The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.

Doman* COUNT! CAMOILLGATIONAL AlmaArzost
Tim spring meetings of this association are announced
to be held hers on Timmlay and Wednesday, the 27th
and ate inst.

EAttren ViSTAT.—Thia annual vectry for the Bland-
ford pencil wee held on Friday, under the presidency
of tie E. J. E. Quirk, rector, when the chureh•
ward.ms for the past year produced their statement of
atomunta, from which it appeared that the volantary
principle had been most successfully maintained for
another year, the inowne being from contribu4ons and
pew rents £2 II 4s. 104., and the expenditure
1177 21. 34., leaving • balance in hand for the year o'
2.. 71. Toe eburchwordenr, Weirs. K. Lock sod
W. F. Elgar, was again re-elected for the ensuing year.
It ea' &sided to etre an increase of Et. • year to the
perish 'lark.

WA RZHAM.

I. DILI, M.P., Tre;ordoill int vote sines hie
electios, on Thareday, with the sohoeity ts &vow of
Mr. Noeniegateo nodes spinet irohog into oeousittee
oo the Irish Cboroh BiU.

Ws are glad to amount that additional enheorlptioss
smoseting to oessiderably over £lOO have beta
premised daring the past week towards the sew Town•
hall sad Oara lisekesse whams. This Wino the total
sun so wady £l,OO. Tb. work al collecting the
asbaorlstioas is betas rig°, °wily *Med on, and we
to. primmest usatibtly building will be dosiolisbed
• many weeks have elapsed..

Woanaloill Fors on Eloturday last was rather small in
imessousee of it being Dorchester and Bloodforel
market days. kr. T. &iOr held an auetiou of store
and fat stook, and fat heifers sold from L'l9 10a. to
1125 fia. A number of good barreners made frown 15a.
to L'lB each. Heifers and calves £lO to £l4. Fat
lamb alls to 38a. act.; fat born eves, 50.. to 561.;
Down bon, 28e. to 30e.; couples, 10.. to 42a. Several
horses wont also sold. There was • good &Mondani.e of
buyers, and • brisk trade.
IiftUNTT 0001 T JollllDlollol.—Tbe proposal in the
Dew Bankruptey Bill to abolish imprisonment for debt,
has set wog all the people in this district who don't like
to my their debts—we hope they are few—for they
f .nee they may now pay or not wording to Their own
sweet will. But some of them may and thot • miser.
able delusion, for they should know that it is not pro-
posed to withdraw frozi sounty oourt judges the power
to Imprison debtors unwilling to pay. But eves a more
estroordinory and unlikely story has beet eiroulated,
via, that the county court for the district of Wareham
Is shout to be transferred to another district. How so
ridiculous a notion could have arisen we met think,
but we sze uprooted to lay to any who give the least
eredonee to the rumour. that "they little know the
weight mid value which attaches to Worehom in the
estimation of those whose estimation it of importance
to the objects of it." Instead of removing or lessen-
ing the power of district courta, the tendency now.a-
days is to enlarge the sphere of their operations, and
this is done to the sdvantege of all concerned. We
have no doubt that County Courts will exist so long as
people dispute or repudiate just debts ; and, under
these eiraumstonees, though ws have great faith in
human nature, we can't profess to think we shall ever
hem to record under our Wareham heading, "the lag
County Court."