The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-06-21 00:00:00

BITOZLAND NZWTON.

TB. PARISH CLERK An HIS TSOIAILIIS. —On Than.
day last the parish clerk of Buck land Newton appealed
to the County Court against Mr. Trask, respecting
some extra cleaning the clerk had been put to the
trouble of. The case was partly heard by G. Elynionda,
Esq., regierar, and partly by the Judge. It appeared
from the answers given by the clerk to questions which
had to be put rather loudly, he being somewhat deaf,
that during the restoration of the church, the chancel
had, under the contract, to be separated from the
other part by a board fence covered with strong brown
paper, in or ler to keep out of the sanctum saractorsas
the dust which came from the Impairs. Instead cf
brown paper, said the clerk, the contractor put on the
fence such thin raper as you would cover a wall with,
one of the window. was broken, and the "bodiless
airs, a wizard rout," came in, intret like acrobats
through the thin paper, and such a dust was kicked
qp that the clerk had reverently to deist the chancel.
Again the troobksome powder came, and again the
clerk out it out, and it was not until he had returned
to the work twenty-four times, that his labour had
that profit which is promised. Within the church
rails also gathered a lot of rubbish, which Mr. Male
the foreman, asked him to remove, and on this a claim
l
of 41. was br .ught, a dusting brush used for the church
was borrowed for unconsecrated purposes and never
returned within the pale, the loss being 2s. 41, while a
church bucket of oak received dsmages 'in the service
of the world that could not be repaired under twelve-
pence.—The Registrar explained to the church official
that, as the churchwardens were his masters, dhe
had tokeep the church clean, he could not claim against
Mr. Trask for the dusting but the churchwardens,
who then might charge the contractor for breaking his
contract. The Judge granted the 44. for work ordered
by Mr. Male, allowed the sexton's 2a. 61. for the
vagrant dusting brush, and Is. for the unsound church
bucket.

Pirrn Sgesiests, Friday.--. Before fa J. Parke, Reg.,
Rsr. Carr J. airs, General Lone, and Prier, IN.
lifalar king and James tromp, of Brownian!, were
fined ifla 6d. each including oosts for stealing fire plies.
sent eggs, the property of W. R. Rankin, Req.
Clams 41/red Hui** for riding a bicycle without] a
lamp we. fined 1.. and es. oasts.
Reery Kent, of Shapwick, WM summoned for aearult-
iQg George Legg on Saturday night. —The prosecutor
between nuts and ten o'clock on Saturday night met the
defendant lying up against the churnhyard wall, antL
be come forward to witness and after a word or two
struck him and afterwards pressed his knee into witness's
side. Defendant met him as he was going to his work on
Monday morning along with a man named Bennett, and
after taking off all kis clothes but his trousers struck
witners titres times. He did not strike the defendant
back.—The defendant said be met complainant by appoint-
ment on Monday morning, as be told him on Sunday
night he should like to bare half an hour out with him,
the defendant —The Bench dismissed thin..., each party
paying their own costa. •