The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-06-14 00:00:00

BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICUL-

VIRAL SOCIETY.
A council meeting of this body was held on Saturday
the 4th inst., at Primes Railway Hotel, Bristol, J.
&Whet, E-q., In the chair. There were also present
Colonel Luttrell ; Drs. Brent. Gillett, and Moat: and
Messrs. Andrews Bruce. K. H. 130/13, J. and R. R. M.
D..e, E. 8. Diews, Pry, John and Jonathan Gray,
JOll4lll, Knoll, Lush, Moysey, Pitman, Poole, Thomp-
son, H. St. John Maule (secretary), W. Smith (financial
officer), and J. Goodwin (editor).
A letter from the Royal Agricultural Society on the
Pullout of Agricultural Education was referred to the
Journal Committee

Communications were received from the governing
bodies of the Bristol Institution. the Commercial
Rooms, and the Volunteer Club, offering the privileges
of the respective institutions to the Council and Officers
of the society during the exhibition week, and the
several communications wereordered to bemknowledged
with thunks for the proffered courtesy.
Tim Minima or 1865.-11" e deputation who visited
Hereford on the 19th ult., for the purpose of ascertain-
ing the nature and extent of the accommodation
offered by the authorities of that city for the Society's
Meeting in 1865, reported that the Bite known aa the
race course, about 23 acres in extent, was in every
respect eligible, and that the fields for the trial of
implements were not only contiguoua to one another,
but within •diatanse of a quarter of • mile from the pro-
/7:dshow yard. The deputation reported very
favourably on the courtesy and cordiality with which
they were received and entertained by the local
authorities, and the Council resolved that, subject to
the stuipension of the rule." by the annual meeting, of
which formal notice had been given by Mr. Poole, the
invitation from the city of Hereford be accepted. It
was also resolved to recommend to the anon.' meeting
the election of Colonel Clifford •• • member of the
sauna_ . . .

Tuz litansroc Ilarrixo.-11r. Pitman, on behalf of
the Railway Arrangements Committee, reported on the
steps taken with the view of obtaining travelling
facilities for poisons visiting the exhibition, and a
deputation warn appointed to wait on the authorities of
the several railway companies for the purpose of
soliciting additional ascontmodation on the Monday,
when, owing to the great interest excited by the public
jadging of the cattle and poaltry, the yard will most
probably be visited by. very large number of agricul•
turieto from a distance, more especially as the charge
for admission has titie year been reduced to 2.4 &L The
deputation proceeded, at the sloes of the meeting, to
wait on the railway authorities, and were fortunate in
obtaining the promise of the Bristol mid Ezeter Coln-
:is:lr run a special train from Exeteivandinternitadiate
s, on the Monday, and of the Great Western to
run a special train from Stroud and intermediate
stations on the name day.
Most enoouraging sentranoes were even SS to the
of the various departments of the forthcoming
rbliti:g On, which is sapootod to be the largest and most
anceessful that the society has ever held.

NE* liffiescas. —Bor G. Jenkhieon, Bryanston-aquare,
London ; lb. W. H. Gore Langton, M. P., Clifton ; CoL
Clifford. M.P.. Hertford; llarre. W. Taylor, Shoals
Coati. Ledbury ,• W. Barton, Wastleigh, Manchester;
F. H. &way. anwell ;W. Woolfry. }Unwell ;T.
Castle, Banwrill ; J. T. Tucker, Swoon Coo= farm ; T.
=, Looking farm ; r. Wedmor• ; B. W. R.
, Hayashi= ; and J. Brett, Warminakr.

TEE BIZITOL Lin Boar.— A t the Council Meeting
of the Bath and West of Ragland Society on Saturday,
the 4th a letter was read from Burge*, Eeol,
the Town Clerk, asking whether, Si the life boat would
be exhibited in the .bow yard on DurtMani-down. there
would be any objection to the Mayor performing the
ceremony of formally handing it over to the authorities
of the Life Boat Amocistion. The proposition was mo.t
cordially received by the Council, who fixed half-past
three o'clock on Wednatiay afternoon, in the exhibi-
tion week, as the most oonvenient time for the purpose,
and it was arranged that the combined bands of the
Grenadier Guards and the Royal Names should perform
suitable music to ries eclat to the ceremony.