The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

OBSERVZIL

THE PORTLAND olt ANT MONEY.

To the 11 lifer.

flere's • to do, Mr. Editor, about the Grant Money.
It regular modem, hair stand on end when I rood what
a dreadful men "amebae]," has been, and whet a
chocking fate awaits him unless he gives a good amount
of hinmelf for the last twenty years—l wonder whether
any man, even "Burnout's Local Friend, would like to
be obliged to do that I But what does all this mean
--"initated feelings of the inhabitants'," "south:don of
trustees." "an injunction in Chem:wry," and "• clean
sweep of all that stand in the way?. I hens walked
up and down the island linos this announcement was
mode, and tally.' with all sorts of people, but I have
found them as "mild as milk," and they did laugh and
joke blithely as though they were " happy as saudboys,"
Instead of being ebookingly any. Then, as for the
tru.tres, who are said to be " enspecta." why in ell
directions I hear them well spoken of. though, of course,
you know " the pear that hoop high bassoon, stones
throws at it," yet they, it least, have not so far some
to ge ief, snit I for one should be sorry to see the day,
fir I think it would be • bed job for the island. The
Chancery affair I know nothing about, but 111. s little
court I fancy Portlanders will do well to keep out
f, for I read it swallows no end of money, and
you get nothing hot worry and expense for going there.
The "clean sweep" rather plums me, if I understand
it rightly. One of the chief thinp " standing in the
way" of Portland's great prosperity is the unwholesome
am. Ils that are found in all parts of the island. If a
clean .weep" is going to be made of them, we shall be
•" made for life." But "Barnum'. Local Friend" givea
us on army of figures professedly about the grant
money. Whether the items ere right or wrong I
don't know, tost I do know that the average he pretends
to thaw Imes them is inaccurate. Instead of
En'ar, EU. ea. e. year, his knees only amount to
PAN As., and titan he say hs only knows of
P4O s-year being spent. Well I what then?
It's not nem/any he should know. Who is
he? Assuming that £5OO is the amount annually
tredve& surely the trustees 'veld not bare mach
trouble in expending that "far the benefit of the
inhabitants'," and tint is all they hove got to do. I
do hear it said that if • man will go and toady to the
trustees, be can have £5 or £lO now and again of the
rant money, whioh, of course, would be • very wrong
thing, for it would be only a "Kaolin" that could do
it, and this money is for the benefit of
portionders. But I don't believe • word
of the story. My intercourse with the
trustees has led me to believe them gentlemen
honest end upright in every sense of the word, and I
think that if "Bernum's Local Friend" was to show
them proper respect, which would be only doing hie
duty in that station of life to which it has pleased Clod
to call him, and go and ask then", in • proper manner,
for any information whieh he has any right to have on
the 'subject, they would give it him willingly and
courteously. Brother Portleoders, don't be la into
low by fnir words, or to wetting sip your backs against the
chief end best men in the inland. If you thick you have
a grievance, approach them, not in the attitude of
menace, bet of appeal, and I have no doubt you will be
tiesrd, and they will work with you and for pm—Yours
s'aithifel/e. PORTLANDER.