The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-06-15 00:00:00

TWIDEIR.

Mr. Whettain'e tender e £42. I :inn the only one Dent
In. wet hceepted for laying down en fron pipe sewer
behind Deronehiro Raiiditufe.

LENNOX•STREZT.

Mr. LANNING called attention to the paving in Lennox-
etreet. The stone was cora., hot nothing had been done,
and allot romphginte were being made in the matter.
Tne Surveyor wee in drueted to push the work forward.

Ina second meeting was called for four o'clock. but
although nearly all the members assembled at the
appointed time, Mr. Voss did not come till some time after.
the train lain/ late.
All the members present in the am aing attended with
the exception of Mr. Robes.. but with the addition of
Mews. Robertson. Dunn, and Webb.
The meeting was ultimately devoid of any practical
good. as Mr. Voss was unible to lay before the Council the
original plan submitted to them. He bad brought the
G-eat Western B rird e'er' which was really wisdom
Mr. Voss said he had not seen such • plan as that
mentioned.
Various questions were wit.
Mr. If SPIVS Liked : Hare t'ue company taken upon them•
selves further land than was given them by the Board,
and
Mr. LUNDIR enquired where was the authority they had
for goinr on the quay at alit
Aldermen TROIKAS There is no resolution upon the
book authoriehig the tramway to be laid at all.
Mr. HAMM We have no right or power to grant this
extension of the tramway, rod any occupant of the houses
on the quay can if he likes talk out an injunction end
stop it immediately.
Mr. ROBERTSON asked if ntm oo.ild he put ii.selr
Mr. Vole: Tb. wh,..1, jo m would have to be
removed. . . . _ . .

•111-r.- : Any intsr'• r”n,e with the tram .1 the
present busy time wr,tda ccat inconre."ence.
Yr. Voss: Very great, We are cramped there at any

HAMM armlet] that war not the question. They
had to rhocuu whet'ier tho C flpaar had trespassed
beyond the leave !riven them R. remarked that the only
Person who gave tit,' ''eve Sc our worthy Mayor. and
unfortunately he was lhaent. it far uhe wet concerned
he should like to see the 111.erre knocked down.
Mr. NANOLI said they ought to be in a position to
know bow the company ot th.dr cotuent. If they would
only furnish them with their authority it would enable
them to see their position.
Mr. Lognix remarked they could not blame the com-
pany until they knew to what extent they had permis-
sion. _ . .

The Surveyor stated the original plan was In accordance
with the Mayor's letter.
Mr. Harm: And in the face of that did they go
farther!
The BUAlll,`"'
ward.

The Surveyor: Y.n; they went 1 feet further west-

DKNNT, (to Mr. Vow): Is it within your knowledge
that you have gone 40 ur 50 feet beyond the line laid down
by the Mayor.
Mr. Voss : Certainly not.
Mr. DKNINIS Are the lines at present laid down bane-
Ida' to the traffic I
Mr. Voss: Yee.
Mr. Dkvros : And would it be prejudicial to the exten.
sion of the traffic if they were removed!
Mr. Vase: It would be most detrimental.
Mr. DILNNIS We ought hr I volt bcth at the public and
the private interests of Weymouth. If they could not be
made to go Itarmonioatly together they must sacrifice the
private interests to further the great Public intertete of
the town. He himself should be prepared whenever the
company made application for additional land to be in
favour of granting it.
Various speakers interrupted, npon which Mr. Dennis
challenged them, if they were opposed to the company
having the land, to take a decided step and condemn

fitral

—Alderman 'Now in the course of some remarks said I
They were all desirous of faeilitating the traffic, but at the
same time he could not help expressing an opinion they
had been dealt with rather surreptitiously, to put it in its
mildest form. Whether they had, as the Mayor had
said, vulgarly eposking, " cribbed" more than the leave
given them or not ho did not know, but he had not seen
any plan nor heard of any resoluti n authorising it, and
from his experience it imposts' to him that neither the
Mayor or anybody else was authorised to give leave for
the posseasion of any pert of the public highway. He
expressed his regret that a gentleman so usually discreet
as the Mayor should have lent himself to a matter of this
kind, and he was exceedinsl7 surprised that be should
have done so, because he was generally so mirth:rue on
these matters. He thought he had gone beyond the
bounds of discretion in taking upon himself the ',upon.
eibilitv which he had, for he had stated publicly he had
given leave. He, however, bad too much respect for the
Mayor to say suYibblit Chich would lead them to think
' he had wied wilfully, trot only from the best of motives.
It would, he maintained b madness to interfere with the
tramway now, and he twined to move—" That the addl.
tionel siding. added on the Quay by the Great Western
Railway Company be allowed to remain during the extra
potato traffic for this season to July Slot, 1883, and at tho
expiration of that time the question of the encroachment
ahodd be again considered, and that the Great Welltoll2
Railway 0 unpin, be reqn• se Ito lay before this Council
the orig.nel leave aol Plat,' relating thereto,"
Intima•ely the resolution was carried.