The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-19 00:00:00

A "FLICKER" FROM STUULAND.

Early in the eveninr of the 6th of February a juvenile
party consisting of itir, Lek • donkey and ear, unAbt
have been ...ice eructing their way abate the row I hat
leads fr rn Mesnage to the p•ace; ul village of Studlang
On .rriving at the village toe party put op at in free
hotel. •vh,ch happened to lie turf rick, hut for prudential
✓im. the donkey ace talo n to the Imeltyatd of the
• sedum.. An announcenieut list Imie made earlier
in the day by inean• of a writteu hill that a inafin
lantern exhibition would be given that evening to com-
m.— at seven o'clock, • iintienoe to he on, penny.
Ac iroomlv st the appointed time the exhibition com-
menced But while the audience, which consisted of a
acore of juveniles, were hieing initiated into the wonders
of the house that jack built • scone of consideroble
inter-it .1,44 being enacted outside. Ily some meaas or
other rhe h dildelehoya of !Bedlam' had heard that a
err, iii red wad nelir a certain lick. Stranzely enough
In t, ii evening walk they all ic n-dt c.,av•Lrge on that
p md, into together, there WI 110 sop mating with.
tut havolg • practleal joke. Ile, )-one to his Ire-h,! No
doubt it did not take long for one of their number to be
hitched is, and it is ...Tolle c -rain that his companions
were not long in ...Lint boo in the Lek be had net
himself about. If the young mut had been to their club
room and had been mussing the daily papers for
an hour or two, one might have thought that
?Paintended to imitato the retreat the
s, or the advance of the Reiman° but as the
clubroom is nit built, this could not have been thorium°
of their strauge freak. Whatever may have been the
• which prompted them to this feat of arms they did
Lit re•t until they had safely deposited the said cart in
th.• ldle of rhip's pond ! But that's not all. In can-
tle< with a donkey cart there is generally a dunkty,
Thotw 1. no don't that theao young ince reasoned in this
straik bei we next find them near the back Yord of the
school hose. It is not at all sure that these young men
hail ever heard of Willierforce, bui it Is extremely likely
thot they bell a consultation a, to the best means by
which the donkey might Inc liberated. It did not take
long to decide. A jump over the low wall—the door
ruietly hut eulioltel--.4 little rough persuasion
with regard to the donkey, and the deed was dose. Pity
the flocikey. Inside the proceedings were losing carried
on with tolerable ante.'... The children hoeing dinner...a
the exhibitors, before having supper, being prompted by
humane feelings, stepped out into the yard to look eter
their 1.1,11 L Imagine their surprise to lind the door
unbolted and the animal gone. Yes ! the fact stared
them in the face, fhe yard teas empty. Full of fore.
tulings they proceeded to the turf rick, and, to their
itleXplemdble cheerio., found that the cart also had die
appeared. Well, they thought it must be somewhere,
mil, accordingly, armed with a ball a eye, they searched
the village. After some lima the cart .as found in the
middle it the pond, as its no atm cared for a wettiug. they
It it remain. The seargh for the ass proving fruitless
there wee no alternative butt,, return house on foot. This
they rending's' did. arriving at S.,muce oboat 10.10
• Leseina taught by above incident—l. Put up at an
hotel with a roof, lock and key and ft Build a club-room,
so keep the culprits out of michief and improve their
Winds. Yeses.

POOLS.
TH. ,:tts COMPOIT. —The fourth half-yearly meeting of
the sharei.:olders of the town and county of Poole Gas and
Coke I.'aialp..°l (Limited) wee held in the Guildhall on
Tbo Chairman (Mr. W. Pearce) presided mar •
„mai attend..,•• The Directors pm:n:l4*i the following
.thifect iry retwol;—
" The Directors owl touch satisfsctiou in being able to
th, ,bareholders a more favourable report as to
their operations for the last half.year than they bare been
abb to do for some time past.
During thi• last hall-year they hare bwrornal a further
of LIMO by the 111000 of nine debenture bonds at £lOO.
srMeli nulL coin;ileto the ALSAUD they were authorised to
1..r.w by the resolution of the °quern! Meeting on 14th
Auzu.t.
there w:

tisrci:se of last half-year to.. -:as a
capitol in hand amounting to £370 It t.; this, with •
small emu out .4 the 1:1100, has loan expended this'll the
last -) ear in purchosing soma further lend ad)
the works, and laying down wine ulditional tosinr=
there now rentains in hand on capital account abidance of
I. 10.1., which the further improvement, on the
work, now In hand will nearly exhaust
The Directors in their last report called the attention of
the shsreholders to the very been quantity of • um°.
counm.l for gait which for that half-year had averaged a
per cent on the quantity made, and at the same time
stated that they bail ordered • thorough examination of
all the underground work, and hoped bY baring thie doges
carefully and syatetnatically throuxhotit the whole Myna.
to effect some great improvement befog, they met the
shazelioldera again, and they have now to add that,
although the work has not yet hoes completed, it has
alrea ly effected, Oro they expected it would, a very great
improvement Leas coal has been used in the last than In
the preceding half-year, and less gm made, although there
liaa been a much linter quantity sold, and the loa, has
been reduced from 34 to 114 per cent. ; thia the Directors
consider satisfactory as fax as it goes, but they hope by
the time the work Is completed to have done ammhbidi
better than this.

balance of

Tb Movtors, with their Manager, have, during the
laat ball-year leen di,ecting their especial attention to
the manufacturing departuient. and the result has been a
larger quantity of gas and greeter weight of coke per tco
of coals than they have ever been able to get continously
for any length of time before, and they can see no reason
why these improved results should not be kept up con-
tinuously.
In the revenue account there no. two special Itams on
the Cr. side, which t,o increase the

...web appear 0 tortes... wait; unduly.
hut there are abio some extra charges on the Dr. side for
the examination and repair of the underground workt
of shout the some amount, and the two nearly laaLince
each other.
Thew, tbints combined have produced for the last hall-
year some greatly improved results, the prod' for the
haN year farina £719 ito., as agato.t CIS lfft. 10i for the
pr n g hail year.
The D rectors think that there Is no reason to fear that
41111,1113. of profit iirW fall all. leu, on the contrary.
_f a eiyie wipertri.i is is kept over the noniature, the
ohoech arirrs to iy expect that this iirofft will increase in
due prat, Wii..ll wit, the increase a &owes.: awl. with-
out tying I,..taguine. Ut it in the next half-year or the
kalf, war lo:towing, the profit will be sufficient to itself to
par Coe maximum diviJend.

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Lord Afindon must be well satistled with his week's
festival.. Everythiog woo. AR
- from the bouquets
of gold pheasant, to the eauele-Colagne fountain. So
Ataxia. 'cat he to Prutl‘l• everything for the comfort mid
convettience of his It gyal xaeds, that be went to Had-
birough Boa. t, Ofilintlt with the boa,UePtF as t
wbst kind of towels were chiefly •••I In the Royal
establishment. The ball on Frtday was • (mat ollett•I•
and the Prince. was looking prettier wan ever and in
excellent health, n ..ot4...t....—tanding rumoUre to the
coutrary which gave appeared in Wino .4 the weekly
4IS happily eetirely without foundas
'dn.—. ciao., Pair.
COUNTI COURT, Timfdel. —Before Judge L f roe.
A. V. 1161.4 dial Co. manure inerchwits. 11.)hri'ixes V.
Hoary ranks" fere:her, Stapebill, —A el Wu of .f. 3 4a,
account fr menu,. —(r. Tanner appeued for
the sl-fenre, which was that plaintiffshel chargel for 16.
cwt. 4 dowilyed hone. that IWO nuVer been amp ieu, and
that the defendant het °Vert...A the plaintiff. by les.
Afi.• a lengthy he iriug of the case his Hongur decided in
favour of the plaintiffs, and gave in:l:meet for the amount
deluged, hut s ithout costa
4.P. Martin, Coda rude, v. iflowps Revel,
dealer, W....bridge —A claim of a Se. for et ht ewes 4
Osoo. —I) •feulutt abuitied having had 6.. sacks 4
Potitoes and as the plsintid wa noi prep 0.4 to prove
the. be hot woe h:. II ihoar gase jed.fMen- f 30• snit
costa, half the amount to be paid in a week and that...lulu
• fortnight afterauds.
A Ilmw CY& —4horge c.po Wituborna St. Giles, •.
Jaws Cobbs, Uttuage All Sat ut•—A claim of lls., which
defehdant elseitted, and he was ordered to pay SW
monthly.—rne defendant in this case told • pitiful tel
! which we recommend to the coesid4etion of the Chief
! Constable and magistrates of Darseta AA • matter that
I ought to be remedied at =Co. The man Hobbs was for
; 13 yearn a c..nstAble, and whiht he was on duty at
Winterhorne Whitechurch about Christine., 1371. he MA
, murderously aseaulted in a moat unprovoked manner on
I the highway by • couple of poachers, who were at terwards
I eeutenced to II In .0144 hard labour each at the Alsip,. by
I Justice Lash. The injured constable we. allowed Ws. •
I week for one year, but niece that be hal received nothing I
from the county, although be had contributed to the
SOperannnation Fund dunes the whole time be was in
the F.rew The reason weigned for not allowing hint •
: superannuation allowance was that he had reeigued, but
Hobbs nays he took this step tinder the advice of his
superior Akers et • time when he was scarcely account-
able for his actions, be having been seriously Injured about
We head. Hobbs has • wife and eight children, whom he
Ii unable to provide for. he twioo permanently disabled,
and the Judge and Registrar both remarked on the
hardness of the CLIO, the former asking thn Press to make
the matter public, and the latter promising to bring it
under the notice of the authorities. Hobbs earns • little
money by soliciting orders for • publiahing firm, but be is
quite unable to provide for his family and we hope the
result of the publicity given to the sad case will be that
jutioe will be done the poor fellow.]