The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

COMllttrte.

Tll3 corn-market vas heavy on Widneslay uensier
at the rates of Monday.
WITH regard to the Great Western Railway Comp.po
it is anderamod an arrageornt is Ming mad. with ti".;
Bonk of Ragland to open an amount there, to which „Li
be paid from time to time out of the weekly tea.
receipt., 1/301 sufficient to meet the Mimes, On di,.
'matures and debenture Meeks.
SLIII.PIIIVATh MINTING of sbarehslders ie the
, sesiern railweys has been held at Me New Linden le.
Klein% when at ter some dasossion it wee unaniume;
resolved thei an asaocietion of the sh•relimders le the
Great Western. London and South-Western. the Bri.t4
and Fseeter, Beath lievon and Cornwall Heaney., he
formed to devise some measures to edema tiy
interest. of the shareholders in time, companies le the
preent clinic.
Cotmem. Celorrose.-8 circular he,
just been ill4Old to the creditors of Coloool Berkeley, Ly
the oommittee appointed at a roent meeting to
inveetigate his affairs. The liabilities amount to MA.
£200,000. The only property (except new per
annum) is revisionary life icter.t in meleeiii
(),lonest/rehire, Middlesex, and Dorset, especial.. epe.
the death of bin father, and the net rental is efftlin:
The circular gives the following particulars, and it ie
.id Mint at • attesting on Friday last an offer of 7., fes
in the pound cesh wee tempted :—"Lord Fiteisdin,
was 76 last January, and Colonel Berkeley (;) 1...
birthday. The estates are ',Wiggly entailed, and the
provlsions of the will under woieh Colonel Berkehy
Is entitled are very strict, and epee bin committing
certain acts his life interest is forfeited. The estates
are liable to annuities es the death of the lord, and to
• chargeable jointure of £2,000a year foible widow, mid
to other portions not exceeding 830,000. The estimated
net rental on Colonel Berkeley's corning into poevemice
is put at £42.000 per annum, and the aucceseion dot, if
lie Game into possession now woldd be about 1:16
per annum, for four years. The property is charete
' with £216,000 payable et interest at 5 per cent. from
the time at the Colonel', coining into possmiram, or to
be commuted for an annuity, dining Camel Berkeley's
life, of £16,500 • year. Policies en his life is the fortni r
event to be kept up to the amount el £230,000, as 4 nil
extra premiums are charged upon the property. nee,
are other mortgages for £48,000, for which policies se4
premiums for £50,000 an to be kept up. The inters(
and premiums amount to about £4,000 per annum.
Unsecured debts are about £393,000. Present value of
reversion at 6 per cent., according to the tables, is
1224,000, which, after providing for the claims a the
mortgagees, would leave about £56,0410, or about 3e. 4d.
in the pound, for the tuisectired meditate. Menelaus of
Colonel Berkeley's revision, however, reeders it numb •
.1,10. It is proposed that Lord Fitshardinge shall
provide the £4,000 per annum, applying towards it the
the ellofeaDOe of £ll,O 0; also an additional £4,000 fRe
annum to keep up pollen. for the benefit at erediton,
to an affs•vot equal to 6s. Bd. in the pound; also a
further sum of 00,000 to meet the 1110CelT1011 duty, an
m to leave the net rental free for the creditors and
Colonel Berkeley, on the latter corning into pommieut
subject to the maelppi Weigle. deeming the
net income were £45,000, there woof'; rtrnsin alter
deducting the interest, ice., to mortgagees L'20,000, and
duty £16,000, • net balance of £4,000 only. If the
duty were met as proposed, there would be • surplis
' income, after paying the £2OOOO pea annum and the
premiums for Colooel Berkeley's if. about
which it is proyseed to divide equally between him and
his creditors, until the debts were paid in full, without
interest."

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