater advantage, to the Incandescent Gas Light at present in the market, and I think that after experimenting you will And that it will be equally apnlicable to the enclosed form of are lamp. am, yours faithfully, (Signed) J. DOWN. 3 This Application Form may be used.
THE SPIRAL GLOBE, LIMITED. Isene of 50.000 Shares of 81 each. To the Directors of the Spiral Globe, Limited, Fenchureh House, 5. London, E.C. Gentlemen, Having paid to your bankers the sum of being depoalt of per share on shares of £1 ench in the above-named company.
I request you to allot me that number of shares, and I agree to accept the gaze, or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, subject to the memorandum and articles of association, and upon the terms and conditions of the prospectas of the company: and I agree with the company (aa trustee for the directors and other persons lisble) to waive any claim I may have against them for non.compliance in the said prospectus with Section 38 of the Companies Act, 1867. and I authorise you to place my name on the register of members in respect of the shares so allotted to me, and I agree to pay the further instalmenta upon such allotted shares on the terms of the prospectus. Name (in full) Address (in fall) Profession or occupation Date -1898 Signature The SUBSORIPTION LIST OPENS THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY), the 11th day of May. Issue of 8000 Cumulative 5 per cent. Preference Shares of £5 each.
TOHN C. GALE LIMITED (Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1893, whereby the liability of the Sharcholders is limited to the amount of their shares). SHARE £100,000 Divided into 12.000 5 per cent. Preference Shares of 85 And 8,000 Ordinary Shares of £5 each 8100,000 The whole of the Ordinary Shares are taken by the Vendors, also 4000 Preference Shares, this being the maximum allowed by the rules of the Stock Exchange. Prosent isame, 8000 5 per cent.
cumulative preference shares of £5 each, at par. £40.000 PAYABLE AS FOLLOWS: On application 81 per share. On allotment On One 2nd mouth August, after 1898 allotment 8 £5 Dividends upon the Preference Shares will be payable half yearly, on the 1st December February and 1st August, calculated the first dividend up to the 31st next being from the respective dates of payment of the instalments. DIRECTORS. John Christopher Gale, Aigburth Lodge, Aigburth, Liverpool, chairman.
Lorenta Braun Haddock, of Messra, R. W. Leyland and Liverpool Arnold Richard Rathbone, of Messrs. Smith, Rathbone, and Liverpool. William Henry Edwards, Hatton Garden, Managing Liverpool.
Directors. William Waters, Hatton Garden, Liverpool BANKERS. The Bank of Liverpool Limited, and its Branches. BROKERS. -T.
T. G. Irvine, 7. India buildings, Waterstreet, Liverpool. SOLICITORS.
-Collins, Robinson, Driffeld, 34, Castlestreet. Liverpool, AUDITORS -W. H. Walker and Chartered Accountants. 42, Castle street, Liverpool.
SEORETARY (pro and I REGISTERED OFFICES.S. S. Dawson, 7, Hatton-garden, Liverpool. PROSPECTUS. This Company has been formed to acquire Leather and develop Mer- the well-known business of Hide and Factors, chants and Commission Agents, which has been so long and successtally carried on in Liverpool, and for the past 38 years under the Style of JOHN O.
GALE CO. The Company will acquire the valuable premises in Hatton garden, Liverpool, which are held on lease from the Liverpool Corporation for 75 years from 22nd April, 1867, nit a peppercorn rent, together with the Stock-in-Trade, Book Debts, excluaise Agencies and Goodwill, the purchase price for which has been lixed at £70,000, and the Vendors have agreed to take same as follows: £40.000 The whole of the ordinary One third of the preference shures 20.000 (The maximum amount allowed by the rules of the Stock Exchange. And the balance in cash 10.000 970.000 Of the proceeds of the present issue of 40.000. the large proportion of 830.000 will therefore be applied to the development of the business and as additional working capital. The business will be taken over as from 2nd May, 1898, the vendors guaranteeing all the book debts.
The various assets to be acquired are Premises, Hatton-garden, Liverpool, F.S. valued by Mr. Henry Hartley, £10,060 0 0 Stock Liverpool, at at present Market Value, Book Debts, Cash and Bills, together 55,484 19 11 065,544 19 11 Oat of which the Liabilities as on 2nd May, 1898, will be taken over and discharged by the company. These amoant 20,499 0 £45,045 19 There is also the Cash from the present issue 30,000 0 Prospectuses. £75,045 19 The books of the firm have been examined by Messrs.
W. Walker and chartered accountants. whose certificate is appended, and from which it will be seen thas the average annual profits (apart from the profit 10 be derived from the utilization of the additional £30.000 ensh working capital have been sumicient to pay the dividend upon the preference shares, managing directors' remuneration, and a dividend on the ordinary shares. AR el further security 10 the preference shareholders, in addition to any reserve fund for general purposes that may be formed, it la provided by the articles of asancia tion that after payment of the dividend on the preference shares, ten per cont. of the remaining profite shall be annually placed to a special reserve fund until such fund amounts to a sum equal to two years dividend on the preference shares issued, after which only such aura shall be annually placed to such special reserve fund as may be necessary to maintain same at tire issue.
amount equal to two No debentures or additional preference khares yours' dividend on the preference can be created without the consent of twe-thirds of the holders of the preference shares at a specially convened meeting, so that the preferetice shares are the first capital charge upon the undertaking. The existing arrangements as regards the conduct of the business will not be altered, and management, in order Mr. to Joha maintain Chris- the topher Gale will set as chairman of the company, whilst continuity of the present Mr. William Henry Edwards and Mr. William Waters, who have both been actively connected with the business for more than 20 years, have agreed to set as managing directors of the company for at least 7 YORES.
The pregent efficient letaf of salesmen and other officials have also agreed to continue with the company. It is the intention of the directors in allotting the shares to give a preference to the customere and friends of the firm, so that their co-operation may be secured, and the begt interests of tee company thereby considered. The following contracts have been entered A contract dated the seventh day of May, 1898, between John Christopher Gale, Willian Henry Edwards, and William Waters of the one part, and the company of the other part. (2) A contract dated the seventh day of May, 1898, between the company of the one part, and the said William Henry Edwards of the other part (3.) A contract dated the serenth day of May, 1888, between the company of the one part, and the said William Waters of the other part. The business will be taken over subject to all existing contracts.
These are of the ordingry trade charter, but Including as they do contracts with employes, customers, and others, they cannot, and it is not desirable that they should, be specified betel Tecanically, such contracts are, or may be, contracts within Section 38 of the Companies Act, 1867, but subscribers will be held to have had notice and to have waived their right to be supplied with any further particulars or details as to the contracts. All expenses of formation and registration of the company will be paid by the vendore. No promotion money has or will be paid, and no portion of this issue has or will be underwritten or guaranteed. Application will be made in due coarse for a settlement and quotation on the Liverpool Stock Exchange for the present issue of preference shares. Copies of the contracts, the 80- certificate.
Mr. Hartley' valnation. and the memorandum and articles of association, may be inspected at the oflices of Messra, Collins, Robinson, and Driffield, solicitors. 34. Castle-street, Liverpool.
Prospectuses and forms of application can be obtained from the bankers, brokers, solicitors, and auditors, and also at the registered offices of the company, 7th May, 1898. Prospectuses. ACCOUNTANTS CERTIFICATE Castle street. Liverpool, 25th April 1898. To the DIRECTORS OF JOHN C.
GALE LIMITED. Dear. Sirs, As requested, we have examined the books of Messrs. John C. Gale and Hatton garden, Liverpool, and beg to certify that without charging interest on capital or rent of the premises about for to be acquired by the company, the average annual protit dividend the past the five years has been to pay the upon proposed issue of 12,000 preference shares, and provide for managing directors remuneration and a dividend on the ordinary shares.
The average sunual proit for the pAst three Fears is in excess of the average for the five Fears referred to. Yours faithfully, W. H. WALKER CO. Chartered Accountants, The SUBSCRIPTION LIST for the UNDERNOTED DEBENTURE STOCK will OPEN and CLOSE on FRIDAY NEXT, the 13th May, 1893.
WILLIAM LIMITED. YOUNGER COMPANY, Incorporated August, 1887. under the Companies Acte, 1862 to 1886. CAPITAL. 5000 £5 per cent.
Cumulative Preference Shares of Ordinary $100 Snares of £100 esch ......8500.000 £500.000 5000 All of which are heid by the partners of the late urm of William Younger and ComPART, the directors, and staff.) 34 per cent. Debenture Debenture Stock which shall (Part of like Stock not exceed one half of the share capital for the time being issued.) £1,300,000 The BANK OF SOOTLAND are AUTHORISED to RECEIVE APPLICATIONS at their HEAD OFFICE in EDINBURGH, at their LONDON OFFICE, and at of their BRANCHES, for the above £300,000 34 per cent. debenture stock at par: parable 10 per cent. cent. ou application, 30 per cent, on allotment, 30 on 30th July, and 30 per cent.
on 30th September, 1898. The debenture stock will be redeemable at the company's option after 20 years, at £106 for every £100 stock. The interest will be payable ou the let day of January and the let dex of Tuly in each year. The first interest will be calculated on instalmente from their date of payRent, and will be parable on the 1st July, 1898. If the debenture stoek eball at any time prior to 1918 become parable owing to the voluntary winding np of the company, it shall be redeemed at a value to be calenlated secording to the average mean market value of the stock, during the three years immediately preceding the date when the security becomes enforceable, but 80 that the value shall not be leas than per £100 stock.
Payment in full may be made ou allotment, when interest will accrue. DIRECTORS. Henry Johnston Younger, chairman. Andrew Smith, En. deputy chairman.
James Thomas Beltrage, Lag. Robert Bruce, Esq. George Stenhouse, Esq. Harry George Von ager, Esq. William Johnston Younger, Esq.
BANKERS. The Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, and 19, Bishopsgate-street Within, London, E.0. Bircham and 50, Old Broadstreet. London, E.C., sad 46, Parliament etreet, Westminster. BROKERS.
Mosers. Lawrie and Ker, 4. St. Andrew. square, Edinburgh; Messrs.
Fenn and Crosthwaite, 4.4, Coleman -street, London, 1.0. SECRETARY Mr. J. W. Shennan.
REGISTERED The Abbey Brewery, Edinburgh. LONDON 19, Belvedere-road, London, S.E. PROSPECTUS. The company vas incorporated in Angost, 1887, when it took over the well-known brewery business of Mesare: William Younger and which was established in 1749. Since the date of the incorporation of the company the business has very largely increased, and it is desirable that further capital should be raised for the purpose of meeting the requirements of the trade and extending the business.
In July, 1890, when the preference shares were offered to the pablie, the company's heritable properties, plant, machinery, casks, stock, book debts, loans, cash, and other assets, after deducting liabibties to creditors and depositors, amounted to £729.268 exclusive of goodwill and trade marks. The books of the company have been examined by Chatteris, Nichols, and chartered accountants, London, who in conjunction with Messrs. 1. and J. Martin, chartered Edinburgh, the company's auditors, hare given following certificate: 1, TO Queen WILLIAM Victoria street, YOUNGER London, E.C., COMPANY, 5th May, LIMITED, 1808 At your request we hare examined the balance sheet of your company as at 31 December, 1897, thereof, and omitting certify that the following is a correct the share capital, goodwill, and trade We consider that the of £1,047.715 198.
54. correctly represents the net value of the asseta, viZ. i- Heritable and leasehold property, plant, machinery, stocks, and maki £505.305 17 1 Customere accounts, loans, and interest, Dafter deducting liabilities 420,188 10 4 Cash at bank, bills receivable, and aharea in other 122.211 12 0 The assets will be further increased by £1,047,715 19 5 the amount raised by this issue of debenture stock 300,000 0 £1,347,715 19 5 The net rentals receivable by the company, together with the net interest on loons and investments (without taking into account any profs from the breweriea), amount to more than sufficient to pay interest on debenture stock equal in smount to one bait of the present share capital. We have also examined the profit and loss accounts of the company for three years ending 31st December, 1897, and cert.ty that, after bad debts and full depreciation have been written off, the protit* have been as underYear Year ending ending 31 31st st December, December, 1805.. 13 Year ending 31 4t December, 1897..
£145,838 Or an averace of £140.176 8d, per annum. These- figures show a very large increase since the issue of preference shares in 1890, when we certified the profits for the year ending June, 1890, to be £85,957 48. 10d, For each year since the formation of the company a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum has been. paid.
on the ordinary shares, and for each of the last two years a bonus of 5 per cent. wes added. min reserve fund of £250 000, inelnding £30.000 preon ordinary and preference shares, has been created, and is inverted in the business, besides which £30,000 has been written off goodwill. -Yours faithfully, CHATTERIS, NICHOLLS, co. I.
J. MARTIN. The figures in the above certificate do not include stry sum for goodwill or trademarks or anticipated, profits arising from the employment the proceeds Power is taken to issue further debenture stock, tanking with the 8300.000 at present offered, the total amount of which shall not exceed one-half of the share capital of the compeny for the time being issued, bat no such further issae is intended to be made, except for acquiring additional property and extending the business. It interest would on require £500.000 the sum of debenture only stock, £17.500 which to meet is the amount equal to one half of the share capital at present issued. Copies of the memorandum and articles of association, and the form of the debenture stock certificate, and the regulations endorsed, can be inspected at the offices of Masers.
Bircham and Co, 50, Old Broad-street, London, E. Applications for debenture stock should be made on the forni accompanying the prospectus, and sent to the Bank of Scotland, acootupanied by a deposit of 10 per cent. on the amount applied for. PROSPECTUSES and APPLICATION FORMS may be had at the OFFICES of the case COMPANY, no and of the BANKERS and BROKERS. In of allotment, deposits will be returned in fall, and when the amount allotted ia less than that subscribed for, the balance of the deposit will be applied towards the payment dne on allotment.
Failure to pay at the due date any instalment will render the allotment liable to cancellation, and previous paymenta to forfeiture. A- cootation on the official list of the London and principal Seotch Stock Exohanges for the debenture stock will be applied for in due course. The Abbey Brewery, Edinburgh, 9th May, 1888.10my11 BRILLIANT NEW STORY. BY RITA." "A DAUGHTER OP THE PEOPLE." ON SATURDAY NEXT, MAY 14, The OPENING CHAPTERS of a POWERFUL and INTERESTING STORY will be Published IN THE LIVERPOOL WEEKLY MERCURY. RITA, the Popular and Successful Authoress, has Produced a Work of quite unconventional character, and renders of her previous Novels will peruse it with unabated attention.
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The most important piece of news yesterday in connection with the war was the intelligence, telegraphed from Washington, that the Spanish Cape Verde fleet has returned to Cadiz. At present, therefore, there is no likelihood of a battle between this force and the American fleet under Admiral Sampson. Energetic steps are being taken in the United States to complete the preparations for the expeditions to Cuba and the The rioting in Italy appears to be of a revolutionary character, and the Government are adopting stern measures for its repression. In Milan the slaughter has been terrible, the number of killed alone being estimated at 1000. At Naples, too, barricades and cannon have been called into requisition by the opposing parties, and the authorities have declared a state of siege.
The Prime Minister, Marquis de Rudini, has addressed a circular to the various commanders and prefects urging them to continue prompt and inflexible repression. The Exchequer returns from April 1 to May 7 show: Receipts, expenditure, £12,088,652 balances, Corresponding period of last year: -Receipts £11,529,868, expenditure £12,615,006, balances £6,351,995. A meeting of the Cabinet, presided over by Lord Salisbury, was held yesterday at the Foreign Office. The third Drawing Room of the season was held at Buckingham Palace, yesterday afternoon, by the Queen in person. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and duch*ess of York, the Princess Beatrice, Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Henry of Prussia.
The House of Commons yesterday went into committee on the Local Government (Ireland) Consolidated Fund. The Duke of St. Albans died yesterday morning at Brook House, Isle of Wight, after a lingering illness. He was in his 59th year, and is succeeded by his eldest son, Lord Burford. The bulletin issued last evening says" To-day's report of Mr.
Gladstone is as satisfactory as is possible under the circ*mstances." The London Gazette" announces the appointment of a Royal Commission, with the Earl of Iddesleigh as chairman, to inquire into methods of treating and disposing of sewage, and to make recommendations. Polling for the election of a member of Parliament in place of Mr. Hamar Bass, deceased, took place in West Staffordshire yesterday, the candidates being Mr. Henderson, Unionist, and Mr. Adams, Liberal.
The result will be declared to-day. The Rev. W. R. Inge, M.A., Fellow and tutor of Hertford College, Oxford, was yesterday elected Bampton lecturer for 1899.
In memory of the Rev. J. W. Walker, B.A., of Knotty Ash, who died on Saturday, a service was held yesterday in the Stanley Congregational Church, Liverpool, when the Rev. George Lord, with whom Mr.
Walker had been co-pastor for upwards of ten years, delivered an appropriate address to a large assembly. The interment takes place this morning at Cheshunt, in Herefordshire. Mr. John Henderson was yesterday invited a deputation of the Liberals of Sandhills Ward to become their candidate next November for the seat in the City Council, to be vacated, owing to pressure of business engagements, by Councillor Rowlandson, but they failed to induce him to accede to their request. At the monthly meeting of the Liverpool School Board yesterday the question of accommodation for children in the city requiring education was the chief subject under consideration.
The great financial action, in which a sum of £850,000 is involved, and which relates to the Lagunas nitrate grounds, formerly owned by the late Colonel North, entered upon its final stage yesterday, when Mr. Justice Romer delivered his reserved judgment. The action, the trial of which lasted 16 days, was brought by the Lagunas Nitrate Company, Limited, against the Lagunas Syndicate, Limited, and the executors of Colonel North and Mr. Maurice Jewell, who, up to the time of their deaths, were members of the syndicate. The plaintiffs claimed the rescission of a contract of June, 1894, for the purchase from the defendants of certain nitrate grounds and works at Lagunas, in Chili, and the return of £550,000 cash and £300,000 worth of fully paid-up shares, paid and issued by the plaintiffs as the price of the grounds and works, and they also claimed damages for misrepresentation, misfeasance, breach of trust, and breach of contract.
At the outset of his judgment his lordship pointed out that fraud was not alleged against any of the defendants, and that the plaintiff company's counsel expressly stated that fraud was not, and was never intended to be, alleged. Looking at all the circ*mstances of the case, it would not now, he said, be fair or equitable to decree rescission of the contract. He thought that justice would be done, and the company would obtain all the relief it was entitled to against the syndicate, by directing (on the alternative claim of the company for damages for breach of contract) all inquiry as to what loss or damage the company had suffered by reason of the machina not being in complete working order on June 30, 1894. On all other points the plaintiff company failed, and the action would be dismissed, the company to pay the defendants all their costs, except those costs relating to the points on which the plaintiff company had succeeded, the costs of the inquiry as to damages to be reserved, with liberty to apply in chambers as to these costs. In the Queen's Bench Division, before Mr.
Justice Grantham and a special jury, yesterday, Mr. Adolphus Drucker, the Conservative member for Northampton, sued Mr. E. T. Hooley for the rescission of 0, contract and for the return of 25,000 shares.
The plaintiff alternatively asked for damages for alleged fraudulent representations. The jury stopped the case, and judgment was entered for the defendant with costs, his lordship remarking there was no evidence of fraud. The Chancery Court of Lancashire, sitting at Liverpool, yesterday, commenced the hearing of an action brought by the Earl of Derby against Mr. Ellis Brammall, proprietor or the Lyric Theatre, Kirkdale. The point in dispute was whether there had been a breach of a covenant owing to alcoholic liquor having been sold on the premises.
The case was not concluded at the rising of the court. At an inquest held yesterday, at Seaforth, a verdict of manslaughter was returned against a man named John Williams, who, it is alleged, inflicted injuries on his wife on Saturday night last which caused her death. Mr. Stewart, the Liverpool stipendiary, yesterday committed to the assizes a man named Lawrence Irving on a charge of stabbing an American sailor with a knife, and causing the loss of an eye. A young fellow named John Francis Durrans was fined 20s.
and costs for stabbing a woman on the head with a knife. The relations between Bulgaria and Servia have become very strained consequence of the Servian Government having, as it is alleged, detained the correspondence brought by a Bulgarian courier from Uskub. Bulgaria demands the punishment of the offenders, while the Servian Government denies the facts altogether. It is regarded as probable that the Bulgarian Government will recall its representative from Belgrade. The Congress of the Argentine Republic opened yesterday.
The Porte has accepted the proposals of the Powers for the evacuation of Thessaly. The circular which has been sent out by the Marquis di 1 Rudini for the guidance of the authorities in the disturbed parts of Italy does not furnish much ground for hoping that the revolt will be dealt with in a wise or statesmanlike spirit. Though it is undoubtedly necessary that, where riot appears, vigorous measures should be employed for its suppression, a prudent administration will not be content to crush disorder, but will inquire into its causes and see if it is possible to remove them. The Italian Premier gives 10 hints, however, that he imagines the social condition of his country to be capable of improvement. He is willing to believe that the risings were organised by enemies of the existing Constitution, who seduced the masses into aimless and purposeless strife.
This being the case, all that is necessary is to mete out severe treatment to rioters and to repose complete confidence in the Government and the national institutions. It is safe to predict that, if the Italian Premier has no more sympathetic and discerning a message to send to the people than this, we have not heard the last of rioting and bloodshed in the cities of Italy. Whatever amount of truth there may be in the suggestion that the dearness of bread is only a pretext to cover a deep-laid and extensive conspiracy against the Monarchy, no one can read the descriptions of the splendid courage shown by the populace in the street conflicts without forming a strong conviction that the rioters have very real wrongs which they are fiercely resolved to have redressed. Severe provocation is needed to induce an undisciplined crowd to offer resistance to regular troops, and no mob would have fought as the rebels did in Milan unless they had been goaded to desperation by misery and poverty. The effort which they made to secure a remedy for their woes was, perhaps, "aimless" and "purposeless." This was to be anticipated.
The people cannot be expected to discover a cure for the ills from which they are suffering. They only know that they are poor and miserable, and they naturally blame the powers that be for allowing them to drift into this condition. It is for statesmen to discover the solution of the problem, and those of Italy cannot complain that they have not been repeatedly warned of the probable consequences of the disordered finances of the country and of the best way of averting them. Every one remembers the remarkable anonymous article in the "Contemporary Review," in which Mr. Gladstone, speaking aS a lifelong friend of Italy, urged Signor Crispi to retire from the Triple Alliance, and to permit the country, with the aid of lighter taxation, to recover gradually its old wealth and importance.
If this advice had been followed the dearness of bread would have availed as little to create a rebellion and mob violence in Italy as in England. The people would at least have been in a far better position than they are now to buy bread, and would perhaps have met the exigencies of the moment as cheerfully as our working classes. The Marquis di Rudini appears to care more for the preservation of order than for promoting the well-being of the population. He is content to banish out of sight the symptoms of the disease without touching the malady itself. A policy so short-sighted can only have one ending.
If defeated on the present occasion, the leaders of the revolt will wait for a more favourable opportunity of sending the Italian Monarchy to the limbo to which the Second Empire and other faulty administrations have been consigned. It is evident from the telegrams which we publish this morning that a very considerable amount of organisation existed among the rebels. We are told that during the disturbances at Milan one of the agitators produced a telegram announcing a successful revolt at Ticino, a clear proof of co-operation. It is stated, moreover, that, though the riots were ostensibly provoked by the dearness of bread, the rebels appeared to be well supplied with funds. This fact, if authentic, shows plainly that preparations must have been made for some time back, for the Italian workman has not been in circ*mstances to allow of his subscribing lavishly to the revolutionary campaign.
In the southern provincesof Italy handbills weredistributed bearing the mysterious words To the frontier," which would seem to suggest that arrangements had been completed for a cryptic password to be circulated when the hour arrived for a general rising. When we add to these significant occurrences the extraordinary facility with which the mob took up strategic positions in the -streets of Milan and elsewhere, the demonstration of the existence of a formidable plot against the Government becomes even more conclusive. The unfortunate decision of the Italian Ministry to place all messages relating to the disturbances under strict censorship renders it impossible to discover 89 yet how far this concerted movement was successful. But the mere fact that the Government were afraid to allow the full truth to be telegraphed abroad speaks volumes for their own estimate of the gravity of the situation. With a state of siege at Milan and martial law proclaimed throughout the province of Naples, the condition of Italy is serious enough to extort the compassion of its bitterest foe.
The Select Committee which has been appointed to report whether municipalities shouid be allowed to provide their own telephone service is not a strong one, but it will doubtless prove competent to guide the Government to the right decision on this important question. After the Glasgow inquiry there is hardly room for two opinions on the subject, and there is every reason to expect that the committee will pronounce unhesitatingly in favour of the demand which is made by the leading civic corporations. Of course, it is only proper that the House of Commons should make sure that by establishing a telephone system a municipality does not benefit the few at the expense of the many; but it may be anticipated that the evidence will show how the boon conferred on the mercantile and professional classes will help to relieve the rates. The Select Committee cannot fail to be influenced by the consideration that it is desirable that the electric lighting of a town, its electric tramways, and its telephone system should be in the same hands. There is a danger lest in some instances the interests of the tramways and those of the telephone should clash.
If either remained in the hands of private proprietors, its efficiency would probably suffer. Mr. Gerald Balfour deserves a tribute of praise for the arrangements he has made to bring potato-spraying machines within the reach of small farmers in Ireland. He has induced the Goverrment to grant loans to boards of guardians for the purchase of such machines, and also the spraying mixture, and the intention of these. bodies is to hire out or sell, as the cultivators may prefer.
As a machine can be vended for one pound in cash, or let on very easy terms, the protection of the potato it provides ought to come into general use amongst the poorer oceupiers, through the assistance of the guardians. The Irish railway companies have undertaken to execute all the necessary carriage gratuitously, and their timely generosity is generally appreciated. It is rather surprising that the Chief Secretary waited 60 long before taking this commendable step. Spraying has been in operation in France, where it originated, for many years, and experience has shown that it is a preventive of disease. The potato is a plant exceedingly susceptible to blight, and its frequent failure in Ireland, where it is grown on a comparatively enormous scale, has produced infinite misery to human beings, and much embarrassment to the Government.
But, even at this late date, Mr. Gerald Balfour has done well, and the struggling cottiers will be grateful to him. Another osprey has just been shot somewhere in Yorkshire; and it may be added, as giving some indication of the increasing scarcity of this bird in Great Britain, that the last known to have been destroyed in this country was killed in the month of September, 1896. It is to be hoped that this senseless and selfish method of treating a rare bird is not going to be tolerated until the species becomes extinct. When will the public realise that everyone who kills a rare wild bird robs the community of what ought to contribute to the enjoyment of all? At present a number of so-called naturalists and bird hunters are allowed to shoot ospreys and golden eagles in order that they may add them to their hoard of stuffed beasts; and whenever a rare bird ventures to show itself in the presence of these depredators, they never pause for a moment to consider whether they may not be hastening the extermination of the whole breed, or whether it would not be wiser, even from their point of view, to allow the birds to increase and multiply.
There is no cure for the selfishness of the individual except legislation for the protection of the interests of the majority, and the sooner the wild bird treasures of our isles are placed under the guardianship of the law the better for us and our posterity. The Wild Birds Protection Acts are doing much good, but they need to be strengthened and made more comprehensive. Mr. Dillon has given notice that he will to-morrow inquire from the Secretary for the Colonies whether an agreement has been arrived at with the Government of the South African Republio as to the amount of the indemnity to be paid in respect of the Jameson raid; and, if so, what is the amount agreed on, and by whom is it to be paid. Sir Howard Vincent proposes to ask the President of the Board of Trade next Monday if he has any information from the United States as to the intentions of the American Government towards those vessels under the Spanish flag which were taken on the high seas prior to the declaration of war, or which had left their ports of departure in ignorance thereof; and if it should be proved to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade that British subjects were interested in such vessels or their cargoes, as part owners or insurers, if her Majesty's Consuls will be instructed to assist the representatives of those concerned before the properly-constituted tribunal.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF COAL IN IRELAND. The Ranfurly Mining Company, a small syndicate formed last year to prospect for coal on Lord Ranfurly's estate near Dungannon, county Tyrone, has just succeeded in striking a valuable seam of cannel coal 3ft. 3in. in thickness. The find is considered of great importance owing to the proximity of the new field to Belfast.
SHIPPING NEWS. THE CANADIAN STEAMSHIP SERVICE. Ottawa, the Dominion House of Commons to-day, Sir Richard Cartwright, Minister of Trade and Commerce, in moving the adoption of the supplemental contract with Messrs. Petersen, Tate, and Co. for a fast Atlantic steamship service, said a powerful company had been formed with Lord Tweedmouth the as board president, of and prominent shipbuilders on directors.
He added that the British Government had approved the alterations in the design, and would continue the subsidy. Sir Charies Tupper, while regretting the delay which had caused the loss of the golden opportunity of having the line established this year, as would have been done by Messrs. Allan Brothers, supported the resolution, which was carried. -Reuter. WRECK OF A LIVERPOOL SHIP.
Yesterday morning, owners Messrs. C. Globe G. Dunn and managing of the Shipping Company, Limited, of this city, received a cablegram from Halifax, Nova Scotia, from which it appears that their wrecked large four-masted Sable Island, ship Crofton Hall has been at on the Canadian coast. The Crofton Hall, a ship of 2123 tons register, left Dundee on the 21st March last for New York, where she was to load case oil fo: Shanghai.
She was under the command of Captain Thurber, and had a crew of 30 hands all told. Bosides these, Captain Thurber had his wife and three children on board. The Crofton Hall appears to have made a smart run to the point where she was wrecked, as she did not pass the Lizard until about a week after leaving on Dundee. It seems she struck Sable Island the 17th of last month during a dense fog, but owing to want of communication with the island the first news of the disaster only reached Liverpool yesterday morning. board It have is been fortunately saved.
tioned that all on Cuptain Thurber said the Crofton Hall was a total wreck. It was, however, expected that a good portion Government of the steamer vessel gear Newfiold, would which be saved. plys on The the Canadian conat, brought the crew from Sable Island to Halifax. At the time of the disaster the Crofton Hall was in ballast. Sho was an iron ship, having been built on the Mersey She by was Messrs.
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The incident has arisen out of a struggle for possession of the corner which Mr. Gibson Bowles has 80 long occupied, behind the Treasury Bench, between that honourable member and Mr. Macdona. Mr. Bowles came down yesterday morning at half-past six, placed his card in the seat, and captured the corner.
Mr. Macdona, to steal a march upon him, came down this morning at five, and found a card of Mr. Bowles's in the seat. Mr. Bowles had returned to the House last night, five minutes after it adjourned, and placed his card to show that the seat was captured.
He also left some papers there as a sign of occupation, and then went home to bed. Mr. Macdona was, however, equal to the occasion. He threw the papers below the seat, took out Mr. Bowles's card and put in his own, and he also went peacefully away.
At an early hour in the morning Mr. Bowles returned, and found his papers and card gone, and Mr. Macdona's card in the place of his own. Mr. Bowles dislodged Mr.
Macdona's card and replaced his own card. I do not know how often this interchange of civilities happened, but at prayers Mr. Bowles had possession of the corner, and has kept it since. Private notice was given to the Speaker that the matter would be brought before him. The Speaker wanted time to consider so weighty an issue, and those who expected some amusem*nt and a scene after questions to-day had to go away unsatisfied till Thursday.
What a change of Ministry is to do for Spain in the present crisis of its fortunes is cot obvious, unless it is merely to build a bridge to enable that unhappy country to surrender to the inevitable. Everything that is occurring points to the new Ministry itself disappearing when the military party asserts itself and seizes the reins of power, If the Spanish fleet in Cuban waters meets the fate of the fleet at Manila a new China in the South-west of Europe will be thrown to the cupidity of the Continental Powers- not a China in the sense that the Spanish mainland will be coveted, or positions on its coast line seized by the vultures, but there is danger lest new Gibraltars and Maltas might arise in the Western Mediterranean. France, it is known, has long had thoughts covetously fixed on Ceuta, on the African side of the straits, as a counterpoise to Gibraltar, and would eagerly make it a French Wei-Hai-Wei face to face with the English Port Arthur on the famous rock. Russia would support this in return for the "lease" of one of the Balearie islands, which she would convert into a Russian Malta. Ger many might want her balance in another of the Balearic islands, or a point on the African coast itself, and so the elements of a fine combustible or explosive are all at hand.
Who can say that it is not provision for some such opportunity that is now being made with so much feverish activity in the French dockyards? The disclosures in the letter of the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Navy League are about the most disheartening reading that could be submitted to a believer in parliamentary government. His staten ents are too circ*mstantial to be doubted, and they are in part supported by Russian official information published in Russia itself. A week ago our Admiralty did not know what the Russian programme of shipbuilding for the present year was. Then a fortunately arriving despatch conveys some gossip that Russia would build only three ships during 1898, whereas, according to the Navy League, whose information is precise, six battleships at least are to be laid down. Mr.
Goschen will have to be questioned a little more closely as to his means of knowledge, for, if he is not accurately informed on a vital matter of this kind, public confidence in the condition of the fleet to meet a sudden emergency will be shaken to its foundations. When the report on national wheat stores to meet short supplies in time of war comes on for discussion, though the Protectionist element involved in the question will play a great part in the arguments, the main lines of the debate will run upon the comparative merits of the creation of such stores and the strengthening of the fleet. I have noticed since the Chinese question arose, and especially when it was at its acutest stage, that opinion among experts who are not extreme men either on the question of Protection or Free Trade, swung very strikingly between the two alternatives. One politician of a very dispassionate mind, who is not an advocate of national stores, remarked to me that our chief danger in the event of a naval war in which we were engaged would be that we might be reduced by starvation in consequence of the difficulty of importing grain. But his suggested provision against this danger was not stores," but the creation of a fleet of such absolutely overwhelming strength that nothing could stand against it.
He did not consider that our fleet at present commands such strength, and I may add that though he takes this view he is not a member of the Navy League. I believe that this opinion will be widely expressed in the House. At the same time, what is the use of building more ships when, if what Lord Beresford says is correct, we have at this moment 25 armoured ships armed with old muzzleloaders, possessing neither the range nor the power of modern guns, and which in an engagement would simply be battered to pieces by the long-range guns of the enemy, and go to the bottom or burn like the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. We are a long-suffering people. By general consent Sir Edward Grey is selected as the favourite of the Roseberyites in the House of Commons, if it is ever Lord Rosebery's fortune to return to power and to have to look for a lieutenant in the Lower House.
The reason of this speculative choice is that he is the most complete representative of the Rosebery spirit and the Rosebery foreign policy on the Front Opposition Bench. He also represents the Rosebery attitude in the practical want of a domestic policy, though he would also willingly pick up the threads of the Rosebery conception of municipal development and work. But this conception would not meet the political and social needs of the time, nor the industrial problems which are rushing with rapidity to the front. He would not be accepted by the Radicals, to whom he is an absolutely unknown quantity, and the fact that he is an unknown quantity on the questions that most deeply concern them proves that Sir Edward has never taken much interest in these questions. He is, however, able, clear-headed, minded, and the has bitterness hitherto of party moved in strife, a sphere and this is a very fair equipment for Moderate Liberalism.
The effect of such a choice on the Asquiths, Morleys, and CampbellBannermans of the Front Bench, over whose heads the selection would lift him at a bound, is not to be imagined; but an attempt to it will bring anyone face to face with the gauge insuperable difficulties Lord Rosebery would again have to encounter in the House of Commons. The Conservatives have been also speculating as to what they would do if Mr. George Curzon's illness had been of a character that compelled him to resign the duties of the Under Foreign Secretaryship, or if be were transplanted to the House of Lords by the peerage which awaits him becoming vacant, or if he were sent to India as Viceroy. There is no young Tory within sight so well informed on foreign questions, or giving signs of an eminent command of foreign problems. If any of these things happened, Lord Salisbury would of course have to find one for good or for evil.
Since the Unionists came into power there has not been a more arduous position on the Treasury Bench, except that of Mr. Chamberlain. I should not like to be called upon to make a choice for the Under Secretaryship. The newcomer would hardly be found by a mere shifting of offices in the Government, and some of those Ministerialists who have the largest appetite for office, and are playing most palpably to attain it, have the fewest qualities for it. THE COAL CRISIS.
The Preas Association's Cardiff correspondent. telegraphing last night, mys it is not likely, in the event of a settlement of the Welsh coal dispute being arrived at, that work can be resumed before Whitsuntide. A meeting of the workmen's provisional committee was held at Pontypridd yesterday. A resolution was a passed asking the colliers to whether conference of all the collierica shall be held, declarations to be sent in not inter than the 13th inst. In the event of a majority deciding in favour of a conference, the same to be held on the 16th inst.
in Cardiff. According to the official report issued later, the committee regretted the resolution passed by a few persons at Pontypridd on the previous day condemning the provisional committee. When the crisis was over it would be necessary to adopt drastic changes in their organisation. In response to circulars sent to the collieries forming the Durham Miners' Association, asking what amount the executive committees should vote the South Wales miners, replies received from six centres favour voting immediately from 81000 to 83000, and £100 to 8500 weekly subsequently. OUR AMERICAN LETTER.
New York, Tuesday, This is not war," said a high official of the Government to-day in Washington "it is a walk over, and the Powers ought to intervene and compel Spain to ask for peace. It would be granted on fairly easy terms by the United States at this period but if the conflict goes on there is no telling where our ambitions will end." This opinion is worthy of notice, ELS it is believed to reflect the ideas of the Government. It is -evident to all that Spain is not equal to the burden laid upon her, and real sympathy is felt in many quarters for her. That Spain should be punished for her wrong doing, and share the fate of all feeble countries which misgovern their colonies, is the feeling of all and most Americans, not those of the more rabid type, would be glad to see the war ended on the terms of Cuba receiving her independence and the Philippines handed back to Spain for an indemnity which should cover the expenses that this country has been put to for carrying on the war thus far. The fight off Cardenas yesterday is chiefly valuable as showing the kind of fighting ardour that is in the American crews.
It was 3 plucky contest, though it did not last long. The Spaniards did better than was expected. They held out until the gunboat Machias came up, and then retreated. It has put a lot of spirit into the blockade, which WaS becoming most tiresome. The men on the torpedo boat Winslow, which is the hero of the encounter, are thirsting for another brush with the enemy.
The Winslow is only a small vessel, any one of the three opposing gunboats of the Spaniards being larger, and it gave the Spaniards a shock of surprise to see the tiny craft, which could only answer their six-pound shot with one- pounders, rushing straight towards them. However, it is doubtful what the result would have been had it not been for the arrival of the Machias, which was guarding the port of Cardenas in company with the Winslow. There is still no news of Admiral Sampson's fleet or the Spanish squadron from Cape Verde; but everybody hopes for a naval battle soon. It is believed that the French liner Lafayette, which was released by the United States and allowed to land her passengers at Havana, has at the same time furnished a supply of ammunition to General Blanco. If this be so, representations will be made at once to the French Government, and the vessel will doubtless be again captured 88 contraband of war.
There is none too good a feeling here towards France, which has always posed as a friend to this country, and the women of America are everywhere pledging themselves to buy English goods in future in preference to those of France. If the ladies hold to this decision it will make great difference to dealers in Paris, where Americans spend thousands of pounds every year. It will also help to cement the increasing goodwill between this country and Great Britain. WHITENS SOFTENS THE SKIN. MILK AND SULPHUR SOAP is pleasant to use, and whitens and softens the Lady Constance Howard.
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COURT, OFFICIAL, MR. GLADSTONE'S HEALTH. Last evening's bulletin was as follows: Today's report of Mr. Gladetone is as satisfactory as is possible under the circ*mstances." Mr. George Russell was a caller at Hawarden Castle yesterday.
The weather was very wet, and in consequence Mrs. Gladstone did not take her customary afternoon drive. Replying to a resolution of sympathy with Mr. Gladstone and his family, passed by the congregation of Feniscliffe, Blaokburn, the Rev. Stephen Gladstone writes from Hawarden Castle to the vicar- The resolution of your people and your letter are indeed most welcome to us all, espocially the behalf.
promise of intercession on Mr. Gladstone's I beg to thank you and your good people most heartily. This life is inseparable from division of opinion and sharp contest; but I need hardly assure you of the fact that Mr. Gladstone's heart has been full of love to God and man, and all sense and memory of having had opponents is gone by. He has now to be all taken up with the last work God has given himthe most difficult and serious of all- that of bearing up under months of great pain.
He greatly relies on the prayers of othera. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality last week in 33 great towns of England and Wales averaged per 1000. The rate in Birkenhead was 13, Birmingham 18, Blackburn 19.
Bolton 13, Bradford 16, Brighton 15, Bristol 15, Burnley 13, Cardiff 13, Croydon 11, Derby 18, Gateshead 20, Halifax 14, Hudderafield 21, Hull 14, Leeds 18, Leicester 16, Liverpool 26, London 17, Manchester 20, Newcastle 20, Norwich 16. Nottingham 16, Oldham 21, Plymouth 15, Portsmouth 12, Preston 17, Salford 18, Sheffield 17, Sunderland 20, Swansea 13, West Ham 12, and Wolverbampton 17. The rate in Edinburgh was 20, Glasgow 22, and Dublin 24. THE PRESS ASSOCIATION. The 30th ordinary general meeting of the Press Association, Limited, was held yesterday, at the chief offices of the association, 14, New Bridge-street, London, Mr.
J. W. Willans, of the Leeds Mercury, chairman of the committee of management, presiding. The annual report stated that the revenue from news supplies for 1897 amounted to £88,679, as againat 686,498 in 1896 an increase of 82180. The expenditure for the year amounted to £88,626, against £85,162 an increase of £3463.
The surplus on the year's trading WAS £53. The committee announced that they had resolved ta increase the share premium from £7 108. to £15 per share, and they recommended the establishment of an emergency fund of £3000, in addition to the present reserve fund, for the purpose of meeting any sudden and exceptional expenditure caused by another war or other national crisis. The annual report, with this recommendation, was adopted. On the motion of Mr.
Hartley, seconded by Mr. Walter Scott, Mr. J. G. Niven, elected of the Portsmouth Evening was a member of the committee of management, in the room of Mr.
T. Bullock, of the Staffordshire Sentinel," who retired by rotation: and Mr. Bullock was elected to the consultative board, vice Mr. John Wilson, of the Edinburgh Evening News," who also rotired by rotation. A vote of thanks was passed to the committee for their services, and the chairman received a special vote of thanks for the ability he had shown during his year of office.
FOREIGN NEWS. RIOTS IN CHINA. SERIOUS DAMAGE BY THE MOB. Shanghai, Tuesday. Serious riots occurred last night at Sha-Shi, between Han-Kau and I-Chang-Fu, in the province Hu Pie.
The Customs hulk, Custom-house, and a quantity of foreign property were burned by the mob. There are no further details at -Reuter. Reuter's Agency is informed by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. that they have no news that their offices at Sha-Shi have been burned.
Sha-Shi is not an open port, but merely a station for embarking and disembarking passengers by the Yangtee steamers. of The company's office at the place only consists a small native establishment, no Europeans being on the staff there. -Sha-Shi has not hitherto been specially noted for anti-foreign tendencies. BRITISH TROOPS FOR WEL HAI-WEL Simla, Tuesday. -Owing to the acquisition of Wei-Hai-Wei by Great Britain, the Highland Light Infantry and the Yorkshire Regiment have been selected to proceed thither from India.
The two regiments will leave about the end of the year. Reuter. Shanghai, Tuesday. -Sir Claude Maedonald, the British Minister, has gone to Wei Hai- Wei to receive possession. -Dalziel.
THE POWERS AND THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. Washington, Tuesday. -In the House of Repres sentatives, yesterday, Mr. Johnson (Indiana) introduced a resolution empowering the President to: appoint three commissioners to meet three British, three French, three Austrian, three Japanese, and three Chinese commissioners neatralisa- at an early date to formulate a plan for the tion and independence of the Sandwich Islands, and for preventing any nation from possessing them directly or indirectly. -Reuter.
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