The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-01-03 00:00:00

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same George Barnard, Biwa, was drowsed M
Lyme . Alps, when bathing. On the 23rd the Mayor
wad Cerporation of Weymouth perambulated the
borough bounds. On the 27th a towns meeting was
held at Dorehes'er to protest against making a road
wows Nis math walk, es the Council had resolved

On led October was communicated to Weymouth
Town Council that Messrs. Williams and Co. had
issued against them a writ of *legit for their judgment
debt. On the lfith, Dorchester Town Council rescinded
resolution to mete • road scrims the south walk.
the same day Bridport Railway Company deolared •
'dend of 6 per sent. on prefereme Mares. On the
Deeeheater Yesmers' at pared a reeoluWs OZ.
ing • re tbiit Dorsherter would tacit. the Bath
Tat Seelniad Bodily to held their 1672
aathematedy town. Oa the lilth it wm reported
....eiethe Mit inlmths opention of the ideidioity Society
had diminished ihiegagranta in the county by 2,41:0 as
compared with the aumbar relieved In the porters-
ponding period of 1669. Lord Portman wan well
enough to preside over the civil business at the
Hi:446lmm sessions, and was heartily welcomed by the
mere. The Rev. J. H. Austen again called atteatiei
to the treatment of ;Iroise by the police, but was
pasta, put down. A men named Gardiner, who bad
been assistant to Mx. Kum, oheinist, Weymouth, was
eastenced to seven nazi' penal servitude for robbing
Me master of property to the value of nearly £100; and
it tuned out he was a returned convict. On the 19th
a MILD named Foy was knocked down and killed by a
train on the Portland railway. On the 19th and 20th
Christadelphian lectures were delivered at Dorchester
by Mr. Roberts, of Threningham. On the 21st Was-
hita annual mesions were field before the Recorder,
Mr. O. W. Finer. On the same day the Hon. W. H.
B. Portman presided at the annual dinner of the Mel-
plaisk Agricultural Society. On the 22nd a public
meeting at Dorchester resolved on the motion of Mr.
Coombe, to invite the Bath and West of England
Society to Dorchester in 1872. Oa the 27th the anneal
dinner of the Wareham and Purbeck Labourers' Friend
Society was held, Mr. Royer presidia&
The municipal elections on the lit November re
salted in the moms of the Conservatives as Weymouth.
the defeat of the anti-water party at Bi idport, and the
victory of the Liberals at Poole. Shaftesbury
Agrieeltual Society's dinner was 6641 on the 2nd;
the Hon. W. H. B. Portmen presided. end Mr.
G. 0. Glys, M.P. Was ago Meese. The 861 s
of November passed very quietly everywhere In
Direst On the 9th Mr. Naiades was sleeted
Mayor of Weymouth by 12 against 9; Mr. Look wee
nominated at Dorchester in opposition to Mr. T.
Bennett, but the former withdrew; at Poole Mr. J
Harker was unanimously elected. On the 7th, Bth. and
9th was heard the Weston appeal before the Lord
Justices, when the decision of the gab court was
upheld. On the 10th • woman named Worts oed wes
committed for trial for swindling Weymouth trades-
men. On the 15th Felstead the young man who eloped
from Blandford with Miss Greetbatoh was committed
for trial at the maser. On that day Wareham new
Corn Erthange was opened. On the 24th there were
prosecutions at Poole for parents neglecting to have
their children vaccinated. On the 29th Wareham
masical society ppm a capital first comert. On the
30th Mr. Arnold, • Government °Mom, held an inquiry
at Bridport, respecting the &iamb of the Local Board
to provide sewerage and yam works. The annual
meeting of Starminster Agrionltursl Society was hold
the same day, Mr. Maywood S. Yeatman presiding at
the dinner.

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On the lid of Desonabeeldte annual rusting of Sher.
borne Agricultural Society was held, and Yr. Gerard
Start, 0t40., was sitairalut the dinner. On the 2nd
died suddenly Captain Brymer, of ILdngton, aged 67.
Oa the 4th the Bishop of lialiabary confirmed 52 con-
victs at Portland. On the Sib a. Bridport butcher
named Parker was fined £5 for sending bad meat to the
London market. On the Name evening some thieves
broke the shop window of Mr. Sells, jeweller, Pools,
and stole about ENO worth of jewellery. On the 15th
a motion made by Mr. Thomas. in Weymouth Town
Connell, to rescind the resolution silowing the Mayor
£lOO moiety to ix £5O in limn thereof, was defended by
13 to 2 On the 17th the annual meeting of the Bland-
ford Agricultural Bombay was held, the Hon. W. H. B.
Portman, MP., presiding at the dinner. On the 21st
a resolution @ropers' in Dosimeter Town Council by
Mr. Bishop to apply for a Shoot Board, under the
Eltspaabiry Adoestioa 4at, was negatived by 8 lo 0.