The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-03-05 00:00:00

ilailbmp Enttiligenct.

DORSET CENTRAL RAILWAY COXPANY.
The sixth ordinary half-yearly general meeting of pro-
prietors say hail on Wednesday the 27th of February.
at Fend*ll's Hotel, 01.1 Palace Yanl, R'estminster, at
two o'clock, Sir E. Barker in the chair. The secretary,
Mr. Robert A. Read, read the following report
The first section of the line from Winiborne to Bland-
ford was opened for public traffic on theigst, November
last, and Is being worked by the London and South.
Western Railway Company, under the terms of agree.
'cent s.,nctioned by you at the last lialf-yearly meeting.
The detail. of the tau months' working to the 3lst of
December, have not yet been received from the South-
Western Company, but your directors have reason to
believe that • large traffic is in course of development,
, and they hope at your next meeting to lay a satidackiry
statement before you. A question relative to this Com-
posy's 51.ara of the through traffic receipts, is pending
iietween the two companies; but your directors hope
that a satisfactory adjustment will shortly he arrived
at, without the intervention of the arbitrator. The
w irks of the second section of the line ars rapidly pro-
gressing between Bruton and Temple Coombe. The
whole of the land between Bruton and Wineanton,
and • portion of that between Wincanton and Temple
Combs, has for sonic time been in possession of the
Contractor, and, with favourable weather, your directors
are informed that there is nothinj to prevent the cow-
-1 pletion of the line fruits Bruton to Temple Combo early
in the Autumn. Agn.vments have been made for some
miles of the land between Blandford and Temple
Combs., and the works on that length will be eoln•
menced forthwith. A suhsaription of I:30,1100 to the
share capital of this company ISIS been missile by the
Somerset Central Company, •nd aim arrangement for the
working by that Company of the second 'section of this
line, when completed, is under consideration. Your
directors think it to he for the mutual interest of the
couspaniea, that the friendly alliance existing should be
drawn closer, and that, pending their amalgamation at
the earliest possible peri.l, arrangentents should be
made for working the two lines as one. Before any
agrt fluent for this purpose is concluded, it will be sub-
nabs' fur your approval at • insetiog specially con-
vened.
The engineer's report pee a very favourable account
of the state of progress of the works between Bruton
and Temple Comb., and also the Pitcombe viaduct,
which is nearly finished. The weather had somewhat
hindered the progreas of the works, but as the season
advanced, it was hoped that rapid progress would be

made.
The statement of cavilal amount to the 3154
December shows :—Receipts on Wimborne, and Bland-
ford Line. t 58,890 2s. ;on Blandford and Bruton
line. deposits and calls on shares, £15961; ditto
preference ditto, £15,800; debentures, £16,060 ; loans,
(27.200; transfer fees, El 10s. ; total, £184.512 12s. fid.
The Espenditare on the half-year has been—On Wino-
borne and Blsndford line, £l9l Is. Id.; on
d Blanord and Bruton line, £488,880 13s, Id. ;total.
P 4,5611 9e. 7d., ; leaving rash in bankers' hands, £7,077
4.1.
The retiring directors--Lord Rivers, Sir Ivor Berths
Guest, and Henry Ker Seymer Esq., wets re-
elected, as was also E. Mullet Esq. the auditor. On
the *notion of J. Cottervill. Faq.. £l5O were voted to
the directors for the past year and £2O to the auditors.