WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 January 1894, Page 3

WELLINGTON ITEMS.

Sir Robert Stout The Gear Company. Cricket, (By Telegraph—Presa Association), Weltjnqion, Friday. Beourity to the extent of £2OO has been lodged in connection with the petition againßt the return ofSir Robert Stout. At the annual meeting of the Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company last night, the profit end loss account showed a balance available for appropriation after due allowance for depreciation, as £7918 which the directors recommended should be apportioned bb follows:—In payment of a further dividend, making 10% for year,£46oo,oarriedforward £BBIB. Tbe reserve accounts of the company now amount to £22,000 in money. In moving the adoption of the report, the chairman said that the low prices ruling in London for the company's product had affected the revenuo but in upitfl of; this, a diyidend of 10% was paid,making 112}% for the eleven years that, the company Had been in existence}' He pointed otoatthe reserves of: tile compapy werepn such a poßiiion that if only 6J°/ 0 wi* earned capital e'nJpWd by the ffipany.it would enable aharehblderfl tjpeceive. 10$ dividend 'bij'Sleir

e snares, the repotf, g& Balance it sheet were adopted, and' the retiring is directors, Messrs Anderson, Bell, and Beauohamp, were re-elected. The Wellington Cricket Association >f last night decided to communicate n with the Canterbury Crioket Associao tion', asking that Mr 011ivier(who has been ohtien to seleot the New Zealand team to play the New South Wales i- team) should oonfer with the local o selection committee in the Heleotion of Wellington representatives for the team,