The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-05-09 00:00:00

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THE DORSET FRIENDLY SOCIETY'S LATE
MEETING.
T. the Editor.

Sir,—As there appears to be some misunderstanding
aa to the remarks I felt called upon to make at the
Dorset Friendly Society at Swanage, I must ask you
kindly to publish these few words of explanation.
In passing strictures upon those branches whose
sick pay is year after year far in excess of what it
ought to be, I took care to point out that in small
branches one or two cases of legitimate and lengthened
illness must of course throw each branch behind hand.
That is quite a different case from a branch whose
sick pay remains greatly in excess for many years in
succession.
In Raclipole, for instance (which was one of the
branches mentioned in Mx. Finlayson's report am
having drawn excessive sick pay) there have been two
cues of lengthened and heavy dames' during the pist
year; but these are not cases that were found fault
with at Bloating'''.
Hoping these few words of explanation will remove
any misunderstanding that may exist,
I remain, yours truly,
Gm E. Emot.

-
D It be maid, therefore, as it hi, both by the Recta a
&Wood and by the lecturer, that the present Church of
England is the heir and representeolve of the Church
founded by Augustine, then that Church stands dis-
tinguished from the Church of the Apostles, and is the
heir and representative of the Church of Rome. It is
only as these men admit that • fundamental °hangs has
been wrought in the character of the Church that they
can by any pmeibilty claim for it a Protestant and
Apostolic character And that such • change has been
wrought or attempted to be wrought, no one can doubt.
The Church of England is • reformed Church. It intro-
duced enough of the Reformation to break the continuity
of Rome, but not onouitht to restore it to the Church
of the Apostles, and from this incomplete work of Refor-
mation have come all the difficulties which have met the
church in these latter days, and which will follow her
while she remains in alliance with the State, and which
she can only get rid of by the policy of Diesetablishment
and Disendowinent But not to weary your readers with
the recital of the historical changes which have passed
over the Establishment, sometimes involving • return to
the Papacy, and at others to the doctrines of the Refor-
mation, it is sufficiest to point to the latest deed of
settlement of the Establishment, which is the "Act of
Uniformity ;" by that Act the whole position of the
Church as an Establishment is determined, and by it the
stands or falls. Destroy that Act and the Church of
England forthwith coma to have any claim on a solitary
building or endowment.
T. Naar&
[Want of space compels us to leave the other portion of
the letter till next week, when it will be concinded.—
"DJ

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ted fluty, with a pretty at ectatiou of loom. grgutaity.
matter of life and death, natty ; and if you
me you wouldn't keep um. I shall see or hear of rucals at the Bald-headed Stag."
"Oh, do not go after them. That Black Jack will kill
you. He fears nothing."
" No more do I Betty. There, good•hye," and he duped
her in his arms. "I think rza on their track now.
mei•luror.fleorge, I do !" and as the young keeper "in.
dewn the hut H say sat down on the gnu and burg en.
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(To in opetiamit)

EZABTLINB SWINDLER.

At Use Central Criminal Court,
Frederick Henry Gartner, V. • wellobe on y rahy,
was indicted for obtaining several sum of 410Y072.1 Mak
dtgreraat mem, by fraud and false pretences. -7Cirrtge
on the part of thepoectlo@wee that the dee 'en.
setae
had been maimed in a most elaborate and t
srb= r
of frank by means of which he had succesa—e
o ,
rettatavgieery large sums of money front a numbs
me yams men. In the month of Febnine4
an advertisement appsered in the Deify Telampa, '
"To Clerks." and representing that respectable r 0.,.
men who were in a position to deposit from £lOO to ,AtA
as security. might obtain • situation in the hens
Messrs. Laurance and Gander, 31, Great HaribereaS.
street, financial agflts. I coasequence of thia
young men appLied to the address mentioned in the ed.
es:tissue/at where they law the prisoner, who
embed that be was carging. on an extensive us bea
with Mr. Laurence. at Dumb and ier Leaden. aid th
16 clerks were employed at the former estais atblhmee
He went on to lay that "the firm had lest m, nowt;
money by the dishonesty of their clerks that they ea.
determined not to engage any clerk who could aar security; but the MINT would be perfectly ada .41
they were In a position to pay 10 per cent interest,
One or two of the parties appeared to have naming
some explanation as to the means by which the pie:we
Gould be able to pay such high interest as 10
.per mat
He gave a very ingenious explanation, to the effect
that "the firm" was in the habit of lending large silo,
of money on bills of sales, notes of hand, acid in other
ways, so that the mosey WY turned Over severai tunes
during the year, and thus they were enabled toe. lam
interest; and he also said that the money they rs.thad
security would be used in the business, and that it week
form the "nucleus "of • bank. In oximouence or thew
representations I great many Yawn men handed over te
the prisoner sums of MOO, and he gave them what he
called • deposit note beaded "Laurence and Game,
financial agents. 34 Great Marlboroush-street,
Sacitville-street Dublin, Money advanced on bill, if
sale, on mortgage and to officers, on their note of Med 7
and they were engaged as clerks at a salary of 1;2•
The salaries were paid regularly fore skeet time, Mt the
the payments because irregular, and sometimes meek,
gad aessetimen less was paid to the clerks. lt
beginning of 1874 things appeared to have become me
hot, and a summons was o*tatn.d against the poisoner is
fraud. Hs then absconded, and nothing wee hmrd el
him until recently, when, in consequence of one of Me
poisons who had been defrauded through seeing • Code,
advertisement to the one that had formerly, appara.. bet
with the amount of security that was required shert.l
LK in one of the daily newel:oWe- he ntt to the
adarees mentioned he the advertisement., and ronmened
the prisoner, and he WM given into custody. ram au
• respectable firm of Lowrance and Go., carrying ot
business in Sackville-street, Dublin, but thvy sere not in
any way connected with the prisoner, and he s,„
entire !treater to them. The prisoner crosi-euenned
the various witnesses who had advanced their
with a view to show, apparently, that a genuine hu,aeso
was carried sea by him in Great llarlborouth-otreet Tore
stated, however, that the business they were employee
upon consisted principally in writing to solicitors, sod te
persons who advertised properties for sale, ashler theta
to transfer their business to the prisoner, and he linnet
was chiefly occupied in writing advertisements sad
sending replies to the persons who answered thes It
the course of the case • book found at the offie
Marlborough-street Was put in, which contained a number
of entries relating to business represented to have been
done, but the whole of them appeared to he fictitious
One of the items was a commission of £5OO for selling a
lead mine in Chicago, and the reeding of it created a good
deal of laughter. A number of cards were also found, in
which the prisoner was described as the Hon. F. Gamier.
The prisoner, in defence, made a speech which lavted tee
hours, the effect of it being to endeavour to show that he
had really been carrying en a bone fide business and that
be had no intention to defraud anyone, and should have
repaid all the money if criminal proceedings had not bees
taken against him. He denied seer having represented
himself as the Hon. Mr. :senior. The jury, without any
hesitation, found the prisoinerand the Recorder,
in passing sentence, told the prisoner he had been guilty
of a very cruel fraud. He sentenced him to twelve
months' hard labour.