The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-07-25 00:00:00

UNITED SUNDAE SCHOOLS -TREAT.

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How anxious were a thousand hit,U. hoeing in anticipe-
hi.MA or Wednesday afternoon. For, is spite of the wet
rodeos, and the Dorset Las zes„ the committee of the
Weymouth and Portland Sunday School Ultion had
appointal the 114th July For tLe annual Nutolty Schol
treat, aud the question ear whether they would be
favoored with a dry al ternoon, or be drench .d ff the
held. Many were toe qualms; Portland were amid, and
dtcidrd out It core, and the counsels in the II tpuit camp
alternated according to the likelihood of the weather
being wet or dry. When at last the day cause, wily a
fur chalice of whit, and blue shove and golden sunsuits
and blue and green hettw. then the little on,. hearts
danced with joy. Hope School met early in the al ternoon,
mud the new Wyk., Wass Hand awakened th• old word as
they played them Overt the Guildhall, in front of which
the our achuols mustered, anti formed proeses•on in the
following order:—
Tee Weymouth Sewn Hand. led by Herr Duds:lcor,
play ing meetly.
Ito:te Coli4r,getiuctia Shoot, about MU, auperin'.en lent
tire Hey. W. L3Wil. arid headed by their egail-t and
banner, bought aim borne by the boys of the Hilo., CI
Glouteeter•strrot &a.m.% &lout lsu, aurerintgadagt
Dauon. their Pastor lion. Wotd, and healed by the large
grdowinhanner or the echool.
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Toe Wyse Br e• Band, 12, leader Mr.
Baptist Butk-builunge ( Weytuoatti) mad It t Patbm
orb Ms, about WO iii ail, their suverimeade t, Ur.
Homphroy, the pamor. Rev. .1. Trafford, being in I. ado.
Thu school bad :der a tine harmer. but found it too much
to keep UP ..e5 nit the stud, $o they erre pleassled by
handsome bale ila. A large number of Numerate and
hags wet° in the pftcraeion, and helped to make it very
gay, and behind all came the waggole bearing merry little
ones, who were unable to walk the round cit the town_;—
Hope mustered four waggon% kinlly lent by Mr.
Devenish, Mr. J. Groves, Mr. Webb, aid Mr. Combas.
thoucestor, one waggon kindly lent by Yr. lanes, and •
hired ...egos-
Baptist, three or four hired waggons.
Az early al they could be mustered and ordered, up St.
Mary street they marched to the Gmled Statue, back down
St. Thunam-etreet, and over the Bridge to Rod well Road,
thence under the old trees and up Clare:nonfat to the field
at the farm on the plateau which overlooks the underche
between litucleavm and Old Caddo. Landward of •
dividing new read is the borough of Weymouth,
s •terard a slip of the "county," so Police Constable
Andrews an I others of the I) CU. noir i them,whi's
Mr. llerritield, Mr. Pitch 'r, and Ur. C. Brad had
the tent Woos task of penny-taking at the gate. Teo Oil
farmhouse was well Urged fur drinkable, by the young
teschers„ who made it akisidot outp pot, carrying great jugs
M tea to the thirsty lit le bodua s ithin the field, over the
entrance to which are • few tics. that is the foreground
help to frame the picture. Perambulators and babies, wi.h
or without nurser, are in pumetuion of the road, and just
tubing our hare on the gete before entering, we look over
the bonus of Weymouth Ward. t .amed by Holy Ti
red•tiled turret, to where Its lip 'le district spread. 0111' ;‘,
the hose, lit. John's Church its highest point. To the
rhatt the green Nothe is (finked by the Fort, its embra-
sures punting this way over N !witin's Core. To the north
you look over the bey to where the white and elate of
Preston Csutguard Station lies oblong on the green bills,
clout to the dark wood of Suothdowa. Ridgway rants
bounds the northern horizon, its highest knoll Blagdon.
with Hardy's Monument for its lightning-drawer, et
the C Company, D. R.V., kcow to their cost. Pay
your penny instead of view.gazing, and rotor the
field. First a stationary engine seems t,e shelter a
little group of mersoaAs. Who 4,4 combing their
hair, mermaid fashion, only Veer. costumes are land-
Wise stud not may ; " land mermaids" are
frizzling their hia.i list, curle in the it lam, till we peep
and they ruu libeling ot. Here is a waggon standing
still islth dozens of little ones clinsing round it as chicken
round a hen, merry shoots salute us, end dowit rens the
favorite train, learn with shouting mite*, who make an
es•ier journey down here than in the ckiubing train up
the ALIA Canis. At tea-booth wit' th.. Baptist friend,
trying to consul themselves- for the children had been fed
and toas.l b. fore wec,,nast—ia near • couple of stout frame,
market '' It ipLat bunday Schools" on which • damn or
more and girls are swinging bi4h in air. The
infatuated iltitish youth oto the right is toiling himself out
with cricket, and mak:ng believe its pleasure; but con-
templative age surveys the prat, y panorama for the woods
over which peepi Wyks church tower, to our near neigh.
boor on the fight. Mr. 11 'we's artistic red-tiled ken" at
the left it the blue of Portland Roads, ruin and rock-
I ringed near and larthhr e lied by the ar„na grey ribbon
of the Chesil Beach, the West Bay • blue line beyond,
before the tong °a is touched. Blue, white, end
sometimes sad-coloured ace our sky and clouds 1
but yet no drip falls, and Portland heights
are mist-laced. A deet of merchant men hold up black
spears of mutt, cordase-meshed, and beycild so. the six
biack ir 'aided:: of the Chaunel Fleet, with • coaling screw
strainer at anchor, and the deep doh steam r and little
Pier. moving amongst the giants. Just below us Rea
the lindarbarit, an zuntinulilt furgz-sprink'ed, hut with
many •violet-hiding dell. Frona it a hedge Guts off our
field, when Mr. Councillor Dennis is 'lasing races, end
further round the Putton infanta rug with no much vigour
as older one,, Near here are the alouoester-street
and Mr. Stons, 74r. Bolt, end we don't knew who sloe, are
stimulating with little puerto and ecraudeline the merry
emu Petitore (trey there to the north are the Hope swings,
In full situation; and kissing-rings make Magic enclosure,all Over the field, for the ministers sum to have given up
old Prudish ids.. In • small black tent Hoye friends
have a rougb..nd.raudy cakretea, more regular fittingamp
siccualissudete ether.. the Wyke Band In the centre WC*.
atonally ewe u 4 another tune ; footballs keep the runners
and be-kissed niass on the alert, and so the fen goes on till
the evening shadows beckon. The banners are hoisted
Main. and they re-memorable and march home, and 4.lsperse
shortly alter eight, well pleased w Ith • intend sl afternoon.

To 44e 114440 r.
. Sir,—The paravaph which appeared in your last
We seems to disparage the beach boatmen.
elq—" Boats on the Pile-pier being always
*Aunt and not havlog to be hutted over shingle there-
lon then, io not the temptation to lemon that depth of
Wad whieh wahee theta eats."

b Now, air, it appears rather absurd (granting the
„each Irate hove more wear and tear than the Pile.
Liar boats) bat the proprietors on the beach should let
ut unsafe b .sta. Surely their own interests' is too
great • oousiderati
The sad rm.:idea on June 21st is, I believe, the first
of it. kiod since boata were put on the beach, and at
any rate iney be classed ems great exception.
The jury were no doubt perfectly correct in their
opinion of thi. lenticular boat, but what I 'wish to
aide, sir, is th;s (a. you know the remarks made by
the jory) :—" Treat the beach boats, under their proper
canva., are as safe as any boats elsewhere."
As to proper c nvtructioo, I believe I am right in
stating that many tile-pier and beech boats bays been
built by the yarns firm.
We have, sir, unfortnnstely lost one experienced
noon from the bench, hut there are g lately more who
will befouled, doulitleev, as experienced in managing a
sailing boat as then brethren of the Pile-pier.—l am,
sir, yours, ttc.,
PAIR PLAT.

Weymouth, July 6th, 1882.
[We question whether the Pile-nier or New Quay
End boats •re built on the same liner, or with the
degree of " tenderness," as the Florinda. What is
wanted to relieve the puhlic mind is to know what
regulations as to tail are observed, or will be observed,
by the boats. In the interests of the boatmen them.
selves we do not enlarge.—ED

WEYMOUTH HARBOUR TIDE TABLE.
MI TM! 621111 11611110 1111711.QAT, MTH Jriy. 'gm
DAT. 11100 WATtS. 1111.• in.!LOT IFATIIR mairrimoo
Ai p.m. 1 954 p. 21
21
154 am. 964 am.' 10 14 a.m 112
2.14 p.m. 4.14 p.m) 10 34 p.m 22
234 a.m. 434 a.m.' 10.61 a m.i113
254 pm BM p.m 11.16 pm. 63
3.15 Am. 6.16 a.m. 11.38 a.m.,24
354 p.m. 6.58 p.m. 12. 2 p.m ,24
4.2 a.m. 6 2 a.m 1E27 5.61-211
463 p.m. 6.27 P.m. 12.51 0.85125
452 a.m. 662 a.m. 1.18 .m.lll
6.18 p.m. 7.18 p.m. 1.46 p.m.1116
645 ..m 766 a.m 212 a.m. 27
6.12 p.m. 8.12 p.m., 239 p.m 27

11.34 a.m.
11.51 p m.

&34 p.m.l