The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-14 00:00:00

LSNOTHINING SHADOWS IN DOBOHYSTIE.

To Oto Maw .

What was said at the last waking of our Town
Council demands the merlons oonaideration of the rate-
payers, for, union I moot mistake, undnuaniss la tim
'present eosins followed by our losal Parliament will ere
long LLB et upon the town the intrabus of • 13 irough
Rate. Aidermtn Cia,inu deserves; the thanks of every
inhabitant from so resolutely exposing our present
position and future prospects. What ex* they? Whet
the new Cora lecheries was provided, £1,500 was
borrowed with the mutton of the Lords of the
Treasury, the amount to be repaid in ten yeerg. It
wee at that tins owilideatly argued that the reuse.
from Mendota. in the limtheage and the edsol;Mace of
merehanta and farmers would supply the yearly pay-
ment of interest and principal, and give a earplug to the
general fend, sell surely °twist to do. But what Is the
fact? Why, Alderman Galnin Worms u that not a
farthing bag been paid of the mortgage although the
time bee expired ; and our position as to that muter is
jest this—that U the Leeds of the Treseury thought
dila, they oould Wore, at once a B.ate to pay off the
whole amount. It may be thought that as We mart.
gage Is unredeemed, the General land Is °endowing.
Alas I no. Again we owe to Aidertun Galpin our
knowledge of the existing condition of the tunas.
The Town Council are Indebted n 4 have but
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£2OO to pay with. £3OO dadolent I They hays so
managed that we are hopelessly insolvast ; sad the best
they eon do now Is to meanly discriminate between
what la "very pressing" and what eon stood over."
This is not the padtion Dorehesta sitonid ooespy. Then
with regard to the Wollaston &tate there la the sante
impeonnkaity. £5OO was borrowed, bat the surrent
revenue Is soustantly absorbed, Indeed there Is still the
home leech's ery ef " More, more," and nothing is
attempted to be laid by forth. repayment of the loan.
It Is high time our ruler. recognised the state
of things, and set about amending It. Sot then
Mr. Councillor liodkea says—it is true our postdate
Is unsidisfaetory, but the expenditure of the lad
few years Liu been " extraordinary,' and he mentioned
£lOO to the builder of the Corn Exchange ((or trhieb•
bid loan was sontreeted), £4OO for the oast of the Toil
Question (oh I dear, dear, dear), and £lOO for improv.
mg the walks. It may be that those eproial item. will
rot occur mein, but the outlay on the walk/ was ex-
penditure whish should have been met and the work
done In the three or tur previous years; 111. the old
story " For want of • sail the horse was loct." Yet
does Mr. Hodies seriously with es to believe that from
this time we are to have no " extraordinary" expendi-
ture? la It not • hat that the very next (ley there w••
• meeting of the Council in eommittee to talk about
the New Fair Field, whieh will Involve an outlay of at
Least 0,000? Would that be "ex y, And
Is It sot also • feat, that our Wok& Oosnalttee have
had • lash intimation from the GIOTIMILIIIIOOi Isspeeter
of Osestaladery that next year they land provide •
weed& police stalk" what hoax adjolalag fec the