The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-02-22 00:00:00

LYTONIITT MUNSTZB.

Tint second of a series of entertainments WM given on
Wednesday the 9th inst. In the schoolroom. The affair
was well•patronised, amongst the audience being Rev.
R. Day (late rector), and son, W. Rolles Fryer Esq.,
Slade Esq., &c. Much praise is duo to Mr. Towler
for the manner in which the choir were trained in the
glee-singing. "The Laughing Chorus" was well given
and received. the audience demanding a repitition. The
comic songs of Mr. Halladey wore much appreciated, an
encore being demanded in two cases. Mr. Bastable's
also " took. " It is however unfair to particularise as
each "artist" acquitted him or herself very creditably.
At the close, Auld Lang Sync was substituted for the
National Anthem. On both occasions the inhabitants
waded through dirty roads and incessant rain to the
schoolroom, thereby showing their love of music, and it
is to be hoped that those who have so well provided
amusement durinv the dull winter evenings, may ere
the season closes give even another " housi. "

POOLE.

THE RELlsr FuND.—We und, rstand the amount
collected at the recent Liberal meeting in behalf of
this fund was over £5.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Friday evening • man who
was walking up the High-street was seen to stagger
and fall. The pa/den-bye at once rushed to his
assistance, and Dr. Venede was sent for, but life was
found to be extinct. He warns pensioner, named Elijah
Steele, a native of Horton, sear Wimborne, and he had
been lodging for some time at the Victoria beerhoud,
having been discharged from the army about six
months previously, after 21 years service. The borough
coroner did not deem it necessary to hold an inquest.
as there was no doubt deceased had died from heart
disease.
A PATIENT POLICEMAN. —At the Borough Police.
court, on Monday, a laborer named Thomas Norman
surrendered to his bail, before the Mayor (Mr. G.
Curtis) and Mr. C. T. Stone, charged with being
drunk and disorderly in Market-street on the previous
Saturday.—About 11 that night the defendant warn
found by P.C. D. Horne outside the Black Boar,
drunk, and hammering at the door for the purpose of
inducing the landlord to come out and fight. With
considerable trouble the constable persuaded the fellow
to leave and saw him home, but he had hardly got
back to his beat again when he reappeared and
renewed the disturbance. This occurred four times
following, and, as at last he refused to leave, but
wished to be locked up, the officer obliged him by
taking him into the statina—Defendant ha I nothing
to say for himself, and was fined ss. anti coats, or
seven days' hard labour, but he was allowed • fort-
night to pay in.
Tile SALTATION AMT.—The Mayor,we understand,
in deference to the wishes of the inhabitants, has
requested this queer body of religionists to discontinue
their marches through the street. On Sunday they
complied with the request, and it was as well they
did so for there were numerous ganza of roughs
awaiting them to avenge the imprisonment of the two
, men wh had gone to jail for the trivial assaults,
of which they were found guilty by a majority—two
to one—of the bench on Thuraday. We are told a
I very considerable sum has been collected among the
tradesmen of the High-street, and that the defendants
I will be met on their release from•prison, on Wednesday
by two bands, a procession, and a wagonette for their
conveyance, and that they will also be afterwards
entertained at supper. On Wednesday a notice
signed by 13 meeistrates was served upon "Captain"
Campion, stating that if the processions were persisted I
in the magistrates would be compelled to adopt ,
stringent measures to put a stop to them. This seems
very much like employing the Nastuyth hammer to
crack a nut.
I SHIPPING INTILLIGINCIL—Scidings : Pahl-nary IL
Tempter, Wallace, Newcastle, ballast. 12. Acorn,
King, Porthleven, flour; Little Jane, Her Pen,
London, clay; Sunk Light Tender, Gostarlow
London, clay; Spirit. Filnior, London, clay' Mar;
Jane G isterlow, London, clay; Sarah Ann, Browo,
'Portsmouth, deals ,• Diver, Page, St. Helens, pipes;
I Alliance, Russell, Plymouth, pipes. 15. Prosperous,
Matthews, Shoreham, barley ; Golden Sheaf, Rickett,
Psmbt ea, ballad ;Try On, Depledge, Portland, ballast.
Arrivals: 11. Rainbow., Brett, London, wheat. 12.
Then, Dodson, Newcastle, coals. 13. Countese,
I Reason Newcastle, coals; Retriever, Charlton,
Newcastle. coals • • Familien, Boyer, Sunderland,
I coals; Try On, Deplede, Southampton, ballast;
Joseph and Ann, Pym, Southamton, ballast; Alicia,
Jenkins, Littlehampton, ballast; L. J. Aurae'',
ilixson, Swanage, stone; Cbarlotte, Petersen, Hull,
oilcake ; Alice, Dale, Dover, oilcake ; Georgina,
Filmer, London, wheat. 14. Bessie, Rowe, South-
ampton, swedes. 15. Ripple, Smith, Portsmouth,
nil; Aries, Masters, Swanage, nil; City of York,
Binnebella, Southampton, pitch.
POOLE GAD AND COKE COMFMT.—The 10th half.
yearly general meeting of this company was held in
the Council Chamber on Monday last. Mr. William
Pearce, the chairman of the company, presided. The
report stated that since the last half-yearly meeting
the directors, having received the sanction of the pro-
prietors, had raised a further sum of £l,OOO by the
Issue of 20 Debenture Bonds at £5O each. There had
been an improvement in the consumption of gas, the
quantity consumed in the present half-year having
been 7,034,400, as against 6,903 600 in the correspond-
ing half-year. This was the largest quantity ever con-
sumed in any half-year yet. The profits for the half-
year were sufficient to pay the maximum dividends,
vix., A shares 10 pee cent.. B shares 4 per cent., and
C shares 7 per coat.; £lB6 12s. had been carried to the
net revenue unappropriated, which now amounted to
£238 15a. Id.—The adoption of the report was moved
by the Chairman, and seconded by Mr. Philips, who
asked why no allusion had been made In the report to
the waste.—Mr. Sudden (secretary) replied because
the books had not come back from the auditor's at
London.—Mr. C. T. Stone remarked people had been
complaining that they could not get • sufficient supply
of gas. That was a complaint to which almost every
company was liable, but he thought that it would be
found in nine case* out of ten the fault was in the
fittings.—The Chairman said it was • very general
complaint, and the directors would have to consider
whether they could not take the fittings into their own
hande.—Mr. Stone thought it would be advisable to
offer to supply new burners to those who chose to
have them free of expense. More gas would be burnt,
and people would be better satisfied.—Mr. W. Penny
considered the fault was not in the nipples but in the
pipes. He recently had • one-inch pipe examined,
and it was so coated with sulphuretted Iron that
there was not room to put a penhold.r up it.
He thought the report was onsatiefactory because there
was no suggestion made for an Insurance Fund. In
the case of an expiation in one of their streets Viey
would have nothing to meet it. He instanced the
large amount set aside by the London Chartered Gas
and Coke Company for this inirpoes.—The Chairmen
asked the capital of that company.—Mr. Penny said
£3,973,000.—W. Stone: A nice comparison.—Mr.
Penny then went on to complain that the Interests of
Parkstone were not properly looked after, and read a
long letter from the Perkslone Reminder to that effect.
He also alluded to the high price charged by the Pails
Company for their gas-sa. per 1000—and said the
Chartered Company charged 3s. 41., and were going
to reduce the prim to 3i. 21.; Weymouth charged
4e. 61. Mr. Stone : What do Wituborne and
Wareham charge?-1(r. Budden mad the waste was
about 10 per cent-, which, considering they had

10 miles of mein, was very satisfactory. At Weymouth,
where there was about the same amount of main, the
waste was very much morn—Mr. Farearsa thought
their friends at Parkstone were very unsiderately dealt
with, they were not charged more than people living isk
Poole. With regard to the price of ges, he thought it
was their moral duty, first to give tbair shareholders
their 10 per cent. After that they had very little to
spare.—The Chairman said be had never heard say
complaint from Parkstone. He had always had a good,
supply. He would gladly lower the price of ger, bald
I he believed they would have been able to have done an,
If they had had the lighting of the public lamps. At
the same time he could not see why the public lamps
should be charged at • less rate than Private
consumption. The great company to which eer.
Penny had alluded he understood had • wagtail of
13 per cent, lie was at • public meeting
of gas engineers In London some time since
and he was told for • small company like Poole, milting
15 or 16 million feet of gas yearly, the average wastewould be about 15 per cent.—The adoption of the
report was then carried.—The Chairman moved that
the dividends be made payable on the first of March,
less Income Tax.—Mr. Philips thought the Income
Tax ought also to be deducted from the bonds. Why
should one clans of capitalists enoy the reduction and
not another .?—The Chairman said it had not occurred
to him before, but he thought it • subject that would
have to be comfit-tared by the directors—The motion was
agreed to—lt was proposed by Kr. Purnell, and seam-
dal by Mr. Blsnchard, and agreed to, that M. W. Pearce,
&retiring director, be re-elected chairman, and on the
motion of Mr. Philips, seconded by Mr. Travers, Me,
Stone was re-elected • director.—Both gentlemen
thanked the inutint. —On the proposition of the
Chairman, Mr. Wheatley. of the firm of Taylor and
Wheat's was appointed auditor in the place
& Poole,
of Mr. vesey resigned, and votes of thanks to the
directors for their past services, and to the Mayor for
the use of the room concluded the business.
DRPLORABLE CARL—At the B r ugh Police Court
on Tuesday, before the Mayor (Hr. G. Curtis), ale,
C. T. Stone, and Mr. W. D. Dugdele, Mrs. Susannah
Sanders, the wife of a b .rough magistrate was brought
up in custody charged with having been drunk and
disorderly on the previous evening.- -P .C. John Horns
stater' he was sent for to go to Love-lane, and on
arriving there he found the defendant cresting a great
disturbance. She left and went towards Ham, where
he subsequently followed her, with the result that he
found Ham in a state of uproar—in fact it was "Ham
Fair," as it was called. There were a great number
of people around her bonne, and whilst he was wawa,
there the defendant came out quite drunk, &DJ
followed by • swarm, to whom elm used the Inest
Infamous 1 , crossed over Into Poole. On the
other side of Itt‘e bridge some woman took her ia
charge. They pulled up at every public-house they
CAMS to, and the woman was evidently told to see if
he was watching them. When they saw he was they
went on. But when the defendant got as far a. the
Market Place she positively refused to g any further.
He spike to her and argued with her as to the disgrace
• lady of her position was bringing upon herself, and
that she ought to know batter. She was in • most
disreputable condition She was mud from head to
foot. When he ordered her to go away she demanded
his name and number, an I he trdd her if she would
give him le r name and arldvess he would tell her that.
She refused to do so, and he brought her to the station.
He had mat difficulty in doing so. She kicked and
scratched, in fact, she behaved like a mad woman.
She held on to him by one arm and belaboured him
with the other. When she got to the cells she was
guleter.—Mr. Trevanion said he appeared as • friend
of the husband, and if the magistrates would kindly
allow him to have a word in private with the defend.
ant perhaps he could suggest something that would
meet the csse.—The Bench acceded to this, and Mr.
l'revanion having left the court with the prisoner for
• few minutes, on his return said she WA willing to
to to • retreat for habitual drunkards, and to enable
that to be done he asked the C sort to adj turn
the case until Friday next. It was • lamentable cue,
and the only hope for the defendant seemed to him to
be that she did submit to something of the kind.—The
Mayor : She is willing to go for six months.— Defend.
ant: I thought it was three months. —Mr. Stogie : A
medical man would not have the opportunity t) effect
a cure under six months. We should be very sorry to
send you to gaol, hut that we must do unlearn some
reasonable arrangement can be made by which some
reformation can be effected in your character, for at
present, and I say it with deep regret, you are • dis-
grace to your sex. I have myself seen you and pitied
you. But it has been going on so long that pity is lost
upon you. Everyone at Ham is disturbed by your
conduct, and if you can only make up your mind to
retire to some retreat, I am sure it will not only be the
beat thing for yourself, but for your husband and
children.—The defendant was th.n remanded until
Friday to enable the requisite papers to be signed, the
defendant's assent being a mint qua non. Mre.
Sanders is, we understand, the mother of Devon
children, and possessed of considerable property in her
own right. Although she gave the age of 40 she
appeared at least 12 years older.
' "IRELAND AND THE ToRT PARTY ".—A very
Interesting lecture under this title was delivered
before the members of the Liberal Association on
Thursday, in the Temperance Hall, by Mr. J. Howe,
of Leeds, in connection with the Reform League.
There was a capital attendance. The chair wee taken
by Mr. A Balaton, the president of the Association,
and there were also on the pletforin Mr. G. t urtis
(Mayor and vice-president), Ifr. Western, Alderman
Hamilton. Mr. Trevanion. Mr. H. Penny, Mr. J. .T.
Norton, Mr. S. Baker, &c. The lecturer treated hie
subject in a very able and lucid manner, backing up
his arguments with numerous quotations from
standard works and the narratives of eye-witnesses.
He showed that the Irish manufacturing interests had
been crushed out by English legislation under Tory
rule, and to this wax to be ascribed the present miserable
condition of the Irish people, the distressful nature of
which might be judged from the words of Mr.
Symonds, of the Liverpool Relief Committee, who
wrote back, "My heart is so sickened with the task
that I can stand it no longer." He also detailed the
abominable use the great City. Corporations
of London, the most corrupt m the world,
made of their large estates in Ireland. The
three great evils that were now afflicting Ireland
were cotter tenantcy, absenteeism, and rack rent. To
meet them were required fixity of tenure, free sale of
tenant right, and fair rent. The landlords and their
organs loudly protested against being asked to accept
rents based on Griffith's valuation, but what was the
fact? while they were thus pntesting these very men
were paying them income tax upon Griffith's valuation
- -they were paying upon a valuation made in 1692.
If the land were re-valued, and the owners taxed in
proportion, the taxes which now only realised one
million, would realise forty-one, and they could easily
imagine what a relief would thus be afforded the
struggling inmates He Advocated Home Rule as Laid
down by Mr. Gladstone—that Ireland should have
the right to control its own inueicipal matters and
local institutions. The lecturer concluded with an
eloquent tribute to Mr. Gladstone, which provoked
hearty applause and three cheers.—The Chairman
remarked that amidst the black look-out in Ireland,
there was one relieving glean', and that was that they
had William Ewart Gladstone at the head of a
Liberal Ministry deairoue to see the Sister Isle hold-
ing that position which she had a right to occupy.
(Hear, hear.) Associations like this could greatly
strengthen the hands of the Government, and he hoped
when the Land Bill was introduced they would send
up and let their voice be heard in the matter. (Hear.)
He proposed the following resolution—" This meeting
recognises the arduous task of the Government, and
expresses its full confidence and sympathy in their
general policy, and especially in reference to Ireland,
and also expresses a hope that the Land Bill may be
of a comprehensive character." The Mayor, in
seconding the nesolutitio, took the opportunity to
introduce what he said might be considered a personal
matter. He did not like to drag private or personal
matters before a public meeting, but inasmuch as it
had already been brought beesre the public, he thought
It but right tsi refer to it. They were quite aware that
a Relief Fund, for the benefit of the deserving poor.
had been started in the borough. When he arrived
In l'oole from town, some days ago, he saw by
Conservative hills that this Relief Fund was to be
introduced in connection with a Conservative Darkev
meeting. (Laughter.) Sitting side by side as he ha!
with Mr. Dugdale at the distnbution of this fund, he
wrote to him as a member of that committee, and he
would say that he wrote not only because of the
announcement he Raw on the Conservative bill, but
because at a recent meeting one of the leading
characters, in connection with the Conservative
Association, brought in a list of deserving poor,
and handed it over to the chairman of that associtrn
who handed it to Mr. Norton, by whom it was r
to Mr. langinore, of Parkstone, who ot it in the fire,
saying "that is the best place for it.' (Cheers.) He
therefore considered it only right he should tell Mr.
Dmi tale that he thought it • pity the Borough
Relief Fund should be mixed up with either Conser-
vatism or Liberalism. (Applause.) They knew the
outcome of this. It had been said be was down on
the working man. Now he was quite content in any
question in connection with the working man to stand
side by side with Mr. Dugdale. He honoured every
working man and every honest neon, whether Liberal
or Conservative. Of course it was quite a new phase
to have • Conservative working man, and he did not
conceive how there could be one honestly. (Hear,
hoar, and laughter.) They not only had the Conser-
vative Association to contend with but Cadent,
but he thought if that were shaken off front the
Conservative Association—(a voice :—" there wouldn't
he much left") (Cheers, and laughter.) He would like
to add jut this much, that the letter was a private
one, and never intended to be made public, but was
written on his honour in what he considered •
gentlemanly and friendly manner. (Hear.) It only
showed what they had to contend with. It
was the last thing that should have been
used as an endeavour to make political capital
out of. He understood a subsc-iption had been made,
and they would now have the opportunity of 'showing
the Liberal working men had as much sympathy with
the poor as the Conservatives. He would not further
trouble them with reference to that matter, except to
remark that as far as he was concerned the strictures
which had been passed upon him had very much
the same effect as water on a duck's back. He begged
to second the vote of confidence in the Government.
(Hear, hear.) He believed they lived in glorious time",
and that they had one of the very best ministries that
had ever sat in the House of Commons. He felt the
greatest confidence in the man at the helm--echeervl
and he had not the least doubt, AS the chairman
had intimated, that if all the constituencies in the
kingdom would speak out and back him up the Irish
people would have justice done them, and that they
would have, as was only right, equal laws and privilegee
with the citizens of this country. He beleived Moo
that under the present administration the English
might look goufidently for help, that justice would be
done to the tenantry here, and that the Land Lew"
would let made more equal, and those who lived by
the milthation of the soil should derive the benefit
from it to which they were entitled. (Cheer'. I
Alderman Hamilton proposed a vote of thanks to the
lecturer, which was seconded by Mr. U. Baker, and •
similar compliment paid to the Chairman concluded A
very unanimous and enthusiastic meeting.

LOSS OF A POOLE SCHOONER.
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