The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-26 00:00:00

THE WATER SUPPLY.

The question of • supply of water for the town 'pia
up at the meeting of the Local Baud of Health
°P!'4 up
th
ieeday lad.
The Clerk reed the foUowUn letter which be had
received from the Board's in memo to sown
enquiries about tube pump :

B.fadae.
•• July, 1/011.
"Dear Mir,—l have no knowledge of an, Partizullir
tube pump in use at Burton, but I know that there are
wells there of large diameter, and some of the smeller
ones fli(t. in circumference) are lined with cast iron. At
smaller breweries there are instances of • 11-bore bole
lined with cam Don pipes inside, which pampa an Axed.
dintwioll quantities of water from 100 gallops per Damao
downwarda In some instances such arrangements would
no doubt be suitable for the water supply of a small
town ; but in your r 406 I should doubt the economy in
working of such a plan. What I would rather eusst (if
your Board art desirous of obtaining deeo-meted water/
is to sink • well of a diameter large enough to take pro-
perly constructed pumps, such well being nal so dam se
may to necessary to allow of the water flow-
ing into it from a bon hole was down from the bottom.
**Yours truly,
"Jam R. Saort.i.mi."
Mr. 'Neill also read the following reply to the letter seat
to the Dotal Government Baird informing them that the
potttion of water supply was still under consideration :
" Local Govoromtat
" WhitebalL SW.

12th-17oig-
am directed by the Local Government Boczd
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th ult.,
sad to point out that nearly twelvemonths have *lapsed
since they drew the atteation of the Ithradford Yoram
Local Board to pieces of worts of sewerage sad water
supply for their district.
" The Board trust, therefore, that the Local Board will
now arrive at a decision se to the steps to be taken can-
owning there Important matters, and lain to request that
they may be infornivd within two month: time of the
course which the Local Board will adopt with regard to
them. .

" I lim4
Ir.
_obedient servant.

" J. F. Rorroil.
" Assistant Searetsry

Attar such & decided letter as this the Board resolved.
upon ths propneition of Mr. Park usocaded by Mr.
Brown, to call a public meeting ot the ratepayers for
Tuesday week to lay the matter before them. The meet
-
lee wee fixed for 10 o'clock in the morning. a proposal to
hold it la the evening being supported by lifters. Brown.
P. Barns& and J. Barnes only.

A WOMAN lii•VILT FOIND.—A somewhat upward
chute was investigated by C. J. Parke, Esq., the
Rev. C. J. Glyn. the Rev. G. V. Garland, and Major.
Genus! Powlett-Lene, at the Petty Sessions on
Friday. William Nand& a honedealer, of Holt. wood,
and HanisaA, his wife, were summoned for selling
beer without a license, and the evidence of P.C.
Dewland and P.C. Bennett showed that on the evening
of the Ilth of August they gent Jane Shears to the
defendants' house for two pints of beer, and siter the
female defendant supply it and take the money. Mr.
Atkinson, who appeared for the defence said the
defendants had a barrel of beer in their house for their
own consumption, and he admitted that the wife in
her husband's absence, and without his knowledge,
was foolish enough to sell • cauple of pinta of beer.
He pleaded guilty as to the woman, but submitted
that the charge against the man must be dismissed, as
the act of the wife did not bind the husband except in
the case of licensed premises. —The Chairman said the
magistrates had elected to fine the woman, as she was
the guilty person, although they had no doubt of the
husband's connivance. The home had been suspected
by them, and watched by the police for years, and it
was fortunate that it had been detected. She would
have to pay uxinalty of £l5 arid 15e, coste--The
money was pa
NOT • MODIL NUIS6I/11,. —An agent of the
faithlessness of some husbands came ore the
mandrakes last week, when Henry Young, grocer and
baker, of Hinton Martell, a married man, was sum-
moned to show comae why he should not contribute
towards the support of the two illegitimate children of
Jane Shears. of Holt Wood. —Mr. 11. S. Dickinson
was for applicant. and Mr. Atkinson for defendant.—
The evidence showed that applicant had • child by
defendant in 1870, and be contributed 2s. fid. a week
towards its support until :•eptember lad, and also
supplied applicant with two gallons of bread weekly
until three years ago. She:had a second child by
defendant in 1878, but in this case the evidence of the
defendant was necessary, and a. he had felled to
appear to his subptena, Mr. Dickinson asked the
Bench to make such an order in the first cam as would
suffice for the two.- -The magistrates made *reorder on
defendant to contribute a.. per week.

OUTBREAK OF FOOT AND MOUTH DIARABI.—At a
meeting of the sub-oommittee for the district, under
the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, held on
Friday, it was reported that sixty sheep on the farm
of Mr. William Hick., at Sixpenny Handley, were
suffering fr.= foot and mouth dices'., and the
magistrates declared the field in which the sheep were
an infected place, and issued the usual notice&

At the Petty. Sessions on Friday, (home Robbins,
formerly of Cods Mullen, who now lives near Dor-
chester, was summoned for having been drunk and
disorderly at Code Mullen on Sunday the third of
August.—P.S. Hazzard was the witness, and defend.
ant, who did not &pi ear, was fined 30s. including
costa --At the Name time James Thorne, of How.
ford Mill, Cranbonus, admitted being drunk whilst In
charge of a hone and trap, at Verwood on the 16th
of August, and was mulcted in 205., including coats.—
At the same sessions Isaac Bose 'mg, of Broom Hill,
pleaded guilty to having foul animals straying on the
6th of August, sad was let off on payment of 2s. --
Oslo Crampler and Maria o,rsatpler, both of
Lytchett, had to pay 26e. 3d. each at the same meetiag,
for trespassing in search of game at Lytchett
Matravers on the 314 of July, on land in the occupa-
tion of Mr. John Burt.

EVANGELISTIC. Mr. Harrison, the evangelkit,
LTV:dhere in the reediag-room on Saturday, and
uat La Lee on Sunday week. The congrega-
tions were lot so large sa any of the former serriCel
that hare been held lure by Mr. Harrison.