The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-03-07 00:00:00

WdRICHAY.

"UNREFORMED CORPO— RATIONS."—itr. Woodruffe Daniel,
Mayor of Wareham, writes to us from Wareham
notice in The Times of Wednesday that Sir Charles Mike
niade the following statement in the House of Commons
on Tuesday evening the borough of Wareham £4O
per annum of corporate property is received by the Mayor
without account, most of which is spent on an annual
dinner.' This I beg most emphatically to deny. The
Mayor and Corporation have no funds whatever, and the
annual dinner only exists in Sir Charles Dilke's imagina-
tion.
"ITNREFONIED CORPORATIONS.,.
"A Baron of Corte Castle" writes to us :—" Will
you kindly afford me a little space in your columns for
the setting before the public and Sir Charles Dilke a
few mistakes he ma le in his speech in respect to the
borough of Code Castle ?-1. Mr. Johnson is not the
Mayor, but the ex Mayor. 2. The Mayor has not the
distribution of the Charities, but a body of trustees
approved of by the Charity C.minissioners. a The
lord of the manor is not an inoffensive clergyman, but
a young squire of whom it is hoped that he aill prove
thoroughly worthy of his honourable titles, 4. The
race of Barons is not quite extinct, as I have the
have the honour and rivilege of signing myself 'A
Baron of Code Castle."—Tista.

POOLE.
Pug Qusr.—The Trustees held • meeting on Tuesday,
when • letter was read from Sir Ivor Guest offering to
give tl,OOO towards the expense of extending the embank-
ment at the mouth of the Harbour, in order to give
Increasing facilities for navigation. Attached to the offer,
however, was a condition that the worthy baronet should
have power to appoint a few gentlemen to assist with the
Trustees. The liberal offer was accepted, and a vote of
thanks pared to Sir Ivor for it. Votes of thanks were
also tendered to Sir Ivor, and the Right Hon. Cavendish
Bentinck for the large expenditure they had made in their
efforts to open up trade between St, Melo and Poole.
Perri( SUSIONS, Wednesday—Before the Mayor and
C. J. Stone, Esq.
IWZET.

BITTIIII

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Charles Sweelapple was charged with using threata to-
wards Ann Sweetapple, hid wife, on the 25th and Stith
inst.—The complainant said she was in danger ef her life
when her husband had been drinking. She asked that he
might be bound over to keep the peace, but af terwanls she
said she would be satisfied with his promise to treat her
properly.—The defendant said he had previously had no-
thing to drink for twelve months.--ffe was discharged
on paying the coats and after being suitably admonished.

BUYING A HORSE AND HIS KEEP.
Mr. Charles Burgay, a downtrodden labourer, of Park-
stone, some time since bought a horse of Mr. Benjamin
Welch, blacksii.ith, of the same place. This would not
call for remark were it not that Mr. Burger by some
means or another had got into his head the opinion that
he had also bought the right to feed him on Mr. Welch's
corn. For some time past Welch had missed his corn,
and he made a mixture of about ten bushels of oats,
barley, wheat, and chaff, and placed it in the corn bin in
his stable. On Sunday morning he missed about two-and-
& half bushels of the mixture, and gave information to
Police-constable Cutler. On Sunday night that officer
found a quantity of corn in the prisoner s stable, which
corresponded with a sample he had taken from Mr.
Welch's bin. The constable waited till the prisoner got
up on Monday morning, and then followed him to the
stable, and asked him where he got his corn. Prisoner
said he bought it of a young man in Poole whom he did
not know. He was then charged with stealing the corn
from the prosecutor's bin, and taken into custody, when
he admitted the theft—Prisoner, when charged at the
Borough Police-court on Monday bait, pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

PARZATONZ.
A very successful entertainment was given in the St.
Peter's Schoolroom on Monday in aid of the school fends.
It comprised an organ recital by Mr. Linter, Mu*. Bac.,
songs by Mrs. J. R. Philpots and Dr. E. P. Philpota ;
recitations by Mr. Rase and Mr. Merton : and • selection
of vocal and instrumental music by Mr. 'Neer, Mrs.
Hamilton, and other ladies. A spelling bee was also in-
troduced presided over by the Rev. J. L Williams, vicar
of Lordeet, with the result that Mr. IL P. Ayles and
Mrs. P. Philpots were the prise takers.