The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-12-12 00:00:00

POOLS.

Tlig Prince and Princess Christian will, we under-
stand, shortly pay a visit to Lord and Lady Witoti.irne
at Canford Manor.
let DALY.. I) Co , Pool. .--Orders for the
week ending 16th liec,mber, 1682 :—Offic-r ru diit,,
Lieut. Smyth; 800. COM Otheat a, ,erge alit it al and
C iral Talbott ;Ittestlay, aqoad drill in pieta clothes
at 7.30 p.m. —W. A. Smelt, Captain Comm nil ng.
STellaTlCtt. jaavalation of Votila is 18,035, and,
according t • returns just issued, it would ap,aevr thvt
ditr.ng the seicond quarter of the prevent year tr e
marriages have numbered 45 • in the third qua. ter the
birth* were 166, an I the deaths 61, the average death-
rate being 60.
AT Swanage, our liv •ly little next-door neighbour,
they have had a census taken as regards " Sunday
Clueing." Three hundred and sixty-four parishi .nera
were in favour and only five against the movemea t.
As, however, Swanage can boast a ime 5,000 inhabit-
. anis, the result does not go for much.
Tile TRANSIT or VLSI3I. WedneevieY afternoon, was
well seen from here. There was a plrc/ptii le climatic-
thin of light ouring the tune the ',run.: lady can
fi•tinting herself in the face of 'dr. "Sol." A •'n Alva"
who failed to wit.., the event, says he sh .11 wait or
the next transit. This is due iu the year 2004 1
Fla& —Ou Sun lay evening a she I. belongii g to Mr.
W. H. B dlard, coal merchmt, an I situated iv GI. en-
lone, was burnt down. Fortuitattly the ti tmage Linos
was sot great, there being only a few rod carts in i .
The Poole Fire Brigade were quickly io re oliness,
but their serviet.• ware not ;wowed. AS there err
plenty of willi. g workers, and the fire was c fined .•
the shed in questa in. Mr. Ballard s erns unfor rn i.e.
as only a short time ag he ha i @vine property burnt
down in the same neuhbourhood.
MS PUBLIC tiettle QUISTItia.—TI2O puilic meetir.s
of the inhabitants, hell on To. sday evening. io the
met unmistakable manner pronounced its "pull in as
to the netwasity desirabi ii, of cheap vtil
pendve baths being et ituce provided. Ile raqui-ititio,
at should also be reuo.mberea, which was patented t.
the Sheriff, detailing him to c us, ne the me tint:, sli-
very nuuseritualy aiguid, and from the well•knowi
onittioit ~f the ratepayer* generally. it seem d a foe.
gone conclu-iou, bcf is tire meet ing was he!.
tat a resolution to this effect wa, sur* to be c trrio
if n,t unsulmously. at lea•t by a large majority
• f three pie•ent. As will be seen from our rep rif
the meatrng the resolu ion pr .p oed by alr. ff. T.
Trevaninn, and seconded by Mr H. A. Lawton, rise
.1 a yen. general character, and h.d it be. n a loved
the Town Council would have tvid .ery litle to or
beyond finding a sui awe site and ieidiirg 4.11 h
detail. of the echeme. an •aj.r iture, of MOO or
£4OO would probably have been sufficient ti meet thi•
demand, and very few persons indved, we think,
would have begrudged s small a sum for so important
a purpose. Tes aumvdmeut, however' mooed by Mr.
Robert Habguod, and sec roiled by Mr. Council' ir
Balaton, opened the wider and much larger cries:ion—
which ha, already been before the I "en C •Utial and set
amide by them. Had .he ori. inal r.s lutioo been adopted
there can be little doubt but it would at me- have
been carried out by the Corporation, but as the
decision of the mewing in ticivpting the amendment
was clear and emphatic in favour 1 what may be
termed the general fluahing scheme, tne T iwii Cumuli
are bound to ag tin review the whole subj-ct an
ascertain whether they, in their tiacioon, ••1- the "out-
eider." (if we my uo, this exprevai n) ce riAt in
, the amen meet which by mrriod by such an over-
whelming majority on Tuesday evening. —Herold.