Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Untitled Article
had been issued ,, assuring £ 183 , 554 , and producing an annual revenue of £ 5 , 629 . 14 s . 2 d . In the course of the proceedings , it was explained that valuable agencies had been established in Australia and India , which it was expected would , within a very short time , materially add to the premium income , now amounting to about £ 30 , 000 per annum . A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent . per annum was declared on the paid-up capital .
The Quarterly Meeting of the Conservative Land Company was held on the 27 th , when the report said , " The following are the gratifying returns for the present quarter : —Cash received from 25 th December , 1855 , to Lady-day , 1856 , £ 12 , 746 . 5 s . Qd . Total cash received to March 25 th , 1856 , £ 224 , 006 . 8 s . Id . Total withdrawals from September , 1852 , to Lady-day , 1856 , £ 28 , 064 . Is . Id . The total shares in progress , or uncompleted , taken up , to March 25 th , 1856 ,
were , 10 , 035 ; the completed shares to ditto were 1 , 899 . Total shares issued to Lady-day , 1856 , 11 , 934 . " The Executive Committee stated that the sale of land in detached plots , since their last report , had amounted to £ 2 , 321 . 10 s . 6 d . The total amount of land sold to the present time was £ 135 , 371 . 12 s . The chairman ( Lord Ranelagh ) having congratulated the members on the continued prosperity of the Society , in despite of the war , and the great pressure on the money market , the report was adopted , and a balance for rights of choice proceeded with .
MISCELLANEOUS . Bro . Ingram , the proprietor of the Lllmtrated News , has been returned to Parliament as Member for Boston . A grand dinner was given to Mr . Buchanan , the retiring American Minister , at the Mansion House , on the 11 th . Mr . Buchanan ' s speech breathed nothing but the most peaceful sentiments .
A concert in aid of the Nightingale Fund was given by Madame Lind-Goldschmidt on the 12 th , when the tickets being £ 1 . Is . each , £ 1 , 800 was obtained in aid of the Fund . On Easter Monday , various novelties were produced at the various Theatres , and Bro . Simpson opened Cremorne for the season . A blind Sardinian minstrel , named Picco , has excited a good deal of attraction by his extraordinary playing on a common whistle .
Bro . BeuWo concert and ball took place at the Freemasons' Tavern , on the 26 th , and was most numerously and respectably attended ;—a large number of tho Brethren , and members of their families , being present .
Obituary.
© tutuarm
BRO . THE HON . GEORGE O'CALLAGHAN . On the 13 th inst ., at 13 , Clarges-street , Bro . the Hon . George O'Callaghan . BRO . EYRE EVANS , OF ASH-HILL TOWERS . This W . M ., P . M . of Union Lodge , No . 13 ., Limerick , was the representative of theMiltown Castle branch of the noble house of Carberry , being grandson of Thomas
Evans , Esq ., of Mil town , county Cork , M . P . in 1737 for Castlemartyr , younger brother of George , first Lord Carberry , and one of the heirs in remainder to that peerage . Mr . Eyre Evans was born the 23 rd May , 1773 , and married , the 20 th March , 1805 , Anna , eldest daughter of the kite Robert Maunsell , Esq ., of Limerick , formerly a member of Council at Madras , and by her , who survives him , has VOL . II . 2 (>
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Untitled Article
had been issued ,, assuring £ 183 , 554 , and producing an annual revenue of £ 5 , 629 . 14 s . 2 d . In the course of the proceedings , it was explained that valuable agencies had been established in Australia and India , which it was expected would , within a very short time , materially add to the premium income , now amounting to about £ 30 , 000 per annum . A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent . per annum was declared on the paid-up capital .
The Quarterly Meeting of the Conservative Land Company was held on the 27 th , when the report said , " The following are the gratifying returns for the present quarter : —Cash received from 25 th December , 1855 , to Lady-day , 1856 , £ 12 , 746 . 5 s . Qd . Total cash received to March 25 th , 1856 , £ 224 , 006 . 8 s . Id . Total withdrawals from September , 1852 , to Lady-day , 1856 , £ 28 , 064 . Is . Id . The total shares in progress , or uncompleted , taken up , to March 25 th , 1856 ,
were , 10 , 035 ; the completed shares to ditto were 1 , 899 . Total shares issued to Lady-day , 1856 , 11 , 934 . " The Executive Committee stated that the sale of land in detached plots , since their last report , had amounted to £ 2 , 321 . 10 s . 6 d . The total amount of land sold to the present time was £ 135 , 371 . 12 s . The chairman ( Lord Ranelagh ) having congratulated the members on the continued prosperity of the Society , in despite of the war , and the great pressure on the money market , the report was adopted , and a balance for rights of choice proceeded with .
MISCELLANEOUS . Bro . Ingram , the proprietor of the Lllmtrated News , has been returned to Parliament as Member for Boston . A grand dinner was given to Mr . Buchanan , the retiring American Minister , at the Mansion House , on the 11 th . Mr . Buchanan ' s speech breathed nothing but the most peaceful sentiments .
A concert in aid of the Nightingale Fund was given by Madame Lind-Goldschmidt on the 12 th , when the tickets being £ 1 . Is . each , £ 1 , 800 was obtained in aid of the Fund . On Easter Monday , various novelties were produced at the various Theatres , and Bro . Simpson opened Cremorne for the season . A blind Sardinian minstrel , named Picco , has excited a good deal of attraction by his extraordinary playing on a common whistle .
Bro . BeuWo concert and ball took place at the Freemasons' Tavern , on the 26 th , and was most numerously and respectably attended ;—a large number of tho Brethren , and members of their families , being present .
Obituary.
© tutuarm
BRO . THE HON . GEORGE O'CALLAGHAN . On the 13 th inst ., at 13 , Clarges-street , Bro . the Hon . George O'Callaghan . BRO . EYRE EVANS , OF ASH-HILL TOWERS . This W . M ., P . M . of Union Lodge , No . 13 ., Limerick , was the representative of theMiltown Castle branch of the noble house of Carberry , being grandson of Thomas
Evans , Esq ., of Mil town , county Cork , M . P . in 1737 for Castlemartyr , younger brother of George , first Lord Carberry , and one of the heirs in remainder to that peerage . Mr . Eyre Evans was born the 23 rd May , 1773 , and married , the 20 th March , 1805 , Anna , eldest daughter of the kite Robert Maunsell , Esq ., of Limerick , formerly a member of Council at Madras , and by her , who survives him , has VOL . II . 2 (>