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“Suffocation brought on by over-fatigue, being compelled by his superior officers to
march a very long distance in a burning sun.”

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Sat 23 Aug
LAND AND ASSESSED TAXES
Tuesday next, at eleven o’clock, is fixed for hearing appeals against the assessment
for the forest Divisions.
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Sat 6 Sept
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE
STAINES, WOKINGHAM, AND WOKING
The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held on Friday at the London Tavern;
Mr. J. Garrard in the chair.
The report stated that part of the line between Staines and Ascot was opened for
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passenger traffic on the 4 of June, and the remaining portion, from Ascot to
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Wokingham, on the 9 of July, and that the stations would soon be ready for goods
and coal traffic. The directors were assured that the passenger traffic for a newly-
opened line was satisfactory, and that as the goods traffic became developed they
might expect a considerable increase in receipts. Temporary arrangement had been
entered into with the London and South-Western Railway Company for working the
line. No agreement had yet been made with the South-Eastern Railway Company as to
running over their line from Wokingham to Reading; but the directors had the
satisfaction of stating that they run their trains to reading, and that they had every
prospect of a friendly relationship with the South-Eastern Company. It would be
remembered that the Staines, Wokingham and Woking Company applied to
Parliament in 1855 for a junction at Reading with the narrow gauge of the Great
Western Company, which bill was lost, being opposed by the Great Western and
South-Eastern. The directors still look on this proposed junction as of the greatest
importance to the line, and trust they will receive the cordial cooperation of the
shareholders should they deem it necessary again to apply to Parliament for this
purpose.
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The capital account shows that £332,242 had been received to the 31 July, and
£321,614 expended, leaving a balance of £3,428.
On the motion of the chairman the report was adopted.
Resolutions were passed appointing Mr. W. Prideaux an auditor of the company, in
the room of Mr. T.M. Walford, resigned: re-electing Messrs. J. Garrard, R. Blanchard,
R. Davis, A.T. Gordon, R.W. Kennard, and Colonel Salway, the retiring directors, and
appointing a committee, consisting of Mr. J. Garrard, Mr. W. Mortimore, Mr. T.
Lawrence, Mr. C.R. Colman, Mr. J.N. Smith and Mr. W. G. Taunton, to confer with
the directors as to making arrangements with the Great Western Railway Company for
a narrow gauge junction at Reading, and report thereon to a future meeting of the
company.
On the motion of Mr. Arbuthnot, the best thanks of the meeting were voted to the
chairman and director for the mode in which they had conducted the business of the
company.

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Sat 20 September
LIGHTING THE TOWN
We are happy to state that at the public meeting of the ratepayers held in the Town
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Hall, on the 12 inst, it was unanimously resolved to adopt the provisions of the
Watching and Lighting Act, for the purpose of lighting only within the town, and the

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