The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

I am, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
J. R. GARDINER.

0. Symonds, Esq.
Mr. &mon would not have the site offered by the
Duchy for a fair ground for nothing • and this was
the opinion of many dealers and fanners.
The MAYOR thought the Board had better order
the communication to lie upon the table. It WM a
very unoourteons letter.
Mr. GARLAND conceived that the whole matter
was now shelved, and the Board bad no choice at all,
for the Board could not at this time consider whether
they should take the piece of ground or not.
The MAYOR was of opinion that the piece of
ground offered would not do for the purpose, and
WU of no earthly use to the corporation. And even
if • transfer were entertained, the Board would have

tri chive a very hard bargain with the rapacious. Durchy-
The Board paid them .£7OO or £5OO for a piece of land
of betweell one and two acres, for the water works,
and the Duchy antiterities were so rapacious that
they might come and take all the tolls of the fair.
If, then, a place could not be kind in the borough
suitable for fairs and markets he saw no reason why
their- property should be transferred to the Duchy
in Fordington. If the rapacious Duchy were to col.
sent to treat with the Town Council the latter body
would have to abide by the Duchy surveyor's valua-
tion, and to give the moderate price of only £350
an acre for the reversion, besides which the copyhold
and occupiers' interest would have to be purchased.
It was not a fair way to be treated, although they
were treating for a fair ground. (A laugh.)
Mr. BISHOP thought the demand was full three times
the vane of the land, and the letter was just another
way of stating: "We don't regard your interest at
all; we don't wish to receive your deputation."
Mr. &MOS would merely acknowledge the letter,
and trust to Providence for a fresh site for fairs and
markets.
The MAYOR asked if the Board wished to reply to
the communication through the Town Clerk: Mr.
Gardiner's two letters have been put before the
Town Council to-day, The Town Council direct
me to say that they have no farther observations to
make."
Mr. Dzyzeitsu held that the matte!' of the reply
was very important. Successors to the present
Town Council might years hence have to make
similar application to the Duchy, and it would not be
wise to return any but a courteous answer. He
thought a full answer, too, should be sent.
Mr. Bingor said, a respectful application had
been addressed to the Duchy authorities, and the
Mayor of this borough, and two members of the
Town Council, were to go to the Duchy and make
some personal communications to them. After this
had been courteously conveyed to them the Pushy,
without making any allusion at all to the subject, ab-
solutely declined to receive the deputation. Speak
of courtesy, he looked upon it as extremely =-
courteous on the part of a public body, and POLS
not what was due to the Town Council and to the
Mayor as chairman and representative of the Town
Council. Such conduct by the Duchy evinced an
utter disregard, as it appeared, to the interests of
the town.
The MAYOR suggested that Mr. Devenish should, in
company with two other members of the Town
Council, draw up the answer Mr. Devenish thought
requisite, or give the Town Clerk full instructions as
to what was wished to be embodied in the re-
ply. Mr. COOMBS thought it would be creditable to the
Town Conned if they left off communicating with
the Duchy at this stage. No one knew the position
of the Board better than the Duchy authorities, and
the more words were used in reply the more corners
would those authorities have for hanging objections
upon in the future.
Mr. Durmast' consented that the Town Clerk
should merely reply to the letter; and thus the
matter ended.

WOLLASTON FIELD.
The MAYOR said the next business was to further
consider the report of Mr. Henry Barnes as to the
performance by Messrs. Mondey and Gregory of
their covenants for building on parts of Wollaston
field. His Worship read a memorial dated April
3, from the oocupiers of the new buildings in Wol-
laston field praying that the boundary wall should
not be 10 feet high, as authorized in Mr. Hall's plan,
and which specification had not, happily, been at-
tended to by the builders.
After some conversation in which Mr. Mondey
and Mr. Barnes, who were admitted to the chamber,
joined, it was determined that at the next meeting
of the Council a certificate from Mr. Barnes be sub-
mitted in which he should state that the variations
from the original plan of building in Wollsaton field,
as made by the contractors, were beneficial; and that
such certificate approved by the Council, together
with the Councils resolution thereon, endorsed on
the lease.

The MAYOR said the Excise had applied for a
standing in the Corn Exchange to take the corn
returns, as the officers found it inconvenient to take
their returns at the Antelope. His Worship had
desired Mr. Ensor to write back and say there
would be no objection to the request, provided the
Excise authorities agreed to pay the Council two
guineas a year for the accommodation, in the same
way as the corn dealers paid for their standings,
and this had been acceded to by the Excise.
The Council assented to this.

The MAYOR read a communication from Mr.
Barnes, offering himself as a candidate for the office
of surveyor to the Board of Health and Town
Council, as he had heard they contemplated appoint-
ing such an officer, and as they had in contempla-
tion the repaving of portions of the borough. His
Worship said he was not aware of any such thing
being now on the Council's minutes as the appoint-
ment of a surveyor.
The Board broke up about half-past 11.

WEYMOUTH.

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