The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Solna DEVON RAILWAY.—The amount of ordinary
stock represented by the votes recorded for Mr. Ellis
is £331,400; that recorded for Mr. Brown £317,705—
thus sl owing that parttee holding a larger amount of
ca pit a which can be affected by the good or bad manage-
ment of the directors have protested against their past
management. This is a significant fact, and it is hoped
will have its due weight with the directors. This cal-
m-deices does not include the votes manufactured by
the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company and the
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company; and, accepting
the challenge of the chairman given at the meeting on
Tuesday, we believe Mr. Ellis's committee. will take
legal proceedings with reference to these and other
questions in dispute.—Exeter Gazette.
ACTION AGAINST TOE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
CONPANY.—At the Newcastle Assize, before Mr. Justice
Mellor, a case, "Hunt r. the Great Western Railway
Company" was heard. The action wa.s to recover coin-
' peneation against the defendants for not con veylog the
pleintiff, according to contract, from Cardiff to New.
castle ; the defendants by delay, and not keeping their
time, having arrived at Gloucester too late to catch the
mail train, whereby.the plaintiff was delayed twenty- ,
four hones and unable to reach his home till the day
after. 3be defeudants denied that they were carriers
from Cardiff ta Glouc nter, and "Not Guilty." Me.
Temple, QC. and Mr. Crompton appeared for the
plaint ff ; MeEd want James, QC.. Mr. hieui,ty, Q.C., ,
and Mr. T. Jones, for the defendants. The plaintiff, it
appeared, who is a mining engineer, bad been with a
friend named Johnson on a professional visit to S +nth
Wales in December last, and on Saturday, the 7th of
that month, had made arrangements to return from
Cardiff, ret Gloucester, by the night mail, which
arrives at Newcastle at 6 a.ra., and to spend the Sunday
at his home near Newcastle. They accordingly took
Soirees in the defendant,' railway, but owing to some
accident on the line near Swansea, the train was de-
layed. The defendants refused to put on another
engine to forward the paseengiirs from Cardiff, and the
consequence was they arrived at Gloucester a quarter of
an hour after the north mail had started, and were told
by the station-master that they crould not go on till the
following evening. They ecoordingly went by another
train to Cheltenham, apart of the way, and dined there,
and their hotel bill* were £1 18s. each, they having
invited one or two friends to dine with them. They
had to send a telegram' and to have a horse and vehicle
he take them home, and claimed in the first instance
£lO each, then £l5, and finally £47 compensation for
consequent loss of business by reason of the delay.
, After a somewhat amusing trial, the jury found a
verdict for the plaintiff for £1 18a, his expenses, and
£5 ss. for the loss of his day.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC RECRIPTS.—The traffic receipts
of railways in the United Kingdom amounted, for time
week ending the 11th of February, on 11,796 miles, te
£571,400, and for the corresponding week of last year,
on 11,460 miles, to £512.082, showing an increue of
331 miles, and of £29,318 in the receipts. The gross
receipts an the following 14 railways amounted in the
aggregate, on 8,293 miles to £465,970, and for the
corresponding week of 1864, on 8,045 miles to £441,148,
showing an increase of 252 miles, and £24,822 in the
receipts. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to
£1,759 ; on the Great Eastern to £979; on the Great
Northern to £4,054 ; on the Great Southern and Western
to £653; on the Great Western to £2,967; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire to £533' on the London aud
Not th-Western to £4,219; on the London and Brighton
to £1,750; on the London and South-Western to
£2,030 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
to £B4; on the Midland to £1,556; on the North
British to J 199; on the North-Eastern to £1,546 ; and
on the South-Eastern to £l,BB7—total, £24,822. The
goods and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to
£284,378, and for the corresponding week of 1864 to
£272,445, showing an increase of £11,933. The receipts
for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £181,592,
against £168,703, showing an increase of £12,889. The
traffic receipts on 64 other lines amounted on 3,499
miles, to £105,430, and for the corresponding week of
last year, on 3,415 miles, to £100.934, showing an
increase of 84 mile., and of £4,496 in the receipts
The total receipts of the past week show an increase of
£B6 as compared with those of the preceding week
ending the 4th ultimo.