... m The half-yearly general meeting of the Crystal ?? Company was held on Thursday, Aug. 4th, at Y, the City Terminus Hotel, Mr GEoRGE T. RAIT pre- s, siding. In moving the adoption of the report, the m CHAIRMAN observed that on the present occasion they i, submitted an interim statement only. As compared of with the June half of 1891, there had been a falling oe off of about £500 in their ...

... I The first meeting of creditors of Arthur Ernest Eliot, t late lessee of the Royal Opera Comique Theatre, I Strand, was held under the presidency of Mr Hough, t Official Receiver, at Carey-atreet, on Friday afternoon. t Accounts were filed showing liabilities of 25,663; but i as no accurate accounts had been kept at the theatre, these would probably be found to be larger. The v debtor was not ...

... I The second ordinary general meeting of the share- holders of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, Limited, was held on the 25th ult. at the theatre. Lord GEORGE H. LoFTrus (chairman of the company) presided. The SECRETARY (Mr Sidney Smith) read the notice convening the meetmg. The CHAIRMAN ?? I last had the pleasure of addressing You the directors were able to show that the company during its ...

... TIlE CHEMICAL CLEANING COMPANY I A CHAT WITH THOMAS HARRIS. (Ity ouR SRCrlAL (COMtI-StfONrRR.) This most useful institution or firm, the Chemical Cleaning Company, was started about twenty years ago, and MIr Thomas Harris, the head and front of all things connected therewith, has been *ighteen years in the service thereof. From small beginnings great things generally rise, if pluck and ...

... S.AMUEL FRENCH, LIMITED, A CHAT WITH WENTWORTH HOGG. (By OUR SrE('IAL COMMISSIONER. Who is there in the profession ignorant of 89, Strand, and the plays that issue therefrom? What would the theatrical world be without Samuel French, Limited, with their marvellolls store and stock of plays? And as for the amateur Thespian-well, he simply could not exist without the printed book of the words, ...

... I At the twenty-first annual meeting of the Blackpool Winter Gardens and Pavilion Company, on Saturday. dividends of C- per cent. on the ordinary shares and of .5 per cent. on the ncw shares were declared, carrying forward £456; 7s. 51. to next year's account. The total receipts had been £42, l4), and the profits amounted to £3,741 17s. 5d. In explaining the details of the balance-sheet, the ...

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... )eAWABY jAR&.AT. A coneiderabletrsnn 'was repaid to the ilanic . by the nmarket to-day - but these ntiltttnlts, A i aupasuiitly, wore fully connterituslanioetl byV tre A: disbursemients for the Treasury R ll~s %which e~xpired, and short money proved nutrly abuii- 1't denwt ait I pcalthough occasional~lYAk 14 e AVL obiailied. Theo diseontit market. wins euni- pletdly stagn-ant. Pint two, three, ...

... COMMERCIAL CAS COMPANY. Thursday evening a numerous meeting of the shareholders in the New Commercial Gas Company, and other inhabitants of the Tower H-imlets district, was held at Mr. HIem.ming- svays, the King's Arms, Mile-end-road, in consequence of an invitation addressed to them, by Mr. Thomas Mtrris, a former member of the Gas Company's Committee, who had been in- duced to request their ...

... FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. CITY.-SATURn DA- MORNING. Advices from Jamaica are full of the angry feeling which seems to prevail in the island. The Governor and the people of Kingston are fairly at war, and all sorts of exaggerations are current on both-sides. From Rio Janeiro, as will be seen in another column, the news is of a more warlike character than is suitable to the pursuits of commerce. The ...

... PORtT OF LONDON-SATUR)AY NIGHT. Sr. KATHACINE DocKs.-Hauled in the Trinity, Walter, from Gibraltar.-Hauled out the Indiana, Gillet, for Calcutta; Havanna, Primrose, fi)r the river. ABEIRDEEN WHIAaRF. Sailed the steam ship City of- Aber- deen, Morrison, for Aberdeen. BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWAIL.-;ailed the steam ship Leithe, Jamieson, for Leith. CARPUNTFR SMITH'S WHARF.-Arrived the Amity, Phil- ...

... I I CITY.-S.ATRIIDAY T4I0:ING' FOREICN AND COLONIAL. The Liverpool steamer reached Liverpool on Sunday, as we antciptcdin urlast, she havinig left Newr York on the evening anticipated in ollr Iat she pa reevious arrangemnent, Tlle of the lth ult., agreeably t as it o ars a short time ago political intelligence now% is as Pacific a twsasottm g parlike;al but n ?? the pains taken to produce the ...