The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
—ln consequence of • sufficient number of share-
holders to constitute a meeting of this company not
being present on Wednesday last, at the time ap-
pointed for holding the ninth ordinary half-yearly
meeting, nothing took plane. The existing directors,
therefore, retain their powers for the ensiling year.
MALT! Or TIDE TOWN.—DUHRE the present
year the number of deaths in Weymouth has been
as follows —January. 10; February, 10; March,
14; April, 7; May, 13; June, 7; July, 8; August,
12; September, ; total, 87. This inductee still-
born children, and 30 of the total number were
infants under one year of age. Al this time lAA
year the number of deaths had been 106.

Tux rwo Motes& Hawgeuev.—At the Town
Council meeting on Thursday last the Mayor stated
that the Mr Hawksley who wrote to the Time. a
short time since, recommending the adoption of the
Rev. Mr. Monies earth closets in lieu of drainage
for towns, was not the Mr. Hawksley who furnished
the report for the drainage of Weymouth. The Mr.
Hawksley who recommended the earth closet' so
strongly was a physician, and not an engineer.
Holes Muisiown —The committee appointed to
carry out the additional church accommodation for
Meloombe Regis held a meeting at the National
School on Wednesday evening last. The Rev. T.
A. Oreavee (the chairman) announced that the Rev.
Mr. McCornick had arrived in Weymouth, and had
commenced his visitations. He also stated that the
services in the Middle School would commence on
Seedily next; also that the Bishop had consented to
license the room for the administration of the Holy
Sacrament. A large number were than added to the
committee, and the town divided into distriote, to
each of which certain gentlemen were appointed to
collect funds for the erection of the proposed new
church, and other expenses of the Home Mignon..
It was also decided that the borough members, the
railway companies, &a, should be solicited to con-
tribute towards the good work.
BOROUGH PATTY AMMONS, Tneeday.—Before the
Mayor.—Samnel Vincent wee charged with having
cruelly maltreated • donkey on Thursday, the 20th inst.
Supt. Li4bury said that on the dui in question be
was on the Esplanade, opposite the Gloucester Hotel.
He saw the defendant driving four donkeys, ridden
by little girls, on the sands. One of the donkeys
was a little in the rear of the other three, and
defendant beat it with a stick on the hock, as hard
as he could lay it on. He then Flicked up a pebble,
about the size of an egg, and threw it at the
donkey's hock, hitting it several times. The animal
at last went very lame in oonsequeoce. Witness
said he had often soon the defendant cruelly beat the
donkeys; and not the defendant only, but the other
boys, and he had therefore brought this case forward
as • warning to others. The goats used for drawing
the small carriages, were also cruelly beaten by the
driven, and although the proprietor had often been
spoken to on the subject, he took no notice of it.
Defendant was fined 20s. and costs, and, in default
of payment, 14 days' imprieonment—Mary Ann
Boodle was summoned by Thomas John Penrose
for disturbing the congregation at Hope Chapel. As
defendant did not appear, a warrant was Wooed for
her apprehension.—The license of the Beehive
public-house was transferred from William Macklin
to William Crabb Mabb

CURATES' Am Socterv.—A sermon on behalf of
this society was preached in St. John's Church, on
Thursday morning bet, by the Rev. J. Hughes, of
Camleton, Cheshire. The collection amounted to
£22 2a A meeting WIN bad at the School-room in
the evening, which was exceedingly well attended.
The chair was taken by the Rev. J. Stephenson,
who read the financial statements of the Holy
Trixity and St. John's Associations. The latter
showed the receipts to have been £ll6 13a 7d., and
(deducting £2 12s. 4d. for expenses) leaving a total
of £ll4 Is. 3d. for remittance to the Central So-
ciety. The receipts from Holy Trinity had been
ft/ 14e. 2d., the expenses 18s. 6c1., leaving a total
of £2B 15s. ta In 1664 there was remittal from
Holy Trinity £26 154. 51., and from St. Johns £92
ss. 6cl.—The Rev. J. Hughes then addrawad the
meeting, and having dwelt on the programs the
society was (making, be showed the neoessity of
its sphere bang extended.—The Rev. Joseph
Bardeley, secretary to the London Diocesan Home '
Missions newt spoke. fie enlarged open the excel-
lence of our parochial system, and maid if the endow-
ments of the Church of England wore taken away
the poor would be almost entirely neglected. Ile
gave some details concerning the Brill Mission to
show the way in which the Curate's Aid Society does
! its work, and at the same time illustrate the spin-
' teal destitution that prevails in many parishes of
London. During the first ten years that the Church
Pastoral Aid and Curate's Aid Societies wore at
work (for they both eommenood at the slime time,
and both rendered greet aadatanoe to the diocese of
Chester) there were no law than 170 churches
*rooted in the diocese of Chester, and £42,000 added
in the way of clerical income, and an addition of
$5) made to the okras! staff ; and almost without
inception in the large towns of the diocese. In Man•
theater, in 1840, there were 29 churches; in 1850
they had increased to 48 ; between 1850 and 1861
they bad risen to 84. Whare could a parallel be
6nind to that? If they took the reports of the
Church regrind Aid and Canted Aid Societies, it
would he found that their largest grants were made
to the three dioceses Of Chaster, Wwthottor, and
itilroc. During twenty years in Ripon 125 churches
we** erected, 132 vsr.onaS houses, end additions
'nail..., •to the • stag of 109 in that angle
u°'°oll4 Wherever these two moieties had been at
work church building would be found le have
been going on. Lle was eatiaied that the best way
WM 10 Sena Ui. living agent flrek and the rust
would follow. Muth might yet be done if they
wished the Church of &gland to be what 3.
"me supposed it to be—a church for t ,
nation. Let them be up and doief, .... Whole
only • duty to &salary, be* they had not
liege to be so einploire - wee blessed privi-
the dour, aw^ 00110stiow was made at
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