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Meetings.
During the past year 21 General and Special Meetings and 92 Committee and other meetings
have been held.
Obituary.
On 7th June, 1898, the Vestry Resolved—That a vote of sympathy and condolence be
forwarded from this Vestry to Mrs. Gladstone on the irreparable loss she and the family
have sustained on the death of her husband, the late Right Honourable William Ewart
Gladstone.
Parliamentary.
Cheap Trains.
On 20th December, 1898, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported with reference
to a letter from the Hon. Secretary, National Association for the extension of Workmen's
Trains, stating that at a recent conference of delegates representing the working classes
of London a resolution was unanimously passed instructing him to forward to the Vestry
the enclosed copy of a Bill to amend the law relating to workmen's trains, which had been
introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. Saml. Woods, M.P., and asking the Vestry
to assist same by passing a resolution in favour of the said Bill; to forward copies of any
resolution passed to the Members of the Government and to the local Member of Parliament,
and also to oppose any measure to confer new powers on any railway company running
through this district unless proper provision is made for workmen's trains.