The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-12-27 00:00:00

TOWN COUNCIL MEETING.

Monday: Premet—Th• Mayor, K. N. Howard, Km..
Aldermen Milledge. Tema% Or •-•. liandie and Eliot ;
cillor. Charles, Curtie, Dann. 8 mean, Webb, L
Wallis. Brown. Hanna, LI cbam. Sn mk, Robes.. and
Nankin, with Mr. Polly Iboper. To•n Clerk.

Till OLD FOLKS' DINNIOL

MIL. EDWARDS AND Ni. PuwELL, M.P.
The I dle•iog letter a as read by the Mayor :
"Whacember.

" My d sr Mr. Mitver,—The lime i I spur ...chine for my
annu .1 festival or the poor old folk., sad I write to beg
your kind aid and aesistanee to enalse me to make them
happy and c nufertable.
" You so admirably arranged a erything last year, I
shell feel greatly Wolieed if you will get a little committee
t loth r, as you did then. SO teat we way be equally
eta c-u'ul. I hope Mr. end Mrs Noe will lend their
yhhoside aid. The distribution of blankets to be carried
out on the same principle as heict ofcce.
"I ens in great distress ab rut my friend Mr. Powell.
It wall only al fortnight lest flaturday I saw him second
at Both. in high spirits, accompanied by a young military
friend. On getting into the car nt 11 46 I shook hands
with him ; be said they intended bring in I. 'orlon that
ryrning. I ',mt.l then, both 4, dioner with me at
Br rkaley-squere at eight o'clock ; they cheer( oily accepted.
and with bowing and chee ing awsy they west. I took
the train to London, and at three ()UFO' I found •
telecom awaiting me announcing their having had •
charming journey, and miles sife descent about seven
miles from Gloucester. At eight o'clock they came to
dinn, in th, highest spirits, delighted with their trip.
Mr. Powell, who used to hunt, emiel there are, far more
enjoyinent, and much lees risk, in ballooning than there
wee in the bunting field; he was very telfrpseseesed when
Iran him start. I earnestly hops he may be saved but
I must confess it is • forlorn h .pe.
"Ym.re veer trter,
"HVIRT ZDWARDI,"
A committee war appointrd, wh ch resolved to meet et
!moon o'elci..k on Wadoerdiy eon nr, t, carry out Mr.
Elwards's kio.l int rnarni. *arena councillors at once
volunteering t swat.
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As to te-1 ther• Irlll no progress reported.
ine!udlng the King's Suttee.

DREDGING.

The Harbour-master reported tbat the dredger has
taken up ft,ns Mae Sander.. hole during the past month
1,145 tins of mud and clay land° 1 on the embankment,
awl 890 tons ot gravel for the C ,rporation. Be was now
,i,pe,,ine Dear Ferry's C weer, there beine • beach
forek.d. clueing teas water than throueh the bridge, and
tendtte t detain ships front eett.n; to the 111,011111. Altar.
war.ts he should continue dredons ID !lac Sanders's hole.
11, ha 1 also c =pietist laying down the harbour moorings
t avoid anchors lying in the Ch +noel, and fixed stronger
mooring.. in the Quays.

The rerant Vrai considered taki.fectory but
Mr. WEBB thought the dredging was too close to Ferry's
Carner, and wee afraid they'd brim the wall of the Quay
down. _

--da—pi Mace said they were 30 feet off; hut he was told
to keep away from there till he had consulted the Sur-
VeyOr.

DAM? M4YOIII.

The MAYOR appointed Alderman George Eliot to be the
deputy Mayor during the next year.

MI PILE-PAUL.

The nal of the Council was affixed to the memorial of
the Council for pu mission to promote tho Pier Provieonal
Order for improvanents deci.le I on at the Pdirpier.