The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-08-04 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARK LAN—R, Taus DAY.
Tide bin a Bank benday, the corn exchange is doled.

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MSTROPOLITAN CATTLE. —Ting DAY.
B. 1,015. Tiede steady. Prime ss. &I. to 6s. &d.;
interim 4s. to ss. Id. Sheep, 23,311. Fair business.
Prime lis. Id. to 5a 4d. ; Inferior ta Bd. to 5a Lamb quiet
as late mess. Veil in moderate request. Piss dull.

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CHAMPION SWIMMING MATCH.
The swimming match far the championship o
Enema In Serpentine to-day was won by Jones, Parker
second, Beckwith third.

iri—NN AT ALDERSHOT.
A fire has just broken out in the Cavalry stables.
Aldershot, North Camp. The stables will be totally
destroys&

FASHIONABLE MARRIAGE.
Sir Uttar' Sykes, Bart, and Miss Cayenclish Bentinck,
daughter of the member for Whitehayen, were married at
Westminster Abbey this morning by the Archbishop of
York, &misted by Dean Stanley.

MILNERS' SAFE COMPANY.

Milners' Safes are about as familiar an article of
commerce as Homiman's Tea or Holloway's Pills,
but the Safes have been subjeceed to every test known
to man's ingenuity, and come out fire-proof, thief
proof, and, indeed, proof against everything and every-
body but the person armed with the magic key that
unlocks them. It is obvious from the celebrity
attaching to Milners Safes that the business of manu-
facturing them is an important one, and the fact of
these articles being talented and very expensive
indicates that the trade is a likely one for money
making. A Company is now being formed to acquire
the business of Messrs. Thus. Milner and Son, Hold.
fast, Fire-resisting Safe Manufacturers, Phicnix Safe
Works, Liverpool, Manchester, London, &C. The
present change in the constitution of the business is
necessiated by the declining health a the head of the
firm, and the growing responsibility attached to a
large and increasing trade. The business of Messrs.
Thomas Milner and Son has been successfully carried
on for nearly a century by the late Mr. Thomas
Milner, and by the present senior partner, Mr.
William Milner, and by Mr. I). R. Radcliff.
Miler's Safes have an establidicsl reputation through-
out the commercial world, and the frequent tests to
which they have been publicly subjected, together
with the hundreds of destructive fires in which they
have proved their efficiency, reader further comment
unnecessary as to their character and repute The
undertaking is in a flourishing condition, and will be
taken over as a going concern in full and profitable
work, as from Ist June last. Mr. D. R. Ratcliff, the
junior partner of the firm, who has had the active
bnrlfcut of the business for the last ten years, will
iteimaging Director, so that the Company will
retain the benefit of his practical experience Messrs.
Thomas Milner and Son transfer to the Company all
their interest and property in the extensive freehold
works and building known as "The Phcenix Safe
Works," Liverpool, together with the large plant and
stack-in-trade appertaining thereto; a large freehold
building, situate in Finsbury Place, London, and
Leasehold Premium in Moorgatc Street, Lond9n,
Market Street, Manchester, and Lord Street, Liver-
pool, together with the good-will, patents, trade
marks, and all interest in existing contracts, which
are of Lsrge extent, and of a highly remunerative char-
acter- The books have been carefully investigated
by M CMS. Stilly and Girdlestone, of Gresham House,
London, who report that the amount which will be
available for dividends, based on the profits, as 'hewn
by the Trading Account to 31st December last, will
be upwards of L21,C03 per annum. The purchase.
money is £155,452 75. &1., in addition to £30,236
vas. fid., the cost price of the stocks in the hand, of
Agents. The Vendors will take in part payment of
the purchase.money £3s,ceo in the fully paid-up
Shares of the Company, and £60,000 in Debenture,
at 6 per cent., redeemable over a period of 30 years,
from tat day of June, 1879. The Directors are well.
known men, of high commercial reputation, and the
anticipated profits though extremely good are not so
extravagant as to raise a doubt as to the data they
.are based upon. Further particulars appear in our
advertising columns, and copies of the full prospectus
can be obtained on application to the Secretary, 70,
Cuenhill, London.