The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-08-13 00:00:00

STALBRIDGE

ANGLTSZA CLrß.—The first meeting of this club
took place in Walbridge park, on Tuesday last, under
rather unfavourable circumstances, it having rained the
greater portion of the preceding night, and the whole
of the morning. Indeed, at one time it was almost
feared that the meeting would he obliged to
be put off, but towards noon, the weather brightened,
and notwithstanding occasional heavy showers, the
sport was carried on with the usual spirit during the
afternoon and es ening. The company was not so
numerous as on previous occasions. A very excellent
collation was (unshed by Mr. TuMn, confectioner, of
Sherborne, whose catering on this, as on previous
occasions, gave complete satisfaction to the guests.
Between Wand GO were present. Through the kindness
of the Rev. Mr. Fox, the secretary of the club, we have
been favoured with the score, and list of suceesdul
competitors :
lAMBS (72 &trowel.

Hits. Score.
60 50 60 50
yds. yds.
Miss Fox •43 36 DO 176
Kiss lnooks ... 19 20 65 92
Mr E. Carta ... 11 9 31 39
Mrs. Price ... ... 23 14 89 54
Miss C. Bower ... 18 14 56 64
Mims Carri 16 15 54 69
I 17

mrsAloggb 98 55
Min Kinpraill ... 13 14 45 46
Wigs Patton .. ... 18 17 46 60
Mrs. Filar ... ... 30 33 134 117
Mrs. Du Boiday ... 40 26 172 122
Min Bower ... 12 15 123 65
Win Fyler 25 17 108 67
Wigs H. Wyndham 34 20 124 74
lira. Nada Gully 26 18 114 88
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Hite. Score.
60 80 60 80
yde.
Mr. Coventry ... .„ 52 18 23141. 84
Mr. A Dolton ... 24 5 106 21
Mr. Prioe 61 23 291 95
Mr. Goldimith ... 16 10 158 30
Mr. Dceldington 96 30
Mr. Wathcreteelc yj n IT o

Mr. Pickard Cambridge ... 44 15 216 57
Mr. A. B. Foster ... 36 3 114 11
Mr. J. H. Hinds ... 10 10 160 22
Captain Foster ... 26 10 106 30
Mr. Grunt Daltonl ... 33 8 105 36
Mr. Du &Allay 85 10 115 44
Mr. Gerald Dalton ... 35 3 157 13
Mr. tVilmott 35 6 149 24
Mr. W. Bower 35 4 125 18
It,. Thompson ... ... 21 3 93 15

The prizes were for the best scores at 60
Those made by gentlemen at 80 and ladies at
hO an;L yards being added to scores at next meeting. ap.
pointed to take place on the 26th instant. The follow.
log were the suceessful sompetitors
. :
AMU —Gross score, Miss Fox, 185. Greatest
number of hits, Mrs. Du Boulay, 40. Best gold, Mims
H. Wyndham. Strangers' prize, Mrs. Fyler. Wooden
spoon, Miss Bower.
Gitirrustin.— Gross score, Mr. Pries, 288, 5 off for
whites. Greatest number of hits, Mr. Coventry, 52.
Best gold, Mr. Gerald Dalton. Strangers' prize,
Captain Foster. Wooden spoon, Mr. A. B. Foster.

STIIRMINSTER PETTY SESSIONS.
Ammer sth.- -Present: Maywood 8. Yeatmnn, Esq
(Chairman), Colonel Glossop, and the Rev. H. T.
Bower.
CHAROII or kallAtlLT.—liarry Spicer pleaded guilty
to • thugs of assaulting Charles Adams and
Tbeopholis Adam, two little boys, sons of Mr. Philip
Adams, of Child Okeford, on the 251. h Jaly last—Th.
facts of the ease appeared to be that the defendant kept
a savage dog, which Dome time previously had bitten
one of the boys. On the day in question the defendant
took a quantity of harness oil, and rubbed it all over
the herd' heeds, and then ?struck one of them a violent
blow by the eide of the ear. His only accuse wu that
the he7a threw stoma at his pigeons, and were saucy.—
Fined 10s and outs Os.

VIOLIIIT ASSAULT. —Joseph Davis was charged with
LerouMing Thomas Mullett on the 17th of July—Mr.
G. Chitty appeared for the defendant. Complainant
said: On 17th July. about half-past 4 o'elock, I was
silting in Jeremiah Stoke's beer•house, at Haseiburl
Brian, when suddenly Davis came up to the door in a I
trap, and entering the room where I wain and windiog
the thong of hie whip round his fingers, soddenly came
uP to me and acid", You grey-headed old I will
beat your .-- brains out." He then struck me
repeated blows mammy head which knocked me down.
I was rendered insenrible, and when I tame to myself
I found one of my teeth out and two others hangyng
down. I was very much injured, my forehead was
'tit °Pen. also any Hp, and the back part of my hand
very much inland. My hand is swollen still—By
hr. Chitty: I never quarrelled with the man before,
Interrupted a congregation. I base not been
bound over t° keep the peace, but I have been fined
IL—Jeremiah Stoles deposed: I am the keeper of the
beer-house at Haselbury Brhm—Joseph Dario came
to my house enti ordered beer on the day in gelation
about half-peat four, He asked me to change • DS
maw I told him I weld not. Mit then began, and
struck the complainant three times acmes the bead with
the butt end of his whip. Mullett did not speak to
the defendant at all. I went between than end told

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defence DAllie said Mullett had frequently abuse.' and
twitted him. Hewitt not go out e his hoses without
hearing what Tom Mullett had said shout him. On
the day in qnestion he went to the beer.housv, anti
having been very much provoked asked Mullett what
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He had no wish to hurt 11114000. In answer to Mr.
Chitty, Mr. Stimulate:lfeet Iliunmond gave the
defendant an exoellent character as • vocable and
quiet men, but he could not say so about Mullett.—
Fined El, and 12s. cods. The Chairman said that
if it hod not bean for some extenuating circumstances
they would have imposed a much higher fine, as the
assault was • vely violent one.
NIVIANCL George Vatiner' of Shroton, was
summoned by the Inspector of Ntdrances, Mr. Lance,
for not providing sufficient siocommodation on his
premises, at Shroten. —Mr. Atkinson appeared on behalf
of the Local authot ity, and put in the authority signed
by Mr. R. Farquharson, giving the Inspector power to
act in the cats—Walter Lane.: I am Inspector of
Nuisance for the distriet in which the alleged nuisance
exists in the parish of Iwerne Courtney, Blandford
district. Lam well acquainted with the six colt.
therenre 39 inhabitants occupying them. I inspire
premises on the 25th June, and found seven tenements
without proper accommodation. I gave the defendant
notice on 2nd July to provide the same. On Tuesday,
9th July, I inspected the premises again, and found that
Mr. Vernier had built • very small wooden privy, with
an iron vault capable of holdiug about six or seven
gallons. The place is in • most filthy state. The
situation would do very well lithe accommodation were
sufficient, the other privy had been repaired. I reported
the cue on the 13th July to the Local Authority, and
received authority to take proceedings. I have
repeatedly spoken to Mr. Veneer on the subject before
giving him notice. Mr. Atkinson said that the Board
did not wish to be Lard on Mr. Vanner, but he had set
the Local Authority completely at defence. The
Bench, after considering the use, made an order that
sufficient accommodation beprovided, and thedefendant
was ordered to pay Ils. 6d. outs.
Strange v. Paddock.—This ease, which has been
repeatedly bsought forward, was again before the
Court.—Mr. chitty appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Atkinson forth. defendant. Mr. Atkinson at fret sub.
mitted that as thy question of title was naiad in this
ease the Bench had no juriadietioin—Mr. Chitty, on the
other hand, considered that as a written agreement had
been signed by the defendant to become the tenant of
the plaintiff, it was not a fictitious title but • bona fide
title, and that the magistrates had the power tout. He
then detailed the circumstances of the eau, maintaining
that it was simply a question of landlord and tenant.—
This Mr. Atkinson denied, and said that his client was
the true wiener of tho properly as the mortgagor, and
that money had been offered to relief, the property if
the title deeds were produeed.— The ease had been
heard before the Blandford County Court, and the judge,
afters month's oonsideratiou,gave an elaborate judgment,
in which he decided that the case was not one simply of
landlord and tenant but of mortgage and mortgagor, and
therefore the case mast be decided in the superior
Courts. Aftera long discussion the Chairman said that
It appeared to the Bench that Mr. Chitty applied to
them for an order of ejectment, which the judge in the
County Court had refused, and believing that • gum
-
Mon of title was raised, they considered they had no
jurisdiction.
LI•FILFFT OF • FAIN= TO PAT TOLL WEIN CARRY-
two Mag.—John Brooks, of litalbridge, was summoned
for evading toll on the 12th July—Mr. Dultwood
appeared for the trustees, and quoted the Act under
which the eau was been/ht.—Ambrose Reed deposed:
I am toll dbliector of Lanshiredane gate, in the parish of
Btalbridge. I know the defendant. On the nth July
he came to the gate in a spring tart with ohs horse.
He had a can of milk which he had brought from the
field. I demanded the toll, which he used to pay.
He passed through and went taros. the railway bridge
to his road. The toll we. W.—Defendant said that he
had gone that war backwards and forwards 13 years
and hi, mother fir 28 years and he had never paid toll
, for milk.—The Bench said' that the Act under which
exemption was made only provided for agricultural
produce, and it bad been decided by a recent decision in
the Court of gamin's Bench that milk was not agrit
cultural produce, and therefore the defendant would
, have to pay the toll did., but there would be no order
, for costa. _ .

LIABILITY TO RITA'S • ROAD. —Trowbridge o. The
Highway Board of the District of Sturminster.—Thit
was an action to determine as to the liability of the
repair of • certain road in the parish of Rturminster
Newton.—Mr, Moore appeared for the complainant, and
Mr. Chitty for the defenoe.—Mr. Moore said that there
were two questions to be considered, first whether the
road in question was • private road ore public road,
and &mond as to who were liable to repair it. Now he
should be prepared to show that the road in question,
though set out by the award, at • private road.
hod been used as a public road, the repairs
had been paid for by the perish officers and
charged to the parish on many occasions; and though
the award set out that parties in the neighbourhood
were to keep it is repair, yet they had never done so,
and still refused, and therefore the parish was deed,
liable.—He then called as first witness JobTrowbridge,
the complainant, who said I live at Carsten Common,
and my property is adjoining both Child Okeford and
Sturminster Newton. My land is on bath sidesof a lane,
leading from • place called Dirty gate to Sturminster.
I remembered the enclosure of Stunninater Common
somewhat about 40 years ago. Ever since that
enclosure took place the public have been in the habit of
using that way, both with carts, hones, and wagons.
Boa oever been hi,
Some part of the road boa it been repaired by the way.
warden of Sturminster Newton. Some years ago Mr.
Parlour. who was now deceased, repaired it. He did a.
waywarden for the pariah. Mr. Sweet also repaired it
for six or seven years on behalf of the parish. After
that Aaron Short repaired it for the parish several
years. Mr. Parrett, surveyor of the highways before
Mr. Taylor. also ddi something on the road by putting
down gravel. Some gravel had also been put on the
read by Mr. Taylor the present surveyor, near Dirty
gate. At this stage of the inquiry, Mr. Harvey
suggested that the qurstion whether the road in
depute was a highway or • private road could not be
tried in that Court, but could only be tried by indict.
meat at the Quarter Sessions. lilt has' only been a
question of liability then the case would have been
different, and the Court could have entered into it.—
The Bench, after 1100311 consideration, said that it was
their opinion that the only way to try the qua 'Hon was
for some party to indict the road at the Quarter Session,
and dismissed the ease.