The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-04-20 00:00:00

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CAPTAIN MANNING AND PORTLAND LOCAL

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BOARD.
To as Editor.
career of the Portland Local Board is fast
drawing to an inglorious clods, and • ecirrespoudenoe
which lies just pulsed between the Board and Captain
Ilaeniag is too suggestive to pass unnoticed. From the
outset of the aeration for • Local Board, Captain
Nanning set his face against it, as likely to prove
ruinous to the interests of the inhabitants, and the
wisdom of his opinion is now abundantly verified, for,
while the rates have greatly increased, the highways
have been gradually getting worse, "insProveniente"
have proved to be nuisances, and the constitution of the
Board has provoked infinite animosity In the Wand.
For • time the Board openly defied Captain Manning,
but within the last six months that line of coodact has
been alatudonni, and overtures for co-operation have
been made, but these were civilly declined. At length
th Board have found that they can't collect the Haw
they make, and that all the matters corer which they
have jurisdiction we becoming in a hopeless state, so a
few weeks beck they dwided to molts an app..' ad
usisericordsies to Captain Memphis. The chairman of
the Brent was deputed to write this letter, as one who
had uta's himself 'belittle obnoxious at the Castle as
soy of them, and the epistle be indited was as "'amble"
an effusion as can well be conceived coming from so
signet and until recently proudly defiant body. Ad-
dressing Cant Nanning as "dear and honoured sir" Mr.
B. Pe:riven, jun., called his attention to the distress in the
i land, the telactsncie of the Board to make DO heavy a
rate es the expenditure demand., the constant repairs
requital by the r ads, the bad state of the pond at
Reston, sed other heavy expenwn, and the letter con-
elect. a, "We therefore hope that you will take it into
your kind consideration under the present emergency,
and if you should be pleased to assist us from the fund.
arising front Her Majesty's Royal Grant at your din.
pedal, it will be moot gratefully received by the Board."
The reply which the Board received is smartly written,
and may well be regarded s.s the death-knell of the
Board. The trustees of the grant money say "no" to
the application fur money, because the perish burdens
under the Local Board have increased without any
commensurate improvement, the highways which were
In excellent order are now in a ruinous condition, there
is no prospect of diminishing the aspens.' because of
the salaries of the allows of the Board, and bemuse •
Local Board is utterly unfit for a country parish.
While, however, declining to give money, the Trustees
tender • piece of advioe--eoesider your position, and
return to the old system of parochial government, and
thus close a state of things "which has made 111 for •
long time objects of wonder and pity to an air neigh.
boors." The Board are highly incensed at this rebuff.
but I think the general opinion of the inhabitants is
thetthey had better take the advice tendered to them,
and let us have once again low rates sod peace and
quietness throughout the island.— Yours truly
COMMON SENSE,