The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-10-09 00:00:00

ADJOURNED QUARTER BEBBIONB.

An adj mud Quarter Saslow was bold on Saturday,
at whioh J. Flops., EA. M.P. Lieutenant Oolone'
Steward, and other nuistrata were premot.—Mr.
Charles Edmunds, Mr. hod Reynolds, Mr. Henry
Randall, and Mr. J. Piokud Suit IL of Bridport, took
the oath as Justices for that bo-ough.—A 100 mut tire
Wow* was granted to Mr. F. &Mono oonditionally
upon his affixing a 'tombsr to the locomotives.
Cousry LICENSING MEETING.

A liconehtg meeting for the county wag held at the
Shirshall on Saturday, under the presidency of J.
Floyer, Iraq.. M. P., when there were present Capt. Frier,
G. Troyte Bullock, Beq.. H. S. Bower, En., Captain
Amyatt ((.hairman of;Oommittee), wad the Clerk of the
Peace (Kr. F10ck...)
The followlog memorial wee received from 32
inhabitants of Bus Regis :—" We, the underelgoal
inhabitants of Bon itegia using no neousity for
keeping open publichonees Quill 11 o'clock in this
parish. sal ending that the p hoe deoreued
since the lest congas, request the 0 sooty Lioensing
Coo:mitts. to remove the natne of Burt R via from
the list of populome plum." Mr. H mar I ( %rely-
mouth) appeared in support of the memo -al, the Vicar
(Rev. J. S. Langford) and one of OA churchwardens
(tdr. C. Besant) being ale , preeent.—Ntr. Howard
stated although he ma le the application in 1874 thet '
Bus Regis might be made a p ,putotta place, he new
thought that the p 'potation befog so buttered it was
not such as to jostify the place being continual as
pot:mina.. He also mentioned that the me) gity f the
Inhabitants were in (moor of its being reduced—The
committee °awaited the census return., and, end-
ing LAU the popoletloo hal d.:creaud between 1871
and 1881 from 1,366 to 1,284, au.l that gilt* 300 of
these lived In scattered portion. of the parish, granted
the requests of the memorialists.
The committee also cancelled the oiler lo reference
to Owns Abbas. the population of which has decreased
from 1.164 to 925.
All the other populous plus. and collecti tn. of
house. in the urban unit try district. were continued
In force, nam tly :—Bumineter. Gi linghato, Stet-
bridge, Starnainat Nrwt in, and Wimborne, includ-
ing Leigh an.l Wrst Stone. 13bandford Forum (with
the out-pest of the parish), Bridport (with the out-
put, of Allington and Bradpole), Dorchester, Lyme
totte (with the parishes' of Chartnouth), Portland,
Shaftesbury (with &more Green, hiotoom`ae), dher-
borne, Swans's, Wareham, and Weymouth, remain
as towns.

OUTBREAK OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.
W• regret to soy the foot-and.mouth disease in It'
worst form has broken out at R sdipols, on the promises
occupied by Mr. OHL It ap?ears the unfortunate
owner had obtained a quantity of blood from one of
the Wsymoute slaughter-houses and minveyed it to
hi. own farm; and at this slaught ir-bouss had been
killed • number of Dutch or Danish cettla for the pur-
ples of provisioning the Fleet. These beasts had been
nurcharsed by the contract iv from L in ion dealer., and
there can be on doubt they brought the disease into
Dorset On Friday ten of the animals were infected,
and three others followed on Satorday.
The Executive Committee under the Contagious
Die••••• (Animal.) Act for this c ante` met at the
Shirshall, on Saturday. with respect t ths outbreak
of foot and mouth &son U Radipols. Thin were