The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-01 00:00:00

Sir C. RONEY, the salary of the secretary Was in-
creased from £5OO to £BOO a-year.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and director
concluded the proceedings.

BLACKBURN.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at Blackburn on Monday last, Mr. C. Parkin-
son in the chair. The business was quite of a for-
mal character. The secretary (Mr. A. I. Robinson)
read the advertisement convening the meeting, and
thereafter a conversation took place respecting a
circular which had been sent to the shareholders by
the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the purchasing com-
pany, intimating that the purchase-money of £l2
10s. per share would be paid on the Ist of January
next, and that warrants would afterwards be issued
for the interest, which would be about 2s:. 71d. per
share. The feeling of the shareholders seemed to
be that the interest as well as the purchase-money
should be paid on the Ist of January, as that was
according to the terms of the purchase, but Mr.
Withers said that probably the exact amount of
interest could not be calculated till after the Ist of
January next. The secretary stated that there
would be another meeting held as soon as possible
after the purchase money had been paid for the
purpose of winding up the company.
The directors' report was adopted, and the pro-
ceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chair-
' man.

WELLS AND FAKENHAM.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at Fakenham on Wednesday, Mr. H. W.
Keary in the chair.
The report stated that the receipts, as rendered 1
by the Eastern Counties Company for the half-year,
showed an increase of £289 over the corresponding
period of the previous year, hut the directors did
not accept the account as correctly showing the
earnings of the line. The directors had not been
able to effect any satisfactory arrangement with
the Eastern Counties for working the line, and were
consequently unable to show in their account for the
past half-year any charge for working expenses ;
the balance of revenue account (L 1,079) was there-
fore subject to deduction on that head. The direc-
tors had made an application to the Norfolk Board
to take the necessary steps for carrying into effect
the agreement entered into by them with the pro-
moters of this company for working the line.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said the traffic on the line was progressively
improving, and he had no hesitation in saying that
had the undertaking been worked under the agree-
ment of 1854, and had it met with common fairness
from the Eastern Counties, the directors wouldhave
been able to declare a small dividend. Unless some
better terms could be obtained, he thought the com-
pany had better follow the example of the Waveney
Valley, and work the line themselves.
Mr. BOLINGBROKE seconded the motion for the
adoption of the report, which was agreed to nem.

eon.
The proceedings closed with the usual compli.
ment to the chairman.

STRATFORD-ON-AVON.
The half-yearly meeting was held on Wednes-
day, Mr. P. H. Munton in the chair.
The report of the directors expressed regret that
the railway had not been opened for traffic, but re-
ferred to the severity of the weather last winter as
having been the cause of retarding the progress
of the works. The Government inspector had passed
over the line, and there was no doubt of its being
opened within a short period ; and the directors
would exert themselves to forward that object.
Communications had passed between the chairman
of this company and the chairman of the West Mid-
land, which the directors trusted which result
in the junction of the two lines at Stratford-on-
Avon being completed.
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report,
which, after a brief discussion, was carried.