The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

MEETING OF TRE DORSET FRIENDLY SOCIETY

AT COIWI CAStLE.

The animal meeting of this Society wee held in the
National Schoolroom, in this plat; on Thur.lay, but
indeed of the demonstration umal on buck
occasions such as the dinner and Proonsaion.
the meeting of the Seciety wee confined wholly to
matters of bonnets. This was owing to an SWIJIIIIOO-
- in the •ationa local papers stating that in cause-
questa of • lamentalge event which hid occurred in the
viPage it had been thought advisable by the Code
Castle Club that there should be no demonstration or
dinner. The event Winded to was the death of Lady
Simko*. the wife of the worthy and much-reopected
rector of Curie ; bat we understand that en far from ,
being the rev, gentleman's wish that the welfare of the
Society should be sacrificed to hie private feelings, had
requested that the usual demonstration should
take pleas, but the steward of the Corte Club had, on
his own responsibility, honed the shove notice; in fast,
the whole affair was mismanaged from first to last.
Greet disappointment was felt, not only by the members
of the Code Club, but by other branches of the Society,
at their not being an holiday gathering, and the
conduct of the steward has been severely censured.
The meeting at the schoolroom was presided over by
J. H. Caleraft, Esq., of &eruption*, late 11. P. for the
borough of Wareham, but the attendance was very
limited. Amongat those present were the Reeds. N.
Bond, G. V. Garland, 0. L Hansel, and IL Taylor,
EIT
lhe CIIMILIAN, in his opening address, after feelingly
alluding to his regret at the unavoidable absence of the
President of the Society, H. Ker Selmer, Bp., com-
mented on the extreme thinness of the meeting, which
was owing to solo, mismanagement on the part of the
steward and ciontruittee of the Curie Castle Club, there
being, as was very unusual on auch occasions, no local
gathering, no attendance at Divine service, no procession,
no band, and not even • dinner had been provided for
the officers who attended that de,. After giving •
naming allusion to Mr. Gladstone s Annuities Bull, be
called upon the secretary, the Rev. C. W. Bnighatn, to
read the annual report of the Society, which WU as
follows

Ths number of members on the books at the close of
the year was :—Msles, 2.117 •• females, 171. Total,
2,283, being an increase of 132 during the year.
Members enrolled, 230; withdrawn, 85; expelled, 1 ;
died, 9. £l4 was paid on 4 deaths, and 1:110 on 8
endowments.

The contributions of members in 1863 - £2391 5 114
Ditto in 1852 - • - - 2/35 14 104

Increase Is 1863 • - - .

155 U 01

The honorary aubeariptione in 1862 • 906 12 6
Ditto in 1863 • • • • 922 1 0

Deaeue hi 1863- . - .

e 4 11 6

Sick pay was allowed to 629 males for 3,587 weeks
and 2 days, amounting to £1,266 171. 100., and to 49
females for 415 weeks and 5 asys, amonnting to
£B9 14‘. nd.. making & total.' sick pay £1,356 12a. std.
being £136 17s. s& more than 1862.

TI:o ospital in iarwl was L 7227 lb. 100., Invested so
follows :

In India bonds

- £l5OO 0 0

IWith Nalion.l Debt Commissioners at 15 -5
2 poor cent per annum - -
I With ditto at 21 per cent. per annum - 854 0 1
In 3 per cont. consols • - - 922 7 6
'ln 3 per Dent. consuls, red. - - • 1449 0 0
ID:lucent/der flarinp Bank • - 1276 15 6
1a.,411,11 from branches - • • 463 17 41
Ditto in tretiter's haw" • 89 15 0

7227 11 101
Capital in 1862 • • ' 8824 8 1

• nal 3 8f
Inseam in 1863 - -

'names
The remulte are these :--132 more member.; .
of sick pay. £136 17s. ; on endowments, £10;
cream of £3B death pay; and on honorary is p.
tions, £4 111.. fel. There is an increase in members'
contributions, however, of £156 lls. Old., and also an
Moms* in capital of £IO3 Si. Bld.
The flaanl stets of the moiety up to the 3155
December. 1862, has been inveetigated by our actuary,
Mr. Robinion, who gives the following as the results of
li, calculations :

£37637 7 0
Liabilities - • - - 37503 16 4

Ems' of meets- - • - £4310 8
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Itthusappears,(he adds), that the position of the society
is very eatisfaetory,and such as tct establish confidence in
the minds of the members ; and it must be gratifying on
such occasions as the present to the managers to fled
upon investigation that the working of the society is so
healthy. It too often happens when an actuary is
called upon to Investigate the affairs of a friendly
society that the result of his labottre i 4 40 1160* • large
deficiently in the funds on the value of the Coutributions.
The hope expressed by our late honored secretary,
after the last quinquennial return, "that at the end of
18113 the present slight deficiency of £5l 61. Td. will
have vanished," has thus been something more than
realised, while the addition of so considerable a sum se
£7IX3 3s. Bd. to our capital In the past year, is the best
and surest test of present prosperity.
In the course of the past year a memorial, eniatiating
from a large and influential ineeVng of the stewards,
and touching upon many important questions, bee been
presented to the committee of trustees, after having
submitted it to the President and given it their most
anxious attention. The eonclusioas to which they have
mine upon the several points submitted to them have
been made known to the stewards, the general result
being, that the trustees see no sufficient reasons at
pertain for altering the tablet or revising the rules,
whilst they tblek that si letter of explanation,
addressed to the branch comtnittees, may swam a
greater uniformity of practice, and be otherwise bene-
ficial in removing misapprehensions.
An overture has been received through the Hon. and
Rev. Samuel Bast, one of the secretaries of the Southern
Countim Adult Education Society, to this effect :
" Moat the three following societies The Dorset
County Friendly Society, the Wiltshire County
Friendly Society, and the Hants County Friendly
Society—be each requested to select three of them
members to form • permanent committee of reference
on all subleete connected with friendly exhales, and
especially with a view to the mutual interchange of
privileges among their reappears members."
The committee of trustee' has so for assented to this
proposition, as to express their walingnem to join in
discussing its possibility, end in endeavouring to dot's*
the means by which it may be advantageously carried
est.

The hailers of health, which has led to the retirement
of oar kind and beloind Preseclent (rein Parliament, is
too well known and too deeplttegrett.4 by all slums
I. the county to require any special mention here, We
will only say that it is cur earnest hops, am we are sere
it most be of every member of this society, that it may
please God to restore his strength, and to enable him
for many a long year to confer upon it those bandits
which It has constantly received from hi. intelligent
and genial inSuence.
The next anneal meeting will be held at a place to be
appointed by the trustee", and annetioeed a• surly se
poesible.
C. W. BINGIIA.II, Secretary.
G. H. DAVIS, Assistant Secretary.
The officers of UM Sake, were re-appointed for the

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The Boy. G. V. GARLAND attributed the cool "Saar
tion given to the odious that day to the conduce of the
steward of the Code bran* of the Society, who,be said,
bad aided on his own responsibility without consulting
the dewatda of the adjoining parishes. Had this been
&de he (the rev. gen llama) felt gaits etre *ere would
bay* been • day's holiday worthy of the good tame for
which they ware *win web
The Boa. O. L km& backed wp this °
dating that be was w sated by *e Bea. B. B.=eni
to date that he hit hastily sorry that there had pot
bees a gsuerul holiday on the ooarsion, aad bad
expressed his surprise at seeing an announdateat is the
newspapers to the effect that no sodas would be taken
of the meeting in consaquenee of the death of die
Lady Charlotte Baud.
Mr. Went addremed the Onettaff expressing his
sorrow that he was a Cork man, but his joy at not
being • steward for the (loth Olt*, for, on looking
around the room he saw ealsese mambir of that brooch,
and the steward was absent.

—After several sia—setions—Oonneoled witb the ffoiriely
had been asked by different stewards, sad answered by
the has. orwrotary, the meeting separated.