The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-01-28 00:00:00

DORCiIiSI KR.

3nD D.R.V.—Th 14th season of the Dorchester
rifle corps will commence ou the 30th inst., the
0 .010107 having been enrolled on the 3011 January,
1800.

HIGHWAY BoARD. —The way warJent of the Depth a-
ter district, followlog the faltioo. hurl passed a
vote of thank. to 3lt. J 11. Caieritit, on the motion
of Mr. W. asp, ...wooled by Mr. W. Bryant. for
the opposition he lo I to the iucresio of tile rusantY
po.ioo pay.
The SANITARY ACT—At a special meeting of • full
Board of Gu•rdian It wts unanimously reeolyed to
appoint 66 inaPeetutt of Nuisincet for the Band
Sanitary Dlatrict, at • setae, of £l6O • year, &Oa that
the medieal °Moors he offered their distriote at 21 par
Mint incrowee um to. te tuthiry.
WASCIRRN CIRCUIT AMITE. —Tb• fizWro lot the
Wesiorn Ultima pring &wises arc so follows :
Deruttni Monday, ' Fubruary :Nth Winuheater,
Nionday. March 3rd; Dorchester, Monday, Marsh
10th; grave, Friday. Msrch 11th; Bothnia. Friday,
Mush 2114; Taunton, Wednesday, March 26th; mad
Bri•t.d, 'rnesday, April lit. Mr. Baron Pigott and
:dr. Justice, Grove will be the judge,.
1110HIVATil —Toe annual return of the reoripta and
t•xpenditure on secoa-at of the highways in the parishea
forming the Dorcheetor Richway Dlstriet has just bin
published, whereby II appears that the length of roads
Is 243 miles. and it. expenditure for the year 1872
amounts to £2740 bei-ng after the rate of Ell 5.. 6.1. POT
mile or • trifle Meng than 41d. la the pound oit the
rata:age value.

Osernausen Ho3oola. —Kr. George Herbert Look,
son of oar sowsemaa, Mr, Prank Lode, ham been Smolt
ointh wrangler In eboCambrldge Tripes hat of {his year.
He was edueated by the Km. R. G. Watson, at Hal-
stead, and for three years at the Home* County School,
and afterwards proosodel to Aidenhim, Herta where
he obtained • minor scholarship on entranee, and after-
wards a foundation scholarship at Clare. Mr. J. H.
Lock, who oame out third wraughir laat year, was Mao
a peril 4th. lice. R. 0. %data e for some lame; and
both passed in honours at lb.. Csgebridge Local Faatai-
ritalrA whilst with hint in 1164.
CMARITABLI tiUMCIIIPIIUN. it will be remembered
that an May lad, a lamp-man named John Will.,
employed at the Iltrohaiter station of las South-
Western Railway Company, was kitloi In the
execution of lit ditty, by billing off the roof of •
carriage and being run over by • passing train. A
suescripilon we. opened for the relief of hie widow and
chlidten, and it nas recently been closed. A number
of gentleman an., othor kind-hearted people of the
town and neighbourhood liberally and freely con-
tributed, and the total subscriptions have amounted to
£B7 lls. 6.1. Of this sum .C 7 110. 61. hoe been psid to
Mrs. Wills, and the other stoney invested at Masai.
Eliot and Co.'s bank in the names of Mr. Mears,
district staple-intendant, and Henry Will,, guard,
brother to the deceased, for the bessfit of the widow
and her fatherless eleildren. Bhe is very grateful for
the kindness which hate thus been shown he., sod
desires to tender her heartfelt thanks to all the
soatributors.

Pananwrstron or • Trurrinoirlat.—We understand
that on Monday evening, at Fordington vicarage, a
parting gift of a very gratifying kind was presented
to the Rev. Handley Mottle. The teachers of the Rut
Fordiagton Sunday School, in which Mr. Moak has
mated for the past several years as towhee and super-
intandent, had combined in the pureness of an elegsal
silver inkstand ant pencil cave; and this was now pre
seated to their friend on his removal to Cambridge,
with on Aldroaa, b autifully engrained end framed.
Mr. Henri limootabe, of Dorchester, who hos long been
the faithful Preeter of the first aline or boys to the
above school, was the repreeentative of the tesehers in
presenting thit touching gift to Mr. Most.; reading
the add's... (signtd with 35 natostr), which ran 44
fellows To the Rev. ilandley Houle, M.A. We
thu nudertigoed telotters of t^e East Fordington
Sunday School, io or.o. ponce of your leaving this
pariah for snothar sphere of labour, beg to offer for
your acoeptatioe • silver inkstand and pee, as • slight
t• cognition of our appree,ttiou of your valuable and
cffiriiint service' as superint.ndeut of the Sunday
sanoci: sod we ear-eatly prey that OAP, Meowing will
ever nttend you. Fordingtien, Jar. 2)th, 1873." Mr.
Motile rci sired and acknowiedgoi the gift (sne secret
of which had been weo kept) in • few but earnest
wards t.. 1 grateful and affection•te recognition. It was
in :toed one of those occaliona which may well checr •
mirgater in the ilettply trying not of leaving a loved
and familiar wens and tooloty for • duitant and
difficult duty. Th. occasion if the presentation wee
en annual intherlog of teachers at the tea-tablir at
Furdlotrton Iflrrage ; a gathei. g, we believe, of more
than 20 years stunting. We may add that on the
following morning Mr. Mottle ',minced • beasUfnl
little gift, not lase touching and cheenng, from the
Mil-st scholars of the Prloohl.l Day School,
Panama:Lc ADDltisil TO REV. 0, J. Bun. -Th.
(*Towing addrost was presented to the Rev. C. J. Bird,
M.A., upon his tually quitting his reaideace in Dor-
°Urfa, last w.ek, numerous:, signal by hie late hearers
•Al parishioners—
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Welt gordlegton, Jimmy 12, 1873.
Rev. end Dear 81r,—Ae members of hour Mte cones...team
WS cannot permit you to leave no Bitnfl7 without some memo-
rial of our esteem and regard. We desire to record our
itretPutle to our Materialy rather for enabling you to preach
the G.s-pel among us for the last tortes yens, and to preach it
faithfully and earnestblin these days of error. superstsUor.•-id
unfaphfulnaa, Winiat we canuot conceal our desp rages at
hour &porters, from among so, we Aaiun you that we warmly
appreciate the high min.° of duty. which has led you to maks
the saclike you are row ; and we tru.t, that this
additional evi knee I your sincerity, setting a seal of truth to
all your peat ministry, may not be log on those yell are
now leaving, but naay bring back to their miude the lesson of
Gospel love you ever noght to impart to than, so that
although absent froth us, )uu nay hoar that we stand feet
in the Nth tel still .gr In grace and intl. knowledge of
oar Lard an 1 Saviour Jaan4 (Jurist." We desire to acknow-
ledge the invariable kindnees and sympathy we have ever
received from yourself and Mrs. Bird In every time of trial
and distrea ; and In conclusion we would express one most
sincere and hearUelt WWI., to which we add i.ur earnest
prayen to our Heavenly rather, that you and your family
may be bloat and made a biassing wherever your lot in oust;
and that when your work on mirth to done, that you may be
permitted io to rejoice in the day of enlist" teat corn In
Wed Fordington, you have not been in rain, neither
laboured in rout."
Mr. Bird hee replied as follows
Wad Fordington, Jammer) 72, 1871.
My dear ffriende,-1 have experiesced great comfort under
the redness of quitting my ham and cure in the very affection-
ate nod eympeahislor address you hove just sent is.
Uf my love to you tho put must wetly ; but of your love
to me the future must tomfy, to your remembrance, and your
believing hold, and your pvnctic.l exhibition of those precious
truth* of Christ, which it has been my joy to declare to you.
Commending you therefore to Msgr., who Mona I." aide
to keep us from falling, and to umlaut us faultless bolos lila
presence with exceeding joy "—I remain, and hope Wray, to
remain, mo.l faithfully hours in the bonds of lac Gomel,
C. J. Bus.
BOR,OOOO PITYT SitsSIONS, llouday.—Bolore ths
Moy-r (hr. 0. J. 0. (hregory), and Dr. Aldridge.
AMU Loads.. Lot Camas, "'rata Moitionos. Charla
Meader, nod Elizabeth Braga, MI of Fordington, were
summoned by Supt. Onward for wastlog eater aappittott
by ths. bore!iglx.
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-.Mrs. BMA's aud Coombe only appeared.
P.S. Mitchel said he was on duty to Gregory's ballet.
lag& Ferdicgtoo, Jan. 11, about 1 a.m., and saw water
emceeing from the tar, Iherte—lte should think at about
half the forms. The tap supplies eater lath, row of
five bonus °tempted by the defendant.. ll* screwed
the tap down to stop it, but could not do so altogether
on emment of It. being out of repair. [Loder now mate
in] On the 20th he omit there, aid found the water
still running away. jut about as he left It on the morn-
ing of the 11th. Celled the atteation of the °couplers
to the .saw. Mr&Bridges said the tap had been musing
Like that for a fortnight.
Mr. Symenda told defendants that when the water
began to leak they ought ic have atopped it, or if they
bed &I 2 arrangement with their landlord for him to keep
the tap In repair, they ought to have told him of it.
Deleodante pressed said they told Mr. Harris, and he
sent some one to do li, but It was broken again in a fear
days.
Loader said be didn't know anything about a leakage,
and be attributed the water running to washing that
was going en.
Mr. Symonds gall it wee an odd notion that water
was to be turned en e.matantly when wa.bing
about. That would account for a good deadlol the waste
there was In the borough.
Loader sold be should gait for a tap for each home.
Mr. Symonds &aid he tbonght they snout,' all hge.
separate tape, an.l inside their bongo&
One of the defendant.' said II RS. Mitchell had told
th. women on the morning after be found thy
would hay* gone to Mr. Harris about it.
symonda told them It w-y their duty to we
'he water did not 0-01.:.; 0111 they hal biter tell
th.ir 1.n410nl they wuult all leave unions they had
**pirate tape.
Toe Mater rid the &indents were fintd 2t,
osah. Two-thinly of the w.,ter was wasted, and
careful people bed ti pay f.r lb s. who were aerobe'.
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Poing, iteturdey.—lisfore E. Pearce. Req.
A trios. named George Witlia, WAs oha,g.4 with
making o fake mace out, for the purpose of obsolelog
relid, at Doroh•ter pllte statito . 1. appned for a
tiatet at tho U doe. aayin...! he IMO at reel° ea the
revious ni&ht, end P.C. Pearce found he slept at
Wareham workbouol.
lir Ye... Pearce : ll.eoll bare obtabbA relief equally
os,ll oh tiler he bad .1-0 at War. hem or Dot
The msgietrab s toll prhioo rhe Isal mane a false
etatemvnt. ant must be outdid or he would get lute
goo:. Ho w.e discharged.