The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

.. £22,560
.. 2,5195

£47,755

Increase..
This increase is altogether independent of the arrange.
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ment entered into with the London and North Western
Company, which did not take effect till the Ist January
in the present year. In the last report the directors drew
attention to the effect of the running powers so far as
they had been exercised by the Shrewsbury and Chester
Company in carrying their merchandise and mineral traffic
over this line; and the experience of another half-year has
confirmed the opinion, that the employment of the staff
and engines of two companies increases the aggregate cost
of working the traffic over the line, and, consequently,
this company sustains a considerable loss, by having to
carry a portion of the traffic only. The damage done to
the line by the long-continued wet weather has been in-
considerable. The expenditure for maintenance of way
shows a saving compared with the corresponding period
of £738. Preparations are made for relaying a portion of
the line out of repair, between Chester and Birkenhead.
The accounts show a nett balance of £18,435 ss. 5d.,
and enable the company to pay on the £27 shares, ss. 6/1;
£22 shares, 4s. V. ; £3l shares, ss. 61d. per share,
being after the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, Pay-
able on Saturday next, the sth of March.
With regard
chairman moved the adoption of the report.
to bills in Parliament, the Dock Trustees, t
h and
Warehouse Co., the Warrington and Altrinc am Co.,•,
1,3 Dock and
visions which would enable them to inter
the Great Western Co. had bills in Parliamefenrte, withwith pro-
visions
did not directly interfere, t y would still affect the
per cent. on the former one ;
Birkenhead property in annypeoryrthasenertiowuasy.maTnieerd;ivaindde,n ifd
wlaatstearn
and, as the traffic during the time they had been working
on the London
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thiamdeinwchreenastehdebpeatswseeenn.
company
increase
thirty-five and ionf no
one-half I f
wa i an
l wthaTssdesmpaarltlm, tehnetyamtiaghrtedfauicrel yd anticipateens cost.
, ra.
large
j. F. NValthew seconded the motion for the of
der
increasetraffic
adoption
the report and accounts.—In replto shareholder
a , the
Chairman said it was a possibility thy i
y at, f the act were not
passed, the Birkenhead proprietors might never get the
deficit made up at all.—The accounts were. then adopted, and the followin
g rexiovritd dividend
d declared for the
half-year ending 31st Dec. last,
made payable on the
sth March next ; namely. the £27 shares, ..55.-64-d, ; £22,
4s. id- ; £3l, ss. 61(1.—Ths chairman moved that the
directors be authorized to borrow the sum of £30,020.
Mr. Brooks, of Glasgow, seconded the resolution, which
was carried.

HOLLOWAY'S Plu.s.-An aged man cured by them of
a complaint in his stomach and shortness of breath.—" I
desire to bear testimony to theigood effects of Holloway's
Pills. For, some years I was afflicted wittra tightness in
the stomach, accompanied with shortness of breath thiti,
prevented melrom walking about. , AM"' 84 years old.
.Years) timee,,Pilla have had's° gocl4.
sYnee'fro4B°.frtP4'artianirou'Clitanice eXercise, Twit ho ut- lneonvetllnt
piyp, 0p4_4401 quite relipitediefthe tfriadf;ol4nl
rfehiy gee,iliaggh4sitew lobo. e •
tkew and Son, proprietors of the Lynn Advertiser with
confirm this statement.