The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-08 00:00:00

WIYMOIITH.

rinithah OF MI. Fools.—The interment of Mr. H.
Fooks's remains took place on Wednesday afternoon,
when, beside the private mourners, • considerable
number attended the funeral of the deceased. Messrs.
Hallett and Son were the undertakers, and following
the hearse esottining the ooffin were several mourning
coaches and private carriages' the first oecupie4 by
Mr. B. Fooks (eldest eon), Mr. H. Fooks (H. M.
Customs), Messes. T. and F. Fooks. In the second
coach were a younger Mr. Fooks (son), Mr. T. Foots
e.(brother), Mr. Abrahams, (son-in-law), and Mr. J.
In the third, Rev. J. Watney (officiatia(
clergyman), Mews. W. Plowman, Joseph Short, and
H. Meekly. Besides these mourning (caches were wne
private carriages containing friends, amongst whom
we noticed—Mr. Alderman Thome, Mr. W. T.
Aylesbury, Mr. A. Graham, &c., &A. Mr. S. B.
Milledge and Mr. Bowden Payne (churchwaniene),
Mr. Boyton Smith (organist), and members of St.
Mares choir also followed, including Mr. W. Rogers,
Mr. B. Parsons, blz. Pestle, Mr. Williams, Mr. Vaux,
and many others, while we also observed of inhabi-
tants whe attended—Mr. R. Commina, Mr. Gregory,
Mr. E. Maoe, Mr. Ross, Mr. Cleall, and others. At
the chard' the choir sang "Vital Spark of Heavenly
Flame," and at the grave "For ever with the Lord.'
The funeral took pleas at the Cemetery, the procession
posing over the gackwaterhridge.
VlOlll7 WOMAX.—On Wednesday Mary Maria
Brewer was summoned before the borough magistrates.
R. N. Howard, Req. (Mayor), Dr. Drew, B. Hopkins,
Req., W. Talbot, Asq , and J. B. lichens, Iraq., for
using insultinii Language, but she did not appear.—
Mrs. Roper said the night before last Mary Brewer
came into her house about nine o'clock and insulted
her, saying she'd have her pot on the newspaper.—The
Mayor: You ought to think that an honour.—Mrs.
Roper: I wish to keep out of it, sir. The servant
asked if Mrs. Brewer could speak to her, and com-
plainant replied she could not, as she had a lady with
her. Mrs. Brewer pushed her way in; Mrs. Roper
asked her into the kitchen, and she said she heard
Mrs. Roper at four o'clock in the morning making •
noise and calling her name out. —Mr. Roper also coin-
plained that this woman would do him • great injury
If she went on like this, as he had • respectable
business, and the woman came round knocking at
people's doors at four o'clock in the morning, and be
had to go out and protect himself.—Dr. Simpson said
the poor unfortunate defendant was the wife of •
patient of his, and was much to ill to appear in Court.
She was suffering from delusions, and probably these
annoyances from which the Wghbours suffered were
the result of these delusions,—Mr. Arden said there
had been • previous summons against defendant for
Tuesdny • but on her promising not to offend again,
the complainant very kindly withdrew the summons.
—Dr. peon did not say she was permanently unfit
to be at large; but he suggested that the case should
be adjourned.—The Mayor said the case must be
adjourned for a week; but if the defendant mime out
of doors and made • disturbance, the polioe would have
power to arrest her, and bring her down before the
Court.—Mr. Roper wail she was out last night—Dr.
Drew: Probably she may be out to-night, and then
you can have her arrested—send down te the 13311a:-
station at ones.—Dr. Simpson said as far as physical
ability was concerned the defendant was quite able to
be out.
HOIMIBUII AND we Honeybun
appeared against her husband, and said she was hardly
able to stand in the dock, Her husband was a very
bad temper, and all day Sunday she could do nothing
right. He did not wish her to go to a neighbour's;
but the went out, and when she came back her bus.
band locked her into a room with him, abused her
with his tongue, threw a potato dish at her, and struck
her I. the back; he had also struck her at various
times. She had been found fault with for pawning
things' but she was obliged to get some victuals for
her childres, of whom she had four, and some of the
pawn tickets were his own doings. She had been
married 10 years, and had had 10 years' of misery ; but
she did not wish to hurt him, but to live peaceably.
He brought home whet he earned, but he had dumb
animals te keep. He had • hone and trap, and cow
and pig.—Prisoner said he brought home all he earned,
and some of the things were pawned when be was
earning 28e. • week. His wife would go out of a night,
sad he would go out looking for her and could not
find her, and, perhaps, when he was going to work
she would send one of the children to call him back;
but he said "if you go away for your own pleasure,
you can stay away altogether, if you like."—Honey-
tun's father said that his son had no comfort of his
wife, she would take away everything she could from
liim.—The Mayor read some of the descriptions of
things on the pawn tickets, and it appeared many of
them were his own clothes, which his wife had pawned.
—Honeybun said he gave her 15s. or 18s. • week, and
last Sunday he found his hest things were gone, and he
threw the potato dish at her when he found it out first.
—The wife, being called up, said the things were
pawned during • month when her husband earned
nothing; she pawned nothing but for food.—On the
Mayor asking if they could live together, the husband
said he'd rasher she did not come back, as she went
away all nights. —The wife returned she went nowhere
that she was ashamed to tell him of; she had told him,
and he only made her out a liar.—Tbe magistrates told
the wife she had no right to pawn her husband's things
without his consent, or to leave his house at nights
without telling him.—Case dismissed.
A Vu.taos Don JUali.—Miller v. Ironsides.—This
was • summons against defendant for non-payment of
the money due on an affiliation order made at a
previous Court, nothing having been paid.—P.C.
Ch•tfey had arrested the man, coming down in his shirt
from the bedroom of a Mrs. Inkpen, at Abbotabury,
Mrs. Inkpen being in bed at the time when the police-
man west into the room.—The fellow said he had no
money, and no goods to distrain on.—Supt. Vickery
said the man had been living with • poor follow named
Inkpen, whose wife he had taken away, and they had
lived away • week or so.—The Mayor: Did he take
any goods or chattels with him I—The wronged
husband stood up, and stated nothing had been taken
away that he knew.—Committed for 28 days.—
Eliza Inkpen. the wife, was then brought up for
assaulting her husband George, at the police-station.—
George said his wife had left him for a fortnight, he
had not seen her till last evening, when about four or
five o'clock. his wife came and asked him how he got
on. He did not answer, and she went after him
towards Mr. Targett's, when she caught him by the
cellar, asked for the key of the house, and said
she wanted her things. He replied that if she wanted
the key, she must go to Mr. Burridge's, and if she
wanted her things she =et °pma with him to the
Superintendent, when she "up with her fist" and
struck him by the side of the face. The woman had
gone away with frorusides, and lived at her mother's
house, at Abbotsbury.—hirs. Inkpen here said that
owing to the bad weather she could not get home, and
she wished P.C. Chafey to say what bedroom Donsides
came out of, for she always found Ironsides an honest,
upright man, and his character ought not to be
scandalised. She found her husband was selling the
goods for drink, and she did not wish the home to be
broken up.—P.C. Delament having corroborated Ink-
pen as te his wife striking her husband, Mrs. Inkpen
called Hester Pitcher, her sister, who said Mrs. Ink-
pen did not start off with the young man; she herself
was keeping company with him, and he came from her
(Hester's) room, when P.C. Chafey came; but he had
not been sleeping with her.—The Mayor: Do you
mean to say he had not been passing the night in your
room I—No answer—The Mayor said this was • very
sad ease, and the more they looked into it, the more
immoral it seamed; but the immorality had nothing to
do with the sentence they should pass. If she would
premise not to assault her husband again, they would
only fine her Si. and ecista—lnkpen was told that he
was perfectly justified, after the way in which his wife
had treated Min, in locking up the house against he
Jonn'e Pamsi Tea. After having been
twice postponed through the inclemency of the
weather", this large tea meeting came off on Thursday
evening at the Imperial Burdon Assembly Rooms,
which had been very kindly lent by Mrs. Scsidamore
and Mies Roper. The room and the tables were very
beautifully decorated with banners and flowering
plants, also ferns and evergreens, and about 400 of the
parents of the St. John's scholars were entertained at
an abundant tea, the teachers and district visitors
presiding at the tables, and Jones's band playing a
'election of music during tea, concluding with the
National Anthem, in which the whole company joined.
After tea, a concert of singing was given, Mr. R.
Oakley commencing with a pretty ballad which hirhly
amused the company. Mrs. Cole followed with "We'd
better bide • wee" (Claribell, and her beautiful contralto
voice gave great pleasure and won a deserved encore.
"Light and Air" were advocated by Rev. H. L Randall
in • humorous story he read respecting • farmer's wife,
who was sick and could not get better, though she took all
that was recommended her, until light and air were
admitted to her
hroom, when she was cured. Great
ProYil;6suaesp!gfoll?led`rue etisruth,!' was vsegigwebril rlddr:
Oakley with much power, and warmly applauded. The
glee "Home, Sweet Home," was sung by St. John's
choir, assisted by some ladles., and another encore was
won by Mrs. Cole far "The Blind Girl's Dream."
"The 'Which Squall" was finely rendered by Mr.
Warren, who was loudly encored, and be, with Messrs.
Maycock and Hingley, sang "The Tick ling Trio,'
which, of course,oould not fail to please. Mr. Oakley
followed with "The Outlaw," and "To all you Ladies"
was ably given by the glee party. The Rev. John
Stephenson then naked all to sing "The Church's One
Foundation," and in this they heartily j iined. The
accompanyint's place was filled by Min Minett, Mrs,
Cole, Miss Ravenhill, and Miss Stephenson, in the
absence, through illness, of the organist, Mr. Stone.
Rev. John Stephenson than proposed a r te of thanks
to Mrs. Scadamore end Miss Roper, for giving the use
of their fine assembly room; to the hotel servants, for
their gratuitous and willing services; and to thole who
had so kindly and pleasingly rung and read. Mr.
Stephenson also hoped they would not forget the
maul hints furnished by Mr. Randall's reading. He
was thankful he had been quite well and free from cold
all through the severe weather, and this he greatly
attributed to the fact that he drank nothing but cold
water' and believed that when there were more
teetotalers there would be fewer doctors' bills. The
scholars, he was thankful to say, were in a most
prosperous state, greatly due to the tower and
mistress; but the success of the school did net rest
with the teachers and managers only, for an excellent
Spanish proverb enforoed " An ounce of mother
Is worth • pound of teacher," and in saying this they
did not mean to exclude father, as in the treatment of
their children he hoped father and mother would work
and pull together as one. Let them be as willing and
anxious to go up to the House of God as on their
wedding day, and pray that their children might be
kept from falling into bad company, and which, if their
houses were not well ordered, and the House of tied was
neglected, they were liable to fall. In the Book at
Proverbs be read • very Instructive and solemn verse,
which he feared was to-day very little thought of—
" Thou shalt chasten him with the rod, and dv eli sr his
owl from hell." The Home Secretary, speaking about
the Juvenile Offenders' Act, had lately said tiny
wanted to get hold of the fathers and mothers, and It
would be • good plan if the Hems Secretary were to
order team to be held in every parish,
and. get kind
friends to come and speak to the parents, and remind
them of their Father in Heaven, who loved them and
children, and in all their Ceres and anxieties they
hn:7to Rim who would be ever ready to help them in their
-ndedn'oniesnot "d"tiot of be airliCliTeunthe L:orrthe:Thtwhmideemdeux7oLy: tibift
wee nthureirsttingurell";
the benediction pronouneed. and the parents
*m and
their Made secarst4 &tar a at *ming

THANSEER or Llcsnam.—At the Borough Petty
Sessions, on Tuesday, before the Mayor and other
magistrates, the following licenses were transferred :
Yacht Inn, from Thomas John Newlett to John
Hixon ; Cooper's Arms, from Francis R. Cooper to
George White; Weymouth Arms, George White to
John Downton.
Ayr GALLERY Fon WXYNOUTH.—The promisee lately
occupied by the Albion Club are being turned t i most
useful purpose by Mr. Baker the talented master of
the School of Art, who is fitting up the large billiard-
room as an Art Gallery, making extensive alterations
for the purpose. The windows are being closed up,
and the gallery will be lighted from above by a
clerestory, the walls being hung with choice pictures
The remit will be that an attraction will be provided
A meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday morn. for Weymohth, enjoyable at all states of the weather
lug last, when the worshipful the Mayor (W. Durden, and all the year round. ,
Esq.), presided. There wore also present :—Mr. Tas FLIAIII TEMPLAR Boone= -.Whitfield, Wigs
Alderman Gregory, Mr. Alderman Davis,Councillors Scott, alias Ashford, who swindled Good Templar
A. Pope, G. Frost, H. Durden, Dr. Aldridge, Arthur ipso by pretending to be a brother in distress, and
Lock, Mr. F. Lock, T. Bennett, T. Coombs, Mr. Giles acing papers signed by D.O.T.''', has met his
Symonds (Town Clerk), and Mr. Henry Symonds deserts. At lest he was arrested at Birmingham, and
(Deputy-Town Clerk), and Mr. Thomas (Borough charged with for.—The stipendiary magistrate,
Surveyor.) Mr. iiicinorsley, cluaesised the case as a cruel fraud
7111 BEGGAR'S ICNAP /RIES. upon people who could ill afford to be swindled, and
With reference to these tree., MR. HENRY SYMONDS sentenced tisdruilty man to three months' imprison-
informed the Council he saw Mr. Cole, one of the mint with hard as • rogue and a vagabond.
Permanent Secretaries of the Treasury, when he was in &crane v. WASHING-UP.—At the Borough Court,
London a few days ago, and he aaked him whether he Tuesday, Mary Ann Allen of Termin n was
considered they would require the consent of the summoned by Mary Catherine Pritchard,taderly
Tressury totbe removal of thotrees. He (Mr. Symonds) woman, for a breach of the peace—An elderly women
suggested that the Council were going to memorialise first got into the defendant's dock ; but Mrs. Pritchard
the Treasury merely for the purpose of ascertaining said it was the daughter she summoned, and the young
their opinion, not that they admittedthetreasury should woman took her mother's plaor.—Mrs. Pritchard said
Interfere, or that they considered their consent was she was lodging at No. 2, Terminus4hso., and was
actually
eneoeseary. In reply, Mr. Cole said it was very subject to bronchitis and asthma • but Miss Allen
they should obtain theooneent of the Treasury, would insist en having her room wagged in the snowy
or, perhaps another day reflection might be cast on the weather, and she could not stand it. She told her
corporation that they had done something without their that her medical man would not allow It; but Mies
consent. Ile (Mr. Symonds) then said the corporation Allen persisted, and complainant locked her door'
wereenxious to avoid the expense (their being no opposi- but Miss Allen was determined, and she was afraid of
the contemplated) of any possible enquiry, as had been her life.—Mks Allen said the old woman ease hoots
the case once before. Mr. Cole suggested they should drunk every night; she was dirty and filthy, and the
mention in the memorial their desire to avoid any room Sunk with her dirt—The Mayor: If yos den%
aequiry, and considering all the circaunstanoes, he agree, why doss not Mts. Pritchard go to another
thought consent would be given without any difficulty; lodging l—Mrs. Pritchard: I even paid their rent in
bt. be thought the prayer should not be only for an ' advance, because they were so poor.—Defendant
of opinion, which probably they would strongly denied this, and said Ills. Pritchard only
il-nadEnd- gTls, unison tWy considered the corporation raid 2s. a week. She spoke rather bitterly against
the Treasury-had the power to interfere. lie the old woman, and was checked by the Bench.—Mrs.
advised them to pray for consent in the memorial in Pritehard : And she called me bad names, too, I must
illuordinssufmninD. and I don't like it, being brought u dile/c-
-11. se did not think the whole council entitylr_theer.)—The Mayor told Mrs.
meld =the memorial in that form, she had leave the home, and this she
Ms.
ha h. remarked they had virtually agreed to do when suited; but, said the Mayor, =motel
leave. The came would be adjourned for •
Ma' a DVIDEE %might ths Inagnalia ought to be Mrs. Pritchard must leave in the insentiTsen.th'sreed
eathes,= dia n°4 Shildi sbll7 Wald get it Ansa. too, mast remember the dilemma fa their ages,
Mg. Peat mad let the old lady go without gay more asuoyamoo.

—untidhl vri:fcttari7e:lai:nuGe,Bmit WtheilarnriißeplaTo: -
pied, Cherbourg, general' Brighton, Painter, Cher, itself to secure the
bouwlirgiPPM, gFenaaerreNatliin".4;.?3,o Foam Cherbourg. Mr. Banns had been quite willing to do so ; but one ems The meeting was induced to
general; Cygnus, Falls,having been °penal, he must now open his, unless the return of a Conservative canctdeteat the next election.
Jersey, general' Aquilli, As tho late Conservative member, Mr. Drum, was not
mseiot-tt.s bed alroadv mole up their mind.
in any way re nted, it is apparent that his powerful
inTi,,%, M tyor said the ruaatstrat-e bad not made ap their
aid cannot be oounted on, and therefore that this un-
tf 'II n coil h had wend witnesses to call.
ooal.—Saiiittos : Great Western, litlimpied, Cher- Tu'ii Nl'ieyne 11, the gentlemen must see very well what called for meeting can have no other effect,
bourg general ; Bright in , Painter , Cherbourg , the lusliii.rarti is would ii , even if they went on for two is concerned, than provoking his hostility. If the Party
general; S,tuth of Ireland, Yearn Cherbourg general; how, The iiartie.i woul Ibe all un the litckwater -igoin could not win with Mr. Drax they are not likely to
Cygnus, Fella, Jersey, goners' ; %%rattier, Moilormenk, eli, otidg, mid ti., wee curs 1.1... t Mr. Weisfiad mad Mr. sumeed with Mr. George Bond against Mr. Drag and
Cardiff, ballast; Gem of the Ocean, Elvy Portland, 11‘°''' if they were in the place of the magistrates, would the popular sitting member, Mr. Montague Guest.
do
nilj Ramensworth, Lovelb Hartlepool, baliast, do exartly what the magistrates would do.
os almost Knight; but •;,,,, Sherburne Journal.
1 DIRAPPLARANOI OP • WIYR.—At the Police Court coirre'eneuthleersolictrroino% tech side agreed that their I
"better half" did not appear, and the man was asked
1 buvaa in: rt:, h.
h'ei I
wiselyrfca. replied
i , had been teetotalers for KHOO rears. aud I t
on Tuesday last damns' Honeybun, an elderly Maas clients should be bound down. if the miler side were.
was summoned for assaulting his wife, Jane; but the The Mayor asked lEn•glit if he had anything to drink ;
Ifi
replied
he had
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further
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indeybohtuawn replied
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.wh
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hal:, I so far as he
el id of that, and, as the parties were
table men, the pr liesional EsotloW,R bad Itet••••1
The
m.y.r was
been a teetotaler for wane years.
woman's alarms and repentanoes appeared to have in their cum. He was very glad that Knight
been more than one, for Mr. Arden dated this was dosn.for ma who did not want to quarrel could ant °Weed
was creditable to them all that they cooseuttd to be hound
the third time the wife had taken out a summons to that. But be warned them and all others that with
against her hushed, and each time, when it come on regard to shooting beepers, it was a wry ilausarotis thing
for hearing, she did not appear.--The Bench would to do so in the Backwateii. That halonEed to the Council.
not consent to be thus treated, and sent a constable for an lit wan very different shooting what they flinch dto be
thkuenwild.s(thibutthissh
case was adjediurtredd till next
hey, hoopers there from ishst it would be to do so in the open
teheb In
In answer to some tent irks of the professional gentle
-
• warrant to be issued for her apprehension. „ men.
DRuNKIN FRINCHMAN NEARLY DROWNED. —At The Mayor warned th • p irties roe pointing the gnu at
the Borough Police-court, on Monday morning, before another is a very it r tt .to afar, and If web a case came
the Mayor (K. N. Howard, Esq.), and Dr. Tigard, before them again, thi; person who did no would be Dent
Louis Marron, a French sailor belonging to the brig for trod.
The pirties were then bound over in Cid each, to keep
Catherine, was brought up for being drunk.—Supt.
Vickery said the prisoner fell into the Harloour, aud the pence towards Gaul other for three months.
was nearly drowned—ln answer to the Bench, the
captain of the Catherine said the prisoner earns £.3 a
month; but there was a beastly house here that led
almost every sailor wrong.—The Mayor: What house
is that ?—The Captain: The Royal Oak.—lt appears
that about twenty minutes past ten, on Sunday night,
the sailor was going in his vessel, and had to ascend a
plank, at an angle of about 40 degree*, the tide being
high at the time and runuing like a mill-stream.
Marron 'lipped and fell into the tide ' • but fortu-
natdy he could swim a little, and he kept afloat till
one of the sailors, hearing him shout, threw him a rope
and hauled him up over the (liay.—teined 10s., includ-
ing costs.

ANNIVERSARY SUPPER OF COURT
"PLUME OF FEATHERS," A.O.
FORESTERS.
The large room at the Weymouth Restaurant,
Augusta-place, was well filled on Wednesday (last
evening,) when the Foresters of Court "Plume of
Feathers," 3,152, celebrated their 22nd anniversary.
Dr. Simpson, the esteemed medical officer of the
Court, presided at the supper, supported by
Councillors H. Naugle, S. Webb, T. S. VVallia, and
A. Graham, and faced by Mr. Councillor Dennis, in
the vice-chair, there being. '
also present—Messrs. W.
T. Aylesbury, Thurman, Jun., F. H. Driver, Bristol'
Nobbs, Williams, jun., Vine, Gee, W. R. P. and C.
Jeffery, Rogers, and other prominent members of the
order, the District Secretary of which has long and
most acceptably been, Mr. W. C. T. Hotinsell, who on
this occasion took an active part in the arrangement'.
Mr. Cooke placed a substantial and well-cooked
dinner on the tables, which were also teetotally
decorated, and harmonised well in appearance with
this very bright and cheerful room. A capable
young pianist provided music daring the dessert.
After dinner, the Mayor R. N. HOWARD, Elq,
entered and took the chair elitist applause' thanking
Dr. Simpson for having occupied the chair during his
absence, and explaining that he was unable to be
present earlier.
After the loyal toasts, which were warmly received.
The CHAIRMAS called on
Mr. H. NANcts, who gave the "Army, Navy, and
Reserve Forces." Now the Volunteer Force' have
attained their majority, they ought to be included in
" The Forces," and he called on Sergeant C. Jeffery to
respond for the whole. (Applause.)
Sergeant JIITERT tersely acknowleged the toast.
The Cuauutts next gave The Bisbop and Clergy
and Ministers of all denominations.
The CHAIRIUN gave "Success to Court Plume of
Feathers," calling on Bro. liounsell, secretary, to

respond.
Secretary W. C. T. Hounanu., responding, said the
court is now worth £907, and during the year they
had spent £244 7s. 4d. in sick pay—a tremendous sum
for a court to pay; but the balance at the end of the
year is no worse than it was at the end of 1879. (Ap•
please.) They had lest three members, for which they
had paid £42, and the number of members was
during the y.Lr they had initiated 15; but with the
deaths and imapmdons, had only increased three.
They had ten or eleven honorary members, and would
welcome any more. In conclusion he returned thanks.
Song, Mr. B. Pennons, " The Midshipmite.'
The next toa,t was that of a gentleman, said the
CH LIR/lAN, on whom the lIIICCOM of the club greatly
depended, the medical officer, Dr. Simpson.
Ihe health of Dr. Simpson was received with mud.

cal honours.
The DOCTOR, in respinding, hoped he had gained
some friends during his connectioa with Court Plume
of Feathers; his object was that the court should be a
thriving one, and with that object he might come in to
antagonism with some member, for the good of the
Court, by thinking the member ought not to go on the
Court. Not only had the Court attained its majority,
but he had almost attained his majority in connection
with the Court. The huge amount paid in sick pity
showed a large amount of work for the doctor, and the
pay was something like that of the doctor to the
Emperor of China, who paid his doctor very well when
he was in good health, but when he was poorly he cut
it if. He congratulated the Court that in the year
1882 Weymouth is to be honoured by a visit from the
High Court of Forestry (Applause.)
Song, Mr. Graham, "Rock me to sleep, Mother."
Song, Mr. I'. H. Driver, "Simon the Cellarer. ",
Sonic, Mr. Gee, "The Little Fat Grey Man."
Recitation, Mr. W. R. P. Jeffery, " Farmer Ash-

THZ PlEL—TherepAire are being rapidly carried on,
an that shortly all will be in regular trim and order for
general shipping as heretofore.
Nonionic LIGHTS. —OE Monday last theee lights
wore very pretty, brilliant, and changeable in the
northern parts of the heavens, attracting the attention
of numerous spectators.
THZ RAILWAY.— be Bill has, we understand, passed
standing orders in the Howie of Commons committee,
and an tither matters are going on very favourably, so
that we may consider fair...progress is being made.
THE WZATHZII. la Wednesday evening, the 26th
ult., a gentle rain and welcome thaw set in. and the
deep snow seemed to go as rapidly as it came, so that
In ism than twelve days we passed through the changes
of an almost Arctic winter to that of a mild and
temperate ciimate.
MOWLIX INEITIVITL—We hear Mr. G. Bart. of Piar'
beck House, and president of this valuable and weft.'
institute, has very liberally discharged the deficit of
about £3O which has been, from peculuir circumstances,
gradually accuinlatint the past four or five years. Com-
manning this year with a clear balance sheet, we hope
this noble institute will continue to prosper and be use-
ful in every respect both to residents end visitors.

Dr. SIMPSON proposed the next toast, "The Mayor
apt Corporation of Weymouth." (Applause.)
The Moroi/ responded. It was one of his greatest
pleasures to preside over such a meeting as this,
because such an order as theirs reduced the rates,
and reduced the pauperism which is inevitable.
(Applause.)
The Vicx-CBAIRMAN, Mr. Councillor DRNNIS, Mr.
Councillor WEB, Mr. COURCiIIOr WALLIS, Mr.
Councillor Gasusm, and Mr. Councillor NANGLE,
responded.
Bro. W. C. T. Housstu, who bed been District
Scretart for eight years,and Bro. PURCHASE responded.
The Customs:4 gave 'Success to the Town and
Trade of Weymouth," coupled with the names of Mr.
Vine and Mr. Aylesbury, who responded.
Other toasts and songs filled out a pleasant even-
ing, for which the borough magistrates had granted an
extra hour.