The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-11-13 00:00:00

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LOYAL BENEVOLENT— LODGE OF ODDFELLOWS. The
annual ,limier in roneetion .ith the ahoy, $ ,ietv sra..
held at the Crown Hotel .41 Tueolay lith inst. Mr. T.
pre4.te.l. oh int 1:011...rot ,A nen. ime-ent.
BREAK-DoWN it THE RUMAT. —Th.. inuine of a
train 'woke loon near !Whir 4Lar on Mon.lay ,gftern
and owither enzino u.n to I.e d0...1.11rhe,1 f roni Whit'' rue
to I,IIIIIZ the train into that nation The re.ult of the
break- 0 n Kat that the 111. awl •wn I.a.,eti2er train.
wcre tooth aelayed air .ut three-onortera ot an hour.

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TIIE NEW ROADS AND TIIE (I.'Bl'ODV OF THE
FIRE ENGINE.

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A re-dry meeting wits held at the 0 ldhellows Hall on
Thonelay, General Maclean in Ow chair, awl among the-n
present were Meese.. G. Wilson, T. Laing, W. J.
rleteher. 0. Strange, T. L slder, awl S. Hunt.
The. unmans,' resat the waive calling the vestry,
which .liowtst that it WIPI convened by the churchwardens
and °vers....la, in accordance with a notice received from
the Witelswne Highway Board, "for the pnrpoor
of
determining alsetts, the road, as hereiulfter
latelv reale by t:.e Trashys of thot Dean'. Court Estate,
wotild be .4 sutti tent utility to the inhabit sets of this
eart-h to 'oily its being kept in repair at the rap-n-e
the tail peadt, vie.: -Tee new toad run .. i.. from the
l,igleroad at the s t,t nor ler of St. .11 Om the
Evan:elists Church, to its juneti in to the rael eal el
Bellp't's-r-eill, awl teen e- vontineing In a otutb-westerly
dir ettion through Rowlands to its jun.-'I at with the
present highway leading front It: nthrook.bridge to the
field f ,neerty ke..n as It ovland's Field, the whole of
whiela said road is within the parish of Wititb 'rue
M: neer ;don for the purr ”4., of determining the .elv is I-
bike of transferring th• tire engine from Ow over'..,
to the It-teal Saat.try Authori-
Mr. T. LAING ieahl he shettl-I to' verr happy to ar. 'to for
the ptridi t sking on the roi.ls if the C ene Be- ste
would abolish the private Cate be> ond the Glen at C de-
bit!, uw that would allow of the road being nstel p stele
coming from Cranhorne, liorton, and the district beyond •
to the railway station or cattle market ; but lilt eat as
he had heard. prop wisyl to keep the gate locked he need
not of what utility the road would be to the inhabi-
tants of Wirolsente.
Mr. T. LODGER -saki the Doane C mrt E:.ata had
already given tip the land for the voids, and ha-I ex-
pended aim. £lllO or 1.500 in making them. The town
waa greatly benetithel be the houses built up on the
estate, both as regarded the number of fresh inhabitants
and the increase:4 rateable value of the property, and he
moved that the raitli he taken over be the parish.
Mr. W. .1. FLETCHER said the Dean*. Court Estate
would be put to very great expense in continuing the St.
John'aroad to the gate, and that trot the reason why it
was kept locked—viz., to prevent cattle and heavy tratlie
comine along the roads, to the annoyance of the residents
in the locality. The rates front the new Inmate woeld far
more than cover the expense of repairing the roads, and
he thought the residents contriboting to the rates ought
to have sotns benefit front thew, lie seconde I the motion.
Mr. C. Strange censiderel the proposition to take over
the roads ell, at present somewhat pretuatitre, aa the '
questions relating to the new draina2e of the town under
the Sanitary Act and the laying down of gas were likely
shortly to arise, and might materially affeet the rapt nu
of maintaining the ro.ls. If it Wa4 true, as he had
heanl, that two Jestioes of Peace, has ing viewed the:*
roads, cont.], certify that they were of sufficient utility to
the inhabitants of Wtmli ran', and by no doing conhl
• compel the highway Board ti take them over, the
inhabitants really had very little voice in the matter.
Mr. G. Wilton agreed with Mr. Leine that the roads
would -rally be of practicsoutility if the gee mentioned
was abolished; but with regard to the remarks of Mr
Strange he thought if the Highway Beard should decline
to take over the roads, and the inhabitants of the parish
In the vestry should also refuse to take them, that no two
Justices of the Peace f, the Wit& ortie division would
ignore the expresse 1 wishes of these two hdlg.,
The prOWaith won put to the meeting, but only two
voted for it, and it was consequently I.t.
Mr. G. Wilson proposed that the Bre engine should be
transferred from the oversews to the Rural Santter7