The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-13 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(BY lIIICYRIO 1111101,11.1.)
DONCASTER MEETING.(THIS DAY.)

STAKES. .Y.
Weatherdari, Dusk, TRIAL
Arcadia, BanjaTmiti,Quee
n of Tramps,
Will Watch, sad Brahmin are hero.

HOPEFUL STAMM. About five furlongs.
Avenger, Vishnu, Dirt Cheap? Sis to the Golden
Pippin, f by The Fallow Buck, Alice, Swift, and Bohemia
are here.
DONCASTER HANDICAP. One mile six furlongs 132
yards.
Upperhand, f by Voßigour, Ooctindrum, Benjamin, To-
lurou, Dusk, Ruby, Mayflower, Arcadia, Watchare, Ban-
nerdale, and Little are hers.

LONDESBORO' PLATE. Five furlongs 152 yards.
Garrison Beauty, Brahmin, Whitewall, Hailstorm,
Charles Fox, Bernice, Duane Canna, Lord Chancellor, and
Simon the Collator arc hare.

VAN Dizmairs LAND AGRICULTURAL
COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.)

The annual meeting of the shareholders was held
at the company's offices, e,, Great Winchester-street ; Mr.
J. Curette in the chair.
The report, which bad been previously published, having
been taken as read, gh
The CHAIRMAN then said that some time ago a special .s
general meeting authorised the reduction of the nominal sa.
amount of the shares from 100/. to 301., 281. 10s. k
having been paid up ; the object of seeking U
the alteration being to remove apprehensions with N.
respect to call., when, in fact, there was no probability that
any would be nade. They were too late to comply with gk
the standing orders, end consequently the bill mat he poet. ye
pmed till next year. Having obtained the consent of the
Colonial Secretary the bard did not anticipate any diffi- Mculty in getting tee hill pared. He was sorry to say that U.
the remittances from Australia now came in very at.
slowly, the rents not having been paid as well se weld L.l`
be desired. However, the agent, Mr. Nicholls, excrement N,
a hope that with a better season the rents would he ft,
better collected. Mr. Nicholls thought it anadvisable
to press for immediate payment in such deceased 0t...
timea. One of the best please of laud, coexisting ra
of 1,242 acres, let at 7s. per acre, would fall in during the gh
present mouth. The board hoped to get 1/. an acre for it, if
and Mr. Nicholls was instructed not to let it under its fair
value in ordinary times. The present rental was about ik
3,0001. a year. The arrears amounted to 1,0301. • 2,0001.
more would be due in June and Jul), and if ti /8
then were
in lik„.a_
no extraordinary expenses there would, the directors hoped, ir
he a small dividend the course of the present year.
Though the prospects of the company were not Wheat, te
they were, he believed, as good as they had been for many ide
years.
In reply to • question, the CaArauss stated that power
was taken in the bill to which he had referred to reduce it
the number of directors.
A SHARZHOLDER complained of there being no improve. It,
meat in the position of the company, and advocated a U
change in the direction as the only means of amelioration.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply, dwelt on the difference between Ire.
Van Diemen's Land and more thriving colonies, the dial- is
culty of obtaining rents, and other causes of depression over is
which the board had no control.
A SHAREHOLDER thought that if there was not a reason- a.
able prospect of success, the concern should be wound up. le
(Hear, bear.) He also expressed a wish for the appointment 14
of a committee to confer with the directors. as.
The CHAIRMAN, adverting to the latter point, said that k
for years the board bad themselves been introducing among It,
them gentlemen of colonial experience, in the hope of benefit N
to the company,. le
After some discussion, the meeting was adjourned till N
Thursday, the 19th of June, to enable the board to present bM
the sccounte up to the end of 1881. It.