The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-10-08 00:00:00

THE LOCAL BOARD.

/las adjoarned mutiny wad held on Thuntii.lre:
moment—The Mayor (Mr. Landis), Aldermen
Howard. Robertson. Thornier. end Eliot ; Councillor@
Weldon]. Robson. Snook. Hanne,Waidis, Loy.U. Henn*
Seamen, Arise, Leaning. Hands, Aylesbury. and Webb.
with Kr. Y. C. Bisysell. Town Clark.

WSW PARIIMIT.

Xr. LANXINO asked how the cost was paid when pave-
ment@ are first laid down in front of property I He had
gone up to St. John's the other day, sad was unite
lial&rionf at maim; sash eaneasive pavement laid down.
Karon said the owners of property would pay in
proportion. _

Till ItWAG6

The MAYOR having renoarkedon the propriety of the
orders which had been given totheir °dicers, with reference
to the seaweed and the timber Pmodot sod thecom-
munication to the Rural Sanitary Authority, went on to
rate what Mr. Dodson had said as to the stench which he
expected when the Dean gates were opened—not that it
would follow from the exposure of the Backwater to the
surn,but to the disturbance of the water in passing over
the dam The Mayor went on to point out the disposal of
the seaweed, Isc., would not help the Park question, while
there was still the problem of the removal of the s
The surveyor had somee time ago ban called upon teOwiXe
reports on the Part question and had done ; but the
matter was tided over on from a consideration that the
Park might have to be dealt with in connection with •
general scheme. There is now • case for considering the
question of the Park, and as to the Dans, if that is shut up,
It is to the injury of the Harbour, which is now un-
dosibtedly silting up, and with the want of a sufficient
body of water wane over it, is becoming like • cosepooL
A report had been brought in by the Inspector of Butanes@
that so great was the nuisance from the sewers running
from some slaghterhouses as to make it impossible
for the policeman to gay them
In answer to Alderman Taoism,
The MAYOR read the report, which stated that a very
offensive smell crowded from the Harbeur,at s time when
It was almost low water. While the Backwater was
dammed up they prevented the water from running into
the Harbour below, and they continued to have the stench,
sada is now only an ordinary occurrence. What is being
done with regard to the seaweed Is only touching the
fringe of the garment, not the garment IWO. Mr. Robins
had aged the only alternative was • sewage farm, deodo-
riaation, or preapttalion, and if that were so, ha (the
Mayor) would stand up from morning tillztlto oppose
It; but that was only one aspect the q Follow.
Mg that, Mr. Thomas put before them that an exceedingly
lams mount would be required for carrying out the first
part of the plan, and next that .CI,OOO a year would be
required for working
Alderman Thomas Muir was the report of Sir John
Coode to which he referred.
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The —lle;rott —conin—t;d7 If it was cornet that wee
:,,,ga_ll_enrkm:ousdidarrorbteil but
stitultw the
trbil:ardu came
ld
be
to exam. the matter. he thought Mr. Tleromas's fears
would be frtind somewhat enlarged. His Worship next
came to what Mr. Weleford said, and if they talked about
figures of speech, them were strong ones. For • Chief
Magistrate of the town to charge • Government Inspector
with Min; like • footpad, and petting alit were a pistol to
their heads, if they did not pass and sign a resolution, was
certainly Impress momodirmily ennui. It was his earnest
wish that the Board should receive a report prepared by
I Mr. Morgan on this matter, and if no one else would move
that it be Produced, he would do 8o himself.
Mr. Mazes said the bleat the Mayor Mould ham
done was to sak Yr. Dodscei what he did say, and to have
put it into writing.
Mr. Wirer:lW as the Mayor had referred to dariloa-
tion, a lemma farm, or deodorisetion, m haying been stated
to be the only alternative, remarked that Mr. Harrison,
he understood, considered it would be advisable that
previous to the sewage being mat off to sea, it should be
subjected to some proms of clarification.
Mr. Donne said that conclusion might be drawn from a
careful reading of Mr. Harrison's report.
Mr. Turnsms, remarking it had been Mated there are
greater complainta now than before the Dam wee erected,
said those who live beside the Backwater must know those
statements are not correct. People had expressed the
greatest pleasure at the improvement effected by the
Dem, and one gentleman who said that it used to cost
him, when going over the Backwater Bridge, 25 a week
for eau-de-cologne to meat his handkerchief —(langhter)—
bad told him that since the making of the Dam, this had
never been necerary.
ATLISIBUIT (archly) I summon you CID get a
written determent that I—(Laughter.)
Mr. THOMAS said they could if necessary. A gentleman
, stated that if they did remove the sewage from the
Harbour, they could not get rid of the sewage complained
of. Mr. Hawkslei, when here, pointed out some dark
matter near Mr. Betts's Umber wand, and said "If you
were tolie upon your beck and swear that was not sewage
till you were black in the face, you would not get people
to believe you • yet it is nothing more than marine vegeta-
tion decomposing, and incidental to watering places." As
to sewage, Mr. awkeley said "you are dealing with •
village compared with that of our great City." As to the
sewage bare, be maid it was like sugar in • cup of tea, it
dissolves in solutioe, and is wafted away by the tidal
infitIOLICOI. If the whole volume of the sewage were put
into the Backwater, it would not be equal to • pea in a
bucket of water. The Board had taken means to remedy
the sill; but he for one would willingly incur the cad Ma
whams, if he felt satisfied it would remove the complaint.;
but he was satisfied it would not, and the officers would
have been better employed on the shores of the Back-
water removing the nuisance' accumulated there, than in
being employed for other people's poem. He hoped they
would riot entertain the proposals made, and thought it was
only due to themselves and the ratepayers that until they
were driven to such an expense, they would not incur it.
He finally moved
That the Town Clerk be instructed to reply to the
Local Government Baud in reference to the various coin.
Muniestions sent to this Board complaining of nuisances—
That this Board have given direction to the officers of the
Bowl to remove a large accumulation of decomposed
marine veretstion, believing that to be a large Wires of
the evil complained of, Mao that notice bee been given to
the Rural Sanitary Authority to abate nuisances existing
in the immediate neighbourhood, and they hops that
attention will be immediately given to those notices, with
the attire operation of their officers, that for the future
the complaints will be obviated, and that this Board
adjourn any further consideration of altering the disposal
of the sewage until further experience had' been had of
theme necessary precautions." _

The Town „ Cum' read an answer from the Rural
Sanitary Authority that attention should be given to the
matters complained of.
Mr. ROBILNA argued that the removal of the enrage
from the Harbour would not remedy the evil, which he con-
tended came from the nuisances which had been named.
The growth of leevreed has increased by the almost
tropics' condition of the shallow water in the upper part
of the Backwater. He seconded Hr. Thome(' resolution.
WiLSVOILD contrasted the river Avon, which had
no end of black mod on Its bank& with the appearance of
our harbour, and the especially pure state of the
Backwater. . .

Mr.--ELidv argued the Board must not only deal with
the seaweed, but also with the Beings They were
a lodged to pumping for the Park.
tV'ILSIOIU) wand if they were prepared to involve
the town in an expanse of £2.000 psvennuset Weymouth
stands infinitely purer than many other watering plena,
and be did not believe they should be forced into •
drainage scheme, just because people would not believe
that • nuisance which came from seaweed did not come
from drainage, though they were to "He on their backs
and swear till they were black in the face." If
supervision, energy, and determination to make the proper
ot
their present circumstsnoes had been used, them naissnose
would never have arisen, he thereforebdieved they should
wait till they had pet their present remedial rossaures to
• thorough test
In answer to Mr. NANULE, the Surveyor oould not tell
to what extent the Backwater is silting up. In answer
to Mr. DENNIS the Surveyor said the drains are not
eatisfactorily doing their work, there must be deponits in
these, as they are doing • duty for which they were not
designed. £5O or Lel had been already spent in clear-
ing them, and that state of things would Kr.
Morgan bad • scheme for disposal of the sewage.
A resolution by Mr. Soon and Kr. Drum, was peeped,
that Mr. Morgan's plan be produced.
Mr. ROSZITSON came into the room with the feeling
the time had arrived which Sr John Goode predicted, for
, taking the aseraps out of the harbour ; but after what had
fallen from Mr. Robots, he hesitated to give his opinion
that the smells complained of sites from sewage.
Yr. Morgan's plan was then. produced and read by him-
self. In a careful report ID. Morgan Proposed the
following two question,: Ron, ' Are the sewers and
drain, at present in • satisfactory date, and are they
doing the duty for which they were deeleckirrgedSeconfily,
"lithe whale of the sewage after It is into Um
Harhgut, carried direct to sear Kr. Morn= answered
both %de questions—No, and gave his reasons. The
remedy he proposed was, in brief, to make proper connao-
dons and Intercepting sewers, to take the sewage of
Medcombe through a new east-iron pipe, instead of the
present inefficient stone were pipe, through the Deno, to
discharge It Into tanks, sad lift it lq pumping to •
sufficient height to obtain a fall to the on height to
be about 9) above datum. Thence the sewage would be
dischargedtowerds a reservoir weer with the outlet between
the Waxen and the newly erected Breakwater, and allowed
to flow out only on the ebb tide. —Mr. Morgan pointed out
that, ever since 1854, pumping had been pointed out as
esquisite in dealing with the sewage of Melcouthe and
tieveral times since. The cost of works he eetiniatal es
follows
A. ArraointATE IterniArs Lirsenslloolo MI VIOLS
Of /NE SnWAGII ST Tin NOTiLli.
1 s.d.
Outlet reservoir, sewer, intercepting sewer,
tanks, engines, pampa, en, ventilation

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ANNUAL CUAAOZ.
/17,400 spread over 50 years 0 0
Par 594334 Per annum • ... 400 0 0

Total annual charge to tin rite— ...SIXI 0 0
As • comptrine to tba pcbson recommended by me. 1
here give en estimsta ot tinning the sewage by tne
clarilmtion proem

Egriturn FOR CLARIFICATION.
Cost Capital Amount.
To ventilation. diversion of Radipole men-
.. 933 0 0
• ...
Main seerersia.nadiv. Pumpu. building. an... 11,850 0 0
ANNUAL Canino&
£11783 opened over 50 years 0 0
Coat Mosang. my 1.000.000 gallons ofmivage
Per day (see report of committee to Me
Local (sovernment Boards ott modes of
treating town sewage) . . 1,500 0 0

Total annual chart* to the ratepayers £2.197 0 0
Any income from too sale of the extract he treated ths
nothir g, as there is no mle for Um audios in most towns.
The met of dealing by clarillcatioa with the sewage, Kr.
Keepo estimated, on • rateable value of £50,0011, at nearly
• shllling rats in the L, while to discharge it by his
scheme h• estimated at nearly 7d in tb• L.
cpuTes..s, Kr. Wpm, and Mr. TROINILI considered •
pests% n woold be mused by disch•rging near me
mouth of ths harbour than dm* exists at present.
Yr. LOMA thought the thtmires plan • moaned one,
but wished to try the remedies shoed/ mixed.
Mr. Cupp proposed to omit tb• wads sad that the
Board edjeum any further considersthin of altering the
siepseei of two sewage until fell experience had been had
of them mosererf_Mooettidens"
In &OMR to Mr. HAIVR tb• Surveyor said It would
take • regiment of soldiers to do the work Proposed on the
smersed.
Mr. Withdrawn : But that regiment of soldiers would
also be required If you only remove the sewage from the
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-16715zmits likened the Board to s Puma with h Able-
shop. In which were three snlinsle likely to do much
, &mugs If they were going to toro out the eat sad the
doL lewrimt.he bull Minn& they would be adopting is Tear
Mire ra-s4To. had explained. in aulwar to Mr.
Natioutllm. thwe would out be mach &faculty lainsviug
the mud led. the row:duties. m cut *rim ht
NUM, wee pond, did the weft armed abed quartet
be two.

sinci77:mirD.
Tot WEILITAXII had their chapel annivermry m
on Wsdneernty lest_ A public tea wee held, bat w:itstia
at all well Wended. At this public meeting afterwards
Um following were the speakers :—Mere. I Word, R.
Mord, J. W. and G. S. Bareeß, and the Hey. J. Master%
Mr. Barnett, sea., &stream. Me chapel was tastefully
decorated, and everyone named pleased.
ABBOTSIBUBT.
Buttons Acornerr.—On Wednesday_ last a serious
accident happened Joseph Chnrchill, carter, in the
employ of errs. F. and H. White, of Abbotsbury.
Churchill had been to Weymouth with a load of earn, and
was returning with 12 sacks of maim and oat.. When near
the malt-home, at Porteeltam, he was in the act of getting
up in the waggon when by some means be fell on his beck,
both wheels paring over his chest is • slanting directioe,
left to right A man named Sansford sew the accident.
and went to his essistmes. Igr. Vincent happened to be
peeling at the time with a light trap, and be cooverect him
home. Dr. Hawkins, of Ahhotsbury. was sent for, and
wee soon la attendance. He found that his ribs were
broken, his collarbone put out, and aseiom injury to the
chest, and he Is in • precarious state Rita • merried
man, and has a wife and tee children, most of them
depending on him for sepport.
Botrungifforrra.
FATLL Ace:DOM—A fatal accident occurred at Bourne-
mouth on Friday. Five boys, all pupils of Dr. Reed, M
Gunton Houle School, were playing in • cave under the
cliffs on the sea shor, when the roof and sides suddenly
gave way, and with the exception M one of themn=h
were all buried. The boy who seemed ran sad p
assistance, and two of the boys, with their tutor, Mr.
Brutoo, were rescued. but two others., earned Lealy Green,
le, and George Rea, 12, were taken out quite dead. Dr.
Bead's son we, also lelered.

GIXESTOIII. CONGIBIGATIONAL CHAPIL RI-OPINING Of
TER SCHOOLROOMS
Arttamer.—A man named Henry Lane lemon Thunder
thrown from a colt, at Grimstane, in the middle at the The sigliedrenes of tits Move chapel having undertone
road. P.C. Vetch= M Pramptoo,w, fortunately at entire renovation wait re-opened on Thursday. At five
~.,#and with his pocketbske edrchief staunched the o'clock then Was a sale of useful and fancy articles
ing from the poor fellow., head, which was cut epee. remaining over fro= the late bazaar. Tile stalls on which
riming the man in an aimed unconscious staPs, the She various articles won enlaced war decorated with
"mu Uhl*. vary resiftworildlr, at mos had him conveyed pink and white hi=
In the antis. Some excellent
and the words—" Welcome" and
". the irceoito in • cart, where believe, ha I. prograea "Swore to the
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tog wail under the care of Mr. 'l7dor. 1 pleats in pots were grouped about the roecns, which
produced a pleasing elect. A tan was provided in the
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HROADWHY. boys room at all o'clock by Mr. F. Long, at which •
ntunerous company sat down. At ~it o'clock an
A Rama= Trungsolvtiso Start= was held at Broad- terthinsuent, °Gestating of vocal and instrumental music.
way (March on Thoreday evening last TM church was .....„Iga . nh.,,,,. .heit the Rey, p.. 7. Austin (pwtost presided.
prettily and artistically decorated by sews& ladies residing """ "---•-
The platform was sonounaed by a variety of
in the parish. A very appropriate and thoughtful Deno= Sowed and ferns fa pots, kindly lent by Mr. J. T.
''..risch•d bY th. R". I. Parr. ILL. (rot. Leta xivii. * The instrumental music es truly pleasing.
38.thiP'AXII IstheaOutirtrhe".l"tektmai toene"htbo owthi• lifil'agett"dsalbia fue•nt--.--i'il;fri. °rulaaeMr C.
Wbsillgarre%m enfdollow"ll;—V.l.idinifipo. align?
re congregation, and the collection. which was for the
.•i. Mt. me. ' welch ; ,0•00 a yr. a Champ
nue( of the sufferers from the recent colliery eoledeld la
South WM= emanated to /3 Ss. Od. tiOtAe bask Mr. W. Warren; organ, Mr. C. Wary.
conductor, NA Chimp. At the conimiasosatent the Rev,
v toknowledeed -
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r.
F. J. Austin 'mita* - the handsome and
valuable grs.sl4 be had just received at the hands of his
the receipt of en illuminated card bearing the
issoripticm :—" ?relented to the Rev. F. J.
Austin on the occaelcm of his marrthee. August filth,
lit7ll, with the best wishes of the Church and
Um." Mr. Monteith, ow of the deacons, then=
report, which stated in full the amount of the recent
maks. my. Lowe aead Captain Martin had undertook
the supervision of the wait, and had carried out the
Improvements in & thoroughly satisketory manner, and
the committee wished to convey their warmest thanks to
them The cash statement proved that the proceeds of
the tamer bald in June last realised MOS 164. IV. The
out-standing debts paid off were £ll k. 44. to Mr. Chainp.
=fund—Balance due to Mr. Swain, Us. 41.;
re paid to the treasurer for repairs. £lO9 ss. Oct,
and LS had bean received from the Sunday School Fund
—total, £ll5 ss. 6e4. The total cost incurred, .Cll9
so that about LIB was still required. The Riot. Austin
then said that about half that sum had been realised by
the sale that day, and the profit on the tea, and the pro-
ceeds of the entertainment might prove sufficient to clear
off the whole. The following programme was then gone
through, giving emeatest satisfaction to those present:
—lnstrumental, • Benedictus," The Orchestra ; reading.
extract from " den Legend," Mr. G. Garner; anthem.
"Like se ihe hart." the choir; saw.- Shall lie ltanare's
fertile plains,' Kr. A. Ewen& ; eon& 'The pilgrims path,"
with violoncello ' • Obligate," Mrs, Monteith •. reeding,
" Beth Gelert." Mr. L Swakeld ; anthem, "1 will cry ant!
God," the choir; iastrumestal, "Disdainful of danger,
the choir; inetritmently Symphony," Mr. C. Warren;
=thil',.True to the last, S. Adams and Mr. A. SWIM;
"My first furnishing," Capt. Martin pert song,
"The morning prayer," the choir: song," Moonlight
fioariett." Mrs. Monteith; reading," Selection," Mr.
Guides; chorus, "Thus rolling surges rise." the
finale, instrumental and vocal. 8. Champ. were
gives at the does to Kr. Ohere_p and the choir, and others
who had sedated, wiles the Matthaei Anthem brought
tha proceedings to • dew

Ssumscar thoczed Ceram Butting' Ansocirrior.
—A meeting of the General Committee of this Imo-dation
was held in the Board room on Tuesday, when there
were present the Yen. the Aschdeecon of Swam in the
chair, the Yea. the Archdeacon of Wilts. Rev. Subdean
Eyre, Rey. Canon Payne. Rev. Canon Worries, Ear. .1. N.
Pell', Rev. G. Thompson. Rev. *0 Wyld; and the Hon.
and Rey. Sidney Mends and the Rev. Canon Sir Talbot
H. B. Baker, Bart, diocesan secretaries. There rim only
OW case for consideration for • new grant, via, an
application from the Rev. Canon Eddrup, vicar of Brom-
bill-cumaighway and trosham, in the Archdeaconry of
Wilts, for aid towards building • new church at Foxham
to accommodate one hundred persons, and a sum of £lO.
was voted. The other bushier transacted wee in reference
to caste which had already been before the committee in
regard to church restoration and rebuilding at pennon.
Portland fit. John, AR puddle, and Shapwiek, all la the
Archde•coory of Dorset I. the two ant mentioned
cases the payment of the grants voted some time eines
was ordered to be made, and in the two latter the repay.
moat of balance of grant and the confirmation
of a provisional grant were ordered, the require.
malts of the committee as to Shapwick having been
complied with. It in understood that the association is
urgently in need of iocri..sd financial support by
addititMnal subscriptions and donations, in .mder to
enable it to continue the important work it has been
furthering both in Wilts and Dorset for so many years
part in regard to church building and restoration, and
providing adequate eocanniodation for the wants of the
parishes in the diocese.

BIRTHS.