Liverpool Mercury: Friday 6th August 1897

Valuable Freehold Land and Premises in Fairclough Lane and Mount Vernon Street, Liverpool: By Messrs. George Dalton & Sons: On Wednesday next the 11th August, at three p.m., precisely at the Law Association Rooms, 14, Cook Street, Liverpool: Lot 1: All that piece of freehold land with the three messuages or dwelling houses thereon erected and known as Nos. 10 and 12, Mount Vernon Street, and 70 Fairclough Lane, Liverpool and the Wheelwrights shop and Mission Room known as Nos. 14 and 14a Mount Vernon Street, annual rental £130. … For further particulars apply to Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., solicitors, 6 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham …


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Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 31st July 1897

In the High Court of Justice: No. 00200 of 1897: Companies (winding up): Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams: In the matter of the Companies Acts 1862 to 1890 and in the matter of the Leamington Cycle Co. Limited: Notice is hereby given that a petition for the winding up of the above named Company by the High Court of Justice was on the 26th day of July 1897, presented to the said Court by The New Credenda Tube Co., Ld., whose registered office is situate in Bridge Street, Smethwick, in the County of Stafford, creditors of the said Company and that the said petition is directed to be heard before the Court sitting at the Royal Courts of Justices, Strand, London, on Monday the 9th day of August, 1897. … (submissions to) … Field, Roscoe and Co. 36, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, W.C., Agents for Smith, Pinsent and Co., Birmingham, solicitors for the petitioners. …


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North Wales Chronicle: Saturday 24th July 1897

Anglesey County Council: … The Proposed Explosives Factory: Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., wrote and enclosed notice of certain objections made by Mr. Paisley to one of the conditions inserted in the assent given by the Council to the draft licences for a factory of explosives on Towyn Trewan; also a copy of notice of appeal which they had sent the Home Secretary: the Clerk explained that there had been a mistake in the draft licence with regard to nitro-cotton, Nos. 120 and 121, the words “drying” and “settling” having been omitted. It was entirely inadvertent. Mr. S. Hughes proposed that the draft licence be amended so as to embrace the correction. Dr. Edwards seconded, and it was passed. ….


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Glasgow Herald: Wednesday 30th June 1897

The List of applications closes at 4 p.m. on Friday the 2nd of July, 1897: In this company are united: The Ellwood Weldless Tube Company of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, with Stiefel’s United States Patent; the Greenville Tube Company of Greenville, Pennsylvania, the American Weldless Steel Tube Company of Toledo, Ohio: No portion of the Capital has been underwritten: Tubes (America) Limited: Incorporated under the Companies Acts: Capital, £400,000 … Solicitors, Smith, Pinsent & Co., Bennett’s Hill, Birmingham … (Prospectus) …


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Westminster Gazette: Monday 14th June 1897

The Subscription Lists open today, the 14th June 1897, and will Close both for Town and Country at 4 p.m. on 16th June 1897: Flower and Sons, Limited, Brewers, Stratford on Avon, Incorporated under the Companies Acts 1862 to 1890, Share Capital £360,000, divided into 17,500 Ordinary and 17,500 Preference Shares of £10 each of which 15,000 Ordinary and 12,500 preference shares have been issued and have been fully paid up: … … (prospectus) … …  Solicitors to the Trustees: Smith, Pinsent, and Co., 6 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham … (continues)

[See abridged: Truth: Thursday 17th June 1897]


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Cheltenham Looker-On: Saturday 12th June 1897

Flower & Sons Limited, Brewers: Stratford on Avon: Incorporated under the Companies Acts 1862 to 1890: Share Capital, £350,000, divided into 17,500 ordinary and 17,500 preference shares of £10 each, of which 15,000 ordinary and 12, 500 preference shares have been issued and are full paid up … Solicitors to the Trustees: Smith, Pinsent & Co. 6 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. … (Prospectus) …

[see also Leamington Spa Courier: Saturday 12th June 1897]


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Stratford upon Avon Herald: Friday 11th June 1897

Prospectus: Flower & Sons Limited, Brewers, Stratford on Avon: … (details) … Solicitors to the Trustees: Smith Pinsent and Col, 6, Bennett’s Hill Birmingham …


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Cheshire Observer: Saturday 13th March 1897

Welsh Explosives Company: Proposed Explosives Factory in Anglesey: Inquiry by the County Council: A committee of the Anglesey County Council consisting of Mr. S. Hughes (in the chair), Mr. O. H. Foulkes, Dr. E. P. Edwards, Mr. W. R. Jones, Mr. W. Prytherch, and Mr. O. Pierce held a public inquiry on Monday and Tuesday into an application made by Mr. D. Paisley, London, for a license to erect a factory for nitro-compounds on the common of Towyn Trewan, near Valley. Mr. J. J. Parfitt (instructed by Messrs. Smith, Pinsent and Co., Birmingham) appeared on behalf of the applicant, and Mr. J. Bryn Roberts, M. P., (instructed by Mr. John Fenna, solicitor, Chester, Mr. S. R. Dew, solicitor Bangor, and Mr. T. R. Evans, solicitor, Holyhead) appeared to oppose the application on behalf of the London and Northwestern Railway Company and several residents of Rhosneigr. … (detailed description) … Mr. A. W. Freeman (of the firm of Messrs. Smith, Pinsent & Co.) gave evidence that a company was formed to work the factory under the name of the Welsh Explosives Company, and he produced a memorandum of the articles of association, the company being already registered …

[see also Chester Courant: Wednesday 17th March 1897]


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Bromsgrove and Droitwich Messenger: Saturday 9th January 1897

Sad Death of a Bournheath Man: The Inquest: The Birmingham Coroner (Mr. O. Pemberton) at the Victoria Courts on Friday, the 1st instant, inquired into the death of William Bayliss (40), general labourer, who had lived at Bournheath near Bromsgrove. … (employed in a gravel pit) … At half past four in the afternoon, the witness was working near to him, when a mass of sand, weighing about five hundredweight fell from the top of the pit 64 feet above and struck the deceased. He was promptly conveyed to the General Hospital, but he succumbed on the way to his injuries. … (discussion of working methods) …  A verdict of “Accidental Death” was returned. … Mr. Winterton (Smith, Pinsent, and Co.), on behalf of Mr. Williams, said that the rules were already posted about but his client would observe the jury’s recommendations and pay the funeral expenses of the deceased.


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