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

Cob3it Calk anb Stud ettous.

I bear tht it in of no further oe for the
"Wanderer' to offer his service,' as secretary to the
Borough Relief Fuld. It is some consolation, how-
ever. for him to know that the nervic..• of soother
individual, far m .re thirsty for " Poole fame" than be
1,, have been declined, without thanks.

By tho d,a'h of poor Mr. John Case, the Tories
have lciat a genuine fri• nl, and the Wesleyan' •
ca.rdial vupporter. However much the " Wanderer"
disagreed with him in politics. he always admiral his
seal for his muse, and held up his political onthtudassii
us model all Liberals should ropy.

I Mt Tories need enthusiastic mos. Men WO, who
will net stand upon triage. They are fighting • very
up-bill game, and the " fidiing" election petition lies
right across their path, and they have not surmounted
it yet.
l'hey lost their popularity—first by deceiving the
public, secondly by taking the advice of political
blockheads, and thirdly by filing that fishy, dirtYr-
tition, which was a stab in the dark, the blow 0 •
coward "below the belt," and the spite of • spoilt bAby
who breaks his toys.

Go where I will I hear nothing spoken of except
that evert& ting totubland. I have a lot to say about
that piece of buainma, ea I want to stick • pin into
th s more recent ep3cimen of • Tory wind bag, as
every little hole made in it helps to make it collapse.
Here is 'the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth" if the whole affair. The nuisance
arming fr rn the stinking mud in the Larliee' Walking
Fiel I had become so intolerable that the Poole Town
Council determined to have it removed by hook or by
crook. About the same time they wi•hed to erect
public bathe for the town, to convert the gaol into
C.rporation office., and also to secure • Issas of the
Ladies' Walking Field, together with the reclaimed
mud land from Sir Ivor Guest, fo- the purpose of
using it al a people's park. To earry out all these
projects they wished to b rrow £3,000.
Now mark what follow.. Sir Ivor Guest offers to
fill in this nualand at his own ext*.im Gen r"'
man, aye, and wise man, too. He knows the value of
land in such a path ion, and more than this, he knows
that if he did not abate this nuisance, which has
helped to ruin the health of many who have had to live
near it for years, he would be made to abate it.
Now what have we to thank him for? For filling
in Wolk mud, end making valna..le land of it for the
town? No. For a people'a park? No. For public
swimming bathe? No, For saving the ratepayers
Ohs penny? No. What then? Why, for nothing!

lisd the amncil borr)wed the £2,000 it would
not have incr.ased the rites one iota, because the
money w.m1.1 have been invested in such a manner
that it wont.' mturn to the ratepayers per annum
much more than the paying off with interest would
come to.

Now the town will bay., to wait until it pleases the
Lord .4 the Manor to complete a email part of the
work the Council hal devised for the benefit of Poole.
Before the wok is commenced I would suggest to
thee. who have the conduct of it that if the Ladies'
Walking Field was made level with the reclaimed
land that the earth which is taken from the raised
p irtion of the field might help to fill in the mud, and
a level piecs of ground would be far better than the
irregniar piece we have now to deal with, that is to
say if the visionary "p. ple's park" is ever to be
realised.

bear that one of the candidates for the representa-
tion of this b rough is seizing time by the forelock,
and making a vigninqui canvass of certain parts of the
borough, accompanied by the spiritual adviser of the
burgesses whose votes he solicits. This partly
explains that what I said last week relative to
"clerical canvassing" is no idle tale.

By the way. I heard in a very roundabout way that
my remarks last week about '' the cloth" and politics
have roused the atrabilian proclivities of some who
felt the cap 6tted them. I sus not surprised at this
at all, and again I say that politics and parsons should
be se far apart as the east is from the west.

Not always, perhapt, but certainly in Poole, where
the people have been worked up to a p liticsl ferment
by a disgraceful petition, which haa conclusively shown
them that were it not for the ballot their freedom
wool.' be trampled on, and their liberty of conscience
taken from them, when it comes to candidates having
to take the clergy round with them on their canvass,
It is a had look-out far the candidate, and a certain
sign that their CO-CIIIIVIVI+IIIII might find something
better to do in this period of distress.

Another report which I find is placed in circulation
tipsily (alas as others I have lately heard, and
esti wied. is that the present lessee of the Ladies' Walk-
ing Fl 1.1 inumds to stand in the way of the proposed
improvement.

The present lessee of that piece of land is one of the
most generous-h, a tad men in the town, and a Liberal
to b e.t. Now generous-hearted Liberals are eye-eores
to the rode., and are looked upon as intruders in the
town, henee no doubt it came about that Hr. Balaton
had notice to quit the house which he and his family
had re.ided in ever since it was erected. However,
we may depend upon it. that he is the last man to
withhold, at any reasonable pers,mal racrifice, any
benefit he ha. it in his power to confer upon the town
and county of Poole.

He will not suffer him-elf to be made a cat's-paw of,
ether— 4 (bat we once hal ample proof.

Before the railway which runs acme the Walking
Fir' 1 Nlnland was mail., Mr. Waring hal to pay
41•MII lisil cu.h for the mod ovor which it WM Roes.
'Ms shows that Mr. Waring }Jai been a manorial
bow-factor at well as every other person who receives
ma•korial privileges.

Mr. Archibald Scott'. letter is eminently unsatisfac-
tory to tt.ose who travel by rail, and in addition to
tide it is eninently founded upon false assumptions
The train te reins hetwam Wlinhorne and Bourne-
mouth is not sufficiently frequent to please either the
Bournemouth or the Poole people, as Mr. Scott would
find out if he lived in Po le or Bournemouth.

There in universal regret thmmrhout Poole at the
news to the eff.•et that none of the Duke of Portland's
tn mey cane i ,to Poole harbour. I need say no more,
or why.

THI WANDERER, inPoole Telegram.
Longfleet. Jam 5, 1880