The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-02-28 00:00:00

POOLE._

RELIMUUS TRACIT SOCIIITT.—The annual meeting of
the Poole aur;liary of the above moiety wee held in the
Town•hall. on Thursday evening Let, under the presi-
dency of the rector (Rev. J, A. Lama). There wee
bide lunttei attendance.

MUSICAL SOCIETY.—A meeting was held on Piiday
evening at the Temperance Hall, for the purpose of
malting arrangements for the formation of a musical
society for Pool., but nothing definite was decided
upon. A public meeting in the Town-hell would have
been more esti-factory. and no doubt would have been
better attended.

Hroita WAHNINGS.—At the meeting of the Quay
Trustees, on Friday, it was announced that arrange-
meets had been perfected for hoisting signals of indica-
tiros of approaohing storms on the top of the stores of
Mr. O. IL Penney, and that the drum had already been
twice hoisted in cmsequenos of telegraphic) messages
from the Meteorological Office:
Tag LoxartErr Ear° fail"; aswrg.—The last of these
attractive and CI aly Interesting entertainments took
place on Tuesday, in the Oddfellows'-ha't, which was
crowded almost to suffocation. The spirit with whieh
they have been kept up the entire winter, with nothing
of the kind going on in the town of Poole, reflects the
wildest credit on their promoters and the inhabitants
of the town end neighbourhood will be sure to look for-
ward with great interest to their revival in the autumn:
On this occasion, as before, the solos, ewes, and ciborium'
were ptincipally taken by the members of the Loneliest
church 'Moir, and Mr. C. H. Morgan, their leader, most
have bestow. I &rest painstaking in drilling his choristers
to snob • high stendard of efficiency. The pieties given
by the choir were "The Gipsy's Tent,""Yon mountain's
brow ascending," from fhg Dixpo/o, "I'll live the
still" and " Hurrah to the woods away," from Robin
Hood, and Rossini's "Carnivals." The other fangs
were "Hearts of Osk " and "The Vagabond," by Mr.
rtlett ; "Robert lot que Dame," by Miss Lillie Jones;
and "The Niggardly Nigger," by Mr. D. Lewin, who
appeared in " " eoetnine. Two instrumental
pieces were a'so Liven by Mrs. W, W. Aldridge, and
Mrs. Williams on the pianoforte. and Mr. W. W.
Ald.'dgo on the violin. The readings were of the usual
high homoerons nature, and were given by Mr. W. W.
Alskidge, Mr. C. A. Adams, Mr. C. N. &wheals°, and
the ltsv. E. Coombe*. At the close of the entertain-
ment the Rev. J. I. W la.m. returned thanks to the
I: lies and gentlemen who had assisted in the entertain-
ments during the season, and said their pecuniary
result had been so satisfactory that £l5 would be realised
for the building fund for the restoration of Loneleet
Church. Their amusements" he said, had been of •
harmless nature, and bath the music and the readings
had I en good. If they had Laughed together, he trusted
the result had been to increase their muteal sympathies,
and ho would now, is manager, bid them adieu until
next 10118.)11. The rev, gentlemen's obseivations were
reosived with great applause.
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W IMBORNIL
DANGEIOCS STORING OF BENZOLINE.
. . . .

Witaborne Petty Sowdoos. it F iday. be(or.) C.
J. varkt E .1, lt.v. C. J. 01) I. Sir Edwardii. Oreatheal,
&cu., the lion. Evelyn Al y. Col. Pilot, and tho Rev. J.
Aip; m, Mr. John DWI Scourd, of Maitre. de, lronnaon7er,
summon.: I hr the Deputy CiTlcl Cons ble, for un-
lawfully I::ap:ng a ,qu.df I y of petro.eu n on hie preml
eontraveu:lon of the Pe.ruleutn Act,. ul Lie Wens* i• Anted
to him, the, Id Julia Glyde Erma7d. 117. Hammond- atuted
that the defendant ha I a lr,a from the bench to keep
pelroleum in. oei.shi boldill or :tad for tha po
,mse. On
kooday, tie WA Ins. nt M. uewanl h 1 a woodrin building
be railat the wa.l of,' ne kiln belors;a"T to Mr. Cha-les
Webb, "i•il Vt tli,• 101 1 wa • • .c 1 a o: bee About
ten ll'eloek tl at day boy a'uout 14 years of age wm sent to
d :a* ,one of the highly liltntmidle liquid, and according to
the id went of thia boy the &I eno itaneetbily I Tailor', and
there nir: a quautity of gunpowder In c misters Mored In
the building, cona:demble daniam ma done. and the Inkobl-
I,titt of the nei.Tlibutarhool were much alarmed. These Meta,
relat, I by the Deputy Chief Constable were generally
admitt-I on behal of the deleoduf.. The defame woe neglf.
outbo Fiu‘ul one ut Mr, lieward's one in cooltitog to

place thls cask in the properlhones, the defendant having
been in a had eat* of health for some time past, which pre-
vented him from attending to the matter biome& Kr. Ham-
mond admitted this to be true, sad in consequenee thereof, he
(the Deputy Chief Constab'e) would recommend the case to
the favourable considendine of the bench. The Chairman,
In deliverlag the Judgment of the court, maid this was • very
errious am. but taking all the circumstances into considera-
tion, the Bench thou-ht the ends of Juatice would be met by
Inflicting • penally of £6 and Ils, dd. coda.

TNT ADJOODJUID TOLL Cal&
Thomas Bo4Z, toll-gat. keeper, Lytchett, wee charged with
illegally damaging and taking 3d. toll from Kr. Biljah Hunt,
of Lytctiett, seven Sunday. ago. Mr. Hunt claiming exemp-
tion on the grounds that 'ben the toll wen demanded he was
=peting hls usual place of worship. the Wesleyan
Poole. The defendant urged that Mr. Hunt had for.
the benefit of exemption from the fact el there being a
Wesleyan Chapel at Lytchett, and the CASO WOO adjourned for
the Bench to consider the matter. Mr. Harker, of Punle,
now appeared for Mr. Hunt. and very ably argued that as
Poole Chapel was Mr. Hunt's usual place of worship, ant not
Lytchett, he was exempt from toll. After considering the
matter, the Bench considered that Mr. Hunt could legally
claim the benefit of exemption