The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-10-15 00:00:00

PABICSTONE.

WILLIAM CILOCIZIWIII BAJIMICITICT.—There vu.
Netting Wore Mr. Commissioner Winslow. en Thursday,
in the ease of William Croaker, milk dealer. fie was
arrested at the suit of the English Joint Rog kat.
for a debt of 231511 a 2d., and £2 2.. toots. He attributes
his failure to having gives 4blll for an Meuse made by
the busk to his father. He bad died no statement of
amounts, sad tie Sitting wad adjonneed sins die, with
liberty to am, before the Court another day when he
has Sled his sesounin—Proteetion for 14 days, to be
renewed if the oasis] amignee seedy be is preparirg.
his automate.
Hunt Ow Ms. By. Crrte.—On Thrusduy, the in-
habitants of Parksione wows much shocked by thr
melancholy intelligence that Mr. St Clair, the son.in-
law of Yrs. Sally, who owns ooneiderrible property in
this locality and is an old resident had dropped down
dead in the London streets. We baileys Mr. St. Clair
'nu en IteMen, and 1161011 his connection with the Solly
family lien travelled much, but he wee e• wail known
here and endeared to such an extensive singe of friends
that his sudden demise has oast 9nlte • gloom VFW the
neighbourhood. The sad event is the more distrejg.
ad the
hment of Mrs. St. Clair is soon expected
to take plane. Hr. St. Clair only left Parkstone for tho
metropolis on the previous Saturday.

BOURNBILOUTE,
CHERIVEURCH AIM BOVIINFItOOTII RAILWAL—Thia
line was expected to be opened in the summer of 1885;
but it is not yet completed. The worka, however, are
progressing, though slowly. The line is staked out for
nearly the whole distance, and the cutting for a Cngle
line of rails is made for about three miles. It has;
proceeded beyond Pokeedown. and here the road arch-
way over the rails is nearly finished. Hopes are enter-
teined that it may be opened for traffic in the spring of
next year.
ADAMS' BASICBUTICT. —ln the London Bankruptcy
Court, on Thursday, Thomas Adams, builder, he., of
Bournemouth. applied for his order of discharge, his
debts amountinf to £793 14s. 4d. Assets—by debtors
lls ; ditto bad, £33 lON. 9d;peopertyin the
hands of creditors, 000 ; deficiency, I Is. 4d. Mr.
Aldridge applied for copies of the inortgeges of the
houses winch the bankrupt had built, and Mr. Philpot
undertaking to supply them, on behaN of the baniurapt,
within • week, he warn granted • discharge, subject to
that condition.
Tug Hx•Barr Miotoaw,.—The Convalescent Seaside
Homes erected at Bournemouth, Dorset, to perpetuate
the memory of the late Lord Herbert, has just been
opened, and through the liberality of the chairmad of
the Memorial Committee (Mr. T. Setheron Eatocurt),
who, in addition to a handsome subscription to the
fund, has given the sum of £1934 13.. 15d., to make up
the deficiency in the amount raised, the committee have
been enabled to deliver the Home out of their hands
free of debt. It appears by • report of the committee
that the cost of the Home was 17s. ld., so that
the total outlay incurred by the oonurittee in carrying
out the reeolutions passed at the public meeting held
In Salisbury, in September, 1861, has been £8045 16s. 9d.,
including 0021 18e. 10d., for the statue of Lord
Herbert by Baron Maroehetti, erected in the Market-
place, Salisbury, and £lB5 for printing and other
expenses. Half the beds in the new Home are to be
reserved for patients; transferred from the Salisbury
Infirmary, and the other half are to be assigned to
psdients recommended by suiceribers resident in any
part of England, without the toxiendty of having
previously passed through any hospital or infirmary.
The management of the Home is vested in perpetuity in
the Governors of the Infirmary of Salisbury.