The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

BOIALD Or HIALTII.

The darkness around the Pusi-oflioe it night wee
mentioned, tad the Mayor was asked to see
the postmaster 'boat having a lamp, sad Mr.
Coombs about loweri the dangerous step there. The
Surveyor woo atm dect.d to hays the lamp taken
from the front of the hospital restored as soon es
possible.
. . . .

Itilie—neludlog two hotelman on the lota wore
ordered to be of_dd, _

It waa at;ted- that the Board had £7O In hand at the
eke* of the yea.r„.__,

Tbe report of the Financial Committee recommended
the borrowing of £4OO on Lb* Wollaston Field estate.
It was agreed that the security shonld be trot given for
WOO, with power lo extend it to £l5O more.
The Surveyor reported that 50,000 gallons of water
were sometime wasted in one night, at Fordington, and
oval,. was ordered to be plead, so aa to cut off the
supply from there, without inconveniencing the other
parte of the town.

na mew et WI Board wee attached to the special
district rates, 1,2, 3, being la, 24, and ld. In the
potted respectively.

WEYMOUTH.

Bsirc BUILDING' Citsm.—Tbe Rev. Isaiah Birt,
minister of this chapel, has intimated ids resignation of
the charge. Th. announcement was made at a church
members meeting, on Thursday, and was received
with profound regret.
Tug PUBLIC LA.11141.—" An Enquirer' asks if there
ia any means of ascertaining which are public lamps and
which private. He says that the one over the entranee
to the Baths, which used to be lighted by the company,
hes not been lit for six month. peat, and be under.
stands the reason wiped la s doubt whether the lamp
is public or not.

SIL EDWARDS' °HAREM - The distribution of
tickets for opal and blankets, purahased by means of
the utouinoent gift of 1.100 by H. Edwards, Eaq., took
plies ea Friday and 1.40rd.y, and very teeny poor
fernlike were oomlorted by the seasonable supply, 200
blankets arid 40,tonr at coal being issued to those in
need.

SILASONABLI CHARITIES. Mrs. Templeman, of
Frederick-1)1*os, bas very kindly presented s dome
pars of sheets to the Weymouth Dispensary sad Royal
Infirmary. The gift is particularly weeptable to this
uscfni institution at the present time. Was Jackson
also most kindly provided the whole of the Inmates with
a eapital dinner on Christmas Day.

ACCIDMIT. —On Monday evening on the arrival of
the Weymouth and Channel Islands packet boat
Captain Fella, • poor woman from Jersey with •
oh dd in her arum, instead of Mopping off the plank.
mimed her footing,anirfell over the side of the stage, which
has no handrail, Into Ow harbour. Mr. E. Chaddock,
chief mate of the sera, promptly jumped overboard
and rescued the woman and child. Both were in •
viwy exhausted state ; bat they were taken to Mrs.
puler's, adjoining the Custom House, and soon
resovered.

AcinonlY.--On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Joseph
Lowmae. pork bundler, was going over the Bridge
towards Pmilitsd to collect orders, when the bone,
which was rather fresh, started off, end he wee unable
to pall up. The animal galloped over the new road till
near Mr. BULOtoll'il genetic:Atones, at the bottom of
Hoot-Lum, when it upset the trap, and Mr. Lowman
was thrown out and sustained a compound fracture of
the right leg. He was attended by Dr. Griffin, Dr.
Thud, and Dr. Lithrow and the eleg was easefully set.
Mr. Lowman had the mikortune to injure the same leg
last year.

WS:AT TO BOLDIXIIIe WIT= AID Catt.numr.—A
TU plesans trest Ina riVOll on Thursday evening last,
by O.Øsln and Yrs. Smith, to the wives and aliilJren
of the captain's oompany, the 26th Royal Engineers.
&tweets 14 and 70 uswintsled by invitatioe at the
Trinity school.roacas, kindly lent by the Rev. J.
sod were rooted with the usual sweet cake
sad tea. After tea mash anitument was created by
the fanny motions of the Zoetrope, and next Mr. W.
T. Hallett exhibited by OWN of his capital osroalaium
Mete'', some amusing eomlo pictures, naMral history
and nieeliewiail slides, emellant photographe of interior
and exterior views of Liehliald, by, wine, Hereford.
Gloomier, and other esthedrela and roleed ebbe"
lovely views of Gerasay, Si. Musa lb. tystatosn