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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Aug 06, 1864

Page

6

New Companies with Shipping and Banking Ambitions

Several ventures announce plans through the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association and Credit Mobilier Limited. They include the Merchant Shipping Company Limited aiming to acquire the Somes Brothers fleet and Thames docks, London Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company to expand Millwall works, Freemasons Tavern Company to build a grand hall, Natal Investment Company to finance colonial land and ventures, Connecting Sure Owners to develop river steamship systems, and Peninsular West Indian and Southern Bank to operate in the West Indies and Southern States with branches planned postwar.

Messrs Somes Messrs. Somes Brothers Agra and Masterman’s Bank (Limited Credit Mobilier (Limited English and Scottish Marine Insurance Company (Limited London Engineering and Iron Surpourtpine Company Limrrep Oriental Financial Corporation (Limited London Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company (Limited Thames Freemasons’ Tavern Company Lawrep Natau Investment Company (Limited Natal Luurrep Thomas MacSweeney Seine Peninsular West Indian Soutern Bank Limbep West Indies America St. Thomas Nassau Bermuda Havana Liverpool

Several London Companies Declare Varied Dividends at Meetings

Directors report shows London and Lisbon Corkwood Company posting a surplus of £5450 12s 11d after half year dividend, with a recommended 5s per share. St James's Hotel Company declares 10 per cent annual dividend for 14 months. United Kingdom Railway Rolling Stock and Australian Trust Company announce their dividends free of tax. Other meetings note adjournments and partial line completions for Pneumatic Despatch and National Navigation.

London and Lisbon United Kingdom Railway Pneumatic Despatch Company (Limited Euston Road Holborn Australian Trust Company United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company Navicati Liverpool Tonal Steam Navigation Company London and African Trading Company (Limited Richmond Hill’ Hotel Company (Limited London W. H. Dickson Granger Whetham Maxwell Boussot Electric and International Telegraph Company City of London Brewery Company London Tavern James Duke Forestreet Warehouse Company (Limited Morrison, Dillon, and Co Morrison Factage Parisien (Limited Humber Bahia Steam Navigation Company (Limited Land Credit Company of Ireland (Limited Bedford Hotel Company (Limited Brighton International Hotel Company London Bridge Baumgartner Gearing

London and African Trading Company call due in September

The London and African Trading Company Limited requires a call of £2 per share by 1 September. A £1 per share call on Richmond Hill Hotel Company Limited is due by 30 August.

Board of Trade Circular Calls Railways to Improve In-Train Communication

The Board of Trade urges railway directors to consider means to improve communication between train carriages in motion to prevent fires, accidents, and criminal acts. Proposals include windows with curtains, guard handrails and footboards, and a cord linked to the engine. The Lords seek directors’ opinions on practicality and any general compulsory regulations.

Whitehall Committee of Privy Council For Trade James BooTu

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