The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

BLAND RD.

Tau Fax. will WI bald oo Thursday oast'
RI7LII Coasu—Thir members of the Sth Dom.
VoOutwore • 111 °ouzo:woos operations for ilia
aoattag wows oo Friday oast, whim Wore .111 be,
full drawl wads sod • SNOW WallilitSlllo chow. for the
your.

EDUCATInIi•L. —The members a the evenirg
class at the Natiooal School. nutehering sloven,
have arranged to sit at tbe Southern C.,untias Adult
tdeoatioa Society's esaminatioo, which is to corn.
=soon oo Tuesday. It is to be regretted that the
number is much below that of former years.

WokKING MEN'S CLUB Pamir READINGS •ND-
MUSIC. —Tbs fourth of this whim of attractive
entertainments was given in the Town•hall on
Wedoeaday revolting last, whim the specious room
was crowded to erases. The modem were members
of the oommittes, and mots of them at the conclusion
of bis isading was greeted with hearty and ointionono.
iippimus. The program* was goat through in the
! following ordor —Glen, " " Hail Smiling Miro ;"
reading " Louisa tlarchwoori, or the French School-
mistress," Mr. H. Hodges; ales, "Ye shepherds
tell ma;" reading, " Beojamie !militia," Mr. C. F.
Curtis; trio, "See ODE bark ;" reading. " William
Sticker's Adventures in Loodoo," 'Mr. J. H.
Bortlett ; chortle, "Selectioa of airs;" finale, the
" National Anthem." The musical part of the
entortainmeot was undertaken by Mrs. Edwardsand
, the Glos Union. The chair was occupied by W. C.
, Fiooham, Eq
CD•SLISI Roning's BLNISOPTCY. —At Om London
Court of Bankruptcy, on Thursday, before Mr,
Registrar Popp', there waa • sittieg for proof of
debts and choice of trade seil,nese ender
the bankruptcy of Charles Rooks, of Bisatif.,,ft
Forum, carpenter, builder, and grocer. Mr. J. A.
For, solicitor, Chanoerylane, appeared for the bank-
rupt, who mate to this court on his own petition OS
IS:h of February, and obtained protection from
arrest. The total automat of his unsecured debts due
to creditors, chiefly rounding at Pooh., Blaedford,
Wolverhampton, Shaftesbury, and Bristol, is looted
to be £520 21. Sid., and the creditors liol bog
security area. follow, viz. :—Tbrii Dorset &merit
Building Society, Blandford, £330. secured on
mortgage of three leasehold dwelling-bosses and
garden, in linststrimt, Blandford, of the win:wed
value of CMS; Mr. Georg* Bolt, Littleton, Bland-
ford, gun 170. ed., 'soured hy mooed mortgage on
the above property. 'The petitioner states the came
of tbri bankruptcy to be "want of capital, lieem
trade, and illness of family." Al this sitbeg Mr.
John Rooks, beilifer, of Putney, having proved for
£35. was ohms° by flee other creditors, whose debts
amounted to about £l7O, to be tho trade einignee.
and having soorpted the trust, the Court confirmed
his appointment. Tbe bankrupt was rented an
allowance of £2 par weak until the examination and
"Mar of discharge sitting, which IVY Shed
held before Mr. Commissioner Goultare, on the Wit
of March oast, at twelve o'clock, Assayed pro,
tuition from arrest having been greeted the beak.
rapt, the sitting aided.

84111111•11ZTACD DORMIT B An.w•c. —The Stipa
ordinary half-yeast, meeting was held on Wednimise
at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Mr. Chariot
Waring. M.P., the new cheinnse, monied the Asir,
there being Mg directors and twelve shareholders
present. The report Mated that there bad keen an
increase is the groom tragic of £1323 7.. 7d., being
19s. Id. per mile per week, and 7.49 d. per train
mils, bet the working expanse have tooremed
13323 10s. Ild. There has been an increase in
goods and mineral. and oalUe, and • demise, in all
claims of passwagers, and from Highbridge harbour
the increase of imports and exports is 4449 tons.
The report continued :--- Th. trafr. bat fir tbo
adverse circumstances of the past snarimer and
Rotuma, would Imre shown • mach larger iDCTOSOP.
sulalfem.ror meverelwithy framthe irsaistlie depression an
Titre litradnekeitpbren
radios tbrvieglitiet the year, and the interference
with travelling cessed by unfavourable weather.
th• prevalence of °oak Plague sad cholera, and •
commercial crisis of imperalialed seepitad• aml
duration. On the other hand the oolitic szPoomo
have been adversely affected by the greater wet of
Worse and wag... It should, however, he mated
that a large part of the impasse is apparmit only,
and arises from • different mode of mating the
amounts, many it.. which now appear ow the
debtor side of tb• account as expenses !swims
formerly been dedocted from gross revenue Who
the working espouses mill amount to • high per
map of the earnings, it should be observed that
the mei of working, pee mile oyes, and per train
mile, is still very mosiderably below the average of
other Bose. Any material redaction, therefore, of
the proportion of working 'apeman to gross reosipte
sea he mistimed only by the incilael of the earnings,
it ban iiitgootrobla, eoweesently with a due mord
to the oafs working and proper maintenstece silk.
line, either to diminish the outlay epos the per.
est staff at the several stations below the present
minratiord. The balsam of the revenge of the KZ
1000tbe 11/00111411 to the essa of 0,289 10a 11d.,
white is more then sailloieet to pay Um interest on
the debnitare debt to the Est Desember last. This
basso., however, has bean neesseerily applied 46 Psi
for rolling stitch, for whine, owing to • deficeserf
of capitol on the first establishment of the railway,
the company were unable to pay. Thee mese, is
absorbed to meet capital charges. Thwemat f in.
Wrest on the deheeteres snook therefose, se yet be
remised. No semis shall be spared on No pert of
the directors to remedy this Mahe of sears.' The
report wee adopted, after two boars bee disomsioet
an amendment being moved by Mr. Ilimsterd, sod
wooded by Mr. F. T. Rogers, bet afterwards with-
drawn. The retiring director., Sir Bayard Baker,
Bart., Mr. Gooryp Wan', end Mr. Jolla Olhamion,
more re-elesand.

IT is psoasodorly "osmosis& tam* all Onamiskstiost to
oddrsamed to " The iditoro," sad ad so&7 tsiaotdsol
Ity TUN
Pipes') W Mom Power. sad Puldialtal for am Pry
solmoos, iasseptostai ander " Composts? Ad.
Mk" .liot n.ls.d 'Wait's, so " Tea Comm tell
Coafasio; Litom• thoir
Rogisatrod Odle*, etarolt-strost, itsdoo by
Wm.: a W. Prim ef the Porisb of Fordiagalot •
OW Nasty of Dorset, ?obits Moor of said OsessesT.
'baby, Kink 6. 1117..

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