The Wellington Slip Company's thir* teenth annual meeting was to Have been held at noon on Monday, but lapsed for want of a quorum of nine shareholder?, only five being present. The report to be submitted recommends a dividend of 5 per cent, for the past year. Sixty-three vessels had been taken on the Slip during the year. We also leaan that the Company's earnings since the accounts closed m March have been exceptionally good. The ; . accounts ahow a profit of £3770 for the year, the total receipts being £5623. The Company's paid up capital is £30,520. " TheSynodon the 18th (says the Hawke's Bay Herald) went into committee to!consolidate the statutes and canons of the Church. " Now," said a right rev. gentle, man, *' tiie Synod has a tax greater than that of the ostrich, which is said to digegfc nails, for we haye to digest canons,"
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 119, 26 April 1883, Page 2
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