The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

POOLE.

THI pollee expenditure during the year ending
August, 1868, was £1,195 14s. Bd.—woe a* much as
it was twelve or thirteen years ago.

OPERA COMPANY.-1(r. •Manley'. Opera Company
have been performing nightly in Poole during the last
eight days. The singing and acting of Miss Jesse Mills
and Mr. H. Manley was loudly applauded ; we under-
stand the company intend remaining in the town four
or nye days longer.
Town Cocrmcm—The quarterly meeting of the Town
oouncil wee held on Monday. It war resolved that the
desciency of PM la. 10d. to meet the expenses of the
borough should be met by a borough rate to be paid out
of the poor rate. A committee wee appointed to sit
weekly and grant petroleum licenses, at a charge of sa.
for each license. The council agreed to pay PIO per
annum for ringing the morning and evening bells, sod
for keeping the church cloak in order.

1 TOE -RIOBT Or CHORCHWAILDINS TO COII.I3CT
ihrautx Bole is Citithen.—On Thursday lest. at the
petty session', before Mature W. Pewee (Mayor), W.
L. C. Adey, K Lacy, H. Herds, ancllr J. Stone, Mr.
F. T. Rogers, • magistrate of the borough, and church-
warden of Lonfieet, was summoned for an assault on •
boy, named William Edwin Elgar, of Bournemouth, in
'maidlett thumb, daring the hours of divine service
on Sunday evening, the 54th ultimo. The summons
was at the instance of the 1f.,. Mr. Nicholson, curate
of St. Peter's church, Bournemouth, the boy being one
of his choristers. The boy was put Into the witness
box, and declared on oath that be did not misbehave
himself, and that Mr. Rogers first gave him a shaking
and then several blows, which he did not deserve. Kr.
Reeves, a person of Pmkstono, also declared on oath
that the boy did not misbehave himself; but he under-
went a scarehlig mossexamination from Mr. Rogers
from which it appeared that the boy was not sitting in
front of him, and that he could not possibly have seen
him without looking round. Mr. Rogers informed the
magistrates that he could MOD those • great deal of
trouble, as he wee ready to admit having both shaken
and cuffed the boy.-11r. Lacey asked if that was not
conclusive, Mr. Rogers having admitted the assault: and
two or three of the magistrates appeared favourable to
conviction ; Mr. Rogers informal them that in his
capadly of churchwarden he hadimaeiterfoot right to
chemise the boy, who woo very misbehaving
himself, and be read from the " urehwarden's
Guide an injunetion to that idlest OW WIS Oon•
sentiently promeded with, and 'b. -•
called
witnesses to prove that thithonaregation were mush die.
turbed on the evening in question by the disorderly
conduct of the boys in the corner of the gallery where
the complainant was seated, until Mr. Rogers cane
there to preserve order. The witnesses were, however,
unable posititrly to state that complainant mused the
disorder. The magistrates here told Kr. Rogers that
he had not proved misbehaviour on the part of the boy
but defendant offered to state on oath that he was the
chief offender. A long consultation then ensued, during
which Mr. Rogers was aaked to kill his brother magis-
trates the injunction to churchwardens he had quoted,
which being handed up to them, the cam was dismissed,
and the duty of ehurchwardens to prevent brawling
and unruly conduct in church eenfirmed.
Perri. thatenoms, Thursday.— JosepA Seedy we
',modeled to Poole gaol for one month with hard
labour for being found in • left on the premises of Mr.
Thomas Taylor, licensed vietugler, for an unlawful
purpose—Henry Matthews, was fined Is. and cane
for assaulting Joseph Brown, on the 31st January.