The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1867.

IOYIIOII TO 00113WONDINTS.
his particularly requested that all Com-
munications be addressed to "The Editor,"
and not to any individual by name.

our Council, se everywhere else, we want men who
will work—who, having 'sainted the aloe voltun
tarily,will make all private matter" give place to its
duties. If they can't or won't do this, they should
retire into private life.

VII NEW con ELOILMIL
The int business was to native • oommunieation
from Hr. Hall aa toe proposed alteration in the new
Corn &chums, and decide tharooo. The suggestion
was to erect a room coom the pswealts lemlioff to Lii.
polies station, adjoining the orchestra, for the aceommo.
dation of thooe who mar be engaged in the orehalitra. A
lender wee read froin Mr. Wellspring offering to do the
sena work fur £32 12s.
Mr. Vernon said the subject wan brought to the
notice, of the aenoral Purposes Committee by new. ral of
the musicians of am town, who said the room could not
be mot for colleens unless • ritiring-rxim was provided.
Alderman Coombe mid that as soon aa ther got the
new room it or old be ova:weary to revise their tanff.
and he thought it would be desirable to eery much
lower some of the charges. As so tbepreeent matter,
the question was whether, having provided the room,
the aooonimodatiou proposed was not really oeoemary to
make it available. . .

Galpin said 11. bad heard it said out of
doors that the orchestra would be no use either for
instrumental or vocal performance..
The Mayor remarked that he bad never heard of mob
a thing.
Mr.Vernou bad no doubt but that it valid be used by
musicians. _ . -

-I;"—reply to lb. Meyor, the Surveyor imid the door
of the oreheetru is 11(0;1 from the door of the Core

Faohange.
Mr. Andrews inquired if the Cloeneil would have to
*Poly to the Lords of the Treasury to raise this extra
122. .

The Mayor suggested a difficulty in the way of doing
that—their having nothing mare to mortvge—ll I)
The Town Cirrk said if it was intended to get the
money by a further mortisee dearly they would have to
go the Treasury, but if they meant to meet the 011411111 C
out of the current :swine it would not be neoemary.
Mr. Andrea s : Then it just comes to this—did all
the separate accounts are no .auch moonshia.e, and what
purports to be the Corn &inhume building amount
will not really be it, because the whole of the expeadi•
tme will not appear in it. Awarding to the abstract of
the borough aocounta feat issued, three sums had dready
been mid for interest upon the building 'mount amount•
ing to £25. He went on to my the account, were not
made in amordanee with the Act of Parliament, tor
mime set down as paid for the Wollaston•Aeld amount
were not carried into the general amount, but were
showed to be pail oet of nothing I As soon as they
Immo the impend' assient system, the amounts
temmbled railway aeconnta, and became inexplicable.
Mr. Deventsh : That's true.
1 Alderman Coombe said their position in respect to
the premed before them seemed to be this—somebody
bad given them an elephant. sai they must provide •
stable for it—(lumidor). If the Corn Eitaltange was to
be need for public surname, was it a matter of choice
whether they provided accommodation for desenry and
comfort . .

Mr. Bishop thought the provision neoemary to enable
them t.. have the opportunity of obtaining the meows
ex from that room.
r.6"1 /11.1rilge eonsidered it to be onquestiottab'y
necessary that a retiring-room should be provided.
Mr. Andrews remarked that they drifted from their
original purpose of building a Corn Esehange, and now
it seemed that unless this further outlay was made the
past tagemditnre would be loot.
Mr. Dtvenish said se he believed the room would be
incomplete without the provision suggested, he
proposed that it be adopted, and that Mr. Wellspring's
tender for eerrying out the same be aeoepted.
Mr. Vernon esoonded the motion.
There was no taunter proposition, and the Mayor
declared it carried.

THII ormusa azustienos.

The report of the committee appointed to eonsider
the best means of celebrating the opening of the Cora
Exchange was read. Thee proposed a dinner on
day, the 12th November, tickets 10a. 6d. each, including
wine, and that John Moyer, Req.,M.P., be reqtystiod
to preside, and Mr. J. Homer, the president of the
Dorchester Farmer's flub., to occupy the Moe-chair,
and a mine on Thunidey, the 14th, single tickets
for whieh should be 35., and family tickets to admit
four 10, 6d.

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Aleerman Coombe said Kr. Well.pring told them the
photering wu not yet finished, and some of it was done
hist week ; if they lighted the gas end employed the
heating apparatus and brought people there on the
12th to ait for four or flu ho re, it would be undemn-
ing them to bronchitis for the rest of their lives, from
the damp which would be drawn out of the walls ; and
then to have &aim on the 14th, and bring women and
girls there„Thy it was madneecto think of. it 1..

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Dr. Aldridge : Tee room will be finished by the sth,
end these meetrage are not proposed till the 12th end
14th.
Aldermen Coombe: The walls will be dripping wet.
Dr. Aldridge : I don't believe it for a moment.
Alderman Coombe. Well, I won't go there, or let any
of my people attend.
Aldridge: That's a different matter. There's
only the plastering of the apes not completed.
Hr. Coombs: How much of the plastering was done
last week
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Dr. Aldridge wild the plastering, except of the ape.
was done six weeks or two months ago, and it
WAS only s coating of cement that had been done daring
the last fortnight, and that was perfectly dry. A great
deal of lime was need, which was the hest mesas for
absorbing the damp. and getting rid of it. Still there
was no objection to the opening being deferred if the
Council thought ft.
Alderman Coombs asked if the Mayor is not
the proper mown to take the chair at tine opening
dinner.

Dr All ridge said be should explain that the Mayor
In his modesty bad supthsed Mr. Homer sa the
vies-
chairman, but it was the wish of the committee that the
preont Mayor should occupy that position.
Alderman Coombs: The Mayor must tithe the chair,
or sit as • guest. It would be contrary to all etiquette
for the Mayor to be in the vice-chair. The Mayor was
the lint man in the borough.
Tile Mayor said he did not consider it right that the
person who held the °Moe of mayor should take the vice-
chair.
Mr. Coombe: At • foxhanting dinner, or one for thy
purpose not connected with the borough, it might be all
very well to have George CUTMO, Esq., mayor of Dor-
chester, and an ardent lover of folhanting— (laughter)
—will take the vine-chair, bus it would not do at the
opening of the borough Corn Exchange.
Dr. Aldridge* said this so more of an egriculteral
than • borough meeting, though it *as thought by the
committee advisable to amalgamate the usual Mayor's
banquet with it.
Altermen Galpin said be felt quite ortnelneed, and he
thought everybody who had had any experience In
building would agree with him, that when the room
became warm there would be "festoons of water running
down the wall.!,
Mr. Vernon thought it was a pity the preparations
for the opening should have been allowed to reach the
moot stags, without this being mentioned before.
Alderman Coombs said be understood the place was
to have been finished in the summer.
Mr. Vernon remarked that everyone must have know*
they bed been holding committee meetinp to get the
building completed as soon as possible.
Yr. Coombe said be didn't go into the place till gloat
• month ago, and then he was told it was to be finished
by she sth of October, but he thought from It.
appearance then it would be well if it was finished by
arida:as. _

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Akterman Oalpin said when the committee was
forsa4 to 11110110 about the opening, the 90th October
was named as the time when it was to be given up by
the bender.
Mr. Coombs thought it would be best to postpone the
teepee: let them first get the budding delivered over
to this. and then consider what they could do.
Mr. Bishop felt that after this conversation the
opening mast be postponed.
Mr. Coombs: Suppose the building is not finished by
the 101 h.
Dr. Aldridge: But Mr. Wellspring lute promised to
give it op on the 11th.
Mr. Coombe: Yes, but I know the bricksund•mortar
tribe, and have no faith in their promises.
Dr. Aldridge said that after the strong observations
made by, Mr. Coombe and others respecting the state of
the hall, it would be unwise in every sense to think of
opening it at the time proposed. It was a death•blow
to it altogelea, for it would prevent assay from
attending. The statement would go abroad 'hat the
plus was damp, which to his mind wee a great error.
However, the miubief was now done. But there
would be no objection, he suppued, to the opening •
week late—the dinner on the 19th. If they ezpeeted
members of Parliament there they mast not further
defer it. or three gentlemen would be engaged in Parlia.
meet, and it would have to he postponed till after
Christmas.
The Mayor thought it would be best for them to have
the room headed over to them, sad then they could is
whether or not it was dry.
Alderman Coombs expressed a similar opinion.
The whole matter was therefore adjourned Au die.
Mr. Welisprieg was called before the council, and
told thet if the Corn Exchange was not finished by the
sth November, the penalty for default would be enforced.
He said there was no doubt bat that it would be
completed, and he hoped the orfiestre, room also, but
that he Dodd not undertake to finish till a fortnight
later.

The aarseyor called attention to the dangerous state
of the chimney pots on the Townhall, and as henceforth
the whole place is to be boated by the new apparatus,
he WU direetei to remove them.
This °occluded the Weiner.

The Tows Ctsitaante. —We have received the fol
lowing letter :—"Gestlemma,--Oss of your Wiltshire
.01"*.n.raries, the Mirror, of lest week, has, following
the ra?ort of thee/taming and very interesting speech de•
livered at the Red Llon Hotel here on the 17th instant.
by Mr. Start, M.P., a very truthful though brief
Irtraffritalt which somewhat tandem myself, and, to
prevent any miqinderitanding on tile part a numerous
friends of Warvbam,ewh3 will have read it in different
.I"rtent 1 beg you will do me the favour to insert an
exact copy of the letter which Colonel Civendi.h did the
Earner to address to, Gentleman, your obedient servant,
—F. FILLSTEIL" _ _ _

EC^PY.]
Wed Rohe, Chichester, 17th Ooldber. 1n67.
Deer Be,—l hare received your letter of the 9th, and con-
fmtulete Volt On Your Ppointinent an Torn Clerk I remain,
your. faithfully, lednd,n Cicalae.
To F. /Miner, traq., Wareham.
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POTTY Beessooe, Mooday.—Before Hathatiel Bond
and Miles Rodgett, Esqm, two of the Commissioners for
the attire of Assessed Taxes for the Wareham and
Purbeck division, and Mr. F. Ftlliter, Clerk to the Com-
missionem —Mr. Charles Budden, • highly respectable
tenant farmer on the Weld estate at East Lul worth,
appeared to answer to the information and complaint
of Mr. Thomas Seymour Harris, Surveyor of Taxes for
the Wimborne district, laid under order of the Board of
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, for 'having wil-
fully, end in spite of the surveyor's frequent letters of
remonstrance, which be failed to answer or attend to,
neglected his duty, es assessor of taxes for Boat
Lulw,dih, to make • return of a vehicle liable to duty
kept by Mr. Champ, of the Weld Arms, East balworth,
or to collect such ter.—The defendant mid be had not
attended to the surveyor', request, become, in his
opinion, Mr. Champ was not liable to the duty. The
commissioners observed that this mu • subject for
opinion of the oommivioners themselves, if Mr. Champ,
who had since paid the money, had thought proper to
appeal. But as Mr. Suellen admitted the charge, and
Mr. Harris only wished to discharge a highly necessary
but not over popular duty, lied not to press for a
heavy penalty, they would nut the £2O penalty,
um:tarred under the 9th sex of 43 Geo. 3. cap 99, at the
lowest amount allowed by the Act, Eh, sad mitigate it
to sa, including 2s. 6d. costs, under the 16th sec—The
money was paid.—Satarday.—Before Charles Wilcox,
Req., Mayor, [Replies Bennett, EN., ex-Mayor, and
Mr. F. Father, Town Clerk.—i. R. slcraft, Esq., tr.
Phillip Bishop.—Sasse v. Swim Dogdolo.—Applisetioo
was made in rash Imes for warrants to enfores recovery
ot • howseand garde., under the Small Tenements Act.
The requisite notices were proved and orders were
made in each case for warrants of ejectment to be issued.

POOLE.
Tau number of men in this town that belong to the
Royal Navel Reserve is Iftl.
Tem GAS Quntrios.—A great deal of ill-feeling Is at
Present displayed on matters which cropped up at tbe
late pa meeting. and squibs are flying all about the
town, some of which •Ts anything bat complimentery
to the directors of the gas company. It is apprehended
dee the next meeting of the shareholders, after the
committee have finished this inquiry, will be an
exceedingly stormy one.
Pa,,rosto ERICTION OP • New Caant...—The old
Presbyteriuo meeting house in Hill-street, the first
chap. I ever erectel in Poole, is doomed to be taken
down, and the congregation of Unitarians who worship
therein have decided on erecting a neat and somewhat
handsome structure on its site, which will be quite an
ornament to the town. The designs are by Mr. Corbel,
and about MOD has been already raised.
A Hoene IN • Daarta's SHor.—On W &weds,
morning, a horse ran away up Weston's-lane, with a
boy on its hack, who was oniible to restrain it with the
hempen halter that it hada§ Its head. Instead of turn-
ing when high-street was reached, the excited animal
dashed across the road, and eharged the plate-glees
window of Mr. Pricker, draper, which was mash
damaged, while the poor boy was thrown into the
middle of the shop. but without severe injuries beyond
some sharp outs about the bead and nub. The hone
belongs to Hr. Human, marine store dealer, and it is
paid is given to running away. It was consequently •
rash act for els/ to get on its beak with nothing but an
hempen halter to guide it.
PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OP AN EXTRA RATS
CoLLIOTTOI.—At the meeting of the Board of Ousedians
ots Wednesday, an application was received from the
overture of the pariah of St. James, for the appoint.
ment of an assistant rate-eollestor. it being apprehended
the abolition of curnpolsory rating by the new Reform
Act will entail so large an amount of extra labour as to
justify the etep being taken. The only objection to the
propoaition was made under the supposition that the
compound househ..lder after all is" scotched, not
killed." and that the present arrangement cannot last.
The euardiane decided on adjourning the consideration
of the matter until the next board day, when it is
extremely probable that an uoistant rate-collector will
be appointed, or £5O per annum allowed to the present
collector to provide essistanoe.
Berner SUNDAY SCHOOL ANSTTRISART.—Th• 5Th
anniversary of the Sunday school of the Baptist chapel,
in Hill-stree', was held last week. On Sumlay the
Rev. N. Hurry preached the annivenery sermon, and
the children sung several pieces in a highly satisfactory
manner. On Tan stay a sermon was preached in the
morning by the Rev. C. Williams, of Southampton, and
in the afternoon there was • tea meeting in the Town.
hall, and after tea • public meeting, presided over by
Hr. K. Kemp-Welch, when Mr. Adrenhesd real the
report of the committee in connection with the erection
of tha new mbool-rooms, which are not yet quite out of
debt. The Revs. .1. Lockwood, C. Williams, and .1. H.
Osborne, addressed the meeting, and Hr. Jew's Godwin,
as one of the wingregation, testified to the benefits
derived from the creation of the nen building. Collect.
Moos were ..wle on both oecosions.

SAIIIMLL PALMItIeI 13,131Kaorrcy.—At the London
Court of R•nkruptcy. on Saturday, before Mr. Com-
mimioner Winslow, there was an examination sitting
and application for discharge, under the bankruptcy of
Samuel Palmer, of Poole, brick manufacturer. He was
also described as lately carrying on the businees of brick-
making at Lytebett MaPrayers, previously of Wareham,
farmer, innkeeper, and butcher, air] afterwards of the
town of Poole aforesaid, ale and beer-bosse keeper.
Mr. R. W. Sykes, solicitor, 46. Moorgate-street, up-
on behalf of the °Maud assignee, the bankrupt
was unsupported. Mr. Sykes Paid that this was a
prior adjudcation made on the 22nd of June just, by
Mr. Dickinson, the Registrar of the County Court of
Poole. The bankrupt stated that his debts were
£602 18a, and there were no assets. The bankrupt
had been arrested at the suit of Mr. George Dyson. of
Sherborne, for • debt of £7B 11P. 6d. There were no
accounts, and therefore there must he an adjournment.
—His Honour (to the bankrupt): Why have you not
filed your ancounts?—Bankrupt : I don't know thorn
were any to file.--His Honour: Have you your.
protection in your poeltetl if so, look at it and read the
directions of the Court. —Mr. Syke• said the bankrupt
could not rsad.—Hits Honour: Then be ought to have
VA somebody to have read it for him. He must be ad-
jonrued 6114 die.—Order accordingly.