The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-30 00:00:00

POOLE.

THE new rgawscs Socifery held an entertainment at
the Temperance Hall on Monday evening, when
recitations, songs, and peices, rendered by the choir,
were given. Admittance was free, but the weather
wag unfavourable and the attendance was not
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Patsorrartote.—On Tuesday evening Mr. T. W.
Hill, superintendent of the Young Men's Bible Class
at St. Paul's Sunday School, was presented by the
Rev. F Pocock with a handsomely-bound copy of
Scriptures and A silver-mounted inkatand in of
the class
CHURCH Or ENGLAND TIMPIRANCI SWIM. 011
Tuesday evening last, an entertainment connected
with the Poole branch of the Church of England
Temperance Society was held at St, James's School-
room. The entertainment wan • miscellaneous one,
and was arranaged by Mr. J. Osment, jun. The chair
was taken by the Rev. J. A. Lawson, the rector.
There was a very large attendance.
NATIONAL SCHOOL—The annual report of the cOTA
mittee, which has just been issued, shows the sub-
scriptions during the past year amounted to 264 5a 6d.
A Ci.sysa Boy.—'hs Monday a boy of about nine,
the son of labouring people, living at Newtown,
"went out to play." He did not come back that
afternoon or evening, nor yet all that night, and the
anguish of his poor parents may be imagined. The
isdice were applied to, and other means taken for his
recovery, but without avail, he WAS given up for lost.
It was thought he had gone sliding on some
treacherous ice and had gone in, and therefore there
WAS an end to him. On Tuesday morning, however,
to the inexpressible joy of his sorrowin' pa-ri-mite, the
lost child walked in—lt wan dinner time!
" TH. Pariuor ". —This precious old hulk, the owner
of which it may be remembered is a Moorgate-street
lawyer, has, we understand, been sold by private
contract for CTO, just about its worth for irewood,
which was all it was fit for. It will be remembered that
some two months ago the captain summoned the owner
at our Police-court for wages. It was proved that the
captain had grossly neglected his duty, having been
drunk pretty nearly the whole of his voyage until he
put into Poole, and the magistrates found that even if
any money was due to him be had entirely forfeited it
by his conduct. Since then there has been a Board of
Trade enquiry at Bristol, and he has been deprived of
his certificate. The vessel was a Masonic speculation,
both the captain and owner being masons, the affair
having cost the latter about £4OO altogether. At the
hearing before the Poole magistrates the old captain
said he told the owner there would never be any luck
attached to the vessel An they had bought her on a
Friday.
SHIPPING INTALLIGENCL—Ierted4 : 18,—Gem of
the Ocean, Elvy, Farham, nil; Unity, Pippard,
Swanage, stone ; Joseph and Ann, Pym, South-
ampton ; cement. 19—Mary, Major, Southampton,
nil ; Secret, Brenton, Newcastle, coals. 20—Matheran,
Bowden, Hartlepool, coals ; Mice, Dale, Dover,
oilcake ; Ann, Beacham, Shoreham, nil. 21—Alice,
Weymouth, Shoreham, nil ; Esther, Wilcox, South-
ampton, barley ; Lovely Cruiser, Mant, Havre, ballast.
22—Emma, Conway, Yarmouth, nil; Miens, Strange,
Woldemanivik, oats, Saitin.ja : 18—Acorn, King,
Guernsey, flour; Perseveraoce, Vincent, Torquay,
pipes; Askelon, Blampied, Jersey, pipes. 19—
Wheatear, Wilking, Truro, flour; Himndelle,
Cluchard, St. Mato, ballast. 20—Neilly, Nichols,
Llanelly ballast; L. C. Owen, Woodcock, Seeking,
ballast; Statesman, Holton, Hartlepool, clay ;
Thomas Edwin, Marley, Bristol, clay; Ceres,
Summers, London, clay; Diver, Palm, Portsmouth,
deals: Sarah Arm, Brown, Yarmouth, pipes. 22
. Elirar Fraser, WTloncks, Newcastle, ballast: Lovely
Cruiser, !dant, Swanage, ballast; Unity, Phippard,
Swanage, bricks. 23-I.4ein of the ocean, Miry,
London, clay. 24—Eirene, Stormer, Farge, clay.
THIC COST or szLr-Gormerrirgr.—The Treasurer of
the Borough has just issued his account for the year
ending 314 August, 1880. From it we learn there is
a balance due to him of £592 4s. 9.1., the disburse-
ments having amounted to £1,376 Os. It may be
mentioned there was a iI&IMICe due to the treasurer on
the previous year of 053 12.. 24.,50 that the borough
has only " over-run the constable" to the amount of
1.138 12s. 7d. Our public works cannot be said to
have been very imposing; they cost us £43 19s. 5d.,
which included maintenance and repairs. No one
will grudge £l,OBl 13s. 1.1. for our very efficient police
force; and salaries, which include Recorder, Town
Clerk, Clerk to Justices, Coroner, and the like cannot
be considered extravagant at £669 Bs. Our pauper
lunatics cost us £251 6s. Bd., and our prisoners at the
Police-station a ten-pound note. The Treasurer's
return under the Public Health Act shows the
expenditure to have been £4,285 10s. &1., leaving •
balance due to the treasurer of £520 Oa. 9,1, Our
paraffin street lamas cost us 1.*90 9s. 6d., and the
removal of sewage, 1.260.