The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-29 00:00:00

Local flotrs.

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I should like some of our enterpridniz nlii
enlighten my non-political and chaotic mini :
enormous difference which exiiits beteeen th
turned expenses of the two candidate at thus
Parliamentary election. Some people inform o aa.
one was a true mural and the other waa a hia
hut this is a statement I cannot belii-re. ud
there di some other explanation given, all right=
men must admit th.tt such impecuniosity ii 5d
to our small borough.

I was plenied to see that a motion Wai
before the Town C 'anal at its last in,.etin.: Pr'
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to petition Parliament to bring in a bill f
abolition of canvassing at Parliamentary art 11:.
pal elections. I ha, e always held that the area
canvassing as it is DOW carried out is a homi.a:.
degrading, and highly objectionable method °fix
ing the votes of the burgesses. It is humiluds,
the canvasser and the canvassed, and is a spot
utterly oppoeed to the principles of the
Act that it would seem a complete froeuvo
of secret voting. No mention, however, •
made at the meeting of the bill that was read I 7
House of Lords for the second time a few diyil
viouttly, and which in all probability will be xM.
before next November. The bill I allude to test
that no alderman has the power to vote for :ea,
and should it become law it will materially
the situation of most municipal bodies through 4
country, and there can be no doubt that oxt
senate will witness a change. It was stated 1:
House that aldermen should be ab dished Alt Mis
and for my own part I heartily reciprocate Eland
for it must be patent to everyone that thee, in 't'
hands is entrusted the conduct of budnese fie
borough, shall be elected by the ratepayers talon%
not partly by their representatives. I hope thu I
Bahton, at whose desire the motion for!
abolition of canvassing Was placed on •
agenda paper, will be in his place at die •
Council meeting, and in his usual •0
and straightforward way move the &doping
the motion which now stands in his name. I IWO,
the least fear but the arguments in how
resolution will far outweigh anything that can Et.'
against it • and our Council, by its adoption, •1.1
doing nothing mere than endorsing the actil•
nearly all corporate bodies throughout the Nog
sweeping away • eystem which, as Mr. T
very well said, is demoralising and degrading.
The Foresters' Courts "Amity" and" Earsok
shortly to have a grand fete at the Elms. P,
the grounds of which have been kindly rig"
their disposal by Sir James Colquhoun, a gell,
always ready and willing to &twist in any Phils6""__,
work he may be called upon to engage in.
has won the esteem and respect of all his DE.
I trust that the Foresters may have ae 0.1010,
meeting as the Poole Liberal Aseociation in thi
grounds • year or two ago, and from what I h•
that is required is fine weather to make the fete r
11000M111.

PARgrroxux in Pock rag°

!MANAGE.
'rim Rev. Charles Chambers, of London,
fled his inability to visit his former congrego'
summer.
ON Sunday next, June 27th. the Sunda! '
anniversary of the Wesleyan Society ,dl4'l'
be held, preacher the Rev. W. A. Plii2o
public tea at 5.30 on the Monday.
TN. WORN AND FLOWER SHOW annows--0
held on or about August 17th promises W,tal
Improvement on the last. Prises are
best specimens of all kinds of vegetables, lilt
garden flowers, for the best cultivated row,
allotment, window show, and designs Uisso-'4,
stone, and wood ; for the best etand ,d bettor'',
flowers (open to gentlemen's gardeners oely1C:.
competition among the children of the
Schools only, prises are offered for the be.t,tor
design or collecUon of wild dowers, *ogre" ,
ferns, and mows, and for specimens of darlo4'
drawing, knitting, sewing, and rnal:iti
committee consists of the Revs. It. D.
W. H. Start, and Messrs. N. C. Whits,
J. Andrew., C. E. Robinsor, sad E.
Subscriptions will be received by, an(l 01;1%1
obtained from, the Res. W. it
Harman.

BRIDPOST.
PANDILLI RALLL Nog., of Belivery Sila?.°,
who represented Brid_port the late Pew%
come forward an the Liberal CiAdida.e tor>
Wallingford. Berkshire, vacant by
Mr. Wren.—Mr. R. W. Haul:ray.
be the Conservative candidate.
have lamed addresses to the electors.
Pus AIICHDBAOOII'II VISIT MOIL
Sanctuary, of Powerstock, paid big $ '
Bridport on Wednesday, when there °we;
assemblage of clergy and chnrchserd:o,
various parishes and towns in hia t'
Archdeacon held his court at the Atolp
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Bull Hotel, from 9.30 to 10.30 a.m.
=atom the usual bu-inass was there tra7,o4:
communion was celebrated at the parish ,
Mary's, at the conclusion of which.
called. This was followed by the Arckori.,
In which the rev. gentlemen dash ine°ooo,l
Burials Bill now before the
subsequently provided at the Bull,
removal of the cloth various matters
ohm* work were Way disown.