The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-04-21 00:00:00

Dozozsers R.

THB Cuckoo was heard at Charminster .s 1 Sun.
day.
THIt MATON (Alderman Gregory) attended the
funeral of the late Lord Mayor .m Saturday.
" Exceuttoe " Cele/LIT CLUB. —The annual general
meeting .4 this club will be held at the Green
Itrage on Thursday,. the 30th ult.
Pawnee Ibia. —Thin new fall was ilitly celebrated
on Sunday. Primroses were to be WWII everywhere,
And everyliody wetted to have caught the infection,
even the Conservative young ladies who undertake
the weekly duty of eupplying the Communion.table at
Holy Trinity Munn with flowers.
Tim DIOUIDIAN HTSOD.—The Synod met in the
Chapter House at Salisbury u Wednesday, and the
swooned Mrs termincited by the middle .4 Thunelity,
owing to the (owner of motion. to I.• discussed.
There was • good attendance, but the Biehop heing
unable, thruegh weakness, to attend, there mem.l to
be • sense UI unreality pervading all, which
the deliberations of their usual interest. There was
a fair attendance of Meet flynodomen.
fietinix DEATH.—An inquest was held at the
Vordington Schoolroom on Saturday, before dr. H.
Hylton& (Coroner), on the body .4 Mary Devie, aged
71, who has been residing at iihoree.lane, and who
war found dead in her room. She Was observed by •
neighbou,r, Mrs. Meader, walking about the garden,
and her daughter woo afterwards found her kneeling
011 the flow in her own quite dead. The evinhoe
Mr. E. J. Day having been taken, the verdict .4
"Natural amuse " was returned.
0110101 RIDITORATION IX Iknuire,—At a recent
meeting of the DiOOPI•O Church Building Association
an aloation was received from Rae Stoke, Itoreet,
for errant bewards the restoration .4 the ikarieh church,
'chink is estimated to son nearly L9OO. The stint .4
RILI was granted. The work of restoring LotigAiwt
Church baring been completed, CUB was riven towards
the eon. A grant of Ad was given in aid of the
restoration of Minna* Church, which is to cons gap.
An appliance was received from Holy Trinity, Wry.
mouth-, where extensive works of enlargement and
reetswation are to carried ,sit at a cost .4 £4,300.
The committee promised • grant of IMO in this cow.
MCI MIT Oauiis OV FORIOITIRW FRI XXI ETV.
The report and accounts of the liouth•Western
1/istriet, for the Italf.year eeding March the 3lsl,
have hese published. The returns for March quarter
show Imb...inane' 'engross, the chambers .4 members
returned being 17 which, se compared with
17,1576 in Itecembn: last, Mow • pin .4 MO. The
Vends have had to bear an exemitional *train from
the extent of the funeral claims, which for the quarter
bare amounted to LIMO 10e.' but thanks to the item .4
interest on invested capital,, there Is, nevertlielees, an
appreciable advance in the funds. The valuationwu
are now UT, Novena of the returns having
been sent to the valuer, and the reinstates' urge the
desirability of putting forth such eforte as will secure
the early completion .4 the work. The financial
return. for the registrar show, as a whole, considerable
though lbws are some caws in which it is
ffeinT4a wise course would have been followed had
the advice previously given been acted upon, and the
rates of euntributione and benefits revised. Two
izarioas made during the quarter have denim•
the umessity of the district laws enabling a
greater and more effectual supervieion the AOC" Illata
and busks .4 the Court.. The town .4 Itounienenith
having been suns...toil for the High Court meeting of
ten, it has afforded the committee great pleasure to
know that the propied het in many influential quarters
been Rent faiourably received. The ...election .4
Ilmarnemouth would the one hand welter the .er.
vier.. 4 an Executive Council °warmed .4 brethren
who, whilst they have in their district been need
active and useful, have never yet been able to achiev.•
the highest honour., of the Older, and on the other
hand Bournemouth, which is • pretty roasele resort,
afford.nuost ampleaccommodation for such an im-
portant gathering, and the delegate. would be assured
of • hearty and cordial welcome from the inhabitants.,
who in • public meeting have already taken the initial
steps in £h. matter. The worth of the funeral fund
is 338,146135. 3d. • the imutagement fund, Ale 7s. 10d i
the distress fund, £97 ls. 3d.; the goods. fund,
441135. 3d.; and lifelset fund, A ; and the in.
vestments include— mertgagesi, h.noe
gmyttd ; Southampton CeePoration bend., C 4,007
to„. Id. • Alverstoke Local bred, £2,900 ; &phi
Hung limed, 13310 •, Bournem.sith !seal 13.wir
£9OO and Bournemouth Burial Board, elle. In
addition to these are bans from the tteith•Wertern
I tistrict Investment Fund —Hyde C. elevation, £1,334
Southampton Corperation, I.9,fied ; southempum
cemetery, 1314000 ; Lyndhurst Cemetery, £l,OOO ; and
a further loan from the ('elan !Unitary .tutliority .4
Petersliekl is on the point of ompletioti,
003111.11VATIVIt 01110•NI•ATION. —On Saturday alter.
DOM • meeting. wee held at the Town Hall for the
purpose of foram • Conservative Divisional Aeaocia.
tem for South Dorset. Mr. John Flom, mjp.,
supported by Mr. W. K Itrynier M.P.,
Middleton, Mr. L. L. Kindersley, Mr.
aissreer (Weymouth), Mr. Hobert Williams, jun.,
Ganalcost.Majta• roster, Maitlr Hodges, Dwoisas
Pester, Mr. J. Deveniah (Weymouth), and many
others from this division.—The Chairman, in his
mir speech, explained the object of the meeting.
Cfnernng to the Redistribution Bill, he said if not
actually passed, still it had made considerable
preemie in committee. They had pawed that
particular part which settled the diveione, and the
other nicht emended the niunsiod the divisiens, about
which 'Sem hod been some little variety of isinio..
He was maenad to do what be could to have the
dilerent divisions called by the points of the sompase,

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rather than by the namee of the borkemhs, and that
was what had been agreed to. (Hear, hear.) They
were now virtually eelabliehed as the Ekether,,
Division of the old county .4 Ihweet, so they were
now l.a Me how they should proceed to work in tbe
new state .4 thing.. He was onnfident all
e.reeent weredetermined to keep up the old
British constitution, whether they were e'ectork, ad
the county .4 llorset...r .4th. southern die non of the
county, and he wake epiallv sure they were &ninon', to
support any candidate who might offer hiniself for
their impiewt whom they thought worthy. (Bear,
Th hear.) ey were now porpoeing tsa w ark as an
sseocietion for their own division—to m image theii
own affairs like every wise man, and yet a ways ready
Is. enlist their neightounk like PVely geod man. (Al.'
litanies k He Wt. Min. that al far as their struggling
neighteeire in other Whew a were concerrd they
would le- always ready to give a helping hand to them.
of course they would maintsiii the .Al county awocia
lion, because that might he useful ;ly its means they
would be able to pull all teigether, and endeavour to
return four conservatives.. (Hear, hear.) He was not
one of these who er wished to think unjustly of
yid still less to alien- his neighbours. Many of them
were Liberals, and lk.rset men too they did not
think they were quite right - at any rate they thought
they mght if they cinild to pat them in a mi ~,, ray.
4. long as they lived together they lived upoii
pleasant and very often friendlY terms, but with
mil due deference to them they (the Consc•vatives,
wished taa hey.. the upper hand. ( Applause.) That
ww. the object .4 their association. Some years
stro th.•y would remember there was a Conservative
a eiverninent, and he did not think they did altogether
so badly. a Hear, hear.) They were in for sic years.
mid wone things they did lie doubted '1 any Govern,
moat loertaisily not the pement tloverninentl could
have done stay I +Ater. There was one thing they did,
Led lie did not think thee had hardly as smith credit
be' it as they When the great War W.
an between kosa.. and Turkey, mid the Bum-inks had
vlvankked to within gim-sle at of Constantinople We,
kronen officer,. were already in the city -what did
the (love lit do! Lord Be.wondlield, then >l.•
Mel Mr. W. H. Smith, First Lord
of the tdmuiiralty, and the (*.dirket omit up
'he fleet through the I/anti...lles and (iat
wok the nmiab The itiomialle shaved off. (Applause.
If they hid got inside Constoitinople perhelw this
would 0.4 00 easily have got them .sit again. B)
•liis inovement .4 Led Beaceisfi..l.l they hed "
with honour " ingoliku.s•) and he oily hoped if we
'sad prove now it ...Old he peace with honour. (Hear.
hear.) They lived in the prement day amongst a Ir.'
inany Liberals - very active perwmageo they Were, OA
not 8.. isa alt'el, nioch -,if they wanted to beat
them they nowt keep wide awake, in enter to awry
their 1112111. Had they a ir.o man He thought they
had. They had a man who had lived among them
for a wed many years, and certainly had not shirk".)
his duties, asi a countryeentleman. (Hear, hear.) He
had also fully done his duty as Colonel to the reo-
uumry -• responsible and honourable office—and an
"fibs- which could not Is- properly filled without some
trouble and diligence. He was also • ver, good mftri.•
trate, and altogether he (WI s,ut think they could haye
a much better Mai, or one who w.sild do
his work more satiefactonly. (Applaile..)- Mr. K. L.
Kindersley ecplaimel the object. of the new flivieenel
Association. The Central Imociation Would still
exist. and wmild form a connecting. link between the
bier divisional &immolations, and bind them together
ae the bond id a boodle of sticks, and give etrength
LO them. But it would have no negrol over the
divisione. (Hear, bear.) -Mr. W. K. Itry-mer, M.l'.,
next addrroked the meeting, aud touched on the ass-
al the work in the sillages, especially in the
matter .4 village club.. He then moved the election
of the following officers -Mr. H. B. Middleton
(chairmen), Mr. Mercer (vice-chairtruu), Mr. K. L
Kindersley (him. oecretaryl, and Mr. Robert
William, jean. (him. treaelierr.)--Thlii was seconded
by Major Foster and carried utuukiniously.-11wwe
gentlemen briefly acknowledged the compliment,—
The report of the Central Committee was. then Isit no,
which recernisrel the oandideture of Colonel Hambro
for this dineion. —Mr. R. Williams addrekwed the
meeting on the heat means of advancing Conservative
minciphe in the division, a large share of hie remarks
being occupied irk an ad wisrrocorr ham appeal to his
hearers to support the Swaim' Times, and do all in
their power to force it into. circulation.—Mr. Ilrynwr
followed in a similar strain, and the proceedings won
afterwards terminated,