The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-05-06 00:00:00

LOC.A.L TAXATION MORN.

ettaarms's programmed leeal taxation reform
li, it seem& to be portly embodied it three BUIL and
partly entrusted to • select sommittes. The Bale are
" to amend the law reetteotind the liability had •ohls-
dolt of property for the parpame of rates ;" " to pro-
vide for uniformity ig the valuation el property for the
porpoise of rake sad taus ;" and "to amend ths law
remeeting the oollection and making of rates, and to
Crl'lfor • monedidated rate." The select ocuninlttee
l o.inquire sad report whether the existing b mode-
rns of pariahs', unlace, and counties may be so altered
and adjusted as to prevent the Mammonism:is In
seedere of keel edministration and taxation which now
ernes from pariah., and tubas being situated Is more
thee one meaty." The object of them propretis is
evident from their mere recital The Government Is
willing to subject mines, game, charities, and possibly
podia property to mood burden.; it is ready to improve
to. very itaperfeet system of valuation which mists
now; it is prepared to apply to the whole country the
system of a oonsolidated rate, withal le already ia opera-
tion in the metropolis; and it will not object to eon-
sider—or, to spit& more assamisly, to allow other m-
oms to outsider for them —the posibility ol simplify.
lag sad rearmagies the very eemplicsted and disoor.
dent areas over whir& the different sad local astlimities
exercise their presoak jariedlotiou. It is thought also
that the House Tax will be trestsforind from an
Imperial to a lead Impost, cod thin relieve the rates to
the outset of amity a million code hell.

A RAILWAY TRAIN ASSISTED BY LOCUSTS.
On Petwaary 29, between &adhere' and Oastleapaine,
Victoria, as Um forty.five minutes pad area train did
set arrive to time, tho atation•nmeter sommonleated
with CwWlorosiza bliolaffnelt. sod via Wormed that
It had started at • %lOW time Having waited for
some time, he ordered a @imolai engin* to be got ready
to premed down the line, bat before it weld start, the
trala arrived. bang half a boar bailed time. TIMI
gaard rivaled that whim near Hareourt the trots wee
gadded, brought to • atawlakill, wed oa iaspeotaa
was toted that an obetratien bad been mead by se
bemoan awe malaise of baste oath. Hee, amities
the ground to a depth of frier babes. Al the inserts
were or asked soder the fore wheals el the lemma's.,
Us Has became po 'awry MO the driving wheels
would net got p. The ralls were seeded to no purpose,
sod at lea small paella were said, sad ass that four
trucks had to to left boiled. The traits which arrived
Lit., reported that they had not experienced any tab
paltv,•tho lauds probably haw* eland off the
liao. Ho. they got that. in mob mashers it is sot
very easy to gam Is woo ralalag it the time the 7.45
Wits samentered them, mid It is most likely a heavy
light of them hod been drives together by • strong
gnat of wind, sad bees beam down by the rain. Prom
this strange cearreess, passes who have HMIS nothing
al the deem flights of Masks with whish may of the
provinces have bees Waled of late, will be able to
Salm. idea of the isamempe 'umbers in whisk they
neatly pass emir lb. austry.—Austrobase and New
Gass*.

Irma Adolphe dot Itoresidld Meade to widow sod
beildk_d....aa Oren, at hie or expense, £llO,OOO, ea eye
taa sad Qom at lb. balers war to Mad-
re tir worari as • Agit to the Cips or. They will
ray .5Th. Orli oath to-morrow.
The Normal Agaleattar Labourer Ultra him mow
1,500 rra OS HO tars. The rearre hays decide 4 to
ard two arab to Or soar at broad.
Tto sow DODIMItet Coro trositare, whir has bre
greeted by re Oorporatkm ot Dreary, at • er of
Dearly 06,000, re prirly oared her braes. ea

--nearal of the Liarpon muter Name beam
yielded the Orman of UN ma, • number a nu loner
reselood week thie Korea& tbo vat balk of son
renaming ea Wake; bet rhande talk of farther &Altoo-
na'.

Bulawi MON OLIPIOII Haman. —OMB end ay morning
Um bat sad mat of • lama ware found on Me Ittiapoo-
skim Bridge, Q.iflon. Boarsi was made, and Um body
of a man about forty years bp was found In thi
atom

—Ai a mosferenois of the Nosconformists of Mouth
Rants at restesa, in Friday, mahatma. ware adoptod
deseaticing the educational sad religions spiky of the
Governotant hostile to the interests of religious
In assordasos with the will of the late lard Hoary
Beyraesr,a oust of same than 1166,000 will shortly be
divklod among eighty-five illimitable Institutions is
this smarty. • similar amount has been paid to the
lioeplisse of Pork
lola or Wearr.—Tba Hon Roslyn Ashley. the new
Liberal eendidate for this minty, Is maim a tour In
the Wand. He kis been to Newport, Ryde, Venture,
Boudoirs, and 13hankllu end ha has yet to visit Cowes
sod Freshwater to ample% the tour. Liberal Asesels.
teem me being orgaateed at Ryde, 'Feather lad
&ado wn.

Tha-airitation whieh has ler mese Unto sainted at
Merthyr elth regard te the rate el wages le be pad
be the kw/chars sod cation has been settled by the
inalhere esreeing I. &drawee 10 per seat. from the 19th
IPA The oaoseleion le a spontaneous act on the part
of lb. imislirc.

• womb's, who seem al owe thee te have hews la
saint tdroaawitaaitee, bat who, slue a marriage with
hog gegghemaat has lad • very iptwelioaable 10. under
taw dimes of Pew Olovitlawd. lady Maim, sag Lady
a'ag ohaegod at Westminster with @healing two
brushes, the sot to wide& they belonged Wag
£lB 10a ; sad, the CAM helng proved, wee low
Assad to two moot& hapriweassat with herd labia..

tioosascissr CasonLies.—Now, are too lab
Is roar time to osiers year aossobwrry arop, pen bob
be barb the balillocib to destroy the bid.. Ley
e dap el leot as the mead resod wary goebbarry-
Isere airs to th• ebb, asd to the width olihoot is
or sleet Waal all mad Is; 705 will thee destroy the
lobo of save yeetuelvos
nosh Mon =ad bet ea .abeadant crop of
gebeherries for powesit—ar apart, we. —Gardener's
Lamb= BEIRTML—Aa araellese invention be jest
dewan pleated by lin B. H. £llos,olLaadoo. whos•by
eire babe tor baled %make to aisidiont titiPt or
411111•111111 MIN without manta. for additional apex, ho or
ecestreseed as be sabre lib privacy white bithewto it
thee been r'' *o abb. The beentbe,
erapi otbase= or owes przeor wwwalne, I. ot
e ion
dasbtlsu
prow, is isossissoldis boat So Qs BUNIVOSII monied
owelgibis who Ni enable to arid tint lemur of •
Owes, ebb Partionius sod dia=erer. sob. bog
of Xr. Poing, 11. Now Qom