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Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, Cornish Weekly & General Advertiser 16 Jul 1903
BODMIN.
On Saturday notice was received that four new magistrates had been added to the borough Bench, viz., the Mayor (M. W. T. H. SPEAR), Mr. W. A. BAWDEN, Mr. R. T. CARDELL, and Mr. Charles HEXT. The appointments have been made without reference to the Corporation. The Mayor and Mr. BAWDEN are members of the Corporation, and Messrs. CARDELL and HEXT both passed some years as members of the local governing body.
Mr. John STEPHENS presided over a meeting of the Fanciers' Association on Friday evening, when a schedule for the first members' show on October 7th was adopted. All exhibits must be members' own rearing, and this year's birds. Five new members were enrolled, making the membership fifty. The secretary (Mr. W. L. TONKING) stated that there was an impression in some minds that the association would interfere with the working of the Bodmin and District Chrysanthemum, Poultry, and Dairy Association, which holds one big show in November, but it was pointed out that the object of the Fanciers' Association was to encourage breeding and exhibiting, and thus help the open show of the larger organisation.
William Henry OATEN, Port Isaac, summoned for not having his child vaccinated, pleaded that he believed vaccination was injurious. He did not know that exemption should be claimed within four months. The Mayor (Mr. T. H. SPEAR) said the Bench could only do one thing – make an order, but would remit the costs. William BILLING, Port Isaac, against whom an order to vaccinate his child, aged 9 years, was made six weeks ago, was summoned for non-compliance. Defendant produced a certificate by Dr. PERKINS that the child was in an unfit state for vaccination. Case adjourned for two months. Mr. J. PETHYBRIDGE, who represented the vaccination officer (Mr. M. H. MARKS), asked that Mr. BILLING be requested to comply with the vaccination orders by sending the medical certificates to the vaccination officer. Annie HAMBLY, Denby Farm, was summoned for working a horse in an unfit state, and William HAMBLY, her husband, for allowing it to be worked. For the defence, Mr. T. E. GILL and defendants gave evidence. Mrs. HAMBLY was fined 1s., and costs £1 16., and the case against her husband was dismissed.
Considerable progress has been made with the erection of the tablet in Bodmin Church in memory of the men of the two Cornish regiments who fell in the wars in Egypt from 1882 to 1885 and South Africa 1899-1902. The memorial window has already been placed in position. The tablet, the work of Clayton and Bell, London, is really divided into five parts, and surmounted with the county crest, with the words “One and All.” The centre tablet contains the names of officers and non-commissioned officers who fell in Egypt and South Africa: the two left tablets the names of the privates who fell in Egypt, and the right ones those in South Africa. In the cornices are the inscriptions:- “Egypt, 1882”: “Tel-el-Kebir”: “Nile, 1884-85”: and “South Africa, 1899-1902”: “Paardeberg,” “Driefoutein,” and “Johannesburg.” The tablets are of yellow Verona marble, the shirting, styles, and carved cornices being all of the same material. The window at the top also contains the county crest, with the motto in the centre and the date of the South African war.