RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.
Yesterday afternoon a special general meeting was held at the Waterloo station, Captain Mangles in the chair.
When the directors entered the room there was not a single shareholder present, but the business was proceeded with.
The Solicitor of the company proceeded to read the heads of a bill now before parliament relating to terms with the London and Brighton Company, and while he was doing so a shareholder entered, took his seat, and immediately commenced a speech. The bill, however, was agreed to, as was another relating to a new line from the Mid-Sussex Railway to Petersfield, Hampshire.
The proceedings which lasted five minutes, then terminated.
Herapath’s Railway Journal - Saturday 30 June 1860
LONDON AN SOUTH WESTERN.
The adjourned special meeting of this Company was held on Thursday, June 28, at the Waterloo Station, to consider two bills now before Parliament;
Captain MANGLES in the chair.
Mr. L. CROMBIE, the secretary, read the notice of adjournment.
The CHAIRMAN said he was now in a position to state that the bills he had to submit were sufficiently advanced to submit to the meeting. He would call upon the Solicitor to read them.
Mr. BIRCHAM, the solicitor, then read the heads of a bill for making a railway from the London, Brighton, and South Coast line to the Portsmouth railway. The bill contained clauses for forming a junction with the Portsmouth line, working arrangements with the South Western and power to the latter Company to subscribe £10,000 towards the capital of the new Company amounting to £50,000.
The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution approving the bill, excepting those clauses giving power to the South Western Company to subscribe £10,000 towards the undertaking.
Mr. CASTLEMAN, deputy-chairman, seconded the motion and it was carried unanimously.
The SOLICITOR then read the heads of a bill authorising the construction of a railway from the Mid Sussex and Midhurst line to Petersfield. The clauses in the bill authorised a junction with the Portsmouth railway, conferred powers on the Company for making working agreements with the South Western Company, and gave power to the latter Company to subscribe £60,000 towards (£100,000) the capital of the new Company.
The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution approving the bill with the exception of those clauses authorising the Company to subscribe £60,000 towards the undertaking.
The Hon. Mr. DUTTON seconded the motion and it was carried unanimously. This concluded the proceedings.