The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-04-24 00:00:00

WAREHAM.
WARETIAM AND ME OF PURBECK
. . _ UNION.
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At the first meeting of the Board of Guardians, held
on the 17th inatant. Mr. George H. Bond was unani-
mously re-elected the Chairman of the Board, and Mr.
Stephen Bennett the Vice-Chairman.
1 he following 12 members of the Board were elected
members gt the Assessment and Sanitary ('ommittees,
viz. : —The Autsimene Consmilier : Messrs. John Hales
Calcraft, Nathaniel Bond, Henry Frampton, and the
Earl of Eldon, tx-officio guardians • ant also Messrs.
Thomas K Dowden, John I). Paul, William Spicer,
William J. Whittle, John Scutt, William Salway,
John Joseph Itat•s, and Thomas Caine,, elected
Gnardians. The Sanitarg Commitke, also 12 mem-
bers, viz. : Messrs. .1. H. Caleraft, Henry Frampton,
George IL Bond, and the Earl of Eldon. ex-officio
guardians; and Memrs. William Spicer, Henry James
Garland, Thomas Caine,,. J. J. Bates, Thom,, E.
Bowden, William Salway, Cornelius Yearsly, and the
Rev. Eldon Surtees Bankes, elected guardians.
For the purpose of c trrying nit the new and highly
important duties I levolving on Boards of Guardian' by
the Elementary Edneation Act of 1876,39 and 40 Vic.
mit 79, the following 12 members f the 11.mrd were
elected, viz. ; --Four ex 4.:4oB—Thc Earl e,f Eldon,
Messy,. Henry Frampton, Nathaniel Bond, and George
Hawkesworth Bond ; eight elected gaardians—The
Itev. Ekln S. Bankes, Thomas E. Dowden, William
Salway, John Scutt, Ge onge A. Millen, Henry
Samuel Smith, Williant Bewnt, and John Samuel
Dresv.

The Clerk to the Board of Guardians, Mr. Freeland
Filliter, who has been in that office continuously ever
since March, 1S:16, is by virtue of the Acts of Parlia-
ment creating the above three committees also a-officio
clerk to all of them, a trouhlesome and responsible
office, as all know who have hal practi..al experience.
The jurisdiction of the above School Attendance
Cominittee extends to all 27 parishes of the Union
except only in the three town parishes of Wareham.
and the parish of NI "Men, where they have, for some
time past, hal School Boards f their own—elected
under the Edncation Act. •

There was no contest for the office of guardian in
any parish of this rnion, which has always been
marked for it, uhanimity where others dieagret.

POOLE.

Perrr SMISIONS. Thurs I.y— Before Messrs W. D.
D,,gday, J. J. p.!rre.1.1,.9A1.1. G. It, Mitch.

The lieense of the "roseh and Horses" public-house was
temporarily tr tniferred from the late Mr. Jason Sc wrott
to Mrs Mary Searrott, the widow. The licenses of the
following houses were fully transferred :—The
froni Mr. G. T. Fry to Mr. M. I.trnolqwn: the Brittsilia*
from Mr. T. T. Dannevan to Mr. It. R.,vell; and the
"Three Crowns," (non Mr. W. ff. Galion to Mr. Rowland
Hill.

lowilvio Brown, lan.llord of the "Old St Clements"
beer-h.... 4 was summoned for having his house open for
the sale f ntoxicating liquors during prohibited hours, on
the previous Sunday morning—Upon the application of
Mrs. Brown the case was adjourned for • week.
A tired Pat,it Li, atia.(reorge Williauis. marineatore dealer,
was summoned for being drunk on the pecelous Sunday
afternoon in Strand-street P.C. Holloway's evidence
showed that defendant was helplessly drunk, but he went
home quietly—Defendant was tined fie, and costs only on
the previous TUell lay for assaulting his wife, and be
was now ordered to pay is. including costs, for being
drunk—A further charge against the same defendant of
ban.: in the "Obl St. Clements" beer-hmase during
prohibited hours, on the previous Sunday morning, was
ailjournexl.
The Gaol Surgeon certified that William Jones. the man
charged with deserting from the schemer "
warn still mifferinz from th.lireiinit trentr no and not at to
come into Court—The prosecutor said the vessel was ready
to sail, and withdrew the charge, and the magistrates
instripted the gaoler to release the prisoner so soon as he
ROA in a litigate togo.