The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-25 00:00:00

11,:sri!ci Till xixo.! 'mut.

Mears. Mutat and Bat tendered at fa I.Sr.. and Mr. 11.
S. Moore. £l2 10,
Oa the uaotton of Mr. 82100 C Martin and Bon's tender
wee accepted

swum goaDOCII, LAD KAMM-1100M
The Luise. Harbour, and H.ritvt-bouse committee's
report a. read by Yr. J. E. Rosetta, as follows : "The
Committee appointod by you to investigate the Bridge,
Harbour, and Ilarket-house trusts, baring met, and
cram:awl two years' accounts of each nf these several
trusts, submit now to the CAUICa the followind report
thereon, Bro.

lA4 Bridge. —There is no debt on the brigs. It has •
balance divested. 4220 consols, £213 led. ga—onnuoi
interest thereon 1:8 1111. The income from opening
the bridge in 1877 was .E2B 18, ;in 1878. C 32 15, The
repeirs coat in 1877. £1612.. ;in In7B. £184.. 111. The
proportions of warievcdarged on the hr,d4o arw—Horbon
master. £lO ; Surveyor. £5 : and the incidental expinse
were in 1877. CI fts. it In 1678. 7.. ed. Th balonoo now
in hand is L572a. al. : independent of the .C 213 ls. 81.
Invested in Gongola The average inc.:IMO for the too
years is £l7 Its 11. and the expenditure for salaries and
repairs i. 11. SIJ.. .

lAA Harbour.— rho present debt on the Harbour la
£20.600: up totes pereent year theinterest paid haa been on
£384160, fur Met was the sum owing before the Extension
ot 'lie Oiler Pier. The interest tither to paid has been
£3102 10s. ; but in future it sill be £lO3l 10a Toe salaries
end sepermittura which will fall constantly on the Harbour
fond art—for Harbour-muter'. salary, LW; Town Clerk
£lO. and Treasurer £10; and the lightitg costa £3l; so
t iat theroreCialles part from any contingenciriaa rum of
£1,133 10, in future to be paid annually from the Harbour
The committee are happy to state that the
Bathe ir presents a c..t.siderable Mcraes in it. revenue i one
tos p.eseut year; and although there has been absence in
Favour of the Treasurer ever 'lnc. the building of the
Q iay .all in Wl—which in 1876 nu LSI la 6 , and in
1877, £2016a 6/1. and, although the peat tear has had
unusual expenses to be met, such as £5l 2.114. expended
ou sad near the Outer Pier, La for the repairing the
Junction between Me Pier and ballast quay, £125 14e. 101.
beyond the sum advanced by the Great Western It.iiway
for the landing ewe of the Jersey steamers, and law
charge. of LlOls 61.—0 f which Lel aro-e In defending
toe action brought against the Corporation by Me contractor
or the Qtry, being in the aggregate about X.36o—they
tb,r2„.2 the end of the present financial year to see the
on the proper Ade of the ledger.'"
Sir. ROBILSS then read a detailed statement, showing
the receipt. from the Harbour and Wharfage due., the
totals being—for 1870 77, £1,504 3s. 24.: and for 1277 78,
£3,708 8.. 41, showing an increase of £2lOl ss. St The
to:lowing items produced an Massa. of revenue in 1877.78
—Jersey hosts regular traffic, special ;seam crane, c:
timber, miscellaneous, erects in ballast, and general
potato traffic; but there was • decree.. on corn and
cereals, and manures And cattle food. Sir. Rotens
continued: "But larking at thie account, it will be seen
the nett income has been £1.768 B..4A:deduct £2185. 61,
special potato traffic, and £B6 col:minion for collecting,
there remain. • nett revenue of £1,405 to hearth. interest,
salariev, and incidental expenses of the Harbour. If
£1.133 10, be taken from the, there remains a margin
M .6271 10s., to meet all the contingencies which may
aria. In toe harbour. As, however, the interat for the
debt on the peat year was only paid for L 18,050, the
balance on that year would be really £4OO, berilm what
might acme from the ialbut but they beg the Council to
remember that the bet year's revenue was £2Oll in excess
of the preceding year, and that variation. of Income must
be taken into account ;this will be • motive for looking to
the ballast dues for help: rather than having to sudsidise
them from the harbour funds. Your committee look
onward with live, trusting the time is not very remote
when the staging erected for the potato traffic will have
been paid for, and the harbour fund come into possession
offhe entire dues of the Port..
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Inc,onetion with the Harbour is the Ballast itocoun
and to this they call your senous attention, as it migh
either becalm an auxiliary to the harbour, or only entai
a loos to it. revenue. The Council will be better able to
understand this after having heard the reoults of the last
two years, of the Harbourmaster's workings.
Mr. ktosaxi then read the detail; and the report
continued:—

"Vrota this statement it will be seen that while in 1876-7,
Mk tons of ballast were stripped, 3.300 tons were first
landed on the Quay, at an expense of 4.1. per ton to the
revenue; while only 1,994 tons pruned direct from the
bollast lighter to the dupe, and through loss on the ballast
-(stout 900 tons were washed off the ballast quay in a
gale)-and the cost of re-shipping there was lost to the
revenue for that year from this cause alone, £B7 Oa 11d.
No doubt there was a large loss on the Harbour fund
through this, for, though a nominal Miriam of £165. Id.
was carried as profit to the account, there was no allow-
ance made for repairs of lighters, ballast bags, and other
incidental expenses which were necessarily incurred. But
contrast the two year.* w and it will be seen that,
although there were 1,328 tons sold in excess of the
previous year, there were 505 tons less landed on the Quay
t. an in that year, and instead of only a balance of
£l6 ss. Id, the amount paid as balance of profit was
goo 15... 6d., an excess of £lOl 10a. fod. over 187677-.
Your committee feel assured this will have your immedi-
ate attention, for the Harbour-master has long felt he has
not been ahle, for want of an additional lighter, to take
the full demos", of the ballast dues.
MALL= Hoina. -Your Committee regret they cannot
give such a sstialaetcey account as they would have
etched to be able to as. They would first lay before the
Council the liabilities resting on it, the rate of interest
web& its income foe the lost two years, and the average
manta expenditure on the Trust- The year ends in this
Tript on the 31st of August Original debt, £lO.OOO.
.68.560 at £4 per cent., and .61.450 at £5 per cent. Balance
of interest due £1.672 10a. Saari's. Ike. £BO.
Birnamvis -Intend, 1876. LSO 13. 34. ; 1877,
£1995.. 101 ; Repairs, rates and taxes, 1876, Xl2l ;
1877, £B9 11s. 3d. ; Lighting, 1876, £8 Is 91.; 1877,
£7 144. 10.1. ; Salaries, 1876, £OOO. 01. ; 1877, £990.. Od.
Iscosn. -Rents from Butchers, 1875, £18711.. sd. ;1877.
£133 0.. 81. ;Btallo, 1876, X 15525. 21. :1877. L 165 10t. Id. ;
Hawking lieenoes, 1876. £l3l la 91.; 1877, £l5 Is, ;
Weighlog, 1866, £3O Os. 14.: 1877. no is. 61.; Fish Market •
1876, £8 Is, Ott.: Mt a 16s. ; Store on Quay, 1876,
.018 0. 01.; 1877, AU 166. „, • °altars under 1874,
£l5 0.. 0.1.' Adverttoing sp.om, 1876, £4 9a. 81.; Totals,
1876, £51.6 7s, 2d. HOZ X4BB 0.. 4d. Kr. Board paid two
years' bosons, 1877, £l3 12a, la. The contrast of these
two years will be sure to press home the conviction ths•
something must be done to remedy the deficiencies width
the pest year presents, for while there has been an increase
of £59. 31. on butcher's stalls, £lO7. 1111. on ordlnagy
otalls £2 Is. 5.1, on weighing machine, £l6 16. 4.1. mare
for store on quay, there is on contra a deficit of £34 Ilk
on Boning. £l5 cellar under the Market House 'inlet, is
us flak market, advertising spaces £4 ita. 9d., a
total on the whole of £5l 12s. 9d., with*
exceeds the increase on the Ent part by £l9 17s. led.
Stows thit Ins been made up Mr. Bawd has Paid 1
£.1.3 12a. 11., the proceens of two years' hawking licenses '
or the Weymouth side. Your committee suggests that
more frequent returns he made from those who grant
these licenses, and a more active supervision be made by
the police, in order to prevent the tolls being evaded by
hawking without licenses The average annual ex-
penditure on the Market Howe for rates, taxes, solarise,
resoles, and interest on the capital forested, Is about
L6OO per annum: could this sum be raised, although the
Islonce £1.672 10a would still remain as arrears Of
Interest due to the bondholders, they would in future
from that sum receive thew full annual dividend. Can
this sum he raised? Last year the income was £49490. 4d,
Sacs then £1512. It has been received: the year before
the income was £5Ol 7a 3d.; another £lOO beyond this is
Lentsary to do tits, if with the increased rent of the
store, or mare adire and intelligent supervision he given
to the Market. In all its departments, we cannot but
believe that a coodderahle increase could be made. The
adearttang spaces leans to be strangely overlooked, for,
excepting the sus of £4 9a. 9d. received from Kr.
Croydon in 1876: can two other sums of Ll each, making
in the whole £6 9. 9.1., appear in the treasurer'. accounts
for any of the specs, occupied for that purpose ever since
the Market House has been built. Your committee fear
tha report will be regarded as too voluminous; but they
believe it is for the public interest to give it, and they
trust it will issue in a more vigilant, intelligent, sad
carrying on the business of this important
trust, and they earnestly invite the Market House Com-
mittee to undertake this duty."

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--Haernina wrirlsOlM Matter Ticksra.-RlisistetA Tome,
a country person. was summoned for hawking without a
licenee.-Defentlant's husband appeared for her-P.C.
Bartlett saw Elizabeth TOILS in Gloucesteretreet, hawking
with two baskets of butter and eggs. When he asked bet
for her ticket she hark% one, and being asked why, she
said that sometimes when she called at Mr. Trim's, they
were not up, and she took the ticket after.- Mr. Toni.
mid the riolicein in could have gone to Mr. Trim', and
seen the books, showing that his .it. took out the tickets
regularly; hut she did not always do,, the first time in
the morning. sometimes be came afterward., and the
ticket was taken out. He had asked about it. and Mr.
Trim had told him he did not think it was any difference
whether his wife took out the ticket in the morning or at
night. -Superintendent Vickery stated it would le
impneeible to check the tickets unless they were taken out
at first, for be could not tell whether one might not he
taken by ibis person and transferred to another.-The
Mayor remarked that they bad found front an examina-
tion of the books that this had been the cam in several
instances-in some cases even no ticket was taken out. -
In answer to the Mayor Mr. Vickery said defendant and
her husband were respectable proplo.-The Mayor told
Mr. Tone that in future he must take out the ticket at
fleet and make certain that the name was put thereon.
They had heard a good character of defendant, and did
not believe he wished to cheat the Market-house fund, so
he would lee let off on payment of coats, 34. Mr. Tome
was also reminded that on Tuesday when he went home
he could buy a ticket for Friday, and on Friday for
Tuesday, if he lemed, so as not to be obliged ts depend
upon Mr. Trim', family having sot OP.- —./coaeph Locke,
a boy, was cimmoned for • similar failure. lie had been
found by P.C. Bartlett hawking salt fish on the 12.12,
without a ticket, and said he worked for Mr. Oliver, who
took it for him.-71ta Clerk of the Market. Lillingten. said
Oliver had not paid since March ifith.-The boy's defeni•
was the same as he told the constable, and he was fined
fiat including costa
CLXOLEI FROM Toe SIM -JAIYIA Randall and Jaw
fferenglia, the latter an old customer of the Court, were
charged with stealing six doze. mould midis* the
oronsety of Mr. William Scott, meter of the fishing smack
IA -b..v._old Mr. Boot; who has been with the Liberty,
karma in the Weymouth Harbour some scores of years,
stated the prisoners were part of his new, and they
caught a box of candles in • net lime were to be divided
iisai, seasn parts, after he had reported them to the
Collector of Customs, which he did yeeteedat morn-
ing. Meant -me they were left out bnerd the vessel,
where he told defendants to let them shone till he nuns
hack: but when he returned, the podia were gone, and
also LOS prisoner.. Three shares belonged to the Air, one 1
to him, one to his mate, and one each to the prisoners.- I
Sere- Apsey told klni ire dosee and five were Left on .
beard, and six dozen and oat had been in the possemion I LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH,
of the primates -Wiliam of th
Scott. Jan . mate e
Liberty. nutted the readies separately from the Tod 1
I TMOPLIJ.T. OR NOT AT ALL.
The Mato& reed a memorial from the inhabitants i which had Collected reined them, and thaw men has no g 5,..„,, tr.., ~ follow.: _ o tve, tb. unds.-- -7,xt,..1
right to touch them befog they saw fedi...P.-Prisoners • r --,,,,,i,„,,. -,.,,b,...n.--
again asserted that Mr. Scott said the candles should 1—;--71-1,-;-"-,,.„„.,iierl'„ and,ain___aarstralt___idi_init in Hereford.
be divided into four and they (Primners) were to s"`-- and -.----"" "1"'""'"'"", having stueb,sd
. say not Ling about them, took six donut sr d left tenders have been issuea for lay ing down a stone curb
aenci:l Littler, and merely fitting up the pathway with grzt six dozen and one on hoard. -This was denied by the
casnot see their way to 6 liter.) enough to lay down •
, tenet respectfully to state that II the smtt..-Sergt. Apeey went to the Market-house Inn. and
prisoner with for do n and eleven candles in a proper pavement similar to what has been done in other
parts of the town, bearing in mind that no repair. have
to which they were entitled. and they had not
bfot:ltnedt, and they said these were all they took, they were
their Aare beim done to the pathway for upwards of 40 years last
gat rid ay." of them Ca being told they would have to cetjadraspectfaUy willeilt aad wish thet Ma rime may
go to the Statism, they calla the -eandlak °a. l'idial I to maga in ite eweeeet dilapidated eta* as of
mob ead of the Wel* lad he artirwiral fratad that tke two evils we prefer the -litt—W.- Nosed by sin of the
leorlese cams had been old at the Poorhouse to • young
eves, sat mighbouthood.

Kr. orate added it was recommended by the nom-
' mite. 10410 one should be appointed to be solely
responsible for collecting the toile
Mr. HOngrnt also added the Market Home cellars ought
to he advertised. and a much more active supervision
exercised ae to hawking licensee
The MARINI thought the revelations reup.ct4 Use
Merket Howe were very painful Punier had tse.ked for
weeks without paying, and the police having taken the
matter up daring the
.past fortnight, the result had been
surprising. The supenotendant had brought before him
some cases of laprant injustice au the part of the clerk of
the umkete end the committee to whom the report would
be referred would have to coneler whether the clerk wu
competent, or whether they should get sotos on* Mae.
The Mayor thanked Yr. &bens for the trouble he had
taken in this matter.
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I i—grU 71;;;I-Wi—t-c; call the Market House Committee
together, with the Spacial Committee. sad the Uwe
Maas prorated to mark "urgent Wainer" ea etch
notice.