The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1876-11-14 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HININSCKID HUSBAND. Caroline Bamford was charged with using inciting Wirings to John Hansford, her husband—John Hans ford said he had been puni.hed for assaulting his wife when she attacked him and he Rare her • "warming." Since that time he had kept away from her. Lately he worked for Mr. Knight; but on Saturday his wife followed him as he was coining down Trinity-street, pushed him with the basket she had, and trid to wrest • whip mit of his hands. She had annoyed him before: but he kept out of her way as much as he could. On Saturday when he held on to the whip she said she would murder him. She was drunk at the time. He should have got . . . . •  and --,, them to support him in carrying Out the.. measures which will tend to the advancement and prosperity of this old royal borough of Weymouth and Mslcombe Regis, and help her to take her proper place in the scale with towns which for some time past have been not only pressing on our haelA but rapidly passing us by . . _ - • e therefr-- - !hem t  n thea'ce of popularity._ ...ereforir to audit him in the arduous, and they would be very arduous and trying duties, as far as the Council was concerned. But there was another matter. The Mayer of the town is forth. time being the chief magistrate, and be had to ask those gentlemen on the Bench to assist him by their presence and valuable aid, experience, and wisdom, in carrying out with becoming dignity and respect to the town what devolves upon that duty, most weighty and important. With these observations he begged to sit down, trusting that the year we have entered will be one of prosperity to us all. He must say one word more of the late Mayor, with whom he had always worked well, and from whom he hoped to receive sympathy and aasisteace in the year now before him. (Applause.) Mr. G. ELM said it would not he fitting to separate without attending to an ancient custom, that of passing a vote of thanks to the gentleman who had just vacated the chair. The inhabitants of the town might be grateful to any one who served them as Mayor for one year; and we ought to be doubly grateful to • gentleman who has served us for two consecutive years. He supposed there were few, who had not served the office themselves, who have any idea of the number of the Mayor's duties. All the official communications had to pass through his hands, and anyone who undertakes that must necessarily devote • great deal of time to that business. Then the Mayor being chief magistrate, he had to undertake the duties of the Bench. He did not mean to alarm Mr. Lundie in this his first hour of office; hut they should just for • moment look back and see what he was expected to.do. He had, besides, occationslly to undertake a fatiguing journey to London to accept the ''.v of the Lord lio- 'iter) Then had  proceeded. !ter some row red to accept the am. During the debate, one of the great gold maces of the borough, mounted behind the Mayor, fell on the head of the reporter of the Southern Time.; but Mr. Atkins wee fortunately, not much hurt. . . _  thirty wemher already, and there ii rood hope the members will soon be doubled. P.G. H. Osborne, the president, acted as M.U. THE RAILWAY STATInX