The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-31 00:00:00

POOLIL

Mr &DAIMON= —After having been aban•
domed nearly two months, the ship Thorwaldeen, of
Poole, obleh lately formed the entleot of a Board of
Trade Inquiry. 111114 boarded oe the 18th February Iln
let. 28, long. 65, the mainmest and rolesomest ware
henries eloordde.
Blaring or Bonit.—Cht Thursday evening, at the
Baptist Chapel, the eluvial ef song entitled • Joeeph "
wee spin rendered by the Sunday School Washers and
the proem& which realised between £4 or Ea
being devoted te ih• Miseionery fond (or the relief of
the femiee In ladle. The readings were given by the
Bev. J. N. °shone.

Ton WTI Powrigaersit. -It worn with snob regret
that the Inhabitant@ of thie town heard of the death
of Hr. °worse Hardly, postmaster, who expired on
Monday t les after a long inflow The doomed was
from hit boyhood eonneeted with the Pod-ofiloo, and
for many years dbeharged the duty of letter warier
very ellialently. He wee appointed poetmaater on the
raw:tattoo of Mr. Joseph Darby, slant 18 months
slnee, ard the appointment gave general mtisfaotton
to the town.

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rus Eturrrioa Ptvrrioa.—The leaders ot both else
declare that they know nothing how matter. donde ae
reined' the petition. There are those In the town who
affirm their belief that the matter is dead, wenit
others are soadient that, although the question of the
petition is valet at present, it is Mall gmeg oe. Time
will show which of them two parties le rtgitt. There
la a very general Impression that the "mysterious
gentlemen" who Imre lately been residing in the town
bare discovered nothing at all likely to Invalidate Mr.
Warleg's return.
LLDT-DAT VSIFTZT.—At the animal yeeti meeting
held on Wednesday, the Visor (Rev. J. L. Williarnal
presiding, the present evermore, Messrs. 'l'. Oillard an
W. Palmer, were re-nominated. A question wee milted,
why the rate at Longeeet Cu higher than that in lit.
James's parish, arid the melltant overseer (Mr. Graves)
replied that If the two rates for the twelvemonths were
compared, it would be found that at Lon.deet they
were paying rather lees than In the perish of St. James.
Complaints wore also snide that the refuel' at Long-
we. not carted away by the "envenom employed
by the oorporation, and that publio lamps were not
provided for the new neighbourhood that has lately
sprung up la the pariah. Tbe obeirman sold be thought
It very necessary that them matters should be Inquired
loto.

LADY-PAT Vrwrity.—The annual vestry mottles for
the pariah of St. Jamea' was held on Wednreday last,
the rooter (Rev. J. A. Lawroc), presiding. It was
resolved that the following list of names, from which
to ohoose overseers, be submitted to the magistrates :
Messrs. R. Bolben, W. N. Western, W. H. Wettest:l,
W. P. Sloklae, E W. J. 11111, 0 K. Norton,
C. J. Woodford, W. Rom, J. Limier, J. Warn-, T.
J. Duncan, and J. Dunford. The sonnets of the
Aerial Board were submitted and past. Mr. C. J.
Stone, chairman of the board, esid he was v. ry happy
to inform the voatrey that by next September the larger
loan of £l,BOO would be oleared off altogether, and In
February next the suinilir loan of £5OO would also be
paid if. Thus the £2,000 borrowed for the purpose
of laying out the cemetery, building chapels, te1....gu1l
entirely be repaid before the end of February
nut At the present Vale the 1:90 that the board
required from the poor-rate only represented shoot
thres-balf repos in the pound on the rateable vain. and
next year he hoped they would not require • single
halfpenny, as Le anticipated that the increased fees
w iuld give a sufficient amount to pay the ex, some of
the board, amounting to about £25 • year. The fees
were last year £lO4 Vs., and in the previous year £ll2
16a. The balance now In band was only 1:12 de. 3d.,
showing that the board tried to go ea near the wind as
possible and to doish their term of aloe with only a
very small balance in hand. During tbe past year
184 persons had been burled in the mmetrry, as against
182 In the previous year.—Mr. James Blade was 'bested
r. member of the board in the place of Mr. D. Durell,
deceased, and Moses J. Buoklet, and B. Iferbury, who
retired by retatioe, were re-eleoted as were also the
rs audito, Messrs. W. Mate, and W. Penny.
Town COUNCIL—The Connell of this borough met
at the Toren Hall on Tuesday last, the Major In the
chair. The first business was to receive the following
report of the Watch Committee :—" At this meeting a
memorial was read from the Superintendent of Police,
asking that your oommitte• would be pleamd to in-
crease his salary, he having lost bis appointment of
Inspector of Hubaoces, under the Secretary of State's
circular, prohibiting him from acting 110 Inspector of
Nuisance,. Resolved, that your committee recommend
that his salary be increased to £ll5 per annum which
will be an increase to his present salary of f 25, being
the amount he bad as Inspector of Nuisances: A
memorial was also read from the sergeants and privates
of the pollee form, taking for increased pay, and your
eommittee, having made an average of the pay received
by the police form in boroughs, find that the pay of the
pollee force of this borough is lees than the average
amount paid In those boroughs. They thengore
recommend that the junior sergeant, B•11.-tt's pay should
be increased to 25e. per week, and that the pay of the
senior sergeant, Realism, and earth of the private's stoald
he inereased le. psr week. On the proposition of
Alderman Rogers, seconded by Mr. Buokley, the re-
port was adopted. The 1:3•0 bu,ineee *Oa to consider
an ieffer made by Mr. 80117 t 3 pushup, the reversionary
interest of the Council In allotments, No. 264 a. and
268 a. map D., in the Cranford Award, at the sum of
£200; and in the event of the offer being aseepted, to
make application forthwith to the Lords Commissioners
of Her Majesty', Treasury for leave to sell the name at
that aunt; and that such memorial be prepared under
the direotion of the Land Committee. After a short
oonverestion the ram was await:de& The amended
and final plans for enlargisg the borough gaol
were then submitted to the Conseil, and Alderman
Rogers proposed that these be adopted, that the
Council advertise for Modem for tarrying out the
alterations, sad that the Town Clerk apply to the
Public Works Loan Comailasionen for a lean not
exceeding £l,BOO for executing the works. The motion
was sesonded by Mr. Hamilton and carried. The
following/ letter was read :
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" Clarence House, Rt. James's, LW., March rked,lll74.
Sir,-1 have bad the botour to lay before His Royal
11*hr.= the Dale of Idinhurgh the arldrese which you have
forwarded to him upon Um occselon of his marriage. in your
own name and In thou of the alderman and burgeons of the
town and county and borough of Poole, and I not doalred to
express the sine is thanks of his Royal Highness for the eon-
gratulation and good wi-hes smith it contains.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
W. J. CoLvitha.
The Mayer of Poole.
Coven Cover, Monday.—Dsfors M. T. 11 P. Lefroy,
Judge.
In a rate decided a month ainco—the .ArvAiVe•fural Pottery
Compaoy v. 'flatly, • re-hearing was to-day &eked lar.—Tne
Regodrar (Mr. H. W. Dickettoon) stated that at the last court
the defendant disputed • portion of the amount claimed, and
rid be bad tendered Um plaintiff,. the remainder. He told tbe
court that hew.. sum the plaintiff- would not attend, and, as
they did not Jedgment was elven In his favour with costa to ti •
defendant. The Mews, flatders,representing the company,had
eines, ladled on him (the Iteghwnr) sod told him the
d, foodant's Madero, nt was quit* raise, as he hail prommed them
that be would pay the flit amdunt claimed. The Registrar
therefore told them that he would not allow any procerdttilv to
fdllow on Jodgmeot.—The Judge mid be would again bear the
OM at the neat Court.

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Henri/Is V. Orme—This was a Judgment summons ease.
and Mr. F, Travers applied that the Judgment should tout
aside au the grounds teat tho de t was coutracted by
defendant's former wile while he wee at ma, that ha allowed
I her ifte. a week during his abeence, that she lock • number of
articlu belonging to him rid to other people to defendant's
shop, and had money advanced upin them, that the greater
part of the 'mount claimed was for being supplird to the
former wife, seven or sight years since, and theta considerable
portion of that money had been paid by the de( endant's wife
without his knowledge. The plaintiff admitted that hi was in
the baliit if rreelviog goods sa security for debts, and that
amliag °that things, he had received from defendant's 10/1110r
wife seat of Oddiallow's regalia no plaintiff having produced
his book, it appeared that there wee IA due, butetotittlif
mid he would be astislkel with £1 1f.,, and the d was
ordered to psy that anriunt.

Perrr fhousnia, Mond.y.-11Mor• Mr. O. J. atom, Mr.
h. II•top-Melch, Mr. IL D. Milk sod Mt. U. Ilmoshoo (so-
)11.yor).
Eluily Limes rummoned 14aA CO64U for using libusire
langusge Vow& her. This esee usue out of a magnarrisl
I. quory 00 Thumisy It. Dafeudent wes ordered to enter
Into her own rector niAanose in ZS to 11...ep Use pram for taros
month..

Tnrommi —B4fore Yr. W. Pewee, Mi. C. J. Stase, Mr. IL
lowp-Weleb, sad Kr. H. limailton (sa-airrr.)