The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-03-16 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

Deirrtsniv.—lt will be seen by an annotmoement of
our advertising columns that Mr. Wallace, of 91,
liarley•street, London visits Dorchester army alternate
Saturday. his consulting rooms being at Mr.g.ockett's,
1, Cornhill, Dorchester.
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DORCHESTIR NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—At the annual
meeting oa Tuesday last, lr. Burnett, hon. sec., said
there was not a single Board School in the county of
Dorset (who had applied for a loan) that was indebted
less than £l2O, while the liabilities of the Dorchester
National Schools are only £6B fit. 7d.
MIURA. CROCKER AND CO., OUT well-known local
foundere, are constructing a very large cast-iron tank
for the Gas Company, to be used in place of the circu-
lar one which burst in the yard. The castings are of
an unusually large size, and the sections are so arranged
that the pressure from the itudde will only have the
effect of making the seams tighter, almost in the
mancer a self-acting valve. The tank is divided
Into two, one for ammonlacal liquor and the other for
tar, and each ivision is as large ass respectable room.
The work has been got forward with much rapidity,
and wines very glad to find that it could be under-
taken in the t ovn.

We are rentaaste 1 to call attenti ,n to &movement on
the part of the parishioners of Fordington St. George
and others interested therein to present a suitabletesti-
mania' of the reg trd entertained for the Rev. Handley
C. G. Motile. M.A., who has been intimately
associatel with the pariah for upwaids of ten years,
and has largely i lentified himself with the interests
of the c Only town. It is stated the rev, gentleman
will ret,i, 0 I h viclrsge until! the early part of
May, wh,- a sill be succeeded by the new vicar, the
Rev. A. A. Le ,i.ard. It is expected Mr. Moule will
take up hh, re- lence at Trinity College, Cambridge,
of which he is a Fellow.

MIL ARTHUR 11. Lock, solicitor, will, it is fully
underst sel, socceed his late father as clerk to the Do'
chewer Board of Ouardisue. Mr. Arthur Lock has
since his father's death officiated as acting clerk. on
Wednesday, the 17th inst., the guardians • ill proceed
to the election, on which day the appointment of a
• medical officer or medical officers of health for the
workhouse end the Dorchester districts will also take
place. At the last meeting a vote of condolence with
the family of the late Mr. Harry Lock wa, ac orded.
At the meeting of the Burial Board Mr. A. H.
Lock was unanimously elected clerk in the room of
his father, the late Mr. H. Lock, who had held the
appointment from the formation of the Board.

CHURCH PATROSAOL —At the annual conference of I
the King's College Theological Society, held in the
College, on the 24th ult., the Rev. J. Oakley delivered
a lecture on " Church Patronage," in the course of
which he said : —At the present moment the patron's
rights are endangering the Established Church,
directly and indirectly, more than any other cause.
For the maintenance of these rights--by officials or
bidividnals—is the real obstacle to the recovery of a
right to be heard intheir OIVII behalf on the part of the
Christian people, in reference to their own highest
interests, and the recovery of this right in some form
--some recognition of continuous existence and the
supreme interest of the parish or congregation, as well
as of the patron, when a vacancy occurs--is the only
possible solution f some of our most urgent difficulties.
Take • single and not extreme instance. A well-known
watering-place rises in thirty-five years from a fishing
village to a large town, its growth and attractions
largely helped by the devoted work of an
being
and munificent clergyman. When he goes
there • tiny churth and £5O a year, without a house,
represent "the benefice." At the end of that time he
leaves a noble church, with few parochial rivals, a
house built by himself, and an endowment of three-
fold amount, am a benefaction to the benefice; besides
leaving • large and devoted flock, and six or seven
daughter churches and parishes, with their congrega-
tions. On his death, his people learn that they might
as well be so many fish in the neighbouring bay, or so
many fir-trees in the neighbouring pine-woods, for any
rights they have. The lay patron, ignoring them as
completely as if they were another order of beings, or
merely people living somewhere else :swept, the late
vicar's legacies in silence, and appoints • relative of
his own to the impartant and desirable benefice which
his predecessor practically created. To urge that the
new comer is a good man, on the one hand, or to com-
plain on the other that he is entirely out of sympathy
with the flock he Is sent to feed, is merely to waste
time and breath. He has been openly appointed, not
for his goodness or for his opinions, but for his relation-
ship to the patron. And it no other end has been
gained, the case has at least 'screed to demonstrate my
position, that neither the church in the parish nor the
parishioners, lest of all the clergy, but simply and
solely the "patron" of the benefit*, is really "estab-
lished by law I" "Patronage," then, in this point of
view, is the necessary key of church reform.

OUR TREES.
Oh spare thore avenues, whose trees so tall
Form chief attraction to a town so small ;
Whore thy from whom society's iron rule
Withholds • distant roans, may hook • loot.
Eke, buroso bold, your patriot vestries call
For stormy meeting. in our great Guildhall
Ho I Bower, Shirley, Lubbock, Bill Bow•wow,
You lowed our awnings, protect them now.
Peet C,uncillors woke, cast off your deathly sees;
Start from your sepulchres and sore our trees.
Shell Sunday's noon e'er 0r... to gage upon
The gorgeous groups. 'soaped from • parson's drone.
The fair sex lose a place to criticise
The last arrivals ! Masculine disguise,
Pot itst and rigid collar, dress close twined
Shows knees as crooked as the wearer's mind,
(Mors forsooth to fashion's tail bold fast;
Their paseword is "Th. devil gets the last."
Shall we expel such pleasant sights as these
And speculators turn from Modal to trees?
If such an argument should fail to save,
The trees must fall tho' men rise from the grave.
So why waste brealh. Thorn do Win nialiutP
As once before OD far•famed Bemire Eissix

Dorchester. March 9th, MR Srserscea.
. HEALTH REPORTS.

We are favoured by the &ref-- —fieni—;ary Authority of
the Dorchester Union with the following cooks of Molls
for the year 1875, recently presented hi the medical
caws of health to that authority. mr. 3. Day. the
eilleer for the eastern division,
''re report of the eastern district for 1879 1 have
now the Swum of *dug before you; its is
MOS and suUmebeyirerlation 5.31/1 (ceneacuriaB7l,
I here leapt m informed of the inti lianas
might Injuriously effect the community ity making
=ietaspactions both with end without your
. and on many occasions house-to-been
lespectionn Two children, OM at Dewlisb, a one
menth. and the other aged sir months, at Pudgdtown,
pec
miles distant, died from the effects of diarrhoea in
• the., are the only deaths from
neleptieg the fated MIMI of typhoid end di
mentioned. These tour deaths referred to one or
MIMI al Os Imo Nimbi) osmotic disease ere a rat* of