The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-05-15 00:00:00

•WANAGZ.

Tlir. ISATimc: grEvrioN.—A correspondent writes :
—" The value .if the veto power reserved by the Local
Government Board has been illustrated to th matis.
faction iif the bathers of Swanage. 'fins attempt of
the loetal Board to stop all bathing on the north shore
between the hien, of 10 a.m. and S p tu., and to obtain
undue control over the bathing machines on the west
shore, hoc been thereby wisely and suddenly checked.
Some of the ratepayers endeavoured to mats the
Board to reconsider their determination, but without
much effect. A very numerously *ivied petition of
the inhabitant+, giving rcueiti for the 'waver that the
suggested laws should not be confirmed. was then
forwarded to the Local Government !Soar!. To this
the reply has been received from Whitehall.
"SIR, —I am direrte.l by the Iriestlisverninent !trod to
, acknowledge the receipt, on the Eltli inst., of a petition
signed by you and other inhabitants of the parish of Swans
age respecting the bye-laws am to bathing proposed by the
Local Board for the district of riwanage. The Board direct
me to forward to you for the information of the metnori•
abets, the arroinpanying ropy of a letter whirh they
addressed to the Local Board on the subject of the
proposed Byr•laws"
'1 he following is the copy :
" Sia,-1 am directed by the Local Government Board to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21th ott,
forwarding a iiraft of certain byrtaws, proposed I.y the
Local Board for the district of Swan:we, in substitution for
existing bye-laws as ti Bathing. The Board direct on, to
state that they think that the proposed bye-laws will
require extendve revision, to bring them within the scope
of the provision, of sectisn tkl of the 10 and 11 Yin, rap.
At —As live-laws are n or In force in the district and as
the model series of byelaws, which the Board nave In pre-
paration will shortly he issued, they suggest that the
revision of the existing liyedawt be postponed until the
Local Board have bad an opportunity of perusing the
model byedaws. The draft of the proposed bye.lsws awl
copy of existing bye-Laws are herewith returned."
San Desvit.—On Tuesday evening, May 3rd, Mr.
.1. :4. Smeilmore came into his house from the garden
ciontilainlng of great pain. A doctor wag immediately
summoned, and Mr. G. Dehunotte WM KOMI in
attendance, hot he found life extinct. There had been
a rupture of a blood.vesosil iif the heart. The loss to
the town in which the tleicascd for 67 years had been
greatly respected cannot easily be estimated, lie had
ably filled many ',oldie Mikes, anti was uniformly
courteous to .1i classes. From childhood he had been
connected with the Congregational Church, of which
for many years lie was a deacon. As successively
scholar, teacher awl superintendent of the Olin lay
School, he wits seldom absent for upwards of GO years.
Ho performed his there On the Sunday, and
attended a tea meeting on the Tuesday previous to him
death. At his funeral, on May 70i, the Rev. I.
Chambers, his pastor, and the Rev. 0. R. Barnicott,
Wesleyan minister, officiated. A very large number
of the iiihabitants attended, and about 10 of the
scholars and teachers showed their loving sorrow hy
casting wreaths and flowers into the vault and by
singing some of his favourite hymns.
ANOTHER SA l) occurrence intensified the gloom of the
town on Saturday last, by the discovery of the Issly If
Robert Chinehen, stonemason, at the base of the cliffs
in Durleiitott Bay. The deceased left his home on
Friday aftennion in his usual health hi go to his work
at Mr. Butler's quarry which is in the side of toe cliffs.
There are two ways over the edge, the nearest rather
narrow mei very dangerous. He had been cautioned
about this one and advised to keep hi the farther and
safer path. As he did not return home at night a
search VIM made for him, and his body very much
injured WM found at the bottom f the unsafe way. A
ledge of projecting rock had hidden it from the 'debt
of his fellow workmen who wondered at his absence
from work. An inquest was held on Monday last,
before the Deputy Coroner, Mr. S. Bennett, and a
jury of which Mr. W. Trayte was the foreman, and a
verdict returned of " Accidental Death." The
deceased, who was 36 years old, leaves a widow and
two children.