The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

DORCHESTER BREWSTER BESBIOBB

ths annual 'housing meeting for the Dorchester
petty asesional dirisioo took Pace last Saturday' at the
Shireholl, H. Williams, Esq., H. C. Oriodden,
wenr, Idestt.-Colonol Steward, Major
Anvil, and It, ti, 0. WAWA, Esq.
No comyelate were made by the police .. to the eon.
ducting any of the licensed houses, and the Bench
renewed all the licenses applied for. There wore •
number of applications for new licenses.
The Ord application was made by Mr. Weston, for the
New Inn, Chiekatell.
Victoria lon, Chickerell : Thomas Barge. Mr.
Weston, for applicant, urged that the house was very
convenient, and lately built for • publie-home. r.
Barge was of Irreproachable ohmmeter, and the rector
emoted of the application. A uomorial in favour of
the house being licensed was presented.
Th. Wellington Inn, Chia:toren : Simnel William
Bullein.—Mr. Weston rupported the application, setting
forth the respectability of Mr. Bonen, and that the
, house was • oew on. and provided with every coo-
' ventilate and seven bedrooms.
VietnAa Inn, Waishem. Portland : Edward Stone.—
Mr. Tisard for the applicant, who hes been there 16
months. The house his nine roomy, and is midwly
between the Panehbowl and Mermaid. Applicant was
daily applied to for spirits. A memorial was presented.
—Mr. Symonds opposed, remarking there was a public.
bons' on either side of this hon.), within 350 yards,
which were soft lent for all public want& The real
object of gaining • license was to be able to keep
holm open later at night.
Royal Exchange, Weston, Portland: Abel Pearce.—
Mr. Howard supported, remarking tilers was no
licensed holm in Wecion. The house was large and
commodious. Quarries had bees recently opened there.
A memorial wan presented in favour of the Lemma—Mr.
Spoon& opposed, submitting Uwe was no necessity for
it. being licensed.
The Albion Inn, Reform), Portland: Joseph Bird.—
Mr. Tisard supported. This has been a beerhouse for ten
years, and ho Wogs been respectably conducted. The
house had 12 rooms, and was commodious in every
respect. There were many visitors to Portland. and be
had many applications for spirit.. Had epplied nine
times for a license. There was a publitelsocum on either
aide at • distance of 500 yards. The house and the air-
enuistenoes of the cue were the same as before.—Mr.
Symonds said as this wan the ca.e he submitted there
wee no need for tbe house being licensed.
The Rid Lion, Salerno, Portland; Robert Smith.—
Mr. Howard, for applicant, arra that Portiend was
rapidly increasing, and that this was • suitable house
for having • spirit license. The object of getting •
license wee not so much for the extra boar, as Mr.
Symonds had sorreested, but to get a revel:table clam of
*Atom. The house had ten rooms. A great number of
quarriers were employed in the neighbourhood. Many
visitors came to his honse.—Mr. Symonds said there was
no pretence for the application.
Britannie House, Fortune's Well, Portland: Charles
Warran.—Sr. Tetrad supported. Applicant had kept
the ins as a boathouse for three years • it abutted on
the main road to the Verne works, ke. Wss almost
hourly asked for spirits. A greet deal of building was
going on at the book of his prembies.—Croes-examined
Was about 100 yards from the Portland Arms. The
soldiers, having ems from a foreign station, where
they were sconetoined to have spirits, could not drink
' beer, and as he could not sell spirit. he lost their
custom.—Mr. Symonds urged that as the authorities
did not allow spirits to be sold at the cantos. it would
be most improper to place spirits within the nosh of the
soldiers by lieensing a house close to them.—Mr. Warren
said he did not apply for the soldiers only.
The Standard In. Portland Edwin Maitland.—Mr.
Howard urged the lan,
of increased licensed honer in
Portland, on amount of the great number of visitors.
This house was near the railway, moat commodious' and
respectably oonducted.—Mr. Symonde submitted the
licensed houses in the neighbourhood afforded sU the
secommodaticn required.
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The Terminus Hotel, opposite the railway etatioa,
Portland: Charles Ward.—Kr. Tigard supported. Thia
wad; • new house, onened about three months. Applicant
rented • farm at Wyk. Regis, and went baekwirds and
forwards from them to Portland. His sister managed
the public house badosee. Did not intend to give tip
his farm, that he knew of. The nubile-house was his
business.—Kr. Senior. bonder, of Weymouth, spoke to
the character of the house. There were four
rooms and officio on the ground floor. and a
cellar underneath, there was a ebb-room above
with folding doors, thit might be made into two
rooms, and four bedrooms. £750 bad been laid
out in the bedding, and the land cost £4oo.—Kr.
Symonds mid them were plenty of other licensed houses
without this one being added. He held there wee no
moisten for estra spirit licenses being granted In Port-
land. Ho thought t would be ocintrai to their custom
and to the Act of Perlisiment to °osier • license on the
applicant, as he did not balsa Me intend to carry out
the terra, of the liosnee.
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The Railway Newton : Richard Moms.—
Mr. Weston sopported, urging it would be •convenience
to railway travellers. The Great Western railway train
due shortly before ten was eery frequently late, and
ople who had °urines to meet them, and others
leaving their wrappers and things of that sort there.
were pot to inconvenience by tide beerbouse being obliged
to be cloud for business at ten; and four times within a
week lately, Mr. Morris had had to keep his bones
open after ten through the late trains, though he had
not offered to sell any liquor. The oppogition came from
Mr. Peckham, who but already two hummed houses is
Maiden Newton. There wu a stable connected with
the premises thet would hold 12 or 13 horses. The
applicant was a tailor sod grocer, besides keeping the
beerhonse. A memorial was presented in favour of
applicant being lioeseed.—Mr. Symonds submitted there
was not the slightest occasion for the application being
granted, as there was no public inoonunienee.
The Bench retired to consider their judgment oath.
whole of the cases, aad on returning to the court the
Chairman stated that the Bench unanimously granted
the license for the Vittoria Inn, Chickeull, and by •
majority refused all the other applications.