The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-09-29 00:00:00

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THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER DEMONSTRATION.

'The annual meeting willed for the mins., of
deciding the ipiestion, 111.111,Mt011, to young I).W.
elievter, whether the Fifth of N.iveinlier I hunon•tra•
lioll iii ill IP, held er net, was 1141 at the Infants'
ticleolrooni on Friday evening Ind. The it;. H.
Everett again kindly presided, and wax stquorted by
many friends of the movement. Mr. Burnett, who,
with the rector, luta always given the neivement
hearty siipport, was a+ will In. seen below, prevented
o (nn attending. Tbere wm a large AI
.itton.htitro of the younger portion of the eouttnunity.
Many if the old NO Who wen' :klway4 to the in. en
the occasion et the animal fiery festival are missed,
but their placea have been tilled by youths equally
ent husiaatie.
The CHAIRMAN &aid they were met together to
decide whether they shmild have their torchlight
demon+tration thin year not, and he would first
of all take the wrier of the meeting in that point.
(Carried with cheers.) Ile wan tery happy to ho
ahle to say their friends of AVeyinetith, who, he
fancied, copied their good example some few years
ago, had been, he might venture to ray, • little more
amiable, andp apeared be , we te rather ii friendly
disisesed towards them than in former years. (Ali.
idanar.) In former years the Dorchester committee
appealed to them to make some arrangement, ao that
the demonatrations denild net clash, but their Mag.
gemti,,ll did not meet with approval, and they refuted
to make any alt.oation. Then.fore they were hound
to hate it on the name night. This year they had a
meeting at Weymouth, and determined it wa+ not at
all a wise or fr.endly thing to do this, and had agreed
to alter the day, an would be seen by the following
letter and reaolution received by the Chairman isl
Committee (Mr. 'I flier)
!Nowt l'lnee, Weymouth, 17th Sept_ ',vv.\
hear Sir,— Weymouth Carnival.--I am in receipt of
your letter of the rob inst., which I duly laid before
the Comtnittoe of the above, at a meeting held last
evening, and on the other side I beg to eetul you eopy
re•olittion which wv, pained at such meeting. The
Ith November falling this year on our early closing
day, the Committee thought it wonld be better to
hull it on that day than on the nth. I may add that

The following were ',allotted for and elected to
serve as • select, committee :—Nlesirs. T. Roger, W.
Brown, G. Keech,Smith, Moon, Virgin, W. K.
Begers, Betty, A. Harris, awl J. Dennis.
The o,llectoni appointed for the several districts
are :—lfoly Trinity, Messrs. Brown and Stickland ;
St. Petal'. Meier,. Mr...key and Wood; All Saints',
Messrs. Gould and Van; East Fordington,
Screen and Sargent ; West Furdington, Mess,.
Harris, 'rifling, and Smith.
The following resolutiun was submitted by Mr.
Berri' and sec-midis] lay Mr. PIKE :—" That Wry
moth having Oven way P, Dondeeiter this vear by
owisenting to hold their demonstration on tile tth,
se that the respective demonstrations may not clash,
nest year Dorchester alter their data so vu to glue
Weymouth the Fifth, lint do not bind theinivelves to
any I lay whether before or after the Fifth. -Carried.
.1 vote .1 thanks to the Weymouth committee was
propeed by Mr. Itirrry and seconded by Mr. %V. IL
Koidtas. It wan hoped both committees would work
n harmony with each other.