The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-19 00:00:00

_ interest .on
n Extension,

half.jear
weeks -on
was expended on new works at Ni.. Erns,
the purchase of land and law costa, $7,000 for
log the
£3,886 on the Metropolitan :

direct

loop line, £7,600 on the B;sioice and fiollsberp
giM
line, of which £4,000 was for strengthening the Wm
with additional sleepers and *hairs, sad also Wm
fishplates, in order to sustain the iesmared train
expended £2,500 at Gosport in providiqg cottegeo e.ad
strengthening the railway. On the Boith
Dorchester they had been compelled to detr=fisme
which was in progreas, and upon whith they baasZi"'
Fended during the half-year £13,980. They inel
completed the doubling of 36 miles out et 110 Silk, ell
the Dorchester line. A coreadetsbie podia ellak
lay on Capital account was upon new teetite
lug the railway, increaaing the aeiteameedatica at
stations for facilitating traffic, in balding new sad
trovenient workshops, and in providing cottages for
the people employed on the line, and for which latter
the company obtained a fair interest oh theft Vie
With regard to the fourth paragraph in the
respecting the doubling of the Dorchester line,
bad completed 36 miles, and there remained 110
more upon which the works were in • forward stele,
On the north side of the line near Nine Elms same
very large buildings might be seen in couree of credit= ;
those were new workshops for' the locomotive and car-
riage departments, and, as their deputy-chairman
could tell them, • great economy would be sleeted in
time and repairs; much more in amount than would be
equivalent to pay the interest on the outlay. Goa.
venient stores and other arrangements would also tend
to save materials and effect eoonotay. The sto
was a very careful man, and all those convenien=
when finished, would prove a great advahtage to the
company. The law with respect to raillitY ecoldenti
operated most injuriously on railway companieet.4ftel
a searching and scientific inquiry, which lasted 15 lama,
in respect of the accident at Wimbledon in Jetsam%
1861, the coroner's jury returned a verdict of &adamantl
death, which the directors believed was a earned
verdict. Since then an adverte vddiet in Ford's ease
had been obtained, and • new bird whs 'subsequent*
refused. Large demands were made for emitpersda4,.B
on the company, in order to avoid heavy law sod* laid
directors thought it better for the proprietors to to&
promise the various claims, and they trusted the result
would be oonsidered favourable to the company. No
one could discover the cause of the accident, and no-
thing WAS done to the lire where the actidentlm
for am weeks after it took place, showing that was
in a perfect state when the accident happened. No-
thing could be more unjust or unfair than the operation
of Lord Campbell's Act on railway companies Re
then adverted to the loss the company had sustained
by the death of Mr. Errington, their chief engineer,
and spoke in high terms of the able, prudent, skilful,
and complete manner in which he had constructed the
Yeovil and Exeter Extension line. Ms. Galbraith.
one of their late engineer assistants, had been ap-
pointed to suoceed him. The annual charge for the
steamboats would be reduced in future from 5 to 4
cent. Arrangements had been made for
Exeter and Credition, the North Devon, and tietheted..
ford railways to the South-Western Company on mode-
terms. They were broad gauge liner, bat by
re it itai additional till they would be aneverted
Into broad and narrow, or the mixed gangs. This
alteration would be completed before the end of the
year, by which the narrow gotta line would be at-
tended from London to Bideford, and be worked by the
company. The directors desired him to repeat, with
regard to those unfortunate disputes with the Great
Western, their sincere desire to re-establish three
amicable relations with the Great Western Com Pan!
which they reminded the shareholders they had no part
in breaking, and of their like anxiety to make • aatia,
factory settlement with the Andover and Redbridge
Company. With regard to the recent contest. before
the Committee of the House of Commons, the thanks
of the company were due to Mr. Adair, the chairman
of that committee, for the patient and able manner in
which he sifted the matter to the bottom. The thing
was fairly, honestly, and most carefully looked into by
that committee, and the Bills were rejected. (Hoar,
hear.)— Count Eyre wended the motion for
the adoption of the report—The motion, after
some diminution, was adopted. A dividend at
the rate of 4 per cent. per annum for the past half-year
was declared, payable on the 26th inst. Formal resolu-
tions authorising the directors to create a 4 per cant
debenture stook to the amount of £1,000,000 were
passed. The agreements for leasing the Exeter and
Crediton, the North Devon, and the Bideford Extension
Railways were unanimously adopted, and the proceed-
ings concluded with • vote of thanks to the chairman
and directors.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT.—The ordinary half-
yearly meeting of the directors and shareholders of
this company was held on Friday at the Padding.
ton Station. There vraa a vary full attendance of
shareholders, and the greatest interest was mani-
fested in the proceedings. At one o'clock the their
was taken by the Earl of Shelburne.—The Secretary
having read the advertisement calling the meeting,
the report, which recommended a dividend at the
rate of per cent, per annum for the half-year
baying been taken as road, the Chairman ad
the meeting at 1101210 length, and after regretting the
=alines,' of the dividend, moved the adoption of
the report—Mr. Brown said he was not actuated
with any ill feeling to any of the directors, bat he
must tell the meeting, in mild yet strong language,
that he had no confidence in the board of di:ester&
He thought their attempt to get to Southampton
was the most foolish attempt be had ever heard of.
("Hear, hear," and cheers.) At the proper time he
Intended to move a reeolution embodying his views.
He hoped the shareholders would not on the present
omission be contented by simply complaining of the
present state of their affairs; but, on the contrary,
that they would take such steps as would secure the
improvement of their property. (Hear, hear.)
His resolution was to the effect, that taking into
consideration the present position of the Great
Western Railway, the shareholders were of opinion
that all it required was rest, and that no fresh
schemes be entered into, no new guarantees with
any other company concluded, and that all further
outlay of capital on existing lines be stopped. (Hear,
hear.) In the event of the meeting agreeing to that
proposition be had another resolution to follow,
which, he felt satisfied, was equally worthy their
acoeptanoe:—Mr. Gossett said he totally obiected to
the report. (Hear, hear.) He wished it to be
thrown back at the directors, and he accordingly
begged to move that the whole board of directors,
with the secretary (Mr. Saunders), be requested to
resign, and that a management committee be formed,
and the present meeting be adjourned for ten days,
in order that a new chairman and board of directors
be selected. (Cheers.)—A long and stormy
cussion followed.—The motion for the adoption of
the report was then put and oarried.—Mr. Brown
then moved the resolution given above with the fol-
lowing addition:—" That steps be immediately
taken to organize an united economical management
of the three companies, and that a bill be prepared
the their legal amalgamation, an abstract of which
shall be sent to every proprietor prior to ita being
submitted to a general meeting to be held in Nevem-
ber • that free pewee be allowed to shareholders to
attend, and that no proxies be applied for by the
directors or their officials."—Mr. Adams seconded
the resoletion.--After a long and angry discnon
the reaolution was put to the meeting, but the hands
held up being so nearly equal that the shareholders
present divided, when there appeared—For the
resolution, 65; against it, 72: majority against the
resolution, 7.—A scene of great confusion followed.

FEARFUL RAILWAY AOCLMINT.—A very dreadful
railway accident is reported from Stretton, near
Rugby. There as a viaduct at Stretton on which
one line of rails is taken up for repair, and both the
op and down trains run tempotarily on the down
line. On Wednesday, while • passenger train was
on the viaduct, a luggage train approached in the
opposite direction, and the pointsman, seeing the
danger, left the points so as to avoid the colliluou.
but in doing this the luggage train was direeted om
to the line which is under repair. The result was
that the engine and tender, with about ten trnoks
of the luggage train, were thrown over the bridge,
the engine driver and stoker being killed on the
spot.
The last eagle vanished many year. ago from our
mountain region; and the last pair of ravens is no longer
seen; the hawks and owls are too few for the field
vermin in the valley.; and their absenoe U net Likely
to give us the larks we long for; for the fowthlg-piece
Is as fatal to the small singing-hit-45 aa to their enemies.
We witness a random and Misohifivossapert with g.
arias, because more legitimate sport, and.
_imaging are
ablaut

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