The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-20 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC, HEALTH.

From tho Itsgictrar-Usceral's return of marriages,
births, sad deaths. ths following particulars am
abstracted :

Births. Deaths.
1.gi."'"04-0..
ftOstratioeMsbeiwtscm slit I *2Att
l-ii. ... ji
e riJi ri
. . ... r,
.. _.
DOaarainat
Intaftestsary .... ...... .... • lO 24 ' 20
'Fontana 26 so 10
13111Inghaw 42 23 II
itaWdge
lkormloster
Wilte.n • MI.
Illsed/ord
Oranborne
Wltchaniptes . . ..... .. •• • 10 16 31
Wiwborne .. .....
' 63 = 24
Poole
Lyiebeit
liww.ege , ...... ...... .. ..... I 17 17 10
Oode COW. ...... ....... .... 16 8 14
Wareham ..... ... ....... 36 f 3 41
Derr Kees 2O 28 13
62 23 14
174.7
ush
.....
..... 90 76 60
10!5150.4 ' SS
.....I 16 33 26
10 7
71 43 371
' 31 12 15
13 40 20
Ooroo . . ...... ........ .. .. 37 22 1 31
Trandaster ........... ?I 19 ID
Mewl) olar .. ....... ........ 37 all 23
Bradford Ablag.
17 14 11
Niitherlinry ..... ...... .. . 31 30 13
Bramlerter.. ' 24 17
Barton Bruhn ck
Brldport as 60 34
Weltreurch Chinon corow 1 21 12 59
THE W IMBLEDON SHOOTIN/7.
We are enable I t i give lb. liwww of th , .uccevefel
ilornpetltors in the I/ ,reet Nash ,8 for the hon mr of
representing their resp.cttvo c .ro. at Wimlded 10.
Forty-seven C .top t •.1 this ye tr. and 94 ma io splalify-
Ing sons.. The rang... ware 200, 500. 600 yard., seven
rounds at each range, and the scores show the segre.
Ws of the beat three out ot four comptitiorm viz •
Order Total of
of NOMA sod Rank. beat three Name of
Merit. S. ,res. Comp my.
, 4Corporal Stubbing, 22.5 G (Sharborne)
' APrivate Henry ... 225 B (Warehsll4
3 Sergeant i10W424111 ... 25:1 A (liri.iport)
4 C ,rporal Cog ... 250 1. (Gillingham)
5 Private S. Green ... 249 L ((lillingham)
gJ S ow...at !Wreck ... 247 B (Waren 'nth
' 1 Private W. Oman ... 247 L (Gillingham
11{Sergeant Roberta ... 246 I (Shaftvsbury
Sergeant Mutford ... 216 C(I birth...ter
Privets Dennis ... 246 0 (iherborne
11 Captain Whetham ... 245 A (Bliport)
~, J Corporal Light ... 243 lf Illiarvilord)
" 1 Privets Himocir ... 243 1 (Shaftesbury)
14 Private Hoare .. 212 A (Rri,lport)
Lance-Corporal Last 241 0(1) wolowder)
lb Corporal bolder .. 241 1. (Gillingham)
Private Chick ... 211 (1 (lherborne)
18 Private M ...re ... 238 B (Wareham)
Private Kellaway ... 238 B (Wareham)
privet., Wilton ... 237 X (We 981•0111
321 Corporal °borne ... 237 1 (Shaftesbury
o.l.Sergt. Amnesty' 237 L. (Gillingham
n Sergeant Bridle ... 216 11 (Wareham)
Corporal Tilley ... 238 C (Dorchester)
25 Qr.. Sergeant Lee ... 234 X (Weymooth)
26 Private Skivingtoo .. 230 H (Blandfor3)
27 Colour.Sergt. Luber 228 I (shaftesbory)
28 Sergeant Foot ... 227 1) (Aberboree)
23 Sergeant 'Tanking . . 226 B (Wareham)
30 Private Watt. .. 225 II (Illandfor.l)
31 Corporal Hacker ... 221 1 (ihafteshory)
32 J Lieut. rook+ ... 222 G tlherb iroei
(Privet. AI. Chaffi GSn .. 2T2 herborne
34 Private Voss . . 220 1.. ( (Hingham

Dorchester
Todd!stows

COUNTY COURT.

TVICIDAL—Bdon Mr. Sezjesat Tindal-Atkinson
(Jtuite.)

Re Viii.—Hie Honour delivered the following jwigs
sent in this cam :—lie Vine, in liquidation. Thiene an
application made by the trustee if the debtor's eetete,
Mamma Lasso Denman, in behalf of the creditors of
Henry Vine, the liquidatingdebtor, for an order of the
Court directing that certain dealings between the
debtor and John Mdward Ford, which were made on
the Srd, 711, Bth, and 9th of Marob, ehould be
deolared fraudulent and void. From the examination
of the parties which has taken place in this case it
appears that the debtor. Henry Vine, commenced
business in Weymouth 13 years eines as a butcher and
cattle dealer with a capital of £5O. No books were
kapt or papers of any kind were preserved of the
cattle dealing branch of the buainees. There had
been vedette business transactions between the debtor
and Ford which, on the 12th of February, 1853. had
been all cleared off. On the 27th of that month Ford,
on the representation of the debtor that he had given
• cheque for cattle which he had purchased which
cheque be was unable to meet, advanced to him as •
loan £lOO, taking at the same time • promissory note
at 14 days from Vine for that amount. At this time,
although the fort was unknown to Ford, Vine was
insolvent being indebted, owing to various creditors
Rff .300, with meet. from all •ources of 019. Shortly after
the loan wee obtained a civone of this debtor's for
1216 wee neared unpaid, sad three days before he
Sled the petition for liquidation • bill of exchange
for £2OO which he bad elven to another creditor was
oleo diehonoured. It wee du, leg this time—namely.
from the Srd ti the Bth of Mirth—the debtor sem
obtaining cattle from various farmers and teams
terrine them to For.i. to the amount of £96, in discharge
of the £lOO be bad borrowed, the last treader, to
She extent of L'26 51., being made on the day the
debtor's petition was filed. It is contended that
them foots show a deer lase of • fraudulent
theire on the part of the debtor that Ford's
debt ahould be paid in preference to the other
ageditor•—tbst, in fact, the payment by the debtor
was • voluntary one, made with the fall knowledge
that at the time of making it he was insolvent, and
that be was heading over to Ford on the very eve of
bankruptcy mesas which ought to be rateably distri-
buted among all his creditors, and was thereby acting
In fraud of the law. What is requisite to constitute
a fraudulent preference was for the first time laid
down by L ird Mansfield in Alderson v. Temple,"
4 Borrows. 2,235, where be Jaye "That under the
statutes of bankruptcy • trader, up to the moment of
aa atei of bankruptcy, is entitled to every power an
owner can have over his eatate with thia exception—
• if • man about to become a bankrupt, and know.
leg that the law intends that the creditors shall !Mare
equally in the property, voluntarily and not upon
="does an act which contravenes the spirit of
baekruploy laws, the goods or the money
delivered or paid over can be recovered back from
the penes to whom be may only have paid a Jost
debt' After • long aerie, of decisions of what ia
aosawasy to constitute • fraudolent preference, eome
01 MIND aubtle and some c inflicting, • great am mot of
amenity which formerly attended the considerati-n
of this question in these courts las been swept away
by two "me lately decided in the Court of Appeal—
waste, en parte Griffith, in re Wilcoxon, 111,_ Chan-
cery Division, 69, and ex parte Hill, in re Bird, Ili. 695,
in which It le distinctly held that, in order that a pey.
meet of money or • transfer of property mad* by • ,
debtor in favour of one of lols creditors should be void
as • fraudulent preference under section 92 ~f the
Bankruptcy AM. 1869, it is sufficient that the pre- '
fearing the creditor should have been the subeteniial,
elfestual, or dominant view with which the debtor
made it it is not necessary it should have been his
thols view. Applying the frets of the present case to
the principle of this decision, it is clear to my mind
that, when the debtor was transferring the csttle to ,
Feed in diecharge of the loan, the substantial,
dominant view with which the transfer wee made was
that Yard should be preferred beyond the other
ereditoes. One fact alone is to me decisive of tide.
On the same day on which the debtor filed Me petition
for liquidation I find an ectry relating to awe trans- I
*otiose In Ford's ledger giving credit for cattle sold to
him by the debtor for 1.16 to. It may be that the
geesee to peeler this particular credit is had Its origin
in the face that Ford had been kind to him, and had
relieved him in • monseat of fliel:ulty by the loan of
the elet., and it was probably owiog to this feeling
that the debtor wee iodated to avail himself of such
asexhita.ted cre lit thst rem& ed to him to obtaus the
:=y of others to pay the partioular debt. 1 see
In the facto of the mes which lead to the con
abides *ad lord was any piety to the debtor'. tree"
egos the 'swam from taloa be obtained the pr d

twit/ with which Ford was Paid. but I have not the
I slightest difficulty or hesitation in arriving at the
wonclosion that the dealings in this care c .ostituta on
the part of the debt.a • deliborateur o.noe.ed rat 4
persistently carried out fraudulent preference. anil
that tho trustee is entitled to the order he a-ki for in
tile terms of tiro motion, the trustee's c »to of the
application to be paid out of the estate, 'ord to boar
hi. own.

Mr. lrevor Davie appeared for the tnptee (Mr. I.
Denman), and M. Percy Street for Ford.
Re It 'bort GIVIIIOWOAI.—tIis Honour said he had
"ad the Proceedings in this case. Mr. Howard.
who appeared for the debtor, waa unable to attend.
—Mr. Trevor Davies (for the trustee) sad Mr.
Hu:table represented bitn.—bila Honour : A very
able subetitute. It appeared to him, looking at the
merit. of the cafe, lilting there aa a jury, after
reading the vo,runinone proceedings airi endeavouring
to arrive at a conclusion on the hate, be WM of
opinion the debt claimed was an honest claim, but it
reqsized to be clowily enquired lot. with regeri to
some questions which were asked se to what the (Mrs.
Greenwood) received in the shape :pp at end so
on during the long period prevailing between the
advaDoement of the money and the time of the bank-
ruptcy. He was ir.clined to treat it almoet as a
creditors' administration suit and have the matter
I referred to him as to whatinpon the facts ought to be
deducted from It. That wee the tendency of hie mind,
but he was quite open to argument upon it. -Mr.
Davies said there wee one point to which he would
call his Honour's attention—the debtor was himself
entitled to one-fourth part of the t2ioo. —H le Honour
said be should like to enquire into the point.—Mr.
Deviee : Will your Honour allow it to be heard ai far
as at can on the present application, subject to going
beim* the Registrar first, with leave to Come before
your Honour upon any questdon upon which the
Registrar Is not satisfied ?—klia Honour said with
re,pard to the estoppel set up in the c,e—that the
proof of the debt having been 0.0. .itutit,d it mc.,e
be inexorably admitted—he could not c incur in tole
plea. Ti.. gonna would be to leave tho question open
to the next court. —Mr. imitable: Y.. 0 will hear
both parties on the merits ?—Yea.—Mr. Deviaa : And
It I, understood I am not required to proceed under
any other rule? His Honour replied in the negative,
and the cue stood adjourned,