The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-04-23 00:00:00

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COUNTY COUNT CIRCUIT 11011 MAY. —Fording-
Mnoday, 8t; Dorobester Tuesday. 7th;
.Mridpert; Wednesday, Bth; Weymouth, Thursday,
9th; Blandford,Monday , 13th ; Poole, Tuesday, 14th;
eltristebnrol., Wednesday 15th; lithettelbsq,
Monday, 20te ; Winoanton, Tuesday, 21st; Eteliabury,
Wednesday, 22nd; Andover, Thursday, 23rd.

COMMITTID TO THE DOWIJIT COUNTY GAOL.
Hard baby Thomas Toomay, misbahaviour at
Weymouth Vision, 14 days • Joseph Langley,
leaving family chargeable at ilridport, 14 days ;
Richard Ford, vagrancy at Shaftesbury, 21 days;
Thomas Hatobings, vagrancy at Weymouth, 14
day.; Thomas Gould, breaking windows at Bland-
ford, 6 weeks; Amelia Wells, misbehaviour at
Pools Baia), 2 mooths ; Samuel Reeves, vagrant's
at Wareham, 2 months; Richard Pulman, James
Los:can , aid George Longman, abetting a smelling-
bo
.eho., at Backwater, 2 mouths, and fire years
in a formatory School; Isaac Winer.; shading
hay at Beaminater, 6 weeks; Julia Towle'', stealing
silver spoon at Wareham, 1 month; William Vine,
stealing mangold vitriol at Broadway, 3 weeks.

THE MAXOIIIBI72 CNITT Oir ODDIMILLOWS.
From report jest Iseued we kora that on the let
January 1866, Ma Unity numbered 387,990inemben.
During the year the lodges in Great Britain,lrelsod,
and the Channel Wanda admitted 31,462 new
members, and the colonial lodges 4,447, Mowing
the total jammer to be 35,909. Numbers( members
Jan 1., 1867, 405,256, of whom 3.097 were is amok
The deaths of members daring tlie ymr in Dorset
were 24, and of siembers wives 20, initiatives 427.
Three traveller. were relieved is Dorset. 423 travel-
hag Garda were pante& The death reetiegredually
deurensiag. In 1865 it was 1.38, in 1866. 1.33. The
Liam expenditure for funerals wm £60,526 IL sa-
ne moiety I. In the beet position ever known ae the
lilanclimar Unity. The amount received for Me
National Lifeboat Institati,n luta risen to £452 144. &L
The nest A.M.C. is to be bald at Plymouth on the
10th of Jam. Mr. George Walker, the present
D.G. U. of the Order, has been nominated as Grand
Master, lead there are fourteen Dominated fur kka
efflo• of D. 0.11., including Mr. H. N. Western,
Prow. CM. of the Poole dirMlet.

C11172C11 BOLYDATS. —Good Friday WM marked
by a general oemation of beldame, and the eerriom
ei the varione churches were generally wall adynd.g,
while the number of plowers parties streamed for
the day daeand to be fewer thee heretofore. we
rind Kuno excellent remarks on this important period
is the Obareh's Wender in the Clerical Journal.
Er a hope that an incases, of enlightened
dsvoiloasf feeling. equally remora from indifference
sod aspiersbitioe, would be manifeeled, it roam*. :
"It plaia enough that ono hie to be guided
zir'well the oliker, for while Isolllon. sod
esossiag, 50d...... neilmolo to,. 611 my

on Good Friday, thing" quite as injurious to English
churohmanship are patronised by the superstitious
me of our sermon. From the tone assumed in
some quarters one might conclude that our Lord vu
actually crucified afresh every year, and that
Christians should he as sad and heartbroken VI the
disciples who actually saw Hun on the Grose This
is shooed, for the cmie and crown are now for ever
annotated, and suffering and triumpli,deatb an
life, must ever be blended in our onouptions and
inhere regarding Good /Friday and Seater day. We
ere not to ' seek the living among the dead,' for
our Lord W risen, and the paaaful and sad wensa of
His agony and passion are to be shaded off and
tempered by the brighteess of Hui having risen
*gun from the lead and inherited the joy that was
set before Rim."

ANCIIINT ORDIR Or FORENTONA, SOUTH W 1111 TR"
Dtwrater.—The half.yearly meeting Of delegates of
this important district was held on Monday the
15th at Southampton, Br. Berry. D. 8. C.D., presiding.
There were 65 delegates present in addition to Om
offioers. —A Der the usual preliminaries, Mr. Marley
(Cern. Abbas), as senior auditor, read the balance
sheet for the past half-year, from which we summaries
the follnwing particulars : —The receipts for the
funeral fund amounted to £B2l 7.. end the funeral
payments were £4OB, which left a balance of £413 7..
and as the capital at the previous audit was
£4400 Os, 24., this makee the present
worth of the funeral fund to he £4813 7s. 21
The widows and orp' is' fund showed
that in the current account be receipts were
£532 124. ld. and the payment/ to widows and
orphans in weekly psi £43.8 Oa. 61, leaving balance
of £74 lls. 7d.; in the capital &comet of the fund,
the Wanes last half year was £917 101 Al., demon•
strations and donations had realised £39 Is. and the
halsnoe of £74 Ile. 71. from the current account
brought op the receipts to £lO3l 3s. from which had
to be subtracted £64 paid in twinges., leaving the
present *spite' of the fund £967 3t. The abstract
of the district fund is as follows :—Funeral fund,
£4813 7s. 21.; widows and orphans' fund, £967 3..;
! mar *gement fund, sa. 2,1,; geode amount, De lc 71.;
total, £588218.. lid, of which sum £5OlO is out on
mortgage—After an explanatory discussion the
'accounts were unanimously adopted. the secretary
(Mr. Dinenage) and treasurer (Mr. Ball) bring com-
plimented for the manner in which they carried out
theirdatie.. Thediatrict, it may be meat ionnd, is now
this second largest ia the Order, numbering ter e
7300 member., and just peering this year lb.
, Manchester district, which has over 7000 members.
—The general business of the meeting was then
proceeded with. An application for the foment'
money of a member's wife whose court bad lapsed
was granted, as was also an application from the
Bridport court to secede from the districit.—A
spirited discussion took place on • motion moved
by Br. Bewilder to have this district meetings
annually instead of halforearly, but on a division
was rejected by 35 to 26. —The secretary's salary
was proposed to be increased, and ultimately it son
agreed that the amount should he lid per member
annually, which will realise nearly £45 at present.
—A new wale of eotranoefeee for members joining
the widows and orphaes' fond, moved by Br.
nnymilray, was adopted, as follows :-18 to 25. la ;
25 to aO, 2.. 61.; 30to 83, .3e.; 36 to 40, 7.. 61.
A proposition to have a levy to keep the widows
and orphons' fend capital amount to £lOOO was
lost.—An important alteration Was made in the
funeral fund, the funeral payments being increased
amen flt and £6 to £l4 on the death of a member
and .f 7 on the death of a member's wife. The
proposition was strongly contested, bat was ovrried
by 37 to 27.—A proposition to extend the 'inflicte
of paying to the funeral fund to all widows,
whether on the widows and orphans' fund or not,
war oarred by 24 to 22.—A proposition was also
carried that courts seceding from the district
should cease to have any claim on the distnct funds,
' except for widows and orphans of deceased members
who might be on the fund at the time of sect
reception —lt was decided to send four delegates
for the tt.r.n. to be held in August, and Messrs.
Pears., Ball, Dinenage, and Marley were elected.
the next on the poll to go if a vacancy occurred.—
Mr. Mitchell and the delegate of the Chard court
were elected auditors.—A vote of flO was made to
, the Barnsley Town dietrict on account of the losses
they bad enstaided through the Oaks colliery erplo-
sion.—The meeting closed with the usual votes of
thank/ to the °facers.