The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-03 00:00:00

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The fate of William., the lonalry agent, is sealed,
wearily as that of his Liverpool colleague, who
rhortly after got five rbA/11 for • similar gross case of
perjury. And it hen bees sealed for week's, and that
fact ha. been known to the instigators of the meeting"
recol.tly held In Londoc, over which poor oil Mr. Whit-
worth has beou a joled into presiding, in spite of the
falsehoods that have been Industriously put about
that "nothing is settled, the Home Secretary Is read-
thr oigh .114 notes of the evidence." Alderman
Curti. has ri.crived from the Home Ofiloe so intima-
tion that the Home Secretary sees no rem 'a to
Interfere with the sentence petrel upon Williams.
This oommunication Is dated February 14th. The
petiti .11 sent up, to which title is the reply. was for-
warded al weeks alter the first and more public
one. lii. only reasonable, therefore, t believe that
the promoters of the fint had the answer of the Home
Secretary in their pockets at the Urns they were
declaring en the public the matter was o,lli uode.
consideratirn. Of course it pays the chief mover in
the matter to keep It dangling before the eyes of the
public —that teeUmonisl requires • lot of whipping
arid spurring—but the result oennot he kept dark any
10ng.,. [I should state that Mr. Alderman Curtis
ham been away from Poole • week, and oonsequently
the official document wee not opened until a day or
two azo.]
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There has slim been received from the Home
Secretary • farther informatim which I fail to see
ha., as yet, bent made pimblic. via., that be hart no
power to order an investigation into the general
conduct of the police troe, unless an applioation to
that effrct be first forwarded him from the Watch
Committee,

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Why on earth these attempts to keep back tots?
In reply to a oouple of oorreepondents, I thank
them for their hints. but the letter In question I.
really beaeath notice. Its Impertloenoe I. only
equalled by It. vulgarity. HtgUaltrium don't tight
dads over such low attacks. They prefer an action
for slander or a good groom' ash.

Tb• frustration of searoachnients upon the public
debts In the way of the annexation of common land
Ii • work that deserves not only the thanks of •
Radical Club, bat of everybody oleo lilt is carried
out upon right linen But it sewn. to ma the objection
to the 11100ikliMITS of that little three-c3rnered piece at
Birdschill by the Lord of the Manor, partakes rather
too much of coptiouenees. engendered, It would seem
from what occurred at the Council meeting on Friday,
by a lilt's Doman arising from a supposed favouritism
shown in the fitment of groan I-rents. "Th. member
for Parkstone " remarked it le not a respectable piece
of ground, and Is of very littio nee to no. With the
first part of that oba•rvati in I quite agree ; but as to
the second if any ono chooses to walk past of • fine
but darkish night, between 10 and 11, they will be
enabled to judge for thern.eivea what use it le. Oae
would have thought the Gitsrdian of the morale of the
town would have been only too delighted to have
seen it improved away. At a previous Ooriacil meet-
ing It wee related that.th• ditch had been filled op at
the expeuss of the town. True enough I but this
no. only dope boom the Burma knew It