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THE DOVER FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 19 1880 DOVER TOWN COUNCIL Sroral Jntrilignuf SIR EDWARD WATKIN ON THE CHANNEL TUNNEL ROBERTS RECEPTION OENERAL DOVER OF AT Sir Watkin MP Mr Ford claimed £3 19s 6d for damage owing to the bursting of a stop-tap in his house The Council decided that they could not admit the claim as the fault seemed to rest between Mr Ford and his tradesman BUCKLAND CHURCH A letter was read from the Rev Tnrberville Evans inviting the Town Council to attend the re-opening of this church on December 15 The Mayor said he should be very happv to attend but the matter mast be left for the Town Clerk to arrange with individual members of the Council The proceedings then terminated distributed the prize gamed by the students of the local science and art classes at the Town Hall Folkestone last west Dr Bateman JP presided Sir Edward WatkiD before the distribution gave his annual address in which he alluded to the pro posed channel tunnel and said many people had been exercised in their minds with reference to ths experiment which the South-Eastern Kail Company was carrying out between Folkestone 06 COUNTY POLICE COURT The weekly meeting of the Managing Committee of the Town Council acting as the Urban Sanitary Authority waa held on Tuesday evening and attended by the following gentlemen The Mayor (Richard Dickeson Esq) in the chair Alderman Rees Stiff Adcock Councillors Bradley Killick Mummery Brown Thorpe Finnis Hearn Gravener and Clark SANITARY INSPECTION The Inspector reported his usual routine work MR water supply Mr Greesmann attended and asked permission tc read a statement from himself to the Town Council He complained that a person came to inspect his water taps and he having no written authority refused him admittance The man cams again the next day with a letter from the Surveyor but he (Mr Groaamann) again refused him admission telling him to come again the next day The next day he fonnd that they were going to cat hie water offand then ha consented to have the taps inspected Mr Grosemann then retired and explanations were made by tiro Town Clerk and the Surveyor that Mr Grosemann having refused to admit tha inspector tha only course which the law left open to them to assert their authority was to cut off tha water supply and that they were entitled to do by law even when the supply had been paid for After some farther discussion the Council unanimously passed a resolution cordially concuring in the action of the offioers and stating that if they had done less they would have failed in their duty builders' irregularities The Council was for considerable time ooonpied in discussing two esses of building contrary to byelaws the one was that of Mr Smith oil merchant at tha Pier and the other a building being erected by Mr McCallnm at Liverpool-lawn In the former case new plans were required and in tha latter amended plans showing air space for additional rooms TEE EIRE AT MESSRS BREWERY The Superintendent of the Police reported ns follows Dover Police Fire Brigade November 16 1880 I beg to report that at 12 1 a jn the instant the attention of Police-constable Charles The Mayor and Corporation then escorted ths honoured guests from the dais to the Council chamber where refreshments were laid out No lonir stay however was made here for Sir Frederick Roberts and his gallant companions had arranged to leave for London by special train on the London Chatham and Dover and they speedily betook themselves to the carriages that were in waiting receiving a fresh ovation from the crowd that surrounded the Town Hall and running fire of cheering accompanying them to the station Here there was a fresh assembly from whom vociferous indications of approval were received as the party took their seats and steamed out of the station the train being in charge of Captain Godbold Continental Manager of the London Chatham and Dover Railway Company It was stated that during bis stay at Dover the General received a congratulatory message from the Queen One interesting incident in the reception was that the hearty shouts of a large muster of the boys of Dover College so pleased the General that he asked the head master to give them a whole holiday which was cheerfully granted The journey to London occnpied but an hoar and three-quarters Victoria being reached at 71a Hera a space was barricaded off by temporary barriers within which a little group of Sir Frederick relatives and friends were waiting to receive him Outside the barrier a considerable throng of people collected and cheered vigorously as soon as the train arrived This welcome was continus during the brief interval that General Roberta waa engaged in receiving the salutations and congratulations of his friends and until he and they occupied seats in the carriages which were in waiting the whole party leaving amid similar expressions of popular approval The address was baautifiully engrossed and illuminated by Mr Smith the Deputy Town Clerk The border was embellished at the corners with sections of the Dover Arms In the left corner at the top was the ship and on the right the effigy of St Martin dividing his coat with a beggar and on the two bottom corners wore the Shields of the Cinque Porta Attached with bullion cord was the great seal of the Corporation being a very firm and beautiful impression cast in the Town office on the morning of the presentation We are glad to hear that the reception which everyone in Dover pronounced a splendid success was highly gratifying to General Roberts who was most prefuse in bis thanks to the Mayor in the Council Chamber and hs afterwards specially commissioned his friend General Bruce to call on the Mayor the following day and formally thank him for the happy arrangements of the reception SATURDAY Before Major Lawes Fortesque and Humphreys Esqrs REMANDED CHARGE OF SBBIOUS ASSAULT Edward Wellerd of the Hope and Anchor Win Pay of the Half Moon and Frederick Dill milt were charged on remand with assaulting and beating Mark Wood a grazier living at Hougham and Pay was farther charged with assaulting Christopher Wood by knocking him down with a pitchfork on the 2nd instant The prisoner Dilmott did not appear in answer to the charge Mr Lewis appeared on behalf of the prosecu-ention as Mr Worsfold Mewll could not Httendand said that ns the prisoner Dilmott had not appeared in answer to tha summons he would leave the matter in the hands of the Bench as to what they thought should be done The Bench decided after a short consultation to farther adjourn the case till the following Thursday that being the day of the County Petty Sessions and in the meantime a warrant was to be issued fur the arrest of the prisoner Dilmott Bail was granted to the prisoners Wellerd and Pay themselves each in £50 and two sureties each of £25 I 3Q(j Hover and therefore in order that there might bo some little information on the subject he with their permission would make a few remark son it They were making an experiment between Dover and Folkestone with the view of seeing whether it was possible to convert England from its present position of an island to that of a continent that was to say so that without seasickness and trouble people might pass from any part of England or Scotland to any portion of Enrope Many years ago it was proposed by some great engineers that a tunnel should be made between Sangatte near Cape Grisnez on the coast of France and St Maro-ereth! Bay to the northward of Dover Well that did not suit for many first because it did' not conincide with the smattering of geology which we possessed and secondly because it would shut Folkestone out of the main line to the Continent which was one of those things which ought never to ba attempted The geological objection was that concerning the strata of old grey chalk it dipped rapidly to the north and a line drawn from Sangatte to St Bay would bring them into other strata full of water and fissures which would render the works very dangerous and make it almost necessary to pump the channel before those works could be proceeded with Then if they were to go to St Bay certainly Folkestone would cease to be what he should always wish it to be as long as he a place on the high read to everywhere (Cheers) Well they now persisted in their views and the end of it had been that the French engineers had declared that the proper eut-come of the tunnel connecting France with England was the point where they were now conducting the experiment between Folkestone and Dover If that experiment should turn out as he believed it would turn out every atom of traffic between England and the Continent would pass through Folkestone and bring with it great benefit and prosperity to the town (Cheers) The whole question was simply this If they could make a tunnel through a stratum which did not contain wafer and therefore did not require large quantities of water to be pumped out and did not necessitate large masses of timber being used to prevent the tnnnel falling in then a tunnel 20 and odd miles in length was jnst as and a great deal as making the tunnel through Mount Cenis The old grey chalk was a curious manipulation of nature it mixed with the clay and became a kind of puddle impervious to water By the experiment which was being made it had been found that this stratum was in the same relative position on this side ef the Channel as on the other and of the same thickness The company had already sunk a shaft and they were now engaged in tunneling a driftway or gallery under the sea He hoped 12 months hence to be able to report to them that the experiment had been a most successful one and that there was every probability of carrying out the tunnel that great work of modern art and science and utility Cheers) After farther remarks on other subjects Sir Edward proceeded to distribute the prizes Baker was called to a dense volume of smoke issuing from the direction of 8t He immediately gave the alarm at the atation and assisted Police-ser-geant Company and others in conveying the hose reel te the spot when it was discovered that the premise of Messrs Leney and Co brewers were iu flames A stand waa fixed by the yard gates iu St and water obtained at 1220 am another stand-pipe was fixed in Dolphin-lane by Messrs Killick and Back the hose from which was taken into the engine-room The engine was then placed at the back of Messrs premises and this hose also carried into the engine room but it was subsequently ascertained that the fire was spreading in the direction of the malt-house and the Dolphin public-house It was therefore found necessary to take it on the bridge connecting the brewery with the Doiphin which is used as a store room by means of which the fire was prevented from spreading to the melt house The London Chatham South-Eastern and Royel Artillery engines were quickly on the spot and rendered goad service by pumping from the river in St James s-lene thus checking the fire in that direction A stand-pipe was also fixed in Dolphin-lane near the gasometer and one in St the hose from the latter being earned through St Margaret gplaee over some tarred roofs to the rear of the brewery and malt-house 1 The snppjy of water was exceptionally good The fire was extinguished about five but the town hose continued to play on the ruins until seven amand at intervals dnnng the day and following night Mtknown Brewery block together witthetmnd pontoon rooms gutted The whole of of General Newdigate and a round of hand-shaking from all and sundry the favoured occupants of the landing-stage Mounting to the level of the Pier a tremendous burst of applause broke from the spray-beaten crowd on the upper terrace which was continued all along the Pier while the party wera moving towards the Lord Warden Here the cheering was taken np by the crowd who were sheltered by the hotel and continued while the party were taking their seats in the carriages which were in waiting to convey them to the Town Hall As the cortege proceeded through the streets of the town the passengers and inhabitants took np the greeting the passage being quite a triumphal procession At the Town Hall a fresh enthusiastic mob was in attendance who contributed their full proportion to the acclamations which everywhere arose as soon as the honoured guest made his appearance As the carriages approached the shouts of the outside multitude apprised those in the Town Hall that their rather long period of waiting was at an end and the Mayor and Corporation wearing their official robes proceeded by the horn and mace bearers marched down to the grand entrance their arrival their being signalled by a weird blast from the aBcient horn Jnst at that time the band of the Rifle Volunteers stationed in the front gardens of St struck up See the conquering Hero The looal police under Superintendent Sanders kept the crowd at bay while Sir Frederick Roberts and his staff mounted the steps where he received the cordial greeting of the Mayor Ths Corporation then marched back in reverse order first the Councillors Brown Bradley Carder Hearn Thorpe Sharpe Mummery Gravener Clark Stone than the Aldermen Rees Stiff Adcock Fletcher then the Town Clerk (Mr Wollaston Knocker) and the Corporation Chaplain in full canonicals ths Rev Canon Puckle and next the Town Sergeant Chapman bearing the mace and the Town Crier Becker carrying ths ancient horn in the rear of which was the Mayor in his scarlet robe bringing up the distinguished General in honour of whom the whele company rose and made the old hall ring with a long continued outburst of applause And now that the central figure has been placed in the group we may survey the whole scene The Mayor occupied the civic chair behind the finely-carved old table and on bis right was Sir Frederick Roberts and Lady Roberts and the officers who had accompanied him on his journey from India namely General Hill General Macpherson General Baker General Goueh Colonel Chapman Major Wood-thorpe Major Prettyman Major Kennedy Captain Holditcb RE and Lieutenant Childers The officers albeit travel-stained storm-tossed and weary formed quite a picturesque group On the other side of the Mayor were Major-General Newdigate the oommandant of the South-Eastern District and his staff including Colonel Buchanan Colonel Knight Major Lane and Captain Anstrnther In the next cirole were the Aldermen and Councillors before enumerated and next to them magistrates and distinguished residents including Bruce Major-General Maxwell Steriker Finnis Esq Back Esq Mowll Esq Astley Esq 8 Peirce Esq Smith Esq James Stilwell Esq the Rev Bell head master of Dover College and several of the other masters In the body of the hall seats were reserved for ladies only and the rest of the spectators were closely packed standing Amongst those in the body of the hall were Colonel Ceoch th6 Rev Jollye Mr Fortescue the Rev Andrews Captain Atkinson Mr Forbes-Mosse Mr Fielding Mr Laing the Rev Father Gascoyne Captain Forsdyke Mr Osborne Mr Toomer Sir Thomas and Lady Bruce Major Sangster Mr Fry Mrs Dicksson Mrs Stilwell Mrs Knocker Miss Maxwell Mrs Cooch Mrs Douglas Willian Mrs General Trevors Mrs Rees Miss Matthews Miss Stokes Mrs Captain Powell Mrs General Bruce Mrs Captain Surplice Mrs General Dorehil) Russell (County Court Judge) Mrs Barton Mrs Sangster Miss Braid Misses Terson Mrs Walter Mrs and Miss Hardy The Mayor who arose amidst loud cheers said Ladies and gentlemen I have asked you to assemble here this afternoon in order that you may by your presence and countenance endorse the action of the Town Council in presenting a congratulatory address on the arrival to our shores to-day of that gallant and distinguished General who is now before yon (Load cheers) You as well as the whole of the United Kingdom are so well imformed and so well posted np with every particular concerning the brilliant oareer of this gallant General that it is needless for me to occupy your attention by going into them to-day and therefore I will with your permission say no more on the subject but ask you to pay respectful attention to the address to Sir Frederick Roberts which the Town Clerk will now read to you (Cheers) The Town Clerk then read the address as follows: To Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Roberts GCB and CSI VC We the Mayor Aldermen and burgesses of the ancient Cinque Port and Borough of Dover offer you a most hearty welcome and congratulate you on your safe return from the campaign of Afghanistan The long and very rapid march accomplished by the British and Indian forces from Cabul to Kandahar and the brilliant battle fought at its close under your command have already received the most deserved enconiums While we recall the personal bravery which led our beloved Queen to accord you the Victoria Cross we recognize in your late achievements not only the successful tactics of a great commander but the combined qualitiesof untiring energy and consummate tact which inspires zeal and induce confidence and distinguish yon as the latest of the long roll of celebrated heroes who have led the English soldier to victory We hope that aided by the Divine blessing you may long live to enjoy the well-earned rewards which may be fcestowed on you by our gracious Sovereign and your grateful fellow subjects Given under our common seal this 16th day of November 1880 Richard Dickesoit Wollaston Knocker Mayor Town Clerk The Town Clerk handed back the address to the THURSDAY Before Humphreys Esq Major Lawes Fortesque Astley and Murray Esqrs THE HOUGHAM ASSAULT CASE Edward Wellard of the Hope and Anchor Inn William Pay of the Half Moon and Frederick Dillmotl were charged on remand with assaulting and beating Mark Wood Pay was further charged with assaulting and beating Christopher Wood at Hongham by knocking him down with a pitchfork on the 2nd instant Mr Worsfold Mowll appeared for -the prosecution and said the police as yet had been unable to appre hend the prisoner Dillmott He hoped the Bench would deal with the two prisoners ns the case stood The evidence of Mark Wood Christopher Wood Mr Mercer John Cribbings and Police-constable Brace was then read In cross-examination by the prisoner Wellard witness Wood said he did not see him pick any thing np but he was with the other two prisoners Cross-examination of witness Cribbimrs by the prisoner Pay He (Pay) knocked the boy down with a pitchfork Witness was between 100 and 200 yards off Mr Mowll stated that the prisoner Wellard had been to his residence and asked him recommend him to mercy which be wished to do Mr Wood said he could not possibly say anything in recommendation of the prisoner Pay as it was an unprovoked assanlt on the boy and a serious one Prisoner Wellard said he had nothing to do with the assault hut stood on the bank and did nat see it all He did not pick up a atone or a stick from the ground or throw anything Prisoner Pay he was not guilty of either charge of assault on the boy or the man The Bench stated that it was proved that Wellard joined in the affair but they would take a lenient view of the ease through the recommendation of Mr Wood and would fine him 10s and 9s costs but in the case of Pay which was a serious assault he would be sentenced without the option of a fine to one imprisonment with hard labour and also to the costs 19s but in default another week was added to his sentence Prisoner Pay treated the sentence with ridicule The Daily Newt says: The reception given to General Roberts on his landing at Dover on Tuesday was as enthusiastic as even on such an occasion could have been expected We have had many wars with fierce wild tribes since the Abyssinian expedition and it is to the honour of our armv that each enterprise has brought forth its hero" We have given many public welcomes too to generals who have made success and officers who have fought bravely in Asia or in Afrioa There were not wanting even in the army itself critics who urged that rather more than enough had been done in the glorification of our heroes Still it wus made evident on Tuesday that General Roberts has not suffered by the fr quency of popular welcomes to returning soldiers of late years and that a gieat achievement is still a deed to stir the souls of the English' people There is something especially fascinating in the story of the splendid march from Cabul to Candahar and the victory that crowned it The address presented by the municipal authorities of Dover indulged in no hyperhole of praise when describing the succeMes of this of the long I (1 3 Bops and beer mil in course of manufacture destroyed Thnfu roll of celebrated heroes destroyed The rear of Mr who havs led the English soldiers to RIVER AND EWELL the Manager of the Co-operative Stores River) premises slightly damaged by firs conteaU in the Sun Fire Office Mr Brown premises in the ire UDIce estimated damage about £7000 I am Gentlemen your obedient servant Te Town Council FOLKESTONE COUNTY COURT A public meeting will he held in the Schoolroom Alkham on Monday evening next at half past seven clock in connection with the River and District Co-eperative Society Mr Leney was also The following letter from read DOVER COURT POLICE The hero of the three hundred miles march from Cahul to Candahar and the subsequent brilliant victory over the Afghans returning from the campaign with his blushing honours thick upen landed at Dover on Tuesdayand was accorded a grand public reception such as this old cinque port has not given to any British warrior since the public demonstration in honour of General Williams tho defender of As soon as the Mayor heard that Dover would be on the route of General homeward journey Mr Dickesen arranged to ascert in as soon as he touched at Brindisi if it would he agreeable to receive an address from the Corporation on landing at- Dover and on Monday the answer earns accepting the proffered courtesy As soon as the news was known in Dover the townspeople were delighted and on all hands there was the greatest anxiety to see and do honour to the hero of the day although it is probable that not one out of abundred of those who delighted to honour General Roberts knew anything about his career as a soldier prior to his exploits in Afghanistan where he was the central figure during the late war but even his great maroh to the relief of Candahar was considered quite sufficient to seenre him a fitting reception at Dover But as great warriors do not grow up in a night like a mushroom it may be interesting to show that the great qualities which won public approval by storm iu Afghanistan have been long maturing General Roberts is an officer of curiously varied experience having served twenty years in the Qnartermaater-General Department Moreover he has the advantage of having served through many ipeigns in all and each of which he has earned distinction At the seige of Delhi he earned the Victoria Cross for sabring a standard-bearer and capturing his flag The various occupations con nected with the relief of Lucknow and its subsequent seige and capture saw him acting as Assistant Adjutant-General For this campaign he received the brevet rank of Major besides a medal and three clasps At the Umballah Expedition in 1863 he was also present In the Abyssinian War hs served throughout as Quartermaster-General of the Bengal Brigade and was given a lieutenant-colonelcy for his services As senior staff officer he accompanied the Looehai Expedition of 1872 for which he reoeived the Companionship of the Bath and he has attained to the higher dignity of knighthood In 1879 he greatly distinguished himself by his on Cabul after the massacre early in Sept of the British Envoy and suite His late march to the relief of the city of Candahar and the victory that followed it crowned his career with lasting glory Snch was the man to whom the Mayor of Dover so happily coneived the idea of giving a public reception and when it was known that circumstances would admit of its being carried out the necessary arrangements were speedily mads not to go down on the Pier on sufferance and wait in the cold for an indefinite time for the Calais boat but to receive the great General with due municipal dignity in the grand old hall of the Maison Dieu Accordingly the great hall was transformed into a magnificent reception room and being itself so well furnished with permanent decor ations it needed not the foreign aid of all that was necessary being to erect a large dais at the upper end cover it with crimson cloth set out the Council Chamber table and surround it by the crimson velvet upholstered chairs of the Mayor Aldermen and Councillors When the hall was brilliantly illuminated with gas and filled by the distinguished company that had met to greet the returning warrior the sight was a very striking one ths containing records of ancient and modern deeds of renown connected with the town and port and on the opposite side full length portraits of statesmen warriors and local celebrities Bnt we must leave this scene to watch for the coming of the great man in whom for the time all interest is centred While the elite of the town and garrison have assembled in the great hall he was still tossed on the choppy waves of the Channel which had in their time exerted their powers over many an invincible warrior Caesar included and they had no more respect for General Roberts the latest of the long line of celebrated heroes For the previous twenty-four hours a hard southwesterly gale had been blowing and as the time for the arrival approached it seemed to increase in violence Heavy and incessant squalls of rain and hail and furious gusts of wind lashed the sea into fury Vessels homeward bound flitted from time to time like phantoms amid the driving wind running for the shelter of the Downs under close reefed topsails and fersstaysails No outward bounder could attempt to make headway and none offered Altogether the outlook was dismal enough for the sea broke in cascades of spray and drift over the length of the noble Admiralty Pier which was deserted till about the hour fixed for the arrival of the Calais boat when crowds of people of both sexes whose curiosity was stronger than their sense of discomfort took up their position on the upper terrace with the certainty of being drenched to the skin by the continuous spray The lower roadway on the level of the line of rails was reserved for visitors with special claims to consideration such as relatives of the offioers who were expected and amongst them came Lady Roberts escorted by General Bruce General Newdigate commanding at Dover and his Staff and a crowd of local notables all anxious to catch the first glimpse of the gallant soldier who has won for himself so high a military reputation In front and under the lee of the Lord Warden Hotel many hundreds of spectators found a much more agreeable waiting-place But all alike manfully kept their poets and peered ont into the gloom that soon began to cover the faoe of the deep in search of the coming steamer The usual hour of arrival is from three to half-past three pm but with the heavy gale that was blowing it was pretty certain that the teat would be driven out of her course and thence of necessity be behind So it turned out It was past four before the smoke of a coming tMnir was seen coming dead to leeward and this was regarded as the Ostend boat On a nearer approach it was found that two steamers were clese together pitching and rolling in great style as they progressed slowly i company for the welcome shelter of the Admiralty Pier The Calais boat-I France Captain De la Haye-had in fact been dnven so far to leeward that she had at last to head up on the same oourse as her Belgian consort The little craft though pitching tremendously with her decks awash fore and aft and with spray flviug from her bows clear over her funnels made very good way soon coming near enojgh to let it be seen that her offioers and crews booted and cased from head to foot in oilskins had the monopoly of the deck and bridge The boat was run cleverly alongside and as it was dead low water the disembarkation was effected at the lower landing-stage which was oeeupied by the immediate friends of the offioers on board As the boat became stationary those gallant gentlemen emerged from the cabins General Roberts was soon recognised as he came into the open air enveloped in a long brown ulster-shaped wrap and there was hearty cheering from the moment he taped on while be imutuI tile affectionate salutation of his a ife and friends the soldier like greeting and congratulations yon any and that to and your have read and been and have glad made were of am have taken the ROCHESTER By the death of Elizabeth Mary Dowager Viscountess Grort the city of Rochester saves £425 per annum under very singular circumstances It appears that in 1818 the Corporation of Rochester borrowed £o000 of Lady father a Mr Jones the repayment of which it was arranged aftor LPe u- t0 Mr- Jones and after his death to his daughter shonld she snrvive him Owing it is said to medical certificates representing that the daughter was anything but robust health the Corporation consented to mat the annuity as large a one as £425 In spite of the doctors however Mr daughter not only survived him but had reached to the mellow old age of 89 when she died Thus for 62 years the ratepayers of Rochester have had to pay this annual charge of £425 so that for originally received £25350 has been the period stated Phoenix Brewery Dolphin-lane Dear Mr Having received such valuable and prompt assistance from the police and our fellow towns folk in connection with our disastrous fire we wish to express to you as their head our heartfelt thanks for the same We consider the aid then rendered rescued one property from total destruction rescued our We are dear Mr Mayor Yours respectfully Alfred Leney Councillor Brown said it had been rumoured that there was a deficiency of water supply on the -but hria bsen the spot from the first an! being a keenly-interested spectator inasmuch as hie own premises were in danger that there was an abundant supffij from the first and that the police were deserving of praise for their exertions from first to last 8 WATER INSPECTION The Surveyor reported that the water supply during the two last weeks amounted to 12 698226 a compared with 15 870596 gallon intKrS ponding fortnight of last year Alderman Adcock said that showed 25 nor cent saving nee the new inspector were pot on A InnPtngM Rsaa mass) Ll 8 Alderman Rees said he MONDAY Before Stein Finnis and Rees Esqrs APPLICATION FOR SUMMONSES Mr Mackenzie jun applied for 140 Poor Rite summonses which were granted TRANSFER OF LICENSES The license of the Oive Branch was transferred from Mr Mary Spice to William Forester The license of the King William IV Woolcomber-street was transferred from Mrs Read to Thomas Manser a shipwright AFFILLIATXON CASE George Thornat Ovenden pilot of 27 Albert-road was summoned by the Board of Guardians for not contributing towards the maintenance of an illegitimate child at the Union as ordered by the Bench some months back Mr Lewis appeared to prosecute and said he had jnst received a letter from SITTINGBOURNE The Bench on Monday were engaged for several hours in hearing a case in which the Milton Improvement Commissioners summoned Mr George Gibbens a bnck manufacturer and a Mr Charles of first instalment (amounting believed the saving would houuekeeper which stated thathe was be soon still greater if the public wonld co-operate Bt at 8ea asking the Bench if i facilities thoy adjourn the case so as he could appear The Bench agred to adjourn the case till the following Monday over of a general district rate dne on the brickfield occnpied by Mr Gibbens It appeared that affaire have been Tn iZida! icf tk J-j tion with the result that the credRoTs MAKING A FALSE STATEMENT Richard Shingleton a gunner in the 9th Bei-ade Royal Artillery was charged with making a false statement on being attested at Preston Lancashire on September 27th last by stating that he was not married giving to the water inspectors failings for the drains Aldermen Adcock and Stiff were amongst the offenders stiff were Alderman Adcock said that roost likely the RwrerTTveTto TT fwu waived that letters should be sent to to builders calling attention to the matter the bound towbb ag to accept a composition of 7s in the pound8 By an arrangement Bates bought estat on guaranteeing to pay that composition and it was the Bates who was willing SATURDAY Before Russel Esq Judge EXTARODINARY CHARGES FOR DEBT RECOVERY Joseph Smith bookseller Stubbs Guardian of Commerce Association Mr Minter appeared for plaintiff and Mr Robert Stephen Abram a sub-manager appeared for the defendants Mr Minter said the action was to recover £15 Is Id money collected The defendants pleaded a set off which was unintelligible to the plaintiff Mr Abram said they admitted the claim but pleaded a set-off The society collected accounts and also furnished a weekly list of bills of sale Mr Minter said subscribers paid £2 2s per annum to have their debts collected at 5 per cent commission They had collected £26 and now as a set-off had charged 12 guineas for so many debt recovery books Mr Abram said they charged commission npon every debt not upon the gross amount collected Their clients had always been willing to pay this subscription was £2 4s 6d per annnm not £2 2s His Honour He pays £2 4s 6d for the privilege of being charged 5 per cent on debts collected Mr Abram We should not collect account for 5 per cent Plaintiff had a recovery book of 20 leaves the price sf which was 10s 6d and which is included in the subscrip tion He also had an Inquiry Book 99 of 10 leaves which is also charged 10s 6d and included in the subscription Mr Minter Here is ono of tho books its trade price I should think is about 3d The Judge: Do you really mean to say yon charge 10s 6d for it 7 7 Mr Abram said every subscriber was famished with one at a cost of 10s 6d and for that amount they agreed to collect 20 debts at 5 per cent commission Each additional recovery book was charged 10s 6d Plaintiff had 24 of those books for which they had charged him 10s 6d each They had applied for over 500 accounts for Mr Smith and paid aU the postage connected with the applications Plaintiff said when he became a subscriber he had no idea that he had to pay 10s 6d each for the books It was never pointed out to him that such a charge would be made and the first he beard of it was when the account was sent to him His Honour said he was of opinion that having regard to the apparently excessive charge of 10s 6d lor these hooks for which he thought 2d or 3d would have been sufficient some explanation was necessary The explanation given was that these debt recovery books included every item of expenditure in the collection of debts especially the item of postage With reference to that he bad one or two remarks to make There was an annual subscription of £2 4s 6d which he thought should reasonably include such charges and irrespective and beyond that it was admitted by the sob-manager that they charge! Is in the to to the debtors which itself would be ample to pay for all postage paper letter writing snd envelopes He was of opinion that even though it might be men-tioned on a prospectus the charge of 10s 6d for these books waa so unreasonable that it could not be held to be binding upon the plaintiff nnless it were specially pointed ont to him at the time that such a charge would be made If only one or two books were covered by the subscription then it was the duty of the defendants to write and say that the plaintiff would be charged 10s 6d for each one supplied and then no doubt he would say sake send any The defendants weroIo7t in thre the that tfae rates The Bench entitled to priority noon a thVate had first claim upon the estate and made an order for a distress warrant to issue forthwith A Prod the case and produced the certificate of marriage of Richard Shingleton and Amelia Ann Johnson at St Preston on the 15th February 1879 in charff aid tb prisoner bore a good character and that no memorial could be raised 1 propert3r to th9 Band would take days he had been in the into consideration the 14 Why so many People guard room letter was read from the Hon "hen the other tow found marked how man more SL! some of the tone were to him they wre iths grdeu at Caetle HiU-ho at some Ses Tore because of better sanitary arrangements Cleanlinr other enormous and The $UtoieU)0 4fSngTo iMsii presence cannot be doubted of in the back side and chest enervated and langifid feefin Sh and b88 of the stomach The CaueiFixioN AJfD otheb By Ambler London: Poole 12a venient wall situation ef deadly faintness at its pit which DOVES AND DEAL HAILWAY This is a small octavo ef poems one prefixed bv nrtore? entitled Some ePffectiro 87hC0avChed IV eating does not stay sick hesdhe? so cafied biC? dcss unpleasent breath a sense weriness when mouthmand taste in the food Tho i of appetite or non-enjoyment of hxri rhese are but the mildest effects of leeline rd bowgreat is the distress and suffering8 wth hindrance to business and pleasure they give rThlehro By-compiled and sri Thl been vested in anyone 8 JU8tlfy rythm of the poetical cadets Of minutee'fM future reference0 be regulations in that case made and provided A new oiu-uuadtya Mayor who presented it to Sir Frederick Roberts who received it amidst a great demonstration of cheering General Sir Frederick Roberta then came forward and as soon as he could be heard above the roars of cheering that greeted him he said Mr Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of Dover I scarcely know how to thank you for the kind manner in which you have been pleased to greet meon my return from India and for the flattering terms in which have alluded to my services in Afghanistan On other occasion I should have hesitated to have accepted such expressions of praise as your Worship the Corporation of Dover have seen fit to address to me to-day But I feel that the cordial welcome which you havo given me here is not intended for roe alone but also for these officers who accompanied me from India for the whole of grand British as well as Native with which it has been our privilege and good fortune have been associated daring the last two years (Loud cheering) On behalf then of those officers that army 1 accept without reservation all that Worship has been good enough to say The report of the reception the good people of Dover been kind enough to give me to-day will be with the greatest interest throughout India with peculiar satisfaction by those who have recently under my command (Cheers) One all will feel that a share of the great honour you done me to-day is theirs (Cheers) I am to have this early opportunity of letting it be knowu how much gratified we in Afghanistar by the deep personal interest which all in England from the highest in the realm downwards regarded the welfare of our troops during the late campaign (Cheers) The kindly words and sympathy that we received enabled us to make light hardships and encouraged us to do our duty in a manner which I am proud to hear from the very generous expressions your Worship has used has secured the approval of our countrymen (Cheers) Whatever sort of a soldier I may be I a shocking bad and what I endured daring the last two hours has quite out of me all the speechifying powers which I IwiU no more therefore tut on of myself and all those who shared of war w'th me my sincere thanks for great honour you have done me (Loud cheers) 2ssscs oT tol 7 the organs in the impairedvigoar o'tooTa them-and they are 7rionL 'f PUtS dePendlDS wheel ot to i le6 out of gear Just as the wneet ot the clock will require to be adjusted that accurate time be miscellaneous Severn! dead trees on Godwyn-rond rere ordered may kept mncli fl of the stomach be restored to organs a i loreo to their original vigour Penny magazine The Burlington edited by Helen Mathers wiR be published onVc entitled or -l- author of song by Surgery by such knowledge snd consequently the twelve guineas must be deducted from the set-off He thought the charge a most exorbitant one judg ment wonld be for the plaintiff for £11 18s 4d had altogether failed to show that the plaintiff hid Bye ones of u-" me street in front: 'W eany nnmbers There is a strong tha Property ng and will be the US a of the editress to give a much in quantity and as Holloways Ointment and Pills Coughs The soothing properties of these medicaments render them well worthy of trial in all diseases of the respiratory organs In common colds and influenza the Pills taken internally and the Ointment rubbed over the chest and throat 11 wH1 import to the aU who SL faSTtoTt life and health of stB8Tf few of my opply by post or peron who to men Also the Hindoo Pens' Points Sold at 6d and Is ner Dlffonal Sample Box (all the kind) by ls ld Stpatonfr9-of Pen and Penholders Macwmw fPateDtee8 23 to 33 Blairstreet Edinbureh Government Offices are exceedinglv be is When influerza is epidemic this treatment IS easiest safest and surest Pills pBrifv the blood remove all obstacles to its free circulation through the lungs relieve the over-gorged air tabes and render respiration free without reducing the strength irritating the nerves or depressing the spirits such are affanst the Corporation tar to! the ready means of saving suffering when anv on bavin naid contract bn year water had been the ready mears of saving suffering when bavin naid fot breach of contra afflicted with cold coughs bronchitis snd other chset The'sorvavnr the end ot th complaints by which so many persons are serional the water had complaints oy wnict so many persons are seriously and cat water had been 7 Epileptic Fits -sensations giddiness fa ints A certain method of cure lug been discovered for this distressing complaint Wh0 i8de9i9 that all sttferetmay benefit from this providential discovery It 7 I 16 most tlODftlftM PtisA nftow -II 1 aft permanently afflicted in most countries inejmtiw Stookwn refused to admit the will oeen Williams be sent by poet free of 10 Oxfort- Printed and Published bv Jm his Printing Office 185 avinqton Joses St Mary tti Parish of Friday evening Ncwmnfcer 191880 ooan7 01 Keat 00.