The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-19 00:00:00

MIDBUNNER QUARTER BEBBIONB.

These Sessions were held on Saturday, at the Guild.
hall, before Gabriel Prior Goldney, Rag., Recorder,
who was accompanied on the bench by the Mayor (G.
Curtis, Req.. .1. P.), and the High Sheriff H. T.
Trevanion, Bari.
The following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand
Jury :—Mr. G. Gollop (foreman), and MOW. G. Goff,
J. Gundry, W. T. Hill, J. Hayman, E. Howell. P.
Inge, F. ,V. Lacy, J. Lockyer. W. Meadtts, J. H.
Mundell, and B. & Gueedon The Clerk of the Peace,
George Braxton Aldridge, Rai., having read the
formal proclamation concerning the preventing of
vice and immorality,
The learned Room,ler charged the Grand Jury. He
said it was again his pleasing duty to congratulate
them upon the absence of crime in the Borough. There
was uo prisoner waiting his trial, and there( TS they
would not have any bill come before their cons i I oration.
It was the practice of those who held offioes similar t
that of which he yea no v dietharcing the duties
address, to Grand Juries • few words upon any chants,,
that mirbt have been m tde in the admioistra, i in of the
I laws of the oountry by Parliament during the session;
but during the past aession the attention f Parliament
hai been so engaged with other matters that it had not
had time to engage in the considerati n of pitch
subjtcts, which would have to be postpone I until the
senion of V. Referring to the prosperity of the
borough, for which he, as usual, expressed his most
earnest wishes, the Recorder proomded to say that he
wee glad to hoar an athempt was to be made to
resuscitate the oyster fishery. The legislature had
already shown its recognition of the Importance they
attached to this branch of trade as • south* of wealth
for the country by passing highly penal statutes for
the protection of those who expended their capital in
their cultivation. It would probable be necessary to
obtain the sanction of an Act of Parliament if they
decided to attempt to remstablish this industry, and if
they set about taking the requisite steps in earnest and
before November, he believed that thm time next year
he might hays the pleasure of congratulating them upon
the successful acaxaplishenent of their design. "he
Recorder then asked the Grand Jury to retire for the
purpose of oonsidering whether they had any present-
ment to make.

mei;Osrlide, the Mayor (G. Curtis, Pap.), W.
N. Western, Esq., and J. 8. Hodson. Esq., to k the
oaths as magistrefee foe the Borough and County of

- Go-the return of the Grand Jury the Foreman called
attention to the imperfect lighting of the Hamworthy
bridge which they considered dangerous, and suggested
the placing of another lamp between the swing of the
bridge, and the Hantworthy-road beyond—the same of
the recent fatal accident.
The Rsaordisr said ha would take care the recom-
mendation should be forwarded to the proper
an, borities.

The High Sheriff then presented the Recorder with
a pair of white kid gloves in token of its being a
maiden evasion, and in doing so egpraised his pleasure
that during his term of dies he WO been establed
twice to discharge that gratifying ceremony.
The Recorder acknowledged the compliment, and
said he Was ranch pleased to be able to receive this
token of the purity of the Borough.
The Recorder. Mayor, High Sheriff, Clerk of the
Peac-, and other dignitaries afterwards breakfasted
t soother in the Council Ch smber.