The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-02-20 00:00:00

DOZOILIBTIIII.

THI tender of Mr. Cooper, budder, of Cherminater,
for the new Infirmary wards and proposed aterstioas
at the Union, ameanting to &butt £.480, has been
aoaspted. The architect is Mr. Chapman. Mr.
Cooper's was the lowest tender, the highest being
£640. Mr. Chapman'. approximate estimate was LSO.
Toe Law Cool? Ccurrucroas —The London corm-
poodent of the Aisnehatter Guardian says :—The out-
losediog claim of th• contractors for the Courts of
Jostles against the Government is said to amount to
al much as £150,000, the total cost of the buildings
being set at £OOOO, of which the contractors have
received from ths Government about £736,000. It is
alleged that Mr. Street, the architect, directed
thousands of alterations from the original specifim-
tions, some of them affecting the largest item in ths
eoritract.
CatorTure's huge quantity of valentines
were deposited in the Post-Aloe on Bt. Valentine's
Svc They were of • multifarious description
Garrote, dolls, Ac., ho. Many of the dolls=
the regulation weight and six% and were, of course not
delivered. No doubt our Postmaster, Mr. Charles
Parsons, will return them to those interested on appli-
cation at the Post-office. Owing to the excellent
arrargernents, the ordinary deliveries of letters were
sot interfered with.
COLONIAL AND CONTINENTAL CHIME Soccer?.—
Sermons in aid of the above society are to be preached
next Suaday at All Saints' Church. In the morning by
the Rev. E. Markby, Amooriation Sorretary, and In
Um evening by the Rev. K. W. Collioson, and the
annual meeting will be hold in the Alington Hall on
Monday eventing, when the claims of the society will
be supported by both the above gentlemen, as well as
the Rev. B. Lndlow, of Martinstown, and the Rev. H.
F. Jones, of All Saints' Church. This society deserves
the support of all Churchmen, as it seeks to follow our
oountrymyn to the watering -places of Europe, as well
as our emigrants to North America, Canada, and else-
where, and provides for them • preached Gospel and
the *steins of the church, and does • truly missionary
work among the Indiana.
Tax GAS CorY•ze.—A dividend of 11 per cent,
a balance to the next account and • redaction of 21.
• thousand in gas, that is the satisfactory report that
was made to the shareholders of this company on
Tuesday last. Mr. Barnett (chairman of this Board
of Dlrestars) presided. The report, which was of a I
✓etiolustory character, stated that it was proposed to
make • farther reduction of 3d. oar 1.000 afissr the 30th
thsee, when the price will be 4s. per 1,000. An spoil.
cation for the extension of the company'. males to
Cisarmisstre (the cost of which would be front £7OO to
=
under considarstion, and, in thieving of the
proving satiateotory, the directors hope to
comply with the request. The director' recommended
that the dividend for the half-year should be at the
mg* of 1.1 per cent, and II NSA also suggested that in
fetere• aim of CISO per annum should be allowed the
directors in recognition of their extrs services. The
report was adopesd, the two retiring directors (Mr. R.
Davis sad hit. H. Basoombe) being re-elected, as was
also the auditor, Mr. W. Livesey. At the nesting of
the Orts Pitting Company, held at the seam time, •
&ridged oil.. 58. per share was approved, howls( •
Nam el no Is. 64. te carry one, to the Den meow*
ea the =appropriated profile of the year.