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District News. THE ASeAL BALI, of the Denbigh an.1 Flint: Hunt took place at Rhyl town hall on luesday C'OLONKL OWEN LEWI* (OPE WILLIAMS, of Cri-y-dlln, .Anglesea, is one of the most recent Men of the Day" caricatured in T and;/ Fair. THE W\K VOTE.-At the monthly meeting of the countv of Flint belonging to the Welsh Cal. vlaistic Methodists, representing h,000 members and 18 500 hearers, held ot Idan-ollen, on Mon- day the following resolution was passed:- This meeting humhly hes to express its strong desire that the Government may do all in its power to maintain the strict neutrality it has pledged itself to in the present conflict between Russia and Turkey." THE DR. WILLIAMS' ENDOWED (TIRLS SCHOOL, at Dolgelley, is fast approaching com- pletion. The accommodation at present is for sixteen boarders, for which twenty-one applica- tions have been received, and the number of day scholars that can be accommodated are fifty, while fifty-eight applications have been sent in. The head mistresses, Miss Armstrong, of the Hampden Guerney School, London, and Miss Taylor and Miss Pritehard are the two assistant mistresses: both are from London, the latter being now engaged at the London School of Cookery. A MYSTERY AT RHYL—On Saturday, [I. reat sensation was caused ill Rhyl by the dbcoyery oi the body of a child in a railway truck, Some children were playing near some trucks which had been repaired and were about to be put back on the line, when they discovered a bundle covered with a sheet of paper curiositypnmipted j them, and they found the body of a boy about month old. The attention of the police was called to the matter, and it was found that it was prepared in every way for burial, while there were no marks of violence. On Monday a post- mortem was made, and an inquest held, and, as there was some doubt as to whether the child was placed in the waggon alive or not, the inquiry was adjourned. THE ExcLEI'IELB COLLIERY COMPANY.—At Lincoln's Inn, on Wednesday, before the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Baggallay and Thesiger, this case came on again. The liagle- field Collmrv Company was registered in March, 1873, with a capital of £ 100,000, in 10,000 shares, and w; IS formed for the purchase Of a colliery in Flintshire. The directors agreed to pay Mr J. Sheridan, the promoter, o 1 per "nt upon the capital for preliminary expenses. The colliery was purchased by a nominee of Sheridan tor in cash and f 11.000 in shares, and was sold t. the company for t.,500 ill cash and £ 40,500 in shares. When only 1,569 shares had been sub- scribed for, the directors handed over £ t),o00 to Sheriltan for preliminary expenses, and out of that sum he paid £ 500 to each of the directors, with which they paid the call- upon 50 snares each for their (nullification as directors. L he company being wound 111), t.-loo was repaid by Lord R. Browne, the chairman of the company, and £ 150 by a director On a motion on behalf of the official liquidator tht all the directors mitrhtbe declared jointly and severally liable to repav the amount paid them by Sheridan, it was submitted by Mr Wingvovo. one of the directors, that Sheridan had agreed to pay hilll £ 500 for introducing Lord R. Urowne, the company being in want of a lord for their chairman, and that the sum he received for his s hares was therefore a debt due to him while for the other directors it was contended that Sheridan, having received in promoting the mipany, was at lil >erty to do what he Ihced with it, and to pay the calls upon the directors' shares if he thought it for the benefit of the company, who, in fact, got full con .;ide,'¡1ti. J1I for their money. Vice-Chancellor Malins considered that the directors had committed a gross breach of trust in receiving back from Sheridan, for the j purpose of paying for their own shares, the money which they had paid over to him out of the pro- | party of the company, and he therefore decJared the directors jointly and severally liable to repay the whole sum they had received, with interest1 at tive per cent., together with the costs of the application, upon the appeal by Mr AVingrove, I Mr Whitehouse, Q.C., for the appellant, Mr j Higgins, < >.(and Mr p, Beale for the official liquidator, were not called upon. Their lordships were unable to agree with that part of the Vice- Chancellor's judgment which charged Ml' Win- L'rove and his co-directors with fraud. There was nothing in the evidence to show that these gentlemen had done anything which they thought to I)e wrong at the time they did it. They were the deceived rather than the deceivers. But the Vice-Ch:mceIlnr was ju.?tined in finding there had been misappropriation of the moneys of the com- pany by the directors, who had failed to exercise !I"C"c--3 ?id reasonable skiH. Such moneys havingbeen ini-mplipiiwithor.t any ]e;al warrant, the order of the C'('?iirt ?Cil ?ot to be dis- turbed. The appeal would be di?misseti?iuh costs.

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THE VOLUNTEER AND HUSSARSI…

ANNUAL MEMTIXG OF THE DENBIGHSHIRE…

CHESTER COUNTY COURT.

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