The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-10-28 00:00:00

THE COMING "FIRST."

The forthcoming elections f tr the uattel annual six
vacancies in the I' own Council are attracting but a
alight modicum of ex titement as °dewed with years
gone by, In fact, the 0 ,nierviativas are the only ones
who seem to exhibit more thee a lalgui interest in
1 the approaching zantese Tbe decloe even
the expenee of aivartiaint their proclematione in any
I paper, ant I have not yat bar that they have even
gone to the extravagaPte of is.uing • few circulars,
Those of my realer., therefore, who wish to know
up .n what vretei,siona they bees their claimsfor Ace
I meat refer them to the nearest bill.poeting station
Up ,n which it is poimilble there mey be found
one of their united placard., the only indulgence
they hove allowed thetneelves. The le ide• of the
Llberal Party themselees are very fedit-hearied ant,
the revile; a pi they only •pesic wile any h,l4lolness
of the chance* 0( 000 of their number, which chances
are—siod my readers will unieretand the allusion—
sal It, be of • creditable nature. They hare, how-
ever, this conaolation, that even beat.n al all points
they can, by • MI. similar to that of 'sat year, electing
'a Mayor outride their ranks, still maintain a majority
(one) of votes.
It is generally admitted that Mr. Alderman Sir.
ton has, to us* • homely phrase. " upset the apple-
' cart" of the Liberal Party. Lad year they sounded
, their own knell by tactics bleed upon similar prin-
-1 elides, if actions an be called inch when principle is
lost sight of. In their desire to purify the Boragh,
they adopted the spy system, and sent abroad
• number of boys and men, who, no d iubt, tbiught
it a very grand thing to wat:h the publichou.e. ati.l
see that no treating to plane. I remarked in my
notea at the time that this was • kind of proceeding
to, un-Eoglioh like for the piciple of Poole to cure
to t ste, and the result ample justifild the opinion.
Oa the present occasion Mr. Norton, by his tira les
naiad the Tory publican party. he. en leaveured, d
to a great extent succeeded in identifyiag the recent
notorious pr needing, with the Liberal teed dal party,
a d, therefore, th.r, cat be n liab" that on " the
First," in'sddition to the inevitat Is c iiViiolities,
the further ingre heat will be imp irte I of B or v.
Water.

of my r 041011.11 will rec althou .11
" " mun ory (allot him up on this point at
Dorchester, that " was last year purposely
and ostentatiousi7 Put forstar Ito opp Mr, Nlarston.
It is impuseibls f ,rget els o th At the oil ollenvo we,
, thrown out.—" We will see which is the .trongiir
('strongest,' wee the uncrsmmatio .1 a ij tet'vt used)
be-, or water." The result I ate I not fuAlser
than to remark that as my re% lers know, beer, as it
occssionatly does, g ot up in the head, and water found
It. in dest level at the bottom. If this was the rosqlt
at the time when there were no angry feedlot, rife in
the borough, I am afraid that, !taring pers 'nal eon-
sideration out of the cast, as is too often don', the
Liberals will find Buoy have still longer old, too oaten
aosinst when it is borne in mini that live, I believe,
out of the nix, are teetotalers.
The can lid dee for tips two wants are et
North•Wiest Ward, M MIS% Goff ,r,l (1.), Trevanion
(It Waterman (f.), Borneo (C), Bulge (0), ant dt one
; and for the onth.B.st Wart,
Lsukester Mon 101 l (L), Dugdale (C),
anhill (C) end Ytatruion (C).
In the North-West Went Messrs. Giff .r I and
Waterman ask for re-election, while Mr. rrevalivo
has resolved vela to try his luck on the
Übstai Ws. Oolociesil 14 hiss theft an

two retiring lumbers and • new candidate seeking
the soffrsgee of the electors, Mame. Barnes, Budge.
and Stotts. 9 eking p 'Sties, everyone must id i nit
that 'he filet 'if the three is pre- mluently qualifia I
for Mce; by his profe•siou be is the very etwopOf
man req lir fcr it, and while be does not waste the
Urn. of the °outwit by • ring his views up ut every
little subject that coma before ilistn, be I. often
appealed to when anything of particular importnooe
arises. If Sir. Badge did nothing but keep • oertain
Mdermau in order he would deoerve well of the
elec..oie, but by bis humour he often relieves the
tedious of • dry debate, aid perhaps not one of the
least c imiderations th it will be taken into anemia
on Saturday will ha that he we. one of the in pit
strenuous opp manta of the attempt to interfere vith
the liberty .if this soil int by tisrs who wishe I t
kidnap the 0 'anal to petitio.l Parliament in favour of
Sun lay C ming. Of Captain Stone's capabilities fir
office juigm it, of c Mr.*, Can only be form id by the
wq Is which he has fulfilled other offioa. As •
volunteer captain, the high efficiency of the carpi,
mainly due to bis close attention suit energy, shows
that he is not the man to shirk • thing when be once
takes it in band. Al a m sgistrate he is a regular
attendant upon the bench, and asi he hes plenty of
leisure time, and • I age stoke in the town, be possesses
induoement to look well after it. intern'.
Of the SouthiEmt Ward Liberal candidates. for the
simple reason thst I have not seen their address, a.
in the other hula, I can only soy that I prom= their
claims are based up in the fact that they are Limrals,
old inhabitant', an I zoom of business.
On the other side Simms. Dacha, Wanhill, and
Yeatman are all three trod ban to, and if they hays
discharged their duties as 0 ,uncilors to the satiefso-
lion I the ratepayers, and I have heard no 05,
suggest otherwise, why it is rather puts iug to kn isr
upon what grounds they should be given an unwilling
discharge.

The personal gualiflo Awns of the cwoli late. will I
think, however, are but • small bearing on the
cAttvet. It will be tonight out on the oil avowals of
politiov, with this year the ad.fitional CJO r a !oration of
matters which have Lately sA the town by thi ars.

!From a pa In a c tntemporery I we lbw. Nies to.
Norton and Out u. have purchase I the P 'le fouolry ;
ant my c tatemtporuy h.• ling its .t %blatant with the
nese:ilea that it le 'good news for Poole," c nl.cue.to
eay that the inteuti ,ns of the proprotots Ii Ii c 'over:
it into a manta oct try f bicycles sod tricycle.. I
venture to question the optinil.t vi.,, taken in the
trdian. Iles only benefit which 10. me lobe
derived from ouch an experiment would be the
decidedly questiloable one of importing foreign work-
men; for clever hands as the former employees
migat have been at their particular trade, it
I. obvionely absurd to f ?may they could
attempt the deflect, work oonneew I with
the turolog cut of stub machines as the Coventry
Bicycle Oompany and other great arms do by
thousands every month. One might as well ..t •
alga painter to paint a protrait of Alderman Norton
for the next Royal Academy exhibition. I am not
prepared to wure my reader. the borgaio bee been
ratifi d, but if it be renewed on the taste of 'ume
industry with which Poole w okinen are acquainted
it will no d tubt be a boon to the pleas. Al toe name
time we must not crow too quickly, for I wonder how
ninny times before the fonodry ha. not been going to
be net at full swing—occasions, strange to say,
coinoident with forthcoming elections. Let Ili hope
that this time it is not • Woe "hallos."

WIMBOIINB.
BOARD OF GCARDIANd.—.I fortnightly meeting of
this Board was held on Friday, Mr. C. J. Parke
presiding. The Clerk road a letter from the Local
Government Board—in reply to a communication
from the guardians—stating that m each of Mr
WykieSruith's appointments was distinct, he could,
AA he wished, retain the office of workhouse medical
officer and public vaccinator. and give up the post of
medical officer of No. 2 out-district, in reepect of
which nis resignation has already been sent in and
w•aepted. The guardians divided to advertise to a
medical officer for No. 2 district. at a salary f L 7.3,
and to fill up the appointment at the next meeting of
the Board.

-,Tr-y-bocar, Thursday.lefore Serjeant Tindal
Atkinson, Judge.)—Es'iward Willie v. James 140w-
land.—A judgment summons for a balance of
£1 O. 3d.--Order for committal for 14 days, warrant
to be stayed for a month -T Laing v. E
This was a claim for V3lOl. 6d., balance of account
adjourned from the last court in order that the
defendant micht plead a counter claim. A letter and
medical certificate were now handed in, stating that
the defendant, who now lives at Swansea, but for-
merly resided at Wimborne, was only just recovering
from • severe illness. and was still too unwell to
attend the court.-11r. Laing said that the only
object he had in view in bringing the case into court
at all was to obtain a settleinent. Ile did not dispute
the items of the defendant's bill.—llk Honour said
he would further adjourn the case for a th, to
give the defendant an of isfroinity of properly entering
a counter claim. If that we, not done he should at the
nest court give judgment for plaintiff.