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Newton: Board of Guardians: Yesterday: The Rev. R. R. Wolfe presided. … (discussion of how the Clerk took the minutes of meetings) … H. Hutchins moved that advertisements be issued for the appointment of a porter who shall be married and without incumbrance, at a salary of £25 per annum, with residence and rations for himself and wife – the porter to cut hair and shave. Mr. Beazley seconded the motion, and said the committee were unanimous in recommending the salary named. Mr. Bickford moved an amendment that the former salary £18 be the sum named, which was seconded by Mr Pinsent, but on division it was lost.

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The Funeral of J. Parson, Esq., of Bitton House, Teignmouth: The funeral of John Parson, Esq. of Bitton House, who died at this residence, after a short illness produced by an attack of paralysis on Sunday week, took place on Tuesday last. Thus, Teignmouth has lost an inhabitant it could but ill afford to spare … (discussion of the civic contribution and funeral procession) … The procession extended more than a quarter of a mile and among those present we noticed … (includes) … Pinsent (Newton) … (description of burial).

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Newton: County Court: Friday: before Judge Fortescue: … Rowe v Pinsent: Claim 9s 6d, balance due in respect of a pig: Plaintiff stated defendant’s son bought the pig from him, saying it was for his father. Defendant’s wife said she never had any dealings with the plaintiff. If her son had a pig of him, he had worked it out: The Judge said he should non-suit plaintiff, but told him to take proceedings against the son before the magistrates, if what he had said was true.

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Newton Abbot Agricultural Association: The annual meeting of this association was held on Thursday. The prizes for ploughing were keenly contested, there being twenty six teams at work in two fields, one belonging to Mr. R. Maddicott, of Wolborough Barton, and the other to Mr. Mudge of Decoy … … Prize List: … … Ploughman with double or one way plough: 1, R Brooke, with Mr. Carpenter; e, John Balkwell, with Mr. Pinsent, 3. Samuel Elliot, with Mr. Pickard; 4, Henry James, with Mr. Mudge. …

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Board of Guardians: Wednesday: The Rev. R. R. Wolfe presided … With regard to the woman Yeoman; she had been suffering from a disease for twenty one years. She had been in the London Hospital and discharged as incurable and had also been a patient of the Exeter and Teignmouth Dispensaries without any beneficial results. He had at his own expense consulted an eminent London physician, and also Mr. Swain, of Plymouth, both of whom agreed with his treatment and gave some suggestions. She was now quite well and able to walk to church and attend to her domestic duties, but it was his opinion if the brandy were discontinued, she would lapse into her former state, and be as bad as ever. How long it would be necessary to continue the brandy he was not prepared to say: Mr. Smallridge and Mr. Pinsont, Guardians of Kingsteington, confirmed what the doctor had stated in respect to the present condition of the woman compared with what it was before she was under Dry. Haydon’s treatment …

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Teignmouth: A triennial election of Harbour and River Commissioners took place yesterday at the office of their clerk, Mr. Tozer. The first proceeding was to elect representatives of shipowners. Mr. T. W. Hutchings presided. The votes were in favour of the following: — Messrs. G. P. Ward (Teignmouth), Mortimore (Kingsteignton), T. W. B. Hutchings (Teignmouth), and Jas. S. Bearne (Newton Abbot), the latter taking the place of Mr. A. Owen. As representatives of ratepayers —Major Yates, Messrs. Pinsent, Vicary, and Lewis Bearne were chosen for the Wolborough neighbourhood, and Captain Jones, Messrs. Parson, T. W. Hutchings, and A. Owen (the latter in the room of the late Captain Marshall) for Teignmouth, Mr. J. Whiteway presiding over this part of the proceedings. The other Commissioners are: — Mr. J. Drew, on behalf of Lord Devon; Mr. J. Whiteway, Inverteign, for the Duke of Somerset; Mr. J. H. Whiteway, Newton Abbot, for Lord Clifford; and Mr. Margary for the Stover Canal Company.

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Passengers Arrived and Sailed: … … List of Cabin Passengers per Montreal Ocean Steamship Hibernian (Captain F. Archer), from Baltimore to Liverpool (via Halifax and St. John’s), July 8 1874: … includes … Mr. and Mrs. Pinsent … …

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Devon County Agricultural Association: An adjourned meeting was held at the Town Hall in this town, on Wednesday, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee, Messrs. D. R. Scratton and E. Ford, who had been deputed to wait on the Council of the above Association to invite them to hold their meeting for 1876 at Newt Abbot … … The following committee, with power to add to their number, were then appointed to canvas for subscriptions, and make the necessary preliminary arrangements for holding the exhibition: Messrs. W. J. Watt, T. Wills, Captain Cornish-Bowden, E. Cumming … John Pinsent … (and others) …

[see also Exeter and Plymouth Gazette: Friday 3^rd August 1877]

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