The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-06-26 00:00:00

WIKBORNS.

DUIATING 8001117.—A meeting was
held at the St John's Temperance House to close the
accounts of the ahoy. society for the past session. It
was determined by the committee to open the neat
session for the winter air months as usual in October,
when we trust the young men of Wimborne and its
neighbourhood will again heartily rooPort the society.
Tee usual fortnightly meeting of the st. John'.
Rand of Hope was held on Monday, the 18th hut.
After staging a melody, scripture and prayer was
engaged in. Warren Tucker then gave • reading, " A
Father Saved by hie Dead Child ; " recitation by Mary
Coakss, "A Little Dot'e Appeal; melody 111 i
recitation by Leon &Oat. "Billy and the Landlady;'
address by 11,.. Fillmore on the Knife. Toe room was
crowded; Miss Mary Gibbs presided at the
harmonium. -

Weisurrade &Wan. —Almon. Tu. —On Wednes-
day, Jane 23'14 the annual tea and treat in connection
with the Wesleyan School took place. At three
o'clock a procession wee formed in the chapel yard.
Mr. W. Rumen led the way. carrying a splendid red
ensign, after which came the Rev. Tilney Rising and
Ms. Strange following them were the Wimborne
Town Band under the leadership of Mr. Jame
Wareham. The children numbered about 150, and
what with fines, bannerete, and flowers made quite •
neat little affair. The route of the procession was via
Kiug•street, Weetstreet, West Borough, Beet
Borough, High-stre4, Lewin., returning from thence
up East-street and East Brook to the schoolroom in
King-street. The Rev. W. T. Gill, the junior
minister, having met with • tricyole mishap, was tioaqe
to he present during the time the ohildren were par-
taking of their feast. The bead went to the rev, gentle-
man'. residence to enliven him with • tune or two.
Mrs. Rising, with other ladies, very kindly paraded
the town with the children. Between 100 and 200
Parsons sat down to the public tea In the Schoolroom.
After the repast had been enjoyed, the band leading
the way, the party proceeded to the "Laze," kindly
lent by Mr. Smith for the occasion, where some 500
or 600 thorourhly enjoyed themselves up to about
nine o'clock, when the band played off, by way of
King and West-streets t the Square, that ever
welcome piece, "Oh, that Voice so Dear to Me." On
arrival in tee Square the proceedings closed with the
National Anthem. The weather was all that could
be desired, and, if we may take people by their looks,
we ehould say that all very much enjoyed themselves.
The superintendents and teachers did all in their
Power, with the help of the ladies, 10 wake thing •
BOOM

went

POOLS.

Tits Tonna of Mr. W. EL Gray, for the new
eetsblishment of the Will. and Dorset lia,.klng Com-
pany, which it is P!0Pl t build in High-street, has
barn acospted. 7'bs tender is £733 15e. 01. Toe
highest tinier was that of Meson. Stephen end
Bosco, Bristol, £1.250. The lowest wee dist of Mr.
J. Guy, of Poole, £s2o lis. lid.

MR. CAVE:MUM inurvirox SUMMED UP.
" Hoscoms" in the World thus addressee the right
honourable gentleman :—Sty
_near Tony,—Kier Annie
I saw you play the part of Mrs. Meadow lea son, as
• member of the Old Stagers at Canterbury years ego,
I have identified you so closely with that good.
natured and consequential booby, that it seems to me
the most natural thing in the world to address you by
his Christian name. lii., you may say, • sorry joke.
and one which I have aU to myself ; but in that case it
can do DA harm to anybody, and I may fairly crave to
be allowed my pleasant little monopoly. To be sure
there are limits to the resemblanos between the
Cavisodish Bentinck of real life and the Tony Lompkin
of G .hismith's play Your prototype was a thoroughly
amiable clown. You wears many •irtuee, but
amiability is scarcely one of them. If • combination of
vulgar fan sad venom, of superficial smartnees, and of
tee tricky cunning which, in the lower order of
intellect., is the only possible substitute for capacity,
can make a wit, thi n you are a prince of wits. Do not
suppose I regard unfavourably these little idiosyn-
crasies. Mere criticism of character, my dear Tony,
is a very different thing from detraction and invective.
I write not only without any personal feeling
against you, but without anything that approaches
to prejudice. The truth is that you belong
to • MCA of beings, not to be estimated
by precisely the same standard as is applied to the
mej irity of their fellow-creatures. Nature bait set
limits to your development, which art is impotent to
pass. You reached your social, mental, and moral
maturity at the age, let us say, of seventeen. You
preserve the charming simplicity of sweet seventeen to
the present day. You were—for what I. to be gained
by mincing matters with one who blurts out with such
fascinating candour, in season and out of season, his
natural sentiments clad in language of honest blunt-
nem? —en unlinked cub then, and you mean unlinked cub
now. Whom the go Is love die young—by which, I
take it, is meant not that the chosen objects of celestial
regard perish in the flower of their youth, but that
they preserve the freshness of youth till they go down
to the grave in the fulness of years. So it is, my dear
Tony, that I descent in you one who is the peculiar
choice of h . You grow old, and, wit
the atra dies may arrive, it will find you the same buoy
ant, boyish, impettious creature of crude impulse an i
wayward whim as when, clad in the child's costume of
half • century ago—in short trousers, with jacket
covered by buttons and a tasselled cap.—you trundled
your hoop along the terraces of your Cambrian home.
THE RESTORATION OP LONOPLEST CHURCH.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDLNO.
In the building of this church, the committee have
arranged wisely to divide the works into sections,
and to prooset with s .Mb portions at ono) without
loeing valuable time, and in the meantime make
vigorous eff Jets to obtain the money to permit them
to proceed with the other portions until the whole
church le completed. The first portion for which a
contract has been entered into with Mr. George J.
Pearce, builder, of L mgaset, if,r the sum of
£1,980 12s. 31, comprises the pulling down the west
end of the present church and the construction of a
new west front, with tower on the north west side and
porch on the sJuth west. The new building will be
oonetruoted of Purbeck rubble, walling laid in
random range work, and the dressing of box ground
stone. The roof will be of red deal hairdo lon the
inside with v jointed and tongued boarding 101 l
disgonally in panel., and the purling, plate., and
principles will be exposed to view and moulded. The
roofs will be covert) i with Brosely plain nib tiles. The
walls will be lined inside with fair brickwork divrbite
Poole bricks, brightened by a base of red bricks, four
feet high and bands and arches of • similar colon,.
At the west end of the nave, and between the two
entrances is a wide arch way, with bold. cp,ulded,
arclhivolt, and jambs of box ground atone, and remised
behind same in the centre Is • space for the
foot, and on either side are errata, and at the lack is •
row of four small lights with cusped bowie.
Over this is • gallery for children and a good three
light traceried window, forming a principal feature of
the west end. The entrance t this gallery is quite
wipe ate and distinct from the two main entrances to
prevent anything like • bh.ck, and has a doorway
formed on the north-west angle of tower, diagonally
between the two buttresses, and of this • novel and
agreeable treatment has been made. The tower has
two substantial buttresses and long belfry windows
on each face, with oak cornices in same deeply
recessed. The present contract only provide for
carrying the tower up to the cornice and broaches ,d
spire, but ill, hoped by the time this point Is reachsd
that the committee will be enabled to proceed with
the spire and thus finish this portion entirely, irides i
of covering the tower with • temporary low•pitcoed
roof. The height of the spire when finished will be
about 130 feet, and the tower at the base, without the
buttresses, is 22 feet square. When funds are forth-
coming the committee hope to proceed with the nave
and vestries. The construction will be similar to that
already described for the west end. The floon of
will be paved with four-inch red and black
passages
on concrete, and the floor under benches
with red deal blocks laid herringbone on concrete.
The benches will be of pitch pins. The chancel is
good, and will not be interfered with. The architects
are Mown. Cri kmay and Son, of 17. Parliament-
street, Westminster, and Weymouth.

1.0.G.T.—0n Monday evening, June 18th, the being planted in the midst, (lieu. all, if his radiance proposed by Mr. Badge—The Town Clerk gave it an
members of the "Star of Wellborn." Lodge held an were only to us now present as the sun, Wing enemy bis opinion that it waa not in order. The Act of
pen session in their I wigs room at St. John's Ooffies ' nook and corner of the building; only _get Christ Parliameet did not say they should not dilemma these
?Tavern. Mr. .1 Mali Dickham, the Worthy Chief in Your heart like that, and who shall separate questions, and it was the modes of Town Coupons
Templar, presided. Alter an opening ode had been you from the love of Him? Christ must throughout the kingdom to do it, and be should be
sung, the following programme wan rendered :—Read- be the bead of each house, in the drawing es well very sorry to go contrary to the opinions of all the
Inc. "Why this Sad Change," Sister Bailey ; address, as the dining-room, the attic sa well as the Town Clerks in England. (Hear, beer.)- Mr. Bodge ;
Bro. ausins • reading, " The Wife's Mistake." Sister ostler. He that went to the maniere feast in Cana Then if Ism out °Corder, audit gentleman are coming
Trim; recitation, •• Itreell to," Sister Fillmore : reel- .I. not the one who will damp your joys. 3rd, It is here to air their fade—Mr. Mate objected to the one
tatioo, "Drink," Bro. Fide); address, Bro. Reveal, also true about the business life of a Christian, in the ,of the word fad.—Mr. Budge continued: I say them
address and reading. "Go, Feel what I have Felt," shop. oonntimobiesse, and foundry. After dwelling 1 queetions of Sunday Clones, Deceased Wife's Sew,
Bro. Thatcher; reading. " Drink and its Victims," briefly on masters and mistresses, also servants, who and the Corrupt Fraction Bill are, so far an we ere con.
Bra Jacobs; song, "Merry Dick." Bro. Russell. have not Jesus in their midst, he wished them all to corned, all fads, and if say eweber is to bring forward
After the clotting ode had been sung, and the session act as if the eye of God were on them, and let all they any subject he likes, I and those who act with roe—
closed, • collection ou made on fished of the let* did be done as if for Christ. Some people say the sod whodou't like this sort of thing—will takeover, op.
b 'reared widow, Mrs. 8 ration, of Jul Butts. There world is going to the bed. The Lord says the whole port:lnky to get those things discussed what we went.—
was. very good attendience, and all greatly enjoyed earth shall be tilled with His glory. Do you, do any Mr. Curtis: You haves great many fads. (Laughter,)
the meeting. The following evening the W.C.T. went of you, call that going_ to the bad? Hollow to the —Alderman Norton : Stay sway next time, Mr,
to the residence of the widow with toe amount aolleated, Lord mut be pot in all business, in the yardatick of Budge, when the Sunday Closing Question comae On.
the draper, in the 'nisi of the smith, &a He then —Mr. Badge said he should not, but should attend
which was gratefully received,
went on to, speak of the Mediator, or, so he would put and mote miens it. He also gave notice that at the
It to the children, our Middle Mao, and be further next meeting be should move that petitions be signed
wished them to consider the fact that Jesus was now in favour of Mr. la Fry's Bill—that aldermen shall
in their midst. Some might tremble because Jests not have any voice in the election of aldermen, but
was In their midst; others would rejoice. Look at the that they be elected solely by the Council. He would
Cross; one a sinner believing, the ether a winner turn- also move that they petition Parliament that no person
lug away. In conclusion be entreated all present to be eligible I. .r the office if alderman until he has been
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put themselves on tie side of the believing sinner, and bet re the electors and elected or rejected. (La;
they would then hod Jesus in the midst. "Sinner, —Mr. Modem) thought they would be doter wrong to
let me tell you that hell is hell to-day, because Jesus part sue . a reeolutioo as that proposed by Mr. Bodge,
is not in the midst." Recently, certain people had cried out very notch
The concluding brow commenced with the following about the olden—what was this but the ckelore
lines : in its most objectionable form? (Hear, bear)—
" Heavenly Father. send Thy blessing Mr. Bodge asked whether it was in order for a member
On Toy children 'shared here: of the Council to bring forward a resolution lofts it
May they all. Thy Name confessing, had fallen through at a prelims tneeting.—Mr.
Be to Ilse for ever dear." Curtis: I don't think you can prevent him.—Mr.
The children sang their hymns well and spiritedly Mate said he was not present at the lost meeting were
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organist of the chapel (Mr. W. Ward) presided. The hie agreed with Mr. Budge that it was undesirable
collection otter the service, which amounted to £3 15eo that these questions should be brought in in any gees*
wee in all of the same object as in the ilionsiog. A numbers, but he felt it was competent for any member
very fullyntesoded after-onetioir, for prides and prayer, of the Conn il to bring such questions forward. As
was conducted by the Rev. J. H. Cornish. TOG day, long as be hod a seat at the Council he should express
taken on the whole, was a decided nooses, his opinion on seoh sullen,* when they teams forward,
though he might not feel deposed to bring any for-
ward himself,—AlSerman Norton said if the Council
hod come to any conclusion on the Sunday Closing
ejoestioe at the previous meeting he should not have
thought it either wise or courteous to bring it forward
again, but he trusted that by this time the members of
the Con oil who voted against it then would be
educated by their c nstitnencies to vote in its favour
now. He would not reply to Mr. Badge's pero
sonalities--they were best passed over with contempt.
Nr. Farmer said his sympathise were with Kr.
Bodge, and he hoped they would exerts him if he left
the room when these questions were brought forward,
He might say that it might be better if the members
of the Council would attend to the duties they found
nearest to them, Hs was Chairman of the School
Attendance Committee, and at the last meeting be wan
left for two hours to conduct the business alone. He
hoped this would be remedied in future. (Hear, hear.)