The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-10 00:00:00

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT NORTHERN.

A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the King's cross station ; Col. Packe,
M.P., in the chair.
Mr. Oakley, the secretary, read the notice con-
vening the meeting for the consideration of five bills
now before Parliament.

The CHAIRMAN said he was glad they had very
few bills to submit. They were, in fact, for the
purpose of enabling the company to complete ar-
rangements that had already been entered into, and
which had received the approval of the shareholders
at former meetings of the company. The first bill
he had to submit was a bill to transfer to the Great
Northern Company the-undertakings of the Edg-
ware, Highgate, and London, and the Watford and
Edgware Junction Railway Companies, and to ex-
tend the time for the construction of the last-named
railway. The object of the bill was to obtain addi-
tional powers to carry into effect the agreement
made with those companies, and to vest the under-
takings in the Great Northern Company. The divi-
dend on the ordinary stock of the Edgware and
Highgate Company from the opening of the main
line was for the first year to be at the rate of two-
sevenths of the dividend declared on the Great
Northern ordinary stock, rising one•seventh per
annum until the fourth year, and therefore to the
rate of eleven-fourteenths of such dividend, until
an exchange of stock be effected at the rate of £7B
10s. of Great Northern for every £lOO of Edgware
and Highgate stock.

Mr. LEECH, the solicitor, read the heads of a bill
which also authorised a deviation of the branch line
to Barnet in order to afford better access to that
town, and also extended the time for the construc-
tion of the Watford and Edgware Railway until the
31st of July, 1871. It authorised the company to
construct a bridge over the Regent's Canal to faci-
litate the transit of coal to and from the works of
the Imperial Gas Company, and to raise £75,000 of
additional capital with the usual borrowing powers
of £25,000.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving a formal resolution ap-
proving the bill, stated that a contract had been
entered into for the supply of 100,000 tons of coal
per annum to those works for five years, the tolls
from which would cover the cost of the bridge.
Mr. HUGHES said he was opposed to any further
extensions whatever, and in his opinion there was
not the slightest justification for those extensions.
There was no population to serve, and the outlay
would entail a loss. He concluded by moving an
amendment to the effect that the proposed bill be
not assented to by the present meeting.
Mr. VILLEBOISNET was decidedly opposed to any
further extension ; he thought the dividend of such
a line as the Highgate should be limited to a fixed 2
or 3 per cent., and not to take any proportion of the
general dividend.

Mr. TUCKETT and other shareholders also opposed
any further extensions or guarantees, suggesting
that the bill should be withdrawn.

The CHAIRMAN explained that the directors had
limited the liabilities in respect of those bills, so as
to require as little money as possible.

Mr. ASTELL, a director, said they were bound to
carry out their arrangements with other companies.
The SOLICITOR stated, in reply to a question, that
£54,507 stock was represented by the shareholders
at that meeting, and £139,932 stock was held by
the directors alone.

11r1..1Aiugpoll
was
Hughes's amendment
and Mr. Astell and Mr. Wood were appointed waOs ncarariesdhobwy olf6 against demanded
scru-
tineers. The result, after some delay, was announced
to the effect that proprietors representing £20,290
stock in favour of the amendment, and proprietors
present representing £106,969 stock, and proxies
representing £604,656 stock, together £711,625
stock, were recorded as approving the bill.

The amendment was therefore lost, and the mo-
tion approving the bill was carried.
A bill to confirm certain agreements between
the Midland Railway Company and the Great
Northern on the one hand and the Midland and
Eastern, the Norwich and Spalding, and the
Stamford and Essendine Railway Companies
on the other hand was submitted. The object was to
enable the Great Northern and Midland Companies
to work the railways between Bourne and Lynn in
perpetuity, and to retain 50 per cent. of the gross
receipts arising therefrom, the other moiety (being
not less than £15,000 per annum) was to be paid to
the owning companies. On the motion for the ap-
proval of the bill 11 hands were held up in favour of
it and X 3 against it. A poll was demanded. The
next bill was to repeal the West Riding and Grimsby
Railway (Extension) Act, 1865, and to make fur-
ther provision with respect to the station at Wake-
field. The chief object was to enable the Great
Northern and Manchester and Sheffield Companies
to subscribe £20,000 each to improve the station at