Banking Chronicle reveals graft at Colonial Bank and allied failures
Reported disclosures at a joint shareholders meeting of two banks forming the International Bank raise questions over Colonel Thomas Hall Gladstone's handling of bank securities and a large indebtedness. Other items note Bank of Queensland dividend plans, London Bank of Mexico capital moves, and Standard Bank profits plus new branches.
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International Bank
Colonial
Thomas Hall Gladstone
Gladstone
Unity
Leeds Bank
Thames Valley opens from Waterloo to Shepperton branch line
Opened Tuesday as a branch of the London and South Western Railway the Thames Valley line runs seven miles from Waterloo to Shepperton with stations at Fulwell Hampton Sunbury and Shepperton. Trains run six each way daily with first and last departures from Waterloo at 7 35 a m and 7 55 p m and a typical journey time about one hour. Fares Waterloo to Shepperton single 3s 4d 9s 4d and 1s 7d return 4s and 8s 6d. The line forms a junction near Twickenham with a Kingston branch and loops at several sidings. It is expected to attract passengers from the picturesque rural area along the route.
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Thames Valley
London and South-Western Railway
Kingston
Twickenham
Shepperton
Fulwell
Hampton
Sunbury
Waterloo
London
Kingston, Richmond, and Windsor
Railway luggage loss trial at Clerkenwell County Court
Frank Taylor, a compositor, sues the London and North Western Railway for five pounds after losing luggage when transferred from a damaged carriage on Marcus's excursion train to Shrewsbury. The court rejects liability, citing excursion handbills and tickets warning travelers to risk their own luggage.
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Ramway
Clerkenwell County Court
Frank Taylor
London and North- Western Railway Company
Marcus
Shrewsbury
Euston
Law Journal
The
Law Society
Chancery Lane
Joseph Napier Higgins
Montague Hughes Cookson
Court of Chancery
Ilugh Shield
Lloyd’s Bonds
GoLp
Atlantic
Liverpool
Louis Waslouski
Jesse Howell
America
Wilson
Dublin
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Banking Chronicle
Colonial Bank
John Campbell
John Campbell and Co
Bank of Queensland
National Bank
Alliance Bank
Bank of Hindustan
China
Japan
Hamburg
Continental Exchange Bank (Limited
Bank of Brazil
England
France
London Bank of
Mexico
South America
Standard Bank of British South Africa (Limited
Standard Bank
Malmesbury
Beaufort West Bank
Tus Leeps Banking Company
Kindersley
LinesIn’s Inn
Earl de Grey
Ripon
Marquis of Hartington
Chatham
S. Arnott
Messrs
Wathurst Cliff
E. W. Phibbs
F. Smith
Upnor Castle
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