The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-12-02 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH OAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY.

A meeting of the eharehol len of the Ges Company
wee held on Wednesday morning in the Council Chambt r,
Guildhall, there being preset.—Mr. lb. Damon, lit Um
char, Mr. J. Talbot. Mr. & 0. Hallett, Mr. Lundle,
Mr. Abbot, Mr. J. Rowell. Mr, & Mae*, Mr. IL
mning, Mr. J J, Rolls, Mr. J. M. Rehear, Capt.
&diens, Mr J. Board, M. Plowman. Mr. Reynolds,
Mr. While, Mr. Round, Lad Mr. Stone manegor.
The object .4th. moiling wee to oct.i.icr an appliattion to
klec lioard of Trade for power 1.. inen.,e the price of gas
Mr. limit's, the Mantas', ma they were aware that lloiritig
the tau needmi an Act was pawed gisize,r pow,rrei the Itorl
of Trade relieve ira• companies lab. ere labouring under the
high price of coals Relying MI the sh•reholders' appro. ai,
the l'inwtoru had give. imam .4 appliostimi for a Pmvinoual
order from the Doan! Trade for power to increase tn price
of gat lie whited to bring before the ineetang the !nate of
thiugs before the nee Coropenv was formal The gm wa..• then
Oa id. • 1,090, and the once oi wade was IT. a ton. The cois.
pony was formed, selling the ims at 4.. 11. par 1,000, mid coals
were Use.. welling at the pit's mouth at la per the, bed it heel
been t...tytht as Iwo- a 3 To. Al. per ton at the pit'. mouth ; but
now the priee of coal ranged from 15, to int at the pit'.
...oath. and still the price continued the same. After making
(call allowance for the linvemed value of the products, the
prie.. OA ahooti he lb. Sol per 1,000; and amity of
tir• 424441 companies had wham, I the ionm of gnu. Towne
might be enamel where the gas be 7a • tin.. and eve. A. par
!Amu cubic feet lint lea it should he thought that
the gas director.. were quoting only thrums {avowable is their
hal with the maistance of Mr. Stone, obtained stmts.
am, from every town in the moiety. They were -AL thitkeel
I'. Tel ; but there he islievol is an intention to raise the ;AUX ;
at illandford, To. ld.; Dorchester, fie. Lime Regm, lb.;
Portland, fie..' Polo, M. ed.; Shafteebury, is; filurtultaster
Newton, da. ftl.; Wereham, flat ad; Wiruborne, lb. ttl. ; Wey-
mouth, es ..M. The attention of the directors tias been given
to thaw and other statistim for Dome time past ; steel they
think the price .4 the raw material would *arrant them in
asking for • riow .4 Is 9.1 per 1,10,0; but they will only aisk
0.1 , and that will bring the cost to the mnsumer up tots 3.1.,
for first, they do not aisle loofa...At, but rather tot...courage the
eo.lthllll4/011 44 gad; moonily, because the .llreetore, as well
am beleeg sharcholders, enlarge gas consumers, end ratepayer.,
th..nlore to that extent they no.. Interested hi keeping down
the ; thirdly, by going to the bard of Trade they aro
non, 41 gatting the vary nrslerate *diatom they set for
The relief which It gives Is of • very Illeeety cheracter, no the
shamholden would perceive by this met important clause
Provided ideu, that where any addition ohsli he made by any
such Providosel °Marto the m.zivaeees price of gm preacribed
by the Special Aci, provision shall be made by gods Pr.,v-
isional order Mid the undertaker. being a person, com-
pany, or campanili., carrying on buenaa under a Specie/
Act for his m their own pecuniary henget Mali not
divide more than at lin rate a 6 sew amt. per annum
on Mar °Min
o.si capital for any hall Year In erbilt they shell
7;l= Amct. or II und inTere shell not prices
bars bed biLllelb.a
dividend of 6 per cent on such capital for emit of the twu
years nest precedlrig the applicition mom than such nun is
.hall hare been the •rersgs amount .4 !he dividend in such
two years, sod before allowing any such eddition, It. it card of
Teed. shall aso.elain the amount of divideud paid we such
capital during the said yearn."

The anearting is that if they Increase the prim of gas, however
small, they are m 4 to mete any profit, that is they were 001 10
make :nom than 4, per colt. For companies paying 10 per
mot. that may be fair; but for companies like theirs It was
very hoot. Then again this Act le mily to be in force for two
pure, front the Ist January next It would appear that the
public need to he readteled of the origin of thie company. It
wax tulle! into existence to rolrees grieve/mos which wore long
and heavily felt Those grievances were the prim .1g.., the
Mahwah: .apply of the gas, and the refusal of the lame to
empty mis to certain Menem. All thine grievances hid been
redreseed ; but without any profit to the aNineolders beams.
5 per o lit is intenat rather than profit, and kat IL Amalfi be
thought they contimplatol any ulterior advantage, the director.
hal offend to hand over the works to the Corporation, to be
worked by them for the b nefit of the ratepayer.. What would
he the mse of the town ((he gas works Instead of being In the
hands .4n emspany, were In them of an irrespesedhle 'c.o.?
The public limy a...uphill of their putties on at a LOCO : MO
what w. 3311.1 the lame have done, and that .'about waiting PEI
month, ? The i idols had ranged Irma 7s. (Id. to ile. Oil. ler 1.000
when the works were in the hands of a keen. He made no
emulsion mem these facie, bemuse he was mire they would
setisfy a reasonable and lamming public It would be tor the
sherchdlers to expriate their aloes on the sObJect, and eay bow
far they were beadle.' with the sett.. of the directors.
Mr Lcsons mid they had heard sheerly elver. and In his
opinion very satiehictory explanation of the moue why they
were called together. A grist deal of ixedit Is due to the
directors of the gas company. that they ha3l dc/orred no keg
as they had, appealing to the board of Trate to give them
power to increase the price of gas Iron to, Oil. or 1,000 to '
he 34. The (Ulnann spoke of the.. proprietors who were
also large eine tttttttt of ess, and in hi business, Ac, he might
place himself am mg them. When he nmendiered whet they
1414 inid,c OW iil.l regi,ae, the quality of the gm, the delkieoey
of the supply, he isntid .silsi see he should be extremely sorry
if they ouild not endorse ri.ailtly the in:comity tor this simile.
(i.e. lie oily regrett,d that pernsi should be so short es two
vow., because although present appearances indicate some fall
h 3 the prim of coal, yet time and more tbmghtfid heads
welly believe this to only • temposry depression, sad thet
probably we shell have the same ditheuity in two y...okre no we
lar.. 00a. But he was quite ewe the outside 133;141e must feel
that for the Gas Company to ask 5 par isatt is inrtainly as nu-
sonablv a proposition an Was ever brought beftwe the town or
the miblie. They should like to ask tenant friends
whether it would mit have been a more pro4,:ot
emirs: for them to have put themselves In the position of the
Company noneel of going from door to door, and saying that
the cas Company is Lath, advantage .4 • position they ought
I.' have contemplated and aura/ire melded waling—be spoke
miavially o one person who had taken onoddereble pains to
etam that for his own tart, he shout.% burn Ices, eel recommend
his isei4hhouns to burn less 121611 &lore lie biped such an
illib,nd view would 1133.1 no tiv.ittr. Stllitusiii, say person hod
been 10.100.1 to isit (100, gi(10, or xl,OOO in the antecru,
would they not expect to get their haw awl • half or Gen per
cent . instead of ite being tee difficult to get three and a half
r.,ecut ?—(yee and hear, boar). As to thu profit arising
the extra price .4 coke, It must be a nutter .4
congretulatiou to the meeting that that advance in souse
romsure met the advance in out, .34- the rise 41 the price of ge.
must have Irem mach greeter The appliontion Is based not
&imply on the merits of the quest.. as for as the shareholders
were concerned, but it was a simple net of justice to there
persons who came forward to Invest so moth money in the Om
ee5.4. Company With those few minerals he bto move that
this meeting emu-um the former seer Inks t' directors,
IA obtain a Provisional order from the Board of , authoriw
logo rise.in the pried front 4.. 31.1. to se. 11.
. . . .. . .

lilt. Rouse aad the resolistion vas unanimously
carried.

Mr. J. J. ROW' only regretted the entninkny being in mach a
palliation ea to he obliged to make the application lie vatted
tor the name of the pereon to whom Yr [Auntie had referred,
which he thought should be made public. —hr. Lundie did not
tebh to eve the name ; but hr. Rolla remarked that it he had
been the trumind-tougued man, the [mine woukl hare boon
made known at ,met.

Mr if •LLIITT remarked three hail net (wily been an 10,61100
In the price of e•vil, but in the men's wages. in imm, and. an
fact, In everything all round.—This wadi °unarmed by 11. r.
atone.

The meeting separated trith a vote of thanks to Lite Maus

THE MAYORS BANQUET AT WEYMOUTH.
The Worshipful the Mayor (Mr. Jas. Robertson) on
Tuesday evening last, at the Royal Hotel, gave •
I splendid beerret, on the oecarfon of hia third ecinuou
IF,. election to the ofsoe of Chief Megistrato of this
town. It was • grand affair, the lablee were loaded
with he delio.ciee of the soeson, taistera'ly adorned
I with diwering plants, and "applied with a prebuilt,' of
ohoioe wines. A band of mule in the next room were
provided to rerfo-m approprlat• selections after each
toast. The company it:minded :—The Mayor (Mr. Jae,
I Robertson) In the chair, supported on the right by Mr.
C. J. T. Herlltarn, M.P.. and on the left by Yr. H.
pdwarde, M.P., Mr. G. Go'dewy, M.P. Mr. Montague
claws, V p • tlir Frederick Johnstone, 13,rt, Sit John
Goode, Major Fort:r, Q 0.D.V.0., Admiral Tryon. Maier
Hovel Jcnes, It. 4.. Cant Aroyatt Brown. Rey. Talbot
Baker, S.D.. . Telbot Grouse, Rev. J. Eltepheovon,
Rey. J. Addirron, Rev. J. A. Resew, Rev. F. Fisher,
1t.,. V. Ransom', Rev. John Ellie, Bee. John Batley,
(Baptiat) Rev. C. A. Ottley, Row W. Lewis (Congrega-
weal), 1t.,. John Miller, Rev. C. Churchill ( Wesleyan),
Rev. John flyints, Newark A Met melt hi d Thom p.
eon, and Lau ; Mum Couuoillors Mason, Ailed'.
Habeas, Luudie, J 11. Deveniab, J. A. Talbot, J.
piaesat, Blmpeon, 0. Weleford, Roberts, Tboolaa, 0.
P., Ayl,shury, Groves, and Welsh ; with the
Town Clerk Mr. P. a Bteggall, in the elosobair ; Dr.
To .rd. Mr. Crick may, Mr. Ow orge, r. Han ne,llllr. Talbot,
J.P. Dr. Joseph Drew, J. P., Ur. Cocleon, Col. Miller,
Mr. HCroy, R.A., Mr. R. F. illot. J.P., Mr. C. F.
Arden, Drs. Smith, 3.?,, Griffin, Litligow, Moorhead,
Nathan, and Limb; Dept. Bost, R.N. Cep.. Blair,
R.N., Cart. Shuts Pier., R.N. Mr. C. Puny, Kr. G.
C ikon, °CMOs!. of Portland Prime, Dr. &riven, Mr.
Pries, Moser.. Wheteley Blot, John Roberto., W.
Rarerteon, G. Reynolds, J. P., W. J. Reynolds, U. H.
Devenish, Holl.nil, W. 11. Bdrett, 0. Andrews, fun.,
John Groves, ZII wood and e. Milleds., 11. Hopkins
r,wtb), S. B. Nicholae, Targett, J. Jacob, R. Damen,
Dorchester), John &entail. Polly Hooper, J. G.
ww. CoLett, Austin, he, he.
The mitering wu of the drat clue, and the waiting
was perfect, in fast the whole did credit •rell to the
eseell, it arraagemonte of the Royal Hotel.
The cloth being rumored, and a luscious deemed
plued on the table,
The CilolaKog gave the loyal Wait/.
Mr. EDWASDP, yropmed "The Army, Navy,
and Hswereed Foram"— ( mimeos. )
If•JOR reepooded for the Army.
A Dill SALTaros maid: I baire peen 50 years of the nave,
and I cannot say 1 MS go lobed to-night with the beliM
Vial we are in the high staw• of iitency that a nation
like outs with uremia worth picking ought to be; and
we have no friend, that would not be ready Waive
that helping hand towards our destruction - (to, no.)
That le niy firm and honest belief, MU whatever
eldeloney the navy may Lave this day, It is due to her
Leiser* and en-e —(no, no) A more loyal, more Aldo-
t,,,,uptod holy of men, due not belong to er hfsj,,ery,
men ready at any moment to givo their lives and their
talonts for dish. country. And understand they are
sailed upon at the present moment, there Is snob a vast
amount of niggardllowa that the navy is not In snob •
position se she ought to hold—(no, no.) Ia forint"
days it was a goat:ion simply of seamanship, bit to-
day it le a que.tion merely of power, which may any
moment ho brought to bear agalcuit tia Any ono at
the present moment San lirip to bring her to grit. If
you want to hold a position, not tim aocomodary plans
ou I:l,lloow—(touramrs)—we oasht to boll the bees
poeitt,a—twAttiniutla You saw toe visit of the Shell
the other d.y, wr..-n we 'bowed him a great fleet ; bet
when half the vessels bad just power enough to steam
bask. Half the navy are not elligent, are not it for
,ff Wive service—(naurcour..) Ewer, ship ought to be
rawly for any mid twee It, for whomever this sountry is
awned upon to go to war. It wUI not be. matter of Mx
month., or oven of weekr‘ but only el as many hem.
It le of &at laptertases that the navy of Ragland &hal
be up op to *SblsbsSp4tu9l Odom, *4l