The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-11-03 00:00:00

THIC SHOWS NUISANCE IN NORTH SWAM

To tA4 Editor.

Of all the inhabitants of the town, those who reside in
Northaquare are subject to greater annoyance and
nuisances than any others. When they are not suffocated
with the abominable stench arising from the boiling of
horse fifth, le, their ears are excruciated with the din of
shooting galleries, grinding of organs, shouting of show-
men, and noisy boys assembled to witness these thing.,
dc. For two or three evenings this week we have been
annoyed with the grinding of an hand organ, itc., and
this is no sooner gone than the place is filled with
• monster shooting gallery, a penny gaff, de As I write
this the noise is most unbearable Surely, Ile Editor,
there are more suitable places for these travelling nuisances
than in a thickly-populated part of the town, Like North-
square Cannot something be done to get this state of
things altered, and shows and such like removed to just
outside the town, where those who patronise them may
resort, without being a nuisance to quietly-disposed rate.
payers, for if one portion of the inhabitants are permitted
to live without these nuisances being in their neighbour-
hood, surely those who reside in North-square ought to
be equally free of them, for all have to bear a portion of
the rates. More than that, there is at the time I write
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of the poor widow? I am not one of those who would
advocate the entire exclusion of theme things from the
town (although I am sure they do more harm than good,
besides taking a lot of money out of the town, which
would otherwise be spent in it). Having these shows there
may be • little advantage tothe pot-houve in front of which
they arc erected, but, being myself a men, her of the 1.0. G. T.,
I do not desire the support of houses which bring so much
ruin and misery on our race ; and surely the respectabls
Inhabitants and ratepayers ought not to be annoyed
continually by having these shows in their midst. Hoping
those who have the power will stop this abominable
nuirynce I mu, tc.,

Noant SQUARE.

October, 30, WU.

UNtTED METHODIST Fitgg CRERCHLS.—A lecture on the
" Eccentric and Devoted Billy Bray," was delivered by the
Rev. W. H. James, on Monday, Oct 28th, at Charminster,
and on the following Tuesday and Wednesday at Frampton
and Weymouth. The attendance was good, and during
the lecture the friends had some hearty laughs at the
many strange and quaint sayings of " Billy." Collections
were made on behalf of the Circuit Fund.
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TOLL-6 ;117rilthe Came Abb..
Turnpike Trust ceased to exist, and another important
section of the neighbouring toll gates are abolished.
It will be in the recollection of our readers that
shortly after the expiration of the Maiden Newton
Turnpike Trust, on the Ist January, Ifo3, the Cane
Turnpike Trustees thought fit to erect a new toll
bar within a short distance of the site of a toll gate pre-
viously belonging to the Maiden Newton 'Trust so that the
parishioners of Charminster and the immediate district
had Dot only to assist in keeping the Maiden Newton
freed turnpike road in repair, but were required to pay a
heavier toll to another Trust than they had paid before
the extinction of the Maiden Newton Trust. The
parishioners of Chartithister feeling aincrieved at this
policy on the part of the Cern., Turnpike Trustees.
petitioned Parliament, and ill, result was the total
abolition of the Cern° Turnpike Trust in the last session of
Parliament, and probably some few years before it would
have expired had the Trustee., been content to rely on
their previously existing gates. The country generally
will suffer the rontinuance of all existing gates and bar,
till the end of the Trust, but the action taken by Parlia-
ment in this instance may serve sea warning to all other
Turnpike Trustees not to inaugurate the end of any
neighbouring toll gates by setting up new gates in close
proximity to the abolished ones.