The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-03 00:00:00

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ROYAL 0011141 OF Unto.—The following Is •
short summary of the amount coll•cted towards the
above object in Dorchester, which shows very
favourably when we consider the returns from other
towns. Amount collected, £5l 15.. 01. •, expended on
printing, be., £3 49. Od. ; total, £49 Us. 01. This
amount was ma le up to Lie, and remitted to the head
officers of the Committee by the Mayor, who had pre-
viously subscribed £5 lie. 01.
Revision Or VOTtaa LISTS. —The Revising Barrister
(Mr. S. Carter) held his wind on Saturday at the
idbirsball, for the revision of the voters' lists (borough
and °multi.) All the materials were present for a
good 61h1— r. K. 0. Weston and Mr. Arthur H.
Lock, for the Liberals, and Mr. G. J. Williams-
Andrews for the Couserrative•—but nothing came off,
and the proceedings were entirely devoid of interest.
Mr. Gam Symonds, Town Clerk, and Mr. Sampron
(for the Clark of tl.e Peace) attended, and besides the
solicitors, an I the other necessary "adjunct,," there
were not hall-a-d. zisis persons present.
Boaonas Parr, Swum's, Monday.—Befors the
Mayor (A.. Emsun, Esq., and Peard Jillard, Esq.—An
application for the temporary transfer of the Exhibition
Hotel from Richard Davis to William George Meader
was fractal—There was another applicaUon from
04.(0?gll Mitchell. of the Sun lan. Burton, for a
temporary license of the D Aphis lon, kept by Mr.
Cream. Mr. Supt. Coward said stplicent had not
node a good beginning. Hs had kept the house for
Iwo nights only, and on each occasion there had been
a lot of prostitutes in the holies. 'the applicatioe
was granted. Mitchell being cautioned by the Bench.
There WM no other business of any importsuoe.
DOICEMITIZ Acialoctxoset. SOCIETY—The annual
Ploughing matches in connection with this society took
place at lfartinetown on the ground of Messrs. J. T.
and OW. limier. The Judge' were Mr. D. Symonds,
of Ashton, and Mr. T. Duke, of Woodsford, and their
awards were as follows :—Men's Class.—lit, George
Painter, servant of the executors of the late /Ir.
Richard Genre ; 2ad, James Wills, servant of Mr. H.
W. Hawkins • 3rd. John Churchill. servant of Mr.
John Mayo. lad's 01eas.-Ist, Samuel Clark, servant
to Mr. John Cobb; 2tid, Frank Squires, servant of
Mr. H. Mayo ; 3rd withheld. Oz.* Mass (with or
without a driver) —l4, Thome' Bailey, servant of
Mr. H. W. Hawkins ; 2nd withheld. Othispice Prize
15Lven by Mews. J. T. and G. W. Homer).—Walter
urthlll, servant of Mr. Charles Mayo (Piddlthin-
Ion.)
Jtiav LISTIL—The adjourned Court for verifying
the lists of jurors in this district was held on Satur-
day morning, there being present E. W. Williams,
FAT, and G. Worry, Earl. The lists of the follow.
log perishes were returned :—Compton Abbas., Stins•
ford, liwyre, Tincleton, and Bincombv.—Mr. Giles
Symonds (Clerk to the Magistrates) said it would be
well to tall overseers that the law required that the
Llists should be posted on the church doors, and s overseers were liable in the penalty of £lO for the
default. The oath that the overman took on verify-
ing these jury lime Implied to • certain extent that
the notices hat been so placed. He pot in the
Important opinion of cormsei width had been obtained
as to the MO liability to which overseers were subject.
—Mr. Williams Wadi in the event of there being no
church in the parish, what would be the alternative
—Mr. Bytnonds replied that the lists DMA be placed on
what was considered to be the public place in the
parish.—Mr. Paull (overseer of Came) di 1 not return
the lists for that perish, and he was in danger of being
tined as • defaulter.
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The present session of the Dorchester Lecture Society
most aaspiciously_on Thursday evening, when
ZesiSt. jeernt Tindal•Atkinaon, the respected judge of
this County Court tistrict, made his debar as •
lecturer. The limped setjeant, It will boreal' !sabered,
promised hie lecture lest session, bsr. it was postponed,
and the committee did wisely in selecting it as the
opening teeters of the pretreat Lecture Society's year.
It had been looked forward to with a considerable
amount of interest by the nurnemue hien is and
admirers which the Ju Ige has ma le since his arrival
amongst no, and the deep respect am I esteem in which
be Is held in legal circles was amply tsetifie I to, not
only by the large attendant* of eentiemen practbing
In the law In this district, but by many of the most
infineatial inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood,
—The chair wu occupied by that weldknown magistrate
of the want, bench, E. L. Kinderaley, Esq. Tbe
duties of a chairman on such an occasion as this were,
be said, very like those of a waiter at an ordinary
dinner in an inn. When once the table had been laid,
and the hour for dinner ha I wired, It was his business
to out the dinner on tho tahle as quickly as he can,
and if he failed he hod only himself to thank If he
board the muttered imi.recsti us of the assembled
guests—" Conf..uod the f. l'ow, why doesn't he get out
of the way, an I lot us begin." He mud assure them he
eery fully 'lures:dated tho similarity f the two
posit', ea, and yet ha felt be muse detain them for a few
moments. He could not forget that this was the first
lecture of • new session, and it wou'd handy be pr. per
of him to pass over that fact without a kettle; to it.
It was, he thought, with go ,d judgmrnt that the
approach of this ftemion was heralded by the Issue of
the report of the nucivt! f w the last year. He was
sure they would all feel that the report itself was most
satisfactory ; itt dd then, that during the past eession
there had been nine !satires or readings giveo, and
they might fairly assume that the large amount cf
money th it warn taken on these ..ccasions was a eery
fair mot that a large amount of enjoyment was
to • very large number of pumas. He WSS
ama they would agree with him that their thanks were
my largely due to the managers of the moiety, who