The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-08-28 00:00:00

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The Council, most people will think, have shown •
wise discretion in hesitating before they closed with
Lord Wimborne's offer for the purchase of him lands
at Parkstone and Longfieet. An enormous expense
most necessarily be involved in any attempt to oonvert
them into a pleasure ground and park worthy of the
name. Of cows., it would be • grand thing for
Poole to p *seas a park with winding walks, beautiful
trees and plants, artificial ponds, with rare birds
sporting upon them, and a grand band-stand whence
sweet music should be discoursed of a summer's
evening, and all such attractions al these ; but the
question arises are there not more pro:teeing matters,
, also involving • large expo titans, which should first
be dealt with? If, as Ur. Balaton I...neatly asserLe I
11 his belief, there to no town in the United Kingdom
which holds out such an invitation to the chol-ra, it
would oertainly appear so. Besides, who knows,
looking at the signs of the times, but what ere long
we may find operations renewed in the Ladies, Walking
Yield, and apparently forgotten pledges redeemed.

One of those highly imsginetive gentlemen. a 1,90.
do corrsepouient, has made himself responsible for
the assertion that before leaving Loudon for his
Perthshire seat, Earl Cairns bought up all the por-
traits on sale of Miss Vorteecue, the actress engaged
to be married to his son, Viscount Garatoyle For
cabinets, of which there were a large number tu stock,
he paid 2.. W. each. They usually sold at from 101.
to 2s. A new portrait was on the point of being
distributed to the trade, (tousled .g of BoVoral groat,
which he also purchased, and no more will be pub.
lished.

Now, I do not believe Earl Cairns would ever do
anything so ridiculous. It is true Ml.. Fortescus is
not connected with the peerage, her father is one of •
firm of coal merchants, but no doubt he will be able
to draw a cheque for a pretty round aim to give his
daughter on her wedding morn—Lord Cairns himself
did not marry • title—and an to her connection with
the stage, of which she promised to become • talented
member, surely there is nothing to be ashamed of in
that. Besides, even if he did do such a thing We beer
nothing of what has become of the negatives, and
supposing they were also destroyed, there are plenty
of people possessing copies who would be willing to gen
them for reproduction in spite of the Copyright Ac'.
It is probably an artful sdvertheassat, cone *tad by the
photographers themselves.. .

I commend the followilig‘Tiakfer:am one of Mies
Braddon's novels to the of Poole and
Parkstone (and their number by so MIAMI con-
temptible) :
"But atheism, eithoueh • veer Osman% theme for
raided end argumentative lteenesion if tor a lobster
envor and unlimited champagne, is but • Poor Ma to
leer, upon when the worn-ewe traveller approaches the
mysterious portals of the unknown lend."

I am told the proposed prosecution of the owners
of the Telegraph Ls. will be allowed to drop through.
The Bournemouth Commiseioners by no means relish
ehe job. It doesn't do, you know, under certain cis.
cuonstiumas, to throw stones

If one were to don all the various badges affected
by the different " Ribbon Armies" he might easily
convert himself into • peeambillatirg rainbow. Is
new army has. hear, been started in POOl6, tis to
be called the Pink Ribbon Army, its promoter is a
Mr. W. R. Tenon, and he object is "to honour
God's Day more than many people do at present,
and to pat a stop to Sunday traf6c." Whin the
army shall have become propsrly.organised, and suffi•
dent funds have tumbled In, we Waive the following
modest programme will be carried oat :
"To prosecute the Prisms of Wales U he hes a
garden party on the Sabath.'
" To send the G.O.M. into penal servitude if ever he
allows the House, as be did a fortnight ago, to sit for
2; hours after 12 p.m. on • Saturday.
" T., put an end to the Sunday mornings at the
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