The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-27 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL.

WIDIIIIDAT.

Before the Mayor (R. Aldridge, Esq. ), Aldermen
Hamilton, Ay I de. Buckley, and Nog too. and
Counaidurs Dugdale, Budge, Mate, Fanner, Curtis,
Conway, Barnes, Western, Bmkley, Yeatman,
Hudson, 11111, Gilbrd, and Blemehard.

TES STZITI WALL.

The first business was to consider the position of
Ur. Mahood, who has preferred an indictment against
Mr. Bagdad', f..r having obs.ructed a rue I neer Steele,
and to consider whether the C Quail:avid I take upon
themselves the conduct of the future proceedings.
Mr. Alderman HAMILTON asked the Town Clerk
whether they could legally entertain the matter. The
gentleman who had placed it on the agenda paper
(Mr. Balaton) wa4 not pre.ent.
The Town CutaK was nf opinion they could not.
The public authority did not initiate the proceeding.,
It was instituted by a private individual, and he dad
not think the prosecution could be changed.
Mr. CURTIS remarked therefor* the matter, as far
the Council was oonoerned, was at an mid. I'ise only
thing foe Mr. Habgood to du was, like others who
undertook public proeecutions and walla not afford to
them on, to call a meeting and appeal to the
public.
Mr. 131:DGE: Hear, beer!
Mr, Duciums : But I shall want to know who Is
going to recoup me my ousts.
Mr. Noniron: I rather think Mr. Drigdale is pit-
j ori gimg his cam.
DOODaLIi : Am I?
The matter then dropped.
TSB WATZIiwOHLII COILPAINT.

The next bushman wao to cons der whether negotia•
tioos should again be opened with the Poole Water-
works Company to purchase the waterworiui, 110,1 if
so to give the necessary inairtictions for that poi p
This wax Introduced by Mr. Wersreao, who expressed
himself strongly in favour o! ti id bring dine.
It transpired during the discussion the C 'mind had
offered the company £20,000, but they wanted £30,000.
Mr. DUGDALE Wage I to kuo. what there was to
prevent the Council taking the stream at Longfieet for
flushin4 purpoww.
The Towg etsitir wee of opinion they had no such
power.
Mr. DOODALS said at the previous mailing f the
committee the matter was thoroughly thri shed wit.
and they arrived at the Conclusion that to give £30,000
would not be to the benefit of the ratepayers. Toe
speaker than, quoting front the rateabook the ages of
persons in receipt ot parochial relief, to show that the
statements which had gong forth that Poole was • very
unhealthy town, were utterly without foundation.
Mr. Corns seconded • proposition proposed by Mr.
WinMl, to the effect that they should " approach "
the Waterworks Company. With reference to the
health of the town he had made enquiries, and had
failed to find • eraport town where the death-tate was
lower. In his opinion it was one of the moat healthy
towns in England for its sire and popolstion.
Mr. MATS followed in • similar strain, and expressed
his belief the death-rate at Poole was les, than that of
Bournemouth.

Mr. Brims : So many oome there to die! (Laughter.)
Mr. HUDSON opp med the resolution on the hround
that they would prejudice their own positiou by mak-
ing overtures to the company after they had closed
the doors. Further, it was • most loopportuim time to
make the attempt, f.x the company was entitled to
capitalise the basis of their demand upon the highest
dividend they had paid. But he thought it must be
admitted they bad now had all the cream, and that in
the future the works must be considerably extended,
and the ordinary dividend in consequence would be
proportionately reduced.
Mr. BLINN; said the role had been laid down that
25 years porches. on the maximum profits most be
charged, and the shareholders a old not take less.
They •ere not private people. For 10 years they only
received 1 per os 1., and were now about to spend
a ergs sum of money for the benefit of Poo* (A
laugh.) They also were gong to r..cluoe the water
rate for cottager. to 2.. 24. per. quarter.
Mr. COMWST : 44. a quarter! That's clot
The resolution was bet by nine votes to three.

TIES PIIOPOSID 11W II AT 111001/11200;117

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Th. last businese on the agenda paper w" "TJ
receive anti consider • report from the Railway
Company respecting a oommouication from the
Directors of the London and :tooth- Wed 'en Railway
Company, with reference to tbe proposed a mnecting
railway between the Nut and west stations at Bourn.-
mouth.

Alderman liamurcte proposed that the report be
adopted.

—Mr. COMMIT seconded, as he considered they ought
to rive their he•rty support to it.
Mr. Come also spoke highly its favour of it.
Mr. BOMB Was equally in favour of the general
scheme. At the meeting held at Bournemouth no the
previous weenies, when the scheme was opposed, it
was stated by some of the speakers said that they had
nothing to do with the interest of Poole, and, there-
fore, he considered that as regards • °entre] station
they might fairly leave Bournemouth to look after
Itself. The Improvement Clommisetoners had decided
to oppose it, and anyone who mid the del:cats and
temperate language used at that meeting would be
unable to judge what weight should be attached to
that opposition.
Mr. MAMMA was likely's@ favourable t the
scheme, sot erneessod his belief the omewition to it
at Bouroeinouto would not prose a) fo. nu,dsble as
had been mid. out.

Mr. Humor agreed that, as Bournemouth had
chosen to diacard eoole altogether in the matter, they
were bound to stied up independently for their own
intereata.

--hlineritarr did not believe there could be •
dirsentiant voice in Poole to the •rherne.
Mr. bloWilliam (agent to the Talbot Estate,
through which it is proposed to carry thir line) laid
before the Council an alternativeschente, which he said
would not ouly keep the line away from the town,
but would make the journey aborts, by some tan
minutes, end the construotion of the lion much
cheaper. This scheme would be erippirted heartily
by the town.
M-. DUGDALZ said he understood the Bill was before
Lb. present ParHawn% sod, if any alt..ration were
made in it, the question was whether it would cot be
thrown out, and they might nnnnn get such a favour.
able one again.
Mr. C. C. Oseke, agent to Mr. Clapoott.Boan,
J.P.. also addressed the Council, and said the proposed
scheme would entirely destroy "the speciality" of
Bournemouth. He asked—" would you dare to go
spinet Bournemouth and support the Bill !''
Mr. BUDGE: Of course we should.
Tbe report having been adopted,
Mr. MINION contended Poole could not afford to
do anything that would imperil the carrying out of
the scheme. He therefore prop sied a further readu-
tion, pledging the Corporation to do all in their power
to urimote the echerne.
This was seconded by Mr. DUODALI, Who spoilr of
the present inconveniences attending a jotuney from
Poole to London via Wimborne.
Mr. BUMS supported it, and the resolution was
earthed unanimously.

PETTY BEBBIONB.
TitutioAY.
130 fare the Nem (R. Aldridie. W. Posmi• G'
Curt* F. Mahn, H. Fermer. end W. Rtyring. Reqrs•
CHARGE AGAIN3T A POOR LAW

GUA.RDIAN.
Mr. Daniel Hallam, contrector. è.. P.ar Ltw Guardian
for the Lytchelt Waster distric, ss as ch.rged on a sum-
mons with hiving. at LortelleA, "feloniously stolen.
taken, and carried away • horse-cloth. of the value of 11...
Kt* Property of William Hoary Gray, of Poole.
Kr. H. 8. Dickinson prosecuted.
The deka lent conducted himself in it soinewluit excled
Kit. OMr, Dickinson ruing t ,opit the caae.be inquired
whether be ought not to he asked If be pleaded guilte or
Dot Null ty.
The Cletk 1) The Magistrates (Kr. Allen), having oblikod
hint, he sal I—" All I have to say lii never picked it up
with lb, lutesti• n of keapink IL
Kr. D ckinson remarked toot • shoaling answer.
D +fondant told the advocate Is bad better do hi. duty.
It was ono of the most diasrac. fel cams ever brought
Ite!stre the. Bench.

Mr. Dickinson said he was quite agreed as to that! Ile
than prommded so Mats the 1 ma. whisit grill be 104nd Li
the evidenoed the witnemer. During his remarks he
wee frequestly Internals:el by the deleadeat. who cow
entered it disgraceful for • lawyer to get up sad wabA
nab elotearats. NA Diddle's. bower's. preesodo

utvlisturhed, and quoted the met of" Regina v. Dittos,"
in which it wag ruled that aui Verson finding (hie,
meal of knowing the owner, bet le It. mime,
still kept it in his own pi I salon wag guilty of larceny.
The 10110 Wing evidence wee called
Willioto limp Ur'r lai 1 he ems 'builder in Poole.
On the 141 A January loot he I lit out h a man with • lood
.4 lime to Bournemouth When he girt sl he had the
h •re-cloth in question with him. He return id without
it Tbscldh woe qo tit new. est had cat him be 11., aod
he bat also p iid 21. 61. for having his name paint id opon '
i•. It was not moiled in any Ir.), and wee quit., disrent
to the condition in which it wan now. Prom inform itiou
be received, he compledned to the police.
amine to the defendant, he sold he applied to the
entici become he oh old
wasn't honest enoah
m. 9 at mei. ings since boost t, but he hid newer dared •
t tell him about it.
i•i,r no B.gley, a cuter, lath. employ of the pr et/color,
stated that on the morning in question be went n• j
ney to Bournemouth. Ile bad with him 'becls'b p o
He bad rolled his own coot inside it, an•l on gettlng to the
• SA VA." he miimd both. He had never seen his coot
g•iod •• new. and not at all in tbsi
Once The el ith wee a•
c nil ion it was now. Ile asked every 'hap be saw on the
vi n his return Journey if they hat fount it.
pc, coaffey 5* .4 on Monday week Met he roe iced
mitructions from Yr. Superintendent Hint is to • horse-
el..th. and ho prot.mided to the defendant's. Defeo lint
••iilh 1. ye.. I picked it up myself. and I have it.' H.,
th„ went to the place where be said he had put it, ut
▪ nit there. H• asked the man who waa in the yal if
hr ho where it w ie. and the man tild the del endant
he hod teen it about but did not know • here it was lb. n.
11.4. n 1••• t Imiked about f..r it, hut as he could not nod
it sit '' It is not rice, I iitram, one of my night mei,
„ye tot it. (chars.) mired h no where the mania
v.loocould he round, and defendant told him, and on
proceeding to the moos, he found the cloth ;Produe
el too hick of one of defen Lot's homer. He alai asked
M•. Bt'l.m if he hal found • cost, sad be 844 be knew
eet hill of it, be halo% coo it.
ly the defendant: Didn't I say I intended le, being it in
P.A., only I entirelr fora t it —You mid you intended
ii• git to Poole. You did not die nen P.
Ditoodant wee thin asked if he desired to be tried by a
cry, or for the case to be d cd. d by the H.ech,
Dthindant :Of course, settle it now.—ln his defence he
railed
tie irge Corby., of Lyle:vit, who said when Hr. llama
time to him at the C ey W. rho he didn't kno • what de,
of the work or what time in the morning, and asked him
if he had lost • horesheloth, or either of the others, and he
/bid WS. . .

C -rxtattned: Dof -what never shows I b• an the
clo'b he trw_l!ed for hint.

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--A-earte- r is V* mph y of the defendsnc, named William
Ma.er of Uploo, den sod that he took the eoth off the
railiNP in UN Colt-Lou-, tut hot master did not antholise
him in 40 so.

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11 thore'a a I,w bat c impels ma If I pick
suirthlng in Um, road to briny it Into Po.d•—wt 11, then.
1.1 nimw pick up ant thing mania.
Drkewn : I hope you won't
D.for,dant : N I'll &Iva over It d-st, and then you
won't have nothing to do.

—The witness eontinueri to say his bremettet the cloth on
his horse into Pools. but this wait about nine in the even.
ini. He could see there was • name on it, but he could
not tell who,., is he ei iuld noticed. He knew. however, it
webs not Mr. Balm's. He could not tell how muy men
M., Bo ism k,pL
Defenclut ; II answer that; between II and 50.
Tim defendant. al hough his was told it wag ,ingehag
Ir eviler. was then al•wed to address the B loch in
ass ser • o the charge. (He sught to have done CI pfkkkAlk
e eilline his itnesees.) The gist of his remarks woe
a., going atom the road near thy Folly lime-kiln he aaw
th sel ith lying In the road. He threw it up Into his
ea I. an I on ret dining home saw Gray's tune upon it.
Ile toll his man 'op it it amide, and when he next went
Into Po is he woual take ill, with him. He, however,
dirmt ail ut it, and without his knowledge his carters
ma le Oe .1 it
In an.wer to Mr. Curtis, he said he had sent hie carter
tii Mr. Cmy to try an mettle the cam, and offered to p.y
for illo c'oth, but he bad told the eller he would have
tithe money, as was all his fault.
Mr. Dtekise in 'Wel that Mr. Gray had written to the
&fend mt, expressing hie surpriu that he should h.,'
ke pt the e'oth in his pareession and use for flee weeks
erten hir names was upon it all the time, and the only
that defendant met Mr. Gray in the Argot
a▪
nd ritually abused hint.
I),fentiant easeluded by telling the B-nch that in his
,pinion it wan a in at shearer ful cam, and he thought It
hard site, lying In the town 10 years he ehould he pulled
up the., to &timer it.
The magistrates tit-a retired for about 50 minutes. Is
their ghigne thit audience enjoyed themselves immensely.
lilt.. were freely bandied about, to. individu.l In
partieolu eliciting roars of laughter by such comforting
rein Irks ti the defendant as the following, "D nit he
d unasserted, they can't hang thee slaws. Well I don't
top et you'll get more not dree month.. There's no
Tomei s rvi•uite shunt this cue When you've been up
I, foe. 'An as many times as I have you won't think
p thing of it," bee
ill tilde eturn into Curt, the Mayor said the Bench
had takes the case into their very rierious ronaideratian.
The est len,* had bieu of • esmewh it s•ri.u. character,
ant City •ishiel Vie public to underst.nd that the law had
laid d mu that if • man kept po.med in of something
width hop ektri up in Ur. r at. but whist", •• so marked
t.lat lb. own-cc mid he f. nod, and he, t it with a felonious
interthe was guilty of lare•i 7; thst waselearly the law. In
thi• cn. th. in igitaratem bad timid -red the • video.. very
ea-efu ly, and they had ...rived at this conclusion that there
•as BO felonious inient ; but, at the same time, 'boy
eoight it was a cue of very grout negligence. They dl.-
p-.. d th charge ; but the defendant must pip the cute,
Allis

Der.nd int paid the m n.y. remarlenir he endd \awe
pe, down a if had hien want id.
Wiring thii he•rlog vi the c Mr. Dickinson oliebd
• r und of rh•or• from a crow le,l irt by renisskins
V. it he hitt felt ror 11..1 tl adv,.v h • rii-ot to proceed
in the e se.. ant 1., it, a no more favour than if deirodant
hat Nen a 1,-,r or rrv. Mr. S ,pe•itrenelent Huner
gent!. in n in Mao a• etc •—what is a .11e4—supprearri
lii. vi moestration • (-ells, h, c Ira. ''Orter I o:dar
I'.. coat id • goat east vt ictimeat, es the delend•
an i 4 wet' lin an a. a ens, speaker in behalf of the
lotions " Armies" Viere ate new sio.a. The other week
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Tecu-ve-rance Ball in Waal(
of .te Won Rib on Army in, al a contemporery put It,
" Ina we 1-kuovta buntwous style ''