The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

DORCHFAT ER.

UOLT Tatetrt Ineerre' Scnoo- t..--Sermnes were
preached in Holy Trinity Charon, on Sunday last, by
the Hew. J. Fisher, M.A., Oteetor), tie Her. T. A.
falknor, sad the Rev. J. 0. Davie, on behalf of the
Holy Trinity Infanta' Schcol, and the collections
amounted t £2l.

lienvoireo.—Aboot 300 4Cred of barley in Fording-
ton field wars kilt standing until after the wet
weather set in, and thus became very seriously
damsged. The owners had been offered the a... Wanes
of the soldiers in the neighbourhood, but this was
doclined, as the hiring of harvest men man die.
setietnekios monist the regular lebourein

Bina Booteri.—The tend proceeds of the tea
meeting on belong of the British end Foreign Bible
Society were £l4 4.. 21. Among other oontributors we
ought not to omit Mr. Godwin, who provided all the
tei ware gratuitoualy.
PUBLIC-1100n LICENSES. The anneal licensing
meeting for the borough was held on Monday, before
M. Devenish and It. Davie, &qrs. The whole of the old
licenses were rens wed,sinve that bribe Queen's Heed Inn,
Fordington, respecting which Supt. Feeney complained
that disorderly persons were allowed to assemble there,
and the questiou of renewing the license was adjourned
to the 2lst September. A new application was male
by Mr. James Yearsley for the Antelope Hon!, the
former manager of that house having carried away with
him the old license. In consequence of some informally,
the application was adjourned to the 21st September.
LOCAL BOARD Or HEALTH—A special meeting was
held on Monday, Mr. Alderman Galpin in the chair.
There were Ida° present Councillor+ G. J. G. Gregory,
W. Vernon, U. Devenish, W. Blrdr, J. Bishop, H.
Leek, and J. F. Hodges.—The Town Clerk stated the
haleness before the Board. At the lest Council
meeting the Surveyor (Mr. Jewett) msde complaint of
the engine :nen (Wyatt) and • resolution was 'nosed
leaving it to Mr. Jewett to discharge or retain him. At
the close of the week, Mr. Jewett gave Wyatt a week's
notice to leave, but at its expiration on the 15th inst.,
be refused to give up the house, and still says he will
net do so until he can get another. —Mi. 1..0ek to the
Surveyor : Did you tell him at the time you gave him
notion that you should want the house ?—Mr. Jewett
Yes.—Mr. Lock said the man told him be was not in.
formed he mint leave the house till a day or no before
he was to leave.—Mr. Vernon said the man left •
eomfortable house in Grove Boildinp to occupy the
one at the Waterworks, and now he could not possibly
find another, and hie wife was near her confine-
ment. There was no complaint made against him
till he went to the new house. If be had
acted badly why wits it not mentioaed before lie
removed? He had been in their service nearly six
years, and up to the time of his going to that house
there was not • complaint against him. As soon as
Wyatt could get • house be was quite willing to leave
their premises, but under his prig nt eircumnances, be
(Mr. Vernon) considered it • heriship to eject him.—
The Town Clerk: Hard cases make hard laws; if we
wait till Wyatt gen a house to suit him, he'll not get
one till the day of judgment,- Mr. Bishop: Hes Wyatt
asked to stay in the house for a particular reason?—
The Surveyor: Be said be wield not leave the house
until be had get another place. A new roan had coop
menced working : he was married.—Alderman Galpin
thought • matter of this sort should be discussed in cam-
uyittee. For his owe part lie should take every oppor-
tunity of protesting, as he bad done before and now did,
that the Board should be called on to pans resolution
of the importance co! the one paned at the last meeting
without any notice having been given of it on the •gend•
paper. There were words imported into that resolution
which required the serious consideratiou of every
member of the Council. He did not think such words
on.ht to have been put on the minutes without •
• full meeting of the Board having been called to
consider them. They had nothing at all to do with the
question before the meeting, bet were of the utmost con.
RTORTEce.-111% Bishop urged that this meeting was
called for • specific purpose—Alderman Galpin thought
it very wrong that • matter of great importance should
come up without any more notice than report of a cow.
mince or the survey, r. He shottld give none' for bring-
ing forward the matter at the next meeting.
Bishop moved that • notice to Wyatt to quit the house
be sealed. Mr. J. F. Hodges seconded it—Mr. Lock
moved an amendment that toe notice be not waled, lie
knew DIP Wyatt had done all that be could to get a
house and had et length succeeded, but he could not go
into it for • week or ton days.—Mr. Hodges said he was
lure that neither Mr. Bishop nor himself desired to turn
the man out without reasonable notice—The Town
Clerk said that by the proposed notice Wyatt would not
be celled on to &how cause why he did not leave till the
12th September—Alderman Galpin said he hoped it
would not go forth to the public that the Board eon-
siderel whatever one of their superior officers did mutt
be right. He had asked Me Joentt repeatedly
if he had any complaint against Wyatt, and up
to the time of the house being built Wyatt
was their confidential and trusted man. He was there
six months during the erection of the engine to see all
and be made efficientrbnd now all of a sudden they were
told that everything he did was wrorig But Wyatt
had nothing to do but to go to another place in the
town (the gas works) end he was taken on without
the slightest hesitation—Mr. Lock urged that in deal.
log with the servants of the Corporation they wen
bound to casks inquiry before allowing One to be dis-
missed as they would do with their individual servants,
! He knew nothing at all of the care till it came before
the Council at the last meeting, nut from what he had
seen and nee:Weed he felt that they were a•lted to
sanction • cruel and hearties. act —Alderman Galpiu
said he did not know Wyatt' he °nil judged of him by
the reports of the Surveyor fee the past five year.. If
it were his own care he would not allow the least
thing to be done until he had made • personal lineal-
gallon, and therefore it was. he thought they should
form themselves into • committee and hear the case On
its merits. Never let it go forth that they abdicated
their functions and merely acted on report. submitted
to them. —Mr. Hodges sod be understood it was the
repert of • committee.— Aldermen Gnlein: Did the com-
mittee report that the man shoul I be discharged ?—Mr.
Vernon No. they referred the matter hack to the
Lteard.—Mr. Gregory thought the man had been badly
need—Mr. Slade nil that when the matter was left in
the hands of the surveyor lie and many others did not
think he was going to discharge Wyatt so soon, but to
give him • further trial.—Alderman Galpin again cone-
pleiited that words had been imported into the resolu-
tion passed at the lent meeting which had nothing to do
with the question, end ought not to have been ion-
j ported.—The Town Clerk: I ern rot responsible for its
phrenology.—Me. Hodge., in justification of his vote at
J the lint tutettig, argued, that an a Council, they could
j only determine as to the merits of any Men employed
on the works by the reports of their superior officer.
Mr. Josrett stated to them that the engine into mite
°conducted himself when in charge of valuable ruachinery
he woo found asleep and be was untruthful; and. as
long as they had confidence in Mr. Jewett they must
mot upon his reports end support his authority—Mr
Verret' said it seemed tint Wyatt need to have • bite
garden : this was covered with chalk when the wel
was enlarged, and he asked Mr. Jowett to let him have
another bit., but was refused ; thee he asked Mr.
Jowett for permission to come before the Board to ask
for another bit, but Mr. Jewett would not let him
There had been a little ill-feeling On that account, and
he had no doubt from that the present stare of things
had arisen. It would be • great hardship to eject
him under present oircumstanaes.—Mr. Bishop: But he
defies us.—Mr. Vernon: If he had said a little amiss
be didn't think they ought to take advantage of it. He
would not give his unction to the notion being issued
for the present. —Alderman Galpin said be was told on
Saturday by the person who Lad engaged Wyatt that he
was using every endeavour to get a Mune; were they in
the face of that to say they would keep to the strict nem
letter of the law and taro him with his wife and sit
children out forthwith? Don't let the Board be accused

of acting harshly.-11r. Bishop pointed out that the
resolution pa.sed at the last mieting was arrived at after
investigation of the rep at of the Surveyor, and if they
did not act upon it they would be impugning the
Surveyor's integrity, which he bald, they had no
right to do.klr, Lock felt that as a Board it
was their duty 0. nee that no man was discharged
except upon priopft grounds--Mr. Vernon said
he was not aware that any roan in the town had
been dismissed before without bringing his case before
the Board--not even a sweeper. —llr. Hodges
said he dit not wish the man to be turned out of the
house without his reasonable convenience and the state
of his wife being considered.—Tne Town Clerk said that
if the notice was issued nothing. further would be done

till the 12th S. ptember ; and if he was riot out then, an
order of ejectment would be applied for, and thet could
not be sated upon for 21 days.—On the amendment
being submitted the mover and seoonder of the original
resolution were the only Couneillon who opposed it, the
motion for issuing • notion to Wyatt was therefore lost.

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