The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-04-05 00:00:00

•MililliON TO Till NSW GARDEN&

The BIA-T-07-seggssted-- tbe oharg--e of admis-
sion to the new gardens should not be raised to 21.
The matter was left to a oommittee.
FILLING OF 'FBI BACKWATER.
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It was resolved -t; Siply-io-C;i:;!;;I-B7silleld for per.
mission to take the soil Under the Noll., for the
purpose of filling up land In the Back watpt. Tenders
were also to he invited for the removal of the soil, in
case Colonel Hothead granted permission.
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Tenders Were ordered to ie-i-ov-fied for repaying Great
George-street end Glouoesterntreet.

Till PUBLIC
_LIGHTS.

A letter w.e reed from the Chairmen of the Con-
sumers Gas Company, enelosing s resolution to the
tifeet that the charge for the public light, should in
future he £4 per lamp per annum.
The Tower CLIME, in answer to Mr. Webb, odd there
are 240 lamps, end the price pd in Mr. leurdoo's time
wee t:2 sm.

Mr. BILOWN : That is the benefit of the new aompany,
and gettiug rid of Mr Burdon.
Mr. Will sail one if the shareholders at the fast
mooting told the directors that the gas was very impure,
and coo+ did meeting it had hoe's very good.
Mr. Cognise said that before they same to an
agreement, • ooinnaittee should be appointed to go and
see whore the test lights are. . .

_
Mr. Baows thought it would bonze bait plan to lay
the town di darkness tzU they got the mosey to pay for
the lamed

The : The day has arrived whioh I thought
Would cow.?

Idr. Wises said that he had looked at four lamps
and also at one with • testmeter, and asked
an indifferent puma his opinion as to the
light, and the latter said that one (indicating
the one with the test-meter) gave more light
than the other four, lie believed these hest meters
were pot generally on the lights in the principal
thoroughfares, where the light was required to be the
brightest, and he did not believe there was one near
the Backwater nor on the Qssy. He believed many
consumers would support his assertion that the charges
for gas at 44. 13d. per 1,000 were a great deal more
than whit it wee Ita, and that with the same number
of burners. How did this occur, was it pure gas or
foul air? The east to the town would be raised to
£960, which warn an increase to nearly double that of
Mr. Bardosi's time. The Ass oompany derived all their
menu. from the town, and be wished to know if it
was ja•tioe to take every pansy for their materials out
of the town. They got inland coal, which they had a
perfect right to do ; bat was it jostles to the town.
It would require on en average 11 or 14 versals to bring
by sea the coals required for the gag works, and this
would increase the harbour dugs, and each ship would
leave £.50 or £6O a year in the town. A number of
men would be employed in see& ship, so that a loss of
£7OO or MO a year revenue wee lost to the town, and
then the Company earns to the Council to ask them to
double the charge for the lamps.
Vitarus salted what position they would be in,
supposing they milord the offer of the Company.
The MATO{ : Our light will be stopped, and we shall
be in darkness.

Mr. MILLIDOt : Give them notioe not to light the
lamps, and we shall anon have the charge more moderate.
Mr. Dalw said nothing would incluse the company
to alter these figures. They must return • fair interest
to their shareholders. The company made the board •
fair offer, to take the gas into their own hands.
Mr. Wens: Throw the town in darkness! Let nu
have a public meeting for the town to judge! Don't
let the Board saddle the town with atteh a east!
Mr. THOMAS believed they bad been throwing money
away by their method of lighting the town. Be coald
refer them to places where the plan had worked sada.
faotorily of local bodies taking the gm into tbeir owe
hande, lighting and extinguishing them when occasion
required. If this were done there wool! be
• large saving, while the company would be paid
for the gas consumed. It seemed to him the matter
had' been made one of feeling. He did not see why
they should charge the gas company with dishonesty
more than any other tradeemen. The directors were
large ratepayers, and the private cionettesere, on the
other baud are really saving MOO • year atom the new
company wee foruaed. On of the greatest complaints
bad formerly been that persons mold not get enough
gas to burn, but now the supply Ls excellent, and they
had increased their aonsumption.
Mr. Dam said the directors took the average of the
six teat-meters; it would have been unfair to have
charged the Board by the highest and unjust to the
gas company to charge by the loweat. Even on the
average they bad made a reduction to the Board of 4s.
per lamp nadir what- they charged the private con.
sanest, If Use shareholders meld not motive their
per sent., the ionisers was not worth carrying on.
The M•eog thought they should not decides* serious
a question that morning. Fous or five year,ago the
lamp( east from £4410 to £5Oll • year—(Ms. Taoists:
I There were not so many lamps.)- but DOW they were
celled upon to pay nearly £I,OOO per year, and they
naturally asked what had awed this increase. No
doubt the number of lamas had been Inentased, and be
should like the Town Clerk to ascertain the number of
lamps now in nee- lie quite coineided with Kr. Webb
as to the injustice done by the company getting
their coals inland. It was lilts • large trades-
man mending to London for his groceries. Bea-borne
orals, he was infomed could be delivered at the gas.
house as cheaply as the inland. —(14.. WEBB:
Cheaper.) Therefore the Gas company did not come
before them with • Tory good gram, in not consult-
ing the interest of the town. If the consumer* were
I saving £1,200 a year by the new company, they mast
remember that WAS gained by the great ratepayers,
while the poorer had to pay.
Mr. Bootee said the test meters were not • fair
criterion of the consumption by the other lights.
Mr. THOMAS said the meters were no regulated
that it was imponible for the lamp to burn more than
five Get per hour.

Mr. Rjwjjj that is the case, the other lamps
here not got their quantity of gas.
Mr. Dagre said that it geoid not be rafrPored th• 4 tan
gentlemen sitting am gaa directors would possibly go to
an inland mine, and get their weds by railway, if they
could got it 'beeper by lee. Tbe direehore held the
majority of the shares, sad it they sent to the dearest
place to buy Paola, they would deserve lob, sent to
Forerun.
After some further dismission, • resolution wag come
to that a committee should be formed to consider what
amount should be paid for the limps, what °outmost
should be made with the gas company, and what step.
should be takes if so agreimist should be omit to
with the gas eonyauy.

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Soot arg.--11r. George Hrlouglinalaillugiri, who
Hounsell was a two years' subscriber of sa. a year.
Sy. JOHN'S CHORCH.-0° Wednesday night • meeting
6:llti.f.a°"bliolredis:reid'n
was held to consider who shield be organist et St.
John's, Ur. lioleon, of the 51st, having left. It was
unanimously decided that MOSSIS. Patten and Smith be
again requested to preside. The Bev. F. B. thereombe
is acting as curate ia this parish.
Ceram OF FINIAL —The pavement in Fostnne's Well
has lately been taken up, sad en Wednesday a borne
and wedge. loaded with flour, were intended to
be drawn up colossi to Mr. dome's window' to be un-
loaded into • loft, were overheated in the road. No
damage ensued, ad no 8 or was wasted.
.itsgaT wie-orrics. -Oa Saturday last a youth
named Francis Williams Fah-bairn was brought up ethereal
with stealing 3e. and some poultice stamps, the property
of 11 r. Harvey, postmaster. Por.land, his master. It
seemed that prisoner had beeu .n Mr. Harvey's employ
about two months, and ewe if tsr he entered upon the
service his ...star lied reason m suspect his hooerty
• flolin aa,l a shilling with other money was mark d
a. well se some postage stamps. Prisoner took the tee
coi.is named from the till, and subsequently replaced
them; but of 10.. worth of .tamps entrusted to him to
be moonnted for, 54. worth he bad placed in one letter
and 2a. sd. worih in another ;stamped and directed
reedy for dispatching. He Meaded guilty to the charge.
and was eentenced to f iur months' bard labour- •
heavy sentecoe on amount of the breech of trust
involved in the ease.
Al Inquest was held on Monday at the Convict
Eiteblishment, before R. N. Howard, Fey., coroner,
on the body of Johe Dristaill, a convict only 24 years
of age who died on the 26th Met, in the infirmary.
The dovernor, George Clifton, Seq.' mid deceased was
received into the prison• on October 18, 1867, under
sentence ef eaves years' penal aervirtide. He was
admitted into the infirmary on the 17th inst.—John
Seriven, amestant warder, deposed that deers-led had
everything the doctor ordered, and only regretted that
he bad not been admitted two days before.—Mr. Edgar
Shaw Bleier, medical officer, seta deceased had been
suffering from an old &mese in the chest, he had been
an invalid • long time and had been employed at light
labour. One lung Cm dimmed whoa he was admitted,
inflammation set in on the other long, and he was
e.rried off very repidly.—David Nieholsoci, militant
warder, said that before deceased was admitted he had
at. the attention of the infirmary, but simply YloPt in
his cell. His non-admission did not affect his death.
The jury returned • verdict that deceased died of
sonsumption. —Another inquest was held on the same
day at the Clifton Hotel, before R.. N. HowarJ, Req.,
wrecker, on the body of Mary Asenath Gordon. • bsby,
who had been suffocated in bed.- John Gorden, anvil
guard at the Comet Estaialahment, fatherwainfdbeathhtbiledtrohaerb.hmiflenbuudtt,
said deceased was nine weeks old at the time of her
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junior, Messrs. F. and & Conilsan, W. Stone, It Mee,
R. Davis, R. Hin he, W. R. Talbot, R. Flew, J. and W.
Striven, F. Marwood, and Messrs. A, W., E., and R.
Peens. Mr. liferwood read the appointment, and Ur.
&riven, the shoves trustee, thanked his oomulittee for
their efforts to wears his election. A very pleasant
evening was enjoyed.