The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-12 00:00:00

VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO.

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this com-
pany was held at the offices, Duke-street, Westmin-
ster, Mr. W. Lee, M.P., in the chair. The report,
an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was
taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said they had now brought themselves
nearly to the close of their outlay, something like
£7,000 only having to be paid to Mr. Kelk for the
completion of the station. The rents from the
London, Chatham, and Dover and the Great
Western Companies would progress until 1867, the
rent increasing about per cent. per annum until
1867. The rent in that year would be £32,000.
Although they had a very large station, they
found that the public required greater facilities
than were now afforded to them, and on this sub-
ject the directors had had several meetings with the
Brighton and
,the London, Chatham, and Dover
authorities for the purpose of carrying out some
further arrangements to satisfy the public demands.
(Hear, hear.) The result was a provisional agree-
ment that, should the Brighton and the Chatham
and Dover Companies obtain the bill they had pre-,
sented this session to widen the line, the Brighton
would pay to this company £1,125 per annum in
perpetuity, commencing 18 months after the open-
ing of the new portion of the line. The arrange-
ment would bring the Victoria Station Company to
this very satisfactory position, of having ulti-
mately £33,125 per annum, or about 9 per cent.
on the ordinary stock.
Mr. J. ELGER seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.

Mr. W. Lee, M.P., and Mr. G. Witt, retiring
directors, and Mr. G. F. Holroyd, retiring auditor,
were re-elected, and the dividend of 21 per cent.
for the half-year was declared.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors
closed the proceedings,

BRADFORD, WAKEFIELD, AND LEEDS.
The report of the directors states that the expen-
diture of capital during the half-year has been
£7,021 making a total of £284,630. The directors
recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate
of 7 per cent. per annum on the capital stock of the
company, which with 4 per cent. per annum on the
Ossett Preference Stock, will leave a surplus of
£1,647.

N PAULO (BRAZILIAN).
The The half-yearly
Was held
yesterday, at the London Tavern—Mr. R. A. Heath
SA
meeting of thi s
in the chair.

Mr. Hillier, the secretary, having read the notice
convening the meeting and the report,
The CllaißmAN said he had nothing to add to the
report. If he had anything bad to relate, he would
do so ; and if he had anything good, he would men-
tion it. They were, in fact, going on in a steady
routine Way with the undertaking. They might
wish to know the result of the experiment of allow-
ing the shareholders to pay up on a certain number
of their shares in advance. The amount in advance
was £l2 per share, so that there might be no fur-
ther calls upon those shares. This arrangement
was carried out with complete success. The num-
ber of shares which had been paid up in full, £2O
per share, was 17,073 shares, leaving 82,927 shares
with £8 per share paid. There was a considerable
discussion at a former meeting on this point, but he
thought the shareholders were very nearly unani-
mous on that occasion, and the result was most sa-
tisfactory. The property of the company had .