The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-06-05 00:00:00

WAREHAId.

We should have named in our report of the
Wareham Linesmen% Committee, ko., ka, the fact,
that Ice. William Voss, of Collo Castle, Booknowl•
Home, and W. C. Lacey, of Bestwall House, Wareham,
were again unanimously rechoesn vitae chairmen of the
Board of Guardians, which oflbre these gentlemen
rteeitotnd, inch to Us* sitisfaetion of the Board. lir.
T. hes, eye, tier, the first meeting_of the old Purim&
wish. as well as that of the Denies
B:Cr,.:erf4re Ct. iltmlihr. rn.Joihpiti WLlshay moolas
March.lB4.yoarly Skid the Aloe of Guardian
Ifvßcardovicor.7,hoth:nairchrin•K:o7tlh.e Wareham and Purbeck Union for
maids' publi onor Ti °Saes in this district, on the
retirement then (to n of Mr. Freeload Filliter • few
years ago, kindly aimpted the hooonry escretaryabip of
the Werehimi and Pedireek Labourers' and &route
Friend Society, which, by hind permission or Mr. Weld,
aeeeent, helds nike of its pleaaastest sod most papule,
rsestinse, (first of all ohrosieled in the columns of the
Dorset Express in the year 1850.) at Lalworth Castle
Park, and the Wskl Anus, Hest Litlworth. We dotal
wish to be gloomy, but now a-ul then • grave thought
of the eteey 'bulges which have einem happened coulee
over us, as well as pleasatt and dieerhil memories.
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BUZ RUUD HIGHW AYIL —The is of Regiwa
blut proomittois of J. W. Carta egaiast 0. W.
Tarter and dhoti', Justice., bag beau &aided by

the Court of Queen's Bench in favour of the
Tb point was • new one, and deserves the Carekt
attention both of tbe Justices and of the Higk.„
Boards, etpecielly at the present time when so
clinatien has bees shown to make attempt* to throw
on pinches the making and repair of 13e0o, tracks
and private roads. At the Wareham Petty B...acs
of April 26, 1844, Mr. Carter, a solicitor residing ga
' Wool, sunimmied the Highway Board and the Way.
mirden of Bee. B.& stating that a certain high...
in Bare Regis was out of repair, and equine,.
justices to direct an indictment to be pridamsi
agaiost the pariah for the non-repair. It appegrad_
on the hearing of the summons, that the parish d 4
not deny their liebihty to repair their highway., bet
altagether denied that the road in question Irma
public highway. The justices thereupon deel.gad
Ito proceed,
_oonsideriog that they had no jorigo..rom
either to order an indictment, the fast of
being bona:fide denied, or to try the
whether or not the road were a highway. 6-krze
on that point wee tendered by Mr. Carter, kit ra.
fused by the justices, and the summons was du.
mimed. Mr. Carter then moved the Queen's Begrh
for a mandamus to compel the justices to boo ki4
sumerons, and direct en indictment to be poierrad
against the parish of Bare Bogie. The
was issued on Jane 18th, 1864, and • retorg
made by the justises lotting forth the view lake. 6,
them of the law; that, under 25 and 26 Vic., e.
a. 19, justices can order an indictment only in das
owe of the ezistenoe of the public higheay.
undisputed. The cams was vary carefully
before the Queen's Bench, on May 26112. by yr.
Coleridge, Q.C. in 'rapport of the recoidanim, gad
by Mr. S. Maids in support of the morn made by
the jaitioes—the Court deciding tuersimough
favour of the view which had been adolAni
Bench.