The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

littiltong fntelligence.

WEST 11051811811 T.
The edjournorl meeting of thin company woo held on
Thursday at Taunton ; tlir P. P. P. P. Aclond, the
cheirmon of the uumpany, presided.
Mr. W. H. Wiloon, the ouerutary, reed the report,
which announced that the directors hod 0111110 to an
errungetimeut with the liriotol and Router ltollwey to
louse the line in perpetuity, the Bristol end Exeter Pod.
log all neatoemary 1/11411, Mel working the line, paying to
the Weal dotimenmet Rollwey Company 55 per cent, of
the gross reoelpts, with A gnerantwa that ;owls propor•
lion of receipts elicit not be less then £4,N10 sYnnr.
The terms formerly offered by the direeture of the
Bristol and Exeter Coospeny neve the Went fionieroet
shereimuldere only 45 per cunt, of time gross reeuipte, with
C N 141114114 guarantee of 84,000 C yeer the Imnprove•
scent in the terms' therefore, eunolett in en literate.* of
time per oenteg• to this oulimpaimy front 45 to per cent.,
and an inoremmoe of the leterillellei guarantee from 414,1100
to £4,800 per annum. The roliwoy is *boot 1(1 miles in
length, commencing by e junction with the Bristol and
Koster Rellwey, near Teminton, and pawing through a
rich agrionitoral district, terminating near the EOlllll.
lueihe at Weteliet, The direetors swine that the line
min be made for 81110,000 ; and, onnoequently, a foie!.
town Irtierentee of £4.500 4 year on thot amount would
moors a return of 11 per cent, Time directors lulled to
resident* in the illotriele through whielm the line lo to
pass to take imp the intaninwriatod oiler's, end they you.
pose to primeeed with the erramigumeoto for time pow:hews
of land end the ounotruation of the line, so won &II
1115,000 mohlitimmel sobooription* ire obtained,
The Chairman moved time adoption of the report,
Which Wee ouomoled by Kr. Lawrence Walker, and OAP
vied unetilmouoly,
Other reoolutiono were adopted with s view to Gerry
into effeut the euggeationo of the director. for retsina
time remaining slows capitol, and e vote of timanko to time
Cheirman terminated the proceedings,
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RAILWAY ANCPIPTII.-1.110 !raffle return.; of the tell.
ways in Ike Uelbell Klerillie published for the week
ending November 97 aimmokutted to £4Bl, _740, and for
time ourreoponcling week of lest year to £407,000. show'
log atm increase of £13,880, 'lll.l grou receipts of the
eight reilways hoeing their termini in the metropolis
eineunted to £1011,883, end for the oorreeponding period
of 1857 to 11101,1178, showing an increase of £4,700.
The limonnow Itm the receipt, on the Eastern Comintlea
Rollway emounted to £1,1114 I en the filial Northern to
£1,804 L on time London and Nurth•Weotern to 1:831
on the London Blookwall, to 811 lOn the London;
,frighton, and South Coast to £lOB lon the London end
(Witith•Weotern to £Oll and on the floutii•Eastern to
£BB4 I total, 418,0011. But from tills Muni be deducted
£3Ol, the decrease on the Great Western, leaving the
Marne, ea chore, £4,7112, The receipts on the other
lines in the Linitod Kingdom 'moulted to 0158.405, end
for the oorrooponding week of lut year to £248,347,
showing an increase of 0,088 in the reoeipto of those
lines, Which, added to the inertias on the metropoliton
lines, wake. the total Inane'. £13,800 as omnpanol with
the corresponding week of 1887.
Monate& 814 'are clone's"'
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