The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-07-21 00:00:00

Tilt W7MBL'DON MISTING.

At Wimbledon, on Saturday, the great advent woe
the wernei dtage the queen's, in which the first 300
men in tho first stage had to compete for places in
the fill who will fini for the gold medal. Four men
mail, • P 49 Jin to, Vpz. C.imar•Strip•Mit Simonds, 14th
; Private Geddes, Ai Lanark Private
Paish, lath Nlidineses ; and &meant Dodda, 3rd
Nliddleset On shooting iiff the tie for the silver
medal, it was won by Simonds, with 12 points in three
.leits, Geddes making 11, Paish P. end 11.1,1. 0.
'nie lowest score in the GO w. 177. The Prince of
Wales' Prise id 103 was won by Seggennt Garnett,
aid South Staffordshire, with 91, Oolour-Sergeant
Noble, Ist North lhoron, getting the second prise,
03, with M. The Vizianagram (hip was won by the
Lords' team with 277. vaned 270 by the Commons,
Win. The China Cup was gained by the Dumfries
county teani with 414. Lanark being second with 303
points. Private Ferguson, 2nd Perth, gained the mt.
George's View, and Sergeant Gown, lit Perth, the
relelmph CAW.
Conv Aral Chick, of the let Dorset, scored 180 on
Saturday. and is therefore in a good position in the
"Sixties."

MR. ()L IDSP,INN ON TUN FRANONIBI.
Alaxs meeting, convened by the Central Liberal
Asseciation for the Western or Westbury Division of
warn held on the roth inst.. on Warminster
C. on, under the presidency of Sir Charles Hob.
house. The meeting was composed chiefly of agricul.
tural labourers. The usual naoliations were forwarded
to Mr. Gladstone, frolll whom the following letter has
been received in acknowledgment :--
" Dear Mir, —I have received with cordial intermit
and pleasure the telegram and letter in which you
have kindly rendered me an &want of the remarkable
meeting ri cently held by the agricultural population
of the Westbury I>i ision of Wiltshire, compose.]
chiefly of thew about to be enfranchined. It was, in•
deed, a serious struggle through which the Liberal
Party of thin country secured electoral rights to the
agricultural labourers if the three kingdoms, over.
wining all direct 1114..ition and declining to be led
into the snares which MOTO carefully set in their lath.
I have wit A doubt that they will show thernmelves Nen•
sible of the ...potability as well as worthy of tllO
privile•go of ; and I may, p.rhni,,,,
he excused if I say that the Aylesbury election of
oriamirsmis my favourable allijuipatjogia,—
I remain, dimr sir. faithfislly 7manc
' W. i.(li..snimoirt '

rff X PARTICULAR sgßvfrg SQUADRO v.
After the fleet left Belfast Lough on Thursday the
Medina gunboat had to be taken in tow loy the
Minotaur. the Nfiodway by the Agincourt, Snap by the
Hercules, and the ike by the Sultan. Columns were
formed in three division* lines ahead, and about 111,1
hours after starting the Repulse closing too much on
the Hercules carried away the Snap's funnel with her
yards. Passing Dublin on Friday morning the
srpaacPxon was exercised in steam tactics, and a new
system of signalling by semaphore instead of flags was
tried. This however proved so dew as to be
thoroughly impracticable under present conditions,.
3laweia% re* were continued until six u'ulock, one diva.
sion being °piloted to the other and attempting to
break through its line, when • dense fog fell, putting
a stop to further evolutions. On Saturday thick,
misty weather rendered • resumption of tactics
impossible. In a trial of the Ajax steaming in com-
pany with the ‘i imotaur at a retool' ten knots, the new
turret.ship kept tap her character for erratic steering.
When the Longship's buoy was pared at six o'clock
there AM still • dense mist, and the torpedo boat,-No.
7, having been reported as adrift from the Sea Horse,
which was towing neveral of them to Dartmouth, the
Cormorant and Racer were sent In search of her. As
the fog did not lift on Sunday morning engines were
eased, while the Marine and Conquem were sent to
look out landward. The fog siren of Start Point was
heard about 11 o'clock, but no land could be seen
until after rounding the Start the ships made Torbay,
and anchored there as the weather cleared. The left
that place early on Monday morning for
Up to late on Sunday night DO tidings had bean
guaod 91 %hi Soa Woe awl miming torpulo boa%

AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

A case of very considerable impertanoe to
agrcul-
local and commercial men terminated at the Lancaster '
Assizes on Wednesday before Mr. Justice Manisty.
Christopher Wilson, .4 Rigmaden.perk, Westmore-
land. claimed 11:180 from Stesheni firunekill, a dealer in
cattle food, Kendall, for the lea of four prise animals
through inferior cattle cake supplied. Linseed cake
supplied, it was said, contained 10 pee cent ..and, and I
the oston cake WA. mouldy inside. A verdict was
returned for the plaintiff for £lOO.