'The adjourned meeting of Shareholders this Company was held at the Club terday afternoon, when the: following were present:—Mr. C. J. King, in the chair; Messrs, Banyard, Bell, Bisse Bromley, Drysdale, Fergusson,' Groom, Gundry,' Hawtrey, Hennequin,' Jacques, W. Keswick, Lawrence, Lindsay, Lucas, J. Macgregor, Nissen, Overbeck, Rodewald, Sutherland, "Thurburn, Tootal, Westall, Wood, anda, J. Pollock, Secretary.
The Cuarmaux said the meeting was called in accordance with the notice which had appeared in that morning's paper, it was an adjourned meeting from the 1st of March last, He did not know if it would be necessary in this instance to read the minutes of the former meetin They were somewhat lengthy, an lying on the table, as they were published in the North-China Herald of the 4th of March. If the meeting would allow him, ho would take them as read, with the exception of the part refering to the business of the present meeting, which was a resolution reposed by himself, and seconded by Mr.
forster, that the consideration of th posed amalgamation of Hunt's and Heard's Wharves with the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company should be left to the Directors, asa Committee, to report on at a future m held in consequence of that resolution, The present meeting wa assonza and it had one occasion, but they were at last in pos-been postponed on more than
lad been printed and placed in the the report of the commited hands of the shareholders. Its perusal would have assisted them in coming to a resolution respecting the.proposed amal-motion, No opinion had been expressed in it, and the proposal had. been left to the free and unbiassed opinion of the shareholders. He need not say that if any omission was detected, or if an; question occurred to anyone present, reference to the report, tle committee would be happy to supply any information thereon, Having become pretty well versed in the matter, the Directors would be able to answer any questions that might be put to them, with respect to either the clauses or the figures. A
Memo. of Proposed terms of Amalgamation, I—That the Wharves known as "Hunt's" and "Heard's" and the Shanghai and Hongkew" shall be worked by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca., as General Agents, under Board of Directors, of whom the Chairman shall be the senior representative of the said firm in Shanghai, and the other Directors to be elected from; and by, the Shareholders of the Shanghai and Hongkew Whaxi Company,
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