DIRJ:.}OTORY.J DORSETSHIRE. SHAFTESBURY. 177 Officials. lingham; Shafiesbury district, William James Harris {'lerk, Charles Roland Dickenson,Victoria st.Shaftesbury M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S.Eng. Avishayes, Bleke street, Treasurer, Henry Joseph Olding, Wilts & Dorset Bank Shaftesbury · Medicsl Officer of Healt4, Thomas Francis Hanly The Workhouse, S£. James', is a building of stone, L.R.C.P. Jli S.Edin. High street, Gillingham erected in 1837, to hold IOO inmates; Rev. Frederick Sanitary Inspector & District Surveyor, Henry Wood­ Ehlvers, chaplain; , master; h3m, 3 Ivy cross, Shaftesbury William James Harris M.A., M.D.Cantab., F.R.C.S. Eng. medical officer ; , matron; Miss Winnifred Mesney, nurse PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Superintendent Registrar, Charles Roland Dickenson, County Court, His Honor Judge O'Connor K.C. judge; Union offices, Victoria street, Shaftesbury; deputy,­ Charles Hodson Kent, registrar & high bailiff. William H. Ward, Victoria street, Shaftesbury The court is held at the Town hall on wednes­ Registrars of Births & Deaths, Fontmell sub-district, ·~ay in eaeh month, with the exception of September, in John Tapper, Twyford; deputy, J em Barnes, Twyford ; which month there is no court held. The district com­ Gillingham sub-district, Lucius George Gibbs, Ceme­ prises the following places in Dorset : Ashmore, Cann, tery road, Gillingham; deputy, Arthur Edward Light, othPrwise Shaston St. Rumbold, Bourton, Bourton The Haven, Wyke road, Gillingham; Shaftesbury sub­ West, Buckhorne W eston, Oaundle Stourton, Compton district, Henry Edward Jones, Alcester, Shaftesbury; Abbas, East Orchard, East Stower, Fife ead Magdalen, deputy, Samuel J. Keast, 7 Bell street, Shaftesbury Fontmell Magna, Gillingham, Hammoon, I werne Registrars of Marriages, Alfred W. Woodcock, I Angel sq. :Minster, Kington Magna, Manston, Marnhull, Margaret Shaftesbury; deputy, Samuel J. Keast, 7 Bell street, Marsh, Melbury Abbas, Motcombe St. James (Shaftes­ Shaftesbury; Lucius George Gibbs, Cemetery road, 'bury), Silton, Stalbridge, Stower Provost, Sutton Gillingham; deputy, Arthur Edward Light, The Waldron, Todber, West Orchard & West Stower; & Haven, Wyke road, Gillingham; John Kingsley But­ the following in Wilts: Alvediston, Ansty, Berwick ter, 31 Bell street, Shaftesbury, registering officer for St. John, Berwick St. Leonard, Chicklade, Chilmark, l the Society of Friends "Donhead St. Andrew, Donhead St. Mary, East Knoyle, East Tisbury, Fonthill Bishop, Fonthill Giffard, Hindon, l\Iere, Pertwood, Sedghill, Semley, Stourton (with the PUBLIC OFFICERS. hamlet of Gasper, in Somerset), Sutton Manderville, Assessor of Taxes, James Burbidge, 42 Bell street Swallowcliffe, Teffont Evias, Teffnnt Magna, Tollard Assistant Overseer for the Parishes of Shaftesbury, Royal, Wardour, West Knoyle, West Tisbury & Zeals Alcester & West Orchard & Collector of Taxes for For B11nkrnptcy purposes this court is included in that the United Parishes of Shaftesbury, Alcester, Ash­ of Salisbury, Tilney Barton, City chambers, Catherine more, Oann, Farnham & Melbury Abbas, Alfred street, Salisbury, official receiver William Woodcock, 1 Angel square 'Certified Bailiffs unrler the "Law of Distress .Amendment Clerk to the Commissioners of Income, PropeTty & Land Act," Herbert Stowell, St. John's hill, Shaftesbury & Taxes, Charles Hodson Kent, 23 Bell street JC'hn Edward Ernest Johnson, High st. Shaftesbury C!erks to the Local Pension Sub-Committees, Shafte"'­ County Police Station, 27 Bell street, William Bowles, burv Borough, Samuel J. Keast, 7 Bell street; superintendent, I sergeant & 10 constables Shaftesbury Rural, Arthur Edward Light, The Haven, "Fire Engine Station, Bell street; William Farris, capt. ; Wyke road, Gi.llingham Henry Woodham, lieut. & 12 men Lessee of Street Market Tolls, William Samuel Oram, Literary Institute, 3 Bleke street, Right Hon. Lord Stal- 2 Parson's Pool bridge, president; Herbert H. Hacker, sec Superintendent of Police, William Bowles, 27 Bell street Market Honse. Hie-h strE>t>t & Bell street Veterinary Inspector under the " Diseases of Animals 'Temperance Hall, Bell street Acts " for Shaftesbury District, Edward Langford "Town Hall, Willi~m ~amuel Oram, ket>per :M.R.C.V.S. Park house 'VeRtminster Memorial Cottage Ho~pital, Park road, w;n;.,m James "Rarris J.P., M A., M.D., F.R.C.S Eng. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services. Frederick H. Blucke M.R.C.S., L.R.O.P. & Harold Holy Trinity Church, Bimport street (consolidated with Utterton Gould M.B., B.C.Cantab., M.R.C.S.Eng., St. Peter's, High street), Rev. Frederick Ehlvers, L R.C.P.Lond. hon. medical officers; Rev. Frederick rector; 8 & II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; children's service at Ehlvers, hon. chaplain ; Henry J oseph Olding, hon. 3 p.m. every sun. in the month; ho\v com. ISt sun. in treasurPr; William Lillington Chitty, hon. sec. ; Miss month at II a.m. ; every sun. in -fnonth at 8 a. m. ; Dora Miller, matron & nurse 4th sun. in month at 6.30 p.m.; daily, Io a.m St. James' Church, Rev. George Hunter Yarnall. TERRTTORT.A.L FORCE. rector; George Stainer, clerk; 8 & n a. m. & 3 &:i 4th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (Left Half E Co.) ; 6.30 p.m. sundays; 10 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. week days armoury, 35 Bell street; Capt. & Hon. Major B. E. Most Holy Name & St. Edward the Martyr (Catholic), Freame V.D.; Color-Sergt. Robert George Milner, Salisbury street, Rev. P. Chapleau, priest; 8 & 1 r Gillingham, drill instructor a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; daily, 8 a.m.; thurs. 6.30 p.m Friends' Meeting, Institute, Gold hill, n a. m SHAFTESBURY UNION. Congregational, Muston's lane, Rev. Charles Mason; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; tues. 8 p.m. in summer; thurs. ~he union comprises the following parishes :-Alcester, 8 p.m. in winter Ashmore, Bourton, Buckhorne Weston, Cann, Compton Brethren's. Meeting House, Ebenezer hall, Salisbury st. ; A.bbas, Fontmell Magna, Gillingham, Iwerne Minster, II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m Kington Magna, Margaret Marsh, Mdbury Abbas, Mot­ Primitive Methodist, St. James' street, Rev. Georg~ ·Combe, Orchard (East), Orchard (West), Shaftes.bury, . Stanyer; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m Silton, Stower (East), Stower (West), Stower Provost, Wesleyan Methodist, Parson's Pool (Shaftesbury & Gil­ Sutton Waldron, Todber. The population of the union lingham Circuit); Rev. Josephus Bishop (supt.); in Igii was I2,783; area, 43,088 acres; rateable ; n a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thur!". value at Lady Day, Igii, £go,oo6 7 p.m Eoard day, at the Workhouse, at II a.m. alternate thurs I(Jhairman of the Board of Guardians, Bertram Edmund SCHOOLS. Freame, Gillingham Shaftesbury Grammar School, which stands on the east­ :Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, ern outskirts of the town, in the parish of St. Peter's Charles Roland Dickenson, Union offices, Victoria on an elevated & extr~mely healthy position, was street, Shaftesbury founded in 17I8 : the present buildings, erected in "Treasurer, Henry Joseph Olding, Wilts & Dorset Bank 1878, are in the so-called Queen Anne style: the school 'Relieving Officers & Collectors to the Guardians, No. I has been reorganized under a scheme sanctioued by the district, Henry Edward Jones, Alcester, Shaftesbury; Charity Commissioners, & was opened January, I879 ~ No. 2 district, Lucius George Gibbs, Cemetery road, the buildings. include a head master's 'residence, Gillinghsm laboratories for chemistry & physics, a carpenter~s · Vaccination Officers, John Tapper, Twyford; Henry shop, cricket pavilion & gymnasium, & adjoining is a 1Edward Jones, Alcester, Shaftesbury J & Lucius Geo. cricket field of about 4 acres: two Foundation Scholar­ \Gibbs, Cemetery road, Gillingham ships, each of the annual value of £4, & two Exhi­ M11dical Offieers & Public Vaccinators, Bourton district, bitions on the Bimport Foundation, each of the an­ Benjamin Pope Bartlett :M.R.O.S.Eng. Bourton; Font­ nual value of £3, tenable at the school for two men district, James Appleyard M.R.C.S., L.R.O.P. years, are awarded every August: there are now Lond. Fontmell M'lgna; Gillingham district, Thomas ( Igu) 70 boys, including 25 boarders. George Henry Francis Hanly L.R.O.P. & S.Edin. High street, Gil· Gordon esq. J.P. chairman of the governors; H. C. I'ORS!':T. 12