The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

In the Referee's Court yesterday the following
bills were heard :—Court A.—The Shrewsbury and
Potteries Junction, to raise £150,000 by shares,
and £50,000 by loan, to make two deviations of the
total length of two miles 40 chains, and to alter
levels for a distance of two miles 74 chains. The
bill was passed. The Devon and Somerset (Devia-
tions) was to be reported. The Craven Junction
Bill, to incorporate the company with a capital
of £120,000 in shares, and £40,000 by loan, and
to make a railway of six miles 60 chains in length,
and the Heysham Pier (Railways) were adjourned.
Court B.—The Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's
Quay and Hoylake Bill was reported. The Buckley
(Docks, &c.) case was adjourned.. The Midland
(Additional Powers) Bill, to raise £130,000 by
shares and to define and determine the particulars of
the existing share powers of the company, amount-
ing to £24,442,818, and their debenture stockmort-
gage and bond debt of £7,064,519, and to confirm
an agreement between them and the Great Western
Company. This bill was passed. The Midland
(Ashby and Nuneaton) Bill, and the Midland
(Branches, &c.), to enable the company to make
nine railways of about 27 miles in length, and two
deviations, were heard and adjourned.
In the Standing Orders Committee on Tuesday
the standing orders of the following bills were dis-
pensed with upon complying with certain condi-
tions :—Bridport, Lyme, and South Coast, provided
thatd an amended copy of the plan and sections be
de posited ; the Anglesey Central, provided that the
P for new works and for raising money for
their conatrictin b
(Railway), °be struck out ; the Ryde Station
provided that all compulsory powers in
respect of
Certain. properties be struck out. In the
cases of the
Cork
ttrbaothur and Curraghbinny Ex-
tension, the Dublin,
mines, &c., and the Swan-
sea General Station and u tel the standing orders
ought not to be dispensed
with. In
Elham Valley clauses Were group 2, the
settledlngroup 6,
a
the Bristol and Exeter (E,,,
Valle!
Johnson,Rlwias) was
taken. llfr. Venables, Q.C.,
Air.
Q.C., appeared for the g.O
and Mr. Cr/PPs) promoters
Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., Mr. Saunders, Q.O and Mr'
Bere, Q.C., appeared against them. The bill
Was
proceeded with, and adjourned. The Exe Valley
was also heard, and adjourned. In group 8, the
Bridgenorth, Wolverhampton, and Staffordshire and
the Ellesmere and Glyn Valley Bills ere heard,
and adjourned. --
ANGLO-lONIAN STEAL
The
_ordinary general meeting of this company
was held yesterday at the offices, Leadenhall-street,
Mr. Foord in the chair.
The :report stated that the gross profit for the
year 1865 amcunted to £6,969, against £5,055 in
1864, which arose partly from a reduction in the
price of fuel, together with greater economy of con-
sumption, and from a reduction in the working ex-
Penses. The directors congratulated the share-
holders on the state of the company, as being more
favourable than its position last year. At that time
the company owned £3,000 borrowed capital; that

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sum had been paid off, and the company. as
not only only out of debt, but was enabled to pa w y
a further
dividend for the half-year ending December last at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to place £2,000
to the depreciation fund, and to carry forward £
397
to the credit of the new profit and loss account.
The boats of the company were in the most perfect
order and repair, the whole of the expenses incurred
in placing them in efficient condition having been
written off in profit and loss account.
On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr.
G. J. Jackson, the report was adopted, and the
dividend was agreed to.