The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-23 00:00:00

POOLE.

BOROUGH POLICE FORCE.—We have pleasure in
announcing that in accordance with the provisions of
the 19th and 20th Vic. chap. 69, see. 16, the trea-
surer of the borough has been authorised by the
secretary of the Treasury to draw on the Govern-
ment for £147 2s. 3d., being the amount of one-
fourth of the cost of the police force of the town for
the year ending September last. The grant has
been made in accordance with the representations of
Capt. Willis, the government inspector, who certi-
fied that the police force of the town and county o£
Poole had been maintained in an efficient manner.

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THE BLANDFORD BANK Noma.—At the county
court held on Tuesday an action was brought by
Messrs. Major and Co., of this town, rope makers,
against Mr. Davis, of Milborne, to recover the sum of
£33 7s. Id. On the 11th of February the defend-
ant came to the establishment of plaintiffs, and saw
Mr. Keats, one of the partners. Defendant paid
Mr. Keats seven .£5 notes of the Blandford Old
Bank, which was conducted by Menem. Oak and.
Snow; Mr. Keats gave him two sovereigns, and
allowed the 7s. Id. as discount. On the same day
Mr. Keats gave one of the notes to his clerk in
change for five sovereigns; on the 12th Mr. Keats
payed the whole of the notes into Messrs. Ledgard's
bank to the account of the firm of Messrs. Major
and Co. The notes were forwarded by pest to
Blandford by Messrs. Ledgard on the 12th, the mama
day on which they were paid in, and reached Bland-
ford on the morning of the 13th. On the 16th the
notes were received by Messrs. Ledgard again from,
Blandfoni, with an intimation that the lank hadi
suspended payment. The notes were returned to.
Messrs. Major by Messrs. Ledgard as soon as re-
ceived by them, and Mr. Keats took them to the.
defendant at Milborne, and told him that they had
been returned to the firm of Messrs. Major by the
bank at Poole. Mr. Keats said they had been dis-
honoured, and were of no use, and proffered them to
defendant, who accepted them. On Friday a young
man brought the notes to plaintiffs, and said they
came from Mr. Davis, of Milborne; plaintiffs refused
to have any thing to do with them, and declined to
take them from him. The young man left them on
the desk, and went away. His Honour, in giving
judgment, reviewed the case at great length. He
considered that plaintiffs had done all that was re-
quired of them, and therefore gave judgment in
their favour. With reference to the delay which
had occurred in not giving defendant notice until
the 26th, he thought that might form a question for
the court above, and would therefore give leave to
move for a new trial on that point.
TEMPERANCE LECT URNS. Jabez Inwards,
the popular orator, has been lecturing during the
past week on Teetotidinin and Phrenology, his
remarks on which subjects afforded great enter-
tainment to his numerous auditors.
FATAL ACCIDF-NT. —An inquest was held on Satur-
day last before H. M. Aldridge, Esq.' coroner, on the
body of a child named Harris, aged 15 months, wlo
had on the previous day fallen head foremost
into a pan of water, and on being dise.overed.
by its mother was found quite dead. A verdict wan
returned of "Accidental death."

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SEAMEN'S WAGES.—The strike of the sailors or
this port, which has continued for the last months, is
now at an end, and the whole of the colliers hays
sailed, the men having submitted to the reduction in
their wages of 10s. per month.
PETTY SESSIONS, Thursday, before the Mayor
(W. Pearce, Esq.) and a full bench of Magistrates.—
Charles Pearce, a labourer of Piddletown, was sum-
moned by Mary Ann George, a widow woman. who
alleged him to be the father of her illegitimate
The case being proved an order was made for is. 61.
per week.--&turday,—Eliza Lacy was charged
by P.C. Groves with being disorderly and using
obscene language in the Strand between 12 and
o'clock on Saturday morning. Dismissed on paying
the costs.

An eloquent and forcible sermon was preached on
Sunday evening in the Independant Chapel by the
Rev. E. R. Conder, especially applicable to sailors,
taking for his text part of the 6th verse of the
let chapter of Jonah, "Arise, call upon thy God,
if so be that God will think upon us and we perish
not" The chapel was crowded, a great number of
the congregation being sailors.