The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-12 00:00:00

WIYMOUTH TOWN 00IINCIL
11-IUIO2IOII OP TKO PI /AOC

The Gorporatkin met it Me Groan rankbar oa
8 last, moos, for the purpose of denting •
Mayor at
the scendag year, and for other briars.
There were present: The Mayor (Jac Robertson, Bp.),
the ez- Mayor (Alderman Milledge), and Aldermen
Tired, Howard, Ayliag, and Thompson; Orneillori
Throe, Roberts, Talbr, J. H. Decorah, Ayles, G.
Eliot, Groves, Vincent, Lire, Watford, Value, limp.
sue, Webb, Una', sod Maar, with the Towa Mirk,
F. Ll. Stefffell, Esq.
Toe Warr of the Omuta harng beat read, and
the burrs of the Illieting sonoured by the Town
clerk,
Mr. TWILIIM, before ha made • proporkion. asked
penderee to rime • few words to the Gona.ll apes
the errs Mir had takes pleas during the year. It
hod been • very roiling year, full of interest to all of
en; but not altogether prolltres. They would realer
bar that at the beginning of the year, His Royal High-
DIM the Prince of Weise was about to visit Mr. Gerard
Shirt, sad 1t,.. ssggentod to him (Mr. Term) that
If asked ILL EL would probably pay a chit to dr
artier sad loyal borough of Weymouth sod Mercado
Regis. He pre Yr blat to their worthy Meyer, and
it is weliknowa that be thou put Massif in 00010111-
alostioa with their two somber of Parliameat, and
not to repeat 60110 the partioulan of an oft-told tale,
Provider. interfered, and ILIL H. was precooked from
taming to Weyntooth. They all knew that their
worthy Mayor had her very undoes to do somethiag
for the oudedal good of the town. sod his Worldl, took
np, sad worked aloglo-liared the advertising sober,
sad tit* result waa that the last near had been trio
best they had had for mix or err years. Other
000111i0011 had wino, on whisk his Worship had dis-
tinguished blimeelf by the good week he bad done—Mr.
Thomas especially awned the Regatta and the Boat
Glob, tce which the Mayor not only gar his radio°
sr honoree, but also hie personal lationclare at the
meetings, so that these several madam were silkier!,
serried into opercolo.. To every inatitation in the
town hi, Worship had always beau ready 5. 11.4 his
aosistanoe, end had readend it with Marty
_good wilt,
It was well known Qat theyear poseediag his year of
°See had whammed several eireasistares
Rader whir the tows laboured severely, and them
broght the people's trade to wmalider the aressity of
taking lone step to remedy this. evils, sad to hriall
about • better state of *lap, to try to bring Way.
mouth to the status it reopled in the olden WM*, when;
a doctor said it was a pros he cord neither lire Da
die in—to do away with those offralve things that had
so long been oomplained of. Try knew well this the
whole Inhabitants of the town deelared emphatiaally
to favour of something being done, and they hour whit
this Load Board did ui connection there rat. It did
ellen viola be had err said was the wisest thing to do
—it rammed the abilities of or of the malt IIMID•61
MR of the day-416G0 1110111110q1111111ted With (A VOlO2 i
Not cub drainage)—• maa who would yield ton. one in
knowledge of tides itail tidal Masser, whiiit would
masosially after a gyre. of &rams In this town—
Inbar, hrr), That was the sues.. he had to stoke to-
ay rsi
arril MTV the reddericia of the greert Mayor
the firm of the_ Writ
_thig!,_ err
e MiedOW el a delibt:llAMl). Ate Mr,

TEI QUAIMIALY 11111113011
Of the Omutall were kid foe the mooed Wednesdays
hi February, Nay, and Await at hall-put 10, on the
propceittee of Ms. Robotic, eseeeded by Kr. TnomuL

Tall ?Romano" TO 011131011. -
The MAYOR mid it bad beim represented to him that
ft woald be better not to go to ehoroh tomiorrow
in promana, bat to adjoara it t 3 the first Saaday In
January.

LOCAL DOLL OW HEALTH.

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The Board quarterly ametiop were axed on the Same days as thr Comical melba" oo the propoeitloo
of Mr. ATM, amondied by Mr. ALIO?.
it,. Afd=arm TISBID supposed it wu aimed use-
less to dimwit anythlog like bastaset to-day ; but ha
wished to Gall the Board's attention to a feet thax had
beee emeekt to his Doti**. They had relied by rats
g2OOO, aad had expended it. O. enormoes itera
at B,i...drum—as expendmare that he thought 'mild
ea b• justified in • year,was that for gravel. Of the es•
pesdhsre neatly ose-sixtb or very nigh £3OO, bad beim
Mid oat lo gravel sad to 'elbow for patting It down.
21130 or il4o hid been espeuded for gravel besides! the
labour hired every week by the Tows flervryor.
11r. Loos amid be TM OM who advoosted the repair
of the topianade, and up to ta present tuna his was
Tory glad that he had. He ooluidered f3OO • vary little
expense, for it would keep the ft,planacis in order for
the next six or seven years, so that the outlay would be
I spread over those years.
Mr. PIZ LID : I doubt it much.
Yr. Luca oontinoed that be had emus visitors by
thous/ads oe the asplaaade, and if be thought this Mira
rionkl not have afforded to have 'peat that um, be
elmald have bees very Oared to have entwarlbed •
very handsome proportion out a hie owa pocket—
(bear). Let them ask the wheelsitsbuten sad the
Wire who went on the Boplacad., end they "lid
sewer that they new foa eayrimag ha es esealext•
abbe. He bed beard embay7 °Olsl the legiassade
will be la a NUM of qoaspedre ease ob." But u•

nnoteplererepare) haditosal.d...hpaselfwila inhithatha room—dlowoirlybish• Iddlaai2:mishdalhalleheady would e•meenadit
irrierh4":d
5 anything he did not do so without enaideratiese— walk he never went in his life--(11.4f)• He tlpffl1_
—Abe hid odd Cost be would see er vote forth. election with his Mink audit sounded more like chin ;al;
€g • gimUsmia ne Mayor tits mend time ohile there a innadiuniesd reed. It had never ben ft 03
oars others able and willing to take the °Mee. Bet upon for years before this imprountiot. „
the nosptiou proved the rale, and the exentioe in this Mr. Atnaidtale Tilt= thought it would_haaa !ear_
WS wits a very strong one. The Mayor had initiated better if covered with sifted gravel Mtn from Mint'
a great sanitary Improvement, sod having put his head own Loan. Hs had opposed the alteration at He.
.finst
to the plough, he hoped he would not with it. until very strongly. and he still °pond It, for he Ilona
the harvest had been gathered la—(hear, boar). It was was • westefal ezpenditure of mosey.
heeemegdeeedilaysorg, sin greet,
did so w
ele
lepreirbiOg to the
re-eke-ese ProMrenr. Vinintedisr
rinnnidnind the
nlintnU"
a P
hfl
tion of the e"
magwibet:is:sush:ahuteiwor•
sad industry us I.l.l..my.rryoub.h:t
tbetirpesised ehi'iphecehiliarativterOtonairrenr
Likle:lithetith,atp,4",blat iiptadosbeirpms.witaldrion.dobblh In
is
election of Mr. Robermou aeMyNsyThore,atameeidstP"Peeedapplassel.he villonowtiapoti.: Twittebtilitya,t M).
election
the ...a was
seelgor.riCitbeitLpiro"poehtegtioneeriof Mtrr. ThPoisnee:—"(hearin ret—pletea iltrtliege.yearyet. it
would
prove
one
of
the
beet
outlays
during
role It was generally unwise that • gentleman who has The Corporation then separated.
filled the °Moe of Mayor should All it sada is the
ensuing year. In the first pin. if they elected • gen-
tleman a mond Urn, it woald be nether like proclaim-
ing that there was &dearth of gsotlemeo in the Council
aWe ind willing to fill the °Noe of Mayor of this town.
That was not the one at this time; out shun. bad
hen made to the drainage scheme, and be (Mr. Eliot)
fully noted with word of Mr. Thoreau—that • work
of nog aponsoce and one which would probably street
th• welfare of the town for very many future lean,
reclaims almost the sole atteation of ono man urine
the whole time those works are bring earned out. He
thereto° thought is most Important that Mr. Robert-
son, who has bon in fall °offs poodeon with all the
Ponies enured, sod who ean giro informetiou to the
authorities above, as well as to all in Weymouth. should
continue in onto —(bear, hear). That was one none
why he took exoeption to the general rule he had sup-
ported on previous condom. But there was another
re•son to be given for the excerption, and th.t was that
the gentleman who had filled the °Noe during the past
, peer, had performed its duties in an eseeptioually satis-
factory manner--(apolanse). He appealed not only to
his brother eoucelliers but to his brother townsmen
outside, whither Mr. Robertson had not fully justified
the chokes which they roads this twelvemonth. In spite
of some observations made to the effect that it was no.
advisable to pet snob • young eorporator into the chief
°Moe in the borough applause). Mr. Roberbion had
made one more of that long lies of worthy and neediest
gentlemen who for so maoy years had filled with such
satiefactioa to their brother townsmen the mayoralty of
the town, and be only hoped they would never have a
Mayor who would fulfil the duties in a lees satisfactory
Boot ruined the nealudion of Mr. Bonn.
too, Lint &posse,.
The Tow g Cunt having asked u new. was any
aneendosent and there being none proposed, mid he had
oow the pleisure of dnlariag that Mr. Bobenna was
duly sleeted to til the °Mee for the swain year.
The Loud esressealso of instillation were then per.
formed.
Alderman Miuntela said that many times he bad
Hen to his feet In that rani for the purpose of per-
forming pleas* duties, but he never felt more pleasure
than in rising to propose a vote of thanks to our worthy
Mayor for hls conduct dung the past you. Alderman
ililledge was proceeding to somment is teliesitne terms
upon the Mayor's good site, when a eons nfortanately
interrupted by mentioning the name of • jargons
penny paper, which seated derisive laughter. In spits
of thU untimely interruption, Alderman MWedge son-
eluded his speech in Intone and with compliments
well deserved by the Mayor.
Kr. WiLSPOID roes with greet planers for the pur-
pose of wending the vote of thanks. When they
thought of the gloom which wee hanging over the town
when the Mayor entered upon his term of °Noe, and
the heavy dudes known to have devolved upon him,
they ought to congratulate 'bussed..s upon having a
gentlemen whom knows badness qualifieation were as
greet, and whose perform woe had more than fulfilled
the Council's erpeetation and had goas far beyond
them. Duties, weighty and moron se they had been,
the Mayor hod admirebly performed • (mutton then
whin none so weighty the Concid had ever been galled
upon to decide, had to be settled, and although it
might yet be prohlematical whet morns@ would attend
their efforts, be believed they would go oa until the
works are aoropleted, and that they will prove • great
and triumphant seems. The Conseil's thinks were
doe to the Meyer for the way in which he had kept
them all going on with so little delay —(applease). It
was nonosecary for him to refer to °thee matters, bat
with the greatest planers he seconed the vote of
thanks —(ap plants).
The Mania mkt it now became his plotting duty to
return his very sinews and grateful thanks for the very
distinguished honour they Ind naferred upon hies by
re-electing him to the (Mel Martinets, of this anion
sad by borough. He had hooest'y and fearistely,
and he trusted without partislity,eadeavoared to de
his duty during the year—(applause). A year ago he
valued exceedingly the great sonfidenes seen they had
placed in him by ebonies so roan • corporator to the
chair. Ths vote of this morning was exesediagly
gratifying, because it proved that they sectioned to
repose onlidene ia hira—(appletess). We have musk
civil and religions liberty to be thankful for ; among it
one of the roost valuable le the right of munielpel self.
government, and la no way is that right exerciser' in a
more important manner than to this election. He alas
begged to thank the members of the Corporation for the
very oordiel and almost nuniceous support given him
dories the past year He bed earned the books of
Oorporatioe, sod not for lb years had such a large
number of them attended the meeting. as to the int
year. It showed that they had dean to the emergency,
and had felt what important measures were being
brought Were them. The decisions of the Corporation
had been almost analelous, for only four times in Um
Local Baud had they some to a division in the year,
and on all those tour times epos questions of miser
importanoe—(applames, and a voles • You are all of one
sort)." The great aseltary nusaireres had been winded
by unanimous vets. (" No, no," and neuter miss of
"No polities.") He also thanked them for the spirit
in whist, they helmet him, when he had to aoamit the
members of the Corporation from time to time. A word
about the saaltary measures —the senses of those
measures is still an unsolved problem; bet its tally
believed they had Inagua.l a ahem* that would
snare the salubrity of the town, end ietwene the
unoibir of visitors noting here; and he had not the
slightest doubt they would nine in much larger nen
bus. For some years pest, save and nowt one fatal
year, the tradesmen bad not had men cane to ono-
plain of the mummer trade; but people complained of
the loci' dark winter. But he was n extreme hopes
that woes the sanitary manures are immolated, we
should be able to make Weymouth • winter resort also.
Way should It not be? Than indites who visit •
waterlog plane in the summer come for reereation ; but
those who wens in the winter time, are small, noes
who come for health, and he °Geld onesiire nothing to
bring visitors here I. the winter like the tact that the
town his ben pined ia a good sanitary condition. We
have good water here • we inn • good staff of esselleat
nodical men,earl the is no reason why ninon should
not come then—(nplanes). He also retuned thinke
to his brother maiOnottee ; those associated with Wm
had been most kin and ettentive, and in no du&
Instance had he to end • meneuger for • magistrate Se
assist him. The oanimity manifested by
the Cerporstin had also been manifested
on the Been, for In no single Instant
had there been a divine between the magis-
trates as to their dodging. Re begged also to return
hie most grateful theske to the °ellen of the Corpora-
Roo to Mr. Stegpli and the other odious, for the
great insistence modern him, and he felt ha should
be wanting in suntan greased° Mlle did not also re-
ins his diners Umiaks to the whole of the inhabitants
of this tows. Re did not take the credit to himself,
he had been assisted by the inhestolnote morally, and
had sees lest political spirit menitested this year, than
for • long time before. They often heard the ranch
that there should be no polities in the Connell, and he
fully *adored that month ; but they had had little or
nothing of poiltisel spirit ahowa.—(Volee : You are all
one party). By polities' spirit he meant net whim
men voted for measures to serve their owe friends; he
did not think It political or party spirit to vote
with those who have Um same novistion, the
same ideas, and who, as it were, look through
the same dames. We Worship than prosseded
to speak of tho visit of LILL H. the Prin.* of Wales
end the headman aid liberal way in whin the town
rallied round himself on that owed= to give H. 8.8. •
right royal widows*, and said he had neon to beim
that H.R.& was extremely gratified by the reception
given him here. In ooaelasion Hie Worship said that,
Hod rein him health and strength, he would do all
thlisiankeeeeddfor"theire heontheoarvidyrte.otmerteed..Hhlt.:grd—twkire(hspelyplegelsoceepporte:::ltnedinio
thew.
Mr. Alderman TIOWLID said he had not intended to
speak on thst oonain, but for one remark that had
it:rteepoelftirGoan that the
°floe, and he entirely supported the vote of thanks, for
he did mot think one word too numb had been said In
the Mayor's praise. But one observation had fallen
from him with referent to the great Drainage scheme.
He (Mr. Howard) agreed with that schema as fares the
details of that scheme he had °tinted to more Rosa
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Kr John Crde, he thought it would be merely bad
remark lest it should be thought that the Local Board
were quite unanimous In agreeing to *II the detail. of
Bit Joan Comic's plan—(hear, had).