The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-11-07 00:00:00

POZTLUID.

Tax NAVY.—The Admiralty have directed that no
alterations are to be made in any ships of the Channel
Squadron, but mrrely necessary defects made god.
Owing to the dangerous character of various kin& of
mineral oils, ths Almiralty have ord,rovi ‘be d 1
continuance of their use for lighting purposes on
board men-of-war.

CONVICTS AND HARBOURS OP REM:IK

The committee appointed by the Home Secretary on the
employment of convict labour, which wee presided over by
Sir Edmund du Cane, has concluded It. repot!, which,
however, has not yet been presented to the Houle of
Commons. The report atates that there are in Great
Britain shout 10,000 able-bodied convicts, of whom only
about 1,000 are available for public works, but a largcly.
Increased number will shortly become available. The
committee entered at some lenath Into the questions of
harbours of refuge, ant suegeat that convict labour inisht
be utilised in the cinstructon of such harbours at Dover,
File,. and Peterhead. The committee states that the
labour of nearly 700 cony itte would be at once available for
the construction of a h3rbour of trim* on the BeetCh
Genet.

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IN AMERICA. 1 THE INDIAN CONTINGENT.
- Tbe men selected from the differeut regiments of
It is being complained in America that absentee Indian Trocua engaged in Egypt to visit neland,
landlordism is hecamiug rife in that favoured will arrive the latter end of this week, at Woolwich,
Republic. Id .et of the lance Ain +dem landownirs and will at once be c 'levered to Wellington Beirack.,
are said to be obsentees. In Nsw York, in Wash- hoodoo, where they will rwside during their stay
I kt a, in Sau Froncisco. in Boston, in Chicago, in St. (about thiee weeks). Her hisjeety hos exore•mid •
Ismie, says the complainant., live men who own wish to ...e them, and they will parade bsf ore the
immense tracts of laud which they sel lons or never woe. Queen at Buckingham Palace.
(Joe moo is nail to own some four hundred farm. in i
the vearioue States, One of which extends to 35 000
acme. The large scale upon which American agri-
culture Is conducted is to be thaoked for this .tote of
thing', one of thu re ultai of which is that a large pro-
portion of the profits to to cipitsists in the great
, e 1.....• of the Union. Thera ara many troding cot,
' ',orations which own wide stretches of land ; one of
these, indeed, the Stan ferd oli Company, probably
owns more 'mid in the Wedeln Staten than the
hondsn Comp.nies busing them own of land in
Ireland.—Land.

MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY.

A shocking tcourrence to .k place late on Satur lay
night on the mountain tableland known as Penylialt,
near Holywell. Shortly bef to midnight some persons
returning from Holywell met on the ascent a man,
who cried out that hi* brother bad been shot. Pro-
ceeding further they found the body of E tweed
Thomas, labourer, of Bagiett, lying on the roadside.
The pities and a doctor were summoned. and the
latter pronounced life to have been extinct for some
titne. Subsequent inquiries led to the street of
Wiliam Roberts. a young man raiding Ins neighbour.
ing cottage, on the charge of murd. r. The motive of
the crime is said to be jalousy, Roberta, having about
last June married • young woman who is ell ged to
have been engaged to the deoesped's brother Thomas.
The two brothers were walking about no ir Roberts'
house on 9 iturday night, when the ,newel suddenly
came up with a gun, and, in • et its of excitement, shot
Edward instead, it is !yawned, of his rival Thome..
'rh. deceased's breast wee riel,!lsd with .tot. The ovent
has caused great excitement, no murder having
occurred in Holywell for 22 yearn.