The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-24 00:00:00

WAZEHAK.

THE GAS COMPANY, if they will have stores for coke
on the open footway next the public road, should order
their men not to throw down the stuff just as people
are coming from the Railway station. We saw a
person nearly smothered thereby this week.
DOG POISONING.—This mania has spread to Ware.
ham. 'Tis a cowardly practice, but owners of dogs
should feed their dumb friends well, and they wort t
be so likely to pick up strange food.
STRALING Swanrs. —At the Petty Sessions on Tues-
day, before Colonel Mansel and Milee ltodgett, Esq.,
Silva Hector, alias Macey, was charged with having
stolen, at hiorden. on the 20th March, 1879, 1031ba. of
swedes, value 10.., the property of James Laurence.
—lmprisoned until the rising of the Court. —There
were also a few drunken cases, school, and union
IMODIlonsaL
LORD ELDON was summoned at the Stockton Petty
Sessions t show canoe why he should not pay £lB for
Der iota of the Fire Brigade in saving some buildings
on fire at his farm, Eggleseltff t. The Norwich Union
Insurance Office paid their share; but his lordship
thought the charge too high. The magistrates
examined the outlay of the Brigade, decided the
charges were not excessive, and ordered my lord te
Pay.
GACTION To TRADIRSMIDC—At the County Court on
Wednesday, George Sansom, Winfrith, r. W. N.
Fooks, road surveyor, Wareham, was a claim for 225.
for posts and rails.—Mr. W. Lacey, who appeared for
the defendant, surveyor of the highway board, under-
stood application was made for an adjournment,
which he opposed. It was necessary to put some
posts and rails up near Winfrith, and the surveyor
of the Board went over to two carpenters and milked
them for estimates. Mr. Sansom gave an estimate at
£1 25., and Mr. Mortimer at 14i, and Mr. Mortimer's
tender was accepted, but Mr. Sansom had been in the
habit of always doing the work for the Board under
the old Surveyor. Mr. Anderson, and pot up !skate
and rails on this occasion; but Mr. Fooks told him he
would not be paid.—The Judge: But you have had
the poets and rails; are you not liable to pay? At
least, will you not pay the 14s. ?—Mr. Lacey said the
Board were liable to pay Mr. Mortimer' if he did the
work, and they had been obliged to retain him to
defend this paltry case; simply a man was annoyed
that his work had been taken away from him, and
given to a man who did it for loos money. As to the
adjournment, it was not the plaintiff who was ill, but
his wife, and why should the Board be put to the
expense of retaining him twice, simply because Arabella
Somebody had bronchitis ?—Mr. lAwy applied that
the application for adjournment, which is most
irregular , shauld be refused, and he also applied for
costs.—Verdict for defendant with costa.
A Rmextrio-Down CA/ML—At the County Court on
Wednesday, before T. E. P. Lefroy, Esq., judge,
Summers r. Scott Kent was e claim by the proprietor
of the Swanage omnibus, against a coal merchant of
Wareham, for £2 3s. 6d. balance of damages, &c., in
consequence of a collision, which Mr. Summers all
was caused by defendant's waggon running into -his I
omnibus, on December 3, 1877.—Plaintiff stated el
had been paid on account; but defendant said the al
was in full settlement, and Mr. Howard supported
hire.—Plaintiff detailed the particulars of bin case, and
said on that night it was dark. He received a
telegraph message that he was to take two passengers
home, and when he got there he found the bus had
been driven into by Mr. Scott Kent's waggon. The
axle and windows were broken, and he had DOW
springs; but he only charged for the half .axle, and not
for the repairing. Several times be had called on Mr.
Scott Kent, but he had run away from him.—Mr.
Howard: Mr. Scott Kent is not the man to run away
from you, if you say that, I will have it taken on oath.
--Sidney Andrews, the driver, said he had a light,
and was on the right side of the road, when the
wagvn came against him, broke off the axle and
break, running into the bus. Witness had pulled In
as far as he could, and could not have gone any
farther, or he would have been into the porch of •
house.—By the Judge: The road is 22ft. 6in. wide.—
By Mr. Howard: On his oath he had his lamps
lighted, he borrowed them at the Bear Hotel tap. No
danger was done to the front wheel, but it was sprung.
The off side of the bus dragged, and that would cause
a mark in the road ; but be could not remember any
one telling him the mark was much over the wrong
side of the road. Being pressed by Mr. Howard, the
driver said Mr. Kent said so. Had met with an
accident at North Castle with a waggonette; but he
had not lamps then. Remembered hitting somebody
with his horse on a fair day at Wareham.—By the
Judge: The omnibus was so damaged that he had
to take out the horses and leave the bus there.
—Thomas Moss was on the bus at the time. The
waggon took the binder wheel of the bus and carried
it a good way. He WWI on the right side of the road,
and he or the driver called to the carter, who was not ,
up to the horse's bead.—Robert Grumpier was at I
Stoborough when the accident happened, and heard
the crash. The driver of the omnibus was too far over
on his own side for safety; if he had gone a foot
farther on his own side, he must have gone into the
porch.—By the Judge: The carter was decidedly in
the wrong, he was too far in the centre of the road, if
be had been his own side the accident would not have
hatipened. —William White, labourer, saw the accident.
The bus was as far its own side as the driver could get,
and the fault was the carter's, who was not at his
horses' heads.—John Linington, Stoborough, who lives
in the house with the porch, said the driver of the bus
was as far on his right side as he could have been with.
out knocking down the porch. There was plenty of
t room for the waggon to go over; as much room as
there has been there the last 100 years. It happened
about 4ft. before the porch.—Richard Toop, the carter,
an elderly man, had been summoned by Mr. Sum-
mers. On this occasion, be said you could it'd see a
little glimmering light in front. Was between 70 and
80 years of age.—By Mr. Howard: Had never had
an accident before this evening. On the evening he
beard the bus coming and took the hone by the head,
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have seen a good light had there been one. The
driver began "missing" him immediately after the
accident. He himself was only three or four inches
from the gutter. Had had nothing at all to drink that
day.—Mr. Howard said the driver had been loading
I cosh over for Kr, Heat and cement back. Mr. Kent