The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-03-24 00:00:00

SHAFrZSBITRY.

Ors Dom. RUM VorsErssza.—Tb• majority or
this corps as in favour of &Mending th• Portsmouth
review.
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STILLER enema or AOCIDIrri —On Monday, a
lad,nsined Baum*ll, in the employment of Mr. Belle*
or Sedshill Hoar, wag arias off • VD, when it buret,
and the boy's head wag shattered. A groom, in
Bullock'. terries, weal for the doctor, and as he rode
en his jouroey his horse broke or stuttered the bone
of its lap so badly that the anima had to he shot.

BRIDPORT.

wren Porramougn Brvigir.—Tho opinion of the
&Mimi in merest to going to this Portsmouth
Monday, was token al parade on
Tuesday seeping, when 32 were for and 24 against tbs
project

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BridpartAlgrt .01—Thsoscheu itFicsamiton.lnalof
4rt,examinaikaadtoenthie
Er.at the school on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
A goodly number of students were examined in
free kind, geometry, model drawing, and perspective.
Rao"? Winos? in TEI ifausr.—Three of the
dealers having Malls in the market wen summoned
before the borough beach on Tuesday for having 1
unjust weight', Feb. 12. William Liaembe, market
gardener, had a reputed ith weight, which.... au
drachms defloient, and was fiend is. and as. 64. mots.
Mrs. Limo= be thought it • bard..., for etutba trig" !
Abel Beer, hawker, for having a Ilb weight 3 drachms
deficient, wee MSctl7 fined. He said be did not know
of the deficiency.— iishtJ N0W111414 WitlOwo had
1
four light weights. Bite said they were not her owe;
she had borrowed them that morning, sad 414 001 know
they were deficient. Fined 2e. 84. sad Bs. 84. OW% and
aliened • month to nay in, on her pleading poverty.
Imrsovixtire is EARTAITIZEL—AhoIteeMI meeting
aof the Lim Board of Health yam on Monday
wooing. lir. G. B. Lwow peosiied, and *Sri were

present :—Nerare. Bartlett, Bead', Cones, H. N. Cog,
Edmonds, B. P. Cittedry, H. B. Houma, J. Hammll.
Jeff..rd, Imroombe, Lem Stembridge, Temp'omen, C.
Tooker, Williams, and the Clerk (Hr. F. Canary). The
only businem ol interest yenta sounder a plan submitted
. . .

to by Mr. 0. Seroson,who having purchased the premi-es
in liast-strest, formerry occupied by Mr. Charles Well..
and being shout to re-build the house, was desirous to
have permission to extend the frontage of the house
forward in. straight line from the east end of Mr.
Reynolds' shop to the west end of Mr. Collins' shop. Mr.
Colfot proposed that the 'plan be approved upon Mr.
Samson's paying a fair amount for the gritted. Sem°
discussion took place, and ultimately Mr. Templeman
seconded the proposition. and it was agreed to
unanimously. It was decided the valise of the tem
penation should be assessed by a committee and
decided on by the Board, and that before commencing
building Mr. Samoa should submit a plan of the house
he intended to build, as the present plan was only to
show how far be wished to bring his house forward
and how the houses were attested there at present.
Pone's-Rama—Forty occupiers of houses in the
parish of Bridport were summoned before the borough
justices on Tuesday for non-payment of poor's-rata, •
number of than b4:41.71 ex-oompound bouaitholders.
Thirty-six, however, d without caning into court;
Of the others some not appear, and the rest pleaded
inability to pay. One old woman, named Martha Turner,
was summoned for 2s. 41., Icy ODS rata. She stated that
she received is. 6d. per week aside loaf from the wish,
and was 75 years old, and could not pay anything, she
wished therefore to be excused the ride. Mr. Ward, the
assistant overseer, objected to her being moused, Or the
relief she received was from Bradpole, which wee her
parish, and she was therefore trying to get relief from
two parishes; if she could not pay the rates she ought not
to live in Bridport, but go to her own perish. Theo d
woman however, who ham a house in South-street, mid she
had lived in Bridport for the last 30 years. The aegis-
tratee, after consultation, excused her this rate, se the
times were bad, but said they could not go on doing so
in future : so if she could not pay, she must arrange to
live in soother house, or in some other way, so se to
avoid being liable to pay the rates. There were a few
eases also from Allington for small amounts, in web of
whioh defendants were ordered to pay the amount and
soar, and allowed time.
BMIDP011? RAILWAY COMPANY. The half-yearly
meeting was held oa Wednesday, Mr. T. Legg, tbe
aboble&S of the company, presiding and there was a
Urger aetendance of shareholders than usual. In moving
the adoptioa of the report and aseounis—an abstract of
whit& has e‘ared in this journal—the Chairman said
tie ekarebe mast have DOM on their venial of
Kid repos* the diseseitith which bed actuated the
direstons, la their omfertunate diftealeies with the Great
Waage Raley ComeaDY. Ifsr dig he think that It.
mad ellet say material information, hevemd what wee
seetained in that repeat, which he bspel bed been very
carefully read by every shareholder. His labor es Sir
Dania Goo& was dictated by the most einem dram to
effecessottlement, in • friessci,y and honourable manner;
and he dimply regretted the tone of his Sir Dialers)
%newer. He would reed the last paragraph but two of
the reply of the Chairman of the Great Wasters Cianiv
piny, in whirl's he said :
.• With regard to your statement, that the Akers of this
company continue, notwithstanding Capt. Oeitsa's award, to
' debit' your oonspeny with cartage. I beg to lay Mat you have
best entirely misinformed as to the hate. Your company
never have bees, nor are they now, either directly or indirectly
' &tiler with cartage, In nevem of any or dater of the
amain* A, B. and C, to winds you refer, nor has soy ' Make
for cottage ever been made, or sought to he meni. by this
company against yours in any dame or form. What we hate
done, is—not to debit you with monies paid, bet to abstain
from areeiting you for monies received for coriege, sad the
awards of Mr. Lloyd and Capt. Gabon ham fatly Jeetiled tie
la Do doing. Thera is, consequently, no room en elt aide for
the 'ccoon' augrested by you, Immo& as, In rehrence
to armee, we arc nothing to atandoe, nor have you anything
to concede.'
Now they would share hie astealabeaset wise he
solemnly assured them that this statemeet wee utterly
at variant* with the fact If any shareholder bad any
doubt he could satisfy himself by Islamising the Great
Western accounts, which be now held In his bac&
There was an account containing the amount of amount
A. of amount B, and of amount Cl cod there MN the
column containing the aggregate all those aseeente
AB C, and bed • grow earnings." Next same •
agass containing the amount of carafes &dusted from,
sfai aignigske gross earnings." The last solemn gave
the be/anos after snob a deduction. Was • word
more neemeary to enable them to appreciate the value
of Sly Daniel Couch's letter? Bathe mantissa absurdity
of this statement, as regarded amounts A and B especially,
meld not have escaped those shareholders who had
carefully read the report as therein stated; for the-
traffic mentioned in those amounts they were entitled
to an agreed specific sum—not—as they would please
observe—" lees cartage"—but • specific sum absolutely,
as the
.portion of the Bridport isflway, without any
deduction whatever. Thus suppose the through rate
from London to Bridport to be 801 s. their agreed portion
thereof would be 6s. without any ieforence whatever to
oartsges—(hear, hear). Why were they not paid that
65.? They wanted to know the reason—(applausel.
"Oh r said Sir Daniel, "we only abstain from crediting
you with certain receipts r —(a laugh). Now what
were they to think of such an answer! And what
must Sir Daniel think of them I—(Lumbter). What
on *mirth could any abstinence, in respectt of
receipts, have to do with their Said portico of
fla? Tbe Great Western Company had tam the
pledge, not to "abstain," but to pay to the Bndport
Company their fis. Thu, they would observe that,
at all events their fixed portion of Si. traffic in A
and B accounts was entirely free from any question
whatever as to wages As to all the amounts Sir
Dada's statement was quite erroneous, hut, as to
amounts A end B, It was not only erroneous, but loopomd-
bits, as be (mold not have failed to pet-save, if he had but
road the paper of Dee., 1857, mentioned in the report.
ae to samKnual. V, it tras dadmseat passible Mita a portions
might aria.; and therefore after mush carafe' most-
&ration, they (the Bridpcit Company) determined to.
offer up that pert as a enneadon, if A and B were al
once amiably conceded to them. They had, however,
seen the manner in which this liberal proper' had been
rejected—(har, hear). He bogged to conclude them
observations with an unqualified a:prised= of his
opinion that they ought to ascribe the mistakes in Sir
Daniel Goad's letter—end very great mistakes they
werh —not to any personal indisposition on his part to
do them justice, but to the immense shammies of the
vast undertaking he bad to manage; en immense, in-
deed, that he could not possibly have given the neces-
sary attention to their little affaire—(bar. hear). Their
little railway was an affair of only £112,000; but the
Great Western was an *Sale of between 840,010,000
and 00000,000. Be was justified In this remark, sines
Sir Daniel made no distinction in Ids letter between the
different accounts, and took no notice of Mr. Deloitte's
decision In their favour—(applanse). More sitting
down he would read a letter that he had received from
their esteemed borough members :

London, March le, 1808.
"Door lilr,—Being unable to attend the half .yearly meeting
of the Bridport Railway Company on the 11th hut., end
obiervlng by your report to the shareholders that the
question at liwue with the Great Western Company
will be then distimmd, we, at the two directors
who entered into the agreement of February, 1860, with
that body, madder it our duty to Mate most positively
—and which we should have been ready to confirm on oath
before the recent arbitrator —that cartamm WWI 11.11. named
In the interview we held at that date with the odious of the
Great Western Railway Company, end that we distinctly
understood the deduction el 61/1 per cant. from the (roes
earnings. to include all and every shame to be made It
ua, therefore that the conduct since pursued by
gr:lr iisat Western Company le a violation of that agreement,
which might consequently be repodlseed by the Brldpect.
Company If damned edeleable by the Board.
lf a ars, deer Bin, yours kithfally,
°T. A. It tecrou.,
R. D. Boooloor,
"To T. Lau, Eaq., Climirman of the Bridport Railway
Company."

If any gentleman wiabed to maks any further remark
upon the report, it would be oompetent for them to do
so after the motion be had proposed for its adoption
had been put to the meeting. Mr. W. Smith wonted
the chairman's proposition, and it was carried 'mad-
mcnaly.—Mr. Gundry mid he believed that there
could be, and that there was, but one opinion on this
tart of the shareholders, ea well es it lippeared to be on
the side of the directon—that the Great Western
Compaq had treated the Bridport Company in • very
unfair, dliberd, and Inequitable robins.).
He honestly believed that the rune which the Greet
Western Board were now adopting was dictated not by
a desire to do justice to the Bridport Company, and
merely obtain juries for themselves ; but from • know-
ledge to • serer rteat they had this company so com-
pletely In their power at this moment that they did not
,ow how to get quit et their threlb—Dicat, hear} He
had read pors—sad tolerably oarefay, he believed
—of the riders which was adduced before Captaia
Gahm, in the late arbitration, and be mud say that ia
his opinion the award mad* by Capt. Galton, as far as
he amid see it, was given rand the weight of rider"
that was brought before the empire or Judea He did
not give his radon Jar epee this morsegiali.te
In *Midas to that, esaperat preens were
to believe that the sward was sot slowly inter.
meted, and uadersloal to be not in oppositon to
the pante which they had set up. Nevertheless
It was believed, in the judgment of the
and be unfired in bis own also, that ree:al
be unwise to consider that point now, and the only
question hereafter which would remain to be °outdated
would be whether in any instance It would be wise and
reedier for them, as shareholders of that company,
to remark again to the arena of the isw. Upon dial
point, indeed, he did not ask the reesting to pre am
opinion ; all considerations of that sort sherd be left to
do &rector". If they would permit bhn fie read the
resolution which he would ask the dishrag Po put to
the meeting, they would see pretty much what were Ma
views opoa the matter, and they would also be able to
ledge whether or not such resolution was a
pendent, and bang one. He then proposed "That the
Great Western Railway Company, by their refusal to
include cartages in grom respire for divides, bre
unjustifiably departeif from the terns of the agreement
of the lit Febrear, 1860, as distinctly understood by
Merin. Mitchell sad Hodgson at the time when mesh
=a was entered into by them on behalf of the
t Railway Ocenpasy, with the Geer Western
Railway Company; that the shareholder are of °pintas
that the directors Wive been fully justified in
that the specific rates agreed to be paid by tbmeartree
Western Railway Company, is the nismoreadem of
December 90, 1867, sherd be divided without any
&ideation for outages; that the direst/es be requested
to commealoste • espy of these resolutions, end shoo of
MAIIMI. Mitchell's sad licalpoe's letter if the 16th
March, 1868, to the Grist Western Railway Company,
and to take such farther astir in the matter r may
appear to them most expedient for the anal rttlement
of the dispute between the two cosapenies"—(applanse).
Mr. T. Collor pomaded the motion, wheels was carried
without • dissentient voice. It was then resolved
that • dividend of 6 per ant. be paid no the pry
femme dares ire Inessankr. Mr. Thames Lagg
and Mr. J. P. Stephen@ were metered diadem.
and Mr. James Williams rodered auditor. A
vote of thanks to the chairman sad dimmers for
their past eerier was then proposed by Mr. Denham,
who that at the next mesas, they would har
more sehislie=motta at reser, Mr. W.
Collor seconded the whisk was serried by
acolensatice. This terminated the eseesemega.

PIIIITIL, bed Published for the Presidium it thoir
Orate, Marsh-street, Dorchester, by Plursucs GILL
Poor, of the Perish of Fortliagtes, In tiii• Count/ of
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