The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

XILITI• STOIIIII.

On the motion of Colonel Bingham, £l5O was mated
to make the militia stores more defensible in owe of
attbek.

IiCHOOLI.

Mr. PLOTIR moved that • contract be entered into
with tbe authorities of Umpley Stoke reformatory for
the aduaiseion of omelets front this county into that
inatitutioe. _

-I"int-int-e-. C. IV. B 11011•11 related an instance dawns
difficulty la which the visiting justice. of the gaol bad
been placed. A boy had been sentenced by the Wey-
mouth borough magistrates to • month in gaol followed
by • period in • reformatory school, but the magistrates
had not taken the trouble to ascertain if there was any
vacancy In the Ifilborne reformatory • and, It being
full, the justices had to provide • school in which ths
boy might be placed. They made application to a
school in Waroicksbire, and Lord Leigh consented
6o mean him, bet then they discovered that he was •
Roman Cea olio, and therefore they had to
and a Roman Catholics, {reformatory for him.
On applying to one, • guarantee of • payment of 2s. a
week was required, which he found the Visiting Justin*.
had no power to give, on the boy had to ho discharged,
end was found at large at Weymouth. Ile urged that
magistrates should be very careful about sending juvenile
offmdere to reformatories. In justice to • dear and
absent friend, Mr. John Hansel, he was betted to say
the Ribero. Reformatory had been • great blessing to
this county—(hear, hear). A good mark in the official
reports had always been given to that Inztitation, and
it had also this great advantage—it cost the county
lit/hing—(•pplaues).. .

MG FLOM spoke of tbe imest ulefidoess of
reformatories, sad mid be thought it desirable they
shoal& be largely used.
Shortly after the Court adjourned.

FIRST COURT.—WroxsaAT.
(Before the Lord Porrca).

•
Ti. court opened at ten o'clock. Mr. R. Fookos, of
Whitechursh, warn the foreman of the pandjury. There
wee only. swell attendance of greed jurors, and hie
lortship. In delivering the Aerie, said that the court
would fine absentees on any future oceasion. Ile corn.
meakd on the lams increase of vegraney derieg the
last quarter, and urged all to do their beet to duck in.
dieoruninato aline-giving, which tends so mull to
biomes professional vagranay.

wigoriosis.

Yr. 770011 moved tbaitie—oe-Ttideate of ft. Williams,
sod E. W. Williams, Seq., that a portion of a certain
highway In the pariah of Piddietown may be atopped
up and a oertain now highway be substituted in lieu
gfigeeof, he Ala.—The motion was usoppc•ed, sod it
was affirmed. .

ilrOois also wowed that the cortilioate el J.
Gooddee, gap aed the Bev. J. Blennerhamett, Jerk,
that • eortain my highway Jot the parish of Tbornford
was completed sad in 'sod repair, be Sled.—The motion
wee unopposed, and it WY sMrati.

•Wo presume Mr. Sleighs= nderred to UM led who
appeared et the Weymouth polies sour' as the 98th alt.
to romplain that ku makesor wu nor curried out ; but, in
justice to the Weymouth tasaietrittes, It should be
remembered it warn stated by him end also by a witness
that he was seutesieut not it Weymouth, but it
Wenliam.