The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-20 00:00:00

" When the tree felled. your Prestige will fail.
WWII popularity. prestige, and all."

But I rather hope and believe that the worthy chief
magistrate will leave the cutting-down until his own
olive-branches shall have become trees as grateful to
the town of Dorchester as himself. By that time the
saplings at the West-mid of the Knap will um-
brageously supply shelter and ornament to the road,
sod he who seems destined as "Th. father of our
Mayors-to-be," may put into the hands of his son, the
then Mayor, the axe to fell the chestnuts and
ycamom, replsced on the Knap by more vicorous
but not better successors, as the son himself sh-. 11 hate
replaced his worthy father in the civic chair.

But the interest of the villa' and their residents
demand the destruction, say some. I don't believe the
cnninz tenants would prefer the Junction stables to
the clump and the trees on the Weymouth-road ; but
if they do, I say with the Bishop re Thirlmam Water
Supply—" Defend us from villas land all that is
s Mamma." It must bee one-eyed 'Many that can't see
more in a clump of full-grown chestnuts and sycamores
than in a low-level path with nearly bare poles, an.l
scanty fazusts of furze—a lot of brooms that can't
even be used to sweep clean in the Fair-held.

When Is the new Grammar School Scheme csrnin;
int.,) work ? I suppose noholy went, gr..mmar
taught in Dorchester, fret the schoolmaster's premises,
just south of Napier's Mite in South-street. there ia
no lodging but • great deal too much board. Bard
not as evenluicy as you get at Mugby jUOCLiOU, but
planks put up to ward off attentions of the D. rchester
juveniles, who miAt n.venge upon the paneo at the
grammar schooluismter's house, the absence of
grammar•teaching, by undue practice of vulgar
fraction..

School boards are viewed with horror by some good
people in D4rchester ; but they seem to tolerate these
obstructive and light-hindering school boards in South.
street. Boards were not always viewed with com-
placency in that highly respectable street; r remember
when a remarkable display warn made in front of the
railings at Cedar Park, where passers by Sr. so edified
Low ky the sight of the active Malay fowls.

Mr. T. 1. Ream Brown proposes • number of ways
of bettering pour pecia4 in Dorchester DA in Wales,
only there is is mach "11 a1,04t the worthy doctor's
propoitions. Still he has bold of tha rirlit ideas,
except about the hiring fairs, which I can't hiip
thinking the ?imams I Joks on and uses as • sign he is
a free Enababman. What would remain to the
labourer, wircripto ylctme, saint Batcombe, or Bothen.
hampton, if he couldn't shake itimaelf tree now and
then, and go out in the world?

When the Weymouth Town Council or Local Board
have their nex t £lOO to spare, 'Cs to he hoped they
won't expend it in asking for reports. Abundance of
reports they have, and It seems utter failY to go G o
asking for more. What they have to do is to sullillaoo
the offenders and abate the nuisance, lestead of
allowing persons to do unlawful acts, and then laying
outa.ausy to enquire whether, when channels are made
to convey captain substances into the Backwater, and
have been used and complained of for some time, those
substances are to be found the:4in.