The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-09-23 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL

A meeting of the Council was held on Wednesday.
The first business was the examining of some accounts
amounting to about £7OO. They were ordered to
be paid so far as the money went, according to date.
It was announced by the Mayor that they had
£5OO in hand to meet them at the present date.
The gas bills (375 18&) were particularly ordered
to be discharged. The bills of the auditors, Messrs.
Pothecary and. Simmonds, were not signed. Another
bill that bad not been signed, was due to Messrs.
Reynolds and Son—not that it was incorrect—but
because it not being a contract bill—amounted to
£l6 odd, while there was a resolution on the books
that all work exceeding £5 should be done by
contract.—Mr. Ilibba argued that the fault rested
with the board, not with the Messrs. Reynolds ; and
that the bill being due over twelve mont:is ought
undoubtedly to be paid. At length the Council
agreed to sign it for payment. The consideration of
these occupied the Council nearly the first two hours
and a half of its sitting.
The Mayor said that the next business on the hat
was to consider a letter from Mrs. Morrie, relative to
the Quay wall. It will be recollected that some two or
three months since the Corporation accepted a tender
from Benge and Richards for there-erection of a portion
of the Quay wall, at £2 15s. per foot. There was
nothing said in the specifications respecting a bond for
the completion of the work, and the Corporation
decided that none was resuireil. The Mayor, how-
ever, asked for one, and a widow, who keeps a cow or
two, was named end accepted. It appeared that she
had advanced the men £lO3 to pay wages, and they
owed bills to the amount of from Reo to £lOO for
material. The letter of Mrs. Morris set forth that
Benge, one of the partners, had absconded, after re-
ceiving £lO of her money under false pretences; that he
had also forged the name of Mr. Lewin, timber
merchant, Poole, to a receipt ; and that she and the
contractor, Richards, desired to be released from the
contract, asking the Council to deal as liberally as
possible to herself, a widow, for the sake of her father-
less children. On being called in, she said she had
been dragged into the biasinelis through various repre-
sentations, and that she greatly regretted having signed
the bond. Some desultory conversation took place, and
the surveyor said the work, according to agreement,
would amount to about £l7O or £lBO. He thought he
could complete the work for £lOO. Richards having
signed the letter desiring to give up the contract, the
Council agreed to complete the work, and to give Mrs.
Morris as much as they could after the completion of
the work.—Mrs. Morris asked if they could not
allow her a trifle at once to enable her to carry on her
business.—The Mayor said she ought to be greatly
obliged to the Council for taking the work off her
hands, as she would render herself liable to 15s. per
day for every day after the 14th October that the
work was not completed. There would be another
meeting soon, and the Council would then see what
could be done.—Mr. Hibbs thought it was a good job
the Mayor had insisted on a bond being given, although
he was sorry for the woman.—Mr. Bower said the two
men were 'men of straw," and their tender ought never
to have been accepted. —A resolution was then passed
to the effect that the Surveyor should be permitted to
draw on the Council for the completion of the Quay
wall, under the direction of the Mayor and Harbour
Committee.

A covering was ordered for the sluice gates in the
Marsh, so that rubbish thrown down should not prevent
the flood gates from shutting.
A letter was read from Captain Cousins, to the
effect that under the previous treasurer the draw-
back was allowed on all -coals consumed by the
steamers, but that the present treasurer had demanded
payment. —Mr. Drew said that if the °old were re-
shipped from a vessel, they were not liable to the
bridge tolls, and that it was better for the Corporation
to allow the drawback on coals for steamers taken from
the stores, as they got their metage and wharfage dues.
—The Mayor said he would place the subject on the
paper for discussion at their next meeting. The pro-
ceedings then terminated.
PORTLAND. NAvar... —The Black Prince,
I sister ship of the Warrior, east anchor in Portland
Roads on Friday, and her hands received their pay
' for the first time on Tuesday last She will remain
here till the Edgar, the Admiral's ship arrives, when
I it is understood that she with the Warrior and other
I vessels, will proceed to Lisbon.
PHILLIPS, MS &CAPS]) CONVICT.--SOSSTSI of OUT
contemporaries have long persisted in stating that
there is every probability that Phillips, the convict
who lately escaped from the Portland Convict Eats-
blishment, was conveyed from the island in a boat.
They even went so far, a few weeks since, as to
give a wrong description of the place where his
cast-off irons were found to prove their theory to be
the correct one. Every event, however, that is cal-
culated to throw light on the subject proves that he
made his escape over the Ferry-bridge, and took the
direction for Bristol. The night following that
which he broke out of the prison, he burglarionsly
entered the dwelling house of a person named
Rogers, near tl e Union Workhouse, where, among
other thing..., he stole a red woollen table
cover. The night following he broke into a
cottage on the Chickerell road, and subsequently
left a portion of his spoils in a wheatfield at
Chickerell, where he had remained concealed, and
where he converted the red table cover into a kind
of shirt, after the Garibaldi= faahion. This shirt,
together with his stockings, .vere on Saturday last
found together in Fordington field. On arriving at
Upwey he broke into the Royal Oak public house,
and among other articles stole a pair of boots.
These, a few nights afterwards, he left in a public.
house at Yetminster, which he entered before mid-
night, and where he performed the daring feat of
abstracting the landlord's clothes, and other things,
lying beside the bed where the landlord was sleeping.
probably would have wade • good haal here,

but was disturbed bye person connected with the
railway knocking at the door. Subsequently we
hear of his breaking into another public house near
Bristol, where he took a new suit of clothes
and divested himself of the uniform he had
abstracted from Yetininstcr. Since then we have not
learned that lie has been heard of, but it is greatly
to be hoped that snub an audacious thief will soon
again be in durance vile, arid that be will be taken
good care of, at least so far as his liberty is con-
cerned.

FANCY FAIR. —On Wednesday a fancy bazaar
was held at the National schoolroom of St. John's
district parish. There was a large stock of
articles, plain and ornamental, exhibited
for sale. The proceedings had not com-
menced when our report left, but as the weather waa
favourable, we have no doubt there was a numerous
attendance. The proceeds of the sale are to be
divided between the Jews' Society and the payment
of the expenses connected with St. John's church.
FUNERAL.—The funeral of the late Mr. Evans,
the master shoemaker of the Portland Convict Estab-
lishment. took place on Friday last. The deceased
was a member of the Manchester Unity of Odd-
fellows, awl his brethren on the Island paid their
respect to his memory by accompanying his remains
to their final resting-place.
POOLE. —CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCICII/.—The
annual sermons in aid of the Poole auxiliary of the
Church Missionary Society were preached on Sun-
day atSt. James church, in the morning by the Rev.
A. Wilkinson, MA., rector; in the evening by the
Rev. W. N. Dudley, M. A. vicar of Whitchurch ;
amount collected £l2; at St. Paul's church, morning,
by the Rev. W. M. Dudley, and in the evening by
the Rev. H. P. Cookpley, M. A., of Wimborne
Minster ; amount collected £8 7.. hl. The public
meeting was held on Tuesday evening at the Town.
hail, over which the Rev. A. Wilkinson presided:
The meeting opened with prayer. The following
gentlemen were ale° present: the Revs. Dr.
Fletcher, Wimborne ; W. M. Dudley, Whitchurch ;
G. Morgan, John Parr, Parkatone ; and W. F.
Clay, the deputation from the Parent Society. The
Chairman, after making a few remarks, called upon
the Rev. G. Morgan to read the financial statement
for the past year. The rev, gentleman observed
that they had not fallen back, but on the other hand
there was a slight increase in the funds. After
few remarks, he read the statement. The following
is the balance sheet for the past year : Collections
after sermons at St. James, £l7 4s. 6d.; at St.
Paul's, £lO 10s. 4d.; after annual meeting,
£8 15s. 6/d. ; contributions, £1 18s. 10d. ; pupils
at Mr. Thiselton's academy, 12s. 10d. ; girls at St.
James' Sunday School, 165., boys ditto, 10a 111 d. ;
,at St. Paul's Sunday Schools, 12s. 4d.; quarterly
collections, £5 6a. 3d.; missionary boxes,
£3 19s. Bd.; annual subscriptions, £l2 186.--
X 63 ss. 6d. Longfleet branch, (per the Rev. J. H.
Williams,M.A.,) Xti 15s. 11(1.—X72 Is. sd. ; special
I for India, 2s. 6d., total, £72 35. 11d. Disbars-
ments : £1 Si. 6d.—Total remitted to the Parent
Society, £7l Os. sd. The Rev. Dr. Fletcher
addressed the meeting at considerable length. He
contrasted the state of the Church Missionary
I Society in 1862 with what it was in 1813, showing
I how greatly public interest had increased on beholli
of missions, and moved the following resolution :
"That the late treasurer having left the tawn,John
Goose, Esq., be appointed treasurer," and said he
hoped that he would have to deal with larger funds
than had been spoken about that evening.—The
resolution was seconded by Rev. John Parr, and
carried unanimously. —The Rev. W. F. Clay (depu-
tation) adverted to the religious beliefs prevalent in
India, together with their manners and customs.
He stated that the glorious news of salvation
was for every one, and it was our duty to do
all we could for the poor benighted heathens
abroad.—The Rev. Mr. Dudly gave a short but
excellent address, and the meeting shortly
afterwards broke up. The collection amounted to
£4 ss. 101 d. The Juvenile meeting was held at the
National School, Perry Gardens, on Wednesday
morning, when the deputation addressed the school
children.

Excansiox.—The Ursa Major made & trip to
Bournemouth, and from thence to Swanage, taking
a goodly number of persons, on Tuesday last. The
steamer on her return landed a number of her
excursionists at Bournemouth Pier, and returned
to Poole between ten and eleven o'clock in the
evening. The day was !exceedingly fine, and
added much to the enjoyment.
WI M BO RN E.— Parry Simmons. Friday. —Before
C. J. Parke, Esq., Major Portman, Willet L. Adye,
Esq., and J. T. Basket, Esq.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. —Charles Frampton,
of Shapwick, was summoned by the police, for being
drunk and riotous. The defendant denied the charge,
and the Bench having a doubt as to the state he was
in at the time, knowing him to be of a very fiery and
excitable temper, dismissed the summons.
A LARK AND ITS CONSEQUENCE& —Robert Hall,
Philip Dacombe, and Leonard King, of Holtwood,
were summoned by Stephen King. They had par,-
taken too freely of the jolly god, and got " larking, '
when they threw the complainant in a pond. Tbe
consequence was the issuing of a summons. The
defendants considering that discretion was the better
part of valour, compensated the complainant for the
inconvenience he received, and the summons was
withdrawn. _

CAUTION TO BAKER9.—Joseph Hunt, a baker,
residing at Ringwood, was charged by Superinten-
dent Baynton with not having in his possession a
pair of scales and weights for the purpose of weigh-
ing his bread on delivery to his customers at
Norward, according to the provisions of the Act
of Parliament._ He was Rued Se. and costa.

Aas Auvr.—George Rose, of Lytchett Matravers,
was summoned by Albert Batten for aasaulting him
at Organford. By permission of the Bench the case
was settled out of court, the defendant paying the
coats

THROWING AT A. RAILWAY TRAIN% Robert
Sibley, a little boy, residing with his parents at
Corfe Mullen, was summoned by Superintendent
Bart of the London and South- Western Railway Com-
pany, for throwing a stone at a train passing on the
Dorset Central Railway, and breaking a pane of
glass in the guard's van.—The Bench admonished
the boy on the serious nature of the offence, but in
consideration of his extreme youth, fined him in the
mitigated penalty of 10s., including costs.
ILLIGAL SPORTING.—CharIes Viney, a yeoman,.
residing on the Pottery farm, Canford, was sum-
moned by Job Bailey, game watcher for H. Morant,
Bs' q., renter of the royalty under Lady Bingham, for
illegal possession of a hare. It appeared that defen-
dant was out with a greyhound and spaniel, and
started a hare, which was caught by the dogs. Mr.
Monica's keeper, on coming up, demanded the hare,
which defendant at first refused to give up, but
ultimately acceded to the demand. As defendant
had been before the Bench for a similar offence, he
was fined 40s. and costs.