The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-06 00:00:00

NAIDIVIT

Ma. Mricirm'a the Chancery Division
on Toseday the question of the regulation and
management of the rust of £llO,OOO left to the poor
of the City of London the late Mr. Mitchell, M.P.
for Bridport, came before the Court. By his will Mr.
Mitchell left the fund to the " Chairman of the Board
of Works," in trust for the benefit of the City of
London, and by • previous decision it was he/d the
=so dmignated in the will was the First
miens' of Works and not the Charism of the
Metropolitan Board of Works. The First Com-
missioner of Works having renounced the trustocheenes
lad been peepared by the A -Ommal and by
the Corporation of the City of London. The scheme
of the Attorney-General proposed that the fund
should be devoted to the pespoee. of education and
that the charity should be under the management of
fifteen trustees—nine representative and six (*.optative
—the representative trustees being elected, four by
the Corporation of the City of London, three by the
Loudon School Board, arid two by the Governors of
Christ's Hospital. The when* of the Corporation
proposed to devote the fund to the payment of doles
and pensions to deserving persons in the city, and
claimed the sole management of the trust. The
Corporation expressed a willingness to establish a girls'
school in the city. The Attornity.Generall,Mr. Martin,
Mr. Sterling, and Mr. Watson appeared. The
cc Chancellor was of opinion education was a
proper object to devote the charity to, and considered
the Corporation were not entitled to the sole adminis-
tration of the trust. He therefore decided in favour
of the Attorney-General's schema.
BOUGH WRATHRIL With relentless fury the
predicted dorm came on Saturday night, playing sad
havoc in its course. Considerable damage was
sustained in variouos part of the town, but especially
In Southatreet where three of the strong young trees
where snapped off. Of ccnrse, the wind will have the
credit for this particular damage, but the fact of
, three trees doweling close together becoming victims,
and the remainder in more exposed situation, remain-
I log untouched, together with the knowledge that
previous wanton mischief has been perpetrated in
this direction, points to the probability that something
more remorseless than the wind may be the cause if
this destructi .n. Heavy and dreaching storms
accompanied the wind on Saturday and Sunday, the
effect being to swell the streams in the neighbourhood
very considerably. On Friday night, as the brig
Bela, laden with coal for the Bridport Gsa Company,
wee entering the port, she violently collided with the
piers, smashing her bowsprit, and losing her figure-
head. Ocbar minor damage was sustained, and ths
repairs will necessitate her lying at the Harbour for
some time.
MOWTHLY BOROUGH PITTS Swarogs, Tuesday.—
Before the Mayor (C. Edmunds, Esq.), Dr. Hay. Mr.
Cornick, and Dir. T. Edmunds.—James Hunt, about
12 years of age, and whose parents reside at the Hit
or Mks beierhouse Is South-street, was charged with
having wilfully and maliciously damaged &certain tree,
situated in South-street, the property of the Corpora-
tion.—The case being fully proved, the Bench, con-
sidering that the parents could do nothing with
d !cadent, who is a perfect incorrigible, and woo was
ed for an indecent aseault some time since, made an
order for his detenticn • for a perloi of five years in the
Ihrtset I &retrial School.— A hid, named Henry
Seal, of Fad street, Was summoned for wilfully and
wantonly annoying and old mm, named Beojawin
Margery, of East-street, by knocking his door on lb*
flth Inst.—Defendaot plended guilty. He was raid
to be • " bed b .y," so the Bench fined him la and
costa. Sc. 6d., immediate payment or one day in prison.
—Defendant was sealed up for a day In the cell--
Thomas Hill, fl-h and fruit dealer, of St. Michaels-
lane, allowed his wife to appear in answer to a charge
wet him of being drunk and disorderly on toe
illssrway at Bridport on Sunday. the 13th inst. -P.C.'
C &Nay proved the caw, and Hill was fined la. 6d.
and Bs. egi. costa All 'wed 14 days.--Luke Roge,
painterin the employ of Mr. F. Barrett, house
decorator, &c., of East-street, was summoned for
riding • bicycle without • lamp or bell, on the 3rd
lost., between the hours of sunrise and suant.—
Rogers had the satisfaction of paying the Bench's
claim of 9e.