The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-11-19 00:00:00

TIIE EX•MAYUIt,

While there was any Possibility that Me. Lintlie ruight
retain the Mayoralty, we multi not hot refrain fr on re-
mark on his envies., for which the two owes him a long
debt of gratitude. Had not retard for his own health and
lousiness prisunted the continuant of the hard work be
has it, nuttily done, every reason rent d for folltiwing the
brilliant precedent, of the put, and sosigning the remark-
able honour in Mr. Ltindl• of being et cted for the third
conueutitee year. We shall not be mo ramh am to drew
Con ; but we may fairly say, e ithout fear of being
cha that for steady, peresvering, courteous, sod
more than courwoue, kindly attention to •vcry duty,
Mr. Lundie Winds errand to none of the moet popular
Map= of the past. When the diffl.-ult question was to
le settled more than two years ago, no sooner did Mr.
Lundie's name present itself to the mind of some cor-
porator, than it was felt he was the very man. He had
stood before the paints of Weymouth, for, we dn not like
say how many, rears; and. in the midst of all the
political, financial, art domestic worms that hays
swept over varioue inhabitants awl tried some as
in the tire, Mr. Louth* hal always stood the sun.
—• man to be relied on for what be thought right to
do, and • man who thotiaht right to di most things that
were kind. Wo will not say that Mr. Ladle has never
crowed any one; his habit of mind wu not that of the
jelly-limb order, yielding to every impreuion ; but bloat=
expression of opinion and hie decided ova have been done
with that courtesy whicht•kes it almost auto( the power.
and often out if the will, of the =non concerned, to
reesat, and we venture to say the jocular word, or the
decided act, was early condoned by those whom they meet
affected. At the banquet to Mr. Lundie, elven in acknow-
ledgment of his groat services. his Worship =rapt= the
word " homed" as that which might characterise his in-
saeuoee. Flie motto—(for the adjective might have hen
taken as • motto)—was an appropriate one, though it
would have bun better had the older and wider meaning
(incloding all that is honourable and not simply jut) bees
attached, and no doubt there were many to whom
this occurred, and who accepted the motto la that
sous For if ever • Mayer was thorough, it was
Mr. Lundie. To have been through aLI the trials and
Labours of the Mayoralty a whole year, and voluntarily to
accept the labour again, is the part of one more then
ordinarily devoted to the interests of his town, as—to be
offered the repetition I. an honour only accorded to the
tried and true. We are sure that not even Mr. Robertion,
self-devoted even beyond his stningth, will grudge Mr.
Lanai° the honour of standing ha fair comports= with
bitumen, as in labour. more abundant Perhape it was at
public meetings that Mr. Lundle took peculiar honour.;
he had such an appetite for work, that in thew extras of
municipel labour, he was always present to lead as well ag
to prende. We have had several eloquent men among
our public leaders, and the now Mayor, Mr. Eliot, le not
the toast' but not one comes up to our ideal of Heduates
Nestor, like the ex-Mayor. To his succor... he has set
the example (which Mr. Eliot has adopted) of 'peaking so
as not intentionally to wound the feelings, and though
this mitt occasionally have tenet= the =ennui= of
younger men, yet one cannot but acknowledge that a true
philoso,thy wu thereby shown. It was not a random hit
In the excellent speech of Mr. Donnie, when that fortunate
councillor said he " bad never heard fall from Mr. Elloes
lips one word that was offensive to any Mailmen all that
long time. Silver-tongued men may occupy somewhat
more time than others, awl occasionally lineages may
dould what is the meaning of the delay Wore plunged fa
mdisa reel But the " oiled feather.' proves itself •
power, to which even the giant abeam le deeply
Indebted and especially is this the case in the world
of meto The eorpormie to to have a few skittish
ones among them, and the coachman needs often
to soothe the irritability of those he has to drive. Mr.
Lundie has done this with rare perseverance and good
fortune on the whole, and be must rejoice that in this
particular he will be—l will not Rtrit•ted. bat—
followed by Mr. Eliot. We are only delighted that, after
the ill prophecies. even of friends, and n a little anxiety
on the part of those who watched hint from day to day.
Mr. Landis comes out of the Mayoralty, difficult asit
was to get that heavy dignity_ from his shoulders, u well
as ever be was In his life. Thus our congratilations are
unchecked, and we °cowhide by wishing Mr. Landis
many year. as councillor or alderman, and MCCIMMYS as
energetic, kindly, and fortunat as bimetal.

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fiii' ;De AIUIITRATION. —WO have been
obliged by the following cornet information sinoo our
last paragraph : —Mr. Frederic Ail:mead, c. C.. of the city
• Bri-tol, was the arbitrator appointed on behalf of the
Weymouth L.C.I It ord, sud he had to hear evidenosh
with regard to thee irrect apportionment of the aiusunW
to ler ch-rced to the various s. ssro, for paving, channel-
ing, le.. Ilsslaick-stris4„, in or -.stance with the 150th
SOC.I-14 of the Public licaith Art. 1147.1. Nutlet had been
errs .1 on th,• II otters t . c 0,.., in the aliPolslllslsl of
arbor it r, or app ite 5.1 ts,r; Ind the 0111111111., di.matiag
thcir w- r not rem..., utel. 11r. Polly iloer
soli arr.! on liciralf .• the Urban Sanitary Authority
Moe! Word). and Mr. F. C. Sumgait, town clerk) was I
the h itueee who pr iv..l the viii so. sow. Mr.
Mogan, irorough surveyor, proved the apeortioemootZ I
which r. c, it le iohl. r.t...1. were not in dispute, the
liability la Inc the real quoitico. The arbitrator's award
la expected so also- .1 ,ye.
ANATIIIR CONCERT. —At the IVeeleyan rktesoiroom,
Ilehles•etreet, 3 ads rt amateur c niecrt of vocal &Ili
lustre:imolai music was given in the above roots ou Wed-
nesday evening last, on behalf of the circuit fund.. The
following was the programme :—Overture, " Dor fishier
lon violin and piano ; anthem, "Cry out and
Show," the choir; trio, "Andante, No. 3 Sonata,"
" (ro (owner Carol," violin, harmonium, and Eiano • , song,
" Th.. POirim Faliers;" duet', "Moe. in
monium end
.pien..; duet "The Pilgrims." vocal : duet,
" &unison, ; at..l piano overture. " L'italieune •
Alger; vioiiii and piAno ; anthem, "I have get Watch.
mio, the choir duet, " Andoute from the Ereutser
&mato; violin and pi *no ; duet, 'I would that a Single
Word; duet, "Lo Norma," harmonium end piano;
duet. "Solemnly. Silently," vocal; trio "Meditation,"
"Ls TraviateDelection), harmonium. piano and violin • FOSSIL CROCODILE REMAINS.
dent," Il.lselnJbChseron.' harineminor and piano; "lAA
Save the tausem. The concert was an unexpected treat A scientific contsibntor writes no its follows
to those musicana who might have expected only the "I send you • brief nenunary of an account of the
soul style of amateur performanoss. The piano was rewlaino it °l.°°°"•• which diwwwwed lot long ego
played on by Era moo. whopemmes. remarkable trader the Old Castle. My friend has written in eiseonnt
&I-mt, while the violinist, Mr Williams. will boa worths of it entitled Notes on it Crocodilian law from the
companion to our favourite, Mr. Collett, and we shall corellian rocks of Weymouth." This has been read before
hope to hear the two in therm, concert somenight. Mho the members of lier Majesty's Geological Barmy, and I
wahome played the herinenuitn, and she also is clearly bort boisfi =IW lo•wwst both y0ur.r.r10,40.1.4 1011
one a • musical family. For the sake of hearing__sc • and groom' , who may not rin Y,lteow that
remark able tot, it was to to expected that the them were such I'M*" "it 01 ages Peet abounding
friends who arranged the proaemine, knowing their round oar cowl
ogoellence. should allot these three amateurs • larger I "Crocodilian remains being so rarely obtained, I wailed
shwa of instrumental performances, than would other to attach some little Important, to the discovery of the
bare been rife* and the public, usually so partial to vocal crocodilian jaw in the b.& of this age at Weyntont„.:
.nusic, received the instrumentalists well. In the first as the specimen posesered ort.in peculiarities, it
p.rt the 'Moose in Egypt" was one of the moat agreeable, desirable that some notice of it should be placed anon
and was received with rapture.us applauae, and the duet moor I, The grneral ainearamos of the specimen le some-
,ess encored. In the sowed part the Animism what dilapidated, owing to Die weathering before it wee
from Beethoven's Kroutter Sonata warn a marvel of good discovered, and partly due to the friable nature both of
and such classical music was worthy of any place. the bone and the matrix, which added much to the
ig-os called out the Powers of all the n...,4•1 party, difficulty of detaching it from the mar of rocks in which
who &doted mast theee posearod of most musical know- it war imbedded in the matrix. The lower parts had been
ledge and toots. The Halleluiah (thorns wanted vocallsta so far denuded as to expose the alveolar cavities, and in
it ea.& The singing of course appealed to all some of the anterior ones parts of the teeth were still to be
mut. wwiring "my, goes when good, the atoll' were seen ; but it coesiderabls pert of the hinder end of the Jaw
n tirithay and rendered their anthems with due le wanting. The right ramas bee been broken acrom, and
ft4ire sad feeling. There were some MOMS • but praise le out of its natural poltion. So math ad thl:
cee-ld 'male he • 01.0 swear ramie as is preserved contains the remains of I.lalveoll
little toe roldllies Comm fa with • the anierlar One, which Is amrlyolditended. penes slam
wee •