The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-22 00:00:00

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What are the Liberal party about It is well-known
as I stated some months agit, that "Mr. Waring has
quite done with Poole, "and if there can be a better
authority than his own handwriting, I have it for
affirming that ho will not offer himself to the
Electors again. In fact it is generally agreed that it is
better he should not. In the face of this what are the
chiefs of the Liberal party doing? Absolutely nothing.
And yet I believe they have only to ask and to have.
I am awned a modern Curtitur in the person of a
Fentleman of wealth and position, with a large stake
in the town, one highly respected and a sound Liberal
politician, will be found ready, if desired, to throw
himself into the breach. Look at Wareham ! There
the Tories have set the example. They have sounded
the battle note. The time,' are by no means settled.
Do wake up, gentlemen, and don't let is wretched pro-
crastination result in the place lying under the stigma
of being a pocket borough for Canford !
The first duty of a gas director, according to the
powers-that-be who rule our own company, is to obtain
the maximum dividend for the shareholders. The public
differ somewhat—and very naturally from this dictum.
They fancy that their interests are deserving of an
eqnsl, if not a prior consideration, seeing that if it
were not for their patronage and support, the share.
holders would get no dividends at all. They say they
are entitled to • good supply of good gas, and if that is
only to he obtained he a decreased dividend, why then
the shareholders ought for a time to submit to one.
And undoubtedly it would he to their interests to do
en. In whatever branch of trade a man may be
engaged, he who sells a good article must reap the
custom. That the Poole Gas Company vend a god
article, the sickly yellow of their gas lights may well
call in question; an I Mr. Penny's illustration of his
gas-pipe effectually shows that the gas must be
wretchedly impure. With regard to the compla'nts
*beat the supply, the directors at their meeting in
aelf-censolatory styleostributed the fault to the burners.
This is scarcely consistent with the fact that one day
the supply is full, another below the average,
and • third still more wretched. At Parkstone church
last week nearly a gross of now burners were put On,
and the improvement was but the most trilling.
Evidently the motto of the company for some time to
come should he, less dividends and better and cheaper
gas.

Thoae hi Poole who signed the petition hi favorir of
an enquiry into Perpetual Pensions will be glad to
learn on the authority ~f the standa,d, that "it is
probable tile Government will support Mr. Bradlaugh's
motion for a select cmninitteo, to enquire into the
subject of Perpetial Pensions."

There's no pleasing some people. T understand that
"ewersl tradesmen are grumbling because the Council
have ordered a couple if new scwrengering carts from
ftristoL What if the trade is sent out of the town?
They ought to be quite content to pay the rates I

The Rev. Mr. Duirmore writes to a contemporary
to correct what he calls "an inaccuracy in your report
of the Mayor's speech, at the Poole Liberal Association
Meeting of Thursday last," but which we rather fancy
he means to be an inaccuracy in the speech itself, and
ant in the report. (Our contemporary seldore makes
a mistake.) In justice to the chairman «f the Liberal
Association, we extract the following from Mr.
llugnuwe's letter
it is true that • certain paper, containing a list a'
rarlintoue rat• Payer., was band •of to Mr. Dugdale st a
meetiog of the Relief Fan I C ,inm flee. M. Dugdale,
'ming that it, an perhaps having a political bearing, was
altogether out of place in a charity meeting which had
no cognizance of political parties, immediat-ly handet
the paper throu h Mr. Norton, who sat b.tween on, t
me. As so nas I gathered some i lea of its possible intent,
I threw it to its proper place— he fire.

These young gentlemen who are vary's& the usual
runtime of their lives, by taking lessons at Dorchester
in "getting upstairs" SW a cons., planes of their t‘o
impulsive attempts to put down " the dalvation Army"
nuisance, are not deserving of very much pity. When.
seise time ago, fines were inflicted, they were warned
most emphatically front the chair, that if any.
future case were brought home Imprisonment would
be the result. There is just this excuse for them.
Seeing how the saints were allowed contemptiontslyto
treat .he repeatedly expressed wishes of the magigtrateN
tier may have thought the sinners were justified in
attaching a similar degree of imisniance to the
judicial utterances. However, they have found their
mistake.

Certainly, no one is to be rimmed interrupting the
—I can't bring myself to call them Divine, they are
too gmteaque and pantomimic —services if these
people. When they are in their own hired room they
hive a perfect right to do ag they like—to stand on
their heads, or pull off their clothes and do a dance
at in the followers of Mother Girling ; and people am
not homed to either eee or listen to them. If they do
patronise the proceedings they should behave as they
would have to do at any other assembly. They have
no mire right to call those who may he holding forth
a cuckoo or say other bird, or an angel whether Mack
or white, than they would have to go into a ritualistio
church and shout out "No Popery."