The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-02-24 00:00:00

Bonet Count g exiireso

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21,

Our Bridport correspondent gives three itr
hints about the representation of the county. Ft
he says, it is rumoured that Mr. Gundry, of Bridf
and Sydling, is to contest the county in the Lit
interest ; secondly that Mr. Floyer will retire,
thirdly, that Mr. Portman will not contest the seal
though his return would be probably sale. If Mi
Floyer is to retire, it ii clear someone else mit
appear, and probably No, before a fighting four wi
be made up.

The great sewage question has been disposed
successfully at Leamington, at an expcnic to the b
()ugh of £lOOO per annum, by delivery on lieathc,
Farm, Lord Warwick agreeing to pay for it £.150
year. The cost of delivery, etc., is about .61450
year; but it must be rernemberol Leamington has
population of 26,000. Now I leathcote farm has sv,
a hundredsguinea prize, and it is noteworthy th
Lord Warwick". agent applies the sewage on a mum
greater breadth ol land than is generally allowed, and
this we believe is the secret of the success thus gained.

A shocking mess was that seen on Saturday last, at
the southern entrance to the town, where the great
drainage works are now going on, and the road being
deeply cut up. The Junction corner was the site of
quite a sea of mud, through which it was most dis-
agreeable to wade, while vehicles splashed through
scattering the soft mud in all directions. We hear a
report that the Cornwall-road people are jealous of the
drainage being done for the brewery and the other
buildings on the Weymouth-mad, while Commalbroad
is left to get rid of its surplus water in any way it can
contrive; but if the Cornwall-road folks saw the awful
mess made at the South-street end of the Weymouth-
road, they must, one would think, have blessed their
god fortune on having escaped so far. But, seeing
that the drainage on so considerable a scale, and at
such great public inconvenience, has been carried .nit
mainly for the great brewery, we may fully expect that
the Cornwall-road works will not be lung delayed.
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DOlllO/1111TER.

LIEBT. —The word leer, or more commonly tary, is
used in Doreetshire not merely with reference to the I
feelittg of hunger—" empty in the stomach,
food, as Mr. Berme explains it in his e
Glossary -but as • perfect synonym for th )
"empty,'_ e.g., "The waggon coined booms 1 xry.
—O. W. BINGHAM.
Tits RorAL Oke.-012 Mondayj at the
Police Court, before the Mayor (W. Durden,
M. Devenish, Eeq., and R. Davis, Esq.—Mr.
f
Weston appeared or the temporary transfer
Hoene. of the Royal Oak from Ann Stacey to
Stephen Samways, which was granted.
HIRING Or LABOURER& —Last Saturday a
number of labourers who had not been hired a
annual fair, visited Dorchestee with the view of ol
tg
labour
places" for the coming year. The •
was in excess of the demand, and \
about 12 per cent. • reduction of Is. to is.
week, and seven.] unfortunately had to go
unhired—s very bad lookout for the poor rates

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coming tonn.
EXTORATION HT FARMS'S TO New ZS...LAND.
extract the following from the Noe Zealand Her
the sth nlt. :—" Mews. Foster and Grant, the
mutative' of a number of Lincolnahire farmer.,
in this part of New Zealand. Their ohj.
tsnt report upon the colony for the benefit of those
mere In Lincolnshire, who intend to emigrate. It
lead greatly to the advancement of the colony if
considerable number of English farmers posse
some capital, and cuwiderable skill, were to
here."—(Ah but would the emigration of flu
with skill and capital lead to their own atlve”-