... MA.NCHSTER CA.RRIAGE AND TRAM- I I WAYS COMPANY. u- WMIE~rNG OF SHARE HOLDERS. t- An ordinary meeting of sharelholders of the Masiches- t3 ter Carriage and 'lrinwmays Company was held e on Tuesday, at tthe Meinorial Hall, Albert-square, u tho chairmaqn of the company, Alderman King, if presiding. The report presented by the direc- k tors for tie half-year ended 31st August, 18 stated that the ...

... COTTON COMPANIES, ill 54 liT 101 ,47 ill nc bi LANSDOWNE SPINNING COMPANY, OLDHAM. er A meoting of the shareholders of this company, kg whichi'is in liquidation, was hold on Tuesday night, atI Id Oldham.-The Chairman (Mr. J. C. Atkins, one of the s liquidators) explained that the meeting had beon con- vened ini acordance with the terms of the Coin. ue panies Windings-up Act, which provided ...

... I OLDHlAM AND DISTRICT COMPANIES. I RESULTS, Milton SpinningCmaylosa-.h nei (tre monrhis) proat is £591.p Albert Mill Company, Aore, Oldham.-Thie diretri revort a loss of £9377 os. Id. ?? the quarter's working. Ha~rper' ~wist Mill Company, Mstonl-unider-Lyac.- tj Profit, three mentbs, reported to be £230. t Teocuyson-road 3Ianufaotnring company, Preston.- p Dividend. 3%~ per cent per anwini ...

... ?? - O F - 5TOME E T R A D E IN PARROTS| . ?? ?? U. R S: E-C. I A L 0- M M . 0 . 1R. X. . . I:. . b K E.C IT' U ST 4Amng the many curious and interesting in- Iasjiese thait are carriel: on in England the ?? il grq, parrots is entitled to an honourable amda. dis ingshed' place. It' is not an extensive industry, but what -it lacks in extent it mnakes, up forin interest. Thowsandisof the ...

... OLIDHAM AND OTHER COMPANIES. I~ COMMENTS ONT THE CHRISTAS | STOCKTAkINGS. [BY OUR SPI$0IAL CORRESPONDBENT.1 The Ilorough resilt, slowing a gpin for the half- yealr of £I,586,, is exoellen't. It has been thc sur- prise of the whole list, and it hrs ot'cssioned tnui.h market gossip. Ifierybocly conneoted with the trade hlies been teoplipining how the money has beell maile. ::nd they have ...

... . LANCASHIRE MINERS AND THEIPR FUNDS. Oin Saturday zorning, a distribution of the trade and albckwetgh funds at Mosley common Coiliery, near Tyldesley, wais made anmonzst 8541 mneibers, one Is mail receiving 78. Similar bonuses have been granted at other collieries connected with the Maisnblester Miners' Assooiatiol., Tbe men's representatilves have been greatly averse to this deplotion, or. ...

... IC OR RES PONDENCE. War. EARLAS. - WO ecannot give advice of the description . THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. HOUSE' OF L?RtS.-YEsT.1tDAY. Their lordships mout. at, 2 o'do1ck to htear the Queen's Sipech, ?? was delivweie' by oluniissioni. The ?? Conmmiswjoners were thle Lord Chancellor, viscoulit Cross, tile Duke of Portland, thoe Earl of LathIam, fand Lord Balfour. A number of stran,901s ?? seats oc the ...

... LANCASHIBR ALNT dI FRFB ANEdN'1 p~LIF E40dT The 22nd. annual meoting of the ancashire wasi Cheshire Miners' Permaneot Relief ociety wa l on Saturday aftearnoon in the Wiranll Mmlinin sc d Mr. Charles Gidlow Jacktiou. challrman of te board of management, presided. T'he annual repo~rt sh11d that at the close of the year the meniLbr5Omx. numbered 55,294--i increase of 3,843 on the prOiS er.Thle ...

... THE COAL TRAD)E. ItlIDUOT'LON OF M AiEl. Lord Davye, ii S coxu *nullicsstioll on Wvdile lay, in- tima,tei thatb he will meet tho Cooeilitbtion Bolux.l of thle Durham toat trado, of which lle is irnpiro uets Tuesday at New tle. 'Llhe meelitig huts 'eni ar- nuiged to permit his lordsship to lheal attld (lOeide XIPMt the applicatiou of the ?? f )r a reduction of wttivs. A4 reduetion of Twae.s to ...

... - HWPINGDIBAS~hS I 100 LIVES LOST AT HULL. Tuesday afternoona meeting of Hull seisekowners andf otheis ongagsd in the fishing trnde was held t Hall for the purpose of establishing a relief fund for the widows and orphans of the fishurmera who lost their lives in the late gales. It was said thtAt10$ *livea had been lost, and there vrore ?? to be 50 widows but the number of orphana is not at ...

... THE NEW FACTORBES BILL. l PROVISIONS FOR THE SAFETY OF WORK. PEO PLE, The Factories and Workshops Bill was ?? pro- eeeded with on Tuesday by the Standing Committee on Trade. Mr. Stuart Wortlev presided, and there was a large attendance of memnbers Clause 10, which desvt with the provision of means of escape from a factory or workshop in case of fire, was at o considered. Sir C. Diilke moved ...

... THE DISPTJTE IN THE BOOT AND SHOE TRADE. .. I ?? I , . ?? . , Apn I The epected disputeo in the -Midland Boot sued Shoe IN Trad1 e hgan onl Saturclay. 'The Government have decided to exert the utmost e' influence to stop the disasitrous struggle in the boot II industry, and another Board of Trade official has a ?? at Loicester. Uie is taking very vigorous ii noction, sad is interviewing the ...