The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-10-10 00:00:00

POOLE.

Suutons were putt at the Baptist Chapel on
Sunday, the Rev. Osborne, in aid of the Dentist
Foreign Wir, and annual meeting was held in the
same building on Tuesday evening. Mr. M. Kemp-
Welch occupied the chair, and addresses were delivered
by a missionary from dina and other ministers. The
collections amounted to over £7.
Titz revision of the lists of burgesses of the Borough of
Poole commenced at the Town-hall on Tuesday morning
at ten o'clock, before the Mayor (Alderman F. Styring),
and the Amason (Mews. A. A. Allen and J. Cu.). The
Liberals were represented by Mr. R. T. Trevanion,
solicitor, and Guncillor G. Curtis : and the Conservatives
by Mr. F. Travers, and Mr. P. E. L Budge, solicitors,
Mr. J. R. Justican, and Councillor C. .1. Stone, J.P.
There were • manlier of new claims and objections, and
the Court sat the whole of Tuesday and part of Wednes-
day.
Tug TIMBER Tnang.—The consignments of timber to
the merchants of this port have of late been very
extensive, and one of the Inevitable good remits has been
the providing of employment for a number of men. Mr.
.J. Norton hos already unloaded the cargoes of three
ships, and has three others discharging. Mr. Stephen
Lewin his also received large consignments of timber,
and Messrs. May sad Rumen have unloaded three vessels,
and have two others unloading. We should also mention
that Mews. Syduiham, Hunt, and Co. have a cargo of
Umber diacharging.
PUTTY Simsioug, Thursday.—Before the Mayor (Alder
in
m F. String.' the en-Mayor (Alderman M. Kemp-
Welch,) Mews. J. C. Stone, Ltalston, W. D. Dugdale-
and J. B. Durell,
William Gallon, landlord of the Three Crowns Inn, was
summoned by Richard Cartridge, a fisherman, for wilfully
and maliciously cutting a rope, at Parkstone, on Monday
night, thereby doing damage to the extent of £l.—Mr.
Trevanion, who appeared for complainant, said he could
produce abundant evilence to prove that defendant cut
the rope attached to the carriage in which the Hon.
Evelyn Ashley, ALP., Mr. Charles Waring, and other
gentlemen rode from the Liberal fête at Parkstone on
Monday night, but if defendant would publicly express
his sorrow and pay the Justices Clerk's fees, he was quite
willing to withdraw the summons—Defendant said he
was sorry for what he had done, and explained that he
did not cut the rope ott of any ill-feeling, but to save his
wife from being trampled on the ground.—Defendant
paid the fees and the Tummy was withdrawn.

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Elizabeth Webber and Mary Hopkins, two young" ladies,"
were summoned by Mary Ann Brown, wife of James
Brown, for breaking two panes of slain at her house in
Coach and Horses-lane Monday night, the damage being
laid at la—Complainant said she was In an upetair room
of her next door neighbuir's house, about 12 o'clock on
Monday night, and baud 3 quarrel in the lane. She
looked out of the window and saw the defendants smash
two panes of glass in her house.—Defendant's alleged, and
called Elizabeth Keefe aixl John Anderson to prove that
the window was smashed by Nicholas Calton from the
inside, in the face of the y inns woman Keefe, whilst she
was talking to the young man named Anderson. The
witnesses further stated that Colliton had previously
broken in the door of cosiplaituints house.—The Bench
dismissed the came.

—Fain; /70;ter.laildlord of the Red Lion Inn,Strand-street,
was summoned for keeping his house open for the sale of
Intoxicating liquors after the proper hour for closing, on
Monday night, and also for threatening P.C. Baba whilst
In the execution of his duty on the SAIIIO occasion.—The
constable said he was passing, defendants house about 20
minutes after 12 o'clock on Monday night and heard loud
talking inside. Within a minute or ise afterwards he heard
the back door open, and saw the landlady leave the house
with a quart of beer, which he smelled, under her apron
and take it to a neighbour's house. Ile went into the
house by the back door and found the landlord, Mrs.
Toop, and three other persons there. As he left the house
the defendant came after him and threatened him, using
frightful oaths. Defendant said if be interfered with him
or his misses again, or crossed his path, he would take him
up and smash him down under his feet. Defendant wrung
lus fhda in his face, and he believed thet he was tipsy. He
made such a noise that any one could have heard himkt
Ilamworthy. Some women afterwards erot defendant
indoors.—Defendant said be went to the Liberal fae on
Monday and his father and mother afterwards visited
him at his house and slept there that night. They were
very busy after the fete, and Mrs. Toon and Martha
McMullen were at the house helping, and stayed back
late to wash up. Ile knew nothing about the quart of
hear taken out of the house by his wife. As to the threats,
he was annoyed that the policeman came to his house
eaves-dropping, and got excited.—Mis. Foster was sworn,
and said before she went to the fete on Monday she saw
Captain Robert Blundell, a crippled neighbour, and she
promised to go to his house to supper that night to tell
him what had been going on during the day. She was too
busy, however, to get away, and took him across • jinf of
beer and gave him voluntarily. She had not been paid
for it, nor did she mean to be.—The Bench dismissed the
summons for keeping open during illegal hours, but fined
defendant 208. and expenses, or 14 days' hard labour, for
using the threata towards the policeman, as they con-
sidered it • very serious offence for • landlord to be guilty
of—The Mayor and Mr. Dural' were interested in this
case, and did not adjudicate noon it.
Prrry Semmes, Friday.—Before Mr. C. J. Stone.