The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-01-13 00:00:00

BLANDFORD.

COolen MittSissions._fiaturday.—Before Lord Port-
man. the Hon. W. H. B. Portman. M.P.. Lieut.-General
1.. D
arke, Major-General Sir Charles 'Oyly. J. O. Mansel-
Pleydell, Bp.. and IL J. Guest, Tog.
Henry Papua, of Piddistrenthide, was summoned for
wilfully and maliciously breaking and damaging a padlock
attached to • gate. the property of Charles Joseph
Theophilus Hambro, 114 q., on the 6th of December. at
Mr. Atkinson appeared for defendant, and
admitted that his client did the damage to remove an
obetruction to his light of way. The Chairman told
defendant he must not take the law into his own hands,
and ordered him to pay el. damage, ei fins, and fis. ed.
costs.

POOLE DISTRICT ODDFELLOWS' MEETING.
The half-yearly meeting of the members of the Poole
District of Oddfellows was held at Blandford on
Teday last, at the Greyhound Inn, in the lodge-room
of the "Fidelity" lodge. At twelve o'clock the
delegates assembled in the bergs room of the Crown
Hotel, Provincial Grand Master Bagshot occupying
the chair, and Prow. D.G.M. Stickland acting as vice.
chairman. The del -gates present, together with the
lodges they respectively represented, were aa follow. :
" Good Samaritan" Lodge. P P.G. M. Nehemiah Nero,
PG. New ; "Philanthropic," P. P.G. M. Holmes, P.O.
W. Tanner; "Good Intent," P.G. Sharp, P.G.
Imber ; "Benevolent," P.G. Baker G. N. Habgood ;
"Cranborne Chase," PAL W. Tildes P.G. Brimton ;
"Pilot," P. Frederick Jenkins, P. V. John Hinton;
"Victoria and Albert," P. P.G. hf . Francis C. Chiron ;
P.G. Christopher B. Comben ; "Portland," P.G.
William Stone, P.G.R. Patten.; "Bud of Hope,"
Herbert Groves, P.G. M. thick; " Blandforcl,"
P. P.G.M. W. Butt, Secretary If. B. Hare;
"Great Eastern," P.G. Job Pickard, PG.
Henry Pelle ; "Hand-in-Hand," P.P.G.M. Charles
T. Old, P.G. Thomas Rogers ,• "Rope Evermore,"
Secretary Francis Cane; "Fidelity," Secretary Tom
Nesbitt' "United Brothers," P.G. Clark, G.M.
Frederick Knight; "Excelsior," G.M. Henry O.
Hawkins, N.G. Henry Russell; "Manuel.," P.G.
Henry Corbin, P.G. James Garland ; "Friend in
Need," P.G. Theophilus Cowley, P.G. Joseph C.
Newman; "Bindon Abbey," N.G. Henry Morris,
P.G. George Langford; "Purbeck," P.G. J. T.
liillier ; "Friendship," P.G. James Herren Secre-
tary J. T. Pathan; " Rise of the Way," G.M. Wm.
Bowering, N.U. John Churchill; " Pride of Bourne-
mouth," G. M. Frank E. Oliver, N.G. John R. W.
Lovelaoe ; "River Avon," Secretary James Hopkins;
" Bourne," P.O. John Eiger. P.G. Thomas Bemistar ;
"Victoria," PD. Jai. Speed, P.G. John Prince;
"Alliance," P.G. 11,bert T. Hapgood, P.G. George
Cane.
The balance-sheet for the half-year ending December
last was then produced and taken as read. It showed,
on the incidental fund side, that the receipts had
amounted to L'76 7s. 4.1., whilst the disbursements
had been £l2l 18s. 6,1. during the same period, the
sum of £46 lls. 21. of this amount having been
borrowed from the funeral fund. The funeral fund
account itself showed that during the half.year f 230
had been paid out on account of deaths of members ;
1933 7s. 11d. was invested in the Savings' Bank, and
the cash in hand amounted to £36 14s. I.d. The total
worth of this fund on the let December, 1879, was
set doles at £1,015 lb. 21d. This was considered
sataidectory.