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316 I BO N. APBIL 14, 1893. Lincolnshire Iron Company, Limited, 2 North Lincolnshire Iron Company, Limited, Redbourn Hill Iron and Coal Company, Limited, 2. Monmouthshire and Blaina Works, Limited, 1. North Collieries, Limited, 1 Heath, Robert, Sons, 1.

Staffordshire, South Sir Alfred, Hingley, Sons, Limited, 1. Yorkshire, W.R. Gate Iron and Steel Company, Limited, 3. Furnaces Blown-out since December- 31,1892 24 Ayrshire Wm. Company, Eglinton, 1.

Cumberland (3). Distington Hematite Iron Company, Limited, Lonsdale Hematite Iron and Steel Company, Limited, Lowther Hematite Iron Company, Limited, 1. Denbighshire Steel Company, Limited, 1. Derbyshire (4). Oakes, James, Company, Wingerworth Iron Company, 3.

Lanarkshire Robert, Sons, Langloan, 4-; Dixon, Limited, Calder, Dunlop, Company, Clyde, Limited, 1. Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Company, 1. Shropshire Company, Limited, 1. Staffordshire, South Earl of, New Level, 1 Whitehouse, H. Sons (Trustee of), 1.

Yorkshire, N. R. Lane Iron Company, Limited, Normanby Ironworks Company, Samuelson, Sir and Company, Limited, Tees-side Iron and Engine Works Company, Limited, 1. Yorkshire, W. R.

Yorkshire Iron and Coal Company, Limited, 1. Furnaces being Built at present time 6 Denbighshire Steel Company, Limited, 1. Carmarthenshire Iron and Steel Company, Limited, 1. Cumberland Hematite Iron Company, Limited, 1. Glamorganshire Iron Company, 1.

Monmouthshire and Blaina Works, Limited, 1. Staffordshire, South Iron Company, 1. Furnaces being Re-built at present time. 2 Glamorganshire Ferry Works Reconstruction Company, Limited, 1 Pyle and Blaina Works, Limited, 1. Trade Circular.

jsCcpl jhitclUfictur. SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE. April 11. COURT OF APPEAL. THE MASTER OF THH ROLLS, and LOIIDS JUSTICES BO WEN and A.

L. SMITH.) S1IEEPBR1PGE COAL AND IRON COMPANY, LIMITED, v. PLEVINS. On this case a report of which will be found in IRON of February 3, page called, Mr. Bigham, Q.C., for the respondent plaintiffs, asked that it should be dismissed with costs against the defendant appellant, whose solicitor had written that they did not intend to proceed with the appeal.

The appeal was dismissed accordingly. April 7. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. OFFICIAL RECEIVERS DEPARTMENT. Me FRANCIS PILKINGTON.

ACCORDING to the Official Receiver 's observation, the debtor states that for the past seventeen years he has traded as an iron merchant at 41, Redhill Street, London, N.W. further, that in October 1890 he made an arrangement with his creditors, under which a composition of 10s. in the pound was paid by four instalments upon liabilities amounting to about £1,300. The statement of aft 'aits shows liabilities amounting to £8,366, of which, however, not more tban are unsecured, and assets £99 16s. The debtor attributes his failure to pressure by creditors and loss (£365) upon leasehold property.

Re THOMAS UKNRY READ. AT the office of the Birmingham Official Receiver, a meeting was held on Apiil 7, of the creditors of Mr. Thomas Henry Read, lately carrying on business as a brassfounder at 69, Spencer Street, Birmingham. The liabilities are estimated at £893 14s. and the assets at £115 15s.

leaving a deficiency of £777 18s. lid. The Official Receiver reported that the bankrupt started business iu 1884, and a few months afterwards was joined by a Mr. Field. The business was not successful, and in 1886 a composition of 10s.

in the pound was paid. With £30 as capital bankrupt made another attempt as a brassfounder in 1S92, but through insufficiency of capital he unable to succeed, and his effects were sold. The insolvency was attributed to want of capital, cost of patterns and plant, and loss by forced realisation. The case was a summary one, and the Official Receiver appointed a trustee. A PETITION in bankruptcy has been filed by Mr.

George Henry Onions, residing at, MondWield, Conipton Road, Wolverhampton, and carrying on business as an iron manufacturer at the Moorcroft Ironworks, Moxley, near Wednesbury. flaval LAUNCHES. ENOLI8H. Holmside, April 7, Messrs. Wood, Skinner Company, of Bill Quay, launched a steel screw-steamer for Messrs.

Wm. Swanston Sons, of Quayside, New- castle. Dimensions 214 feet; beam, 30 feet; depth; moulded, 16 feet. Deadweight carrying-capacity, about 1,300 tons. Engines, triple -expansion type, by the North-eastern Marine Engineering Company, Limited, of Wallsend.

Cylinders, 17, 28, and 46 inches in diameter piston -stroke, 30 inches. Boiler -preBsure, 1601b. Hong April 5, the Sunderland Shipbuilding Company launched a steel screw-steamer for Messrs. Marty a'Abbadie, of Haiphong. Dimensions Length, 240 feet; breadth, 32 feet; depth, 19 feet 6 inches.

Engines, compound, by the North-eastern Marine Engineering Company, of Sunderland. Cylinders, 20, 56 inches, by 39 inches stroke. Boiler- pi essu re, 160 lb. Lyminqton April 6, Messrs. Day, Summers of the Northern Ironworks, Southampton, launched a new paddle-steamer built to the order of the London South western Railway Company.

SCOTCH. Ems April 6, Messrs. Charles Connell of Whiteinch, launched a steel sailing-ship of about 1,820 tons register, built to the order of Mr. James Nourse, of London. Spinel.

April 6, Messi'3. Scott Sons, of Bowling, launched a screw-steamer, built to the order of Mr. William Robertson, of 15, Gordon Glasgow. Dimensions Length, 175 feet; breadth, 26 feet 6 inches width, 13 feet. Engines, triple-expansion, by Messrs.

Muir Houston, of Glasgow. THE Trans-Siberian Railway Committee recently authorised the Russian Minister of Marine to purchase abroad two steamers suitable for navigation on the Yenissei River in Siberia The committee to send an expedition on board these vessels to ascend the River Yenissei from its mouth, in order to ascertain whether it can be used for the transport of the material required for the construction of the railway. The two steamers have been ordered from a Scotch shipbuilding firm at a cost of £18 ,500, and are to be delivered by July 27. I For continuation of A'aval Architecture sco pafje 320. kitmmi.

WILLIAMS death occurred on April 7 of Mr. John Ward Williams, proprietor of the Abertillery Foundry Works. The deceased was 63 years old. Mr. William Bryham, of Ince Hall, Wigan, died on April 9.

The deceased gentleman, who was 76 years of age, was one of the best known mining engineers in the Lancashire coalfields, and managing director of Roscbridge Collieries, Wigan. ilaihvap ami IT is intended to present a testimonial to Mr. J. C. Park, the locomotive-superintendent of the North London Railway, who is retiring from the service.

ON and after May 1, the running of second-class carriages between stations in Eugland and Scotland on the London and North-western and Caledonian Railways will be disc mtinued. THE Spanish Government has conceded the Valencia and Aiagon Railway Company the light to construct a line from Valencia, via Manises, to connect with the Valencia-Utiel Railway. THE first Siamese railway connecting Bangkok with the port of Paknam at the mouth of the Menam River, was opeued tor traffic on April 11 by the king. The first sod of the new line was cut by the king in July 1891. A RRANCH railway constructed by the Royal Dublin Society to connect its show-ground at Ball-bridge with the Dublin and Kingstown, and Dublin and Wicklow Railways, was formally opened fortrafhc on April 7- THE president of the New York Central Railroad states that between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 railway cats are to be supplied with automatic couplers, under the new law of Congress, and that the expenditure necessary will be about WESTERN-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS Western- Australian Government has asked for tenders for the construction of a railway between Boyauup and Busselton, a distance of twenty-seven miles, also fo.

tenders for the Beverley and Broomehill telegraph liner The Pinjnrrah to Perth section of the South-western Railway lias been completed, and opened for traffic. MEM. FOR BRITISH RAILWAY MATERIAL MANUFACTURERS Mediterranean Railway Company desires authority from the Italian Ministry of Public Works for the purchase of material valued at' 1,890,000 lires, namely, 7,348 tons of 12-metre steel-rails, 272 tons of angle-fishplates, 154,870 kilos of special fishplates, 438,600 kilos of intermediary plates, and 193,800 kilos of bolts and cramps. MEXICAN RAILWAYS Mexican Southern Railway was to be delivered to the operating company by the contractors, Messrs Read Campbell, of London, on April has been commenced wii ha considerable force on the Mexico, Cuernavaca, and Pacific Railway, near the city of Mexico, and will be pushed as rapidly as possible by the new officers. General manager D.

B. Smith is in charge of the work. ALGERIAN RAILWAYS commission appointed to examine the Biskra-Ouargla Railway project has declared the Biskra-Touggourt section to be of public utility, but is opposed to the construction of the Touggourt- Ouargla section, fearing that Algiers may be deprived of the Saharan traffic. The Algiers and Oran Departments are pushing the investigation of the El Afroun-Marengo and Mustapha-Maision Carree Railway schemes; and the Constantino Department will shortly decide regarding the El Millia-Djidjelli project. ABANDONMENT-OF A RAILWAY promoters of the North-west Central Railway scheme, which was sanctioned in 1890, have decided to apply to Parliament for leave to deposit a bill this session to abandon the whole of this important project, which comprised a railway over 47 miles in length, extending from junctions with the existing railways at Lancashire, to Keighley, in Yorkshire, passing via, Ribchester Whalley, Sabden, andColne.

The share and loan capital authorised in 1890 for the construction of this railway was £2,666,664. BRAZILIAN RAILWAYS. loan of £3 ,710 ,000 which Rothschild, of London, is issuing for the Brazilian Government, is destined for the extension of the Western Minas Railway from Barra-Mansa to Catalao, Goyaz State, and for the construction of a branch line from a point on the Mogyana extension to the navigable waters of the Paracatu. Orders should soon be received in this country for the materials necessary for these Espirito Santo (Brazil) Government has granted a 50-years' concession for the construction of a 60-centimetre line from a point of the Carangola Railway to Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. JAPANESE following is a list of new railways in Japan the construction of which is to be begun this year in accordance with a bill which has recently passed the Legislature 1.

Hokuroku line, 123 miles, from Tsuruga to Toyama, by way of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Ken; estimated cost, £1,436,000. 2. 0 line, miles, from Fukushima Ken to Aomori by Yone- zawa, Yamagata, Akita, and Hirosoki; estimated cost, £4 ,216 000. 3. Kiushiu line, 75 miles from Saga to Nagasaki and Saseo and Sankakn, estimated cost, £918,016 miles from Shinniura to Snseo, cost, £158,000 miles from Kumamoto to Sankakn, estimated cost, £312,000.

CANADIAN RAILWAYS Canadian Pacific Rail way Company intends carrying into effect without de'ay a scheme to secure an independent terminus at New York city, by means of connecting roads from Ogdf ns- burg, opposite Prescott, in engineer of the Manitoulin and North Shore Railway have com pleted their location, and are now preparing plans and profiles. The line is to extend from the town of Little Current, Ontario, on the Grand Manitoulin, in a northeasterly direction, to Nelson Station, on the Saull branch of the Canadian Pacific, a distance of 40 miles. The bridge between the mainland and island will be 450 fret long. This railway has promises of aid from the Provincial and Dominion Governments to the extent of $6,200 a mile for 30 miles of road Ontario and Rainy River Railway, from Port Arthur to Sturgeon Falls, 200 miles to the south-west, is projected. The country to be traversed is od agricultural land, am! the Huronian gold range and the Aticokan iron ratine will be on the route.

The promoters will ask for government Legislature of ttritish Columbia agreed on April 11 to extend the annual charter of the British Columbian Pacific Railway. The premier, the Hon. C. E. Pooley, stated that the Government hoped to come to a definite agreement with the London construction company, which had already deposited $100,000 caution-money.

The subscribed capital amounted to $5,000,000. RUSSIAN RAILWAYS Transcaucasian Railway has ordered new rolling-stock, owing to the develop ment of its traffic, and iu view of the opening of the new Tchiatour line. in 1892 8,500,000 poods of manganese were despatched by the Transcaucasian Railway (from the Charopan district to Poti) against only 4,500,000 poods in 1891. Further, the Griazi-Tsaritz ne Railway Company has altered its style to South eastern Railway Company. It assumes the working of the Koslov- Voronege Rostov and Orel-Griazi lines, and undertakes the construction of the Penza-Kharkov Railway.

It will also build at new naphtha reservoirs of 2,000,000 poods (about 33,000 tons) capacity, and establish a goods-yard capable of conta niDg 3,000 tank Siberian Railway, on which the Russian Government is now pushing work with remark able energy, will add considerably to the area of the accessible mineral deposits of the world, and probably to the number of its working mines. Large depo-its of iron-ore are known to exist on the located line of the road among the foothills of the Jablonnovoi Range, and the outcroppings have been worked to a small extent in a few charcoal forges to supply the local demand. The deposits of the Onssouri Peninsula in Eastern Siberia are already work'd to some extent, and arrangements have been made to extend the workings as soon as the railway reaches them, while explorations are now being made of the coalfields on the Upper Amoor, through which the line will pass. The silver-mines of the Transbaikal, which are now operated with convict labour to a small extent, will be more vigorously worked when they become more accessible, and the gold -mines of the Ouda and the ShiUa will receive a considerable development when they can be reached by a railway ride of a week instead of a three months' sledge journey, and it becomes possible to obtain mine supplies and machinery. At the present rate of progress it will be.

ten years before the line is finished, but the sections that are to be completed in half that time will serve most of the mining regions. INDIAN projected railway between Umarkote and Deesa is being small section of railway from Hiudupur sou hwards, running into the Mysoie frontier, to Dod Bolopor, which has been constructed by the Southern Man- ratta Railway, will be opened on June The traffic on the newly-opened Bezwada-Godavery section of the East Coast Railway is turning out to be more than was anticipated by the authorities. lh rolling-stock provided is not equal to the demand. lh engineer-in-chief of the railway has accordingly tele-.