The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-12-18 00:00:00

lILLIDIOID.

Thu ILATOIZan OP SIAIDPuIaD has issued Invita-
tions to ab int 150 women of Blaudford, to p utak* of
a social tea in the Corn Exchange on the 214 hut., to
be followed by an entertainment of music, Act.
kiLLIIDPORD Opus COMING Kamm By kind
permission of H. It. Farqubarino, D.q a meeting will
be held on the Gruivilie estate on Friday, the 21st
December, when font stakes will be run of. The
meet will be at the onues-reeds, Tarrant Hinton, four
miles (ruin Blandford, sad the first brace of doge 1. be
in the slips at 9.15.
ItIPOSITOai SILL—At Mr. Senior's repository sale
on Wednesday there was • large supply of fat it iok 6t
for the Christens' market, and a more than Itattally
numerous attsudanoe of buyers were present. Prices
were about the same as at late sales, two grand
Hereford oxen f Mr. John Ford's erasing attreatiog
some competition, one being purchased by Mr. F.
Paddock at £42, and the other by gr. Pope, Christ-
church. Tee animas were weighs I on the public
weighbridge afterward., the for.ner scaling 1 ton 1
cwt., and the latter 1 tool? lb.. Fat ewes made 54,.;
porkers, 50e. to 1355. ; calves, 40t. ti 87..; a bull,
EN 10e.
A KOSAWAT.—On We Bleeds, a pony. belonging to
J. T. K. Id Ask Esq., of Chatsworth, whilst standing
In the road opposite Park-plan, at the top of White.
cliff, Mill-street, au Ideal, t xik fright an 1 startel d ,wn
Park-roa I, and, in attempting to turn up the Salisbury.
road, swerved acmes and through the pi at ',class front
of the Bonet Nurseries seed shop, a impletely smash-
ing two of the large panes. Tole brought the runaway
to a standstill, and the anima was secured before
farther demises was dine. Fortunats'y. no one was
Injured, although at the time the school children were
emerging from the National Schools at the horse and
vehicle pasted down Park-road at a furious rat*.

ODDIPELLOWN DINNER.
The Loyal "Fi lelity" Lodge of 0 Lifellow% 491,11 LU.,
oelebrated their Bird anniversary by a pselic dinner on
Wednesday ev.ning, in the spacious lo ige.rootn at the
riser of the George Inn lately built by Hr. Speocer Abbot
for club purposes. This' lodge, which is one of the moot
prosperous", ii. PJII4 district. if not of the o,isor, was
smite' in 1860, ant now Immolate of 74 naembera, with •
capital el £270, .413 per motaba Tie. dinner van nerved
Host Orump to .pittel style, there being an einem lance
Jgame= the tablee,
_kindly mot by Viscount P.,,tenno,
Lord /Islington, Sir W. & Marriott. Bart., and R. IL
Farquharson. Hm.
The chair was then by W. H Wantland, Ent., who
w.en,ppirtlt by Dr. Bacot, J. Bill, IC sq. (ex-Ilayor).
and Kr. J. J. Ball, whlet the vtag.th air wm occupied by
W. Spencer Abbott. Zeq eup,oorted by lA,. Jou,
Durdsn, Ike. Toe cionapata numbered about 80, composed
of manhole of the lodge and friends. Grace before and
alt.: dinner was And by the chairmen. After the
removal of the clot's tAs fragrant weed was Introduced,
and
The (Vaßege In *Merida terms gave " The Q seen,
ttos Prince sod Prinlese of Wales. and reel of the Royal
Tamils." welch was received with all demonstrati in of
loyalty and good•will. The Notional Anthem, and " God
bleat the Priam of Wales," being Toadied in capita
style, the solos being taken ',vitro. F. Coteau&
" The Army. N y, and Auxiliary F Ices woo also given
from the Chair, grits reference to the war to the SoodaN
the contemplated war in Caine. ot 1., which necessitat id
an army am d something to fall back upon, which way the
case with the auxiliary forms.
The toe -t wee well received, and reaoonded to by
Trooper BALL for the Fe itnaory, and Q iartermait or.
&attest BARTLETT for th Volunteers.
iet. " Aruty and Navy." Brothers DOwinko and
Delta
"The Poole District of the Menclaster Unity of 0
fallow.' was given in a neat manner by the Climaxes.
Itelterring to the present Provincial Grand Kan.r of the
District, he wee pleased the "Loyal Fidelity " Lodge
claimed him sea member. and c eIA 1 on P.G.IL Nesbitt to
reeponi. (Chaim)
Song. "Say • Hind Work7_ Hr. 0. HIND.
Pr ovincial Gra od Rotor Islessrrt, in responding. gave
Information se to the P into Outrun. Rs was proud of
his Aloe as Greed Ho-hr of the D.strict. It woo
esteblialud in 1885, co:named of 06 lilgee, with 8.270
members. ante capitol of £Bl,OOO Paid out in saltness
and deaths darns the year, £5,343. The rstep 1
the country ought to be proud of such • &drat, salt did
incalculebl• good in reducing rates. The Government.
now thy found such a watt amount of c opitel ii ha in
the r heeds, want id to make them edralniata it rightly.
He wet proud the Poole District had come out of the
cordal of the aotaary's valuation with • balance in hand,
and • prospect of being se in tie, f num 11, Neeoitt
concluded by thanking the company for their reception of
the toe-t.
The tied of the evening, "Sac nes t o the 'Loyal If ilelitY
Lodge,wm Mao given from the Musa, Kr. BILIMIAND
referring to the inculcation of self-help such clans pr
duosi.At audit or of the lo lie accounte, he said the lodge
eta el needy_ or quite at the tip of the district, with •
capitol of ELI per member. It we. a great thing to be •
masher of such soctatlea, as it prodooed Lep oldest
and brotSerly love amongst men, and produced good
fellowship sod unity. Would there were more arnoaget
every clues of society; then each would feel more of the
doge, he rowel to hie fellow. vied Re referred to ths
yearly emit t latey established in the t own, which he
said were est obligors I mire for than who from egg or
circumstances could not join permanent e 4ietiee. By all
mean. he would n advise young or -a to i'dts such •
'Misty, as the 01.1(4114ms wee, far pr.forahlo to these
yearly • seletie,. which may flourtsh •,11.1 yen. and n •I 1
year be in at insolvent elite. Hi expressed hop', how-
ever, that all w told coot ate to roans?.
PG. mutt, row ,n on ies'i ilf of hi lo tie. and
commenced by thaskint to. vic,.•chairnan for hie
Seemlier in prays-Lag them wt i each • grand hell to
hold t icings in. lii to-n cave • foe stagetios of
the wof ore, which •h ow I th ot it hal a veered
capital of 1270, %silk a momber.hip of 74. Toey had
-s .d during the put ten y taro stir tb rate of Al per
sae robot' ne. leer, net now the funds reached, the loony
gum of £l3 pa. esemblr.
Sour: Kr.. BLANMIAILD. "The L ind of the West."
Kr. fl glop mei "Kin ivied S elegise" remark-
ing on It f —got egiaang coring the rldier out
friendly a,:atLea a' ll,' 'cert.-, and Ca let on K__
(Petri. dm, bin. Coo aloe (I) iriet Ciouti). and Mr. Beer
(Foreet re), to reeo in I.
S Etat 'Smut, "Hr. Bunt&
Mr. WILL& alter thanking the company, end his
vet. tr was the °lint society in the t own, having et•'ted
in 1813, •a t hi .44 ems d to may it was prove/Aging
fooiur oh yin the &nets an.l eel :hbourcoo I, be United
l'ehio• •in c .minoo 'situ, other eietiee. bad Pmeed
t• rough. the ordeal of an autos'!'.autioy. By that
they hod found t•le ibin at requiring revigion, and tie
was bolted done, an-1 he hovel that at • fakers valuation
the rim let would be more favourable to n at moment.
and pointed mat • hat he c Hindered ineconelstencies in the
male of these onolal • ilestl ina which were invariably
bested or that the ageing wore calculeted on the low,st
be+, end the liabilities at the highest; as, for
I ono la his society the me 'to were valued as producing
only 3 per sent_,. whilst in reality they were now returahm
' pr cent The Patriot. wer • still adding to nick, and
the Blandford !entice was one of the most prosperous in
the society
Hr. J. Cooties. on behalf of the Dorset Friendly
Society, receottuAted at corn, length to statement of the
accumulated fund, of this county cluh, maintasoing it was
'mond to none in the range of its bin-fits ant in the
stability of te resources, quoting figur-u tn Bopp ort of his
views. In 1861, their lad apnoea ',turns, the enciety
numbered 2 OE3 member% with • funded cap.'s' of /19.446,
or an .qutvalent of LE 9s. lid. per usemb-r.
P.C.& Bata briefly respon led for the Ancient Order of
Fri .tere, claiming for it the proud title of being women.
sally the largest s oelety in the wodd, and he we. glad to
add that Lour " dln Ar w," the Bhondford Court,
, tat the largest an I moo pr ape,ue in the South-Western
Dietr'c', their fonds being more than sufficient Ii meet
1 every I &Milt,.
Before proposing the next Lea% the Cam Mean adverted
to the et dicks given, and was glad to find the'.
lodge so7npaed m fevourahly. in fect • btaher sum pa
member than any claimed by the others. In giving "Th.
Oorporatlon of Blandford," he oteerved there were several
honoured members of thst body prevent. sad as he (the
chairmen) was a Noreen, he shootd like to bring forward*
few questions in which he was interested, al well as many
others. Fast the-go was toe Ft oireation G•ound which
behead tu ths C rpor ton. By the kindnees of that
body the promoter. -a the scheme r, nteil the A 311 at the
reduced rent of LEI p., mistook He hoped at MOM
filters time the Council would see toelr way to re taay,
the rent still further : or, bolt., still, allow the ground
for the use of the peopl , of Blandford rent free. He
should also like to see t -e b weigh heooisrlee extended
so aa to include the whole perish. Hr waa chattels such
would not I. seen the rr of the town, and mar Praia
far more trocoloical than se 1101, With two distinct
bodies. He tend,' led by teading • 1,1.-gram from Mr,
Counolthor Leff orb o was in C twinkles at the conferring of a
datres no his eon. and newel the members present to rte
*ma.
Boas ; " The Merry See of Iseend." lb. Koos