The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-08-04 00:00:00

four persons, to the exclusion of others who had been
occupiers for many years. He went on to speak of the very
lamentable state of the parish .mf Fonlington in rezardi to
house accommumlation. Ile hid no lisseitatiun in saying he
could take the hon. 'slender into planis there lover which
as • member eithe Sanitary Lteirml, he said, there was no
control) in wins% no gentleman present would allow his
hogs to lie. These p6ces were the nesti and bra...m.14,g
places of every kind of disease, and how W.li it to he
altered I It rested with the owners of the PronertY : and
MAIL could not doia pnater service to the country at
large than by thoroughly purging the dens of iniquity to
that place—(hew, hear.) Ile telt it his duty to small the
bon. member's attention to the aubjemt now that the land
was about to be re-dietributed, ad he truited that Mr.
Portman would use his influence to effect au improvement
—(the toast was very heartily drunk.)
Mr. ANDREWS returned thanks and expressed his high
sense of the compliment pail him by Mr. Galpin.
Although he damned from others sometimes, he never diml
so except we matter ot principle, and lie felt that were he
• not to express h 6 own opinions, hut pander to others, he
: should not lam worthy the 11a1U0 of a mew Alter referring
to the labour question, he touched on time state of
Fordington property, but he sts..^..ested that the worst class
• of property there belonged to lifeholders, awl that he
' Duchy of Cornwall had no sort of control over it.
IMr. GALPIN nail as he understood it the property there
was all merging into the hands of the Duchy.
IMr. AXDIMWS said that was the reason the lifeholders
would not improve their property. It was natural that
, men should do the best they. cull for themselves, and so
' it would continue. We mud take things as they are, and
I hope for the best. No dmmuld Fonlington has been a pest
i to the town. and possibly had the Duchy of Cornwall
I known what would be the issue they would have acted
differently. But he believed Lord Portman would do
I what was right as far as posOble imet.C4ll man awl man.
He went on to speak of the legal difficulties involved in
the subject. In conclusion he referral to the many years
he had been secretary of the society, and hoped should the
time ever collie when he came to the society and mid
"Pity the *MT.. of a poor old II1311: they would never
•• drive him from their mloonm--(appLusse and laughter.)
Mr. Asimaaws cordially prepuwsi "The Press, ' and it
win acknowleibted. .
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Mr. GRNIM prOl.Med 'The health of the Chairman,"
and mentioned that Mr. Fowler wan in Loud non business
or he would have been provnt. They might then have
had some political sparring, but there WM this to be aaid
about it in Dorchester, it WIN always carried on in the
bed of spirit --(The toast was drunk with applause/.
The C 1111111.04 thanked them for their cordial recep.
tion of the toast, and expressed the pleasure it had
afforded him to he present. Ile was gratified that his
remarks had elicited the opinions of the company, for he
thought it gave value and interest to these meetings
when such was the case. A good deal of information had
been imparted to him, which was very valuable to a
county member lie hoped the society would continue
to prosper, and that in the course of years he might again
have the pliatsure of occupying the chair President and
one of the members for the county —(applause). In con-
clusion he gave "Our next merry meeting."
The toad having been drunk, the party separated about
nine o'clock.