The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

WAREHAM.

Cotnrry COMM TIN County Court wee held at the
Town hall, on Wednesday morning, for the disport' of
all undisputed claims, before Ih. F. Fiiliter, registrar
of the court, until about eleven o'clock. when his
Honour. T F. P. Lefroy, Fag, entered, end took all
cases ahich the registrar had no pow.. rto deal with,
including some in which travelling salesmen had sold
goods to the wives of poor labourers without the
authority or knowledge before or after Wes of their
husbands. These hide Ibsen referred by the regist.ar
to the judge himself, end in one where the plaii.tiff had
sold • dress to the wife i.f a labourer for 51, and had
never informed the hu•band until served with the
County court summons, the judge normited him, and
remarked that he could not hold • dress of that value
to be necessary for the wife of • labouring man, adding
that if people chose to give wives cre It tinkiriwn to
their busban s, they mustexpect trflad some diMeitity
in getting payment.

1101:18i OP 001111018 SKETCH OF WA111314111.
Speaking I. the Home of Ocennione on Thursday night,
on the Boundary 1311,1 Yr. Bernal Oshoree, K.?. for
Nottingham, maid :—The other night we punned a most
harsh and writ:tidal course, that of destroying small
boroughs. I have never been an advocate for destroying
small borough., on the ground th.t the great beauty
of representation is that it ehould be a minter, of 'ma
and large places—(hear, hear); but when they were
handed over to our acquisitive neighbour, Sootlend, I
slaked myself what they were. They ware not Wells
and Hertford, but towns like Eye, Woodstock, Ware.
bent, Aylesbury, anti Northallerton, mete streets in
oosobing days, which have fallen into decay since the
introduction of railways. They go to inetease the
power of the landed intereet. They must not be
absorbed under the pretence of being towns because
they •re large counties. Look to the we of Wareham
—(divi le,divide). I will divide in a moment—(laughter)
—bat I must first say a little more, and in the mean-
time I will keep my eye on the hon. member for that
borough--(laughter). I hope also the hon. member for
East Belford will be able to make a defence for that
moat monstrous of all places. Thew places are not
boroughs but small counties. having *eats under the
preteno, of being borongha The borough of Wareham
is 20 miles long and flee broad. It is a decaying place
alth IBM) inbadttants and that is called a borough. I
will take the hint of the bon, member, for it ia difficult
to speak on this anbjeot without appearing to be personal
to bon. members who represent these towns—(laughter).
I hope, though I do not some here like the right hon.
member for North Staffordshire, and call myself a real
Reformer—the real Simon Pure—(laughter),—having
opposed reform all his life—that I may call on all old
Reformers—not perverts—(laughter), —not the Puseyites
of politice—(laughter)—to some forward and &Wet the
Home Secretary, who is being very much ill-marl by his :
leader and party, as he often is, to substantiate the
report of the select committee—(bear, hear, and cheer.).