The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

ter Anne; Daniel Shepard, Wood and Stone Inn;
George New, Old Ship Inn ' • John Richard Taylor,
Plume of Feathers; Goalie Read, Royal Oak; Charles
Hodges, White Horse kn; Henry Gale, Duke of
Wellington ; Thomas Grigg, Great Western; Charles
Reynold, The Cantle; Henry Franklin, Hit or Miss;
William Pitts, Junction Hotel; Geoffrey Russell, Bull's
Head Inn, Fordington ; William Manley, King's Arms
Hotel; James Longman, Green Dragon Inn ; John
Shiner, The Dolphin ; George Hayman, The Chequers ;
Charles Dunn, White Heart Inn John Blandhnore,
The Crown; Themes Gewland, Red Lion; Sarah Will.
shire, The Phomix • flannels James, The Teapot. On
the application of Robert Smith' of the Three Mariners,
coming before their worships, the Mayor [MS questions
to the applicant as to the management of the house,
when it was stated that Smith or his family did not live
in the house, but he only attended to the brewing car-
ried on there by Messrs. Eldridge, Mason, & Co. ; that
Mr. Parsons, who oonducts the Canteen at the Barracks,
managed the house. Mr. Mason attended and explained
the reason the license was asked for in the name of
his enspioys was, that his property which Was much
mixed with that of the publichouse, might be better taken
care of; and bythe arrangement persons sleptand
lived in the house.—The Magistrates held that they could
not grant the application, as there appeared to be, no re-
sponsible personliying oath, premises to tido the license.
The application was accordingly ordered to stand over
till the adjourned licensing day on the 27th of Septems
her. Mr. M. C. Weston appeared on behalf of Mrs.
Jane Cox, keeper of the Queen's Own beerhouse. He
said she had kept the house mince her husband's death
and no complaint had been made against her. Mr.
Weston put in a memorial signed by both overseers,
both churchwarden' of All Saints, and other persons.
The Mayor said he thought it would be convenient to '
comply with the application, as the business of the
Mariners might be transferred thither. The notices
having beer proved in the usual manner, a license was
granted.—Mr. Weston then applied on behalf of Mr.
William Woodward, who with his father had kept the
Star Inn beerhouse for very many years, and the house
had always been respectably conducted. The notices in
this case having been partly proved, it was found that
the "copies" did not correspond. The Bench said that
on public grounds they could not grant tins application
having just issued one for a house so nearly adjoining.
—Mr. Weston applied for a license for John Prow-
bridge, keeper of the Greyhound beerhouse, Princess
-
street. The applicant hail kept the house for six or
seven years in a creditable manner, and a requisition
signed by many respectable inhabitants of Trinity
parish WAS put in asking the magistrates to grant the
application. The Bench granted a license.
COUNTY MAGISTRATES' CIRFIOS, Shirehall, Monday,
August 30. --(Before W. L. Henning, Esq.)---James
Thomson, of Glasgow, card writer and compositor, was
brought up charged with drunkenness, and being very
abusive to P.C. Orchard, at Portland, on Saturday
night between 11 and 12. Defendant acknowledged the
offence, and was mulcted in the customary penalty of
Si. and 4s. 6d. costa, • week being allowed for payment.
COUNTY BREWsTER SESSIONS, Shirehall, Saturday,
August 28.—(Before Herbert Williams, Esq„ Captain
Manning, H. C. Goodden, W. L. Henning, C. Percher,
and H. Frampton, F.sqrs.)—This being the annual day
for issuing licenses to public hence-keepers in the Dor.
cheater uistriot, licensee were granted in each instance
where licenses had heretofore been allowed. As there
were several fresh applications for licenses for other
houses, it was determined to hear the applicants in dis-
tricts. It was arranged that the applications from Port-
land should first be taken, after the hearing of which
their worships were to decide to what houses licenses
should be granted. Mr. Weston applied for a license on
behalf of Thomas Gibbs, keeper of the Portland Roads
beerhouse, who for about ten years had conducted the
house in a respectable manner. The house was situated
in front of the landing stage at Portland ; and on ex-
cursion days 2,000 or 3,000 persons attend the house.
The house is likewise frequented by parties of stone
workers, who wait there for the tide to sail. There are
but few houses in the island where ships get water, and
Gibbs' is one of those. Mr. Weston put in a memo-
rial signed by churchwardens and overseers and other
inhabitants of the island in favour of the application.
Mr. Manfield opposed the application, and said he could
not admit the applicant's notices. H. R. Pearce was
called to prove the exhibition of the usual notices. He
was cross-examined by Mr. Manfield, who took the
objection that Henry Devenish, who was part proprie-
tor of the house, was not described in the notioe, the
proprietors being described as "James Aldridge Dove-
nigh and Co." The Bench overruled the objection. The
witness, on further cross-examination, said there were
some eighty inhabitants near the Portland Roads, and
two houses which had for many years been licensed.
Quarrymen load vessels close by, and they often stayed
at the house till 11, while the ships' crews might on
fetching water mix spirits therewith if the house were
licensed—Mr. M. C. Weston applied for a license on
behalf of James Cooks, of the Jolly Sailor beerhouse.
The witness Pearce was again called to prove the
notices. Mr. ?danfield opposed. On cross-exainination
witness said he was not in Messrs. Devenish's employ,
but he had been accustomed to attend to this business
for some years. The Jolly Sailor was 30 yards distant
from the house last applying. The two lioensed houses
near were but 60 and 30 yards oft. Mr. Weston put
in a requisition signed by many inhabitants of the
neighbourhood. .The Jolly Sailor had been kept for 18
years by the same family in a creditable manner. The
memorial had received the signatures of several of the
I same persons who signed the former one.—Mr. H. Lock
on behalf of Mr. George Mayo, keeper of the Grove
Hotel, Portland, applied for a license. Mr. Mayo had
formerly kept a licensed house at Burton, and visitors
had expressed astonishment that the Grove was not
licensed. The neighbourhood had increased to quite
a town, and within three years 40 houses had been built
just by, it would be but an act of justice to the inhabi-
tants to grant the application. There were 153 fami-
lies in the vicinity, besides the houses of the warders of
the Convict Establishment, and but one licensed house
Was in the neighbourhood. Mr. G. Synfonds opposed
the application. He admitted the exhibition of the
notices, but objected that the notice only stated that
I the house was rented of Mr. George Galpin' Dorchester,,
but did not state by whom the beerhouse lied been kept
for the three years last past. Mr. Lock replied that the
words on the notice "Inn, ale house, or victualling
house " did not signify a beer-house. The Bench
ruled that the notice was bad, and the application was
therefore quashed.— Mr. Tirard applied for a license
on the part of Thomas Comben Wallis, keeper of the
Prince of Wales beerhouse. Mr. G. Symonds opposed,
but admitted the service of the notice. He objected,
however, that the notice stated that the house had not
been kept as an "Inn, alehouse, or victualling house,"
but that the applicant had used it as a retailer of beer
and cider; and was not the applicant a retailer of ex-
cisable liquor? The objection was overruled. Mr.
Tizard said the house was situated in Fortune's Well,
and had been kept respectably for 5 years; that only 4
licenses had been granted since the island contained but
about 4,000 inhabitants, whereas now 7,000 was the
population. He put in a memorial in favour of the ap-
plication. The house was about half way up the hill.
Mr. Symonds said the house was opposite the church,
and within a few yards of a licensed house. As to in-
crease of population, the last census fixed it at 5,195.
As a consideration of public necessity, there were in
Portland 14 publichoimes and 9 beerhouses, about 1 to
160 of the population of the island, and 1,500 of that
.population were convicts who had no beer.—Mr.
Tizard applied on behalf of Joseph Bird, keeper of the
Albion beerhouse, Reforne, Portland. The house had
been built within 18 months. With the exception of the
Clifton Hotel, there was no house near capable of ac-
commodating persons for two or three days. Tile nearest
houses licensed were the Mermaid and the George,
about half a mile off. The visitors to Portland were
not dependent on excursion trains, but parties from
Weymouth went daily all over the island. The house
in question was well fitted for accommodating travellers,
and it had a stable and coach-house. Mr. Pearce
Arthur, civil engineer of Weymouth, put in a plan of
the house. Mr. Symonds opposed. In cross-examin-
ation the witness said there were the Punchbowl and the
New Inn licensed houses about 250 yards off, at Easton.
Mr. Tizard_put in a memorial. Mr. Symonds cross.exe-
mined H. R. Pearce as to the nausea on the requisition,
and said that the house was on a road leading to no-
where., but conducting from one publiehouse to two
others.—Mr. Tizard applied on behalf of Charlotte
Garrett, keeper of the Albert Refreshment ROOMI, Mr.
Manfleld and Mr. Weston opposed. The exhibition of
the notices was admitted. Mr. Manfield raised the ob.
jeation used by Mr. Symonds relative to the description of
the house in the notice, suggesting that Baying the house
was not an innsibut one selling excisable liquor was a
contradiction on the face of the document. The Bench,
as before, overruled the objection. Mr. Tizard said
that all the arguments and memorials in favour of the
applications from the Jolly Sailor and the Port-
land Roads, near Castleton, where the Albert was situ-
ated, applied equally in this case. There were 100,000
visitors annually to the island. Mr. Manfield said that
it was a question whether any more licenses should Ise
granted at all for the Island of Portland. The appli-
cations thence had Genie from three respectable firms
of brewers at Weymouth, who ell seemed squabbling.
to get any little cottage in Portland, in order to convert
it into a licensed house, to the cutting of each other's
throats. The applicant, on being put into the witness
box, was cross-examined by Mr. Manfield as to the reel
occupiers of the premises. She said, she BA pposed she
should have to pay rent to Mr. Dodson, of Weymouth,
but had not yet paid any. Mr. Tizard said the house
I had formerly belonged to Mr. Dodson, by whom it was
transferred to Eldridge, Mason, & Co., and by theinunder-
let to the applicant. Witness, then, in reply to Mr.
Tizard said, ahe took the house from Eldridge, Mason,
dc Co. In answer to Mr. Manfield, she said, she "took
on the beer" in the early part of June. She had not
spoken to Ur. Dodson about the premises, but had con-
versed with one of his clerks. When elle took the house
of the clerk she left her notice at home ; the conversa-
tion she could not recollect, but she received an agree-
ment which was signed by her and by Mr. Dodson's
clerk, and the agreement wits at her house. Mr. 'heard
sent for Mr. Macon to explain the ownership, but, on
Mr. Mason speaking with Mr. Tiserd, the latter with.
drew the application. The Bench, after consultation,
stated that tho necessities of the island of Portland
were entirely answered at present on public grounds by
the licensed houses already permitted, and no new sp.
plication from Portland would be allowed.—Mr.
Symonds applied on behalf of William Nield Billen,
keeper of the Old Swan beer house, at Great Toiler.
There was • railway station about to be erected close by,
and at present there was no licensed house in the pariah,
nor nearer than Poorstock or Midden Newton. Mr.
Symonds put in • requisition in favour of the applies.
tics, signed by the vicar and many Inflitental persons in
the parish. The notices were proved, and the Bench
granted the application.—Mr. Byinonds applied for a
lioense on behalf of George Clarke, keeper of the Royal
George beer house, Chartnineter. The road to Cern'
having now been diverted, passed by this house,
and the traffic that way Was of considerable extent
To get to the other house In the parish which was
Hanged, the Three Compasses, persons going to Cerra
would have to g 2 up a considerable incline Mr. Wes-
t" °I'M". The application was refused, the megis.
trate' considering that there was no need of more
public houses in Chsrminater.—The Chinni= remarked
that with regard to the application from the Grove Inn,
at Portland, the migioiretes would have been inclined to
grant a license to that holm lad the notice been in pros
perform.
0011/41TTID TO DnItCH RRRRR GAOL.— Manned; Bow.
ring enameling the birth of a child at Wootton Minutiae,
Assists. TO hard iahoesrm John Hodgins, &Minh on
constable at Illandford, I *gender month ; James Seines
bury, vagrancy at Blandford,__l Wender month;
Stephen Charles Raishlsigh end Walter Taylor, robbing