The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-13 00:00:00

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PARILSTONII.

INDUSTRIAL AND LOAN EIHIBITION.—Ws have not
beard Into yof Vt. prospect. of t Parket me bolus-
trial and L win Exhibition. It will be rem/whored
that it w orightelly 61.e1 for Eater week, but in
momquettoe of the tw 4olrl Muter', which on-
expect-dly Intervene I, In the puhlic mmtruing for the
Doke of Albsoy, not the II ,reuth eleotioe, it was
postponed for a while. It I. unite powible that the
oornmittee hare Wm, met and fixed the Into at which
the exhibition will be actually held; but ws her. emu
no further public ntl 'f D. Of coarse. if It Is
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decider-to bi-impoesible, after all, to hold the exhibi-
tion this year, the decision, if proved inevitabl-, will
be aceeptal In the perish. Ail(I no doubt, ovriug to
several unforeseen difficulties, the work of the com-
mittee has not been so may as waa hoped. Yet, so
far as we see, there is no aheolute Impediment in the
way of holding the exhibiti .0 later tbsn was
Intended. Whitson. week would be possible In
respect of the School-building, and would afford
• Rank holiday for the opening ; while an
early week In July would find the School buildings
still freer for the porpoise of the exhibition during
the time of the summer months. The o ,minittee are
probably in polkaed in. which we are not, of something
like the null:there of intending exhibitors and of
exhibits. If there have bees any oonsidwoble efforts
to comp Le for prize., it vs.,ttid seem very disappointing
to competitors If no competition beef( oded. —lf there
be any doubt on the subject, It appears t) us that
there should be a meeting called of the intending
exhibitors, to ascertain, on the part of the committee,
whether they wool be entrant to wait, and for how
lug. Only it does seem tin, that something definite
should be done, and et onos. If Whitsuntide be
chosen finally, there is n me too much time for exhibi-
t we In the loan department to make their neceplary
arrangements. For our own part, we think summer
rn'ght prove quite is convenient as spring, for an
exhibition soh a. our,; and we do not me &ay reason
why its postponement, so far, should prevent its being
ae feat • 01440•40 ••, in the outset of the scheme, it
was hoped it might be—Porkstone Reminder.

POOLL
STARTLING 043 RIPLOSION.

On gsturday afternoon an alarming explosion of gas
occurred in a newly built villa on the Parkstons-road.
Workmen, it apposite, were "wood in laying on the
'gross, and a centre in the ball wan left unplugged.
This, fortunately, had only been the come foe about
five minutes, or the conaisquencee would have been
disastrous. One of the men with • lighted
candle was going round examining the Joint",
and upon entering the drawing.room, where the gas
had perme.ted, • really terrific explosion of Kam
onzurrel. The man was knocked backwards, a
...Wall engaged in chsring shared the same fate, and
others of the workmen were fully moored it was a
repetition of the recent earthquakes, reaching as
ten 11. P ole, and made their exit se fast
as they ..oul 1. mi half • dozen of the
•ind .w. a.., cooroletely blown oat, and
greet pooch a . f tee walls and ceilings were shaken
oicern Fort onatooly the win lows were not of plate
glee., Of the result oin.t have be on cliii more diertrons.
The-row. cre.ted consterneti Jo lathe neighbour.
hood, which, how. vo r, srheu it was fJULIfi no one wee
hurt, gave way to ciricsity.