The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-18 00:00:00

lOWA anb ea iths.

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The remarks which appears in this column last
week .net the proposal t spend 1.1.000 for r creation
grounds designed to us laid out at Parkstone and Heck-
ord, have, I feel gratified to learn met wan almost
general approval. There seems nearly an undivided
opini,n am nig the ratepayers that it pleasure grzdens
are really needed in Poole, the Lidice Walk,ng Field
lithe show kr-44race ; and if tuat cannot be obtained,
then there are plenty of other directions in which the
money of the town nay be !von more profitably spout.

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To one not behind the sceues it seem. a matter hard
to understand why a 11 Ale delay and reflection iu deal-
ing with this question oh mid be so &pre° sled by some
of the members of the Couscil. flow long have not
the Baths and N'aahhouses Scheme, the Oyster Fishery
question, and other valuede suggestions for the pro-
motion of the well-being of the pl ice, been from time to
time tossed contemptuously on ono-side? Surely,
therefore, a project, then st of which. acurlieg ti the
views of those capable to judge, is but faintly repre-
sented by the haiti hi outlay, might fairly be allowed to
stand over for more careful consideration. In this
matter, at least, it would be as well for our tutors to
risk earning even the rinser of being a " do-nothing
o,uncil," rather than they should be remem'es,ed in
the future as the supporters of a leap-in-the-dark policy.

Those whose fortune, or, perhaps, in the opinion of
some, sais.fortune,it is to have t) atten I the meetinge of
our local donators, knew well that when any question
of more than usual importance is brougut forward
some member or another is sure to throw down the
gauntlet and challenge those, to whose opinions he
may entertain an obj-ction, to make it • test question
at the next electiou. Now it is not so very long to the
"Ist," and the subject will not suffer by being allowed
to rest until then. Let this proposed expenditure be
made • test question. Let the gentlemen who will
have to retire this year come before the burgeeees with
the plain and deliberate statement that if reelected
they will return to the Board either pledged to involve
the town In this expenditure or to oppose it. 'I they will
then unmistakeably arrive at the real wiehes of their
I constituents in the matter, and it will be, after all, a
far more sensible plan of deiling with subj-cte that
only concern the town, than by the importation of light-
blue and duk-blue personalities.

Whispers VI to the next election see even thus
early floating about. One of the retiring mem6ers. I
am told, will stand aside t give a younger townsman
the chance to throw his " castor "into the municipal
int. There was some little stir made about his
candidature at tbela4 siesta:lu, it may be remembaed
and whilst I bars no d ,übt be would be a desirable
and useful member, I think m ikt fmy readers will
mgrse his return would only be • proper an I deserved
compliment to the "Peter."

" A.K." writes :—" I ghoul I be very glad to join
any properly organised fire brigade that may be started
here. But then thy thing must be done thoroughly.
We should have proper uniforms, • firstsrate engine
(and Cauford ~ught to make us e present of that), and
all needful appliances for getting the better of 'the
devouring element,' as your newspaper people mil it.
To talk about fitting no out with only • helmet is
ridiculous. What sort of a figure would the Niayor
cat on • 0 aporatlon Sunday if his official costume
consisted simply of his caked hat &shims al I see
from your report, Captain Alford stated at the Council
meeting, we hardly care to spoil our own clothes in a
work for which we should not only get no mourners.
tion but hardly • thank-you." In giving space to this
letter I would ask my readers kindly to obesrve that
my correspondent, in his allusion to " his Worship,"
refers solely to his official costume.
The police have very quickly followed up .Ir.
Cartis's suggestion relative to the suppression of bad
language and rough bormsplay in the streets. Of
course it Is hard for the pains to catch these offends's,
for an official helmet is sluoply the red light to
blackiguardiann. but afters few more examples as those
set lad Tnursday we may hope decent people will ere
long be enabled to walk through the town without
having their sensibilities camdd as they lave hitherto
leen.

The Premier, in Om Nineteenth Century for this
month, indulges in an Italian poem, entitled " dentl,
senti, anima mla," which, by the way, is simply a
version of hymn ISO from Hymns Ancient and Mo tern.
lie kindly teem:int the reader with an Enellah trans-
lation of it. The three following lines which I have
taken the liberty to excerpt may, perhaps, enlighten
some of my Poole readers as to the views entertained
by the right hon. gentleman upon the Tichburne
otSe:— . . .

" Gin • woman's tend, c .re
6.2aae towards the child she bare t

Ye, she may forgetful be."
The (1.0. M. evidently believes that not only does
it renivro a wi.e child to koow its own father. but
that thor may he women silly ecouzlo to take t
their maternal breast offspring to which thoy bear not
the mod distant relation. " The laugulshini noble-
man" ha. always sal there was no chance of his
rt. loose soling as the Liberals were in power.

\f 11'•ry contemporary with that unscrupnlousne.s
which generally distinguishes printa, "Conservative
io politic.." ire ita leaderette this week thus delivers
itself : In the last week of the Session the Upper
House found Itself with a large number of Important
Bills upon It. hands ; and it had either to accept
them withont pryer examina'ion or to reject them
T. have attempted amendment wonld hove been to
provoke unedifying rquabbles with the timer
Onambar." I presume my contenip vary hu for-
gotten all about the Agricultural Holdings Bill.

WIKBOSNE.
thacu ..—Tayleure's Great American Circus viaitel
thi , town on Wednetday,imul gave two entertainments
john Mani!? beretbtecfl was located

ROYAL VISIT T..) DOESIST.—It is stated that
further rejoicing. are 'licitly to take place at Orichel
in c .mmi.noration of the marriage .1 the lion. foci-
Start awl Lady Fcodore Yorke, and that the
Pane) of W‘les mil pay a viatt to Dorset au the
occasion._ . .

1.0. G T.-0o Monday evening the members of the
10-al loige of the shove order as usual met in the
Miembon Born an I 'pent a toot pleimant evening
together; the evening wee designated "Pound Night.'
After the ueuti ritual the remainder of the time wee
nee lois I hy al rea tinge, stug., ao4 recitations
b-ing given, and enjoying the geoi thing. brought
tozether.

Itanwar octumrr-00 Tuesday afternoon as the
1.50 train WV4 leaving Uri, station for London, three of
the carriages' got off the line, on account of the point,
havirg twee c'uot I before the whole of the traM had
p‘e,ed them. Two ..f the carriages were som,what
damaged, a d the " way' wa, pulled up for • short
distance. It can found two eibl.3 to get the carriages
on the line ,unl do the necessary repairs is order for
the :traffic to be re unncri in time, but the L4O (feat
train) wan Moppet at Ring w 0 I and orders I to call
at all atationa 1...,tw0•n there and Waterloo. There
were only a few paseen,e, In the train which got off
the line, and those 'spaced f,r Laudon were 'moseyed
on by one which started ab ',it an hoar later.
ST JOHN's BAND 4,7 8417 —Oa Mciaday evening
the members of the tit. J..ho'a Basel of HOP,3 held their
usual fortnightly meeting, and considering the damp
state of the weather there wai is very gooll is aembly.
The eaaauag apa,sd with aing;r.r 1121'0 ly 9, and was
prodded over by 91r. G Plietore, the sup •rinten lent.
Th, ustpd reading of KT ptor, and divot' to was
followed with singing molly Bi. tho remain ler of the
programme was, recitation, "The Rescued Kitten,"
by Amelia 110-ford ; moans, Mary Gibbs; melody
Ift ; reading, Winifr..l Judd; rending. Annie Tweed;
melody 130; short c melts lio,t a hires, Mr. Fillm we.
The =Mil which we well sottish:lel t roughout, and
was of • very inkrestim:ch aracter, was couol u.lai with
the D.nrology aid Bmediction ; Miss M. Gibbs
presided at the harmonium.