The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

ilailinap Entclligcnrc.

SAL! ,ItURT AND YEOVIL Itait.w.tr —The railway has
been dmibled b.:tweets 6M:foot-tie awl B...ilford Abbas
Junction, and the diniblin.: Intween S il.shury 1/11,1
Wilton has nearly been completed. increased aeeolllo-
- fi r pabsenjeis has then given at, Wilton. &Ilkley,
and Gillingham. Tl:e joint station at Yeovil was
opened for traitic on the It. Juno. The loan of
1:40,0u0 to the bank has been re-paid, and the acknow-
ledgements to the contractor redueed by £15,000. The
aceoutits with the contractor IWO Dot yet adjuitted, but A
sum of 110,000 has been paid hint on engineer'i certi-
ficate. The traffic fur January, Febrita.ry, and March,

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averaged loily £l5 per toik per wick. TI deficiency is
attributable to the state if the weather during the early
part of the ye..r, tallith, I.r ilainaiu; illU WOr 110. hehiw
Yeovil, interi nova the regular working of tie train*,
and caused a 144:00114 itiminution of the reeeipta. The
earnings for April, May. and J nue have inere mil to ill
per mile per week. The traffic amounts for the half
-
year, after deduction of working expeineea and inttreat,
a balance of £6,737, to which is edited the bahliee
of revenue, after payiniut of hint tiividend, 1.1,301,
making together £10,318. The dividend on the pre-
ference evital will require £1,315, and on the ordinary
capital, tit the rate a4l per cent., £0,842. leaving a
balance of £2,131. Thu expenditure tin capital account
to the 30th of June au ..... tits to 1:596,377. The revinue

account for the lialf-vcar ending ti.a dOtli of June al.oas
that £19,528 had been received, and kri,Con9 eapei.ded
in working the twig; leaving a balance of £10,8311 for
interest and dividend.
Soura-Wrariattf ILt ILWAY.—On Tlitnaday the half-

yearly inert:no was held at the couipai y's terminus,
Waterloo-rood ; Captaiin Maligns iu the chair. The
report, winch, lokA already been published, was taken at
read. The Chairman, in moving its adoption, said that
as lung as they labeured under the temporary difficulty
of havini to pay 1:27,001/ intereet balf-yearly on the
Exeter stension line, it was not to he expected that
they could keep up the usual amount of mud. That
line was Ahmed abut up in consequence of the wet
weather • in addition to this throwback they had to meet
the disa:ivantages ariaing from a bad seams°, the
American war, and the high rate of interest. Ile believed
thee:trainee would be ultimately beneficial. They had
re-tubed 32 singiutes, and hept the pelinaneut way in an
efficient atate. That lud been proved by the strixt
inquiry which had been made after the unfortunate
accident at Wiuibledon. lie attached very great ha-
pentane° tollie extension line to St. David's' which
would'enable them to take the Devon traffic to London
or to the southern countio, of England without break
of gunge. The directors felt bound to resat the pro-
moters of the Andover and Redbridge and the Peters-
and Southampton lines. They had Len successful
in opposing those attacks, but it cost tlie company a
considerable stun of money. Ile was afraid the people
ut Soutlmuiptun were too much disposed to look upon
the company as oppre,ors. But they hail'elone a good
deal to demlope the tiaffic of that place, auil he trusted
the p,mple of that locality would look upon them ,ii
friends in future. During the first six weeks in the
present half yinr the increase of traffic imiounted to
1:8,000 ; and though it was mortifyi:ig that there should
be any diminution of the dividend, he Iseli,ved there
was good hope for the future. The achense of super-
annuation was still under consideration. It had been
found DOOM .ry to have larger buildings for the ACCOID-
OOO6tAOII of the locomotive department in consequent:o
of the increase of business. Mr. fierapath secondede
the motion, and considered the statement of the chair-
man as very satisfactory. The diminution of 1 per cent.
in the dividend might have been expected. lie thought
it would have been nwire.—After some discussion, the
report was adopted.
GalltAT WlrAifitDY.—On Tuesday morning a trial trip
was made over this company's narrow guage line, Mat
completed, between Reading and l'addingtm. The
DarrUW gimp train started trunk the Reading station at
1.45 a.m., including all open carriage, occupied by Mr.
Lane (the principal eirgineer of the company) Mr.
Macintosh awl Mr. Beynon (assistant-engineers), Mr.
niggles, (superintendent at Reading), and sonic other
officials. A careful igapection of the work was made as
the train proceeded along the line, and the party, on
reaching Paddington, remained there a short time.
They then left to make a trial trip over the down fine,
and to examine the works. The train arrived at Read-
ing at about 11.30 a.m., and every part of the work was
found in a satisfactory state. It is expected that very
ishortly the Great Western line will be open for taxmen-
gem and goods traffic oil the narrow guag, between
Paddington and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Liver-
pool, and the West Midland districts, which it is Teci-
ally intended to neeoninentete.
EXETY.II, TAVISTOCK, AND LAUNCESTON.—A public
meeting of gentlemen locally interested in the construc-
tion of • line of railway (runs Exeter to Okelianiiiton,
Tavistock, and LAlloCe•t011, was held at Plymouth on
Monday, at which the Mayor of Plymouth presiilisl. A
long discussion ensued, in the course of which it was
agreed that a company should be funned for pleting
railway communication tin ougl. central Devon and
Lanneerion with • branch to Newton and North Devon,
and a provisional colemittee was appointed to consider
the best mode el carrying out (ho proposed under-
talc:ng.
inotser CENTBAI..--TOe meeting of Vila company
wsa held OD Wednesday, at Fendall'inhotel, Westminster,
when the following report wan read : Since the lent
half-yearly meeting the progrevi made on the work.' of
the line between Templecoombe and Bruton has been
most satisfactory. The whole of the laud on that section
has for s ttttt c time teen in the bands of the contractors,
and your directors are informed that should no motor-
a•cen difficulty arise, the opening for public traffic may
take place at the 'forint antimpsted, nu neju, in the
autumn of this year. At the special meeting held im-
mediately after the cuncluidon of the business of the
ordinary meetnig, the head, of an agreement were sub-
mitted for approval, for the working b- i• ine Somerset
Central Railway Company and this ritiluay as one
aystem. TM* agreement provides for a hystein of
through trains and through booking. The working es-
penaes to be divided watolding to iiiileage. Each com-
pany takes in its own receipts from local traffic, and the
through traffic is to be divided according to intl.-age. A
resulut:on was alai submitted authorising the directors
to take all necessary ateps in emijunction with the
directors of the tiumerset t 'entral Railway Company, to
effect an amalgamation of the two companies as soon as
the forms of parliament will admit. The survepir con-
tinues to make agreemeute for the laudibetw..col Temple-
otiolube and Blandford, and the works at the Blandon'
end will lie commence I on thelthh inst. The contractor
has undertaken to complete this section within two
years from this time. The statements received from the
London aud South-Western Railway Company of the
traffic OD the Winitiorne and Illandford section give the
sum of £2,245 Ils Id., as the total earnings of that
line for the first eight months of the working to the :fifth
June last. Of this amount the cum of £1,347 fit. 71.
(60 per cent.) lA retained by the London amt South
Western Company for work inge [aims, and the balance
oh 1:81.15 is. 6d. is mini:mil to provide for the intermit cin
debenterts. Th& detailed statement of the traffic for
this period ham nifryet been furilialle.l to this company,
tint your directors AlO aware that a very large amount
of traffic, both in passengers and goods, has pissed over
the line. Your dlrectora have every reason to congratu-
late you on this early developuient of • large and in-
creasing traffic, guidon the great acouunnodatiou which
has been afforded by the opening et the line, but they
at Pie same time are nut satisfied with the v•isting ad-
justment of the threngh rates and fares. They have
therefore given notice to the London and South
Western Couipstily of their intention to refer to the
arbitrator appointed under the agreement to decide the
principle on which the future di, ision of the receipts
from through traffic shall be made. Your directors will
Os. their best endeavours to secure for this company
such rates as—whilethev will be fairly remunerative
will not interfere with • due development of the
mamma of the line. Vita developealent, however,
cannot be fully attained until the completion of the
through hiss to the Somoset Central goblin. Every
effort us hung .y 1 to press on the work, and no pains
will he spared to ensure its completion within the two

year, above namcd.—Seunteer's Report—Daring the
past half-year ronsbkr..bh, progress lass been mate in
the works of the line hetween Bruton and Temple-
coombe. Tl:c fenciog is finished excelling for • length
of about tin cc-quartets of a mile. More than two-thirds
of the ma thwork in embankments has been done. Of
raise.' or lowered bridge approaches. all ant eseruted, or
!wally so, with one exception. N 27 bri.l&es. two of
whim hi are not eisetithl to the opciiimr, sixteen are eolu-
-1.!e•ml, mid five more in proiress. The accommodation
winks hetwten Hinton am' W hicaiituit me done. and
those la tweeu Winaantou awl T._iiiple•c,omle, ore in a
forward slate. ft '11,14 in laid for more than two miles.
sidt ; the rails. delivered several month,' :v. the
Amp rA and permanent way fittings arc ready to be
liresglit on the ground. The buildings for the she ion
s• Coe, Hear Milian, bare been med, and the
Li omen wo.lt for the station generally is in commie of
preparation and partly ready. !expect thatthis section
of the line may be completed in October.