Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 124, 11 April 1891, Page 4

Miscellaneous

. • i At the annual meeting of shareholders of the --Wellington VJanawaiu Eailway Company at Wellington on l'liur-jdny, 1 it "Was announced that the "net railway -earnings for the yoar weie £45 96 », and "the balance on tlie lind revenup account wa s £3177, and .iffer'payrncnf of de'iens tuie interest and otlioi chni^e«, tlieu ' Temi«ui"d ii <!um of £7338 arail blc toi * llii.ni fmtion' foi d vid<nd 'pun oies, to -' gether with a balmce ot 15D79 held over v hom k^t \ear A dividend ot 3£ per! _ cent on tha pjud up capital, JLI7,OuO, was . declared. jUessr^ftukcaldie ant. Plum. ' f zy,n were re-elected dnecfor*, an I vr I '"David Anderson smis elected a dnector | in a placp of iJi J K JNathan, «lio is actin<); a s one of the Flome l^cnls of the ■Company. "Thusth-c Denoit Free I'icss- -When I th nk of tho towel, the old fi^hioned ' ton 1, lhatiisiii to )i»ng Ut>' n> Ih^pimfc- | . ini^ 'house door, F th n\ tii.it no body, in i thtsp days of shoridj, cm haiumer out •• iron to wear <is it aoxo. The trmnp vho - abn ed if, the U^ il ho used it, the comp who ,tof at it when thes>e two weie cone', «»the l m>-he up nnd foreman, the editor, r c pool ihan, each rubbed some grime off --rwhVe they put a he.ip on. In, >>ver, and -si Tinder 't^as blarker than thunder, 'twas hnr.ki than poverty, roimher than sin ; * su>pended it never was and it flapped on the wall like a ,rbaimer-of ' tin. It grew 1 thicker and and T harder and toucher, and ■* claily put onra^more^nkiej hue, until one[ windymoi ning, without nny wainmp, it -■•fell to the floor, and was broken in turoJ J > O-Cf '