The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-04-14 00:00:00

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TUESDAY APRIL 14, 1874. The value of Coolie labour in California and else-
______ _ _...samssmaaaawass where, the readiness with which the Coolies adapt
NOTES OF THE WEEK. themselves to civilized work and manufactures, and the
extraordinary cheapness of such labour as compared
The annual dinner of the Dorchester Farmers' with that of the Anglo-Saxon race, have long attracted
Club was unusually well attended, and the Prusi- attention in America and Englamb It has frequently
dent had the gratification of being supported by been propmed that such labour should be introduced
two members of Parliament—Mr. J. Floyer and amongst ourselves: and we now hear that an attempt
Mr. NV. E. Brymer. Agricultural politics formed Inthnan
is
nodimrection will be eventually made by a manufac-
turigy.
the staple of the after-dinner speeches. While From ('ape Nast Castle we learn that the treaty
moderation of tone characterised the utterances, drafted by Sir Garnet Wolseley has been signed by
there was general buoyancy and sanguine antici- the King of Ashantee, lied the ratifications exchanged
nn.gfonathnutesift.uh,lkefielninm.enftntik,yed
anstbe obligations in the
pations 11,1 W that we have a Conservative Govern_ between the ambaesadori. Nothing is said about any
meat. In proposing " the county members,"
Mr. Fowler. of Milborne, sharply attacked Mr.
ut''firret instead ounces
of
Frlaid7hiteestni(
Portman and Mr. Sturt for non-attendance at iio,ooo. Probably the sif;atan'-'et: (trio nut intend on the
farmers' meetings, implied they were unpopular, one part to obey the treaty, nor on the other to enforce
and attributed the recent re-election of both ia,tessurebamt I.ni.rii:iistakable evidence f the falling off in
of
Britain
of
rethleyitgiugupoofnA.h.the mteeeralcanneffecott which
hon. members to the disinclination of the agri-
tie
culturista to involve Mr. Floyer with them in :we•
ha,e lecnvun in the Board of
the turmoil and expense of a contest. Probably the staple manufactures of the
those gentlemen will not appreciate Mr. Fowler's Trade returns for last month. They show the declared
magnanimity, nor accept his dictum on the sub- value of our exportations to have been £10,100,514,
juct. Mr. Fowler is very earnest in advocacy of against £11,741,218 in the vsmesponding month last
Chambers of Agriculture, but Mr. Portman and yeard--,ah decline of £1,61:1,401, or 7i per cent. ('em-
pared, with larch
.12,ttl;en:leditynionnis only
Vartper cent.
Mr. Sturt have both somewhat ignored the
Dorset Chamber, while Mr. Sturt has even poked exported has been 1,129,74(1 tone, as againstg
fun at it and Mr. Fowler as its representative ; tuns in the corresponding month last year—an advance
of 15 Lent., while the increase in the value total isso that his sally against theta is legitimate
ebzitizi per cent Of iron and steel the shipments
enough ler the circumstances. Mr. Floyer
1I in
put in an able plea for his absent colleagues inll
ue. textile.1f 22 7,1_,c7:-.t.tionnllurnutiftayettrd
answer to the strictures of the sturdy yeoman. for a dimnution of 91 jor cent., and woorellreen figure
But this WAS only preliminary banter. Passing worsted manufacturers 17 per cent. It will be seen
•in to public questions, the county member l,.rem. this that the apparent decrease of work and the
showed that the abolition of the (lame Laws diminution of wages receive strong confirmation.
would result in the utter extinction of game,
except where a force of men could be kept to
ru -o trespassers by the strong hand, and
therefore it was an absurd proposal ; but he
offered no remedy for existing grievances. Mr.
Damen supplied the omission, saying, let occu-
piers and landlords have equal rights over the
ground game, any agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding. In regard to the Landlord and
Tenant Bill, Mr. Floyer maintained the right of
the two parties concerned to make what contract
they liked, but were there was no agreement as to
occupiers improvements he was willing the law
should make an equitable arrangement. Mr.
Floyer 'woke of the plan framed by the Bland-
fonl Farmers' Club, which has long been in
operation on the %state,' of Mr. Sturt, Mr.
leyer, and others, and said if ii were extended
so as to bee u "the custom of the asinnty "
there would be no need of a Landlord and Tenant
itill; and he pointedly suggested to Mr. Brymer,
M. P., a consideration of that scheme. On the
labour question hops* were entertained that in
Dorset there may be no such dirliculties as to
raise the question of a Farmers' limo's. Mr.
Moyer considered their right to meet a strike
by a lock-out unimpeachable, but at the sante thus
he thought it umulvisable unless there waa grave
, necessity ard Mr. Brymer spoke in a similar
strain. The young M. P. on this his second
, appearance, seemed much mow "st home " than
1 when he delivered his maiden spc:tw.li ou the tee
of a King's Arms' table. He ingenuously
admitted he had no pretensions to being as yet
au fait iu public questions, and intimated that
finding such an abundance of inveterate talkers
in the Rouse of Commors he has marked out for
himself the rule of a Silent Member, hut this
. may be quite compatible with doing useful work
and if he displays the good common sense and
coaMlistory disposition that characterised his few
remarks on thia occasion, with the kindliness of
heart that has been so largely displayed at
Puddletown, the hon. member may be quite sure
his constituents will be satisfied.
The anniversary of a valuable and important
j institution of the County WAS held the same day
at lifilbonie Port, on the border of Somerset,
1 under the genial presidency of Sir W. Medlycott,
1., Bart.—the Dorset Friendly Society. It has
1 been of immense benetit to the labouring clesses
j in the county, end gives such a lamellae of
assistance as they rtsinire in sick pay,
funeral allowance, and annuities, at lower rates
than in most societies., front the fact of its being
supported by a large body of honor-.try members.
But it would seem that in the Last few years the
chili surgeons and local committees have been
more than kind in the matter of continuing sick
isiy, and an eminent actuary says at this rate
the society has gone G. the bad £2,000; but we
fancy actuaries generally take a gloomy view of
. life, for one of them last year put the Oildfellows
' ea deficient by the enortio ins sunt of over a
million sterling. I lowever, the County Friendly
Society ill no deubt be rather re vigilant in
, seeing that members do. not ciPliti 111 l eon the sick
list loreger than is flummery, and so bring the
funds int.. a c ttttt lit ion to meet any contingencimi.
Meantime the labouring chums have in this
' society the security of a large capital and the
sums.rt of almost all the county gentry, making
it undoubtedly the best chili for working men
who are stationed in Dorset. The President of
the Dorchester Ferment' Club has lately hail his
' attention drawn to ita merits, and Udell& bring-
ing them to the notice of the Club generally at
an early day.
A well-nieriiell testi tttt aria! has been ;indented
to Mr. C. J. Itailchtle, of Hyde House, the
I successful master of the South Dorset FOX-
' ttttt la, in recognition of his efforts for the past
18 years to blew sport. It consists of avortrait
of the Master on his favourite grey, " Tid re,"
with several brace of le Is in the foreground.
The likeness is excellent, and the animal painting
is most successful. The artist is Mr. Stephen
Naive, of Queen Anne-street, London, a
. portrait painter of repute, who has executed
similar co issions in many of the c ttttt Ales of
Englund.
' At the Easter sessions, the court authorised
the finaleee tee to lay out 0,500 in pur-
chming the fee of the Shirehall, now held under
lease from the Corporation of Dorchester, and it
. was said the horough authorities were agreeable
G. part with it foe that SAM. The lease has 18
years to run. At first sight the t seems
very small for so large a pile of buildings, but,
..f course, there are established tables for calor-
' biting the i'alue of such property and we
understand that 0,500 is at least the 'full value.
I The money will be very convenient to the
Corporati ttttt and enable them, it is hoped, not
only to pay off the mortgagm on the Corn
Exchange and Wollaston estate, hut to provide
on Beggars' Kum) a well-appointed fair and
market field. Some may part with this borough
freehold with a pang of regret, and regard it as
rebbing posterity, but, as has been wittily
said, " posterity has never done anything for us,
while we have in our generation improved the
town at great expense and may fairly make
such a call as this on the future inhabitants of
the town to pay off the debt, for they, we trust,
will reap great advantage through the general
advance of the town and trade the lament costly
iinprovementa will occasion.

An anecdote ia told of Mr. Disraeli prnpos of his
visit a day or two ago to one of Lord Cliesterbelirs
collieries. Mounting a ladder to look at the progrees
of a club for the colliers, the manager suggested that
the Premier should he careful, as the country could
not spare him. "Well," aruswereil the Premier, "1
am afraid it would cause some little confusion just
now ;" anil these are the only words, we have had
from the Premier in the Itei-esa.
_

Mr. Disraeli returned to town on Saturday from
Bretby park whither it Wad rumoured be had uone to
ask for the hand of the Dowcger Countess of Chester-
field,. the Countess of Carnarvon's mother. The
suggestion of couriie is preposterous, Lady Chester.
field being 72 year* of age, three years older than the
Premier; but it has served as a topic of talk, and the
newspapers which set it afloat have been publishing
/4,4ligrees to slow the sort of relationship which the
t.r...mier by this marriage would establish with the
moot dis!iriguished f our aristocratic hunesw, linking
himself, for inAtance, on the 011 e hand with Sir Scn.ia.
mm. re S•etnhope the late Secretary of the Liberal
Iteuietratini AsLociaaon, the heir presumptive to the
Earbloni of Chesterfield, and on the other with Lord
Forester, the only I'ver of Realm who ha' the
privilege of wearing his hat in the presence of Royalty
pnvilc,,,,e which has continued in the li...we.4er
family from the time of Henry VIII. But the Ude is
contra.! I. _ . _ . .

InTpe—ror of Ituatia for England on the
12th of May, en.i.ing over in his private yacht- lie
inten.l..taying in thin country till the 20th id May.
The King of the Fiji I.Ltnils, finding his finances in
-him annual revenue being rather less
than a third of hi. current expenditure, and the interest
.4 hi. loano being in artvara hao i.a.dedhhi movereignty
L , the ltriti.li 4:own', Mr. Layard. An hateful
Admitii.tration haat been organised, pending the &newer
of the ltriti.h I ioyerunieyd.

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Rain, fine, gloomy
I Fine, rain

The arrival of the body of I*. Livingstone has
tensified the interert of the public in his Imuentable
fate, Alla it is directing attention to the advisability of
paying all .Ine honour to his mensory. That the film'.
trims traveller. missionary, :UM explorer should be
lurh,bita Westminster .tbhey was long since felt to he
a fittimf close to his earthly career, hut the nation will ,
not nou be satisfied unless lw lin+ a public (liner:lL It
fr..posed to raise a natimal subscription in behalf of
his family awl dependents. The annmuconent gives
the (..ll.swin?! particulars -•• Ibis id I.l.im,nstone sup-
rrted tw.s sisters far a.lVAllerti in year.; ..i.e of them .
is in s .lry forl,lo Malt). ; but for our cam they are I
henceforat ait lint the necessaries of life. Two 144
and two daughter.. survive the parents whom Africa's
c.nse ha. elantod ; they, too, are left extremely badly
off.- The haul rai,va .%
).1' Isoted to the *Au use
of the family.
The threatened strike in the Somerset coal.tle4l
been averted for the present. Masters and delegates
met on Saturday, and it was mutually agreed that both I
notices for rwlue. tioa of wages, viz., that iriTen a month I