The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-05-29 00:00:00

To tlic Editor.

-qr. —Although not fo,I of temperance meeting.—
how many pbricians are ?—yester ,ay everting. tio dug
mysi.,( in the n I sv-ot to the cl
inceting of the Church of Eng:anil Temperanee Society
at Witunortie. The lirstthnig bat •,,o,.i.died me wee the
I h en a,. which thretioluarters of the audience—a
very Ivrea on., hy the way, for such • small towit as
eme in ; but uopunctuality, my friend, tell m-,
is s ...tharact-ristic of Wimb Toe gatherinets. The next
thing was the singularly iodise:wooe conduct of mae.y
of the persons preeent—laughing, talAiog, and moving
about, with Ole re.ult of ready epuiling the whole pr'
ce din.s The chseirmao, who is. lam told, tbe vicar
of the town, seem d p 'merles, t keep order; his genial
m must, plessant roma, and gentle m oily dep ertment
tight VI have sec ired him A patie'it an I attentive
hearing; on the contrary, the whistling. laughing, an
'Aging went on with little ioterroption. Although
he dit not seem to have the sympathy of the audience,

he had mine.
There wee only one spetk.r, the rest of the proceed-
ings c insisting of song-, readies., and recitations, but
hi, recepti n was molt armour sous. I wa, interested
to I aro from my ri.nds that he was a m.mber of my
own pmfewion Toil at once rivetukl my attenti,i,
an I I must coofeee tba', ea far ag the disorder in the
room permitted in. to hem him. I ems taken quite by
surpri.e—the calm, scholarly, judicial tone of his
the entire absence of any exaggeration or
straining .fter effect, were worthy of one „f the h.„4s.
of the prole-.ion, and marked him out as a man entirely
diff,rent—icto carlo--from the mu. of oiuntry doctor..
If I had felt sorry for the chai, man. I was still more
grieved in behalf of his admirable speaker. Ha I the
disirder and ioa,tentiou been confined to the unruly
lethal .he back of the room it moat have been b d
enough, but wooogat the worst "tender. were
pe .ple near the fruit of th. room, evikwitiv
moving in a somewhat hither sphere they
seemed to belong to that clams of hal • gentry
which, In email country towns, do so much to
embitter the relati•inf of claasea, sod SOL AO bad an
example—people wh i, in a large two,would, from
their poverty, vulgarity, and obscurity, be bait In the
orowd, but who, in places like •Vimb ime, as Some-
thing like •al homes on • cmal. The behaviour of
the.. ',ermine was simply ebotnioable, and was as
Insulting to the opsaker—who. however, pres.rved his
equanimity in • most Cr. litable way—aa to the chilly
of the Clutch, whom good nature did not conceal their
evident mortification.
One of the persons, whose want, or rather absence,
of lady-like &loran was most conspicuous was, I was
tdd, the wife of one of the muter* of • local school;
another was the wife of a local club do :tor; two others
were the daughters of • retired officer; sail, men
whom b•haviour was al.o particularly bad, and who
sat in Ina very front part of the ro' was said to be a
MAW& in some small school near. Surely snob con-
duct cannot be the rule at learn, at Church Temper-
anc me.ti,ga at Wiuibmne; if it is, the chairman
should eXerCile his un.lonbted riAlit, and request some
of the better dr...al off alders to be good enough to
leave the rO,,M then it might be possible to keen
order among the rough, noisy boys at the back.—l
remain, your obedient servant,
F. R. S.
Late Fellow of Trusty C dirge, Cambridge.
Bournemouth, 11. y 29,4, 1883.
MILANO/02.D.

RIKIZZATION 010-0170111.--Tii;•;;roa- Dia were opened
for the na time .at Thursday, but there was only a
small attendmos during the evening, counter-attrm.
lions Meewhere haying much to do with this, coupled
with the gliet tamter-4-faot style of opening the
ante. Lawn-tennis and cricket were indulged in, the
growl& being generally cionsidered to be iu capital
order.

The result of the inquiry wee that the following
alterations were agreed upon :
Whito,,nrch Canonicorum.—Abbot's Wootton to be
take t away and added t Wootton Fitsosine ;
Cle,rand's Farm. 110 acres. and Yard Farm, about
58 ,crev, to he added to Nisrshwood pari.h ; Rive'. •a,
60 acre., and " C to be aided to Bettis °mho ;
Mooktm Wyld, 1,541 *WOO rat, able value £1.204 to
Wo 'the.Ft,xpaine ; port of. Perkbam Farm, 18 .cres,
to be added to -,ymon Isbory
Litton Cheney.— emiterdon. 'boat 425 awes to be
j. ed tO Avka,swell ; dwell and Ashley, COIISLieI.
Atiol3 of whi•di WWI ajournt.d to the inqutry to he held
to the Weymouth Union; Loder's Laud, about 100
acres, to , be joined to Askerswell.
Burton Brad4ock.-Bt. Luke'd Farm, 56 scree, to
go to Bhtoton Gorse.
The next question considered was lb. manner in
which the Bor ugh of Bridport was at present consti-
tuted. It appeared that no less than nix outlying
parishes are partly included in the b rough, viz.,
Burton Braden ,ck, 28 acre.; Bym .ndebury, 17 acres;
B ,thenhamptoo, 151 acre.; BradP de, igg &Cf..;
Allington, 50 scree • and Walclitcb. 5 acres.
After • good deal of diocusalon, the Iserocroa
expressed the opinion that it would be very &deal.
lagoon& to •malgamat• these several portions with the
parish of Bridport.