The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-25

extending to the great centres Of IN the East
Indies, Australia, China aud Japan and, whereas, SIR
| George Simpson, the Honorable Lewis T. Drummond
the Honorable John Young and the Honorable Luther
II Hoton have presented petition praying to be ncor
poracd for the purpose Of constructing tho frat link
the said line therefore, her Majesty, by and with the ad
vice and consent OF the Legislative Council and Assembly
of Canada, cnacs rs follows
The said Sir George Simpson, the Honorable Lewis +
Drummond tho Honorable John Ross, tho Honorable
John Young the Honorable Antoine Anne Dorion the
Honorable Luther H. Hoton and Perry Med Collins, Esq
together with all such persons shall become stoCkhod
Of the Company hereinafter mentioned shall be and
hereby constituted body corporate and polite under
tho name Of tho "Transmundane Telegraph Company"
and as such shall have perpetual succcssion may have
seal and change tho their pleasure may
be contracted with may or be sued may
acquire sell otherwise dispose OF any property real
personal or mixed and shall hold, possess and enjoy all
the powers and privileges common to all corporate DO
dies
. The said company shall have full power and sutho
ry to construct, maintain and keep up electric ele
graph line from the station OF electric tele
graph communication established in this province at the
time when the said company shall commence its opera
ton from any point OF connection with any electric
telegraph then established IN Of the United States
Of America, from both points, TO thewesern limits Of
this province, and thence with the permission of the
Hudson Bay Company or the government Of Great
Britain, or the government Of British Ooumbia) by way
of the principal settlement at or near the mouth Of Fraser
river along the coast Of the Pacific Ocean the Russian
possessions in North America together with such lateral
lines or branches the said company may deem id
vantageous 10 construct provided that the or
direction Of the line 10 be constructed within this province
be approved by the Governor in council
s. The said company shall also have power and authority
purchase lease for term Of years any elegr hc
inc established to be established either in th province
or in the territory of the Hudson Bay Company in
any other British possession, the territory terri
tories any foreign Power or State connecting or
after to DO connected with the said line which the said
company is so authorized to construct to purchase
lease for term OF the right OF company to
consuctany such telegraph line and shall also have power
and authority to amagamate with any company, board
persons possessing propreors any line Of Geographic
communication connecting or to be connected with the
said companys line either in this province, in the pos
sessions OF the Hudson Bay Company. in any other
British colony, or in the territory OF any other foreign
State Power whether the continent Of America
IN any other part OF the world
s. Aliens shall have equal rights with British subjects
TO take stock to vote, and to be eligible Office in the
said company; and no shareholder shall be liable beyond
the extent OF the stock subscribed by him for any debt
contracted by the company.
6 The seven persons named in the first section of this
hereby constituted provisional board OF directors
Of the said company and shall hold Office such until
other directors be elected by the shareholders, in the
manner hereinafter provided and in the event OF
more OF the said provisional directors dying before the
election Of other directors, the survivors shall constitute
the said provisional board and four members thereof
| shall form quorum
l. The said provisional directors shall have power and
authority at any time after the passing Of this act to open
stock books and TO procure subscriptions for the under
taking TO make calls upon the subscribers to
veys and plans to be executed to procure charters
acts of incorporation from the imperial government Of
Great Britain from any colonial government from any
foreign State, Power or Legislature, which may be
qured for the continuation of the said telegraph line
its branches beyond the limits of this province and also
to enter into any covenants treaties stpulations with
the said government Of Great Britain with the govern
ment of British Columbia, with any foreign Power
State having for object to secure operation guarantee
or other aid to and for the said undertaking. and il shall
be the duty OF the said provisional directors give notice
IN the Canada Gazette of the opening Of the said stock
books and of the places where the shall have been
deposited.
s The capital of the said company shall be two millions
OF dollars in shares of one hundred dollars with power
increase the same (by by law to be passed at special
meeting of the directors convened for that purpose
not exceeding four millions Of dollars, the said
Of two millions OF dollars should be found insufficient sub
ect to the approval of majority Of the shareholders pre-
sent or represented by proxy at meeting specially
vened for that purpose
O. SO soon as ten per cent OF the said capital stock
shall have been subscribed and two per cent paid up
the said provisional directors or majority of them, may
call meeting of Shareholders either at the city Of Mon
ea in Canada at the city of London in England at the
city Of Paris in France at the city of New York. in the
State Of New York. the said provisional directors may
determine, and at such time as they may think proper
giving at least three months notice the Canada Gazette
London in England and the chief city of every foreign
State wherein of the shareholders OF the said company
reside and at the said general meeting and all other
general meetings herenat mentioned the shareholders
present either personally or by proxy shall elect nine
persons to form and constitute Central Board Of Directors
OF the said company.
| 10 II shall be the duty of the company to transmit all
dispatches in the order IL which they received IN
der penalty Of not less than five exceeding twenty
five pounds, to be recovered with OF suit by the
person persons whose despatch postponed
charge for the transmission of such dispatches and
receive collect and such rates of payment as
shall be from time to time fixed BY the bylaws Of the
company.
20 All lines of telegraph constructed worked by the
company shall at all reasonable times be open for the
transmission Of intelligence for her Majesty and the
pany shall receive, transmit and deliver all such
sages and signals shall from time time be rendered
for transmission for her Majesty or her Majesty
service
u. All messages and signals sent or forwarded for
transmission and delivery for her Majesty in her Ma
jestys sarvcc eha have priority oyer all other
whatsoever; and il shah be imperative the company
their officers and servants to transmit and deliver such
messages and signals accordingly, and suspend the
TRANSMISSION OF all or any other messages until the said
messages and signals shall FIRST have been transmitted
and between themselves such other messages and sig
nails shall have no right OF priority but shall be transmit
ted and delivered in the order in which they may be
spectvey rendered for transmission respectively
for delivery: Provided that in Of the said
pany shall be subjected TO the transmission of all
sages and signals, to such orders may from time e
! time be made by the Governor in Council,
| % Unless the company shall go into bona fde opera
ton, with paid up capital OF not less than two hundred
thousand dollars, within five years after the passing
this act this act and all the powers herein contained shall
be null and vod and nothing in this act contained shall
be construed to give any exclusive rights to the said
pany.
News from Tahiti and the Marquesas
The missionary brig Morning Star, twenty days from
Tahiti had arrived ut Honolulu The Polygesdn OF July
80 publishes the following summary Of news from the
Marquesas Islands and Tahiti 1t is gathered from file
The schooner Caroline f. Foote twenty.six days from
| San Francisco arrived at Tahiti July 10
The Governor had gone a visit to New Caledonia
where sections OF public lands about to be dstribu
ted among the military who had conquered and kept it,
At Nuuhiva the French authorities had left aud the
colony was dismantled the Catholic missionaries remain
! ing almost alone.
From the Hiraoa correspondent Of the Hce Hnoaii
learn that the war now raging between France and Aus
tra has found counterpart in the princpaes OF 0onoa
and Ewaewa the island of Fauhiva. The territory
the Ewaewans was invaded the night Of the first of
June by the 0omoans who with an armament of eight
boats each carrying twelve men, caught the
enemy mapping and killed two men and two women and
carried away prisoner to Oomoa little girl where she
was stranged to deaha sacrifice to their blood thirsty
! gods.
The animals which had been brought 10 Fatuhiva and
Avaoa last year and this by the Morning STAR were doing
/ well II would seem that the domestic animals at the
Marquesas were limited to hogs, hens dogs aud cats.
The astonshmen Of the natives at the new corners
unbonnded, and their language afforded them other
expression of the idea of than call her hog
| with very long teeth, and mule they called s'hog
/ without teeth
The writer thinks that the withdrawal Of the French will