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THE IS INDIA 25 HANNAN'S PROPRIETARY. There was a good deal of dissatisfaction; expressed by the shareholders' at the meeting of the Hannan's Proprietary Development (Limited), at Winchester House, Old Broad Strqet, on April 26, when the Marquess of Tweeddale delivered his apologetio address prior to his retirement from of Two of the C. Caryll Baker and Mr. W. G.

Brookman, are at the moment in Western Australia, while Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett is away in Greece looking after other people's business apparently instead of his own. The other directors, Colonel R. Parry Nisbet, C.I.E., Mr. W. P.

Forbes, and Mr. Herbert Moir, managing director, were present to support Lord Tvveeddale. In reply to a question from a shareholder, Lord Tweeddale and the other directors present emphatically stated that Mv. George Gray, the well-paid manager of the property in Western Australia, had not left that Colony. Regarding the question of filling the vacancies on the directorate caused by the retirement of the Marquess of Tweeddale and Colonel Parry Nisbet, a strong feeling was evinced that two new men should be put on the board.

Colonel Parry Nisbet, however, in face of the strong- feeling against him, Bhowed his fighting qualities by sticking to his guns, and before the meeting was over he was re-elected to the board, and a committee was appointed to confer with the directors as to which man was to be chosen to fill the remaining vacancy. It is undisputed that this company owns a valuable group of properties in Western Australia, and it is only natural that strong complaints should be made of the apathetic way in which those responsible for the development of these properties have behaved. A large sum of money has been spent and very little apparently, has been done, and if the directors really mean honestly by the shareholders they should welcome the introduction of new blood on the board instead of forming a ring to keep, this desirable element out. The Marquess of Tweeddale retires owing to the pressure of his engagements, and it is only a little surprising that this most noble peer should not have appreciated this possibility when he joined the board in the beginning. He is director of the following companiesThe Commercial Bank of Scotland, Limited (Governor), Direct Spanish Telegraph Company, Limited (Chairman), Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited (Chairman), Europe and Azores Telegraph Company, Limited (Chairman), Globe Telegraph and Trust Company, Limited (Chairman), North British.

Railway Company (Chairman), Eyemouth Railway Company, Forth Bridge Railway Company, Newport Railway Company, West Highland Railway Company, Scottish Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society (Director), Stock Conversion and Investment Trust, Limited (Chairman), Submarine Cables Trust (Trustee), and the Western Telegraph Company, Limited (Chairman). With respect to Colonel Parry Nisbet, that enterprising gentleman is a director of the following companies, according to the "Directory of Directories" tor Church Schools Company, Limited (Member of Council), Colonial Finance Corporation, Limited (Director), Consolidated Murchison Gold Mines, Limited (Director), Continental and West Australian Trust, Limited (Chairman), Corsair Consolidated Gold Mines, Limited (Director), East Murchison United, Liverpool (Chairman), Great Fingall Reefs, Limited (Chairman and Managing Director), Hannan's Brownhill Gold Mining Company, Limited (Director), Hannan's Golden Pebbles, Limited (Chairman), Hannan's Golden Pike Gold Mine, Limited (Chairman), Hannan's Proprietary Development Company, Limited (Director), Lake View East Gold Mine, Limited (Chairman), London and New Zealand Exploration Company, Limited (Chairman), London and Western Australia Investment Company, Limited (Chairman), North Fingall Reefs, Limited (Chairman), and West Australian Pioneers, Limited (Director). No doubt his connection with all these companies must give the gallant colonel useful experience, but it seems rather a pity that a man whose time must be so fully occupied should be on the board of, the Hannan's Proprietary Development Company, which requires close application and energy on the part of its directors. Mr. W.

P. Forbes, another director, is heavily handicapped with directorial duties, as he is connected with the following Exploration Syndicate (Limited), Catherwood Gold Mines, Limited (Chairman), Chemists' Cooperative Society (Limited), Cheque Bank (Limited), City Exploration Company of West Australia (Limited), City of London Gold Mines (Limited), Colonial Finance Corporation (Limited), Corsair Consolidated Gold Mine3 (Limited), Florence Gold Mine (Limited), Hannan's Golden Pike Cold Mine (Limited), Hannan's Proprietary Development Company 1 (Limited), Hauraki Golden Age Mines (Limited), and the Lake View East Gold Mine (Limited). Mr. Forbes, however, is a man of boundless energy, and his knowledge of financial and mining matters renders him a most useful member of any directorate. The complaint to be, however, that the fine belt of properties owned by this company have been greatly neglected, and the shareholders must see to it that those who have the-control of affairs should set to work in earnest.

As Colonel Parry Nisbet held so to his seat on the board it is to be hoped that he will read a lesson in the. temper of the meeting the other day, and endeavour to inspire his colleagues with a little more energy. In the case of the managing director, Mr. Herbert Moir, criticism has been disarmed somewhat JSythe announcement that that gentleman Jias not fees or pay lately, and it is understood that the directors have made up their minds to keepa more careful eye on A lot of money seems to have been unnecessarily wasted in various wajs. When the Governor: of the Colony visited Kalgurli a little while ago, George apparently likes pomp, spent a lot of monoy iri entertaining His Excellency.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. charge for inserting Domestic Notices is 6a. BIRTHS. 27, at Woodlawn, Co. Galway, the Lady Ashtown, of a son.

21, the wife of Fred G. Latham, Adelphi Theatre, of a daughter. 23, at Pall Mall, the Countess of Norman ton, of a daughter. 25, at Wedderburn Road, Hampstead, the wife of J. K.

Murray Ross, C.C.S., Fiji, of a son. MARRIAGES. 6, at Christchurch, Cawnpore, by the Rev. George Westcott, George Noble Cave, youngest son of Major-General G. N.

Cave, of Ealing, to Mary Rose, eldest daughter of W. H. Fitze, of Calcutta. 27, at St. Peter's Church, Kensington Park Road, by the Rev.

Arthur Veysey, chaplain to the Mercers' Company, assisted by the Rev. G. F.Terry, Harry Sydenham, eldest son of Colonel Sydenham Clarke, late Royal (Madras) Engineers, to Eliza Constance Julia, daughter of the late Sir James Cockle, F.R.S., formerly Lord Chief Justice of Queensland, and of Lady Cockle, of Clanricarde Gardens, W. 27, at the parish church, Freshwater (I. by the Rev.

J. Mtrriman, D.D., rector, Colonel R. C. Drysdale, late to Selina Eleanor Mary, widow of Major-General Sir Francis W. Festing, K.C.M.G., C.B.

19, at Calcutta Cathedral, by Archdeacon McCarthy, Arthur Henry Gayer, Private Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, eldest son of the late Surgeon-Major E. J. Gayer, I.M.S., to Mary AgneB, daughter of the Hon. Justice James O'Kinealy, of Calcutta. 28, at the Church of our Lady Star of the Sea, Ilfracombe, by the Rev.

J. Bannin, assisted by the Rev. H. W. Bromley and Rev.

Warren Middleton, Alfred Alleyno Dimsdale Hayllar, son of Thomas Child Hayllar, Q.C., late of Hong Kong, to Beatrice Mary Foster, second daughter of the late G. Harvey Foster, of Sheffield and Ilfracombe. 22, at Holy Trinity Church, Upper Tooting, by the Rev. G. Ferris Whidborne, assisted by the Rev.

Charles Taylor, vicar of Banwell, and the Rev. J. Hasloch Potter, vicar of the parish, Sir Joseph Turner Hutchinson, Chief Justice of Grenada, to Constance Mary, daughter of Joseph Lucas, of Stapleton House, Upper Tooting. 21, at Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, by the Rev. J.

E. B. Brine, Austin Neame, son of the late Austin Neame and of Mrs. Austin Neame, of Dinhani" House, Ludlow, to Mary Georgina, daughter of the late Rev. J.

Bamforth, M.A., Col. Chaplain, Galle, Ceylon. Sutton 22, at Shirley, Southampton, by the Row S. A. Selwyn, M.A., vicar of St.

John's, Boscombe, assisted by the Rev. W. 11. Jacob, M.A., vicar of the parish, W. Lincolne Sutton, A.I.C., Norwich, Becond son of Fras.

Sutton, F.I.C., F.C.S., to Nora, fourth, daughter of the late Captain H. G. Thomsett, 11.N., C.M.G., and of Mrs. Thomaett, The Netherlands, Shirley. DEATHS.

20, at Windermere, Torquay, Eliza Caroline, Dowager Lady Fermoy, aged 74. 25, at Lowestoft, of iiiilueuza, Sir Edward Newton, K.C.M.G., formerly the Colonial Secretary of Mauritius and Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, aged (54 Vidal 24, at Wealdstone, near Harrow, Henrietta, widow of G. B. Vidal, of Jamaica, and last surviving grandchild of the late Dr. Sylvester Jepscn, of Anotto Bay, Jamaica, aged 81,.