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... audit. and it is not possible to speak at present with any certainty as to the amount of the surplus. It will not, I fear, be any largo sum, but it is gratifying that there should be a surplus, however small, which, it must be remembered, is over and ...

... 44•• ii• Speaking at a banquet given in his honour at the Trocadero Restaurant, on Wednesday, Sir Frederick Hodgson, Governor of the Gold Coast, said it had been intended to complete the railway ...

... Pb 0.44* Sir Marcus Samuel, chairman of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited, speaking at West Hartlepool on Tuesday at the trial trip of the petroleum steamer Peet said people who thought it would be a disadvantage if oil fuel superseded ...

... question , relating to the Far East, and it is satisfactory to find hitn holding such optimistic views on the Chinese imbroglio. Speaking at the annual dinner of the China Association, he said our Government was face to face with one of the most difficult in ...

... latter place is no nearer any railway communication. The imp ,rtant village of lA•ven is on the route, so that, comparatively speaking, there is a fairly populous district to serve. The introduction of this new mode of conveyance will be watched with interest ...

... traffic, involving the running of fully 200 trains every week-day, has been conducted on a single line of rails. Roughly speaking, the whole works have cost something like 50,000/. ...

... Paul Railroad, and the Great Northern Railroad does not contemplate leasing the line, and has no need for it. He could not speak for the Northern Pacific Railroad; but, merely as an observer, should say it would be governed by practically the same conditions ...

... Lord Onslow, President of the Board of Agriculture, speaking at the Hens Agricultural Show at Hatfield last week, said he had communicated to the railway managers complaints from farmers that the railway companies were dealing unfairly with them, and ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Speaking at Louzon (Ardennes) on Monday, the French Minister of Commerce, M. Millerand, said the Government would ask the Chamber shortly to sanction the expenditure of 610,000,000 f. on canals and other public works intended to ...

... 01•04* Lord Claud Hamilton, speaking at the opening of the Sheffield District Railway on Monday, said the railway companies were in a most unfortunate position. They alone among the traders instead of sharing in the prosperity which was enabling many ...

... the mancouvres. There was no hitch of any sort, the trains were punctually despatched, and all the railway staff officers speak in the highest terms of the assistance they received and the courtesy extended to them by all the railway officials. ...