The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-12-08 00:00:00

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DORCHESTER TOWN COUNCIL
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Allow me to supplement your report of the last
meeting of the Dorchester Town Council, by a fpw
remarks. I certainly did say that I thought something
should be done with • portion of the money realized from
the sale of the County Hall, to afford increased accommo-
dation to our townsmen who wished to make use of our
public buildings, and at lower prices than outsiders or
strangers; for instance, if we have anything to give away,
why not let all the institutions of the town and the
religious sects hold their meetings, whether social or
religious, free? This would teem but a fragment, but it
would be at least a reasonable way of applying any surplus
we may have in hand. But I said more, viz., that the
ratepaying portion of the population had the first claim
upon us to relieve them of a portion of the burdens they
bear, and of which many of them perhaps justly complain.
However, on enquiring of the Town Clerk, I was told that
no portion of the £3,500 could be appropriated to such an
object, but must wholly be applied to the improvements
of the borough. It certainly did appear to me that the
introduction of the sewerage into the town was a great
public boon, and, consequently, I thought if we could
relieve the ratepayers of say only one of these rates, it
would be an agreeable as well as a satisfactory method of
disposing of our surplus. I an. content, however, to
accept the decision of our worthy Town Clerk in the
matter. But if not in this way, cannot we find any other
improvements in the town that require attention? Are
not our pavements and public walks a soma) of continual
dissatisfaction and complaint to the inhabitants (who pay
the Lazes remember), on account of the state in which they
are kept? And do we not often hear from the would-be
" Joseph 1114111.16' of the Council, that if we continue to
do even the little we have been doing, the fowl. of the
borough will not stand such pressure/ And is it not a
fact that our late worthy Chief Magistrate has been com-
pelled, lust in hand, to solicit subscriptions to keep our
beautiful walks in the condition they now are Yet, in
the face of all these, the Town Council by their vote on
the rill' uIL, decided by • small majority to lower the
Tolls ut the Corn Exchange. he., and thereby deprive us
of any benefits arising out of the receipt of so large a stun
of money. And, moreover, let it be understood that this
has not been asked for, neither is it desired by the gentle-
men who onue to our market., and who would be the
last to accept a boon at the hareis of the Council, knowing
that it had been wren.; front the comforts of the people.
Let me 41 that If no cannot legally apply any portion of
this large sum to relieve the ratepayers, I think the least
wu can do i 4 to so apply it that those who bear the burdens
shall have all the comforts the Council can afford them.
Let us be just before we are generous, and the It perhaps
our townamen will have more confidence in our wive and
judicious administration of their affairs.
WILLI Ali VEMOX.

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Dr. Manning will leave Roane tide week_
The impress of Russia has arrived safely at San Remo.
Mr. Disraeli left town for Bournemouth on Friday
morning.
A London policeman has been rebuked in court fur
penking of himself as a non-civilian.
The Zurich Cremation Society now counts upwards of
.100 members.
The Sun announces that Bishop Colons° will preach in
Westminster Abbey on the third Sunday in Advent.
Dr Ball is to be wetted Lord Chancellor of Ireland
shortly after the meeting of Parliament.
" We pie Igo ourselves to drink wisky moderately," is
the cardinal precept of an Obi., temperance society.
The value of property sold by auction in 1b74 was

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.ClO, 768,W1.
gehtße,Pres.
Henry St. Andrew
It. John, vicar of Altua, Dorset.
Signor des Ambrois de Nevache, President of the
ItallaSenate, has died suddenly. ton-house estate.
11Tal:lata'rde dfitaoTrteh.CmtiPsieantan.'orcunhaaced olfK.thu
preTheventgothvee
Sad Percy, M.P., has been chosen Grand Master of
government
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tiNonewoffounthedlauseaLd is taking ItePsthok.
Order of Mark Masons for the ensuing year.
Capt. George 8. Nares, commander of the Cfialkager,
is selected to command the Arctic Expedition.
The l'ope greeted Dr. Manning with expressions of joy
It the progress of Roman Catholicism in England.
QUILRY 11011 111011 Cnuaciimsx.—A person who wears
stole, must he inevitably be a prig I—Jude.
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cashusie.
Acronling to • return just published, tho local taxation
of the country for the year 1 73 amounted to Eltft,l/57,031.
The Duke and Dueheas of Edinburgh will visit the &id
and Count.. Dudley, at Whitley Court, on the fifth.
The Indian Government is satisfied that the Gwalior
prisoner is not the Nana. &Mandl admits he was mi.-
taken.
In the Court of Queen's Benrh, Dublin, last week, a
juryman was observed drinking " mmething out of a black
bottle," and was immediately oxprllei
A British schooner suspected of conveying war material
to the Cuban insurgents, has been „cued by a Spanish
gunboat.
A miner named Robert Ballantino, residing at North
Bench, near Dainielliugton, has been found deed in a
snow wreath.
Mr. Disraeli has been confined to his room for a fort.
night by an attack of gout, front the effects of which be is
now recovering.
This year Ws number of students who have matriculated
in the &linburgh University is 1,1165, against 1,738 in hat
winter session.
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One of the deaths registered in London last week was
attributed to isdsonine from diseased pork. The duceastsl
was the wife of a issitznaker.
A reredos, the gift of a metaber of tho congregation, ia
being erected in the Ritualistic Church of St. Augustine,
Kilburn, at a cost of £1,301).
The Dutch Parliament in its Second Chamber has car-
ried a vote, by 35 to 30, in favour of the settlement of
illternatl.mal disputes by arbitration.
The Exchequer receipts to Nov. 2S more than equal
those of last year The return shows £45,771,846 against
£-15.771.532 at the game time tat 17'.L
Eleven persons—eight workmen, two monks, and a
servant—have perished on the Great St. Bernard. The
whole party were engulphed in a litiow-drift.
The Rock states that the committee of the Lower House
of Convocation has resolved to recommend to Parliament
the adoption of a certain number of new rubrica.
Dr. Kenealy has been unanimously expelkul from the
Bar by the Ranchers of Gray's Inn for aces libels pub-
lished in his newspaper. Ile intencla to appeal to the
judges.
Vs ith much under 420,000 annual incomik the Moravian
IllieWiollB have over 3.10 ordained missions, 70,000 converts.
and 21,000 cminunicants, equal to the largest of our
missionary socisties, where incomea are over SIAM()
per annum.
William Ueekok aged twenty-one, died in a London
hospital from congestion of the brain, produced by drink-
ing raw spirits which had been spilled I)eee,.J threw
himself on the pavement, and never ceased drinking till
he fell forward in an insensible condition.
ANOTHER REMAKING OP " fiAMlZT."—Hatnlet (Mr.
W. E. G.): I did love you once.--Ophelia (Mrs. Pius):
Indeed, my lord you made me believe so.—Hamlet (Mr.
W. E.G.): I love pat not; at any rate I can't afford to
do anything so unpopular now