The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-01-14 00:00:00

THIS INCREASE OF PAY TO TB C COUNTY

POLICI

The action of the Court of Quartet Beesioce In ideate.
lag the pay of the polies 10 permit. and of the
Chief Constable 33 per omit., has evoked • very
paeml expremion of displeasure at the diffcrent
market* and asmemblies of ratepayer. throushout the
county. The sudden addition of £l2OO • year to the
county rates, unasked for, is deemed by many • reckless
pumokring id moue), which those who provide It are
but teditereetly able to spare; and we again hear the
old watchword of the Liberal Party 307..,. ago—" No
taxatiou without representation." This addition to the
rates hem stirred anew the latent desire for Piciarielal
Board.: whether or no it be a "nine day: grief" time
slow will prove Particular etre.. is laid on the addition
of £l5O to the salary of the Chief Constable, bed it le
fair to Captain heart% Brown to remember WM he did
not ask for it himself. So far se we weld unlerstand,
he reeommesided a certain addition to the pay of the
men, ad d as to himself he Isid before the Polies Com-
mittee a table showing the mattes of the other Chief
Constables of counties, with the numbers of the several
forms under them, and other partioakra. By that
Wide Cimeral Klebel wee at otos coevineed that the
addition to Chetahs Brown's salary win otelyjulif alk4 It
Is right to remember the additional work of the
Mendisity Society, which has gavel the poekete of the
inhabitants', and the new duties imposed by the Habitual
Criminals Cot, and the greeting of pedlar.' oartilleates,
the latter of whisk has redwood £lOO to the county
funds. Then if we ward to keep the best offiems,
we mast pay salaries Mailer to what are given
In other places. This by the way. The chairman
of the Police committee (Hr. Promptest) at ones OM.
eluded that the Warsaw suggested for the men was
inauffident, and the other members formed the woe
°plebe ; and, so decided were they upon the matter,
Met Mr. Ifranipton positively relayed to reeoosider the
sabjeet, gulag sofa, aa tie say that if the Cowl did not
Wept the report they had biker appoint a use eoes.'
Nitta.. Fathom It would have bow better it they lied
knee so. Another body of magistrates Welt have been
mutant to adopt the hems*. prorated by the Chief
(beatable, who airily ought to know best what Is
neseesery, and would probably have reemsended the
same rats of increase throughout the form, Inelsei of
the premed inaqsality. The police committee stand
arraigned before the meaty for wasteful axpeadhare,
and they may feliettate themselves that they have dose
something toward. puking a term to the reign of
irremeneible magistrate,.
At the meeting lest Saiurday of the Dorchester
Farmers' Oub, Mr. G. W. Roark of Athedbacoptoo,
said here vas one metier to which he wthed to call
their attention before they powwowed the !mikes of
the evening. tense the lad meeting key had wen in
the papers that a itonsilereble amount of tele ratepayer.'
money bad ben voted by a body of putlemeti—tho
'aunty megistrates in Quarter Semion• It 'night be
ocimidered somewhat impertioent on his pert to eritiaise
the proceedings of that body; bat his excuse must be
that he was a large ratepayer, whop. Om large a. eons*
half down of those gentlemen willeo Ively ; cod, there,
fore, he might be allowed to express his oolitic.. Toe,
meat have gathered that he referred to the Worms* in
the pay of the rsonstahnlary. His own opinion was
that a pobeemen to be of soy weeks mutt be ow heart
end soul, sad should be paid sefloiently to keep him
above the reach of temptation, and therefore a assail
illereefe is the pay of the mei wa. perhaps called for
under the eirourosteneas of the sham. But it seemed to
lum that the rise of 33 par esoi. in the wlary of the
CUM Constable we. a large addition W make at me
time. tither the oSee was badly paid before, er Is to
be esosesively paid now—Owar, hear). They mast all
have ems with pleasure the part which Mr. Caloraft
took at the meeting of Qeaner 8,1010•4, and he had
to propose, as there wee • 1•11.5 body Of MAC, ,yore
In the room, that they tender him the thanks
Dorchester Farmers' Club. He proposed that the
following latter be sent to Mr. Dolomite, signed en
behalf of the Club by the President :
To J. O. Coieowt, oq.
Sir,—At • meeting et the members at the Dorchester
Farmer? Club. bald this day, I was requested on its behalf to
thank you moat respactfully for the gamma and J
with which you opmeed the motion proposed and c=l;:t
t
the last Quarter henna to the loof•••0 of Übe pay a UN
oanabulary el ibis county The natter ha. been mesh da-
mmed. arid INS geasen opinion is that ouch • ocasinrable
advance we. uncalled for and not required, and the incenity
for • County itinsiodai Board la more than cent appareot —I
us, tic.
Mr. T. H. Satlanaki mid he abouli be most happy to
sewed that ProPos„..ddos•
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Mr. It. N. 0W•ID suggested whether sum.
miniskirt abould not be made of the Emmy Copia

Brown boid mood ba lb* loamtloa of the county by
pitting down bompn
Yr, dolmans mid that woo port of ht. baGintini.
Mr. Warms tbonitit tbo motion ift•olvoci no rano.-
ties on Osot. Brows. Ho was • imonit.l lona no doubt,
bot wonld tboir pookoto Monil slio Worsen
Tbo minarlrod is W4I s motion to thank
Wash for the otsod to mods on tboir bobnif.

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It we. married unanimously.
no Wareham district, whet' produoed the m,gle-
trete who took the lead of the '' forlorn hope' of
redolence to the new imposidoe, hes rueolntely
supported Mr. Calmat In hid oppoeltino. At the
market last Tuesday the following menorlel was signed
by upwards of fifty (armors and others, and wane are
still being addled :
To J. H. Calmit, req.
Sir,—We, the underrigned Ratepayers of the Wsraltsm divi-
sion of the County of Dorset. most Aeon.* thank you for the
stand you made at the last Quarter Amiens held at Dorchester
ageirset any lemma of pay to the County Polies, We consider
that not having any entre duty to perform, sod being rynerally
men taken from the la/anew climes, they an sufficiently
paid at lan. per week, and nifty a edt of clothes In respect
to the Oiled Ocestsble there is no extra duty for him, but
rather the revene, es the OHO now know their work, and we
think with you Dot there ought to be no Incresess of pay. We
are further led Um to exprras our opinion in cousequence of
the lowness of the county rates within the late few yews. also
the increase of the poor end highway rates and we now have
the sopense of the rassitery measure and school board, and
shall shortly have the turnpikes Truming you may line for
many nen to watch orer the Interests of the ratepayerr—
We are, sir, yours moot respectfully,
[Here follow the names of upward. of dfty Carmen and
alien, and still in course of amnion.
At the gloss of the usual budnoss trowelled at the
Board of Guardians on Tuesday, Mr. John Angel
Dimen, who for sward years filled lb. Aloe of vim-
chairman to the Beard of Gleardlacs, which is now
ocouplod by Mr. William Charlie Loney, rows, and, oa
behalf of the Board of Guardians, thus addressed lir.
John Hale Csaloroft, the &Wrens&

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" We, the Guardians of the Wareham and Purbeck Colon,
most abooently thank you Isr Use Mind you made at the lam
Quanar ilibiooll, held at Dorchester, agaient Monism of
pay to the couaiy police We think any *dream In their pm
uncalled for, umbra It can he Mown that atm services IN
required of them, as they are • body 0f.., generally takes
from the labouring chows, and are eulllclenUy pad M 18a
per week, and • .011 01 clothes yearly. And with raged to
the Chief Conetable, as me can doubt hi. being an exmllest
and euperior orlow, and. Mum elected a how years dam,
thought himself very fortunate on bong Mama out of the
many &portant. at • Wary of 6450 • year. We are farther
led this to express our opinion in conaquenee of the increase
In the county rata. within Um last few yams. Also Use
Irorease of pow and higimmy rata. and we have now looming
in Use future expensm of the sanitary nismuree, school hoards
and the maintenanoe of the turnpike road- fruiting
you may live for many years to over the Interests M
to. rummers."

Mr. Cobweb taprossed his acknowledgment of the
approbation thus expressed of his modest.
' A lintoperer in the 1.1. 01 Purbeck" write.—" Mea
should he jest before they M. 'onerous, espesially so
when their gonerosity is taken from other people's
pockets. And although I woeld not for a moment be
supposed to dissent from the high sulogiorn paid by all
to the merits of Capt. Brown, sad though, in the 'vest
of the mutt, losing his merriest, it would be im-
possible, se Mr. Calm-nit said, to get another Captain
Brown,yet the question la whether. man of lees abilities
might not malady the oounty of Dorset. That I may
not be thought to complain without taus', I will state
what I have pail for poor and county rates daring tite
last year, and I think no one oan dispute that the
burden is quite 'cough for the beak to boar. I am
rated for my holding Is the parish in which I reside at
£loolos. 64. aseeesmeat, and I hare paid during lb*
past year the following rates :
£ a. d.
• rate made the 13th November. 11571, at is In thai 6 0 7
A rate made Mb Jettaery. 1872, at 1 1 0 7
A rate made lath April, 11172, at 1.. ad. .. 7 10 111
A radii made 11/Ith bun, MU, at ls. Od. 7 10 10
21 2 10
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So that I have astually paid onaforth of my inea—ree- is;
poor-rates. Whether it can he 000sidered just that I
should be gelled open &spay oe scidition to this mount,
merely to gratify Me whim of them who know bat
little of the re* eapeede demi, I will leave to themselves
to jade,. With respect to an incases, of pay to the
Inferior diem of the fors% compared with the rate of
wage. paid to other workouts, Ids. per wean cannot
but be maiddered fair and equitable ; but of this I
would not be supposed to express ea opinion. as meek
mutt dewed noon Ripply and demand, of which I
know nothing."
Another Ratepayer" says—l ooald not have
believed that a majerity of the maglatrates of the
oounty would have voted to the pollee force £1,200 •
yearM addition to the ample payment the fame has
already been receiving, and without its being asked for.
I weal' ash the marietrates most respeetfully if May
think obese are times when the ratepayers, as a body,
can afford to pay extra rates? I speak as •fartner,and
therefore as on• of the larger ratepayers, and would
remind the s rata, that they shoold bear in mind
It is eagentier they should be jut before they are
generous. Those gentleman should know that the age-
eulturiste of this "aunty are in • worse position thaa
they have been for many years past; that they are
feeling the effect of two years of groat drought, and
shim thee of two yeus of the worst men trope I eau
remember. Add to this the costly and regattas labour
question, and likewise the unfortunate season in whioh
we eanoot even sow our skeet, and therefore ran the
greatest risk of haring to meet &author serious loso
This is the time seleeted by the muistrairs of iho
*suety to odd a permanent charge of over .£1,200 t.yoor
to its expenditure. I think some ot the gentlemen who
advocated this unjust increase mast know that the
farming interest cannot be in a very flourishing std.",
sines they themselves have had farms to let for SE viral
months past, but have had no application for them.
wbrat a few years sines there would have been mores of
applications for the same farms. As a large ratepayer,
I preterit spinet the isjustiee of the Increased expendi-
ture, and I am cot "insular in ibis al every ratepayer
who spoke on the subject at Dorchester market. on
Saturday, was of the Some opinion. I state, without
fear of constradlotion, that I pay se much ht raise as tr,
of the magistrate' collectively who voted away my
money at the seeslooo I have never advocated 1r
Mal Bodirda, having been 000 tout SO leave the IP amy
business of the county to the megistrates, by., now
hope the ratepayers of the county will merr.orwma the
High Sheriff to call a elouuty meeting. is ',day that a
protest may be made males" tie late dejiliae, and. yy
it is then thought desirable, a petition to Parliament
may be signed for the farination of (Lunt, Pleorsolal ykazd", I cannot sloes this letter without thanking
kir Calmat for his able advocacy of the ratepayer.'
Interests, and that almost single.hauded, with one or
two honourable useptioun
In oonnectim with th a subject, we may bailee that
In Hampshire the Chief Constable rsoomatecdad an
increase to the pay of the pollee, but the Court of
gutter Beatioes only merle • nominal addition. What
Is thre,rseult I The Olo'r states that in ere mums of
the declaim, many of the oldest and most experienced
"feelers have resigned, sad, unless an Morgue be given,
100 will have left the foree by Easter.

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A POOl-1141.1 of fourpenae Ls the pound was made
tar Holy Trinity parish lot Thursday.
THI POOL —On Sunday the annual °olfaction on
Gibed of the poor of the parish were made at Hely
Trinity, after sermon by the Rector, and amounted to
£lO 17a. 614

PINNY B;X I. —OH asterday evening the depositors
of the Peony Bank presented to Mr, Cooper, the
eseretary, .beadsman silver Weals basket, in reociorni-
lion of his put barrios*.
THII lIILITA IT DHPOTIL —03101161 Aokers, BA,
receotly statioaed IPA Weymouth, hea visited our Bar.
mote for the purpose of manta; the surveys requisite
for the oomtempletod alteration,. It is intended to
remove the upper storeys from tbe north-wit sing and
to 'rent 50 additional salty's, on the dot of ground
adjutent to the Wilde Bermoks. It head the Artillery
will leers hers shout March.

Ti. Town Choc& —During the peel week the town
cloak Ism failed its oustasoary indisatim of the light
of tiros, greatly to the humnresilema of many hundreds,
who lure sow learat—oot a few for the kat time—
what • useful thing it is to the inhabitants, gewerally.
It SONO' the works have owed their satires flues an
sesumulation of rust -blob la attributed to this Miami-
mathig of the dial areation damp in the tower. Morse
Mine ago the Surveyor (Mr. Jewett) ;Mooed a owe for
the works to prevent rust, but it wse not adopted.
Mr. Tilley, of flouthetreet, has she stook %tads, treat-
ment,

IluirD10•110v.—" Plane have you anything for the
ntierionary owe r is lb* plea made in • mournful
tone of raise, by seemingly hundreds of ehildren every
year about this time; and this week the animas* of It
ham bees internee throughout the town. Making poor
ehildren hewn In this way in not creditable to tit.
pramoten ell the abeam, whoever they may be; sack
If they read our polio* eoert roporto from time to time
they will lad " begging from door to door " ie ea
edemas very severely militated. Inciting children of
leader yams to rush s 6..04i of the law le highly
reoreheaeibie. Oelleeting for ellerleaerier is all nee
wall la ite may, but we do think the meters to which
vs refer is "too ma& of a good thing."

Panama PRoasorn.—The extraordinary and Wog-
oontiattod erst'asathar as mash dolaysd outdoor work.
Not more thaa lb* average breadths of wheat
NO yet sows' ne sod la wsy ta as
ttoos ober* • plant w
°blabbed, lb.
weather has rotted or washed It away.
Whenever It is possible Cho plough Ust wrack aa if to
make op for lost time. The lanhilog arson has emu.
mooted, and the lambs Sr. looking healthy sad well.
Last IMMO roots were rare very ploalertel. Lad
too ninoh eras gine to the eassoo lb' oxolasion of
dry food. This caused lad bona, t ooks. but
it taught a lemon alai& seems that mimeo to be pro.
diming ha good result,.

FOOT AND MOOTS Dle la U. —The following returns
she+ the news of lb. foot sod .couth disease amongst
the herds of the society during the peat year :
Anlcaele
D,l.ns Outbreaks. A ttac k ed. Died. Iteconered.
Dorchatter .. 100 .. 30,352 .. 157 .. 81,619
Care. Abb.., 127 .. 17.676 .. 11l .. 11,141
Brid port .. 21,614 .. 160 . . 30,300
Warebam .. 119 .. 6,904 .. 1,9 . 8,806
W ha bonl 1711 15.904 14,711
Landlord .. 101 .. 19.176 .. 178 ..„ 11,1171
urtalnetar ell .. SAL .. 291 .. 11.310
Skatteabury . 211 .. 2,130 .. 1 .. ;Le
@harbored 1.. 171 .. 6.470 102 1,176

Totods .. 1,713 .. 1.16,07 .. LOIS .. 133.679
LlTill Cacint..—The *Atonal (sermon to ycoog
mess wa• proaohod I.lk. abows plan of worehipti.
Sunday soloing lam, by the Bay. J. DuU, to a serious
and atteoUn audience. The demons was founded on
1 Chronioles agent, 9. no 'object was introdosed by
• refereace to the eireumstanon under whisk the toil
er as tint pronounced. It was amumed that the ciouniolle
it withstood were wel odoptehl to ail rising Into life,
whatever their position, whother mote honourable or
medal. The nature of the knowledge sod ernes
r 'erred to were defined, and earnostly 'nested upoo,
as the only msthod of shutting out infidelity and
inswing the divine (avow and eternal reward Tn.
momentous matins and alternation supplied by
the tekt were faithfully premed home to the 0011340 it aft.
ea all•powerful inducements to an immediate Moore.
with Christ. The youthful port of the congregation
were remladed that the Bible isontoilmel promises°,
grass and Wendel' to them Lf a sisseel eharacitim ;
shish they might look for is vaiu who had become
atria= in years and grey in Mate. Th• gentles
threethoist we. 'Mean and impressive, and will we
trust peon au imeasioa of lasting ben•fit to than for
whoa ospesislly it was demigod.