The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-31 00:00:00

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approach your Mijwity's cameo with Oa aseuraace of
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the mat of thy royal fendiy have iileatilled themselves
with the tircummances ad Interests of Una nation,
whether in their j• iya or in their sorrow!, and it as this
feeling wticti misty event which hiLyais any
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In let ot your Majesty'a family to awaken such deep
eyuip.t.'iy in the Lear, of Viis prune. we thew,.
with *ha noit ifron. Majesty's loyal Lishit.m. in
I....sties the gil4 sorrow whit's bur lat Ay fall.a is
your Majesty ant the royal Nonni. ; and
humbly to hope thst your Majesty mey derive ioale
comfort in your affliction from this fresh assurance of Me
alfectioo ant sympathy osi the gart of your subjects"
Mr. Mit-Lame said he roes for the purpose o(mahisa a
incrsation—" That tbe foregoing addling of cositolenoe
to Her Most Gracious Majesty the (4 :NMI. 011 the de.oh of
Prince.. alim. he adopted, and that the Town Clerk be
isithoriald to affix to it the c usimon seal of the borough.'
Mr. Alderman LUNDIII 10000ded the ptomaine 5...4
Lb. proosedisge torminated.
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Milestone TO Sean= Soot arr.—Mr. F. Reynolds,
Old Bank, Portland, having been appointed local hon.
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see. &11,1 treasurer to the above society, begs to thsah
the subscribers and friends for the amount+ received,
and as the collection hen fallen ,'if this year will be
liapny to receive any additional stuns for this exualleat
work.
Tux POOR Ifint4re Aostx.—On Friday lad at the
Courntetyr.Pwet.ty.Seumwinionnsed,hebeldfore ColonelatWeyo s
utit,4o,4:
Mr. R. if. Eliot I r working a borne at Portland while
It was in an unfit data In answer to the charge
defendant said the borne bad s ridng on Its shoulder—
it came to a head and burste I. what could bo
more than that ?—P.C. proved the case, and
, the defendant caused no little merriment by stating
! that the wound WNI cau.ed by a rising. and when it
came t, a head it burst like anybody else. and what
more c mid lie do than tbatf—letued 10,. and mirti.
OBSTRUCTION. —At the County Petty Sessions at , Weym iteh. ort Friday, before Colonel dwafileld and
Mr. R. H. Eliot, Janes Thresher, carder, was sum.
mooed for an alleged obstruction of the highway on
the 12th of December. —Mr. Turner, solicitor, appeared
for the defence.—P.C. Miller said he was on duty at
Fortune's Well on the day io question, about 11.30,
when he eaw two waggons in lea with iron opposite
the defendant's house; the horses were taken out.
He went to the defendant end asked him if he was going to allow the waggons to stop there. Defendant
replied " Yea" He (witness) told him it vim an
obstruction, and that they must be removed. Defen-
dant, however, allowed them to remain till the next
day in the afternom. The waggon, were on the
public high-road.—ln cross-examination witness said
the road wee about 2.1 feet wide, and that the waggons
were .s near to the kerb as possible. When he saw
teem first it was about half-past seven in the evenins.
When he first spoke to the defendant he asked him if
he were going to allow the waggons to stay there all
night? lie replied that he was going to move them
the next day, he could not then as the roads were bad,
and it was snowing. He thott;ht it would have been
easy for the defendant to have removed the waggons
into the yard, which was close by.—Mr. Turner then
addrested the Bench, and said that he could not deny
that the waggons were on the highway; but 11111 the
weather was so bad at the time it was next to
impossible to remove them. He would, therefore,
ask the Bench to deal leniently with his client —The
magistrates, taking into consideration the severity
of the weather at the time, fined the defendant Is, and
costs.