The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-12-04 00:00:00

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WHAT SHALL WE SAT ABOUT IT I—Well, just this,
either the cott ges and the other buildings have no right
there or this wriggling eel should cease its pranks. We
had the pleasure of seeing how Swanage looked in the age
when Adam .hot swans from the (now-a-flays) church
tower, but we were quite willing to leave that to
imagination, ['be famine in India will, we believe, result
in the more gneral storage of water in the rainy season,
so that the country may be irrigated in times of drought.
There are coca at present large tanks in many parts of
the lend which prevent the evils of flooding.
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THR I/LOOD ti RWAX4O6.SII.OIAD RESULT in some such
a pond or lake system. the serpentine coils should be
straitened, e-penally in the mead, and the various
obstructions ;a the mouth and aiOng its length removed.
We cannot -ilently bear winter floods and summer
stenches.

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0 :
AN ABLE WRITER ON THE LAND QUESTION says:—" In
England an hereditary estatt has for the family a value far
beyond what it could bring in the market. It is regarded
1116 one and. indivisible, and any dismemberment of it
would be looked upon as a grave family misfortune." If
"disniemberm tut why are not disfigurement cord defile-
ment looked at in the same light? Can any sight be so
unnatural and feverish as these periodic fits of mud
spreading. F. r Ourselves we could not rest with such a
blot upon our escutcheon as pelt of an estate presents
when it is turned into a muck.pond.
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T.imms* soft DEBATING SOCIETIES are occupying our
, and a a arm time they are having of it. Let the
former come to the rescue, and, instead of wasting their
evenings on " Was the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
justifiable r let them take a turn at "Could Mary Queen
of Scots have been at the time a parishioner of Swanage
! and of Wareham r Of course that is one way of putting
it, but they con get the information free of charge from
the LB., and battle it out in their own fashion. Our
local parliament, so far, emphatically say '' No !" and we
think rightly ro. The Queen says ' Yes 1" and sticks to !
it. You ask " What is the difference 1' Well a few
shillings extra for grave clothes, that's &IL If we were
Mary we shunl l pay and send them about their business.
At the same true we say "Do not let the lady beat you
gentlemen.- Her sex have a habit of doing it again. Now
the second question is a part of the original one (or the
first we have b!ated is contained in the latter, for that also
in open to debate), and it is thou, our grandfathers used to
bay, "Woman most he kept in her proper place r. but the
query is raised," Where may that lie r -This will undoubt-
edly lead to a e.artn debate upon the" Rights of Women,"
and find any discussion class glorious work for cold winter
evenings. Why should there not be a Debating Club at
S manage 1 Perhaps some of the old members are reedy to
battle for its reestablishment, and would welcome all our
ML. B's into the ranks. Perhaps the L. B. would grant
the use of their office for these wordy encounters.

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locket for £4. —Mr. _ informed the Bench that
A New Orrice, yes that is what there ought to be, and other articles pawned in 1876 hail been sold by the pawn
what the Board is thinking of having, and can have, with- brokers—This was the second charge, and, after Mr.
out any extra burden being laid on the ratepayers. It was Roberts' evidence as to the identification of the articles
long since su.....zested to them, and we are glad to learn had been taken, pnsoner was committed for trial on this
that they are profiting by those h.nts. It will do a trifle charge also. Two bawn-brokers' assistants front Bath,
towards removing an obstruction and straitening our where the prisoner had pledged numerous articles of
High-street. Before then, however, we do hope they will jewellery. were examined, and said they identified the
get the streets cleaner for theft narrow parts are at present prisoner as the person who had come into their respective
quite a god-seud to thin soles. The new office may prove shops some time in May and August last and pledged
the centre and site for the Town Hall, which we trust the broochett, rings, gold chains, lockets, seals, &c.—Mr.
railway may make necessary. In choosing a site our Roberts identified all the articles produced. He said that
senators will, we trust, keep their eye keenly to future I the prisoner entered the service of Mr. Cole in 1875, and
needs as well as to present necessity, for should the line remained there about six months. Afterwards she stopped
become a feet, land will never be no cheap as now in what a few months as a visitor, but left on the 28th of July,
will, we should think, ever be about the centre of business 1876. She returned a few days before the following
at Sivanage. Do not get poked, gentlemen, in a hole which Christman, and remaining till February in this year, left
cannot be expanded as you grow. again. She came back in April, left again in lone;
—: 0 : returned the following July, and left on the 12th of Sep-
"A TOwv HALL r —Do not be alarmed, fellow rate- teruber. During this time she had access to the shop,
payers. The foundation laying day is not yet settled, but, and often served in it —The prisoner was committed for
remember, we ought to be ready for such an announce- trial on all three charges, bail being opposed by Mr.
went by-and-bye, for there is no public place where politics Menne.
are allowed to he discussed save and except the public- _ _
houses, and the day is not far distant when the labourers
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will poises* vote; and then we shall need what we have
not. And at any election of our LB. we may hear warty
calls arising, awl in that event there is no room for town-
meetings. It is looking ahead of us that we see the
unfortunate nature of the blowlem Institute trust deed,
which allows no religious or political meetings nor Sunday
assemblies under any circumstances.

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A UffitriON FOR THY L. B. We have already put it
broadly before the public ; it is now time to pointedly ask
our rate-spenders—Do you not think you would do good
envie< if you applied to the rating authorities to re-assoss
&canape paridt And sinking all private interests, am we
feel sure, gentlemen. you do in your official capacities!,
will you ask those same authorities whether the" Banker.
are wharws, stores, shops, aroblo land, or what! Perhaps
the ratepayers in general are satisfied to let those heavy
waggons cut up the streets and the "bankers" to be let off
as "land," paying I/tree/ultra to a householder's shilling in
the pound: There are other anomalies which we may
point out soon. Gentlemen, we rejoice with you in the
new mansions, and villas, and shops arising to help swell
the rates; but the above questions, if satisfactorily
answered, may be worth a whole terrai)e of houses—and
A bird in the handle worth two in the bush."
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TAKE ADVICE, Do! Another collision has taken place
with the lamp-poets. This time a foreman of works wee
the victim. Ile said. "I remembered the danger after my
umbrella syuck." It seems workmen are determined to
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strike. We have heard a rumour that the drapers are
going to auk the sanction of the L B. to have a lamp
before their shop doors. They leant to increasee the sale
of umbrellas, and have a capital dummy for the diiplay
of new faehions. We don't believe all the rumours about,
but, if this one is true, what an opportunity there will be
of making invidious diatinctions and private contracte for
public inconvenience.

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Tag AIIBOIII3IIIIY R.LILWBT is, no doubt, a good " spec,"
and ae are glad to see a noble earl no ready to become one
of the director& Could they give the "Swanage Railway
Company" a hint uto the way they did tAat. We have
studied the speeches delivered at Abbotsbury, and reported
in Lat weeks X•preso and Telegram, and they were all
very good el a whole One sentence, however, made us