The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-12 00:00:00

Mr. Justice Denman : I suppose the petitioner con-
tends that the Mayor ought not to bare nominated at
all,
_

The Solicitor• General Re ought not. If he had
intended to I reside to adjudicate on the valiiity or
otherwise of the nomination papere. As to Wanhill,
he had been omitted by error from the burgess roll in
1676, but, his quli6cati00 ant being Impugned,
his name appeared in the list for 1877, which wm
published on that very day. The petitioner main-
tained that the Mayor was not entitled to decide the
question at all ; but they decided that he decided it
wrongly. The election took plate on the let November,
with the following result :—Andrews, 476; Buckler,
456; Trevanion, 452; Farmer, 459; and Budge, 447.
There being only three vacancies, Mr. &PM the
presiding alderman, gave the casting vote in favotu of
Trevauton. The questions for the opinion of the
Court were—whether Andrew., Buckley, and
Trevanioti were duly elected; if not, were their
election, void ; whether the nominations of the three
gentlemen named were illrg.d and void; and whether
the decision of the Mayor in allowing the objection to
the nomination paper of Wet hill wee wrong.
Mr. Justice Denman: The petitioner was fifth on
the poll. II he knocked ofl two others he would oome
In?
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The Solicitor-General : No, my lord. If the objec-
tions which have been raised are go d, everything is
upset, and there must be a fresh election.
Mr. Ju.tice Denman supposed the only objection
sustained wee the casting vote, that would not upset
the whole?

The Solicitor-General: Yes, my lord, because there
was an equality of votes. Tha first question be would
argue was that with reference to Mr. Rogers acting as
presiding officer at the election. His contention was
that Mr. Rogers was not qualified, and had no right
to act as returning offioer at aIL That depended on
the construction which OW put on the kb, 26th, and
52nd Section. of the Municipsl Corpus Act, but if he
(the Solicitor-General) was right in his contention at
all, he was right under the 52nd Section, which had
reference to nowesidenos. An alderman who absented
himself from the borough for more than six months
at one and the same time was disqualified from con-
tinuing in his office. The respondents argued that
unless the office was voided in a certain way the
disquAlification did uot take elloct, but the petition
maintained that the disqualification was made fume-
dist* by the statute. That Mr. Rogers had coaaed to
reside in the borough, and had clone so for more than
six months, would not, he 'opposed, he contested.
Mr. Benjamin advised his learned friend not to
take anything for granted. (Laughter. )
The Solicitor-General said that at all events Mr.
Rogers was not on the burgess roll for 1877, and he sub.
mitted that for all legal purposes he was a mere
stronger to the borough. Any doubt on that subject
was removed by the recent Municipal Election. A Ctry
which admitted, to far as circumstances admitted,
municipal to parliamentary el-ctions. Thongb not
being on the burgess roll, Mr. it .gers w not comps.
tent to vote at the election; and not being competent
to vote in the ordinary manner, it was beyond his
right to act as peer:fling officer and give • mating vote.
By his absence from the borough he ipjo facto ceased
to be in offi,e, but be u helms Wok it up.m.
self to decide thereon. His absence from the borough
was_a fact found in the cam.
. .

Mr. Benjamin denied it was so, and said that the
case, on the contrary, proved that he was not absent
from the borough for six months fie maned to live
at P.A., and sent to re.ble at North Petherton, but
he frequently came to Poole and attended meetings of
the Council.

Mr. Justice Gmve : So that the question will resolve
itself lot t which the non-residence it cured by the
visits to the town.

The Solicitor General: I admit that physically he
was not absent for six in..fiths at • time. u would
the difficulty as to non.residenos be got rid of if • man,
say, passed through the town once in six month' on
the railway
Mr. Justice Grove feared, if questions of this com-
plex character had to be considered, that the ar,ttments
would occupy odisiderable time.
The Solicitor General : I shall have several points to
argue and authorities to quote.
Mr. Benjamin: And I certainly shall, also.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Justice Grove So that it seems the caws cannot
possibly be brought within the compass of the day.
The Solicitor-General was afraid hat it could not.

Mr. Justice Grove said he mentioned this because
both be and his brother Denman would have to
proceed on circuit to-morrow, and the arguments
could not tlPrelore be. meowed for frOMO time.

Ultimntely the further hearing oi the petition wee
postponed until after the Spring Circuit'.

FOR FOUR YEARS ELUDING JUSTICE.
At the Hampshire Assizes, on Friday, John
Klnchles, • hawker, was charged with the man-
slanibter of his wife at Porteemouth four years ago.
He absconded at ties thus and warn not apprehended
till January last. The grand jury ignored the bill for
murder. It appeared that lt malts,' from
erysipelas, consequent on wounds indicted by the
prisoner with a hammer and chopper. He warn found
guilty, and, in sentencing him to eighteen months'
imprisonment, Sir Fitsjames Stephen said he took
Into consideration the fact that the ooneequenes of his
crime must have been apparent to the prisoner for so
long a period.

A FIGHT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.
The Chewlord Chronicle says :—" A good deal of
Interest has been excited in different please in Essex
by flying reports of an encounter which took place on
the Great Eaetern Railway on Saturday last by some
English soldiers and a party of R1:111611 sailors. The
particulars of the affair, mbar as we have been able to
collect them, are as under. The Russian sailors, who
numbered about half a dome, le% Harwich for
London at five minutia put one At Colchester, at
2.10, some English soldiers happened to get into the
same compartment, which was a third class one.
How many of them there were we are not able to say,
but they were oertanly not equal in number to the
Russians. One report stated that there was only •
single soldier, but that, at all events, turns out to be
Incorrect. The " lions " and the " bears." reflecting
the prevailing international jealously, were ~on at
loggerhead. with each other The story credits the
Russians with being the aggnissors. It is alleged that
they begun to jeer the ail lien and to apply
opprobrious epithets to them and their nationality,
and that at length they called them " Queen's
puppies.* The British lions, of course, could not
endure an epithet of that sort, and so they fell upon
the Russian bears and gave them a taste of their
quality, first with blows from the fist, and then, on the
Russians fighting foul, with blows from bottles. The
coufusion and nee in the compartment wu dreadful,
the Russian sailors crying out loudly in the terror and
amazement which the vigorous onslaught of the sturdy
Britishers had inspired. Borne of them felt the
punishment and dreaded its continuance so acutely
that they were fain to get out of the carries!" and ride
upon the footboard, frantically shouting murder"
and " help " while other pusen aie were waving
handkerchiefs, and making other signs from the
windows. In this way the train neared Witham,
where in the ordinary course it doe., not stop, but the
guard of an approaching goods train presuming by
these tokens that something was seriously amiss,
signalled the driver to pull op. rind he did so. On the
station officials going to the carriage in question they
found the fight was not quite ended, but they put a
sta.:: It of course, and consigned the Wakes and
to separate earriage• One of the Russians was
biroding profusely from wounds in the face, and the
whole party betrayed an aspect of extreme fear.

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