The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-04-17 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZ

figures. He thought It was due to the architect, and
to the other persons cones/11*d, that they should
Investigate the matter before they pawed any opinion.
Toe ILITOR: We should leave no stOOS Wan:ad to get at the bottom of it.
Mr. Bitowg remarked it imrtalnly seemed to hint from what the Mayor had said that be did cart a reflection.
He was not there to defend anybo ly, but it seent-d
the Mayor intended to cast reflection upon somebody,
either as too onp_stitioo or dmign.
The Mavoa : Not byo iimpet,ltion. I expressly say I
don't wish to cast the most remote reflection upon those
who tendered.
The MAYOR said in asking fcr competitive design.,
they as basins., men nerd these word'—" The amount
to be expended is the construction of the ball
and the neossrary works t . be about £3000"
No Saxon language cou'd be plainer than that witch
their Survey bad uswl. 'Ehey ha n-ver alt-red from that, sod th,y now found th.t when the tenders
came in they were close on EB,ooo—and the lowest
more than double the amount which they originally
agreed to expend. Still the ones was not upon their
shoulders, audit was most necessary an itscuy should
be made.
It was speed to appoint • small committee to
enquire into the matter.
Alderman Timms moved that the Surveyor be
Instructed ti prep.ire plans for the necessary building
at the entrance to the Pile Pier, and that the Pile
Pier Committee be appointed to take action in the
matter.
The MATO& sod MT. GRAHAM strongly supported
the motion, which was carded.
ORIAT weervuo AND THS SLORWATIR.
The 'NMI Cusam read • petit' n to be mot to the
Londe of the Tr-mury for permission to sell to the
Great Western Railway Company the portion of land
In the Bickwater, need as a timber pound, for the
purpose of erecting workshop., he., fur the sum of
E 350.
wATCM CONDOTTRI.
It one T0i1101.4 os he r eautoten lation of the Cm-
ml
to,, that the Magistrates' Clerk should be requested in
bend ov-r the thi-s qtartsrly in the Future; also that his
grist, should rent.tiu as before.

TRI FIE 1:4-TR-11 BACKWATER.
Hr. A. GRAHAM de led ettrotion to .bo meaner in which
the Bck +sister •as being robbed of fish He mentioned
an Instance in which no lam then dOO small use or Jere/
mullet out. Laois, and were not "forte carrying how..
They were oft,y and for basting .purpoese at Portland.
There *bola d be excellent spore br armlets, but at porenent
lb* cm nilols wer, taken by tier.* or four mess who tens
destroyed all newt.
igr Burma endorsed tide. and suggested thew &maid
melte • rt.... ege.gg' but
The Tows Ctgan did not ttilak they could do that, bat
thousht teeny might be able to restrict the moss of the
seinitt.

TS* znattsr was u Ornately lett In Ms hands lot consider-
atlas.

Till SURVITOICS PAPOST
Called aft lotion to to. 4 as of too ws.ttra olds of the
dam. which :laded vapor, Ii tbo stability of the structure
was to bo atalutalsod.

THE RAM.
Wh.n the estimates sere produced for a It rate, Mr.
Mows rose sod teutor.d Ms proms; on the grown I that
to eres at ths mediae of tito committee when a la. 10d.
rate iv.' estimated. It was unfair to out upon Ms rata.
perere t par what welt uonse.emry, and he ow 0990•114
to any emitinteat itiens or fictitious amounts Wog Is.
eluded tot .well I ma.
Tee MATOIt x..1.1m0d that when ths estimate, was made
the qu.siton f Nie oh..stre.t, and enoth.. item 0 £Ol5
*are ontitt.d. Tbey 41 know the work to Nuthotes-etrest
eras fully coned lend, .n 4 bad been deemed to be ao
atisoloo necessity. Tole rots would be paid in the
summer, rn .Ipre WOO MM. canoe? in mo town
Mr. Blown rentark.4 many p.opi• lied had • job to
etrugehe Mo telt tha winter, ant Lion were bowed to do
forth- rat py to th.i wo ti • to, them.6l•••
HOUNKLL li,•C•ol • telutioci to th • exit...cilium of
£129 oo th • aentuat 0. th • pull e pleasure gm :sew, and
tat p.opl. Wet • engirded • millivolt.

AldsrM Tinntas had fair wondered how it was that
the lenge plrbsorr I . inde .iihriourbood of L sid.m
wein open to 'he pubic free o ale site.
The qu.sLion of tha g.rdaa was referred to the
Conuniit e.

--o—ra—ibe—mttter of the rate. Mr. LOTILL oppoted the
evot ,to. EV.1.1 mtCLVVr •1.0 .1.1 tat- into mu.
sideratioa the bad aliv• of thy time. 0 Weymouth ; and
it behoved them to 5a,..• -.err peony.
A..t.. c.heiltrahi. die v•roa. Mr. Snows mow, d and
Mr. Hossesi.d. svcotrird. thtt it NO • Is 101. and not a
2.. me, ant five voted .a favour of it, via
•• Ir. Or •htio, Bro.o, L and llooneolt.
8 rev .1 tsvoilows treh-.1 thorous it to on lerattad that
the Improves, at of the Ch.pelri Bt-p ould he provtded
for by Moir, fiat, and it was etattd L2OO would be devoted
to th t 0011,041.
To. MATO/L h .4 no beePatioa la sayhts be ehould vote
f r a 11, on. If Mrs did not Ivy out moos, for improve-
moll,, trade woul Ihe worst and wort*. It was all vicy
well for them to "lard" th marls's, and al they hut
shch gad intrn.loos, and it wte all very vfoU to regret
,hts and that —vbtt was thv um of ream,. it the wassoa
was in the mod and 'moody put tholr eh 3uldvr to the waml
1., will it out I

Ultimately %he following rotet for tbe Bi. ate:—Tne
Mayor, ..nd Me•sso. Rorrotroo. Thomas. U ov.s, Curtis.
Naugle. 8 am 0, W 14::. A%l.r, mod itooolt.

IMMO, MIMS.
Mr. 01:IITIS off..rrd toate. tho land necessary to mai
▪ rot,' c a..etrant Sp-irtic Gorden. with Spring-Imm.
Dor-et-place. •aoi "tha, pl.c a. provided th.. C otior.t n
mad the road and al. act..d a wait watt • •uttab sat, to
fanc- his pr p,rty. It Ira, itoo-r•Ily ackno•l died to to
• very kind otter. awl would Ise a rest improv irtintk
hat It ersa sail that the Sir. For sh 411.1 he
Instructed Li prepare eatimatm of the cost. tofu,. it was
'cc ptad
Other malts,* of minor itupwtancs wore hernial.,
to ward. and tut mestins roes altar a sitting col mw. than
[Lase Lou,,.

received £3 51. per cent, upon their Investments from
the Government, and his very first act was to knock
off the 51. Ii they went back into put thee. they saw
the Conservative G overnment had ever stu II c 1 the
welfare of the working clue. L mit at the F oct .ry
Act. What reater blossing hail ever been conferred
up in th.t class! The hours of labour hod ben
restricted, the regulation of all I actories hid been
pl•aed under stringent rules, children could only work
all a day, and the health' of all were carefully
athende.l to. That Act bad been • blessing to toiling
th•ousaude in the filialand and Northero Counties.
(lieu, hear.) That Act was pups Iby the C moors.:
tires, and having it they hail earned the undying
hUred of men of the Bright end Chlmb. rlain tips.
To come to more recent itc• During the I ist Parlia-
ment, when the Conservatives were in won, Am ou, the
many, many Acta pseud I or the benefit of tie w 'eking
man warn one especially worohy of mention, ih Ad
and ciervanta Act. Formerly, if a minter broke faith
with his solemn. the servant could t olte o case against
him and bring him up for damage, but if the ur•ont
broke his engagement he was liable to arrest sod Imo
prieonment without the option of • fine. That warn a
manifest Injustice, and One of the v. ry Bret Acts of the
aniserveti ye G overnineut wee to put both on the same
footing. (Hear, hear.) Then again' there we. the
ArtisaneDeellings Act. Th.e had been • great, and he
believed would be in the future still greater, blueing
to the working claims. It gave Corp ,rations id large
towns the power of seising, softer duly (romp-muting the ,•
owners, any unhealthy dwelling. And pulling them I
down, and conetructing healthy and salubrious dwell.
WWI GO their site. He afirtnol tint to toiling
thousands in their large towns that Act had been .
of untold good. (tear' hear.) Let them turn to I
enother Act whieh they had poised, and which he I
believed had done a great deal of good, the Act with
regard to Friendly S odeties. Ifs alonlor. ha I thought,
anti he al way. eh .uld, he hops& continue to think, ih.t
Friendly Societies were beet managed by the meinh.re
themselves. (Cheers.) Bat the Conservative Govern.
aunt hal aiso made it necessary that al rules
and balance sheets should be submitted to com-
petent auth.,rities fur revision, and so had given
• guarantee that they were monaged in a
trustwonhy way. Now he would pars n to another
point. Ile maintained there was in the humblest
working man in the laid, if he were worthy the name
of an Englishman, an bonnet pride when he felt he
Wail a citizen of ono of the geestest etnioires the world
ever saw. (Hear, hear.) When he felt Os at he can
craw the broad Atlantic to the treat corn fields id
Canada or that be could g., t., the opposite side of
the WOll I, 10 the ...tackles. sheep walks of Austraiis,
that he could visit the wilds of South Africa, or go
among the cocotte.. millions in British India, sad
still feel himself an Eoglithmoto, and beneath the
flar of Old England, that he area still under the
sceptre of their beloved S vereigo, and that behin
him In all lawful undertaking. was the support of
that cut Empire, So he must nave felt till lAtely: for
two years ego they experienced • sad change. They
remembered the Thanevul war, mil the words that
were pot into the Queec's Speerth—insurraction had
broken out, and the I,aestes authority we. to be mode
supreme. They remembered the threitfold disaster
which attended their gallant soldiers, and they
renumbere I the di-graceful and disreputable peace
which was mad* over the still toleeling bodies, of their
murdered c ountryinen, how their fin/ was trailed in
the duet, and bow they retreated from the country,
leaving at the mere, of the 'Mil-civilised Boers their
comotrynno, wh i had been induc.l to invest their
p-operty there upon the word of E kreatest
Goieral, L ird Wolseley, who, actiog uhder instru,
non. front the Government. told the pond° that the
river should flow beckw ,r,le before the Britilt Baz
wsa ever withdrawn from the Transvaal. They knew
that al Ili reetilt of that wandraw al a country
which was advancinr in welfare and riches hal gone
lack to lie native mate •.f eav aredont, and that thou
bloodthirsty Bun, hiving rolobed our naiive allies of
their cattle, were now blowing up their wi•e• and
fami lee with dyn.mite. He •dd it wa, a disrracdul
and oliehon oureble wain on the history of Great
Br( sin. (Chasm) H would ro n s•ill further and
say that every Englishuhao and every w dinar MAU
lea that it was to thor 0 donial empire t ley Inuit
lo de for, he might &boost say, their bread and butter,
for they knew that their woree paying colony was a
better customer to them than the best laying foreign
country, an I were they t o t.o deprived of their
' they would very n ...n fi ol th t.ls .of their
artiraus hr arht face to face with etareation. ho t him
nay One (Mug more. He believe I every honett work-
ing man was on the side of law and order.
11•Ipies are for levellint, no wander •
Tis easy tog ten at their views,
They are tho e who oda on by their plunder,
Tie they who have n 'thing to lose.
(Hear, hear. and 1 aurhti r.) He fe:t the capitaliet was
li.. beet friend, dr if they hal not csoita, in the
c ountry, they could not adequately pay lob .ur.
, them look at NI exits), one of the grandest countries in
I the world, but nothing but a b aiikrupt, mien able,
semi-civilised Oahe, and simply because coo.ital was
banithe 1 from tie land. Tie epeaker then
Proanded to argue upon the • trait. es of
tie employamot of capital, even in the drain-
age of a field, and a .ntinote,l h. b,olieve.i
Oh it it was be aue raid, al woe safe in this cou,drY.
and men could rely tip u ,e wind what they ha I ...own,
that the riches of rho wrid 8 owed into Engl toil. But
he believe I something fuith or. Ile believ .1 th it lie
w Mtn WW t UO to those glion .US
whico h 4 ever dieti..goiehed that country. (Hear,
hear.) ifs., he inked whet sympathy soul I he hive
with a Government which, so fir as . he Stare was Cu.
corn. I, had mulish-1i religion II un their sch —(hoar,
hear) —mad wouil I It th, ir children gum up a. to tthAn,
nod which, at the present dine, worn enraged in p.saing
• bill to remove the name of God frotn the carrel o oth
of allegiance, and was en leavour.ng t • ad nit t i the
C ,13110illl of the nation &Mien 1•11,o/0 n•TIO WO/ 414001 tied
with some if the vilest public ation, tit had ever dis-
graced the I glieh language. (Cheers) He askol
what sympathy could any h•onest working Irma have
with a ))))) anent of that kind. Ile bedewed when

time owls tb.ls w .ul.l awl ths work( ,g mm give
hie vots in act uomistsk,a'sltt form for ths tostateo mcs

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of that gl,rione empire which they had inherited by
the valour of their forefath-rs, f.tr the tn iinteaance
of that religion which had ever hen the di.tinzuidking
lesdure of English tie ory. and Sr that 1.1e,5,1 uni
Chur;ll and State, a.minit which the WU., of
anarchy and atheism had hitherto broken in vain.
(Applause.)
Sir. C. W. STOKII (from the C ,netitutional Union)
followed in a leo.:thy speech. lie produce I • lerge
bundle of papers of tigures, but happily did not inflict
them upon hi. hearers. He started with the are.rtioo
that the Con ivea lost the last general sleet in
through the hurricane of mi..represtntaam, which
they had not time to correct before the election was
upoa th-m, and t ierefore they were now takinr time
by the I..re.lock. ill. an.wer t the ntt-stion by

OORPE OASTLE.
I CIIOICIIO ENOLANI) TIMPIRANOI &CUM—A
turret ng of the &hove .as boll iu the Saticnial Schloli•
room ou Mo .day eve iug, the Her. W. P Scimitar
in the nit The Chair nen, is introducing Mr.
Gribb:e, ih • lecturer on th, crasi in, congrvtuLte 1
the rioci-ty opt), want riniog it p wiLion, an I although
he consid-ovil such inertinp, calculated to en,o•lrAge
ooe uother in the good work, yet he thi•ught th
• daily ILI ance if each ear:tuber, whether of the
roodera.e .it total abitinence scud in, of even grea'er
Importance. The lecturer, who evidently went in for
nothing short of totil abitioenoe, gave a very fair and
infer I ing Adair's., enlivened with anecilotse trio•ling
to Outer/go hie various points. A vote of thanks was
propos...l ti hits by .tr. De,rick, and the roretirsc,
et loch w begin with prayer and siugiog, also ended
with the same.