... PUBLIC COMPALIES. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY P: COMPAMNY. - Yesterday, the 108t0 balf-yearly meeting of the pro- a prietors of the ?? Staffordshire Railway was held. at b the niEces, Stoke-on-Trent; .Sir Thomas Salt, Bart. a, (chairman) ?? mo-ving the adoption of the r reDort, the Chairman explained kthat during the half- vear they had expended :£23,671 in a new station at ti Waterloo Road. ...

... LONDON GAZETTE.-TuESDAY. 3aNvMrTaCY: BUVOZIVrG ORDENR& WILL:tau MACoaGnIToNN GoDDos, Garfield Street, Kettering, lately residing at Victoria Street, Stechford, Birminghan, commercial traveUer. R1amnOsWPa ASEFORD JONES, Albert Road, trading at Vauxhall Wharf, parish of Aston-Juxta Birmingharm, coal merchant. JoRN TONEINSON, Pinfold Street, Darlaston, poultry dealer. PoaLic ExasnAmArboss. HUGH ...

... LLQ . SHIPThG .EWS ?? LL.D SHP - :NW. ,.b : THE1 MALLS. 3 ADRNmo January 3.-The Laos, from Marseille fj Yaokohana, arrived. ALEraarr, Jan. 3.-The Australian, from Sydney f s Marseiules, left. ArerwsEas, Jan. ?? Ebro, from Southamp arrived. Boans15Ar, -Jan. 3.-The Bengal, for Hong Kong, left, | oston, Jaa. 2.-The Degama, from Avornmoet, f rrived- s JicuTT Jan. 2.-The Bohemia and the Rewv f I ...

... BANKRUPTCY PRQOEE:DnGS. Re Harvey Graham, builder, Worcester.-The first meeting of creditors of this debtor, who carried on bus- ness at Rowley H3il1 Street, StSJohn,. was heli vester- day at the Odiciail Receivers office, WVorcester; Mr. EL Cox (assistant ?? receivsr)prseding. The liaitle are returned at £2,224, of which £1,2D00 will r dividend. The assets, after provisin 4or preferentil, ...

... The aggregate of business in tie general market Tuss been fairly good, bot dealings have been badly distri- buted among the several sections of securities. B3anks bare been fairly active at, steady prices. Stmall-urns continue to be a feature, the price having bad a hzrther steady rise to 17. Breweries have been. dull; Wolver- ?? and Dudley Ordinary are furtber marked dlown. IIn the ...

... Probably as an outcome of the recent tour of the Chinese Minister through several of the chief industrial centres of Great Britain more than customary interest will be shown by commercial men in this country in the current reports received from British consular officers in China. In the latest of these, just issued, Mr. Werner, the acting British Consul at Hangehow, writes concerning the trade ...

... The generalniatrket continues dull, the Mnovements in prices hoin g unusealy few. Banks have been moder- ately active at steady prices. Carlyle Ordinary afterc changing hands at 6%/ nurd up 1>4, and Harostead Pre- ferred have risen to2,whl the Urdinary shiarea of the last -nared co -mpay remain scarce. Middlemore Ordinary are quote~d a little higher. and Ptitent Shaft Basns. Stk Pd. MUNICIPAL. ...

... IBIRMINGHAM CHOM3ER OF COMMERCE.I C The annual report of the Council of the Birmingham i Chamber of Commerce, which has just been issued, contains a very comprehensive review of the work of the last year. The council congratulate the Chamber on the progress which bas been made. The number of members bas increased from 202 to to 282, and greater interest is taken in the proceedings of the ...

... AMd A-D STOCK MARKETS. t MANZ, EuFoAaO EL= tt&r ?? roarswnt 6oracr D ?? ?? _ r 29, 30, 31 MONEY MARKETSTILL EASIER SlEiR? PISE IN KAFFIRS. -FNx Con Cnrr CoaaXSrOmnm-'.} LONDON. -Monday. keyond. recording a further decline in rates for accommodation, but few words are required to um ulp the experience in the woney market toZ-ay. Business Was very quiet, witiday-to-day loans 134% to 13% per ...

... NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE-. I,- -rFaoxr Ocx CoxnRozsnq~ rr.) has to-day been quieter, especialy in the railway list~j the total transadtions amounting to about 432,000 shares. The market has been disappointed, and more than three- fourths of9 the dealings have been. purely prof essional. operations., The opeieing was &rregular, and the attention of traders centred int Third Avenue, which were ...

... BIRMINCiHAM COUNTY COURT. YEsTmuDAY.-Bcfore His Honour Judee WShitiorne. D1SPUTrs WIT A MoraXS-nT-Law.-E1i-abetb Watson, second - hand clothes dealer, of 203, Great lster I Street, was sued by her son-in-law, William Henry Malone, fitter, of 69, Reginald Road, Sal tley, for the recovery of £140, which he alleged was the property of defendant's dacehter, whom he had married. Mr. 3Dorsett ...

... CORN. i( LONDON4 (TnB B3ancoi-Wbeat: The trade of qP( the week has been fairly active for steamer cargoes of La Plate descriptions, of which ten have change9d r hands, tlhrec baring arrived as ports of call, the rc- et inainder being on passage. Prices, how-everhave shown S hut little variation. A cargo which about fourteen days~ ago f etched 25s. 3d. on passage was resold yestenkoy at the ...