This company, which is managed by the Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa, Limited, has secured an interest in a tin business in Nigeria. The company have sent out Mr. Balfour, who has had experience in tin dredging in the Straits Settlements. The tin property which is here referred to was floated in conjunction with the Anglo-Continental Mines, Limited, and was called the Northern Nigerian (Bauchi) Tin Mines, Limited.
BENUE (NORTHERN NIGERIA) TIN MINES, Ltd.
Capital.—£10,000 in £1 shares; 8,500 are issued and fully paid, the balance are under option at par till 31st March, 1911.
Directors.—Charles E. Pearson (Chairman), C. L. W. Wallace, H. Kemble, G. F. Jones.
Secretary.—J. H. Dormer.
Offices.—21 Great Winchester Street, E.C.
The company originally held a prospecting mining licence over an area of ten square miles, situated in the Benue River district, Northern Nigeria.
Mr. Harry Kemble, accompanied by an experienced engineer, left for Nigeria early this year. The following circular was issued to the shareholders on 29th August 1910:
“I beg to inform you that Mr. Kemble, writing from Naraguta, on 21st July, reports as follows:—