The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-06-18 00:00:00

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The Weejerne ere the lint to enjoy tin whlumg.
tide Their Sunday School Annivereary wee bold cat
Anna= Tbe Rev. J. Clegg, Superintendent of
the morning hod evening. In the
dims= trerdildna owes switAikes rod Ur.
Webb'. d undo. as old Mind of Os 0111110 Mos,

delivered ea eadma. There IWO Vilatroosorm
poops throughout the darizediathe ra the
&Mires 'simian/ of the WY veil
mach enjoyed. Thu mOoss, instituted two or three
years BiZlOlll, of inviting the deer.edsoQs is the towt
to attend in the afternoon was again carried ask sod
the children of the C. and woke Hen
Schools accepted the in Lotion.

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Monday wee a very Ike day ashore, though the seas
were rather too beery to tusks sailing Oil them 'O.l.
able. More visitors than usual liars spent the
Whiteturtide in the town, Lad a larger ocamb•r of
natives have taken he opportunity of looking in °° "th°
old folka at home." A greet many strangers found
their way to Tilly and were well repaid. At
one point, a. each ware burst over Sk• rncka. a
beautiful sea•how was risible, sometimes extending to
the length of 30ft and of exquisite colours.
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• ll' the evening the W.l. held held their tea meeting
in the Congregational Scho,d-rootri, followed by
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scholars entertaintaent in their own chapel, waith
was very fairly attended consi faring the attraction of
the fine weather outside.

Tue.d.,7 is devoted to the Swanage branch of the
County Club. The weather was not very promising
about church time. but so 43 cleared off, and an enjoy-
able day, in spite of the high wind, was experience.
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In one of Charles Kingsley's letters, written from
Everviey, he says, ' I have been making a fool of
myself for the last ten minutes, according to the
world's notion of folly, fur there have been some
strolling fiddlers under the window, sad I have been
listening and crying like • child." Open-air music
(thaelcs to the impossibility of :wastage rousiciens of
that ilk agreeing together many months at • time) is
such a rarity to us, that we quite sympathised with
the mood of the great novelist when we heard the
sound of the braes-bend on its way to Divine Service.
After church, the procession, staggeringly headed by
the heavy banner, and harmoniousiv by the
marched down High-street. Such members as sought
to keep their boots clean, but forgetful of order,
tried the pavement, others heroically stock to the
mud, and the mud to them. Then came the dinner.
after which the hand adjourned to the field near the
brewery, where the marquee wsa set up, and dewing
and cold-catching proseeiled apace.
The wind blowing hard ft .m the S.W., a number of
visitors took the trouble of tattling their way to Tilly
Whim, for at such times the much frequented and
picturesque quarry is in its glory. Fee out at sea
crested waves were breaking and falling backward in
sheeted foam. Aiong the cliff-base, huge toppling
breakers fiercely danced, leaping over jutting crags,
bursting out from the cave-hollers, to hear grandly oa
against the perpendicular walls which form the solid
foundation of the quarries, bouncing with a rush into
huge op-shooting and dense clouds of sprsv, streaming
back in whit* cataract• and floating in wondrous
expanses out into the green-grev channel, or, caught
by the wind, lurl.d over the cliffs far inland drench-
ing unexpectedly unwary sight seen.
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Art had reserved its treat until evening, when the
Mowlem Institute Choral Society gave a concert of
sacred music. The society is ably conducted by Mr.
J. Roe, and consist. of twenty-five members, sho
have been in training since Christmas. It has now
evidenced its right to exist, and we wish it every
success The whole of the programme was exceedingly
well rendered, with 0111 exception ; —the hymn "Before
Jehovah's Awful Throne," sung by the ch dr, too
fast, and the last two chortler given very unsteadily.
We must mention three pieces as being m at praise-
worthy ;—" Adak Adder," "Lord of All Power and
Might," and' Awake, Awake, put on thy Strength."
Besddes the above, the choir sang in Part I Chorus
"Gel save the Queen;" and in Part 11, Sacred Song
"Sound the Loud Timbre!." The pianoforte duets
from Mendelasolm were pleasingly *rooted by Mr
Pope and Mir Hannan. The solo were sung well
without exception. "Soon and for Ever," by Mies
Freeborn; "Consider the Lilies." and "God shall
wipe away all Tears," bt. Mir S. Burt ;"Our Heavenlz
Father," by Master Rattier; "Comfort ye my People,
by Mr. Brown (the very beautiful chorus to this solo
wee adapted by Mr. Rue from the original, with
effect) ; But thou did'st not leave," by Mn.
Pope; "The Better Land." by Miss White,
" Resignation." by Mrs Roe; "Rocked in the Cradle
of the Deep," by Miss hishop, and "Low at Thy
Feet," by Miss Hillier. Besides these there were the
sluetts, "Nearer Home," by His. and Master Hillier;
" 0 Lovely Peace" and "H rk, 'tie the Breeze," by
Mrs. Pope and Mr. Brown; and s sweetly pretty
qoartette, "The Heavenly Rest," by the Mires no
Messrs. Hillier and Roe. At the close of the concert,
the Rev W. H. Start expressed the manifest delight
of the large and appreciative audience, for himself be
had not so thoroughly enjoyed any concert since he
had been at Swanage as this one. The proceeds are
to be divided between the Choral Society and the
County Club.