The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-13 00:00:00

&limn Calk ant; Strut ertiots.

It may interest imtiquarians to know that the
ancient preening now being demolished, or rather re-
built. adjoining the rown Cellars, have been found to
contain several relics of antiquity &Wag back to about
the seventh century.

You may take this piece of information for what it
is worth, but I hare heard from good authority that
If this Parliament is not dimoired nut August It will
drag on Its weary course to the bitter and. Truly
John Ball Moss the skinning promos, end is easily
gnUad.

The ratepayers of Poole will hail with satisfaction
the information that the rate-colleetors of Hamworthy,
Parkstone, and Longtleet have had an increase of
salary.
ig Of comae, ill* economical Tories have had
to do with this.

I WY Mille away from Poole, and standing opposite
a Roman Catholic: Church, when the familiar form of
a good Poole Liberal emerged therefrom I sooostad
him, and asked what he had been doing there.
He didn't tell me, but I found that the oonfeesional
wee going on, and on further enquiry I ascertained
that the Father Confessor wait not • politician. but •
real Oat. "No man can serve two madam," I said
So wawa
Oan anyone tell me what "the sacred id." of
politics is like. I know someone who compared his
Political experience in Poole to the certain man who
journeying from Jerusalem to Jericho fall amongst
thieves (robbers or Tories it's all the same, who r
him of hU garments and left him wounded by the
way-side. I helped to pour oil and wine into that
man's wounds by soda( the good &marline and
voting sgainst those robbers, and in the words con-
nected with the parable I say to every religion. and
right-minded politician in Poole, "Go, and do thou
likewise."

I The meter" of last week exhumes "the b7ok."
I The pot calls the kettle black—the white, pure,
ether kettle, on which the soot is never allowed to
collect Tailors make bad as correopTiekte,
The letter I allude to should have headed Fran
our Special Correspondent," thee we should have
known what was coming, and what to have expected.
By the way, what's up with "Our Special Corres-
pondent r The " Blazer's " office is now empty—
nothing but the gilded blind tells us that it ever
" Alas, poor Yorick."

The premises lately occupied by Mr. John Bloom.
field. on the Parade, are befog decorated and repaired,
both inside and without, and the owner of them may
shortly congratulate himself upon haring comfortably
housed, at a moderate rental, another good political
supporter.

Whilst on the subject of houses I have a word OT
two MOTO to My about Beech-hurst. White's mansion,
as it is properly called, wad named Bosch-bunt by ita
late occupier, who made a good speculation in the
purchase of it.

lam sot calms to print all me medical oorrespon-
dent meads though, about who is " Mr." and who
k "Dr." A plain "Mister" Is goal enough for me so '
long m he can cure use, and when I have the stomach ;
ache all I care about is gettirg well, an I two-
penn'orth of Penney" pills have cgtan done me more,
good than all the Doctors" in Pods.

This reminds me that a certain notice of removal
of offices in Poole is Incorrect; these has been another
tenaigt in Beech-burst since the gentleman whose
nal" 04:9811.111 on the notgoe in uestion, and the
gentleman whose name ie mentioned as former oc-
c.er Is "Doctor" sow, not " Mister." The late
tenant of Beech-buret is in tears it this ogniwion of
his name, probably quite in aocidattal omission, aud
perfectly immateriaL

Did you see the fire! Yes, evenbody saw it. Did
You nee toe water wed to extinoish it That is a
question not so readily answered 7) those who were
present, for the supply was vary Lmited, though to a
certain extent effective.

The captain of the fire brigale was there, and
worked well, and I congratulate Poole on not having
to mend all the way to Parkstone to get him.
I bear with regret that the fire was the work of an
incendiary, and I may say, without any breach of
confidence. or without prejudicing the enquiries the
Police are making, that I bear with an equal amount
' of pleasure that one little addition to the information
already obtained towards proving who committed the
anon will result in the apprehension of the guilty
party. I suggeste.l that Captain Copeman should be
employed in the matter; we should noogniss his
familiar face down here with great joy.

I also hear with further regret that threatening
letters (anonymotte, of course) hove been sent to Mr.
Elford, Mr. Norton, and °there, threatening, for some
petty came, to "burn them out." I hate anonymous
letters—they are cowardly weapons, and were it not
that there are so many clever" vriseames" In the town
who have found names for me by the dozen, and who
" know everything," so that I nay* no need of en-
lightenhig them as to who I am, I would my I am
honest "John Smith" or "John Brown" at onc • ; but
as matters now etiind I am content to stick to my old
name, and speak the truth out boldly, as
Tim WANDIUM.

Poole, Itlay sth, 1879. .
WIXIORNIII.

Bagnsumrcr.—The first meeting of creditors, under the
bankruptcy or Chas Pike, builder and brick enetchant, of
Leigh-road, Wimborne Minster. wee held at Poole on Mon-
day at the °Moe of the R..xistrer of the County Court (Kr.
H. W. Dickinson). Mr. H. Moore, of Wtmborna, appeared
forth. bankrupt and some of the creditors Mr. Wade, of
Bournemouth. for the petitioning creditor and other
creditors, and Mr. H. T. Trevanion, of Pools. Mr. B. P.
Hopkins, of Wlmborne, and Mr. G Ryall. of Parkstone,
U.. mortgagees of three dwelling-houses and shops, which
the bankrupt was erecting in the New Borough, WWI-
- The bankrupt's statement of saws seas • met
extraordinary document He estimated his total liabilitim
to be awe 14., of which Afg,435 was folly secured, and
.11131 &s. lid. was unsecured. Ti.. securitiee be valued at
Jaen, leaving a surplus of £1,256, and his mbar assets be
mit down at Cll3 75., making a total of MA* 7r. to meet
the sum of .6631 Se. Dd. due to unsecured creditirs. It
transpired that souse of the bankrupt's property had
been sold under a bill of eels for £l5O. held by Messrs
Norton and Kite, timber merchaeta, of
who also have • ascend mortgage of csie.Po':"na
bankrupt wag asked a number of queetions by the
creditors present. Mr. Charles William Brooke, iron.
lead, and glees merchant. of York-road, Bournemouth,
the petitioning creditor. whose claim is £B3 it,., wee
appointed trustee, at Inch romunerstion so shall be fixed
from time to Urns; and Meagre Jere Carter, William
Carter, and John Albert Chinchen, all of Poole, were
egrecented • committee of insPection. A public
of the bankrupt was axed to take place as the Poole
County Court on the 16th at May.