The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-07-08 00:00:00

WAYXOI7TH.
THE COLLEGIATE AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Mr Eliot's crosioxeroinationwe. resumed : Asked what
The gross persoualiUsewers that the de( endant indulged
In, he said hi began Cr talk shoat matters that did not
concern the schoob and thrsstimed to " expose- Mr.
Greaves—that we. the expression he made use of once or
twice, " I will expose you.
Was there any other mom personality I—No. he was
stoop AI almost immediately when we began to see matters
not revelaot were introduced. . . .

Gut you recollect say other I produoed • bundle of
papers or letters which he said he would publish—some-
thing of that sort
Now. is that all you can tell me about the grow person.
. . .

Now. Tog eILY. He completely lost his temper and
self-control." bow did be show it I—By his manner. The
Chablltion called him to order more than once. but he could
not recollect how many time. He would sw•az defendant
did not say at the mestizos " It. rtgretted haring used the
words which he did in the bank. He beard Mr. Talbot
snake his statement as to what Mr. Greases bad said. The
"Violent language" was on the port ot Mr. Talbot. It
was attar tau that Mr. Ellis indulged in hie avulse
remarks. . .

Now, what were the offensive letters yon say be had
written to the trusties I- Letters charging them with
breech of contract -one a letter stating he paid hie rent
under protest.
Can you tell we of another can remember one other;
but not the date. There were some very off .nave matters
concerning Mr. Miller In it.

Con To-u-s--paCiry the clan -of any other I—No.
At the meeting at which Mr. Ellis's dismissal wee
decided on, .1 ter Kr. Hills had left the room. Mr. Mansell
Pleydall addraieed the meetinit, and said he had never
known Mr. Ellie before, but from what he bad awn of
him then, he wee quite convinced he was not kilo be
their head mailer. He (wittier) had prepared the resolu-
tion before the meeting. Ha was quite sure Mr. Graters
did not know be had done so—at least he never told him
be had. It wee proposed by Mr. Pleydell. but no one
would second it, although all the trustees agreed to it.
They evidently considered it a disagreeable duty. and as
time was slipping on he did so kimeelf. He remembered
Kr. Pleydell calling Kr. Talbot to order. He made use
of a racy disagreeable threat to one M the truatfte—that
vim to himself (Mr. Eliot). He .all " You shall suffer for
ilga." and shook his bead in a very disagreeable manner.
Previous to the meeting resolutions had been prepared—
by Kr. Andrews he believed. He did not remember that
be talked about these resolutions with anyone, but he
knew what Use purport of them was.

Her. Talbot A. L Groaves,the pLaintiff,examined by Mr.
Dickenson. Mid he had been in court all the tame, and
heard the evideace which had been given. Sinn the
current agreement there had been no differences
between Mr. Eliis and the trustees as to the attend-
ance of the buys at his church. Nor had there
been no fares he knew any alteration in the course of
study at the Middle &hoof He had received no pupils
iu accordance with the edvertieement announcing "•
coarse of preparation for missionary work under the Rev.
T. Greens." The Middle School wee inatituted for the
purpose
of
School, dg It was ersut
wc"" abscil of
teaching
elchingtely tt to my thethal " th:
(;.limems
courses of the two schools had been assimilated. The
privets Weems in Greek given by Mr. Miller had most
not altered the character of the Instruction given
rtrtteenkdiddle School. He spoke from his experience of
prise distributions.
The Vice-Chancellor; How does the mere distribution
of prises enable you to may that Well, prises were
given simply for such studies as were contained in the
prospectus, and there were none given for Greek.
He remembered the meeting on the 90ch of October.
meg likely it was suggested by himself. He had no
reason to say it was not. He wee chairman of the meet-
ing. Immediately on Mr. ESL's arrival he objected to
the promo. of Mr. Miller. He requested to be informed
whether he was a trustee, and if not by what right be wan
than. He (witness) replied that be wee not • member of
the Ccsocil, but that he had the mine right to be present
as be Ott had—eig, the invitation of the Gunnell,
and that as Mr. Ellie had brought charges against Mr.
Miller we deemed it fair that he should have an oppor-
tunity of hearing and answering the a•me. Immediately
upon that Mr. &la said he would not open
his month, or some such expression. while Mr.
Miller they there, and thereupon left the room,
Mr. Miller spontaneously doing so at the same time. He
took the '• sense" of the meeting is to whether be should
be permitted to do so, and the trustees arrived at the
opinion that he should. After that Mr. Richard Eliot,
the secretary, went in search of Mr. Ellis, and actually
brought him back to the room. Hs then formally opened
the meeting by asking Mr. Eliot to read the minutes of
the previous meeting. After the mastery had dune this
he (as Chairman) requested Mr. Ellis to make any
statement he might wish. He did so, and he fully
believed there were no interruptions; he had not the
least recollection of anything of the kind or sort. Alter
that Mr. Eliot requested to Is allowed to my • few words
upon what he believed he termed the conduct of Mr.
=a. So far no he remembered,this statement chiefly bore
upon Mr. Hills'. conduct very much with respect to the
story of the interview at the bank. Mr. Ibis did not
apologias for what he said at the bank beyond awing that
if it mime over again be would not say the same thing.
Now, it has been said here by Mr. Talbot that you said
you were blessed with means, and you would spend every
sixpence to get rid of hum Did you hear that I—Yes.
Did you ever make such • statement to Mr. Talbot or
not Never.
You swear that most positively I—Mon positively.
And when it was made in tee room you indignanUy
denied it I—l did.
Did Mr. Ellis take any Pert in that can't may. It
wee vary difficult for ma as chairman to keep order.
And the resolution I—At length I requested Mr. Ellis to
go It was pressed upon me by several members of the
Council. The general feeling was that it was time for him
to withdraw.—The resolution in question was not pre.
pored by him or by sny one in concert with him. It wad
utterly false to say that what was done at that meeting •
had been done with any collateral object, and he was
quite sure no other member of the Council hal. As •
matter of tact he did not prefer the interest of one school
to the other. He was the chief means of starting both.
He bed used no pressure whatever upon either one of the
trustees, and in anything he did at that meeting of the
16th October he had no motive whatever except to act
conscientiously and for the beet intonate of the Collegiate .
SehooL Hie pecuniary liabilities were the same for the
both schools and in no other way was he interested In the i
Middle SchooL In sanctioning the change of name a 1
pecuniary interest most certainly did not affect hickand lie
bad no intention it should affect the character of the
tuitiou, nor did he believe that it had.
(To bc continued in iltc rdegrant. )