The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.


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I)nRIINT Cs set, I.W Y. The adjourned
meetiog of eliareholutere held here on Friday last,
whiuh will be found reported in our third page, was
nit of the most satisfactory oheracter, and the
busliteu part of the proceedings nooupied so short
a spool) of time, and terminated so ahrtiptly, as
to appear all but !tuberous, 10 was evident
enough that stone oirainnstanoe previous to the
meeting hail ruffled the minute of the director'
and that of many of the eliareholders, and
subsequently to the meeting oiroumstanoes were
incite known which fully aoomintint for the strange
peonliarities characterising its proceedings. The
defloit Alum by the ladanoe•sheet cif 40,000 to
00,000 iin the total of deposits and mill made on
shares, haul caused many of the shareholders to feel
justly dissatietied, and this feeling wee not lessened
when they ()impend the large detinit with the small.
nue of the amount £25,000, which should hare been
pAid up on the deposits and oalls. Theis lards, with
the absentia of any showing of the liabilities of the
company and other matters, had induced the share.
holders, previous tic the meeting, to solicit from the
directors a private examination of the books of the
oompony, which eolloitation the directors deolined
Notting to, on the ground that sub a course would
lie an impuolunent of their oonditot as directors.
This unsatisfactory 'tate of matters deterred the
shareholders from questioning the proceedings of the
meeting, and induced them to defer all questions
as to the flnanoial state of the company, in the hope
that the directors would propose some course less
objeotionable to themselves, by which the wishes of
the shareholders could be met, and their duty to
themselves is proprietors and the public at large
faithfully discharged.
Since writing the shove we are informed that
a mode of satisfactorily arranging the matter
in dispute between the direotors and "hare-
holders has been adopted. Subsequently to the
meeting we learned that Mr. Ker Seymer increased
his holding in the oompany from £4OO to £l,OOO,
anti beyond this has scowled to • request to be mind.
noted as a director, to till up the vacant seat at the
board. In these days of distrust in railway manage-
ment, the Dorset Central will be fortunate in a
directory composed of the following gentlemen:
—Mr. R. Danby Seymour, M.P., Chairman; The
Lord Rivers; Sir E. Baker Baker Bart. ; Mr. J.
Clench l Mansell; Mr. George Read, of Burnham;
and Mr. H. Ker Seymer, M.P. Men of weight acid
hid uenoe are never more in place than when taking
a prominent and loading position in any work of
admitted necessity to the locality in which they
reside. .

Bucimoasta's BOLT—It was duly announced by
the posting of bills and the issuing of circulars in
the town and neighbourhood that Mx. L. Bucking-
ham intended to give his entertainment of "Glean-
ings on the Roadside," at the Assembly Rooms, on
Wednesday evening, the 18th inst. Many respect.
able persons living in the town and neighbour-
hood visited the moms at the appointed time,
and their astonishment may be imagined when
thay were told that Mr. Buckingham had just
popped into the town and then popped out
again. This wisard.like gentleman commenced and
hushed his entertainment at Blandford by dining at
the King's Arms, calling on, but not paying his
printer, cavalierly looking round the rooms, and
leaving the proprietor's agent to entertain the com-
pany and settle the "slight pecuniary matter" with
his employer. Such a display of reckless indiffsrence
to the honourable obligations entailed on an indivi-
dual, by a public engagement such as described, is
rare, even with that itinerating clams to which Mr.
Buckingham belongs. A pursuing sheriff's officer
or a deserted wife has not prevented men in his own
line in keeping faith with the public in past times,
much more the non-sale of tickets, which circumstance
is said to have foreshadowed to Mr. Buckingham's
mind "a beggarly account of empty benches," and
mused him to gait Blandfurd without "leave or
license."

JUDICIOUS LIBERALITY. —T. B. Bombard, Es,
living at Charlton, wrote a short time since to the
Mayor (J. B. Daniel, Esq.), offering to defray the
entire expense of repairing, and properly protecting
by iron fencing, the beautiful specimen of architeo-
tura erected by his ancestors over the town pump
in memory of the great tire in 1791, by which the
then town of Blandford was all but entirely con-
sumed. The offer, gratefully wooded to, is now being
practically carried out, and the inhabitants of thus

town will, Si' long, have the gratification of seeing
the restoration of an interesting architectural object
in their lierket•place.

POOLE.

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CLARA EIRYITIN'A ENTARTAINMENT. —This talented
actress made her first appearance in Poole an Thum
day evening hist, when sha gave her popular enter.
teinment "-The Omnibus," repeating it on the fol.
lowing evening. The numerous spew:ants and songs
of the different characters delineated by Alia
fileyton, together with the arab bite at popur follies
kept the audience in continued laughter. The fair
performer possum a very fine video, and effects her
uhanges to the most (limonite personation' in an an.
tremely rapid manner, life wag on both moutons
loudly armored in several songs, and afforded great
gratification to the speotators,
FATHOM Want, —Dr, Alessandro Weasel, well
known u an able and forcible orator awilnet the de.
Malone of Popery, well announced to-deliver a leo.
tune in the Tuwithall on Wednesday evening last, on
the " Papacy in England," but in ooniequanos,ci
we understand, id • sudden attack of Ulu**, during
a chit to the Channel Wands, the learned padre
wee prevented from fulfilling he engagement -hero,
and many pereons were onnetiquently illeappointed.
Ittoguar,—(liefore the Mayor, W, Puree, Itan„ anti
John Lankester, Jhlinso• wow lirunglit up
by virtue of e warrant oli,irged with an aesault un John
Hoskins, Dismissed on paying the mute.
WIIDN INDAY, —lron 'him and Isiah* Philips, two
Natilin were brought up fur dialling from their alop
Ifergrett. They were rem thunder!, end put lilt board
their ship on Thuraday morning, and went to see.