The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-11-24 00:00:00

BOURDTEXOUTH.

ST. PER'S GUILD. —A concert was —given on Weilnes-
iLly evening in the new schools by the nieniberi of thin
society.

Teir Cm:areas' QUF.STION.—A meeting was held an
Thursday to receive the report of the committee appointed
to arrange preliminaries for acquiring part of the Poor
Commons for • cemeterr. and also for a public recreation
ground. It seems that the only rights Whinging to any-
one are those of tertiary or turf-cutting, granted in the
early part of the century by Act of Parlianient to tenants
of cottages situate on or bordering on these waste lands,
The sole authority exercised ova such lands by the lord
of the Manor is to prohibit, when neceswiry, turlmu-y-right
owners train cutting turf, if in lila opinion the land can-
not bear it. By the sudden growth of Bournemouth this
land, unix:useless, has become very valuable for building
purposes, but, of course, speculators decline to have any-
thing to do with it under existing circumstance& The
committee reported that the reputed owners are willing,
provided fee simple of the land is given en, by Act off
• then,
rlliazuent in the ensuing session, to give out of these
ninions, worth about 1:30,0110 or ClO,OOO, 20 acres for the
purpose of i cemetery, provided the town pays the
expenses of the Act. After much discussion, approval
was given to this proposal, and the preliminary expense*
guaranteed.
ComMISSIONEtte Islgirlito. —At the ordinary fortteghtly
meeting of the Improvement Commissioner's held on
Tuesday last • very novel feature arose. The Board has
within the past year commenced the making of a road res
the summit of the East Chtf overlooking the sea. An
agreement was supposed to have been come to with Sir
( Gervis one of the principal landowners of the
neigh urhood that he would permit Use new road to be
carried over waste land belonging to him so as to effect •
junction with • thoroughfare towards Ilmesenbe. The
Improvement Goimuissioners congratulated themselves
upon being able to add to the attractivenesa of this part
of the place by making a really good carriage road about
Bi feet on an average lack from the cliffs which rise to
the height of several hundred feet, and which form on
accontt of their ruggedness one of the principal pleasing
features of Bournezueuth. Whoa the road had been
made, to do which levels had to be taken on undulating
hitheka, covered with heath and furze, to a certain point
the discovery comas like a thunder clap that Sir George
had revised les ideas end will not permit Use road to Ise
continued according to the original idea. So disgusted
are the Conouisaioners with this revelation that it wee
discuased by the Board whether it was inlet:sable to corn-
Idete the road so far ax their circumstances permit or if
this semi-road which peeitively "leads to nowhere" ahall
be deprived of the metal that ham been laid on it and an
attempt made to restore the place to its former rural and
rugged state. All to this the fact that by sanction
of the Load Govertunent Board • loan has been negotiated
for this work and will it he possible to obtain authority
to appropriate the money that has not already been spent
to another "Improvement," and it will be seen that the
authorities are in a nice dilemisus. In the result it was
decided to bring forward a resolution rescinding that
made in November of Inn authorising this work.- -Mr.
Ilankinson's iuotion fur closing the pleasure itrounds after
dark wax lost, but to mitigate the in Us resulting Irvin an
&saw, :4 Ileac woods an onler was made ler the panel's:ll
avenue, whieh ci pa.rllll ix very inueli uxed as
thoroughfare (rem the pier to the town, being tlie nearest,
to In: lighted with gaslamps. -Cemplaints of, and sugges-
tions for the better supply of gas were f:irtlicum
THE CONVALBECENT 11011 E- -The row+ ill 101 article on
the Convalescent Hospital at this place, siatne : --A typical
example of a " Boum as perhaps f urnished by the Ilerhert
taitftwflea at lourneineuth, which has, indeed, a
phyrsician and an assistant," who visite weekly, but where
the presiding spirit is manifestly the matron, of wham
Persica: the ate sinek in the highest terms. The
report says that the olqect "whirls the matron always has
In her initel is not a usere patching of an invalided con.
stitution: but a restoration to health and vigour," and it
justitiee what seems to have been objected to, 10 a
what Spaftan dietary and discipline, by some benevolent
residents in the vicinity, on the ground that the committee have s. goed reason for fearing the intruduetion of
pernicioushabits under the cloak of karmic:in imlulgenees."
It adds that "the continual return of patients a second
and third seaeon, when they are so eager hi place these-
selves under Madame haute',, hands that the readily fay
for their own maintenance, must he a token that they do
not look on her treatment as weere, or the dietary as
objectionable." It is, perh sp., also a token that the
institution is rather a :ie.:. loarding-house than a rfaee
for convalescents in the usual sense, and this view
ii
further strengthen."' by the length of time during which
Minato; are suffered to remain.