The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-17 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE_ARBOTBGURY RAILWAY

COMPANY.

The ordinary general meeting of the proprietors
was held at the Royal 11.4.1 on Friday afternoon.
Mr. P.. P. tweeds, chairman of the director'. pre-
sided. There were oleo privent—Mr. Thomas (Mayor
of Weymouth). Nfeeors. R Willioin., Aylos,
Rollaway, ()haddock, Percy, Barrett, Hobson, and
Monfield, the meoretary.
The rep st of the directors was se follows :
The annexed statement of &comm. to Slot
Deoember, 1881, hes boon duly audited end verified.
Owing to the failure of the hits contractors, Mew..
Green and Burleigh, the works were completely
stopped daring the monomer mouth., and up to
Ohrlottno" last. Th. direct ws have slime socoeed.d
In obtaining a responsible e mtreator, Mr. G.
Barclay Bruce, who hoe undertaken to complete tne
whole of the railway not liver than toe 31st
Demicitber next, en I the *action between Broadway
Junction and Porteobam he undertakes shall be 'in.
pleted end opened for trail: prior to the 30th Jona
seat The works have been ftooo3lllooCild, and,
judging from the arrengsmente which hare been nil.
for their cooduct, the director, have every roalim3 to
Won that the whole line will be oompletei not
later then August out. An *vestment he. been
entered into with the Greet Western Coutpany,
under which an Interchange Pwseenger Station will
be erected on the main line at Broadway Junction.
The Great Western Railway Company vireo if
required by the Abbotabiu7 Company, to subscribe
£lO,OOO of the debentore c.pitol on the completion
of the railway. Mr. Burma having retir:d from the
Board, the direotere hive filled up the vacancy by the
appointment of Mr. John Itanomila of No. 2,
Westminster Chambers, S.W. The dinays retiring
by rotation, ars Mr. Hamby sad Hr. Hancock, who
being elirible, offer themselves for re-slectioe.-
13.10Re31) PLismoss Ernrasus, Chairman.
From the Wailes sheet we extract the following
capital expenditure for year ending 31. st December,

[And and Lavr, Psrll.-
Compel. enentzry..ad I Total.
MUM,. °huge.

Purchase or loads
at Broadway aa I
c anpaamatlon to
Tomato
Paid Rata OH
Bayonne of Moat- 1
lag d•
Prla=nrd • 1

11—aerery's Zenon-) I
I n tor Lb. ye.
11184
Debenture Interest
Construction or
way and etatlone
Contractor In ,
Bt..
Wilts and Dorieti
Bank loan oe '
Portent.' t a r y
Dip eit returned ,
1

1.000 0 0

LOIS 0 0

1,000 0 0

•
Mileage itatement for the half-year enotag 31.:
December, 1864 :—Totel line o east by company—
Hiles authorised, sir miles six feet thiee-t-a chains;
' miles ixestruoted, none; miles constinstiog, to be
constreeted, six mile* six feet three-tea °halm ;
worked by eagles, 00011.-91(011d, atonal() PASSMOBII
Enwatme, Chairmen ; Witd.t.tu Mac trip, 8 oretary.
The CnAlltnat, in moving the adoption ~f the report
said it wee • &mil,' emote. statement of the p situ' a
of their affairs at the present time. lie did not think
they could do much that day, except t say they
bdie•ed they had ooms to the 111,4 of their be,alt-
downs, and that they would now very likely °amidst,
the line la the way in which it had been •ntiolpate I
in years gone by. lie was happy to learn to addition
to the report, which certainly was enociersgbag later
the struggles they had hal, that the minerals so far
sewer. developed la the neighbourhood were not oaly
all that had been represented to the directors when the
agitation for the lute was comatenced, but jiratilled
them in sayieg they were more encouraging than
they bad ever been before. He had no doubt, but that
some of them who weft living in the neighbourhood
and saw the work going on knew that the shale was
of greater value than ill had hitherto been eon-
enlaced to he. It wao not for him tote!' them the per.
restage of oil there was In it, but it would be
encouraging to theigentlemen who had interest in the
enterprise to hear that 1000 or 2000 w ra were employed
on the epot at that vsluable mineral. (Hear, hear.)
Fortunately, at the same time as they were using
Dome of the Inoue front the quarries as ballast for the
line, they also discovered that it was more acceptable,
Indira I braider* said it was more valuable than ever it
tad been represented to be. If these were facts,
there was an eueedingly eaeottraging prospect for a
large mineral trent° to take place on the line. If the
contractors got the land at mute; and there was a
prospect of their having it, be believed the line would
be °poled by ths data which had been mullioned.
(Applause.) Possibly if they bad a meeting at
Portia= three months beam, they would be able to
go over the railway without being rooked flout side to
nide, but In the ordinary way of traffic.
Mr. J. W alllll &waded Use motion, which was
cartied.

: What are the directors reosiviog t
The enuanur: Nothing it all; nor lure we
bad anything for eons pare. F... your ago there
was voted to no OW and =tortuously we have been
starving ince. (Laughter.)
Mr. WALK= : We have been waiting for the
liberality of the shareholders to vote us a certain
sum. We are waiting patiently for the shareholder"
to make a prwesition that we, the direct ws, should
be rerotourated for our trouble. Not only that, but
we are also advancing (*colder/able guru of money.
Wheu the Wilts and Dorset bankers were
In respect to the Pasliarnitotrary deposit, we we,,
to thd £l,oou with which to pay them. and we are
out of that sum now,